2012—2013年下期高二中考试题

英语

Ⅰ. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分)

第一节 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1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷)that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things off！”You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe yourself.

These comments may come from stories about us that have been __1__ for years—often from as far back as childhood. These stories may have no __2__ in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child，my mother said to me，“Marshall，you have no mechanical skills，and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations __3__ my development？I was never __4__ to work on cars or be around __5__.When I was 18，I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later, __6__, I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors，Dr. Bob Tannbaum，asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side，I __7__ down，“research，writing，analysis，and speaking.” On the __8__ side，I wrote，“I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life __9__ and told him about my __10__ performance on the Army test. Bob then asked，“Why is it that you can solve __11__ mathematical problems，but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems？”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t __12__ from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to __13__.At that point，it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been __14__ my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that，it was going to remain true. On the contrary，if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects，we can __15__ well in almost anything we choose.

1．A. said B．spoken C．spread D．repeated

2．A. basis B．plot C．cause D．meaning

3．A. lead B．improve C．affect D．change

4．A. encouraged B．demanded C．hoped D．agreed

5．A. means B．tools C．facilities D．hammers

6．A. therefore B．somehow C．instead D．however

7．A. settled B．turned C．took D．got

8．A. passive B．active C．negative D．subjective

9．A. experiences B．trips C．roads D．paths

10．A. unexpected B．poor C．excellent D．average

11．A. complex B．advanced C．common D．primary

12．A. arise B．separate C．suffer D．come

13．A. believe B．suspect C．adopt D．receive

14．A. weakening B．strengthening C．abandoning D．accepting

15．A. do B．go C．work D．get

第二节 语法填空(共10小题：每小题l.5分, 满分l5分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

We high school students do have some growing pains, but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely. 16 , some of us are upset 17 their body styles and looks. It’s unnecessary and it’s not important at all. We needn’t care about it. It is one’s inner beauty 18 matters. Second, we sometimes seem to be misunderstood 19 our teachers, parents and classmates. 20 (face) with this, we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, trying to remove the 21 (understand). Some of us have fewer friends. I think being open-minded and friendly will do you good. Third, we may fall behind others, 22 makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage 23 to work efficiently, full of_______24_ (determine). At last, some of us don’t have much pocket money, so they feel unhappy. Isn’t it strange? So long as we have some, that’s enough. And we can learn 25 to spend money.

Ⅱ 阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节：阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）

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Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do，and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made; washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought; cooked，canned or preserved; bread is baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meats can be had at the restaurant，the work’s canteen，and the school dining-room.

It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home，and his children rarely，if ever，see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father’s occupation，and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money，and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. In textile areas it has long been customary for mothers to go out to work，but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child’s home life，the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years. With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantages accrue，but children lose something of great value if mother’s employment prevents her from being home to greet them when they return from school.

26. The writer mentions home as workshop because______.

A. fathers often pursue employment at home

B. parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-life

C. many families produce goods at home for sale

D. both fathers and mothers and mothers in most families are workers

27. The writer says that home has become much less of a workshop. He means______.

A. in the past, home was more like a workshop

B. home is much more of a workshop now

C. home-workshops are becoming fewer and fewer

D. home was less like a workshop in the past

28. The word “accrue” in the sentence “When mother...accrue,” is closest in meaning to ______.

A. change B. dwindle C. double D. increase

29. The chief reason that boys are seldom trained to follow their father’s occupation is ____.

A. that children nowadays rarely see their fathers at their place of work

B. that fathers do not like to pursue employment at home any more

C. that there is a wide choice of employment for children

D. that children also like to have jobs outside

30. What makes father no longer the only dominant person in a family?

A. With their earning，mother and children do not need to depend on father for their life.

B. There are many choice of employment for mothers and children.

C. Father does much less for his children today than he used to.

D. The number of married women in employment has increased greatly now.

B

The use of the word imitation（模仿） reminds me that we ought to make some more comments on the risk of people imitating what they see on the screen in the way of crime（犯罪） or violence. First there was always a risk of children acting out scenes which could be dangerous. For example, I remember a woman who was head of a middle school telling me that she had happened to look out of her window when the children were on the playground and had seen them putting a small boy on a chair with a rope round his neck and the rope over the branch of a tree; fortunately she was in time to get there before the child was hanged. I remember a film in particular in which the hero who was imprisoned had escaped by electrocuting（通电触死） his guard, the technique of doing this being shown in detail. This was the kind of scene which we could cut for these reasons.

In films for young people and adults we always tried to keep off the screen the details of criminal techniques, such as how to open a locked door with a piece of hard plastic or how to open a safe; if we were consulted（请教） before production, I used to advise that the details should not be shown. When I gave talks in prisons about film checking I had full support for this, since fathers who were in prison for criminal offences did not want their children to get on crime.

Every time I gave a talk in a prison someone used to mention the French film Rififi. made by Jules Dassin in 1954. This remarkable film showed in great detail a robbery of a jeweler’s shop, the robbery lasting about half an hour and being backed by only natural sound...one of the most brilliant film sequences（连续镜头） of all time. I remember our discussion at the time. We thought that the robbery was finished only with the use of advanced and obviously expensive equipment and that only the most experienced and skilled criminals could possibly imitate it; we believed therefore that it was relatively safe. When talking in prisons some years later I learned that there had been several robberies in which the techniques had been copied, so perhaps we were wrong.

31. The writer thinks that____________.

A. the details of the criminal technique should be kept

B. the details of the crime should not be shown on the screen

C. children should not imitate what they see on the screen

D. it is dangerous to imitate what they see on the screen

32. What is the writer’s attitude（态度） towards the film in which the hero had escaped by electrocuting the guard?

A. The writer likes it very much. B. The writer is strongly against it.

C. The writer thinks the film has some value.

D. The writer does not show his/her attitude.

33. Parents in prison agreed to film checking because______.

A. they did not want their children to follow them

B. the crime on screen could be imitated without difficulty

C. they had given a talk on it D. they had made mistakes

34. All the following statements about “Rififi” are true EXCEPT ______.

A. that the robbery shown needs experience and skills

B. that some very good tools were used in the robbery

C. that the film showed the technique in detail

D. that the technique of the robbery was not imitated

35. It can be inferred from the passage that______.

A. it is hard for children to tell the differences between real life