高二英语期末试题

高二英语期末试题（上）一语音辨析题(每小题1分，共5分)1. spare A. fear B. earn C. pear D. beard2. gentle A. organize B. bargain C. regular D. charge3. rush A. dull B. butcher C. sugar D. push4. classes A. watches B. names C. hopes D. techniques5. admire A. quiet B. stare C. spear D. figure二单项选择（每小题1分，共15分）6. ______ life will be in the future is difficult to predict.A. HowB. WhatC. WhetherD. That7. E-commerce is becoming more and more popular ____ people discover theadvantages of online shopping.A. asB. whenC. whileD. because8. For people who do go out to shops, shopping is no longer just _______necessity.A. /B. anC. theD. a9. People get AIDS after _________ infected with HIV.A. have beenB. having beenC. has beenD. are10. I wish that she _____ here with us.A. isB. couldC. wereD. will be11. Her mother didn’t know that she had AIDS _____ Xiaohua was born.A. unlessB. untilC. becauseD. when12. She will die _____ she has a chance to grow old.A. afterB. asC. beforeD. so13. My dad took me to the hospital to have me_______A. examinedB. examining C examine D. to examine14. I didn’t know much about cancer then, but I ______ that it was anincurable disease.A. heardB. have heardC. had heardD. did hear15. We should never try to revive a person _____ we know how to do it.A. unlessB. untilC. ifD. since16. Global development means that rich people get richer ______ the poor getpoorer.A. whenB. asC. ifD. while17. Only by changing the way we live _____ save the earth.A. can weB. we canC. to be able toD. so as to18. He paused for a moment _________ whether to turn back as the captain urgedhim.A. wonderingB. wonderedC. to wonderD. wonder19. He bathed and had dinner, ______everyone the impression that there wasno danger at all.A. givenB. givingC. to giveD. give20. Helped by two slaves he stood up, and immediately fell down______A. deadB. death C die D dying三完型填空（每小题1.5分，共30分）When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 21 . Some stories are told 22 they were true. Real people who live in a 23 world do real things; in other words, the stories are about people just like us doing what we do. Other stories, such as the Harry Potter books, are not 24 . They are characters and creatures that are very different from us and do things that would be 25 for us.But there is more to books and writing than this. If we think about it, even realistic writing is only 26 . How can we tell the difference between what is real and what is not real? For example, when we read about Harry Potter, we 27 seem to learn something about the real world. And when Harry studies magic at Hogwarts, he also learns more about his real life than 28 . Reading, like writing, is an action. It is a way of 29 . When we read or write something, we do much more than simple look at words on a page. We use our 30 --which is real—and our imagination—which is real in a different way --- to make the words come to lifein our minds.Both realism and fantasy(幻想) 31 the imagination and the “magic” of reading and writing to make us think. When we read 32 realistic, we have to imagine that the people we are reading about are just like us, even though we 33 that we are real and they are 34. It sounds 35 , but it works. When we read, we fill in missing information and 36 about the causes and effects of what a character does. We help the writer by 37 that what we read is like real life. In a way,we are writing the book, too.Most of us pro bably don’t think about what is going on in our 38 when we are reading. We pick up a book and lose 39 in a good story, eager to find out what will happen next. Knowing how we feel 40 we read can help us become better readers, and it will help us discover more about the real magic of books.21. A. possible B. easy C. new D. different22. A. that B. what C. whether D. as if23. A. usual B. normal C. certain D. common24. A. realistic B. reasonable C. moral D. instructive25. A. difficult B. impossible C. important D. necessary26. A. thinkable B. designed C. imagined D. planned27. A. do B. make C. have D. are28. A. lessons B. dreams C. experience D. magic29. A. working B .thinking C. living D. understanding30. A. knowledge B. skill C. words D. grammar31. A. makes B. get C. use D. have32. A. a newspaper B. something C. everything D. a story33. A. find B. learn C. know D. hope34. A. too B. not C. all D. so35. A. dangerous B. serious C. strange D. terrible36. A. talk B. learn C. read D. think37. A. telling B. pretending C. promising D. guessing38. A. mind B. life C. world D. society39. A. heart B. time C. money D. ourselves40. A. what B. how C. when D. why四阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分）AOn the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi'an with hisbicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they livedin "the kingdom of bicycles".Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi'an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi'an and his early dreams were coming true.Robert Friedlander's next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.41. The best headline(标题) for this newspaper article would beA. The Kingdom of Bicycles.B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi'an.C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road.D. An American Achieving His Aims.42. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander comingto the hotel becauseA. he asked to see the manager.B. he entered the hall with a bike.C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests.D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him.43. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the followingorder:A. China, India, and Pakistan.B. India, China, and Pakistan.C. Pakistan, China, and India.D. China, Pakistan, and India.44. What made Friedlander want to come to China?A. The stories about Marco Polo.B. The famous sights in Xi'an.C. His interest in Chinese silk.D. His childhood dreams about bicycles.BLanguage learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners .Most children will “obey” spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word “obey” is hardly accurate as a de scription of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child .Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises. Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these can’t be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation（模仿）leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attemptto teach new sounds .45.Before children start speaking________.A.they need equal amount of listeningB.they need different amounts of listeningC.they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructionsD.they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions46.Children who start speaking late ________.A.may have problems with their listeningB.probably do not hear enough language spoken around themually pay close attention to what they hearD.often take a long time in learning to listen properly47.A baby’s first noises are ________.A.an expression of his moods and feelingsB.an early form of languageC.a sign that he means to tell you somethingD.an imitation of the speech of adults48.The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered asspeech________.A.is important because words have different meanings for different peopleB.is not especially important because the change over takes place graduallyC.is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changeswith ageD.is one that should be completely ignored（忽略）because children’s use of wordsis often meaningless49.The speaker implies________.A.parents can never hope to teach their children new soundsB.children no longer imitate people after they begin to speakC.children who are good at imitating learn new words more quicklyD.even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitatingcThe greatest recent changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is for ty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children ,her work is lightened by household appliances（家用电器）and convenience foods. This important change in women’s way of life has only recently begun to ha ve its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more after wads, return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each of them.50.We are told that in an average family about 1990________.A.many children died before they were fiveB.the youngest child would be fifteenC.seven of eight children lived to be more than fiveD.four or five children died when they were five51.When she was over fifty, the late 19th century mother________.A.would expect to work until she diedB.was usually expected to take up paid employmentC.would be healthy enough to take up paid employmentD.was unlikely to find a job even if she is now likely52.Many girls, the passage says, are now likely to ________.A.marry so that they can get a jobB.leave school as soon as they canC.give up their jobs for good after they are marriedD.continue working until they are going to have a baby53.According to the passage,it is now quite usual for women to ________.A.stay at home after leaving schoolB.marry men younger than themselvesC.start working again later in lifeD.marry while still at schoolDAny mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors.A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million anda half times its original value.The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer-Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps. Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball was planned at Mauritius’Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the design for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words “Post Office” instead of “Post Paid” on the several hundred stamps that heprinted.Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left fourteen One Penny Orange-Reds and twelve Two Penny Blues. Because of the Two Penny Blue’s rareness and age, collectors have paid as much as ＄16 800 for it.54.Over a century ago, Mauritius ________.A. was an independent countryB. belonged to IndiaC. was one of the British coloniesD. was a small island in the Pacific Ocean55. The mistake on the stamps was made ________.A. in MauritiusB. at Mauritius Government HouseC. in a post officeD. in London56. Stamp collectors have paid $16 800 for ________.A. fourteen One Penny Orange-RedsB. twelve Two Penny BluesC. One Penny Orange-RedD. one Two Penny BlueEPersonal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend theirtime.Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became sucha practical tool.The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story. With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience. E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with theirchildren off at college.We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.57. The purpose of this passage is to ________.A. explain how to use the InternetB. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technologyC. tell the merits (价值) and usefulness of the InternetD. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet58. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.A. spend less time workingB. have more free time with his childC. work at home on weekendsD. work at a speed comfortable to him59. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephonebecause the former helps one ________.A. reach a group of people at one time convenientlyB. keep one’s communication as personal as possibleC. pass on much more information than the laterD. get in touch w ith one’s friends faster than the later60. The best title for this passage is ________.A. Computer: New Technological AdvancesB. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good FriendshipC. Computers Have Made Life EasierD. Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication二）补全对话(每小题1分，共5分)—Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we’ll have agood time. ____61____—I’d like to. ____62____—In our classroom. We are going to decorate(装饰) it and turn it into a splendidballroom.—____63____ I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you. —But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance. ____64___ —I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.—I heard you sing once. ____65____ I’m sure you’ll be the star of our New Yearparty.—Oh, thank you.A. Your voice was sweet and beautiful.B. Where are you going to have it?C. Would you like to join us?D. Thank you for inviting me.E. Oh, it is great.F. Let’s go to the ball together.G. Do sing us some English songs, please.五短文改错（每小题1.5分，共15分）A man was lying on the floor. There was a bottle of pills next him. 1_______ It must be drug poisoning, I think. I could not tell if he was alive, so I 2________ Immediately started blow air into his mouth. He 3________ coughed and I decided to make him to throw up so that there 4________ would be no poison in his body. After he had thrown up a couple 5_________ of time, I gave him some milk to drink. He still looked 6_________ sick and seemed very sleeping. I left the room to call for 7________ help and when I got back he was asleep again. 8_________I shook him hardly a few times and he woke up. 9_________I then cleaned up the room and threw away bottle of pills. 10________六单词拼写（每小题1分，共10分）1. I finally managed to ______(说服) her to go out for a drink with me.2. Shakespeare's language can be a problem for ______（现代的，当代的）readers.3. TB is a serious illness, but it can be c______.4. She didn't have the _____（力气，力量） to walk any further.5. My father has made a full r______ from the operation.6. Don't c______ at examinations or your classmates will despise you.7. You should not let one failure d______ you.8. _______（判断） from previous experience, he will be late.9. For the past three years he has been ______（雇佣） as a firefighter.10. The trees provide s______ for the animals in the summer.七书面表达（30分）你的一个朋友因为在一次输血中感染上了AIDS, 过去的朋友们纷纷离他而去。