中山市高二级2011—2012学年度第二学期期末统一考试
英语科试卷
本试卷共12页，三大题，满分135分。考试用时120分钟。
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 was a little girl, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night when my mom 1 a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burnt toast in front of my dad. I remember waiting to 2 if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was to reach for his toast, 3 at my mom and ask me how my day was at school.
When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom 4 to my dad for burning the toast. And I’ll 5 forget what he said, “Baby, I love burnt toast.” Later that night, I went to 6 Dad good night and asked him if he really 7 his toast burnt. He 8 me up in his arms and said, “Debbie, your mom had a hard day at work today and she’s really 9 . And besides, a little burnt toast never 10 anyone!” In bed that night, I thought about the scene at dinner and the 11 my dad showed to my mom.
To this day, it’s a cherished 12 from my childhood that I’ll never forget. And it’s one that came to mind just recently when Jack and I sat down to eat dinner.
As I placed the plate in front of Jack, I waited for a(n) 13 about the burn toast. But all I got was, “Thank you, ! This is 14 . I know you had a tiring day!” Just then, I thought about my 15 , and was quietly thankful for having a marriage where burnt toast wasn’t a deal breaker either! 1. A. placed 2. A. see 3. A. laugh 4. A. report 5. A. almost 6. A. wish 7. A. liked 8. A. patted 9. A. boring 10. A. hurts
B. ate B. smile
C. dropped D. bought
D. tell D. complain D. hardly D. make
C. shout D. stare
B. listen C. remind B. shout C. apologize B. never C. often B. kiss B. got
C. tell
C. cooked D. made
B. knocked C. wrapped D. caught B. tired C. depressing D. sad B. comforts
C. invites D. hates
D. satisfaction D. memory D. suggestion D. great
C. choice C. terrible
11. A. interest B. surprise C. kindness 12. A. feeling B. story 14. A. possible
B. true
13. A. answer B. apology C. comment
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15. A. childhood B. father C. mother D. parents
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15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。
Speaking without thinking can treble (not only double) your troubles as 16 ancient story demonstrates.
A man was caught 17 (steal) a bag of onions and taken before a judge.
The judge gave him a 18 (choose) of three punishments: eat the onions he had stolen at one sitting; submit to a hundred lashes of the whip 19 pay a fine.
The man said he would eat the onions. He began confidently enough but 20 eating a few, his eyes began to burn, his nose started running and his mouth 21 (feel) as if it were on fire.
“I can’t eat the onions,” he said. “Give 22 the lashes instead.”
23 , after he had received a few strokes he began to turn and twist to avoid the whip. “I can’t bear it!” he screamed, finally. “I’ll pay 24 fine.”
So he paid the fine and was let off, but he became the laughing-stock of the city for having taken three punishments 25 the same crime.
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
Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie is keen on charity, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been recognized as one of the world’s most attractive people, as well as the world’s “sexiest” and “most beautiful” woman.
Born in Los Angels, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. After her parents’ separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this has inspired her interest in acting.
Jolie achieved wider fame after her performance of video games heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and since then she had established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Jolie has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr.&Mrs.Smith and the animated film Kung Fu Panda.
After divorcing her second ex-husband, Jolie lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted world-wide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
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It’s reported recently that Jolie and Brad Pitt have finally decided to legally become husband and wife, and the wedding ceremony will take place in September in their France castle. The couple will leave Hollywood, choosing to relocate to southern France. They will also leave the U.S. to move to Europe. It seems that Jolie and Pitt will do this for their six children, who greatly desire this.
26. What do you think is the reason for Jolie’s interest in acting when she was a child? A. People around her thought that she would be a good actress. B. Her family was poor and they couldn’t send her to school. C. Her mother often took her to cinema.
D. She was good at acting when she was just a child.
27. Which of the following can’t be used to describe Jolie according to this passage? A. Jolie is a kind-hearted person.
B. Jolie is the richest actress in Hollywood. C. Jolie likes children very much.
D. Jolie is a very attractive woman.
28. Which of the following can be used to replace the underlined “relocate” in Paragraph 5? A. Change. B. Look for. C. Move. D. Lead. 29. Which of the following can’t be inferred from the passage? A. Brad Pitt is likely to be Jolie’s third husband. B. Jolie is likely to give up acting.
C. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was Jolie’s first film.
D. Jolie’s mother loved her brother and her very much.
30. Which of the following do you think can be the title of this passage? A. Angelina Jolie’s Acting Career. B. Angelina Jolie’s Family Life. C. Angelina Jolie’s Success. D. Angelina Jolie.
B
In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others. However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. In this article, we will get to know three most successful people in U.S. who never finished their college education. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration. 1.Bill Gates
Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Bill Gates \"Harvard's most successful dropout,\" while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
2.Steve Jobs
The iPad, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Because his family couldn't afford his college education, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months. Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made
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great influences on development of modern technique and culture. However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless.
3.Frank Lloyd Wright
As the America's most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the \"father of modernism.\" Wright’s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 31. What does “dropouts” in Paragraph One mean?
A. Hardworking students. B. Very successful students.
C. Students failing to finish their school education. D. Students from poor families.
32. Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?
A. People graduating from famous universities are more likely to get jobs. B. Many successful people had the experience of giving up their school education. C. If one has a lot of gold, he will become very rich one day.
D. We should stop our college education to follow in those successful people’s steps. 33. According to the writer, Bill Gates _________.
A. is richer than any other man in the world B. is the only founder of Microsoft
C. finally finished his study at Harvard and got a doctorate degree D. is well-known in Harvard University
34. Which of the following statements can’t be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. The reason for Jobs’ dropping his college education is that his parents couldn’t pay for it. B. Jobs thought his six-month college education gave him no help. C. Wright’s teacher was a very famous artist.
D. Wright is the designer of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 35. What does the author want to tell us in this passage?
A. Successful people often have unordinary life experience. B. College education is not so important to one’s success.
C. Even without college education, one can still achieve success with one’s hard work. D. People from poor families are more likely to give up their college education.
C
The multi-million pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化）of everyday life.
Set to open in 2013, the £188m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.
As digital media is important to its idea, the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies.
Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning, “The aim is to mix the physical with the digital, providing 24-hour services which can be
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used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively. ”
The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.
Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虚拟的）LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual world specialist. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.
Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Substrate, a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of “enlarged reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development. And the People’s Archive is an online library of historical figures of the city being built up by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material.
Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the library’s content and services open to citizens as never before.”
36. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? A. The LoB will be a symbol of digitalization of books. B. People can use the LoB but can’t see it.. C. Every piece of equipment will be brand new. D. Some equipment of the LoB will be shared.
37. The underlined part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of ________. A. the equipment B. the project
C. the digital media D. the physical library 38. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can _________. A. get a general idea of the LoB B. meet many world-famous experts C. learn how to put up a library building
D. understand how the specialists work on the project 39. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens? a. It offers better learning tools b. It reaches users in different ways c. It provides users with cell phones d. It allows users to enrich its material e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services A. a, b, d B. a, c, e C. b, c, d D. b, d, e 40. This text is most probably taken from .
A. a computer book B. a library guide C. a project handbook D. a newspaper report
D
Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
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In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out.
Though the belief in the merit of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War Ⅱ. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea: clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far?
Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children of touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist(免疫学家)，encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground. 41. The kings of France and England in the 16th century closed bath houses because .
A. they lived healthily in a dirty environment B. they thought bath houses were too dirty to stay in C. they believed disease could be spread in public baths D. they considered bathing as the cause of skin disease
42. Which of the following best describes Henry IV’s attitude to bathing?
A. Afraid.
B. Curious. D. Uninterested.
C. Approving.
43. What is the author’s attitude towards the idea “clothes need to be whiter than white”? A. The hate for dirt is understandable. B. The idea is really unscientific.
C. Standards of cleanliness can be different. D. It is practical for people to keep healthy. 44. How does the passage mainly develop?
A. By providing examples. B. By making comparisons. C. By following the order of time. D. By following the order of importance. 45. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
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A. To stress the role of dirt. B. To introduce the history of dirt. C. To call attention to the danger of dirt. D. To present the change of views on dirt.
第二节 信息匹配 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
请阅读下列关于各书店的相关信息： A. The Foreign Languages Bookstore
This store in Wangfujing has been a mainstay for foreigners in Beijing for many years. It contains a large collection of books on Chinese art, history, literature, language, medicine, economics and art books, post cards, all in English, the majority of which have been published by Chinese publishing houses. It also carries some classic Western novels and a selection of imported books on Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and a couple of dozen Western travel guidebooks.
Hours: 9 AM - 8:30 PM Tel: 6512-6903
B. Haidian Foreign Languages Bookstore
This foreign languages bookstore has a wide and interesting selection of books on Chinese culture, economics, literature, standard classic American and British novels and a small selection of older imported books. In addition, the street this bookstore is on has several used bookstores, some of which have small selections of English books.
At the Zhongguo Haidian Tushucheng, just south of Beijing University Hours: 9 AM - 6:30 PM Tel: 6252-9345
C. The Beijing Language and Culture University Press Bookstore
This is the best place in Beijing to buy Chinese language learning books of all levels, tapes, dictionaries, phrase and grammar books, slang books, and even famous Western books on linguistics.
The Beijing Language and Culture University Press Bookstore. Next to the south gate of the Beijing Language and Culture University, Chengfu Lu, Haidian
Hours: Mon-Fri 9AM - 5 PM, Sat 9AM - 4PM Tel: 8230-3653 D. The China Bookstore
This store has a small collection of English books but it is THE place in Beijing to buy Chinese art
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books, books on calligraphy, post cards, and photography books. The selection is impressive. Alongside both East and West Liulichang Street, which runs in front of the main entrance to this bookstore are several other good art bookstores. This famous area has sold books and art supplies in Beijing for more than 300 years. And while it is now touristy, it is still the place to get some excellent and cheap art books.
115 Dongxi Liulichang Jiedao Hours: 9 AM - 6:30 PM Tel: 6317-5607 E. Yansha Tushu Tiandi
Yanshatushutiandi Bookstore has a large collection of imported books on China, bestseller Western novels, and even Western art and photography books. It is on the 6th floor of the Lufthansa Shopping Center.
6th Floor, Lufthansa Shopping Center Hours: 9 AM - 9 PM Tel: 6465-1188 ext. 675 F. China Economic Bookstore
The China Economic Bookstore has a limited number of general interest English books, but a good selection of material dealing with economic and business related matters in China, including reference books and dictionaries.
China Economic Bookstore (Zhongguo Jingji Shudian) 301 COFCO Plaza, Jianguomennei Dajie Hours: 9 AM - 9PM Tel: 6617-5893
以下是顾客的信息，请匹配适合他们去的书店：
46. Leo is a young man from Australia. He has just arrived in Beijing, and will stay in Beijing on a business for three weeks. He is not familiar with China, and does not understand Chinese, so he wishes to find a bookstore which provides many choices for him to get some books on all aspects of China and written in English. But he can be free only after 7:00 PM.
47. David is a Canadian artist who is traveling around Beijing. During his trip, he finds that Chinese calligraphy is fascinating. Now he is considering finding somewhere to buy some books on Chinese calligraphy, some post cards to send to his friends, and somewhere he could enjoy and get some cheap Chinese art books.
48. Wang Wei is a college student and lives near the Lufthansa Shopping Center. She loves
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learning foreign languages. In her spare time she enjoys reading some bestseller Western novels, Western art books and imported books on China.
49. Li Hua, a student from Beijing University, is interested in American and British literature, especially English novels. Apart from that, he also takes a fancy to collect older imported books.
50. John comes from England, and he is a freshman of Beijing Language and Culture University. He hopes to adapt to the new environment as soon as possible. But his Chinese is quite poor, so now he is trying hard to learn it well.
III 写作 (共两节，满分40分)
第一节 基础写作 (共1小题，满分15分)
假设你于4月23日的“世界读书日”(World Reading Day)在你所在的学校进行了一项阅读习惯调查，以下是其中的一项调查结果。请用英语写一篇短文，说明相关内容及结果等。
A．买书阅读
【写作内容】
1. 调查时间及内容； 2. 调查结果；
3. 问题：阅览室的使用率(use rate)不高； 4. 建议：（1）延长阅览室的开放时间；
（2）书店送书到校，方便学生购买。
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B．网上下载或在线阅读 D．学校阅览室阅读
C．从朋友处或图书馆借阅
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【写作要求】
只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容。
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。
第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
There are many poems describing the scenes of hard-working peasants. Now, if you want to experience the fun of planting vegetables and getting income from that, you just need to click on the Internet. Recently, growing vegetables on the Internet has become popular quickly. Many people grow vegetables in the major websites and steal vegetables crazily in their spare time or during the break of study or work. So, \"Online vegetables\" has become a trend.
The so-called \"Online vegetables\" game is a \"Happy Farms\" program. The players only need to apply for one space on some websites like QQ space, they can have a vegetable garden, as well as a hut, a food storeroom, a shovel（铲子）, a watering can and other tools. With the rising game level, they can buy at the store a variety of crop seeds, and then plant the seeds, water and fertilize the plants, while anxiously awaiting the harvest. The kinds of plants, once ripe, need to be harvested in a rush. That’s because if not gathered in timely, the fruits may be stolen or sold out for money.
As the game becomes a fashion, the common greeting “Good morning!” has been replaced by “Have you stolen any vegetables today?”
【写作内容】
1. 以约30个词概括上文的内容要点；
2. 以约120个词就“开心菜园”谈谈你的想法，包括：
(1) 以你或他人的经历来说明“开心菜园”对生活带来的影响。 (2) 你认为“开心菜园”是不是值得做的一件事，为什么？
【写作要求】
1. 在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
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