◎ 2011-2012学年湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学高二英语上学期期中考试试题的第一部分试题
  • 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10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.Where does the man work?
    A. In a shop.
    B. In a market.
    C. In a restaurant.
    2.What will the man do in the future?
    A. Get further education.
    B. Work as a teacher.
    C. Be a doctor.
    3.How does Mary probably feel?
    A. She feels very happy.
    B. She feels very sad.
    C. She feels that everything is OK.
    4.What are the speakers talking about?
    A. Tooth protection.
    B. Cooking skills.
    C. Eating habits.
    5.What does the man mean?
    A. He used to be an NBA player.
    B. He used to be an NBA fan like Betty's son.
    C. He always liked to play games.
  • 听下面的材料,回答第1-2题.
    1.Where is the man smoking?
    A. In a place where smoking is allowed.
    B. In a non-smoking area.
    C. At home.
    2.Under what condition will the man give up smoking?
    A. When his health becomes poor. B. When he is out of work.
    C. When he becomes very old.
  • 听下面的材料,回答第1-2题。
    1.How does the man feel about the delay of his flight?
    A. Calm.
    B. Glad.
    C. Angry.
    2.Which is the correct boarding gate?  
    A. Gate 5.
    B. Gate 20.
    C. Gate 38.
    3.When will the plane take off?
    A. At about 3:30.
    B. At about 3:40.
    C. At about 3:50.
  • 听下面的材料,回答1-3题。
    1.What's the relationship between the speakers?
    A. Garage owner and customer.
    B. Strangers.  
    C. Neighbors.
    2.What's wrong with the car?
    A. There was a flat tire.  
    B. There is something wrong with the battery.
    C. The engine broke down.
    3.What do we know about the man?    
    A. He sells batteries.              
    B. He is helpful.      
    C. He works in a garage.
  • 听下面的材料,回答第1-3题。
    1.What is the woman worried about?
    A. The man earns too little.  
    B. The man seldom stays at home.       .
    C. The man often works long hours.
    2.How long has the man worked this week?
    A. About 60 hours.
    B. About 48 hours.
    C. About 40 hours.
    3.Why does the man work so hard?
    A. To earn more money.  
    B. To satisfy his boss.
    C. To get a higher position.
  • 听下面的材料,回答第1至4题。
    1.What class did Jim take on Wednesday evenings?
    A. Cooking.  
    B. Flower arranging.
    C. Painting.
    2.What was wrong with the cake Jim baked?
    A. It was too hard.
    B. It was too sweet.
    C. It was too big.
    3.What did Jim try to paint during the weekend?
    A. A Christmas tree covered with snow.
    B. A dog with mud all over it.
    C. A snow-covered landscape.
    4.What did the art teacher think of the painting?
    A. It was terrible.
    B. It was wonderful.
    C. It was so-so.
  • She has mastered English grammar and ________ a large vocabulary without the help of a teacher.
    [     ]
    A. solved
    B. explored
    C. acquired
    D. removed
  • What satisfies us is that the position of the house combines quietness and ________.
    [     ]
    A. convenience
    B. efficiency
    C. variety
    D. settlement
◎ 2011-2012学年湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学高二英语上学期期中考试试题的第二部分试题
  • After retirement, Steven ________ painting, which he had always loved but had not had time for.
    [     ]
    A. left out
    B. took up
    C. made up
    D. picked up
  • It is said that this plan will be ________ by the Department of Education, which will be of great
    help to the students in the poor areas.
    [     ]
    A. approved
    B. assisted
    C. submitted
    D. updated
  • They’re ________ choosing a cautious policy in order to avoid a risk in such an important event.
      [     ]
    A. thoroughly
    B. deliberately
    C. carelessly
    D. naturally
  • I’m facing a(n) ________ about this job offer, so I intend to turn to my friends for advice.
    [     ]

    A. dilemma
    B. case
    C. combination
    D. adjustment

  • It is hard for people in the country to believe that the soldier could survive in such ________
    weather conditions.
    [     ]
    A. serious
    B. severe
    C. positive
    D. sceptical
  • Jim is in great need of money, but he has ________ my help.
    [     ]
    A. denied
    B. assessed
    C. rejected
    D. challenged
  • It was not until the boat was ________ that they stopped waving their hands.
    [     ]
    A. out of sight
    B. out of place
    C. out of control
    D. out of date
  • Their products are a little more expensive but they’re really of high ________.
    [     ]
    A. feature
    B. quality
    C. quantity
    D. process
◎ 2011-2012学年湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学高二英语上学期期中考试试题的第三部分试题
  • 完形填空。
         The moment happened 30 yours ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college
    freshman and had ___1__up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends.
    Now just before my first __2__of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and
    my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a __3__. A few minutes nap
    (小睡)time before class couldn't __4__, I thought.
         BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked
    around with my __5_beating wildly trying to find the cause of the __6__. My young
    professor was looking at me with a boyish(孩子气的)smile on his face. He had __7__
    dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. "Good morning!", he said still __8__.
    "I am glad to see everyone is __9__. Now let's get started. "
         For the next hour I wasn't sleepy at all. It wasn't from the __10__of my professor's
    textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the __11__discussion he led. With
    knowledge and good   __12__
    he made the material come __13__. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness.
    And the enthusiasm and joy that he __14__with were contagious(有感染力的). I __15__
    the classroom not only wide awake, but a little __16__and a little better as well.
         I learned something far more important than not   __17__in class that day too. I learned
    that if you are going to do something in this life,do it well,do it with __18__. What a
    wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don't
    sleepwalk(梦游)your way through __19__then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work.
    Life is too __20__not to live it well.
    (     )1.A. took
    (     )2.A. class
    (     )3.A. platform
    (     )4.A. benefit
    (     )5.A. heart
    (     )6.A. trouble
    (     )7.A. angrily
    (     )8.A. smiling
    (     )9.A. active
    (     )10.A. sound
    (     )11.A. fascinatin
    (     )12.A. gesture
    (     )13.A. strange
    (     )14.A. taught
    (     )15.A . decorated
    (     )16.A. clearer
    (     )17.A. discussing
    (     )18.A. joy
    (     )19.A. work
    (     )20.A. hard


    B. divided
    B. test
    B. pillow
    B. help
    B. mind
    B. noise
    B. carelessly
    B. talking
    B. curious
    B. shock
    B. convincing
    B. sense
    B. natural
    B. spread
    B. filled
    B. smarter
    B. speaking
    B. speed
    B. life
    B. complex


    C. stayed
    C. task
    C. carpet
    C. last
    C. thought
    C. failure
    C. deliberately
    C. complaining
    C. present
    C. interruption
    C. puzzling
    C. humor
    C. handy
    C. combined
    C. left
    C. quieter
    C. cheating
    C. aim
    C. journey
    C. short


    D. put
    D. lecture
    D. wall
    D. hurt
    D. head
    D. incident
    D. accidentally
    D. shouting
    D. awake
    D. blow
    D. encouraging
    D. design
    D. alive
    D. started
    D. entered
    D. stronger
    D. sleeping
    D. de termination
    D. college
    D. simple


  • 阅读理解.
         I still remember my first day at school in London and I was half-excited and half-frightened.
    On my way to school I wondered what sort of questions the other boys would ask me and
    practiced all the answers: "I am nine years old. I was born here but I haven't lived here since
    I was two. I was living in Farley. It's about thirty miles away. I came back to London two
    months ago." I also wondered if it was the custom for boys to fight strangers like me, but
    I was tall for my age. I hoped they would decide not to risk it.
         No one took any notice of me before school. I stood in the center of the playground,
    expecting someone to say "hello", but no one spoke to me. When a teacher called my name
    and told me where my classroom was, one or two boys looked at me but that was all.
         My teacher was called Mr. Jones. There were 42 boys in the class, so I didn't stand
    out there
    , either, until the first lesson of the afternoon. Mr. Jones was very fond of Charles
    Dickens and he had decided to read aloud to us from David Copperfield, but first he asked
    several boys if they knew Dickens' birthplace, but no one guessed right. A boy called Brian,
    the biggest in the class, said: "Timbuktu", and Mr. Jones went red in the face. Then he asked
    me. I said: "Portsmouth", and everyone stared at me because Mr. Jones said I was right.
    This didn't make me very popular, of course.
         "He thinks he's clever," I heard Brian say.
         After that, we went out to the playground to play football. I was in Brian's team, and he
    obviously had Dickens in mind because he told me to go in goal. No one ever wanted to be
    the goalkeeper.
         "He's big enough and useless enough." Brian said when someone asked him why he
    had chosen me.
         I suppose Mr. Jones, who served as the judge, remembered Dickens, too, because
    when the game was nearly over, Brian pushed one of the players on the other team, and
    he gave them a penalty (惩罚). As the boy kicked the ball to my right, I threw myself down
    instinctively (本能地) and saved it. All my team crowded round me. My bare knees were
    injured and bleeding. Brian took out a handkerchief and offered it to me.
         "Do you want to join my gang (帮派)?" he said.
         At the end of the day, I was no longer a stranger.
    1.The writer prepared to answer all of the following questions EXCEPT " ".
    A. How old are you?
    B. Where are you from?
    C. Do you want to join my gang?
    D. When did you come back to London?
    2.We can learn from the passage that .
    A. boys were usually unfriendly to new students
    B. the writer was not greeted as he expected
    C. Brian praised the writer for his cleverness
    D. the writer was glad to be a goalkeeper
    3.The underlined part "I didn't stand out" in paragraph 3 means that the writer was not .
    A. noticeable
    B. welcome
    C. important
    D. foolish
    4.The writer was offered a handkerchief because .

    A. he threw himself down and saved the goal
    B. he pushed a player on the other team
    C. he was beginning to be accepted
    D. he was no longer a newcomer

  • 阅读理解.
         Ladies and Gentlemen, some strange, wild and wonderful stories colored the news in 2010,
    you may like them.
         ★A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its buses for people looking
    for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the
    company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love
    seat" sign.
         ★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden
    coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they
    have been buried alive by mistake.
         ★A man in New York came up with a disarming(手无寸铁的)way to perform his
    latest bank heist , approaching the clerk's window with a large bunch of flowers and handing
    over a note saying "give me the money!"
         ★An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully
    swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole
    cost is 400 dollars. 
         ★A set of artificial teeth(假牙) made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston
    Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500
    euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction(拍卖).
         ★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera
    dumping(抛弃)a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros)
    after pleading guilty.
         ★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter
    jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.
         ★Two Australian men needed surgery(手术)after shooting each other in the bottoms
    during a drinking session to see if it would hurt and they were charged 400 dollars separately.
         ★A Kuwaiti MP(议员) suggested state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in
    an effort to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.
    1.What is special about the coffin in the second news?
    A. It is golden.
    B. It has a cell phone.
    C. It is new.
    D. It has many items.
    2.What is the probable meaning of the underlined word "heist" in the third news?
    A. robbery
    B. love
    C. discussion
    D. repair
    3.Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?
    A. A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin.
    B. One who bought Winston Churchill's artificial teeth.
    C. An Australian man who was shot in bottom to test the hurt.
    D. An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms.
    4.From the last news we can infer that _________.
    A. In Kuwait many men are eager to get married
    B. A lot of rich single men lived in Kuwait
    C. There are quantities of oil in Kuwait
    D. There are many single women in Kuwait
  • 阅读理解.
         Don't you think your schoolbag is too heavy to bear? The e-schoolbag will free you from
    the weight.
         It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into use in Chinese middle schools
    soon. An experiment with several hundred e-schoolbags will begin in seven cities: Beijing,
    Shanghai, Dalian, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang. And the e-schoolbags
    are going to cover all over China if the experiment shows to be successful. In fact, the
    e-schoolbag should perhaps be called an e-notebook. It is a small hand-held computers
    for school students.
         Heavy schoolbags have long been a serious problem for school students. The average
    schoolbag of middle school students weighs up to 5 kilos. But the e-schoolbag will change
    everything. It is much lighter than a usual schoolbag, weighing under 1 kilo.
         Also, it is no bigger than a usual book, but it can still hold all the things for study, such
    as a textbook, a notebook and exercise book. They could be made into chips that are as
    small as a stamp. The students can read the text page by page on the screen. They can
    still take notes using a special electronic pen. If they want to know the meaning or the
    pronunciation of a new word, or even e-mail their teachers, it's just a press of a button.
         In some foreign countries, it is becoming common. But it is hard to tell when people
    will receive this new form of study. Some say that e-textbooks can easily be broken,
    some say that it is not good to students' eyesight to look at the screen for long.But only
    time will tell.
    1.The e-schoolbag has many functions EXCEPT _______.
    A. It can pronounce the words.
    B. It can send e-mails.
    C. It can be used as a dictionary.
    D. It can phone somebody.
    2.According to the passage, the e-schoolbags _______.
    A. are not heavy as before but still large
    B. are used as an experiment in Tianjin
    C. are made of metal
    D. are going to cover China if it shows to be successful
    3.Which of the following statement is TRUE?
    A. All the students in China will use this new schoolbag.
    B. We can do a lot of work based on the programmers of the chips.
    C. The e-notebooks are very perfect.
    D. We will not make notes because the e-notebook can make all by itself.
    4.Which of the following can be the general title of the passage? ______
    A. An Experiment In China
    B. Please Change Your Schoolbag
    C. A New Invention, A New Schoolbag
    D. Chips
  • 阅读理解.

         "If you talk to the plants, they will grow faster and the effect is even better if you're a
    woman." Researchers at Royal Horticultural Society carried out an experiment to find
    that the voice of a woman gardener makes plants grow faster.
         The experiment lasted a month and by the end of the study scientists managed to
    discover that tomato plants grew up two inches taller when women gardeners talked to
    them instead of male.
         Sarah Darwin was the one making the plants registered the best growth. Her voice
    was the most "inspiring" for plants than those of nine other gardeners when reading a
    passage from The Origin of Species. The great-great-granddaughter of the famous
    botanist Charles Darwin found that her plant grew about two inches taller than the plant
    of the best male gardener.
         Colin Crosbie, Garden Superintendent at RHS, said that the finding cannot yet be
    explained. He assumes that women have a greater range of pitch and tone which might
    have a certain effect on the sound waves that reach the plant. "Sound waves are an
    environmental effect just like rain or light
    ,"said Mr Grosbie.
         The study began in April at RHS Garden Wisley in Survey. Scientists started with
    open auditions(听力) for the people who were asked to record passages from John
    Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream and
    Darwin's The Origin of Species.
         Afterwards researchers selected a number of different voices and played them to
    10 tomato plants during a period of a month. Each plant had headphones connected to
    it. Through the headphones the sound waves could hit the plants. It was discovered that
    plants that "listened" to female voices on average grew taller by an inch in comparison to
    plants that heard male voices.
         Miss Darwin said, "I think it is an honor to have a voice that can make tomatoes
    grow, and especially fitting because for a number of years I have been studying wild
    tomatoes from the Galapagos Island at the Natural History Museum in London."

    1.What does the passage talk about?
    A. Plants enjoy men's voices than women's.
    B. A botanical experiment in a museum.
    C. Voice's influence on plant growing.
    D. Strange phenomenon at Royal Horticultural Society.
    2.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?
    A. Plants need sound as well as rain and light.
    B. Sound is basic for the plant to grow.
    C. Sound has a good effect as rain or light does.
    D. Plants can't live without sound, rain or light.
    3.Sarah Darwin is most likely a (an)_____.
    A. botanist
    B. gardener
    C. astronomer
    D. environmentalist
    4.What can we learn from the passage?
    A. The experiment ended in May.
    B. Scientist can explain the findings clearly.
    C. Plants enjoy listening to the passages from masterpieces.
    D. The findings are of great importance to human beings.
  • 阅读理解.
         One day, my friend Jimmy told me a story. Farmer Joe was in his cart when he was hit
    by a truck.He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the
    trucking company (which caused the accident)to court. In court the trucking company's
    lawyer was questioning Farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the same scene of the accident,
    'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer.
         Farmer Joe responded, "Well, I will tell you what happened. I had just loaded my
    favorite mule(骡子) Bessie into the ..." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer
    interrupted, "Just answer the question.Did you not say, at the scene of the accident,
    'I'm fine? '"
         Farmer Joe said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into the cart and I was driving down
    the road..."
         The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to make clear the fact that,
    at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was just fine.
    Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to cover the fact.I believe he is telling
    lies.Please tell him to simply answer the question."
    By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to the lawyer,
    "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie."
         Joe thanked the Judge and went on, "Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie,
    my favorite mule, into the cart and was driving her down the road when this huge truck
    ran into the stop sign and pushed my cart right in the side.I was thrown into one side
    and Bessie was thrown into the other."
         "I was hurt so badly that I didn't want to move.However, I could hear old Bessie
    breathing loudly and groaning (呻吟).I knew she was in great pain.Shortly after the
    accident a traffic policeman came to the scene.He could hear Bessie groaning so he
    went over to her.After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between
    the eyes.Then the patrolman came across the road with his gun and looked at me.
    He said, "Your mule was in such pain that I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?"
    1.Farmer Joe and his mule were_______.
    A. taking a rest by the road when the truck ran over and hit them
    B. just on their way when the truck hit a sign on the roadside and then hit them
    C. going to stop by the road when they were hit by the truck
    D. going so fast that they ran into a truck
    2.The trucking company's lawyer insisted Farmer Joe answer his question______.
    A. because he knew Farmer Joe was not hurt in the accident at all
    B. so as to prove that Farmer Joe was a man who could not tell right from wrong
    C. because he believed Farmer Joe could not remember what he had said at the scene
    D. because he believed the answer should be in his favor
    3.Farmer Joe______.
    A. did say "I'm fine." at the scene of the accident
    B. couldn't have said "I'm fine." at the scene of the accident
    C. could not remember whether he had said "I'm fine." at the scene of the accident
    D. tried to cover the fact in the court but no one would believe him
    4._______,the Patrolman shot the mule.
    A. In order to let Farmer Joe keep silent about the accident
    B. As the mule's groan was too loud
    C. Thinking it was the best way to stop the mule from suffering
    D. To make Farmer Joe feel better
  • 完成句子.
    1.The young man ________________________ (控告) robbing an old woman of
    her necklace  in the street last month. (accuse)
    2.The library demanded that all the books ___________________ (返回) before
    Friday. (return)
    3.He got his ________________________ (阐明立场) to encourage more young
    people to support this solution. (clarify)
    4.As soon as she entered her own room, she caught sight of the gift ____________
    _________ (由父亲买的). (buy)
    5.In front of the house ________________________ (坐着一位男孩), whose father
    was killed in the war, when we arrived there. (sit)
    6.Little ________________________ (人们意识到) how much money it costs to
    bring up a child. (realise)
    7.________________________ (到达) a strange-looking house, he showed me into
    a large, bright clean room. (arrive)
    8.The investigation found ten government officials _______________ (卷入) the
    case. (involve)
    9.She can't ________________________ (忍受居住在) in a noisy
    environment. (tolerate)
    10._________________ (一旦发生火灾), open this safety door and ring the
    alarm bell.(case)

  • 写作.
         假设你是李明,常常与英国网友Jim通信,以提高各自的外语水平.最近你收到他的
    电子邮件,他对现在网络热词"淘课"不太理解,还混淆了"淘课"与"逃课".请根据下列
    要点,用英文回一封电子邮件.
    1.解释这两个词的区别;
    2.介绍"淘课"现在很受学生欢迎;
    3.谈谈"淘课"的作用.
    (背景知识:现在在网上"淘课"已成为一种时尚,美国很多知名高校都纷纷在网上开课,
    满足全世界好学者的求知欲.很多年轻白领不再像从前那样花钱参加各种培训班,
    而是到网上"淘课",以此进行充电.许多学生也在课余时间"淘课",自己喜欢什么课程,
    就淘什么课程,也不花什么钱,足不出户就可以打开眼界.)
    注意:
    1.词数为100左右;
    2.参考词汇:逃课-be absent from some lectures,淘课-search for some lectures;
    3.除以上两个词语外,邮件中不得使用其他汉字或拼音;
    4.电子邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好,不计入总词数.
    Hi Jim,
         Nice to read your e-mail today. I notice you've begun to pay much attention to Chinese learning.
    ______________________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________
         Hope my explanations can help you and that you will make more progress in Chinese study.
                                                                                                                                     Yours,
                                                                                                                                     Li Ming