高二英语下册期中模块调研测试题4.doc

清华北大家教中心 家教电话：01062561255 2011-2012学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题第卷（三部分，共115分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分。)请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。 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. When will Dr.Smith come back? A. On Wednesday. B. On Thursday. C. On Friday.2.What is the man? A. A teacher. B. A doctor. C. A waiter.3. What can we learn about the man?A. He enjoys reading letters. B. He has been job-hunting. C. He is offering the woman a job.4. How is the woman going to the airport? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By train.5. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. At home. B. In a shop. C. At a clinic. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 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，各个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 昕第6段材料。回答第6至8题。 6.What is the relationship between the two speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Close friends. C. Strangers. 7. Whats the mans feeling? A. Surprised. B. Unhappy. C. Curious.听第7段材料。回答第9至11题。8. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. At a bookstore. B. In an office. C. At home.9.What does the man want to buy for his daughter? A. A dress. B. A piano. C. A book.10.What is the mans daughter interested in? A. Politics. B. Music. C. Science.听第8段材料。回答第12至14题。11.What s the womans attitude toward the research? A. Curious. B. Cooperative. C. Impatient.12.What do we know about the woman? A. She spends most of her time at home. B. She works for two or three days a month. C. She uses her computer quite a lot.1 3.Whats the mans last question about? A. The womans salary. B. The womans age. C. The womans family.听第9段材料。回答第15至17题。14. Whats the womans trouble?A. There is no hot water in her room. B. She is late for her breakfast. C. The air-conditioner isnt working.15. Whats the mans suggestion for the woman? A. Get dressed and wash her hair. B. Turn the handle to the left. C. Wait for hot water to come.16. Who would go to help her in the end? A. The man at the front desk. B. The engineer . C. Someone next door.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。17Whats the weather like today? A Hot and wet B Cold and windy C Wet and cold 18.What will happen on Saturday evening? A. It will get hotter. B. There will be a storm. C. There will be heavy rain all over the state.19.Whats special on Sunday evening?A. There will be a light shower. B Something shining will rush across the sky. CIt will be cloudy.20.When is this report probably announced? A. On Sunday. B. On Saturday C. On Friday.第二部分：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。21. .What do you think of our new partner?Oh, he is _ easy-going person. Its _ pleasure to work with him.A. a; a B. a; the C. an; / D. an; a22. It was strongly recommended that he _ a holiday to relieve pressure. A. took B. takes C. take D. could take23. _I enjoy the book with some nice pictures, I dont have enough money to buy it.ASince BWhile CAs DIf24. It is the first time Tom_such a big opening ceremony.A. had attended B. attended C. has attended D. should attend25. A government official was murdered last Friday and the police are collecting information that is_to the case.A. relevant to B. similar to C.devoted to D. addicted to26. I dont like the way _ he talked to his mother. A. that B. which C. in that D. what27. The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running, _meant spending tens of thousands of poundsA. who B. that C. as D. which28. This is a famous ancient Chinese painting a real story that happened in Han Dynasty. A take on B based on C depended on D lived on 29. with his business, Mr.Green seldom had a talk with his family face to face. A. Occupying B. Occupied C. Being occupied D. To be occupied30. Xie Na is _ as a TV presenter but she doesnt have _ in managing a clothes shop. A. success, many experiences B. a success, much experienceC. great success, an experience D. a great success, a lot of experiences31. I counted sheep, I drank milk and I tried everything, but nothing helped.It seems you _ too much recently. Try some sleeping pills.A. workedB. will be workingC. had workedD. have been working 32. I have no money, so a new bicycle is _. A. out of the question B. out of question C. without question D. beyond question33. I finally persuaded her to see the new film “If You Are The One II” directed by Mr. Feng, _ she didnt want to. A. even if B. now that C. so that D. as if 34. Not until _ home _ her appointment with the doctor. A. she arrived; did she remember B. did she arrive; that she rememberC. she arrived; when she remembered D. did she arrive; had she remembered35.- If he does you a favour, you should do him a favour. - I cant agree more. _.A. One good turn deserves another C. Justice has long armsB. One false move may lose the game D. Lies have short legs第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。 Around 5:30 p.m., I was on the bus one day and everybody on the bus was quiet. People had just 36 from work, students had just finished their 37 class and everybody was a little 38 from a long day. It wasnt a particularly good day for me as I was feeling quite tired too. I was just looking outside of the 39 without any specific thought in my mind. It was the same 40 I had seen many times before, people hurrying home. In front of me, there was a guy sitting in the seat who didnt look too clean. 41 he was looking out of the window, the guy suddenly 42 to me and pointed at something outside. Hey, look. He had a big smile on his face. I turned to the 43 he was pointing to and there it was - the beautiful Catalina mountains burning with a beautiful 44 . The mountains were coated with bright pink light and shadows. He turned to other people on the bus and told them to look at the mountains. He 45 Wow and Its so beautiful again and again. Everybody on the bus 46 the views indeed. The 47 view also helped me to 48 my long tiring day with a good feeling in my heart. But, more 49 , I was so inspired to see that this man wanted to 50 the beautiful view with everybody on the bus, total strangers. His 51 act made me accidentally find something that I had lost which I didnt even know I had lost. He made me 52 that I had lost the feelings and the excitement I 53 have everyday. In my daily life, many things had 54 their color and movement. But he 55 me that things are still there - they never get lost.36A. gone by B. got off C. given up D. taken up 37A morning B. important C. last D. boring 38A. excited B. tired C. puzzled D. disappointed39A. window B. classroom C. mountain D. city 40A. people B. bus C. trouble D. view 41A. So B. Once C. As D. If42A. referred B. attended C. turned D. objected43A. finger B. driver C. direction D. sky 44A. sunset . B. memory C. sunrise D. journey 45A. wrote B. followed C. discussed D. repeated 46A. enjoyed B. impressed C. described D. recorded 47A. amazing B. full C. same D. simple 48A. save B. hate C. challenge D. end 49A. fortunately B. naturally C. beautifully D. importantly50A. share B. connect C. compare D. comment51A. final B. kind C. violent D. direct 52A. decide B. believe C. realize D. learn 53A. used to B. was used to C. got used to D. used 54A. increased B. showed C. faded D. lost55 A. warned B. reminded C. advised D. persuaded第三部分、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 第一节、请阅读下列短文，从每题给出的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。ADo you want to have a lot of close friends? In order to make it happen, you must do a lot of things right. You will learn tips on how to build a solid friendship.You should be extra respectful when you are at others homes. For example, you must not make unpleasant comments about them. Once when I was at the house of a friend as a high school senior, I told him he had feet that looked funny while he had his socks off in his bedroom. He rebutted(反驳),“If youre going to make fun of my feet, you can leave.You must be a person of your word. For example, if you say you will do something for or with your friend, you must follow up on it.You must respect people other than your friends.This includes respecting your friends family members and being polite to others in general.It is helpful to be supportive. You should try to provide help when your friends need it.You should understand them. Even if you do not agree with some of the things they do, you should show an understanding of why they do them and offer advice while avoiding telling them they are at fault for their problems.You must be caring. You must put care into the things you do for them and show concern for their troubles. Having a good attitude is a must. You must avoid being combative(好斗的)as well as being sad or mad too often.Take these tips to build solid friendships!56The purpose of the passage is to_.A.explain why people need close friendsB.teach us how to build a solid friendshipC.show us how important close friendship isD.let people know more about friendships57What did the author mainly want to show by mentioning his friend in high shool?A.Friends should respect one another.B.There is no perfect person in the world.C.Making fun of friends is unpleasant.D.Its impossible to take off ones socks before others.58The underlined part “be a person of your word in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by“ _.A.make your promiseB.keep your promiseC.be a responsible personD.be an honest personB.The fiddler crab (蟹) is a living clock. It shows the time of day by the colour of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crabs changing colour follows a regular twentyfour hour plan that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun. Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply answer to the suns rays, changing colour according to the amount of light strikes it? To find out, biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight, the crabs skin colour continued to change exactly on time. This characteristic probably developed gradually in answer to the daily rising and setting of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regulated (受控制) inside the living body of the crab. The biologists noticed that once each day the colour of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this happens fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides (潮水). The crabs period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!59The fiddler crab is like a clock because it changes colour _. A in a regular 24hour rhythm B. in answer to the suns rays C. at low tide D. every fifty minutes60The crabs changing colour _. A. tells the crab what time it is B. protects the crab from the sunlight and enemies C. keeps the crab warm D. is of no real use61The crabs colourchanging ability was probably developed _. A. in the process of evolution (进化) B. over millions of years C. by the work of biologists D. both A and B62The best title for this selection would be _. A. The Sun and the Tides B. Discoveries in Biology C. A scientific Study D. A Living ClockC.When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at bed and breakfast houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories. “We didnt stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.” I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought VACANCIES meant holidays, because the Spanish word for holidays” is vacaciones. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said VACANCLES, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said NO VACANCLES, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels! We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word DIVERSION means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word DIVERSION on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold. English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more. coffee, I said Thank you in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that Thank you in French means No, thank you.63My Spanish friends wanted advice about _. A. learning English B. finding places to stay in England C. driving their car on English roads D. going to England by car64I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because _. A. they would be able to practise their English B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner D. there would be no problem about finding accommodation there65“NO VACANCIES” in English means _.A. no free rooms B. free rooms C. not away on holiday D. holidays66When someone offered me more coffee and I said Thank you in French, I _. A didnt really want any more coffee B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away C. really wanted some more coffee D. hadnt finished drinking my coffeeD.The Writers Strike：Making the Best of the WorstBy now you are probably feeling the effects of the TV writers strikethe decision of television writers to stop working. With few new TV shows, I present to you a list of shows available on DVD worth your viewing time to keep you going during this painful period.Arrested Development is one of the funniest and most clever shows ever to have appeared on network TV. With a most perfect cast, the show sets out to cover the daily happenings of the Bluth family, a group of selfish staff who manage to still put family first.For more comedy goodness, I recommend one of the sharpest comedies to have ever aired30 Rock. Starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin, two stars with impressive comic timing，the show gives you a glimpse into the making of a sketch show(幽默短剧), similar to Saturday Night Live, from the funny writers to the selfcentered cast all the way up to the boss. If you are looking for something more serious, or perhaps more juicy, Friday Night Lights might be more to your liking. If you are a fan of football, this show is probably for you. If you are a fan of great drama，both soapy and serious，this show is probably for you. If you are a fan of goodlooking people, this show is definitely for you.If those shows were not enough for you, might I recommend a show with a more heartpounding excitement? The Amazing Race, after twelve seasons, still remains one of the most exciting shows on TV. Teams of two travel the globe with little to no money and experience farout adventures in an attempt to remain the last team standing.67If you are fond of soapy TV shows, you will probably choose to watch_.AFriday Night LightsB30 RockCThe Amazing RaceDSaturday Night Live68From the DVD shows listed above, we can learn that_.Atwo teams won the amazing raceBfootball fans enjoy The Amazing RaceCthe Bluths care about their family though selfishD30 Rock and Saturday Night Live have nothing in common69The author writes the passage to tell us that_.Athe effects of the TV writers strike are greatBthe strike puts TV shows in the worst situationCwatching DVD is a good choice during the strikeDwe should choose DVD shows according to our tastes70