北京重点中学2013-2014学年高二下英语期中试题

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北京重点中学2013-2014学年高二下英语期中试题
（考试时间：100分钟　　卷面总分：100分）
第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，共5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。
1. What does the woman want to drink? 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
A. Juice.           B. Tea.                  C. Coffee.
2. What does the woman plan to do tonight? 
A. Take a walk.       B. Meet the manager.       C. Finish the report.
3. When will the speakers leave for the airport?
A. At 10:30.          B. At 9:00.                C. At 8:45.
4. How did the woman get home yesterday?
A. By car.            B. By train.                C. By bus.
5. What will the boy cook? 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
A.                            B.                            C.
第二节(共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)
听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
6. What color sweater does the woman choose finally?  
A. The yellow one.             B. The red one.               C. The black one.
7. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?    
A. Salesman and customer.       B. Teacher and student.      C. Father and daughter.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What does the man want to do?   
A. Find a job.                 B. Study in the university. C. Rent an apartment.
9. What’s the woman doing?   
A. Showing the way.      B. Providing information.   C. Making an appointment.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does the woman look tired?    
A. She is too busy at work. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
B. She can’t sleep well at night. 
C. She gets tired for fixing her house.
11. What does the man advise the woman to do?    
A. Go swimming at the gym.     B. Ride a bicycle to the store.   C. Walk to work.
12. What will the woman do with her friends this Friday?    
A. Have dinner.               B. See a movie.            C. Go to a concert.
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
13. Which meal is self-service?
A. Breakfast.                 B. Lunch.                  C. Dinner.
14. What activity will be organized during the trip?   
A. Having 3 meals on board.   
B. Having swimming lessons.    
C. Having a special riverboat trip.
15. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. The introduction to the trip.
B. The arrangements for meals. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
C. The organization of the hotel.
第三节（共5小题；每小题1分，共5分）
听下面一段对话，完成第16至20题，每小题仅填写一个词。听对话前，你将有20秒钟的时间阅读
试题，听完后你将有60秒钟的作答时间。这段对话你将听两遍。
Chicago Training Center Application Form
Name     16     Cotton
Phone number      17    
Courses      18    management
night course on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Time start from     19     25th, 7 to 9 o’clock
Tuition 54 dollars
Education  graduated from a public school in America
Work experience working in a(n)     20      
第二部分：知识运用来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
单项填空 （共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）
21. Look at the timetable. Hurry up! Flight 4026________off at 18:20.?
A. takes  B. took?  C. will be taken  D. has taken
22. ______ your teacher the problem with learning, theoretically, and they will help you.
    A. Telling         B. To tell        C. Tell        D. Having told
23. Jack doesn't smoke now, but he ______ for almost twenty years.
A. was smoking    B. had smoked  C. has smoked   D. smoked
24. ________ twice a year, whether it is a car or a bus or a truck, is the rule that every driver must obey in this city. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
A. Examining       B. Examined 
    C. Being examined      D. Having been examined
25. —The T-shirt I received is not the same as is shown online.
—______? But I promise you we’ll look into it right away.
A. Who says   B. How come  C. What for    D. Why worry
26. －Did you tell Julia about the result? 
－Oh, no, I forgot. I ________ her now.
   A. will be calling     B. will call      C. call     D. am to call
27. The girl has a great interest in sport and ____ badminton classes twice a week over the last three years.
A. took  B. is taking   C. takes   D. has been taking
28. Finally he reached a lonely island _________ was completely cut off from the outside world.
A. when    B. where     C. which   D. whom
29. The airport _______ next year will help promote tourism in this area.
A. being completed     B. to be completed来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
C. completed          D. having been completed
30. Rod loves __ clocks. However, he never manages to put them together again.
   A. taking apart   B. giving away  C. making up  D. turning off
31. —Could I use your car tomorrow morning?
—Sure. I ______ a report at home.
A. will be writing    B. will have written     
C. have written     D. have been writing
32. —Did Alice enjoy the concert held in Xi Yuan Theater yesterday?
   —Yes．she did．She ________ such an excellent concert for a long time．
    A．didn’t take part in    B．wouldn’t take part in
C．hasn’t been in       D．hadn’t been in来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
33. _______ which university to attend, the girl asked her teacher for advice.
A. Not knowing    B. Knowing not    C. Not known      D. Known not
34. Don’t you think he has said something that ______ you especially?
   A. appeals to     B. applies for        C. brings up     D. makes sense
35. It remains to be seen ____ the newly formed committee’s policy can be put into practice.
A. that      B. which     C. what    D. whether
完形填空 （共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）
When I was 14, I was hired for an after-school job selling subscriptions(征订)to my hometown paper, the Houston Post. I was sent to some of the city’s __36__ neighborhoods to “beg” door-to-door. Even though I was often scrambling (moving with difficulty) around after dark in these bad areas __37__ for garage apartments, I was thankful for the work.
   It was a __38__ because people didn’t like a stranger knocking on their door, __39__ a kid trying to get them to buy something. One time, a woman shut her door heavily in my face and __40__, “I don’t want your damn paper!” I __41__ myself to knock again and was able to tell her how great the paper was. I __42__selling her a subscription. I was soon among the __43__ subscription sellers and, like other successful __44__, was given the chance to train newcomers. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
  __45__ this time I started playing the harmonica and guitar. Before long I was playing in a __46__ at barbecues and other events. When I __47__ 18, I fixed my __48__ on becoming a professional musician, I never lost __49__ of this dream. I’m sure my determination came from what I __50__ when knocking on strangers’ doors.
   That __51__ helped me in many ways. Early in my music life I was __52__ in a legal disagreement with a former manager. He __53__ me to back off, but I refused.
   Having all those doors shut in my face as a kid gave me the __54__ to stand up to this frightening figure. Except this time there was one __55__: I was the one saying no. And I won.
36. A. best   B. worst          C. nearest        D. farthest
37. A. leaving      B. running        C. caring         D. searching来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
38. A. challenge     B. puzzle   C. surprise           D. failure
39. A. certainly      B. obviously       C. especially        D. usually
40. A. screamed    B. agreed         C. begged         D. announced
41. A. allowed      B. forced          C. wished           D. reminded
42. A. ended up     B. gave up        C. picked up        D. kept up
43. A. rich          B. large           C. fast             D. top
44. A. reporters    B. managers       C. salesmen         D. secretaries
45. A. For           B. Since           C. Around           D. Until
46. A. concert      B. band            C. kitchen          D. party
47. A. seemed       B. grew            C. appeared         D. turned
48. A. attention     B. attraction      C. service          D. trust
49. A. sight         B. use             C. ability          D. fortune
50. A. accepted     B. decided         C. expected         D. learned
51. A. experience   B. accident       C. problem         D. introduction
52. A. sentenced    B. treated        C. locked          D. absorbed
53. A. invited       B. pressured       C. excused          D. charged
54. A. pain          B. right           C. strength         D. imagination
55. A. conclusion   B. difference      C. chance           D. decision
第三部分：阅读理解 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）
第一节
A来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
The 30 miles of steep roads that snake through the mountains of Logan Canyon in Utah are enough to make most drivers' hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46­year­old father of four, wasn't expecting any trouble on the road last New Year's Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear River Mountains with nine­year­old daughter Mia, four­year­old son Baylor, and nine­year­old neighbour Kenya. Andersen had driven through the Canyon hundreds of times over the years.
The weather was fine，but the higher they drove, the more slippery the roads became. Rounding a sharp U­turn at mile marker 473, Andersen saw a truck that had skated off the road and immediately tapped his brakes. In an instant, the car was sliding at 25 miles per hour towards the shoulder of the highway, then rolling down a steep ten­foot dam towards the extremely cold Logan River. As it hit the water, the car tipped towards the passenger side, hesitated, and then rolled onto its roof and sank into the river.
There was no time to tell the kids what to do. The crash had broken a few windows, and within seconds, the upside-down car was filled with water. “It was frightening how fast we were completely underwater，” remembers Andersen, a soft-spoken product development manager. “You're thinking, is this how it's all going to end？”来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
Having lost all sense of direction, Andersen began to search the freezing water for the kids. Mia had been right next to him in the front seat; now, in the blackness, he couldn't find her. I thought，“If I don't get out, maybe none of us are going to get out.” Andersen got out of his seat belt, swam through a broken window, and, deeply and quickly, breathed air at the surface. That's when he saw a group of men, about ten in all, appear at the top of the dam. One after another, they raced down into the water. Helping onto safety all the three children, they began to shout at the father, “Who else is in the car？” Andersen says respectfully, “It_was_like_the_sight_of_angels_(天使). ”
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56. What might be the main reason for the car accident?
A．The sharp U-turn.   B．The steep dam.
C．The sudden brake.   D．A truck hitting the car.
57. Andersen didn't expect any trouble on the road because ________．
A．he was familiar with the road  B．he was good at driving
C．his hands didn't have sweat   D．the weather was fine
58. What can be learned from the last paragraph?
A．Andersen lost consciousness in the water.
B．Strangers helped Andersen out of the car.[
C．Andersen liked Mia most among the children.
D．Strangers teamed together to save the three children.
59. The underlined sentence is to express Andersen's feeling of being________．
A．tired  B．excited   C．doubtful   D．grateful
B
TAIBEI － Increasing numbers of Taiwanese students are joining the island’s “China rush”, seeking education on the Chinese mainland．
    According to official Chinese figures, the number of Taiwanese students admitted into college and postgraduate（研究生）programs on the mainland totaled 461 in 1996, 928 in 1997 and 839 in 1998．Although no latest official numbers were available,” Netbig. Com said this number had risen between 30 to 50 percent annually in the past two years with well over 1000 entering mainland campuses last year. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
    The Internet site, based in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, provides education service and information on Chinese mainland college and universities. “Many Taiwanese believe a Chinese education giving more knowledge about the people and culture in the mainland will increase their chances in the Chinese job market, Net. Com vice-president Ingrid Huang said．“I believe it will give me hands-on experience in the business field in the Chinese mainland and a better understanding of the Chinese mainland people,” said Lydia Chang, a 19-year-old majoring in journalism at Shih Shin University. Chang plans to go on to get a master’s degree in business administration in Shanghai, which she says offers the best environment for such studies. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
    A journalism graduate student, surnamed Lin, at the National Taiwan University said he would like to study law on the Chinese mainland since “there will be better career prospects now that more Taiwanese companies are going there”. “They hope the children could build up connections which could later become useful in their business operations,” said Yang Ching-yao, professor of the Chinese mainland studies. A Netbig. Com survey showed the campuses favored by Taiwan students included Beijing, Qinghua and Renmin universities in Beijing, and Jinan and Zhongshan universities in Guangzhou. The most popular studies were law, business and Chinese medicine.
    At present, Chinese Taibei doesn’t recognize diplomas earned in the Chinese mainland nor help with any inquiries about studying there. But recognizing the trend, education authorities are giving a final form to a policy accepting certificates（证书）from selected universities.
60. More Taiwanese students study on the Chinese mainland because ___________.
  A. Taiwan will reunite with the mainland sooner or later
  B. the fees asked for are lower than those of Taiwan
  C. what they have learned on the mainland will bring them a bright future
  D. there are many famous universities for them to choose
61. The underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refers to __________.
  A. Netbig. Com                 B. a Chinese education on the mainland 
C. the Chinese job market         D. the university来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
62．The author wrote the article to tell us ______________.
  A. more Taiwanese students are studying on the mainland
  B. the number of Taiwanese students going to universities on the mainland had been    
increasing year after year
  C. education on the mainland is more attractive compared with that of Taiwan
  D. Taiwan and the mainland should cooperate with each other in every field.
63．Which is true according to the passage?
  A. Chinese Taibei recognizes diplomas earned on the Chinese mainland
  B. The number of Taiwanese students going to study on the mainland will surely be  
increasing in the next few years.
  C. Chinese Taibei doesn’t help with any inquiries about Taiwanese studying in the
mainland来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
  D. Education of Taiwan is far behind the mainland.
C
Most of us are used to seasons. Each year, spring follows winter, which follows autumn, which follows summer, which follows spring. And winter is colder than summer. But the earth goes through temperature cycles over much longer periods than those that we experience.
    Between 65,000 and 35,000 years ago, the planet was much colder than it is now. During that time the temperature also changed a lot, with periods of warming and cooling. Ice melted during the warm periods, which made sea levels rise. Water froze again during the cold periods.
    A new study from Switzerland sheds light on where ice sheets melted during the ice age. It now seems that the ice melted at both ends of the earth, rather than just in either northern or southern regions. This surprised the researchers from the University of Bern.
    Scientists have long assumed that most of the ice that melted was in the Northern hemisphere during the 30,000-year-long ice age. That belief was held because the North Pole is surrounded by land, while the South Pole is surrounded by the Antarctic Ocean. It is easier for ice sheets to grow on land. If surrounded by sea, the ice can easily just slip into the ocean instead of building up.
    The researchers used a computer model to look at ways the ice could melt and how it might affect sea levels. They compared these results to evidence of how temperatures and currents actually changed during that time.
    The model showed that if it was only in the northern hemisphere that ice melted there would have been a bigger effect on ocean currents and sea temperatures than what actually happened. Studies suggest that melting just in the southern hemisphere would have been impossible, too.
    The only reasonable conclusion, the scientists could make, was that ice melted equally in the North and the South.
    It is still a mystery as to what caused the temperature changes that caused the ice to melt. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
64. What does the new research from Switzerland show?
    A. The ice didn’t melt in either northern or southern regions.
    B. The ice melted at both ends of the earth.
    C. The ice melted in northern regions.
    D. The ice melted in southern regions.
65. Why were the researchers from the University of Bern surprised at the new study?
  A. Their computer model worked.
  B. The belief was held by some leading scientists.
  C. It is against the long assumed belief.
  D. Their research proved the long assumed belief was true.
66. What caused the temperature changes that caused the ice to melt?
  A. It is unknown.          B. The rising sea level.
  C. The greenhouse gases.    D. The high temperature in the Antarctic Ocean.
D
    In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill — the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is common that parents hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
    Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness.
    As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach(说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
    A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
67. Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills_____.
  A. should be avoided
  B. is universal among parents
  C. sets up dangerous states of worry in the child
  D. will make him lose interest in learning new things
68. When children are learning new skills, parents should_____.
  A. encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read
  B. not expect too much of them
  C. achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own
  D. create as many learning opportunities as possible
49. The second paragraph mainly tells us that _____.
  A. parents should be strict with their children来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
  B. parental controls satisfy only the needs of the parents and the values of the community
  C. parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the children alone
  D. parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation
70. The underlined word “precept” (in Paragraph 3) probably means “_____”.
  A. idea      B. punishment    C. behavior    D. instruction
第二节
Most drinks stating that they are fruit-flavored （水果味道的） contain no fruit at all, while most of the rest contain only a small quantity of fruit, according to a study carried by the British Food Commission．
　 "Shoppers need to check the labels（标签）before buying drinks, though sometimes the actual content can be non-existent," said Food Commission spokesperson Lan Tokelove. "Food production is highly competitive．___71 __ It will increase profits, and consumers won't always realize they are being tricked."
　 Flavorings are focused on the flavors of natural food products such as fruits, meats and vegetables, or creating flavor for food products that do not have the desired flavors．Researchers analyzed the contents of 28 strawberry-flavored products sold in stores．   72 _  Of the 11 products that did contain strawberries, five of them contained less than one percent real fruit．In addition, each juice box contained nearly eight teaspoons of sugar．
　　   _ 73    Let's take jam as an example. Some strawberry-flavored jam was labeled as containing no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners, but it contained absolutely no strawberries at all. 来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
　　74    Consumers have the rights to know clearly about what they have bought. Under current UK law, Food packages do no not have to distinguish between natural and artificial flavoring." Describing a product as strawberry flavor and covering the surface of the packed with pictures of strawberries is misleading.   75  Unfortunately, it is also legal and widespread," Tokelove said.
A. The products which contain real fruit are popular with people.
B. Even products advertised as more natural often contained no fruit.
C. They found that about 60 percent of them didn't contain any fruit at all.
D. If companies can cut their costs by using flavoring, they are likely to do so.
E. It is important and necessary to demand a small amount of flavoring in the
Products.
F. Actually the product contains just a tiny percentage of strawberry or even no fruit
at all.
G. The Food Commission suggested all flavors used in a product should be listed on
   the packaging.
第四部分：书面表达（共一节，15分）
今年暑假你要去你的英国朋友Chris的学校游学，请你根据以下提示信息写信给他，让他帮你寻找合适的房子。要求：
1. 房子离学校近；来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
2. 房东（the host family）能提供早餐；
3. 家庭成员能和你用英语交流。
注意：1. 词数不少于50。
      2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。来源进步网www.szj jedu.com
      3. 书信的开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                                    Yours,
                 Li Hua