1、沭阳银河学校2014-2015学年度第一学期高二年级第二次学情调研测试英语试卷第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）第一节 单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。21. Have you heard from Harry recently? Last Friday he sent an e-mail to me,_ he would pay a visit to my school next week. A. to say B. saying C. said D. and saying22. The detective,
2、 -_to be reading a newspaper, glanced at the man_ next to a woman.A. pretending, seated B. pretended, sitting C. pretending, sat D. pretended, seating23. The suspect didnt admit_ anything at the store when he was questioned by the police until he was shown the video.A. to steal B. to have stolenC. h
3、aving stolenD. having been stealing24. I dont like_ when someone embarrasses me in public. Neither do I. It can easily drive me mad.A. that B. this C. it D. 不填25. Mr. Black is British and he knows little about Thanks giving Day._, who comes from Germany.A. Neither does our manager B. So is our manag
4、erC. So it is with our manager D. The same to our manager26. John plays football_, if not better than, David. A. as well B. as well as C. so well D. so well as27. The housework is too much for me, Jack. Sorry, but I cant help you _ it, Joan. Ive got something important to do, you know.A. do B. doing
5、 C. to be doing D. having done28. Compared with his sister, Jerry is even more_ to, and more easily troubled by, emotional and relationship problems. A. skeptical B. addicted C. available D. sensitive29. - Could you be so kind as to close the door? - _. A. Go ahead B. Thats OK C. With pleasure D. Ye
6、s, please30. _ on her way to the supermarket, Ms Fat realized that she had left her wallet home.A. To have walked B. Walked C. Having been walking D. Walking 31. There are more than 1,000 students in this school. And it is _ as our school.A. twice the size B. twice bigger as C. twice as large D. twi
7、ce bigger32. His long speech made _ difficult for the listeners to understand him. A. that B. it C. one D. this33. - How was the result of the match yesterday?- They _ worse. They lost too much.A. mustnt play B. shouldnt play C. couldnt have played D. should have played34. He liked reading very much
8、. _ he went, he took a book with him. A. Whenever B. Whichever C. Wherever D. However35The wallet,_ several days ago was found_ in the rubbish A. stealing；lie Bstolen；lying Cstealing；lain Dstolen：to lie第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）A high school history teacher once told us，“If you make one close frien
9、d in school， you will be most fortunate. A true friend is someone who stays with you for life. 36 teaches that he was right. Good friendship is just not easily _37_ It is possible that we simply do not stay in one place long enough for a _38_friendship to _39_. However, there can be_40_disagreement
10、on the need for each of us to think carefully about the kind of friendship we want. To most of us，friendships are considered very important，but we need to have clear in our _41_ the kinds of friendship we want. Are they to be close or _42_ at arms length？ Do we want to _43_ourselves or do we want to
11、 walk on the surface？For some people, many friendships on the surface are _44_enoughand thats all right. But at some point we need to 45 that our expectations are the same as our friends expectations. The sharing of_46_experience _47_ our tears as well as our dark dreams is the surest way to deepen
12、friendships. But it _48_be undertaken（进行）slowly and carried on only if there are _49_of interest and action in return.What are some of the _50_of friendship？ The greatest is the attraction to expect too much or too soon. Deep relationships_51_ time. Another “major difficulty is the selfishness to th
13、ink one “possesses the other，including his time and attention. Similarly，friendships _52_ actions in return. In 53words， you must give as much as you take. Finally there is a question of taking care of. Unless you spend _54_time together, talking on the phone，writing letters，doing things together， f
14、riendships will die _55_.36. A. Knowledge B. Teachers C. Experience D. Parents37. A. understood B. formed C. realized D. produced38. A. true B. common C. deeply D. actual39. A. design B. intend C. develop D. appear40. A. no B. some C. any D. none41. A. hearts B. thoughts C. actions D. minds42. A. re
15、mained B. left C. kept D. stayed43. A. own B. owe C. share D. spare44. A. that B. very C. quite D. not45. A. make sure B. remember C. expect D. check out 46. A. social B. ordinary C. good D. personal47. A. includes B. to include C. including D. included48. A. can B. need C. will D. must49. A. marks
16、B. sights C. scenes D. signs50. A. difficulties B. differences C. advantages D. things51. A. cost B. spend C. ask D. take52. A. require B. request C. depend D. suggest53. A. some B. many C. other D. different54. A. reasonable B. comfortable C. less D. a lot55. A. for B. away C. out D. from第三部分 阅读理解（
17、共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AGet a FREE YEAR! Order NOW and get a FREE YEAR of Parents magazine! Thats 2 full years (24 issues) for the regular 1-year feejust $12. But HURRY, this offer（提供）wont last! (U.S. orders only, please.)Every issue（期）of Parents is filled with practica
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20、56. The purpose of the advertisement is to _. A. help parents with their daily life B. attract more people to order the magazine C. collect more money for the homeless D. introduce a new product57. According to the ad, we can learn that _. A. only $12 is to be paid for 24 issues of the magazine B. r
21、eaders can get a free offer of the magazine any time of the year C. readers from all over the world can enjoy the free offer D. readers can communicate face to face with child experts on the Internet58. A reader subscribed Parents three months ago, but now he finds the magazine not satisfying. What
22、can he do? A. He can cancel without getting his money back. B. He can cancel after answering a series of questions. C. He can email them to access his bank account to get prizes instead of money. D. He can cancel and get all his money back without answering any questions.BBy 2050Futurologists（未来学家）p
23、redict that life will probably be very different in 2050.TV channels（频道）will have disappeared. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television. Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a com
24、puter thousands of kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computer.Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed and there wont be any accidents. Today, many cars have computers that tel
25、l drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again. By 2050, space planes will fly all over
26、the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just 2 hours.Robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big computers prefer robotsthey dont ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywherein fac
27、tories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.Medical technology will have conquered many diseases. Today, there are devices（设备）that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.Scientist will have discovered h
28、ow to control genes（基因）. Scientists have already produced clones（克隆）of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should they? 59. According to the passage,
29、the following can be realized today EXCEPT _. A. reading newspapers on a computerB. making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth againC. creating cloned animalsD. choosing TV programs freely from a “menu”60. We can learn from the passage that some big companies prefer robots to human worke
30、rs, because human workers _. A. can work 24 hours a day B. often ask for more pay C. are not clever enough D. are often late for work61. From Paragraph 5 we can infer that _. A. there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050 B. few diseases will attack people by 2050 C. devices are connected directl
31、y to the brain to help people hear D. medical technology will be more effective by 205062. What is the authors attitude towards the cloning technology? A. The author does not support the use of cloning technology. B. The author thinks human cloning is impossible. C. The author does not really suppor
32、t the idea of human cloning. D. The author is quite excited about human cloning. CA year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria, but it was hard for Dave to find work, and the price o
33、f everything was rising. The Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely gift$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we we
34、re meeting difficulty .”says Dave.But the Fusses werent the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to receive unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were touched by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in others, it was more th
35、an $100,000.It surprised nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 millionthey were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of saving. They preferred comparison
36、shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldnt afford it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you needed anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They
37、could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches gave away their farmland. It was the Hatches wish that their legacya legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and centsshould enrich the whole community and last for generatio
38、ns to come.Neighbors helping neighborsthat was Ish and Arlene Hatchs story.63. According to the text, the Fusses _. A. were employed by a truck company B. led a difficult life C. worked in a school cafeteria D. lost their home64. What can we learn about the Hatches? A. They had their children during
39、 the Great Depression. B. They left the old house to live on their family farm. C. They gave away their possessions（财产）to their neighbors. D. They helped their neighbors to find jobs.65. Why would the Hatches go from store to store? A. They decided to open a store. B. They wanted to save money. C. T
40、hey couldnt afford expensive things. D. They wanted to buy gifts for local kids.66. What Sandy Van Weelden said mainly tells us that the Hatches were _. A. understanding B. kindC. childlike D. wealthyDAll the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily
41、 and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books, but we must know how to get the most from this treasure. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.I am most interested in people and in finding out about them.
42、Some of the most outstanding people Ive met existed only in a writers imagination, then on the pages of his books, and then, again, in my imagination. Ive found in books new friends, new society, and new world.Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your ea
43、gerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the authors or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or d
44、ifferent conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. The
45、same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and future and hav
46、e their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it; you find out about yourself, too. Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concen
47、trate on books somebody tells you “you ought to” read, you probably wont have fun. But if you put down a book you dont like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good timeand if you become, as a result of reading, bett
48、er, wiser, or kinder, you wont have suffered during the process.67. What kind of people are the most unfortunate in the writers eyes? A. Those who only know how to get the most from his books. B. Those who exist only in a writers imagination. C. Those who dont know the delight reading brings them. D
49、. Those who differ from the writer in conclusions.68. The writer thinks reading is fun, because reading _. A. can make us a good reader B. makes our mind work C. can save our timeD. makes us relaxed69. The underlines phrase “turn up” in Paragraph 4 means “_”. A. have great fun B. find C. face anothe
50、r way D. appear70. What would be the best title for the text? A. The Pleasure of Reading B. The Ways of Reading C. The Imagination of Reading D. The Results of Reading 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 任务型阅读(共10 小题;每小题1 分,满分10 分)请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空不超过1个单词。If youre shy and always keep to y
51、ourself (与他人不交往), its time to break the habit. Actually making friends isnt as scary as it looks like. So if you have limited friends and want to know how to get along with others at school, you can use the following tips.If youre attending a new school, dont be shy to introduce yourself to a group
52、of people during lunch or gym class so that people can know who you are. Be friendly to your classmates so they wont find you boring and ignore you. Be a well-mannered, well-spoken person and dont push people off when they approach you for a favor. If youre a good student, help your classmates with
53、their study and dont limit your knowledge to yourself. Help your friends with their projects if they need. Make a team when doing a class activity and take the lead by asking everyone to participate. Involve other quiet students and work with each one of them. Theyll realize you are kind and concern
54、ed about other people. If youve just joined a new office and are finding it hard to socialize with your colleagues, here are some tips you can use to get people to like you. When you get a new job and a new desk, take your time to get adjusted to the place. After youve settled down, introduce yourse
55、lf to colleagues sitting next to you. Ask them about the office environment, your boss, etc. During lunch, ask them if you can join them at their table and start conversations about well-known issues like sports, politics, etc. Whats more, show a little trust in them and dont be shy to do something
56、to celebrate their success if they want you to. In short, when youre new to a certain place, you have to make friends and socialize. The best way to do this is to let them know youre a person they can depend on. TitleHow to make friendsTips on how to get along with others at schoolMake an (71)_ abou
57、t yourself during lunch or gym class.Prevent your classmates feeling (72)_ about you by being friendly. Have good (73)_.Dont refuse them when people (74)_ to you for help.Help your friends with their projects.Make a team when doing a class activity.Take the lead by asking everyone to participate. Sh
58、ow your (75)_ and concern about others by working with quiet students.Tips on how to get people to like you at the (76)_Take your time to get adjusted to the new place. Offer to communicate with your colleagues.Have lunch with your colleagues at the (77)_ table and discuss some well-known issues wit
59、h them.(78)_ in your colleagues.Do something in (79)_ of your colleagues success.SummaryBeing (80)_ is the best way to make friends and socialize.第五部分 书面表达(满分25分)假如你是21st Century 报社的编辑，你收到一封来自于名叫Lori的来信。她向你询问如何交友。请给她写一封信，并提出建议。要点提示：1. 每个人都需要朋友，如何交友极为重要。 2. 要交朋友，首先对别人要友好。微笑是吸引别人的吸铁石（magnet）。 3. 要使陌生人
60、不管在何处，都能感到你的亲切。要关心别人胜过关心自己。 4. 设法记住别人的名字。5. 与别人有分歧时，不要争吵，要商讨。6.不要相信那些在危急时刻背离朋友的人，因为“能共患难的朋友才是真正的朋友” 要求：词数120词左右。 I am glad to receive your letter. You asked me something about how to make friends. The following is my advice._I hope everything goes on well with you and youll make a lot of good friends. Yours, Cathy
