湖北黄冈中学高二上学期期末考试英语试题 word版含解析

湖北省黄冈中学2015-2016学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

考试时间：150分钟 满分：120分

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 略

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

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第一节（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。

A

Imagine how boring life would be, if not for creative and useful inventions. Rolling Bench. Sitting on a park bench especially after a rain is a nightmare, and I bet most of you have had that uncomfortable experience of rising to a wet bottom. These benches can accurately save you on a rainy day. They have a handle that can turn the seat surface to face a relatively clean side. Be careful with the people who might turn the handle and land you into water.

Stairway Drawers. Stairways are generally considered a threat as it occupies a lot of space, but what about one that will serve its purpose and can also be used to store things. It’s a pretty interesting concept: the stairway has built-in one push drawer into every step that can store your shoes.

Stairway Library. These stairways are specially made to house your collection of books and magazines or even your favourite music CDs. This fashionable stairway is an obvious must-have for those of you owning your own library. You can even use it to show off your collection of vases and antiques.

Pocket Chair. Say goodbye to pains especially when working in a garden for a long time. You can now carry your foldable, pocket chair with you, wherever you go. Take it along with you if you have to go for a long trip too, you can simply open it up and sit at ease.

21．What should you do first before sitting on a rolling bench after a rain?

A．Remove the surface of the seat. B．Turn the surface upside down. C．Fix a clean surface on the seat. D．Turn the handle repeatedly.

22．Stairway drawers are the names of containers _______. A．for you to house vases and antiques B．for children to show off their CDs C．used to put aside your shoes D．used to collect books and magazines

23．If Mary wants to go for a camp on Sunday, she is advised to take along the _______. A．rolling bench B．stairway library C．pocket chair D．stairway drawers

B

There is a 9-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle (一滩水) between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out they will never let him forget it. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak to him again as long as he lives.

The boy believes his heart is going to stop. He puts his head down and prays: “This is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat.” He looks up from his prayer, and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.

As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and spills the bowl of water in the boy’s lap.

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself. “Thank God!”

Now all of a sudden, instead of being made fun of, the boy gets sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But the ridicule that should have been his is given to someone else—Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. “You’ve done enough!”

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers: “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Susie whispers back: “I wet my pants once too.”

24．What is the boy’s reaction to this incident at first? A．He is calm but worried. B．He thinks he is going to die. C．He is afraid and embarrassed.

D．He prays and asks for help from his teacher.

25．The underlined word “sympathy” probably means _______. A．care B．cheating C．belief D．contribution

26．After Susie spills the bowl of water in the boy’s lap, _______. A．other students ask Susie for help and yell at her

B．the teacher sends the boy downstairs to clean up around his desk C．the little boy becomes really angry and runs away to change his clothes

D．the little boy is saved from embarrassment and gains others’ sympathy 27．From the story, we can conclude that _______.

A．all the children feel wonderful about being able to help

B．the teacher does not know what actually happened to the little boy C．Susie spends a long time coming up with a plan to help the little boy D．Susie is kindhearted and still tries to help even though she is ridiculed

C

He is probably the greatest artist of the 20th century. As CBS said, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) “defined modern art”.

In the past, artists had made paintings look like windows – they painted to make it look like there was depth. You could tell which objects were “close” to you and which objects were “far away”, as if the picture were a window you were looking through.

But Picasso and his colleague Georges Braque (1882-1963) thought that a painting wasn’t a window on the world; it was marks and lines on a flat surface. Why should an object be shown only from one perspective?

Their answer was to break up objects into pieces and show all the perspectives. It was an analytical approach to art, which gave this style of painting its name: “analytic cubism(解析立体主义)”. You can take a closer look at these paintings in Shanghai where nearly 100 pieces of Picasso’s work are on display until Jan 31, 2016. But why did they feel such a need to change things? Well, the world around them was changing. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was proving what humans knew about time and space to be wrong. And it wasn’t only science that was making waves. New political movements like socialism were on the rise. So artists needed to start seeing the world and painting it differently.

A famous and terrifying painting, Guernica (1937) is a picture of the horror caused to the town of Guernica by bombs during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In the picture, the sky actually falls in. Picasso could not have painted it without the skills he had learned during his cubist period. They had prepared him for showing the town being destroyed.

“Instead of showing objects from one viewpoint, Picasso showed them from many different angles,” said The Huffington Post. 28．What is the article mainly about?

A．Why Picasso’s paintings have a lasting appeal. B．What inspired Picasso to become a great artist. C．Picasso’s great, revolutionary achievements in art. D．The background of the birth of Picasso’s analytic cubism.

29．What do we know about the painting revolution started by Picasso and Georges Braque? A．They painted like there was depth in their paintings. B．They painted objects that they had broken into pieces. C．They tried to make their paintings look like windows.

D．They showed the different angles of an object in their paintings. 30．Picasso and Georges Braque started analytic cubism because _______. A．they believed art needed to change to follow the changing world B．they wanted to apply Einstein’s theory of relativity to painting C．Picasso wanted to make waves just like Einstein did D．new political movements had forced art to change

31．The painting Guernica is mentioned in the 7th paragraph to show _______. A．the main themes of Picasso’s paintings B．the philosophy behind Picasso’s paintings

t make sense to them可知，作者知道了单纯用语言是无法说服她所谓的亲戚们的。答案选B。

34．文章一开头就讲了作者的aunt生了女儿之后，她婆婆的言行，接着描述了印度普通人的语言、行为，例如第二段“You are a girl, stay within your limits.”第四段It was the 21st century, yet women had to eat after the men at family gatherings. They had to cook all the family meals and were asked to take jobs that required little skill or education.以及第五段laugh because they didn’t think I could live up to my goals, being a “girl and all”.等。通过对这些言行的描写，作者告诉了我们在她的家乡印度性别歧视的严重性。答案选C。

35．由文章最后一段可知，作者决定不让成见影响自己的未来，而要让它们敦促自己实现自己的梦想，用行动去证明女性也可以突破大家所认为的限制，取得成功。答案选A。

答案：36—40 E C B D G 解析：

本文为说明文，介绍了一种名为“大脑降温”的治疗失眠的方法。

36．本空前面提了一种帮助入睡的建议，后面又提了一种帮助入睡的建议，同时本空后还有一句“还是睡不着吗？（Still no luck？）”可知本空也应该是一种帮助入睡的建议，故选E。

37．本空后面一句“要不要吃一片安眠药呢？”所以本空应该还是在说“睡不着”，故选C。

38．本空接在一个新的概念之后，并且已经明说cerebral hypothermia并不是一个很复杂的事情，因此，接下来就开始解释它是什么，故选B。

39．本空前文提到这些被试者睡觉时额头上都戴着柔软的塑料帽子。本空后面提到水从水管中流过，并且水温被调整。因此本空应该承上启下，说明这些帽子里是有水管的。故选D。 40．本空前面是在描述实验过程，且有非常明显的时间提示the first two nights of testing, during the next two nights, then … for two nights.故选G。

答案：

41-45 C B A C B 46-50 D A B C D 51-55 C A D A B 56-60 D C B A C 解析：

本文为记叙文，记叙了作者曾经特别不想做救济穷人的慈善，后来在帮助的过程中因为一件小事又改变了想法的故事。

41．前文提到“特别不想做某事”，此处说这就是我“感受”到的，故选C。 42．前文是不想做慈善，接着说感受变化了，因此是一个表示转折的词，故选B。 43．根据后文，对待事物要“积极”一点，最终就会喜欢上这件事。故选A。 44．参考43题解析。42空后方的finally也提示了本空的答案为C。 45．做慈善是以志愿者的身份，选择B。

46．“我”得在那里做志愿工作至少20小时，serve“服务”符合题意，选择D。 47．在厨房我们碰到了几个熟人，run into“偶然遇见”符合题意，选择A。 48．根据后文I had never talked with any of them earlier可知，“我”之前从不跟他们说话，因为“我”不太会社交。socially awkward，不太会社交的，选择B。 49．前文有“我”不会社交，接着说worse still“更糟糕的是”，可知母亲离开了，就剩下“我”一个人跟他们一块工作。答案选C。

50．根据后文like rushing water可知，一大批无家可归的人“涌入”，答案选D。 51．句意：我给了她一个冷的三明治。答案选C。

52．句意：她走的时候，我发现她穿着一件很大的外套。选A。 53．因为外套很大，所以在身上松松垮垮的，答案选D。

54．句意：跟这个小姑娘相比，我拥有的真的是太多了。compared with与……相比，选A。

55．跟这个无家可归的小女孩相比，我实在是太“幸运”了，选B。 56．在那一刻之后，我的心态发生了变化，答案选D。

57．既然已经改变了心态，就会积极去参加慈善活动，因此也“克服”了不会与人打交道的缺点，答案选C。

58．46空所在句子提到了，至少要做20个小时，the required 20 hours“要求的20个小时”，故选B。

59．make a difference有所作为，有所贡献，符合句意，选择A。

60．句意：只要对事物抱有一个开放的心态，就可以取得更多成就，成为一个全面的人。答案选C。

答案： 61. a 62. ages 63. about 64. it 65. be found 66. standing 67. excitement 68. who 69. left/have 70. added/should add 解析：

本文为议论文。通常情况下，当所有的活动以常规的方式进行的时候就会变得无聊，最初的期待和信心也许会在很短的时间里消退。这个规律对于各个年龄阶段的人都是一样的。文章通过几个事例正名了这一观点。

61．答案：a。考查冠词。on a routine basis，类似的表达还有on a regular basis, on a daily basis等。

62．答案：ages。考查名词单复数。前面有代词all修饰，应使用age的复数ages。 63．答案：about。考查介词。be excited about对某事感到激动。 64．答案：it。考查代词。It is… that…是强调句型。

65．答案：be found。考查动词的被动语态。这里是指还是那些玩具，但是到了一月就被发现都收到地下室去了。跟在情态动词can后面，使用be found。

66．答案：standing。考查非谓语动词。这是一个独立主格结构，前面句子已经有了动词is，且each前无连词，故使用非谓语动词；此处stand与each是主动的关系，使用现在分词standing。

67．答案：excitement。考查词性转换。本处应该是介词with的宾语，故使用名词excitement。 68．答案：who。考查定语从句关系代词。空前有逗号，是非限制性定语从句，且先行词adults是人，故使用who，不能使用that。

69．答案：left/have。left考查动词时态。句意：只要一退休，所有那些爱好就跟他们刚刚离开的工作一样无聊了。使用一般过去时态或现在完成时态。

70．答案：added/should add。考查动词虚拟语气。It is high time that sb did sth.到了某人该做某事的时间了。此结构比It is high time that sb should do sth.更为常用。

答案：

Dear Chris,

I have some good news for you!

A new Huangmei Opera, The Dream of Red Mansion, will be put on in the city’s newly-built Huangmei Opera Grand Theatre at 2:00 p.m. on January 30th, 2016. I know you take a fancy to Chinese culture, the local operas in particular. I hope this opportunity will not only make you happy, but also satisfy your interest in Chinese operas. I’m sure you will enjoy yourself if you come.

After the show, I strongly recommend that we take a brief tour around the Yiai Lake Park nearby, where, I believe, you can take a closer look at nature and you will be rewarded with a wonderful state of mind.

I do hope you can come and join me. Looking forward to your reply.

Sincerely yours,

Li Hua

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