湖北省武汉二中09-10学年高二上学期期末考试(英语)

武汉二中2009-2010学年上学期
高二年级期末考试
英语试卷
命题教师：王菊香审题教师：仝艳娜
考试时间：2010年2月3日上午：10:00---12:00 试卷满分150分
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，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。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where did the conversation take place?
A. In San Francisco
B. At an airport
C. In a post office
2. What do you learn from this conversation?
A. The woman is going out to lunch.
B. The woman wants to eat some chocolate.
C. The woman will go to a convenience store.
3. How will they cross the river?
A. By ferry
B. By car
C. By plane
4. Why was the woman surprised?
A. She had lost her job.
B. She didn’t know the mayor.
C. She was mistaken.
5. What is the man’s problem?
A. He needs some tomato juice.
B. His shirt is stained.
C. His shirt is missing.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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6段材料，回答第6至9题
6. What does the man think of the weather in Britain?
A. He likes it very much.
B. He doesn’t like the hot sunshine.
C. He doesn’t think there’s enough sunshine in Britain.
7. What’s the average temperature in summer?
A. Below 18 degrees.
B. Over 19 degrees.
C. About 18 or 19 degrees.
8. What about good clothes in Britain?
A. Not easy to get.
B. Good quality but expensive.
C. Good quality and cheap.
9. What do the British people wear when they go to dinner parties?
A. They wear formal clothes.
B. They wear informal clothes.
C. They wear suits.
听第7段材料，回答第10至12题
10. Where is the man living?
A. 17 Mallett Street.
B. 17 Marett Street.
C. 70 Mallett Street.
11. Which house is on fire?
A. Number 16
B. Number 18
C. Number 20
12. Why is there nobody in the house on fire?
A. They went shopping.
B. They went to work.
C. They went abroad on holiday.
听第8段材料，回答第13至15题
13. Why was the boy a bit nervous?
A. He was a newcomer to the school.
B. He was afraid of getting up early.
C. He didn’t prepare for the exams.
14. What must the students do before morning reading?
A. Do morning exercises.
B. Turn in homework.
C. Copy words and expressions.
15. What can they do if they feel hungry?
A. Have something to eat in class.
B. Buy something to eat during the break.
C. Ask the teacher for some food.
听第9段材料，回答第16至17题
16. Who will come to visit the city soon？
A. The visitor’s wife.
B. The visitor and his wife.
C. The visitor’s whole family.
17. What are dotted in the distance?
A. They are houses of the hotel.
B. They are peasants’ houses.
C .They are their houses.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题
18. Where were the members of Beatles group from?
A. America.
B. England
C. Canada
19. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The Beatles were formed in England.
B .The Beatles had a successful movie career.
C .The Beatles are regarded as one of the finest jazz groups.
20. How many of the Beatles’ songs reached number one on the record charts?
A. Seventeen.
B. Twenty—eight
C. Twenty—two
第二部分英语知识运用（共二节，满分40分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题，每小题1分，共10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。

21. I’ll have to go to the bank to draw some money because the ATM around the corner doesn’t
work______.
A. sensitively
B. stably
C. properly
D. fluently
22. The Health Ministry warned that with the coming of the Spring Festival travel peak the number
of people who would _______ AH1N1 would greatly increase.
A. inject
B. infect
C. contract
D. contact
23. In order to reduce air pollution, the _____ of clean energy such as electricity for cars is
becoming more and more popular.
A. approach
B. arrangement
C. exploration
D. application
24. His rudeness ______ the quarrel. As a shop assistant he should be polite to customers.
A. set up
B. set out
C. set off
D. set aside
25. It is s aid that Sally and Tony may _______ . Actually I don’t feel surprised, as they are far apart in
their way of doing things.
A. break up
B. break out
C. break down
D. break off
26. He was born in a musical family, but he cannot play any ______.
A. equipment
B. instrument
C. invention
D. instruction
27. The country needs a ______ government. They have had four Prime Minister in one year.
A. fixed
B. changeless
C. stable
D. constant
28. They knew it was too expensive, but they went ahead_______ and bought it.
A. instead
B. regardless
C. thus
D. despite
29. He was told to finish his speech_______; accordingly, he had to shorten his well-prepared
speech.
A. in short
B. in brief
C. in advance
D. in detail
30. We stopped halfway up the hill to ______ the view.
A. inspect
B. inspire
C. examine
D. admire
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，掌握其大意，然后从31—50 各题后给的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Although no one in my family was in nursing, my grandmother whom I respected worked at St. Vincent’s hospital in New York City. My family and I often 31 the hospital to see her and came to 32 the wonderful hospital staff as our extended 33 .
When the time came for me to decide upon a school to study nursing, my only 34 was St. Vincent’s School of Nursing. After my graduation I chose to work in the35 hospital as my grandmother. 36 I had to face so much blood and so many wounds, I never felt 37 for my decision.
Every time in my life while others are beginning to “38 ”, I am still moving “fast forward”. I 39 find new ambitions within my nursing career. I have developed a true 40 for writing about nursing or topics related to nursing, teaching in the Master’s Program at the university and now I have a new plan, which is to 41 my pursuit of a doctoral degree soon.
My passion for the nursing job 42 to have rubbed off on my family as well. My daughter has 43 that she will go to study 44 next year when she goes to college. She has had several personal 45 with the medical and nursing profession when she was younger and would also like to follow in her mom’s footsteps. I 46 her it would be great to 47 her own footprints along the way as there are so many opportunities to 48 from in the field of nursing.
Now my children feel a(n) 49 connection to the wonderful hospital staff that have become their extended family. I’m so 50 with my job choice.
31. A. searched B. watched C. visited D. helped
32. A. make B. look C. know D. like
33. A. children B. friends C. relatives D. family
34. A. chance B. desire C. choice D. purpose
35. A. new B. bad C. same D. best
36. A. As B. Because C. Since D. Though
37. A. excited B. sorry C. happy D. delighted
38. A. slow down B. speed up C. look down D. look up
39. A. continually B. suddenly C. quickly D. actually
40. A. hobby B. sickness C. research D. love
41. A. finish B. complete C. continue D. begin
42. A. likes B. happens C. seems D. stops
43. A. thought B. decided C. considered D. agreed
54. A. cooking B. teaching C. singing D. nursing
45. A. treatments B. stories C. accidents D. experiences
46. A. praised B. told C. scolded D. stopped
47. A. make B. do C. match D. choose
48. A. learn B. choose C. take D. miss
49. A. special B. common C. general D. ordinary
50. A. related B. connected C. satisfied D. depressed
第三部分阅读理解（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
More than 2,000 vegetarian inns, spas (温泉区), camps, and vacation spots are included in the Vegetarian Journal’s Guide to Natural Food Restaurants in the US and Canada. A previous guide ten years ago had only 1,000 listings.
For businesses interested in marketing vegetarian products, there is information about the number of people interested in vegetarianism. The Vegetarian Resource Group, however, wants to know how many actual vegetarians are out there.
Polls tracking the number of vegetarians are important because they show that now there is a very good image about vegetarianism. More and more people want to be called vegetarians. The problem in most polls is that you are asking people to explain what a vegetarian is. So the answer does not really mean those people who do not eat any meat, fish, or fowl (禽类).
In the Vegetarian Resource Group 1994 Roper poll we asked, “Please identify the items on this list, if any, which you never eat: meat, fish/seafood, dairy products, eggs, honey.” Please note that
the key word was “never”. The numbers could be very different if there was no “never”.
As result of this latest poll we can be 95 percent sure that 1 to 3 percent of the population are truly vegetarian, that is to say, they never eat meat, fish, or fowl. This is lower than the 3 to 7 percent who consider themselves vegetarians, or the 20 to 30 percent market share for vegetarian products, but still a pretty high number, which translates into nearly a half million to 2 million vegetarians.
51. Which of the following items may belong to a true vegetarian’s daily menu?
A. Honey.
B. Milk.
C. Shellfish.
D. Carrots.
52. According to this passage, we know that ______. .
A. most people don’t want to be called vegetarians
B. people do not really agree on the definition of a vegetarian
C. people want to know the number of vegetarians for scientific reasons
D. businessmen never use polls as a means of market research
53. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?
A. People call th emselves vegetarians because they don’t eat any meat at all.
B. The number of vegetarians doubled ten years later.
C. The potential number of consumers for vegetarian goods is higher than the number of true
vegetarians.
D. Only a small number of people consider themselves as vegetarians incorrectly.
54.What does the sentence “More and more people want to be called vegetarians” mean?
A. More and more people want to build themselves the image of a vegetarian.
B. More and more people want to eat vegetarian food because it is healthy.
C. More and more people don’t like to be seen eating meat.
D. More and more people want to have a healthy life style.
B
The price of garlic(大蒜) has shot up this year in China, in part due to an unexpected factor – a popular belief that it can help fight A (H1N1) flu. Speculation (投机) in garlic is more profitable than either real estate or stocks at the moment.
According to China Daily, garlic prices in Jinxiang, Shandong province, China's garlic-growing capital, have risen more than 50 times since last October, when the wholesale market price hit a low of 0.15 yuan a kilogram. Garlic is trading at more than 8 yuan a kilogram on the market.
Restaurants are already cutting their garlic use. “The boss said we cannot afford to give too much now,” a waitress at the Tumen BBQ restaurant in Shanghai said.
Soaring garlic prices are creating a fever among speculators. The media reports that wealthy coal-mine bosses and real estate speculators are both gambling (赌博) on garlic in the hopes of making huge profits. In Jinxiang, local banks and cash machines have found themselves running out of money as speculators withdraw cash to buy garlic.
The soaring prices have created many millionaires. China Daily reported that a garlic trader had bought a 300-square-metre house with his profits.
Falling garlic prices last year have contributed to a shortage, with many farmers discouraged from planting the crop again. But analysts say there is strong evidence of market hoarding (囤积) and speculation.
Jerry Lou of Morgan Stanley, who has written a research piece on the problem, says that
speculators are trying to store as much supply as possible and bid up prices.
But Jinxiang officials deny hoarding and speculation is the cause for the high price, saying the huge gap between supply and demand this year is to blame. They also say some people buy garlic because they believe garlic can create immunity from A (H1N1).
In Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, one high school bought more than 180 kilos of garlic for students to eat at lunch to improve their immune systems. But health authorities say there is no scientific proof that it could prevent A (H1N1) flu.
Having seen the high garlic price, many farmers are considering increasing garlic-planting areas. Higher production would cause the price to go down, fears Li Jingfeng, head of Jinxiang Garlic Association, CCTV reported.
55. What can we conclude from the first two paragraphs?
A. Garlic speculation is very profitable at the moment.
B. Garlic is effective food against A (H1N1) flu.
C. There are many benefits to eating garlic.
D. Many people in Jinxiang, Shandong province invest in real estate or stocks
56. According to Jerry Lou, the soaring garlic price is due to ________.
A. hoarding and speculation
B. the low production of the garlic
C. the big gap between supply and demand
D. people's belief in garlic's preventive power against A (H1N1) flu
57. The purpose of the article is to ______.
A. warn farmers not to expand garlic production
B. explain what market hoarding and speculation are
C. criticize those who try to make fortunes by speculating in garlic
D. analyze the possible causes and effects of rapidly increasing garlic prices
58. According to Jerry Lou, speculation works by ______.
A. selling at a high price
B. transporting supplies to different area
C. storing as much supply as possible and driving up the price
D. making people feel there is shortage of the product
C
A difficult problem that is facing society is the legalization of euthanasia(安乐死), another word for mercy killing. Euthanasia is a method of causing death painlessly to end suffering. People who are suffering from accidents and incurable diseases are being kept alive by artifical means. They do not have a chance to recover,but American laws do not allow doctors to end their lives. However, in my opinion, enthanasia should be legalized for several reasons.
The first and most important reason to support enthanasia is that these people have no chance of recovery. They can never lead normal lives and must be kept alive by life-support machines. They are clearly more dead than alive and will never be able to live a normal life.
Another reason to support mercy killing is that medical costs are very high. Today the cost of a hospital room can be as much as $1450 per day for basic care, which does not include the cost of specialized care of the family.
The final reason to support the legalization of enthanasia is that the family sufferings. The nurses and other medical workers can give the terminally ill patient only the smallest amount of care. Thus, the family must spend time to care for the special needs of their loved ones.
In conclusion, terminally ill patient should be allowed to die with dignity because they have no chance to recover and live normal lives. Therefore, the family should have the right to ask doctors to turn off the life-support machines or to stop further medical treatment. To lengthen life artificially when there is no hope for the future is a tradgy both for the patients and for their loved ones.
59.The best title for the passage is______.
A.The right to die
B. More Dead Than Alive
C. No Chance to Recover
D.No Further Medical Treatment
60.According to the author, terminally ill patients_______.
A. are worth taking care of
B. are more alive than dead
C. have no hope to recovery
D. lay a heavy burden to nurses
61.The author’s attitude towards the legalization of euthanasia can be described as_____.
A.negative
B.positive
C.doubtful
D.uninterested
D
TOKYO (Reuters) –“Who played the father in the movie ‘Kramer versus Kramer’?” That’s one of the 50 questions Japanese men could face in a “daddy exam”, meant to raise awareness about fatherhood in a country where men tend to work long hours and leave their wives in charge of childcare and household chores.
Even men who remember Dustin Hoffman struggling as a father in the movie may have a hard time answering questions ranging from potty training and baby food to politics, such as the percentage of gross domestic product used for parenting support.
Tetsuya Ando, director of Fathering Japan, a Tokyo non-profit organization that came up with the test and will offer it to eager dads from next March, said the exam was a catchy way to get fathers into parenting. “There just isn't enough information about parenting for fathers. Through the exam, we want men to realize that they don't know anything about child-rearing,” he said.
For the price of 3,900 yen ($34), fathers can fin d out whether they qualify as a “Super Dad,” or are in need of more effort as a “Challenge Dad.”
“We have received inquiries(咨询) from fathers, single men, to-be-dads, grandfathers ... even an aunt who was concerned that her nephew is too busy with work to notice the fun of parenting,” Ando said. The image of fathers is gradually changing in Japan as younger men eschew their own dads’ hands-off approach in favor of closer involvement, and a wave of new parenting magazines for male readers has been hitting newsstands. But it is still hard for Japanese fathers to cut down on their work hours and spend more time with their families. Only 0.5 percent of employed men in Japan took parental leave in 2005, as opposed to 14 percent in the United States and 12 percent in Britain in 2000.
62．The “daddy exam” is intended to_____. .
A. test to – be –dads’ fatherhood knowledge
B. test Challenge Dad’s parenting knowledge
C. attract the whole society’s attention to parenting
D. have fathers realize their responsibility for their families
63．In the exam, the Japanese fathers may find that_____. .
A. they almost know nothing about the questions
B. the questions only make sense to to – be – dads
C. there is ample information about parenting
D. it’s not a good way to get them into parenting
64．The underlined word “eschew” in the last paragraph can be replaced by the word “”.
A．avoid B．adopt C．improve D．adore
65．The magazines for male readers are popular most probably because many men___ _.
A. long to know how to do household chores
B. become more concerned about parenting
C. want to get high scores in the 50 – question test
D. like to know whether they are Challenge Dads
66．From the whole report, it can be inferred that______.
A. Japanese fathers show no interest in parenting
B. young Japanese men tend to set about parenting
C. young fathers value parenting less than their fathers
D. Japanese fathers value parenting more than British fathers
E
London——Laura Spence has excellent grades, a place at Harvard University and a US $25,000 a year scholarship. The British Government says that is scandal(丑闻).
Not because the 18-year-old girl is going to Harvard, but because she was rejected by Oxford University. Her case makes people talk about the long-running problems about elitism(精英主义) in British education.
“I think it’s a scandal if a child has to go to Harvard rather than getting into Oxford, don’t you?” Education Secretary David Blunkett said on May 26th in an interview on BBC radio.
British Tr easury chief Gordon Brown said in a speech on May 25th it was “an absolute scandal”, a girl with those grades was turned down by Oxford’s Magdalen College. He noted that Spence comes from Monkseaton in northeastern England, where people sometimes complain they get fewer chances than people living in the richer, more populous south.
Oxford and Cambridge University now take the majority of their students—53 percent—from publicly funded schools. Elite(精英)private schools such as Eton and Harrow account for the other
47 percent, even though they serve only 7 percent of secondary students.
A BBC reporter had seen notes of Spence’s interview at Magdalen. “As with other comprehensive school pupils, she’s low in confidence and difficult to draw out of herself in spite of being able to think on her feet,” the BBC quoted the notes as saying. Sti ll, the notes concluded that Spence “will be an excellent doctor.”
“It appears as if some of our institutions have admissions procedures which may be because of absurd prejudices against children from comprehensive schools…are not giving these children a fair crack of the whip”, Education Minister Wicks told the BBC.
67. Laura Spence was rejected by Oxford University because______.
A. she was a girl of 18 years old
B. she lacked confidence and she couldn’t think by herself
C. she didn’t win excellent g rades
D. she was a shy girl from a comprehensive school in the poorer, less populous north
68. If Laura Spence was from such a school as Eton, ______.
A. she would be admitted to Oxford
B. she would be accepted by Harvard
C. she could cause long-running problems about elitism in British education
D. she wouldn’t be an excellent doctor
69. What’s the meaning of “a fair crack of the whip” in the last paragraph?
A. A good chance.
B. Warning.
C. Rejection.
D. Admission
70. According to Education M inister Wick’s words, we know he ____.
A. thought there was something wrong with procedures of admissions to their institutes
B. took the side of Oxford University
C. considered giving up children from comprehensive schools
D. didn’t tell the truth to the BBC
第四部分书面表达（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：完成句子（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

71.You mustn’t leave without _______ (允许). (permit)
72.The method, _______________ (我们受益)a lot, was applied in a lot of schools. ( benefit)
73.Without a sound health, you can not practise well, neither________(你能竞争)the gold
medal.(compete)
74. When his friends asked him about Mary’s marriage, he pretended not________________(听说
过) it. ( hear)
75. My sister met Tom at the Grand Theater yesterday afternoon, so he ________ (不可能去听了)
your lecture. (attend)
76. It was already at one in the morning, and my candle was nearly burnt out, _______（我看见）the
dull yellow eyes of the creature open. (see)
77. That movie I think _______________ (更值得一看). (worth)
78. _____________(以…为基础)the reading passage, why do you think these things might be important to people? (base)
79. Captain Nemo as well as his guests _________ （穿着）diving suits and walked around in this
magic world. (dress)
80. The quiet girl ______（活泼起来）since she lived with her grandpa. (life)
第二节：短文写作(共25分)
假设你是新华中学的学生张华，班里从外地转来一名同学李明，他一时无法
融入到新的班集体中，感到很苦恼。

请根据下列要点用英语(Q吧)给他写封信：
1、帮他分析原因；
2、给他提出建议；
3、陈述你帮助他的具体打算。

注意：词数120 ~150
Dear Li Ming,
Best regards,
Zhang Hua
武汉二中2009-2010学年上学期
高二年级期末考试
听力：1-5 CBACB 6-10 CCBBA 11-15 BCABB 16-20 ABBCA
单选：21-25 CCDCA 26-30 BCBCD
完形：31- 35 CCDBC 36-40 DBAAD 41-45 DCBDD 46-50 BABAC
阅读：51-54 DBCA 55-58 AADC 59-61 ACB
62-66 DAABB 67-70 DAAA
完成句子答案：
71. being permitted
72. from which we (had) benefit(t)ed
73. can you compete for
74. to have heard about/of
75. couldn’t have attended
76. that I saw
77. is better worth seeing
78. Based on
79. was dressed in
80. has come to life
范文：Dear Li Ming,
I know you are now having trouble communicating with others, and you may often feel lonely. That’s because you are new here and people don’t know about you. But I think you can make it if o nly you can follow the advice below.
First, you should take an active part in the discussions and show your own opinions about the m atters, and at the same time, learn to listen to other people’s views. Second, you should learn about your classmates' likes and dislikes. Then you can have much in common with them. This way, you c an get to know more different people and show them that you are just as friendly.
Last but not least, I’m always here ready to help. we can take part in some activities together an d I can introduce you to others.
With time going on, people will know you better and will like to make friends with you if you ca n do as the above.
Best regards,
Zhang Hua。