北京某重点中学2012-2013学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题 Word版无答案

高二第一学期试卷
I. 单项填空（共15小题；每题1分，满分15分）
1. ----Our team will play against the Supersonics this weekend. I’m sure we will win.
-----_________!
A. Good luck
B. Cheers
C. Best wishes
D. Congratulations
2.---Why aren’t they here yet?----They ______the bus.
A. can have missed
B. must be late for
C. may have missed
D. should have missed
3. ---You shouldn’t have played such a joke on her.-
---Sorry, I ______that she would get so angry.
A. haven’t known
B. don’t know
C. hadn’t known
D. didn’t know
4. I supported him in time, otherwise he _________off the bike.
A. might fall
B. would fall
C. should have fallen
D. would have fallen
5. Those plants need _______.We’d better have it done right now.
A. being watered
B. watering
C. to water
D.watered
6.. ________ industrial development, China is still behind Western countries.
A. In terms of
B. In case of
C. As a result of
D. In face of
7. He was assigned to ______ a plan for the project.
A. draw away
B. draw back
C. draw in
D. draw up
8. When first ______ to the market, these products enjoyed great success.
A. introducing
B. introduced
C. introduce
D. being introduced
9. Sometimes you find it not easy to make yourself _______.
A. understand
B. to understand
C. understood
D. to be understood
10. It’s nearly 8:00. Your father _______ be here at any moment.
A. can
B. need
C. must
D. should
11. –I can’t understand why our boss i s late. – He ______ the early bus.
A. could miss
B. must miss
C. may have missed
D. can have missed
12. –-- Did Peter fix the computer himself?
–--- He_____, because he doesn’t know much about computer.
A. has it fixed
B. had fixed it
C. had it fixed
D. fixed it
13. He ______ at the word trying to remember what it meant, but he failed. If he had studied hard he could have remember it even if he _____ at it.
A. stared; glared
B. stared; glanced
C. glared; looked
D. glared; glanced
14.At work, it is EQ rather than IQ that gets you __________.
A. promoted
B. promoting
C. promote
D. To promote
15. Everything was perfect for the picnic ________the weather.
A. as well as
B. except for
C. but for
D. in case of
II.完形填空（共15小题；每题1分，满分15分）
My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other senses , including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression she’s __16 anything.
Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, except that she doesn’t push too hard on them, __17 really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house. She moves around so fast that often _ 18 don’t realize she’s bli nd.
I ___ 19 this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very ____20 about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was ____21 excited about her finger-painting project.
“Mom, guess what?” said Kayla, all smiles. "I learned how to __22 colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle _ 23__ with us.
To my great __ 24 , my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!
Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my25 showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really 26 what I was doing!” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt 27 Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never come up in conversation.
When I told her, she was quiet for a moment. At first, she didn’t believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla insisted. And I knew my child was 28 because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla's 29 in her work,
We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my 30 .”
Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
16. A. enjoyed B. found C. missed D. lost
17. A. who B. it C. she D. which
18. A. guests B. family C. children D. friends
19. A. realized B. heard C. recognized D. witnessed
20. A. excited B. sad C. satisfied D. enjoyed
21. A. especially B. not so C. a little D. not at all
22. A. paint B. draw C. create D. mix
23. A. stayed B. painted C. talked D. played
24. A. excitement B. encouragement C. delight D. surprise
25. A. attitude B. color C. picture D. paper
26. A. touched B. distinguished C. saw D. understood
27. A. after B. before C. until D. when
28. A. right B. wrong C. worried D. uncertain
29. A. shortcomings B. difficulties C. pride D. description
30. A. paper B. pens C. hands D. eyes
III.：阅读理解（共16小题；每题2分，满分32分）
A
Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.
The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in a ncient times. So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes（中风）are examples of such diseases.
Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise, but a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and life today.
Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals. They also ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables, and fruits. They did not use milk and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a large amount of dairy products and grain foods. We eat six times more salt than stone-age people. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.
People today probably do not want to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods.
31.The people in industrial nations would be much healthier if they ate ______.
A. more foods as humans living 10,000 years ago did
B. as humans living 10,000 years ago ate
C. more kinds of food eaten by people living over 10,000 years ago
D. more of the same kinds of foods eaten by people over 10,000 years ago
32. New kinds of sicknesses have been found because ______
A. the human body has changed compared with human first appearing on earth
B. the way we live has changed a little
C. our body can’t deal with the changes in life style
D. the way we live today are improper for the human body
33. What is the main cause mentioned in the article why people suffer from a lot of new sicknesses?
A. Ancient people did a great deal of physical exercise.
B. People today have a lot of alcohol.
C. People today have more tobacco.
D. Food is quite different between life today and life in ancient times.
B
The Man of Many Secrets Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.
Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
It was the publicity that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success.
Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape from ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, passed quickly from her mouth to his.
Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? Worldwide fame, and a name remembered today.
34. According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on ________.
A. his magic tricks and supernatural powers
B. his special tricks and a skeleton key
C. his unusual ability and a skeleton key
D. his supernatural talents and magic tricks
35. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to ________.
A. his first prison escape
B. “the publicity”
C. the place, Chicago
D. the time, 1898
36. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _________.
A. when he was about 24
B. when he was about 17
C. after the year 1894
D. before the year 1898
37. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Houdini used to be a famous magician in the USA.
B. Houdini was first recognized widely in Chicago.
C. Houdini entered the entertainment world together with his wife.
D. Houdini owed his great success to his small skeleton key.
C
Although man has known asbestos for many hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H. W. Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers, was responsible for(对……负责) the opening of that first mine.
Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves, which looked much like ordinary work gloves, he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials. However, because it was very expensive to transport (carry) them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein(岩脉), in the province of Quebec in Canada.
Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral, which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated, a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibres(纤维). Scientists do not know why the rock can be separated easily into threads(线), but they have found thousands of uses of this fireproof material, of the so-called “cloth of stone”.
38. Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?
A. Asbestos mined in Canada
B. Fireproof matter
C. A “wonder” mineral
D. A new roofing material
39. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by_______.
A. going into roofing business
B. carrying asbestos from Italy
C. sending a trained scientist
D. showing the use of asbestos gloves
40. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us?
A. It is like thread.
B. It feels soapy.
C. It burns easily.
D. It is unusually heavy.
41. The author’s main purpose in writing this passage was to _______.
A. show the need for more scientists
B. compare asbestos with other minerals
C. increase the sales of asbestos
D. present facts about asbestos
D
阅读简答
Every year, thousands of students choose to study in another country for a term, the summer, or a year. Studying overseas (到国外) can be an exciting experience for many people.
Why do it
Living in another country can help you to learn a language, and about another culture. You will see the world in anew way, and learn more about yourself. Overseas study may also look good on your future resume (求职简历). Many companies today want employees (雇员) who speak a second language, or have experienced living or working in another country.
Making the right choice
Once you decide to study overseas, you have to make some choices. To choose the right country or school, ask yourself: Where do I want to go and why? How much do I want to pay? How long do I want to study overseas? Do I want to live with roommates, alone or somewhere else?
Getting ready to go
Get your passport and visa (签证) early! Before you go, learn some of the language, and read about some common customs (习俗) in the country that you are going to. Learn a-bout the money. Bring some of it, and a credit card with you.
Once you are there
After the first few weeks overseas, many students will feel a little homesick. They
may miss their family, friends, and familiar ways of doing things. Remember that it takes time to get used to a new place, school, and culture. When you feel sad or homesick, try to talk to others, or write about your feelings in a notebook.
1.Where can studying bring many people an exciting experience?
__________________________________________________
2. Who want employees that are good at foreign languages?
__________________________________________________
3. What should you do if you decide to study abroad?
__________________________________________________
4. What do you have to get before you are ready to go?
__________________________________________________
5. What can you do when you feel sad or homesick?
__________________________________________________
IV、单词拼写(首字母已给出)（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）
根据汉语和首字母完成下列句子。

1. The man was a_______________ (指控) of stealing money. He was brought to court.
2. Perhaps their f______________ (失败) is because of their low EQ.
3. I wonder how they got lost and whose f_____________ (过错) it was.
4. We are g_______________ (感激的) to you for your valuable gift.
5. My s______(力气) is so small that I can’t lift the big stone. Can you help me move it?
6.. The accident was the result of human e______________ (错误) .
7. For the third time in a row, she had failed to keep her a________________ (约会).
8. If you need something, please don’t h_______________(犹豫) to tell me.
VI 翻译下列各句。

1. 学生们应该参加课后活动。

（participate in ）
2. 最初那位出租司机不承认他的错误，但最后他还是道歉了。

（end up ）
3.我很愿意帮助有困难的人。

（be willing to do ）
4. 听到这个消息，她禁不住露出了微笑。

（can't help doing）
5. 不久，他就回来接管这个部门。

（take charge of ）
VI、书面表达（满分15分）
假设你的朋友叫沈斌，是一名优秀的学生，学校请你写一篇介绍他的短文，让全校学生向他学习。

他的基本情况是这样的：
现在读高一，是你班班长，学习很好，擅长英语和电脑，去年在学校电脑大赛中获得第一名，他爱好音乐，课余时间爱拉小提琴，乐于帮助别人。

要求：①基本情况要写清楚。

②标题自拟。

③100词左右。

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