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2012-2013学年度下学期北镇高中高二期中考试英语试题第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）从a、b、c、d四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。1. im sorry that i cant attend your party, because i have had another important _. a. appointmentb. conferencec. acquaintanced. exhibition2. why do you suggest lijiang? i believe the beauty of _ nature there will leave _ excellent impression on you.a. the; anb. /; /c. the; thed. /; an3. which color do you think _ me best? in my opinion, you look nice in yellow.a. fitsb. meetsc. satisfiesd. suits4. in our school, students are asked to come to school _, and those late for school will be punished. a. immediatelyb. quicklyc. punctuallyd. adequately 5. you see, im poor in maths, you are not good at english, and thats _ we should help each other. a. whenb. wherec. howd. what6. whats the matter with your boyfriend? i cant stand _ when he often ignores me and talks with other girls. a. oneb. thatc. himd. it7. this is the book _ in the 1880s, which greatly influenced peoples view about the world.a. put outb. put offc. come offd. come out 8. she hadnt expected her science fiction, _ for children, was also well received by adults. a. intendedb. intendingc. to intendd. having intended 9. i was driving half-way when a terrible thought suddenly_to me-had i locked the door?a. occurredb. hitc. struckd. appeared 10. seldom _ computer games ever since he entered college. a. did he playb. has he playedc. he playedd. he has played11. -gaddafi was killed yesterday. -really? he finally deserves _he gets.a. howeverb. whoeverc. whateverd. whichever12. i paid a visit to shanghai world expo last week. great! you _ an interesting experience.a. should have hadb. must have hadc. might have hadd. can have had13. your room is in a mess. oh, im too busy these days. it _ for three weeks.a. wasnt cleanedb. didnt cleanc. hasnt been cleanedd. hasnt cleaned14. when he looked up, he suddenly found himself _ by a group of teenagers, _ looked at him anxiously. a. to be surrounded; whichb. surrounded; whoc. be surrounded; whod. having been surrounded; which15. i need to get changed. _! well be late for the party.a. oh, come onb. go aheadc. take it easyd. its a pity 第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。an old farmer lived on a farm with his young grandson. each morning, the 16 would get up early and read his bhagavad gita. his grandson tried to 17 him in every way he could.one day the grandson asked, “grandpa! i try to read the bhagavad gita just like you 18 i can not understand it, and i forget as soon as i close the book. whats the 19 of reading it?”the grandfather said, “take this coal basket down to the 20 and bring me back a basket of water.” the boy did as he was told, but all the water ran 21 he got to the house. the grandfather laughed and said, “youll have to move a little 22 next time”, and the boy went to the bank with the basket to try again.this time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was 23 . he told his grandfather that it was 24 to carry water in a basket. so he went to get a bucket instead. the old man said, “i just want a basket of water. youre not 25 hard enough.”at this point, the boy wanted to 26 his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would 27 out.the boy again dipped the 28 into river and ran hard. but when he reached his grandfather, there wasnt anything in the basket again. 29 , he said, “look, grandpa, its useless!”“do you really think so?” the old man said. “look at the basket.”the boy looked at the basket and for the first time he 30 that the basket was different. it had been 31 from a dirty old coal basket into a(n) 32 one, inside and out.“son, thats what you 33 when you read the bhagavad gita. you might not understand or remember 34 , but when you read it, you will be 35 , inside and out.”16. a. dadb. momc. grandma d. grandpa17. a. observeb. imitatec. challenge d. love18. a. butb. thereforec. otherwise d. since19. a. interestb. evidencec. good d. impression20. a. templeb. peakc. plain d. bank21. a. afterb. beforec. until d. as22. a. fartherb. earlierc. better d. faster23. a. dirtyb. straightc. empty d. magical24. a. automatic b. immediate c. unnecessary d. impossible25. a. learning b. making c. favoring d. trying26. a. show b. enter c. make d. keep27. a. flyb. leakc. move d. boil28. a. basketb. bucketc. hand d. body29. a. especiallyb. adequatelyc. apparently d. desperately30. a. knewb. sawc. recognized d. realized31. a. developedb. transformedc. escaped d. protected32. a. cleanb. beautifulc. new d. outstanding33. a. lostb. obtainedc. needed d. captured34. a. somethingb. nothingc. everything d. anything35. a. fancyb. satisfiedc. different d. tired第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 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。a technology helps people do everything from planning to meet for a movie to keeping in touch with a friend who lives in a different country. when planning to get together with friends, julian said, “if i want to go and see a movie with a few friends, i usually send them text messages. by telephone, you have to call every single friend one by one. but text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many people as youd like, which saves a lot of time.” email, im, and other low-cost methods of communication also help people keep long-distance friendships in ways they couldnt have even a few years ago. mike told us, “i had this friend when i was 8 or 9, and then she moved away to the country. we promised to stay friends and to send letters, and at the start we did. then the letters got fewer and fewer and we at last stopped writing to each other. i think if we had had email, we would still be in touch.” james found out about cost the hard way. he said, “i called my friend in new zealand, which is halfway around the world, and it cost me over $200! so now i just stay up late to see if i can catch him on msn or i write an email.” email, im, and other low-cost ways of keeping in touch also allow people to develop brief acquaintances into long-lasting friendships. andrea told us, “i met this really cool girl. we sometimes email each other. weve been in touch over half a year and its nice to talk to her.”36. what is this passage mainly about? a. technology has improved greatly.b. technology can help our social lives. c. technology keeps far-away friends close.d. text messages bring advantages to our life.37. how does julian usually get in touch with a group of friends? a. by emailing themb. by chatting with them on msn c. by sending them text messagesd. by giving them a phone call.38. in mikes opinion, he lost touch with his friend mainly because _. a. they lost interest in keeping in touchb. their friendship was not strong enough c. they were too busy to write to each otherd. they couldnt use email to keep in touch then39. what does james most probably think of calling his friend in new zealand? a. convenient.b. costlyc. difficultd. necessary40. the writer uses andreas story to show that_. a. everyone can make good use of technology b. long-lasting friendships can be gained anywhere c. there are many kinds of ways of keeping in touch d. it is easier to make new friends than before due to technologyba texas-sized piece of the antarctic ice sheet is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the worlds oceans to rise significantly, polar ice experts said on wednesday.they said “surprisingly rapid changes” were occurring in antarcticas amundsen sea embayment, which faces the southern pacific ocean, but that more study was needed to know how fast it was melting and how much it could cause the sea level to rise.学校班级姓 名考 号装 订 线 内 不 要 答 卷the warning came in a joint statement issued at the end of a conference of u.s. and european polar ice experts at the university of texas in austin.the scientists blamed the melting ice on changing winds around antarctica that they said were causing warmer waters to flow beneath ice shelves.the wind change, they said, appeared to be the result of several factors, natural variability.the thinning in the two-mile-thick ice shelf is being observed mostly from satellites, but it is not known how much ice has been lost because data is difficult to obtain on the remote ice shelves, they said.study is focusing on the amundsen sea embayment because it has been melting quickly and holds enough water to raise world sea levels six meters, or close to 20 feet, the scientists said.“the place where the biggest change is occurring is the amundsen sea embayment,” said donald blankenship of the university of texas institute for geophysics.“one, its changing, and two, it can have a big impact,” he said in a webcast with a number of conference participants.other parts of the continent were also losing ice, he said, but generally not as quickly.41. according to scientists, the certain factor to cause the antarcticas ice shelves to get thinner is _.a. natural variability b. the changing winds c. ozone depletion d. global warming 42. what we cant be sure about at present is _. a. what has caused the ice shelves to melt b. whether the ice shelves are really meltingc. how fast the ice sheet is melting d. where the ice melting is occurring 43. we can infer from the passage that _.a. ice melting only occurs in antarctica b. the amundsen sea embayment is the remote ice shelfc. the whole sea level has risen by about 20 feetd. people has been paying close attention to the change of antarctica44. which is the best title for this passage?a. antarctic ice sheet thinning b. global warming quickening c. antarctica in danger d. what is to blame?csend us your joke, anecdote or story, and if we publish it in the magazine, well pay as follows:my story $500 personal stories beyond the call of daily life. they must be unpublished, original and less than 1000 words. click here to read more stories.kindness of strangers up to $250 true accounts of good karma, inspiring acts for unexpected kindness and generosity, or just something someone did that made your dayor changed your life. 100-500 words. click here to read more stories.anecdotes and jokes $50-$250 funny things can happen at work and at homeespecially when kids are around to pass comment. we may run your writing in lifes like that, all in a days work or as kids see it, or as a short filler. got a new joke? send it in forlaughter, the best medicine. click here to read more jokes.send us your punchline（妙语）so you think of yourself as a bit of a jokester? see if you can come up with punchline to this months jokeyou said itif youd like to comment on something you saw in readers digest magazine or on this website, this is the place to do it!is it just mecan you be humorous about the trials and mysteries of modern life? get it off your chest in 500 words. click here to read more stories.45. this passage is written to _.a. offer some wonderful stories to readersb. encourage people to write somethingc. show that making money is not difficultd. remind people that life is full of joy46. which of the following statements is true according to the passage?a. the magazine is mainly intended for entertainment.b. the more words you write, the more money you get.c. anecdotes and jokes isnt paid much attention to.d. new jokes can be sent in for lifes like that.47. where can you most probably see this passage?a. in a library. b. in a magazine. c. in a story book. d. on a website.d its never easy to admit you are in the wrong. being human, we allneed to know the art of apologizing. look back with honesty and think how often youve judged roughly, said unkind things, pushed yourself ahead at the expense of a friend. then count the occasions when you indicated clearly and truly that you were sorry. a bit frightening, isnt it? frightening because some deep wisdom in us knows that when even a small wrong has been committed, some mysterious moral feeling is disturbed, and it stays out of balance until fault is acknowledged and regret expressed.i remember a doctor friend, clarence lieb，telling me about a man who came to him with a variety of signs: headaches, insomnia（失眠症）and stomach trouble. no physical cause could be found. finally dr. lied said to the man, “unless you tell me whats worrying you, i cant help you.” after some hesitation, the man confessed that, as executor of his fathers will, he had been cheating his brother, who lived abroad, of his inheritance(继承权). then and there the wise old doctor made the man write to his brother asking forgiveness and enclosing a cheque as the first step in restoring their good relation. he then went with him to the mailbox in the corridor. as the letter disappeared, the man burst into tears. “thank you,” he said, “i think im cured.” and he was. a heartfelt apology can not only heal a damaged relationship but also make it stronger. if you can think of someone who deserves an apology from you, someone you have wronged, or judged too roughly, or just neglected, do something about it right now.48. when we have done something wrong, we should_. a. look honest and think over the fault carefullyb. go to a doctor c. admit the fault and express the regretd. forgive ourselves49. what will happen if we have done something wrong? a. our logic of thinking will be disturbedb. we shall be sad c. we shall apologize at onced. our moral balance will be disturbed50. what exactly was the patients trouble? a. the losing of a friend.b. headaches, insomnia and stomachaches. c. something wrong with his conscience.d. some unknown physical weakness.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。students in our school have one thing in commonan interest in sports. according to their different intentions of taking part in sports, they fall into three groups.many students go to the playground when they feel tired after a few hours of study. these students put much morestress on their study efficiency than on the fun of sports, they just want to go back to their classrooms from the playground with a clearer and quicker mind. _51_most of them choose long- distance running, the kind of exercise which few real sports enthusiasts like. so this group of students can be well labeled as study-oriented participants.students that make up the second group are real sports lovers. sometimes they even put aside their studies for a match. they take part in the sport that interests them most, not caring whether it is most beneficial to their health._52_ the third group want beauty from sports. boys want to become strong and good-looking; girls want to be slim and graceful. _53_they are very careful in choosing the kind of exercise they do, and are afraid that certain sports may ruin their figures. horizontal bars and parallel bars are the boys choice, and the hula hoop is now the girls favorite. _54_55_if you look around the campus, you will find that bookworms have disappeared, and, instead, there are healthy, strong, clever, modernized students everywhere.a. some students take sports regularly for interest. b. they may be called fun-oriented sports participants.c. some people seem to think that sports are unimportant things.d. no matter which group we belong to, we all benefit from sports. e. the appropriate name for this group may be beauty - oriented sports participants.f. thus they dont actually care whether they can enjoy themselves on the playground.g. those who consider sports the only way of reducing weight also belong to this group.第三部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 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。错误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。i still remember my middle school life in tianjin