人教版高中英语选修六第二学期高二级中期考试

高中英语学习材料
（灿若寒星*制作整理）
会宁四中2015-2016学年度第二学期高二级中期考试
英语试卷
注意事项：
1．本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．答案全部在答题纸上完成，试卷上答题无效。

3．考试结束后，只交答题卡。

第I卷
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

A
Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part:“She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”
1. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
A. She had a famous sister.
B. She was born into a rich family .
C. She was born a slave.
D. She was a slaveholder.
2. Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys?
A. She had to take care of her sister.
B. She was hit and got angry.
C. She wanted to be a lawyer.
D. She found an employer.
3. What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution?
A. She should always obey her owners’ orders.
B. How to be a good servant.
C. She should be as free and equal as whites.
D. How to apply for a job.
4. What did Mumbet do after the trial?
A. She went to live with her grandchildren.
B. She continued to serve the Ashleys.
C. She found the NAACP.
D. She chose to work for a lawyer.
B
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A. get your room tidied on your way home.
B. remember your teacher’s instructions.
C. finish your homework on time.
D. stop using batteries.
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A. organize your homework .
B. know what the weather is like .
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B. ＄99
C. ＄199
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8. Where would you be most likely to find the two texts?
A. On a notice board
B. On a teenage website
C. In a college newspaper
D. In a company brochure
C
Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流). Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way --- by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest
coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.
Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study.
As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts, with 500 subscribers from West Africa to New Zealand. They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.
9. The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. group meetings
B. business talks
C. trading fairs
D. fitting rooms
10. Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _______.
A. how much they lost in the shipping accident
B. whether it was all right to use their shoes
C. when and where the shoes went missing
D. what caused the shipping accident
11. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?
A. By researching ocean currents data in the library.
B. By searching the web for ocean currents models.
C. By studying the shoes found by beachcomber.
D. By collecting information from beachcombers.
12. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ________.
A. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea
B. running a global currents research association
C. making records for any lost objects on the sea
D. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world
D
Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.
Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.
Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.
Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.
Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.
Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.
Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the had days, if you could, and did, play a bit.
Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.
13. The author intends to tell us that____________.
A. true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means
B. true happiness comes from spiritual riches
C. big houses can in a sense bring richness of life
D. big houses are people's most valued possessions
14. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that__________.
A. though their house is big, it seems to be a cage
B. though their house is big, they prefer a simple life
C. however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor
D. however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied
15. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Interest and Enthusiasm
B. Rest and Refreshment
C. Secret of Wealth
D. House of Life
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Kids' health: Four steps for fighting stress
Everybody gets stressed time to time. 16 Some ways of dealing with stress -like screaming or hitti-ng someo ne--don't solve（解决）much. But other ways, like talking to someone you trust, can lead you
to solving your problem or at least feeling better.
Try taking these four steps the next time you are stressed:
(1) Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult, such a s a parent or other relatives. 17 They might have had similar problems, such as dealing
with a test, or the death of a beloved pet.
(2) Don't take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear, that's good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Don't take it out on yourself. 18 (3) Try to solve the problem. After you're calm and you have support from adults and friends, it's time to get do wn to business. 19 Even if you can't solve it all, you can solve a piece of it.
(4) Be positive. Most stress is temporary(暂时的).Remember stress does go away, especially when
you figure out the problem and start working on solving it.
T hese steps aren't magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a
tough time, you'll help yourself feel better even faster. 20
A. Then, find a way to calm down.
B. And don't forget about your friends.
C. Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone
D. Different people feel stress in different ways.
E. You need to figure out what the problem is.
F. Notice your friends' feelings and find a way to help them.
G. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation.
第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top 21 , but on their way back conditions were very 22 . Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon 23 alone, he would probably get back 24 . But Simon decided to risk his 25 and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope（绳）.
As they 26 down, the weather got worse. Then another 27 occurred. They couldn’t see or hear each other and, 28 , Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was 29 for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe’s 30 was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice. 31 , after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, Simon had to 32 . In tears, he cut the rope. Joe 33 into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn’t walk, but he 34 to get out of the crevasse and started to 35 towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers 36 .
Simon had 37 the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be 38 , but he didn’t want to leave 39 . Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard Joe’s voice. He couldn’t 40 it. Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.
21. A. early B. successfully C. carefully D. hurriedly
22. A. special B. normal C. difficult D. similar
23. A. rested B. continued C. climbed D. worked
24. A. safely B. unwillingly C. regretfully D. slowly
25. A. health B. time C. life D. fortune
26. A. looked B. went C. settled D. lay
27. A. storm B. damage C. trouble D. change
28. A. by chance B. by luck C. by mistake D. by choice
29. A. important B. impossible C. unnecessary D. practical
30. A. weight B. height C. equipment D. strength
31. A. Quickly B. Surely C. Patiently D. Finally
32. A. make a decision B. hold on C. stand back D. take a rest
33. A. fell B. jumped C. backed D. escaped
34. A. planned B. managed C. hoped D. waited
35. A. skate B. march C. run D. move
36. A. along B. above C. away D. around
37. A. headed for B. travelled C. left for D. returned to
38. A. hurt B. dead C. late D. weak
39. A. immediately B. anxiously C. secretly D. tiredly
40. A. accept B. find C. believe D. make
英语
第II卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。

写在本试卷上无效。

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10分；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about 41 (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop, 42 some of them looked very anxious and 43 (disappoint) . when the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next 44 the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on a bike 45 (catch ) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused 46 (stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept 47 (ride). He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked,“48 anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh, dear! It ‘s 49 (I )”. She pushed her way to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, Everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy had done，and the crowd of strangers 50 (sudden) became friendly to one another.
第三部分写作（共两节；满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假段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。

错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( )，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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

My dream school starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn’t need to do so many homework. Therefore, we have more time with after-school activities. For example, we can do reading for one and a half hour and play sports for one hour every day.
My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest, or sat by the lake listening music. The teachers here are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
第二节书面表达（25分）
假定你是光明中学李华，近日得知某英文报纸正在就中学生的体育活动做一项调查。

请用英语写一篇短文，向该报介绍你校体育活动的开展情况。

内容要点如下：
1.自我介绍；
2.你校开展体育活动的内容、时间安排等；（提示：早操、体育课、课外活动）
3.学校开展体育活动的意义。

（提示：强身健体、学习后休闲）
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，意使行文连贯。

I'm Li Hua, and I am now studying in Guangming Middle school.___________________________
会宁四中2015-2016学年度第二学期高二级中期考试
英语答案
1-5：CBCDC 6-10：BABCB 11-15：DABCD 16-20：DBGEC
21-25：BCBAC 26-30：BCCBA 31-35：DDABD 36-40：CDBAC
41、being 42、and 43、disappointed 44、to 45、caught
46、to stop 47、riding 48、Did 49、me/mine 50、sudd enly
第三部分写作：
第一节短文改错
My dream school starts at 8:30 a. m and ends at 3:30 p. m. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn’t need to do so many homework. Therefore , we have more time with after-school activities. For example, we can do reading for one and a half hour and play sport for one hour every day.
My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest, sat by the lake listening music. The teachers here are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.
51.They改为There52.didn’t 改为don’t 53.many改为much 54.with 改为for 55.hour 改为hours 56.look改为looks 57.去掉the 58.sat改为sit 59.listen后加to
60.helpfully 改为helpful
第二节书面表达
参考范文：
I am Li Hua, and I am now studying in Guangming Middle school. I’d like to introduce something about the sports activities in our school.
First, sports activities are placed great importance on in our school. Everyday we students will have to do morning exercises. Besides, we also have two PE lessons each week, and two sports meets are held every year. Last but not least, our school also develo p a variety of sport team s, such as basketball teams, dancing groups and so on.
All those sports activities, in my opinion, are of great significance to us students, because they can not only relax
our body, but also relax our mind after studying hard. I think it is important to take part in some sports activities when students have spent the whole day in a boring classroom.。