杭高第二学期期中考试高二英语试卷注意：所有答案一律做在机读卡和答卷页上；不得使用字典，文曲星等工具。
考号为：试场号〔01至20〕＋座位号〔01至30〕，共4位；请分别用水笔填好说明：本试卷考试时间90分钟，总分值100分。
第一卷〔总分值70分〕第一局部：听力〔共两节，总分值10分每题 1分〕第一节: 听下面五段短对话，选择最正确选项.1.When will the two speakers meet?A. At 1:00 pm.B. At 2:00 pm.C. At 3:00 pm.2. What’s the man’s favorite sport?A. Skiing.B. Skating.C. Swimming.3. What does the man think of the movie?A. It was disappointing.B. It was OK.C. It was great.4. What does the man mean?A. He can hardly help the woman.B. He is good at singing songs.C. He is busy with his own paper.5. How will the man go to the post office?A. By bus.B. By taxi.C. By subway.第二节: 听第6段材料，答复第6至第7小题.6. What is the man doing there?A. Attending a birthday party.B. Buying a birthday gift.C. Organizing a party.7. How long will it be until Alice arrives?A. About 10 minutes.B. About 20 minutes.C. About 30 minutes. 听第7段材料，答复第8至第10小题.8. What do we know about the man?A. There is something wrong with his throat.B. He visited a doctor about ten days ago.C. He is suffering from chest pains.9. What will the woman give the man?A. A more careful examination.B. A small operation.C. Some medicine.10. How often does the man use the air-conditioner?A. Never.B. Every night.C. Once a week第二局部：英语知识运用〔共两节，总分值30分〕第一节：单项填空〔共20题,总分值10分〕11.---Did you pass the driving test last Saturday?---No, I __________ it., but I had little time practicing.A. could have passedB. might have passedC. can’t have passedD. wouldn’t have passed12. Sherry is one of the few college graduates who have got the job because she hasthe advantage _______ others of knowing many languages.A. towardsB. beyondC. overD. of13. Now many young people are modeled on the Western lifestyle, choosing high-caloriefast food, which ___________ diabetes rising among them.A. results fromB. accounts forC. calls forD.arises from14. When I was a child, I loved reading Children’s Literature, a magazine _______for children fond of reading stories.A. to be designedB. designedC. was designedD.designing15. _______ in the leg made it impossible for him to go back home on foot.A. Being injuredB. To be injuredC. Having injuredD.Injured16. So difficult _______ it to find a satisfying job here in China that I determinedto go abroad for further education.A. I have felt B have I felt C. I did feel D.did I feel17. ---How do you find the new book by J.K. Rowling?---___________. I guess she is out of her talent.A. With the help of the Internet.B. By accidentC. A little boringD. Very interesting18. Joan is on a strict diet and she usually ______ herself ________ only a pieceof toast and a cup of coffee for breakfast.A. controls; underB. helps; withC. limits; toD.forces; to19. I have seen Barbara in the photos taken in the past few years but so far I haven’tseen her _________.A. in the fleshB. in the frontC. on the sceneD.in the face20. The local government had all the walls around public gardens _________ so thatthe gardens are open to visitors free of charge.A. pushed downB. knocked downC. knocked outD. torn away21. If we all ________ traffic regulations, we’ll find it safe to drive on the roadand there will be fewer traffic jams.A. agree withB. stick toC. watch outD.care about22. I had just completed my work on the computer when it was _________ some terriblevirus. I lost a whole day’s work.A. infected withB. diagnosed withC. affected byD.struck by23. The author was surprised to find that the book intended for teenagers _______so many adults.A. appealed toB. attracted toC. fascinated byD.sensitive to24. The worldwide problem of unemployment _________ lots of social problems.A. brings out ofB. comes up withC. gives rise toD.adds up to25. Advanced as modern medicine is, doctors still feel it difficult to find aneffective _____ AIDS.A. cure forB. heal ofC. treatment ofD. means of26. With the help of the Internet, lots of information can be easily _________ peoplein all parts of the world.A. delivered toB. conveyed toC. transported toD.present to27. I had a wonderful time touring Hawaii islands—I enjoyed fresh sea food___________.A. in particularB. at mostC. in astonishmentD. inexcitement28. At a dinner party, a young lady was very ________ about spilling orange juiceon one of the guests.A. angryB. shyC. guiltyD.embarrassed29. George was so ________ the novel that he didn’t notice it was already long pastmidnight.A. absorbed onB. concentrated onC. enthusiastic atD. lostat30. My physics teacher took great trouble _______ me learn physics, for I had lotof trouble _____ the subject.A. helping; learningB. to help; to learnC. helping; to learnD. to help; learning第二节：完形填空：〔总分值20 分〕Both are so much related to each other. And both are so dissimilar! What are the 31 between friendship and love? Is ideal friendship 32 between persons of opposite sex? Let us try and understand.What is friendship? 33 do we call a person our friend? When do we call someone a very good friend? If we 34 for a person, if we are always ready to help that person and if we 35 most of our thoughts with a person, he or she is our good friend. We can always 36 our good friends in an emergency. We are always sure that our friends will 37 why we acted in a certain way. We need not 38 anything to our very good friends. The friendship is so deep and the relationship is so 39 , that most of the things are understood by our friends.What about 40 ? In a relationship of deep love, all the sharing that we discussed above are taken for granted. But love 41 all this. During love, we are 42 to a particular person, while in friendship, one may have many 43 .A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other, that one gets 44 if his/her beloved is hurt! Love also involves a 45 element. Friendship does not have that. This is a(n) 46 difference. Nature gives us love so that the species can go forward. Nature does not give us friendship.Your heart beats will never 47 in anticipation of (期待) meeting your friend. You will not lie 48 at night thinking about your friend. You will not feel totally 49 , if you don’t meet your friend for a few days. You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend. But in love, you will do all this and much more. Indeed, there is no 50 between love and friendship.31. A. relations B. differences C. similarities D. connections32. A. true B. necessary C. possible D. important33. A. What B. When C. Why D. Where34. A. care B. look C. stand D. intend35. A. discuss B. share C. compare D. change36. A. stick to B. deal with C. refer to D. depend on37. A. doubt B. understand C. oppose D. support38. A. tell B. offer C. explain D. owe39. A. close B. complex C. tense D. delicate40. A. envy B. sympathy C. cooperation D. love41. A. surpasses B. includes C. excludes D. deserves42. A. honest B. loyal C. attached D. lost43. A. choices B. chances C. friends D. lovers44. A. stuck B. pained C. separated D. wounded45. A. dangerous B. strange C. mental D. physical46. A. vital B. small C. only D.brief47. A. disappear B. increase C. stop D. change48. A. aside B. alone C. asleep D. awake49. A. lost B. excited C. confused D. tired50. A. relationship B. division C. competition D. comparison第三局部：阅读理解〔共15小题，总分值30分〕(A)Why would someone climb straight up a steep (陡峭的) rock face without any safety equipment? According to Alex Honnold, who is known internationally for free soloing (徒手独爬), it’s no big deal! But many climbers disagree. In fact, free soloing is so dangerous that less than 1% of climbers ever attempt it.Honnold grew up in California around a climbing culture and started climbing at 10. He would go to a climbing gym six days a week for three hours a day. Hannoldwas a straight-A student in school. But climbing was his main interest, and free soloing quickly became his favorite style.Since those early days, the 27-year-old has made over a thousand climbs. He is considered by many to be the best climber in the world. Experienced climber John Long says over half of the well-known free solo climbers are dead. According to him, Honnold’s greatest achievement is that he’s still alive!Hannold climbs by fitting his fingers into cracks of the rock face. With most of his weight supported by his fingers alone, he pulls himself up. However, his ability to stay concentrated is as important as his strength. Other climbers agree that the fear of climbing without a rope is a huge challenge to face. Everyone knows that a single mistake would probably cause death.One of Honnold’s greatest achievements occurred in California’s Yosemite National Park. He became the first free solo climber to climb up the 2,000-foot northwest face of Half Dome.Along with praise comes a lot of criticism. Many believe he is taking too many risks. Honnold replies, “I don’t think I’ll do this forever. But I don’t thinkI will stop because of the risk. I’ll stop because I lose the love for it.〞51. According to the text, Alex Honnold ______________.A. was a good student in schoolB. thinks free soloing isn’t dangerous at allC. spent 20 hours a week in a climbing gymD. is the youngest free solo climber in the world52. According to John Long, Alex Honnold ____________.A. is encouraging the development of free soloingB. doesn’t need any safety equipmentC. is the best climber in the worldD. has good luck in free soloing53. From Alex Honnold’s words at the end of the text, we can infer that he ___________.A. can’t take criticismB. will stop doing free soloingC. knows there’s danger in free soloingD. give other climbers a lot of praise(B)Girls and boys usually attend classes together in American public schools. But there are some single-sex programs, like a girls public school in Dallas, Texas. It opened in . The students have done well enough that the school system is now opening a school for boys.The Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy is part of the Dallas Independent School District. The school year begins Monday. Academy Principal Nakia Douglas has been giving tours to incoming students and their parents. He says, “This wing here will be our electives —specifically all of our foreign languages: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish. Our debate will be housed here.〞Mr. Douglas says he was the kind of student that the school is seeking. He says, “I was born and raised in south Dallas by a single parent. I was a neighborhoodchild. I was that child that –I would work if I knew the teacher believed in me. But, at the same time, I had a hunger and desire for more. A lot of our young men have that hunger, desire and ability now.〞Educational researchers say boys learn in different ways and mature more slowly than girls, and are more likely to leave school. Being in class with the opposite sex can also take attention away from learning.Kendal Keeter thinks the boys school will be good for his son the way the girls school was for his daughter. He says, “Our thought was to also give our son an opportunity that would best prepare him for college in the same manner she was prepared, and I can’t imagine any other option that would have prepared her better.〞Another parent, Madeline Hayes, also likes the idea of a publicly funded school for boys. He says, “This is something, as cheesy (俗气的) as it sounds, that I’ve always dreamed about, that there will be a boys school that doesn’t charge 25,000 dollars a year, but would give the same academics, the same level of interaction and leadership.〞The school is for grades six through nine. It will offer college preparatory classes and leadership courses even on weekends.Principal Douglas says the boys will be urged to support one another. He says, “Our young men grow together. But all of our young men we call ‘brother’. So it may be Brother Marlyk Davis or Brother Samuel Keeper. The young men understand they are their brother’s keeper. And so the young men are really learning to be responsible not only for themselves, but also for their brothers here at the campus.〞Madeline Hayes’ son Kelvin is twelve. He will be entering the seventh grade. The boy says, “I’ve always wanted a higher academic purpose, always want somebody to challenge me when I make my mistakes. I can learn from them. And then they have classes like science, computer and robotics, and I enjoy especially robotics and building new technology, because when I grow up I want to be an engineer.〞Fourteen-year-old Malyk Davis will study cooking, or “culinary art〞 at the Obama Academy in Dallas. He has already learned from a professional chef. However, he was not so sure he wanted to attend a school only for boys, and he heard bad things about the area. He says, “But once I began to look into more about the options that they were having, I think I’m really going to enjoy this. It’s going to be a long and tough road, but as long as I’m graduating in , that’s all that matters to me.〞Most students who want to be accepted into the Obama Academy will need to have good grades and pass a number of tests. But ten to fifteen percent will not have to meet all of the entrance requirements. Principal Nakia Douglas says they will have to show they have a strong character and a desire to learn.54.What might be the best title for the passage?A.Dallas Creates a Public School for BoysB.The Advantages of a Boys SchoolC.The Advantages of a Girls SchoolD.The Entrance Requirements of a Boys School55. We can conclude from Paragraph 6 that ________.A.Madeline Hayes is against the idea of opening a boys schoolB. a boys school opens fewer courses than other schoolsC.the public boys school won’t charge as much as Madeline Hayes expectsD. a private school charges less than a public boys school56.Which kind of students would be fit for the boys public school?A. Boys with special talents.B. Boys without parents.C. Boys believing in teachers.D. Boys eagerly desiringknowledge.57. Which of the following statements agrees with the passage?A. All the boys won’t have to pass any test to go to the boys school.B. All the boys will have to pass many tests to attend the boys school.C. The boys school will accept the students without a strong learning desire.D. Malyk Davis is determined to attend the public school for boys in Dallas.(C)Contrary to many people’s brief, highly intelligent children are not necessarily certain to achieve academic success. In fact, so-called gifted students may fail to do well because they are unusually smart. Ensuring that a gifted child reaches his or her potential requires an understanding of what can go wrong and how to satisfy the unusual learning requirements of extremely brightly young people.One common problem gifted kids face is that they, and those around them, place too much importance on being smart. Such an emphasis can encourage a belief that bright people do not have to work hard to do well. Although smart kids may not need to work hard in the lower grades when the work is easy, they may struggle and perform poorly when the work gets harder because they do not make the effort to learn. If the academic achievement of highly intelligent children remains below average for an extended period, many teachers will fail to recognize their potential. As a result, such students may not get the encouragement they need, further depressing their desire to learn. They may fail far behind in their schoolwork and even develop behavior problems.IQ is just one element among many in the recipe for success—Children develop well or struggle in school for a host of reasons apart from IQ. These include motivation (积极性) and persistence, social competence, and the support of family, educators and friends.Because highly gifted children solve the most varied thought problems faster and more thoroughly than those with average talents do, they need additional intellectual stimulation while they wait for the rest of the kids to learn the basics. Two central approaches are used to satisfy the educational needs of such children: acceleration and enrichment. Acceleration means studying material that is part of the standard subjects for older students. Enrichment involves learning information that falls outside the usual subjects.A child might skip one or more grades as a way of accelerating in school. But being with older children for the entire school day—and perhaps for grade-based extracurricular activities such as sports—can make a child feel inferior in everyrealm outside of academics. One very bright fourth-grader who had skipped two grades remained far ahead of his classmates intellectually, but as his classmates reached puberty (青春期), his social and other shortcomings became painfully apparent. While acceleration is not an option, or not a good one, enrichment can be. After all, school is not a race but an adventure in learning. As such, the goal is not finishing first but absorbing as much knowledge as possible in the time assigned. Thus, providing opportunities for a child to study topics outside the regular subjects can be at least as valuable as pushing him or her through the required material faster. 58. What is the basic reason for the low academic achievement of highly intelligent children?A. Teacher s’ failure to recognize their potential.B. Too much emphasis on being intelligent.C. Studying topics outside the regular subjects.D. Lack of encouragement from subjects.59. According to the passage, which of the following belongs to enrichment activitiesfor talented children?A. Skipping one of more grades and studying together with older children.B. Learning the same material in the standard subjects for older students.C. Learning information that is not included in the regular subjects.D. Learning how to read with fluency even in their per-school days.60. Which of the following statements do you think is true according to the passage?A. The writer is in favor of enrichment rather than acceleration.B. The writer is in favor of acceleration rather than enrichment.C. The writer speaks highly of both enrichment and acceleration.D. The writer thinks neither enrichment nor acceleration is a good choice.61. In this passage, the writer intends to _____________.A. point out the weakness of acceleration for gifted children.B. compare acceleration with enrichment for gifted childrenC. stress the importance of enrichment for gifted childrenD. discuss how to bring out gifted children’s potential(D)I cheated in a unit test in math class this morning during second period with Mr. Burke. Afterward, I was too sick to eat lunch just thinking about it.I came straight home from school, went to my room, and lay on the floor trying to decide whether it would be better to run away from my home now or after supper. Mostly I wished I was dead. It wasn’t even an accident that I cheated.Yesterday Mr. Burke announced there’d be a unit test and anyone who didn’t pass would have to come to school on Saturday, most particularly me, since I didn’t pass the last unit test. So I did plan to get well prepared just to prove to him that I’m plenty smart—which I am mostly—except in math.Anyway, I got my desk ready to study on. Just when I was ready to work, Nicho came into my room with our new rabbit and it jumped on my desk. I yelled for my mother to come and help me pick it up, but Carlotta was crying as usual and Mother said I was old enough to help myself. So Nicho and I took the rabbit outside but thenPhilip came to my room and also Marty from next door and before long it was dinner.It was already nine o’clock when I got up to my room and that was too late to study for the unit test so I lay in my bed with the light off and decided what I would do the next day when I was in Mr. Burke’s math class.So, you see, the cheating was planned after all.The next day, I went into class as usual, acting like things were going just great. I sat down next to Stanley Plummer—he is so smart in math—and from time to time, I glanced over at his paper to copy the answers. Everything was okay except that my stomach was upside down and I wanted to die.Having handed in my test paper, I couldn’t believe what I’d done in cold blood.I began to wonder about myself. I’ve never been a wonderful kid that everybody in the world loves. I have a bad temper and I like to have my own way and I argue a lot. Sometimes I can be mean. But most of the time I’ve thought of myself as a pretty decent(正派的) kid. Mostly I work hard, I care for little kids, and I tell the truth. Now all of a sudden I’ve turned into a criminal. It’s hard to believe I’m just a boy. And all because of one stupid math test.Lying on the floor of my room, I began to think that probably I’ve been bad all along. It just took this math test to fix it. I’ll probably never tell the truth again.I tell my mother I’m sick when she calls me to come down for dinner. She doesn’t believe me, but puts me to bed anyhow. I lie there in the early winter darkness wondering what terrible thing I’ll be doing next when my father comes in and sits down on my bed.“What’s the matter?〞 he asks. “I’ve got a stomachache,〞 I say. Luckily, it’s too dark to see his face. “Mommy says you’ve been in your room since school. She thinks something happened today and you’re upset,〞 That’s the thing that really drives me crazy about my mother. She knows things sitting inside my head same as if I was turned inside out.“Well,〞 my father says. I can tell he doesn’t believe me. “My stomach is feeling sort of upset.〞 I say. “Okay,〞 he says and he pats my leg and gets up.Just as he shuts the door to my room I call out to him in a voice I don’t even recognize as my own. “How come?〞 he calls back not surprised or anything. So I tell him I cheated in this math test. To tell the truth, I’m pretty much surprised at myself. I didn’t plan to tell him anything.He doesn’t say anything at first and that just about kills me. I’d be fine if he’d scold me or do something. And then he says I’ll have to call Mr. Burke. It’s not what I had in mind. “Now?〞 I ask. “Now,〞 he says. He turns on the light and pulls off my covers. “I’m not going to,〞 I say.But I do it. I call Mr. Burke and I tell him exactly what happened, even that I decided to cheat the night before the test. He says I’ll come on Saturday to take another test, which is okay with me, and I thank him a whole lot for being understanding and all.“Today I thought I was turning into a criminal,〞 I tell my father when he turns off my light.Sometimes my father kisses me good night and sometimes he doesn’t. I never know why. But tonight he does.62.Why did the author say “It wasn’t even an accident that I cheated〞?A.He decided to cheat as soon as he knew that there was going to be a test.B.He had planned not to study before the test.C.He had planned it with his deskmate before the test.D.He decided to cheat after he had wasted the whole evening.63.Before the cheating, the author thought that ____________.A. he was a boy that everyone lovedB. he was a bad boy only in mathC. he was a decent child though not perfectD. he always did what he wastold64. The author thought his mother often drove him crazy because ___________.A. she always knew what he was thinkingB. she was much too strict with himC. she always told him to look after himselfD. she didn’t care for him actually65. The father kissed the author good night that very night because ______________.A. the boy had done something against his willB. the boy promised to study math harder in futureC. the boy was willing to take a make-up math testD. the boy realized his mistake and had the courage to admit it第二卷〔共三个局部。
