2011年广州市高二学业水平考试 英 语
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16~30各题所给的A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
St. Petersburg is a great city to visit all year round. But it is ___16___ beautiful in the summer when you can walk all night long, because, although the sun ___17___, it never gets dark. It?s a city that couldn?t be more ___18___ from Moscow.
St. Petersburg was originally built as a ___19___ city, modeled on French and German cities, the opposite of Moscow which followed the ___20___ Russian design. Differences can be seen in the architecture, fashion and even___21___. In the 18th century, French was more ___22___ than Russian among rich people in St. Petersburg and many French words are still used by locals today. Just as was ___23___ by the city?s original designers, St. Petersburg is Russia?s window to Europe. Life in Moscow is ___24___ than life in the more relaxed St. Petersburg. In Petersburg you never need to ___25___. It?s much smaller than Moscow so people like walking everywhere, even during the ___26___ dark winter.
People in St. Petersburg are more ___27___ than Moscow locals too. There is an old joke about this difference. One day, a young man ___28___ his seat to an old lady on a crowed Moscow train. The old lady said, ―You must be from St. Petersburg.‖ ―Yes. How did you know?‖ replied the man ___29___. The old lady said, ―Moscow locals never give their seats.‖ The young man then said with a ___30___. ―And you must be from Moscow, granny, because you didn?t say ?thanks? when I gave your my seat.‖ 16. A finally B naturally
C especially D immediately 17. A sets B climbs C moves D appears 18. A distant B absent C separate D different 19. A typical B European C Asian D northern 20. A traditional B logical C hopeful
D worthy 21. A music B art
C language D history 22. A popular B famous
C interesting D beautiful 23. A forgotten B supported C invented
D planned 24. A happier B faster C slower D colder 25. A work B walk C think D hurry 26. A long B warm C colorful D exciting 27. A hardworking B devoted C brave
D polite 28. A sent B offered C led D allowed 29. A in silence B in anger C in surprise D in hope 30. A cry
B shout
C smile
D look
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
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括号中间词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。 There was once a lever but mean (吝啬的) businessman. One day he lost a bag _31________ (contain) a hundred pieces of gold. He was very _32________ (happy) and so put up posters all over town, offering ten gold coins as a reward to anyone _33________ would return it to him.
_34________ a few days, a farmer came to him with the bag. He had found _35________ lying in his farm. The businessman counted the 100 gold coins and thanked the farmer for returning _36________ bag to him.
The famer now wanted the reward _37________ (promise) by the businessman. But the businessman said that he had already taken the reward, because originally there were a hundred and ten coins in the bag. The farmer now understood _38________ mean the businessman was. He therefore _39________ (go) to the judge.
The judge at once understood that the businessman was dishonest. He said that _40________ the found bag contained only one hundred coins, it wasn?t the businessman?s and it belonged to the farmer now.
III 阅读理解（共一节，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、D项中选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A
Zheng Taijun, a 30-year-old artist from Guangdong Province, transforms simple falling leaves into works of art by cutting pictures of people and scenes into them.
“Falling leaves are often a sign of sadness or death, but I want to recreate them into something hopeful—the beginning of something new,‖ said Zheng.
The idea of carving leaves came to Zheng when he was at a low point in life. In the autumn of 1999, he had travelled to a tourist spot to try and sell some of his paintings, when he was robbed of everything he had. With no money to return home, the heart-broken artist sheltered from the rain under a tree. An old man approached him and asked what was wrong. On hearing Zheng?s reply that he felt life had no more meaning, the old man started to laugh. He picked up a leaf and said, ―It all depends on how you look at it. Take this yellow leaf for example. Some may see death, others ma
y see beauty.‖
Zheng chose beauty and he spent the next few years perfecting his carving skills and travelling the country looking for ideas.
In his technique — which Zheng successfully patented (申请专利) last year —leaves are kept slightly wet in water. He makes a simple outline on the leaf. Then comes the most difficult part——using tinny knives, Zheng gently cuts away enough of the “flesh” of the leaf to leave behind an image.
Each leaf may take up to seven days to make, and Zheng says he often breaks a few for every successfully completed work. But he also says that?s the real charm of it—to challenge himself. 41. In which section of a newspaper will you most probably read this article? A. Art
B. News
C. Technology D. Opinion
42. What do falling leaves represent according to Zheng? A. The end of life B. A news starting point C. Success after struggle D. Unhappy experiences 3
43. The underlined word ―it‖ in paragraph 4 refers to ______.
A. The leaf B. life C. meaning D. death 44. In what order did the following events happen to Zheng Taijun?
a. He went to a tourist spot to sell his paintings. b. He met and talked with an old man. c. he patented his cutting technique. d. he was robbed of all his money. e. he travelled the country looking for ideas.
A. d, b, e, a, c B. a, c, d, b, e C. d, b, e, c, a D. a, d, b, e, c B
Of all the contrasts in cultures between the West and China, surely what we eat has to be one of the biggest. It?s not so much that we eat different things, but more that we eat different parts of the same things.
Take chicken for example. Chicken feet are much prized over in China, and once these are finished, the hungry Chinese will move on to the wings and then legs, and maybe then the breast meat. In the West, the order would be exactly the opposite, except that we would never get as far as the feet, as people find the thought of it quite strange.
The same can be said for pork. The Chinese consider the feet to be delicious, but in the West, things are very different. I live on a small Scottish island with my Chinese wife, and our local butcher used to throw out his pig feet, until one day my wife mentioned she would like them. She now gets a bag full every week, and smiles all the way home about the fact that she?s got what she considers the best part for free.
Whenever we go to the supermarket my wife is amazed that the meat without bones and fat is the most expensive. I explain that this is because western people don?t see the purpose of paying for something they can?t eat. But for her, these parts are the most delicious and she loves them. And happily for my wife, such bony and fat meat is also the cheapest. That?s why dinner at our houses is a perfect match. There?s never any argument over who gets what, and nothing goes to waste. There are also western foods the Chinese consider terrible. Take blue cheese for example, which is very popular in many western countries, but which some people think smells like rotten eggs. When my wife first saw this in the UK, she felt sick at its smell, but finally I persuade her to try it and now she loves it.
It?s these culture differences that make the world so full of fun. 45. What?s the purpose of this passage?
A. To share the author?s marriage experiences with the readers. B. To prove that east-west marriage is the best. C. To argue that eating habits can never be changed. D. To discuss the cultural differences in eating habits.
46. According to the passage, in what order do westerners prefer to eat chicken?
A. Breast—legs—wings B. Legs—wings—feet C. Breast—wings—legs D. Wings—legs—breast 47. According to the passage, the author?s wife ______. A. sometimes argues with the author about what to cook 4
B. believes meat with fat should be the cheapest C. gets pig?s feet for a very low price D. is used to eating blue cheese now
48. The author thinks the events mentioned are very ______. A. interesting B. strange C. annoying D. boring C
Monk High School has been some amazing improvements in the past year. Students now miss fewer days and exam results have gone through the roof. But theses successes are not the outcome of better teaching or stricter rules. Instead the school simply started its first lesson at 10 am instead of 9 am.
The change was designed to match the school day with students? body clocks. Teenagers are well-known night-owls, preferring to stay up late and sleep till lunch time. By matching the school timetable with students? biological rhythms, the school avoids teaching teenagers when their brains are still half asleep. In the modern world, our lives are largely controlled by time. Even without watches and calendars, our bodies still follow an inner clock called body rhythms. Over each 24-hour period we experience physical and mental changes that prepare our brain and bodies for the tasks we face at different times of the day. The main controller of these rhythms is a tiny part of the brain located just above the eyes. This master clock gathers information about light and sends it to the rest of the body using electrical signals. These signals control body functions like heart beat, body temperature and more.
Not surprisingly our physical and mental condition varies according to the time of the day. For example, body temperature is lowest at around 4.30 am and rises to its highest level at about 7 pm. Energy levels also rise throughout the day.
These changes can affect how we perform various tasks, including athletic performance. As your body temperature and energy levels rise during the afternoon, physical performance tends to improve. Meanwhile, the ability to carry out complicated mental tasks, like decision-making, gets worse the longer you have been awake.
49. What caused the improvements at Monk High School?
A. Stricter rules. B. Better teaching C. later lesson time D. More teachers 50. The underlined word ―night-owls‖ in paragraph 2 refers to people who______.
A. wake up at night B. go to bed late C. can?t sleep easily D. sleep at lunch time 51. According to the passage where is main controller of a person?s biological clock? A. The heart B. The eyes C. The body D. The brain
52. According to the last paragraph, when would be the best time for a student to do an English examination?
A. Morning B. Noon C. Afternoon D. Evening D
It is often said that if you don?t have dreams in life you can never achieve success. To a certain extent, this is true. If you don?t know where you want to go, you will never get there because there?s nowhere to get to. But the other side to these bright dreams is they can be blinding. If you?re blinded, you will end up in the same place: Nowhere.
What you need is a balance between what is really achievable and the dreams that can give you 5
direction but may also hold you as prisoners. Here are a few suggestions that may help you move along the path of success: