肥东县石塘中学高二英语下学期期末考试卷AqHPqw

肥东县石塘中学高二英语下学期期末考试卷
姓名__________ 班级___________ 得分____________
第一卷
第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. In face of _____ failure, it is the most important to keep_____ good state of mind.
A. / ; a
B. a ; /
C. the ; /
D. / ; the
2. _____ our food ______, we had to walk to a village for help.
A .Since; runs out B. Because; run out
C. With; running out
D. For; running out
3. — Where is my dictionary? —You_____ it in the wrong places.
A. must put
B. should have put
C. might put
D. might have put
4. ______ is known to us all is that maths is one of the most difficult subjects.
A. As
B. That
C. It
D. What
5. The PLA are now searching for a woman who is reported to______ since the quake
hit the area last Monday.
A. have been missing
B. have got lost
C. being missing
D. get lost
6. To such an extent ______ their son that they have tried to satisfy every demand of
his.
A. their parents do love
B. their parents love
C. do their parents love
D. love their parents
7. The burning of rainforests is directly _______ to the so-called greenhouse effect.
A. contributing
B. attributing
C. constituting
D. associating
8. I will have John ______ my bike and I heard Tom had had his bike _____ in that
factory.
A. repair; repairing
B. repair; repaired
C. repaired; repair
D. repairing; repaired
9. — Is your mother going to the supermarket? — No, ______.
A. she doesn’t
B. she’s cooking
C. she gets by bus
D. to a tailor’s shop
10. If we can ______ our present difficulties, then everything should be all right.
A. come across
B. get over
C. come over
D. get off
11. I agree with most of what you said, but I don’t agree with ______?
A. something
B. anything
C. nothing
D. everything
12. The doctor asked the patient to lie down _____ and breathe deeply.
A. flat
B. flatly
C. to be flat
D. to be flatly
13. Was it through Mary _____ was working at a high school, ______ you got to
know Tom?
A. who; who
B. who; that
C. that; have
D. that; where
14. Shirley ______ a book about Tibet last year, but I don’t know whether she has
finished it.
A. has written
B. wrote
C. had written
D. was writing
15. —“Could we put off the meeting?” she asked
—“______,”he answered politely. “This is the only day everyone is available.”
A. Not likely
B. Not exactly
C. Not nearly
D. Not really
第二节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Do you sometimes oversleep? Are you often late for work or school? Yes? The Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a(n) 16 bed for you. Hiroyuki's bed will 17 you up in the morning! Here is how it 18 .
The bed 19 an alarm Clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays 20 music or other pleasant sounds. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki's bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers in a sweet 21 , "Wake up, darling, please. "A few minutes later, a second recording 22 The sound recording can be loud music or 23 sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss. His boss 24 ," Wake up immediately, 25 you'll be late!"
If you don't get up 26 the second recording, you 27 be sonly! A mechanical "foot" is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few 28 minutes. What ! You're29 in bed! Slowly the 30 of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. 31 , the bed is vertical(垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed and become 32 .
Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to 33 a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Every two years Honda has a contest for its 200,000 employees--" All Honda Idea Contest." The employees think of new 34 . If their ideas win, the employees win 35 .
Hiroyuki Sugiyama won one of the top prizes for his bed.
16. A. expensive B. special C. valuable D. comfortable
17. A. get B. catch C. make D. let
18. A. works B. runs C. happens D. moves
19.A. is separated from B. is made up of C. is connected to D. is made into
20. A. loud B. classical C. pop D. soft
21. A. sound B. voice C. noise D. way
22. A. sends B. turns C. plays D. appears
23. A. pleasant B. interesting C. unpleasant D. funny
24. A. shouts B. calls C. whispers D. persuades
25. A. and B. but C. so D. or
26. A. before B. until C. since D. after
27. A. can B. will C. may D. would
28. A. other B. another C. more D. one
29. A. still B. yet C. already D. even
30. A. end B. middle C. body D. top
31. A. However B. Finally C. Therefore D. otherwise
32. A. angry B. asleep C. happy D. awake
33. A. achieve B. win C. gain D. defeat
34. A. ideas B. problems C. facts D. ways
35. A. praises B. positions C. prizes D. medals
第二部分阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A
"Saving Our Waterways:Pollution in the Mississippi”
36. If you were a housewife, which program would probably interest you most?
A. Let's Talk!
B. Wall Street Today.
C. Cooking with Cathy.
D. Farm Report.
37. If you'd like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to
A. Channel 5 at 6: 00
B. Channel 8 at 7 : 00
C. Channel 3 at 7 : 30
D. Channel 3 at 8 : 00
38. Which is most probably the News Channel?
A. 3.
B. 5.
C. 8.
D. 9.
B
I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a big company. I told him honestly that the principal reason that I was interviewing with them was my need to keep my family in Boston. My wife had recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some pain for
my 16-year-old daughter and me. It was important to me to keep her present high school.
Bruce, the interviewer, was politely kind, but he didn't search any further. He acknowledged(承认) my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of interviews, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had 3 children. I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had and it was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a loved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, should I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help.
From that one act of kindness, when he had no idea if we could ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of life's greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview process into an act of earing and supporting for another person in a time of extreme need.
39. According to the passage, the interviewer, Bruce, was very .
A. generous
B. kind
C. happy
D. mean
40. The underlined word "principal" in the first paragraph probably means .
A. main
B. unimportant
C. necessary
D. possible
41. We can infer from this passage that .
A. the writer didn't get the job in the company
B. Bruce made the writer pass the interview
C. another manager also lost his wife
D. the business interview was cold
42. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A. The writer's daughter was studying in Boston at that time.
B. Both the writer and the interviewer experienced the same pain.
C. Bruce was a senior manager of a big firm.
D. Bruce wanted to make Mends with him because he gave him his business card and home
phone number.
C
One would have to be a fool to overlook the importance of using positive thinking for you rather than snowing negative thinking to work against you. In recent years, research in psychopharmacology(精神药理学) has proved what many people have known over the centuries: a positive attitude is good for you, good for your health, good for your wealth, good for everything.
Researchers have found that a positive attitude produces a specific chemical reaction which makes people feel better, while negative thinking results in a reduction of hormone(荷尔蒙) and shuts down the immune system. This leads to illness and depression. Positive thoughts will make you feel better. Even if
you must begin by forcing yourself to be positive, it will become contagious and the positive thoughts will produce nice little chemicals and good feelings which will reinforce the positive
thoughts.
For example, if you force yourself to smile or laugh, even when you "don't feel like smiling or laughing, if you keep at it for a few minutes, you will soon feel like it. Feelings can make thoughts alive, and thoughts can do it, too. Control your thoughts and you can control your feelings. Positive thinking is important in all aspects of our lives. There is probably no single factor more important in determining your success in achieving your career purposes than your own attitude.
It's often been said that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And in the office of militant(好战的) negativism, the positive workers shine like gold. You cannot control external events, but you can learn to control your reaction to those events and thereby have a positive attitude and be happy. This important key to success is totally within your control. Use it.
43. We can infer from the passage that .
A. positive thinking can cure you of your diseases
B. positive thinking can easily be generated by anyone
C. a reduction of hormone may cause you to be depressed
D. a specific chemical reaction is the cause of negative thinking
44. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Feeling and thoughts can react to each other.
B. It's easier to control thoughts than to control feelings.
C. Your success depends wholly on your attitude.
D. Keeping smiling will surely make you successful.
45.Just like a one-eyed man in the land of the blind, you should .
A. take positive attitude in the office of militant negativism
B. be kind in your office
C. pay no attention to what is going on around you
D. control your feeling to what is happening to you
46.The best title to the passage is .
A. Thinking Benefits People
B. Why Should People Think
C. Positive Thinking and Negative Thinking
D. Thinking: The Important Way
D
What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others? The answer is "No". It is not a tool a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further: he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his question into a large set of ideas about how the world works.
The scientist's knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any
change the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the change in the conditions.
This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was later tested through investigation. Einstein's ideas are shown to be correct. A scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.
47. "...knowing how to investigate, how to discover information, is important to everyone. " The author says this to show .
A. the importance of information
B. the difference between carpenters and ordinary people
C. the difference between scientists and ordinary people
D. the importance of thinking
48. A sound scientific theory should be one that .
A. works under one set of conditions at any time
B. leaves no room for improvement
C. does not allow any change even under different conditions
D. can be used for many purposes
49. Which of the following statements is NOT tree?
A. What works under one set of conditions at one time might work under the same conditions
at other times.
B. Tools which a scientist uses for measurements are used to make mathematical calculations
that may test his investigations.
C. A scientist should know more about other branches of knowledge to arrive in his
achievement.
D. Knowing how to investigate, how to discover information is important to scientists.
50. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Scientists are different from the ordinary people.
B. The theory of relativity.
C. Exactness is the secret of science.
D. Exactness and way of using tools is the key to the making of a scientist.
E
Language is a major problem for the European Union (EU). The agreement or treaty(条约) which created the organization that eventually became the EU, the Treaty of Rome, stated that each country's language must be treated equally. The original(原来的) six countries had only three languages between them: French, German and Dutch/Flemish. However, there are now 15 countries in the EU, with a total of 12 languages. EU documents must be translated into all these languages, and at official meetings the speeches must be translated into all the languages by interpreters.
All this translating is very expensive and time-consuming (费时的). It is said that nearly
half of all employees of the EU are engaged in translating documents and speeches, and nearly half of the EU's administrative(管理方面的) costs are spent on this task. In the near future it is probable that several more
countries, most of them having their own languages, will join the EU, thus making the situation even worse.
The problem is not just cost; there are practical difficulties as well. With 12 languages, there are 132 possible "translation situations" that might be needed. It is often difficult to find people in the right place at the right time who can translate from (for example) Danish into Greek, or Dutch into Portuguese, at a high professional standard.
In practice the problem has been made less severe by the use of English in many contacts between EU officials, since almost all of them speak some English. However, any move to reduce the number of official languages (perhaps to four or five) would be a blow to the pride of the smaller Countries. Another commonly suggested solution is to make English the official language for all EU business. However, this is strongly resisted by powerful member countries like France and Germany.
51. The organization that eventually became the EU .
A. was started by France and Germany
B. started with three countries
C. was set up by the Treaty of Rome
D. included 132 languages
52. What's the main purpose of this passage?
A. To give a solution to a problem.
B. To find out a problem and show how severe it is.
C. To criticize the European Union for inefficiency.
D. To show that the problem cannot be solved.
53. According to the writer, the use of English in contacts among EU officials has .
A. angered the officials who don't speak English
B. reduced the number of official languages
C. reduced the effect of the problem
D. been opposed by powerful member countries
54. The writer mentions "Danish into Greek" as an example of .
A. a situation that might be difficult to deal with
B. a situation that occurs often
C. one of the 12 situations that requires an interpreter
D. languages easily being interpreted
55. The writer suggests that if the number of official languages was reduced .
A. the EU would not know which official languages to choose
B. countries whose languages were not used officially would be unhappy
C. only languages which are easy to translate would be used officially
D. the smaller member countries would be pleased
第二卷（两部分，35分)
任务型读写(10)
We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming (把…按能力分班)pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade! Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect for their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups: this gives them the opportunity to learn to cooperate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to cope with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and evaluate, and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teacher.
Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual tasks and assignments, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is appropriate. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this efficiently. An advanced pupil can do advanced work: it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
目前，学校有在少数学生考试作弊现象。

某英文杂志社拟对此现象向中学生征文，标题是
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：
3.词数：100左右。

4.参考词汇：作弊cheat v .
My Opinion on Cheating in Examinations
It is known to us all that some students cheat in examinations at school.。