西安市第八十五中学2006—2007学年度第一学期期中考试
高2004级英语科试卷
第一部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满分50分）
第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. refer A. teacher B. dollar C. nervous D. inventor
2. bench A. chemist B. character C. machine D. change
3. adopt A. nothing B. opposite C. moment D. movement
4. sink A. knowledge B. country C. learned D. thinking
5. standard A. poisonous B. starve C. warm D. bargain
第二节 语法词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
6. It was not until dark ____ he found ____ he thought was the correct way to solve the problem.
A. that; what B. that; that C. when; what D. when; that
7. — Do you feel like ____ there or shall we take a bus？
— I'd like to walk. But since there isn't much time left, I'd rather we ____ a taxi.
A. walking; hired B. to walk; hire C. to walk; hired D. walking; hire
8. The discovery of the new drug is ____ to people suffering from heart problems.
A. of very significance B. great significant
C. of great significance D. great significance
9. The jeep was ____ in the mud. It wouldn't move on.
A. sticked B. stuck C. struck D. stricken
10. I'll spend the evening ____ in your room waiting for the thief to arrive.
A. locking B. in locking C. being locked D. locked
11. A computer is so useful a machine ____ we can use everywhere.
A. that B. which C. as D. what
12. I'm certain David's told you his business troubles. ____ , it's no secret that he owes a lot of money
to the bank.
A. However B. Anyway C. Therefore D. Though
13. Our government has laid ____ some health care projects for the people laid ____ in the reform.
A. down; off B. up; down C. off; down D. out; off
14. I had been working so hard for several weeks, that I decided to ____ and relax over the weekend.
A. take the thing easy B. take them easy C. take it easy D. take easy
15. I soon found that the work I was doing had already been done by someone else — ____ , I was
wasting my time.
A. in so many words B. in words C. in other words D. in another word
16. The main task for ____ moment is to put ____ end to the war on Iraq as soon as possible.
A. a; an B. the; an C. a; the D. the; the
17. I was so familiar with him that I recognized his voice ____ I picked up the phone.
A. while B. after C. in case D. the minute
18. Distance learning is being ____ in several countries to help children in remote rural schools obtain
higher education.
A. attended B. adopted C. adapted D. admitted
19. With a lot of difficult problems ____ , the man felt like a cat on a hot brick.
A. settling B. settled C. to settle D. being settled
20. —Could you give me some coins, dad? I want to buy an ice cream.
—Sorry, I've got ____ on me.
A. none B. nothing C. quite a few D. no one
第三节 完形填空（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、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。
Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific 21 ; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my 22 . "All great discoveries,"he said, "are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty." 23 a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. 24 wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the 25 of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.
First I looked at some of the 26 discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 27 fall at the same speed , was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that 28 to Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 29 of that. Yet I 30 if those "best years" were true in other 31 .
Then how about the field of 32 ? Surely it needed the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it 33 , but look when these people 34 their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 35 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.
But why 36 best years come after thirty? After thirty, I 37 , most people do not want to take risks or try 38 ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the age of fifty, while the latter was 39 trying new ways of painting when he was ninety.
Perhaps there is still 40 for me.
21. A. invention B. discovery C. experiment D. progress
22. A. mind B. idea C. attention D. thought
23. A. As B. Being C. However D. Beyond
24. A. Everybody B. Somebody C. Nobody D. Whoever
25. A. names B. ages C. addresses D. education
26. A. modern B. scientific C. last D. oldest
27. A. heights B. sizes C. weights D. things
28. A. led B. meant C. stuck D. referred
29. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. none
30. A. believed B. trusted C. wondered D. asked
31. A. fields B. countries C. courses D. ages
32. A. agriculture B. politics C. industry D. society
33. A. is B. will C. has D. does
34. A. finished B. went C. started D. failed
35. A. devoted B. gave up C. began D. led
36. A. don't B. the C. can D. not
37. A. believe B. know C. guess D. agree
38. A. other B. new C. best D. their
39. A. always B. still C. seldom D. enjoying
40. A. discovery B. problem C. wish D. hope
第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题。第一节每题2分，第二节每题1分；满分45分）
第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don't show your secret personality when you're awake because you can control your behaviour, but when you're asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you're a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don't like to upset people, so you never express your real feelings. You're quite shy and you aren't very confident.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you're always easily upset. You're very stubborn (顽固的) , but you aren't very ambitious. You usually live for today not for tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep on curled up, you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you're often defensive. You're shy and you don't normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You're easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. You know your strengths and weakness. You're usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don't often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.
41. According to the writer, you naturally show your secret and real personality ____ .
A. only in a normal night
B. only when you go to sleep
C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the world
D. only when you change sleeping position
42. Maybe you don't want to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up. Why?
A. He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.
B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.
C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.
D. He or she wouldn't like to get help from you.
43. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because ____ .
A. he or she always shows sympathy for people
B. he or she is confident, but not stubborn
C. he or she has more strengths than weakness
D. he or she often considers annoying people
B
He has lived through countless dangers but time may be running out for the Palestinian (巴勒斯坦) leader, Yasser Arafat.
On September 11, Israel (以色列) announced its decision to remove him, following several Palestinian suicide bomb attacks on Israel. "He should take some responsibility for the killings," an Israeli official said. "He has done nothing to stop the terrorist groups."
But the decision has angered many other countries. China said that Arafat is the true leader, elected by the Palestinian people, and removing him would harm the peace in the Middle East. This view is shared by other governments.
Arafat himself said: "They can kill me, but never get me out of my country." He has spent most of his life in danger as the chief target (目标) of Israel. But, just like a cat with nine lives, Arafat escaped every time.
For years he has made a practice of sleeping in a different bed each night, thinking a moving target is harder to hit.
In 1985, Israel sent fighter planes to kill Arafat. The wild bombing destroyed his old headquarters (
总部) in Tunis but Arafat himself was unhurt.
In 1992, the aircraft in which he was flying over north Africa broke in two during a crash landing. The crew was killed but he managed to remain alive.
What is so unbelievable is that he always remains calm in great danger.
Israeli tanks and helicopters attacked his headquarters in Ramallah in December, 2001. When they saw the attackers coming, Arafat's bodyguards ignored his orders to stay still and carried him to safety underground. Seconds later, several bombs exploded nearby. Though safe, his bodyguards were so scared they were soaked in sweat.
But Arafat, with Israeli tanks only 200 metres away, showed no fear at all. He stayed in the damaged office, contacting foreign leaders in hope of preventing further attacks from Israel.
All these experiences have made him a mysterious man, and one of the world's most legendary (传奇式的) leaders.
But has he used up the last of his nine lives? Only time will tell.
44. What is the main idea of the story？
A. Arafat was in danger again after Israel's decision to remove him.
B. Arafat faced dangers without fear.
C. Arafat was one of the most legendary leaders in the world.
D. Arafat may have used up the last of his nine lives.
45. Which is not one of the reasons that Arafat managed to live through countless dangers?
A. Luck. B. He was very careful.
C. He kept a clear head in danger. D. He had mysterious powers.
46. What does the boldfaced word "scared" in the last paragraph but three mean?
A. Glad. B. Frightened. C. Feeling lucky. D. Worried.
47. Arafat's answer to Israeli decision showed ____ .
A. that he wasn't afraid of danger B. his determination to stay in his own country
C. that he has belief in himself D. both A and B
C
There are some special traditions in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei along necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese, Japanese and Filipino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means "I love you".
Usually when people from different countries, races, and traditions live together, there are serious problems. There are a few problems in Hawaii, but in general, people have learned to live together in peace.
Hawaiians earn most of their money from travelers and most of the travelers come from the mainland and from Japan. There are many people living in Hawaii now so there are residential areas where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and pineapple companies have moved to the Philippines, where they do not have to pay workers as much money. The families of the first people who came from the U.S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are also buying or starting businesses here.
48. The special tradition in Hawaii includes ____ .
A. giving visitors a lei of beautiful fresh flowers
B. Men wear bright flowered shirts
C. Women often wear long flowered dresses
D. All of the above
49. The most important problem in Hawaii is ____ .
A. to learn to live together in peace B. to earn money from travelers
C. To find a comfortable place to live D. to unite different holidays
50. The main travellers are from ____ .
A. Europe B. America C. Japan D. B and C
51. Which is not the transformation in Hawaii? ____ .
A. Farms have become residential areas
B. Some big sugar and pineapple companies have moved to Philippines
C. Japanese are buying or starting in Hawaii now
D. The families of the first people who came from Europe own the important banks and companies
D
Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.
The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only these two diseases can be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span (寿命) can be prolonged.
Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial family being a good example, have hereditary diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just needs to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.
Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.
52. What does "these two killers" in the second paragraph refer to ?
A. Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.
B. The two murderers who killed the cloned baby.
C. The two diseases of cancer and heart disease.
D. Hereditary diseases and cancer.
53. What's the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. How gene technology can be applied in the field of treating hereditary diseases.
B. Gene technology can be used to clone human babies.
C. Gene technology can help people to give birth of a baby.
D. Gene technology can help the English imperial family out.
54. In what way gene technology can help to treat hereditary diseases?
A. Using gene technology, people with hereditary diseases can have more living days.
B. Using gene technology, the scientist finds the wrong gene and corrects it.
C. Using gene technology, human babies can be cloned.
D. Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of gene technology.
55. What is the main purpose of writing this passage?
A. Expressing the writer's idea that gene technology will benefit people.
B. Telling people the advantages of gene technology.
C. Telling the readers that gene technology will not benefit people.
D. Explaining that gene technology will also do harm to the humanity.
E
The European capital cities, Berlin and London, running the third and the fourth richest economies in the world, both produce about a metric ton of rubbish for each household per year. But when it comes to disposing of their citizens’ waste, the comfortable similarities end.
London, and Britain as a whole, is in the middle of a waste crisis. Today, the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, is presiding over a waste summit to try to find out why the UK is not going to reach its 25% recycling and composting (转制成堆肥) target by 2005; currently, it is managing 11%
By comparison, Berlin and Germany know exactly where they are going. Although Berlin has been the capital for less than a decade, and has had east and west to unite, it has already reached 40% recycling. The city has one ambition: to have no rubbish to dump or burn in 20 year’s time. So far, the city has not decided quite how, but it is developing new technologies and moving steadily in the right direction. London, by comparison, has a chaotic system. The 33 boroughs all have different recycling systems.
Ken Livingstone, who since taking office as mayor has published a brand-new waste management strategy for the capital, is responsible for sorting out this hotch potch. One of the most contentious issues both for London and Berlin is incineration, with both cities burning a large proportion of their waste---London 20% and Berlin 32%
Here again Berlin has made decisions and London is uncertain. Berlin has a state of the art incinerator in the 1970s and upgraded constantly until in the 1990s it is impossible to detect any emissions but warm gases. The city has abandoned plans to build another and instead wants to make the existing one redundant by reducing the waste so there is none to burn
London boroughs have plans to increase the size of the incinerator at Edmonton and there are plans to build more elsewhere. But Livingstone is resisting and the government is already rethinking its current energy from waste policy.
Samantha Heath, the chair of Greater London Authority’s environment committee, wants to invest in the market for recycled goods so there is somewhere for the material to go and a prospect of selling it, or at least disposing of it for less than the price of incineration or landfill
Ingolf Rank, spokesman for Berlin’s City Cleaning company has some advice: “The first task is to get the public on your side.” Each household has to pay 40 pounds every three months to dispose of its rubbish. In future, the less they create, the more they recycle and compost, the less they will have to pay, he says.
Each house in Berlin has a series of different coloured bins for refuse so glass, paper and plastics can be separated for recycling. This allows 800 000 tonnes of rubbish a year to be turned back into useful items.
But Berlin has ideas that have not ever been heard of in London. For example, at this time of year, thousands of trees that line Berlin’s streets shed their leaves. Rather than put these leaves into general rubbish and add to the problems of disposal, they are collected up in large vacuum cleaners and turned into garden compost. Most of London has no composting service at all.
Another system that stops material even being called rubbish is a collection service for second-hand furniture and electrical goods less than seven years old. Each offering is inspected, taken to a central shop, and sold at low cost to poorer people. It saves a lot of material being dumped.
Not all goes according to plan in Berlin, however. Rank says that people dump waste in the streets, like mattresses, old furniture or just general rubbish cost the city 2.8 million pounds a year.
One problem the city has tried to solve but failed, is the excreta of 150 000 dogs. Rank says it is the owners’ responsibility to clean up after their pets but police who tried enforce the law were “sometimes bitten (by the dogs), insulted by the owners and even beaten up. As a result we still have to clean up 40 tonnes of droppings every day. Nobody is happy about that.”
56. Which of the following is correct? __________
A.By 2005, UK is going to reach its 25% recycling and composting target.
A. UK has survived a waste crisis already.
B. Berlin has 33 boroughs with different recycling systems.
C. Germans are ambitious to have no rubbish to dump or burn in 20 years’ time.
57. Which is the main way for the two countries to deal with rubbish?
A. To bury. B.To incinerate. C.To sell D.To compost.
58. Inferring from the passage, which of the following is the main factor for Germans’ abandoning the incineration system?
A. Citizens’ protest. B. High opportunity cost.
C. Air pollution. D. Less produced rubbish.
59. What do people in Berlin do with the fallen leaves?
A. Landfill. B. Burning. C. Putting then into the dustbin. D. Turning them to fertilizer.
60. The writer uses the ______as a figure of speech(修辞).
A. Simile B. Metaphor C. contrast D. personification
第二节 根据对话内容，从对话后的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。
A: Oh, you didn't know how many people there were in the streets when I went shopping last
Sunday!
B: No wonder. 61 The earth will be full of people and there will be standing room only.
A: You said it.
B: 62
A: Look up into the sky, what can you see?
B: 63
A: The moon is the satellite of the earth ,maybe man will fly to the moon.
B: 64
A:I mean perhaps the moon will be our home in the future.
B: But man can't live there because there is no air and no water .No life can live there. 65
A: In that case, man can't live there before solving these problems.
A. How can we?
B. There will be more and more people.
C. But I don't think so.
D. How to solve the problem?
E. Pardon?
F. Of course I can see the moon and stars.
G. Can we live there?
第三部分 写作（共三节，满分55分）
第一节 单词拼写（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。
66. We are all ______ (忧虑) for his safety. 66. __________
67. They didn't know whether the ______ (手术) would be successful. 67. __________
68. I closed my eyes and felt the ______ (温暖) of the sun on my face. 68. __________
69. Did you hear the special ______ (广播) last night? 69. __________
70. The people in the town ______ (加固) their defenses. 70. __________
71. There are ______ (总共) fifty-three students in our class. 61. __________
72. With your ______ (许可) we will take the first train. 72. __________
73. Would there be any hard words in the ______ (听写)? 73. __________
74. It's a ______ (经常的) practice of his to take an early morning swim. 64. __________
75. We should look up to him as a shining example of ______ (献身) to duty. 75. __________
第二节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
Dear Editor,
I used to being a happy little girl but now I am shy 76. __________
and say a few words. When I was eleven, I lost one 77. __________
of the front teeth and it replaced by a false one. 78. __________
No one knows about it except for two of my friends. 79. __________
However, I find that it is hard to face them because 80. __________
they know my secret. When I spoke to them, they 81. __________
often stare at my mouth, what makes me feel 82. __________
uncomfortable. I am afraid of making new friend as I 83. __________
think they will laugh at me. Sometime I even 84. __________
want to kill me indeed. What should I do? 85 . __________
Yours,
Lily
第三节 书面表达（满分30分）
你校同学进行了一场有关高考英语听力测试的讨论。讨论的主题是：高考英语测试中的听力部分该不该取消？请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文，介绍讨论的情况。
注意：1．文章的起始句已给出。2．词数：100左右（不包括已给的起始句）。
3．参考词汇：取消—cancel 国际合作—international cooperation
The students of our school had a discussion about whether listening test in the National Matriculation English Test should be kept or canceled.
高2004级英语科试卷参考答案
单项填空：
1—5 CDBDA 6—10 AACBD 11—15 CBACC 16—20 BDBCA
完形填空：
21 —25 BCBCB 26—30 BCABC 31—35 ABDCB 36—40 ACBBD
阅读理解：
41—45 BABCD 46—50 BDDAD 51—55 DCABA 56—60DBBDC
61—65 BDFEA
单词拼写：
66. anxious 67. operation 68. warmth 69. broadcast 70. strengthened
71. altogether 72. permission 73. dictation 74. frequent 75. devotion
短文改错：
76. being→be 77. 去掉a 78. 在it后加was 79. 去掉for
80. √ 81. spoke→speak 82. what→which 83. friend→friends
84. sometime→sometimes 85. me→myself
书面表达：
The students of our school had a discussion about whether listening test in the National Matriculation English Test should be kept or canceled. Some students think that listening test should not be canceled. They insist listening is among the four basic skills. We therefore can not ignore it. Besides, listening is one of the important channels for us to get information from the outside world. So it should be strengthened today when international cooperation is becoming more and more frequent. But others don't agree. They think not everyone has to communicate with foreigners in the future. Moreover, listening test is unfair to the students in the areas where radio signals cannot be picked up effectively. And for certain reasons, there is a big difference in teachers and equipment between the countryside and the city.