2016寒假开学考试题

高二年级开学之初英语考试试题一、阅读理解：60AMost of my friends speak several languages. My friend Hans Kimmel, for example, speaks three languages—German, French and English. And my friend Pavlov speaks four languages—Russian, French, Spanish and English. Then there is Charles Zhou. His native language is Chinese, but he speaks three or four other languages fluently. I do not understand it. They speak, read and write all those languages, and I only know one language— English. Why can’t I speak any foreign lang uages? Am I stupid to learn a foreign language?Maybe it is all a question of home and environment. My parents do not speak any other languages, so of course we speak English at home. But look at Hans. His father is German and his mother is French. So h e speaks two languages at home. And look at John’s family. His father is Russian and his mother is Spanish. So they speak two languages at home.Perhaps it is a question of geography, too. I live in the United States, and I can travel hundreds of miles with only one language— English. But it is different for Hans in Europe. He lives in Germany, but in a few hours he can travel to France, or to Italy, or to Holland, or to Denmark. So of course he hears other languages all the time. And he needs other languages.I am studying Italian this term at the university, but I am not learning very much Italian. I can not practice it at home or in restaurants or in stores. I only speak it three hours each week in the classroom. That’s all. The rest of the time I s peak English. Maybe I should go to Italy fora few months. Then perhaps I could really learn Italian.1. Who can speak French, German and English ?A) The author himself. B) Hans Kimmel.C) Charles. D) John.2. The person whose mother tongue is Chinese is _________.A) a friend of Zhou’s B) PavlovC) Zhou D) Hans3 According to the writer’s opinion, the reason why he can not spea k other languages is that__A) he is stupidB) he is not good at learning languagesC) he is not interested in learning languagesD) he lives in an English-speaking country and his parents don’t speak any other languagesexcept English4. The writer thinks that if a person wants to learn a foreign language well, he should ___.A) study hard B) go to ItalyC) have a good language situation D) be clever and good at learning languages5. The writer’s native language is _________.A) Russian B) Italian C) English D) GermanBMany a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” an d writing. In mostcases individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, not want to be a writer.”The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the US Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿者), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me a room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years, I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainly and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and any one with a dream must learn to live there.6. The passage is meant to ______________ .A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experienceB.advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writerC.show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fameD.encourage young people to pursue a writing career7. What can be concluded from the passage ?A.Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.B.A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort.C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.D.The chances for a writer to become successful are small8. Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career ?A.He wasn’t able to produce a single look.B.He hadn’t seen a change for the betterC.He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.D.He found his dream would never come true.9. “I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if?” refers to “those.”A.who think too much of the dark side of lifeB.who regret giving up their career halfwayC.who think a lot without making a decisionD.who are full of imagination even upon death10. “Shadowland” in the last paragraph refers to .A.the wonderland one often dream aboutB.the bright future that one is looking forward toC.the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reachedD.a world that exists only in one’s imaginationCJules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories seemed like fairy tales.Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.（A league is an old word meaning a distance of about three miles）. In those days submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern one.Many of the things Jules wrote about in his books more than a hundred years ago to look into the future, however, were surprisingly exact. In his book From the Earth to the Moon he wrote at the age of about forty, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon in a hollow ship fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea not far from where the first real moon traveler landed in July, 1969.11. Jules wrote a lot of exciting books partly because he _______.A. liked to do much reading on scienceB. liked reading fairy talesC. was a great inventorD. was a famous scientist12. Some of what Jules described in his books _______.A. is almost the same as what happened years laterB. is quite different from what happened years laterC. never comes trueD. seems impossible to the people today13. Many of the things really happened _______.A. as soon as Jules’ books were publishedB. some years after his books were publishedC. at that timeD. when Jules was in his forties14. The thing Jules described in his book From the Earth to the Moon is _______.A. as large as the spaceship todayB. similar to the spaceship todayC. a gun used to send up a shipD. an underwater ship15. Which country was Jules Verne born in ?A. ChinaB. FranceC. AmericaD. JapanDThanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest.On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts,in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Govemor Bradford declared a three-day feast. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.In time, other colonies (殖民地) began to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed (宣布) the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of Thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October.16. The passage mainly tells us _____ .A. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebratedB. how to celebrate Thanksgiving DayC. that Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and placesD. Why Thanksgiving Day is a harvest holiday17. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated _____ .A. in springB. in summerC. in autumnD. in winter18. The first to celebrate Thanksgiving were ____ .A. people in CanadaB. Governor BradfordC. some people from EnglandD. the American Indians19. We can infer from the passage that New England must be__________.A.in the USB. in Great BritainC.in CanadaD. on some island off the Atlantic20. Which of the following is NOT true ?A.There's little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.B.Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.C.Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.D.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express American and Indian people's thanks to God.EYears ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages(笼子). Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals' habitats(栖息地).Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild habitats.Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related(有关联的) with Asia elephants, are now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.21.Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can ________.A.protect themB.see them betterC.feed themD.save them22.Today, zoos keep animals ________.A.in bigger cagesB.in the wildC.in smaller cagesD.in the field23.To protect animals, zoos ________.A.are trying to keep all kinds of animalsB.are trying to free the animalsC.teach people more about animalsD.want people to feed the animals24.A mammoth is a kind of ________ that has gone extinct.A.plantB.birdC.animalD.tree25.An animal or a plant that is going extinct ________.A.no longer exists(存在) in the worldes into this world soonC.becomes very dangerousD.has fewer and fewer living membersFEaster is a movable festival celebrated on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. We don't know exactly how this festival came into being. Some believed that it honored Easter, the goddess of spring time and sunrise. Her name comes from the word“east”，where the sun rises. Every spring, northern European people celebrated the Festival of Easter to honor the awakening of new life in nature. Later, Christians(基督教)related the rising of the sun to the Resurrection of Christ(耶酥的复活)and to their own spiritual(精神的)rebirth.On Easter, eggs are painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring. They use these eggs to take part in Easter-egg rolling contests or give them to others as gifts.The Easter bunny is another representative of this festival. The Easter bunny came for pre-Christian(公元前)times. The rabbit, a very fertile(多产的)animal, was a natural symbol of new life. Nowadays, children enjoy eating candy bunnies and listening to the stories about the Easter bunny, who brings Easter eggs in a fancy basket.26．Easter is celebrated on________.A．the Sunday following the first full moon after March 21 B．the last Sunday in March C.April 6 D.April 2527．Ancient people celebrated the Easter festival to______.A.worship a goddessB.remember the Resurrection of ChristC.welcome springD.all the above28．On Easter, children________.A.throw eggs to each otherB.eat eggsC.decorate eggsD.sell eggs29．What is an Easter bunny?A.A kind of candy.B.A rabbit.C.An egg.D.A fancy basket. 30．________ play an important part in the celebration of Easter.A.TraditionsB.ChristiansC.EggsD.Church bells二、七选五：10下面是一篇短文, 请将标有A---F的选项插入文章中标号为31-----35的合适位置, 使这篇文章意义完整, 结构连贯。