2012-2013学年度第二学期普宁二中期中考

高一级英语试卷（2013.4）

命题人：张彩翼 陈静敏

第一部分 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项。

I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real ____1__.

He had gone out of the study for some 2 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see what was on his 3 . In the 4 was a small piece of paper on which were written the 5 “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.

A(n) 6 boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the 7 . I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a 8 until the start of the exam so I could not 9 reading it.

When the headmaster 10 , I was looking out of the window.

I should have told him what had 11 then. It would have been so 12 to say: “I’m sorry, but I 13 the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to 14 it.”

The chance passed and I did not take it. I sat for the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t mean to cheat, but it was still 15 anyhow.

That was thirty-eight years ago when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, nor have I tried to explain to myself why not.

1. A. plan B. fault C. grade D. luck

2. A. reason B. course C. example D. vacation

3. A. book B. head C. clothes D. desk

4. A. drawer B. book C. middle D. box

5. A. names B. words C. ideas D. messages

6. A. honest B. handsome C. friendly D. active

7. A. desk B. paper C. book D. drawer

8. A. question B. key C. note D. secret

9. A. help B. consider C. practise D. forget

10. A. disappeared B. stayed C. returned D. went

11. A. existed B. remained C. happened D. continued

12. A. tiring B. easy C. important D. difficult

13. A. saw B. gave C. set D. made

14. A. repeat B. defend C. correct D. change

15. A. cheating B. having C. staying D. finding

第二节 语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在非选择题答题卷上标号为16—25的相应位置。

Have you ever lived abroad？When living overseas in a place where people speak a different language，__16__ can be difficult to make yourself understood even in __17__（relative）simple but important areas of life，like shopping and getting around town. It can be really upset trying to ask for something in a store or to tell the taxi driver __18__ you are going.

Sometimes you may be at a __19__（lose）as to what to do；sometimes you are certain that people understand you __20__ are just pretending that they don't；and other times they make a very __21__（consider）effort to communicate with you.

You should also be prepared to make changes in the diet and get accustomed to __22__ local foods and the limited selection of familiar foods in the stores and restaurants.

Besides，you will experience some stress and anxiety __23__ you are living in a different culture with different values __24__ your own. You may find that some of your cherished and deeply __25__（hold）values about life may not be equally important to members of your new host culture.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in Eastern England. This could end the worries of many parents fearful for their children's safety on the roads．

Until now the local government have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed．Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead, as long as the arrangement will not lose money and children taking part will be attending their nearest school．

The new plan is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington School．The children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government have said in the past that they will not agree to provide free transport to the school．But now they have agreed to offer a sum of money for a bus service from Milton to Impington and back, a plan which has the support of the school's headmaster．

Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part．Final calculations have still to be carried out, but a government official has said the cost to parents should be less than ￡20 a term．

They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington．The same bus would now just make one more journey to pick up the Milton children．The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see if they would like to take part in the new plan．

26. What is the aim of the plan?

A. To prevent the students' road accidents．

B. To relieve the traffic pressure．

C. To save time for the parents and students．

D. To help the parents save money．

27. How can the local government arrange the new bus service at a low cost?

A. By letting the bus run in the morning only．

B. By limiting the number of the students．

C. By obtaining the support from the headmaster．

D. By linking the new bus service with the existing one．

28. The new bus service will be paid for by ______．

A. the parents B. the local government

C. the bus company D. the local government and the parents

29. Which of the following is possible if the plan is carried out?

A. The bus company will make much more money．

B. The children can choose whatever school they like．

C. The parents can get rid of their worries．

D. The students in Impington School can have free bus rides．

30. This passage is most probably ______．

A. a personal letter B. an advertisement

C. a headmaster's report D. a newspaper article

B

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

Tea remained scarce (缺少的) and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so tea-time was born.

31．Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

A. The Britons got expensive tea from India.

B. Tea reached Britain from Holland.

C． The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

D． It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.

32．This passage mainly discusses_____________.

A．the history of tea drinking in Britain

B．how tea became a popular drink in Britain

C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea

D．how tea-time was born

33．Tea became a popular drink in Britain________________.

A. in eighteenth century B．in sixteenth century

C．in the seventeenth century D．in the late seventeenth century

34．People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because ___________.

A．it tasted like milk

B．it tasted more pleasant

C．it became a popular drink

D. Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea

35．We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of　________.

A．a famous French lady B．the ancient Chinese

C．the upper social class D．people in Holland

C

People in the United States honor their parents with 2 special days: Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May and Father’s Day on the 3rd Sunday in June. These days are to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care. These two days offer an opportunity to think about the changing roles of mothers and fathers. More mothers now work outside the home and more fathers must help with childcare.

These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On mother’s Day, people wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is dead. Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It’s also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery(grave). On these days families get together at home