牛津译林版高中英语选修七试卷摸板期末

江苏省南通中学2008—2009年度第二学期期中考试
高二英语试卷
第I卷
I．听力：20%
第一节
请听下面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 do we know about the woman’s sister?
A. She kept calm when taken into hospital.
B. She had an accident.
C. She was badly hurt.
2. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. At a clothing store.
B. At a bookshop.
C. At a supermarket.
3. How long does the woman plan to stay?
A. About five days.
B. About seven days.
C. About twelve days.
4. What does the man do?
A. A waiter.
B. A tailor.
C. A cook.
5. What does the man think of Mr Stone’s lessons?
A. Boring.
B. Helpful.
C. Unnecessary.
第二节
请听下面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段对话，回答第6—7题。

6. Where will the woman meet the visitors?
A. At the factory.
B. At the office.
C. At a restaurant.
7. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Boss and assistant.
C. Visitor and host.
听第7段对话，回答第8—10题。

8. Why does the woman want to buy a dress?
A. For her mother.
B. For a party.
C. For her work.
9. What kind of dress does the woman get?
A. A cotton dress size 9.
B. A special dress size 8.
C. A silk dress size 7.
10. How much is the change?
A. $6.
B. $10.
C. $16.
听第8段对话，回答第11—13题。

11. Why did the man fall asleep?
A. He didn’t sleep well last night.
B. He didn’t like the course.
C. He didn’t like reading.
12. What do we know about the man?
A. He can’t understand the meaning of the book.
B. He is interested in the details of the book.
C. He often falls asleep in the office.
13. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Read the book from the end.
B. Read the book aloud.
C. Find the main idea of the book first.
听第9段对话，回答第14—16题。

14. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the library.
B. In the classroom.
C. On the campground.
15. Why does the woman come to talk to the man?
A. To discuss his trip to Beijing.
B. To bring him a message from Professor Grant.
C. To see what progress he’s made on his paper.
16. What seems to be the man’s problem?
A. He can’t sleep at night.
B. He can’t narrow down his research topic.
C. He can’t find a quiet place to study.
听第10段对话，回答第17—20题。

17. When will the visitors come?
A. In March.
B. In April.
C. In May.
18. How many visitors are coming?
A. 8.
B. 10.
C. 12.
19. What will the visitors do on the second day?
A. Go to a party.
B. Attend a lecture.
C. Visit the schools.
20. What will the visitors do on the final day?
A. Visit London.
B. Walk along the coast.
C. Visit Scotland.
II．单项选择：15%
21. Most of the teenagers take ________ delight in playing football after a day of study at school
and they say it is ________ delight to make some new friends in this way.
A. /; a
B. a; /
C. the; a
D. a; the
22. An online survey at suggested that most interviewers ____ limiting the time spent on
the Internet would be fundamental _______their eyesight.
A. say; to improving
B. say; to improve
C. said; for improving
D. said; to improving
23. Though _____ my opinion, my mother didn’t say anything to show that she agreed with me.
A. against
B. on
C. for
D. in
24. The moment she heard of the news that her son was involved in the crime, she _______ pale.
A. went
B. got
C. changed
D. appeared
25. The earlier settlers learned to farm the land through ______ and error.
A. test
B. trial
C. experiment
D. try
26. At the end of the meeting, all present were_______ to make every effort for the successful
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the school.
A. guaranteed
B. demanded
C. required
D. suggested
27. ---I’m sorry I’m late. I _____________ in the traffic on my way here.
---Never mind. Come and sit down.
A. was held out
B. got held up
C. got held on
D. was held back
28. Today’s Australia consists of people from different cultural backgrounds, ________, it has
developed into a diverse society.
A. on the other hand
B. at the same time
C. on one hand
D. that is to say
29. The old man would sell his car for 2000 dollars, but the young lady ______ 1.5 thousand
dollars.
A. offered
B. sold
C. asked
D. charged
30. Take the medicine and have a good sleep, but if the pain continues, _________ your doctor.
A. confirm
B. consult
C. consider
D. convince
31. Do you expect ________ probability that he will disappoint all of us by giving the plan away?
A. there to be
B. it to be
C. there being
D. it is
32. It’s true that the old road is less direct and a bit longer. We won’t take the new one, ______,
because we don’t feel as safe on it.
A. somehow
B. though
C. therefore
D. otherwise
33. ________ we had read your letter _____the true state of affairs.
A. It was until… that we understood
B. It was not until… we understood
C. Until …did not we understand
D. Not until…did we understand`
34. To their great _____, Tom’s problem proved not to be as serious as they had feared.
A. happy
B. worry
C. anxiety
D. relief
35. --- How much do I owe you for lunch?
---______. It’s nothing.
A. You’re welcome
B. With pleasure
C. Forget it
D. That’s right.
III．完形填空：20%
The half-empty coffee cups, still standing next to their plates, tell of a morning like any other. And yet, that grey covering of dust that everything 36 tells a different story: it tells of screams, tears, terror and 37 . Now the restaurant in the World Trade Center will 38 again serve breakfast. And never again will all those people go there to eat or 39 . So many people whose faces we associate with life and liveliness are gone 40 . So many words remain 41 , and so much happiness has been destroyed. In their places are tear-stained(泪水沾湿的) faces.
My generation has seen this. On Monday, a fight with my sister, a bad grade and homework 42 to be the biggest problems in the world. Tonight, so many across the country know that America’s pain is at its 43 ever.
We have 44 World WarⅡ. But to most of us students, that’s an event on a textbook
45 that would never happen today.
After all, this was a time of 46 and wealth—the United States was powerful and successful. There would be no more wars, and we were 47 to live in such a time.
But when those planes 48 ; when firefighters with 49 on their faces ran among the parts of the building that had fallen; when people 50 for their family members; when history was unfolding before our eyes, in full, clear color—then we knew the world had been changed. 51 how many human beings turned to ashes in a second, and seeing some jump from the buildings, I know that my generation is growing up in a world where 52 can still be evil.
But seeing those heroes risk their lives among the castle-like ruins, and seeing the 53 blood donors at the hospitals, my generation has learned that tears are allowed, that mankind can also be 54 , and that the ghost of evil never 55 the spirit of good.
36. A. dresses B. gets C. wears D. covers
37. A. blood B. surprise C. laugh D. cry
38. A. still B. never C. hardly D. seldom
39. A. work B. drive C. play D. swim
40. A. yesterday B. tonight C. last night D. this morning
41. A. unknown B. untold C. unchanged D. unsaid
42. A. turned B. had C. got D. seemed
43. A. least B. worst C. best D. most
44. A. experienced B. known C. read about D. seen
45. A. text B. lesson C. copy D. page
46. A. tears B. terror C. peace D. health
47. A. unlucky B. promising C. convenient D. lucky
48. A. fell B. landed C. hit D. exploded
49. A. terror B. surprise C. joy D. smile
50. A. called B. screamed C. died D. reached
51. A. Knowing B. Telling C. Hearing D. Remembering
52. A. everyone B. nobody C. mankind D. our country
53. A. unwilling B. eager C. happy D. curious
54. A. beautiful B. terrible C. terrified D. hopeful
55. A. hurt B. beat C. wins D. defeats
IV．阅读理解：30%
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In Britain, just after the main television news programmes, audience figures rise. It's weather forecast time. The BBC broadcasts forty-four live forecasts a day, 433 hours of weather forecasts a year, using forecasters from the Meteorological Office(气象局). The Met. Office foretells about the weather seven days in advance. These are based on observations from the ground, from satellites and from radar. The observations are stored in a computer that can do up to 4,000 million calculations a second.
In Britain the weather is news. A television weather forecast often begins with an interesting fact of the town, with the top temperature of the day or the place with the most rain. "The public like that kind of information," says senior forecaster Bill Giles. The BBC forecasters are
professional meteorologists, but they do not have an easy job. They are the only presenters on television who do not have a written text to refer to, and they cannot see the map that they are describing. Viewers are often critical, especially of female presenters. One woman left her job after rude letters and newspaper reports about her clothes.
The British talk about the weather more than almost any other subject, so it is a surprise to discover that seventy percent of television viewers cannot remember what they saw on the weather forecasts. "What happens is that people like watching and hearing the forecasts, but they probably only take real notice when they need to, when they are going on holiday or wondering what the weather will be like for the tennis at Wimbledon," says one forecaster, "or, of course, when we make mistakes !"
56. In Britain, television weather forecasts _______.
A. are more popular than news programmes
B. are recorded in advance
C. are broadcast twice a day
D. are clearly remembered by most viewers
57. BBC forecasters feel their job difficult _______.
A. because they have little knowledge of weather
B. because they have to speak from memory and viewers are often critical
C. because viewers do not like them
D. because they have to begin forecasts with interesting stories
58. According to the passage, forecasts depend on _________.
A. viewers
B. large computers
C. BBC
D. observations
B
Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次）are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90,
b efore tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work
‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’ s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been
doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
59. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
60. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.
A. they never clean their offices
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
61. When at work, Margaret feels _______.
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passed slowly
62. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．
A. help care for her children
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her
D. feel disappointed in her
C
The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place
Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.
Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤）instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” i n food labels.
On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a
zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.
The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created
chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.
Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.
63. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.
A. diet products fail to bring out people’s potential
B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products
C. diet products are misleading people
D. people are fed up with diet products
64. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.
A. try out a variety of diet foods
B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods
C. pay attention to their own eating habits
D. watch their weight rather than their diet
65. In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.
A. losing weight is effortless
B. it costs a lot to lose weight
C. diet products bring no pain
D. diet products are free from calories
66. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.
A. are over-consumed
B. lack basic nutrients
C. are short of chemicals
D. provide too much energy
D
A recent survey of teachers found that an unhealthy passion
with celebrity(名人) culture is having a negative impact on British
students’ studies and it discovered that celebrity couple, the
Beckhams, are the favorites among most students. Many students
are ignoring building their own careers to seek a chance at fame
instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) survey
found.
Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were the type of
celebrity many pupils wanted to follow while more than half of
students wanted to be pop stars.
The survey said the celebrities that students aspired to mostly were David and Victoria Beckham who live in Los Angeles now. Soccer player Beckham is on the top of the survey while in second place, with almost a third of the survey’s votes, was his 33-year-old pop star wife.
Almost half of the 300 teachers surveyed said pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they most admired, with some girls even dressing "unsuitably".
"We are not surprised about the influence of celebrity culture in schools —it reflects the current media passion with celebrities and the effect of celebrity culture on society as a whole," ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement.
"Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils’ aspirations and desires for the future. However, celebrity culture can spread the idea that celebrity status is the greatest achievement and reinforce the belief that other career choices are not as valuable," said one primary school teacher. "Too many of the pupils believe that school success is unnecessary, because they will be able to get fame and fortune quite easily through a reality TV show."
67. The story mainly tells us that ______.
A. the Beckhams are mostly admired in Britain
B. most students think that being pop stars is more valuable than other career achievements
C. the celebrity passion has a harmful impact upon British students’ studies
D. a survey was made recently about the popularity of the stars
68. According to the survey, Victoria Beckham ______.
A. is a pop star most students admire
B. goes in the second place of the celebrities admired
C. won two-thirds of the votes
D. lives in New York now
69. Why does the author mention that pupils tried to look like or behave like the celebrities they
most admired, with some girls even dressing “unsuitably”?
A. The pupils think it interesting to pretend to be the celebrities.
B. The behavior or the dress of celebrities can be followed as examples.
C. The author wants to show the negative influence these celebrities had on the students.
D. The author just wants to show being pop stars is very valuable to the students.
70. What is NOT TRUE according to the story?
A. Celebriti es can’t have positive impact on the students.
B. Beckham and Victoria are husband and wife.
C. The so-called celebrity culture does harm to the pupils’ ideas about achievement.
D. Many students believe that school success is unnecessary.
第II卷
V．请认真阅读下面的短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

（每格一词）10%
Going up to university to study for a degree means you have decided to study professionally, rather than as an amateur; so being a student is now your profession for at least the next four years.
This involves a change of attitude in many ways. Now, instead of taking several subjects, you have chosen one major subject because you find it interesting and worth exploring further. You also have before you the goal of getting a degree. The degree and the stages you have to pass through to achieve it give you motivation. You are no longer forced to stay in school all day, and apart from your class time, you organize your own time and place for studying.
Another change is in the relationship with those who teach you. You are there to study actively rather than to be taught passively. Your teachers may or may not urge you, but they do want you to share their interest in the subject and they want you to succeed. If you get work back with a poorer mark than you expect ed and with various criticisms, don’t feel discouraged by this; if you don’t understand what is wrong and how to improve, ask your teacher to explain and don’t be satisfied until you do understand.
Professionalism involves training and practicing. Some activities, like reading, note-taking, speaking and discussing are basic to studying. Make sure you can do these effectively. You have to use time well, and practice to improve your skills.
Effective reading is part of your training. Since it is a learned skill we can change the way we did since in primary school and relearn it. Learn how to read fast —how to read with your eyes rather than your throat, how to ignore words like “of” and “the”, and how to keep what you read. You take notes in class for yourself, not for anyone else, so make your notes easy to read, economical and pleasing to the eye. Vary the arrangement on the page to suit the material (diagrams, columns, underlining), use colored pens for different topics to catch the eye and make things stand out. Work out your own shorthand speedwriting.
Group discussions give you a chance to train your ability to express yourself. Don’t be the non-speaking member of the group. Take an active part in the discussion. In the future you are almost certainly going to have to be good at speaking, so get into the way of talking about your subject now. This is actually more fun than sitting being silently uncomfortable. Nobody will think what you say is foolish. Everyone will be thankful not to face embarrassed silence.
VI ．单词拼写：5%
81. The s_____ of the disease are fever and cough.
82. Chen Yunlin, the chairman of ARA TS (海协会)，visited Taiwan on November 5, 2008, which is a h_____ occasion.
83. If your skin is e_____ to the sun all the time, you ’re likely to have skin cancer.
Title: On being a university student (71) : You need to know the changes in studying in university and improve some studying skills so that you can study professionally for a (72) . The (73) between studying in the middle school and in the university
How to improve some study skills In the middle school: ● Take several subjects; ● Be (74) to stay in school all day. ● Be taught passively. In the university: ● Choose a major subject by yourself; ● Study (75) and wherever you want to after class. ● Study actively. Reading: ● Read (76) and don’t move your lips; ● (77) spending time on some meaningless words;
● Stay interested in reading. (78) : ● Arrange differently on the page; ● Write in different (79) for different topics; ● Use your own quick-writing way. Discussing:
● Speak (80)
in group
discussion;
● Talk about
your subject.
84. The f_____ of the heart is to pump blood through the body.
85. After sitting in the dark room for nearly half an hour, my eyes slowly get a_____ to the gloom.
86. I was going along the street looking for a place to park when the accident o_____ .
87. As we all know, rich people are not ________ (必然) happy.
88. He feels he is _____ (优越的) to others, which makes his colleagues unhappy.
89. It’s illegal to read people’s private letters without their _____ (允许).
90. The rope is five meters in _____ (长度)
VII．书面表达：20%
某学校对中学生课余活动进行了调查，结果如下。

请根据图表1提供的信息描述学生每天的课余活动，并针对图表2中至少两个数据中反映的情况写出你的一个看法。

词数:150左右。

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命题、校对：高二备课组
责审：张锦华
审定：教务处
高二英语期中考试答卷
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V. 71. Theme/Outline 72.degree 73. differences 74. forced 75. whenever
76. silently 77. Avoid 78. Note-taking 79. colors 80. actively
VI. 81 symptoms. 82. exposed 83. function 84. historic 85. accustomed
86. occurred 87. necessarily 88. superior 89. permission 90. length
VII. 参考范文：
Chart 1 shows the daily average amount of time the students of the school spend on different after-class activities. The students put the most time－93 minutes－into their homework, and next in line is watching TV, which takes up 46 minutes. They put in about the same amount of time listening to music and working on the computer, 34 minutes and 30 minutes each. While 25 minutes is spent on sports, only 12 minutes goes into housework.
As is shown on Chart 2, only 10% of the time is taken up with sports activities. I think the school should encourage the students to do more exercise after class. This way, they may be healthier and more energetic. …。