【模拟试题】
高二年级期中英语试卷
一. Multiple choices:
1. Rather than _____ on a crowded bus, he always prefers ____ a bicycle.
A. ride; ride
B. riding; ride
C. ride; to ride
D. to ride; riding
2. Have you ever found two nouns _____ together this way?
A. use
B. to be used
C. used
D. being used
3. Every child needs someone to ____ and copy.
A. look on
B. look through C look out D. look up to
4. Class 3 is ______ Class 4 _____ football.
A. being against; on
B. playing against; at
C. going against; for
D. playing against; on
5. These photos called _____ my years in the school ten years ago.
A. up
B. out
C. on
D. for
6. I could recite many ______ by Chinese writers when I was in junior middle school.
A. poetry
B. poetries
C. poem
D. poems
7. In time of great danger, heroes seem always ______.
A. as cool as a cucumber
B. as merry as a lark
C. as mad as a door
D. as cold as a snake
8. The research is so designed that once ______ nothing can be done to change it.
A. begins
B. having begun
C. beginning
D. begun
9. Song Qingling was a(n) _______ woman who ever did much work for the progress of China.
A. hard-working
B. painstaking
C. outstanding
D. life-loving
10. Professor White has written some short stories, but he is _____ his plays. And his wife is famous _____ a good actress.
A. better known as; for
B. best known as; as
C. better known for; as
D. best known for; for
二. Cloze Test:
Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing _1_ was something she picked up by herself. After her first __2__, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ___3___, writing stories was simply a ___4__ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. ___5___, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long __6__ and paid Tracy a $ 50,000 advance. “ A pretty money,” said the publisher, “ for __7__ writer.”
__8__ Tracy’s characters are interesting, her stories sometimes ___9__ reader uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could ___10__ the afterlife world,”she told a close friend. “ She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“ Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “ But I do have __11___ when things come to me __12__.”Once, she was wondering how to complete a ___13__ set in ancient China. __14__ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ___15__. It came without her having __16__ it.
Though she has published ten books, Tracy has remained ___17___ by her fame. She lives in the same __18___ she lived 27 years ago—although in a more comfortable home. There’s more
room for ___19__ in her life—and it wasn’t just ___20__.
1. A. skill B. experience C. practice D. method
2. A. duty B. effort C. job D. task
3. A. Instead B. Normally C. Certainly D. Then
4. A. general B. deep C. personal D. lively
5. A. Interested B. Anxiously C. Seriously D. Encouraged
6. A. film B. story C. program D. article
7. A. a foreign B. a popular C. an unusual D. an unknown
8. A. Now that B. Even though C. Just because D. Except that
9. A. find B. turn C. leave D. hold
10. A. make up B. connect with C. control D. explain
11. A. events B. chances C. feelings D. moments
12.A. for no reason B. from a distance C. by accident D. as gifts
13. A. description B. pointing C. scene D. talk
14. A. Surprisingly B. Suddenly C. Expectedly D. Fortunately
15. A. cooking B. history C. play D. medicine
16. A. known B. sent C. realized D. ordered
17. A. unchanged B. excited C. determined D. unmoved
18. A. life B. city C. house D. way
19. A. success B. work C. joy D. variety
20. A. writing B. reporting C. luck D. fun
三. Reading:
A
So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children that which only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that “reading cannot be taught directly and schools should stop trying to do the impossible”.
Teaching and learning are two entirely different processes. They differ in kind and function. The function of teaching is to create the conditions and the climate that will make it possible for children to devise the most efficient system for teaching themselves to read. Teaching is also a public activity. It can be seen and observed.
Learning to read involves all that each individual does to make sense of the world of printed language. Almost all of it is private, for learning is an occupation of the mind, and that process is not open to public scrutiny.
If teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable, what then can be done through teaching that will aid the child in the quest for knowledge? Smith has one principal rule for all teaching instructions. “Make learning to read easy, which means making reading a meaningful, enjoyable and frequent experience for children.”
When the roles of teacher and learner are seen for what they are, then much of the pressure and feeling of failure for both is eliminated. Learning to read is made easier when teachers create an environment where children are given the opportunity to solve the problem of learning to read by reading.
1. The problem with the reading course as mentioned in the first paragraph is that ______.
A. it is one of the most difficult school courses
B. students spend few hours in reading
C. reading is neglected
D. too much time is spent in teaching about reading
2. The teaching of reading will be successful if ______.
A. parents can improve conditions at home for the students
B. teachers can enable students to develop their own ways of reading
C. teachers can devise the most efficient system for reading
D. teachers can make their teaching activities observable
3. The underlined word “scrutiny” most probably means “_____”.
A. hope
B. observation
C. control
D. suspicion
4. According to the passage, learning to read will no longer be a difficult task when ______.
A. children become highly motivated
B. teacher and learner roles are not interchangeable
C. teachers help children in the search for knowledge
D. reading enriches children’s experience
5. The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A. teachers should do as little as possible in helping students learn to read
B. teachers should encourage students to read as widely as possible
C. reading ability is something acquired rather than taught
D. reading is more complicated than generally believed
B
A Tight Situation
Sometimes funny memories are the most special way to remember a beloved lover. It helps take away some of the feeling of loss. Before he passed away, my husband loved to share this story with our friends. Now, it makes me smile to share this story with you.
Our neighbor’s son was getting married in 1971 at a church, and we were invited. We immediately rushed into the store, and I bought a nice pink dress with a jacket. The dress was a little tight, but I had a month before the June 30 wedding and I would lose a few pounds.
June 29 came and, of course, I had not lost a single pound; in fact, I had gained two. But I thought a new girdle would solve my problem. So on our way to the wedding, we stopped once again at the store. I ran in and told the clerk I needed a large girdle.
The clerk turned the box around with the girdle, marked “L”, and asked if I would like to try it on. “Oh, no, large will fit just right. I won’t need to try it on.”
The next morning was hot, so I waited to get dressed until about forty-five minutes before the time to go. I opened the girdle box only to find a new $49.95 girdle in a small size. Since it was too late to find another one and the dress wouldn’t fit right without a girdle, a fight broke out between me and the girdle. Have you ever tried to shake twenty pounds of potatoes into a five-pound bag? Finally, my husband, laughing like crazy, got hold of each side and shook me down into it, and I was ready to go.
As we walked into the church, he asked if I could make it. Now, he was getting worried because I was breathing strangely. I told him that it would last one hour, twenty-two minutes and
eight and one half seconds----the minister blessed everything except my girdle!
My knees were blue and my legs lost all feeling. My husband was asking questions and trying to comfort me.
As soon as the minister pronounced them married, I rushed out with my husband. “Please, just get me out of here!” I said.
We ran out to our car, and once there he opened the front and back passenger doors against the next car. Right there, before God and the wedding party, I took off that girdle. Then the girdle flew out of my hand and landed under the car next to ours. My husband was laughing very hard. We drove, finally, away.
Over the years, he and I had often wondered what the people of that church thought the next morning when they found $49.95, small-sized girdle in their parking lot.
6. When she was telling the story, she ______.
A. was happy for her husband’s death
B. was happy to share her funny memories
C. was wondering who has picked up the girdle
D. still couldn’t forget the trouble on that day
7. Which statement is true according to the story?
A. She changed the girdle for a larger size.
B. They tried hard to pour lots of potatoes into a small bag.
C. She put on the dress without the girdle in the end.
D. She managed to put on the girdle with her husband’s help.
8. The writer’s purpose in writing this story is _____.
A. to share an interesting experience
B. to prove her husband’s love
C. to describe her tight girdle
D. to describe her unspeakable feeling
C
During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century probably would have been in her mid twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to find paid work. Today, many women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five. She is expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty.
This is an important change in women’s economic position. Even a few years ago, most girls left school and took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women may marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage relationships, with the husband accepting
a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life.
9. One reason why a woman of today may take a job is that she _____.
A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves
B. does not like children herself
C. needn’t worry about food for her children
D. can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty
10. Many girls are now likely to _____.
A. give up their jobs for good after they are married
B. leave school as soon as they can
C. marry so that they can get a job
D. continue working until they are going to have a baby
D
To face the music
Like every language, American English is full of special expressions, phrases that come from the day-to-day life of the people and develop in their own way. Our expression today is “to face the music”.
When someone says, “Well, I guess I’ll have to face the music.”it does not mean he’s planning to go to the concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in by your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you didn’t do this or that. Sour music indeed, but it has to be faced. At sometime or another every one of us has had to face the music, especially as children. We can all remember father’s angry voice, “ I want to talk to you,” and only because we did not obey him. What an unpleasant business it was!
The phrase “to face the music” is familiar to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. And where did this expression come from? The first explanation comes from the American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper. He said, in 1851, that the expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings to go on the stage. When they got their cue to go on, they often said, “Well, it’s time to face the music.”And that is exactly what they did----facing the orchestra which was just below them. And an actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of an audience that might be friendly or perhaps hostile, especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out. If he did not, there would be no play. So he expression “to face the music” came to mean “ having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice.
Other explanations about the expression go back to the army. When the men faced inspection by their leader, the soldiers would be worried about how well they looked. Was their equipment clean, shinny enough to pass inspection? Still the men had to go on and face the music of the band as well as the inspection. What else could they do?
Another army explanation is more closely related to the idea of facing the results and accepting the responsibility for something that should not have been done. As, for example, when a man is forced out of the army because he did something terrible, he is dishonored. The band does not play. Only the drums tap a sad, slow beat. The soldier is forced to leave, facing such music as it is and facing the back of his horse.
11. According to the passage, how many ways does the phrase “to face the music” come from?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
12. What’s the meaning of “to face the music”?
A. To face something far less pleasant.
B. To face the stage.
C. To face the back of one’s horse.
D. To face one’s leader.
13. In which condition would we face the music?
A. When we are playing basketball.
B. When we are making a speech in public.
C. When we are having a party.
D. When we are talking with somebody.
14. The underlined word in the third paragraph means _____.
A. unfriendly
B. dislike
C. unimportant
D. unnecessary
15. Which of the following sentences is not true according to the passage?
A. The explanation to the phrase “to face the music” is closely related with the army life.
B. When a man is forced out of the army, the band doesn’t play.
C. The first explanation to the phrase “to face the music” comes from an American novelist.
D. You will feel good if you have to face the music.
四. Correcting:
Many parents let their children to watch TV only during certain 1. ________ hours. Television shows like books or movies. A child 2. ________ can learn bad things from some of them but good things from 3. ________ others. Some shows help children to understand the news of 4. ________ Washington and other parts in the world. Some programs show 5. ________ people and place of other countries or other times in 6. ________ history. Through television children do not have to go to 7. ________ the zoo to see animals. They can enjoy a baseball game at home. 8. ________ Some programs still teach children how to cook or how to use 9. ________ tools. Television brings about many places 10.________ and events into the living room of our homes.
五. Translations:
1. 从另一方面讲，科学家知道他们的工作是永无止境的，即便是最好的理论都可能被证明是错误的。
2. 如果像弗朗西斯培根1597年曾写的：知识就是力量，那么创造力就是运用那种力量的能力。
3. 人人都有自己的专长和兴趣，只有发现自己的专长，我们才有希望达到自己的目标而真正有所作为。
4. 媒体常常能够帮助解决问题，让大家关注需要帮助的境况。
5. 结果大家就能够对世界的方方面面有更好地认识，以至于在未来的世界里，所有国家
的人都能够得到尊重，所有不同的观点和意见都能够得到包容。
6. 如果你能随意设计你自己梦想的房子，那房子会是什么样子？
7. 他们要把自己的建筑物造成不合自然的模样。
8. 作为变成现代化国家的第一步，发展中国家想要建造看起来最现代化的大楼。
9. 这座体育馆的设计将会给来观看奥运会的人留下深刻的印象。
10. 帆对于船就像发动机对于汽车。
11. 我要求你随时告知我你那里的情况。
12. 读过一些中国诗之后，你就会看到、听到一些所有好诗都具有的特色。
13. 现代英语大约开始产生于十六世纪末。
14. 虽然腿部被击中，他仍向警察开火。
15. 未立业之前，我不想成家。
【试题答案】
一.
1—5 CCDBA 6—10 DADCC
二.
1—5 ACDCA 6—10 BDBCB 11—15 DACBB 16—20 DADCA
三.
A
1—5 DBBAC
B
6—8 BDA
C
9—10 AD
D
11—15 CABAD
四.
1. to watch → watch
2. like → are like
3. but → and
4. of → from
5. in → of
6. place → places
7. Through → With
8. √
9. even
10. 去掉about
五.
1. Scientists, on the other hand, know that their job is never finished and that even the best theory can turn out to be wrong.
2. If knowledge is power, as Sir Francis Bacon wrote in 1597, then perhaps creativity can be described as the ability to use that power.
3. Everyone has his or her special skills and interests, and only by discovering what we do best can we hope to reach our goals and truly make a difference.
4. The media can often help solve problems and draw attention to situations where help is needed.
5. The result is a better understanding of the world on all sides, leading to a future world where people from all countries are respected and different views and opinions are tolerated.
6. If you were free to design your own dream house, what would that house look like?
7. They wanted their buildings constructed in a way to look unnatural.
8. Developing countries want to build the most modern-looking buildings as the first step towards becoming a modern country.
9. A sail is to a boat what an engine is to a car.
10. Visitors to the Olympic Games will be impressed by the design of the stadium.
11. I want you to keep me informed of how things are going with you.
12. When you have read some Chinese poems, you will have seen and heard some of the features that all good poetry shares.
13. Modern English came into being from about the end of the 16th century.
14. Although shot in the leg, he continued firing at the police.
15. I have no intention of getting married before building a career.
【试卷分析】
本次考试的依据是课本教材，考查的宗旨在于检查和了解学生对基础知识的掌握情况，以及运用语言的能力，本次试卷涵盖了1—2单元的内容，其目的是通过考试培养和提高学生学习英语的兴趣，同时学会使用语言，并使其成为工具，运用到各个学科领域。