广东省深圳高级中学高二英语下学期期中试题新人教版

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1 高级中学2012-2013学年第二学期期中测试

高二英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分,共11页,满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项:

1.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号和考试科目涂写在答题卡上。

2.每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其它答案,不能答在试卷上。

3.考试结束,监考人员将答题卡交回。

Ⅰ 语言知识及应用(共两节,满分45分)

第一节 完形填空 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it

something more than that? For example, suppose a 1 wants to borrow some money

from you. You say, “I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself.” In

fact you are not 2 of money but your friend is in the habit of not paying his

debts and you don’t want to 3 his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this

4 a lie?

Professor Gerald Gullion of the University of Southern California has made a

5 study of lying. According to him, women are better liars than men, 6 when

telling a “white lie”, such as a woman at a party telling another woman that she

likes her 7 when she really thinks it looks awful. However, this is only one

side of the 8 . Other researchers say that men are more 9 to tell more serious

lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling. This is

the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are 10 to be particularly skilled

at: the lie from which the liars hopes to profit or gain in some way.

Research has also been done into the 11 of people’s behavior in a number

of small, 12 unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are

sitting down at the time, they 13 to move about in their chairs more than

usual.

To the trained observer they are saying “I wish I were somewhere else now”. They

also tend to touch 14 parts of the face more often, in particular the nose. One

explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase in blood pressure.

The nose is very 15 to such changes and the increased pressure makes it itch

(痒). 2 1. A. classmate B. friend C. stranger D. relative

2. A. sure B. aware C. fond D.

short

3. A. hurt B. affect C. accept D.

betray

4. A. simply B. merely C. really D.

exactly

5. A. random B. casual C. technical D.

scientific

6. A. particularly B. apparently C. deliberately D.

generally

7. A. behaviour B. performance C. dress D.

appearance

8. A. fact B. story C. truth D.

reality

9. A. reasonable B. likely C. ridiculous D.

severe

10. A. related B. managed C. approved D.

supposed

11. A. advantages B. benefits C. changes D. chances

12. A. clearly B. slightly C. exremely D.

constantly

13. A. expect B. fail C. happen D. tend

14. A. large B. certain C. main D.

special

15. A. positive B. negative C. sensitive D.

objective

第二节 语法填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分) v

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。

One day all the employees of a very famous company reached their office and

all saw a big sign on the main door 16 (say):

“Yesterday, the person who has been hindering (阻碍) your growth in this 3 company passed away. We invited you to join the funeral in the room 17 has

been

prepared in the gym.”

In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleagues,

18 after a while they started getting curious 19 (know) who was that person

that hindered the growth of their colleagues 20 the company itself.

The excitement in the gym was such that security agents 21 (order) to

control the crowd within the room. 22 more people reached the coffin, the

more

the excitement heated up.

Everyone thought, “Who is this person that was hindering my progress?”

One by one the employees got closer 23 the coffin, and when they looked

inside it they suddenly became 24 (speech). There was a mirror inside the

coffin:

everyone who looked inside it could see themselves! There was also a sign next to

the mirror that read:

“There is only one person who is able to set limits to 25 growth and

IT

IS YOU!”

Ⅱ 阅读 (共两节,满分50分)

第一节 阅读理解 (共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal

career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere in the fall of

1985. Twenty-one years later, I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite