湖北省荆州市2012-2013学年高二英语上学期期中考试

用心 爱心 专心 1 湖北省荆州市湖北省荆州市 2012 20132012 2013 学年高二英语上学期期中考试学年高二英语上学期期中考试 第一部分 听力 共两节 满分第一部分 听力 共两节 满分 3030 分 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 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 并标在试卷的相应处 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 How does the man know the way to the airport A He is a local citizen B He learned it from someone else C He has been to the city several times 2 What is John probably doing A Playing with colleagues B Doing the dishes C Cooking dinner 3 What does the woman think of the movie A Just so so B Enjoyable C Disappointing 4 Why does the man speak to the woman A He is disturbed by the music B He wants her to play the piano C He d like to play the piano himself 5 What does the man mean A He accepts the woman s request B He is unwilling to talk about work C He doesn t want to go to work tomorrow 第 2 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 请听第 6 段材料 回答第 6 至 7 题 6 Where are the speakers A At a hotel B At an airport C At the woman s house 7 What can we learn form the conversation A The woman has 6 pieces of luggage B The woman is impolite to the man C The man took the wrong luggage 请听第 7 段材料 回答第 8 至 9 题 8 Why does the woman put away the files A Mike asked her to do so B Louise was hit by them last week C She wants to buy some new ones 9 What are the speakers going to do next A To continue to arrange the files 用心 爱心 专心 2 B To buy some special stools C To go out for lunch 请听第 8 段材料 回答第 10 至 12 题 10 What do we know about the man A He wants an unfurnished house B He asks for sheets and towels C He will share the rent with others 11 What does the woman say about the house A It is in good condition B It belongs to her brother C It can only be rented for one month 12 What is the man concerned about most A The time B The facility C The price 请听第 9 段材料 回答第 13 至 16 题 13 Why did the woman come to the UK A To study on a course B To do business C To take a trip 14 What is mentioned as one of the necessary items to get a visa A The ID card B Two photos C A traveler s cheque 15 What can the woman s bank statement from the last six months prove A Her economic capability B Her spending habits C Her credit 16 When can the woman apply for a Student Visa A Half a month before she starts her studies B Two months before she starts her studies C Four months before she starts her studies 请听第 10 段材料 回答第 17 至 20 题 17 What made Hedy Lamarr famous A She sold weapons to Nazi B She played a role in Extase C She got married six times 18 Why did Hedy Lamarr leave her first husband A He didn t treat her well B She met George Antheil C She opposed Hitler 19 What did Hedy Lamarr do after she arrived in America A She acted in films B She wrote a novel C She married another man 20 What is mentioned as the greatest thing Hedy Lamarr left to people A Her book B Her invention C Her movies 第二部分 词汇知识运用 共两节 满分第二部分 词汇知识运用 共两节 满分 3030 分 分 第一节 多项选择 共 10 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 10 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 In 21st century universities in the US there is little room for traditional 用心 爱心 专心 3 literature because students feel a lot of to study science A guidance B pressure C tendency D restriction 22 Some 6 6 million tickets are through the London website over a six week period and organizers say all applications will be treated equally A enjoyable B dependable C available D comfortable 23 Public attitudes towards people with disabilities must be changed The disabled more opportunities to develop their potential A deserve B possess C reserve D acquire 24 Some American women were the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle A ignored B refused C neglected D denied 25 What should I do You should slow the bleeding by pressure to the wound until the police and ambulance arrive A squeezing B devoting C applying D providing 26 Although China has developed its economy greatly its per capital GDP is still one tenth of the United States A slightly B separately C originally D roughly 27 As technology continues to advance we must learn and adapt or we ll risk becoming a dinosaur A instantly B properly C constantly D deliberately 28 Do please your work you must concentrate on what is important for your future development A refer to B adapt to C attend to D relate to 29 The economic plan announced by the government soon after the crisis was greeted enthusiastically A in a row B for a moment C on all sides D at first sight 30 The shortage of entry level job is the main reason that more university students are business of their own right after graduation A taking up B setting up C picking up D making up 第二节 完形填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 20 分 阅读下面短文 从短文后所给各题的四个选项 A B C 和 D 中 选出最佳选项 Dear son The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health have patience and try to understand me If I get dirty when eating if I can not dress have patience and remember the hours I spent 31 it to you If when I speak to you I 32 the 用心 爱心 专心 4 same things thousand and one times do not 33 me listen to me When you were small I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story 34 you got to sleep When I do not want to have a 35 neither shame me nor scold me Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I 36 in order that you wanted to bathe When you see my 37 little about new technologies give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking 嘲弄 smile I taught you 38 to do so many things to eat good to dress well to confront life When at some moment I lose the memory or the 39 of our conversation let me have the necessary time to remember and if I cannot do it do not become nervous as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you 40 to me If ever I do not want to eat do not force me I know well 41 I need to and when not When my 42 legs do not allow me to walk give me your 43 the same way I did when you gave your first 44 And when someday I say to you that I do not want to 45 any more that I want to rest forever do not get 46 Someday you will understand Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived Some day you will discover that despite my mistakes I always wanted the 47 thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you You must not feel sad angry or impotent 无可奈何 for seeing me 48 you You must be next to me try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you 49 living Help me to walk help me to end my way with love and 50 I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you I love you Son Your father 31 A giving B teachingC coming D pointing 32 A praise B think C repeat D criticize 33 A interrupt B disturb C look D avoid 34 A when B after C since D until 35 A rest B word C shower D sleep 36 A discovered B invented C noticed D assumed 37 A knowing B fearing C enjoying D consulting 38 A what B when C how D why 39 A news B attitude C material D thread 40 A talking B listening C responding D appealing 41 A where B how C that D when 用心 爱心 专心 5 42 A tired B short C long D strong 43 A leg B ear C hand D mind 44 A step B pace C laugh D cry 45 A talk B live C write D sleep 46 A carefulB interestedC calmD angry 47 A last B first C best D most 48 A near B behind C below D against 49 A made B started C earned D found 50 A mercy B care C excuse D patience 第三部分 阅读理解 共第三部分 阅读理解 共 2020 题 每小题题 每小题 2 2 分 满分分 满分 4040 分 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 A It may not be news to parents of teenage girls but researchers have confirmed that no one can stop their 16 year old daughter from deciding how the family spends its money The willpower and determination of teenage girls give them a big say in how a family s money is spent on everything from food and meals to mobile phones and of course clothes Teenage boys did not show up at all in the analysis which was designed to find out the influence of young people on household spending The findings on the spending power of teenage girls were calculated from Office for National Statistics records of family spending during the 1980s and 1990s Researchers examined how much money went on services and leisure goods in different kinds of homes They checked spending on food restaurant meals alcohol tobacco services heating transport clothes and sports in 2 745 British families They found that teenage girls in the UK typically played an active role in family decisions about the allocation 分配 of household resources But older children those over the age of 21 who are still living with their parents appear to have no say in household decisions They also tried to calculate to what extent the bargaining power of a teenager affected family budgets Every parent knows that children even at a very early age have their own preferences with regard to consumption researchers said But children are only interested in a limited range of goods mainly sweets and toys and parents are able to use punishment to reduce their children s bargaining power or remove it When they become teenagers however girls are much more independent and they are capable of earning their own money which improves their bargaining power in family decisions 用心 爱心 专心 6 The researchers could not explain why girls have more influence over spending while the evidence for boys is much less conclusive However this study could be of great significance to market research and how marketers target children 51 From the passage we can learn that A teenage girls have more influence over family budgets than teenage boys B teenage boys don t want to decide on household spending C teenage boys have some influence over household D teenage girls have weaker willpower and determination than teenage boys 52 What does the underlined part give them a big say in the second paragraph mean A Make them dare to say something B Make them want to know C Make them say something meaningful D Make their influence stronger 53 It appears that household decisions are NOT affected by A girls living with parentsB girls over 21 C girls over 12D girls living alone 54 How can parents reduce children s bargaining power A By persuading them B By offering them sweets or toys C By threatening to punish them D By allocating household resources B B Mothers can still offer comfort even from a distance a new study has found The results show that simply hearing their mothers voice over the phone works just as well at calming the nerves of stressed children as a real life pat on the shoulder The soothing 抚慰的 effect is most likely due to the release of the hormone 荷尔蒙 oxytocin 催生素 in the brain the researchers say This love hormone is known to quell stress and is likely to be involved in social connections including those between a mother and a child Previous work has revealed that this hormone is released during physical contact with a mother But it s clear from these results that a mother s voice can have the same effect as a hug even if she isn t actually standing there said the researcher Leslie Seltzer a biological scientist Seltzer tested a group of 61 girls aged 7 to 12 by having them make an unprepared speech and solve a series of maths problems in front of a group of strangers sending their hearts racing and levels of cortisol a hormone associated with stress soaring Facing a challenge like that raises stress levels of a lot of people Once 用心 爱心 专心 7 stressed a third of the girls were comforted in person by their mothers with hugs A third of the girls watched an emotionally neutral 75 minute video The rest were handed a telephone with their mothers on the line For the girls who interacted in person or over the phone with their mothers the levels of the love hormone rose significantly and the stress marking hormone was washed away This effect didn t show up for participants who watched the video Seltzer is now testing the amount of oxytocin released with other communication methods like text messaging and hopes to see the research spread out from human subjects It s not just us of course Lots of very social species have voices she said on the one hand we are curious to see if this effect is unique to humans On the other we re hoping researchers who study vocal communication will consider looking at oxytocin release in other animals and apply it to broader questions of social behavior and evolutionary biology 55 Mothers voice over the phone can reduce children s nerves according to the study because A children can imagine their mothers hugs on the line B children enjoy their mothers voice and forget their worries C mothers are good at comforting their children even on the phone D mothers voice can promote the release of the love hormone 56 The underlined word quell in the second paragraph probably means A cause or bringB delay or direct C stop or reduceD develop or train 57 From the study we know that A the level of cortisol determines how stressed a person is B the 61 girls were divided into two groups in the research C the recent study had the same results as the previous one D watching a video is the best way to reduce one s stress 58 From the last paragraph we can conclude that A text messaging has the same effect on oxytocin release as telephoning B the effect of a mother s voice on oxytocin in animals is still not known C the effect of communication on stress is unique to humans D the research has been applied to social behavior and evolutionary biology C C After two classes I started to recognize several of the faces in each class There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask me questions about how I was liking Forks I tried to be diplomatic so 用心 爱心 专心 8 mostly I just lied a lot to appear to be skilled at dealing with people At least I never needed the map One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch She was tiny several inches shorter than my five feet four inches but her wildly curly dark hair made up a lot of the difference between our heights I couldn t remember her name so I smiled and nodded as she gossiped about teachers and classes I didn t try to keep up We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friends who she introduced to me I forgot all their names as soon as she spoke them They seemed impressed by her bravery in speaking to me The boy from England Eric waved at me from across the room It was there sitting in the lunchroom trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers that I first saw them They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room There were five of them They weren t talking and they weren t eating though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them They weren t staring at me unlike most of the other students so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an over interested pair of eyes But it was none of these things that caught and held my attention I stared because their faces so different so similar were all extremely inhumanly beautiful They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine or painted by an old master as the face of an angel It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful maybe the perfect blond girl or the bronze haired boy 59 What does the underlined word diplomatic mean A clever B smooth C honest D delight 60 From the passage we can infer that A I was really liking the new place B I had a bad memory so it s hard to remember names C I was good at making friends D I was not interested in what the girl said 61 According to the last two paragraphs why did they catch my attention A Because they looked incredibly beautiful B Because they weren t talking C Because they sat in the corner 用心 爱心 专心 9 D Because they didn t eat the food 62 According to the passage which statement is NOT true A The girl walked with me was a little short B I saw the five students for the first time C Those students sitting in the corner had finished their food D I probably wanted to know more about those five students D D The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe born 200 years ago was a poor housewife with six children and she suffered from various illnesses Driven by the hatred of slavery she found time to write Uncle Tom s Cabin which became the most influential novel in American history and caused great change both at home and abroad Today however the book has a different reputation owing to the popular image of its character Uncle Tom whose name has become a saying for a cowardly 懦弱的 black man who betrays his race But this view is wrong the original Uncle Tom was physically and morally strong an inspiration for black people and other oppressed 被压迫的 people worldwide Indeed that was why in the mid 19th century Southerners attacked Uncle Tom s Cabin as a dangerously destructive book while Northern reformers especially black people often praised it The book was influential overseas too In Russia it inspired Vladimir Lenin who recalled it as his favorite book in childhood It was the first American novel to be translated and published in China and it fueled anti slavery movements in Cuba and Brazil The book s progressive appeal was the character of Uncle Tom himself a strong man who is notable because he does not betray his race one reason he gives up escaping from his plantation 种植园 is that he doesn t want to put his fellow slaves in danger And he is finally killed because he refuses to tell his master where two runaway slaves are hiding Unfortunately these themes were lost in many of the stage versions of Uncle Tom s Cabin The play seen by more people than those who read the book remained popular up to the 1950s and still appears occasionally But in the play Stowe s revolutionary themes were drowned But it doesn t have to be that way indeed during the civil rights era it was those who most closely resembled Uncle Tom Stowe s Uncle Tom not the embarrassed one of popu