广东省东莞市南开实验学校高二英语下学期期初考试试题.doc

广东省东莞市南开实验学校2014-2015学年高二下学期期初考试英语试题本试卷共5面，5大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项： 1答卷前，考生务必用2b铅笔在“考生号”处填涂考生号。用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己所在的学校以及自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2b铅笔将试卷类型(a)填涂在答题卡相应位置上。 2选择题每小题选出答案后，用2b铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试卷上。 3非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4作答选做题时，请先用2b铅笔填涂选做题题组号对应的信息点，再作答。漏涂、错涂、多涂的，答案无效。5考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，收卷时只交答题卷。第一部分 听力 听力理解听下面一段独白，回答1-2题what will the weather be like tomorrow? a . hot b . cool c . warm.what will the woman probably do tomorrow ? a . go boating b . stay at home c . enjoy some sunshine听下面一段独白，回答3-5题how does the woman go to work at the moment? a . by bus b . by subway c . by carwhat is the mans reason for not driving to work?a . his son is using the car b . he cant afford the gas billc . he lives near his workplacewhat do we know about the woman? a . she isnt married b . she doesnt like her boss c . she was late for work today听下面一段独白，回答6-8题 6.where will the new summer hours be posted? a . outside the dining noon b . outside the student club c . outside the students roomswhen will the meals be served on weekends? a . from 7:00am to noon b . from noon to 7:00pm c . from 5:00pm to midnightwhat can the students use the new summer id card for? a . using the school hospital b . getting books from the library c . doing sports in the athletic club听下面一段独白，回答9-10题 9.what does the woman say about her friend? a . she is looking for a job b . she has no work experience c . she doesnt dare to leave her job 10.what position does the man suggest that the woman apply for? a . a secretary b . an engineer c . a manager 听取信息听下面一段独白，从所听到的内容中获取必要信息填到空格中 summer vacation in americasummer seasonbegin with memorial day and _11_with labor daychildrens holidayboth _12_ schools as well as colleges and universitiesare out employees holidaythey have _13_ weeks leave from workfavorite vacation placesthe beach and the _14_americans and foreign visitors often visited national_15_ 第二部分 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从115各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 as a young boy my family was very poor. i would often help do something for the neighbors to 16 a little pocket money. one day i 17 on the door of an elderly woman and asked if she needed me to clean the yard. she asked why i was not in 18 and i showed her my worn coat, which no longer kept me warm. she 19 me to work in the yard. when i finished, she looked at me and said, “i suppose you want to be 20 now.” she then took out a jar filled with dollar bills and said, “im glad youve done a 21 job today but that is not something you should be doing again. i want you to 22 new clothes and get back to school. i also want you to come back to 23 me with your report card and i will 24 you when i see you have worked hard and have some good 25 . now reach out your little hands and take out as much 26 as you can.” i put my hands in the jar and grabbed so much money that it was 27 for me to buy what i badly needed. later, i returned several times to see the woman and she did just as she 28 . she looked at my report card and gave me a handful of dollars and some delicious food every time showed her that i had an “a”. i was twelve years old when i moved from that neighborhood. i will never forget the huge 29 this wonderful lady made over my life with her 30 . this is something i hope to do myself in this lifetime over and over again.16. a. save b. give c. earn d. change17. a. turned b. knocked c. worked d. looked 18. a. school b. time c. trouble d. bed 19. a. allowed b. forced c. helped d. stopped20. a. punished b. tested c. praised d. paid21. a. boring b. new c. fine d. terrible22. a. keep b. buy c. remove d. make23. a. visit b. forgive c. welcome d. serve24. a. recognize b. reward c. understand d. protect25. a. goals b. stories c. marks d. ideas26. a. room b. money c. food d. time27. a. rare b. enough c. simple d. special28. a. promised b. discovered c. knew d. admitted29. a. decision b. progress c. mistake d. difference30. a. courage b. kindness c. honesty d. happiness 第二节 语法填空 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）根据句子结构的语法性，在下面空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为3145的相应位置上。31.asimov had _ extraordinary imagination that gave him ability to explore future worlds. 32.the website is (benefit) to the disabled people.33.he has never been (absence) from school this term.34._ was then claire realized that tony had opened the curtains of the front window.35.just accept the disabled，and give them _(encourage) to live as rich and full a life as you.36.when you go to a new country，you must adapt _ new manners and customs.37.i try to set _a few minutes each day to read english aloud.38.as we drew closer，i could see a whale _(attack) by a pack of about six other killers.39.the robot _(rebuild)next week by the expert is named tony.40.please dont feel sorry for the disabled or make fun _ them.41.a large wise-looking turtle was passing so close to me _ i could have touched it.42.it was a time _ the killer whales helped the whalers catch the baleen whales.43.the whale _ (drag)swiftly by the killers down into the depths of the sea yesterday.44.i hope my suggestions will meet _ your approval.45._(unfortunate)，the doctors dont know how to make me better. 第三部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）a animals, including insects, dont have a language like ours. they do not talk to each other in words and sentences. but if we watch them, we can see that they do have their ways of communicating with each other. can you see the rabbits tail? when rabbits see this white tail moving up and down, they run away. they know that they are in danger. the rabbit has told them something without making a sound. it has given them a signal. many other animals use this kind of language. when a cobra is angry, it raises its head and makes itself look powerful . this warns other animals. when a bee has found food, it goes back to its home. it cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance. this tells the bees where the food is. some animals say things by making sounds. a dog barks, for example, when a stranger comes near. a cat purrs when it is pleased. some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning. sometimes we human beings speak in the same way. we make sounds like oh or ah when we are frightened or pleased or when we drop something on our toes.46. which one is true according to the passage?a. animals have languages like human beings. b. bees communicate with each other by dancing. c. animals can use words. d. animals are brave.47. a rabbit uses its tail to _.a. warn other rabbits when they are in danger b. tell other rabbits where food is c. make itself look powerful d. help it to run fast48. when a cobra is angry, it _.a. makes a loud noise b. raises its head c. moves up and down d. does a little dance49. several different sounds can be made by a _a. rabbit b. bee c. bird d. fish50. from the passage, we know that _ use words and sentences to express ideas and thoughts.a. all living things b. all animals c. some birds d. human beings b “lizzie, theres a letter for you!” emily called up the stairs to her sister. elizabeth looked down. “is it from harvard? they refused my application once.” emily answered, “no, its from yale.” quickly, elizabeth walked downstairs. she took the letter and opened it. “rejected again,” elizabeth said unhappily. “who says women cant be doctors?” “they are fools not to accept you. you cant let them stop you, lizzie,” emily said. “i wont. ill apply to geneva medical college,” elizabeth told her sister. as it turned out, the professors at geneva medical college were not fools. they allowed elizabeth blackwell to study medicine. in 1848, a year before elizabeth would graduate, a typhoid epidemic (伤寒流行病) broke out in new york. elizabeth wrote to emily. “theres an outbreak of typhoid, and i am going to help. it is dangerous, so if i should not survive, please do me the honor of studying medicine yourself.” emily replied, “encouraged by your dream and success, i have decided to study in medical school, as well.” having survived the disease, elizabeth tried to set up a private medical practice. “i graduated first in my class but no one believes a woman can be a good doctor,” she said to emily one day. “all i hear is that doctors should be men, while women should stay home to cook and clean.” emily said worriedly, “i will graduate in june with my medical degree. what shall we do?” elizabeth thought for a while and replied, “theres a big house in the poor part of our town. we can practice medicine there for people who couldnt afford care.” soon with the help of some friends, elizabeth and emily bought the house and opened a hospital for poor women and children. “well have an all-women staff ,” elizabeth said. “and later, well add a medical college for women!” emily added. at last, elizabeth realized her dream of being a doctor. 51. the underlined word “rejected” in the first paragraph can be best replaced by _.a. refused b. praisedc. changed d. accepted52. hearing elizabeths words about the letter from yale, emily felt _. a. excitedb. calmc. satisfied d. angry53. in 1848, elizabeth wrote to emily to _. a. persuade emily to come to help the sick b. ask emily to study medicine if she died c. warn emily the danger of typhoid epidemic d. tell emily she would graduate from college54. we can learn from the text that elizabeth _. a. received strong support from her sister b. refused to go to study at yale university c. founded a medical college after graduation d. was finally accepted by harvard after her efforts 55. which of the following can best be used to describe elizabeth? a. humorous. b. honest. c. determined. d. careful . c ive loved my mothers desk since i was just tall enough to sit above the top of it. mother sat writing letters. standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, i decided that the act of writing must be a most wonderful thing in the world. years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “but the desk,” she said again, “is for elizabeth.” i never saw her angry, never saw her cry. i knew she loved me; she showed in action. but as a young girl. i wanted to have heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter. they never happened. and a gulf opened between us. i was “too emotional ”. but she lived “on the surface ”. as years passed and i had my own family. i loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. i wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me. my hope turned to disappointment, then little interest and, finally, peace it seemed that nothing happened. i couldnt be sure that the letter had even got to mother. i only knew that i had written it, and i could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.but the present of her desk told me, as shed never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. i cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside a photo of my father and a one-paper letter, folded and refolded many times. it was my letter. “in any way you choose, mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.”56the writer began to love her mothers desk_. aafter mother died bbefore she became a writer cwhen she was a child dwhen mother gave it to her57the passage shows that_. amother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter bmother was too serious about her daughter in words cmother wrote to her daughter in careful words dmother wrote to her daughter in careless words58the underlined word “gulf” in the passage means_. adeep understanding between the old and the young bdifferent ideas between mother and daughter cfree talks between mother and daughter dpart of the sea going far in land59what did mother do with her daughters letter asking for forgiveness? ashe had never received the letter.bfor years, she often talked about the letter. cshe didnt forgive her daughter at all in all her life. dshe read the letter again and again till she died.60whats best title of the passage? amy letter to mother bmother and children cmy mothers desk dtalks between mother and me d thirteen vehicles lined up last march to race across the mojave desert, seeking a million in prize money. to win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part drivers. darpa, the defense advanced research projects agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. but the grand challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. one had its brake lock up in the starting area. another began by throwing itself onto a wall. another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles. one turned upside down. one took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote control. one went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. the “winner,” if there was any; reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long, narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire. “you get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things,” says reinhold behringer, who helped design two of the car-size vehicles for a company called sci-autonics. “even ants can do all these tasks effortlessly . its very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.” the robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and gps guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately, sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when theres a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. she is more advanced, even months old, than any machine humans have designed. 61.watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because athey did not have any human guidance bthe road was not familiar to the drivers cthe distance was too long for the vehicles dthe prize money was unattractive to the drivers 62.darpa organized the race in order to .araise money for producing more robotic vehicles bpush the development of vehicle industry ctrain more people to drive in the desert dimprove the vehicles for future wars 63from the passage we know “robotic vehicles” are a kind of machines that acan do effortlessly whatever tasks living thing can bcan take part in a race across 142 miles with a time limit ccan show off their ability to turn themselves upside down dcan move from place to place without being driven by human beings 64in the race, the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered was aabout eight miles bsix miles calmost two miles dabout one mile 65in the last paragraph, the writer implies that there is a long way to go afor a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties bfor a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table cfor a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve dfor a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face 第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）请阅读下列有关颜色偏好和性格关系的应用文：goldaccording to the true colors system people who choose gold as their primary color like to fit in or belong. they tend to be reliable people who enjoy serving others. things like tradition, home are very important to them. they need order and structure. they dont like waste or change.orangepeople who choose orange as their primary color need a lot of variety and freedom. they take pride in being highly skilled. they enjoy “hand-on” work and often are good in a crisis. they are risk taker, seeking challenges.yellowpeople who choose yellow as their primary color are curious about everything. they are confident and knowledgeable. they love sports very much and they work high efficiently.greenpeople who choose green as their primary color are competent and want to control the realities of life. they are an