2013-2014学年度高二英语第一学期期中考试试题

2013-2014学年度第一学期期中考试高二年级英语试卷第一节（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.What will the man do?A.Answer a call.B. Go out to make a call.C. End his phone call quickly.2.What does the woman imply?A.The performance has been cancelled.B.She wants to see a performance later this week.C.Tickets are available for future performances.3.What does the speakers talking about?A. A dish.B. A fish.C. A restaurant.4.W hat happened to the man’s bike?A.It’s stolen.B. It’s broken.C. It’s lent to John.5.Why is the man unwilling to go hone for New Year’s?A.He has other plans.B. He can’t get the tickets.C. He can’t afford the airfare.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几小题，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6至8题。

6.Why did the man go to Paris?A. To visit his wife.B. To see the doctor.C. To go on business.7. How will the woman contact the man’s wife?A. By faxB. By phoneC. By e-mail8. What is the probable relationship between the woman and Connie?A. Sisters.B. Workmates.C. Doctor and patient.听第7段材料，回答9至11题。

9. What will Sophie do tonight?A. Look after her brother.B. Buy some videos.C. Go out with her parents10. What does the woman say about Sophie?A. She is selfishB. She is not to blameC. She should call the man early.11.Why was the man annoyed with Sophie?A. She didn’t make a sincere apology.B. She didn’t come to his house on time.C. She didn’t say sorry to him.听第8段材料，回答12至14题。

12. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Host and guest.B. Husband and wife.C. Guide and tourist.13.How long is the speaker’s trip?A. Two days.B. Five days.C. Seven days.14.What will the speaker visit tomorrow?A. A museumB. A church.C. A tower听第9段材料，回答15至17题。

15. Where is the woman?A. At a hotel.B. At home.C. At a jewellery shop16. What does the woman think of the man’s suggestions?A. Useless.B. Interesting.C. Acceptable.17. What will the woman do next？A. Go to the party.B. Borrow a necklace.C. Tell Lisa the facts.听第10段材料，回答18至20题。

18. What did the speaker’s wife think of the performance of Hamlet?A. Successful.B. Unique.C. Boring.19. What happened when the speaker and his wife first met in his wife’s view?A. He gave a hand to her.B. He broke her glasses.C. He knocked her over.20. What was Sophie when the speaker first met her backstage?A. An actress.B. A reporter.C. An editress第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节单项填空(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21. The film ______ him ______ what he had seen in China.A. reminded; toB. remembered; ofC. recalled; withD. reminded; of22. I _____ sight of an empty seat at the back of the bus and went directly there.A. lost B caught C. looked D. took23. He asked us to him _____ carrying through their plan.A. assist; withB. help; toC. assist; inD. help; with24. His report was so exciting that it was interrupted by applause（掌声）.A. constantlyB. constantC. seldomD. never25. ______ in a friendly way, their quarrel came to an end.A. Being settledB. SettledC. SettlingD. Having settled26. A driver should______ the road when ______ .A. concentrate on; driveB. concentrate in; drivingC. concentrate to; droveD. concentrate on; driving27. We must work hard to a good knowledge of English.A. takeB. acquireC. catchD. hold28. Tom kept quiet about the accident ______ lose his job.A. so not as toB. so as not toC. so as to notD. not so as to29. Not until the early years of the 19th century ______ what heat was.A. man did knowB. did man knewC. didn't man knowD. did man know30. The stone bridge ______last year is very beautiful.A . built B. was built C . being built D .to be built31.Did he find hard to learn a foreign language ?A. thatB. himC. itD. himself32. Have you ever had a case _____ someone accused your journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick?A. whatB. thatC. whereD. which33. So rewarding ______ to read that students in our school always have easy access to different books.A. it isB. is itC. was itD. it was34. If you get injured, you can slow bleeding by __________ pressure to the injury.A. squeezingB. pouringC. applyingD. sticking35. ______today, he would get there by Friday.A. Were he to leaveB. If he had leftC. Did he to leaveD. Had he left第二节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods___36____ she realized that she was lost.Sitting on a rock and 37 what to do, she began crying. After a while, she ___38___ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes. ___39___ it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house. She opened the door and ___40___ stepped in. Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the ___41___. Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a ____42__.The girl’s parents were out and her dog. Laddy, was at home. Laddy ___43___ that hismistress(女主人) was in danger. Hr jumped ___44___ a window, breaking the glass. He looked in the fields, but he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere. However, from the ground came a ___45___ scent(气味) as he lowered his head. He __46____ the scent and walked across the grassland. Barking ___47___ into the air, the dog ___48___ through the woods until he found the ___49___ . But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods. Much to his ___50___, he saw his mistress’s blue shirt in the distance. He ___51___ over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was___52___ When she opened her eyes and ___53___ her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you ____54__ me, Laddy.”And then she kissed him several times. Seeing their daughter and the dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of __55____. That night Laddy had a hero’s supper: a huge meal of steak.36. A. before B. since C. while D. as37. A. wondering B. forgetting C. remembering D. regretting38. A. preferred B. expected C. failed D. decided49. A. When B. Until C. If D. Because40. A. carelessly B. cautiously C. hopelessly D. unwillingly41. A. trees B. bushes C. woods D. grasses42. A. stream B. rock C. tree D. house43. A. found B. sensed C. heard D. smelt44. A. at B. through C. in D. onto45. A. terrible B. strange C. pleasant D. familiar46. A. missed B. discovered C. followed D. ignored47. A. calmly B. loudly C. merrily D. gently48. A. searched B. wandered C. looked D. travelled59. A. window B. girl C. house D. hero50. A. satisfaction B. disappointment C. embarrassment D. delight51. A. jumped B. climbed C. walked D. flew52. A. awake B. abandoned（放弃） C. available D. asleep53. A. spotted(认出) B. watched C. observed D. saw54. A. disturbed B. comforted C. rescued D. scared55. A. pain B. shock C. sorrow D. relief第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，满分40分）第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）AA traveler was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveler’s face turned red and she apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in someplaces believed a person would lose his soul if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn't. When she believed that the head didn't fear any longer, the traveler then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens(镜头) cap!"56. The children shouted when the traveler was taking pictures of them because _____.A. they didn't want to stop playingB. the traveler forgot to take off the cap on her headC. they didn't want to have their pictures takenD. the traveler was not doing well with her camera57. The traveler made an apology to the head because _____.A. she thought it was not right to take people's pictures without telling them beforehand(事先)B. the children would lose their soulsC. she had stayed in the village too longD. she didn't take a picture of the head first58. The traveler explained how to use a camera to the head because _____.A. the head was very interested in her cameraB. the head wanted to learn to take picturesC. she was afraid of the headD. she wanted the head not to worry about what she was doing59. Which of the following is NOT right?A. The traveler knew something about people in some countries.B. The children wouldn't mind if the traveler took pictures of them.C. The head was afraid that the traveler’s camera would hurt the children.D. The traveler didn't understand why the children shouted.BPopeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong aperson is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.60.A good title for this reading passage is______.A. Popeye the SailorB. The Truth About SpinachC.A Mistake with NumbersD. Folic Acid Makes You Strong61.Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?A. They thought spinach made them strong.B. They thought Popeye was funny.C. Spinach had a lot of iron.D. People liked folic acid.62.A research group told people that spinach______.A. made Popeye strongB. was a green vegetableC. had less iron than other green vegetablesD. had more iron than other green vegetables63.Folic acid is ______.A. something in foodB. a vegetableC. dangerousD. a certain kind of spinachCDear Sir,Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare．Your company, Cosmo books Ltd , offered this set （eight books of plays and two books of poetry）at a “remarkable” price: fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing．I had wanted a set of Shakespeare's plays and poems for some time, and these books looked particularly attractive, so I sent for them．Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of works of Charles Dickens which I had not ordered．So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a cheque for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare．Two more weeks passed．Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six book set of the plays of Moliere, in French．Since I do not read French, these were of no use to me at all．However, I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you right away instructing you to come and collect all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further notice．You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for forty two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German．Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two weeks, the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I hardly know what I have．The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to stand in the rain outside．Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters demanding payment．Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, leaving me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid．Yours faithfully,SIMON W ALKER 64．Simon Walker's main purpose of writing the letter is to .A．show his anger to Cosmo Books Ltd．B．argue about sending him books he had not orderedC．advise readers not to order books from Cosmo Books Ltd．D．urge Cosmo Books Ltd. to take away the books he had not ordered65．The advertisement that Mr. Walker saw in the Morning Mail was for .A．unlimited number of Cosmo BooksB．a set of 10 books of the works of ShakespeareC．fifteen pounds and fifty penceD．a book containing all the plays and poems of Shakespeare66．It can be inferred that .A．Mr. Walker took some action after receiving the books he did not orderB．several sets of books have been sent to Mr. Walker free of chargeC．Cosmo Books have sent bills for books that they have not sentD．Mr. Walker hasn't received the books that he ordered67．The tone（语气）of the letter is that of .A．bitterness B．respect C．annoyance D．humorDWe find that bright children are rarely held back by mix-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming 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 unusual to grade pupils just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their learning 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 co-operate, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze and assess, 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 proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do thisefficiently. And advan ced pupil can do advanced work. It doesn’t matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to achieve this goal.68. By “held back” (the underlined part of the first sentence) the author means “______”.A. drawn to their studiesB. prevented from advancingC. made to remain in the same classD. forced to study in the lower class69. The author argues that a teacher’s chief concern should be the development of the pupil’s ____.A. total personalityB. intellectual abilityC. personal qualitiesD. communicative skills70. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the third paragraph?A. Pupils also learn to develop their reasoning abilities.B. Pupils also learn how to participate in teaching activities.C. Group work gives pupils the opportunity to learn to work together with others.D. Group work provides pupils with the opportunity to learn to be good organizers.第二节(共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分)We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. 64. How can we have good relationships with others if we don’t even have good relationships with ourselves?The problem might be worse than we expect. Maybe we don’t like ou rselves without realizing it. Here is a simple checklist: Is there anything you don’t like about yourself from these lists?Your past: Maybe you have made mistakes in the past which you feel bad about. 65. Even if that happened in distant past, your subconscious mind still has a reason not to like yourself.Your background: You might wish that you were born in different family, or that you have different background. 66. They seem to get whatever they want effortlessly because of their background.Your personal traits(特点): You might have some personality traits that you don’t like. For example, you may be an introvert(内向) and you don’t like it; you wish you were an extrovert.Others might have better achievements than you, and no matter how hard you tried, it might seem impossible for you to match them.67. Is there anything that resonate(产生共鸣) with you? All these give reasons to you not to like yourself. That in turn makes it difficult for you to be a good friend to yourself.68 . Here are some tips:Forgive yourselfAccept things you can’t changeFocus on your strengthsWrite your success storiesStop comparing yourself with othersAlways be true to yourselfA. That is the crucial(关键) first step if we are to have good relationships with othersB. You m ight then think that it’s because you are not smart enough or don’t have enough talentsC. You can do something to improve the relationships with othersD. Fortunately, there are always things you can do to fix the situationE. You might be disappointed with yourself on why you make such mistakesF. Sometimes you might not believe yourselfG. Maybe you could not accept the fact that you are not as lucky as others第II卷（非选择题，满分45分）注意：请把第II卷所有试题写在答题纸上第四部分写作（共四节，满分45分）第三节短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。