1、 上学期期末联考 高二年级英语试卷 命题教师：武汉二中高先群 考试时间： 1 月 15 日 10:00 12:00 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、 B、 C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。 1. Why is the man proud of his daughter? A. She looks very attractive. B. She has a ve
2、ry nice character. C. She is successful in her work. 2. What are the speakers mainly discussing? A. Working on a project together. B. Returning books to the library. C. Studying together at the weekend. 3. What did the woman repair? A. A desk. B. A shelf. C. A chair. 4. What does the woman prefer to
3、 do? A. Watch TV. B. See a movie. C. Go to the restaurant. 5. What does the man suggest the woman take? A. A bus. B. A train. C. A taxi. 第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、 B、 C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听
4、第 6 段材料，回答 6 7 题。 6. What is the weather like now? A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm. 7. Where are the speakers? A. In a hotel. B. At an airport. C. In the womans house. 听第 7 段 材料，回答第 810 题。 8. How many lost bags did the man receive yesterday? A. 38. B. 28. C. 24. 9. What do we know about the womans shoulder
5、 bag? A. Its small. B. It has a zip. C. It has a pocket on the front. 10. What is in the womans shoulder bag? A. A toy. B. A real snake. C. Some books. 听第 8 段材料，回答 第 1113 题。 11. Where did the woman and Tom meet? A. At a hotel. B. At a restaurant. C. At an airport. 12. What happened after the woman a
6、nd Tom met? A. Tom left quickly. B. The woman left quickly. C. They fell in love immediately. 13. What made the woman dislike Tom? A. His shoes. B. His speech. C. His appearance. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 1417 题。 14. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Golfer and fan. B. Golfer and coach.
7、C. Golfer and reporter. 15. What is the most important to the man? A. Lots of practice. B. A good coach. C. Talent. 16. What does the man want to do next? A. Go to sleep. B. Have a bath and eat. C. Think over something. 17. What do we know about the man? A. He is a professional. B. He began playing
8、at the age of seven. C. He has just won the championship. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 1820 题。 18. How can the students join the English story-telling competition? A. By a class. B. By individual. C. By a group with the family. 19. When is the deadline for handing in the entry form? A. April 18th. B. April 14th. C
9、. April 2nd. 20. How can the students get more about the singing contest? A. By reading the poster. B. By calling Miss Dowson. C. By asking the English Club. 第二部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分 55 分） 第一节 单项选择（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 从 A、 B、 C、 D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 21. Finally， after much _， Harry was
10、chosen captain of the football team. A. debate B. bargain C. defeat D. defence 22. The committee is discussing the problem right now. It will _ have been solved by the end of next week. A. eagerly B. hopefully C. immediately D. gradually 23. Troubled as he may be， he always _ a calm smiling face, wh
11、ich surprises us very much. A. reflects B. switches C. updates D. presents 24. In considering men for jobs in our firm， we give _ to those with some experience. A. preference B. prediction C. attitude D. responsibility 25. A great amount of money was _ the Bangladesh disaster fund by people from all
12、 walks of life. A. contributed to B. put an end to C. belonged to D. looked up to 26. If the people get better education and the world becomes less unfair, much of the poverty can be . A. worked out B. wiped out C. left out D. cleaned out 27. One of the causes of the generation gap is that parents f
13、ail to _ their children. A. link with B. connect to C. depend on D. relate to 28. The store had no more Christmas tree _, so dad had to make one himself. A. in preparation B. in store C. in need D. in demand 29. It is a(n) _idea to keep a machine running all the time without any power supply. A. rea
14、sonable B. absurd C. proper D. available 30. Like some of my classmates, I cannot live up to my teachers expectations; _I let them down. A. in other words B. after all C. whats more D. more or less 第二节：完成句子（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 根据句中括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词的恰当形式完成句子。 31. Only in recent years (人们开始意
15、识到 )that wild dogs, kept within bounds, often do more good than harm.(realize) 32. I do believe it is possible for different races （和谐地生活） .(harmony) 33. (如果被困在 ) a burning building, you should send for help. (trap) 34. A net is to a fisherman (就如枪之于 猎人 ) a hunter. (gun) 35. （ 很 有可能） he will stress
16、the point at the meeting tomorrow.（ chance） 36. （他一回来）， he went straight to the boss and beat him black and white.（ on） 37. He had no choice but （告诉她真相） .（ truth） 38. The fact is （他以前做的事情） is of little use to our plan.（ what） 39. If you (曾经问过他 ) when you saw him last time, you would know what to do
17、now. (ask) 40. The earth, the moon, the other stars and the sun are just part of (我们称为宇宙 ). (call) 第三节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从 A、 B、 C、 D 中选出最佳答案。 Donnie was my youngest third grader. His fear of 41 kept him from classroom games that other children played excitedly. He seldom
18、 answered questions he might be 42 . He seldom finished his work because he 43 checked with me to be 44 he hadnt made a mistake. I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But 45 changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and
19、 she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included, 46 her. But even enthusiastic Mary was 47 by this little boy who feared he might make a mistake. Then one morning we were working math problems. Donnie had copied the problems with painstaking neatness and filled in answers for the first row. 48 with
20、his progress, I left the children with Mary. But when I returned, Donnie was 49 . Hed missed the third problem. Mary looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face 50 . From the desk we shared, she got a canister (小筒 ) filled with 51 . “Look, Donnie,” she said, “Ive got something to show you.” She remov
21、ed the pencils and placed them on his desk. “See these pencils, Donnie?” she continued. “They 52 Mrs Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are 53 ? Thats because we make 54 too. Lots of them. But we 55 the mistakes and try again. Thats what you must learn to do, too.” She kissed him and continued, “
22、Ill leave one of these pencils on your desk so youll remember that 56 makes mistakes, even teachers.” Donnie 57 with love in his eyes and a smile on his face. The pencil became Donnies prized possession. That, together with Mary Annes 58 encouragement and praise for even Donnies small successes, gra
23、dually 59 him that its all right to make mistakes 60 you erase them and try again. 41. A. risk B. failure C. danger D. communication 42. A. wrong B. nervous C. inactive D. dull 43. A. regularly B. rarely C. hardly D. repeatedly 44. A. sure B. obvious C. praised D. known 45. A. all B. none C. nothing
24、 D. everything 46. A. adored B. disliked C. protected D. watched 47. A. encouraged B. puzzled C. disappointed D. annoyed 48. A. Dissatisfied B. Concerned C. Pleased D. Familiar 49. A. in difficulty B. in doubt C. in silence D. in tears 50. A. reddened B. brightened C. darkened D. paled 51. A. pens B
25、. pencils C. erasers D. chalks 52. A. turn to B. devote to C. belong to D. get to 53. A. worn B. deserted C. used D. empty 54. A. notes B. problems C. stories D. mistakes 55. A. change B. erase C. correct D. repair 56. A. somebody B. nobody C. everybody D. anybody 57. A. looked up B. looked down C.
26、looked through D. looked out 58. A. common B. frequent C. usual D. general 59. A. told B. advised C. persuaded D. suggested 60. A. as long as B. now that C. in case D. if only 第三部分 阅读理解（共 12 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 24 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（ A、 B、 C 和 D）中 , 选出最佳选项 . A Music for Little Mozarts is a programme des
27、igned to help your little ones develop a love of music. Learning music at an early age helps develop minds and expand cognitive (认知的 ) ability. While listening to music can certainly help your youngster pick up songs, actually learning to play the piano can help your childs development. This program
28、me focuses on little creatures that both entertain and teach. By grasping the attention of a young childs mind and engaging them with stories along with hands on experience, you can provide them with a positive experience that may produce a little Mozart in later years. Within this multi-book and mu
29、lti-year lesson plan there are ten little characters that help draw the child into the lesson plan. These little creatures actually can be used to help the child grasp basic concepts in music. The series starts out in the preschool years and provides day by day lessons that can aid the child or a cl
30、assroom of children right through early adolescence (青春期 ). The series is designed for both classroom and preschool use and for those at home with homeschoolers. It contains a series of books along with audio CDs, flash cards, and other visual aids that can help very young children develop an ear an
31、d an eye for music. It can be hard to hold the attention spans of children for very long. However, with the right creativity and the proper attention along with simple, easy to master daily lessons, most children will not only grasp music rather quickly, they will also develop a love of real music,
32、not just banging on a piano keyboard and making sounds. The short, daily lessons are planned out so that children learn to play music by ear. They learn to play real songs and master real passages quickly and easily. This element keeps them involved. They also master playing by ear and then later by
33、 reading rather quickly. 61. Music for Little Mozarts is intended for . A. children at home B. children at school C. preschool students D. all of above 62. This programme teaches children . A. how to sing songs B. to master playing the piano quickly C. to learn some basic music knowledge D. to exper
34、ience the charm of music 63. We can infer that this programme was developed for . A. childrens attention spans in mind B. childrens intelligence spans C. preschool childrens interest D. school childrens music ability 64. The last two paragraphs mainly tell the reader . A. what this programme offers
35、B. the relationship between ear and musical ability C. its more important to play by ear than to learn to read music D. this programme is useful for developing childrens love of music quickly B Youre walking down the street, minding your own business, when you see a snowball. No big deal, right? Exc
36、ept that the snowball is as tall as you are and weighs about a ton. Did we mention that its June? Thats the experience thousands of Londoners had when they crossed paths with “Snowballs in Summer”, the brainchild (构想 ) of artist Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy makes sculpture from all sorts of things
37、he finds outside leaves, earth, and rocks, as well as ice and snow. He wanted to find out how busy city people would react to an unexpected snowball melting in their midst. During the winter of 2005, he rolled 13 giant snowballs near his home in Scotland. He filled each one with a surprise in the ce
38、nter such as pebbles, berries, feathers, or sheeps wool which would emerge as the snow melted. The finished snowballs were stored in a deep freeze until summer, then transported to London in refrigerated trucks. At midnight on June 21, 2006, while the city slept, Goldsworthy and his co conspirators
39、rolled their snowballs into place. People walking to work or school must have thought the sky was falling when they stumbled across snowballs of the size of baby elephants. Some of them had never even seen snow in real life, and they couldnt resist poking (捅 ) the snowballs or even breaking off a ch
40、unk(大块 ). As the snow started to melt, things got even more interesting. The perfectly round snowballs took on different shapes as the stuff inside began to poke through. Two days later, most of Goldsworthys snowballs were gone, and their fillings scattered. But Londoners were left with a really goo
41、d story about that odd summer day when the snowballs came. 65. How long had the snowballs been stored before they were seen? A. For about half a year. B. For 21 days. C. For about a year. D. For 13 months. 66. What is really special about the snowballs is that . A. they lie in the street B. they are
42、 in the shape of baby elephants C. they have pebbles, berries, feathers in them D. they appear in June 67. What was Goldsworthys purpose in making the snowballs? A. To find out peoples reactions to them. B. To call up peoples memory of the cold winter. C. To show off his skills in sculpture. D. To l
43、et people experience the cold winter. 68. Why did Goldsworthy and his co-conspirators roll their snowballs into place at mid night? A. Because they didnt want to disturb other people. B. Because it was quiet at that time. C. Because they wanted to avoid the traffic jam. D. Because they wanted to giv
44、e people a surprise. C More and more schools are being designed and used in ways that are friendly to the environment. These so-called green schools use less energy, cost less to run and are good for students. The newly renovated (翻修的 ) Sidwell Friends Middle School in the District has been awarded
45、the highest rating by the U.S. Green Building Council for having a positive impact on the environment a rare honor. Soon the school will treat and re-use its wastewater, saving hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per year. The recycled water from sinks and toilets, which cant be used for drink
46、ing, will be colored blue, “so we know its recycled, just in case it gets into the water fountains (喷泉 ) not that it would,” joked Emily Bernstein, 14, a Sidwell student and building tour guide. Water fountains will still use fresh city water. Sidwell students are studying the building itself in science classes to help them learn firsthand the positive impact of green buildings. Its affecting how they view the world around them. “If you see a *building+ being torn down, you think, Theyre going to fill up a whole landfill (垃圾填埋场 ) wi
