江苏省扬州中学09-10学年高二上学期期中考试(英语)

扬州中学09-10学年高二上学期期中考试
高二英语试卷09.11
一．听力（共20题，每小题1分）
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. How long is the library open on Saturday?
A. 9 hours.
B. 11 hours.
C. 13 hours.
2. Where is the man now?
A. In Washington.
B. In New York.
C. In Boston.
3. What does the woman want to have?
A. Ice water.
B. Coffee.
C. Tea.
4. Who was injured in the accident?
A. No one.
B. A baby.
C. Three women.
5. What kind of party might this be?
A. A wedding party.
B. A birthday party.
C. A farewell party.
第二节听下面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8题。

6. How long has the woman been working in the lab?
A. Four years.
B. Over three years.
C. Almost three years.
7. What degree does the woman hold?
A. Bachelor.
B. Master.
C. Doctor.
8. What kind of research does the woman do?
A. Basic research.
B. Developing new products.
C. The dialogue doesn’t tell us.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. When does this conversation probably take place?
A. In the early morning.
B. Nearly midnight.
C. In the afternoon.
10. How can the man get out of the place?
A. Turn left at the stop sign.
B. Turn right at the stop sign.
C. Go above the overpass.
11. What does the man have to do to driver home?
A. He has to turn right at the first stop sign of the highway.
B. He is very likely to stop for dinner on the way.
C. He has to drive on several overpasses.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. When should people work hard if they want to do well in the exam?
A. Every day in a year.
B. For most of the month.
C. For most of the year.
13. What should they do when people have finished the exam?
A. Make sure that they have not missed anything out.
B. Answer a few more questions.
C. Hand in their paper and leave at once.
14. What is the best title for this passage?
A. An Important Exam.
B. How to Study English well.
C. How to Pass an Exam.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. How will the man travel?
A. By train.
B. By plane.
C. By bus.
16. How long should the man book the traveling in advance?
A. Four months.
B. Eight months.
C. Ten months.
17. What is the purpose of the ma n’s calling?
A. To book a ticket.
B. To give some details.
C. To ask for information.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a theatre.
B. At a bus stop.
C. At an appointment.
19. What’s the man’s tone in the conversation?
A. Impatient.
B. Worried.
C. Inquiring.
20. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man is 10 minutes late.
B. The play has been on for 10 minutes.
C. The man is eager to enjoy the performance.
二．单项选择（共15题，每小题1分）
21. In the early morning all of us stood at the top of the mountain ___________ east of the city,
watching __________burning sun rising.
A. /; a
B. the; a
C. the; the
D. /; /
22. --- Can I help you?
---I’d like to buy a present for my father’s birthday, _____ at a proper price but of great use.
A. it
B. which
C. one
D. the one
23. At first ______ it looked like a simple accident, but later the police became doubtful.
A. look
B. sight
C. view
D. glimpse
24. Jack’s new job paid twice as much as he had made ______ in that company.
A. work
B. worked
C. to work
D. working
25. When I got to the playground, our class team ______ the game with a big advantage and only a few minutes to go.
A. won
B. was winning
C. had won
D. have won
26. After I walked 50 miles that day, my legs under me ______.
A. tired out
B. wore out
C. gave away
D. gave out
27. After being admitted to univ ersity, you’ll have to arrange most of the life _________ your own.
A. by
B. for
C. of
D. on
28. He found it dull to be kept in the same class with the other students, for his English was _____ above the beginners’ level.
A. obvious rather
B. obvious much
C. obviously well
D. obviously fairly
29. Let’s go out for a walk now. It _____ any more.
A. didn’t rain
B. doesn’t rain
C. won’t rain
D. isn’t raining
30. --- You didn’t wait for Mr. Smith last night, d id you?
--- No, but we _______. He didn’t return home at all.
A. couldn’t have
B. needn’t have
C. didn’t need to
D. shouldn’t wait
31. --- Were you busy last weekend？
--- Very. Rather than _______ time watching TV as usual, I devoted every effort to ________ an advertisement.
A. wasting, making
B. waste, make
C. to waste, make
D. a waste of, making
32. --- I thought I asked you to fix the radio.
--- Oh, I’m sorry. Mother, I _____ it right now.
A. am to do
B. will do
C. was about to do
D. am going to do
33. Yaoming’s struggle to make a place for himself in basketball is the kind of life story ______ a fascinating novel might be written.
A. of which
B. by which
C. about which
D. for which
34. The boy’s bad behavior _____ his mother lots of sleepless nights.
A. cost
B. took
C. spent
D. paid
35. -- Could you be so kind as to close the window?
-- ＿＿＿？
A. With pleasure
B. Go ahead
C. Yes, please
D. That's OK
三．完形填空（共20题，每小题1分）
James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well tells the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he 36 his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter 37 him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter 38 that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you 39 to share your 40 seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in 41 with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“ 42 sir,” said the farmer, “didn’t you know? The wind 43 pollen(花粉) from the ripening corn and blows 44 from field to field. If my neighbors grow 45 corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the 46 of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I 47 help my neighbors grow good corn.” He is very much 48 of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor’s corn 49 improves.
So it is in other 50 . Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace. Those who choose to live 51 must help others to live well, for the 52 of a life is measured by the lives it 53 . And those who choose to be happy must help others to 54 happiness, for the welfare of each is connected with the welfare of all.
The lesson for each of us is this: 55 we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn.
36.A. praised B. shared C. entered D. chose
37.A. received B. interviewed C. described D. admired
38.A. argued B. commented C. discovered D. complained
39.A. demand B. afford C. pretend D. intend
40.A. best B. pure C. beautiful D. previous
41.A. return B. competition C. public D. detail
42.A. What B. When C. How D. Why
43.A. bring down B. works out C. picks up D. knocks off
44.A. it B. them C. itself D. themselves
45.A. inferior B. superior C. rare D. extraordinary
46.A. quantity B. quality C. ability D. gravity
47.A. may B. must C. can D. should
48.A. careful B. fond C. proud D. aware
49.A. never B. hardly C. also D. just
50.A. cases B. fields C. conditions D. products
51.A. well B. happily C. peacefully D. comfortably
52.A. importance B. use C. secret D. value
53.A. sees B. meets C. touches D. feels
54.A. seize B. desire C. find D. express
55.A. If B. Unless C. Because D. Though
四．阅读理解(共15题，每小题2分)
A
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers said, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any a mount of experience. ” How right they were!
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers. “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mc Clintock, a geneticist(遗传学家) who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever then age. At 90, cellist(大提琴家) Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders
would straighten and joy would reappea r in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote, “Years make the skin old, but to give up enthusiasm makes the soul old.”
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money.”
If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “I am persuaded to call Layton a genius.”
We c an’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses—finding pleasure in the sweet of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.
56. The passage mainly shows us ________.
A. enthusiasm is the basic element of everything
B. enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree
C. enthusiasm makes us experience more life
D. we can do nothing without enthusiasm
57. From the example of the Nobel Prize winner Barbara Mc Clitock, we may find ____.
A. enthusiasm can encourage us in difficult times
B. enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work
C. you can’t make any achievement if yo u have no enthusiasm
D. enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end
58. The underlined sentence in Paragraph Three suggests ________.
A. time and tide wait for no man
B. we grow old as time goes on
C. people feel young with enthusiasm
D. our soul becomes old with enthusiasm
59. The main idea of the last paragraph is _________.
A. we should try heart and soul to win what we want
B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat
C. we have not enough money to buy what we need
D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need
B
This March is a busy month in Shanghai. There’s a lot to do. Here are the highlights.
Live Music—Late Night Jazz
Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He’s coming with h is new 7-piece band, Herbie’s Heroes. Herbie is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t expect to get much sleep. This is Herbie’s third visit to Shanghai. The first two were sold out, so get
Take your partners and get ready to dance till drop. Scottish dancing is fun and easy to learn. Instructors will demonstrate the dances. The live band. Gordon Stroppie and the Weefrees, are also
Exhibitions—Shanghai Museum
There are 120,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history under one r oof. It’s always interesting to visit, but doubly so at the moment with the Egyptian Tombs exhibition. There are lots of mummies and more gold than you’ve ever seen before. Let us know if you see a
Sushi is getting really big in Shanghai. In Japan, it’s become an art form. The most famous Sushi “artist” is Yuki Kamura. She’s also one of the few female chefs in Japan. She’ll be at Sushi
60. Suppose you are going to attend an activity at 7 p.m. on Saturday, which one can you choose?
A. Live Music—Late Night Jazz.
B. Scottish Dancing.
C. Exhibitions—Shanghai Museum.
D. Dining—Sushi Chef in Town.
61. Which of the following is TRUE according to the advertisements?
A. Scottish dancing is so interesting and easy that it never tires you out.
B. The performance given by the American jazz band won’t last long.
C. Sushi is not popular in Shanghai as it is a kind of Japanese traditional food.
D. It is more interesting to visit Shanghai Museum for the exhibits from Egypt.
62. From the text we may learn that Kamura is _________.
A. a cook
B. a waitress
C. an instructor
D. an artist
C
I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientis t again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated(controlled) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space, time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics(天体物理学), it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph. D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement—jobs, research papers, awards—was viewed through the lens of gender politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when was pushed into an argument on left brain versus right brain, or nature versus nurture(培育), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations(挑衅): I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t take account of those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love
of science. And that’s a si ght worth talking about.
63. From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute(把……归因于) the author’s failures to _________.
A. the very fact that she is a woman
B. her involvement in gender politics
C. her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist
D. the burden she bears in male-dominated society
64. What did the author constantly fight against while doing her Ph.D. and post-doctoral research?
A. Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
B. Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.
C. People’s fixed attitude toward female scientists.
D. Widespread wrong understanding about nature and nurture.
65. Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?
A. Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.
B. Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.
C. Her female students can do just as well as male students.
D. More female students are pursuing science than before.
66. What does the image that the author presents to her students suggest?
A. Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.
B. Women have more difficulties on their way to academic success.
C. Women can balance a career in science and having a family.
D. Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career.
D
Complete silence is found only in laboratories called anechoic(无回声) rooms. The walls and ceilings, made of blocks of special sound-sucking materials, are more than three feet thick, while floor coverings are six-foot layers of feathers or cotton wool. Silence here can be as painful to the ears as the din(continuous loud noise) of a steelworks or a rocket blast-off, yet scientists get used to this and stay in these silent rooms for hours at a time, using microphones and electronic equipment to test the various materials being developed to make the world a less noisy place.
Architects have used scientific discoveries to solve noise problem in a number of ways. Walls are hollowed (having empty space inside) and then filled with sound-sucking materials similar to cotton wool. Extra-thick carpets(毯子) cover the floors, and thick woolen curtains cover the windows. Airconditioning and heating channels are made less noisy by having the air passing through hundreds of tiny holes in baffles(屏蔽) made of sheets of soundsucking materials.
Unfortunately, these techniques and others often work too well in some buildings. Noise-proof rooms become almost anechoic and people living in them are disturbed by the lack of sound. One way of handling this problem is to use what they call “sound perfume”—artificial (similarly produced, made by man) noise is piped to rooms through small loudspeakers.
67. The writer implies that _______.
A. performing experiments in anechoic rooms can be a frightening experience
B. architects make practical use of the information gathered by scientists
C. untrained people can not stay long in anechoic rooms
D. scientists do not care for noise problem
68. In paragraph 2 the write mainly describes the methods used to _______.
A. find noise
B. reduce noise
C. produce noise
D. hear noise
69. People suffer in anechoic rooms probably because ________.
A. they are allowed to move and speak
B. the greater air pressure hurts their ears
C. there is a lack of air in anechoic rooms
D. they are used to hearing noise around them
70. The passage suggests that ______.
A. loudspeakers are as important as sound-proofing materials
B. anechoic rooms will be included in all new buildings
C. pipes should be used as sound-proofing materials
D. scientific devices(设备) are sometimes too successful
___________ 学号 …………要……………答……………题……………… 五．任务型阅读 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

请将答案写在答题纸上相应的横线上。

Health researchers have noticed that some groups of people are more consistently healthy than others, and wondered… Is it race? Income? Where you live? In the United States, these disagreements in health outcomes have been the focus of intense research for the past several decades. Harvard University health policy researcher Ellen Meara says scholars have found some clues as to why some groups of people have more or less disease than others. She says one important factor in people’s health is the amount of education they have. In her most recent paper, Meara looked at data from the United states census. These counts of people occur every 10 years. Meara and her colleagues examined data from several decades. “We looked at life expectancy(预测寿命) at age 25,” Meara says. “How many additional years can you expect to live if you arrive at age 25 and your education has stopped at high school, or sooner? Versus how many years, c an you expect to live if you’ve reached aged 25 and you’ve gone on to at least some college…” Meara says they found that in 1990, a 25-year-old who only had some secondary school could expect to live for a total of 75 years. In 2000, a 25 year old with some secondary education could also expect to live to the age of 75. In contrast, for a better educated 25-year-old, they could expect to live to the age of 80 in 1990. Someone with a similar education level in the year 2000, could expect to live to be more than 81 years, 81.6 years to be exact. Meara says, not only do better-educated people live longer to begin with, but in the past ten years, more educated people has made gains in the length of their lives. Meanwhile, the life expectancy hasn’t changed for l ess educated people. Some of these gains can be explained. Meara says researchers know that people who are more educated are more likely to quit smoking cigarettes, or not start at all, compared to people with less education. “I think it’s a reminder not to be satisfactory,” Meara says. “Just because a population overall appears to be getting healthier, it doesn’t always mean that those advantages and successes that many people have enjoyed really extend into all parts of the population. And I think that’s something to really pay attention to regardless of whether you live in the US or elsewhere.” Meara points out that education can often determine income-people with more education frequently make more money. This makes them aware of health care, and purchase other resources and services that can keep them healthier. But the data on income do NOT show that people who make more money are automatically healthier. Meara says education is key. People need to be educated in order to take advantage of opportunities for better health. 第二卷
71. __________ 72. __________ 73. __________ 74. __________ 75. __________
76. __________ 77. __________ 78. __________ 79. __________ 80. __________
六．书面表达
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

我国正提倡建设“节约型社会”，下图为某校两个学期用水、用电、用纸的情况。

请对其进行简要分析，以“How to build an economized society”为题，写一篇作文，谈谈自己的想法。

注意：
1．词数：150，短文标题、开头已给出，但不计入总词数。

2．内容可适当发挥，注意行文贯通。

How to build an economized society
Our government is aiming to build a n economized society. It is everybody’s duty to work hard to achieve this goal including us students.
文章须包括以下要点：
高二英语备课组
高二英语期中试卷参考答案
1—5 CAAAB 6—10 CBACB 11—15 BAACC 16—20 BCACC
21—25 ACBDB 26—30 DDCDC 31—35 ABCAA
36—40 CBCBA 41—45 BDCAA 46—50 BBDCA 51—55 ADCCA
56—59 BACA 60—62 CDA 63—66 ACDC 67—70 ABDA
71. Education 72. more/better 73. exactly 74. Results 75. unchanged
76. quitting/ stopping 77. population 78. determines/ decides
79. awareness 80. Conclusion
One possible version:
How to build an economized society
Our government is aiming to build an economized society. It is everybody’s duty to work hard to achieve this goal including us students.
Recently, the statistics in the report of one certain school in two school terms suggest that the expenses of electricity, water and paper are surprisingly large and growing rapidly, which draws our attention.
As a common member of society, we must keep the following points in our minds. First, make sure that the lights and all the other electric facilities are turned off when we finish our work and leave the room. Secondly, try to form the habit of turning off the tap after it is used and the waste water can be reused for more purposes before being poured into sewers. Thirdly, save paper as much
as possible in our everyday life. It is even better to reuse it.
In a word, if we pay much attention to our everyday behavior and take actions to reduce waste, we can make contributions to an economized society.
w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m。