树德中学高2012级第四期期中考试英语试题

第I卷

一、听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节（共5小题，每小题1分，满分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. When did the woman leave the hotel?

A. At 3 : 50. B. At 3 : 35. C. At 3 : 45.

2. How far is the shopping center from here?

A. So far away that the man must take a bus.

B. So far away that the man must take a taxi.

C. Within walking distance.

3. What does the woman mean?

A. She asks the man to check the car. B. She will repair the car herself.

C. She will drive the man's car.

4. What is the man going to do?

A. Find a new job. B. Found his own company. C. Ask the woman to join him.

5. Why does the woman prefer the man's briefcase?

A. Because its style is better. B. Because it is smaller. C. Because it has a lock.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6～8小题。

6. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a hotel. B. In a restaurant. C. In a coffee bar.

7. When is the breakfast served?

A. 7 : 30 to 9 : 30. B. 6 : 00 to 8 : 00. C. 6 : 30 to 8 : 30.

8. What kind of juice does the woman like for her breakfast?

A. Apple. B. Peach. C. Orange.

听第7段材料，回答第9～11小题。

9. Who is John?

A. The man's cousin. B. The man's student. C. The woman's husband.

10. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In Ireland. B. At an exhibition. C. In the man's house.

11. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman hasn't graduated from the university.

B. John is a professional photographer.

C. The man hasn't seen John for years.

听第8段材料，回答第12～14小题。

12. How does the man feel about the first skirt?

A. Ugly. B. Beautiful. C. Moderate.

13. Why doesn't the woman like the red skirt?

A. Because it is not suitable to her.

B. Because it is too expensive.

C. Because it doesn't go with her sweater.

14. Which skirt does the woman finally take?

A. The red one. B. The green one. C. The black one.

听第9段材料，回答第15～17小题。

15. How long are the man's working hours every day?

A. Seven hours. B. Eight hours. C. Nine hours.

16. What do the man and his wife do after the kids go to bed?

A. They watch TV. B. They clean the house. C. They listen to music.

17. What do we know from the conversation?

A. The man often gets up at 6:00.

B. The man's wife is a housewife.

C. The man thinks his life too boring.

听第10段材料，回答第18～20小题。

18. Where did the ancestors of Gypsies come from?

A. Northwest India. B. Southeast India. C. Northeast India.

19. What do we know about Gypsies?

A. They like trading and traveling. B. They have their own language.

C. They like gambling and dancing.

20. What do the education authorities try to do for Gypsy children?

A. Provide special facilities for them. B. Provide special teachers for them.

C. Establish traveling schools for them.

二、单项填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

21. To us all in China, _______ experience of taking the college entrance examination seems an important way to judge whether one’s life is ______ complete one.

A. the; a B. an; a C. the; the D. an; the

22. Hearing the old man's reports, the officer ________ from his seat and said that something must be done to ________people's living standards.

A. raised；rise　　 B. rose；raise C. raised；raise D. rose；raised

23. ---What do you think of the idea of Web TV?

---Web TV is a world of interactive TV programming , ______ anything wonderful can happen.

A. one which B. the one where C. one that D. one where

24. Although the couple didn't choose to sleep in the wild instead of in the hotel，it ________ unexpectedly beautiful.

A. turned up B. turned out C. turned down D. turned around

25. Vast amounts of government help _____ the economy of the area grow rapidly.

A. is made B. has made C. are made D. have made

26.The city dedicated a monument ________ those killed in battle.

A. with respect to B. in line with C. in answer to D. in honour of

27. These children are polite and never speak loudly in class.________.

A. So are you B. So you are

C. Neither do you D. It is the same with you

28. -- I think the waiter has forgotten us. We ________here for over half an hour!

-- I think you're right. He probably thinks we have already ordered.

A. are waiting B. have been waiting

C. have waited D. will wait

29. ______ historical evidence, they tried their best to defend their point of view.

A. Draw on B. Drawing upon C. Drawn upon D. To draw on

30. _______ these words _______ the warden hit him on the head with the soup spoon.

A. Hardly had he spoken; when B. Hardly did he speak; when

C. No sooner did he speak; than D. No sooner had he spoken; when

三、完形填空（每小题1.5分，满分30分）

（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

More and more young women want to look beautiful. Young women’s desire to achieve the figure of a fashion model has an ?31 ?form of expression in the problem of anorexia nervosa(神经性厌食症). Anorexia nervosa is a(n) ?32?disorder which occurs largely among young girls; ?33 , it is also found among ?34 ?of the young women, and in some cases, among boys.

Anorexia nervosa is 35 starvation attitudes toward food, and distorted(扭曲的) body image. 36 they are often extremely thin, anorexic girls believe that they are fat and are ?37 ?on dieting. Their perceptions(理解) of their own bodies are very much distorted. They do not see themselves as thin but ?38 as fat. Most ?39 ? of anorexia lose 25 percent or more of their body fat. Anorexia also causes them to become ?40 . From five to six percent of anorexics actually die from starvation.

Anorexia, which means “without food”, seems to be quite 41 ?among young girls, although it was __?42?a problem twenty years ago. The ?43 ?of Anorexia is not known. Researchers are trying to find out its ?44 ?but it is related to a psychological(心理的) need. One theory is that they want to ?45 ?becoming an adult, since starvation can ?46 ?down physical growth and the beginning of puberty(青春期). Another theory is that anorexia is related to refusal of the mother figure or to ?47 ? the daughter of an overly protective and controlling mother. By being anorexic, the girl shows her ability to 48 ? at least one aspect of her own life.

In addition, researchers ?49 ?that the problem may result in a wrong body image---the ideal of female beauty of being very ?50 .

31. A. ordinary ?????????? B. extreme ????????? C. interesting ????? D. last

32. A. acting ????????????? B. sleeping ????????? C. studying ???????? D. eating

33. A. however ????????? B. generally ????? C. anyhow??? ?? D. regularly

34. A. few ??????????? B. all ????????????????????? C. some ???????????? D. none

35. A. brought by ? B. found in ???????? C. regarded as??? D. characterized by

36. A. Because ??????????? B. When ??????????????? C. Although ?????????? D. If

37. A. put ??????????????????? B. held ?????????????????? C. checked ??????????? D. fixed

38. A. rather ?????????????? B. still ????? C. further ????????????? D. even

39. A. lovers ??????????????? B. victims ????????????? C. women?????? D. patients

40. A. anxious ??????????? B. worried ?????????????? C. weak???? D. disappointed

41. A. ordinary ?????????? B. common ?????????? C. great ???????????????? D. often

42. A. hardly ???? B. certainly ? C. hopefully ?? D. exactly

43. A. medicine ?????????? B. truth ????????????????? C. result ????? D. cause

44. A. possibility ???????? B. opportunity ??????? C. necessity? ??? D. importance

45. A. enjoy ??????????????? B. imagine ???????????? C. avoid ???????????????? D. risk

46. A. slow ???????????????? B. cut ??????????????????? C. break ??????????????? D. turn

47. A. doing ??????????????? B. becoming ????????? C. turning ????????????? D. being

48. A. control ???????????? B. improve ???????????? C. build???????? D. instruct

49. A. advise ????????????? B. note ????????????????? C. announce ?????????? D. doubt

50. A. fat ??????????????????? B. thin ?????????????????? C. healthy ????????????? D. weak

四、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

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I used to think of myself as a person learned in books, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and an Australian book, my literature collection only consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I couldn’t ever found anything in translation. My reading was limited to stories by English-speaking authors.

So, at the start of 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country in a year to find out what I was missing.

With no idea where to get those books, I was unlikely to find publications from nearly 200 nations on the shelves of my local bookshop, so I decided to ask the readers all over the world for help. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.

The response was amazing. People all over the world were getting in touch with me, offering ideas and book lists. Some posted me books from their home countries. In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan’s Ak Welsapar and Panama’s Juan David Morgan, sent me unpublished translations of their novels, giving me a rare opportunity to read works unavailable in Britain. Even with such an extraordinary team of bibliophiles(爱书者) behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task. With translations making up only around 4.5 per cent of literary works published in the UK, getting English versions of stories was tricky.

One by one, the books from the countries on the list filled my heart with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. Lands that had once se