新人教版高二英语下册期末考试题 (6)

高二英语下册期末考试题
本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共16页，满分为150分。

考试用时120分钟。

第I卷（共115分）
I．听力
第一节听独白或对话（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第1段材料，回答第1—2题。

1. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a restaurant.
B. In a company.
C. In a department store.
2. Why will the woman wait a little longer?
A. People are always late.
B. Her husband has not come yet.
C. She didn't make the appointment.
听第2段材料，回答第3－5题。

3. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Close friends.
B. Shop assistant and customer.
C. Ticket seller and passenger.
4. If the man wants to take the early morning flight, when will he arrive at the airport?
A. At 6:50.
B. At 7:50.
C. At 9:00.
5. How much does the man have to pay for the tickets at last?
A. $59.
B. $295.
C. $590.
听第3段材料，回答第6—8题。

6. What can we learn about the couple?
A. The husband likes to sit in the same chair.
B. The wife doesn't like to travel.
C. They went on a trip last year.
7. How long does the voyage they talked about last?
A. About ten days.
B. Ten weeks.
C. About twenty-one days.
8. Why doesn't the wife like the kind of voyage?
A. It may cost a lot of money.
B. She doesn't like to go to so many places.
C. She dislikes going to so many places and it may cost her a lot. 听第4段材料，回答第9—12题。

9. What does the woman do in the afternoons?
A. Going sightseeing.
B. Doing homework.
C. Taking classes.
10. Why does the woman want to improve her English?
A. She wants to get a higher position soon.
B. She wants to make friends with English people.
C. She wants to communicate with her customers better.
11. What do we know about the woman?
A. She knew little English before she came to London.
B. She practices English with her roommates.
C. She has never been to London before.
12. How long will the woman still have to stay in London?
A. At least a month.
B. At least 25 days.
C. Nearly 40 days.
听第5段材料，回答第13—15题。

13. Who do you think the speaker is?
A. A visitor to the park.
B. A guide.
C. A manager of a park service.
14. What does the speaker mainly say about the Yellowstone National Park?
A. The activities of the park.
B. The beginning of the park.
C. The management of the park.
15. What is one of the duties of the speaker?
A. To build fires.
B. To train animals.
C. To guide nature walks.
第二节听取信息（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面一段独白。

请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为16—20的空格中。

听录音前，你将有10秒钟的作答时间。

录音读两遍。

你有80秒钟的作答时间。

A Tour to London
II．单项选择（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
21. I would love ___ to the party last night but I had to work extra hours to finish a report.
A. to go
B. to have gone
C. going
D. having done
22. There is a mountain ___ the top is always covered with snow.
A. of that
B. of which
C. its
D. that
23. If you act like that, you’ll get yourself ___.
A. dislike
B. disliked
C. disliking
D. to dislike
24. The meeting was over, but the problem ___ unsolved.
A. kept
B. left
C. continued
D. remained
25. They will never give in _______ they might do or say about the plan.
A. although
B. no matter how
C. whatever
D. how
26. The enemy general ordered all the houses ___ after they broke through the defense line.
A. be set fire to
B. were set fire to
C. caught fire
D. should be caught fire
27. ____________ hard late into the night, he soon fell ill in bed.
A. To work
B. Working
C. Having worked
D. Being worked
28. --- Have you booked a room at the hotel?
--- I ___ to the hotel the other day, but they ___ yet.
A. have written; didn’t answer
B. wrote; haven’t answered
C. had written; haven’t answered
D. wrote; answer
29. I think ___ at the train station will surprise Aunt Kate.
A. your being
B. you are
C. you were
D. you to be
30. ___ you are the first one here.
A. It seems that as if
B. It seemed that
C. It seems as if
D. It seems even though
31. ___ computers are of great benefit to the development of science and technology.
A. The fact that
B. That the fact is
C. What the fact is that
D. The fact is that
32. A: Tom likes playing the piano, but he can’t play it well.
B: ________________________.
A. So does his brother
B. Nor can his brother
C. So is his brother
D. So it is with his brother
33. --- Do you mind if Jim comes to help?
--- I really don’t know ___ a person like him can help me with.
A. what
B. that
C. how
D. if
34. ___ is known to us all is that the earth is smaller than the sun.
A. What
B. As
C. Which
D. It
35. China has ___ population than ___.
A. much larger; that of Japan
B. more; Japan
C. a far more; that of Japan
D. a larger; Japan
36. These examples, once _____ to his article, will make it sound more reasonable.
A. add
B. to add
C. adding
D. added
37. The audience watched her ____ performance, too ____ to say a word.
A. amazing, surprising
B. amazed, surprised
C. amazed, surprising
D. amazing, surprised
38. ___________ amusing stories are based on comic situations.
A. Most of
B. The majority
C. Most
D. Mostly
39. He asked a number of important critics to come _______ his private…
A. seeing
B. and see
C. see
D. so they saw
40. Eric had been killed _________fighting with his regiment.
A. during
B. as if
C. while
D. because
III. 完型填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）
In the past, travel was considered an essential part of education. Poets and writers realized the _41_ of travel and went out to other countries in search of _42_. A man’s education was not completed until he had visited foreign lands.
That travel _43_ the mind cannot be denied. Those who travel come into _44_ with various types of people whose ways of life are completely different from theirs. They see things with their own eyes and have a better _45_ of the affairs of the world. The impressions that they receive while they travel remain _46_ in their minds for many years, and all false impression and ideas are _47_ from their minds. Thus, they are able to see things in their proper perspective（观点）and make correct judgments and decisions . And being able to make correct decisions is a valuable part of _48_.
It is argued, however, that the _49_ of the great variety of books, newspaper, the radio, TV and the Internet today obviates（排除）the need for travel to acquire knowledge. But there are many things they cannot describe effectively. They have to be seen and felt. Besides, not all can understand everything that they _50_ about people away from their homes. To such people, especially, travel is an important means of education.
41. A. value B. possibility C. background D. development
42. A. work B. wealth C. opportunity D. knowledge
43. A. comforts B. needs C. uses D. broadens
44. A. sight B. contact C. power D. effect
45. A. protection B. study C. solution D. understanding
46. A. little B. endless C. fresh D. important
47. A. removed B. tired C. differed D. separated
48. A. life B. travel C. education D. society
49. A. presence B. trouble C. importance D. discovery
50. A. see B. read C. talk D. worry
IV. 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，在空格处填人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卡标号为5l-60的相应位置上。

It seems that young people in Britain have lost the ability to communicate clearly and _51___（accurate）in Standard English, and the British government is so concerned __52__ it has set up a committee to “promote the use of better English.”
__53__, do British people really have a problem in expressing __54__? A study published last October suggests that there is real cause for concern: It showed th at among the UK’s 15-year-olds, only 22% of boys and 28% of girls feel comfortable when __55__（use）the Standard English in formal situations, such as at school and in interviews. Some people think that British pupils leaving school are not as good at using languages as pupils from other countries,
partly __56__ they don’t spend much time talking in class. There are some reasons for being concerned _____57_____ the levels of fluency and willingness to speak in public, even if “public” just means in front of the rest of the class.
The government committee, __58__ will be chaired by the newscaster（新闻播音员），Trevor McDonald，____59_____ widely respected and popular figure, __60__（make）up of people from the world of business, education, sports, the arts and the media.
V. 阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A.
Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter. With a checklist of criteria in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools. They sought a university that offered the teenagers intended major, one located near a large city, and a campus where their daughter would be safe.
“The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked: What about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer “That’s not a problem here.” Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
“No crime whatsoever?” comments Mahoney today. “I just don’t buy it.” Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of Education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to college,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”
But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics（统计数字）by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be obvious,” warns S. Daniel Ca rter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.
To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the
country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.
61.The Mahoneys visited quite a few colleges last August______.
A.to express the opinions of many parents
B.to choose a right one for their daughter
C.to check the cost of college education
D.to find a right one near a large city
62.It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges _______.
A.receive too many visitors
B.mirror the rest of the nation
C.hide the truth of campus crime
D.have too many watchdog groups
63.The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means _____.
A. mind
B. admit
C. believe
D. expect
64.We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth
paragraph most probably refers to colleges _______.
A. that are protected by campus security
B. that report campus crimes by law
C. that are free from campus crime
D. that enjoy very good publicity
65. What is the text mainly about?
A. Exact campus crime statistics.
B. Crimes on or around campuses.
C. Effective solutions to campus crime.
D. Concerns about kid’s campus safety.
B.
In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between
people.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self –worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single–minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve（缓解）can we discover
a new meaning in competition.
66.What does this passage mainly talk about?
petition helps to set up self-respect.
B.Opinions about competition are different among people.
petition is harmful to personal quality development.
D.Failures are necessary experiences in competition.
67.Why do some people favour competition according to the passage?
A. It pushes society forward.
B.It builds up a sense of duty.
C. It improves personal abilities.
D. It encourages individual effects
68.The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means _____.
A.those who try their best to win
B.those who value competition most highly
C.those who are against competition most strongly
D.those who rely on others most for success
69.What is the similar belief of the tru e competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?
A.One’s worth lies in his performance compared with others’.
B.One’s success in competition needs great efforts.
C.One’s achievement is determined by his particular skills.
D.One’s success is based on how hard h e has tried.
70.Which point of view may the author agree to?
A.Every effort should be paid back.
petition should be encouraged.
C.Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D.Fear of failure should be removed in competition.
C
Both warm-blooded and cold-blooded desert animals have ways to escape the desert heat. Warm-blooded desert animals, such as rats and mice, rest during the day, often staying in cool underground burrows. At night they search for food. Animals that are out during the day, such as cold-blooded lizards and snakes, are active only for short periods. As their body temperature rises, these reptiles move into the shade in order to cool down. In the early evening, when the sun grows weaker, the reptiles become more active and begin their search for food again.
Getting enough water to survive is a major problem for all desert animals. Some desert animals, such as the kangaroo rat and the related jerboa, get water only from the food that they eat. Because these animals eat mainly dry seeds, they must survive on a tiny amount of water.
Most deserts have only a small number of frogs and toads because these animals must be near water to survive. Yet even these creatures have adapted to desert conditions. When small amounts of water collect in temporary streams, the desert-living frogs and toads become active. After a rainfall, they lay their eggs. The eggs grow into tadpoles in a few days and into adults in just four weeks. When the puddles dry up, the adult frogs or toads dig into the ground. Their metabolism（新陈代谢）slows, and they stay beneath the ground until the next rain, which may be as good as a year away. Until then, their bodily activities continue at a reduced rate.
The camel---often called the ship of the desert---is one of the most successful desert animals.
Camels can go for long periods without water, but eventually they must drink. When water becomes available to them after a long drought, they may drink 95 liters of water or more. When water is not available, what helps camels survive the desert heat is the fat stored in their humps.
A camel’s hump contains about 12 kilograms of fat. Fat is rich in hydrogen. As the fat is digested, hydrogen from the fat combines with oxygen in the air that the camel breathes. The result is H2O, or water. Each kilogram of fat that a camel digests produces about a liter of water.
71.Desert animals are usually more active at night because ______.
A.it is cooler at night
B.it is easier to find water
C.they like the dark
D.they are less likely to be attacked at night
72.Which of the following desert animals can get water only from the food?
A.The camel
B. The kangaroo rat
C. The frog.
D. The toad
73.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.All the desert animals rest during the day.
B.All the desert animals don’t rest during the day.
C.Cold-blooded desert animals don’t rest during the day.
D.None of the cold-blooded desert animals go out during the day.
74.The title for this passage could probably be ________.
A.Hot Deserts
B.Desert Animals
C.How Desert Animals Get Water
D.Ways To Escape the Desert Heat
75.The underlined word “burrows” in the first paragraph can be replaced by _________.
A.holes
B. caves
C. rooms
D. openings
第二节：信息匹配。

Belinda 刚收到一则消息，说一家英国公司有兴趣买她的时装设计公司，在与该公司会面前，她必须运用一些电脑软件来完成她的一些任务，首先，请阅读下列关于电脑软件
的信息：
A．Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain websites and applications. Instead of spending hours writing the code required for a webpage, the designer can build the table, insert pictures and text as well as create web forms, by selecting the item they want and pasting it directly on the page. Dreamweaver automatically writes the code, and let the designer view it exactly as it will appear on a Web page.
B．Excel:Excel is spreadsheet applications useful for management of data and performing calculations, such as totaling a column of numbers or generating a more sophisticated formula to calculate some statistical measure on a list of numbers. Excel also allows this data to be presented in a graphical form using its report’s function.
C．Gimp:Gimp is a freely available, open-source image-editing and graphics creation software application similar to Photoshop. It can be used to colour, correct and sharpen pictures; make great looking reproduction of not-so-great looking photographs; and create a huge range of different graphics and logos.
D．Firefox:Firefox is an increasingly popular web browser, a program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. In addition to displaying images and text, Firefox is able to present a range of different multimedia information including sound and video. After only 3 years Firefox is already the second most popular browser in the world after Microsoft Internet Explorer.
E．WordPerfect: WordPerfect is a word processor software package that allows you to create, save and print letters, papers, and other documents. It has many writing tools and advanced features that allow you to change or edit your work, create tables, insert images, modify the text size, style and colour and do spelling and grammar checks.
F．Outlook:Microsoft Outlook Express is an email and news client bundled with operating systems and the Internet Explorer web browser by Microsoft, and also available as a no-charge download for the “classic” Apple Macintosh operating system（although not for the newer Macintosh computers, where it has been replaced by Microsoft Entourage, which costs money as part of Microsoft Office）
请阅读下列关于任务的信息，然后匹配任务与完成任务所需要的软件：
76.Letter of introduction: Belinda must draft/prepare a letter introducing her company to the possible buyer. In the letter she will also include pictures of sample designs she has produced over the past two years and a table listing sales figures and profits for the same period.
pany accounts: Belinda must present the interested buyer with the full details of the company’s economic performance over the past 2 years as well as sales and profit estimates for the next 6 months. She is required to calculate and display her total sales to all retailers, all revenue earned from those sales, employee payment and other operating cost and finally overall profits.
78.Image updates:She wants to improve the quality of pictures of her current fashion designs so she can send them as part of the letter of introduction and also post them on the web. In addition she wants to design a new company logo that will appear on all her business letters and on her website.
79.Update the company website: In order to present a more professional image to the buyer Belinda will update her company’s website. She w ants to add the new logo to all the website’s pages and create new pages displaying the new and improved pictures of her designs.
80.Check website: finally she wants to check the website to make sure the changes she has made look good and that they don’t tak e too long to download and view over the Internet.
第II卷（共35分）
I 课文默写.每空一词,共10空.（1*10=10分）
（U4）Eliza was a flower girl ______1_______ to succeed and be independent of her family. … But after her first lesson, she was _______2________ because Professor Higgins was so _____3_______ with her.
（U5）So we think it is reasonable to _____4______ they lived in these caves , ______5_____ of the cold.
（L29）.In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything ____6_______ in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
（L30）.In time, it became an _____7_______ fact that the Cox brothers
employed a _____8________ ghost that did most of their work for them.
（L31）.They _____9______ social conventions without being ______10_______ that they are doing anything extraordinary.
II. 单词拼写：根据句意填入适当的词，每横线只填一词，可根据首字母或中文意思只限Module 8 U4-U5 的词语。

1. If you need any more help, don’t h_____________ to contact me.
2. She o___________ his rudeness and tried to pretend nothing had happened.
3. Yesterday at the hotel, I made the ________________（认识）of a famous Korean actress.
4. Could you explain to us the _______________（重要意义）of the global climate change ?
5. My wife wanted to go to Greece, and I wanted to go to Italy, but I knew she was unable to c____________.
6. Look at the m___________ room. You put the dirty clothes and sheets here and there.
7. He refused to pay my money back. I had no a______________but to report him to the police.
8. He got five years in jail for r____________ a gas station.
9. It was a bad year for films, ______ ________ ________（从…方面来说）both quantity and quality
10. He is always lazy and careless, and I am ________ _______ ______（厌烦）his laziness and carelessness.
III.基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）
你是校报小记者，最近进行了一次采访。

以下是这次采访的情况：
时间：上周末
对象：眼科医生（eye-doctor）王教授
主题：我国中小学生近视（short-sightedness）问题
基本信息：（1）发生率：略高于50％
（2）人数：世界第一
专家解读：（1）原因：很复杂
（2）治疗：没有哪一种药物能治愈近视
（3）建议：不要过度用眼；多参加户外活动（4）特别提示：如何握笔也和近视有关
[写作内容]
根据以上情况写一篇采访报道，并包括如下内容：1．采访的时间、对象和主题；
2．中小学生近视的发生率及人数；
3．专家解读。

[写作要求]
只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。

[评分标准]
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

参考答案
I卷
1-5 ABCAB 6-10 CCCAC 11-15 CBBBC
16. waterway 17. geography 18. main 19. tourist 20. prison
21-25 BBBDC 26-30 ACBAC 31-35 DDAAD 36-40 DDCBC
41-45 ADDBD 46-50 CACAB
51. accurately 52. that 53. However 54. themselves 55. using
56. because 57. about 58. which 59. a 60. is made
61-65 BCCBD 66-70 BACAD 71-75 ABBBA 76-80 EBCAD
Ⅱ卷
一、1. determined 2. disappointed 3. impatient 4. assume 5. regardless
6. amusing
7. accepted
8. conscientious
9. disregard 10. conscious
二、1. hesitate 2. overlooked 3. acquaintance 4. significance 5. compromise
6. messy
7. alternative
8. robbing
9. in terms of 10. fed up with
三、possible version:
Last weekend, I had an interview with Professor Wang, an eye-doctor, concerning the issue of short-sightedness of school children in China. According to Professor Wang, slightly more than half of the school children in our country are short-sighted, ranking the first in the world. He also pointed out that the causes for short-sightedness are so complicated that no medicine can cure it. He suggested that school children avoid overuse of their eyes and do more outdoor activities. He particularly reminded us that how to hold a pen is also related to short-sightedness.。