2017-2018学年上海南汇区周浦中学高中二年级英语第一学期期末水平测试

2017学年第一学期期末水平测试

高中二年级英语试题

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions：Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper from of the given words. For the other blanks. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word.  Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

In two days, it will be Christmas, children all over world_____forward to this day for weeks. People celebrate Christmas with food, decorations, music and more. But for many people , gift-giving is the most exciting part of the holiday.

I have fond memories of Christmas shopping with my family as a child. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping my parents’ gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right____their noses without them seeing. Everyone placed_____ gifts under the Christmas tree until Christmas morning,______we opened them.  

Picking a great gift require ______ the person you’re giving it to. You need to know the person’s tastes and find something the person doesn’t already have. This can be quite a big challenge . Often it’s wise to provide a receipt ______   _________the person needs to exchange the gift.

The best gifts are personal . Many Americans don’t feel money constitutes a good gift_______it doesn’t require any thought. They prefer something chosen just for the person. If the gift is a high-quality homemade gift, that’s even better.

Gift-giving reflects the reason______ people celebrate Christmas. Christians in particular remember the birth of Jesus. When he was born, wise men traveled many miles to visit him,________ expensive gifts. But the greatest gift wasn’t from the wise man, but from God-----the baby Jesus. God gave this gift because everyone needed it. We needed God to forgive our bad actions so that we ______ live forever with him. So on Christmas we give presents to imitate God’s action of giving the perfect gift..

【题型】语法填空

【年份】2017年

【困难程度】中等

1.【答案】have been looking

【分析】考查的是谓语时态和语态，依据关键字for weeks及句意可知这几周孩子们一直在期待圣诞的到来，故填look的目前进行时have been looking.

2【答案】under

  【分析】考查的是介词，

3.【答案】wrapped

   【分析】考查的是时态语态中的非谓语，依据句意，礼物是被包装好的，故填过去分词wrapped做定语。

4.【答案】when

【分析】考查的是连词和状语从句，依据关键字Christmas morning可知每一个人会将包装好的礼物放在圣诞节树下，直到圣诞早上大家会打开，故填when.

5.【答案】to know

   【分析】考查的是非谓语动词，require 后常接to do,需要某人做某事且结合此事还没发生故此空填 to know.

6. 【答案】with which

   【分析】考查的是定语从句，本句先行词为receipt, 依据从句谓语动词exchange sb with sth 的使用方法可知此空填with which.

7.【答案】because

   【分析】 考查的是连词和状语从句，依据句意不少美国人并不觉得好的礼物是由钱组成的，由于买的礼物并不体现任何的思想和心意，故设空前后两句有明显的因果关系，故填because.

8. 【答案】why

   【分析】考查的是定语从句，先行词为reason,从句不缺任何成分，故填关系副词why,讲解reason的内容

9.【答案】bringing

   【分析】考查的是非谓语动词的目前分词，后面句子主语同为wise men，主动带昂贵的礼物，故填目前分词bringing.

10. 【答案】could

    【分析】考查的是情态动词，大家需要上帝原谅大家不好的行为所以大家可以永远和他生活在一块。

Section B

Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Littering        B.blossom      C. enormous      D. relatives        E.gardening

F. Served          G. branches     H. ideal          I. trunk            J. tolerate

Grace, an old lady living in the northern part of Australia, is my good friend. She likes__________very much. In her__________garden, you can see flowers all the year around, because Northern Australia is quite warm even in winter. When spring comes, new leaves come out of the__________ , and the flowers are in full__________. Among the bushes there are often some lovely birds singing early in the morning. On sunny days she often walks her pet dog around the garden. Sometimes she asks some__________and friends to enjoy the beautiful scenery. They sit around the small stone table chatting, and nuts from her own garden are__________with tea or coffee. In hot summer, her pet dog often takes a bath in the small pond in the middle of the garden. In autumn, many leaves turn yellow, and then fall off, __________the ground as if the garden is covered with a golden blanket. In winter it’s not very cold in that region, with the lowest temperature about six degrees. But she likes to be warm and can not__________cold weather. So she asks her son Tony to cut some branches off the trunks as wood. She puts the wood into her fireplace to keep her house and comfortable. I think Grace really lives a meaningful and__________life.

【题型】十一选十

【年份】2017年

【困难程度】适中

1.【答案】E.gardening

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空坐落于动词之后，故缺宾语，又依据后一句In her garden, you can see flowers all the year around,可知Grace喜欢园艺。

2. 【答案】C.enormous

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空坐落于谓语名词garden 前面，故填形容词，再结合句意，一年四季可以种不少花故推断为c.巨大的

3. 【答案】G.branches

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空谓语定冠词the的后面，故填名词，树叶一定是从树枝上长出来的，故填G.分支

4.【答案】B.blossom

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空谓语定冠词the的后面,依据When spring comes, new leaves come out of the__________ , and the flowers are in full__________.春季到了，树叶发芽，花儿一定是开花，故填B.blossom

5.【答案】D.relatives.

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空坐落于some之后，依据and friends可知是问了亲戚和朋友，故选D.

6.【答案】F.served

【分析】依据该空设置的地方显示：该空坐落于be 之后结合are__________with可判断填过去分词，故选F

7. 【答案】A. littering

【分析】依据该空所在句子的结构为完整的句子，故填非谓语动词，表示树叶落下铺满了地面。

8. 【答案】J.tolerate 

【分析】剖析句子结构，该空坐落于can not__________  后面，故缺实意动词，结合句意作者喜欢温暖，故不可以忍受寒冷

9.【答案】H.ideal

【分析】依据 lives a meaningful and__________life.可知填形容词，and前后两个意思相近，故填ideal理想的生活

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions：For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

This hotel is _____ in the main shopping street of North Chester, there hundred yards from the Cathedral. The original building was _____ in 1710, but his structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel having been completed n 1910. It is four storeys _____ with a lift serving all floor. The public rooms comprise a dining-room seating fifty _____ ,a lounge and a bar. There are sixteen _____ and thirty double bedrooms, three of the latter having private bathrooms. _____ floor has one bathroom and two separate WCs. All bedrooms are _____with washbasins with hot and cold _____, and a slot-matter controlled radio and gas fire. The courtyard around which the hotel is built provides _____  for ten cars and there is _____ for twenty more off a side street two hundred yards away. This is quite inadequate.

1.A. placed B. put C. situated D. lain

2.A. put up B. done C. set D. make

3.A. deep B. high C. wide D. height

4.A. seats B. men C. people D. women

5.A. single B.lone C. solo D. one

6.A. Either B. Each C. None D. Neither

7.A. fixed B. built C. fitted D. put

8.A. gas B. water C. fuel D. steam

9.A. placing B. standing C. sitting D. parking

10.A. space B. spacious C. rooms D. parks 

【题型】完形填空

【年份】2017

【答案】ADBCB BCBAB 

【分析】

考查动词词义，place表坐落，选A

考察动词词组。D表达建造的意思。

考察词组，几层楼高，高度用high

考察词义，坐得下这么多人，用people

考察词义，表达床的长度，用long

考察词义，每一次楼，用each

考察词组，Be fitted with

考察语义，冷热水

考察上下文语义，提供空间

考察词义，spacious宽阔的

Section B

Directions：Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

A

Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
     Thought he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamed that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.
      Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
      To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious, but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves ”.
1.According to the passage, Elias Howe was_________.

2.Thomas Edison is spoken of because_________.

3.Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because _________.

【题型】阅读理解

【年份】2017

【困难程度】简单

【答案】1.C 2.B 3.A

【剖析】考试试题剖析：说明文、故事类阅读

考试试题剖析：本文为说明文，通过Elias How的故事告诉大家梦会传递给大家一些有用的信息。

1.细节理解题。依据第二段最后一句，得知答案为C，A、D与原文不符，B没提及

2.细节理解题。 ACD三项与原文不符，故可用排除法排除，用爱迪生的例子来讲明Howe不是唯一一个做梦触发想法的人，故选B

3.细节理解题。B、C两项本身不正确，D与原文不符，故选A

B

Recently, in the hope of earning both money and social experience, I became a door-to-door salesman.

I once read a saying, “If somebody wants something of you, you will be treated as warmly as spring, but if they don’t, you may be treated as coldly as winter.”

You would never have found it to be so true if you hadn’t been a salesman. You needn’t stand doubtful looks and unfriendly comments; you needn’t listen to something completely wrong and nod to say that it was quite right; you needn’t always keep patience and smile; you needn’t repeat the same sentences over again; you needn’t talk to somebody you dislike．

I did this work for a month ,then I decided to give it up. Apart from the above reasons, I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time. The latest test result proved that my grades were getting lower.

Even worse, I hadn’t enough time to join my classmates in college activities. Sometimes I felt lonely and unhappy because of both my study and my part-time job. Now I don’t think it is worth doing such a thing even though I was earning money it came at great cosplayt．

Newspapers and magazines often publish stories about good students who do part-time work and keep high scores in class．But according to my experience, part-time work can have some strong negative effects on study.

Most students don’t view the relationship between studies and work correctly. In my opinion, it isn’t must for financial reasons, students should be careful about taking up a part-time job．

1. From the text, we can tell that the writer is_________.

A.an unemployed man

B. a middle school student

C. a college student

D. a door-to-door salesman

2.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “sacrificing”?

A．giving up

B．wasting

C．using

D．getting

【题型】阅读理解

【年份】2017年

【困难程度】简单

【答案】1.C 2.A

【剖析】考试试题剖析：平时生活阅读

1.细节理解题。依据倒数第四段I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time可以推断出作业是一名学生，第三段第一句话I hadn’t enough time to join my classmates in college activities.可以看出是大学生。故选C

2.推理判断题。定位到文章第四段I found I was paying too much attention to the job.......及该段最后一句The latest test result proved that my grades were getting lower.，可以推断出作者由于花费在工作上的时间太多了致使近期测试的结果显示作者的成绩在降低。作者把时间花在兼职上对于他来讲不是浪费，因此最好的应选择A，表示舍弃；C、D代入句中句意不符。故选A

Section C

Directions：Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Are zoos bad for animals?

Zoos have existed since ancient times and were features of the great courts of Egypt and China. The display of unusual animals from foreign countries was, for a long time, a show of wealth and power. Today, zoos focus on the preservation of animal species and education of the public._____1_____

Some animals are distinctly unsuited for life in the zoo, however noble the aims of the organization. Keeping elephants in captivity has long caused argument among animal rights activists. Elephants in the world wander constantly, covering a wide territory on a daily basis. In captivity, they have no choice but to stand still for long periods of time._____2_____ Yet elephants are a threatened species in their native environments and are heavily caught for ivory,leather and meat illegally. To protect the species from extinction, some experts feel that captive breeding programs may be the best strategy for future survival. Many elephants in captivity were rescued from circuses, saved from natural disasters or removed from the wild due to injury or abandonment.

_____3_____ the chances are, if a zoo has nothing but cement floors and metal enclosures, the animals will not do as well. Many famous zoos now construct enclosures allowing animals freedom of movement and native vegetation. Some zoos have even begun housing species of animals together that normally interact I the wild, such as certain types of monkeys.

Zoos are not a perfect solution for preservation._____4_____ They are undeniably helpful in repopulating declining animal species and encouraging a preservationist outlook, but they are unquestionably primary species in their treatment of some animals. Hopefully, animal activists and zoo advocates will continue to work together, finding ways to create the best environment for captive animals in breeding and repopulation efforts.

【题型】六选四

【年份】2017年

【困难程度】适中

【答案】1.A 2.E 3.D 4.C

【剖析】考试试题剖析：动物保护类

1.依据该句所处的地方坐落于该段句末，故多为承上启下的总结性句子。上文主要写动物放在动物园饲养展示是非常长的一段历史了，目前动物园主要集中在动物类型预防和教育大众上，下文主要讲有的动物不合适在动物。故最好选A，表示随着着大家更好地理解怎么样对待动物动物园可以无尽地被提升改变，主要起到一个总结有哪些用途。

2.依据上文将大象没选择只能长期站着，下文讲大象还是受威胁的物种、常常因象牙、皮革和象肉而遭到捕猎，因此可以判断该空应承上启下将大象在物种数目上面临的威胁，故为E，承接上文因长期直立而遭受重大重压，从而致使长期的伤害。

3.依据后文：大概的状况是：假如动物园除去水泥地和金属围墙以外什么都没那动物也不会如此。那依据该句子中的“如此”推断出前文肯定是表明动物如何做的，故推断出选D

4.依据该段首句说动物园对于保存动物来讲并非完美的解决方案（暗含否定），下文说动物园在对于数目正在降低的物种来讲不能否认是有用的（暗含一定），故推断出该空应为表示转折或者的句子，故从yet该词判断出选C

第II卷

IV. Summary Writing

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Write a summary of the passage in 60 words.

The voice in the box

When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall on the lower stair landing. But my first personal experience with this genie-in-the-receiver came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. I accidentally hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn’t seem to be any reason in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy. I walked around the house sucking my hurting finger, finally arriving at the stairway—the telephone! Climbing up I unhooked the receiver and held it to my ear. “Information Please,” I said.
    A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear, “Information.”
    “I hurt my finger…” I cried into the phone. The tears came readily enough now that I had an audience.

“Isn’t your mother home?” came the question.

“Nobody’s home but me.” I sobbed.

 “Are you bleeding?” “No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.”

“Can you open your icebox?” she asked. I said I could. “Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it on your finger. That will sTOP the hurt. Be careful when you use the icepick,” she said “And don’t cry. You’ll be right.”
After that I called Information Please for everything. I asked her for help can geography, and she told me where Philaddelpia was, and the Orinoco, the romantic river that I was going to explore when I grew up. She helped me with my arithmetic, and she told me that my pet chipmunk—I had caught him in the park just the day before---would eat fruit and nuts.

参考答案：The passage tells us the story about the author and receiver by phone. Because the author hurt his finger with a hammer and no one could help him, he turned to the telephone for help. And she told the author how to deal with the wound and comforted him. From then on, they become friends. They discussed the geography and the pet.

V. Translation （1-3每小题2分，4-5题每小题3分）

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

无论下雨还是不下雨，大家都做早操。（whether)

Whether it rains or not, we will do our own exercise.

大伙都不喜欢他和老师说话的方法。（the way）

Nobody like the way he speaks to the teachers.

说实话，打网球并非我最喜欢的运动。

To be honest, playing tennis is not my favourite sport.

尽管你有不少错误，我还是把你当成我做好的朋友。（Despite)

Des[pite your many mistakes, I will regard you as my best friend.

好的英语运用能力使他拥有了当一名英语教师的资格。（command, despite)

A good command of English qualified him as a teacher of English.