广东省云浮市邓发纪念中学2013-2014学年高二英语上学期期中试题新人教版

广东省云浮市邓发纪念中学2013-2014学年高二英语上学期期中试题新人教版(考试时间为120分钟,总分150分，共9页；请按照题号把1至55题的答案规范填涂在答题卡上；剩余部分也写到答题卡上；务必在答题卡上写上班别、姓名和考号。

)一、单项选择（每题1分，共15分）1. China has a lot of famous writers, one of ________ is Lu Xun.A. themB. whoseC. whoD. whom2. The theory ________by Einstein ____________ to be true.A. to be put forward; has provedB. being put forward; has been provedC. was put forward; has provedD. put forward; has been proved3. The speaker raised his voice but still couldn’t make himself _________.A. heardB. to be heardC. hearingD. being heard4. Not only _______ polluted but ________ crowded.A. was the city; were the streetsB. the city was; were the streetsC. was the city; the streets wereD. the city was; the streets were5. _______ from the space, the earth, with water ________ seventy percent of itssurface, looks like a blue ball.A. Seen; coveredB. Seen; coveringC. Seeing; coveringD. Seeing; covered6. Hardly had she heard the telephone___________ she rushed up to answer it.A. as soon asB. whileC. whenD. that7. Mother went shopping, _________ I did some cleaning in the house.A. meanwhileB. meantimeC. and meanwhileD. in the meantime8. The man read the letter from his wife with a ___________expression on his face.A. puzzlingB. puzzledC. puzzleD. be puzzled9._________, I will write a report and give it to your parents.A. If I am necessaryB. If it necessaryC. If is necessaryD. If necessary10.We hope to develop a system ________ waste can be recycled ecologically.A. thatB. whichC. whereD. for which11. _______, she cleaned the room for the old .A. To her disappointmentB. In her creditC. To her creditD. On the credit12. It is reported that many new houses _______ at present in disaster area.A. are being builtB. were being builtC. was being builtD. is being built13. When he finally came to life, he found himself_____on a chair, with his hands____ back.A. seating, tyingB. seated, tyingC. seated, tiedD. seating, tied14. Never before _____ this opportunity---don’t miss it.A. we have hadB. have we hadC. we hadD. did we have15. Simon ____of murdering his former wife by the law officers many years ago.A. accusedB. was accusedC. was chargedD. being accused二、完形填空（共15题，每小题2分，共30分）When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our bestclothes and go to Sunday School(主日学校) and then church. One Easter Sunday, with 16 , all the kids shared their stories about what the Easter Bunny (复活节兔子) had brought. One young boy, whom I called Bobby, sat 17 . One of the teachers, 18 this, sai d to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny bring you?” He replied, “My mom 19 the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn’t get inside.”This sounded like a 20 idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the 21 . However, my mom knew the true story. Bobby’s mom was a single 22 , and she just couldn’t 23 the Easter Bunny.After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to the 24 . My mom announced that we were going home instead. At home, she 25 that if we want to make Bobby feel better, we were going to 26 to be the Easter Bunny，make a basket of presents for him and 27 it at church. We all donated some of our candies to the 28 , and headed back up to church. There, mom hung the basket over the hanger（衣架）, and covered it up with the coat and attached a 29 to the coat, reading:Dear Bobby,I'm sorry I 30 your house last night. Happy Easter.Love,The Easter Bunny16. A. hope B. delight C. anxiety D. anger17. A. excitedly B. happily C. silently D. calmly18. A. noticing B. watching C. feeling D. recognizing19. A. broke B. opened C. fixed D. locked20. A. stupid B. reasonable C. funny D. reliable21. A. lessons B. ideas C. stories D. shows22. A. parent B. teacher C. nurse D. father23. A. apply B. keep C. afford D. borrow24. A. home B. shop C. school D. church25. A. shouted B. explained C. informed D. whispered26. A. learn B. dress C. pretend D. assist27. A. forget B. give C. bring D. leave28. A. basket B. church C. home D. bag29. A. notice B. book C. note D. letter30. A. arrived B. missed C. left D. found三、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项（每小题2分，共40分）。

AI am a professor of sports and exercise, so I often deal with nervousness in my research with sports people. Actually, most people experience nervousness at some time or another.If you are feeling anxious, my advice is to first find the cause or causes. Makea list of those things that are making you nervous and work out which ones you can do something about. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes that you can control.Most people cannot tell the difference between controllable(可控制的) and uncontrollable causes, so things they can’s control become a big reason for nervousness. Dealing with this is very important if people want to keep a healthy mind.Simply try to accept the uncontrollable causes of nervousness. You might be worried about the weather on a big day, an accident or an attack on the train, or perhaps just things that other people are doing at work. The results may be very important but there is still no use worrying because you can’t co ntrol any of these things. Accept that you can’t control everything. Once you understand this, it becomes easier not to worry.If a situation, such as swimming, is causing you to be anxious, try to face it as often as possible so that you can get used to it.It can often help to think about yourself doing the thing that makes you nervous—then close your eyes and imagine it going well. Imagine how the flight or job interview is going to happen so that you can get used to it. This will help you understand that the thing you fear most is probably not going to happen.31. Who wrote this passage?A. A reporter.B. A sportsman.C. A patient.D. A professor.32. The writer thinks there is no use worrying about some causes of nervousness because____.A. most are not very importantB. they are not the real causes of the problemC. they cannot be controlled by peopleD. it’s better to deal with one cause at a time33. If swimming makes you nervous, what should you do according to the writer?A. Go swimming often to get used to it.B. Avoid going to the swimming pool.C. Find a swimming teacher.D. Imagine watching others swim.34. What is true about nervousness according to the passage?A. It usually has only one cause.B. It is usually caused by people.C. People can easily manage it.D. Most people suffer from it.35. What is the main purpose of this passage?A. To introduce the writer’s sports experience.B. To advise on how to deal with nervousness.C. To help people remember their fears.D. To explain the dangers of nervousness.BFuturologists(未来学家) predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.TV channels will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the programme directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hours.Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big companies prefer robots---they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strikes, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere---in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homesMedical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are electronic devices that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.Scientists will have discovered how to control genes. Scientists have already produced clones of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they have. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they?36. Which of the following can NOT be realized today?A. Reading newspapers on a compute.B. Making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again.C. Creating cloned animals.D. Choosing TV program freely from a “menu”.37. According to the text, some big companies prefer robots to human workers becausehuman workers .A. can work 24 hours a dayB. often ask for more payC. are not clever enoughD. are often late for work38. From the 6th paragraph we can infer that _________ .A. there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050B. few diseases can attack people.C. electronic devices will be connected directly to the brain to help peoplehear.D. medical technology will be more effective by 2050.39. The underlined word “conquer” in the 5th paragraph means .A. take upB. overcomeC. absorbD. acquire40. What’s the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology?A. The author does not agree on the use of cloning technology.B. The author thinks human cloning is impossible.C. The author does not really support the idea of human cloning.D. The author is quite excited about human cloningCThere was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard. He was very hardworking, and the farm always prospered under his care. But he knew that his three sons despised the farm work, and were eager to make wealth, through adventure.When the farmer was old, and felt that his time had come to die, he called the three sons to him and said, "My sons, there is a pot of gold hidden in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it."The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.After the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold. Since they did not know where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one end of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, round the tree-roots and between them. But no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. The three sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.The next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever given. When it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.And when they saw how much money had come from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had meant when he said, "There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you wish it."41. The farmer told his sons about the pot of gold because __________.A. his sons were very hardworkingB. his sons would take the adventureC.his life would come to an endD. he couldn’t keep the secret42. The underlined word despised in Paragraph 1 most probably means _________.A. were crazy aboutB. looked down onC. showed great respect forD. thought highly of43. Why didn’t the sons find the pot of gold?A. There was no gold in the soil.B. The farmer cheated them.C. The gold was hidden in the olive trees.D. Someone had stolen the gold.44. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The farmer wanted his sons .to know the value of hard workB. The farmer didn’t work hard enough before he died.C. There were more fruits on the olive trees in the next season.D. The sons got a pot of gold in the end.45. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Laziness leads to successB. Like father, like sonC. No money, no talkD. No pains, no gainsDAmerica is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both mayexchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while---then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending sometimes deeply into both families.Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality easily.Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyd ay lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!46. The writer of this passage must be ________.A. an AmericanB. a ChineseC. a professorD. a student47. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.48. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be _________.A. warmly welcomed at the airportB. offered a ride to his homeC. treated hospitably at his homeD. treated to dinner in a restaurant49. The underlined words “generous with our time” in paragrap h 3 probably mean____.A. strict with timeB. serious with timeC. careful with timeD. willing to spend time50. A suitable title for this passage would probably be ________.A. Friendships between ChineseB. Friendships between AmericansC. Americans’ hospitalityD. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendship四、信息匹配（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。