普宁二中2012~2013学年度第一学期高一期中考试
英语试题（2011.10）
命题人：蔡丽园陈琼审题人：蔡静影第一部分语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。
There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.
But only a few of them are very 1 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U. S. A, but in other parts of the world. About 200, 000, 000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 2 language. Many millions are trying to do so.
Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 3 Have you ever 4 ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?
“Learn English in six month, o r your 5 back ...” “Easy and funny? Our records and tapes 6 you master your English in a month. From the first day your 7 will be excellent. Just send...” Of course, it never 8 quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were 9 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 10 what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and 11 in it all the time, just imagine how much 12 that gets!
So it is hard to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English 13 upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 14 much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 15 . But they cannot do the student’s work for him.
1. A. difficult B. important C. necessary D. easy
2. A. native B. mother C. useful D. foreign
3. A. answers B. problems C. results D. questions
4. A. found B. watched C. noticed D. known
5. A. knowledge B. money C. time D. English
6. A. make B. allow C. let D. help
7. A. pronunciation B. grammar C. English D. spelling
8. A. seemed B. know C. happened D. felt
9. A. students B. babies C. children D. grown-ups
10. A. Consider B. Mind C. Do A. Follow
11. A. using B. trying C. thinking D. practicing
12 A. practice B. money C. language D. time
13 A. has B. tries C. depends D. takes
14 A. uses B. costs C. gets D. takes
15 A. do B. help C. work D. master
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，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在非选择题答题卷上标号为16—25的相应位置。
Wang Kun and Wang Wei are brother and sister. They have dreamed of 16 (take) a great bike trip. 17 was Wang Wei who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong river. They 18 (ride) bicycles to travel along the Mekong River, 19 source is in Qinghai Province. 20 it enters Southeast Asia, it travels slowly t through hills and low valleys and the plains 21 rice grows. Despite the difficulties, Wang Kun and Wang Wei were __22 (determine) to begin their journey at 23 altitude of over 5,000 metres in Qinghai Province. 24 their journey, they enjoyed the 25 (continue) change of the weather. Finally, they reached Dali in Yunnan Province, where Dao Wei and Yu Hang joined them. The four of them went on with their great bike trip.
第二部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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One day Mrs. Perry said to her husban d, “Jack, there is a meeting of our ladies’ club at Mrs. Young’s house at lunch time today. And I want to go to it. I’ll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?”
“Oh, yes,” her husband answered, “that’s quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?”
“This tin of fish.” Mrs. Perry said. “And there are some cold boiled potatoes and some beans here, too.”
“Good,” Mr. Perry answered. “I’ll have a good lunch.”
So Mrs. Perry went to her meeting. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs. Young’s house , and at three o’clock she came home.
“Was your fish nice?” asked she.
“Yes, but my feet are hurting,” he answered.
“Why are they hurting?”
“Well, the words on the tin were Open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes.”
26. Mrs. Perry went to the meeting because .
A. she had something to do with the ladies’ club
B. she wanted to join the club
C. she was a friend of Mrs. Young’s
D. she was a member of the ladies’ club
27. Mrs. Perry left home some food for Jack’s lunch because .
