英语高二期中试卷下学期精编

英语高二期中试卷下学期I. 阅读理解 (每小题2分，满分30分)

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In the past, many disabled Chinese people led very restricted (受限制的) lives. They had little chance to find work or support themselves. But their situation has improved dramatically over recent decades.

In the past five years, the government has been stepping up efforts to help employ disabled people. Huge investments have been made in training, and many disabled people have found jobs and become financially independent.

When Wu Zihe was growing up, she was like a prisoner in her home. Having a job was something she could only dream about. But now she is famous for her art. Wu is working on a landscape. She said, “I can earn 30 or 40 yuan for paintings like this, if they are sold in groups. If I sell them separately, I can get about 100 yuan. It only takes me one day to finish one painting, so I can earn 1,000 to 2,000 yuan a month.”

Wu Zihe practices knife-drawing, which originated in her hometown Dunhua. If one has the eyes, the brain and hands, it takes about a year to learn the basic techniques.

Dunhua government’s official Zhang Chunhua said, “We think it suits disabled people very well. So the government spent 10 million yuan to set up this knife-

painting training center for them.”

Training in the center is free. Even the materials are provided by the government. Since last year, the center has trained over 200 disabled persons like Wu Zihe. They usually earn 500 to 1,000 yuan per month. Sometimes they make as much as 5,000 yuan. That’s much higher than average salaries in the area.

This year, the city has set up a center to sell these works. Art fans from more than ten countries and regions have bought paintings.

1. How was life for the disabled people in the past?

A. They had to stay at home and had little chance to find jobs.

B. According to the law, they led very restricted lives.

C. With the help of the government, they led a comfortable life.

D. They had to learn to paint to earn a living.

2. From the passage we can learn that ________.

A. the disabled had to earn a living by working

B. all the disabled have found jobs and become financially independent these years

C. the disabled people’s living situation has improved greatly in recent years

D. more and more disabled people will learn to paint

3. From the last paragraph we can conclude that ____.

A. Dunhua has set up a center to sell knife-drawing works

B. perhaps some of Wu Zihe’s paintings could be brought abroad

C. only the disabled people’s paintings could be sold to foreigners

D. people who like knife-drawing art have bought the disabled people’s paintings

4. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. A kind of folk art in China.

B. Knife-drawing was first developed in Dunhua.

C. A knife-painting training center in Dunhua.

D. China helps the disabled find jobs.

B

5. According to the passage, winners        .

A. deal with problems rather than blame others

B. meet with fewer difficulties in their lives

C. have responsible and able colleagues

D. blame themselves rather than others

6. The underlined word remedy in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to        .

A. avoid  B.  accept  C. improve   D. consider

7. When your colleague brings about a problem, you should         .

A. find a better way to handle the problem

B. blame him for his lack of responsibility

C. tell him to find the cause of the problem

D. ask a more able colleague for help

8. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. A Winner’s Opportunity.  B. A Winner’s Secret.

C. A Winner’s Problem.      D. A Winner’s Achievement.

C

What will people die of 100 years from now? If you think that is a simple question, you have not been paying attention to the revolution that is taking place in bio-technology(生物技术). With the help of new medicine, the human body will last a very long time. Death will come mainly from accidents, murder and war. Today’s leading killers, such as heart disease, cancer, and aging itself, will become distant memories.

In discussion of technological changes, the Internet gets most of the attention these days. But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times. How long can humans live? Human brains were known to decide the final death. Cells(细胞) are the basic units of all living things, and until recently, scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond l20 years because the basic materials of cells, such as those of brain cells, would not last forever. But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine. Sometime between 2050 and 2100, medicine will have advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so, people will be able to take medicine to repair their organs ( The medicine, made up of the basic building materials of life, will build new brain cells, heart cells, and so on—in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.

It is exciting to imaging that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic condition of human existence, but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.

9.According to the passage, human death IS now mainly caused by    .

A、diseases and aging　B、accidents and war   C、accidents and aging　D、heart disease and war

10.In the author’ s opinion, today’s most important advance in technology lies in    .

A、medicine　　　　B、the Internet     C、brain cells 　　　D、human organ

11.Humans may live longer in the future because    .

A、heart disease will be far away from us

B、human brains can decide the final death

C、the basic materials of cells will last forever

D、human organs can be repaired by new medicine

12.We can learn from the passage that    .

A、human life will not last more than 120 years in the future

B、humans have to take medicine to build new skin cells now

C、much needs to be done before humans can have a longer life

D、we have already solved the technical problems in building new cells

D

Among all the malignancies (恶性肿瘤), lung cancer is the biggest killer: more than 10,000 Americans die of the disease a year. Giving up smoking is one of the obvious ways to reduce the risk, but another answer may lie in the kitchen. According to a new report, even heavy smokers may be protected from developing lung cancer by a simple dietary measure: a daily portion of carrots, spinach or any other vegetable or fruit containing a form of vitamin A called carotene (胡萝卜素).

The finding, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, is a part of a long-range investigation of diet and disease. Since 1957 a team of American researchers has monitored the dietary habits and medical histories of 2,000 middle-aged men employed by the Western Electric Co. in Chicago. Led by Dr Richard Shekelle of Chicago’s Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, the researchers recently began to sort out the links between the subjects’ dietary patterns and cancer. Other studies of animals and humans have suggested that vitamin A offers some protection against lung cancer. The connection seems logical, explains Shekelle, since vitamin A is essential for the growth of the epithelial (上皮的) tissue that lines the airways of the lungs.

But the earlier research did not distinguish between two different forms of the vitamin. Preformed vitamin A is found mainly in liver and dairy products like milk, cheese, butter and eggs. But vitamin A is also made in the body from carotene, which is abundant in a variety of vegetables and fruits, including carrots, spinach, squash (南瓜), tomatoes, sweet potatoes and apples.

In the Western Electric study, Shekelle and his colleagues found few connections between the incidence of lung cancer and the consumption of foods containing preformed vitamin A. But when they examined the data on carotene intake, they discovered a significant relationship. Among the 488 men who had the lowest level of carotene consumption, there were fourteen cases of lung cancer; in a group of the same size that ate the most carotene, only two cases developed. The apparent protective effect of carotene helps even longtime smokers, but to a lesser degree.

Further studies will be necessary before the links between lung cancer and carotene can be firmly established. In the meantime, researchers warn against large numbers of vitamin A pills, because the tablets contain a form of the chemical that can be extremely poisonous in high doses. Instead, they advise a well-balanced diet that includes foods rich in carotene. For a smoker, half a cup of carrots every day might make the difference between life and death.

13. Which of the following might be most helpful for people to avoid getting lung cancer?

A. Eating vegetables containing carotene every day.

B. Giving up smoking right now.

C. Eating more fresh fruits every day.

D. Eating a simple everyday diet.

14. From Paragraph 2 we can learn that ________.

A. Shekelle has been researching lung cancer since 1957

B. the links between diet and lung cancer were discovered by Shekelle himself

C. Shekelle got the finding after monitoring 2,000 men for many years

D. the researchers have investigated the relationship between diet and disease for half a century

15. The examinations on groups of people of the same size showed that ________.

A. few people got lung cancer because most of them have a well-balanced diet

B. the incidence of lung cancer is closely related to the intake of carotene

C. the intake of carotene has little protective effect on longtime smokers

D. the result of the earlier research is false and of no use

II. 完形填空(30分)

In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory__16__course about 20 years ago.     The professor __17__the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans(豆), and invited the students to _18_how many beans the jar contained. After __19__shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the __20__ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just __21__an important lesson about science. That is Never__22__ your own senses.”     Twenty years later, the __23__could guess what the professor had in mind. He __24__himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting __25__into an unknown world invisible(无形的)to the  26  ,which can be discovered only through scientific  27  . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even  28  the invitation. She was just 29  to understand the world. And she   30   that her firsthand experience could be the  31   .The professor, however, said that it was  32   .He was taking away her only 33 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. “I remember feeling small and 34 ,”the women says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I  35  the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”

16.A.art  B.science  C.history  D.math

17.A.looked at  B.searched for    C.got through D.marched into

18.A.count  B.guess  C.report  D.watch

19.A.warning  B.turning away C.giving  D.listening to

20.A.ready  B.correct  C. Difficult        D.possible

21.A.prepared  B.taught  C.Taken         D.Learned

22.A.trust  B.sharpen  C.Show         D.lose

23.A.lecturer  B.speaker  C.Woman         D.Scientist

24.A.described  B.respected  C.saw  D.served

25.A.movement   B.change  C.Rush          D.Voyage

26.A.eye   B.knowledge   C.Light          D.professor

27.A. senses  B.spint   C.Methods       D.model

28.A.make  B.present     C.Refuse         D.hear

29.A.suggesting B.pretending      C.Waiting        D.beginning

30.A.doubted  B.proved  C.Explained      D.believed

31.A.growth  B.faith    C.Truth          D.strength

32.A.firm   B.interesting C.wrong    D.acceptable

33.A.task    B.tool          C.success  D.connection

34.A.cruel    B.proud   C.frightened  D.brave

35.A.dropped   B.started    C.passed   D.missed

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