2016寒假开学考试题.doc

高二年级开学之初英语考试试题
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Most of my friends speak several languages. My friend Hans Kimmel, for example, speaks three languages— German, French and English. And my friend Pavlov speaks four languages— Russian, French, Spanish and English. Then there is Charles Zhou. His native language is Chinese, but he speaks three or four other languages fluently. I do not understand it. They speak, read and write all those languages, and I only know one language— English. Why can’t I speak any foreign languages? Am I stupid to learn a foreign language?
Maybe it is all a question of home and environment. My parents do not speak any other languages, so of course we speak English at home. But look at Hans. His father is German and his mother is French. So he speaks two languages at home. And look at John’s family. His father is Russian and his mother is Spanish. So they speak two languages at home.
Perhaps it is a question of geography, too. I live in the United States, and I can travel hundreds of miles with only one language— English. But it is different for Hans in Europe. He lives in Germany, but in a few hours he can travel to France, or to Italy, or to Holland, or to Denmark. So of course he hears other languages all the time. And he needs other languages.
I am studying Italian this term at the university, but I am not learning very much Italian. I can not practice it at home or in restaurants or in stores. I only speak it three hours each week in the classroom. That’s all. The rest of the time I speak English. Maybe I should go to Italy for a few months. Then perhaps I could really learn Italian.
1. Who can speak French, German and English ?
A) The author himself. B) Hans Kimmel.
C) Charles. D) John.
2. The person whose mother tongue is Chinese is _________.
A) a friend of Zhou’s B) Pavlov
C) Zhou D) Hans
3 According to the writer’s opinion, the reason why he can not speak other languages is that__
A) he is stupid
B) he is not good at learning languages
C) he is not interested in learning languages
D) he lives in an English-speaking country and his parents don’t speak any other languages
except English
4. The writer thinks that if a person wants to learn a foreign language well, he should __
A) study hard B) go to Italy
C) have a good language situation D) be clever and good at learning languages
5. The writer’s native language is _________.
A) Russian B) Italian C) English D) German
B
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the US Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿者), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me a room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years, I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainly and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and any one with a dream must learn to live there.
6. The passage is meant to ______________                .
A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience
B.advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer
C.show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame
D.encourage young people to pursue a writing career
7. What can be concluded from the passage ?
A.Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.
B.A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort.
C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.
D.The chances for a writer to become successful are small 
8. Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career ?
A.He wasn’t able to produce a single look.
B.He hadn’t seen a change for the better
C.He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.
D.He found his dream would never come true.
9. “I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if ?” refers to “those               .”
A.who think too much of the dark side of life
B.who regret giving up their career halfway
C.who think a lot without making a decision
D.who are full of imagination even upon death
10. “Shadowland” in the last paragraph refers to              .
A.the wonderland one often dream about 
B.the bright future that one is looking forward to 
C.the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached
D.a world that exists only in one’s imagination
C
      Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories seemed like fairy tales.
      Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.（A league is an old word meaning a distance of about three miles）. In those days submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern one.
      Many of the things Jules wrote about in his books more than a hundred years ago to look into the future, however, were surprisingly exact. In his book From the Earth to the Moon he wrote at the age of about forty, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon in a hollow ship fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea not far from where the first real moon traveler landed in July, 1969.
11. Jules wrote a lot of exciting books partly because he _______.
    A. liked to do much reading on science     B. liked reading fairy tales
    C. was a great inventor D. was a famous scientist
12. Some of what Jules described in his books _______.
    A. is almost the same as what happened years later
    B. is quite different from what happened years later
    C. never comes true
    D. seems impossible to the people today
13. Many of the things really happened _______.
    A. as soon as Jules’ books were published B. some years after his books were published
    C. at that time D. when Jules was in his forties
14. The thing Jules described in his book From the Earth to the Moon is _______.
    A. as large as the spaceship today B. similar to the spaceship today
C. a gun used to send up a ship D. an underwater ship
15. Which country was Jules Verne born in ?
A. China B. France C. America D. Japan
D
Thanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.
     Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest.On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.
   The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts,in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel.  Many of the Pilgrims died.  But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Govemor Bradford declared a three-day feast. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.
        In time, other colonies (殖民地)  began to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale
persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed (宣布) the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of Thanksgiving.  Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest
festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October.
16. The passage mainly tells us _____  .   
A. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated
B. how to celebrate Thanksgiving Day

C. that Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places
D. Why Thanksgiving Day is a harvest holiday
17. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated _____ . 
A. in spring                  B. in summer C. in autumn                  D. in winter
18. The first to celebrate Thanksgiving were ____   .
A people in Canada                   B. Governor Bradford
C. some people from England      D. the American Indians
19. We can infer from the passage that New England must be__________. 
A.in the US B. in Great Britain C.in Canada D. on some island off the Atlantic
20. Which of the following is NOT true ? 
A.There's little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
B.Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.
C.Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.

D.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express American and  Indian people's thanks to God.
E
Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages(笼子). Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.
　　Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals' habitats(栖息地).
　　Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild habitats.
　　Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related(有关联的) with Asia elephants, are now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!
　　Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.
21.Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can ________.
A.protect them B.see them better C.feed them D.save them
22.Today, zoos keep animals ________.
A.in bigger cages B.in the wild C.in smaller cages D.in the field
23.To protect animals, zoos ________.
A.are trying to keep all kinds of animals B.are trying to free the animals
C.teach people more about animals D.want people to feed the animals
24.A mammoth is a kind of ________ that has gone extinct.
A.plant B.bird C.animal D.tree
25.An animal or a plant that is going extinct ________.
A.no longer exists(存在) in the world B.comes into this world soon
C.becomes very dangerous D.has fewer and fewer living members
F
Easter is a movable festival celebrated on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. We don't know exactly how this festival came into being. Some believed that it honored Easter, the goddess of spring time and sunrise. Her name comes from the word“east”， where the sun rises. Every spring, northern European people celebrated the Festival of Easter to honor the awakening of new life in nature. Later, Christians(基督教)related the rising of the sun to the Resurrection of Christ(耶酥的复活)and to their own spiritual(精神的)rebirth.
On Easter, eggs are painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring. They use these eggs to take part in Easter­egg rolling contests or give them to others as gifts.
The Easter bunny is another representative of this festival. The Easter bunny came for pre­Christian(公元前)times. The rabbit, a very fertile(多产的)animal, was a natural symbol of new life. Nowadays, children enjoy eating candy bunnies and listening to the stories about the Easter bunny, who brings Easter eggs in a fancy basket.
26．Easter is celebrated on________.
A．the Sunday following the first full moon after March 21 B．the last Sunday in March
C.April 6 D.April 25
27．Ancient people celebrated the Easter festival to______.
A.worship a goddess B.remember the Resurrection of Christ
C.welcome spring D.all the above
28．On Easter, children________.
A.throw eggs to each other B.eat eggs
C.decorate eggs D.sell eggs
29．What is an Easter bunny?
A.A kind of candy. B.A rabbit. C.An egg. D.A fancy basket.
30．________ play an important part in the celebration of Easter.
A.Traditions B.Christians C.Eggs D.Church bells
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下面是一篇短文, 请将标有A---F的选项插入文章中标号为31-----35的合适位置, 使这篇文章意义完整, 结构连贯。其中有一段是多余的。
Mum, my old bike has gone wrong again. What shall I do?
31  
—--- Great! But can I have a mountain bike
—--- Why a mountain bike There’re no mountains around here.
—--- Mountain bikes are stronger, and they are better at going up hills. But I …
32
—--- Money. Do you know how much they cost At least $300 each! How can I get so much money
33 
—--- Over a year! But I need one now.
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—--- I suppose about $ 150 each.
—--- Well, that’s sounds more reasonable. If you save $ 5 a week, you’ll have enough in about six months.
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—--- Well, go ahead with your saving and I’ll make up the rest in six months. Now, go and get your old bike repaired.
A. No problem.
B. Buy a new one.
C. Is that expensive?
D. What’s troubling you?
E. Mm…, but I still hope…
F. How much does an ordinary bike cost?
G. You can save up the money, say $ 5 a week, then in just over a year…
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