西安市第一中学

2013-2014学年度高二第二学期期末考试

英语试题

说明：1. 本试题分I、II两卷，第I，II卷的答案要按照要求涂，写到答题卡上。

2. 全卷共三个部分，满分100分，100分钟完卷。

第I卷

第一部分：英语知识运用(共三节，满分40分)

第一节 语音知识 (共5小题；每小题1分, 满分5分)

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

1. despite A. strike B arbitrary C. valid D. literature

2. tasty A. astronaut B. hesitate C. ambition D. botany

3 percentage A. politics B. fiction C. accuracy D. cookie

4. digital A. regulation B. seagull C. distinguish D. generally

5. exact A. excavate B. extraordinary C. exit D. example

第二节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题l分，满分l5分)

6. ______ most efficient way to understand thousands of new words is to gain ________ good knowledge of basic word formation.

A．A; a B．The; 不填 C．A; 不填 D．The; the

7. —I have got a headache.

—No wonder. You ________ in front of that computer too long.

A. work B. are working C. worked D. have been working

8. Jenny was _________ to hear the news that their team didn’t win the game.

A. cast aside B. cast away C. cast off D. cast down

9. Clearly and thoughtfully________, the book inspires confidence in students who wish to seek their own answers.

A. writing B. to write C. written D. being written

10. Never before ____ in greater need of modern public transport than it is today.

A. has this city been B. this city has been C. was this city D. this city was

11. We tried ______ to persuade him to stay home, but at last, he went to the construction site despite his bad illness.

A. in case B. in vain C. in fact D. in addition

12. ----I wonder why Jane looks worried today.

----I’m not sure, but she a small accident driving here.

A. could have B. might have C. might have had D. should have had

13. The police recommended parents __________their children under 12 to ride to school for safety.

A. not allow B. do not allow C. mustn’t allow D. couldn’t allow

14. __________is no possibility __________Bob can win the first prize in the match.

A. There；that B. It；that C. There；whether D. It；whether

15. 24. He is a successful businessman and he ___ his success more to luck than to ability.

A. attaches B. adapts C. owes D. fastens

16. I like __________in the early morning when the air is fresh and I can take a walk around the garden.

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

17. After his journey abroad, Richard Jones returned home, ___.

A. excited B. exciting C. being excited D. having excited

18．The exact year Angela and her family spent together in China was 2008.

A. When B. where C. why D. which

19．The meaning of the word “nice” changed a few times it finally came to include the sense “pleasant”.

A. before B. after C. since D. while

20．— I get at least half an hour of exercise almost every day.

— Oh great! .

A. Good luck B. Cheer up C. Same to you D. Keep it up

第三节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出合适填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

About 20 years ago, I was lucky to teach a disabled young woman named Audrey. Not only was she good at math and science, but she was also very 21 in art. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey graduated from university, she got two 22 , one in fine arts and one in chemistry. Not too many people do well in two such 23 areas of study.

Just before her high school graduation, Audrey 24 me a wonderful gift. It was a watercolour painting of a mother and her baby. A tear 25 from the mother’s eye as she looked 26 at her child. Under the painting, Audrey had 27 these words: “The deep love from Mother, 28 me, touches another.” What a beautiful gift! I had the piece of art framed and 29 in my office.

Years passed with many 30 from one office to another and I 31 the painting. Last year, after about eight years of not knowing where it was, I 32 a phone call from a former colleague who said she had 33 of mine. It was the picture Audrey had painted for me 18 years earlier. When cleaning out a storage room, she had 34 my gift.

I was struck that the 35 gift came back. I knew Audrey very well. When she was four years old, Audrey had a serious 36 . What’s worse, her father left the house. It was her mother who brought her up with much trouble. She 37 it but was disabled.

To 38 , it is just a painting, but to me it shows how a mother’s love has helped 39 a talent and how its 40 pushes me ahead.

21. A. interested

B. talented

C. buried

D. absorbed



22. A. degrees

B. choice

C. chances

D. jobs



23. A. similar

B. distinguishing

C. different

D. scientific



24. A. gave

B. promised

C. afforded

D. presented



25. A. sank

B. flooded

C. escaped

D. fell



26. A. quietly

B. lovingly

C. warmly

D. gently



27. A. described

B. marked

C. written

D. signed



28. A. past

B. on

C. with

D. through



29. A. hung

B. decorated

C. painted

D. added



30. A. migrations

B. moves

C. turns

D. circles



31. A. left

B. forgot

C. lost

D. ignored



32. A. accepted

B. made

C. dialed

D. received



33. A. something

B. books

C. gifts

D. letters



34. A. searched

B. discovered

C. observed

D. touched



35. A. ancient

B. colorful

C. precious

D. abstract



36. A. symptom

B. fault

C. heart

D. disease



37. A. survived

B. recovered

C. struggled

D. managed



38. A. someone else

B. anyone else

C. everyone else

D. nobody else



39. A. encourage

B. become

C. develop

D. practise



40. A. energy

B. force

C. strength

D. power





第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer’s crops.

In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.

Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.

From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.

Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn’t tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.

41. We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of .

A. loud noises B. some crops C. video cameras D. angry bees

42. As mentioned in the passage, Lucy .

A. works by herself in Africa

B. needs to test more elephant groups

C. has stopped elephants eating crops

D. has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms

43. Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?

A. To record the sound of bees.

B. To make a video of elephants.

C. To see if elephants would run away.

D. To find out more about the behavior of bees.

44. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Young elephants ignore African honeybees.

B. Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.

C. Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.

D. Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.

B

You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!

Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.

Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win others’ pity or respect.

When you communicate with positive people, your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger（匕首） of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.

Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or a relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to the negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level a