湖北省咸宁市高二上学期期末统考英语卷

Jack is late again. It is ___ of him to keep others waiting.

With world economic crisis worsening, people ___ the government for more unemployment benefits.

China has got a good ___ for fighting against the flu with its careful and smooth organization

She was so ___ in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door at                all.

When will the government ___ its position on equal pay for women ?.

Don’t worry. I’ve ___ a car to pick up the guests at the station at 8 o’clock.

My parents live in a small village. They always keep candles in the house ___ there is a power out.

The young soldier was ___ of running away when the enemy attacked.

With the end of his career in ___ , Armstrong was already looking forward to spending some days at the beach with his family.

Most people interviewed said: “We have been warned all about the effects of sunbathing, yet we keep putting ourselves ___ .”

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列 各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
As a teenager, I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious (反叛的) on the outside,   31   on the inside, I wanted people to   32   me.
Once I left home to hitchhike (搭便车) to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn’t   33  , and there were many times I didn’t feel safe. One situation in particular   34   me grateful to still be alive When I returned home, I was different, not so outwardly sure of myself.
I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope, who was   35   with us, was wearing my clothes. And my   36   seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be 37   if I weren’t there. I told my mom, and she explained that   38   Penelope was a lovely girl, no one could   39   me. I pointed out, “ She is more patient and is neater than I have ever been. ” My mom said these were wonderful   40  ,but I was the only person who could fill my 41  , She made me realize that even with my   42   — and there were many —I was a loved member of the family who couldn’t be replaced.
I became a searcher, wanting to   43   who I was and what made me unique. My  44   of myself was changing. I wanted a solid base to start from. . I started to resist  pressure to   45   in ways that I didn’t like any more, and I was   46   by who I really was. I came to feel much more   47   that no one can ever take my place.
Each of us   48   a unique  place in the world．You are special, no matter what others say or what you may think. So   49   about being replaced．You   50   be.

A．and B．but C．as D．for

A．leave B．respect C．admire D．like

A．easy B．hard C．fun D．long

A．succeeded B．kept C．managed D．remained

A．playing B．eating C．staying D．running

A．family B．friends C．relatives D．class

A．loved B．mentioned C．cared D．missed

A．before B．after C．though D．unless

A．scold B．compare C．replace D．match

A．qualities B．girls C．people D．times

A．character B．role C．task D．job

A．faults C．manners D．pities

A．look for B．look back C．find out D．give up

A．picture B．view C．sense D．drawing

A．think B．learn C．change D．act

A．thankful B．delighted C．disappointed D．hopeful

A．sure B．doubtful C．happy D．lonely

A．carries B．catches C．seizes D．holds

A．talk B．forget C．care D．argue

A．mustn’t B．shouldn’t C．can’t D．needn’t

It was a dark and cold night. The car driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “Where do you want to go, sir?”
“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the car driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.
After a long time, the car finally arrived at the hotel. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What! Fifteen dollars? Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week I took a car from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other car driver last week. ”
Which of the following is true?____________

What do you think of the car driver?__________

The driver felt very _________ when he saw the young man coming out of the railway station.

From the passage we know that the young man__________.

The driver took the passenger through many streets so as to_________.

Are you a problem shopper? The answer is “Yes”, if you or someone else thinks that you sometimes get carried away with shopping. In other words, do you or does someone else think you are occupied in extreme shopping? If people have regrets later about their shopping, or have an “out-of-control” feeling about the quantities of what they buy or the amount of credit they use, they may be considered to be problem shoppers.
Extreme shopping can lead to a more serious problem –addictive shopping. Addictive shoppers feel driven by the desire to shop and spend money. They experience great tension which drives them to shop and spend money and they feel a “rush” during the time they are occupied with the shopping activity.
Extreme or addictive shopping may result from long-time unpleasant feelings, of which anxiety, pain and shame are common ones. When we feel bad inside, we often do something to make ourselves feel better. In this case, we often go shopping.
A few people shop to relieve their boredom or emptiness. For some people, the motivation is a desire for status, power, beauty or success. Some love to shop as it makes them feel valued in the eyes of the shop assistants. Others shop simply because it makes them forget, at least temporarily, tension, fear or unhappiness in their life.
Besides, shopping malls are designed to encourage continual shopping. For instance, there are some malls where you can’t see clocks displaying the time because they don’t want you to become too aware of the time you spend there. What’s more, food courts, coffee shops and restrooms are provided, so you don’t have to leave the mall because of your physical needs.
Therefore, once you become aware of how market forces work, you will certainly come to control your shopping behavior. For example, how much time you will spend and what areas you will visit can be decided before you enter the mall. Keep a written account of what items you will buy and how much money you will spend. Make a plan for what you are going to buy before you feel the urge to shop and then stick to it. That is vital for gaining self-control.
Whichof the following people may not be problem shoppers?

According to the passage, what may not result in addictive shopping?

How can we control our shopping behavior according to the passage?

A．Never going to the shopping malls because there are many tricks.

B．Applying for a credit card before we go shopping.

C．Making the shopping time as short as possible.

D．Making a shopping list before we go shopping.

The author writes this passage to_______________.     .

Some people were eating and drinking in a coffee house. A young woman was sitting alone at a table. She was wearing a beautiful diamond necklace. There was an ugly man at a table not far from her. He was looking at her necklace all the time.
Suddenly the lights went out. The coffee house was in darkness. The woman started to shout. She was very frightened. A few minutes later the lights came on again. The woman was crying. Her necklace was missing.
The manager quickly closed all the doors. He telephoned the police. No one could get out of the coffee house. The policemen soon came. The police inspector told his men to search everyone. The necklace was not on anyone. They then searched the whole coffee house. The necklace couldn’t be found.
The police inspector then looked at the faces of all the people in the coffee house. He saw the ugly man and looked at the man carefully. He went up to the man and picked up the bowl of soup that was on his table. He then poured the soup into a glass. The necklace fell out. The policemen caught hold of the man and took him away. The young woman was happy to get back her necklace.
A young woman lost her necklace in ______________.

The manager closed all the doors and _______________.

The police inspector found the necklace in __________.

The necklace was stolen by ___________.

Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new 47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families.  The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by  Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials.  Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused by housing. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?

What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?

It can be learned from the text that_______________.           

What is the main purpose of this text?

When someone says, “Well, I guess I'll have to go to face the music,” it doesn’t mean he is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you did not do this or that. Terrible music, indeed, but it has to be faced. At some time or another, every one of us has had to “face the music”, especially as children. We can remember father’s angry voice: “I want to talk to you!” And only because we did not obey him. What an unpleasant business it was!
The phrase “face the music” is known to every American, old and young. It is at least one hundred years old. Where did the expression come from?
The first explanation came from the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper. He said, in 1851, that expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings (舞台的两侧) to go on stage. After they got their clue(暗示) to go on , they often said, “It’s time to go to face the music. ” And that is exactly what they did face the orchestra (乐队) which was just below the stage.
An actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of the audience(观众) that might be friendly, or perhaps unfriendly, especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out. If he did not, there would be no play. So “face the music” came to mean: having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice.
The expression “face the music” means ______.

A． plan to go to a concert

B．get one’s clue to do something

C．have to go through something far less pleasant

D．disobey what one's father says

The passage tells us that the expression was first used by _____.

In the last paragraph the Chinese meaning of the word “line” is _______.

完成句子（满分15分）
You can also explore Frick’s beatiful home and garden _________________
(很值得参观). (worth)
With so many different forms of poetry ______________ (选择), students may eventually want to write poems of their own. (choose)
She was late  for the wedding ceremony. If she had been there on time, the bride and bridegroom ____________________________ (会更高兴). (feel)
_______________________ (没有用)crying over split milk. (use)
It is your efforts, not your intelligence, _______________ (决定) your success. (determine)
I can’t understand _________________ (是什么) that made the lady change her mind. (it)
Coming into the room, I found them ____________________ (坐在桌边) playing chess. (seat)
In some places in London, missing a bus __________________________ (意味着再等一个小时). (mean)
I wish the old temple _______________________________ (拆毁) last month . (pull)
____________________________ (毫无疑问) the earth is becoming warmer and it is human activity that has caused this globlal warming. (doubt)

书面表达（满分25分）
假设你叫李华， 今年暑假期间作为语言交流学生去伦敦生活了一个月， 住在Kitty家里， 回国后你给Kitty写一封感谢信， 须包含以下内容：
1.英语交际能力大幅提高
2.伦敦美景给你留下深刻印象， 尤其是牛津大学迷人的校园
3.Kitty的妈妈做的许多美味的饭菜
4.请她有机会到中国观光旅游并到她家做客
注意：1.信件开头结尾已经写出， 不计入总词数 ；2.可以增添细节使内容连贯流畅 ; 3. 词数120左右
August 28,2010
Dear Kitty,
Iam writing to express my sincere thanks to you for warm-hearted reception during the past month. This is really an unforgettable experience in my life.
………….
Thank you again for all the perfect arrangements. Do give my best regards to your parents.
Yours,
Li Hua