湛江一中2011—2012学年度第二学期期末考试
高一级英语科试卷
考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 命题老师：ZLJ
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A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题字母涂黑。
One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our 1 we can see what has not yet happened.For example, while we are looking forward to visiting a new place or country, we 2 what it will be like. We predict the 3 people will eat, dress and act. Of course, we do not always predict things correctly. Things are often very different from the way we 4 them to be.
One of the 5 dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been 6 to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had 7 and analyzed the problem from every angle for days, but there seemed to be no way of 8 out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed.When he 9 up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his 10 .
The hypnotist(催眠者) sat in the chair opposite him and spoke 11 : I want you to concentrate on my voice. Think about nothing. You know nothing but my voice. And as you pay attention to my voice, your 12 will get heavier. Soon you’ll be asleep.
You will hear my voice and 13 my words, but your body will be asleep, your eyes are too heavy. You are almost asleep, and when you wake up you will 14 nothing.
You will forget everything. Now I am going to 15 slowly from one to five. One, two, three, four, five.
1. A.brains B.senses C.sights D.minds
2. A.imagine B.know C.feel D.guess
3. A.custom B.way C.style D.habit
4. A.required B.wished C.left D.expected
5. A.famous B.dull C.funny D.silly
6. A.trying B.managing C.thinking D.hoping
7. A.learned B.studied C.discussed D.surveyed
8. A.finding B.making C.turning D.letting
9. A.gave B.sat C.woke D.got
10.A.lesson B.dream C.research D.exercise
11.A.softly B.loudly C.slowly D.firmly
12.A.head B.feet C.eyes D.body
13.A.believe B.understand C.take D.repeat
14.A.accept B.receive C.hear D.remember
15.A.add B.say C.count D.speak
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卷标号为16-25的相应位置上。
To my great joy, I have broken away from my bad habit which almost ruined me. Two years ago, I happened to come across Tom, 16 was lost in gambling(赌博). Things of one kind come together. As I was also not interested in schoolwork, we became good friends. Though every day, the teacher assigned us a great deal of homework, we took no notice of it. In the classroom, I couldn’t focus 17 what the teacher taught. As a result, my academic performance was becoming from bad to 18 (bad). As I couldn’t find any fun in school, I played poker whenever I was free. At 19 beginning, we just played for fun, but not soon late, we played for gambling. 20 really made me happy even excited. However, I felt upset because I 21 (lose) quite a little money in the gamble. I began to be worried all the time. My father found 22 happened to me and shouted at me, saying that I would end up in prison 23 I didn’t attempt to leave those who gambled. He tried to persuade me to go back to school and begged my head teacher 24 (help) me with my study. 25 (follow) his advice, I tried to study hard. It seemed as if I never ran out of my energy. Where there is a will there is a way. I became one of the top students in my school.
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字母涂黑。
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Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.
One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.