河南省光山二高2013-2014学年高二英语上学期开学检测试题新人教版.doc

光山二高2013-2014年度高二开学检测卷
英语
第I卷（选择题）
Ⅰ 单项选择（每小题1分 共15分）
21. ---- Would you mind answering some questions on shopping habits?
---- ________________.
A. Yes, with great pleasure. B. No, I’m afraid I can’t make it.
C. Yes, it is worth the time. D. No, as long as it doesn’t take long.
22. We ____ have bought so much food now that Suzie won’t be with us for dinner.
A mustn’t B needn’t C. should D. can’t
23. People try to avoid public transportation delays by using their cars, and this _______ creates further problems.
A. in turn B. in vain C. in advance D. in doubt
24. International communications have led to ____________.
A. using English widely. B. English having used widely.
C. English to be used widely. D. English being used widely.
25. My brother would like to buy a watch but __________ was available from that shop.
A. nothing B. no one C none D. neither
26.______ is no doubt _______ he will be admitted to a key university.
A. It; if B. There; what C. There; whether D. There; that
27. When I entered the room, I found a piece of paper on my desk, _____ “Stupid Sarah got a D!”
A. said B. which saying C. say D. saying
28. It's high time we _____ our attention to this problem.
A. turn      B. turned       C. had turned      D. would turn
29.________that Maric was able to set up new branches elsewhere.
A. So successful her business was B. So successful was her business
C. So her business was successful D. So was her successful business
30. Is it in the cinema _________ we saw the film last week________ you met Mary for the first time.
A where, that B where ,when C / ,that D /,when
31. There ______ no classes yesterday, we paid a visit to the Great Wall.
A. was B. being C. were D. had been
32. They made a scientific approach ______ the subject.
A. at B. in C. of D. to
33. With the development of modern society, E-mail as well as telephones
______ an important part in daily communication.
A. have played B is playing C. are playing D. played
34. When you are in face of failure, it is the most important to keep up ____ good state of mind.
A. 不填, a B. a, 不填 C. the, a D.不填, the
35. His acting career was _____ by a car accident that left him disabled.
A. cut down B. cut off C. cut out D. cut up
Ⅱ 完型填空（每小题1.5分 共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。
My classmate Jennifer and I graduated from an ordinary normal university last year. Like most of the students who had just stepped out of university, we had to 36 the first tough test ---- job hunting to 37 a passport to society. And the most 38 part was the job interview.
The 39 was very fierce. Dozens of my classmates, Jennifer 40 , sent our curriculum vitas to a key middle school for a teaching job, making the chance of success as low as 1 to 20.
Before the job interview, I 41 complete preparations, including a formal suit, a newly-done hair, a few 42 on job interviews, and even some ancient Chinese poems 43 I faced a learned interviewer. On that day everything went very 44 . I answered all the questions fluently. So I felt very 45 to get this job. Jennifer was still there waiting for her turn. I made a “V” 46 to her. She smiled at me, looking a little worried. I 47 she was not as eloquent(雄辩的) as I, though not worse than me in studies. I felt I had an advantage over her. However, a week later, all of us received letters of 48 . Another week later, guess what happened! She got the job! 49 congratulating her, I asked her how she got it. She said, “I did 50 . I just wrote them a note of thanks after receiving the letter of refusal.” Only then 51 I realize why all the applicants had received the same letters and that was also a part of the 52 .
Only a note of thanks, but that was what made all the difference. This experience 53 me a good lesson, that is, 54 excellent you are, you should never forget the 55 manners of saying “Thank you!”.
36. A. look through B. go through C. go on D. live through
37. A. accept B. allow C. get D. permit
38. A. acceptable B. ample C. reliable D. important
39. A. interview B. contest C. competition D. post
40. A. included B. including C. containing D. contained
41. A. took B. made C. had D. put
42. A. advice B. notices C. tips D. suggestion
43. A. provided that B. in order that C. in case D. even if
44. A. well B. difficultly C. actually D. compulsorily
45. A. privileged B. disappointed C. worried D. confident
46. A. sign B. signal C. mark D. form
47. A. told B. thought C. suggested D. advised
48. A. thanks B. application C. refusal D. acceptance
49. A. While B. For C. What D. Whether
50. A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
51. A. did B. have C. do D. had
52. A. exams B. problems C. tests D. checks
53. A. taught B. sent C. had D. believed
54. A. whatever B. still C. however D. very
55. A. controversial B. simple C. easy D. cool
Ⅲ 阅读理解
第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A
Cities need to put efforts to deal with pollution and clear the air.
Chinese cities will need to put efforts to clear up the sky when a new department to improve regional air quality is set up by 2015，according to the latest plan released by the State Council.
Besides the existing pollution control program for CO2，regional emission caps(区域排放上限) for other certain chemicals will be established in the three key air polluting areas—the Yangtze River Delta，Pearl River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin- Hebei region. Coal-consumption caps will also be tried out in some areas，according to the plan.
The plan is aimed at dealing with regional air pollution—such as acid rain and smog—which have become increasingly obvious in China in recent years and caused a severe threat to people’s health，Zhang Lijun，viceminister of environmental protection，said in an interview on Monday.
The air quality in a city affects the areas nearby because pollutants can travel in the sky，said Chai Fahe，vice-director of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.
“So efforts to reduce air pollution in a single city，targeting a certain pollutant(污染物) will not be enough，” Chai said.
Zhang said the country’s major industrial districts—the Yangtze River Delta，Pearl River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region—have recorded more than 100 misty days annually in recent years.
These three regions，home to at least 200 million people，occupy only 6.3 percent of the country’s area but consume 40 percent of the country’s coal and produce half of its steel，according to official figures.
Studies also show that the visibility(能见度) in eastern regions of China has dropped by 7 to 15 km compared to that in the early 1960s，as a result of air pollution.
Liaoning province，the Shandong Peninsula，Wuhan in Hubei province and its surrounding area，the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan region in Hunan province，the Chengdu-Chongqing region，and the western coast of the Taiwan Straits are also listed as areas to carry out such regional air pollution control programs，according to the plan.
The new plan also requires an improved air quality system，which will measure the pollution levels. “The current system，which only measures some major pollutants，cannot reflect the true picture.” said Chai.
56．It will not be enough to reduce air pollution in a single city because ________.
A．air pollution has been becoming more and more serious in recent years
B．air pollution like acid rain and smog is threatening people’s health
C．air pollutants in a city can travel in the sky and affect nearby areas
D．air pollutants stay in fixed places over the cities
57．Suppose the visibility in eastern regions of China was 130 km in the early 1960s，the visibility there nowadays is ________.
A．123 to 115 km B．137 to 145 km
C．123 to 145 km D．115 to 137 km
58．The main purpose of the passage is ________.
A．to inform readers of the damage caused by air pollution
B．to introduce the new plan to control air pollution
C．to provide official figures of air pollution levels
D．to point out the regions affected by air pollution
59．What does the underlined phrase “the true picture” in the last paragraph mean?
A．The major pollutants. B．The key polluted areas.
C．The major polluted cities. D．The pollution levels.
B
Millions of American kids come home to or leave an empty house every day. However, parents are increasingly using an existing technology — home security （安全） systems — to keep an eye on their “home-alone” children. In the early days of home security, the systems were basically designed just to keep the bad guys out. Now, many parents are also using them to make their children safe when they are at home alone. Below are some simple rules for adults to teach their children:
★Every child should memorize his or her own full name and address, and home, work and cellphone numbers of each parent. Also keep this information posted next to the phone at home. If your child is too young to memorize the information, he or she may be too young to be home alone — for any time.
★Teach your child to observe things around him or her when he or she returns to the house. If a door or window is slightly open, the child has any reason to suspect (怀疑) someone has been in the house that shouldn’t be, have him or her call you, then wait at a safe house a neighbor offers.
★Warn your child never to answer the doorbell or telephone when they are home alone. Besides, set a rule that he or she must never play outside the house when no one else is at home.
★Be sure he or she knows how to disarm (解除) and arm your home security system. Program your control panel (控制板) to give you a message when your child enters or leaves the house, and arms or disarms the system. If your child forgets to rearm the system, you can call him or her with a personal reminder.
To learn more about home security systems that can help parents protect their “home-alone” children, visit www.ProtectA.
60. According to the passage, home security systems ____
A. can help children all the time
B. are now used for protecting the children
C. were first designed to keep kids safe at home
D. are developed to spare parents more time for their work
61. Home-alone children are advised to _____.
A. fight bravely with bad guys
B. memorize numbers they see
C. call the police when they are home alone
D. pay much attention when getting home alone
62. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Parents are taking less care of their children.
B. Children are easy to forget numbers recently.
C. Children and adults should work together to use the system.
D. People should know the dangers caused by their neighbors.
C
Erik wants to climb Mount Everest. He loves to climb， and there is no place greater for climbers than the top of 29,035 feet, the world's highest mountain.
Erik is blind. He has been blind since age 13， when an eye disease robbed him of his sight. His new book， Touch the Top of the World: A blind Man‘s Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See， describes his blindness and climbing. He is the first blind man to attempt Everest. The team reached the base camp at 17,800 feet last Wednesday and began its climb Saturday. If all goes well, Erik will reach the top on about May 15.
"I'm not just some broken blind guy," Erik, aged 32，said for hours before he left Los Angeles on Friday for Katmandu, Nepal. "1 put my life in my fellow climbers’ hands， and they put their lives in my hands. It's an honor to reach that state. "
"I want to experience the sense of adventure. Blindness has nothing to do with that. But a message of the climb is that a blind person can join a team and climb the highest mountain in the world. "
Erik has climbed the highest tops on four continents: North America's Mount McKmley， South America's Aconcagua， Africa's Kilimanjaro and Antarctica's Vinson Massif. He is an expert rock and ice climber， having scaled El Captain in Yosemite National Park. When he was 16, he attended a school that taught blind people to be independent. One day, a group went rock-climbing. "1 really liked it," Erik said, "You can solve problems. It is sense in your inner mind. People didn't think blind people could go out and become expert rock climbers.
63 . Erik expected the climb of Mount Everest to be .
A. adventurous B. Pleasant C. exciting D. dull
64. The distance between the top of Mount Everest and the base camp was probably_____ .
A. 8,458 feet B. 11,235 feet
C. 17,800 feet D. 29,035 feet
65. Erik's words in paragraph 3 mean that he .
A. shared complete dependence with his friends
B. felt it glad to reach the state in America
C. and his friends controlled each other
D. was saved by his fellow climbers
66. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Hard work Leads to success.
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. Every advantage has its disadvantage.
D. Nothing is impossible.
D
By the middle of the 19th century, newspapers were becoming the primary means of spreading and receiving information. The period between 1890 and 1920 is known as the “golden age” of print media.
Broadcast radio came onto the media scene in the 1920’s. Newspapers were forced to re-evaluate (重新评估) their role as society’s primary information provider. Like the new media technologies of today, the development of a low-cost, convenient media source produced results that radio would greatly affect the newspaper industry.
No sooner had newspapers adapted to radio than they were forced to re-evaluate themselves because of a new and more powerful medium: television. Between 1940 and 1990, newspaper sales in America dropped from one newspaper for every two adults to one for every three adults. Some newspapers, like USA Today, responded to the technological advancements by using color and the “short, quick and to the point” stories that are usually featured on television.
The technological revolution of today is creating new challenges and opportunities for traditional media. Never before has so much information been so accessible (可得到的) to so many. By the end of the 1990s, about 700 traditional media had web