[广西]2011-2012学年广西北海市合浦县教育局教研室高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

---- Do you mind if I smoke here, madam?    ---- ________, sir.

Please keep us ________ of how things are going on.

The reason ________ he hasn’t come is ________.

Only in this way ________ make progress in your English.

Fans still ___ Michael Jordan though he doesn’t fight for the Chicago Bulls any more.

The British Isles is a group of islands that lie         the west coast of Europe.

We have only a short holiday, so let’s       the most of it and try to enjoy ourselves.

There is no point ________ time ________ with him.

With the advanced technology, our factory produces ________cars as we did last year.

When I saw Jane, I stopped and smiled, but she ________ me and walked on.

________ the Internet is of great help, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend too much time on it.

Facing this ________ problem, I found myself ________ about how to work it out.

---- I’ll come to see your performance at 9:00 tomorrow evening.
---- But by then my performance will have ended and I ________ reporters in the meeting room at that time.

________ around the Tian An’ men Square, the tourists from Iceland were taken to visit the Palace Museum.

---- There’s no light on.   ---- They ________ be at home.

A well-written composition _________ some writing skills, such as good choice of words and clear organizations.

. Will you please keep quiet now? You shouldn’t talk until ________ to.

---- Do you think he has improved his English much enough?
---- Yes. You couldn’t hope for _________ at this time.

Tom worked hard, but _________ didn’t please the boss.

After great efforts, he finally achieved his goal, _________.

I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that    1    is an occupational disease. But one year, my    2    gave me the cure for my homesickness.
It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin (企鹅) that   3    about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing    4    a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately  5    the penguin on my table.
On my next trip, I put the   6    in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was    7    because the penguin had disappeared. “Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him    8  ”.
   9   , the penguin came with me --- as necessary as my briefcase. And we     10    along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a    11   , dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had    12    the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.
One night, I discovered the penguin    13   , and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d    14    it in my previous hotel room,    15    it had been rescued by a maid. I       16      a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were    17      at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of    18   .
Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel    19   . The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on    20   , it was the one thing I never left home without.

A．cold B．hunger C．loneliness D．fever

A．boy B．daughter C．friend D．mother

A．stood B．lay C．jumped D．climbed

A．wrote B．turned C．was D．had

A．threw B．lost C．gave D．placed

A．bear B．penguin C．dog D．rabbit

A．upset B．happy C．glad D．excited

A．up B．off C．along D．down

A．From now on B．In the future C．In future D．From then on

A．had friends B．had friend C．made friends D．made friend

A．school B．hotel C．shop D．supermarket

A．given B．turned C．made D．carried

A．sleeping B．going C．living D．missing

A．forget B．left C．ordered D．sent

A．there B．when C．where D．how

A．ran B．walked C．hurried D．drove

A．surprised B．frightened C．looked D．laughed

A．anger B．envy C．sadness D．illness

A．as many B．as seldom C．so little D．as much

A．the hotel B．the meeting C．the road D．the house

I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.
“ Dad, dad!” I cried. “This wine is too old to drink.”
“ Son, hold on,” he said.
“ No, you can’t drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago.”
“ Wait, let me tell you…”
“ Would you like me to throw it away from you?” I asked.
“ Son, wait a second,” he said. “Son, some wines get better over time. The longer you wait to drink it, the better it will be. Although this may seem strange, it is true.”
When I was young, I didn’t have any understanding of what this meant, but now, this would have been very helpful to remember as I went through my teenage years.
In our society, we forget this simple rule: The longer you want for certain things, the better they will be. But we want the best job as quickly as possible; we want to graduate from college in as few years as possible; we even speed through our homework just to chat with friends. When we do this, we lose something of great importance.
We all want to get to the next step so quickly that perhaps we don’t get ready enough to get there. This has a negative effect on our society. When trying to go to the right college, we will do anything to get in and when we rush through our class-work, we may not study enough for the test, and end up failing. We need to be ready for whatever comes, ready for the unexpected. Wine gets better over time, so do the things in our paths of life.
Why did the author tell his father not to drink the bottle of wine?

What the author’s father said __________.

In the author’s opinion, if we do things too quickly, we will __________.

Which of the following best reflects the main idea of the passage?

There was a king who gave his daughter a beautiful diamond necklace. The necklace was stolen and his people in the kingdom searched everywhere but could not find it. So the king asked to search for it and put a reward for＄50,000 for anyone who found it.
One day, a clerk was walking home along a river when he saw something shinning in the river and when he looked, he saw the diamond necklace. He decided to try and catch it to get the ＄50,000 reward.
He put his hand in the river and tried to catch the necklace, but somehow missed it and didn’t catch it. He took his hand out and looked again and the necklace was still there. He tried again.
But strangely, he still missed the necklace! He came out and started walking away, feeling sad. Just then, an old man walking by saw him, and asked him what was the matter. The clerk didn’t want to share the secret with him, thinking he might take the necklace for himself, so he refused to tell him anything.
The old man could see this man was troubled. He again asked the clerk to tell him the problem and promised that he would not tell anyone about it. The clerk told him about the necklace and how he tried and tried to catch it, but kept failing.
The old man then told him that perhaps he should try looking upward, toward the branches of the tree, instead of in the river. The clerk looked up and true enough, the necklace was hanging on the branch of a tree. He had been trying to take a reflection of the real necklace all this time.
The clerk tried to get the diamond necklace to __________.

Before the old man asked the clerk what was the matter, the clerk           .

Where did the clerk find the necklace at last?

What might be the best title for the passage?

As prices and building costs keep rising, the “do-it-yourself”（DIY）trend in the US continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Roses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $520. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I have finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
We can learn from the text that many newly married people__________.

John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to __________.

Jim decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when__________

When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim_________.

In many countries today, laws protect wildlife. In India, the need for such protection was realized centuries ago.
About 300 B.C. an Indian writer described forest that were somewhat like national parks today. The killing of game beasts was carefully supervised(监视). Some animals were fully protected．Within the forest, nobody was allowed to cut timber(wood for building), burn wood for charcoal(炭), or catch animals for their furs. Animals that became dangerous to human visitors were caught or killed outside the park so that other animals would not become uneasy.
The need for wildlife protection is greater now than ever before. About a thousand species of animals are in danger of extinction, and the rate of extinction was about one species every fifty years from A.D. 1 to 1800, but now it is about one species every year. Everywhere, men are trying to solve the problem of protecting wildlife caring for the rapid growth of the world’s population.
In forest of ancient India __________.

Dangerous animals were caught or killed outside the park so as to __________.

The underlined word “extinction” probably means __________.

The example of man’s connection with wildlife protection can date back to _______.
A. the third century            B. more than 2000 years ago
C. A. D. 1 to 1800            D. over 300 years ago

As we all know, any country has good reasons to want its citizens to be as healthy as possible. This led to the introduction of a health service in many countries. France has developed into a country in which all citizens can get most of the health treatment free. The money for this is partly from the people who are willing to offer.
But there are different opinions about the Health Service. The number of patients treated every year and the cost of treatment are much greater than expected. This means that the people who work for the Health Service --- doctors, nurses and other hospital workers, have much more work to do, and as a result they have little time for preventive treatment.
However, the tough problem is that as many people are able to receive treatment more expensive than they can pay, sometimes people go and visit their doctors when they don’t really need to. As there are many patients, doctors cannot spend time long enough with each patient. So some people prefer to pay for their own treatment so that their doctors can examine them more carefully. In fact, some rich people feel that they should pay more free money, which would be given to other citizens.
France is described as an example to show that __________.

What is the problem in the Health Service?

Why do many people go and see the doctors even when they really don’t need to?

What can we infer from the last paragraph?

1. It’s o__________ that he hasn’t read the book because he can say nothing about it.
2. The little girl hopes to meet a handsome prince, just like a princess in a fairy  t__________. 
3. He was__________(好奇的) to know what was happening in the office.
4. The little girl is a __________(有天赋的) dancer.                  
5. The photo will r__________ me of the days when we were together.
6. Their father bought some new f__________ last week, such as a sofa and a table.
7. I can’t remember__________(精确地) what she said.                 
8. J__________ from her letter, Mother seems to be feeling a lot better.    
9. We should keep a balanced diet and exercise__________ (规律地)to keep fit.
10. He __________（预言）that war would break out in the next few years.

I am worker at the tap water company. I find that      1. __________
people were becoming more and more careful about               2. __________
health .If the tap water appear a little bit unclear           3. __________
and muddy, the telephone will ring again and again.            4. __________
Fortunately, people do not pay equal attention to the          5. __________
protection of water resources .For the sake of our             6. __________
health, we should take good care our water resources           7. __________
and environment. There is a saying “whether we do              8. __________
not careful protect our environment, the last drops            9. __________
of water we will see them will be our own tears.”             10. __________

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