广东省湛江一中2011-2012学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题

广东湛江一中2011—2012学年度第二学期期末考试高一级英语试卷考试时间：120分钟满分：150分命题老师：ZLJI 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）第一节: 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1―15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题字母涂黑。

One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our 1 we can see what has not yet happened．For example, while we are looking forward to visiting a new place or country, we 2 what it will be like. We predict the 3 people will eat, dress and act. Of course, we do not always predict things correctly. Things are often very different from the way we 4 them to be.One of the 5 dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been 6 to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had 7 and analyzed the problem from every angle for days, but there seemed to be no way of 8 out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed．When he 9 up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his 10 .The hypnotist(催眠者) sat in the chair opposite him and spoke 11 : I want you to concentrate on my voice. Think about nothing. You know nothing but my voice. And as you pay attention to my voice, your 12 will get heavier. Soon you’ll be asleep.You will hear my voice and 13 my words, but your body will be asleep, your eyes are too heavy. You are almost asleep, and when you wake up you will 14 nothing.You will forget everything. Now I am going to 15 slowly from one to five. One, two, three, four, five.1．A．brains B．senses C．sights D．minds 2．A．imagine B．know C．feel D．guess 3．A．custom B．way C．style D．habit 4．A．required B．wished C．left D．expected 5．A．famous B．dull C．funny D．silly6．A．trying B．managing C．thinking D．hoping 7．A．learned B．studied C．discussed D．surveyed 8．A．finding B．making C．turning D．letting 9．A．gave B．sat C．woke D．got 10．A．lesson B．dream C．research D．exercise 11．A．softly B．loudly C．slowly D．firmly 12．A．head B．feet C．eyes D．body 13．A．believe B．understand C．take D．repeat 14．A．accept B．receive C．hear D．remember 15．A．add B．say C．count D．speak第二节语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为16-25的相应位置上。

To my great joy, I have broken away from my bad habit which almost ruined me. Two years ago, I happened to come across Tom, 16 was lost in gambling(赌博). Things of one kind come together. As I was also not interested in schoolwork, we became good friends. Though every day, the teacher assigned us a great deal of homework, we took no notice of it. In the classroom, I couldn’t focus 17 what the teacher taught. As a result, my academic performance was becoming from bad to 18 (bad). As I couldn’t find any fun in school, I played poker whenever I was free. At 19 beginning, we just played for fun, but not soon late, we played for gambling. 20 really made me happy even excited. However, I felt upset because I 21 (lose) quite a little money in the gamble. I began to be worried all the time. My father found 22 happened to me and shouted at me, saying that I would end up in prison 23 I didn’t attempt to leave those who gambled. He tried to persuade me to go back to school and begged my head teacher 24 (help) me with my study. 25 (follow) his advice, I tried to study hard. It seemed as if I never ran out of my energy. Where there is a will there is a way. I became one of the top students in my school.Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读理解（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A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项字母涂黑。

APhilip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was ―different‖. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him ―different‖, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of ―new life‖ and place it inside the plastic eggs.After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child t o explain that symbol of ―new life‖. The first opened egg contained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another one was a butterfly….When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. ―That’s stupid,‖ said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, ―It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.‖ Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They welcomed him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.Philip’s family knew he wouldn’t live a long life, for there were too many things wrong with him.26. The underlined word ―condition‖ in the first paragraph probably means ________.A. gradeB. statusC. diseaseD. health27. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.A. The 8-year-olds were friendly to PhilipB. The 8-year-olds were sometimes cruelC. Philip was really different in schoolD. Philip was older and more sensitive28. The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ________.A. put some symbol of ―new life‖ into itB. play around on that beautiful spring dayC. try to pull it apart in the middleD. go out and discover themselves29. After Philip explained his new life, ________.A. The class thought he was clever.B. He began to study in the class.C. The class fell silent.D. He felt dying.30. We learn from the passage that ________.A. The teacher used to have classes outdoorsB. Philip’s new life wish was emptyC. Philip was healthy as a wholeD. Philip was accepted by his classmates in the endBPeople from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in telling facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes."We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth equally, while Easterners favor the eyes and ignore the mouth."According to Jack and her colleagues, the finding shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than believed before. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey(传达) emotion in cross-cultural situations.The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into types: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately the participants(参与者) read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.It turned out that Easterners paid much greater attention to the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection(反映) of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that while Westerners use the whole face to express emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have made these basic social skills have greater variety will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, talking of communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.31. The discovery shows that Westerners _______.A. observe the eyes and the mouth in different waysB. consider facial expressions universally reliableC. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouthD. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions32. What were the people asked to do in the study?A. To classify(分类) some face pictures.B. To get their faces impressive.C. To make a face at each other.D. To observe the researchers' faces.33. What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?A. The people taking part in the study.B. The researchers of the study.C. The errors made during the study.D. The data collected from the study.34. Compared with Westerners, Easterners are likely to _______.A. do translation more successfullyB. study the mouth more frequentlyC. read facial expressions more correctlyD. examine the eyes more attentively35. What can be the best title for the passage?A. The Eye is the Window to the SoulB. Cultural Differences in Reading EmotionsC. Effective Methods to Develop Social SkillsD. How to Increase Cross-cultural UnderstandingCHave you ever wondered about people’s names? Where do they come from? What do they mean?People’s first names, or given names, are chosen by their parents. Sometimes the name of a grandparent or other member of the family is used. Some parents choose the name of a well-known person. A boy could be named George Washington Smith; a girl could be named Helen Keller Jones.Some people give their children names that mean good things. Clara means ―bright‖; Be atrice means ―one who gives happiness‖; Donald means ―world ruler‖; Leonard means ―as brave as a lion‖.The earliest last names, or surnames(姓), were taken from place names. A family with the name Brook or Brooks probably lived near brook(小溪)；someone who was called Longstreet probably lived on a long, paved road. The Greenwood family lived in or near a leafy forest.Other early surnames came from people’s occupations. The most common occupational name is Smith, which means a person who makes things with iron or other metals. In the past, smiths were very important workers in every town and village. Some other occupational names are: Carter — a person who owned or drove a cart; Potter —a person who made pots and pans.The ancestors of the Baker family probably baked bread for their neighbors in their native village. The Carpenter’s great-great-great-grandfather probably built houses and furniture.Sometimes people were known for the color of their hair or skin, or their size, or their special abilities. When there were two men who were named John in the same village, the John with the gray hair probably became John Gray. Or the John who was very tall could call himself John Tallman. John Fish was probably an excellent swimmer and John Lightfoot was probably a fast runner or a good dancer.Some family names were made by adding something to the father’s name. English-speaking people added –s or –son. The Johnsons are descendants of John; the Roberts family’s ancestor wasRobert. Irish and Scottish people added Mac or Mc or O. Perhaps all of the MacDonnells and the McDonnells and the O’Donnells are descendants of the same Donnell.36. Which of the following aspects do the surnames in the passage NOT cover?A. People’s characters.B. Places where people lived.C. Talents that people possessed.D. People’s occupations.37. According to the passage, the ancestors of the Potter family most probably _______.A. owned or drove a cartB. made things with metalsC. built houses and furnitureD. made kitchen tools or containers38. If an English couple whose ancestors lived near a leafy forest wanted their new-bornson to become a world leader, the baby might be named _______.A. Beatrice SmithB. Leonard CarterC. Donald GreenwoodD. George Longstreet39. The underlined word ―descendants‖ in the last paragraph means a person’s _______.A. friends and relativesB. later generationsC. colleagues and partnersD. later sponsors40. What does this passage mainly talk about?A. The origin of English names.B. The kinds of English names.C. How parents give their children names.D. How names affect one’s life.DSAN FRANCISCO —In the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe, moon watchers were treated on Saturday to a rare celestial(星体) phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse (月全食).For about 50 minutes starting at 6:06 a.m. PST, the moon was completely blocked by the Earth's shadow.With only some indirect sunlight able to reach it after passing through the Earth's atmosphere, the moon took on a reddish weak light. Since the atmosphere scatters(分散) blue light, only red light strikes the moon, giving it a dark red color.Dally Sam, who runs a public relations firm in Hawaii, said it had been cloudy and rainy, but the weather cleared just in time for the eclipse.Around 3 a.m., he awoke, as he usually does, and remembered to step outside the house in time to catch the beginning of the eclipse about a half hour later. No one else in the neighborhood was up then."It was turning that dark red color," Sayre, aged 47, said, "I’d better get a camera. To be able to see it just right outside our house was really cool."At the local observatory in Los Angeles, some 300 people, many holding coffee cups in the cold morning air, sat with blankets and chairs on the observatory's great grass land."It's really a celestial festival out here," John Peter, aged 39, told the Los Angeles Times as he set up his camera.Lying on a slope(斜坡) north of downtown near the Hollywood sign, the place offers clear views of the sky. Observatory officials reminded the crowd when the eclipse began and big applause burst when the celestial event ended.A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes through the long shadow cast by the Earth and is blocked from the sunlight that brightens it.41. What do we know about the lunar eclipse from the passage?A. The total lunar eclipse began at about 3:30 a.m..B. The total lunar eclipse ended at about 6:56 a.m..C. The lunar eclipse ended at about 6:56 in the evening.D. The lunar eclipse began at about 6:06 in the evening.42. When a total lunar eclipse occurs, ________.A. the moon looks blueB. the light will hurt our eyesC. nothing of the moon can be seen except some dark red light around its placeD. another planet comes between the earth and the moon43. We can infer from Para 5 that at 3:30 a.m. Dally Sam ______.A. found it was still raining heavilyB. saw a total lunar eclipseC. went out walking as he usually doesD. still had to wait for a long time to see a total lunar eclipse44. According to the last paragraph, which of the statement is wrong?A. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is blocked by the sun.B. The source of moonlight is from the sun.C. The earth comes between the moon and the sun when a total lunar eclipse appears.D. With the sunlight, the earth casts its shadow over the moon.45. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To inform us of the next total lunar eclipse.B. To tell us about a rare celestial event.C. To alert us of the natural disaster.D. To draw people’s attention to the news.第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。