高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
一、单项选择
1. Her excellent performance in the competition proved that she was a winner.
A . valueB . worthyC . worthD . worthwhile 2. — Where should I send my application? —The Personnel Office is the place .
A . to send itB . sent it toC . to send it toD . for sending it 3. All is a continuous supply of fuel oil.
A . what is neededB . that is neededC . the thing neededD . for their needs 4. The path to dreams may not be smooth and even at great cost, but them.
A . hold outB . hold backC . hold upD . hold on to
5. he has created striking stage settings for the Martha Graham dance company artist Isamu Noguchi is more famous for his sculpture.
A . But notB . In spite ofC . NeverthelessD . Although 6. It is important that he his reservations before Friday. A . confirmB . confirmsC . will confirmD . must confirm 7. — What do you think of the professor’s speech?
—I was listening carefully but I could not everything he said. He spoke too many local idioms.
A . take onB . take inC . take upD . takeover 8. The advanced worker was the person .
A . in whose honor the prize was givenB . whom the prize honor was given to himC . for him the prize honor was givenD . whose honor the prize was given
9. Had electronic computers not been invented, many problems of space flight .
A . could not have solvedB . could not be solvedC . can not have been solvedD . could not have been solved
10. We have done things we ought not to have done and undone things we ought to have done.
A . leavingB . leftC . will leaveD . leave 11. To qualify for the job, .
A . a high school diploma is neededB . it is required that one has a high school diplomaC . one needs a high school diplomaD . a diploma from high school is necessary
12. I remember for the job, but I forget the exact amount. A . to be paidB . that I receive payC . being paidD . get paid
13. There is a good social life in the village, and I wish I _______ a second chance to become more involved.
A . hadB . will haveC . would have hadD . have had
14. —The College Entrance Examination is coming; we need to hit the books and prepare it.
— _________. Let’s burn the midnight oil together.
A . You are what you wearB . You have me thereC . You can say that againD . You don’t say so
15. —I heard that your wife spent all afternoon yesterday cooking a special dinner for your wedding anniversary.
—Actually she was really ________ when I came home three hours late. A . on cloud nineB . over the moonC . green with envyD . hot under the collar
二、完形填空
16. 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I find it interesting sometimes that eventhe most ordinary occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.
My wife, daughter, and I moved into our homenine years ago and we 1alot of time and energy in the yard to getting it looking like it does today. We2ona corner, higher than street level, and the entire side of the yard is 3bya professionally built rock wall. We did the best to put what we had into 4andcalled this area our “rock garden”. Whenever we had flowers or plants, my wife Deniseor I would stick them out and plant them in the “rock garden”, just to bring some5tothe area.
I still do all of my own yard work, even the6weed-pulling.After 7myknee pads, I assume the 8toclear the yard of weeds, even in the rock garden.
Last summer I had reached the end of the rockgarden and found a tiny
little 9thatI could not 10identify.I knew I didn’t plant it and Denise 11thatshe didn’t either. We decided to let it continue growing until we could 12whatit was.
Weeks passed and 13Imade my way back to the mystery plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. It was 14, looking with a tall thin stalk and only one head on it. I decided to15itand weed around it. As I 16rocksfrom the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something 17. The sunflower had not started where Isaw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and 18underand around it to reach the sun.
That’s when I realized that if a tiny littlesunflower didn’t let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too have the19ofdoing the same thing. As long as we try, we can find ways to go under or aroundour big 20inorder to reach our desires.
（1）A . useB . spentC . appliedD . devoted（2）A . workB . liveC . stayD . play（3）A . crowdedB . surroundedC . prohibitedD . governed（4）A . effectB . practiceC . useD . operation（5）A . colorB . peaceC . creditD . focus（6）A . plainB . boredC . tiringD . initial（7）A . holding onB . taking onC . bringing onD . putting on（8）A . positionB . styleC . tissueD . thumb（9）A . flowerB . plantC . cropD . bush（10）A . suddenlyB . hardlyC . graduallyD . instantly（11）A . claimedB . instructedC . describedD . guaranteed（12）A . turn outB . figure outC . hold outD . pick out（13）A . asB . beforeC . sinceD . because（14）A . pitifulB . uglyC . prettyD . weak（15）A . admireB . considerC . attendD . observe（16）A . pushedB . removedC . transportedD . conducted（17）A . cheerfulB . unnaturalC .
unusualD . appealing（18）A . pulledB . dugC . expandedD . grown（19）A . powerB . capabilityC . energyD . strength（20）A . conflictsB . responsibilitiesC . barriersD . chances三、阅读理解
17. 阅读理解
Working with children? Looking for an excitingnew opportunity? Want to work on a friendly, fun and supportive team? This is whatour team member Anna says about working at My Crèche:
“It’s the nicest place I’ve ever worked.Everyone is so friendly and we have so much fun working together. They give me opportunitiesto learn new things every day. They care about my personal development. Workingat My Creche has enabled me to build relationships with the children as well asparents within the community which makes me feel so welcomed in the local area.”
Conveniently located in the heart of CrouchEnd, London, N8, My Creche offers drop-in and pre-booked childcare for childrenaged 6 weeks to 5 years of age. We also provide after-school and breakfast clubsfor children up to 8 years old. Our goal is to enable parents to pursue personaland professional activities when they need to, with total peace of mind knowingtheir children are being cared for in a safe and fun environment.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committedprofessional with excellent interpersonal skills, who is committed to ensuring thebest outcomes and care for children. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactiveindividual to be a part of a fresh and progressive Childcare concept and we
welcomenewly qualified professionals. We are a small and very supportive team with greattraining opportunities.
The successful candidate will:
Have a certificate Level 3 in Childcare andEducation. Have experience working with children.
Be an excellent communicator with strong peopleskills. Be energetic and able to multi-task.
Salary:￡16,500 ——￡19,000 per year depending on experienceand qualifications.
Full time and 28 daysannual leave.
（1）The author uses Anna’s words mainly to . A . examineB . informC . compareD . advertise （2）What does a successful candidate need?
A . A college degree.B . A language certificate Level 3.C . Great skills in communicating with people.D . Years of working experience with children.
18. 阅读理解
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, Englandon 8th January, 1942. He went to school in St Allbans, a small city near London.Although he did well, he was never top of his class.
After leaving school. Hawking went first toOxford University where he studied physics and then went to Cambridge Universitywhere he studied cosmology, I had been very bored with life. Therehad not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital,I suddenly
realised that there were a lot of worthwhile 阅读理解
In an unmanned supermarket, a customer waitsto pay. With the use of advanced digital payment technology, including biologicalrecognition and in-depth learning, the man leaves in a minute. There’s no cashierin the store. At a large university, students use a hand-scanning machine that authorizestheir entry into the gym. Those people are using “smart machines” whichidentify people by their physical characteristics. These new devices use fingers,hands, faces, eyes and voices. Some machines may even use smells. This new technology,called biometrics, gets information from parts of the body.
In the past, biometric machines were used mainlyin government agencies or in prisons. But now that the cost of the technology islower, these machines are starting to be used everywhere, from border services toschools.
Some people, however, are concerned that thesemachines will mean the destruction of personal privacy. They worry that the machineswill get personal information about them, know it seems like these machines areinvading our privacy, but actually, biometric machines help to protect it,”says Jay Tarkett, who works at a company that develops the machines, “Theycan be used instead of passwords on a computer, for example. They can also identifycriminals at airports. So, really, they help to promote public safety, and all theinformation stored is kept confidential by the machine itself.”
Some people don’t like the idea of using fingerprintsbecause they associate them with criminals, and feel like they are being accusedof
something, In addition, they don’t work for some people, such as bricklayers,who wear down their fingerprints. Yet, face recognition does work well because thesubject doesn’t really have to do anything, To cash a check at a bank, for example,the customer has to do nothing more than look at a machine similar to an automaticteller. If the face matches the picture kept on file, the customer gets the moneywith no problems, The need to carry identification with you from place to place,then, would all but cease. It has been found that the hand scan works well ill thecollege gym. Before this machine was used, students at the college entered the gymusing cards similar to credit cards. The problem was that students often lost orforgot their cards. With the hand-scanning machine, however, the problem was solvedright away.
But the machines are still new, and there canbe problems. For example, voice recognition works on the phone, but it is not precise,and can be tricked. Another constraintwe notice；, with machines that use face recognitionin particular, is that they can be fooled if people color their hair or gain a lotof weight. However, this particular problem may be solved by a new type of technologythat scans a person’s iris, the colored part of the eye. It can even identify theperson from a few feet away, recognizing a customer as he or she approaches theATM.
（1）What’s the author’s intention by presenting two examples in Paragraph 1?
A . To bring in the topic of the passage.B . To stress how smart machines work.C . To show the popularity of smart machines.D . To introduce the
convenience smart machines offer.
（2）What is the author’s attitude towards the new technology? A . Bitter.B . Worried.C . Satisfied.D . Optimistic. （3）What is the passage mainly about?
A . An introduction to biometric machines.B . An advertisement for biometric machines.C . A brief description of hand scanning machines.D . An analysis of biometric machines’ value in economy.
20. 阅读理解
The fence was long and high. He put thebrush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated theoperation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.
He knew that his friends would arrive soon withall kinds of interesting plans for the day. They would walk past him and laugh.They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. Thethought burned him like fire.
He put his hand into his pockets and took outall that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashingfor him. But there was nothing of value in his pockets-nothing that could buy evenhalf an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gaveup the idea.
At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderfulidea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he pickedup the brush and started again to whitewash.
While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared.Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along it, hewas making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like aboat captain. Then he said “Ding—Dong-Dong”, “Ding—Dong— Dong”again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises.When he came close to Tom, he stopped.
Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look atBen. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! I’m going swimming, but youcan’t go, can you? “
No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully alongthe fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Tom’smouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.
Ben said, “Hello, old fellow, you’ve gotto work, hey?”
Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, it’syou, Ben! I wasn’t noticing.” “Say—I’m going swimming. Don’t you wishyou could? But of course you’d rather work—wouldn’t you? Of course you would.”
Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said, “Whatdo you call work?” “Why, isn’t that work?”
Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answeredcarelessly.
“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t.All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.” “Oh come, now, you don’t mean to say thatyou like it? The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I shouldn’tlike it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved hisbrush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here andthere, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested.Soon he said, “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom thought for a moment, and was about to agree,but he changed his mind.
“No-no-it won’t do, Ben. You see, AuntPolly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I don’tthink there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”
“No——is that so? Oh come, now——let me justtry. Only just a little.” “Ben, I’d like to, but if it isn’t doneright, I’m afraid Aunt Polly …” “Oh, I’ll be careful. Now let me try. Say—I’llgive you the core of my apple.”
“Well, here—No, Ben, now don’t. I’m afraid…” “I’ll give you all of it.”
Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness onhis face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun,Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. Therewere enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the timeBen was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy wastired, Johnny bought it for a dead rat——and so on, hour after hour. And when themiddle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures.
And he had not worked. He had had a nice idletime all the time, with
plenty of company, and the fence had been whitewashed threetimes. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belongingto his friends.
He had discovered a great law of human action,namely, that in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessaryto make the thing difficult to get.
（1）How many characters are mentioned in this story? A . 4B . 5C . 6D . 7
（2）Why did Tom take all his bits of toys out of his pockets?
A . Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toysB . Because he wanted to throw his toys awayC . Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toysD . Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends
（3）Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because .
A . Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himselfB . Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple firstC . Tom was unwilling to let Ban do the whitewashingD . Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better
（4）We can learn from the passage that .
A . Tom was interested in whitewashing the fenceB . Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help othersC . Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for himD . Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of work with the eye of an artist
（5）What made Ben Rogers eagerly give up his apple and offer to brush the fence for Tom?
A . His warm heart and kindness to friends.B . His curiosity about Tom’s brushing job.C . Tom’s threat.D . Aunt Polly’s idea.
（6）Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage? A . The Happy WhitewasherB . Tom And His FellowsC . Whitewashing A FenceD . How To Make The Things Difficult To Get
四、任务型阅读
21. 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1个单词。
New discoveries suggest that trade betweenEurope and Asia along the Silk Road probably began many centuries earlier than oncethought. The findings add a fascinating new page to the epic of just how and when Europe first realizedthe glorious culture at the other end of Eurasia.
Paragraphoutline Supportingdetails Introduction
Newfindings about the ________of trade along the Silk Road are spread far andwide in no time.
Thelatest discovery
Thesilk thread found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy from about 1,0 BC makes allfeel greatly surprised.
Thediscovery suggests the trade along the Silk Road may ________back to an earlier time than once ________.
ZhangQian’s mission
Theaccepted official ________of East-West commerce along the Silk Road. Openingthe way for the first indirect contacts between________the two ancient superpowers, China andRome ________Chinese silk to Central Asia and Persia MakingChinese silk ________the markets of Rome.
________.
Showthe ________of Chinese silk in the West long before the HanDynasty. Change thinking about the early history of world peace.
Helppeople find out more facts about Europe first ________Chinese culture. 五、根据汉语或首字母提示用所学单词（M5&M6)的适当形式填空 22. Memories of his childhoodcame f________ back.
23. It is natural to viewindustrialization as a force c________ to overall economic improvements.
24. Suddenly the doorb________ open and police officers carrying guns rushed in.
25. Several eyewitnesses’a________ differed considerably from the official version of events.
26. Staying up could beassociated with weight gain in teenagers, according to a survey c________ by researchersin the US.
27. We need to cut downon our fuel ________ Real-world mechanicalsystems have the ________ andweaknesses of their medium, such as
pen and paper.
29. You must have a goodeducation, but practical training is ________ ________ to British universities depends on examinationresults.
31. She made a few minor________ 不同的人有不同的幸福观。某报纸正在中学生中进行幸福观的讨论，请根据下表的提示，用英语写一篇短文，以便向该报投稿。
Students Possessions Benefits Some Money
Buyingand doing anything Some Health Enjoyment Some
Wealthfrom parents Beingfree from work I
Knowledge ……
注意：1）词数： 120；2）必须阐明自己的看法；3）开头己给出，不计入总词数
Happiness
Happiness means different things to different people
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