上海重点中学2011-2012学年度第二学期高二英语期末试卷(满分150分,130分钟完成.答案一律写在答题卡、答题纸上)I. Listening ComprehensionSection A Short ConversationsDirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A．At a car shop．B．At a garage．C．In a parking area．D．In a car showroom．2. A．The meeting started earlier．B．His car was broken．C．He met with a traffic jam．D．He lost his way．3 A．Change his address．B．Mail some letters．C．Deliver some telegrams．D．Call the post office．4．A．He wrote it last semester．B．He’ll finish it in a few minutes．C．He never does assignment early．D．He isn’t going to write it．5．A．Boss and secretary．B．Coach and athlete．C．Doctor and patient．D．Teacher and student．6．A．10:00．B．10:10． C. 10:20． D. 10:30．7．A．It’s better than it used to be．B．It’s not as good as it was．C．It’ s better than people say．D．It’s even worse than people say．8．A．Because she has walked a long distance．B．Because she is tired out．C．Because she is all wet．D．Because she is careless．9．A．Rewrite the paper．B．Ask the woman to do some typing．C．Read the newspaper again．D．Check the paper for mistakes．10．A．A rent increase．B．A bargain．C．A salary cut．D． A vacation trip．Section B PassagesDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Two inches. B. Fifteen inches. C. Twenty-four inches. D. One foot.12. A. Near Denver. B. In Florida C. In the desert southeast. D. Along the Gulf coast.13. A. Hot. B. Cool. C. Warm. D. Cold.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Eighty years B. Forty years C. thirty-five years D. fifty-three years15. A. she lost her record B. she didn’t stop at a red light.C. she saw a red lightD. she stopped at a red light.16. A. Because she was too old. B. Because she didn’t look at the traffic light.C. Because she wanted to break her record.D. Because her eyes had become too weak to see the red light.Section C Longer ConversationsDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you will be required to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.The purpose of the man’s telephoning Nancy Because Nancy’s application form is __17___. One of the skills Nancy has ___18_____Nancy’s strong points A pleasant ___19____ and good interpersonalskills.The date when Nancy can begin to work __20___ 10 July.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.What’s the woman’s job? A ____21_______ of the sales manager.Where does she work? In a ____22___.What qualifications has she got? A degree in ____23______.___24______ with her boss.What does she enjoy though she can have onlytwo weeks a year for holidays?II. Grammar and Vocabulary (33%)Section A (24%)Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.17. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivialand few as hardly _____.A. noticedB. being noticedC. to noticeD. to be noticed18. _____ for the breakdown of the school computer network, Alice was in low spirits.A. blamingB. BlamedC. To blameD. To be blamed19. They were surprised at ________ in the traffic accident.A. he narrowly escaped to be hitB. he narrowly escaped being hitC. his narrowly escaping being hitD. his narrowly escaping hitting20. The scientist _________to _______the secret of nature deserves to win the respect of the world.A. devoted, expose .B. devoted, exposingC. devoting, exposingD. was devoted, exposing21. The villagers will never forget the trouble the soldiers took _____ the victims in the earthquake.A. rescuedB. in rescuingC. rescueD. to rescue22. The pilot felt something ________ wrong with the engine soon after the plane took off.A. goB. goingC. wentD. to go23. At the critical moment my advisor mentioned ________ the scientist who used DNA test to solvethe centuries- old mystery.A. contacting withB. to contactC. contactingD. to contact with24. ________ wishing to be successful in his work should learn how to cooperate with others.A. Those whoB. AnyoneC. WhoeverD. No matter who25. He________ to leave for New Y ork yesterday, but the heavy snow made him change his mind.A. hopedB. was hopingC. had hopedD. would have hoped26. She asks that she ________an opportunity to explain why she's refused to go there.A. is givenB. must giveC. should giveD. be given27. Between the two rows of trees ________the Buddha scenic spot.A. standB. standsC. standingD. are standing28. The lady was knocked down on the campus, dead. She _____ but for her unselfishness.A. might have livedB. must have been savedC. could have been killedD. should have avoided it29. --- Where ___ the book? I can’t see it anywhere.---I put it right here. But now it’s gone.A. did you putB. have you putC. had you putD. were you putting30. ---I took a photo of you just now.---Really? I _______ with attention.A. didn’t lookB. wasn’t lookingC. am not lookingD. haven’t looked31. _______ the production up by 60%, the company has had another excellent year.A. ForB. AsC. BecauseD. With32. The lazy boy is expecting a way ______ he can get through the exams without hard work.A. thatB. in thatC. whichD. where33. _______ we saw in the previous chapter, grammar is just a structural system of a language.A. asB. soC. whateverD. while34. Cheer up, Maria! Y ou can also enjoy _____ you have been dreaming of, if you don’t lose heart.A．as a convenient life as B．as convenient a life asC．as a life convenient as D．convenient as a life as35. He puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in a (n) ______ to explain why we seem tohave become so much ruder in recent years.A. WayB. intentionC. attemptD. trial36. Good news issued by the government has _____ businessmen on Wall Street to buy stocks.A. indicatedB. threatenedC. toldD. convinced37. Do remind me tomorrow because I’m ___ to forget what they asked me to do.A. possibleB. likelyC. capableD. worried38. For the first time in history, the Chinese scientists reached the Arctic region and ___it.A. exploredB. reviewedC. exposedD. searched39. The teacher you want to speak isn’t ___to take your call. Please leave a message.A. acceptableB. comfortableC. availableD. reasonable40. We were _______ that everything possible was being done.A. insuredB. ensuredC. assuredD. belie vedSection B (9%)Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. consideredB. overlookedC. particularD. languagesE. primaryAE. survival AD. preserving AC. extremely AB. frequently BC. disappearing“True creativity often starts where language ends.”---Arthur KoestlerThe net plays another, more active, role on the linguistic（语言学的）front, a role that is 41 overlooked by many people who believe English victory is on the go. Since the advent (来临) of World Wide Web, many minority 42，those spoken by single nations or ethnic groups, have enjoyed a dramatic upsurge(急剧上升)in vitality. Many such tongues were 43 endangered just a decade ago. Late-century mobility and economic currents were taking more and more speakers out of their communities and away from fellow speakers. Languages were 44at an alarming rate.Like biological extinction, linguistic extinction is a serious loss for all of humankind. Languages are some of the 45ways people maintain their culture and are crucial to understanding other cultures. When fewer and fewer people share a 46language, it may die, and when it does, part of our collective human culture dies with it．Surprisingly, though, the Internet has become a valuable tool for 47 endangered languages. Speakers of these languages not only have been particularly active in putting up web pages in their various languages, but also in mounting (配置) 48effective, large-scale dictionary and language-learning projects online. There is no reason why minority languages cannot live togeth er with a common social language like English. Indeed, the Internet offers more hope for their 49 than they have ever known before, especially as translation tools become more effective.III. Reading ComprehensionSection A (20%)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American mili tary adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 50 in World War Ⅱ and the people they liberated, the GI was the 51 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 52 all the burdens of battles, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 53 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 54 an average guy up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies in centuries.His name isn’t55 . GI. is just a military abbreviation 56 Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 57 to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 58 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka, Joe Magrac…a working class name. The United States has 59 had a president or vice- president or secretary of state Joe.GI. Joe had a 60 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character or a 61 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 62 portrayed(描写) themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 63 side of the war, writing about thedirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 64 or what towns were captured or 65 . His reports paralleled (相似) the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 66 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the fragments of civilization that the soldiers 67 with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.68 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, GI. Joe was American soldiers, 69 the most important person in their lives.50. A. performed B. served C. rebelled D. betrayed51. A. actual B. common C. special D. normal52. A. bore B. caused C. removed D. loaded53. A. necessities B. facilities C. commodities D. properties54. A. and B. nor C. but D. hence55. A. common B. much C. popular D. made-up56. A. intending B. implying C. symbolizing D. claiming57. A. handed out B. turned over C. brought back D. passed down58. A. pushed B. got C. made D. managed59. A. ever B. never C. either D. neither60. A. dismissed B. disturbed C. disputed D. distinguished61. A. company B. collection C. community D. colony62. A. employed B. appointed C. interviewed D. questioned63. A. ethical B. military C. political D. human64. A. ruined B. walked C. left D. covered65. A. liberated B. occupied C. dumped D. deserted66. A. neglected B. avoided C. emphasized D. admired67. A. destroyed B. shared C. envied D. longed68. A. With B. To C. Among D. Beyond69. A. on the contrary B. by this means C. from the beginning D. at that pointSection B (42%)Directions: Read the following five passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.( A )About twenty of us had been fortunate enough to receive invitations to a film-studio to take part in a crowd-scene. Although our “act” would last only for a short time, we could see quite a number of interesting things.We all stood at the far end of the studio as workmen prepared the scene, setting up trees at the edge of a winding path. V ery soon, bright lights were turned on and the big movie-camera was wheeled into position. The director shouted something to the camera operator and then went to speak to the two famous actors nearby. Since it was hot in the studio, it came as a surprise to us to see one of the actors put on a heavy overcoat and start walking along the path. A big fan began blowing tiny white feathers down on him, and soon the trees were covered in “snow”. Two more fans were turned on, and a “strong wind” blew through the trees. The picture looked so real that it made us f eel cold.The next scene was a complete contrast. The way it was filmed was quite unusual. Pictures in front taken on an island in the Pacific were shown on a glass screen. An actor and actress stood of the scene so that they looked trick like this, pa lm trees, sandy beaches, as if they were at the water’sedge on an island. By a simple trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, and blue, clear skies had been brought into the studio!Since it was our turn next, we were left wondering what scene would be prepared for us. For a full three minutes in our lives we would be experiencing the excitement of being film “stars”!70. Who is the author?A. A cameraman.B. A film director.C. A crowd-scene actor.D. A workman for scene setting.71. What made the author feel cold?A. The heavy snowfall.B. The man-made scene.C. The low temperature.D. The film being shown.72. What would happen in the “three minutes” mentioned in the last paragraph?A. A new scene would be filmed.B. More stars would act in the film.C. The author would leave the studio.D. The next scene would be prepared.( B )Human wants seem endless. When a starving man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when an executive gets a new sports car, visions of country clubs and pleasure boats dance into view.The many wants of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of wants, another level appears.The first and most basic level of wants involves food. Once this want is satisfied, a second level of wants appears, clothing and some sorts of shelter. By the end of World War II these wants were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.By 1957 or 1958 this third level of wants was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s a fourth level of wants appeared: the “life-enriching” level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation of the human body, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called "luxury" items. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and entertainment. Also included here are fancy foods and the latest styles in clothing.On the fourth level, a greater percentage of consumer spending goes to services, while on the first three levels, more is spent on goods. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of wants as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level?A fifth level probably would involve wants that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime and prejudice. After filling stomachs, our clothes, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, ,safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.73. According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothingonly when ________.A. he has saved up enough moneyB. he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelterC. he has satisfied his hunger for foodD. he has learned to build house74. It can be inferred from the passage that at the end of World War II most Americans ________.A. were very richB. live in povertyC. had the good things on the first three levelsD. did not own automobiles75. What is the main concern of man on the fourth level?A. The more goods the betterB. The more mental satisfaction the betterC. The more "luxury" items the betterD. The more earnings the better76. The author is inclined to think that a fifth level ________A. would be little better than the fourth levelB. may be a lot more desirable than the first fourC. can be the last and most satisfying levelD. will become attainable provided the government takes action( C )In the more and more competitive service industry, it is no longer enough to promise customer satisfaction. Today, customer “delight” is what companies are trying to achieve in order to keep and increase market share.It is accepted in the marketing industry, and confirmed by a number of researchers, that customers receiving good service will promote business by telling up to 12 other people; those treated badly tell tales of woe to up to 20 people. Interestingly, 80 percent of people who feel their complaints are handled fairly will stay loyal.New challenges for customer care have come when people can obtain goods and services through telephone call centers and the Internet. For example, many companies now have to invest a lot of money in information technology and staff training in order to cope with the “phone rage”---- caused by delays in answering calls, being cut off in mid-conversation or left waiting for long periods.“Many people do not like talking to machines,” says Dr, Storey, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at City University Business School. “Banks, for example, encourage staff at call centers to use customer data to establish instant and good relationship with them. The aim is to make the customer feel they know you and that you can trust them – the sort of comfortable feelings people have during face-to-face chats with their local branch manager.”Recommended ways of creating customer delight include: under-promising and over-delivering ( saying that a repair will be carried out within five hours, but getting it done within two) replacing a faulty product immediately; throwing in a gift voucher (购物礼券)as an unexpected “thank you” to regular customers; and always returning calls, even when they are complaints.Aiming for customer delight is all very well, but if services do not reach the high level promised, disappointment or worse will be the result. This can be eased by offering an apology and an explanation of why the service did not meet usual standards with empathy(for example, “I know how you must feel”), and possible solutions (replacement, compensation or whatever fairness suggests best meets the case).Airlines face some of the toughest challenges over customer care. Fierce competition has convinced them that delighting passengers is an important marketing tool, while there is great potential for customer anger over delays caused by weather, unclaimed luggage and technical problems.For British Airways staff, a winning telephone style is considered vital in handling the large volume of calls about bookings and flight times. They are trained to answer quickly, with their names, job title and a “we are here to help” attitude. The company has inv ested heavily in information technology to make sure that information is available instantly on screen.British Airways also says its customer care policies are applied within the company and staff are taught to regard each other as customers requiring the highest standards of service.Customer care is obviously here to stay and it would be a foolish company that used slogans such as “we do as we please”. On the other hand, the more customers are promised, the greater the risk of disappointment.77. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that _______.A. complaining customers are hard to satisfyB. unsatisfied customers receive better serviceC .satisfied customers catch more attentionD. well-treated customers promote business78. The writer mentions “phone rage” (Paragraph 3) to show that ________.A. customers often use phones to express their angerB. people still prefer to buy goods onlineC. customer care becomes more demandingD. customers rely on their phones to obtain services79. If a manager should show his empathy (Paragraph 6), what would he probably say?A. “I know how upset you must be.”B. “I appreciate your understanding.”C. “I’m sorry for the delay.”D. “I know it’s our fault.”80. Which of the following is conveyed in this article?A. Face-to-face service creates comfortable feelings among customers.B. Companies that promise more will naturally attract more customers.C. A company should promise less but do more in a competitive market.D. Customer delight is more important for air lines than for banks.( D )Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned(蔑视). School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates (强制) that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.This rule is meant to solve the difficulty that students from poor or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible thatthe homework helped. Y et rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.At the same time, the policy solves none of the truly thorny(棘手的) questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely(相反地), if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.81. It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework____.A. is receiving more criticismB. is no longer an educational ritualC. is not required for advanced coursesD. is gaining more preferences82. L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____.A. tend to have moderate expectations for their educationB. have asked for a different educational standardC. may have problems finishing their homeworkD. have voiced their complaints about homework83. According to Paragraph 3 one problem with the policy is that it may____.A. discourage students from doing homeworkB. result in students’ indifference to their report cardsC. undermine the authority of state testsD. restrict teachers’ power in education84. As mentioned in Paragraph 4 a thorny question unanswered about homework is_____.A. it should be eliminatedB. it counts much in schoolingC. it places extra burdens on teachersD. it is important for grades85. A suitable title for this text could be____.A .Wrong Interpretations of an Educational PolicyB. A Welcomed Policy for Poor StudentsC. Thorny Questions about HomeworkD. A Faulty Approach to Homework( E )The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “So much important attached to intellectual pursuits”. According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan(清教徒的) tradition in American intellectual life.To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect. But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances. The NewEngland colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity(精湛技艺).The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston. There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons(布道) explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.Meanwhile, many settler s had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion. “Our main end was to catch fish.”86. The author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England___________.A. Puritan tradition dominated political life.B. intellectual interests were encouraged.C .politics benefited much from intellectual efforts.D .intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.87. It is suggested in paragraph 2 that New Englanders__________.A. experienced a comparatively peaceful early history.B. brought with them the culture of the Old WorldC. paid little attention to southern intellectual lifeD. were obsessed with religious innovations88. The early ministers and political leaders in Massachusetts Bay__________.A. were famous in the New World for their writingsB. gained increasing importance in religious affairsC. abandoned high positions before coming to the New WorldD. created a new intellectual atmosphere in New England89. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often __________.A. influenced by superstitionsB. troubled with religious beliefsC. puzzled by church sermonsD. frustrated with family earnings90. The text suggests that early settlers in New England__________.。
