2012—2013学年上学期高二期末考试题

高二英语必修五、选修六

2013.01

命题人：高二英语备课组 审题人：陈颂东 杨斐

本试卷共四大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

第一部分 听力 （满分20分）

第一节 听力理解(5段共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

听第一段对话，回答第1—3题。

1. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At the waiting room. B. At the ticket office. C. At the station entrance.

2. When does the bus usually leave?

A. At a quarter past two. B. At two o’clock sharp. C. At half past two.

3. What does the driver usually do before the bus starts out?

A. Check the passengers’ tickets.

B. Get the passengers’ things on the bus.

C. Carry the passengers’ suitcases for them.

听第二段对话，回答第4—6题。

4.What do we know about the man?

A. He has been to New York. B. He has lost his job. C. He’s on business.

5. How long haven’t the two speakers seen each other?

A. For two days. B. For a week. C. For a month.

6. Why was the man eager to see the woman?

A. To turn to her. B. To make the suggestion. C. To tell his story.

听第三段对话，回答第7—9题。

7. What does the woman think about Japan?

A. She likes Japan very much.

B. She doesn’t like Japan. Instead, she likes France.

C. She likes neither Japan nor France.

8. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The two speakers are in Japan now.

B. The man went to Japan last year.

C. The man likes France.

9. What is Japan most famous for?

A. Its mountains B. Its shipbuilding. C. Its breathtaking beauty.

听第四段独白，回答第10—12题。

10. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Fire accidents. B. Ways to prevent fires. C. Fire human’s great enemy.

11. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a cause of fire?

A. Broken bottle lying on dry grass.

B. Stored wet hay (干草).

C. Dry hay in storage.

12. When was Moscow set on fire?

A. In the 17th century. B. During the war against Napoleon. C. In 64 AD.

听第五段独白，回答第13—15题。

13. What was the building used for at the time of the fire?

A. Old people’s homes. B. A hotel. C. A history museum.

14. Who is Andrew Barnes?

A. A newspaper reporter.

B. The owner of the building

C. The head of a fire department.

15. Where is this passage probably taken from?

A. A newspaper. B. Radio broadcasting. C. An announcement.

第二节 听取信息(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)

听下面一段独白，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡 标号为16—20的空格中。听录音前，你将有10秒钟的阅题时间。录音读两遍，你将有60秒钟的作答时间。

Son’s Idea

Mum’s Idea



You can dance on your 16 and on your back, and on your head when you’re good enough.

She doesn’t think it sounds like a dance but more like 17 in the Olympic Games.



You can do it anywhere. You just do it where you 18 it .

She is puzzled about the dance and wants to know how and where her son can dance.



You can take the cassette recorder and find a street, and turn the music up 19 and start dancing.

She supposes that explains the _____20____

of his clothes lately.





第二部分 语言知识及应用（共三节，满分55分）

第一节：单项选择 （共10小题，每小题1分， 满分10分）

21. It is in the west of China _____ _____ is no doubt that it is going to rain tomorrow.

A. where; there B. that; there C. that; it D. where; it

22. With the gas _____, they had to quit the car and walked.

A. ran out B. running out C. run out of D. was run out of

23. _________the thunderstorm ,they_________ the injured man in time. They felt sorry for that.

A. Had it not been for ; could reach B. If there was not; might have reached

C. But for; might reach D. If there hadn’t been ; could have reached

24. __________ can you expect success.

A. By working hard B. Working hard

C. Only with hard work D. Through hard work

25. I could never_________ such a person ________ always complains everything.

A. come up with, who B. put up with, as C. end up with, who D. live up to, as

26. _______ is agreed that the traffic accident was largely ________ the driver’s carelessness.

A. He, leading to B. It, resulted in C. It, due to D. He, thanks to

There are ________ food on sale in the trade fair.

A. a great many B. lots of C. a great deal of D. large quantities of

________ I agree with you; let’s combine our ideas into a strong point.

A. On the whole B. As a whole C. In the way D. Under no circumstances

__________ his project, the boy had to stay up late.

A. Not finishing B. Not finished C. Having not finished D. Not having finished

Unless __________, she won’t to to any party.

A. inviting B. having invited C. invited D. being invited

第二节：语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

Childhood is a time （31）_____ there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. (32)_____ is impossible that he will ever again in his life (33)________(give) so much without having to do anything in return. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do (34) _____he wishes to; he is continually being told not to do something, or being punished (35)_____ what he has done wrong.

When the child has become a young man and this young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work on his own if he wants to live (36)________ (comfort). If he spends most of his time (37) ________(play) about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go (38)________ (hunger). If, however, he works hard, (39)________(keep) out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in (40)________ (social).

第三节：完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从51～65题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One winter term during college, I took a history class to fulfill a requirement.

The professor was a 41 fellow with red hair. He would walk shyly into the room wearing his hooded (带帽的) winter coat, once not even 42 the hood during the lecture. He was terribly nervous in class and lowered his head 43 looking up through his glasses at his students.

So I 44 a little game for myself. I would try to find something in his lecture to ask him an intelligent question about, 45 me to pay attention rather than letting my eyes close. He was obviously 46 to have a question to answer. In fact, his answers were always interesting.

I continued to do this every day of the course and found myself actually enjoying the subject. The professor seemed to become a bit more 47 and some of the other students even 48 from time to time. My little game had saved me from being bored, as it was 49 to do. And, I learned quite a bit about ancient world history. Except for all of his strange __50 , he was indeed quite an expert in his field.

On the last day of his class, we gathered our 51 and headed out the door. The shy, red-haired professor 52 directly in front of me, with obvious efforts, as I reached the door, and put out his hand. He said, “I want to thank you for making this class so interesting.” As he shook my hand and 53 for the first time, I was so surprised. To me, it had been a pleasant way to 54 the time. I had no idea that all of my question asking had any 55 on him or the others at all.

Each of us, through the things we say and do, can have a great effect not just on our own experiences, but those of others.

41．

A. strange

B. patient

C. popular

D. proud



42．

A. cleaning

B. noticing

C. removing

D. wearing



43．

A. hardly

B. simply

C. absolutely

D. quickly



44．

A. played

B. continued

C. created

D. bought



45．

A. reminding

B. forcing

C. allowing

D. telling



46．

A. angry

B. surprised

C. sad

D. pleased



47．

A. relaxed

B. traditional

C. reasonable

D. concerned



48．

A. gave up

B. fell behind

C. look back

D. joined in



49．

A. designed

B. permitted

C. challenged

D. forbidden



50．

A. explanation

B. appearance

C. secret

D. hobby



51．

A. collection

B. friends

C. game

D. books



52．

A. waited

B. apologized

C. greeted

D. stepped



53．

A. regretted

B. smiled

C. cried

D. required



54．

A. pass

B. save

C. fix

D. waste



55．

A. guidance

B. result

C. mercy

D. effect





第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

When I was learning calligraphy my teacher told me a story.

A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practised handwriting with old sheets of newspapers complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you’ll write better. ”

　The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered, “When you used old newspapers to practice handwriting，you would think you were writing a draft（草稿）. It didn’t matter if you wrote badly as old newspapers were plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn’t pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper you’ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity (稀少) of chances and you’ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you’ll do the handwriting much more attentively than otherwise practising it. Of course you’ve made rapid progress.”

Indeed，we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspapers”. We don’t care if we scrawl and waste them, thinking that they will come endlessly --- those “old newspapers” are inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.

Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there’s no chance for us to draw a draft. That’s because what we call “draft” actually is t