安徽师范大学附属中学 期中考查
高 二 英 语 试 卷
命题教师：田麓 审题教师：孙强
时间：120分钟 满分：100分
一、听力（共两节，满分10分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题0.5分，满分2.5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l0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. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A. The TV news. B. Going hiking. C. The weather.
2. How much do two tickets cost?
A. $2.40. B.$17.60. C.$20.00.
3. Where will the woman go this evening?
A. Her sister’s. B. The station. C. The theater.
4. What sport does the man like best?
A. Basketball. B. Football. C. Tennis.
5. What does the man think of the book?
A. Not bad. B. Worth reading. C. Not good enough.
第二节（共15小题；每小题0.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从每题所给的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秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a hospital. B. At the accident spot. C. At the woman’s home.
7. What can we know about the woman?
A. Her car broke down halfway.
B. She was nearly killed by the tree.
C. She was injured in an accident.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What happened to the man?
A. He gave up mathematics. B. He failed his exam.
C. He lost his MP4.
9. What mainly worries the man?
A. Whether he can get school fees for next year.
B. How to get along well with his classmates.
C. How to apply for a scholarship or loan.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Which newspapers did the woman order?
A. Guardian and Business Weekly. B. Guardian and Mirror.
C. Mirror and Business Weekly.
11. Which section does the woman like?
A. The technology section. B. The fashion and style section.
C. The national section.
12. What is the man’s major?
A. Computer science. B. Political science. C. Business.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Teacher and student. C. Old schoolmates.
14. What do we know about the man?
A. He has started his own business. B. He got married after college.
C. He studied advertising in college.
15. What was the woman’s plan?
A. To travel around the world. B. To be a good housewife.
C. To have three children.
16. How may the woman feel at the end of the conversation?
A. Very satisfied with what she is. B. A little disappointed.
C. More than excited.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where did the fire break out?
A. In a hotel. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
18. Why did the fire cause greater injuries and deaths?
A. Outside fire escapes were very narrow.
B. The lift was not working for power failure.
C. The alarm and the water systems failed then.
19. How many passengers should the bus normally carry at most?
A. 75. B. 65. C. 50.
20. What can we learn from the speaker?
A. The driver’s carelessness caused the bus accident.
B. A cigarette-end caused the great fire.
C. Ambulances（救护车） were in time to arrive to save the injured.
二、阅读理解（共两节，20小题；每小题1.5 分，满分 30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
A
Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family’s last vacation. It was my six-year-old son’s winter break form school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a week-long trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in New York, so I had to get back. But that didn't mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.
The next day, my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered—them to wait it out at the airport, to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Our total take: $1,600. Not bad, huh?
Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.
I've made a living looking for the best deals and exposing （揭露） the worst tricks. I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written a couple of
books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in.
I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money’s worth. I’m also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its shape longer, and it's the first thing people notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.
21. Why did Delta give the author's family credits?
A. They had early bookings. B. They took a later flight.
C. Their flight had been delayed. D. Their flight had been cancelled.
22. What can we learn about the author?
A. She is interested in cheap products. B. She seldom makes a compromise（折衷）.
C. She is very strict with her children. D. She rarely misses a good deal.
23. What does the author do?
A. She's a teacher. B. She's a housewife.
C. She's a businesswoman. D. She's a media person.
24. What does the author want to tell us?
A. How to spend money wisely. B. How to reserve airline seats.
C. How to expose bad tricks. D. How to make a business deal.
B
It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers(生产商) follow certain uniform standards for different features of clothes. What seems strange, however, is that the standard used for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clothes button. Men’s clothes tend to button from the right, and women’s from the left. Considering most of the world’s population---men and women---are right-handed, the men’s standard would appear to make more sense（更有道理） for women. So why do women’s clothes button from the left?
History really seems to matter here. Buttons first appeared only on the clothes of the rich in the 17th century, when rich women were dressed by servants. For the mostly right-handed servants, having women’s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand, having men’s shirts button from the right made sense, too. Most men dressed themselves, and a sword（剑） drawn from the left with the right hand would be less likely to get caught in the shirt.
Today women are seldom dressed by servants, but buttoning from the left is still the standard for them. Is it interesting? Actually, a standard, once it is set, resists change. At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned from the left, it would have been risky for any single manufacturer to offer women’s shirts that buttoned from the right. After all, women had grown so used to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits and skills to switch. Besides, some women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since anyone who noticed that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.
25. What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?
A. It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.
B. It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.
C. It woks better with men than with women.
D. It fails to consider right-handed people.
26. What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?
A. They tended to wear clothes without buttons. B. They drew their swords from the left.
C. They were mostly dressed by servants. D. They were interested in the historical matters.
27. Women’s clothes still button from the left today because .
A. customs are hard to change B. manufacturers should follow standards
C. modern women dress themselves D. using men’s style is improper for women
28. The passage is mainly developed by .
A. analyzing causes B. making comparisons
C. examining differences D. following the time order
C
I know what you’re thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a. m. if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip breakfast, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it . Some say they don’t have time. others think they’re “saving” calories, still others just don’t like breakfast food .
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R., D., who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast at all, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers---it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.
29. What can we infer from the text?
A. Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.
B. Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.
C. There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.
D. Eating vegetables helps save energy.
30. According to the last paragraph, it is important to____________.
A. eat something for breakfast B. be careful about what you eat
C. heat up food before eating it D. eat calorie-controlled food
31. The text is written mainly for those_____________.
A. who go to work early B. who stay up late
C. who want to lose weight D. who eat before sleep
D
Far from the land of Antarctica (南极洲), a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.
For forty years scientists have been curious about that fish. How does it live where most fish would freeze to death? It must have some secret. The Antarctic is not a comfortable place to work and research has been slow. Now it seems we have an answer.
Research was begun by cutting holes in the ice and catching the fish. Scientists studied the fish’s blood and measured its freezing point.
The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of -1.88°C and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to
-2.05°C. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture.
The scientists’ next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein (蛋白质) never before seen in the blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it was put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.
Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules（分子）held in special positions within each big protein molecule. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.
32. What is the text mainly about?
A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic.
B. A special fish living in freezing waters.
C. The ice shelf around Antarctica.
D. Protection of the Antarctic cod.
33. Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature?
A. A special protein keeps it from freezing.
B. It loves to live in the ice-salt mixture
C. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88°C.
D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05°C.
34. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. A type of ice-salt mixture. B. Sugar molecule.
C. Fish blood. D. A newly found protein.
35. What does “glyco-” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraph mean?
A. ice B. sugar C. blood D. molecule
第二节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
根据短文内容，从其后选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
The benefits of keeping a journal (日志)
If you want to grow, one important thing you should do is keeping a journal. It may seem simple, but it can make a big difference in your life. I have been keeping journals for years. Writing all the lessons I learn and all the ideas I get has become a habit for me. 36 Here are some benefits you will get by keeping a journal.
◆ It prevents you from losing an idea. Have you ever gotten an idea only to lose it later because you didn’t write it down? 37 But then I developed the habit of writing down every idea that came into my mind as soon as possible. If I’m away from my computer, I usually write it down on a piece of paper that I bring wherever I go. I will then transfer the idea to the journal in my computer.
◆ It helps you review all the lessons you’ve learned. By reviewing your journal, you can quickly see the lessons you’ve learned and the ideas you’ve gotten. 38 You can use the ideas to propel (鞭策) yourself forward.
◆ 39 After keeping a journal for years, you can look back at it and see how far you’ve gone. Things that were big problems in the past might seem small today. The raw ideas you had in the past might have been realized today.
◆ It helps you expand（扩展） your ideas. When you try to come up with a sentence to express an idea, you are thinking actively about it. 40 In the end, you will expand your ideas.
A. I often experienced that myself.
B. It trains you to express your thoughts.
C. It allows you to see your progress over time.
D. Just use whatever tool you feel comfortable with.
E. Thinking actively helps you connect your idea to another idea.
F. And to be honest, I can’t imagine what my life would be like without it.
G. Then you can do whatever necessary to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
三、英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Children find meanings in their old family tales.
When Stephen Guyer’s three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker, 41 all in the 1930s, but did not lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times 42 his strong-minded grandfather was nearly 43 , he loaded his family into the car and 44 them to see family members in Canada with a 45 ,“there are more important things in life than money. ”
The 46 took on a new meaning recently when Mr. Guyer downsized to a 47 house
from a more expensive and comfortable one. He was 48 that his children, a daughter, 15, and twins, 22, would be upset. To his surprise, they weren’t. 49 , their reaction echoed （共鸣） their great-grandfather’s. What they 50 was how warm the people were in the house and how 51 of their heart was accessible（可接近的）.
Many parents are finding family stories have surprising power to help children 52 hard times. Storytelling experts say the phenomenon reflects a growing 53 in telling tales, evidenced by a rise in a storytelling events and festivals.
A university 54 of 65 families with children aged from 14 to 16 found kids’ ability to 55 parents’ stories was linked to a lower rate of anger and anxiety.
The 56 is telling the stories in a way children can 57 . We’re not talking here about the kind of story that 58 , “When I was a kid, I walked to school every day uphill both ways, barefoot in the snow. ” Instead, we should choose a story suited to the child’s 59 , and make eye contact （接触） to create “a personal experience”. We don’t have to tell children 60 they should take from the story and what the moral（教育意义） is . ”
41. A. missed B. lost C. forgot D. ignored
42. A. when B. while C. how D. why
43. A. friendless B. worthless C. penniless D. homeless
44. A fetched B. allowed C. expected D. took
45. A. hope B. promise C. suggestion D. belief
46. A. report B. agreement C. arrangement D. tale
47. A. large B. new C. small D. grand
48. A. surprised B. annoyed C. worried D. disappointed
49. A. Therefore B. Besides C. Otherwise D. Instead
50. A. talked about B. cared about C. wrote about D. heard about
51. A. many B. much C. little D. few
52. A. beyond B. over C. behind D. through
53. A. argument B. skill C. anxiety D. interest
54. A. study B. design C. committee D. students
55. A. retell B. provide C. support D. refuse
56. A. trouble B. gift C. fact D. trick
57. A. perform B. hear C. write D. question
58. A. means B. ends C. begins D. proves
59. A. habits B. activities C. judgments D. needs
60. A. what B. that C. which D. whom
第二节 单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
61. The island, to the mainland by a bridge, is easy to go to.
A. joining B. joined C. to join D. having joined
62. Mike found his missing car in the street outside his house, newly cleaned and polished. A. looked B. looking C. to look D. to be looking
63. The difference in size and weight from the earlier version makes the iPad mini easier .
A. held B. holding C. be held D. to hold
64. Much time _____ sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.
A. being spent B. having spent C. spent D. spending
65. —Can I pay the bill by check?
—Sorry，sir．But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment _____ be made in cash．
A．shall B．need C．will D．can
66. —She looks very happy. She ______ have passed the exam.
—I guess so. It’s not difficult after all.
A. should B. could C. must D. might
67. When it comes to what makes a good student, everyone may have an opinion; ____, a good student should first be honest and hard-working.
A. as for me B. in the long term C. on the contrary D. no doubt
68. A good teacher must __________ to his students the importance of a proper learning method.
A. get through B. get across C. get off D. get over
69. I would appreciate _______, to be frank, if the goods could be delivered as soon as possible.
A. you B. \ C. it D. that
70. The teacher didn’t know who __ for the broken window because it happened while he was out.
A. is to be blamed B. to be blamed C. blamed D. to blame
四、写作（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 单词拼写（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
71. One should work very hard if he wants to be a______________ into a good university.
72. We have provided seats for the _________________ (方便) of our customers.
73. My teeth are very ________________（敏感的）to cold food.
74. After some heated ________________（争论）a decision was finally taken.
75. The news _______________（消除）any doubts about the company’s future and everyone was encouraged.
第二节 短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Everyone should take the action to reduce haze(雾霾)，which is harmless to our health．First of all，I believe that if we plant more tree，there will be less haze in their city．Trees can absorb exhaust fumes(尾气)from cars，thus reduce pollution．Second，the government should punish the factories where produce too many fumes．Exhaust fumes is the main cause of haze and do greatly harm to people’s health．Maybe we can move factories to areas where few people live．Third，I think it was a great idea to
encourage people to use public transportation．Last but not least，we can call on citizens ride bikes if they travel short journeys.
第三节 书面表达(满分15分)
假定你是李华，计划暑假期间到英国University of Nottingham学习英语，为期三个月，学习期间想找一份兼职工作。请给英国的朋友Anna写信求助，要点如下：
1. 你的学习安排；2. 做兼职的原因；3. 可胜任的工作（餐厅服务员、儿童汉语教师……）。
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Anna,
How are you doing?
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
高二英语参考答案
听力： 1-5 CBBAC 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 BCCAA 16-20 BACCB
阅读： 21-40. BDDAB BAABA CBADB FAGCE
完形： 41-60. BACDD DCCDB BDDAA DBCDA
单选： 61-70. BBDCA CABCD
单词拼写：
71. admitted 72. convenience 73. sensitive 74. argument 75. removed
短文改错：
书面表达：
Possible version:
Dear Anna,
How are you doing? I’m planning to go to the UK to take a three-month English course at the University of Nottingham after graduation in June. It’s quite expensive but I’m hoping to improve my pronunciation.
To help cover the costs of my study, I aim to find a part-time job. It’s also a good way to practice my oral English and develop a better understanding of the British society. So I’m wondering if you could ask around your friends to see if anyone wants a waiter in the restaurant or a Chinese teacher for their children. I would appreciate it very much if you can help me.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours
Li Hua
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