通州市2005－2006学年（下）高二期中考试
英语试题A
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第一卷 (选择题，共105分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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l0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. What is the man?
A. A worker. B. A driver. C. A teacher.
2. What is the man going to do this weekend?
A. Meet a friend of his. B. Go to
3. What does the woman intend to buy her dad for Christmas?
A. A watch. B. A book. C. A book or a record.
4. How does the woman feel?
A. Surprised. B. Lighted-hearted. C. A bit tense.
5. What does the man tell the woman?
A. She is mistaken.
B. His dog likes chasing cats.
C. There is another cat that looks like hers.
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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段材料，回答第6至第8题。
6. What is the woman going to do?
A. Buy a gift for David.
B. Buy a pet for her husband.
C. Buy some animals for the zoo.
7. How many kinds of animals are mentioned in the conversation?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.
8. What can we learn from the conversation?
A.The man likes keeping rabbits.
B.The man doesn’t know much about David..
C.The man doesn’t like snakes.
听下面一段材料，回答第9至第11题。
9. How many goals did the visiting team score?
A. 1. B. 2. C. 3.
10. What do we know about the woman?
A. She watched the game on TV because she hasn’t got the ticket.
B. She knew about the game over the radio.
C. She watched the match at the stadium.
11. When is Jack’s next match?
A. On Friday this week.
B. On Saturday this week.
C. On Friday next week.
听下面一段材料，回答第12至第14题。
12. What are the two speakers talking about?
A. A flight timetable.
B. Hiring a taxi.
C. The way to the
13. Where is the woman going on Saturday?
A. Garden Hotel. B. The airport. C. The railway station.
14. When will the driver pick up the woman?
A. Before 7:00am. B. At 7:00am. C. After 7:00am.
听下面一段材料，回答第15至第17题。
15. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Close friends. C. Boss and secretary.
16. Which of the following is NOT right according to the conversation?
A.The man won’t be free until in the evening.
B.The woman will go to meet Tony instead of Dave because she has lots of time to kill.
C.The two speakers are mainly talking about the planning for the next day.
17. Where are the two speakers going to have dinner?
A. In a restaurant. B. In the woman’s house. C. In the man’s house.
听下面一段材料，回答第18至第20题。
18. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. More must be done about the school dropouts.
B. The importance of “Hope Project” .
C. The function of education
19. How many school-aged children have dropped out of school?
A. Over 2 million. B. Over 4 million. C. Over 12 million.
20. What is in the greatest demand in helping the poor children?
A. A better education system. B. A large amount of money. C. Parents’ attention.
第二部分：英语知识运用 (共两节，满分35分)
第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
从四个选项中，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. Everyone wishes to have ____success though _____failure is the mother of success.
A.不填; a B. the; a C. a; a D. a; 不填
22. Since the local doctors couldn’t cure her illness. The woman was sent to a big city, where
specialists could be __________to study her disease.
A. called at B. called on C. called in D. called up
23. Hundreds of policemen arrived and _______ the protest crowds that had been there for nearly two hours.
A. broke off B. broke down C. broke up D. broke away
24. ---Mum, I climbed to get the Teddy Bear from the top of the shelf.
---My goodness! You _______ yourself. You _____ do that next time.
A. must have hurt; mustn’t B. should have hurt; can’t
C. may have hurt; mustn’t D. might have hurt; won’t be able to
25. As a teacher, I seldom give my students so difficult a problem_______ they can’t work out.
A. that B. as C. if D. in order that
26. The World Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World Wide Wait because it _____ be very slow.
A. can B. must C. should D. will
A. parted B. divided C. separated D. removed
28. So absorbed ________ in the research that she didn’t hear someone knocking at the door.
A. she did B. did she C. she was D. was she
29. You are smart, diligent and determined, which, I’m sure, will this plan a success.
A. get B. lead to? C. cause D. make
30.
A. have been developing B. is developing
C. develop D. has developed
31.--- Hi, Mary. It’s nice seeing you.
---I ________ coming to visit you but too much work prevented me from doing so.
A. had thought B. thought of
C. have been thinking of D. have thought of
32. ---________by the chemistry teacher for not finishing homework independently makes him feel very shameful.
---Yes. But he told me this morning he would spare no effort to be the top one in our class.
A. Scolded B. Having scolded
C. Being scolded D. After being scolded
33. --- Car 18 won the race.
--- Yes, but its driver came close to _________.
A. having killed B. have been killed C. being killed D. be killed
34. ---You must obey every word of mine!
---_______ I don’t?
A. How if B. What if C. Even if D. Only if
35. ---What happened to the house ?
---It _____burnt to the ground.
A is said to having been B. is supposed to have been
C is reported to be D. is believed to have
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Many of us spend a great deal of
time and energy proving that we are right and others are wrong. Many people
believe that it is their job to 36 others how their positions, statements,
and points of view are incorrect, and
Think about it. Have you ever been corrected by someone and said to him, “Thank you so much for showing me that I’m wrong and you’re right.” 39 has anyone you know ever 40 you when you corrected him, or made yourself “right” at his 41 ? Of course not. The truth is, all of us 42 to be corrected. We all want our positions to be 43 and understood by others. Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest 44 of the human heart. And those who learn to 45 are the most loved and respected. Those who are in the 46 of correcting others are often resented(憎恨) and 47 .
A wonderful way of becoming more peaceful and loving is to practise allowing others the joy of being 48 ---give them the glory. 49 correcting. When someone says, “I really feel it’s important to …” instead of jumping in and saying, “No, it’s more important to …” simply let it 50 and allow their statements to 51 . The people in your life will become less defensive and more 52 . They will appreciate you more than you could ever have 53
possible. You’ll discover the joy of joining in and witnessing other people’s 54 , which is far more 55 than a battle of egos (自我). Starting today, let others be “right” most of time!
36. A.show B. ask C. suggest D. teach
37. A.whether B.which C.that D.what
38. A.something B.anything C.nothing D.everything
39. A. But B. Or C. As D. So
40. A. answered B. accepted C. cared D. thanked
41. A. point B. price C. expense D. power
42. A. want B. hate C. like D. dislike
43. A. taken B. received C. realized D. respected
44. A. demands B. advantages C. desires D. ideas
45. A. talk B. praise C. help D. listen
46. A. form B. habit C. middle D. name
47. A. pitied B. left C. punished D. scolded
48. A. sure B. common C. certain D. right
49. A. Prevent B. Practise C. Stop D. Continue
50. A. enter B. go C.come D. leave
51. A. stand B. take C.happen D. begin
52. A. careful B. helpful C.important D. loving
53. A. needed B. won C.dreamt D. demanded
54. A. worries B. happiness C.sufferings D. success
55. A. rewarding B.sensitive C.thoughtful D. meaningful
第三部分:阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
You’ve heard it repeatedly: Make sure you drink at least eight glasses of water per day. The key words are "at least", because, unless you are a child, you need more water than that. The rule is, for every 50 pounds of body weight you carry, drink one quart of bottled or filtered (过滤的) water per day. The average person weighs 150 pounds, so they should drink three quarts per day. A 200 pounds person should drink a full gallon per day. Athletes should drink even more than that. Follow these and you’ve adopted one of the most important health habits.
Our bodies are mostly water, and water is essential to our every function. Drink the appropriate amount, and everything is much more likely to function at the best levels. If you don’t drink enough water, over the short term you will experience tiredness, dry skin, headaches and constipation (便秘); over the longer term, every body function will degrade more quickly. It really is as simple as that.
Things get a bit more complicated in what type of water to drink. Bottled water and filtered water are both good options. Do not drink tap water or distilled water (蒸馏水).Bottled water should be bottled in clear glass containers, not the plastic containers that transfer far too many chemicals into the water. Filtered water can be obtained through low-cost filters.
Tap water should be avoided because it contains chlorine (氯) and may contain fluoride (氟化物), which is poisonous and can have terrible consequences for the body. Distilled water should also be avoided because it can burn up your body of necessary minerals. It has been tied to hair loss, which is often associated with certain mineral lack.
Finally, drink water at room temperature if possible, as ice-cold water can harm your stomach.
56. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “degrade”?
A. Improve. B. Strengthen. C. Reduce. D. Recover.
57. What kinds of water are proper for drinking?
A. Tap water and bottled water. B. Tap water and distilled water.
C. Bottled water and filtered water. D. Distilled water and filtered water.
58. What’s the main reason that distilled water isn’t recommended to drink?
A. It isn’t clean enough to drink. B. It leads the body to lack certain minerals.
C. It contains too many chemicals. D. It contains fluoride.
59. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. It is harmful to drink plenty of icy water.
B. One may feel tired due to lack of water for a short time.
C. The water in plastic containers is safe to drink.
D. The water with chlorine is not suitable to drink.
After almost 30 years of arguing that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, British astrophysicist (天体物理学家) Stephen Hawking moved backward last week.
The world-famous writer of “Brief History of Time” said he and other scientists had got it wrong.
“I’ve been thinking about this problem for the last 30 years, and I think I now have the answer to it,” said Hawking. “A black hole only appears to form but later opens up and set free information about what fell inside. So we can be sure of the past and can predict the future.”
The findings could help solve the “black hole information paradox（似是而非的观点）”, an important puzzle in modern physics.
A black hole is an area in space where matter is under such pressure that even light can not escape from its gravitational pull(引力). But, exactly what happens there has long puzzled scientists.
Black holes occur when a powerful star burns up its nuclear fuel and gravity forces it to break down in on itself. The great weight of the star’s outer layers moves in towards its center. The force of gravity keeps nearly all light from escaping and nothing inside can be seen from the outside.
The star actually disappears from the universe into a point of infinite density（高密度）. That is a place where the laws of general relativity that govern space and time break down.
Hawking has devoted most of his life to studying these questions.
At the beginning, cosmologists believed the holes were like a “universal vacuum (真空) cleaner”, sucking up everything in their path.
Hawking revolutionized the study of black holes when he proved, in 1976 that, under the strange rules of quantum physics（量子物理）, when black holes form they send out energy and lose mass in the process.
In thinking up this so-called “Hawking
radiation”, the
These particles (粒子), he said, contained no information about what has been occurring inside the black hole, or how it formed. Under his theory, once the black hole disappears, all the information within it is lost.
60. What’s the importance of Hawking’s new findings?
A. They could help solve the puzzle about black holes.
B. They have solved the mystery of “black holes”.
C. We can now know what is going on inside “black holes”.
D. Scientists have already predicted the future of “black holes” now.
61. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “cosmologist” (in Paragraph 9)?
A. A person who studies the universe and its origin and development.
B. A person who studies the stars and their development.
C. A person who travels in a spacecraft.
D. A person who studies the position of the stars and the movements of the planets.
62. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Hawking has now studied black holes for more than 40 years.
B. During the course of the black hole’s forming the enormous weight of the star’s center moves into the outer layers.
C. Almost nothing can escape from the gravitational pull of the black hole.
D. Scientists have been thinking the black hole contains no information.
63. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Formation of the Black Hole B. Black Hole Information Paradox
C. Black Hole Mystery D. The Cause of the Black Hole
If you’re a parent of a student who will go to college, two questions have probably been keeping you up at night: First, how can I help my child get into a college? Second, I wonder how much I could pay for it? You’re on your own when it comes to footing the bill, but college consultants may be able to help with the college part.
1. Get friendly with professors
When you visit colleges, make a point of speaking to a professor or two in your favorite department. “You want to show a college that you’re not just applying because it’s a name. You have a particular reason for applying,”Hernandez says. Taking something specific a professor says is a good way for a student to get noticed.
2. Prepare for application essay
“A lot of people believe the application doesn’t matter, and that the school is just going to look at grades and test scores,” Hernandez says. But it does, especially the college essay. To prepare, students should read some books on writing the college application essay.
3. Open your mouth
“In the interview, feel free to speak out your mind,” Hernandez says. “If they ask you about your classes, don’t just list them. Answer in detail. Try to speak out your passion for the classes.”
4. Be creative with your high school choices
Colleges are looking for students who actively pursue their interests. High school students who simply take the prescribed list won’t make much of an impression. So branch out(扩展范围). “If, for example, you really liked languages and hated math, the college teachers would much rather see that you dropped math and took an extra language class at a community college,” Hernandez says.
5. Get a “real” job
“If you come from a rich family, make sure you have some work experience other than summer camp or babysitting ―all the easy jobs that college teachers don’t consider real jobs,” Hernandez advises. The tougher the job is, the better.
64. According to the passage, we can infer that Hernandez may be _________.
A. a parent of a high school student B. a top college consultant
C. the author of the passage D. a high school student
65. The underlined phrase “footing the bill” in Paragraph 1 means ________.
A. borrowing money B. using up money
C. paying off debts D. paying for the tuition (学费)
66. From the advice given by Hernandez, we know that ________.
A. in the interview, you should keep silent
B. if you really liked English and hated math, it was a better choice for you to take an extra language class
C. a good way for a student to get noticed is speaking to a famous professor
D. the application is not important
67. In the last paragraph, a “real” job refers to ________.
A. work experience B. summer camp C. babysitting D. going hiking
“I've never met a human worth
cloning,” says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from his
lab at
Westhusin’s experience with cloning animals leaves him upset by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missy project, using hundreds upon hundreds of dog's eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos (胚胎) carrying Missy’s DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate (代孕的) mother. The wastage of eggs and the many aborted (夭折) fetuses (胎) may be acceptable when you’re dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. “Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous,” he says.
Contrary to some media reports, Missy is not dead. The owner wants a twin to carry on Missy’s fine qualities (good natured, supersmart etc.) after she does die. In a statement of purpose, Missy’s owner and the A&M team say they are “both looking forward to studying the ways that her clones differ from Missy.”
Westhusin is cautious(谨慎的) about his work. He knows that even if he gets a dog pregnant, the offspring(后代), should they survive, will face the problems like immature lungs and heart and weight problems~ “Why would you ever want to clone humans,” Westhusin asks, “when we’re not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?”
68. By “stupid effort” (Line 2, Para. 1), Westhusin means to say that ________.
A. animal cloning is not worth the effort at all
B. animal cloning is absolutely impractical
C. human cloning should be done selectively
D. human cloning is a foolish and dangerous action
69. What does the first paragraph tell us about Westhusin’s dog cloning project?
A. Its success is already in sight. B. Its result remains uncertain.
C. It can’t escape failing completely. D. It is progressing smoothly.
70. By cloning Missy, Mark Westhusin hopes to ________.
A. study the possibility of cloning humans
B. search for ways to change its temperament(气质)
C. examine the reproductive system of the dog species
D. find out the differences between Missy and its clones
71. We learn from the passage that animal clones are likely to have ________.
A. a bad temper B. immune deficiency
C. organs of imperfect form and function D. an abnormal shape
I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at(主持) two funerals for two elderly women in my community. Both had died after a long and full life --- “full of years,” as the Bible would say.
At the first home, the son of the
deceased woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to
When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to think that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. They believe that the opposite course --- keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation---would have turned out better.
There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.
The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons(召唤) the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile(婴儿时期) notion that our wishes cause things to happen.
72. The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ________.
A. he wanted to console (安慰) the two families
B. he was an official from the community
C. he had great sympathy for the deceased
D. he was priest(牧师) of the local church
73. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________
A. they couldn’t find a better way to express their sadness
B. they believe that they were responsible
C. they had ignored the natural course of events
D. they didn’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction
74. In the context of
the passage, “... the world makes sense” (Line 2,
A. everything in the world is predetermined
B. the world can be explained in different ways
C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world
D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world
75. People have been made to believe since infancy(婴儿时期) that ________.
A. everybody is at their command (命令, 要求)
B. life and death is an unsolved mystery
C. every story should have a happy ending
D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens
第II卷 (共45分)
单词拼写
动词填空
单句改错
书面表达
二卷总分
评卷人
第四部分 写作 (共四节，满分45分)
第一节 根据中文或首字母提示，写出下列句中所缺单词。（每小题1分，满分5分）
1. Scientists have made great _______________ (突破) so far in cancer research.
2. By _____________ (分析) the parts of the sentence you can learn more about English grammar.
3. A g ___ person is a person who always wants a lot but gives little..
4. In order to meet my b__________ this term, I’ll have to buy fewer books than expected.
5. In politics
to sudden violent change.
第二节 选择文本框中的动词，并用其适当形式填空 （每小题1分，满分5分）
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