江苏省盐城中学10-11学年高二上学期期中(英语试卷)

江苏省盐城中学2010—2011学年度第一学期期中考试

高二年级英语试题

本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分，考试时间120

分钟。

第I卷（两部分，共95分）

第一部分: 英语知识运用(共两节，满分65分)

第一节单项填空(共35小题;每小题1分,满分35分)

1. It is a usual practice for Billy Crystal to keep _______toothbrush in his pocket for

______ good luck.

A. 不填；the

B. a；不填

C.不填; a

D. a; the

2._____from the top of the mountain, my hometown looks more beautiful.

A. Overlooking

B. Being overlooked

C. To overlook

D. Overlooked

3. She ____ to catch the early train, but she didn’t get up in time.

A. intended

B. was intended

C. had intended

D. was intending

4. Now that he __________music for years, he wants to have something of his own rather

than doing work for other people.

A. has been made

B. made

C. makes

D. has been making

5. As I know, there is _______ person in this neighborhood.

A. no such

B. no a

C. not such

D. no such a

6. It is said that the old temple is ________.

A. worth of visiting

B. worthy of being visited

C. worthy a visit

D. worth being visited

7. This computer_______. It hasn’t worked for several months.

A. didn’t work

B. wasn’t working

C. doesn’t work

D. isn’t working

8. ______ his failure, he couldn’t stand others feeling sorry for him.

A. In spite that

B. Despite

C. Although

D. Despite

of

9. _______of the result, I felt a great weight_______ off my mind.

A. Hearing, taking

B. Having heard, taken

C. Heard, take

D. To hear, taken

10. Frightened by the snake, the girl ________ crying near the well.

A. burst in

B. burst upon

C. burst out

D. burst into

11. “I haven’t heard from Henry for a long time.”“What do you suppose____ to him?”

A. was happening

B. to happen

C. has happened

D. had happened

12. His business expanded and wanted to ______ more workers.

A. take up

B. take on

C. take off

D. take out

13. The boss___ me to keep in touch with the customers as often as possible.

A. looked for

B. headed for

C. stood for

D. arranged for

14. I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than ____ a room with someone else.

A. share

B. to share

C. sharing

D. to have shared

15. Charles began looking for a summer job in January, he knew that the early bird _____ the worm.

A. will get

B. gets

C. is getting

D. got

16. When I imagine my future, I see myself successful in my job and ______by my family.

A. surround

B. surrounding

C. to surround

D. surrounded

17. In the past ten years he has devoted himself ______ the disabled.

A. to help

B. to helping

C. helped

D. helping

18. It is said that the continents________ always where they are today.

A. isn’t

B. aren’t

C. weren’t

D. was n’t

19. While crossing the road, an old man was knocked down by a car and badly ________.

A. injured

B. ruined

C. wounded

D. harmed

20. Translated into English,_____.

A. the students have polished up their English

B. the merchants made a profit out of the books they sold

C. the influence of the book on children is worth considering

D. the works of the famous writer have sold well

21. At last we found ourselves in a pleasant park with trees providing shade and _______

down to eat our picnic lunch.

A. sit

B. sitting

C. to sit

D. sat

22. News came that the captain of the winning football team was _______ a prize .

A. rewarded

B. supplied

C. awarded

D. provided

23. How I wish every family ______ a large house with a beautiful garden now!

A. has

B. had

C. will have

D. had had

24.________studying journalism at Peking University, Sang Lan also hosted a sports programme.

A. Apart from

B. Except

C. In addition

D. Except for

25._____________the situation, Sang Lan stayed optimistic as if nothing _____________.

A. Whatever

B. Whichever

C. Wherever

D. However

26. When the rescue work was broadcast _________, another two villagers were dug out

______from under the earth.

A. lively, alive

B. live, living

C. lively, lively

D. live, alive

27. That must have been very difficult for her when the accident happened to her, __________it?

A. hasn’t

B. didn’t

C. hadn’t

D. wasn’t

28. At that time, what I hoped to do was ________ to school.

A. to go

B. go

C. gone

D. going

29. ---- What would you suggest I should do?

----______, I’d t ake a job as a waiter in a restaurant.

A. If I were you

B. If I would be you

C. Had I been you

D. If I am you

30.______ to take time to relax, there is always someone telling us things we should be doing.

A. When trying

B. To try

C. When we try

D. Trying 31. ----Yangyang carried off the first winter Olympic medal for China.

----Great! What she won for our motherland!

A. golden; honor

B. gold; honor

C. golden; honors

D. gold; honors

32. The idea occurred to us that a computer would be given to won the competition.

A. whatever

B. no matter who

C. whomever

D. whoever

33. It is a good thing to study abroad, but it remains ___ whether you can really learn something useful.

A. to be seen

B. to see

C. seen

D. seeing

34. It will be three days __________he comes back from his home town.

A. when

B. after

C. since

D. before

35. When he came first in the speech competition, he was__________.

A. on cloud nine

B. hot under the collar

C. down in the dumps

D. feeling blue

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.”“I’m always behind.”“I always put things 36 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 37 .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been 38 for years—often from 39 childhood. These stories may have no 40 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.”How did these expectations 41 my development? I was never 42 to work on cars or be around 43 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later, 44 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 45 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.”On the 46 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 47 and told him about my 48 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 49 is it that you can solve 50 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 51 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just

living out expectations that I had chosen to 52 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 53 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And

it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true.

54 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 55 we choose.

36. A. away B. off C. up D. down

37. A. them B. myself C. yourself D. others

38. A. said B. spoken C. spread D. repeated

39. A. as long as B. as far back as C. as well as D. as much as

40. A. basis B. plot C. cause D. meaning

41. A. lead B. improve C. affect D. change

42. A. encouraged B. demanded C. hoped D. agreed

43. A. means B. tools C. facilities D. hammers

44. A. therefore B. somehow C. instead D. however

45. A. settled B. turned C. took D. got

46. A. passive B. active C. negative D. subjective

47. A. experiences B. trips C. roads D. paths

48. A. unexpected B. poor C. excellent D. average

49. A. When B. What C. How D. Why

50. A. complex B. advanced C. common D. primary

51. A. arise B. separate C. suffer D. come

52. A. believe B. suspect C. adopt D. receive

53. A. weakening B. strengthening C. abandoning D. accepting

54. A. As a result B. At the same time C. In addition D. On the contrary

55. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. all

第二部分: 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

A recent survey of teachers found that an unhealthy passion with celebrity（名人）culture is having a negative effect on British students’ studies and it discov ered that celebrity couple, the Beckhams, are the favorites among most students. Many students are ignoring building their own careers to seek a chance at fame instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) survey found.

Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were the type of celebrity many pupils wanted to follow while more than half of students wanted to be pop stars.

The survey said the celebrities that students aspired to mostly were David and Victoria Beckham who live in Los Angeles now. Soccer player Beckham is on the top of the survey while in second place, with almost a third of the survey’s votes, was his 33-year-old pop star wife.

Almost half of the 300 teachers surveyed said pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing "unsuitably".

"We are not surprised about the influence of celebrity culture in schools —it reflects the current media passion with celebrities and the effect of celebrity culture on society as a whole," ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement.

"Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils’ aspirations and desires for the future. However, celebrity culture can spread the idea that celebrity status is the greatest achievement and reinforce the belief that other career choices are not as valuable," said one primary school teacher. "Too many of the pupils believe that school success is unnecessary, because they will be able to get fame and fortune quite easily through a reality TV show."

56. The story mainly tells us that ______.

A. the Beckhams are mostly admired in Britain

B. most students think that being pop stars is more valuable than other career achievements

C. the celebrity passion has a harmful impact upon Brit ish students’ studies

D. a survey was made recently about the popularity of the stars

57. Why does the author mention that pupils tried to look like or behave like the

celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing “unsuitably”?

A. The pupils think it interesting to pretend to be the celebrities.

B. The behavior or the dress of celebrities can be followed as examples.

C. The author wants to show the negative influence these celebrities had on the students.

D. The author just wants to show being pop stars is very valuable to the students.

58. What is not TRUE according to the story?

A. Celebrities can’t have positive impact on the students.

B. Beckham and Victoria are husband and wife.

C. The so-called celebrity culture does harm to the pupil s’ ideas about achievement.

D. Many students believe that school success is unnecessary.

59. The best title of the story is _____.

A. Sports Star David Beckham

B. Survey of Students about Celebrities

C. Harmful Effect of Celebrities on Students

D. Better to Be Pop Stars Than Sports Stars

B

The classical study of family size and IQ was conducted in the Netherlands. It was based on the military examinations of more than 386,000 Dutchmen. Researchers found that the brightest subjects came from the smallest families and had few, if any, brothers and sisters when they were born. Thus the firstborn child in a family of two was usually brighter than the last child in a family.

The effects of family size on intelligence may be explained by what a house full of children does to the home environment. It increases the amount of time a child spends with other children and decreases the amount of parental attention he or she receives. For example, a parent with one restless child is likely to sit and play with the child. The same parent with two or three restless children is more likely to ask them to play with each other. Some psychologists say that when a child interacts with an adult alone, the child learns more and therefore intelligence is increased. Researchers have also found that parents often expect more from their firstborn, which motivates such children to seek a higher standard.

Not all psychologists agree that firstborns tend to be more intelligent. They say that the data need to be examined more closely for other possible explanations. For example, in industrialized nations most large families come from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Thus environment, not family size or birth order, may be influencing intelligence. On the other hand, there may be genetic variations (基因变异) within families that also explain the cause of differences.

If firstborns have advantages in the area of intelligence, research has also shown that they may be more conforming (墨守成规) and have poorer social skills than their younger siblings (brothers and sisters ). Although more research needs to be done in this area, it is clear that such factors as birth order, the order in which boys and girls are born into a family, the number of years that separate siblings probably have an effect on the development of intelligence, personality, and social relationships.

60. The underlined word "subjects" in the first paragraph means ________.

A. branches of knowledge

B. persons chosen to be studied in experiments

C. any member of a state except the top ruler

D. something to be considered

61. Psychologists are divided with regard to (关于) their opinions toward________.

A. the way in which the data are explained

B. the advantages of firstborns in the area of IQ

C. the planned size of families

D. the factors influencing intelligence

62. Why are firstborns encouraged to seek a higher standard?

A. They are more obedient (服从) and have poorer social skills.

B. Their parents spend less time with other children.

C. They obtain more attention from their parents.

D. Their parents expect more from them.

63. The best title for this passage would be________.

A. Family Size and IQ

B. The Preference of Boys to Girls

C. The Development of Intelligence

D. Factors Influencing IQ

C

Gwyn, my youngest daughter, held Tiger as we drove down the country road to the vet’s （兽医） on what was to be his last Friday morning. Privately, both of us nursed a forlorn (几乎无望的) hope. We joked and laughed, trying to ignore the shadow hanging over the cat sitting very quietly in her arms.

At 16, Tiger was old for a cat. In quiet dignity, he let Gwyn pet him, perhaps understanding that this was a special trip. I glanced at the two as I drove, and thought back to the day when Tiger entered our lives.

He had been a Christmas present to my second son Brian, handed down—as were his clothes and toys—from his older brother. Sadly, even our dogs had neglected Brian, responding much more eagerly to my commands, and those of my wife and older boy.

And so, on Christmas Day 1954, I rose early with my wife to put the tiny kitten （小猫） a neighbor had given us into the stocking that Brian had carefully hung to the

mantel the night before. The first of my vivid memories involving Tiger is the look of joy on Brian’s face when he saw the kitten’s face ,when he saw the kitten’s head poking out of the stocking, and heard the plaintive “meow”that proved his present was alive.

From then on, Tiger’s life was filled with love. Brian cared for him tenderly, fed him, played with him. For a sometimes rough, sometimes clumsy child, Brian showed a gentleness with Tiger that was amazing. And at midnight, I would invariably find Tiger on Brian’s bed, stretched out beside him.

My next clear memory of Tiger is also a happy one, which came after near-tragedy. One evening our next-door neighbor rang the front doorbell. “I’m sorry to have to tell you this,” she said when my wife answered the door, “but when I backed out of the driveway this noon, I’m afraid I ran your cat. I tried to help him, but he jumped up and ran away. I don’t know where he went or how badly he was hurt.”

Four weeks passed with no sign of Tiger. Soldier-like, Brian tried to hide his fear that his friend had crawled away to die. It was a fear we all shared. And we came to accept his death—all of us except Brian.

Every evening Brian would go to the door and call Tiger’s name. Finally, on the 28th day after the neighbor’s announcement, Brian had an answer. Out from under the front porch came Tiger, his tail high, walking with the pride and majesty he customarily displayed, behaving as if he had never been away. As he approached the door, Brian’s face was transformed with joy. But neither he nor Tiger displayed open affection in front of the family. There was a calm acceptance, an honoring by each of the other’s dignity. That night, though, when I checked Brian’s room, I saw that his cheeks were wet and a blissful smile was on his face. And his arm encircled his cat, who lay purring quietly beside him.

64. From the first paragraph, we know that _________.

A. Tiger was a cat and was dying

B. Tiger was a real tiger and was dying

C. Tiger was the second son of the writer

D. Tiger was a Christmas present to the writer’s daughter

65. The accident happened to Tiger was that _________.

A. Tiger had a serious disease

B. Tiger was hit by the car when the neighbor backed out of the driveway

C. Tiger had crawled away to die

D. Tiger was hit to death 66. Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. Tiger’s life was filled with love.

B. Brian loved Tiger very much and tried his best to care for him.

C. When there was no sign of Tiger, Brian didn’t believe that he was dead.

D. When Tiger approached the door, Brian burst into tears.

67. From the passage we can draw a conclusion that_________.

A. in America, people love pets such as cats and dogs

B. there are at least five people in the family

C. boys like to look after animals

D. boys like to sleep with cats lying beside them

D

John H. Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks.

Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success”, said she, “all the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and working hard don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago.

Chicago in 1933 was not the Promised Land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here learned the power of words—as an editor of a newspaper. His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more wo rds to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him sell her furniture to get the 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It’s natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He alw ays keeps his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your dictionary.” Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America—worth 150 million dollars.

68. The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________ .

A. if you try, you will surely succeed

B. a try is always followed by a failure

C. only by trying can you get out of failure

D. a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try

69. We can learn from this passage that John’s mother ________ .

A.didn’t depend on ot hers or give up easily

B.thought success only lied in a strong faith

C.thought one could be whatever one wanted to be

D.believed one would succeed without working hard

70. What can be inferred from this passage?

A.If someone wants to be successful, he should always stand firm.

B.Chicago was not the Promised Land for the black southerners in 1933.

C.John’s father died in an accident during the war.

D.John’s mother was caring for him.

第Ⅱ卷（三节，共55分）

第三部分：写作

第一节任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空限填1个单词。

Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women's education may be an unusual field for economists, but increasing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on incentives(鼓励), provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺)an education.

Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school — the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.

An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.

Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant effect on health practices, including family planning.

Topic: The significance of female education in the developing (71)

第二节单词拼写（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

A.根据所给首字母和中文提示完成各句，使句意通顺。

81. We strongly_________（倡导）environmental protection.

82. He was waiting for his brother’s return with_________(焦虑).

83. At an _________(合适的) moment I will offer the visitors some coffee.

84. Lacking the formal __________(引导)of a teacher, he relied on videos and recordings.

85. To some people, happiness can ________(仅仅，只不过)mean a day without pain or just being alive.

86. When the doctors told her that she would never again be a gymnast, she was able to overcome her d_________ and just be proud of the things she had accomplished. 87. The m___________ speed of this car is 220 miles per hour, which is not allowed on

ordinary roads.

88. Each time, he plays his stand-up r __________ in front of millions of people.

89. The instant she fell and broke her neck, she was r_________ to a top hospital in New York.

90. The majority of them are in s_________ with the plan.

B.新概念原文填空。

91. _________with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on.

92. The experts were now fully _________that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from?

93. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambles back into the car and

it moved off at a _________speed.

94. He and his ________ began throwing furniture out of the window .Chairs and tables

went flying into the arcade.

95. Mr.Taylor, the owner of a _________shop was admiring a new window display.

96. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had ____________ been written.

97. The city at one time must have been ________, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.

98. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were _______to find that

the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman.

99. He will be earning only half as much as he used to, but he feels that his rise in

________ is well worth the loss of money.

100. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and _____________.

第三节书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，看到班上有部分同学在完成作业时，不自己独立完成而是抄袭他人的作业，针对这种现象，请你以My opinion on copying others’ homework为题谈谈你自己的看法。

注意：1. 短文必须包括所有内容要点，可适当发挥；

2. 短文标题与开头已为你写好，不计入总词数：

My opinion on copying others’ homework

It is known to us all that some students copy others’ homework.