陕西省西安市第一中学高二英语下学期期末考试试题

陕西省西安市第一中学2013-2014学年高二英语下学期期末考试试
题
说明：1. 本试题分I、II两卷，第I，II卷的答案要按照要求涂，写到答题卡上。

2. 全卷共三个部分，满分100分，100分钟完卷。

第I卷
第一部分：英语知识运用(共三节，满分40分)
第一节语音知识 (共5小题；每小题1分, 满分5分)
从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1. despite A. strike B arbitrary C. valid D. literature
2. tasty A. astronaut B. hesitate C. ambition D. botany
3 percentage A. politics B. fiction C. accuracy D. cookie
4. digital A. regulation B. seagull C. distinguish D. generally
5. exact A. excavate B. extraordinary C. exit D. example 第二节语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题l分，满分l5分)
6. ______ most efficient way to understand thousands of new words is to gain
________ good knowledge of basic word formation.
A．A; a B．The; 不填 C．A; 不填 D．The; the
7. —I have got a headache.
—No wonder. You ________ in front of that computer too long.
A. work
B. are working
C. worked
D. have been working
8. Jenny was _________ to hear the news that their team didn’t win the game.
A. cast aside
B. cast away
C. cast off
D. cast down
9. Clearly and thoughtfully________, the book inspires confidence in students who wish to seek their own answers.
A. writing
B. to write
C. written
D. being written
10. Never before ____ in greater need of modern public transport than it is today.
A. has this city been
B. this city has been
C. was this city
D. this city was
11. We tried ______ to persuade him to stay home, but at last, he went to the
construction site despite his bad illness.
A. in case
B. in vain
C. in fact
D. in addition
12. ----I wonder why Jane looks worried today.
----I’m not sure, but she a small accident driving here.
A. could have
B. might have
C. might have had
D. should have had
13. The police recommended parents __________their children under 12 to ride to school for safety.
A. not allow
B. do not allow
C. mustn’t allow
D. couldn’t allow
14. __________is no possibility __________Bob can win the first prize in the match.
A. There；that
B. It；that
C. There；whether
D. It；whether
15. 24. He is a successful businessman and he ___ his success more to luck than to ability.
A. attaches
B. adapts
C. owes
D. fastens
16. I like __________in the early morning when the air is fresh and I can take a walk around the garden.
A. that
B. it
C. which
D. what
17. After his journey abroad, Richard Jones returned home, ___.
A. excited
B. exciting
C. being excited
D. having excited
18．The exact year Angela and her family spent together in China was 2008.
A. When
B. where
C. why
D. which
19．The meaning of the word “nice”changed a few times it finally came to include the sense “pleasant”.
A. before
B. after
C. since
D. while
20．— I get at least half an hour of exercise almost every day.
— Oh great! .
A. Good luck
B. Cheer up
C. Same to you
D. Keep it up
第三节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出合适填入对应空白处的
最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

About 20 years ago, I was lucky to teach a disabled young woman named Audrey. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also very 21 in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university, she got two 22 , one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such 23 areas of study.
Just before her high school graduation, Audrey 24 me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolour painting of a mother and her baby. A tear 25 from the mother’s eye as she looked 26 at her child. Under the painting, Audrey had 27 these words: “The deep love from Mother, 28 me, touches another.” What a beautiful
gift! I had the piece of art framed and 29 in my office.
Years passed with many 30 from one office to another and I 31 the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I 32 a phone call from a former colleague who said she had 33 of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room, she had 34 my gift.
I was struck that the 35 gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old, Audrey had a serious 36 . What’s worse, her father lef t the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She 37 it but was disabled.
To 38 , it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped 39 a talent and how its 40 pushes me ahead.
21. A. interested B. talented C. buried D. absorbed
22. A. degrees B. choice C. chances D. jobs
23. A. similar B. distinguishing C. different D. scientific
24. A. gave B. promised C. afforded D. presented
25. A. sank B. flooded C. escaped D. fell
26. A. quietly B. lovingly C. warmly D. gently
27. A. described B. marked C. written D. signed
28. A. past B. on C. with D. through
29. A. hung B. decorated C. painted D. added
30. A. migrations B. moves C. turns D. circles
31. A. left B. forgot C. lost D. ignored
32. A. accepted B. made C. dialed D. received
33. A. something B. books C. gifts D. letters
34. A. searched B. discovered C. observed D. touched
35. A. ancient B. colorful C. precious D. abstract
36. A. symptom B. fault C. heart D. disease
37. A. survived B. recovered C. struggled D. managed
38. A. someone else B. anyone else C. everyone else D. nobody else
39. A. encourage B. become C. develop D. practise
40. A. energy B. force C. strength D. power
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)
第一节(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A
Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephan ts from damaging farmer’s crops.
In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees
with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees
would scare elephants away.
Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder.
Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant
hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree
close to each family.
From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at
the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups
left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored
the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately
ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall
(瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals
were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.
Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn’t tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.
41. We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of .
A. loud noises
B. some crops
C. video cameras
D. angry bees
42. As mentioned in the passage, Lucy .
A. works by herself in Africa
B. needs to test more elephant groups
C. has stopped elephants eating crops
D. has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms
43. Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?
A. To record the sound of bees.
B. To make a video of elephants.
C. To see if elephants would run away.
D. To find out more about the behavior of bees.
44. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Young elephants ignore African honeybees.
B. Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.
C. Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.
D. Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.
B
You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible! Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.
Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect.
When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger（匕首） of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative
words of another at the start of the day can cling to（附着） you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.
45. The purpose of the first paragraph is to __________.
A. make a comparison
B. offer an evidence
C. introduce a topic
D. describe a daily scene
46. How can negative people have effect on us?
A. By changing our ways of thinking
B. By telling us the nature of life
C. By influencing our emotion
D. By comparing their attitudes to life with ours
47. According to the passage, to reduce negative people’s influence on us, we are advised to __________.
A. show our dissatisfaction to negative people
B. communicate with negative people as little as possible
C. change negative people’s attitudes to life
D. make negative people feel ashamed of themselves
C
Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探险)but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, his was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of
them .Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different
Spots for free. Larry didn’t even know what the time was how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken. The diving spots afforded such a wide array of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her
age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.
48.In what way was this expedition different for Larry?
A. His daughter had grown up.
B. He had become a famous diver.
C. His father would dive with him.
D. His daughter would dive with him.
49.What can be inferred from Paragraph2?
A. Larry had some privileges.
B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.
C. Divers had to buy diving equipment.
D. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.
50.What can be learned from the underlined sentence?
A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.
B. Larry was not good at math.
C. Larry had a poor memory.
D. Larry enjoyed the adventure.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分l0分)
根据短文内容，从下框的A～F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

选项中有一项为多余项。

curriculum, there are many things parents can do to encourage good study habits.
51. _____________
Parents should decide with their children what time each day homework is to be done. While children are in the lower grades, one hour a day will probably enough. As homework and responsibilities increase, more time will be needed. It is important that children take part in these decisions. Children need to know that they are able to make decisions about their studying. Once children and parents have decided on a schedule, they should stick to it. If there is no home work to be done on a given day, parents can have their children use this time as quiet time to read or work on long term projects. It’s important for children to get used to studying every day.
52. ______________
Parents should offer their children a quiet, comfortable place to study in. It’s a good idea that studying is done in the same place every day. Parents should make sure their children have the supplies they need (for example, paper, pencils, a
pencil sharpener). Sometimes children’s bedrooms are not the best place to study
in. There are often lots of distractions in children’s rooms.
53. ______________
Parents should give their children a calendar on which to record assignments
and to check them off when they are completed. Parents can also show their children
how to keep their work and materials organized and how to prioritize assignments.
54. ______________
Parents should be available to answer any questions that might come up. They should try to provide information without actually doing the homework for their children.
55. _______________
Parents cannot force their children to study. Nagging (唠叨) and threatening don’t work. Children need to know that they are responsible for doing their homework
and for studying. Parents should give their children the responsibility, and let
them suffer the consequences if they, for example, fail to turn in an assignment.
The parents’ role is to provide support.
Remember, children must learn that they are responsible or their own learning. Parents can make the difference by giving their children the tools to do so.
第II卷
第三部分：写作(共三节, 满分30分)
第一节单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正
确、完整形式，每空只写一词。

56. He sat _________(对面)to Marion during the discussion.
57.She ________(犹豫)about the choice between the two pairs of shoes.
58. We_______________ (祝贺) him on having passed the exam.
59. Most ________(申请人)know that they have little chance of getting a visa.
60. Before you can make a loaf, you need to get some ______(面粉).
61. My friend ,______(出生)in India, moved to England when she was five years old.
62. Tom offered me an______________ (道歉) for losing my book.
63. ______(总共)
there were 20 people absent from the meeting.
64.Students in the _______(第九)grade have just had a major exams.
65. The sun is shining brightly, _____ (使)everything around us look more beautiful.
第二节短文改错(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。

文中共
有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线(___)，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last Saturday I went to the library as usually. At about noon, I was enjoying my reading near a lake while suddenly I hear someone crying for help. I went up to see
what was happened I was shocking to find a little child struggling in the water in
the distance while many peoples were standing by without doing anything. Without
any hesitation, I had pushed through the crowd as I took off my coat, but jumped
into the water quickly. I managed to reach him and carried him back to safety. To
his great relief, the kid was saved.
I was proud what I had done. I hope everyone can give a hand when someone else
is in need.
第三节书面表达（满分10分）
为了帮助中学生健康成长，某中学英文报开辟了“HEART-TO-HEART”专栏。

假设你是该
栏目的编辑Jamie，收到一封署名为Worried的求助信。

信中该同学向你诉说了自己的困扰：
近日容易发脾气，使正常的学习和生活受到了影响。

请用英文给该同学写一封回信。

内容要点如下：
1．表示理解并给予安慰；
2．提出建议并说明理由。

注意：
1．词数120左右；
2．信中不能出现与本人相关的信息；
3．信的开头与结尾已为你拟好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：temper n. 脾气，情绪
Hi Worried.:
I’m sorry to know that you’re having such a bad time at the moment.
Yours,
Jamie
高二英语参考答案
1-5 ABCDD 6-10 ADDCA 11-15 BCAAA 16-20 BADAD
21—25 BACAD 26—30 BCDAB 31—35 CDABC 36— 40 DABCD
41— 44 DBAC 45—47CCB 48-50 DAD 51— 55 BDAFC
单词拼写
56. opposite 57. hesitated 58. congratulated 59. applicants 60.
flour
61. born 62. apology 63. Altogether 64. ninth 65. making
五、短文改错：（每处1分, 共10分）
Last Saturday 1 went to the library as usually. At about noon, I was enjoying
my reading
usual
near a lake while suddenly I hear someone crying for help. I went up to see what
was happened. I
when heard happening was shocking to find a little child struggling in the water in the distance while many peoples were
shocked people standing by without doing anything. Without any hesitation, I pushed through the crowd as I
took off my coat, but jumped into the water quickly. I managed to reach him and carried him back
and
to safety. To his great relief, the kid was saved.
my
I was proud what I had done. I hope everyone can give a hand when someone else is in
of
need.
第二节：
One possible version
Hi worried:
I’m sorry to know that you’re having such a bad time at the moment. The truth is everyone will have one of those periods when things seem to be going wrong, so you don’t have to worry so much. The important thing is to learn to control your temper so that you may not do or say anything you’ll regret. Here are three useful tips:
First, talk to someone you trust about how you feel. This is a good way of letting your anger out without hurting others or yourself. Second, go outdoors and play team games with your friends as physical exercise is an effective way to get rid of anger. And third, remain optimistic about your future. Such a positive attitude towards life can be helpful in lifting your spirits.
I hope you’ll soon feel calmer and carry on as normal.
Yours,
Jamie。