广东廉江市安铺中学2011年
高二英语竞赛试题
本试卷共三部分，共11页，满分135分,考试用时120分钟。注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的班级、姓名、试室号和座位号填写在答题卷上。
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卷上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卷的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卷一并交回。
I . 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
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1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy. But rather when he was 1 and ill.
My father was 2 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 3 all that away. Now he can no longer walk and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 4 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started 5 about life, and I told them about one of my 6 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow-our youth, our beauty, our friends-but it always seems that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 7 up. He said, “But, Peter. I gave up 8 ! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 9 , he answered his own question: “I 10 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters, and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also 11 by his words. After that, when I began to fell irritated (愤怒的) at someone. I would remember his words and become 12 If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others. Then I should be 13 , to give up my small irritations. In this 14 , I learned the power of
acceptance from my father.
Sometimes I 15 what other things I could learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one gift.
1. A. tired B. weak C. poor D. slow2. A. already B. still C. only D. once3. A. took B. threw C. sent D. put
4. A. impossible B. difficult C. stressful D. hopeless5. A. worrying B. caring C. talking D. asking6. A. decisions B. experience C. ambitions D. beliefs7. A. spoke B. turned C. summed D. opened8. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything9. A. Surprisingly B. Immediately C. Naturally D. Certainly10.A. had B. accepted C. gained D. enjoyed11.A. touched B. astonished C. attracted D. warned12.A. quiet B. calm C. relaxed D. happy13.A. ready B. likely C. free D. able14.A. case B. form C. method D. way15.A. doubt B. wonder C. know D. guess第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5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括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival __16__________ (mark) by eating zong zi and racing dragon boats in honour of Qu Yuan, who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself.
Qu was a minister of the State of Chu ____17____ (situate) in the present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period. He was upright, loyal and highly respected. ____18____, he was dismissed from office. __19____ (realize) that the country was in the hands of evil officials, Qu leapt into River Miluo on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to save him but were ____20____ (able) to recover his body. The people of Chu ____21____ mourned Qu’s death threw rice into the river to feed his
ghost ____22____ year on the day of his death. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised __23______ to wrap the rice and bind it _24_______ throwing it into the river. During the Duanwu Festival, zong zi is eaten to symbolize the rice offerings to Qu. And the dragon-boat races symbolize __25______ many attempts to rescue and recover Qu's body.
Ⅱ．阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
In Europe, people hold the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right throughout the meal, a system that is generally agreed to be more efficient than the American zigzag（曲折的）method. Americans hold both the fork and the knife in their right hands throughout the meal, so they continually change their forks to the left hand when they have to cut their meat. It seems to be funny for the Europeans to see Americans busy changing their dinner sets, making a lot of noises.
A few explanations for this American style are as follows:
(1) Americans are practical and efficient. Since most of us are right-handed, it is reasonable to keep our working tools at all times in the right hand that can use them most efficiently.
(2) Americans, the master of the New World are rebels. They use the zigzag method to break the rules in the Old World and in this way they are thumbing their nose at Mother England. Americans are a restless kind. They do not like to sit in one spot for very long when dining.
(3) Forced to do so, they respond by “playing” with the silver.
Whatever the reason for the practice, it is now certainly as American as apple pie. Europeans recognize this and are quick to attack it as evidence of American innocence of form. Arguments against the zigzag method rest not only on grounds of efficiency but also on those of tradition. In Old World dining, the knife is held in the right hand continually because it can serve as an instant defense against the uninvited intruders.However, such alertness is out of place in the New World, as every American believes that this is the home of the brave. Americans juggle their silverware,
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