广东省深圳高级中学1112学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、广东省深圳高级中学1112学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题高级中学2011-2012第二学期期中测试高二英语命题人：高一英语备课组 本试卷共12页，三大题，满分150分，考试用时120分钟。（注：附加题15分，不计入总分。）注意事项： 1、答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡相应上。2、选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试题卷上。3、非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区

2、域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4、考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。. 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分50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115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。Mrs. Williams became a foster grandparent to Mary when she was nine years old. At first Mary was 1 . She was afraid because Mrs.

3、 Williams was a stranger. But she came to see Mary every day. Gradually, she began to 2 Mrs. William.At last Mary let Mrs. Williams do things for her. She came at lunchtime and fed her. One day she 3 her the spoon and guided it to her 4 . She told her she must learn to feed herself.“Most of the 5 en

4、ded up on us instead of in Marys mouth.” Mrs. Williams remembers. “But it was a 6 for Mary. Mary learned to feed herself in a few months.”Then Mary was ready for more treatment. Thanks to Mrs. Williams, after she had learned to do one simple thing, she could learn to do other simple things. Mrs. Wil

5、liams was 7 to help with Marys 8 .To become foster grandparents, people must be at least sixty-five years old and in good 9 . They must be willing to give their 10 to disabled children. They are volunteers, so they are not paid.Mrs. Williams 11 for most foster grandparents when she says, “We all ben

6、efit. The 12 children benefit because we help them live more useful lives. And we benefit because we know the children 13 us and love us. For any 14 , there is no greater 15 than that!”1 . A. sorry B. glad C. surprised D. shy2 . A. know B. realize C. recognize D. trust3 . A. awarded B. handed C. ret

7、urned D. hit4 . A. nose B. eye C. mouth D. ear5 . A. supper B. dinner C. lunch D. breakfast6 . A. job B. start C. invention D. help7 . A. trained B. forced C. afraid D. tired8 . A. treatment B. medicine C. food D. drink9 . A. wealth B. health C. position D. heart10. A. money B. life C. house D. time

8、11. A. tells B. speaks C. announces D. informs12. A. poor B. sick C. disabled D. unhealthy13. A. help B. need C. treat D. touch14. A. place B. person C. time D. chance15. A. progress B. responsibility C. happiness D. work第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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

9、填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为1625的相应位置上。No one can get ahead in life all by themselves. Everyone needs help 16 some other person at one time or another. The phrase, “Its not what you know, its who you know,” holds true now more than 17 . The beautiful thing about networking（建立关系网） is that it works both ways; it

10、is 18 give and take relationship. If you help somebody, they will have no trouble repaying the favor. If you have never networked before, networking can at first seem scary 19 over time you will soon be networking like a professional. 1. Get out there. 20 people have no idea who you are, then you wi

11、ll have an incredibly hard time building relationships. 2. Trust. A great way to build trust is to try 21 (connect) with the person on a personal level as well on a business level. 3. Diversify （多样化). Having a diverse network 22 (enlarge) your chances of knowing “connectors,” those people who can pu

12、t you in touch with people who you would never have otherwise met. 4. Maintain. Your networking efforts will be 23 (use) unless you maintain the relationships. Maintaining relationships is easy: make a phone call, send a thank you note, send an interesting article, put someones link on your website,

13、 remember their birthday etc. 5. Give back. No one likes to constantly give, give, give, without receiving 24 in return. Networking is so effective due to the premise (前提), what can we do for each other. 6. Dont worry if you lose touch. Losing touch 25 a contact is by no means the end of the relatio

14、nship. Simply send an email, or call them, and say that you want to rekindle the relationship. 阅读 （共两节, 满分60分）第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50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。AIn the kitchen of my mothers houses there has always been a wooden stand with a small notepad and a hole for a pencil.

15、Im looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it cant be the same pencil. The pad is mor

16、e modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.Im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years. I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. You still use a pencil. Cant you afford a pen?My moth

17、er replies a little sharply. It works perfectly well; Ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days. Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, t

18、he pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back.

19、It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.This story, which happened before I was born, reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to wo

20、rk. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadb

21、oard, invisible exhibits at every meal.26. Why has the authors mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen? A. To leave messages. B. To list her everyday tasks. C. To note down math problems. D. To write down a flash of inspiration.27. What is the authors original opinion about the wood

22、en stand? A. It has great value for the family. B. It needs to be replaced. C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood. D. It should be passed on to the next generation.28. The author feels embarrassed for_. A. blaming her mother wrongly B. giving her mother a lot of trouble C. not making good us

23、e of time as her mother did D. not making any breakthrough in her field29. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. The mother is successful in her career. B. The family members like traveling. C. The author had little time to play when young. D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.

24、30. In the authors mind, her mother is_ A. strange in behavior B. keen on her research C. fond of collecting old things D. careless about her appearanceB Parents should stop blaming themselves because theres not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you

25、choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal. Ive seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors

26、 and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling (伸开四肢) himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I dont know wha

27、t to do with him these days,” she said. “Hes forgotten all the manners we taught him.” He hasnt forgotten them. Hes just decided that hes not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor. Another good friend of mine l

28、et her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I dont like your dress; its ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home. “Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At l

29、east, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.31. This text is most probably written by _. A. a specialist in teenager studies B. a headmaster of a middle school C. a parent with teenage children D. a doctor for mental health problems32. The underlined word “it” in the second paragra

30、ph refers to _. A. the way that parents often blame themselves B. the change from good to bad thats seen in a child C. the opinion that a child has of his parents D. the advice that parents want their children to follow33. The boy on the sofa would most probably be described as _. A. lazy B. quiet C

31、. impolite D. unusual34. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two daughters _. A. pay no attention to them B. are too busy to look after them C. have come to hate them D. feel helpless to do much about them35. What is the authors opinion about the sudden change in teenage children? A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it. B. Parents should pay still more attention to the change. C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers. D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children. CJane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Stevento