高二英语期中测试及答案2014

湛江二中港城中学2014-2015学年第一学期高二级期中

英语科试卷

命题人：孙霞审题人: 杨真珍考试范围：必修五

（本试卷共四大题，满分150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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项凃黑。

Many people go to school for an education. 1learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistryand maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so thatthey can 2 a living. School3 is very importantand useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school.A teacher, no matter 'how much he 4, cannot teachhis students everything they 5 to know. Theteacher's job is to show his students how to read andhow to 6. So much more is to be learned 7school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to studyby 8 than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formulas（公式）. It is 9 quite easy to learn a 10 fact inhistory or a formula in mathematics. But it is verydifficult to use a formula in 11out a mathsproblem.Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo,didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so12 that they invented so many things for mankind.

The 13 for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that werenot14atschool. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not asinglemoment. They would ask many questions as theyread and they did thousands of 15 .

1. A. Students B. They C. We D. People 2. A. make B. do C. have D. get 3. A. education B. degreeC. lesson D. task 4. A. teaches B. knowsC. learns D. practises 5. A. manage B. expectC. fail D. want

6. A. study B. play C. think D. work 7. A. from B. in C. within D. outside 8. A. heart B. studentsC. us D. oneself 9. A. not B. actuallyC. seldom D. known

10. A. real B. true C. certain D. great 11. A. setting B. workingC. making D. doing 12. A. famous B. popularC. successful D. modest 13. A. experiment B. reasonC. result D. way 14. A. kept B. showedC. expressed D. taught 15. A. duties B. jobsC. experiments D. records

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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。

Li Qiang,a high school student,was taking up the first prizeto travel to the year 3008. 16 (worry) about the journey, he was unsettled for the first few days. Then he suffered from \17 was similar to the\minutes 18 , they arrived. Confused by the new19 (surrounding) and hit by 20lack of fresh air,he felt that his head ached. By putting on a mask given by Wang Ping,he feltmuch 21 (good). Then Wang Ping taught him 22 to drive a hovering carriage driven by computer, andhe mastered the skills in a few minutes and was soon able to fly as 23 as Wang Ping. But when they reached 24 looked like a large market, Li Qiang got lost. He lost sight ofWang Ping as there were many ghcarriages 25 (fly) by inall directions.

Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解（共20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凃黑。 A

When 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.

\you start your own business?\You'dbetter find a way of opening it. \\

\giveit 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 uphis business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, madefriends with his customers and gradually managed tobuild up his goodwill and profit. A few months later, hefound that he had more work than he could deal with byhimself. He found a number of empty shops but theywere not all good : in the wrong position , too expensive or with some other snags(库碍). But at last, he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate where there wereplenty of customers but no competition.Boris and his assistant taught themselves howtorepair scooters and motorcycles. Slowly but surely theprofits increased and the business developed. At last,Boris had managed to open the money-locker and foundbank notes and gold coins inside.

26. Which of the following would be the best title for thepassage ? A. Goodwill is the key to success B. The world is a money-locker C. No education, no future

D. Difficulty of starting a small business

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27.WIhich of the following best describes Boris' job hunting experience?

A. Surprising. B. Encouraging. C. Boring. D. Disappointing. 28. Boris started his career by___. A. cycling around the town

B. developing a piece of waste ground C. repairing cycles D. buying empty shops

29. Boris finally chose an empty shop on a new estatebecause. A. it was not so expensive

B. he had a lot of old customers there

C. he could make good use of his skills there D. there were good opportunities there

30. We can infer from the last paragraph that Boris. A. still couldn't make good profits B. set off in a successful career

C. found a lot of gold coins by accident D. had great difficulty running his business B

It seems that the Englishmen justcannotlivewithoutsports of somekind. A famous Frenchhumoristonce said that this is because the English insist on behaving like children all their lives. Where you go in this country you will see both children and grown-ups knocking a ball about with a stick or something, as if inBritain men shall always remain boys and women girls!Still,it can never be bad to get exercise, can it? Taking all amateurand professional sports in Britain into consideration, there can be no doubt that football isat the top of the list. The game originated in Britain and was played in the middle ages even earlier, though as anorganized game, or \association football\

The next is rugby, which is called \teams of fifteen players rather than eleven. The rugby, an oval-shaped ball is used which can be handled as well as kicked. It is a pretty rough game.

In summer, cricket is the most popular sport; infact,it has sometimes been called the English nationalgame. Most foreigners find the game rather slow or evenboring,but it enjoys great popularity among the British.

Tennis rates high on the list, too. It was introducedinto England from France in the 15th century,but it wasfrom England that it spread to practically every country in the world.

Table-tennis or \andvolleyball were introduced into Britain during the late19th century from America and are gaining popularity. Horseback riding, swimming, rowing and golf all attracta lot of people. 31. The main purpose of Paragraph l is to tell us that theEnglish _______. A. are all sports lovers. B. behave like children.

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C. like to kick a ball around.

D. can remain young all their lives.

32. According to the passage, which of the following isNOT true about football and rugby? A. They differ in the shape of the ball.

B. They are played by different numbers of players. C. They both can be handled. D. They both can be kicked.

33. From the second and the third paragraphs, we knowthat . A. Americans love football most of all. B. British people love rugby most of all.

C. Americans and British people may call the samething differently. D. football originated in Britain in the 18th century.

34. The game that was never played in Britain until thelate 19th century is_________. A. basketball B. tennisC. rugby D. football 35. What should be the best title for this passage? A. The Most Popular Sports B. The English Sports C. The History of Sports D. Sports in Britain C

One month after Steve Jobs' death, his love letter tohis wife for their 20th wedding anniversary has inspired a string of translations and retranslations as his fans search for the perfect words to express their appreciation.

Netizens (网民)including LuoHuiqiang, known as Jonny Law on his microblog, were unhappy with the wording(措辞) in the official Chinese version of the biography, which they said was plain and not touching.They set out to write their own versions.

\ (精选 WJ) wordings to share my love for Jobs,\

The next day, nearly 30, 000 microblog usersforwarded (辖交) his version of the love letter. \

Other fans have done translations in various Chinese literary forms and tones, including ones in the style of Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) poetry and in the Sichuan dialect.

The Chinese version of the biography has sold an estimated l million copies, with 678,000 sold in the first week after its launch on Oct. 24, and has been the top seller in many online retailers. Yet while fans are unsatisfied with the official translation, the publisher is arguing that they’ve done their best.

\Chinese version was launched with multilingual (多种语言的 ) versions at the same time worldwide, \

Yan said they received the last part of the Englishtext from US publisher only a month before theworldwide launch.

To fulfill the \impossible\as Yan said,which was sped up by Jobs' sudden death in

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