广东省中山市高一英语下学期期末试题
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中山市高一级2010—2011学年度第二学期期末统一考试
英语科试卷
本试卷共8页，四大题，满分85分。考试用时100分钟。
注意事项：
1．答题前，考生必须将自己的姓名、统考考号、座号和考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。
2．选择题每小题选出答案后，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，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In junior high school, one of my classmates, Eithan, was addicted to TV. This
boy simply knew everything about such pop shows as Who's the Boss?
Then one day Ethan's mother made him an 1 in order to draw him back to
his school subjects. She 2 that she would give him $200 if he could go a
full month without watching any TV. None of us thought Ethan could do it, but he
did 3 TV all through the month. His mom paid him $200. He went out and
bought a TV, the 4
he could find.
In 5 years, hundreds of schools have carried out experiments with
paying kids with cash for showing up or getting good 6 . All school kids
admire this trend. But it
7 adults. Teachers say that we are rewarding kids for doing what they should
be doing of their own will. Psychologists warn that money can 8 make kids
perform worse by making the act of learning 9 . The debate has become a
typical 10 over why our kids are not learning at the rate they should be
despite decades of reforms and budget increases.
1.A. offer B. advice C. agreement D. idea
2.A. suggested B. insisted C. promised D. replied
3.A. stop B. reject C. dislike D. quit 4.A. biggest B. most expensive C. best D. cheapest
5.A. past B. recent C. latest D. near
6.A. education B. grades C. progress D. prizes
7.A. surprises B. pleases C. puzzles D. upsets
8.A. mostly B. mainly C. actually D. particularly
9.A. cheap B. fast C. slowly D. dear
10.A. quarrel B. discussion C. battle D. problem
第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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11～20的相应位置上。
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art said on Thursday that it had completed an
agreement with the City of Los Angeles that puts the museum in charge of efforts
to repair and preserve the Watts Towers. The Watts Towers, symbols of Los
Angeles’s cultural history,
11 (build) by the self-taught artist Simon Rodia in his spare time over more
than three decades. The towers, 12 were once almost demolished by the city
and then later designated a national landmark, were damaged 13 (slight) in
the 1994 earthquake and again during a 2008 windstorm.
The museum, with $150,000 supplied by the city’s department of cultural affairs,
will cooperate 14 other art institutions and community groups in the Watts
neighborhood
15 (assess) the site’s condition and make a plan for repairs and conservation.
The hope is
16 the effort will lead to greater attention 17 a source of long-term
financing to maintain the towers.
Rodia, 18 immigrant from Italy who died in 1965, used basic tools and
found or donated materials (scrap iron, mesh, shells, broken glass and tile) to build
the massive artwork. He described it 19 a monument to America and to the human
spirit. “I had wanted to do something big,” he once said, “and I did 20 .”
II 阅读（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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 Many primitive peoples believed that by eating an animal they could get some
of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, for example, that
eating deer would make them run as fast as the deer. Some savage tribes believed
that eating enemies that had shown bravery in battle would make them brave.
Man-eating may have started because people were eager to become as strong and brave
as their enemies.
Among civilized people it was once thought that ginger root by some magical power
could improve the memory. Eggs were thought to make the voice pretty. Tomatoes also
were believed to have magical powers. They were called love apples and were supposed
to make people who ate them fall in love.
Later another wrong idea about tomatoes grew up - the idea that they were
poisonous. How surprised the people who thought tomatoes poisonous would be if they
could know that millions of pounds of tomatoes were supplied to soldiers overseas
during World War II.
Even today there are a great many wrong ideas about food. Some of them are very
