1、2011-2012学年江苏省邗江区高一下学期期中考试英语试卷与答案（带解析） 单项选择 * I dont feel well; I think Im _ with the flu. A going on B getting in touch C putting off D coming down 答案： D - It is said that Tom considered the English exam to be very difficult. - I have heard that, but he never studied hard. It is “_”. A A burden of
2、ones choice is not felt. B Actions speak louder than words. C A bad workman always blames his tools. D A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 答案： C - The exam was too difficult, wasnt it - Yes, _ could not pass it. A somebody B anybody C nobody D everybody 答案： D Im sure your
3、 suggestion will _ the problem. A be contributed to solving B be contributed to solve C contribute to solve D contribute to solving 答案： D The bank is reported in the local newspaper _ in broad daylight yesterday A to be robbed B to have been robbed C robbed D having been robbed 答案： B The company has
4、 introduced new technologies from the US, thus _ its production. A has increased B increased C increasing D being increased 答案： C The door burst open and _, shouting with anger. A in rushed the crowd B rushed in the crowd C the crowd in rushed D in the crowed rushed 答案： A It was at the very beginnin
5、g _ Mr. White made the decision _ we should send more firefighters there. A that; that B when; which C there; what D where; what 答案： A _ more and more people may refer to the Internet for up-to-minute news, the newspaper will not disappear. A When B While C Since D As 答案： B - If he had been warned,
6、he _ that food yesterday. - Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately. A would not take B would not have taken C had not taken D didnt take 答案： B The approach _ the problem is contrary _ our expectation. A to; to B of; to C to; on D for; on 答案： A What _ me was that there was a _ look on her fa
7、ce due to the _ problem. A confuses; confusing; confusing B confused; confused; confused C confused; confused; confusing D confused; confusing; confusing 答案： C Our country _ great changes in the last 30 years and it is no longer it used to be. A went through; what B went through; that C has experien
8、ced; that D has experienced; what 答案： D Every student as well as teachers who _ to visit the museum _ asked to be at the school gate on time. A is; is B are; are C is; are D are; is 答案： D _ about the missing boys safety, the police stepped up their search. A Concerning B Concerned C Being concerned
9、D Concern 答案： B 完型填空 One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light. I was just about to draw the 36 as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Hel
10、p! ” It 37 to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too 38 to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just 39 someone was in 40 . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick, 41 that this might come to be useful, too. 42 w
11、ith these, I went out into the garden. 43 I heard the cry. There was no 44 that it came from the trees at the end of the garden. “Whos there ” I 45 as I walked, rather 46 , down the path that 47 to the trees. But there was no 48 . With the help of my torch I 49 the whole of that part of the garden a
12、nd the lower 50 of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the _51_ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me. _52 feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and 53 away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help!
13、 ”, this time from 54 my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting 55 of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot! 【小题1】 A gun B picture C curtains D car A seemed B looked C sounded D proved A far B distant C dark D black A as if B even though C on time D in case A difficult B power C t
14、rouble D ease A thinking B wishing C demanding D requesting A Supplied B Loaded C Armed D Decorated A Again and again B Now and then C From time to time D Once again A wonder B doubt C problem D question A spoke out B called out C got out D said out A seriously B nervously C curiously D hurriedly A
15、led B went C passed D joined A person B body C answer D voice A studied B searched C tested D examined A roots B branches C leaves D bushes A beginning B end C conclusion D introduction A But B Yet C Already D Still A put B took C threw D cleared A far off B down below C left to D right behind A on
16、top B at the foot C inside D Outside 答案： 【小题 1】 C 【小题 2】 A 【小题 3】 C 【小题 4】 D 【小题 5】 C 【小题 6】 A 【小题 7】 C 【小题 8】 D 【小题 9】 B 【小题 10】 B 【小题 11】 B 【小题 12】 A 【小题 13】 C 【小题 14】 D 【小题 15】 B 【小题 16】 C 【小题 17】 D 【小题 18】 A 【小题 19】 D 【小题 20】 A 阅读理解 American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he h
17、ad lived for 44 days without food on October 19, 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of Londons main tourist attractions. Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately went t
18、o hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars
19、 for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends. Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention. In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材 ) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 6
20、2 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar (柱子 ) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes. “I think a lot of people are unable to accept that theyre able to do what they can do,” he said. “They dont realize we can survive. The hu
21、man being is an amazing creation.” But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste. 【小题 1】 It is for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation. A pleasant B delicious C da
22、ngerous D important 【小题 2】 Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that . A he had become blind B he had serious back pains C he lost his sense of taste D he was in weak health 【小题 3】 Which of the following can best describe David Blaine A Serious. B Adventur
23、ous. C Smart. D Crazy. 【小题 4】 Which of the following is NOT true about David Blaine A Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box. B Blaine was born and brought up in England. C In Blaines opinion, people can create a wonder. D Blaine didnt have any food for 44 days. 答案： 【小
24、题 1】 C 【小题 2】 A 【小题 3】 B 【小题 4】 B Not everyone goes to university after high school graduation. Some work, others join the army and an increasing number worldwide are taking a “gap year” to travel or do community service in their own countries or abroad. They are studying sharks off the Australian c
25、oast, building schools in Mexico and learning Spanish or Italian. The concept of a gap year may not be new, but the recent surge (涌现 ) of interest certainly is. Some students are putting off admissions. Others, who dont get into the college of their choice, are taking a year to explore new frontiers
26、 before reapplying. Students are choosing to take a breather; they are thinking. They are not sure what they are going to do. They are going and exploring some of their interests. They are getting experience they can take to the school they finally go to. It is an idea actively encouraged by college
27、s. Princeton University has just launched a “bridge year” program that will send 10 percent of its incoming class to do volunteer work abroad, starting in 2009. And the Harvard has spent the last 30 years urging incoming students to take a gap year. “Many speak of their year away as a life-changing
28、experience or a turning point” says Harvard admissions director Marlin Lewis. “Many come to college with new opinions about their academic plans, their extracurricular interests and the career possibilities they observed in their year away.” 【小题 1】 The reasons why some take a gap year are the follow
29、ing EXCEPT that _. A they hate studying B they dont know what to do C they want to get experience D they want to know their real interests 【小题 2】 A student wont _ in a gap year. A travel B join the army C do community service D learn a foreign language 【小题 3】 After a gap year, one would probably _.
30、A take another year off B earn a lot of money C be refused by his college D have new ideas about their future career 【小题 4】 From the passage we know that _. A more and more students will take a gap year B fewer and fewer colleges will encourage his students to take a gap year C the gap year can only
31、 give one some experience about society D nobody will change his own interests after the gap year 答案： 【小题 1】 A 【小题 2】 B 【小题 3】 D 【小题 4】 A Shopping is not as simple as you think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf. Coloring,
32、for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packages in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive foods, like chocolates, are gold and silver. When some kind of pain killer was br
33、ought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package because we think of it as safe, and white as calm. The size of a product can attract a shopper. B
34、ut quite often a bottle doesnt contain as much as it appears to. It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging. The most successful producers know that its not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap
35、, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.” 【小题 1】 Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text A The cost of its package. B The price of the prod
36、uct. C The color of its package. D The brand name of the product. 【小题 2】 The underlined part in paragraph 3 means that the colors _. A attracted the customers strongly B had weak effect on the customers C tricked the customers into shopping D caused the customers to lose interest 【小题 3】 Which of the
37、 following would be the best title for this text A Choice of Good Products B Disadvantages of Products C Effect of Packaging on Shopping D Brand Names and Shopping Tricks 答案： 【小题 1】 C 【小题 2】 D 【小题 3】 C You feel generally depressed and unable to concentrate. Your pattern of daily activity may change：
38、 you find yourself awake and active in the middle of the night； you sleep late into the day. You stay in your room and have little contact with people except with those who speak your language. In your mind， you criticize the people around you； You are constantly comparing between life here and the
39、perfect life back home. Above a11, you are homesick almost all the time. If you ever find yourself behaving in these ways， you are probably suffering from culture shock. Culture shock is a psychological condition that sometimes has physical effects. It affects people who have moved away from an envi
40、ronment where they know how to live into a new environment where much is unfamiliar to them-the food，the weather, the language， and especially the unwritten rules for social behavior. Culture shock is caused. therefore， by a lack of familiarity with the system of rules that the new society uses for
41、everyday living. Language is an obvious example of one type of these rules. If your language is limited， even the simplest task can suddenly become difficult for you. However, knowledge of the language doesnt make you free from the effects of culture shock as many Britons in the United States and ma
42、ny Americans in Britain will experience. Most people are unaware that each culture has its own rules for social behavior； they certainly think that polite， civilized people behave the same way worldwide. This mistaken belief will cause you to behave and judge the behavior of others according to the
43、rules you learned as a member of your own culture. If the rules are different, then people will misunderstand your behavior, and you will misunderstand theirs. How can you deal with culture shock First, you need to realize that every newcomer suffers from some culture shock. Youre not the only case.
44、 Second， remember that culture shock can be cured. The process of recovery will start as you begin to become used to the new culture. Of course learning the language will help remove the obstacles to communication and will ease the job of making Mends with people. Recognizing and learning the new cu
45、ltural rules of behavior, however, may be just as important. Youll still have emotional reactions to unfamiliar situations but you11 find yourself making jokes about them rather than condemning the entire society as “stupid.” The jokes are a good sign： they show that you are recovering. 【小题 1】 Whats
46、 the main idea of the first paragraph A the causes of culture shock B some signs of culture shock C the cure for culture shock D an explanation of culture shock 【小题 2】 What does the underlined word obstacles mean A things that make a task easy B things that make at ask enjoyable C things that make a
47、 task difficult D things that make at ask funny 【小题 3】 What can be concluded when you find yourself making jokes about new culture A You are about to recover from culture shock. B You have completely got rid of culture shock. C You never suffered from culture shock before. D Youre in culture shock f
48、or many years. 【小题 4】 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage A The passage suggests that culture shock makes you miss your family badly. B A good knowledge of the language will prevent you suffering from culture shock. C In the writers opinion， the social rules for polite， civilized behavior are international. D If yo
