肃南县第一中学2013-2014学年高二下学期期末考试

英语试题

1． My mother is English teacher in No. 2 Middle School.

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

2．When you don’t know a word, you can _________ in the dictionary.

A. look it up B. set it up C. give it up D. pick it up

3．Mr. Smith couldn’t open the door because his naughty boy _______ it from the inside

A. would lock B. was locking C. has locked D. had locked

4．Thomas wants to know ______Nina lives.

A. where?? B. who?? C. what?? D. if

5．Why do you insist on buying a car ______ you have such good public transportation here?

A. because B. unless C. when D. though

6．The snowstorm ________ our difficulties.

A. added to B. added up C. added up to D. has added

7．--- Hey, Mary, your backpack looks nice. When did you buy it.

--- I ____ it for two weeks.

A. had B. bought C. have had D. have bought

8． It was a _______story, and we all got ________.

A. shocking; shocking B. shocked; shocked

C. shocking; shocked D. shocked; shocking

9．When _____ about one of the biggest concerns today, many citizens mentioned the sharp rise in housing price.

A. asking B. to ask C. asked D. having asked

10． They ___________to put their hearts into study..

A. have made their minds B. have made their mind

C. have made up their minds D. have made up their mind

11．The 1330 train to Shanghai has been put off __________ the heavy storm.

A. due to B. in case of C. aside from D. except for

12． —What did you say to your sister? I saw her crying in the room.

— It _________ my fault. I just said hello to her when I met her, nothing else.

A. must have been B. can’t have been

C. oughtn’t to be D. should have been

13．The movie Gravity won seven awards at the Oscar night, _____ was beyond the director’s wildest dream.

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

14． _______, she is the sort of woman to spread sunshine to people through her smile

A. Shy and cautious B. Sensitive and thoughtful

C. Honest and confident . D. Lighthearted and optimistic

15．It comes as no surprise that many parents walk along their young children ____ their safety.

A. in search of B. in place of C. for fear of D. for lack of

16． The girl _______ in bed _______ to us that she had _______ the dictionary on the bookshelf.

A. lay; lied; lay B. lying; lied; laid

C. lying; lay; laid D. lied; lied; laid

17．It’s reported that global warming is heating the planet twice as quickly as _____ feared.

A. extremely B. previously C. preciously D. eventually

18．While watching television, __________.

A.?the doorbell rang????????? ?? ? B. the doorbell rings

C.?they heard the doorbell rings????? D. they heard the doorbell ring

19． Anyone ______ trying to take knives on board flights would be caught by the police.

A. finds B. being found C. found D. will find

20．_____ time, the teacher had us do half of the exercises in class and complete the other half for our homework.

A. To save B. Save C. Saving D. Having saved

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30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。

When my husband and I got married, he worked as a mechanic (机修工) from midnight to 8 a．m. However, I worked during the _21_. So as he came home from work each morning, I was getting ready to _22_.

We had very little _23_ then, so when Valentine's Day came around that first year, I knew we couldn't _24_ anything for each other. After he left to go to work the night before Valentine's Day, I decided to _25_ and make a Valentine's Day card for him. I _26_ wrote a poem on the front of the card. When he came home the next _27_， I felt foolish as I handed him the card, _28_ that he wouldn't laugh at it. When he had finished _29_ it, he slowly raised his head and looked at me. Then he reached down into his pocket. When he pulled his _30_ out, he was holding _31_.

He told me that he had _32_ it for me during his lunch hour, but he had been _33_ to give it to me because he thought I might think it was _34_， and that I might laugh at it.

It was a small heart made out of aluminum (铝). _35_ I had stayed up all night making him a valentine card, he had been cutting out a _36_ for me. I still have the aluminum heart, and I _37_ it in my desk. Every time I see it, all those _38_ come flooding back to me. Over the years, we've been able to buy each other very nice, _39_ presents for Valentine's Day. But none has ever been as dear or _40_ as much as those handmade gifts made from our hearts the first year that we were married.

21．A. day B. night C. weekend D. holiday

22．A. cook B. leave C. rest D. help

23．A. time B. chance C. money D. energy

24．A. buy B. choose C. find D. borrow

25．A. look out B. call back C. slow down D. stay up

26．A. still B. only C. even D. again

27．A. morning B. noon C. afternoon D. evening

28．A. imagining B. hoping C. guessing D. noticing

29．A. studying B. reading C. examining D. playing

30．A. hand B. foot C. arm D. leg

31．A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something

32．A. written B. drawn C. made D. invented

33．A. surprised B. happy C. angry D. afraid

34．A. wrong B. difficult C. dangerous D. silly

35．A. Before B. Though C. While D. If

36．A. heart B. card C. toy D. book

37．A. change B. keep C. cut D. divide

38．A. problems B. pains C. memories D. choices

39．A. strange B. special C. expensive D. satisfying

40．A. meant B. proved C. influenced D. explained

第二部分：阅读理解（满分40分）

第一节（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（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.

Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behavior. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”．

Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme，this theory states that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能)．

Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviorists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behavior.

Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US，for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites. Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.

Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.

41．This passage is mainly concerned with ________.

A. relation between personality and behavior

B. relation between behavior and environment

C. different accounts of patterns of human behavior

D. different theories of the formation of human behavior

42．The underlined word “proponents” in Paragraph 2 means ________.

A. creators B. advisors C. advocates D. judges

43．In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about ________.

A. the considerable influence of the two theories

B. differences between the blacks and whites

C. racial discrimination in the United States

D. different responds to intelligence tests

44．What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A. To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.

B. To urge scientists to do more research in social science.

C. To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.

D. To present an argument in the field of social science.

B

Sydney—A shark savaged a schoolboy's leg while he was surfing with his father at a beach in Sydney on February 23．It was the third shark attack along the coast of Australia's largest city in a month．

The 15-year-old boy and his father were in the water off Avalon, on Sydney's northern beaches, around dawn when he was attacked．The city's beaches are packed with locals and tourists during the summer months．

"The father heard a scream and turned to see his son trashing