2011~2012學年第二學期期末考試

1、20112012學年度第二學期期末考試高一年級英語試卷本試卷分為第一卷（選擇題）和第二卷（非選擇題）兩部分第一卷（選擇題 共 105 分）第一部分：聽力 （共兩節(jié)，滿分 20 分 ） 做題時，先將答案劃在試卷上。錄音結束后.你將有兩分鐘的時間將試卷的答案轉涂到答題卡上.第一節(jié)（共 5小題，每小題 1 分，滿分 5 分）聽下面5段對話，每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。 聽完每段對話后， 你將有 10 秒鐘的時間來回答有關小題和閱讀下一小題。 每段對話僅讀一遍。1. How many people are there in the woma

2、n' s house?A. Three B. FourC. Five2. What do we know about the woman?A. She is a student.B. She dreams a lot.C. She has a very hard job.3. What does the woman mean?A. The air was polluted yesterday.B. She might not go backpacking tomorrow.C. The man should listen to the weather report.4. Why is

3、the back door left open?A Tim is outside. B. The speakers are going to bed.C. The woman tells the man to leave it open.5. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. NeighborsB. FriendsC. Strangers第二節(jié)（共 15小題，每小題 1 分，滿分 15分）聽下面5段對話或獨白，每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的A、B C三個選項中選出最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。聽每段對話或獨白前，你將有

4、時間閱讀各個小題，每小題 5 秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出 5 秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。聽第 6段材料，回答第 6至 8題。6. What ' s the man complaining about?A. The woman 's TV is too loud. B. The woman 's dog is too noisy.C. The woman ' s son is making a lot of noise.7. What did the man do last night at home?A. Had a noisy party. B.

5、Listened to loud musicC. Quarreled with his wife.聽第 7段材料，回答第 9至 11題。8. What is the girl shopping for?A. A present for her mother.B. A present for her fatherC. A present for a friend9. How much is the black wallet?A. $ 13.93B. $ 25.99C. $40.9510. What does the girl decide to buy?A. A black wallet B.

6、A brow n wallet C. A tie聽第8段材料，回答第12至14題。11. What are the speakers?A. Freshme nB. Un iversity teachersC. Teacher and stude nt12. Where did the woman go for her holiday last year?A. The mountainsB. The desertC. The coast13. What will the speakers probably do next?A. Buy someth ing for their trip.B. F

7、inish their school work.C. Surf the Intern et.聽第9段材料，回答第15至17題。14. What ' s the probable relationship between thepeakers?A. Con ductor and passe ngerB. Bookseller and customerC. Detective and reader15. Who is in terested in Sherlock Holmes?A. The woma nB. The manC. The detective16. What color is

8、 the miss ing bag?A. BlackB. Brow nC. Dark brow n聽第10段材料，回答第18至20題。17. Why didn' t people think about environmeptotecting in the past?A. There were few people and a lot of resources.B. There were no factories and people ate vegetables mainly.C. The environment was perfect for people to live at t

9、hat time.18. What are we polluting our environment with according to the speaker?A. The waster products from factories.B. The dan gerous chemicals.C. The waste and dirty water.19. What should we do in order to get eno ugh food?A. Just eat vegetables B. Con trol birth-rate C. Recycle our n atural res

10、ources20. How many "If ” are suggested by the speaker?A .ThreeB. FourC. Five第二部分：英語知識運用（共二節(jié)，滿分45分）第一節(jié)：單項填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）21. Do you know whether they talked about their work or their family?Asmatter of fact ， I couldn' t hear it clearly, as they talked inwhisper.A. the, a B. the, the C.

11、 a; a D. a： /22. Whoit be that hasn' t handed it in yesterday?Itbe Bob. He han ded it in yesterday.A. can; mustn' B. must; canC. can; can ' t D. may; mustn't23. I 'llgive you a ring about eight. Could you phone a bit later? Idinner the n.A. will be hav ingB. have hadC. hadD. was

12、hav ing24. A thief broke into thehouse at midni ght,the house in amess .A. leftB. to leaveC. leavi ngD.havi ngleft25. There is no point arguing about whatthe ac cident, I ' d rather youthe victims of it.A. led to; focus onB. led to; focused onC. caused ; focus toD. caused to, focused to26. She f

13、elt completely during the vacation but now she has to go back to her work again.A.at seaB. at easeC. at a lossD. at risk27. It ' s based on the ideaall people are treated equal,is accepted.A. that ; that B. which ; which C. which ; whe n D. that ; which28. She didn ' t ask hyfribod to buy he

14、r a car., she bought one for him.A. That isB. On the con traryC. To be hon estD. Gen erally speak ing29. Thehouse smells as if it hasn' t been lived in for years.A. little white woode nB. little woode n whiteC. white woode n littleD. woode n white little30. in the river for five hours, the thief

15、 looked very pale and exhausted.A. Having bee n trappedB. Being trappedC. Trapp ingD. Having trapped31. When I woke up, I found myselfin bed andby doctors and nu rses.A. l ying; surroundingB. lay ing; surroun dedC. la in; surroundingD. lying; surroun ded32. -He admittedin the exam in ati on.-That &#

16、39; s why he was not admitteduniversities.A. to cheat; by B. cheati ng; to C. to cheat; to D. cheati ng; by33. - If you break the rules aga in, you are sure to be puni shed.-? I don ' t care.A. What ifB. How comeC. What forD. So what34. The tickets for the show have all bee n sold out. In other

17、words, the tickets are notnow.A. accurate B. accessibleC. acceptableD. available35. The follow ing years areto see a rise in product ion.A. likelyB. possibleC. perhapsD. probable第二節(jié)：完形填空（共 20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）My pare nts ran a small restaura nt in Seattle. It was ope n twen ty-four hours a day, six d

18、ays a week.And my first real job, whe n I was six years old, was36 the diners ' shoes. My father had done itwhe n he was young, so he taught me 37 to do it well, telli ng me to 38 to shine the shoes aga in if the customer wasn 39 t.I was proud of work ing in the restaura nt40 I was also work ing

19、 for the good of the family. Butmy father 41 said that I had to meet certain standards（ 標準）to be part of the team. I 42 to be on time, hard-working, and polite to the 43. I was 44 paid for the work I did at therestaura nt. One day I made the mistake of suggest ing to Dad that he _45 give me $10 a we

20、ek. He said,“ OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And for the times you bring in yourfriends 46 free soft drinks?” 4He the amount of money I owed him, about $40 a week.I remember returni ng to Seattle after being 48 in the US Army for about two years. I had justbee n pro

21、moted （升職） to Capta in at that time. And full of pride, I walked into my pare nts' rebut the 49 thing Dad said was, “ How about your 50 up tonight? ” I couldn51 ' my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But 52 didn ' nt atter. As far as Dad was concerned, I was just 53 member of the team.

22、I reached for the mop（ 拖扌巴）.Worki ng for Dad has taught me that the devoti on（ 奉 獻）to a 54 is above all. It has nothing to do with 55 that team is for a family restaura nt or theUS Army.36. A. washi ngB. shi ningC. cha ngingD. repairi ng37. A. whyB. whatC. whe nD. how38. A. offerB. refuseC. con ti n

23、ueD. forget39. A. i nterestedB.annoyedC. relaxedD. satisfied40. A. ifB. becauseC. whe nD. though41. A. an xiouslyB. stra ngelyC. clearlyD. secretly42. A. hadB. ten dedC. hatedD. prete nded43. A. familyB. workersC. customersD. friends44. A. n everB. alwaysC. seldomD. already45. A. mustB. shouldC. mig

24、htD. could46. A. byB. toC. onD. for47. A. worked outB. decided onC. set asideD. cut dow n48. A. abse ntB. overC. awayD. alone49. A. usualB. lastC. nextD. first50. A. wash ingB. goingC. clea ningD. turni ng51.A. coverB. followC. believeD. un dersta nd52. A. theyB. IC. heD. it53. A. noB. eitherC. anyD

25、. ano ther54. A. teamB. familyC. leaderD. restaura nt55. A. whe nB. whetherC. howD. why第三部分：閱讀理解（每小題2分,共40分）C D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。閱讀卜面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給旳A、B （AI still remember my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened. On my wayto school I won dered what sort of questi ons

26、the other boys would ask me and practiced all the an swers:"I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven' t lived here since I was two. I was living in Farley. Itabout thirty miles away. I came back to London two mon ths ago.” I also won dered if it was the customfor boys to fight stran

27、gers like me, but I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground, expectingsome one to say“ hello ” , but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my n ame and told me where myclassroom was, one or

28、two boys looked at me but that was all.My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn ' t stand out thereither, un til the first less on of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles Dicke ns and he had decided toread aloud to us from David Copperfield, but fi

29、rst he asked several boys if they knew Dicke ns ' birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian, the biggest in the class, said:“ Timbuktu ” , aiwent red in the face. Then he asked me. I said:“ Portsmouth ” , and every one stared at me because Mr.Jones said I was right. This didn '

30、; t make me very popular, of course.“ He thinks he ' s clever, ” I heard Brian say.After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian' s team, and he obviDicke ns in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wan ted to be the goalkeeper.“ He' s big eno ug

31、h and useless eno ugh.” Bria n said whe n some one asked him why he had chose n me.I suppose Mr. Jon es, who served as the judge, remembered Dicke ns, too, because whe n the game wasnearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and he gave them a penalty （ 懲罰）.As the boy kicked the

32、 ball to my right, I threw myself down instinctively （ 本能地）and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare kn ees were injured and bleed ing. Brian took out a han dkerchief and offered it to me.“ Do you want to join my gang 幫派）? ” he said.At the end of the day, I was no Ion ger a stra nger.56. T

33、he writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT ”.“A. How old are you?B. Where are you from?C. Do you want to join my gang?D. When did you come back to London?57. We can learn from the passage that .A. boys were usually unfrien dly to new stude ntsB. the writer was not greeted as

34、he expectedC. Brian praised the writer for his clever nessD. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper58. The underlined part"I didn ' t stand out ” in paragraph 3 means that the writer was notA. no ticeableB. welcomeC. importa ntD. foolish59. The writer was offered a handkerchief because .A.

35、he threw himself dow n and saved the goal B. he pushed a player on the other teamC. he was begi nning to be acceptedD. he was no Ion ger a n ewcomerB“ iyou talk to the plants, they will grow faster and the effect is even better if you ' ra woman. ”Researchers at Royal Horticultural Society carri

36、ed out an experime nt to find that the voice of a woma n garde ner makes pla nts grow faster.The experime nt lasted a month and by the end of the study scie ntists man aged to discover thattomato pla nts grew up two in ches taller whe n wome n garde ners talked to them in stead of male.Sarah Darwin

37、was the one making the plants registered the best growth. Her voice was the most"inspiring for "plants than those of nine other gardeners when reading a passage from The Origin of Species. The great-great-granddaughter of the famous botanist（ 植物學家 ）Charles Darwin found that her pla nt grew

38、 about two in ches taller tha n the pla nt of the best male garde ner.Colin Crosbie, Garden Superintendent at RHS, said that the finding cannot yet be explained. Heassumes that women have a greater range of pitch （音高） and tone （音調）which might have a certaineffect on the sound waves that reach the pl

39、a nt.Sound waves are an environmental effect just like rainor light , ” said Mr Grbse.The study began in April at RHS Garden Wisley in Survey. Scientists started with open auditions（ 聽力）for the people who were asked to record passages from John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids,Shakespeare '

40、 s A Midsummer's Night Dream and Darwin's T0eigin of Species.Afterwards researchers selected a nu mber of differe nt voices and played them to 10 tomato pla ntsduri ng a period of a mon th. Each pla nt had headph ones （耳機）conn ected to it. Through theheadphones the sound waves could hit the

41、plants. It w as discovered that plants that" listened ” to femalevoices on average grew taller by an inch in comparis on to pla nts that heard male voices.Miss Darwin said,"I thi nk it is an honor to have a voice that can make tomatoes grow, and especiallyfitting because for a number of ye

42、ars I have been studying wild tomatoes from the Galapagos Island atthe Natural History Museum in London.”60. What does the passage talk about?A. Plants enjoy men ' s voices than women' s.B. A bota ni cal experime nt in a museum.C. Voice ' s in flue nee on pla nt grow ing.D. Strange pheno

43、menon （現(xiàn)象）at Royal Horticultural Society.61. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?A. Pla nts n eed sound as well as rain and light.B. Sound is basic for the pla nt to grow.C. Sound has a good effect as rain or light does.D. Plants can' t live without sound, rain or light.62. Sar

44、ah Darwin is most likely a （an）.A. bota nistB. garde nerC. astr ono merD. environmen talist63. What can we learn from the passage?A. The experime nt en ded in May.B. Scientist can explain the findings clearly.C. Plants enjoy liste ning to the passages from masterpieces.D. The findings are of great i

45、mporta nee to huma n bein gs.CWe were sta nding at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a smalltown not far from our home in Rome. I won dered why."Look down, Elsa,” father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in thecenter of the villa

46、ge. And I saw the crisscross （ 十字形）of twisting, turning streets leading to the square."See, my dear, ” father said gen tly." There is more tha n one way to the square. Life is like that. If youcan ' t get to the place where you want to go by one road, try another.”Now I un derstood why

47、 I was there. Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do someth ing aboutthe awful（糟糕的）lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lun ches were as bad as I said.When I turned to father for help, he didnthin'g. tInssatyeadn,yhe brought me to this high

48、 towerto give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.At school the next day, I secretly poured my luncheon （午餐）soup into a bottle and brought it home.Then I asked our cook to serve it to mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered （噴濺出） “ The

49、 cook must have gone ma！d ” Quickly I told her what I had done, and Mother stated firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn't

50、stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal.Father 's wise words always remind me that there is more than one wayto the square.64 The author's father took her to the top of a church tower to A enjoy the beautiful scenery of the whole townB find out how many ways lead to the sq

51、uareC inspire her to find out another way to solve her problemDhelp her forget some unpleasant things earlier that day65. What did the author want her mother to do earlier that day?A. Do something delicious for lunch.B. Taste her awful lunch.C. Dismiss the mad cook.D. Speak to the school about lunch

52、.66. By sharing her own experiences, the author tries to tell us .A. when one road is blocked, try anotherB. how bad the lunch of her school isC. how wise her father isD. about the church tower near her homeDThe Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world 'msost important collectio

53、n of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator （ 時事評論員） .The only surviving London home of Dickens （from 1837 until 1839） was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions,

54、manuscripts （手 稿） , original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.Opening HoursThe Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10:00 17:00; Sundays 11:0017:00.Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.Special open

55、ing times can be arranged for groups, who may wish to book a private view.Admission ChargesAdults:£ 5.00; Students:£ 4.00; Seniors:£ 4.00; Children:£ 3.00; Families:（2 adults & up to five children）Group Rates:For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of£ 4.00 each

56、applies. Children will still beadmitted for £ 3.00 each.Access:We are constantly working to improve access to the Museum and its collection. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp （波道） for better access, a customer care kit and an audio tour for visitors with impaired （受損

57、的 ）vision. Our Handling Sessions are also suitable for the visually （視覺上地）impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual （虛擬的）tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, performances soirees （ 社

58、交晚會）and many other social occasi ons.Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the follow ing buses: 7,17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, pleaseMuseum and the Foun dli ng Museum are with in walk ing dista nee.67. The passage is probably from a（n）.A. bookB. websiteC. n ewspaper68. If a family