D

The publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince pleases booksellers across China.The British and American editions were No.1 and No.3 separately on the sales chart of the Beijing Xidan Book Building last week. The book’s poster is highlighted and news about the book can often be heard on the radio.

Why is the book so attractive to children? With curiosity， I got a copy of “Harry Potter”.At first，I wanted to glance over it and made some criticisms(批评).But，out of expectation，I have been deeply attracted by the magic world. On the other hand，one can’t help asking：Where is our own “Harry Potter”?

The Chinese nation has a history of 5，000 years.With a vast market of youngsters, China did publish many books popular among children. However, why are the present works not as good as those imported(进口的)?

There come two major reasons：Firstly，quite a number of children’s books are of strong sense of teaching, and lack interest and entertainment. Children often have a feeling of being “educated”.No wonder they don’t like them.Secondly, children’s reading materials involving “idiom stories” and “Chinese talents’ stories”，though always in different covers，are usually much the same.Some books are plagiarized.The authors take words，ideas from someone else’s work.One knows the ending as early as in the beginning.In final analysis，the authors of the books seldom take children’s requirements into consideration.

As a matter of fact，each child has his own wonderful imagination.They hope to understand the world and nature.Similarly they have their own choices.They dislike similar stories.even if the stories are excellent.First-class reading for children should be very interesting，which contains knowledge and the essence(精髓)of national culture，which are presented in children’s language.

Market is a touchstone for products.The theory also holds true for cultural products.It is hoped that the authors of children’s books can learn something from the good market of “Harry Potter” and write out more and better books loved by children.

64.Our books have the following disadvantages EXCEPT that_______.

A.they have little sense of interest and entertainment

B.many of our books are of the same

C.our authors know what our children need

D.the authors didn’t pay much attention to the children’s tastes

65.What does the underlined word “plagiarized” mean in Chinese?

A.改编      B.杜撰      C.印刷      D. 剽窃

66.The reason why Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is so popular is that____.

A.it opens a magic world for children

B.it has little sense of teaching

C.it is only written in children’s language

D.it is advertised more on TV or poster

67.What does the writer mean by writing “Where is our own Harry Potter”?

A.We Chinese produce more books than other countries.

B.We are short of books for children and adults.

C.Our authors are expected to make the market of children’s books take off.

D.Authors should write books named “Harry Potter”.

E

Every kid wishes to be an adult. But now as grown-ups, some adults find they cannot leave childhood behind. They become "kidults" (kid+adult). Being a kidult has become a lifestyle-choice among young people across Asia.

Some kidults collect toys they once played with.  Hello Kitty, Garfield, and Snoopy have many adult fans around the world. It is not unusual to see a 20-something woman with a big, Garfield-shaped cushion (坐垫)on her sofa or a Hello Kitty mobile phone accessory.(挂件)

Other kidults still enjoy children's stories and fairy tales. For example, Bloomsbury even published the Harry Potter novels with an adult cover. That way, no one else on the subway will know that an adult is actually reading a children's book!

"Kidults can be like vitamins to society. Adults who value their childhood and hold on to pure, child-like emotion may be needed in such a rough and dry society," said Lee Sojung, professor of Foreign Studies at Hankuk University(韩国外国语大学). He added that kidult culture may fill the generation gap between adults and kids. It could give children and their parents books, movies, and cartoon shows to enjoy together. He may be right.

Tim Greenhalgh, a professor, explained that some kidults just refuse to grow up. They value childhood because life in a busy and stressful city frightens them. Kidults would like to forget their age and openly show their fear of society and adulthood.

68. Why did Bloomsbury publish the Harry Potter novels with an adult cover?

A. Bloomsbury thinks it can attract more readers

B. Bloomsbury knows some kidults don't want people to know that they are kidults

C. Bloomsbury thinks the cover with an adult is better

D. Bloomsbury knows kidults prefer to chose books for adults in nature

69. According to the author, being a kidult is good in some way EXCEPT that _______.

A. it can improve the relationship between parents and their kids

B. it can help kidults feel relaxed

C. it is helpful to solve some social problems

D. it can make people listen to their parents

70. According to the writer, _______.

A. being a kidult is nothing wrong          B. kidults have mental problems

C. our society is very dull                 D. some people can never grow up

2010—2011学年上学期高  二  期中考试  英语  答题卷

题  型 完成句子 书面表达 总  分

得  分

第II卷

第四部分 书面表达(共两节，满分40分)

第一节 完成句子(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。

71. He ________________________________________(总是协助老师做) the experiment at the weekends. (assist)

72. I would rather you ______________________________(没有逃学) yesterday. (leave)

73. _________________________________________(Tom从座位上摔下来) got the classmates laughing. (fall)

74.They would talk long hours together, _________________________¬_(他们每次见面). (time)

75. __________________________________(没有收到答复)，Bill decided to made an application for a loan(贷款) again. (receive)

76. __________________________________¬_(他脸上激动的表情) suggested that he had passed the test. (excite)

77. Such a loud noise did they make __________________________________________(以至于我无法专心读书)。 (absorb)

78. Few measures ______________________________(采取措施) to make the waste water clean in the past three years. (take)

79. __________________________(尽管是个女孩)，Joan of Arc(圣女贞德) showed great bravery in the battle. (as)

80. We _______________________________ (本不需要乘出租车) to the station; it’s only a five-minute walk from here. (need)

第二节 书面表达 (满分25分)

对于“成功”，各人有各人的理解，请根据提示将你班对此话题的讨论出现的三种观点整理成文，并阐述你个人的观点。

1. 赚大笔钱：能干很多事;身份的象征;

2. 成为明星：给父母争光;容易出名;

3. 尽可能为社会作贡献：百万富翁、名人只是少数。

注意：  1. 词数：120左右。

2. 开头已写好，不计入总词数。

Recently we has had a class meeting whose topic is “success”. Views vary from person to person.

_______________

上学期高二期中考试英语参考答案

1------5 CABCA   6----10 BACCB   11---15 BCAAA    16---20 BBBBC

21—25 CCDBB   26---30 ACDDB

31—35 BBCDC   36---40 ADCBA   41---45 BCBAC    46---50 ABBCD

51—55 DDACB   56---59 DBCA    60---63 CDBC      64---67 CDAC

68—70 BDA

71. assists his teacher in doing//with       72. hadn’t left school

73. That Tom fell off his chair // Tom’s falling off his chair

74. each/every time they met

75. Not having received an apply         76. The excited look on his face

77. that I couldn’t be absorbed in reading   78. have been taken

79. Girl as she was                     80. needn’t have taken a taxi

附：听力材料

第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

(Text 1)

W: The piano sounds terrible.

M: I wish I could ask for my money back. This performance is really a bad one.

(Text 2)

W: How much longer until we get there? I have a 10 o’clock meeting.

M: It should take another half hour.

W: OK. I’ll call and push the meting back an hour.

(Text 3)

M: Could I take a look at the diamond necklace in this case?

M: Wait a moment, while I get the key.

(Text 4)

W: What’s the matter?

M: I can’t find my lunch box anywhere. I know I had it when I arrived.

W: Never mind. I will treat you today at that cafe across the street.

(Text 5)

W: What can I do for you?

M: I’d like to buy a birthday present for my brother, but I really don’t know what to get.

W: Well, we have a special on ties. That’s always a good gift.

M: Sounds like a good idea.

第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22. 5分)

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

(Text 6)

M: Mrs White looks worried these days.

W: So she does. Steven hurt himself a week ago.

M: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. What happened to him.

W: He forgot to cut off the electricity before he mended the light. She was sorry that her husband wasn’t at home then.

M: The child is too young to do that, I think.

W: So do I. He almost cut his finger off. It nearly broke Mother’s heart.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

(Text 7)

M: How did you find the little boy?

W: I came into the house to feed the cows, then I found a boy lying in the corner. He couldn’t speak we came up to him. I thought he was dead.

M: Yes. He had had nothing to eat for three days by then. We gave him some food. He ate it up soon and cleaned the plate at last.

W: Did you ask him where he came from?

M: Yes. His parents have a farm in Florida. He missed his bus in our town on his way to see his grandpa.

W: Didn’t his parents realize their son was gone?

M: No. he left the farm without telling anybody. His parents were worried very much. They’ll soon come to take him home.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

(Text 8)

M: Well, Stella? Why do you look so unhappy?

W: Oh, Bill, I have just had a quarrel with Mr Pilips.

M: Mr Philips! Your best friend! What on earth was it about?

W: Today I forget to give him an important message, so he got angry with me.

M: Take things easy. Friends can have misunderstanding sometimes. But why was that?

W: I was just too tired. I’m usually in bed by about eleven. But I keep being woken up by half past four every morning. And then I can’t go back to sleep.

M: Why?

W: It’s my neighbor, the milkman next door. He has to get up at half past four and he always turns the radio on loudly.

M: Ask him to stop doing that; neighbors should care about each other.

W: I’m just thinking of that.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

(Text 9)

W: Radio has really changed a lot since we were young. It used to be the major source of fun for the family.

M: Nowadays when you turn on the radio, you either hear music, a talk show or news.

W: Fortunately you can choose the kind of music you want to hear.

M: Yes, and there is a lot of points of view when you listen to talk shows. I usually enjoy listening to them. I particularly like it when a caller disagrees with the talk show host. I like to hear how he will defend his ideas.

W: Some talk show hosts are very rude to those who have opposing ideas. I really find that terrible.

M: It seems that people only listen to the radio when they are driving in their car.

W: That is true for me, but I know that my husband listens to it while he is working at home.

M: Now that I think about it, I realize that a lot of stores have the radio playing.

W: It’s still a useful and pleasant form of communication.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

(Text 10)

The origin of Father’s Day is not exactly clear. The president of the Chicago branch of the business organization Lion’s Club, Harry meek, is said to have celebrated the first Father’s Day with his group in 1915. The day that they chose was the third Sunday in June, the closest date to Meek’s own birthday.

Regardless of when the first true Father’s Day was held, the strongest supporter of the holiday was Bruce John Dodd of Washington. Dodd felt he had a great father: a soldier of the Civil War whose wife had died young, and who had raised six children without a mother.

On Father’s Day, if children cannot be with their fathers of taking them out to dinner ,they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too senimental. Most greetings cards are whimsical so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.

第二节到此结束。

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