[湖北]2011-2012学年湖北省孝感高中高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

When delivering a speech, you should adjust your language to the age of your ______ audience.

I always think it was such a(n) ______ for me to have spent a day with kids in the Children’s Home.

Other businesses, such as insurance companies, are more concerned with acquiring a central position so that they are ______ to the urban population.

The outbreak of this incident has given us much for thought, forcing us to ______ seriously on the past and the future.

But for his help, we wouldn’t have succeeded. So we ______ his timely aid.

While the government says there is a(n) ______ supply of houses, prices of apartments have been going up these years.      

Since Australia is a multicultural and unique society, it is probably hard for Chinese students to _______ it.

One day, when I was walking in the street, someone dropped a pie from a window above, and it _______ missed landing on my head.

"Let's _______ the talking," Johnny said, "And get back to work".

We won three games and lost two. ______, I'd say it was a successful tournament.

You must know the “ding dong ditch”. Person A rings Person B’s doorbell, and then quickly runs away or hides before Person B answers. Person B hurries to answer the door, only to find that no one’s there. After the  1  thing is repeated several times, this is called “ding dong ditch”.
Sharon Mardis, a single mother of four, told ABC News that she  2  a “ding dong ditch” when she  3  to her door at 1:00 am last night.
“My doorbell started ringing,  4  I came to the door,” Sharon told ABC News. “There was 5  at the door. I went back in the house. I got ten or twenty  6  and the doorbell started ringing again. I came back to the door, still nobody at the door.” She got  7  and stepped outside, shouting, “Who’s that? What on earth are you going to do?” There was just  8  .
But after Sharon returned to the house, she  9  something. Smoke! Sharon quickly  10  her kids and the family pets and ran out of the house. Only then did she  11  how bad the fire was. The  12  of the house fell down; the house was quickly  13  by flames. The smoke detectors(探测器) had never  14  : they were out of batteries. Good thing for the doorbell.
The  15  is who had rung it.  16  found that the flames has fused(熔化) the wires of the doorbell together, causing it to ring. But  17  , the fire had nothing to do with the doorbell wiring at all. It had started in the bathroom, well down the hall. From there, the flames didn’t spread to the nearby  18  , where the children and Sharon were sleeping.  19  , they surprisingly reached the doorbell first, making it ring repeatedly, and  20  Sharon to avoid danger.
Sharon believes it happened that way thanks to an angel.

A．special B．same C．important D．serious

A．experienced B．followed C．learned D．practiced

A．fell B．turned C．responded D．returned

A．though B．but C．because D．and

A．somebody B．nobody C．something D．nothing

A．miles B．centimeters C．feet D．kilometers

A．tired B．angry C．worried D．interested

A．cry B．noise C．silence D．laugh

A．hit B．touched C．heard D．smelled

A．gathered B．settled C．comforted D．frightened

A．wonder B．dream C．realize D．agree

A．paintings B．roof C．lights D．floor

A．covered B．separated C．blocked D．stopped

A．moved off B．left off C．taken off D．gone off

A．fact B．opinion C．mistake D．question

A．Nurses B．Firefighters C．Teachers D．Doctors

A．fortunately B．strangely C．honestly D．clearly

A．kitchen B．hall C．bathroom D．bedroom

A．Instead B．Therefore C．Thus D．Then

A．ordering B．encouraging C．warning D．advising

After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom’s attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn’t walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn’t go to summer camp because what if something happened to me?
As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into “things you should avoid”, and “things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life.” I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job — disasters big and small, real and imagined.
The funny part is that you’d never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I’ve developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I’ve ridden a motorcycle; I’ve traveled —a lot. I’ve performed stand-up comedy, and I’m planning my second wedding.
There’s something else I don’t usually talk about, but it’s a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom’s funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “safe” or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life.
I worry that I may have betrayed(背叛) my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn’t a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do.
Even though I inherited (继承) my mother’s cautious nature. I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we face it. Believing that has made my world a less scary place.
In the writer’s childhood, the limits and rules were used to ______.

How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her?

From the passage, we can learn that ______.

What does the passage mainly talk about?

Here is some information about several famous local bakeries(面包房) in Indiana, the US. They serve as a social gathering place for locals.
Maple Lane Bakery
At 8260 S. State Rd. Claypool, IN. (574) 566-2917, it offers a variety of cooked pies, cookies, and bread. With 20 years’ experience Maple Lane Bakery has specialized in the making of pies. The menu includes peach pie $7.19, berry pie $ 7.70, apple pie $7.19 and banana pie $6.99. Feel free to place an order at least 24 hours in advance.
Betty’s cakes & Candy Shop
At 816 E. Winona Avenue Warsaw, IN. (574) 269-1231, it specializes in cakes and offers cookies and candies. The chocolate cookies are sold at $ 8.99 a dozen. Betty’s cakes & Candy Shop, started half a century ago, specializes in wedding cakes and birthday cakes. Buying a cake from Betty’s will not disappoint you as they are always excellent.
Crepes’ Quality Bakery
At 217S. Cavin Street Ligonier, IN.(260) 894-3024, this third generation bakery is located downtown Ligonier. It offers cookies and cupcakes, and specializes in rolls and bread. If you plan to buy cookies for the office or work area, you had better get there early as the building workers arrive just before 5:00 am waiting for the doors to open.
Olympia Candy Kitchen
At 136N. Main Street Goshen, IN. (574) 533-5040, it has been welcoming visitors for almost a century in its unchanged location in downtown Goshen, Indiana. Its tradition began in 1912 when Greek Nicholas began making his own chocolates. Today this family-owned operation offers all kinds of candies and boxed candies. If you need an order, you should call ahead of time to see if they can meet your request.
Which of the following pies is the most expensive?

If you want to order a birthday cake, you are advised to call ______.

Which of the following bakeries has the shortest history?

The author wrote this passage mainly to ______.

There are some things humans can go without. We can lose a kidney or a lung, an arm or two and still live perfectly well. But some fish put us to shame. They can get by without stomachs.
One such fish is the stout longtom. The group it belongs to carries a more appropriate name: the needlefish. All needlefish lack stomachs. Their ancestors had them, but later they were lost.
The stout longtom can reach 1.3 meters in length, and lives near the sea surface. Like all needlefish, it can jump out of the water to escape its enemies. Tropical fishermen are sometimes injured by needlefish. In 1977, a 10-year-old Hawaiian boy was killed when a needlefish jumped through his brain. The longtom eats smaller fish. It teeth are not good at cutting fish into pieces, so it swallows fish whole.
Ryan Day from Australia and his colleagues wanted to know how the longtom digests its meaty meals without a stomach, so they ran some chemical tests about the fish.
Day’s results show that the longtom can consume food without the help of a stomach. It uses a special material called trypsin that can break down proteins without acid — although the approach is less efficient than using a stomach.
Because it’s a meat-eating animal, the longtom gets a lot of protein in its food, so it can afford this slightly less efficient system for absorbing it. Two plant-eating fish that Day studies actually had higher levels of trypsin in their body, as their food was low in protein.
Day thinks that the longtom and its stomachless relatives might actually have arrived at an energy-saving solution. He says that although the stomach is critical to many kinds of animal, the organ is “a fairly expensive organ to run”. This perhaps explains why some animals have got rid of theirs.
What does the underlined phrase “get by” mean?

Ryan Day ran the chemical tests in order to find out how the longtom ______.

What plays a key role in the longtom’s digestion process?

Ryan Day’s results show that ______.

Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.　　
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.　　  
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
The best title for the passage would be______.

What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?

Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.

The author wrote the passage to_______.

Let's face it．No one drinks diet soda for the taste．People drink diet soda in the hope that it will help them lose weight or at least keep them from gaining it．Yet it seems to have exactly the opposite effect, according to a new study．
Researchers from the University of Texas said those who drank two or more diet sodas a day had waist size increases that were six times greater than those who didn't drink diet soda．"What we saw was that the more diet sodas a person drank, the more weight they were likely to gain," said Sharon Fowler．
The study was based on data from 474 participants in a large, ongoing research project, where the participants were followed for nearly l0 years．
While the findings are surprising, they also offer some explanations．
Nutrition expert, Melanie Rogers, who works with overweight patients in New York, has found that when patients are switched from regular to diet soda, they don't lose weight at all．"We weren't seeing weight loss necessarily, and that was confusing to us," said Rogers．
So why would diet soda cause weight gain? No one knows for sure yet, but it could be that people think they can eat more if they drink diet soda, and so over-compensate for the missing calories．
A related study found some sweeteners （甜味剂） raised blood sugar levels in some mice．"Data from this and other potential studies suggest that the promotion of diet sodas and artificial sweeteners may be risky," said Helen P．Hazuda, professor at the University of Texas's school of medicine．"They may be free of calories, but not of consequences．"
People drink diet soda to _____．

The new study suggests that drinking diet soda _____．

We can learn from the passage that _____．

The underlined word "They" in the last paragraph probably refers to _____．

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“They didn’t take measures in time”, the expert said firmly and angrily, “otherwise the explosions ________________.” (happen)
“他们没有及时采取措施，”专家坚定且愤怒地说道，“否则爆炸不会发生。”
Soon after getting off his horse, the captain appeared at the second storey windows, _______________ nothing but trees. (see)
下马不久，上尉就出现在二楼的窗口了, 从那里除了树木他什么也没看到。
Rosalyn loves sports. She is proud ________________ competitions and to have broken a record by running 800 meters this year. (participate)
罗莎琳热爱运动。她为今年参加比赛并打破800米赛跑的记录而感到骄傲。
____________________ should be no reason for treating one’s neighbors as strangers. （occupy）
工作繁忙不应该成为“对面不相识”的借口。
He went on a bus tour with a group of people, ________________ before. (travel)
他和一群人乘坐巴士旅行，这群人中的大多数以前从没旅行过。
My son has been away from home for about 2 weeks. I’m looking forward to ___________. (hear)
我儿子离家差不多两周了。我盼望着收到他的来信。
I think that only in this way ______________ the knowledge and skills needed for my job. (acquire) 我认为只有通过这种方式我才能获得工作所需要的知识与技能。
_______________ that China produces one third of the world’s cigarettes. (astonish)
令人震惊的是全世界三分之一的香烟是由中国生产的。
Even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt— you cannot have _________
with machines.(fall)
尽管托尼很聪明，他还得作一番改造——总不能允许女人与机器人相爱吧。
It’s time for me to quit smoking, for I do hope to live as __________________as my grandfather has. (healthy)
我该戒烟了，因为我真的希望能过着像我的祖父一样长寿健康的生活。

请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，就信任这一话题，用英语写一篇短文。
Trust is the most valuable thing in this world. It cannot be bought, or gained by force. It comes deep from one’s soul. It can redeem (救赎) the soul and make the heart full of purity and confidence.
注意：①无须写标题，不得照抄英语提示语；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名及班级名称；
⑤词数为120左右。