始兴县风度中学2011-2012学年高二上学期期末考试
英语
本试卷共5页，三大题，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姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔将试卷类型（A）填涂在答题卡相应位置上。将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。
2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑，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，答案必须写在答题卡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.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 Ⅰ语言知识应用 （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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
I was successful at my job. I worked very hard, but it 1 me and my family a fabulous (极好的) lifestyle. I’d worked for the same company for twenty years and had worked my way up to department director. However, one afternoon last May, I was called to the office, and it was 2 explained to me that they were letting me go. I just sat there as they talked on and all I could think was, “I’ve 3 .” I’d been so well respected；suddenly I was of no value.
For six weeks, I was in a very 4 place. I wandered around my house like a zombie (僵尸). I could 5 things needed doing, but would not do anything. My beliefs in looking forward and seeing the positive in everything 6 me.
Then, in late June, my youngest son’s football team made the city cup final. The year before, he’d been very sad when I 7 the same final, so he was delighted when I told him I’d go. Not only did they win, but the look on his face as he saw me 8 him on was unbelievable. From then on, I spent the summer enjoying my 9 and their passions(激情). I attended match after match and performances of my elder son’s band — I even went to another city to watch him play. These moments were so 10 . My life had been so much devoted to 11 for so long, and I felt thankful that my sons were happy to welcome me into their world.
12 _, being unemployed gave me back a sense of purpose I was someone’s mum! I felt a sense of being 13 again. Now I feel more positive about my professional 14 and I’m getting on better with my family than I ever have. Losing my job made me realize just how 15 it is to achieve real balance in life.
1. A. promised B. afforded C. showed D. left
2. A. quickly B. gently C. partly D. easily
3. A. failed B. finished C. tried D. changed 4. A. secret B. quiet C. lonely D. dark
5. A. see B. get C. suggest D. understand 6. A. defended B. directed C. deserted D. disturbed 7. A. watched B. missed C. lost D. won 8. A. cheering B. taking C. leading D. passing 9. A. daughters B. sons C. sisters D. brothers 10. A. hopeful B. Meaningful C. difficult D. strange 11. A. work B. Family C. match D. performance
12. A. Naturally B. Doubtfully C. Disagreeably D. Unexpectedly 13. A. employed B. comforted C. valued D. encouraged
14. A. education B. experience C. relationship D. future 15. A. important B. helpful C. simple D. surprising
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，在空格处填人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l6-25的相应位置上。
Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by such questions, “Have you got any skills in reading comprehension?” Actually, many of the teachers can’t give students 16 ___ efficient way to deal with reading. Anyway, 17 _____often simply say, “Read more and practice more, and you 18 _______ (get) more experience in reading comprehension.” Frankly, these teachers’ good 19 _________ (suggest)are only helpful to arouse students’ interest in reading 20 ____not helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, I think the skill for reading comprehension should be based 21 __ the knowledge of English writing.22_____ the English passages are written under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing.
Reading comprehension can’t be independent from the knowledge of writing. So 23_____ (do) better in reading comprehension, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study 24 _____ questions are designed and the relationship 25 _______ questions and the reading materials.
Ⅱ 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26-45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
Melissa Poe was 9 years old when she began a campaign for a cleaner environment by writing a letter to the then President Bush. Through her own efforts, her letter was reproduced on over 250 donated billboards across the country.
The response to her request for help was so huge that Poe established Kids For A Cleaner Environment (Kids F.A.C.E.) in 1989. There are now 300,000 members of Kids FACE worldwide and is the world's largest youth environmental organization.
Poe has also asked the National Park Service to carry out a \Forest\
project in every national park. In 1992, she was invited as one of only six children in the world to speak at the Earth Summit in Brazil as part of the Voices of the Future Program. In 1993, she was given a Caring Award for her efforts by the Caring Institute.
Since the organization started, Kids F.A.C.E. members have distributed and planted over 1 million trees! Ongoing tree-planting projects include Kid's Yards – the creation of backyard wildlife habitats (栖息地) and now Kids F.A.C.E. is involved in the exciting Earth Odyssey, which is a great way to start helping.
\a way to help people get involved with the environment. Club members started doing things like recycling, picking up litter and planting trees as well as inviting other kids to join their club.\
\start being a responsible, environmentally friendly person now, right away, before you become a resource-sucking adult.\
28. Kid’s Yards is _____.
A. established in a national park. B. started to protect wildlife C. a wildlife- raising project D. an entertainment park for kids.
29. Which of the following can be inferred from the text? A. Adults are resource-sucking people
B. Poe sought help from a youth organization C. Kids F.A.C.E members are from the U.S. D. Kids are urged to save natural resources.
30. Melisso Poe wrote a letter to President Bush to ___ . A. suggest a campaign
B. reproduce on donated billboards C. build an organization
D. call on people to clean environment
B
The United Nations says forty million people or so around the world went hungry in 2008, mainly because of higher food prices. Early estimates from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that 963 million people did not get enough to
eat.
World food prices have dropped since early 2008. Prices of major crops have decreased by more than half from their height earlier last year. But they remain high compared to earlier years.
But FAO official Hafez Ghanem says lower prices have failed to end the food crisis in many poor countries. “For millions in developing countries, ” he says, “getting enough food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream.”
The FAO says food shortage is a threat to people’s health. Today, two-thirds of the world’s undernourished people live in just a few countries. These are India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan Ethiopia and so on.
A report on food insecurity warns that the current economic crisis could send even more people into hunger and poverty. In sub-Saharan Africa, the percentage of the people who continually go hungry fell from 34% in 1997 to 30% in 2008. But the FAO says Ghana is the only country that has reached two sets of hunger reduction targets. These were set by the 1996 World Food Summit and the Millennium Development Goals.
The main reason is the growth in agricultural production in Ghana.
The FAO says some countries in Southeast Asia like Thailand and Vietnam have made progress in hunger reduction goals. But South Asia and Central Asia haven’t, and North Korea is still in hot water.
31. What FAO official Hafez Ghanem says implies ___ .
A. it’s easy but takes long to provide people with enough food B. enough food can make people more active and healthier
C. there is difficulty solving the food shortage in a short time D. people in developing countries will never get enough food
32. Ghana has reached the targets of hunger reduction mainly because of ___. A. the still high food prices
B. the donation of developed countries C. the two targets of hunger reduction D. the growth in agricultural production
33. The underlined word “undernourished” in Para. 4 probably means ___ . A. hungry and unhappy
B. unhealthy for lack of food
C
How to improve my life? Many people think that they have to accept whatever life throws at them. They'll say, \is my fate, my destiny. I cannot change it.\
Of course not! You don't have to suffer needlessly. Your destiny depends on you, not on any other external factors.
I know someone who says she just accepts what life gives her because she has done everything she can to improve it. Guess what her lifestyle is? She wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes back home, relaxes, chats with people, watches TV, then goes to sleep. Next day, the same routine cycle follows.
Huh! Is this what she calls \her best and just accepts it in her heart that this is the life that God has intended for her to live; that her luck can only change if God wills it. Of course God wants us to be happy and live our life to the fullest, but we have to do our share of exerting(运用) the effort to live the life of our dreams.
Remember that you reap（收获） what you sow（播种）. You just don't sit around and wait for a million dollars to fall from the sky. You have to get off the couch, get your eyes off the TV screen, get your hands off the phone. Don’t expect your luck to change unless you do something about it. If something goes wrong, don't just regard it as a temporary setback; but use it as feedback. Learn your lesson, make the most of the situation, and do something to solve the problem. It's not enough to think positively; you also have to act positively.
If someone's life is in the trouble, do you just hope and pray that things will turn out fine? Of course not! You get to do anything you can to save the person. So it is with your own life. It is not enough to hope for the best, but you have to do your best. In other words, don't just stand (or sit ) there, do something to improve your life.
36. According to the woman mentioned in Para.3, her life ____________. A. Doesn't need improving B. couldn't be improved
C. will be better some day D. Will be worse in the future 37. What does the author think of the woman's life?
A. positive B. satisfying C. colorful D. passive 38.Which of the following statements is the author's opinion?
始兴县风度中学2011-2012学年高二上学期期末考试（英语）
