牡一中2011—2012学年度下学期期末考试高二学年

英 语 学 科 试 题

本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，满分150分，考试时间120分钟

第I卷（三部分，共115分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What do we learn about the woman from this conversation?

A. She plans to send out all the invitations.

B. She’s a new student.

C. She thinks the man is right.

2. What does the man mean?

A. He didn’t know which hospital Bill was in.

B. He took Bill to the hospital.

C. He forgot to call the woman.

3. What does the woman mean?

A. She hasn’t heard from the professor in a week.

B. The class has extra time to complete the assignment.

C. She only just found out about the economics paper.

4. What does the woman mean?

A. The doctor has stopped seeing new patients.

B. The doctor’s clinic will be closed tomorrow.

C. The doctor’s schedule is filled tomorrow.

5. What does the woman want to know?

A. Where the meeting is being held.

B. Where Joe will meet her.

C. What the topic of the meeting is.

第二节：（共15小题; 每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答6至8题。

6. What does the man want to do?

A. To have his shoes mended.

B. To buy a pair of new shoes.

C. To do shopping in a supermarket.

7. How far is the supermarket?

A. Two blocks away. B. Five blocks away C. Six blocks away.

8. How will the man go to the place?

A. By bus. B. On foot. C. In his car.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Secretary and boss B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient

10. Why was she late?

A. Her aunt called her to get up late.

B. She missed the bus.

C. She got a telephone call.

11. What can we know about the teacher?

A. He is strict with his students.

B. He is cold to his students.

C. He gets angry easily.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a company. B. In a factory. C. In a hospital.

13. Why can’t the woman sleep well?

A. Because she has been working too hard.

B. Because she has a family problem.

C. Because she has a high fever.

14. What does the doctor suggest that the woman should do?

A. She should take some medicine.

B. She should take holidays.

C. She should change a job.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What are they talking about?

A. A story about a friend who was on a sweet potato diet.

B. How to keep diet.

C. People should eat all kinds of things.

16. Why was the friend ill?

A. Because he wanted to lose weight.

B. Because sweet potatoes can’t provide him with everything he needs.

C. Because he ate sweet potatoes.

17. What is the best way to keep diet?

A. To eat every kind of food.

B. To eat less meat.

C. To eat less and exercise more.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When did the speaker first see the film?

A. Last night. B. At the age of 20. C. At the age of 9.

19. Why did the speaker think it was a good film for the girls?

A. Because she liked it at their age.

B. Because it was a story about animals.

C. Because it was a funny story.

20. What is the video about?

A. Romeo and Juliet.

B. A love story between two dogs.

C. Different lives of two dogs.

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

21. Don’t think of yourself as _________. As the proverb goes “________ is the mother of success.” If you work hard, you’ll succeed sooner or later.

22. It took him a long time to _____ himself ____ the cold weather in the north.

23.While you are not the only person______, you are principally responsible for it.

24. Mike _____ with Janet for over one year before they got married.

25. The manager of the supermarket tried every possible means to ______ the needs of the customers.

26. The thing that ______ is not who you are, but what you can do.

27. After the long journey, the three of them went back home, ________

28. ---- My father is coughing heavily.

---- You’d better________. It’s bad for his health.

29. ---- Where did you find your wallet?

----It was in the park ___________ I often did morning exercises.

30. ---- Have you been working here since graduation?

---- No, I ______ in a middle school for five years.

31. ______ the steep mountains, she had no difficulty reaching the top.

32. I went to bed very late last night, _____, early this morning.

33. Don’t be __________ by products promising to make you lose weight quickly.

34. Your laziness ______ your failure, while his success ______ his hard work.

35. ---- Brad was Jane’s brother!

----_______ he reminded me so much of Jane!

第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。

What are the basic elements(要素) of good manners? Certainly a strong sense of justice is one; courtesy(谦恭) is often 36 more than a highly developed sense of fair play. A friend of mine once told me about a time he was 37 along a narrow, unpaved(未铺柏油的) mountain road. 38 was another car that produced clouds of 39 , and it was a long way to the nearest 40 highway. Suddenly, at a 41 place, the car ahead pulled off the road. 42 that its owner might have engine trouble, my friend stopped and asked if anything was wrong. “ 43 ,”said the other driver, “but you’ve endured(忍受) my dust this far; I’ll 44 with yours the rest of the way.”

Another element of courtesy is empathy(善解人意), a 45 that enables a person to see into the mind or heart of someone else, to understand the pain or 46 there and to do something to minimize it. A man 47 alone in a restaurant was trying to open the cap of a beer bottle, 48 he couldn’t do it because of badly injured 49 . He asked a young busboy to help him. The boy took the bottle, turned his back 50 and loosened the cap without difficulty. Then he 51 it again. Turning back to the man, he 52 to make great efforts to open the bottle without success. 53 he took it into the kitchen and returned shortly, saying that he had managed to loosen it ----but only with a pair of pliers(钳子).

Yet another element of politeness is the ability to treat all people 54 , in spite of all status or importance. 55 when you have doubts about some people, act as if they are worthy of your best manners. You may also be astonished to find out what they really are.

Courtesy is the key to a happier world.

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项。

A

Have you ever heard the saying, “An elephant never forgets?” I do not know whether it is true or not, but I do think that elephants are certainly very clever. They can be taught to do things. That is really interesting.

Once upon a time there was an elephant near a town in India. The elephant went to work with its master every day. It had to go along a certain street. A tailor lived in this street, and used to sit at the door of his shop. Every day when the elephant came to this shop, it would stop and put out its trunk towards the tailor. This was because it knew that the tailor was a friendly man. He would give it something nice to eat.

One day it happened that the tailor had nothing to give to his big friend. Perhaps he wanted to make fun of it, because he was not an unkind man. What did he do? When the elephant put out its trunk to the tailor, he pricked (刺穿) the end of the trunk with a needle. The elephant drew back quickly, looked at him angrily and went off down the road.

The tailor thought no more about it during the day, but the elephant did! That evening before it went home the elephant filled its trunk with water from a dirty pond. When the tailor saw it coming along the road, he laughed at the trick that he had played on the beast that morning. But he became very sad when he received a trunkful of dirty water between the eyes!

56. What did the writer think about the elephant? He thought it ________.

A. clever B. surprising C. silly D. funny

57. What did the writer think about the tailor? He thought the tailor was ______.

A. cruel B. foolish C. a kind man D. an unkind man

58. The elephant would stop at the shop and put out its trunk towards the tailor in order to ________.

A. greet him B. make fun of him

C. play a trick on him D. get something nice to eat

59. Why did the elephant fill its trunk with water from a dirty pond?

Because it wanted __________.

A. to drink B. to wash its trunk

C. to play with the water D. to play a trick on the tailor

B

American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung diseases later in life. Doctors in Boston, Massachusetts studied 1,000 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, while the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mothers smoked had 25% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.

Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of having lung cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of suffering from lung cancer.

60. The first paragraph is written to show _______________.

A. Mothers who smoked may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs

B. Mothers who didn’t smoke are healthier than those who did

C. Reduced heart growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems

D. The lungs are very important for the babies

61. “Suffering from” in the second paragraph is probably replaced by ___________.

A. growing B. sharing C. injecting D. developing

62. According to the passage, the writer wants to tell us __________.

A. The danger of cancer increased only for girls and not for sons

B. The children whose mothers smoked had a quarter more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life

C. The father’s smoking influenced a child’s chance of suffering from lung cancer

D. The lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% more developed than those of the children whose mothers did not smoke

63. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Effects of Smoking B. Smoking is Harmful

C. Mothers, Don’t Smoke D. Lung Cancer

C

In Kenya, educational and career opportunities are almost non-existent for people born with physical challenges. They face many forms of discrimination — including beliefs that their condition was caused by a curse. But one father whose son Brain was born deaf, mute and blind aims to change all that. Joseph Shiroko started a school four years ago that teaches students who can not hear, speak and who have very low or no vision a wide range of skills to support themselves.

The baby clothes the students knit(编织) are well known in the local community. And the school has developed a reputation for its dried smoked meat products.

Brain Resource Center, a boarding school, teaches deaf and blind young Kenyans from across the country a variety of skills they can use to earn a living.

“We have a number of philosophies that inform what we are doing: accepting these people; loving them; giving them opportunities.” said founder Joseph Shiroko.

Teachers, most of whom are graduates from the school or are themselves physically challenged, work with students.

Mary Kerubo, 22, has a passion for knitting sweaters, which she plans to continue in her village.

“I feel comfortable here because Sween — my teacher understands me,” said Kerubo. “Even if I do not see well, she always repeats her lessons again and again so that I may understand how to make sweaters. I know I will make it.”

Kerubo’s teacher, Sween Lyaka, was among the first graduates of Brain Resource Center four years ago. She says her students have a lot of unrecognized potential.

Sween says in the future, she plans to purchase four sewing machines that she will use to teach students and produce and sell sweaters in her home village.

The center also works with students’ families to set up projects that will continue after the students graduate.

Founder Joseph Shiroko’s son, Brain, was the inspiration behind Brain Resource Center. The senior Shiroko says he began the school initially as a project to teach Brain bakery skills. The family later expanded Brain’s training and brought in other young people with similar physical conditions.

64. What’s the function of the first paragraph?

A. Attract the reader’s attention. B. Lead us to the topic.

C. Tell us important news. D. Warn us of a serious problem.

65. The founder Joseph Shiroko treats children with physical problems except ______.

A. loving them B. accepting them

C. ignoring them D. giving them opportunities

66. According to the passage, we know _________.

A. the teachers in Brian Resource Center are healthy and normal

B. the teachers merely help students who can’t hear or speak in Resource centre

C. Kerubo was among the first graduates of Brian Resource Centre

D. Joseph’s son gave Joseph the inspiration to found Brian Resource Centre

67. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. There are non-existent opportunities for the disabled in Kenya.

B. Joseph Shiroko started a new school four years ago.

C. Brian Resource Centre teaches the disabled skills to support themselves.

D. The baby clothes the disabled students knit are well-known in Kenya.

D

Archaeologists have discovered 45 ancient Egyptian tombs in Lahoun, Egypt. The site is about 70 miles south of Cairo, Egypt’s capital. In most of the tombs they found a decorated painted wooden coffin. Each one captains a mummy (木乃伊). In one tomb, 12 coffins from around 1500 B.C. were found piled on top of one another, so the actual number of mummies comes to 57.

The oldest tombs that were discovered date back to around 2750 BC. The discovery will give scientists more information about Egypt’s ancient religions.

Egypt’s archaeology chief, Zahi Hawass, said many of the mummies were covered in cloth with drawings of ancient Egyptian gods. The cloth is also decorated with texts from the Book of the Dead and scenes featuring ancient Egyptian gods. The book contains instructions and information that ancient Egyptians thought would help dead people deal with difficulties that they would come across in the afterlife.

Abdel Rahman El-Aydi is the head of the archaeological team that made the discovery. He said some of the tombs were decorated with religious texts. The ancient Egyptians believed these texts, like the Book of the Dead, would help the dead person to cross through the underworld.

The recent discovery of the 45 tombs isn’t the first in Lahoun. Last year, some 53 stone tombs dating back to various ancient periods were found in the same area.

68. The discovery of these tombs will let scientists _____________.

A. know the exact number of mummies in Egypt

B. know what the Book of the Dead contains

C. know how mummies were decorated

D. know more about Egypt’s ancient religions

69. How many tombs have been discovered in the same area in the past two years?

A. 45. B. 98. C. 70. D. 57.

70. According to the passage, we can infer ___________.

A. a large number of tombs were discovered only in Lahoun

B. the cloth covering mummies is decorated with beautiful patterns

C. Egyptians believed in ancient Egyptian Gods, who’d help them through the underworld

D. the oldest and largest tombs were discovered in Lahoun

第二节：（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

We can read of things that happened 5.000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. 71 The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas ---- 72 These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists（人类学家） wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. 73

But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. 74

Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, because this is easier to shape than other kinds. 75 Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

A. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away.

B. descriptions of what important events happened in ancient times.

C. But there are some parts of the world where even now people can’t write.

D. legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another.

E. So scientists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first “modern men” came from.

F. But there is some doubt who began to write.

G. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.

第II卷（共35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

In recent years many flowers shops have been appeared in our small town. It is common for people to buy flowers when they go to a gathering, visiting a sick friend, or attend a wedding or birthday party. I still remember clear one day last year when Tom, a disabled student, presented some flowers to his mother to express his gratitude for her. He owing his entire life to his mother’s kind and care. With her he would not have had the confidence or the courage to fight his disability. As a result the great effort he has made, he was finally admitted to a key university.

第二节 书面表达（共25分）

假定你是李华。David 是你的美国笔友。 他对中国鼓励使用环保购物袋很感兴趣，来信询问此事。 请你给他写封回信，主要内容如下：

# 感谢他的关注

# 简要介绍相关情况

# 谈谈你的感想

注意：1 字数100左右，信的格式已为你写好。

2 可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3 参考词汇 环保购物袋 ---- environmental-friendly shopping bag

关注 ---- concern

June 8

Dear David,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours, Li Hua

牡一中2011—2012学年度下学期期末考试高二学年

英 语 学 科 试 题 答 案

听力

1~5.ACBCA 6~10.AABBC 11~15.ACABB 16~20.BCCAB

单选

21-25 DACBA 26-30 ABCDB 31-35 CDDCC

完型

36-40 ADBAC 41-45 BDCCD 46-50 AABCC 51-55 DBBAD

阅读

56-59 ACDD 60-63 ADBC 64-66 BCDC 67-70 DBC 71-75 CDGEA

改错

第一行 flowers 改为 flower; 去掉been

第二行 visiting 改为 visit

第三行 clear 改为 clearly

第五行 for 改为 to; owing 改为 owed; kind 改为 kindness

第六行 With 改为 Without

第七行 result 与the之间加of; has 改为 had

作文

Dear David,

I’m glad that you’ve noticed our efforts directed towards environmental protection. Thank you for your concern.

As too much use of plastic bags has caused serious white pollution, our government encourages us to use environment-friendly shopping bags. These bags are made of a variety of materials that can be easily treated when they become rubbish. Besides, they can be reused. More and more people in China have realized the advantages of such bags and started using them.

I believe that the wide use of these shopping bags can greatly improve our environment. This is one of the many steps we are to make our country an even cleaner place.

Yours, Li Hua