浙江省杭州高二英语上学期期中联考试题新人教版.doc

2012学年第一学期期中杭州地区七校联考试卷高二年级英语学科考生须知：1. 本试卷分试题卷和答题卷。考试时间100分钟，满分120分。2. 答题前，在答题卷密封区内填写学校、班级和姓名。3. 所用答案必须写在答题卷的相应位置上，写在试题卷上无效。第i卷（共95分）第一部分：听力（共两节，每题1分，满分20分）第一节 听下面五段对话。每段对话后有一小题，从题中所给的a、b、c三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。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. what is the woman going to do tonight?a. go to a concert b. attend a dinner party c. look after a baby2. where does the conversation most probably take place?a. in a library b. in a bookstore c. in a classroom3. why does the woman come up to the man? a. to visit the manager b. to buy a radio c. to exchange her radio4. what does the man say about mr. smith? a. he always pretends to know everything b. he knows a lot about outer space. c. he is a very funny person.5. what does the woman mean? a. roger has been fired many times. b. the young change jobs frequently c. its difficult for the young to find satisfactory jobs.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，并标在答题卡的相应位置。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67题。6. what month is it now?a. september b. october c. november7. what do we know about the speakers?a. they both enjoy sports b. they are both in training. c. they are both football players听第7段材料，回答第89题。8. what does the man think of the restaurants in his hometown？a. wonderful b. inexpensive c. crowded9. what can we learn from the conversation?a. there are some wonderful museums in the womans hometown.b. the woman likes her hometown more than any other place.c. its quite expensive living in the mans hometown.听第8段材料，回答第1012题。10. what was the man doing when the vase was knocked over?a. playing basketball with some of his friends.b. watching a game on tv with his friends.c. fixing his wifes computer.11. how did some pages of the book become totally ruined?a. they burned up in a fire. b. they were damaged by water.c. someone threw them away by mistake.12. how will the mans wife most probably feel?a. a bit disappointed b. quite angry c. very surprised听第9段材料，回答第1316题。13. what is the mans uncle?a. a boat owner b. a lab owner c. a restaurant owner14. why will the man work during the summer break?a. to help his uncle b. to gain work experience c. to earn money for his study.15. where will the woman be during july?a. in a lab b. on a boat c. in a restaurant16. when is the man most willing to go to the coast?a. in june b. in july c. in august听第10段材料，回答第1720题。17. what is the speaker mainly talking about? a. changes outside the cities. b. cities in the past and at present c. differences between cities and the country.18. what separated cities from the countryside in the past? a. buildings b. people c. walls19. what was the country like in the past? a. little land was covered with farms and trees. b. space between buildings was much larger. c. there were too many people. 20. what can we learn from the speech? a. there are no clear city limits now. b. there is no change outside the city now c. there is more farmland in the country now.第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每题1分，满分15分）21. - could you be so kind as to close the window? - _. a. with pleasure. b. go ahead c. yes, please. d. thats ok.22. we must accept the possibility _ one, although working hard, may fail to reach his goal. a. whether b. what c. that d. how23. he was in hospital for six months. he felt as if he was _ from the outside world. a. cut out b. cut off c. cut up d. cut through24. i wish to thank your student tom, without _ rescue couldnt be offered to my drowning boy so soon.a. whose b. which c. whom d. who25. either you or the headmaster_ the prizes to these gifted students at the meeting.a. is handing out b. are to hand out c are handing out d. is to hand out26. mother said she was by no means annoyed; _, she was happy to be able to make her guests feel at home. a. all in all b. for one thing c. on the contrary d. by the way27. please do me a favor-_ a seat for me in case the hall is too crowded. a. to save b. saving c. save d. saved28. a sudden snowstorm occurred in hangzhou in february, 2012, _ great inconvenience in transport. a. causing b caused c. to cause d. having caused29. my sister is _ about what she eats, otherwise she would not be so thin. a. special b. curious c. particular d. specific30. liang bo, _ rock singer from changchun, gained _ great support from his fans in the programme the voice of china. a. the; 不填 b. a; a c. a; 不填 d. the; a31. -remember the first time we met? -sure. you _ the novel gone with the wind in the library. a. had borrowed b. have borrowed c. were borrowing d. borrowed32. -i hear that tom was badly injured in a car accident and is in hospital now. -_, lets pay a visit to him. a. if any b. if so c. when possible d. when necessary33. global warming caused by human beings casual behaviour has become a major _ for people all over the world. a. conflict b. concern c. challenge d. factor34. the living room is clean and tidy, with a dining table already _ for a meal to be cooked. a. laid b. laying c. to lay d. being laid35. -its reported that young people are responsible for 60% of the traffic accidents.-exactly. young drivers are far more _ to drive faster than old ones.a. possible b. probable c. likely d. perhaps第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每题1分，满分20分）in 1982, steven callahan was crossing the atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. he was out of the sailing track and floating in a lifeboat, alone. his supplies were 36 . his chances of surviving were small. 37 when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later, he was alive much 38 than he was when he started, but alive.his 39 of how he survived is interesting and attractive. his subtle act how he 40 to catch fish, how he evaporated sea water to 41 fresh water is very interesting. but the thing that 42 my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when it seemed no 43 continuing the struggle, when he was 44 greatly, when his lifeboat was pierced and after more than a weeks struggling with his weak body. he was starved and 45 exhausted. giving up would have seemed the only sensible choice.when people 46 these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. many people in 47 dangerous circumstances give in or go mad. something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the courage to carry on 48 major difficulties.i tell myself i can 49 it, wrote callahan in his book. compared to what others have been through, im fortunate. i tell myself these things over and over, 50 courage and strength.i wrote that down after i read it 51 it struck me as something important. and ive told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed 52 off or when my problems seemed too powerful. and every time ive said it, i have always come back to my senses.the truth is, our circumstances are only bad 53 to something better. but others have been through much worse, that is, in comparison with what 54 have been through, youre fortunate. tell this to yourself over and over again, and it will help you 55 the rough spots with a little more perseverance(毅力) .36.a. lessb. littlec. fewd. enough37.a. andb. yetc. stilld. while38.a. thinnerb. poorerc. worsed. fatter39.a. attitudeb. imaginationc. instructiond. story40.a. tried b. tendedc. managedd. intended41.a. makeb. collectc. selectd. replace42.a. attacked b. caughtc. frozed. cheated43.a. operationb. tastec. messaged. use44.a improvingb. sufferingc. strengtheningd. increasing45.a. firmlyb. completelyc. surelyd. generally46.a. dealb. defendc. survived. observe47.a. similarly b. likelyc. probablyd. commonly48.a. for the lack of b. in spite ofc. in support of d. as a result of49.a. handle b. carryc. followd. inspect50.a. rolling upb. using upc. building upd. making up51.a.butb. soc. althoughd. and52.a. farb. longc. neard. short53.a. relatedb. measuredc. contributedd. compared54.a.youb. others c. wed. another55.a. see throughb. cut throughc. get through d. think through第三部分：阅读理解（每题2分，满分40分） ashort and shy, ben saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. football, tennis,cricket anything with a round ball, i was useless. he says now with a laugh. but back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in englands rural devonshire. it was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. at first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. gradually, saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. at age 18, he ran his first marathon. the following year, he met john ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the atlantic ocean. saunders was hired as an instructor at ridgways school of adventure in scotland, where he learned about the older mans cold-water exploits (成就). intrigued, saunders read all he could about arctic explorers and north pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. journeys to the pole arent the usual holidays for british country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. john ridgway was one of the few who didnt say, you are completely crazy, saunders says. in 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the north pole. he suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit. saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the north pole, and hes skied more of the arctic by himself than any other briton. his old playmates would not believe the transformation. this october, saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of antarctica to the south pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.56. the turning point in saunderslife came when _.a. he started to play ball gamesb. he got a mountain bike at age 15c. he ran his first marathon at age 18d. he started to receive ridgways training57. we can learn from the text that ridgway _.a. dismissed saunders dream as fantasyb. built up his body together with saundersc. hired saunders for his cold-water experienced. won his fame for his voyage across the atlantic58. what do we know about saunders?a. he once worked at a school in scotland.b. he followed ridgway to explore the north pole.c. he was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.d. he was the first briton to ski alone to the north pole.59. the underlined word intrigued in the third paragraph probably means _.a. excited b. convinced c. delighted d. fascinated60. it can be inferred that saunders journey to the north pole _.a. was accompanied by his old playmatesb. set a record in the north pole expeditionc. was supported by other arctic explorersd. made him well-known in the 1960sbgoing to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes. sian beilock and susan leving, two psychologists at the university of chicago, are trying to learn about learning. in a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, beilock and levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: if a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “if these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” levine told science news. the study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident. just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learnand teach. the subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone. the new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the midwest. the students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores. the researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. then the researchers turned to the teachers: to find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. a teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math. boys, on average, were unaffected by a teachers anxiety. on average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at mathand all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety. according to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, levine said. 61. sian beilock and susan levine carried out the new research in order to _. a. know the effects of teaching on learning b. study students ways of learning mathc. prove women teachers are unfit to teach math d. find better teaching methods for teachers62. the underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may _.a. end up learning math anxiety from their teachers b. study the ways their female teachers behavec. have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers d. gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math63. in the study, what were the teachers required to do? a. prepare two math achievement tests for the students b. tell their feelings about math problemsc. answer whether a math superstar had to be a boy d. compare the students scores after the math tests64.what is the finding of the new study?a. no male students were affected by their teachers anxiety b. almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boysc. about 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girls d. girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests65. which of the following is true according to the text? a. 117 students and teachers took part in the new study b. the researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study c. beilock and levine are interested in teaching math d. men teachers are better at teaching math than women teacherschans was an honest fellow with a funny round good-humored face. living alone, every day he worked in his garden. in all the countryside there was no garden so lovely as his. all sorts of flowers grew there, blooming in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flowers place, so that there were always beautiful things to see, and pleasant odors to smell. hans had many friends, the most devoted being the miller. so devoted was the rich miller to hans that hed never go by his garden without plucking a large bunch of flowers or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with fruits. the miller used to talk about noble ideas, and hans nodded and smiled, feeling proud of having such a friend. the neighbors thought it strange that the rich miller never gave hans anything in return, though he had hundreds of sacks of flour, many cows and sheep, but hans never troubled his head about these, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things about the unselfishness of true friendship. in spring, summer, and autumn hans was very happy, but when winter came, and he had no fruit or flowers to sell, he suffered from cold and hunger. though extremely lonely, the miller never came to see him then. “theres no good in going to see hans while the snow lasts.” the miller said to his wife, “when people are in trouble they shouldnt be bothered. so ill wait till the spring comes when hes happy to give me flowers.” “youre certainly very thoughtful,” answered his wife, “its quite a treat to hear you talk about friendship.” “couldnt we ask hans up here?” said their son. “ill give him half my meal, and show him my white rabbits.” “how silly you are!” cried the miller. “i really dont know whats the use of sending you to school. if hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, our good supper, a