湛江一中2011-2012学年高二上学期期末考试(英语)

湛江一中2011-2012学年高二上学期期末考试

英语

考试时间:120分钟满分:150分

I.听力(共12小题, 满分10分)

第一节：角色扮演(共8题, 每小题1分, 满分8 分)

你将听到一段对话，请根据所听到的内容回答下列八个问题。（生词：lifeguard救生员) 1.你还有什么想法？

_________________________________________________________________________?

2.你打算送她什么礼物？

_________________________________________________________________________?

3.你什么时候需要钱？

_________________________________________________________________________?

4.Robbie is asking for help from whom ?

__________________________________________________________________________.

5.What kind of job is Robbie planning to do ?

__________________________________________________________________________.

6.Who suggests to give Alexandra a surprise party ?

__________________________________________________________________________.

7.Why does Robbie want to give Alexandra a wristwatch(手表) ?

__________________________________________________________________________.

8.How does Robbie p ay his father?s money back ?

__________________________________________________________________________.

第二节：故事复述(共4小题, 每小题0.5分, 满分2分)

你将听到一段故事，请根据所听到的内容填入相应的单词。

Donna had been feeling very depressed, she had just broken up with her boyfriend of two years and she was having a very difficult time to accept the 9_______. The only thing she could do was crying. Early one morning, Donna received a call with some terrible news, her best friend?s brother had been killed in a car accident. The news was devastating( 悲伤), she got in the car quickly, and drove to her friend?s house to be there with her. Over the course of t he next few days, Donna was 100 present for her friend, she held her closely while she cried endless 10_______, and slept on the floor next to her friend…s bed to make sure she didn?t wake up alone in the middle of the night. During that time, Donna totally forgot the pain she had been experiencing. Several weeks later, when life returned to normal, Donna realized that the level of support she had given her friend far exceeded any support she had 11______ herself during her dark time. For when you find yourself unable to support someone else, look within and see if perhaps there is something in yourself that are not supporting, when you give 12_______ support to others, it will mirror those places within you that require the same level of attention. II、完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(ABC和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Facebook is a social media website that has attracted millions of members. But it seems that some people have something 13 __ to say about it. To them I have only this to say : stop, please !

A recent article blamed Facebook?s ability to ruin friendships, saying that it limits__14_____ to typing and encourages people to spend far too much time with friends they have__15_____met.

Having used Facebook since its first year, I found these arguments__16_____. The simple truth is that these__17___ are only a symptom of using Facebook too much. Like many things, it is only as__18____ to your life and relationships as you allow it to be.

Facebook can be helpful. You can use Facebook to find friends who may have long

ago__19____ their e-mail addresses and phone numbers. You can find out what your old college friends are up to. You can __20____your friends on their latest birthday. You can also__21____ articles and pictures you find interesting with your friends.

Sure, I had days when I spent a little more time on Facebook than I should, but I?m not going to blame Facebook for my own __22____. If Facebook weren?t there, I would have found something else to___23___ time.

Here I?d like to say something to my friends. If you don?t feel like___24___ your life stories on your Facebook, don?t do it. If you are tired of my personal updates, __25____them. If you

don?t want to join in the popular online games, don?t play them. It is a fun tool at your

___26____that can be used for both good and bad. If you don?t like using Facebook, don?t use it.

Now I use Facebook to __27_____my friends, family, and colleages who live and work all over the world. It keeps us close.

13. A. pleasant B. interesting C. honest D. bad

14. A. communication B. e-mail C. life D. friend

15. A. usually B. sometimes C. never D. often

16. A. false B. normal C. smart D. popular

17. A. games B. words C. answers D. problems

18. A. stupid B. harmful C. simple D. strange

19. A. kept B. checked C. made D. changed

20. A. meet B. shock C. hurt D. congratulate

21. A. support B. design C. share D. read

22. A. talent B. fault C. evidence D. doubt

23. A. waste B. watch C. catch D. steal

24. A proving B. knowing C. hiding D. broadcasting

25. A. ignore B. play C. enjoy D. use

26. A. eyes B. fingers C. mouth D. head

27. A. keep away from B. look down upon

C. make fun of

D. keep in touch with

III：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答案卡上标号为31--40的相应位置。

To find how the name Canada came about we must go back to the 16th century. At that time, the French dreamed of disclosing and __28_____ ( control) more land, In 1535, Francois I , King of France, ordered a navigator (航海家)__29____ (name) Jacques Cartier to explore the New World and search for a passage to India.

Cartier first arrived at the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, __30____he wanted to explore. He did not know what to expect but he hoped that this Gulf was just an arm of the ocean __31_____two islands. If it was, he would soon be on his way to the Far East. So he sailed upstream along the St. Lawrence River.__32____, instead or reaching Asia he arrived at Quebec or Stadacona, as the Indians called __33_____. It was at this point that the term “ Canada” entered __34____country?s history. __35______ (apparent) th e word “Canada” came from an Indian word “Kanata”, which means community___36_____village. Cartier first used it when he referred to Stadacona or Quebec. ___37____a huge “ village” Canada is!

IV. 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和D）中，选出最佳答案。

A

Amelia Earharl was born on July 24,1897 in Atchison, Kansas at her grandparent?s house. Soon after her birth, Amelia?s parents separated. The girl lived with her grandparents until she was 10. In 1917, Amelia entered a nursing school and witnessed the horrors of war. She served as a V oluntary Aid Detachment(志愿救护队)nurse at a military hospital until Novermber,1981,. She later said,“There for the first time I realized what the World War meant… I saw only men without arms or legs…”.

In 1920, Amelia?s parents had reunited in California. Amelia decided to leave Columbia and join them. Amelia?s love for flying was born when her father took her to an aerial(航空)show, in which she got to ride in a flight over Los Angeles.

Amelia started taking flight lessons with Anita Snook at Kinner Field near Long Beach, California. Amelia caught on quickly and soon became an excellent pilot. In July of 1920, she purchased her first plane. She named it “The Canary”. In October of 1922, just a few years after taking up flying, Amelia began attempting to break records. She first broke the height record of 14,000 feet.

In 1925, Amelia took a position at Dension House in Boston as a social worker. While there, Amelia got a call that would change her life forever. On April 27th, 1926, Captain Hill Railey called Amelia to take part in a flight across the Atlantic Ocean. She would only be a passenger. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gorden flew the plane, but Amelia became the first woman to make the trip across the Atlantic. Amelia didn?t think she deserved the attention she received but was more determined than ever to make the trip herself. While in London, and back in the United States, Amelia toured the country, giving lectures and speeches.

38. According to the passage, Amelia was best known for ______________.

A. her sad and unhappy childhood

B. her efforts to reunite her parents

C. her devotion to her work of nursing

D. her achievements as a woman pilot

39. Most likely, Amelia began to take flight lesson at the age of ____________.

A. 20

B. 23

C. 26

D. 28

40. From the passage, we can know that ____________.

A. Amelia?s parents never got on well with each other

B. Amelia showed an interest in flying when taken to an aerial show

C. World War I had a bad and far-reaching effect on Amelia?s health

D. Amelia called to join the flight across the Atlantic and succeeded

41. The unlined phrase caught on in Paragraph 3 can be best replaced by ___________.

A. fell in love with something

B. forgot something

C. understood the lessons

D. become popular

42. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Amelia?s dream.

B. A successful nurse.

C. Getting to know Amelia.

D. A story of the first woman pilot.

B

When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate（照亮）me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.

When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say: “Let?s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.

When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.

For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a fu nny way, in the other?s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes”, I must tell“We have never met”.

It is such comforting companions that I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist（心理学家），who will only fill up the healing（愈合的）silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.

43. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ______.

A. become serious about her study

B. go to her friend?s house regularly

C. learn from her classmates at school

D. share poems and stories with her friend

44. In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.

A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us

B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London

C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared

D. we parted with each other in London

45. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _______.

A. call each other regularly

B. have similar personalities

C. enjoy writing to each other

D. dream of meeting each other

46. In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ______.

A. seek professional help

B. be left alone

C. stay with her best friend

D. break the silence

47. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Unforgettable Experiences

B. Remarkable Imagination

C. Lifelong Friendship

D. Noble Companions

C

Australia has very strict laws relating to the importation and possession of certain goods.

Food, plant material and animal products from overseas,

including many common souvenirs, could introduce some of

the world's most serious pests and diseases into Australia.

Failing to declare quarantine items

(需要检疫的物品) on arrival could destroy our agriculture,

tourism industries and special environment.

Every piece of luggage will be screened or x-rayed on

arrival in Australia. So you must declare for inspection of all

food, plant material and animal products to check that they are

free of pests and diseases.

You must tick YES on the Inoming Passenger Card(IPC) to declare if you are carrying any food, plant material or animal products. In signing the IPC, passengers are making a legal declaration and failure to answer all questions truthfully can have serious consequences.

If you fail to declare or dispose of(处理)any quarantine items, or make a false declaration: * you will get caught;

* you could be fined over A $ 200 on the spot; or you could be prosecuted and fined more than

A $ 60,000 and risk up to 10 years imprisonment;

If you are not sure about the items you are carrying, ask a quarantine officer who will determine whether they are allowed into Australia.

48. The reason why you are asked to declare quarantine items on arrival is that _________.

A. too many overseas products could destroy Australia's tourism industry.

B. animal products are often the cause of various diseases.

C. as is known to us all, bad food can spread diseases easily.

D. these items may carry dangerous pests or diseases into Australia.

49. You need to declare the following things EXCEPT _______ if you have them in your luggage.

A. some metal hairclips

B. dried flowers

C. some moon-cakes

D. a bottle of honey

50. The underlined word prosecuted may probably means:

A. officially charged

B. hardly punished

C. informally blamed

D. immediately driven out

51. For what purpose is the passage written?

A. To inform the passengers of the law on the exportation of goods.

B. To warn the passengers not to take unsafe goods.

C. To tell the passengers to Australia to have their quarantine items declared.

D. To urge the passengers to protect the agriculture, tourism and environment.

52. If you don't declare quarantine items, ________.

A. you can probably get away with it

B. you are sure to be discovered and punished

C. you can turn to the customs officers for help

D. you can give them away to a quarantine officer

E

Healthy knees aren't the main consideration in choosing high heels, but new research says chunky heels are just as bad for the knees as spindly stilettos (细高跟鞋). "It takes a long time to feel the effects of knee osteoarthritis (骨关节炎) —and once you do, it is too late," said Dr. Casey Kerrigan, leading researcher of the study and associate professor at Harvard Medical School's department of physical medicine. "I compare it to smoking —one cigarette is not painful, but over a lifetime it is. Wide-heeled shoes feel comfortable, so women wear them all day long, "Kerrigan said. "They are better for your feet than stiletto heels, but just are bad for your knees."

In the study, researchers had twenty women wear two pairs of shoes with three-inch heels, one with a narrow heel and the other with a thick one. The scientists compared how much pressure was put on the women's knees by both types of shoes. The women also walked barefoot to test normal pressure. The scientists found that both types of shoes applied equal amounts of pressure to the knees. Compared with walking barefoot, the heels increased pressure on the inside of the knee by 26 percent. Increased pressure on the knee eventually leads to arthritis, experts say.

The idea that high heels are bad for your health isn't new —scientists have warned women for years that they contribute to problems ranging from corns to hammer toes, tendonitis(肌腱炎), knee pain, sprained (扭伤) ankles and back problems. But in 1998,Kerdgan and a team of Harvard researchers were the first to link high heels and knee osteoarthritis, a painful joint disease that destroys cartilage (软骨) surrounding the knee. The first study looked only at stiletto heels, and Kerrigan said she wanted to study the chunky high-heeled shoes she noticed many women wearing. "This study confirms what we all intuitively (直觉地) know that high-heeled shoes of any kind are not good for our health," said Dr. Glenn Pfeifer, a San Francisco doctor and member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons who was not connected to the study.

53. We learn from the passage that women choose chunky heels because _______.

A. they want to walk comfortably

B. chunky heeled shoes are cheaper than stiletto heeled pairs

C. chunky heels do less harm to knees

D. chunky heels are not painful at all

54. The study mentioned in the second paragraph found that _______.

A. pressure on the foot is caused by high heels

B. the pressure is abnormal(异常的)while walking barefoot

C. arthritis is always caused by pressure on the knees

D. both types of shoe have the same harm to the knees

55. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. people got to know the high heels are bad for health recently

B. people have known the high heels are bad for health for years

C. people haven' t known the high heels are bad for health yet

D. people will be warned that the high heels are bad for health soon

56. Kerrigan's late study looked at the chunky high-heeled shoes because _______.

A. they feel more comfortable

B. they are related to knee osteoarthritis

C .they are worn by many women D. they are different from stiletto heels

57. The best title for the passage may be ________.

A. Taking Healthy Knees into Consideration

B. High-heels Do Harm to Knees

C. Chunky Heels and Stiletto Heels

D. When Wearing High-heels

V. 英语知识运用：完成句子（共7小题，每题1分，满分15分）

58.我认为他油画最吸引我的是他们使用的色彩。

I think what ____________ ___________ me most about his painting is the colours.

59.那个沉迷于玩电脑游戏的男孩考试又失败了。

The boy who was ___________ to __________ computer games failed the exam again.

60.在过去的几天中，他们的钱已经用光了。

In the past few days, their money has ___________ __________.

61.这城市只供应少量的牛奶和蛋。

Only __________ __________ of milk and eggs are supplied in this city.

62.如果没有你的帮助，我是不会找到这样令人满意的工作。

____________, your help, I wouldn?t ___________ ____________ such a satisfying job. 63..所有出席会议的代表都反对以色列发起的这场战争。

All the representatives present at the conference were __________ __________the war

launched

by Israel

64.穿着这些衣服走起路来实在不容易，但我们还是缓缓地往火山口的边缘走去。

It was not easy to walk in these suits, but we slowly ___________ our ___________ to the edge of the crater.

VI. 写作（满分40分）

第一节：基础写作（满分15分）

假设你是李华，学校网站英文版通讯员，最近学校网站准备宣传一些优秀学生，请你用英文为李敏同学写一篇简介，李敏同学的基本情况如下：

1．姓名：李敏。职务：高二（1）班班长

2. 特点：健康、活泼爱好体育活动，唱歌跳舞

3. 事迹：她各科成绩都好，但她刚进校时，英语学习有困难，经过努力，成绩上去了。2010

年参加全国物理奥林匹克竞赛并获得一等奖。她严于律己，乐于助人。

【写作要求】

1．只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

2．文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

【评分标准】句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

第二节：读写任务（共1小题，满分25分）

阅读下列短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

In order to learn English well, it is necessary for us to overcome the fear of making mistakes. If the primary goal of language use is communication, then mistakes are secondary consideration that may be dealt with gradually when we increasingly realize those mistakes. On the other hand, we should not ignore their mistakes. As language learners, we may observe how native speakers express themselves and how native expressions differ from the way we might say them. For example, a Spanish speaker who has been saying “I do it” to express willingness to do something in the immediate future, could, by communicating with native speakers of English, observe that native speakers actually say “I?ll do it”. This difference can serve as a basis for the student to change his way of using the present tense in English. But if we are unwilling to communicate in the first place, we will lose this opportunity of learning by trial and error.

写作内容：

1，以约30个词概括短文的内容。

2，以约120个词表达如何面对英语学习中所出的错误，并包括如下要点：

1）你在英语学习中是否担心出错误。

2）你常在哪些方面出错误。

3）以你自己的经历说明你是如何面对你英语学习中的错误的。

写作要求：

1，文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事，注意不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2，信中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

3, [评分标准] 概括的准确性、语言的规范性、内容的合适性以及篇章的连贯性。

参考答案

I. 听力

II、完形填空13-17 DACAD 18-22 BDDCB 23-27 ADABD

III：语法填空28., controlling 29. named 30.which 31.between 2.However

33,it 34. the 35. Apparently 36.or 37.What

IV. 阅读理解38-42. DBBCC 43.-47 DACBD 48 -52. DAACB 53.-57 ADBCB V. 完成句子58.appeals to 59.addicted ,playing 60. run out 61.small quantities

62.Without, have found 63. opposed to 64. made, way

VI.基础写作

VI.读写任务

One possible version

The first goal of learning a language is to communicate in it, so we needn?t be afraid of making mistakes. When we realize that we are making mistakes, we can?t ignore them.

I started to learn English six years ago. In the b eginning I didn?t dare to speak it because I was

worried that others would laugh at me if I made mistakes. Luckily for me, my English teacher was an American. She always encouraged me to be brave enough, and she asked me not to care about what others would say about my mistakes. Slowly I tried to speak a little, most of the time broken English. Whenever I had chance to be with my English teacher, I kept talking in English. Sometimes, I found my English was different from my English teacher?s. I carefully ob served the language my teacher spoke. Gradually, I made good progress in English speaking.