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20112012学年度第二学期期中试题 高 二 英 语 2012.4说明：1 本试卷分为卷和卷两部分。卷111页，卷1213页。2 试卷满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。3 请将答案写在答题卡和答题纸上，在试卷上作答无效。4 考试结束后，仅将答题卡和答题纸交回。卷 选择题 第一部分【听力理解】（共两节，2分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）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。例：What is the man going to read?AA newspaper.BA magazine.CA book.答案是A。1Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?AHusband and wife.BEmployer and Employee.CMother and son.2Whats the weather forecast?AThere will be heavy fog in all areas.BThere will be heavy fog in the east.CThere will be fog in all areas by midnight.3What did the man do last night?AHe watched a game.BHe lost a game.CHe missed a game.4Whats the woman worried about?AJoan wont come to the conference.BJoan may be late for the opening speech.CJoan will miss the next conference.5What are they talking about?AThe fight against a flood.BFloods of the past twenty years.CThe effects of the flood.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）听下面6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，每小题将给出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6至7题。6What do you think is the woman?AA student.BA clerk.CA nurse.7Why would she like to find an apartment?AShe needs more time to study.BShe is afraid to go home at night.CShe wants to have some trip.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8Which copy of the New Yorker does the man buy?AThe latter one.BThe last one.CThe latest one. 9How much does the man pay in all?A$ 1.B$ 3.50.C$ 2.50.听第8段材料，回答第10至11题。10How did the woman feel about the result of the game?ACheerful.BExcited.CDisappointed.11How did the man play in the game?AHe tried his best, but he failed.BHe didnt try his best, so he failed.CHe gave up trying, so he failed.听第9段材料，回答第12至14题。12Where does this conversation most likely take place?AIn the street.BAt home.CAt the airport.13If you travel by CAAC, how much do you need to pay for one way?A2,000 pounds.B1,000 pounds.C1,200 pounds.14How long does the flight take by British Airways?A30 hours.B13 hours.C40 hours.听第10段材料，回答第15至17题。15How does the woman feel about the interviews with MIT?APuzzled.BNervous.CSatisfied.16What course is Michigan famous for?ALaw.BHistory.CMedicine.17What does the man want to be?AA journalist.BA historian.CA doctor.听第11段材料，回答第18至20题。18What is the speaker talking about?AHer unique experience.BHe future.CHer favorite job.19What does the speaker want most?AIndependence.BGood luck.CA good relationship.20What will the speaker most probably do in the future?ARemain single.BLive an empty life.CEarn a lot of money.第二部分【知识运用】（共两节，40分）第一节 单项填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）21The boy _ his father to the hospital yesterday.AcompanyBaccompanyCcompaniedDaccompanied22Although a teenager, Fred could resist _ what to do and what not to do.Abeing toldBtellingCto be toldDto tell23In many parents mind, _ famous universities will be the only way to realize their childrens dream.AattendBattendedCattendingDhaving attended24Police have _ to the public to come forward with any information which might help them in their inquiries.AconvincedBconveyedCattachedDappealed25When I got home, I found the door open. A terrible thought _ mehad anyone broken into the house? Abeat Bknocked Cappeared DStruck26Did you have a hard journey back home?Yes, it _ for four days when I arrived and all the roads _ covered with ice.Asnowed; wereBwas snowing; had beenChad snowed; had beenDhad been snowing; were27 I _ so busily recently that I _ no time to help you with your math. Thats OK. I can manage it by myself.Ahave been working; haveBhave worked; hadCam working; will haveDhad been working; had had28Playing video games can make children violent and _ attention disorders. So children who play video games a lot seem to have more trouble in school.Aresult inBresult fromClie inDcome about29 What _ when I phoned you? I _ my work, and I wanted to go out.Ahave you done; finishedBwere you doing; have finishedCdid you do; had just finishedDwere you doing; had just finished30_ the weather, the press conference will still be held on time.AInstead ofBIn relation to CRegardless ofDOn behalf of31Girls are sometimes _ from studying subjects like engineering and physics.AencouragedBdiscouragedCforbiddenDadvised32I think he deserves the award.I agree with you_.Ain a wayBon the wayCby the wayDin the way 33If one is caught _ in public places, he will _ at once.Asmoking; fineBsmoking; be finedCto smoke; fineDto smoke; be fined34I really dont know how he _ that out. I believe nobody told him about it.AgotBfiguredCwatchedDpulled35We cant wait. We have to _ the direction and the distance before we take action.Amake outBpick outCthink outDturn out36We should praise those students who have later _ and made progress.Acaught onBcaught atCcaught upDcounted on37He didnt think about feeding the dog because he had his mind _ more important things.AinBonCtoDover38Native Americans from the southeastern part of _ is now the United States believed that the universe in which they lived was made up of three worlds.AthatBwhichCwhereDwhat39Tomorrow is Toms birthday. Have you got any idea _ the party is to be held?AwhatBwhichCthatDwhere40When asked _ they needed most, the kids said they wanted to feel important and loved.AwhomBwhyCwhatDwhich第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从4160各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项Im an operating engineer, running crane in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had 41 the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started 42 our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come 43 and get on the 44 list.The next morning I went down to the 45 at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I 46 the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to 47 me, and that I would stay in 48 with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to 49 the rest of the way.And somewhere in there I became 50 that I was going into something I 51 . I once worked there in 1966 for the 52 of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten 53 tall. And it was burning. I started to ask 54 in which my crane might be 55 a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didnt know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had 56 the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people 57 them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely 58 . I didnt even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my 59 and said, “Oh, my God, Im going to 60 .”Then I settled down a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”41AnoticedBreachedChitDpassed42AfindingBmakingCgettingDlosing43AawayBnearCinDdown44AvolunteerBsoldierCpoliceDfireman45AcompanyBhotelCcenterDhome46AansweredBmadeCheardDgot47AmissBforgetCstopDexpect48ApeaceBtouchCsilenceDanger49AwalkBcompleteCcancelDsmooth50AdelightedBfrightenedCsurprisedDinterested51AbuiltBmetCdesignedDhad52AconstructionBplanCdestructionDuse53AmilesBmetresCstoriesDfloors54AwaysBnumbersCpositionDdirections55AasBwhyCwhenDbecause56AdrivenBletCaskedDenjoyed57ApushingBgivingCholdingDpicking58AdangerousBurgentCemergentDimportant59AviewBsightCbreathDsense60AleaveBdieCremainDwork第三部分【阅读理解】（共20题，40分）AWhen milk arrived on the doorstepWhen I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldnt take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note - “Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery” - and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to out house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldnt freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch （门廊）. Every so often my sons friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.61Mr Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _.Ato show his magical power.Bto pay for the delivery.Cto satisfy his curiosity.Dto please his mother.62What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boys house?AHe wanted to have tea there. BHe was a respectable person.CHe was treated as a family member. DHe was fully trusted by the family.63Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?ANobody wants to be a milkman now.BIt has been driven out of the market.CIts service is getting poor. DIt is forbidden by law.64Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?AHe missed the good old days. BHe wanted to tell interesting stories. CHe needed it for his milk bottles.DHe planted flowers in it.BWednesday, October 29,2008.The United States federal government had two young men in the state of Tennessee arrested on October 22 on unknown charges.In court documents published on Monday, it came to light that the men had discussed attacking an African American school and killing 14 of them.Another crime was about planning to murder Presidential candidate Barack Obama. According to their affidavits（口供）, the suspects “final act of violence” would be when they attacked Obama while wearing white suits and top hats and driving “their vehicle as fast as they could loward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”20090509The two suspects are Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Arkansas and Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tennessee. According to the court papers, they met last month over the Internet through a friend. Schlesselman and Cowart are believed to share “very strong views” about White Power.Schlesselman listed “being racist” as his occupation on his MySpace page. He further wrote: “Im white. Im proud. I get angry. I like guns.”Cowart also had a MySpace page on which photos of guns were presented under a heading of “My Guns”. On his page he wrote, “Better to die quick fighting on your feet than to live forever begging on your knees.”Some have questioned the pairs ability to carry out the charged plan, but authorities have been very concerned about Obama as the first black presidential candidate from a major party.“We honestly dont know if they had the ability or the skill to carry out the kind of plan that they talked about.” said Malcolm Wiley, of the United Satates Secret Service in an interview with The New York Times. “But we take any threat seriously no matter how big or how small it is.”Cowart and Schlesselman are scheduled to appear before a judge on Thursady. 65The passage is mainly about .AAmericans attitudes towards Barack ObarmaBtwo young men planning to commit violenceCthe violence in the United StatesDthe disadvantages of the Internet66From the passage, we can know that the two young men .Ashot 14 students in an African American schoolBcame from the state of TennesseeCwere proud of Barack ObamaDhave not been sentenced yet67Which of the following shows the right order of the events?aThe two suspects were arrested.bThe two suspects will be tried in the court.cCowart set up his MySpace page on the Internet.dMalcolm Wiley was interviewed by The New York Times.Aa; b; c; dBd; c; b; aCc; a; d; bDc; a; b; d68What can we infer from the news? AThe two young men strongly believed that the president should be a white man.BMost of the white people in the United States dont like Barack Obama.CThe two young men planned to shoot President Barack Obama.DThe two young men were innocent in fact.CLike distance runners on measured course, all of us will move through time in a roughly predictable pattern.In the first stage of our lives, we develop and grow, reaching toward the top of physical vitality（energy）.After we grow up, however, the body begins a process of gradually wearing out.A new awareness of physical fitness may help lengthen our years of health and vitality, yet nothing we do will work to stop the unavoidable force of aging.Most of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body. The lungs become less able to take in oxygen. Powerful muscles gradually lose their strength. The heart loses power and pumps less blood. Bones grow easier to break.Finally, we meet a stress, a stress that is greater than our physical resistance. Often, it is only a minor accident or chance infection（a disease caused by virus）, but this time, it brings life to an end.In 1932, a classic experiment nearly doubled the lifetime of rats, simply by cutting back the calories unit for measuring the energy value of food) in their diet. The reason for the effect was then unknown.Today, at the university of California at Berkley, Dr. Paul Seagle has also greatly lengthened the normal lifetime of rats. The result was achieved through a special protein（蛋白质）limited diet, which had a great effect on the chemistry of the brain. Seagle showed that within the brain, specific chemicals control many of the signals that influence aging. By changing that chemical balance, the clock of aging can be reset .For the first time, the mystery（something that is difficult to understand or to explain）of why we age is being seriously challenged. Scientists in many fields are now making striking and far-reaching discoveries.An average lifetime lasts 75 years, yet in each of us lies a potential for a longer life. If we could keep the vitality and resistance to disease that we have at age twenty, we would live for 800 years.69What does the underlined word “it” refer to?APhysical vitality.BPhysical resistance. CAging. DStress.70The author believes the following EXCEPT that .Ahumans life pattern is predictable Ball of the changes of aging take place deep inside the bodyChumans lifetime will last longer than 75 yearsDphysical fitness cant stop the force of aging71How did Dr. Paul Seagle lengthen the lifetime of rats in his experiment?ABy limiting the protein in their diet.BBy cutting the calories in their diet.CBy resetting their clock of aging.DBy keeping their physical fitness.72What is probably the best title for the article?ATwo Great ExperimentsBThe Mystery of Human LifeCWays to lengthen Human LifeDThe Breakthrough in the Study of AgingDPeople have been painting pictures for about 30,300 years . The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals . They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill . Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain . No one knows why they were painted there . Perhaps the painters thought their pictures would help them to catch these animals . Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures .About 5000 years ago , the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing . They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas , and also the sounds of their language . The signs these people used became a kind of special alphabet（字母）. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting pictures and signs together . When and important person died , scenes and stories from his his life were painted on the walls of the place where he was buried . For Egyptians , picture had magic power , so they did not make their way of writing simple . The ordinary people could not understand it .Bu the year 1 , 000 BC , people who lived near the M