高二上册英语期中考试试卷
一、单项选择
1. —How beautiful he draws!
—Yes, the little boy has a ____ for drawing. He will be a painter_____. A . present; on timeB . gift; in timeC . power; at a timeD . sense; at one time 2. Many major economic problems ____to be solved, there is no point ____ the growth rate of this year now.
A . remaining; predictingB . remaining; to predictC . remained; predictingD . remained; to predict
3. Churchill once warned Hitler, “If you dare to invade Britain, you ____ pay for it with great cost.”
A . willB . shallC . mayD . should
4. Compared with her sister, Mary is even more ___ to, and more easily troubled by, what people think of her, so you’d better not say much before her.
A . sensibleB . sensitiveC . addictedD . available
5. It hasn’t been ___ whether food from cloned animals is really safe for humans to eat.
A . confirmedB . consideredC . turned outD . worked out 6. —Julia failed to ____ her mid-term exam. —What a pity! No wonder she is in low spirits.
A . get overB . get throughC . get acrossD . get round
7. ____the past year as an exchange student in Hong Kong, Linda appears more mature than those of her age.
A . SpendingB . Having been spentC . Having spentD . To spend
8. ____these experiments are interesting, it’s important to remember that they may not always tell us much.
A . WhileB . WhenC . AsD . Since
9. People have the belief ____ factories should produce fewer things from raw materials, ____ the supply is growing smaller and smaller.
A . which; thatB . that; of whichC . that; whoseD . which; whose 10. They were lost at sea, ____ wind and weather.
A . at the cost ofB . at the risk ofC . at the sight ofD . at the mercy of 11. It’s a pity that he failed some exams and didn’t have enough____to graduate this year.
A . creditsB . praisesC . awardsD . rewards
12. —Education shouldn’t be ____ by examination result only. —I couldn’t agree more.
A . absorbedB . measuredC . adoptedD . valued
13. ____, the shower water is no longer usable until the chemicals and wastes are removed from it.
A . Considering to be pollutedB . Considering to be pollutingC . Considering to have been pollutedD . Considering to have polluted
14. With so many ____ outside, I find it hard to focus on my work.
A . noiseB . distractionsC . distributionsD . contributions
15. ____in a poor family made Tom very diligent when he was still young. A . Brought upB . Bring upC . Being brought upD . Having brought up 16. You can weed out, delete, and _____ all the activities that don’t contribute to your goals.
A . simplifyB . combineC . digestD . eliminate
17. Most people are ____ to see themselves as being creative because they associate creativity with complexity. But creativity is simplicity.
A . reluctantB . willingC . slowD . aggressive
18. When I left the theatre, I was ________ by two men who asked me for money.
A . facedB . challengedC . confrontedD . treated
19. It’s not what we do but what we don’t do that makes us tired. In other words, the tasks we don’t complete cause the most_____.
A . anxietyB . worryC . concernD . fatigue
20. —The film we saw last week is simply fantastic. —____.I think it’s just average, nothing special.
A . I can’t agree with you moreB . With all due respectC . I beg to differD . As predicted
二、完形填空 21. 完形填空
I believe in miracles because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. ‘there’s
a1in my upper jaw, “ she said. “I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he 2I come to see you.”
Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would3to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the4of her mouth. A careful examination later5that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer. During her next appointment, I explained to her the6of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just7.”
I thought otherwise. After considerable8on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to9me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected,10treatment. About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and11.
“How are you?” I asked.
“I’m just fine, honey, ” she responded12high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures?”
Surprised to see her at all, I answered13, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”
I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had14nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone-only one small area of redness 15.
I had read of such things happening, but had16seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting17to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle,18through them we have a chance to know ourselves and
to19the miracles of one another.
Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the place for a miracle is20we choose to find it.
（1）A . cutB . woundC . painD . cancer（2）A . declaredB . suspectedC . promisedD . insisted（3）A . refuseB . continueC . manageD . attempt（4）A . cornerB . roofC . bottomD . surface（5）A . consideredB . convincedC . confirmedD . concluded（6）A . possibilityB . seriousnessC . importanceD . resolution（7）A . oldB . sickC . gladD . fine（8）A . permissionB . supportC . effortD . approval（9）A . pleaseB . persuadeC . encourageD . astonish（10）A . providedB . refusedC . receivedD . required（11）A . healthyB . optimisticC . elegantD . humorous（12）A . toB . withC . inD . by（13）A . confusedlyB . excitedlyC . impatientlyD . confidently（14）A . spreadB . reachedC . coveredD . grown（15）A . curedB . fadedC . remainedD . expanded（16）A . everB . alsoC . alreadyD . never（17）A . rarerB . easierC . happierD . closer（18）A . orB . soC . forD . yet（19）A . readB . seeC . keepD . write（20）A . whateverB . whoeverC . whereverD . whichever三、阅读理解
22. 阅读理解
For as long as we’ve known about it, humans have searched for a cure for cancer. Across the world, countless amounts of time and money have been spend on researching a way to stop the terrible disease.
But now, it seems like the answer could have been inside our own bodies the whole time.
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration in the US, a government
agency that’s responsible for healthcare, approved a new form of gene therapy that could mean the end of a certain type of cancer.
The therapy allows scientists to ‘train” the immune cells of sick patients to fight leukemia – a blood cancer that mostly affects young people.
The exciting new treatment works by removing healthy immune cells from the patient, known as T-cells, which are then altered to be able to “hunt down” cancer cells.
The cells are then put back into the patient, before they begin to get rid of the patient’s leukemia over time, similar to how the body fights off other illnesses.
‘this is truly an exciting new day for cancer patients,” Louis J. DeGennaro, president of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, said in a news release. Up until now, a drawn-out （持续很久时间的）and painful bone marrow transplant was the only option for many leukemia patients.
In this procedure, healthy blood cells are taken from a donor and placed into the sick patient, who also has to go through chemotherapy to allow their body to adjust to the new cells.
But with a recovery rate of around 83 percent–according to a news release published by the FDA–it’s hoped that the days of painful trips to the hospital, or even death, are over for leukemia sufferers.
“We’re entering a new frontier in medical innovation with the ability to reprogram a patient’s own cells to attack a deadly cancer,” FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in the release.
“New technologies such as gene and cell therapies hold the potential to transform medicine and... our ability to treat and even cure many intractable（难治的） illnesses.”
（1）Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A . Scientists take healthy immune cells from a patient and then reprogram them to help fight some cancer.B . Much time and effort have been put to stop cancerC . Scientists have now found a new form of gene therapy which can cure leukemia.D . The altered T-cells are expected to find and fight cancer cells.
（2）The underlined phrase “hurt down” can be replaced by____. A . fight off.B . cure.C . search for.D . treat. （3）It can be inferred that ____.
A . new technologies such as gene and cell therapies hold the potential to transform medicine.B . the new therapy may save leukemia patients from painful bone marrow transplant.C . the new therapy still requires blood cell donations.D . science enters a new frontier in medical innovation.
23. 阅读理解
Like many other of our lives today, education has become a global enterprise. In microcosm（微观世界）, my school is proof of how global. Monkseaton High School is an ordinary state-funded school of 850 students in the unfashionable part of northeastern England. Over the past seven years it has sent 12 students to American universities — two of them to Harvard. Monkseaton has, in turn, attracted students from other countries, including Germany and Latvia. Monkseaton now almost routinely receives inquiries from
students in Eastern European countries. Obviously, learning English is a big draw, but his pattern ofstudent movement was unheard of five years ago.
The brain drain is a universal phenomenon, and countries that don’t face up to the new reality will be losing some of their most precious resources. The northeast of England is its poorest region, and has experienced a severe loss of highly qualified professionals-to-be. Some of the most able 18-year-olds are going to other parts of Britain, even to other countries. What is happening here is happening to Britain as a whole. Most noticeably, there is a growing trend of British students taking degrees in American universities. This year the number will break the psychological barrier of 1,000 students for the first time.
And what is happening at the secondary-school level is happening to higher education. Wherever they come from, today’s students have a very different perspective on education from their parents. Because of television, the Internet and their travels, these students see the world as a much smaller place than their parents once did. They are more confident in accepting the challenge of moving from one country to another, from one culture to another; in many cases they can even apply to schools over the Internet. Students are also more aware of the overall cost of education and are looking for value for money. Plus, for many, education linked to travel is a better option than education at home.
（1）Why does the author say education has become a global enterprise? A . Monkseaton High School used to be a very unfashionable school in the
Northeast England.B . Monkseaton High School is now one of the state-funded middle schools in England.C . Monkseaton High School has sent two top students to the Harvard University in U.S.D . There is now an extensive exchange of students among different countries.
（2）What can we infer about northeast England from the passage? A . It is one of the poorest regions in England.B . It has experienced a severe loss of professionals.C . It will face a more serious brain drain in the near future.D . It is losing its young talents to other parts of the world.
（3）According to the passage, students today have different perspective from their parents on the following EXCEPT that _________________.
A . education linked to travel is much better than education at homeB . overall cost of education should be considered against money valueC . moving from one culture to another is a welcomed challengeD . the Internet is more popular and easier to access in the near future
（4）The students today tend to see the world as a much smaller place NOT because __________.
A . they are having more exposure to the television programsB . they are having easier access to the InternetC . they are having frequent travels to the other parts of the worldD . they are having better communication with their parents
（5）The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to __________. A . tell us the benefit of globalization of educationB . analyze the causes for students’ moving trend in Great BritainC . criticize the universal phenomenon
of brain drain worldwideD . draw attention to students’ moving from one country to another
24. 阅读理解
I tried not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His social worker assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee. He was short, a little fat, with the smooth facial features and thick-togued speech of Down’s Syndrome（唐氏综合症）. I thought most of my customers would be uncomfortable around Stevie, so I closely watched him for the first few weeks.
I shouldn’t have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his stubby little finger, and within a month my regular trucker customers had adopted him as their official truck stop mascot. After that, I really didn’t care what the rest of the customers thought of him. He was like a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a bread crumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got done with the table. Our only problem was persuading him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished.
Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home.
That’s why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August,
the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work. He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a heart surgery. His social worker said that people with Downs Syndrome often had heart problems at an early age and there was a good chance he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back at work in a few months.
A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery, and doing fine. Frannie, my head waitress, did a little dance when she heard the good news. Belle Ringer, one of our regular trucker customers, stared at her and asked, “Okay, Frannie, what was that all about?”
“We just got word that Stevie is out of surgery and going to be okay.” “I was wondering where he was. I had a new joke to tell him. What was the surgery about?”
Frannie quickly told Belle Ringer and the other two drivers sitting at his booth about Stevie’s surgery, then sighed: “Yeah, I”m glad he is going to be OK,” she said. “But I don’t know how he and his Mom are going to handle all the bills. From what I hear, they”re barely getting by as it is.”
Belle Ringer nodded thoughtfully, and Frannie hurried off to wait on the rest of her tables.
After the morning rush, Frannie walked into my office. She had a couple of paper napkins in her hand.
“What’s up?” I asked.
“I cleared off that table where Belle Ringer and his friends were sitting
after they left, and I found this. This was folded and tucked under a coffee cup.”
She handed the napkin to me, and three $20 bills fell onto my desk when I opened it. On the outside, in big, bold letters, was printed “something For Stevie”.
That was three months ago. Today is New Year’s day, the first day Stevie is supposed to be back to work. His placement worker said he had been counting the days until the doctor said he could work, I arranged to have his mother bring him to work, met them in the parking lot and invited them both to celebrate his day back. I took him and his mother by their arms. “To celebrate you coming back, breakfast for you and your mother is on me.”
I led them toward a large corner booth. I could feel and hear truck customers and the rest of the staff following behind as we marched through the dining room. We stopped in front of the big table. Its surface was covered with coffee cups and dinner plates, all sitting slightly on dozens of folded paper napkins.
“First thing you have to do, Stevie, is clean up this mess,” I said. Stevie looked at me, and then pulled out one of the napkins. It had ‘something for Stevie” printed on the outside. As he picked it up, two $10 bills fell onto the table. Stevie stared at the money, then at all the napkins peeking from beneath the tableware, each with his name printed on it.
I turned to his mother. “There’s more than $10,000 in cash and checks on that table, all from truckers and trucking companies that heard about your
problems. Happy Thanksgiving!”
While everybody else was busy shaking hands and hugging each other, Stevie, with a big, big smile on his face, was busy clearing all the cups and dishes from the table.
（1）Why did the author have doubts about hiring Stevie?
A . Because Stevie was not that reliable.B . Because Stevie was mentally disabledC . Because Stevie was too short and fat.D . Because Stevie was bad-tempered
（2）By saying the underlined sentence in Para 3, the author meant that the money she paid Stevie____
A . could help Stevie out of the troubleB . couldn’t thoroughly solve Stevie’s problemC . could make a great difference to Stevie’s lifeD . could send Stevie to a group home
（3）Why did Frannie sigh after she got word that Stevie would be OK? A . She was worried that the owner would fire Stevie.B . She was worried about Stevie’s health.C . She was worried abourt Stevie’s finance problem.D . She was worried that no one would help Stevie.
（4）Stevie was popular among the staff and customers in the restaurant because of____.
A . his special appearance.B . his hard work and optimism.C . his funny speeches and actions.D . his kind-hearted behaviour.
四、根据句意补全句子
25. Cloning human embryos aimed at destroying them shows no respect
for human life.
Cloning human embryos ________the________ of destroying them shows no respect for human life.
26. If it is fine tomorrow, we will go for a walk. ________, we will go for a walk.
27. Why not ________ the young people that pride goes before a fall?（为何不让年轻人牢记骄者必败？）
28. Scientists ________that if they continue interfering with nature in this way, they will create a real monster.（科学家指出如果他们继续这样干预自然就会造出一个真正的怪物）
29. The government has announced to rescue the cultural heritage at any cost.
The government has announced to rescue the cultural heritage ________the cost.
五、单词拼写
30. The course aims to develop the children’s understanding and ________（欣赏，鉴赏）of classical music.
31. He o________his shyness and went on stage to perform a song.
32. Some children get a________（内疚）conscience about not learning enough lessons.
33. It is considered good________（礼貌）in some countries to leave a little food on your plate.
34. The reason why her novels enjoy great popularity among readers is
that all the stories are a________ in everyday experience.
35. “How did he r________to the news?” the manager asked earnestly. 六、翻译题
36. There isn’t anything you do that can’t be transformed into something interesting and uplifting.
________
37. After all, his first attempt at movies didn’t promise much. ________
38. The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you. ________
39. If I were to wish for anything, I shouldn’t wish for wealth and power, but for the eye which sees the possible.
________
40. It wasn’t long into the phone conversation before she asked me about my voice.
________ 七、任务型阅读 41. 任务型阅读
①Use your comfort zones to ________, not to live in. Use them consciously to relax and restore your energy.
②When you are watching TV, you are watching other people do what they love doing________.
③The damage to his reputation was probably________.
④The negative programming of our minds has________on us.
⑤If you’ve got something hard to do and you are hesitant to do it,________something even harder and do that first.
A. beyond repair B. wipe out C. for a living D. rest in
E. had a huge impact F. pick out 42. 任务型阅读
Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of Deniliquin, a country town in New South Wales, misses the constant whir（嗡嗡声）of the rice mill whose giant fans dried the rice. The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere , once processed enough grain to meet the needs of 20 million people globally. But six years of drought have had a destructive effect, reducing Australia’s rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December.
Drought affects every agriculture industry based in Australia, not just rice – from sheep farming, the country’s other backbone, to the cultivation of grapes for wine, the fastest-growing crop there, with that expansion often coming at the expense of rice. The drought’s effect on rice has produced the greatest impact on the rest of the world, so far. It is one factor contributing to skyrocketing prices, and many scientists believe it is among the earliest signs
that a warming planet is starting to affect food production.
Researchers are looking for solutions to global rice shortages – for example, rice that blooms earlier in the day, when it is cooler, to fight against global warming. Rice plants that happen to bloom on hot days are less likely to produce grains of rice, a difficulty that is already starting to emerge in inland areas of China and other Asian countries as temperatures begin to climb. ‘there will be problems very soon unless we have new varieties of rice in place,” said Reiner Wassmann, climate change director at the International Rice Research Institute . The recent reports on climate change carried a warning that could make the news even worse: that existing models for the effects of climate change on agriculture did not yet include newer findings that global warming could reduce rainfall and make it more variable.
Yet the effects of climate change are not uniformly bad for rice. Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, can actually help rice – although the effect reduces or disappears if the plants face unnecessary heat, inadequate water, severe pollution or other stresses. Still, the flexibility of farmers here has persuaded some climate experts that, particularly in developed countries, the effects of climate change may be relieved, if not completely avoided. “I’m not as negative as most people,” said Will Steffen, director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University. “Farmers are learning how to do things differently.”
Meanwhile, changes like the use of water to grow wine grapes instead of rice carry their own costs, as the developing world is discovering. “Rice is an
essential food,” said Graeme Haley, the general manager of the town of Deniliquin. “Wine is not.”
Phenomenon
Six years of drought reduced Australia’s rice crop by 98%, leaving the rice mill________
________of drought and climate change
Every Australian agriculture industry is affected,________from sheep farming to the cultivation of grapes for wine.
The whole world is in________of rice. Prices rise________.
Temperatures begin to climb, causing________rice production. ________to global rice shortages
Seek a new variety of rice that blooms earlier when it is cooler as a________ Some good news
Unless faced with unnecessary heat, inadequate water or other stress, the main green house gas can actually do________to rice.
Farmers are flexible and they can do things________. 八、书面表达 43. 写作
When 4-year-old British royal family member Prince George started his first day of school in September, Chinese language was on his curriculum（课程）.
And he wasn’t alone. According to a report published by the British
Council in September, about 51% of UK parents want their children to learn Chinese, as it’s believed to be one of the most useful languages to know.
In fact, the UK isn’t the only country showing a growing interest in Chinese. In the USA, the language has become the second most spoken foreign language this year, after only Spanish, with over 2.million speakers, according to a survey by a US financial news website.
So far, 67 countries and regions have included Chinese in their national curriculum, reported the China news website.
【写作内容】
⒈用约30个单词写出上文概要；
⒉用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括： ⑴简要分析“汉语热”的原因（2-3点）
⑵谈谈作为一名中学生，你应当怎样做才能更好地迎接“汉语热”。
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