1、2011-2012学年福建省福清东张中学高二下学期期末考试英语试卷与答案（带解析） 单项选择 * Would it be_ for you to pick me up at four oclock and take me to the airport A free B vacant C handy D convenient 答案： D It is still unknown_ caused the accident last Saturday. A that B when C what D how 答案： C _ wants to stay in a hotel has to pay thei
2、r own. A Anyone B The one C Whoever D Who 答案： C The experiment shows that proper amounts of exercise ,if _regularly, can improve our health. A being carried out B carrying out C carried out D to carry out 答案： C It is one of the funniest things _on the Internet so far this year. A finding B being fou
3、nd C to find D found 答案： D To learn English well, we should find opportunities to hear English_ as much as we can. A speak B speaking C spoken D to speak 答案： C -You effort is sure to pay _ -Thank you for you encouragement. A off B back C for D down 答案： A Although he failed when he tried doing the ex
4、periment for the first time, he decided to try it_. A once in a while B at once C once more D once 答案： C Is there something I can do now -Yes._ the meat for cooking meat ball. A Cut in B Cut out C Cut up D Cut through 答案： C I tried phoning Maggies office in the morning, but I couldnt _ . A go over B
5、 get through C put up D join up 答案： B I had been working for a whole day at that time and was really _a good rest. A in place of B in search of C in memory of D in need of 答案： D She is too fat, but she cant _ sweets. A remove B object C reject D resist 答案： D When everybody was listening carefully, t
6、he noise of several people fighting outside_ the professors speech. A troubled B excited C interrupted D disturbed 答案： C _ the chance, otherwise youll regret it. A Arrest B Seize C Catch D Hold 答案： B People who cant _between colours are said to be colour -blind. A recognize B separate C distinguish
7、D identity 答案： C 完型填空 Because my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till Id got one. I had seen an agency advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the 36 in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as 37 as if I were go
8、ing on the stage. Finding the 38 quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter without knocking, if you please.” The simple atmosphere of the office 39 me. The woman looked carefully at me 40 through her glasses, and then 41 me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I
9、 started to feel rather 42 ,She wondered why I was looking for this sort of 43 . I felt even more helpless, when she told me that it would be 44 to get a job without 45 .I wondered whether I ought to leave, 46 the telephone on her desk rang, I heard her say:“ 47 , Ive got someone in the 48 at this v
10、ery moment, who might 49 .” She wrote down a 50 , and held it out to me, saying: “Ring up this lady. She wants a 51 immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.” “Oh yes,” said I 52 having cooked for more than four in my life. I 53 her again and again, a
11、nd rushed out to the 54 telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for. I spent the next few hours 55 cook books. 【小题 1】 A. bed B house C. agency D. office 【小题2】 A proud B please C nervous D worried A famil
12、y B door C place D stage A calmed B excited C frightened D disturbed A as usual B for a while C in a minute D once again A advised B examined C informed D questioned A encouraged B dissatisfied C hopeless D pleased A place B job C advice D help A difficult B helpless C possible D unusual A ability B
13、 experience C knowledge D study A after B since C until D when A Above all B As a matter of fact C As a result D In spite of that A family B house C office D restaurant A hire B accept C suit D offer A letter B name C note D number A cook B help C teacher D secretary A almost B never C nearly D real
14、ly A answered B promised C thanked D told A outside B local C closest D nearest A borrowing B buying C reading D writing 答案： 【小题 1】 B 【小题 2】 C 【小题 3】 C 【小题 4】 A 【小题 5】 B 【小题 6】 D 【小题 7】 C 【小题 8】 B 【小题 9】 A 【小题 10】 B 【小题 11】 D 【小题 12】 B 【小题 13】 C 【小题 14】 C 【小题 15】 D 【小题 16】 A 【小题 17】 B 【小题 18】 C 【小题
15、19】 D 【小题 20】 C 【小题 1】本题考查名词。冲出家门去中介公司。 - 【小题 2】本题考查形容词。第一次求职当然心里紧张了，而且后面有仿佛在舞台上，这时人们感觉往往是很紧张的。 【小题 3】本题考查名词。中介机构当然应该是一个地方。 【小题 4】本题考查形容词。简朴的环境使我平静下来， excited使兴奋，frightened 使人害怕， disturbed扰乱，都不合题意。 【小题 5】本题考查副词短语。这位妇女透过眼镜很仔细地看了我一会儿。 as USUal 像往常一样； in a minute一分钟内 (后 )； once again又一次。 【小题 6】本题考查动词。后
16、面有动词 answer所以这 question比较合适，对于求职者，中介机构当然要了解询问一些问题。 【小题 7】本题考查动词。后面有 more hopeless表心理状态的变化，所以开始应为 hopeless。 【小题 8】本题考查名词。到中介机构当然要找工作了。 【小题 9】本题考查形容词。感到无望肯定是有困难。 【小题 10】本题考查名词。 ability能力， knoMedge知识， experience经验，找工作而没有工作经验就会有些难，根据句意选 experience合适。 【小题 11】本题 考查连词。 When就在这个时候。 【小题 12】本题考查副词短语。 Above al
17、l最重要的是， as a result结果， In spite ofthat尽管， As a matter of fact实际上，根据句意， B最合适。 【小题 13】本题考查名词。介绍现在的情形当然是在办公室了。 【小题 14】本题考查动词。 suit适合 (hire雇佣， accept接受，不合题意 ) 【小题 15】本题考查名词。后面谈打电话肯定是电话号码。 【小题 16】本题考查名词。下文谈做饭，这肯定是需要厨师， help帮手 (可能帮助干其 他的事 )， teacher教师， secretary秘书不合题意。 【小题 17】本题考查副词。后面有 in my life，又有完成式的分
18、词结构用 never合适。 【小题 18】本题考查动词得到工作当然要感谢。 【小题 19】本题考查形容词。急于得到一份工作，当然要去最近的电话亭。 【小题 20】本题考查动词要当厨师肯定要读烹饪方面的书，花几个小时买借写，不合题意。 阅读理解 People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb, youre
19、wrong. Many Americans are learning to climb in city gyms. Here，people are learning on special climbing walls. The climbing wall goes straight up and has small holding places for hands and feet. How do people climb the wall To climb， you need special shoes and a harness (保护带 ) around your chest to ho
20、ld you. There are ropes tied to your harness. The ropes hold you in place so that you dont fall. A beginners wall is usually about 15 feet high, and you climb straight up. There are small pieces of metal that stick out for you to stand on and hold on to. Sometimes its easy to see the next piece of m
21、etal. Sometimes, its not. The most difficult part is to control your fear. Its normal for humans to be afraid of falling, so its difficult not to feel fear. But when you move away from the wall, the harness and the ropes hold you， and you begin to feel safe. You move slowly until you reach the top.
22、Climbing attracts people because its good exercise for almost everyone. You use your whole body, especially your arms and legs. This sport gives your body a complete workout. When you climb， both your mind and your body can become stronger. 【小题 1】 What can we infer from the passage A People are fair
23、ly interested in climbing nowadays. B It is impossible to build up ones body by climbing. C People can only learn the skill of climbing outdoors. D It is always easy to see holding places in climbing. 【小题 2】 The most difficult thing to do in wall climbing is_. A to tie ropes to your harness B to con
24、trol your fear C to move away from the wall D to climb straight up 【小题 3】 The word “workout” underlined in the last paragraph most probably means_. A settlement B exercise C excitement D tiredness 【小题 4】 Why does the author write this passage A To tell people where to find gyms. B To prove the basic
25、 need for climbing. C To encourage people to climb mountains. D To introduce the sport of wall climbing. 答案： 【小题 1】 A 【小题 2】 B 【小题 3】 B 【小题 4】 D 【小题 1】判断推理题。短文的第一段和最后一段分别有两句话： People believe that climbing can do good to health. Climbing attracts people because its good exercise for almost everyone.
26、这也分别是每段的主题句。 【小题 2】细节查找题。第二段倒数第三行： The most difficult is to control you fear. 【 小题 3】词义推断题。第三段第一句 Climbing attracts people because its good exercsie for almost everyone.这是本段的主题句。下文进一步谈到在进行攀岩时身体的这个部位得到全面锻炼。 【小题 4】判断推理题。全文谈到攀岩的地点、攀岩的注意事项、攀岩的好处等，总之，写作目的是向人们介绍攀岩这项运动。 Everybody may have seen the film “De
27、ath on the Nile (n. 尼罗河 )”, but nobody can imagine that the writer of the story, Agatha Christie, saved a baby in a most unusual way. In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Deleville. Doctors there were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was sent to a famous hospital in L
28、ondon, where there were many excellent doctors. The baby was so seriously ill that a team of doctors hurried to examine the baby without delay. The doctors, too, were puzzled by the babys illness and they also became discouraged. Just then a nurse asked to speak to them. “I think the baby is sufferi
29、ng from thallium (n. 铊 ) poisoning. ” said the nurse. “A few days ago, I read a story A Pale Horse written by Agatha Christie. Someone uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are written in the book. They are exactly the same as the babys.” “Youre very good at observing things,” said a doctor, “a
30、nd you may be right. Well carry out some tests and find out whether the cause is thallium poisoning or not.” The tests proved that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium. Once they knew the cause, the doctors were able to give her correct treatment. The baby soon got well and was sent back to
31、 Deleville A week later, it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (n. 杀虫剂 ) used in Deleville. 【小题 1】 The baby was sent to a hospital in London because _. A her parents were living in London then B the hospitals in Deleville were full at that time C she was the daughter of
32、 a famous doctor in London D doctors in Deleville were not sure about the cause of her illness 【小题 2】 When the baby was first sent to the hospital in London, her illness was considered to be _. A quite easy to treat B the result of thallium poisoning C a common one D extraordinarily serious 【小题 3】 F
33、rom this passage it seems that the babys illness had something to do with _. A a dead writer B the water in Deleville C a dangerous murderer D a harmful substance (n. 物质 ) used to kill pests 【小题 4】 As far as we can tell from the story, Agatha Christie _. A had never met this baby B had spent a long
34、time studying the babys illness C visited the baby both in Deleville and London D gave the nurse some advice on the telephone 答案： 【小题 1】 D 【小题 2】 D 【小题 3】 D 【小题 4】 A 【小题 1】细节理解题。结合文章 Doctors there were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was sent to a famous hospital in London可知婴儿被送往
35、伦敦一医院的主要原因在于 原来的医生不能检查出其病因。 【小题 2】推理判断题。结合文章 The baby was so seriously ill that a team of doctors hurried to examine the baby without delay. The doctors, too, were puzzled by the babys illness and they also became discouraged可知答案：。 【小题 3】推理判断题。结合 “I think the baby is suffering from thallium (n. 铊 )
36、poisoning. ” 及下文的描述可知婴儿的病症正好与下文中的情形相吻合。由此推断，此婴儿的病因可能是由铊中毒引起的。 【小题 4】推理判断题。纵观全文， Agatha Christie在写小说时，他并未想到其情节会拯救一婴 儿，所有的一切纯属巧合。 I fell in love with England because it was quaint (典雅 )all those little houses, looking terri-bly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls houses. I loved the countryside and the
37、 pubs, and I loved London. Ive slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think its an ugly town now. Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good man-ners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good man-ners
38、people shut doors heavi ly in your face and politeness is disappearing. I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. Youre forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to
39、go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice. As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public trans-port after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now Im afraid. The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well uni
40、ted and thats typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone. 【小题 1】 The writer doesnt like London because she _. A is not used to the life there now B has lived there for s
41、eventeen years C prefers to live in an old-fashioned house D has to be polite to everyone she meets there 【小题 2】 Where do people usually meet their friends in England A In a cafe. B In a restaurant. C In a nightclub. D In a pub. 【小题 3】 The underlined part “it” (in Para. 4) refers to_. A a taxi B the
42、 money C a bomb D public transport 【小题 4】 The writer took her neighbour to France for Christmas because he _. A felt lonely in England B had never been to France C was from a typical French family D didnt like the British idea of family 答案： 【小题 1】 A 【小题 2】 D 【小题 3】 D 【小题 4】 A 【小题 1】细节理解题。第二段首句 “Thin
43、gs have changed. ”明确点出：我所熟悉或习惯的伦敦已经改变了 , 变得我不适应了。 【小题 2】细节理解题。根据 “To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, ”可以判断出来。 【小题 3】词义理解题。结合上文 I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public trans-port after 10 p.可知 it 指代 public trans-port 【小题 4】细节理解题。 参考文章最后一句话 but I took him to France for
44、Christmas once because he was always alone。 If the world were a village of 1,000 people， it would include: 584 Asians 124 Africans 95 Eastern and Western Europeans 84 Latin Americans 55 former Soviets (including Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other national groups) 52 North Americans 6 Austra
45、lians and New Zealanders The people of the village would speak: 165 Mandarin 86 English 83 Hindu/Urdu 64 Spanish 58 Russian 37 Arabic The above list covers the mother tongues of only half the village. One-third of the people in the village are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65. Just under
46、 half of the married women in the village have access to modem equipments. This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for lack of food, 1 from can-cer. Two of the deaths will be of babies born within the year. With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village next
47、 year will be 1,018. In this village of 1,000 persons, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 re-ceive only 2 percent of the income. About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water. Of the 670 adults in the village, half can not read nor write. The village has a total yea
48、rly budget , public and private, of over $3 million$ 3 ,000 per person if it is distributed evenly. Of the total $3 million: $ 181,000 goes to weapons and warfare $ 159,000 to education $ 132,000 to health care These weapons are under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together. 【小题 1】 Which of the following is true about Mandarin acc
