绵阳南山中学2008年秋季高2011级半期考试
英语试题
命题人：张莉本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分100分，考试用时100分钟。第Ⅰ卷答案涂在答题卡上。第Ⅱ卷答案写在答题卷上。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共80分）
第一部分：听力理解（共两节，满分20分）
第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分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。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.What does the man want the woman to do ?
A.Go out with them.
B.Take this child out.
C.Look after his child.
2.What ‘s the man’s job?
A.A travler.
B.A teacher
C. A news reporter
3.Where does the man work?
A. In a shoe store.
B.In a factory.
C.In a movie studio.
4.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A.Natural selection.
B.Natural competition.
C.The cause of some species dying off.
5.Where does the dialogue most probably take place?
A.In a pet shop.
B.In a medicine laboratory.
C.In a clinic for animals.
第二节(共1 5小题；每小题1分，满分15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。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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.What meal are Jane and LiLei going to have?
A. Breakfast
B. lunch
C.Supper
7.What do they have to show to the checker ?
A.Money.
B.Ticket
C.Meal card.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8.What is the womans problem?
A..She hates to walk such a long way.
B. She wants to get a lift.
C.She has lost her way.
9. How will the woman get to Emberton?
A.On foot.
B. By car.
C.By bus.
听第8段材料，回答第lO至13题
10.How does Julie want to go to Canada?
A.She insists on flying there.
B.She prefers to go there by ship.
C.It isn’t told.
11.What is John’s opinion?
A.He thinks air transport is the safest.
B.He thinks air transport is really safe compared with road transport.
C.He thinks air transport is safer than water transport.
12.What is Julie’s opinion about going by sea?
A.Though it isn’t fast,it is relaxing.
B.It is both fast and relaxing.
C.It is neither fast nor relaxing.
13.After John’s persuation, What does Julie think about her trip?
A.She’d like to fly to Canada.
B.She’d still prefer sailing to flying.
C.She can’t make a decision.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14.How many hours does Jack’s boy stay at school ?
A.8
B.6
C.4
15.How does the boy usually go to school ?
A. By bike
B.In his mother’s car.
C.On foot.
16.What can we infer about Jack’s boy
A.He likes to be different.
B.He is a hard working student.
C.He doesn’t like sports much.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.How long does Mr.Hill have to work every day ?
A. 8 hours
B.9 hours
C.10 hours
18.What’s the worst thing that can happen to the postman ?
A.Being bitten by dogs.
B.Going to work late in the morning.
C.Delivering letters to people from abroad .
19.What does Mr. Hill think of his work ?
A.Boring
B. Dangerous
C.Satisfactory.
20.When will Mr. Hill retire ?
A. Next year.
B.In three years.
C.In twenty-three years.
第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节语法和词汇知识(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21When he came back to himself, he_________ to his feet with great difficulty.
A. rose
B. struggled
C. jumped
D. sprang
22. Whenever I visit Hangzhou, I can’t help being_______ by its beauty.
A. hit
B. struck
C. beaten
D. knocked
23.With the exams_____ next week,I have no time for a social life.
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C.having come
D.to have come
24.Is it the letter that you got yesterday ______ makes you so sad ?
A.which
B.what
C.that
D.when
25.—How did it_____ that you made so many mistakes in your homework?
--I myself haven’t figured it out yet.
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D.occur to
26.The _______ news made all of them ______ to death.
A.frightening; frightened
B.frightened; frightening
C.frightening;frightening
D.frightened ; frightened
27. His mother told him not to _____ ,_____ would be bad for his health.
A.stay up; that
B.keep up; what
C.stay up; which
D.keep up; which
28.If you____ succeed in the end,,you must fight _____ all kinds of
difficulties.
A.will; against
B.are to; with
C.are going; for
D.would; against
29.Someone called me up in the middle of the night,but they hang up____I
could answer the phone.
A.as
B.since
C.until
D.before
30.I____ you my best thanks for what you’ve done to me.
A.forgive
B.owe
C.charge
D.share
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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)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。
阅读下面短文并掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
A famous general cried as he looked at one battle field. His soldiers were fighting well but he felt very __31__ . He turned to his men and said, “My soldiers, I am going to ask you a question. __32__ who gives the best answer will __33__ a medal.” The question is __34__ : “What is the strongest power in the world?”
Four soldiers raised their __35__ . They wanted to answer the general’s ques tion. He asked the first one to __36__ .
“Sir,” said the young man. “I think my __37__ is the strongest power. It can kill a person or __38__ from a great distance.”
“__39__”, said the general. “Next,” he pointed to the man who was his best soldier.
“A soldier is stronger.” Said the second man. “He must shoot an aim __40__ . A gun’s power comes from the __41__ it is used
The third soldier thought he had __42__ answer of all. “No, sir.” He said, “Our __43__ is the strongest power. He gives the orders for his soldiers to shoot their guns.”
The general said nothing. He waited for the last man __44__ his question. The fourth soldier answered the general’s question __45___: “I believe, sir, that the greatest power on earth is __46__ . It makes the general __47__ if he wants his soldiers to use their guns. Also, if __48__ had more love for each other, they __49__ use their guns.”
Now if you were this general, which of your soldiers would receive the medal? He gave it to the __50__ man.
31.A. anxious B. dissatisfied C. sad D.excited
32A. The one B. Someone C. Those D. Everyone
33.A. be shown B. take C. receive D. accept
34.A. it B. this C. that D. so
35.A. arms B. eyes C. heads D. hands
36.A. give B. talk C. speak D. tell
37.A. gun B. right C. power D. knife
38.A. an enemy B. a hare C. an animal D. a plane
39.A. Thank you B. It’s right C. It’s wrong D.I’m sorry
40.A. correctly B. straightly C. clearly D. ahead
41.A. man B. way C. direction D. place
42.A. a satisfactory B. a better C. the surest D. a different
43.A. soldier B. mind C. general D. right
44.A. to answer B. answering C. answered D. answer
45.A. like it B. well C. this way D. like that
46.A. position B. power C. will D. love
47.A. order B. advise C. agree D. decide
48.A. soldiers B. men C. enemies D. countries
49.A. didn’t B. wouldn’t C. shouldn’t D.mustn’t
50.A. first B. second C. last D. third
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。
A
Marilyn Monroe
At 9:30 a.m. on June 1st, 1926 Norman Jean was born in Los Angels General Hospital. At the age of six months, she was placed with foster parents. She went back to live with her mother when she was seven. She went to school at the Hollywood Grammar School. In 1934 her mother became ill and entered Los Angeles State Mental Asylum. Some kind-hearted neighbours offered to look after the child. Two years later she went into an orphanage in Los Angeles and stayed there for two years.
She left school in 1942. On June 18th, three weeks after her sixteenth birthday, she married an 18-year-old young man whose name was Jim Dougherty. She got a job as a parachute packer. While she was working, a photographer used her as a model for a magazine article. In 1944 she became a full-time photographic model. Soon she appeared on several national magazines and calendars. Two years later, she wrote to her husband, who was stationed in the navy in Shanghai, to say that she wanted a divorce.
On July 16th, 1946, she went to Twentieth Century For studios and asked to see Ben Lyon, the casting director for Fox films. Lyon agreed to see her. “I want, more than anything to get into pictures,” she said. Lyon looked at her and told her “Honey, you’re in pictures.” He immediately offered her a seven –year contract. During the next sixteen years Norman Jean (now known as Marilyn Monroe) made over thirty films. On Saturday, August 4th 1962, she took an overdose of sleeping pills and died. She was just thirty-six.
51.Who took care of Marilyn Monroe when her mother was ill?
A.Her father.
B.Her
grandparents.
C.Some kind-hearted neighbours.
D.Nobody.
52.What childhood did she have?
A a happy one. B.An unhappy one.
C.An exciting one.
D.A usual one.
53.How long did she work as a film actress?
A.For sixteen years.
B.For twelve years.
C.For twenty years.
D.For eighteen years.
54.How did she die?
A.Her husband killed her.
B.She died in an accident.
C.She killed herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
D.She died of an illness.
B
How did Hollywood begin?
At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a big farm called Hollywood Ranch. It was near Los Angles in California. A few years later Hollywood was one of the famous places in the world. From the 1910s to the 1950s Hollywood was the film center of the world. Every family knew the names of its film stars---Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garb, Bergman and hundreds more.
The reason why people went to Hollywood to make films was the sun. At first, people made films in New York on the east coast of the United States. But then they heard about Los Angles where there are 350 days of sun every year. As they made all the films by sunlight, the west coast was a much better place to work. Also near Hollywood you can find mountains and sea and desert. They did not have to travel far to make any kind of film.
When TV became popular, Hollywood started making films for television. Then in the 1970s they discovered people still went to the cinema to see big expensive films. After twenty years they are still making films in Hollywood and people watch them all over the world.
55.Hollywood used to be a ___________.
A.cinema
B. big farm
C. park
D. market
56.In the 1910s Hollywood became a ___________.
A.famous theater
B. good place to have holiday
C. film center
D. home for stars
57.People went to Hollywood to make films because ________.
A.it was a beautiful place
B.you can find many film stars
C.there was a lot of sunlight there
D.it was a famous place
58.Which statement is true?
A.The east coast was a better place to make films.
B.There are no mountains near Hollywood.
C.People no longer went to cinema after television became popular.
D.Hollywood began to make films for television after the First World War.
C
One day Mr. White gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday — ten new pound notes. So Mrs. White went out shopping. She waited for a bus, got on it and sat down next to an o1d 1ady. After a while, Mrs. White noticed
that the old 1ady’s handbag was open. Inside it, she saw a wad（叠）of pound notes exactly like the ones her husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag —the notes had gone! Mrs. White was sure that the o1d lady next to her had stolen them. She immediately thought of calling the police. But as she disliked making a fuss（小题大作）, she decided to take back the money from the old 1ady’s hand bag and say nothing about it. She looked around to make sure nobody was watching. Then she carefully put her hand i nto the o1d lady’s bag, took the notes, and put them into her own handbag.
When she got home that evening, Mrs. White showed her husband the beautiful hat she had bought.
“How did you pay for it?” Mr. White asked.
“With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course” she answered.
“Oh? What’s that, then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of pound notes on the table.
59. Why did Mr. White give his wife ten pounds?
A. For a new hand bag.
B. For new notes.
C. For her husband's birthday.
D. For her birthday.
60. What did Mrs. White use the money given by her husband for?
A. A new handbag.
B. Stealing from an old 1ady.
C. Nothing.
D. Going shopping.
61. What did Mrs. White decide to do when she found another ten pounds
in her neighbor’s handbag on the bus?
A. She wanted to call the police.
B. She decided to talk with the o1d lady.
C. She decided to take away her own money.
D. She decided not to tell the 1ady and take the money away.
62. Which of the following sentences is wrong?
A. Mrs. White actually sto1e her money by herself.
B. Mrs. White in fact became a thief then.
C. Mr. White gave his wife some new pound notes for her birthday.
D. The money was still at Mrs. White's home.
D
Isn't it astonishing how much time we talk about food? "Have you ever eaten... ? What did you have for lunch?" and so on. And yet when you travel from one country to another, you will find that people have quite different feelings about food. People often feel that what they eat is normal and what other people eat is strange. In England, people eat potatoes every day. In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a great deal of beer, and the French drink wine every day.
The sort of meat people like to eat also differs from one country
to another. Horse meat is thought to be delicious in France. New Zealanders
eat sheep, but they never eat goat meat. The Japanese don't like to eat
sheep meat because of its smell, but they enjoy eating raw fish.
So it seems that although eating is a topic we can talk about for
hours, there is very little common sense in what we say it. People
everywhere enjoy eating what they have always eaten, and there is very
little we can do to change our eating habits. 63. Which one is the meaning of "raw' .
A. not cooked
B. nicely cooked
C. big
D. young
64. What is the main part of every meal in the Middle East?
A. Rice.
B. Bread.
C. Meat.
D. Tomato
65. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. In some parts of Asia people like rice.
B. Eating is a topic that people don't like to talk about.
C. The habit of eating is easy to change.
D. French people like sheep meat very much.
第II 卷（共20分）
第四部分：写作（共二节，满分20分） -------
第一节：单句改错（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）
下列句子均有一处错误，则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，
并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ）在该行右边横线上写出该
加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正
66.Do what you are tell and don’t argue with me .
66._________
67.Watch out of the thief while you are doing shopping.
67._________
68.She struggled to get away her attacker.
68._________
69.They communicate to each other.
69._________
70.They hurried away for the fear of
being caught in the rain
70._________
71.This is the factory where I visited last year.
71._________
72.When the policemen arrived at the airport,
the plane had already gone off.
72._________
73.She didn’t pull her car down at a red light.
73._________
74.It was such good a plan that we all agreed to accept
it.74._________
75.We determined go to the railway station at once.
75._________
第二节：书面表达（满分15分）
你班下周开班会，讨论‘时间的价值’，你将在会上发言。为此，你写
一篇发言稿。要点如下：
（1）时间比金钱更珍贵（precious）
（2）作为学生，应充分利用时间，不要放松(relax)，努力学习，多做有
益的事。
（3）要养成珍惜时间的好习惯。
注意：内容可适当增加。词数100左右。
高2011级半期考试英语试题答案
听力理解 1--- 5 C C B C C 6---10 B C A B B
11---15 B A B A C 16---20 B A B C B
单项填空21--- 25 B B A C B 26---30 A C B D B
完形填空31--- 35 C A C B D 36----40 C A C A D
41---- 45 B C C A C 46---- 50 D D B B C
阅读理解51---- 54 C B A C 55---- 58 B C C D
59-----62 D C D A 63----65 A B A
改错 66. tell改为 told 67.of变为for
68.get away 后加from 69.to 变为with
70去掉the 71.where 变which\ that\不填
72.gone变为taken 73.down变为 up
74.Such变为so 75.determined后加to
书面表达：
Boys and girls,
I’m very glad to have got the chance to speak here.
We all know a popular saying:“Time is money.”But in my opinion,time is even more precious than money.Because when money is gone,we can earn it back.but, if time is gone,it will never return.
As students,we should make full use of our time.We must not relax our effort,we must work hard.We must do useful things.We must realize that wasting time means wasting a part of our life.
So we should form the good habit of making use of time.Don’t put off
what we can do today till tomorrow.
That’s all. Thank you.