湖北省孝感高中高二下学期期末考试英语卷

Lucy is a college student who is hard-working, so she passed the College English Test Band 4 at her first__________.

It’s generally believed that the_________ of the Dragon Boat Festival is to celebrate the great poet Qu Yuan.

—Why is the famous althlete absent from the game?
—He has been________to take part in competitions for a year because of taking drags.

I have also learned to_________ whole sentences without trying to translate them word for word into Chinese.

—Time is_________. It’s likely that we’ll miss the deadline.
—Don’t worry. We have already got through 80% of the job.

Excuse me, would you please_______me_______at the next corner?

It is obvious that talking about something behind others is what everyone will not_________.

Mr. Wang, a(n)_______editor and writer, is going to attend the conference to be held in Beijing next week.

He was looking for his gloves all morning , which turned up_________ under the sofa.

Since there is always a power failure in the town, they have candles_______ in the closet.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后31-50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
While my friends went away to their universities in great delight, I restarted my senior high school life. My spirits   31  at the prospect of starting all over again.
  32   by strange classmates, I felt as though I was in a maze（迷宫）and felt  33   for my-self. There were some complex feelings in my mind. I was frightened, nervous and lonely.
To make  34   worse, I recalled my failure again and again,  35   put more pressure on me than I could bear. As a result, I was always feeling  36   during class.
One of my teachers noticed my depression and one day he asked me to come to his office, where he told me about his  37   towards life. He said we might  38   from making mistakes, but it’s important to model ourselves into people we  39   . All the growing  40   and the embarrassing things we  41   are parts of the process. We never stop  42   , so learn from it and keep up your spirits up! If you are optimistic, things you want may  43   to you!  44   feelings rushed through me. I  45   saw the sun shining again when I stepped out of his office.
With the teacher’s help, I finally  46   my depression. From then on, I no longer  47   my head but began smiling at my classmates. I put up my hand  48   in class and tried to answer the teacher’s questions correctly.
I  49   have a thirst to go to my dream university,  50   I’m not afraid of failure because I can benefit from it.

A．sank B．failed C．disappeared D．ran

A．Hit B．Surrounded C．Struck D．Loved

A．unlucky B．angry C．sorry D．afraid

A．scores B．studies C．experiences D．matters

A．which B．what C．that D．who

A．high B．down C．lonely D．happy

A．way B．method C．measure D．attitude

A．learn B．suffer C．hear D．judge

A．reach B．enjoy C．like D．hate

A．aches B．pains C．joys D．injuries

A．feel B．experience C．taste D．get

A．standing up B．growing up C．going up D．rising up

A．refer B．turn C．stick D．happen

A．Warm B．Thoughtful C．Cool D．Regretful

A．suddenly B．generally C．naturally D．sadly

A．got on B．got over C．got off D．got out

A．buried B．shook C．bowed D．nodded

A．freely B．hopefully C．quickly D．confidently

A．even B．ever C．still D．yet

A．otherwise B．or C．but D．instead

It was shortly before midnight, and Dr Patricia was getting ready for bed. The phone rang on the end of the line was a woman about to break a promise.
The woman was her mother’s neighbor. Flora Harris had made the neighbor swear she wouldn’t tell her daughter she’d had a heart attack and was in the hospital, for fear her daughter would worry. The neighbor wisely decided to disobey orders.
Harris desperately wanted to get to the hospital immediately, but she couldn’t. She lives in Washington, D. C, and her mother lives in California.
For the past year a half, Harris has gone to Los Angeles every other month to take care of her mother. Flora Harris takes care of her husband, James, who’s 91 and has Alzheimer’s disease. They live in their own home, and a caregiver comes to help them a few hours a day.
Harris is one of many Americans facing the heartache of how to take care of aging parents from afar. She’s often worried, not to mention exrtemely busy with a demanding job, two teenage daughters and the frequent trips to California.
In some ways, Harris is lucky. She has the resources to make the trips to Los Angeles. Plus, Harris is a doctor who treats the elderly.
“But it’s still tough,” she says. “I can foresee what the next few years are going to look like, and it’s not a pretty picture. My father’s going to need diapers (尿布). There will come a time when he won’t recognize me and he’s easily excited. I worry he’s going to be violent and hurt my mother.”
So what do you do when you live a continent away from your aging, sick parents? There are no magic answers. You can hire someone to help, but you can’t oursource it completely.
Why was the woman thought to have broken a promise?

What can we learn about Patricia Harris from the passage?

What does the underlined word “outsource” in the last paragragh mean?

What’s the main idea of this passage?

I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my calsses. (I have not used his real name for personal reasons. As he requested.) But here is his real story as he told it before one of our adult – education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once, but twice. The first time he had lost his five-old daughter, a child he adored. He and his wife thought they couldn’t bear that first loss; but, as he said:“Ten months later, God gave us another little girl and she died in five days.”
This double bereavement was almost too much to bear. “I couldn’t take it,” this father told us. “I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t rest or relax. My nerves were entirely shaken and my confidence gone.” At last he went to doctors; one recommended sleeping pills and another recommended a trip. He tried both, but neither helped. He said:“My body felt as if it was surrounded in a vice(大钳子), and the jaws of the vice were being drawn tighter and tighter.” The tension of grief(悲伤)——if you have ever been paralyzed(使瘫痪)by sorrow, you know what he meant.
But thank God, I had one child left ——a four —year— old son. He gave me the solution to my problem. One afternoon as I sat around feeling sorry for myself, he asked; ‘Daddy, will you build a boat for me?’ I was in no mood to build a boat; in fact, I was in no mood to do anything. But my son is a persistent little fellow! I had to give in.
Building that toy boat took me about three hours. By the time it was finished, I realized that those three hours spent building that boat were first hours of mental relaxation and peace that I had had in months! I realized that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. In my case, building the boat had knocked worry out of the ring. So I determined to keep busy.
The following night, I went from room to room in the house, making a list of jobs that ought to be done. Scores of items needed to be repaired: bookcase, stair steps, storm windows, window-shades, locks, leaky taps. Amazing as it seems, in the course of two weeks I had made a list of 242 items that needed attention.
“During the last two years I have completed most of them. I am busy now that I have no time for worry.”
No time for worry! That is exactly what Winston Churchill said when he was working eighteen hours a day at the height of the war. When he was asked if he worried about his huge responsibilities, he said :“I am too busy. I have no time for worry.”
The underlined word “bereavement” in the second paragraph refers to          .

Marion felt his body as if it was caught in a vice because            .

Marion made a list of over 200 items that needed to be repaired because           .

At the end of the passage, the author wrote about Winston Churchill in order to         .

Despite all the reports of Internet security attacks over the years, including the recent ones on Google’s e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug (耸肩).

Mr. Shulman and his company examined a list of 32 million passwords that an unknown hacker（黑客） stole last month from Rock You, a company that makes software for users of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. The list was briefly posted on the Web, and hackers and security researchers downloaded it.
The list provided an unusually detailed window into computer users’ password habits. Typically, only government agencies like the F.B.I. or the National Security Agency have had access to such a large password list.
Some Web sites try to keep back the attackers by freezing an account for a certain period of time if too many incorrect passwords are typed. But experts say that the hackers simply learn to trick the system, by making guesses at an acceptable rate, for instance.
To improve security, some Wed sites are forcing users to mix letters,numbers even symbols in their passwords. Others, like Twitter, prevent people from picking common passwords.
Still, researchers say, social networking and entertainment Web sites often try to make life simpler for their users and are unwilling to put too many controls in place.
Even commercial sites like eBay must weigh the consequences of freezing accounts, since a hacker could, say, try to win an auction（拍卖） by freezing the accounts of other potential buyers.
But owing to the reality of our overcrowded brains, the experts suggest that everyone choose at least two different passwords— a complex one for Web sites where security is vital, such as banks and e-mail, and a simpler one for less risky places, such as social networking and entertainment sites.
Mr. Moss relies on passwords at least 12 characters long, figuring that those make him a more difficult target than the millions of people who choose five-and six-character passwords.
“It’s like the joke where the hikers run into a bear in the forest, and the hiker that survives is the one who outruns his companions,” Mr. Moss said. “You just want to run that bit faster.”
The underlined sentence “Many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug” shows that many people            .

According to the passage, which of the following web sites needs a more complex password?

The Internet users are advised to             in order to keep back the hackers.

Which would be the best title for the passage?

The idea for a science experiment can come from an unusual place. After watching a YouTube video of a dancing bird named Snowball, a scientist in Californina decided to study the ability of animals to keep the beat.
Bird lovers have long claimed that their pets have rhyhm, and there are many videos of dancing birds online. Until now, scientists have suspected that humans are the only animals that can accurately keep rhythm with music.
Thanks to Snowball, that scientific opinion is changing. Snowball is a cockatoo, a kind of parrot, and his favorite song is “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys. When he hears the song, he moves his feet and rocks his body with the tempo, or pace of the music, as though he is the only bird member of the boy band.
Aniruddh Patel is a neuroscientist, or a scientist who studies how the brain and the nervous system contribute to learning, seeing and other mental abilities. He works at the Neurosciences Instiute in San Diego. After seeing Snowbaill’s dance online, Patel visited the cockatoo at the bird rescue facility he’s called home for two years. The scientist played “Everybody” for Snowball and also played versions of the song that were sped up or slowed down. Sometimes, Snowball danced too fast or too slowly. Often, when there was a change in tempo, Snowball adjusted his dancing to match the rhythm. In other experiments, scientists have observed the same abilities in preschool children.
Patel isn’t the only scientist who has studied Snowball’s moves. Adena Schachner, who studies psychology at Harvard University, also wanted to know more about the dancing bird. Schachner’s team played different musical pieces for Snowball and a parrot named Alex, as well as eight human volunteers. The scientists observed that the birds and the humans kept time to the music with about the same accuracy.
Schachner and her team watched thousands of YouTube videos of different animals moving to music. Not all the animals could dance, however. From watching the videos, the scientists observed that only animals that imitate sounds, including 14 parrot species and Asian elephants, accurately moved in time to music.
The underlined words “that scientific opinion” in the third paragraph refers to the theory that            .

From the fourth paragraph we may know that        .

The idea of studying animals’ ability to keep the beat comes from       .

According to the scientists, Snowball’s ability to dance to music is probably related to the fact that          .

China may be the world's most populous country ,and it won the most gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. But its prowess at soccer is lamentable. China is ranked 84th in the sport's world standing.
Chinese are huge soccer fans, and hundreds of millions are expected to tune in to the World Cup, with all the matches broadcast live on public TV. But this time the Chinese don't have their own team to root for.
"Chinese have a reputation of being good at math, but they have trouble explaining why a population of 1.3 billion cannot produce a winning 11-member soccer team," said Xu Guoqi, a history professor at the University of Hong Kong. Journalists and soccer fans offer a number of reasons, most often money issues, politics, corruption（腐败）and culture, and sometimes a combination of the four.
Even though China now boasts wealthy companies and individuals who could sponsor（赞助） teams, there is little support as long as Chinese teams are perceived as perennial losers. "This is a very bad circle," Ma said. "No results, no money. No money, no results."
Few Chinese children are playing soccer. Some sports journalists and fans attribute the lack of interest partly to schools de-emphasizing sports in general and the lack of playing venues in the country's dense urban areas. "What can Chinese kids do?” said Fan Huiming, 61, a Chinese soccer fan who grew up watching matches at Beijing's Workers' Stadium, which was built in 1958 near his childhood home. "If they play soccer, the ball may fly directly into the glass of someone's home."
For young people, soccer has largely been eclipsed by basketball, thanks in part to Chinese NBA players who are treated like rock stars. Journalists and fans say NBA's aggressive campaign of marketing and merchandise in China has helped swell the popularity of basketball. By comparison, they noted that international soccer does not even have an office in China.
Rowan Simons, a Briton who came to China more than two decades ago and discovered he wasn't able to play weekend soccer, has been on a campaign to popularize the sport here. Simons said the main problem is that soccer elsewhere has traditionally started as a series of neighborhood clubs, but in China, "there's virtually no football at community level".
"Football in China can only succeed if it's a grass-roots activity organized by the people," he said.
This time the Chinese don't have their own team to root for in the World Cup because__________.

Why are few Chinese children playing soccer?
A.No results, no money. No money, no results.
B.If the footballs fly directly into the glass of someone's home,they’ll be criticised.
C there is little support from wealthy companies and individuals sponsoring teams.
D.schools don’t pay much attention on sports and they lack playing venues in dense urban areas.
The underlined word“eclipsed”in the six paragraph can be replaced by      .

According to Rowan,what can be inferred ?

完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
71.I guess that my little daughter____________________（在玩）toys at this time tomorrow.(play)
72.The river is_________________________（3倍长）that one.(length)
73.Only when you get down to doing it____________________（你能解出）the problem.(work)
74._______________________（尽管他们很穷），they are generous and friendly to others.(as)
75.It’s high time that______________________（你申请）the job.(apply)
76.So far e-mail, as well as telephones,____________（发挥重大作用）in daily communication.(play)
77.I feel it is your husband who_________________（应受责备）for the spoiled child.(blame)
78.It __________________（晚了），we decided to leave at once.(be)
79.Born in 1371 in Yunnan province and____________（抚养）in a family originally from Central Asia,Zheng He heard many stories of travel through foreign lands in his youth.(bring)
80.On hearing the good news, the girls_______________（突然哭起来）：“We have won!”(burst)

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