2013届新疆农七师高级中学高二下学期第二阶段考英语试卷（解析版）

______of people ______to prefer ______games to playing games.

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He acknowledged _______the book from my bag.

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We are all for your recommendation that the applicant ______.

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The rich only ______themselves in making money and had no eye for the needs of workers.

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Hurry up! The black clouds ______that it is going to rain soon.

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The agreement indicates that the two companies will _____ with each other again.

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I support your decision, but I should make it clear that I am not going to be _____ to carry it out.

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I couldn’t resist ______her the news ______she failed the exam.

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The customers objected _____unfairly in the course of shopping.

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With everything I need _____, I went out the store.

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________ , J.K.Rowing is considered to be the fiction writer now.

A. Having sold millions of copies of her books

B  Because millions of copies of her books are sold

C. Sold millions of copies of her books

D. Selling millions of copies of her books

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what caused the party to be put off?

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While listening to light music, _____.

A  She felt asleep                   B. The light went out

C Someone knocked at the door   D. and she can’t help laughing

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I went to shanghai last week, ________I visited the World Expo.

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I think I have reached the point,________I enjoy seeing the scenery of the city.

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The factory is ________used to be an art museum,________people could learn about various cultures.

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It was his courage, not his skill,________really struck me most

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In the continuous high temperature weather, it is not to fit to gather.

That is ________we cancel the discussion

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Between the two windows ________a  picture.

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________is known to us all is that the Olympic Games will take place in Beijing.

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Twenty years ago I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I­­­­­­­­­­­­21-，I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor 22

I walked to the door and knocked “Just a minute” answered a weak elderly 23

After a long pause the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood________24________me by her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the car and then ________25to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked 26 toward the car.

She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing” I told her. “I just try to 27 my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.” “Oh you’re such a good man.” She said. When we got into the taxi she gave me an address and then asked“Could you drive 28downtown”

“It’s not the shortest way” I answered quickly.

“Oh I’m 29” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice临终医院. I don’t have any 30 left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”

I quietly reached over and 31 the meter计价器.

For the next two hours we drove through the city. She 32 me the building where she had once worked the neighborhood where she had lived and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone33 as a girl.

Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a 34building and would sit staring into the darkness saying nothing.

At35 she suddenly said” I’m tired. Let’s go now.”

We drove in silence to the 36she had given me. “How much do I 37you” she asked. “Nothing.” I said. “You have to make a living” she answered. “Oh there are other 38” I answered. Almost without thinking I 39 and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark“You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”

I walked into the40morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

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That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theatre. With opening night only a week ago, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.

As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible robbers (抢劫犯). Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking homeless people under blankets.

About a block from my apartment (公寓房间), I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my wallet falling to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck (垃圾车) pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “ Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? the door opened, and out jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eye. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, holding up a small square shape.

It was nearly 3 A.M. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also had gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were wiling to help each other.

1.How did the write feel when she was walking home after work?

2.From the first paragraph, we learn that the write was busy  ______.

3.On her way home the writer _______.

4.In the fifth paragraph, why did the writer say she was dreaming?

5.From the text, we can infer that the writer _________.

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In America, when people say “man’s best friend”, they don’t mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal：A dog! These words show the friendship between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can give happiness to people’s lives. Some people think of their pets as their children. A few even leave all their money to their pets when they die!

Animals can help people, too. Dogs can be taught to become the “eyes”for a blind person or “ears”for a deaf people. Scientists have found that pets help people live longer! They make people happier, too. Because of that, animals are brought into hospitals for “visit”.

Americans hold “Be---Kind-to-Animals Week”in the first week of May.

Pets shows are held during the week. Even if you don’t live in America, you, too, can do this. How? First, think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delicious food. Also, be sure to keep your pet from those unwanted babies.

If you don’t have a pet, be kind to animals around you. For example, if you see a street dog, don’t kick(踢)it or throw things at it. Instead, just leave it alone, or beter yet, make friends with it. If others around you do bad things to an animal, try to shop them. As people, we must protect animals who can’t speak for themselves.

1.“A few even leave all their money to their pets when they die!”means that__________

2.Why are dogs brought to hospitals?

3.What’s the most popular activity in the “Be-Kind-to-Animals Week”?

4.What’s the passage mainly about?

5.The words“ man’s best friends”shows____________.

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2010 was a good year for American farmers. They earned about eighty-two billion dollars. That is almost one-third more than that they earned last year. And it is twenty-six percent higher than the ten-year average. Values for grain and oilseed crops are up about three percent from last year. The value of animal production is up by almost seven percent.

In 2011, farm exports are expected to break the all-time high set in 2008.The Agriculture Department says exports in 2011 could top one hundred and twenty-six billion dollars. The largest buyer of agricultural products is expected to be Canada. But farm exports to China are predicted to come within five hundred million dollars of Canadian purchases. Secretary Vilsack says countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are also buying more from American farmers.

Poor growing conditions overseas played an important part in higher prices for American crops in 2010.Charlotte Hebe brand is chief executive of the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council in Washington. She said drought(干旱)conditions had a big effect over the summer. She said,“There were horrible weather problems, not just in Russia but also in some of the other former Soviet Union countries.”

Wheat prices rose after Russia stopped wheat exports,although Russia later eased the ban(禁令).“Wheat used to be America’s top crop. What’s interesting,though,is that wheat production has actually become less over the past few years because corn has become the most popular crop,”said economist Charlotte Hebebrand.

Corn is mostly fed to animals. But Miss Hebebrand said with the recent increase in wheat prices, American farmers might plant more wheat again. Corn and wheat are the two largest crops supported by the government.

1.We know that compared to 2009,in 2010 American farmers——.

2.What does the Agriculture Department expect in 2011?

3.What is implied in Paragraph 3?

4.We can infer that in the past few years American farmers——

5.According to what Miss Hebebrand said, we know American farmers will ——

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Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes.

Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent strips, called chevrons（人字形标志）, painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.

Now the American Automobile Association Foundations For Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.

Excessive（过分） speed plays a major role in as much as one fifty of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards(危险) are the greatest-curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.

Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.

Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane（车道） appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction of highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.

1.The passage mainly discusses________.

2.On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that________.

3.According to the foundation,____can cause serious traffic accident

4.The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former______.

5.The Americans automobile association foundation for traffic safety plans to____.

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?”___1.___.

There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, and never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. __2.____. He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them. His father was a farmer, and being a sailor could never be anything for the boy but an idle dream. One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of the ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to think, the lad(少年) offered to take his place. ___3.___.

_4.__. If the lad had gone home to ponder（考虑）his decision for a week, he may have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity; it is another thing to take it and use it well.

Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all the rules and still seem to land plum jobs（美差）. When you go for a job interview or fill out an application, you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying. __5.___. And within a year this person had become general manger of the company.

E．But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the

interviewer all the company’s faults.

F．He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved.

G．It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.

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1.A high ___________ （比例）of the female staff are part-time workers.

2.American English d___________ from British English in many aspects.

3.His ___(申请)to the company for manager has been refused.

4.The idea o___________ to him in a dream yesterday night.

5.As I ran up the stairs, my foot s___________ and I fell.

6.There will be rain later in c___________ and eastern parts of the country.

7.Shanghai is the __________（商务） heart of the country.

8.We have a___________ a great amount of evidence to accuse the murder.

9.It was _________(显而易见的) from her face that she was really upset.

10.People suffered many ________ (困苦) during that long winter.

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此题要求改正所给短文的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上划一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

I firmly believe that everyone in the world loves their mother. So am I. My mother is a ordinary teacher. She always works hard, just as other mothers do every day. In fact, she isn’t good health. She had been suffering from arthritis(关节炎)for many years. Despite of this, she never stops working or giving up hope. I still remember the day when my mother accepted a card of congratulations for Teachers’ Day from her director. The card was read “thank you for your hard works; Happy Teacher’s Day to you!” At that moment, I was so moving that tears came to my eyes. I am proud for my mother.

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大多数人都希望自己受人的欢迎，但并非每个人都能做到。你为此在 中学生中进行了调查问卷。请根据以下的调查结果，以How to be popular 为题，写一篇英语短文。

注意：1. 短文须包括所有要点，可适当发挥

开头已给出(但不计入总词数)，词数  150 左右

Many people desire to be popular with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal. What is the secret to popularity? We have conducted a survey  among the students recently and got the following results.

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