高二英语上学期期中考试卷及答案解析.doc

高二年级上学期期末考试
第一节　单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
1. Below the topsoil of the earth is the subsoil, ________layer that contains stones mixed with a small amount of________organic matter.
A. a; the　　　　　　                  B. the; the
C. 不填； 不填                           D. a; 不填
2．________blood if you can and many lives will be saved.
A．Giving                           B．Give         
C．Given                            D．To give
3．—Is he the teacher you often refer to?
—Right, just the one from________you know I have learnt a lot.
A.whom                                          B．him
C．that                                         D.who
4．His play was popular and every time________about it, he owed his success to the support of his friends.
A. talking                                      B. talked
C. to talk                                       D. when talking
5．If you ask many different questions, you will________all the information you need to know.
A.quit                                            B.acquire
C．convince                                 D．advocate
6．—You aren't angry at his disgraceful joke?
—No，________it.I've never laughed so much in my life.
A.more than                          B.apart from     
C.instead of                           D．far from X k B 1 . c o m
7．The most important word in the sentence has been________， so it doesn't make any sense.
A. made out                                  B. picked up
C. left out                                        D. held up
8．—When will the expert e and give the lecture on intellectual property?
—Not until our program________by the authorities.
A. approves                              B. has been approved    
C. is to approve                            D. will be approved
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9．I'll join you later there are a few things I need to________in my office first.
A．attend to                             B.apply for   
C．appeal to                            D．lay off
10．I have been persuaded that the print media are usually more________and more reliable than television.
A.accurate                                    B．ridiculous
C．urgent                                     D．shallow
11．—When can I use your puter?
—Never! ________should you touch it.

A. At no time                                B. In no time
C. At any time                              D. At one time
12．—How do you like the set of popular science books?
—Wonderful! It________many problems we are interested in exploring.
A. refers                                       B. consults     
C. covers                                         D. writes
13．We could hardly believe what she says because she is____ ____changing her mind.
A. regularly                            B. steadily     
C. eventually                            D. constantly
14．Was it because of the heavy snowstorm in Europe________the flight had to be put off?
A. which                                          B. so
C. why                                           D. that
15．________you have picked up, you must give it back to____ ____it belongs to.
A. Whatever; whoever                  
B. What; whoever
C. No matter what ; no matter who  
D. Whatever ; no matter who
第二节　完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
I used to be a shy girl who never joined in any activities. When__16__invited me, I always__17__and said, “I am only a small potato. I don't want to be the center of__18__.” Even in class when the teacher questioned us I never__19__my hand because I__20__that others might laugh at me if I made a mistake.
But everything changed after I joined my class debating(辩论)team. I didn't want to join at first, for I was afraid to talk in front of a big__21__. However, my good friend tried to__22__me to go. She said, “I think you should break out of your shyness, otherwise it will be hard for you to__23__in this society.”
She was right. I was always so shy that I missed many__24__. In fact, I used to have a beautiful__25__that one day I would bee a news broadcaster, but I knew it was unlikely because of my shyness.
I thought for a long time and then I decided to have a go. How__26__I was! I felt I had made the first step in__27__my cowardice(胆怯). I__28__late at night to prepare for the ing debate. But the first debate was not what I had__29__. I was so__30__when I went to my seat. I dared not look at the audience and__31__. I shook like a leaf because I felt as if all the people were__32__me. I was so nervous that I nearly forgot what I had to say. My three teammates had the same__33__. We failed in the first debate.
But our teachers and classmates didn't blame us. They said, “You did very well, __34__this is your first time.”In the second petition, I__35__my attention on the subject of the debate. I operated well with my team members and we succeeded! We won the warmest applause from the audience and the judges!
16．A.anyone       B．everyone C．someone   D．nobody
17．A.refused       B．disagreed C．quarreled     D．argued
18．A.laugh    B．attention C．joke     D．trick
19．A.rose       B．lifted C．raised        D．took
20．A.frightened        B．thought C．believed   D．worried
21．A.number      B．crowd C．team   D．scene
22．A.persuade    B．advise C．suggest     D．wele
23．A.struggle      B．exist C．stay       D．survive
24．A.debates       B．opportunities C．friends      D．petitions
25．A.future  B．intention C．dream       D．purpose
26．A.excited        B．nervous C．shy      D．afraid
27．A.changing    B．fighting C．controlling     D．conquering
28．A.stayed up   B．turned up C．spent up   D．woke up
29．A.wanted       B．hoped C．expected        D．dreamed
30．A.shy         B．nervous C．excited      D．glad
31．A.students     B．teachers C．friends      D．judges
32．A.staring at   B．laughing at C．listening to    D．talking about
33．A.thing      B．condition C．problem   D．matter
34．A.first of all   B．after all C．above all         D．at all
35．A.paid       B．drew C．caught      D．focused
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题，满分40分)
A
Chances
I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and like the challenges and awards from the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that sort of career (职业)．
I wasn't an excellent student because I didn't do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn't have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn't the type to have a career.
I then found myself a job, looking after two little girls. It wasn't too bad at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in, so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the evening. We agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week, she'd give me time off the next. But unfortunately, it didn't often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the children.
One Sunday, I was in the park with the children, and met Megan who used to go to school with me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification (资格证书) if I wanted to work with children. I didn't think I would be accepted because I didn't take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college and they were really helpful. My experience counted for a lot and I got on a parttime course. I had to leave my job with the family, and got work helping out at a kindergarten.
Now I've got a fulltime job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier that you could have a career, even if you aren't top of the class at school.
36．What is the author's present job?
A．Working parttime in a college.
B．Taking care of children for a family.
C．Helping children with their schoolwork.
D．Looking after children at a kindergarten.
37．When staying with the two girls' family, the author ____ ____.
A．was paid for extra work
B．often worked long hours
C．got much help from her boss
D．took a day off every other week
38．Why did the author leave her first job?
A．She found a fulltime job.
B．She was fed up with children.
C．She decided to attend a parttime course.
D．She needed a rest after working extra hours.
39．What has the author learned from her own experiences?
A．Less successful students can still have a career.
B．Qualifications are necessary for a career.
C．Hard work makes an excellent student.
D．One must choose the job he or she likes.
B
In the course of working my way through school, I took many jobs I would rather forget. But none of these jobs was as dreadful as my job in an apple plant. The work was hard; the pay was poor; and, most of all, the working conditions were terrible.
First of all, the job made huge demands on my strength. For ten hours a night, I took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck. Each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. I once figured out that I was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night. X k B 1 . c o m
I would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. I was paid the lowest wage of that time—two dollars an hour. Because of the low pay, I felt eager to get as much as possible. I usually worked twelve hours a night but did not take home much more than $100 a week.
But even more than the low pay, what made me unhappy was the working conditions. During work I was limited to two tenminute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in nearzerodegree temperatures. The steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. And after the production line shut down at night and most people left, I had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.
I stayed on the job for five months, all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which I worked. By the time I left, I was determined never to go back there again.
40．Why did the writer have to take many jobs at that time?
A．To pay for his schooling.
B．To save for his future.
C．To support his family.
D．To gain some experience.
41．The following facts describe the terrible working conditions of the plant EXCEPT________.
A．loading boxes in the freezing cold
B．having limited time for breaks
C．working and studying at the same time
D．getting no pay for lunch time
42．What is the subject discussed in the text?
A．The writer's unhappy school life.
B．The writer's eagerness to earn money.
C．The writer's experience as a fulltime worker.
D．The writer's hard work in an apple plant.
43．How is the text organized?
A．Topic—Argument—Explanation.
B．Opinion—Discussion—Description.
C．Main idea—parison—Supporting examples.
D．Introduction—Supporting examples—Conclusion.
C
I had my first job at the age of thirteen, when a friend of my mother who owned a bookshop hired me for six hours a week to help her in the shop. I was very proud to earn my own pocket money and my parents never interfered with how I spent it, even when I was spending it foolishly. They believed that by earning money, spending it, and learning from the mistakes, I would bee more mature and responsible about how to handle work, relationships with others, and money.
 Like many American parents, my parents also let me and my brothers do things over which they worried a great deal. When I was sixteen, for example, after I finished high school and before I entered university, I wanted to spend the summer months traveling around Europe. My mother was against the idea of my traveling alone at such a young age, but my father felt that it would be a great experience for me. In the end, my father won the argument on condition that I limited my traveling to France, my mother's home, where I had many uncles, aunts and cousins spread out through the country who could provide shelter and help if I needed them.
Three years later, my younger brother decided to take a year off after his first year in univeristy and travel through the United States and the Caribbean.Again my mother was very worried and not eager to see my brother leave school, but my father encouraged him and my brother had a fascinating year working his way on trains and ships to earn passage to different ports and cities, and discovering many fascinating places and people.
These kinds of experiences are probably rare for children in many countries but in the US they are fairly mon. Most parents start pushing their children at a young age to do small things by themselves. By the time they have finished high school, many American kids have already had parttime jobs, traveled around the US or other countries on their own, have selected the university they plan to attend and maybe even decided on their future career, and so on.
44．The writer's parents allowed their kids to travel so that ________.
A．it could make the kids bee braver
B．the kids could earn some pocket money
C．the kids could find jobs more easily
D．it could bring good to the kids' future
45．The writer thinks ________.
A．his brother gained valuable experiences during the travel
B．his brother earned a lot of money by working
C．his brother didn't disappoint his father
D．his brother's travel was better than his to France
46．The text is mainly about the writer and his brother's stories to ________. 
A．do some parttime jobs
B．bee independent
C．travel for experiences
D．earn pocket money
47．What can we infer from Paragraph 1?
A．The author earned a lot of money when he was young.
B．The author was responsible for what he did.
C．The author's mother remended him to work in the bookshop.
D．The author was able to manage his money well as a child.
D
Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts(工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p．m. till 6 a．m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It's  better than it was  last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she's chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn't think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn't physically very hard, but it's not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they'd be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she's working all night doesn't