湖北省黄冈中学2010年高二英语期末考试试题
本试卷共四部分。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1．How many children are there in the classroom? A. Five.
B. Seven.
C. Twelve.
2．What will the man do?
A. Go to see a tooth doctor. B. Eat out with the woman. C. Eat out with a doctor. 3．What will the man stay at home to do? A. To answer the phone. C. To call the telephone company.
4．When will the speakers probable have a picnic?
A. This afternoon. B. Tomorrow morning. C. Tomorrow afternoon. 5．What has happened to the man?
A. He has just given up his job. B. He has started his own business. C. He has got promoted as a boss.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。
6．What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Waiter and customer. B. Boyfriend and girlfriend. C. Husband and wife. 7．What are the speakers talking about? A. Ordering a meal.
B. Cooking supper.
C. The price of the food.
8．What can we learn from the conversation? A. The speakers enjoyed delicious meal. C. The man made a big mistake. 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。 9．What does the man think of his work?
A. Satisfactory. B. Both good and bad. C. Very tiring. 10．How are the man’s co - workers?
A. Work hard. B. Very boring. C. Very nice.
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B. To have his telephone fixed.
B. The woman loves animals very much.
11．Why does the man have to travel a lot?
A. He works for an international company. C. His family live abroad. 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。 12．Where do the speakers decide to go?
A. Scotland.
B. London.
C. The countryside. C. On Sunday.
13．When will the speakers start their journey?
A. On Saturday morning. B. On Saturday afternoon. 14．How will the speakers enjoy the weekend?
A. Enjoying the nice food.
B. Seeing the mountain sights.
C. Walking along the seaside. 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。 15．What did the woman decide to buy?
A. A 1icense. A. Her eyesight was bad.
B. A used car. C. A new house. B. She was old.
C. She was too old to drive.
16．Why did the old woman give up her driver’s license? 17．What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The old woman’s car was too expensive. B. The woman is interested in Jack’s grandma’s car. C. The old woman drove to the New York each winter. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18．Which channel provides light music?
A. Radio Two. B. Radio Three. C. Radio Four. 19．What can we learn about Radio Three?
A. It provides music program. C. It is relatively new.
20．Which of the following program is not offered by Radio Four?
A. Drama talk.
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21．As a good teacher, he should use different ways to encourage all children to realize their full and achieve their goals.
A．possibility
B．motivation
C．potential
D．awareness
22．She’s hoping her first performance in the US will be the first step on the road to success, then
she wants to try her ________ in Hollywood.
A. profit
B. fortune
C. distinction
D. wealth D. extending
23．Having finished his morning work, the manager stood up behind his chair, _______ himself. A. practising
B. spreading
C. stretching
B. Detailed news.
C. Spots events.
B. It broadcasts all the day.
B. He likes traveling all over the world.
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24．The government _________ the diplomatic (外交的) note from that country for its unclear
attitude to the trade between two countries.
A. denied
B. suggested
C. rejected
D. ignored
25．Keep in mind: your efforts will ______.Don’t let one or two failures over the year get you
down.
A take off B. put off C. pay back D. pay off 26．Two pages of the original manuscript (底稿) of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
were________ on display in the Israel Pavilion of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. A．put up B set down C. sent up
D. taken up
27．In the Gulf of Mexico the animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly
polluted, and the crowding could ________ mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. A. result from A. productive
B. benefit from B. familiar
C. devote to C. original
D. result in D. unique
28．Every child is __________, with their own needs, preferences and talents.
29．Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are likely to get their first taste of live 3D viewing
during this year's World Cup, the vast majority of them in cinemas at home, according to football body FIFA. A. more than
B. rather than
C. other than
D. less than
30．Stressful environments lead to unhealthy behaviors such as poor eating habits, which
第二节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was 31 to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She 32 the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old 33 thinking that she wouldn’t live 34 from then on.
Over the years, I 35 and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike, 36 a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an) 37 trying (难受的) day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang 38 .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair, 39 into my son’s room with a box of 40 . After 16 years, I still 41 Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about 42 since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she 43 the path for those people who were less 44 than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be 45 .
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_________ increase the risk of heart disease.
A. by chance B. in return
C. in turn D. in a row
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt 46 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was 47 . From this person that I thought would have no 48 of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously (神奇的) 49 and we moved north, but I owe Helen 50 that I can never repay.
31．A. walking 32．A. lived 33．A. mind 34．A. equally 35．A. studied
B. riding B. survived B. brain B. calmly B. moved B. causing B. off
C. running C. existed C. head C. quietly C. worked C. bearing C. back C. rolled C. pills
D. driving D. escaped D. thought D. normally D. 1ived D. catching D. eventually D. down D. moved D. candies D. reminded D. her work D. open D. fortunate D. medicine D. shameless D. hospitalized D. quality D. recovered
36．A. suffering 37．A. normally 38．A. up 39．A. ran
B. particularly B. walked B. presents B. knew B. her son B. smooth B. healthy B. hope B. pitiful B. beaten B. value
C. necessarily
40．A. tissues 41．A. realized 42．A. her life 43．A. clear 44．A. rich 45．A. money 46．A. small 47．A. admitted 48．A. use
49．A. treated
C. recognized C. her family C. clean C. strong C. pity
C. weak C. hurt C. meaning C. relieved C. a debt
B. worsened B. some tissues
50．A. some money D. a hope
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland
An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria （NGV）, Australia 10 June—12 August 2009
Venue（地点） The Ian Potter Centre Admission Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland — the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things .At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the
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Alice in Wonderland paintings.
Illustrator Workshop
Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.
Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am—1pm Venue Gas Works Arts Park Wonderful World
Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit.
Date Sunday 24 June, 11am—4pm Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3 Topsy- Turvy
Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened.
Dates Sunday 8,15,22,29 July ,and Tuesday 24—Friday 27 July ,12noon—3pm Venue Theatre, NGV Australia Drawing Workshop
Distortions of scale (比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting.Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world, then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.
Date Friday 27 July, 10:30am—3pm Venue Foyer, Level 3
51．Charles Blackman’s paintings come from _______.
A. his admiration for Lewis Carroll
B. his dream of becoming a famous artist D. his eagerness to cure his wife’s illness
C. his wish to express his own feelings
52．Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?
A. Illustrator Workshop and Wonderful World B. Illustrator Workshop and Drawing Workshop. C. Wonderful World and Topsy –Turvy. D. Topsy-Turvy and Drawing Workshop.
53．To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to _______.
A. Exhibition Space. Level 3 C. Theatre, NGV Australia A. on June 24, 2009 C. on July 27, 2009
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B. Gas Works Arts Park D. Foyer, Level 3 B. on July15, 2009
54．Activities concerning children’s books are to be held _______.
D. on August 5, 2009
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