湖北省部分重点中学2013-2014学年度上学期高二期末考试

英 语 试 卷

命题人：武汉四中 李燕 审题人：洪山高中朱海光

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 many offices does the man’s company have?

A. one B. six C. twelve

2. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?

A. a butterfly B. a painting C. an argument

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The man has never heard of Mo Yan before.

B. The man has read some of Mo Yan’s works.

C. The woman has never heard of Mo Yan before.

4. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?

A. noise B. housework C. neighborhood

5. What does the man like to collect?

A. coins B. magazines C. paintings

听第6段材料，回答第6﹑7题。

6. Who was ill last week?

A. Mr. Hudson B. Mr. Hudson’s mother C. Mr. Hudson’s son

7. What kind of person is Mr. Hudson according to the dialogue?

A. a very good worker

B. a person who often gets angry

C. a person who cares nothing

听第7段材料，回答第8﹑9题。

8. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. boss and clerk B. friends C. shop assistant and customer

9. What does the woman do?

A. She is a flight attendant.

B. She works in a hotel.

C. She works in a bookshop.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. at the woman’s house B. at a TV shop

C. at the man’s house

11. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She doesn’t often watch TV.

B. TV is not important to her.

C. She likes watching TV very much.

12. What can we know from the conversation?

A. The man advised the woman to buy a new TV set.

B. The man has fixed many TV sets.

C. The man sells many kinds of TV sets.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the woman want to find out?

A. what’s on B. what’s wrong C. recent news

14. How long does the performance last?

A. for 135 minutes B. for 150 minutes C. for 165 minutes

15. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She might be a stranger here.

B. She is poor.

C. She doesn’t have any children under seven.

16. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man is a worker in the theater.

B. Some tickets may be sold at half price.

C. Children under seven aren’t allowed to enter the theater.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When was Benjamin Franklin appointed as head of the postal service in America?

A. in 1715 B. in 1775 C. in 1575

18. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. the problem USPS meets

B. the method to arrange the retired people

C. how to make a lot of money

19. Why can USPS make profits from shipping and delivery?

A. USPS has plenty of ships and transport devices.

B. It costs less to spend letters and packages by USPS than that by private companies.

C. USPS controls the whole country’s shipping and delivery.

20. What can we learn from the passage?

A. USPS is newly formed in America.

B. USPS can pay any payment of health care for future retirees.

C. Only by making major changes can the problem be solved

第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. Generally speaking, employers should not ______ themselves in the private affairs of their staff.

A. involve B. inform C. remind D. accuse

22. I must make good preparations for the interview because I’ve been out of work for six months and really can’t ______ losing the job again.

A. deny B. predict C. guarantee D. risk

23. When you report this story to the police, don’t ______ any important detail.

A. bring out B. let out C. leave out D. put out

24. In fact, what ______ me most about her painting is not the style but the colors she uses.

A. refers to B. appeals to C. subscribes to C. exposes to

25. The doctor advised her to eat more bean products _____meat which might be harmful to her heart disease.

A. for lack of B. by means of C. in place of D. in favor of

26. Make sure the gas is turned off after a bath, which would ______ cause danger.

A. anyhow B. meanwhile C. furthermore D. otherwise

27. The statistic figures in the report are not ______. You should not refer to them.

A. delicate B. accurate C. automatic D. flexible

28. A nursery rhyme may not make sense and even seem ______ , but they are easy to learn and recite.

A. emotional B. educational C. contradictory D. aggressive

29. Caroline has worked hard for her English exam so that she can pass it at her first ______.

A. assistance B. appetite C. attempt D.aim

30. PM 2.5 is a professional ______ indicating the condition of air pollution, which is becoming more and more familiar to the common Chinese.

A. term B. item C. poison D. case

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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Receiving is Giving

I learned about giving in a gentle, caring way. Because my mother was a skilled tailor，I was a ___31___ child. It might have been something related to “the joy of giving” that makes me ___32___ several of my most fashionable dresses to a less ___33___ little girl, who lived with disabled parents.

After thanking me gratefully, the little girl ___34___ me her only party dress. Puzzled, I tried to ___35___, but my mother guided me. She thanked the girl and told her how ___36___ I would be wearing the dress. Then I came to know that my greatest gift to the girl was ___37___ of the gift she offered me.

Many years later, I stood by___38___as my small rabbit Ashley lay ___39___. Suddenly she noticed a scratch(抓痕)on the ___40___of her friend Lillian. With a last burst of ___41___ ,she raised her head and began to ___42___ Lillian’s cut. With more strength than she had ___43___in several weeks, she struggled to make Lillian feel ___44___. Lillian’s last gift to her dying friend was to___45___. Actually, Lillian just sat there to accept Ashley’s ___46___ and gentle cleaning quietly on her shoulder.

___47___then, I have witnessed the same phenomenon several times. Dying rabbits take care of the ___48___ rabbits, who give by ___49___ themselves to be cared for. I’m just astonished to see animals show such pride, self-respect, and a sense of when to give and ___50___ to receive.

I think we human beings have to learn this: sometimes receiving is giving.

31

A

well-known

B

well-behaved

C

well-educated

D

well-dressed



32

A

give in

B

give up

C

give away

D

give out



33

A

fortunate

B

beautiful

C

total

D

optimistic



34

A

showed

B

offered

C

donated

D

selected



35

A

escape

B

apologize

C

refuse

D

avoid



36

A

contented

B

confused

C

surprised

D

puzzled



37

A

sneeze

B

refusal

C

acceptance

D

scolding



38

A

helplessly

B

impatiently

C

curiously

D

dynamically



39

A

sleeping

B

resting

C

singing

D

dying



40

A

face

B

shoulder

C

head

D

hand



41

A

force

B

energy

C

attention

D

power



42

A

cover

B

correct

C

cure

D

clean



43

A

followed

B

increased

C

gathered

D

adored



44

A

convenient

B

comfortable

C

selfless

D

unbearable



45

A

share

B

receive

C

give

D

teach



46

A

sympathy

B

admiration

C

concern

D

respect



47

A

Since

B

After

C

Before

D

By



48

A

wounded

B

excited

C

relaxed

D

damaged



49

A

hoping

B

promising

C

agreeing

D

allowing



50

A

when

B

how

C

where

D

what





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，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A new word has suddenly become wildly popular in China - "tuhao" - which loosely translated means "nouveau riche". There have been more than 100 million references to the word "tuhao" on social media since early September.

It's being used to describe everything from the new People's Daily building, to expensive celebrity weddings full of bling, and the new gold-coloured iPhone.

In Chinese "tu" means earth and "hao" means rich. To say someone is tuhao is to imply they come from a poor peasant background, and have made it rich quick - but don't quite have the manners, or sophistication to go along with it. It's like the term "nouveau riche", says Professor Steve Tsang at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Nottingham - but has even more negative meanings, suggesting a certain vulgarity(粗俗).

"Tuhao" is actually an old word - dating back perhaps as far as the Southern Dynasty 1,500 years ago - but it has always meant something rather different. During the communist revolution, from the 1920s to early 1950s, it was widely used to refer to landholders and gentry who would bully those beneath them.

This new usage of the term took off in September after a widely-shared joke about a rich, but unhappy man, who goes to a Buddhist monk for advice, expecting to be told to live a more simple life. The monk replies instead with the phrase: "Tuhao, let's be friends!"

Chinese internet users are highly creative in their use of language, and are constantly inventing, and re-inventing words as a way of getting past censorship rules. But in this case, its popularity seems to be down to the fact that it brieflyhttp://www. .com/ expresses China's changing society so well - many people sneer at those with wealth, but are secretly jealous.

51. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Tuhao, a new popular word in China

B. The long history of Tuhao

C. The new usage of Tuhao

D. Tuhao, a newly-invented Chinese word

52. Which of the following may NOT be considered “tuhao”?

A. A vulgar nouveau riche

B. A bully landholder

C. A quick-rich peasant without proper manners

D. A Buddhist monk.

53. The last but one paragraph mainly tells us ______.

A. what the new usage of the word is

B. how the word becomes popular again

C. why the unhappy man went to the Buddhist monk

D. what advice the monk gave the unhappy man

54. What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. respect B. envy C. underestimate D. disbelieve

B

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