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广东省云浮市邓发纪念中学2013-2014学年高二英语上学期期中试题新人教版 (考试时间为120分钟,总分150分，共9页；请按照题号把1至55题的答案规范填涂在答题卡上；剩余部分也写到答题卡上；务必在答题卡上写上班别、姓名和考号。)一、单项选择（每题1分，共15分）1. china has a lot of famous writers, one of _ is lu xun. a. them b. whose c. who d. whom2. the theory _by einstein _ to be true. a. to be put forward; has proved b. being put forward; has been proved c. was put forward; has proved d. put forward; has been proved3. the speaker raised his voice but still couldnt make himself _. a. heard b. to be heard c. hearing d. being heard4. not only _ polluted but _ crowded. a. was the city; were the streets b. the city was; were the streets c. was the city; the streets were d. the city was; the streets were5. _ from the space, the earth, with water _ seventy percent of its surface, looks like a blue ball. a. seen; covered b. seen; covering c. seeing; covering d. seeing; covered6. hardly had she heard the telephone_ she rushed up to answer it. a. as soon as b. while c. when d. that 7. mother went shopping, _ i did some cleaning in the house. a. meanwhile b. meantime c. and meanwhile d. in the meantime8. the man read the letter from his wife with a _expression on his face. a. puzzling b. puzzled c. puzzle d. be puzzled 9._, i will write a report and give it to your parents. a. if i am necessary b. if it necessary c. if is necessary d. if necessary10.we hope to develop a system _ waste can be recycled ecologically. a. that b. which c. where d. for which 11. _, she cleaned the room for the old . a. to her disappointment b. in her credit c. to her credit d. on the credit12. it is reported that many new houses _ at present in disaster area.a. are being built b. were being built c. was being built d. is being built13. when he finally came to life, he found himself_on a chair, with his hands_ back. a. seating, tying b. seated, tying c. seated, tied d. seating, tied14. never before _ this opportunity-dont miss it.a. we have had b. have we had c. we had d. did we have15. simon _of murdering his former wife by the law officers many years ago.a. accusedb. was accused c. was charged d. being accused二、完形填空 （共15题，每小题2分， 共30分） when i was a little girl, every sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to sunday school(主日学校) and then church. one easter sunday, with 16 , all the kids shared their stories about what the easter bunny (复活节兔子) had brought. one young boy, whom i called bobby, sat 17 . one of the teachers, 18 this, said to him, “and what did the easter bunny bring you?” he replied, “my mom 19 the door by accident so the easter bunny couldnt get inside.” this sounded like a 20 idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the 21 . however, my mom knew the true story. bobbys mom was a single 22 , and she just couldnt 23 the easter bunny. after sunday school was over, everyone went off to the 24 . my mom announced that we were going home instead. at home, she 25 that if we want to make bobby feel better, we were going to 26 to be the easter bunny，make a basket of presents for him and 27 it at church. we all donated some of our candies to the 28 , and headed back up to church. there, mom hung the basket over the hanger（衣架）, and covered it up with the coat and attached a 29 to the coat, reading:dear bobby,im sorry i 30 your house last night. happy easter.love,the easter bunny16. a. hopeb. delightc. anxietyd. anger17. a. excitedlyb. happilyc. silentlyd. calmly18. a. noticingb. watchingc. feelingd. recognizing19. a. brokeb. openedc. fixedd. locked20. a. stupidb. reasonablec. funnyd. reliable21. a. lessonsb. ideasc. storiesd. shows22. a. parentb. teacherc. nursed. father23. a. applyb. keepc. affordd. borrow24. a. homeb. shopc. schoold. church25. a. shoutedb. explainedc. informedd. whispered26. a. learnb. dressc. pretendd. assist27. a. forgetb. givec. bringd. leave28. a. basketb. churchc. homed. bag29. a. noticeb. bookc. noted. letter30. a. arrivedb. missedc. leftd. found三、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项（每小题2分，共40分）。ai am a professor of sports and exercise, so i often deal with nervousness in my research with sports people. actually, most people experience nervousness at some time or another.if you are feeling anxious, my advice is to first find the cause or causes. make a list of those things that are making you nervous and work out which ones you can do something about. focus all of your efforts on managing the causes that you can control.most people cannot tell the difference between controllable(可控制的) and uncontrollable causes, so things they cans control become a big reason for nervousness. dealing with this is very important if people want to keep a healthy mind.simply try to accept the uncontrollable causes of nervousness. you might be worried about the weather on a big day, an accident or an attack on the train, or perhaps just things that other people are doing at work. the results may be very important but there is still no use worrying because you cant control any of these things. accept that you cant control everything. once you understand this, it becomes easier not to worry.if a situation, such as swimming, is causing you to be anxious, try to face it as often as possible so that you can get used to it.it can often help to think about yourself doing the thing that makes you nervousthen close your eyes and imagine it going well. imagine how the flight or job interview is going to happen so that you can get used to it. this will help you understand that the thing you fear most is probably not going to happen.31. who wrote this passage?a. a reporter. b. a sportsman. c. a patient. d. a professor.32. the writer thinks there is no use worrying about some causes of nervousness because_.a. most are not very importantb. they are not the real causes of the problemc. they cannot be controlled by peopled. its better to deal with one cause at a time33. if swimming makes you nervous, what should you do according to the writer?a. go swimming often to get used to it.b. avoid going to the swimming pool.c. find a swimming teacher.d. imagine watching others swim.34. what is true about nervousness according to the passage?a. it usually has only one cause.b. it is usually caused by people.c. people can easily manage it.d. most people suffer from it. 35. what is the main purpose of this passage?a. to introduce the writers sports experience.b. to advise on how to deal with nervousness.c. to help people remember their fears.d. to explain the dangers of nervousness.bfuturologists(未来学家) predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.tv channels will have disappeared. instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the programme directly to the television. today, we can use the world wide web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away. by 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. cars will have computers to control the speed and there wont be any accidents. today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. by 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. today, the united states space shuttle can go into space and land on earth again. by 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from los angeles to tokyo in just two hours.robots will have replaced people in factories. many factories already use robots. big companies prefer robots-they dont ask for pay rises or go on strikes, and they work 24 hours a day. by 2050, we will see robots everywhere-in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homesmedical technology will have conquered many diseases. today, there are electronic devices that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. by 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.scientists will have discovered how to control genes. scientists have already produced clones of animals. by 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they have. scientists will be able to do these things, but should they?36. which of the following can not be realized today? a. reading newspapers on a compute.b. making a space shuttle go into space and land on earth again.c. creating cloned animals.d. choosing tv program freely from a “menu”.37. according to the text, some big companies prefer robots to human workers because human workers .a. can work 24 hours a day b. often ask for more payc. are not clever enoughd. are often late for work38. from the 6th paragraph we can infer that _ .a. there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050b. few diseases can attack people.c. electronic devices will be connected directly to the brain to help people hear.d. medical technology will be more effective by 2050.39. the underlined word “conquer” in the 5th paragraph means .a. take up b. overcome c. absorb d. acquire40. whats the authors attitude towards the cloning technology?a. the author does not agree on the use of cloning technology.b. the author thinks human cloning is impossible. c. the author does not really support the idea of human cloning. d. the author is quite excited about human cloning cthere was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard. he was very hardworking, and the farm always prospered under his care. but he knew that his three sons despised the farm work, and were eager to make wealth, through adventure.when the farmer was old, and felt that his time had come to die, he called the three sons to him and said, my sons, there is a pot of gold hidden in the olive orchard. dig for it, if you wish it.the sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden, but he would tell them nothing more.after the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold. since they did not know where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one end of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.they dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, round the tree-roots and between them. but no pot of gold was to be found. it seemed as if someone must have stolen it, or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits. the three sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.the next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever given. when it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.and when they saw how much money had come from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had meant when he said, there is gold hidden in the orchard. dig for it, if you wish it.41. the farmer told his sons about the pot of gold because _.a. his sons were very hardworking b. his sons would take the adventurec. his life would come to an end d. he couldnt keep the secret42. the underlined word despised in paragraph 1 most probably means _.a. were crazy about b. looked down on c. showed great respect for d. thought highly of43. why didnt the sons find the pot of gold?a. there was no gold in the soil. b. the farmer cheated them.c. the gold was hidden in the olive trees. d. someone had stolen the gold.44. which of the following statements is not true? a. the farmer wanted his sons .to know the value of hard work b. the farmer didnt work hard enough before he died. c. there were more fruits on the olive trees in the next season. d. the sons got a pot of gold in the end.45. what would be the best title for the passage?a. laziness leads to success b. like father, like son c. no money, no talk d. no pains, no gainsd america is a mobile society. friendships between americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. neither side feels hurt by this. both may exchange christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while-then no more. if the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. this can be quite difficult for us chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending sometimes deeply into both families. americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. they will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality easily. another difficult point for us chinese to understand americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they dont show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. this is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. we may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. the americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. they will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. and they expect that we will phone them from there. once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. we will find ourselves treated hospitably.for the americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. so accept their hospitality at home!46. the writer of this passage must be _. a. an american b. a chinese c. a professor d. a student 47. which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a. friendships between americans usually extend deeply into their families. b. friendships between americans usually last for all their lives. c. americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. d. americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.48. from the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in america to visit an american friend, we will probably be _. a. warmly welcomed at the airport b. offered a ride to his home c. treated hospitably at his home d. treated to dinner in a restaurant49. the underlined words “generous with our time” in paragraph 3 probably mean_. a. strict with time b. serious with time c. careful with time d. willing to spend time50. a suitable title for this passage would probably be _. a. friendships between chinese b. friendships between americans c. americans hospitality d. americans and chineses views of friendship四、 信息匹配 （共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项的字母涂黑。以下是学习英浯的方法： a. practice speaking as often as you can - even speaking to yourself is good practice. try recording yourself whenever you can. b. it helps if you can learn with someone else. if you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you, it will make you keep working. agree times to meet and set goals for the week. and test each other regularly. c. practice improvising (即兴的) ways of getting your meaning across, even if you dont know the exact words or phrases. think of things you might want to say whenever you have time. an example is the use of tenses. use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to get your meaning across. d. guesswork is important in learning a new language. when listening to recorded material, you arent expected to understand everything the first round. if you play the same piece several times, you will most probably understand something new each time. learn to make maximum (最大限度) use of all the clues (提示) you can pick up. e. a wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning, but dont try to learn too much vocabulary at once. f. if you are the person on the bus, street or restaurant asking how you can improve your english, you are on the right track. the only way to improve your speaking is by speaking. dont worry about a bad accent or forgetting words or not being understood. 以下是学习者在学习英语中所碰到的闲难。请匹配这些困难与他们所对应的学习方法。 51. jack andersons vocabulary is very small. he is very anxious to improve his english. therefore, he wants to enlarge his vocabulary in a short time and tries his best to memorize new words as many as possible at a time. 52. margret lillians pronunciation is poor. and she doesnt know how to improve her pronunciation. she is very worried and doesnt know what to do. 53. alice fingelhamm has difficulty in understanding the meaning of the english text. so she looks up the new words in the dictionary in order to understand everything. however, she made little progress in english. 54. although peter florian wants to communicate with peop