江西省南昌三中2011-2012学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷.doc

南昌三中2010-2011学年度上学期期中考试
高二英语试卷
命题：李明霞 审题：陈语敭
第一部分：听力测试（共20小题，每题1.5分，满分30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. What does the man often do on weekends?
A. Go on picnics. B. Stay at home. C. Have a barbecue.
2. What makes the man think Kim Yu-Na comes from South Korea?
A. Her name. B. Her language. C. Her appearance.
3. What does the woman probably do?
A. A doctor. B. A professor. C. A policewoman.
4. How much does the man withdraw?
A. $ 100. B. $ 105. C. $110.
5. What will the man do?
A. Go shopping. B. Watch a game. C. Feed the bulls.
第二节：听下面6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。
听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。
6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. On the bus. B. At the bus stop. C. In the Capital Museum.
7. What does the woman mean?
A. He took a wrong bus.
B. He should have asked her earlier.
C. He should have reached the stop earlier.
8. What will the man do?
A. Take a taxi. B. Walk back 30 meters. C. Get off the bus at the next stop.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. Why does the woman consider putting off getting a Master's Degree?
A. To learn Chinese. B. To work for some time. C. To earn much money.
10. What can we infer about the man?
A. He has been to China.
B. He isn't interested in Chinese.
C. He has got his Master's Degree.

11. What will the man do if given a chance?
A. Visit China again. B. Give up his present job. C. Finish the graduate program.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. What are the speakers going to do?
A. Buy books. B. Go to the park. C. Visit the temple.
13. What does the woman think is different from her country?
A. History. B. Regulations. C. Buildings.
14. How can the speakers go there?
A. By taxi. B. By bike. C. By subway.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. Why can't Mr. Parker answer the phone?
A. He is not in. B. He has a meeting. C. He is making a call.
16. When does the conversation take place according to Shanghai time?
A. At 9:00 in the evening.
B. At 2 :00 in the afternoon.
C. At 9 :00 in the morning.
17. What has Mr. Parker known about Mr. Jacob before the call?
A. Schedule. B. Phone number. C. Email address.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the speaker talking about?
A. Dream. B. Reality. C. Relationship.
19. What can we know about Cathy?
A. She likes sailing. B. She is an old woman. C. She is afraid of storms.
20. What does the speaker want to do?
A. Save all creatures.
B. Participate in exploring Mars.
C. Live for several hundred years.
第二部分:单项选择（共15小题，每题1分，满分15分）
21.When the timid girl went to ___ countryside to stay with her grandma , she soon came to ___life.
A. the; / B. the ; a C. /; / D./ ; the
22. -----______! There is a car coming !
-----Thank you very much for telling me . You saved my life !
A. Good luck B. Cheer up C. Watch out D. Well done
23. The high –speed train had now made ____ possible for us to go to Beijing from Shanghai within five hours
A. it B. one . C. them D. that
24. With Christmas ____, the children in my class are becoming more and more excited.
A. approached B. to approach C. being approached D. approaching
25. Only after Helen moved to Australia ___ How important she was to me .
A. I had realized B. had I realized C. I did realize D. did I realize
26. On April’s Fool’s Day ,people are easily _______.
A. taken up B. taken in C. take off D. take down
27. The manager _____one of the hotel servants of stealing the money .
A. scolded B. complained C. accused D. charged
28. In autumn, the wheat looks like a golden blanket ___the fields.
A. to cover B. covered C. covering D. cover
29.Mary’s father doesn’t ____of her going to study in England alone.
A. prove B. agree C. admit D. approve
30.They had tried everything to improve their working conditions but it made little _____.
A. result B. use C. result D. difference
31.In the lab , don’t touch anything _____our teacher instruct you to .
A. if B. unless C. whether D. as if
32.I was walking along the stream _____ I met my Chinese teacher .
A. as B. while C. when D. since
33. _____money , he had to accept the job, even though he had no interest in it.
A. To lack B. Lacking C. Lacked D. Having lacked
34.Many people agree that never in history _____a more splendid opening ceremony than that of the Beijing Olympics
A. there were B. has there been C. there has been D. were there
35.The teacher demanded that such things _____from happening again .
A. be prevented B. prevent C. prevented D. were prevented
第三部分 完形填空(共20小题，每小题l.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。
The young boy and his father sat quietly watching the snow fall on a snowy Saturday afternoon.
"Dad, my friend told me that every snowflake is 36 . But they look all the same to me. How can we tell?" the child asked.
Dad felt it was his 37 to give a more satisfying answer. "Son, snowflakes are like people. We are each 38 in a very special way. We can test it right now," he said.
The child stood up, put out his hands, and 39 as snowflakes landed on his gloves. "These snowflakes are all different on my gloves, but those in the yard look the same. Together they are even more 40 and striking. Then if people are like snowflakes, why don't they 41 ?"
"Choice," Dad said. "Their choices 42 them what they are."
" 43 choice is a bad thing?" the boy asked.
"Oh, no. Only when we choose the 44 things."
"How do we tell right from wrong?" the child asked.
Dad was given the chance to build upon the foundation of his son's 45 . He reached down and began to 46 with the snow. He 47 the snow into two sides, three large snowballs on one side and several smaller ones on the other.
"Which side did the right thing?" he asked me boy;
The child looked at both sides but 48 answer. Then Dad placed the three larger snowballs on top of each other.
"It’ s a snowman! The side 49 made me snowman!" the boy replied with _50_.
Yes, all these people came together and recognized how special each of them was, so they joined in a(n) 51 to build up mankind," Dad said. '-
The child then stood up and 52 an arm full of the smaller snowballs. One by one he began to throw them at the other small piles of snow. He said ,”This is what happens when people can't work together. They have a(n) 53 ."
Dad was shocked. He stood up, lifted the boy and 54 him tightly, whispering to him, "I hope that your world will learn to work and live together. I hope you will make the right 55 and learn to build the best snowman ever."
36. A. similar
B. different
C. freezing
D. special
37. A. challenge
38. A. private
39. A. inspected
40. A. beautiful
41. A. get along
42. A. remain
43. A. Though
44. A. exact
45. A. interest
46. A. communicate
47. A. separated
48. A. couldn' t
49. A. that
50. A. disappointment
51. A. power
52. A. gathered
53. A. war
54. A. trembled
55. A. steps
B. trouble
B. associated
B. watched
B. effective
B. take care
B. appear
B. However
B. coincident
B. concern
B. work
B. divided
B. shouldn' t
B. what
B. frustration
B. effort
B. sorted
B. debate
B. swung
B. turns
C. responsibility
C. unique
C. glanced
C. comfortable
C. cheer up
C. become
C. So
C. fortunate
C. worry
C.mix
C. distinguished
C. wouldn' t
C. how
C. enthusiasm
C. organization
C. threw
C. agreement
C. pulled
C. choices
D. position
D. isolated
D. glared
D. significant
D. break up
D. make
D. While
D. wrong
D. faith
D. relate
D. parted
D. needn' t
D. when
D. humour
D. attempt
D. formed
D. negotiation
D. held
D. points

第四部分 阅读理解(共两小节，满分40分)
第一节：阅读下列三篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
A
Long ago there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were good , but others caused people to suffer . One of the king’s ideas was to set up a public arena(竞技场).When a person was accused of a crime , his future would be decided in this arena. It had two doors , side by side , exactly alike . The accused person was taken into the arena and asked to open one . Behind one door was a hungry tiger , while behind the other was a lady chosen especially for him . To this lady he would be immediately married , in honor of his innocence.
The king had a beautiful daughter whom he loved very much , and she secretly loved a young commoner(平民).When the king discovered their relationship , the man was immediately put in prison, and a day was set for him to enter the arena.
The princess knew behind which door stood the tiger, and behind which a lady. She also knew that the lady was one of the loveliest in the kingdom. Now and then the princess had seen her looking at and talking to the young man. The princess hated the woman behind that silent door.
As he entered the arena and his eyes met the princess' s, the young man knew that she knew behind which door waited the tiger, and behind which stood the lady. The princess raised her hand, and made a short, quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw it. Every eye was fixed on him. He turned, and with a firm, quick step he walked across the empty space to the door on the right and opened it.
Now, the point of the story is this: Did me tiger come out of that door, or did the lady? The more we think about this question, the harder it is to answer. It involves a study of the human heart. The soul of the princess loved the young man but also burned under the fires of sadness and jealousy (嫉妒).
The question of her decision cannot be easily answered. And so I leave it with all of you: which came out of the open door ? the lady, or the tiger?
56. Whether the accused was declared guilty mainly depended on_____.
A. the king B. the judges C. the viewers D. luck
57. The young man was in the arena because he ____.
A. had opposed the king' s decision
B. had fallen in love with a lady the princess hated
C. had been revealed to be the princess' s lover
D. loved two ladies during the same period
58. From the passage we know that ____.
A. the princess stood behind the right door
B. the princess was not jealous of the lady
C. the young man trusted the princess completely
D. the young man chose the left door in the end
59. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The young man would survive.
B. The lady behind the door was not worried.
C. The king knew what the result of the trial would be.
D. The princess would lose her lover regardless of what happened.
60. Which of the following is TRUE about the princess's decision?
A. It has no influence on the life of the young man.
B. It was never revealed to the young man.
C. It is hard to understand why she loved the young man.
D. The question of it is left open by the author.
B
Scientists are using microlights（微型飞机) in an attempt to guide a species of bird extinct in the Alps for nearly 300 years back to old breeding grounds. The endangered Northern Bald Ibis birds are being taught to follow microlight planes to try to make them familiar with their old migration pattern.
The aim is to teach the birds, which don't like flying and have a bad sense of direction, to fly the 400-mile journey to Italy in autumn and back to the Austrian Alps in spring on their own.
This month, 12 birds completed the Human-led Migration (HLM) from Austria-where they were raised to Italy where the team left them to begin their new lives. It is hoped they will return to Austria next spring as they learn the habits of their ancestors.
"Before that we had performed five successful HLMs in total," said Dr. Johannes Fritz from the Waldrapp research team. "Since 2007 we have departed from Burghausen, a Bavarian city at the river Salzach, in the middle Of the historical European breeding area, where the birds used to lay eggs. It is an experimental research and conservation project. During the next few years we plan to build up two stable migratory Northern Bald Ibis groups in Europe ,with breeding areas south and north of the Alps and a common wintering area in southern Tuscany. These activities have also created some exceptional migration research opportunities ,with a unique chance to follow individual birds and sample them day by day .”
The northern Bald Ibis birds were driven out of the Alps in the 17Th century after collectors took their chicks and eggs .It is now one of the rarest bird species on the planet . There remains just one large colony in the wild of about 350 birds on the Moroccan coast.
61.According to the passage, the microlights are used for ____.
A. rescuing the birds that are in trouble
B. directing Northern Bald Ibis birds where to fly
C. accompanying Northern Bald Ibis birds as they fly
D. studying the Northern Bald Ibis birds

62. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The Northern Bald Ibis birds have lost their migration ability
B. The Northern Bald Ibis birds are good at flying long distances.
C. Austria is not suitable for Northern Bald Ibis birds to live in.
D. Artificial feeding is to blame for the drop in the number of Northern Bald Ibis birds.
63. How many HLMs have the scientists performed so far?
A. Five.. B.Six. C. Twelve. D. Thirteen.
64 Northern Bald Ibis birds spend their winter in _____.
A. Waldrapp B. Burghausen C.Tuscany D. Salzach
65. Which of the following is TRUE of Northern Bald Ibis birds?
A. They are not popular with people near the Alps.
B. Their eggs are more delicious than those of other birds.
C. Their habitat will surely grow larger arid larger in the future.
D. They are one of the rarest species because of human activities ..
C
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