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陈店实验学校20142015学年度下学期期中考试试题高二年级英语学科考试说明：本卷共三大题，满分135分，考试时间为120分钟，请在答题卡上认真作答！第一部分 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共25小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，然后从1-15各题所给的a、b、c、d选项中，选出最佳选项。once upon a time, a king was on a tour with his ministers(大臣). he was taking a _31_ in the shade of a mango tree with his team when suddenly a _32_hit him directly on the forehead. immediately he started _33_.the king had no idea who threw the stone at him, but he did know he was expecting an intolerable _34_. the guard left right away to find who threw the stone. after _35_ they found only one old lady there, and they asked if she had thrown any stones _36_.“yes,” she replied, “i threw a stone at the mango tree.”they asked her, “did you throw any stone at the king?” the womans face showed how _37_ she was, so the guard forcefully told her that she would be _38_. the woman was arrested and presented before the king. she trembled with fear and _39_ they wouldnt kill her. after seeing the blood flow down the kings face, she became more upset and felt _40_.the king asked her very calmly, “did you throw the stone at me?”she replied _41_, “my child has been hungry for two days. i was collecting _42_ for him but could not find any. i hope when i threw the stone at the tree, a mango would _43_ so that i could feed my son. however, by mistake the stone hit your forehead and that is my unknown mistake.”the woman bowed down before the king begging pardon for her mistake. the king understood the _44_ very clearly. he forgave her mistake and instead of punishment he decided to give her money, food, and returned her _45_ to her home.1 a. calculation brest cresearch dphoto2 a. monkey bmango cbranch dstone3 a. walking bshaking cbleeding dsmiling4 a. pain bfailure cexperimentddisease5 a. blaming bbattling cdiscussing dsearching6 a. successfully brecently cfrequently dcuriously7 a. bored bdisappointed cterrified damused8 a. protected bcured cchecked dpunished9 a. found bprayed crealized dbelieved10a. hopeless bcareless cuseless drestless11a. laughing bweeping c. shouting dswinging12a. information bjuice cfood dmoney13a. break bfunction cgrow dfall14a. determination bappreciation csuggestion dsituation15a. unwillingly bpersonally csafely dforcefully第二节 语法填空(共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下列短文，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所给词语的正确形式填空。in the toys section, i noticed a small boy of about five years old, pressing against his chest. he kept on touching 16 hair of the doll and looked very sad. i wondered who he wanted to give the doll 17 . so i walked towards him and asked him all about it.“it is the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for this christmas. she was so sure 18 santa claus would bring it to her.”i told him not to worry. however, he 19 (reply) sadly, “no, santa claus cannot bring it to 20 she is now. ill have to give the doll to my mother so that she can give it to her when she goes there.”his eyes were filled with 21 (sad) while saying this.“recently, my sister 22 (go) to be with god. daddy said that mommy will also join god very soon, so i think she can bring the doll with 23 to give it to my sister.”my heart almost stopped beating 24 (complete). the little boy looked up at me and said, “i told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. i asked him to wait 25 i come back from the store.”第二部分 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）awhen boris left school，he could not find a job. he tried hard and pestered(纠缠) his relatives，but they had problems of their own. he answered advertisements until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. boris grew annoyed，then depressed，then a little hardened. still he went on trying and still he failed. he began to think that he had no future at all.“why dont you start your own business？” one of his uncles told him. “the world is a moneylocker. youd better find a way of opening it.”“but what can i do？” “get out and have a look round，”advised his uncle in a vague sort of way. “see what peop1e want; then give it to them，and they will pay for it.”boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of waste ground in the end. then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. he worked hard，made friends with his customers and gradually managed to build up his goodwill and profit. a few months later，he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself. he found a number of empty shops but they were all no good：in the wrong position，too expensive or with some other snag(障碍)but at long last，he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there were plenty of customers but no competition.boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair scooters and motorcycles. slowly but surely the profits increased and the business developed. at last，boris had managed to open the moneylocker and found bank notes and gold coins inside.26which of the following would be the best title for the passage? agoodwill is the key to success.bthe world is a moneylocker.cno education，no future.ddifficulty of starting a small business.27.which of the following best describes borisjob hunting experience?asurprising. bencouraging.cboring. ddisappointing.28.boris starts his career by _.acycling around the townbdeveloping a waste groundcrepairing cyclesdbuying empty shops29.boris finally chose an empty shop on a new estate because _.ait was not so expensivebhe had a lot of old customers thereche could make good use of his skills theredthere were good opportunities there30.we can infer from the last paragraph that boris _.astill couldnt make good profitsbset off in a successful careercfound a lot of gold coins by accidentdhad great difficulty running his businessbthis valentines day, millions of people will exchange heart-shaped gifts of all kinds, from candy to cards. but did you know that the human heart does not actually look like the typical valentine shape? according to heart specialist dr. robert dibianco, we can learn more about this important organ. “the human heart is about the size of a fist. because the heart is a muscle with lots of blood supplied to it, it looks red like meat,” he explained. “in people who are overweight, the heart looks yellow because it is covered with yellow fat.” in the united states, children are taught to place their hands over their hearts when pledging allegiance to the flag. most people have heard that the heart is on the left side of the chest. in reality, the heart is in the middle of the chest, tucked snugly between the two lungs. and what does the heart actually do? dibianco explained that the heart is a pump that pushes blood throughout the body by expanding and contracting. “each living part of the body needs blood to live, and thats why its important for the blood to go to different parts of the body,” dibianco said. when youre exercising, it takes your blood about ten seconds to get from your heart to your big toe and back, much quicker than usual. in fact, a kids heart has to push blood through about 60,000 miles (96,560 kilometers) of blood vessels, which is long enough to circle the earth two and a half times! when the kid grows, his or her blood vessels grow, too. so all that pumping takes a lot of effort. to push blood, an average heart beats a hundred thousand times a day. that means that in a lifetime, the average human heart will beat more than two and a half billion times. 31. if you are too heavy, your heart may _. a. be like the valentine shape b. look yellow with the fat c. change the color and the shape d. become much bigger than your fist 32. according to dr. robert dibianco, the heart is usually _. a. on the left side of the chest b. on the right side of the chest c. in the middle of the chest d. under the two lungs 33. the underlined expression “expanding and contracting” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _. a. giving and taking b. beating and pausing c. becoming faster and slower d. getting bigger and smaller 34. what can we learn from paragraph 6? a. doing exercise will make blood flow faster. b. a kid has longer blood vessels than an adult. c. the more a heart beats, the healthier its owner will be. d. a heart pushes blood through about 60,000 miles in a lifetime. 35. what is the passage mainly about? a. characteristics and functions of human heart. b. the hearts of different kinds of people. c. suggestions on protecting our hearts. d. the misunderstandings on human heart.ca few days ago, i was sitting in a thai restaurant enjoying a meal when i got on a phone call from a friend i hadnt spoken to in a long time. in my enthusiasm and excitement, i talked quite louder than usual voice and in spanish, my mother tongue. a few minutes into the call, an old lady sitting at the table beside mine got up, seemingly offended, and asked the restaurant staff to relocate(重新安排) a table as far away as possible from this man who seemed to be impolite. i sank in my seat out of embarrassment. i ended the call soon afterwards and felt the urge to apologize. before getting up, i looked around to see where she was and she was at the table farthest away from me. i noticed that the lady was alone and staring out the window. i found a tinge (气息) of sadness or anxiety and perhaps a desire for aloneness and peace. but i had obviously destroyed it minutes earlier. right then i abandoned my plan for a conventional apologetic gesture. seeing those funny smile cards in my wallet, i took one out and wrote some words to express my apology. on signing my restaurant bill, i asked a waiter to secretly charge the ladys meal to me and hand her the smile card instead of her bill. did she take it the wrong way, i wondered? did she get confused? did she refuse the anonymous offer? and so on. i just waited and felt nervous to learn the outcome. to my pleasant surprise, things turned out the best possible way. the waiter approached me in a joy, telling me, “in the many times she had dined here before, i had never seen the old lady smile as she did when receiving the smile card and the $0 bill. she thanked me even though i explained that someone else did the job.” 36. the old lady changed her seat mainly because of _. a. her private phone call b. the authors loud voice c. the views out of the window d. the restaurant staffs mistake 37. what can we infer from paragraph 3? a. the author didnt stop talking though he felt embarrassed. b. the author went up to the old lady and apologized to her. c. the old lady just moved to the farthest table to see outside. d. the lady didnt have a nice mood and liked to stay alone. 38. feeling sorry, the author offered the old lady the following except _. a. an apologetic gesture b. a smile card c. a free meal d. some written words to apologize 39. why did the author say, “. things turned out the best possible way”? a. because the waiter became joyful. b. because someone else did the job for him.c. because he didnt need to pay the bill. d. because the old lady forgave him. 40. which of the following is the best title of this passage? a. a misunderstanding caused by different cultures b. an unpleasant experience in thailand c. a smile card for a sincere apology d. an old lady who never smilesdone evening in february 2007, a student named paula ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote road in wales. she got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. thats when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. her renault clio was parked across a railway line. seconds later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.ceelys near miss made the news because she blamed it on her gps device(导航仪). she had never driven the route before. it was dark and raining heavily. ceely was relying on her gps, but it made no mention of the crossing. “i put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train,” she told the bbc.who is to blame here? rick stevenson, who tells ceelys story in his book when machines fail us, points the finger at the limitations of technology. we put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. they are filled with small problems. and its not just gps devices: stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless keyboards.the problem with his argument in the book is that its not clear why he only focuses on digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. a map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. maybe we should blame ceely for not paying attention. perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signalling system. or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the gps equipment. but stevenson doesnt say. its a problem that runs through the book. in a section on cars, stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. he offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. he says that once again not all new locks have proved reliable. perhaps, but maybe its also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. or changing social circumstances. or some combination of these factors. the game between humans and their smart devices is amusing and complex. it is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be a way for a wiser use of technology.if there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. after all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. they have probably been fooling us for just as long.41.what did paula ceely think was the cause of her accident？a. she was not familiar with the road.b. it was dark and raining heavily then.c. the railway workers failed to give the signal.d. her gps device didnt tell her about the crossing.42.the phrase “near miss” (paragraph 2) can best be replaced by_.a. close hitb. heavy lossc. narrow escape d. big mistake43. which of the following would rick stevenson most probably agree with?a. modern technology is what we cant live without.b. digital technology often falls short of our expectation.c. digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.d. gps error is not the only cause for ceelys accident.44. in the writers opinion, stevensons argument is _.a. one-sided b. reasonable c. puzzling d. well-based45. what is the real concern of the writer of this article?a. the major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.b. the relationship between humans and technology.c. the shortcomings of digital devices we use.d. the human unawareness of technical problems.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。以下是招聘广告信息：arecording part time job for foreigners with high salary there is a recording part time job. the program is held by chinese academy of sciences and microsoft for car audio control driving system. 1. the recording will be done in a driving car, which will make the recoding more similar to voice in real life;2 we need 10 spanish people, 10 germans and 10 frenchmen; if you are interested in this recording, please send the needed information to to contact vivilin.ba full-time american or canadian teacher needed in beijing tag: beijing language teaching contracttsinghua university of beijing is looking for a full-time american or canadian english teacher to teach a group of students who prepare to study abroad. monthly salary is rmb9000-12000. free accommodation will be provided. job requirement:candidate should have bachelor degree. local from the united states or canada. if interested, please send your resume with photo to .ckindergarten english teachertag: shenzhen education & other teaching full timejob description: play games with children and speak english simultaneously. job requirement: 22-45 years old more than 1 year teaching experience from native english countries, or holding tesol from european countries. please send me your resume with photo, copy of passport and qualification. dneed a british female for recording an english audio bookreply to: a recording studio needs a british female with an english accent to partner a british male to record an english audio book. the recording studio is in luohu, shenzhen and you would be needed for about 5 hours a week for the next few months. it helps if you can be flexible with when you can work. please only contact me if you are female and have an english accent. thanksetranslators/editors needed for ecreply to: the general requirements for the positions are: native english speaker; advanced level of chinese and ability to translate written chinese documents;having prior experiences of translation and meeting quality standard. the full-time translator/editor will be working in echinacities beijing office and the part-time tra