1、广东省汕头市潮阳区河溪中学学年高二英语上期中试题潮阳区河溪中学2013-2014学年度第一学期高二级期中考试英语试卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分15分）第1节：听力理解（共10小题，每小题1分）请听下面4段对话，选出最佳选项。请听第1段对话，回答第1至2题1. What day is it today? A. Friday B. Saturday C. Sunday 2. Why doesnt the man do the cleaning now? A. He has to prepare for a birthday party. B. He hasnt finished his home
2、work yet. C. He wants the woman to start first.请听第2段对话，回答第3至5题3. What does the man think will happen to cars? A. They will be getting smaller and smaller? B. They will be replaced by private planes,C. They will be affordable for everyone.4. What do we know about the woman? A. She never watches TV sh
3、ows B. She hardly uses her TV set now. C. She doesnt like using the computer.5. What does the man think of schools in the future? A. They will have more computers. B. There will be much more teachers. C. They will have robots as teachers.请听第3段对话，回答第6至8题6. Whats the aim of the organization Architectu
4、re 2030 ? A. To protect the traditional buildings. B. To protect the global environment. C. To build modern houses.7. What is Edward Mazrias attitude toward changing buildings? A. Doubtful. B. Uninterested. C. Supportive. 8. What will houses be like in the state of Minnesota? A. They can produce pow
5、er by water. B. They only give off a little carbon. C. They cannot be damaged by natural disasters.请听第4段对话，回答第9至10题9. How much younger is the old woman than her husband? A. Two years. B. There years. C. Four years.10. What title was given to the old couple? A. The oldest man and woman in the world.
6、B. The healthiest man and woman in the US. C. The longest-living married couple in the US.第2节：听取信息（共5小题；每小题1分） 听下面一段独白，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，然后填入标号为11-15的空格中。How to deal with difficult people.Stay 11 and get the point across._12_ slowly and stick to the point.Keep some 13 from the difficult person
7、.Interrupt and stop the person immediately when a situation is getting out of 14 Not let difficult people affect your 15 .第二部分：语言知识及运用（共两节，满分40分）第1节：完型填空（共15小题；每小题2分）Last holiday, I drove with my parents to Boston to visit my cousin. On my way back home, we stopped at 16 area for food. As we stopped
8、 there, there was an old lady who busy 17 all the tables and chairs as people were 18 , making sure everything was neat (整洁的) and clean. I just thought of 19 her with five dollars and a chocolate in my pocket to express my 20. She asked me, Is it a gift? Only then will I 21 it . I nodded, Yes, and 2
9、2 at her. “Thank you,” she replied, and I left to buy same things from the 23 inside. On my way back to car, the woman stopped me. “I 24 a lot of biscuits and candies at Christmas,” she explained. “Would you like to have some?” I felt a bit 25 and replied, “Yes.” She asked me to 26, and came back ca
10、rrying a four-inch plate filled with different biscuits and candies! My first expression was a big smile. “Thats a lot.” I said. She smiled and told me that she made eighty to ninety of those 27 every year, to gift friends and others. I had no words or thoughts in my brain. Finally, I asked if I cou
11、ld hug her. We hugged, wishing each other a 28 and healthy holiday season. Then, as we parted, I felt as if I had met a new 29 with whom I exchanged the gift of a smile and some happiness. There is a depth to the joy of giving and 30. From either end, both the giver and receiver are always happy.16.
12、 A. parking B. opening C. service D. camping17. A. moving B. cleaning C. watching D. repairing18. A. coming B. dining C. returning D. leaving19. A. gifting B. charging C. entertaining D. impressing20. A. thoughts B. feelings C. thanks D. gladness21. A. take B. save C. favor D. get22. A. laughed B. p
13、ointed C. smiled D. cheered23. A. hotel B. restaurant C. market D. store24. A. buy B. make C. sell D. eat25. A. worried B. surprised C. excited D. nervous26. A. sit B. escape C. hide D. wait27. A. plates B. candies C. biscuits D. chocolates28. A. strange B. wealthy C. different D. happy29. A. friend
14、 B. neighbor C. student D. classmate30. A. offering B. receiving C. sharing D. collecting第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分） Somebody is calling for help in the water. You want to jump in and rescue him 31 that might put you in danger. What will you do? Soon this wont be your problem any more, 32 a robot swimmer
15、called Swumanoid will be on hand to help. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan , have created this robot to e like 33 Olympic athlete. They used a 3-D scanner to map the swimmers body and how every part moves so the robot could swim exactly 34 a human does. Swumanoid can do the ba
16、ckstroke(仰泳) and the crawl (自由泳) at the speed of 0.64 meters per second, 35 is just a third of the human world record, according to the Daily Mail. Professor Motomu Nakashima, leader of the study, hopes that robots like Swumanoid can act as lifeguards in the future, helping those in trouble. Apart f
17、rom saving lives, Swumanoid can also 36 (use ) in swimming research. It can measure water resistance(阻力) and analyze how people swim. The data 37 (collect) is to help scientists find methods to improve a swimmers skills. 38 human swimmers, robot dont get tired of doing the same stroke (游泳姿势) again a
18、nd again so they do not slow down. Therefore, once 39 (start), they can collect data more accurately. But the robot is not yet ready to replace lifeguards by the pool. Scientists say there are still certain things that need 40 (improve), such as the motors and waterproof(防水的) design.第三部分： 阅读（共两节，满分4
19、0分）第1节： 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分） A These people come from the poorest places of Kenya. They were beggars and plantation workers. However, they are people with dreams and hopes. Thanks to Jamii Bora, thousands of them are realizing their dreams. The small bank got its start when Ingrid Munro retired (退休) fr
20、om her work. She suggested that poor people should have houses of their own as well. The Swedish-born Munro and her Canadian husband had adopted(收养)a homeless boy in 1988. However, he had been run over by a bus and was unable to walk freely. When Munro worked in the UK she learned about the lives of
21、 the poor, but her deep learning began through the eyes of that boy and increased when she adopted the boys two brothers. In 1999 she decided to start a small club. The members would be 50 women, beggars who had been kind to children. No one imagined it could become so successful that it would chang
22、e into Jamii Bora Bank, with over 300,000 customers across Kenya. Munro did not expect that it would turn out to be such a greet success. Instead of employing experts, she has trained those women herself. And she employs ex-beggars, the ones who joined them in the way very early days and have come o
23、ut of poverty(贫穷). She teachers these beggars how to do everything from the beginning. What is also different about Jamii Bora is the approach to borrowers. They help families get health and disaster insurance, schooling for their children, and help with housing. They teach business skills so that p
24、eople can live a better life. 41. What do the words “Jamii Bora” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. A kind lady. B. A bank in Kenya. C. A famous Kenyan. D. A club in Canada. 42. The homeless boy mentioned in Paragraph 2 _. A. was born in 1998 in Kenya B. lost touch with his two brother C. couldnt walk free
25、ly since he was born D. helped Munro learn a lot about the poor 43. Why did Munro decide to start a small club? A. She tried to help poor people in Kenya. B. She wanted to get to know more people. C. She wished to help beggars become rich people. D. She hoped to collect money become rich people. 44.
26、 According to the passage, Ingrid Munro_ A. helped the poor solve the problem of housing B. set up a bank when she worked in the UK C. was once a beggar when she was young D. employs experts to train those beggars 45. What would be the title for the passage? A. Beggars from Kenya B. Munro and her hu
27、sband C. From beggars to bankers D. Kenyaa poor country BTrees are useful to man in three very important ways：they provide him wood and other products；they give him shade；and they help to prevent drought(干旱)and floodsUnfortunately，in many parts of the world，man has not realized that the third of the
28、se services is the most importantIn his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees，he has cut them down in large numbersTwo thousand years ago，a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships，with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but，without its trees，its soil
29、became bare and poorWhen the empire fell to pieces，the country found itself faced by floods and starvation Even where a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees，it is difficult sometimes to make the people realize thisThey cut down the trees but are too careless to plant and
30、 look after new trees. So，unless the government has a good system of control，or can educate the people，the forests slowly disappear.This does not only mean that there will be fewer treesThe results are even more serious：for where there are trees，their roots break the soil up，allowing the rain to sin
31、k in， and also bind the soilThis prevents the soil from being washed awayBut where there are no trees，the rainfalls on hard ground and flows away on the surface，and this causes floods and the rain carries away the rich topsoil in which crops grow When a11 the topsoil is gonenothing remains but worth
32、less desert46Trees are useful to man mainly in three ways，the most important of which is that they can _A. keep him from the hot sunshine Benable him to build warshipsCmake him draw quick profit from them D .protect him from droughts and floods47Its a great pity that _Aman is only interested in building empires Bm
