金山中学2013-2014年度高二下学期期末试题

英 语

命题人：许志军

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。

When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.

Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young, black, and male---a potential ____3____to them.

White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.

Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成见) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.

How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?

My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.

Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.”

The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black, too. Why would we do something to you?”

Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.

But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.

1．A. hardly B. mostly C. merely D. particularly

2．A. social B. local C. positive D. new

3．A. danger B. treasure C. gift D. neighbor

4．A. better B. close C. perfect D. superior

5．A. fear B. interest C. honor D. despair

6．A. run B. walk C. pass D. move

7．A. known B. developed C. raised D. located

8．A. honestly B. constantly C. hopefully D. freely

9．A. changed B. formed C. strengthened D. increased

10．A. kill B. rob C. damage D. steal

11．A. actions B. deeds C. signs D. words

12．A. writing B. printing C. telling D. saying

13．A. fearful B. doubtful C. pitiful D. impressive

14．A. strongly B. actively C. disappointedly D. casually

15．A. sincere B. mature C. welcome D. gentle

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。

When very small dinosaur bones were found in a Germany mine, people thought they were from baby dinosaurs. __16__ Martin Sander's work shows that they were probably fully __17__ (grow) and belong to the smallest giant dinosaur species ever found.

Growth marks on dinosaur bones are similar __18__ growth rings on trees. The rings are far apart while the animal is young and growing quickly. __19__ get closer as growth slows. "It is __20__ (exact) these tight ring marks that we found in the fossil bones," says Sander. So the fossils must have been from adult animals.

__21__ was this German dinosaur so much smaller than other giant dinosaurs, which grew up to 45 metres long and weighed as much as a thousand humans?

150 million years ago, most of Germany was underwater. Scientists think that __22__ water levels rose, there was less and less land and food available. The dinosaur __23__ (force) to adapt and evolved into a smaller animal __24__ (need) less space and food.

Since 1998, scientists have dug up more than 1,000 dinosaur fossils in the mine. It is one of the few places in the world __25__ the bones and footprints of dinosaurs have been found together.

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）

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

An experiment was carried out at British school into the performance of new pupils. At the start of the year, the pupils were each given a rating, ranging from “excellent prospect” to “unlikely to do well”. These were totally untrue ratings and did not reflect how well the pupils had previously performed. However, these ratings were given to the teachers. At the end of the year, the experimenters compared the pupils’ performance with the ratings. Despite their real abilities, there was an astonishingly high connection between performance and ratings. It seems that people perform as well as we expect them to.

The Self-fulfilling Effect is also known as the Pygmalion Effect. This comes from an old Greek story. The story was also the basis of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, later turned into the musical “My Fair Lady”. In Shaw’s play, Professor Henry Higgins claims he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a duchess. But, as Eliza herself points out to Higgins’ friend Pickering, it isn’t what she learns or does that determines whether she will become a duchess, but how she’s treated.

The implication (含义) of the Pygmalion Effect for leaders and managers is massive. It means that the performance of your team depends less on them than it does on you. The performance you get from people is no more or less than what you expect, which means you must always expect the best. As Goethe said, “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

26．The underlined word “rating” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “_________”.

A. program B. regulation C. correction D. classification

27．What’s the passage mainly about?

A. A new scientific experiment. B. The Self-fulfilling Effect.

C. Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”. D. An improved teaching method.

28．The experiment was made in order to _________.

A. try out a new teaching method B. pick out the most excellent pupils

C. learn if expectations affect performance D. give each pupil a proper rating

29．What made Eliza change into a duchess according to Eliza herself?

A. Strict training from Higgins. B. Her own strong will and hard work.

C. The proper way she was regarded D. Warm encouragement from Pickering.

30．According to the Pygmalion Effect, if you want a man to finish a hard task in a short time, you should say, “_________”.

A. I’m sure you can make it B. I will help you any time

C. It is as easy as pie D. It doesn’t matter if you fail

B

Researchers at the University of Bedforshire have developed a new technique for powering electronic device（装置）. The system, developed by Professor Ben Allen at the Centre for Wireless Research, uses radio waves as power.

Believed to be a world first, the team claims it could eventually eliminate (or get rid of) the need for conventional batteries. The university has now filed a patent application to secure the only rights to the technique.

Professor Allen and his team have created a system to use medium wave frequencies to replace batteries in small everyday devices like clocks and remote controls.

The new technique uses the “waste” energy of radio waves and has been developed as part of the university’s research into “power harvesting”. Professor Allen said that as radio waves have energy---like light waves, sound waves or wind waves---in theory, these waves could be used to create power.

“The emerging（新兴的）area of power harvesting technology promises to reduce our reliance on conventional batteries,” he said. “It’s really exciting way of taking power from sources other than what we would normally think of.”

The team is now waiting for the results of the patent application to secure recognition of the technique. Professor Allen said that the team’s achievements had all been done in their “spare time”. “Our next stage is to try and raise some real funds so that we can take this work forward and make a working prototype（模型）and maybe partner up with the right people and take this to a full product in due course,” he said.

“Power harvesting has a really important part in our future, because, just in this country, we dispose of somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 tones of batteries in landfill（垃圾填理）sites every single year－that is toxic chemicals going into the ground.”

He added that development of the product could also be “commercially beneficial”. “The market for this is several billion pounds. We’ve seen market predictions for 2020 which have these kinds of figures, so there’s a lot of commercial potential in this area,” he said.

Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Bedfordshire, Professor Carsten Maple, said, “This type of work is a reflection of the university’s growing reputation and experience in conducting innovative（创新的）research.”

31．From the text we know the new technique for powering electronic devices_____.

A. can be applied to all electronic devices. B. uses radio waves to create power.

C. has replaced conventional batteries. D. produces many toxic chemicals.

32．According to Professor Allen, power harvesting technology______.

A. makes every use of radio waves. B. takes power from usual sources.

C. reduces our dependency on conventional batteries. D. aims at huge commercial benefits.

33．What can we learn about Professor Allen and his team from the text?

A. They have made use of radio waves in their daily life.

B. They have r