高二英语下学期期末测试题

第I卷（共65分）

第一部分：听力略

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：语法和词汇知识（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21 .The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain ____as the plane was making a landing.

A. seat B. seating C. seated D. to be seating

22. After the adjustment of financial policies, many citizens put up posts, 90 percent _____carried the

message of approval.

A. of which B. whom C. of them D. of whom

23. Soon after the terrible earthquake _______from all over the world was sent to the people who lost

their homes.

A. expense B. relief C. attention D. sympathy

24. ---I’d like to go to the cinema with you, Dad.

----Sorry, dear, but the film is ______for adults only.

A. allowed B. intended C. admitted D. set

25. I had just got up and was about to cook my breakfast ______the telephone rang loudly, but it hung

up ______I could answer it.

A. while; before B. when; until C. as; after D. when; before

26. ______into a famous university made his parents happy.

A. Tom was admitted B. Tome being admitted

C. If Tom was admitted D. Tom’s being admitted

27. Mr. Knight cannot be here, so his wife will accept the prize ______.

A. on his behalf B. on duty C. ahead of D. instead of

28. None of us expected the chairman to _____at the party. We though he was still in hospital.

A. turn in B. turn over C. turn up D. turn down

29. He played a trick _____Jane and he had to apologise ______ treating her_____a nice lunch.

A. on; for; to B. in; by; to C. on; by; to D. on; by; with

30. While watching Titanic , most couldn’t help crying when it came to the scene ______Jack saved the

life of the girl but dies in icy water himself.

A. which B. as C. why D. where

31. It is said that ______EL Nino , the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season has been the quietest in more than

a decade.

A. thanks to B. because C. due to D. as to

32. At present more and more people try to avoid public transportation delays by using their own cars,

and this ______creates further problems.

A. in case B. once again C. in turn D. after all

33. “QQ Happy Farm” is a resource management game based on farms on the internet, _____players act

as owners of the farms.

A. which B. where C. in which D. that

34. The doctor said that the old lady was too weak to _____the winter.

A. live through B. go through C. get through D. pass through

35. One of the views says he was deeply _________by “Not Lack of Cash” performed by Zhao Benshan

and Xiao Shenyang.

A. motivated B. impressed C. expressed D. inspired

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，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡是将

该项涂黑

When my son was 11 years old, he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival in our town.

He didn’t come home at lunch time, phoning ound a few days’ work I asked him how he had at lunch and he told me he had made some new at the carnival, invited him for lunch and wanted him to the next day to

help with other chores(杂务).

I was glad he had found new friends but a little about the type of people who might be

traveling in a carnival. “Oh, Mom, these are just work

at a carnival instead of in a store or something”. “Come down tomorrow and them yourself,” he

said.

So the next day I went to the carnival and to the exhibit he had me to. The twin brothers out to be Siamese(连体的) twins, joined at the chest. He hadn’t thought thisto mention. When I brought it to him, he said, “yes, I that too. Do you know that their mom has to

make all their clothes it’s so difficult to find anything to fit them? They’re also really good Today, Joe, the one on the right, made me spaghetti (意大利面条) for lunch.” saw people having difficulty buying clothes that fit, and young men who were good cooks. It was a

I have thought about many times over the years.

36. A. instead

37. A. leaving

38. A. did up

39. A. sought B. even C. also C. taking D. besides D. showing B. helping B. gave up C. took up B. managed C. worked

B. friends D. turned up D. acted D. differences 40. A. clothes

41. A. paid C. choices D. owed B. charged C. lent

42. A. by chance B. in return C. by turns D. in advance

43. A. return B. promise C. consider D. decide

B. regretful C. worried D. optimistic 44. A. excited

45. A. humorous B. obvious C. particular D. normal

46. A. just

47. A. teach B. never B. meet C. hardly C. affect

D. always D. join 48. A. ordered

49. A. worked

50. A. expression

51. A. understood

52. A. before

53. A. cooks B. directed C. forced B. left D. persuaded D. turned C. came C. fact B. change B. made B. if D. idea D. formed D. because D. singers C. noticed C. after C. artists B. doctors

54. A. necessary B. important

55. A. lesson C. impossible C. task D. unlucky D. match B. festival

第三部分：阅读理解（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中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

On August 15th, in the women's individual all-around final of gymnastics of the Beijing 2008

Olympic Games, Chusovitina is a shining star although she failed to win a medal eventually.

When 33-year-old Oxana Chusovitina competes in her fifth Olympics (Beijing Olympics), she is

twice the age of most of her competitors. In addition, she has also competed in ten World

Championships, three Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. Chusovitina holds the record for the

most individual World Championships medals on a single event. She won an Olympic team gold medal

as a 17-year-old in 1992. Since then she has won a record of eight world titles.

Her long career owes something to fate. In 2002, when her son Alisher, now aged nine, was

diagnosed with leukemia(白血病), she moved to Germany so that he could get the best possible

treatment. To help in those difficult times she kept up her training. It has paid off. But saving Alisher’s

life is not her only motivation. As she recently told German media, “There is nothing in the world I

enjoy more than gymnastics.”

Chusovitina was born on June 19, 1975 in Uzbek USSR. She was formerly a citizen of, and a

competitor for, the former Soviet Union (before 1993) and Uzbekistan (1993-2006). She has competed

for Germany since 2006. By the year of 2008, Chusovitina’s career in gymnastics had been twenty

years.

She is one of only a handful of women to return to high-level gymnastics and international

competition after becoming a mother. Chusovitina is remarkable in her ability to remain competitive for

so many years, often in the face of great difficulty, and has been considered as a role model and an

inspiration by many people in the gymnastics community.

56. When she was 17 years old, Chusovitina won an Olympic team gold medal for ________.

A. the former Soviet Union B. Uzbekistan C. Germany D. Russia

57. Chusovitina might begin her career in gymnastics in _______.

A. 1975 B. 1988 C. 1992 D. 1992

58. Chusovitina left her homeland because _______.

A. she wanted to compete in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

B. she wanted to serve for Germany

C. she wanted her son to get the best treatment

D. she had to face great difficulty in her homeland

59. According to the passage, Chusovitina is different from the other competitors in the Beijing 2008

Olympic Games because_______.

A. she is the best competitor in the games

B. she is much older than other gymnastics girls

C. she won an Olympic team gold medal when she was very young

D. she competes in order to earn money

60. According to the passage, which of the following words can best describe Chusovitina?

A. Kind-hearted. B. Lovable. C. Tough-minded. D. Serious-minded.

A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That's the finding of an extensive

study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those

who consumed(吃) at least an ounce of salt water fish per day than those who never ate fish.

The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific backing to the long-held

belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart.

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550, 000 deaths

occurring from heart attacks each year. But researchers previously have noticed that the incidence (发生

率)of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do. There are fewer heart

disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a

day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.

During the last two decades, 78% of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among

(胆固醇) levels.

61. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The Dutch research has proved that eating fish can help to prevent heart disease.

B. There is a low incidence of heart disease in countries like Japan and Greenland.

C. Among all the diseases heart disease is the most dangerous in America.

D. Heart doctors won’t call your house so long as you keep eating fish each day.

62. The underlined phrase “this relationship” refers to the connection between _______ and the

incidence of heart disease.

A. the amount of fish eaten B. regular fish-eating

C. the kind of fish eaten D. people of different regions

63. The passage is mainly about ________.

A. the high incidence of heart disease in some countries

B. the changes in people’s diet in the United States

C. the daily fish consumption of people in different cultures

D. the effect of fish-eating regularly on people’s health

64. Why is heart disease the most dangerous killer in the United States?

A. The author doesn’t give a definite answer.

B. Because American people drink too much spirits.

C. Because there are a great number of fat people there.

D. Because American people eat too much fatty fish.

65. How many lives could probably be saved each year in the United States by eating fish according to

the Dutch study?

A. 550, 000. B. 110,000. C. 275,000. D. 852.

The United States has about 475,000 school buses ---all painted yellow. Each day they carry more

than 25,000,000 children, half of all schoolchildren in the country. But these buses, on average, use four

liters of diesel (柴油) fuel to travel less than sixteen kilometers. When the school year began last fall,

diesel averaged 55 cents a liter nationally. The price nearly doubled, to a dollar and 8 cents, by the end

of school in June.

Bob Riley speaks for the American School Bus Council. He says fuel prices for schools are not

much lower than others have to pay. As a result, schools are looking for ways to reduce transportation

costs. Bus routes are being redrawn or, in some cases, canceled (取消). Some areas are buying buses

that use natural gas or other alternative fuels. Other steps include fewer field trips and less travel by

sports teams. And some school districts (地区) may end any bus service not required by law.

Studies show that school buses are the safest form of transportation to and from school. The

American School Bus Council says cuts in bus service are bad for children and possibly the

environment. It says removing buses from the road will mean an increase in other vehicles transporting

students. Spokesman Bob Riley says another concern is that reducing bus services might reduce

attendance.

But it could also get more children to walk or bicycle to school. And that would surely make people

happy at the National Center for Safe Routes to School. More kids walking or biking safely to school is

the aim of a three-year-old federal program, part of an international movement. The goal is to increase

physical activity and reduce air pollution. The United States will celebrate Walk to School Day on

October eighth this year. But for some students, high fuel prices could make every day a walk-to-school

day.

66. What does this passage mainly tell us?

A. High fuel prices’ influences on school buses.

B. New measures to transport school students.

C. The safest form of student transportation.

D. The origin of Walk to School Day.

67. Which of the following information is implied in the first paragraph?

A. There are too many school buses in the United States.

B. There are too many students in the US.

C. Diesel prices are going up too rapidly in the US.

D. School buses consume too much diesel in the US.

68. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?

A. Cuts in bus service will have negative results.

B. The US government is encouraging cuts in bus services.

C. The US schools are searching for the safest transportation means.

D. Reducing bus service will do a lot of good to the environment.

69. In order to cut down transportation cost, many schools take the following measures EXCEPT_____.

A. changing some bus routes

B. stopping some bus routes

C. asking parents to drive children to and from school

D. using other types of fuels

70. The National Center for Safe Routes to School encourages more children to walk or bike to school

in order to ____.

A. save more fuels and diesel for the country

B. keep the children safe on their way to school

C. make the children live a simple life

D. keep the children healthy and the environment clean

第II卷（共55分）

第四部分：单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

71.有人提醒我不要忘了我的承诺。

I was ___________________ of my promise.

72.他去了一片孤立的海滩，以便独处。

He went to an____________________ beach to be alone.

73. 我们必须替换下来那把破椅子。

We must __________________________a new chair for the broken one.

74.他们向我们展示了这种产品在紧急情况下的可靠性。

They showed us the reliability of the product in case of _____________________.

75. 手机关机了，我得换电池。

My cell phone is power off. I have to change the __________________________.

76. 教育应当是全民的权利而非某部分人特别享有的。

Education should be a universal right and not a _________________.

77. 他涉嫌出卖国家机密情报。

He was suspected selling his country’s __________________________information.

78. 许多国家签署了这项条约以保护其免于商业用途。

Many countries have signed the treaty to protect it from _____________ use.

79. 他的祖先是法国人。

His ______________ were French.

80. 儿童对周围的世界具有天然的好奇心。

Children have a natural ______________________ about the world around them.

第五部分：书面表达（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

[1] If you are a recent social science graduate who has had to listen to jokes about unemployment

from your computer major classmates, you may have the last laugh. There are many advantages for the

social science major because this high-tech “ Information Age” demands people who are flexible (灵活

的) and who have good______________.

[2] There are many social science majors in large companies who take up important positions. For

example, a number of research studies found that social science majors have achieved greater [3] Social science majors are not only experiencing success in their long-term company jobs, but

they are also finding jobs more easily. A study showed that many companies had filled a large

percentage of their entry-level positions with social science graduates. The study also showed that the

most sought-after (广受欢迎的) quality in a person who was looking for a job was communication

skills, noted as “very important” by 92 percent of the companies. Social science majors have these skills,

often without knowing how important they are. It is probably due to these skills that they have been

offered a wide variety of positions.

[4] Finally, although some social science majors may still find it more difficult than their

technically trained classmates to land the first job, recent graduates report that they don’t regret their

choice of study.

81. What’s the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)

___________________________________________________________________________

82. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

For instance, a study showed that social science majors had held more important positions,

compared to those technically trained studies.

__________________________________________________________________________

83. Fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 5

words.)

__________________________________________________________________________

84. What have you learned about the social science majors in finding a job in this high-tech

“Information Age”? (Please answer within 30 words.)

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

85. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.

_______________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

第三节写作（共1题，满分30分）

随着生活水平的提高，近来，中学生过生日时互赠礼物已蔚然成风，甚至有的还去饭店

过生日。对此，同学们有不同的看法。假设你是王平，请你根据下表提示，给某英语报社的

编辑写一封信，并谈谈自己的观点。

注意：

1. 词数：120左右（信的开头和结尾已经给出，但不计入总词数）

2. 短文须包括表中的全部内容，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3. 参考词汇：攀比 keep up with the Joneses

Dear Editor,

I’m a middle school student named Wang Ping. ____________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Wang

Ping

参考答案

第二部分：

21-25: CA B B D 26-30: D A C C D 31-35: A C B A B

36－40 ABDBB 41-45 ABACD 46-50 ABBDC 51-55 CDABA

第三部分：

56-60 ABCBC 61-65 DBDAC 66-70 ACACD

第四部分：

71. reminded 72. isolated 73. substitute 74. emergency 75. battery

76. privilege 77. confidential 78. commercial 79. ancestors 80. curiosity

第五部分：

第一节：

81. It’s easier for social science graduates to find jobs.

82. For example, a number of research studies found that social science majors have achieved greater

managerial success than those who had technical training or pre-professional courses.

83. communication skills

84. They have more luck in finding jobs because they are ready to change with situations, and they have

the skills to express themselves and communicate with others.

85. 研究表明，社科专业的毕业生更能适应社会的变化，而这种变化也恰恰是今天我们所置身于

高速度、高压力、高科技世界的显著特征。

第二节：

Dear Editor,

I’m a middle school student named Wang Ping. Recently, we often have to buy presents for our classmates’ birthdays, and sometimes, we are invited to their birthday parties in expensive hotels, which caused us to think whether students should spend so much money for birthdays.

About this there are two different views. Some students think it provides us with a good chance to communicate with each other and develop our friendship, and besides, we can relax after hard work at school. However, some other students think it’s a waste of money and time and can lead us to getting into the bad habit of trying to keep up with the Joneses, which has a bad effect on our growth and studies.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s not easy for our parents to make money and keep us at school for education. We must treasure our parents’ labor and put our hearts into our studies. What do you think about it?

I’m expecting your reply.

Yours,

Wang Pin