湖北省枣阳市白水高级中学高二英语下学期期末考试试题.doc

湖北省枣阳市白水高中2014-2015学年度高二下学期期末考试英语试题注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第i卷（选择题）评卷人得分一、听力第一部分（题型注释）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. where does the conversation probably take place?a. at the mans office.b. in the womans home.c. in the mans home.2. what does the woman think of computer class? a. she enjoys learning it.b. she thinks it is very interesting.c. she thinks it is hard to learn3. how does the woman keep in touch with her friends abroad?a. by e-mail.b. over the phone.c. through letters.4. what does the woman mean?a. there are too many courses offered to the students.b. the man should take fewer courses next termc. it is wiser to take more than four courses.5. what does the man wish to do?a. repair his car.b. park his car.c. drive on评卷人得分二、听力第二部分（题型注释）第二节听下面5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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。6. who answers the telephone?a. miss bell.b. mr. adam.c. mr. carter.7. why is wednesdays meeting to be canceled?a. because mr. carter has to attend another important meeting.b. because mr. adam has to meet an important friend from abroad.c. because mr. adam wont be back until the day after tomorrow.8. when will mr. carter and mr. adam probably contact each other again?a. on friday morning.b. on saturday.c. on friday afternoon.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. what does the man think of the weather?a. unpleasant.b. comfortable.c. exciting.10. what does the man have to go out for?a. working.b. shopping.c. cleaning.11. what can we learn from the conversation?a. the man doesnt like last winter.b. this winter is terribly cold.c. the woman has no time for walks.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. what does one mean by saying “time flies” ?a. time flies are a kind of insect.b. time goes by quickly.c. one can fly with time.13. what does one mean by saying “we have 30 minutes to kill before our movie”?a. one has to wait for 30 minutes for the movie.b. one has to spend 30 minutes seeing a movie.c. one has to kill something in 30 minutes.14. what is the talk mainly about?a. the way time flies.b. how to kill time.c. idioms about time.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. how does the man get information about the apartment?a. from tv advertisements.b. from newspaper advertisements.c. from radio advertisements.16. how much will the man pay for the rent and parking fee per month?a. $ 720.b. $ 780.c. $ 880.17. what do we know about the apartment?a. its a one-bedroom apartment without a balcony.b. its a new apartment without much furniture.c. the rent is inclusive of gas fee.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. which part of the plane is higher than 5 stories?a. the head.b. the middle.c. the tail.19. how much does it cost to build such an airplane?a. at least $ 25 million.b. at least $ 400 million.c. at least $ 35 million.20. why are the airplanes safe?a. because there are many pilots.b. because the engines have doubled.c. because it is slow due to great size.评卷人得分三、阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分） the timing of school holidays has always had a lot to do with when a family goes on vacation. for many kids, summer holidays mean spending time outdoors and heading toward water- the local swimming pool, a lake, or the beach.what people wear to go swimming or sunbathing has changed a great deal since the early 1990s. do you know what early swimsuits(游泳衣） looked like and what they were made of? the earliest swimsuits covered most of the body and were called “bathing clothes”. they were often made of wool, which made them scratchy（扎人的） and very heavy when they got wet. newer materials made it possible to make lighter swimsuits. over time, swimsuits covered less and less of the body. in 1946, the bikini became popular among women.summer holidays dont just mean going to the water. they can also mean going for a bike ride, or a picnic. it all depends how you want to spend your summer days.if you live or spend your holiday near the water, then fishing, diving and boating are all good possibilities. in summertime, lots of people enjoy playing, picnicking, and just going out with friends on a long summer day until the sun goes down.a famous song called summertime from the opera porgy and bess describes lifes more relaxed pace in this season, “summertime.and the living is easy. fish are jumping.” ask your parents and older relatives about their summertime memories.1what does the first paragraph mainly talk about?a.being near water is great in summer for kids.b. it is great for kids to spend holidays with their family.c. when you should prepare for summer holidays.d. where you can find water on summer holidays.2from the passage we can know that_.a. people with “bathing clothes” could swim easilyb. the earlier swimsuits were very comfortable to wearc. there are other ways to enjoy summer holidaysd. it is easy for a family to arrange summer holidays3what is summertime like according to the passage?a. it is busy b. it is interestingc. it is simple d. it is hard people arent walking any more-if they can figure out a way to avoid it. i felt superior about this matter until the other day i took my car to mail a small parcel. the journey is a matter of 281 steps. but i used the car. and i wasnt in any hurry, either. i had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis. it is an illness to which i had thought myself immune, for i was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. at that time, we regarded 25 miles as good days walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as sign of strength and skill. it did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. and the effect was lasting. when i was 45 years old i raced and beata teenage football player the 168 steps up the stature of liberty. such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. but a well-known british physician, sir adolphe abrahams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercise. a person who avoids exercise is more likely to have illnesses than one who exercises regularly. and walking is an ideal form of exercise- the most familiar and natural of all. it was henry thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. the man walking can learn the trees, flower, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world. he cannot learn in a car. the car is a convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. many people dont dare to approach nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. to them security is a steel river thundering on a concrete road. and much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic light to turn green. i say that the green of forests is the minds best light. and none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.4what is the national sickness?a. walking too muchb. traveling too muchc. driving cars too muchd. climbing stairs too much.5what was life like when the author was young?a. people usually went around on foot. b. people often walked 25 miles a day.c. people used to climb the statue of liberty.d. people considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.6the author mentions henry thoreau to prove that_.a. middle-aged people like getting back to nature b. walking in nature helps enrich ones mindc. people need regular exercise to keep fitd. going on foot prevents heart disease7what is compared to “a steel river” in paragraph 6?a. a queue of cars b. a ray of traffic lightc. a flash of lightning d. a stream of people8what is the authors intention of writing this passage?a. to tell people to reflect more on life.b. to recommend people to give up drivingc. to advise people to do outdoor activitiesd. to encourage people to return to walking india has many festivals, with some celebrations that last for weeks. however, none of them come even close to holi, indias most colorful and fun festival. celebrated on the day following the full moon, this years festival happens to be on march 19th.as with most indian festivals, this one also has many different folk stories. most of them center around the success of good over evil. the most popular one is about a king, who hates his son prahlada for loving the creator of the universelord vishnu. when every attempt to stop him fails, his sister, holika believed to be immune(免疫的) to fire, joins in the effort by inviting the young boy to sit with her inside a huge fire. helped by the power of lord vishnu, prahlada escapes safely, while the evil holika is burned to death. to remember this event, huge outdoor fires are lit in the night before holi in order to clean the air of evil spirits and to celebrate the death of the evil.so whats so great about this day? while there are some fun parades(游行) and folk songs and dance performances, the most fun of all is walking to the streets and splashing(泼洒) people with water guns and dry colors and even covering them with entire buckets of colored water. on this day, everybody is fair game, no matter how old or how young.at about midday, the splashing comes to an end and people living close to oceans or rivers usually take a bath in the water to clean themselves before going home to a delicious home-made big dinner and a well-deserved short sleep, following this full day of fun and activities.9why does the king dislike his son prahlada?a. because prahlada doesnt love him.b. because prahlada is rude to holika.c. because prahlada loves lord vishnu.d. because prahlada concentrates on his own success.10prahlada gets out of danger _.a. with the help of lord vishnub. because of his good luckc. by beating his aunt holikad. using his amazing talent11the underlined phrase “fair game” in paragraph 3 refers to a person who _.a. fights against others fairlyb. enjoys splashing peoplec. plays a trick on othersd. is the aim of splashing water12after the fun activities, people living close to oceans or rivers often take a bath because _.a. they have got dirty with dry colors and colored waterb. going home with colored water means bad luckc. they believe clean water will bring good luckd. taking a bath shows their true love for lord vishnu when i told my father that i was moving to des moines, iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. it was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of southern methodist university（smu）in dallas, texas. he also worked as a professor at smu, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. she couldnt afford the operation because her family was poor.her mother ran a boardinghouse in galveston, a seaside town near houston, texas. she was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. on its top page were the words, “by o. henry”. it was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at smu, who showed it to my father. my father had never read the story before, but it sounded like o. henry, and he knew that o. henry had once lived in houston. so it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. my father visited an o. henry expert at columbia university in new york, who authenticated the story as o. henrys.my father then set out to sell it. eventually, he found himself in des moines, meeting with gardner cowles, a top editor at the des moines register. cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. my father took the money to the girl. it was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.my father never told me what the o. henry story was about. but i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.13who found the o. henrys manuscript?a. the author. b. the authors father.c. the girl. d.the girls mother14which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?a. o. henry once worked in houston.b. o. henry once stayed in galveston.c. o. henry once moved to des moines.d. o. henry once taught at smu.15 the underlined word “authenticated” in paragraph 2 probably means _.a. named b. treatedc. proved d. described16 according to the text, why did the authors father go to des moines?a. to meet the author himself.b. to sell the o. henry story.c. to talk with the o. henry expert.d. to give money to the girl.评卷人得分四、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分 30分） one day a young man was standing in the middle of the town claiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. a large crowd gathered，and they all admired his heart for it was . there was not a scar in it. suddenly, an old man appeared and said, “why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as .” the crowd and the young man looked at the old mans . it was full of scars, it had places pieces had been removed and other pieces in, but they didnt fit quite right, and there were several edges. in fact, in some places there were deep gaps where whole pieces were missing.the young man laughed. “ your heart with mine, i think mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”“yes,” said the old man, “yours perfect but i would never trade with you. you see, every represents a person i have given my love. i tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they me a piece of their heart that fits into the place in my heart. but because the pieces arent exact, i have some rough edges, which i cherish, because they remind me of the love we . “sometimes i have given pieces of my heart , and the other person hasnt returned a of his or her heart to me. these are the empty gapsgiving love i a chance. although these gaps are painful, they open, reminding me of the love i have for those people too, and i hope someday they may return and fill the space i have been waiting. so now do you see what true beauty is?the young man walked up to the old man, his perfect heart, and tipped a piece out. he it to the old man.the old man placed it in his heart, then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young mans heart. it , but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.the young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old mans heart flowed into his.they embraced and walked away side by side.18augly bperfect cgood dhurt19amine bhis ctheirs dours20acoat bappearance cface dheart21athat bwhich cwhere dwhose22acut bset cput dbrought23asmooth brough cbroken dpretty24a. comparing bcommunicating ccontributing dcooperating25alooks bseems cis dfits26aone bheart cpiece dscar27aon whom bin whom cwith whom dto whom28atake bgive clend dpass29aempty bfull coriginal dfirst30ahad bgave cshared downed31ain baway coff dup32alot bsheet cpiece dpile33amaking btaking ckeeping dbringing34alast bcut ccome dstay35acarried away breached into ctook out dbrought up36aoffered btook cpassed dserved37afit bhit cbeat dset第ii卷（非选择题）评卷人得分五、短文改错（10分）38短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/），并在其下面写出该加的词。删除: 把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改: 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;2. 只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。dear guests,on behalf of our school, i would like to express our warm welcome to you. we are luck to have you here in middle of our english week activities.as planning, we have english talent show today. the purpose of this program was to develop our interest in english learning and practically abilities in listening and speaking. the program consist of the following activity: recitation, singing, word spelling, story telling and so on. the show will begin at two oclock in this afternoon at the student centre. dear guests, we are welcome to take part in some activities. i hope we students will benefit from your presence but i sincerely wish you a pleasant time with us. thank you.评卷人得分六、阅读填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） the family sphere(范围) used to be defined by its isolation from the public realm. there was the public male realm（领域）of rational accomplishment and cruel competition, and the private female and child-rearing sphere of home, intuition（直觉）and emotion. the private realm was supposed to be isolated from the realities of adult life. for both better and worse, television and other electronic media tend to break down the difference between those two worlds. the membrane around the family sphere is much more permeable(可渗透的). tv takes public events and transforms them into dramas that are played out in the privacy of our living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms.parents used to be the channel through which children learned about the outside world. they