高二上学期期末考试英语试题

So why aren’t we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today. So maybe you love car racing, or maybe you hate it. 38

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years. 39 To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experiences. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.

40 For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we’ll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool. A. It all depends on your character.

B. Those are the risks you should jump to take.

C. Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival. D. Thus, these well-equipped people survived because they were the fittest. E. This is when you start to move away from your family and into the bigger world. F. However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards. G. New brain research suggests our brains work differently when we face a nervous situation. 第三部分

英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 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。

“Wanted: Violin. Can’t pay much. Call …”

Why did I notice that? I wondered, since I rarely looked at the classified ads. I laid the paper on my lap and closed my eyes, remembering what had happened during the Great Depression, when my family 41 to make a living on our farm. I, too, had wanted a violin, but we didn’t have the 42 .

When my older twin sisters began showing an interest in music. Harriet Anne learned to play Grandma’s upright piano, 43 Suzanne turned to Daddy’s violin, simple tunes soon

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高二上学期期末考试英语试题

became 44 melodies as the twins played more and more. 45 in the rhythm of the music, my baby brother danced around while Daddy hummed（哼唱）and Mother whistled. I just 46 . When my arms grew 47 enough, I tried to play Suzanne’s violin. I loved the beautiful sound of the firm bow drawn across the strings. Oh, how I wanted one! But I knew it was 48 the question.

One evening as the twins played in the school orchestra, I closed my eyes tight to capture the picture firmly in my 49 . “Someday, I’ll sit up there.” I vowed（发誓） 50 . Unfortunately, it was not a 51 year. At harvest the crops did not bring as much as we had hoped. I, however, couldn’t 52 any longer to ask, “Daddy, may I have a violin of my own?”

“Can’t you use Suzanne’s?”

“I’d like to be in the orchestra, too, and we can’t 53 use the same violin at the same time.”

Daddy’s face looked 54 . That night, and many following nights, I heard him 55 God in our family prayers, “… and Lord, Mary Lou wants her 56 violin.”

One evening we all sat around the table. The twins and I studied. Mother sewed and Daddy wrote a letter to his friend, George Finkle, in Columbus. Mr. Frinkle, Daddy said, was a fine 57 . As he wrote, Daddy read parts of his letter out loud to Mother. Weeks later I 58 he’d written one line he didn’t read aloud: “Would you watch for a 59 for my third daughter? I can’t 60 much, but she enjoys music. And we’d like her to have her own instrument.” 41. A. managed 42. A. luck

B. promised B. money B. since B. fluent

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C. struggled C. choice C. after C. gentle

D. forced D. hope D. before D. lovely D. Called for D. cried D. slim D. along with

43. A. while 44. A. soft

45. A. Picked out 46. A. shouted 47. A. long

B. Caught up B. laughed B. tough B. next to

C. Taken on C. listened C. big

48. A. far from

C. out of

高二上学期期末考试英语试题 49. A. dream 50. A. faithfully 51. A. hopeless 52. A. stand 53. A. both

B. hand B. silently B. stable B. help B. ever B. sad

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第三部分

英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

C. life

D. mind D. patiently D. difficult D. risk D. still D. weak D. remind D. individual D. guitarist D. informed D. violin D. pay

C. frequently C. good C. wait C. either C. pale C. commit C. own C. physicist

54. A. angry 55. A. demand 56. A. favourite 57. A. violinist 58. A. heard 59. A. class 60. owe

B. persuade B. private B. pianist

B. conveyed B. favor B. order

C. discovered C. gift

C. charge

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。

Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses 61 (protect). Crimes go up rapidly during the winter and summer holiday seasons. Here are two things that you should keep in mind when you go 62 holiday.

Always give 63 (strange) the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow 64 (clean) off your stairs or out of your driveway during the winter season. Your might ask others to park 65 cars in your driveway.

Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. 66 (have) a pile of newspapers and other mails on your doorstep tells people that you are not at home, so you should have a neighbor 67 a relative get your mail every day.

68. Nobody would bother to make these classic novels into films if they ________ (have) nothing to do with contemporary life.

69. Great Expectations ________ (set) in England in the early 1800s.

70. Like many of Burns’ poems, a Red, Red Rose was intended ________ (be) a song. 71. Some of the world’s greatest singes were also cast in this ________ (produce).

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高二上学期期末考试英语试题

72. Modern pop music has its roots in the folk songs of black Americans ________ (hold) in slavery.

73. Thus, from the blues, there ________ (spring) up a faster, livelier kind of music called jazz. 74. Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, ________ (range) from the 13th century to the 19th century.

75. The idea for our festival was hatched back in 1978, ________ it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. 第四部分

写作（共两节，满分35）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，共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。作文中共有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。

I don’t remember exact how old I was when I began to ride a bike. I only remembered how I practiced riding a bike in early years. When I first successfully rode a bike, that remains a vivid memory, my brother helped me with holding the back seat of the bike when I was riding. “Wow, I did it!” cried I, as soon as he noticed I was riding without his hands hold it! I learnt quickly, and soon, even though my feet were not touching the ground, but I was able to cycle around six kilometer a day to school! It’s so lovely to remember which happened at that time. 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，自制了一些中国结（Chinese knot）。现在你准备给开网店的美国朋友Tom写封信，请他代卖。要点包括：

1. 外观（尺寸、颜色、材料）； 2. 象征意义； 3. 价格。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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