天津市天津一中2011-2012学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

天津市天津一中2011-2012学年高二下学期期末考试英语试
题
第一节
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，你将有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 is Tom like?
A. He is easy to talk with.
B. He’s very generous.
C. He has a lot of ideas.
2. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A dinner they had a moment ago.
B. The food of a famous restaurant.
C. A cook whose all dishes were nice.
3. What do we know about Kate?
A. She’s sick.
B. She’s a nurs e.
C. She’s a doctor.
4. What does the woman mean?
A. She thought Jones majored in math.
B. Jones is good at chemistry.
C. Her major is the same as Jones.
5. Who are the speakers?
A. Mother and son.
B. Teacher and student.
C. A shop owner and a child.
第二节
听下面材料。

每段材料后有几个小题，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。

听每段材料前，你将有时间阅读每个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作间。

每段材料读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6 至第8 题。

6. When is Lily’s birthday?
A. The day after tomorrow.
B. Tomorrow.
C. T oday.
7. What will the speakers buy for Lily?
A. Some flowers.
B. A purse.
C. A box of chocolate.
8. What’s Lily doing now?
A. On a diet.
B. Exercising.
C. Getting fat.
听下面一段对话，回答第9 至第11 题。

9. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A dress.
B. A scarf.
C. A watch.
10. Why does the man think it a pity?
A. It is cheap.
B. Its quality is not good.
C. It looks bad on the woman.
11. Why doesn’t the woman buy it?
A. It’s too dear.
B. Its color doesn’t suit her.
C. It s color will fade when it’s washed.
听下面一段对话，回答第12 至第14 题。

12. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends.
B. Boss and clerk.
C. Doctor and patient.
13. What was wrong with the woman?
A. She had a fever.
B. She had a backache.
C. She lacked sleep.
14. What made the woman feel bad?
A. Going for a picnic.
B. Exercising little.
C. Staying up late.
听下面一段对话，回答第15 至第17 题。

15. What does Philip do before jogging in the morning according to his exercise program?
A. Have a glass of milk.
B. Lift weights.
C. Cook the meal.
16. When does Philip go hiking?
A. On Saturdays.
B. On Fridays.
C. On Tuesdays.
17. What does Philip do on Sundays?
A. He watches TV.
B. He walks his dog.
C. He goes swimming.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20题。

18. When does an earthquake happen?
A. When some plates of the earth move suddenly.
B. When the sea is too deep.
C. When rocks crack.
19. Where do a lot of earthquakes often happen?
A. On the plains.
B. Near the mountains.
C. In big cities.
20. What is the earthquake belts’ map showing?
A. When earthquakes may happen.
B. How earthquakes may happen.
C. Where earthquakes may happen.
第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分40分）
第一节单项填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20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. Most people felt __________ regrettable that Yaoming retired from the NBA.
A. one
B. this
C. it
D. what
22. - Do you think you could do without help?
- __________. This is not the first time for me.
A. T ake care
B. Hurry up
C. Not exactly
D. Not to worry
23. As the examination is approaching, Mike makes a(n) __________ that I help him with his lessons.
A. compromise
B. agreement
C. request
D. viewpoint
24. I like the film very much. It __________ me __________ the happiest days when I was young.
A. reminds, of
B. reminds, to
C. thinks, of
D. helps, with
25. __________ the bananas to go bad, he preferred to sell them at half price.
A. Rather than allowing
B. Rather than to allow
C. More than allow
D. Rather than allow
26. __________ to his scientific work, he has no time to care for his family affairs, which his wife always complains about.
A. Devoting
B. Devoted
C. Being devoted
D. Having devoted
27. You will succeed in the end __________ you give up halfway.
A. even if
B. as though
C. as long as
D. unless
28. There was a (an) __________ silence between us after we were left alone in the sitting-room.
A. awkward
B. angry
C. adequate
D. patient
29. You should take advantage __________ this opportunity and try to make a good impression __________ them.
A. of; of
B. over; on
C. over; of
D. of; on
30. As a writer, he used to go deep into life to __________ materials for his creation.
A. accumulate
B. accelerate
C. apologize
D. absorb
31. The last time we had great fun was __________ we were visiting the Water Park.
A. where
B. how
C. when
D. why
32. She __________ an old friend of hers yesterday while she was shopping at the department store.
A. turned down
B. dealt with
C. took after
D. came across
33. - You look exhausted!
- I __________ tennis with my friend all the morning.
A. played
B. had played
C. have been playing
D. will play
34. The words of early blues songs often __________ a single line repeated two or three times.
A. made up of
B. consisted of
C. made up
D. consisted
35. - Jack is in a bad mood because he failed in yesterday’s exam.
- __________? As far as I know, he is doing fine work at school.
A. How come
B. So what
C. What’s it all about
D. Have you got that
36. It was a nice meal, __________ a little expensive.
A. as
B. whether
C. since
D. though
37. Charles Dickens, a famous 19th- century writer, wrote many popular novels,
__________ Oliver Twist is a good example.
A. of which
B. about whom
C. in which
D. of whom
38. Only after Mary read her composition the second time __________ the spelling mistake.
A. did she notice
B. she noticed
C. does she notice
D. she has noticed
39. The construction of a highway will __________ the growth of the suburbs.
A. result from
B. lead in
C. contribute to
D. devote to
40. - Mum, I failed to catch the train.
- If you __________ at the station ten minutes earlier, you could have caught it.
A. arrived
B. had arrived
C. would arrive
D. were to arrive
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从16-35各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

In the clinic, I asked if Michael could be retested, so the specialist tested him again. To my ___41___, it was the same score.
Later that evening, I ___42___ told Frank what I had learned that day. After talking it over, we agree that we knew our ___43___ much better than an IQ test. We ___44___ that Michael’s score must have been a ___45___ and we should treat him ___46___ as usual.
We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got ___47___ grades in the school, especially ___48___ biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.
Michael ___49___ Indiana University in 1965 as a pre-medical
student, soon afterwards, his teachers permitted him to take more courses than ___50___. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.
On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I ___51___ the ceremony at Yale. After the ceremony, we told Michael about the ___52___ IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say ___53___, “My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn’t be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!” It is his special way of thanking us for the ___54___ we had in him.
Interestingly, Michael then ___55___ another IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had ___56___ the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126,
an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be ___57___.
Children often do as ___58___ as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, ___59___ of them. That is, tell a child he is “ ___60___”, and he may play the role of a foolish child.
41. A. joy B. surprise C. dislike D. disappointment
42. A. tearfully B. fearfully C. cheerfully D. hopefully
43. A. student B. son C. friend D. doctor
44. A. argued B. realized C. decided D. understood
45. A. joke B. mistake C. warning D wonder
46. A. specially B. strictly C. naturally D. carefully
47. A. poor B. good C. average D. standard
48. A. in B. about C. of D. for
49. A. visited B. chose C. passed D. entered
50. A. allowed B. described C. required D. offered
51. A. missed B. held C. delayed D. attended
52. A. high B. same C. low D. different
53. A. curiously B. eagerly C. calmly D. jokingly
54. A. faith B. interest C. pride D. delight
55. A. looked for B. asked for C. waited for D. prepared for
56. A. received B. accepted C. organized D. discussed
57. A. imperfect B. impossible C. uncertain D. unsatisfactory
58. A. honestly B. much C. well D. bravely
59. A. hear B. learn C. expect D. speak
60. A. wise B. rude C. shy D. stupid
第二部分阅读理解（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses.
One evening, Brownie’s family noticed that Brownie hadn’t returned home. They went looking for him with no success. Brownie did n’t show up the next day, and, although they made their efforts to find him, by the next week he was still missing, Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie’s house alone, barking and jumping. Busy with their own lives, they paid no attention to the nervous little neighbor dog.
Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take “no” for an answer. Ted, Brownie’s owner, was continuously disturbed by the angry, determined little dog. Spotty followed Ted about, barking all the time, then rushing toward a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, “Follow me! It’s urgent!”
Eventually, Ted followed Spotty across the empty lot as
Spotty stopped to race back and barked encouragingly. The little dog led the man to a deserted spot a half
mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie alive, one of his legs crushed in a steel trap (圈套). Frightened, Ted now wished he had taken Spotty’s earlier appeals seriously.
Then Ted noticed something. Spotty had done something else besides leading Brownie’s human owner to his trappe d friend. In a circle around the injured dog, Ted found some food remains of every meal. Brownie had been fed that week! Spotty had been visiting Brownie regularly, in the hope of keeping his friend alive. Spotty had actually stayed with Brownie to protect him from hunger and other dangers, and keep his spirits up.
Brownie’s leg was carefully treated and he soon got well again. For many years thereafter the two families watched the faithful friends chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.
61. At the very beginning, T ed paid little attention to Spotty because __________.
A. he was not free at the moment
B. he was sure Brownie would be OK
C. he didn’t like Spotty at all
D. his missing dog made him sad
62. After Ted was brought where Brownie was trapped, he ___________.
A. managed to free his dog at once
B. was very thankful to Spotty
C. regretted not following Spotty earlier
D. was angry with the trap-maker
63. The BEST title for this passage might be____________?
A. Dogs in Love
B. A Friend in Need
C. Human and dogs
D. Dogs Are Communicative
64. We can infer from the passage that ___________.
A. humans and animals depend on each other for comfort
B. It’s not right to hunt for animals in any neighborhood
C. T ed has to take better care of his beloved dog later on
D. Brownie would have died without Spotty’s timely help
B
Everyone is at it, even my neighbors. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadn’t done an eBay deal. So, I decided to try my hand at online auction (网上拍卖).
Buying for beginners: Sign up on www. ebay. co. uk. Most items（e.g. tables, computers, and books）ready for auction will come with a picture and a short description; others may be marked with “ Buy It Now ” and have a fixed price. You can buy these right away.
If the item is being auctioned, you offer the highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids（出价）for you. The bid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you would like to bid again. Auctions last up to 10 days and when they finish you get an email telling you whether you have won the item.
How to pay: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before placing a bid as you might not want to post a check or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takes the money away from your credit card (信用卡).
Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of
the item. I followed my friends’ advice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10-day auction, starting on a Thursday. This way buyers had two weekends to bid.
The big things in life: It’s easy to post a small item, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this has to be collected or sent by delivery men. Check the ways of delivery before you bid.
65. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to make payment online.
B. Ways of using delivery online.
C. Advantages of an online-auction system.
D. How to use an online-auction system.
66. After bidding for an item, a buyer __________.
A. will get what he wants in ten days
B. should make payment immediately
C. has chances to make higher bids
D. may check its picture and description
67. The easiest way of making payment mentioned in the passage is __________.
A. through an online payment system
B. through a local banking system
C. by sending the money to the seller
D. by paying the deliveryman directly
C
How should one invest a sum of money in inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it
will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting
antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques.
I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. "The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round people's wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves."
Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings.
However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time. They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past.
Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is
that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in an antique clock and perhaps make a future profit?
68. According to the passage, collecting antique clocks
________.
A. can hardly keep the value of your savings
B. will cost much of your savings
C. may increase your wealth
D. needs your bravery
69. By quoting (引用) the remark of a being from another planet, the author intends to ________.
A. suggest human beings are controlled by a clock
B. describe why clocks can rule the planet Earth
C. tell readers what clocks look like
D. compare clocks to human beings
70. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time?
A. Counting the beating of one's own heart.
B. Making use of candles, sand and water.
C. Observing shadows cast by the sun.
D. Keeping slaves busy day and night.
71. The purpose of the passage is ________.
A. to introduce the culture of antique clocks
B. to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks
C. to compare different ways to make a future profit
D. to explain convenient and reliable ways of telling time
D
Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self- respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as "honor" help you create this life of good feelings.
Here's an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep
silent, and profit from the clerk's mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.
Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don't tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk's attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it's easy to think and act honorably again when we're happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it's started, it's easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.
72. According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ________.
A. self-respect
B. financial rewards
C. advertising ability
D. friendly relationship
73. The phrase "bringing the error to the clerk's attention" (in Para.5) means ________.
A. telling the truth to the clerk
B. offering advice to the clerk
C. asking the clerk to be more responsible
D. reminding the clerk of the charged item
74. How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?
A. We'll be very excited.
B. We'll feel unfortunate.
C. We'll have a sense of honor.
D. We'll feel sorry for the clerk.
75. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A. How to Live Truthfully
B. Importance of Peacefulness
C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect
D. Happiness through Honorable Actions
第II卷（非选择题，共20分）
V. 单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
76. Modern people must learn to live in h_______________ with nature.
77. With a good state of mind, she soon a_______________ herself to the new environment.
78. It’s a local c_____________ for girls to marry young.
79. The government is trying to raise public a_______________ about the protection of
cultural heritage.
80. Reading widely helps to e_______________ your vocabulary
when learning a second
language.
81. Even though we’re working around the clock, I’m afraid the _____________ (最后
期限) is hard to meet.
82. A lazy man will never a_______________ (完成) anything that’s meaningful.
83. Although we are close friends, I don’t want to show my _______________ (关心) for
her before so many people.
84. After entering the country _______________ (非法地)，he settled down in a remote
area and found work in a small restaurant.
85. It’s _______________ (令人耳目一新的) to have such a funny and humorous partner. VI. 翻译句子(共5小题；每空0.5分，满分10分)
86. 直到我开始努力，我才意识到我过去浪费了多少时间。

__________ __________ I began to work hard __________ __________ __________ how much time I had wasted.
87. 我一看到刘翔走上台就感觉非常激动。

I felt very excited, __________ __________ I saw Liu Xiang walk onto the stage.
88. 无论我们看上去有多么不同，然而我们本质上都是一样的, 都是平等的。

____________ ____________ we may appear to be at first, we are all the same, all equal.
89. 该组织提议政府关注乡村女孩辍学现象。

The organization recommended that country girls’ dropping out of school __________
__________ ____________ to the attention of the government.
90. 人们公认他们的孩子必须上一所好大学，这对他们的未来至关重要。

It is generally agreed that their kids must go to a good university, __________ is __________ ___________ _______________ to their future.
91. 20世纪70年代中期，人们厌倦了当时的流行音乐，迪斯科和摇滚乐都在走下坡路。

In the mid 1970s, people were __________ __________ the pop music of the day, and disco music and rock music were both __________ __________.
参考答案
I. 听力(10%)
1-5 CABBC 6-10 ABAAB 11-15 CABCB 16-20 ABABC II. 单选(20%)
21-25 CDCAD 26-30 BDADA 31-35 CDCBA 36-40 DAACB III. 完型(20%)
41-45 DABCB 46-50 CBADC 51-55 DCDAB 56-60 ABCCD IV. 阅读(30%)
61-65 ACBDD 66-70 CACAD 71-75 BAACD
V. 单词拼写(10%)
76. harmony 77. adapted/ adjusted 78. custom 79. awareness 80. enlarge 81. deadline 82. accomplish83. concern 84. illegally 85. refreshing
VI. 翻译句子(10%)
86. Not until; did I realize 87. the moment
88. However different 89. should be brought
90. which; of great/ vital importance
91. tired of / bored with; in decline。