2013届内蒙古高二下学期期末考试英语试卷（解析版）

I would appreciate ______ if you could let me know in advance when the meeting will be held.

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I don’t know who invented _______ telephone, it’s really _______ most useful invention.

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George Washington was born in 1732 in a rich family in _______ is now the state of Virginia.

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I feel it an honour __________ to speak here.

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I have never dreamed of _______ such a good hotel in this town.

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---Goodbye, Peter, remember me to your parents.

---_______.

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They _____ on the program for almost one week before I joined them, and now we _____ it as no good results have come out.

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The September 11 attack has been _____ by the entire international community.

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What a ______ smell! How long was it since you last cleaned the house?

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— Do you think he will come at this weekend?

— ___________, because he has an important party to attend.

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They desired that they __________ the right to attend the meeting.

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Many applicants stood outside the manager’s office, nervously waiting _________ for the job.

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It was at this shop _______ I bought my skirt. How about coming to my home to have a look tonight?

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_____ more about university courses, call (920) 746-3789.

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Weather _________,the party will be held in the garden.

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When I woke next morning, I was dying of 36 .I seemed to have a hole instead of a  37   I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper（背景墙） I had ever seen ! 38 , I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better 39 there than in any other hotel; and that was 40 I wanted just then.

The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs I had prepared 41 carefully for what I must 42. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure 43 “breakfast” really meant “breakfast”. I had tried to get the right 44 and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached.

The waiter asked me 45 I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a 46  way, so I repeated it, still he did not understand. It was 47 that English people didn’t understand their language. The waiter 48 his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter--- enough to feed a small army--- and went away. But I was hungry, and I left 49. When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little 50, but you can never 51 what a waiter’s face really shows. In another minute he brought 52  tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He 53  have misunderstood me , but I thought it was no use explaining to people who don’t understand their own language , so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate.

Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room-----at least five pound 54 . I never believed until then that any meal could 55 me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).

13.A waved          B. shook         C. bowed              D. patted

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When I was an official of a school in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board, wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly’s son, Jim, had great difficulty in school. He was classified as the educationally handicapped and required a great deal of patience on the part of his parents and teachers. But Jim was a happy kid with a great smile that lit up the room. His parents knew his difficulties, but they always tried to help him see his strengths so that he could walk with pride. Shortly after Jim finished high school, he was killed in a motorcycle accident. After his death, his mother submitted this letter to the newspaper.

“Today we buried our 20-year-old son. He was killed in a motorcycle accident on Friday night. How I wish I had known that the last time I had talked to him would be the last time. If I had only known that, I would have said to him, ‘Jim, I love you and I’m always so proud of you.’ I would have taken the time to count the many blessings he had brought to the lives of the people who loved him. I would have taken the time to appreciate his beautiful smile, his laughter, and his genuine love to other people.

“When I put all the good things on the scale and try to balance them with all the irritating (恼人的) things such as the radio that was always too loud, the haircut that wasn’t to our liking, the dirty socks under the bed, etc., I find that the irritations really don’t amount to much.

“I won’t get another chance to tell my son all that I would have wanted him to hear, but, other parents, do have a chance. Tell your young people what you would want them to hear as if it may be your last conversation. The last time I talked to Jim was the morning of the day when he died. He called me to say, ‘Hi, Mom! I just called to say I love you. You have to go to work now. Bye.’ That day, he gave me something to treasure forever. ”

If there is any purpose at all for Jim’s death, maybe it is to make others appreciate life more and to tell people, especially family members, that they should take the time to let each other know just how much they care. You may never have another chance. Do it today!

1.What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase “the educationally handicapped”?

2.According to the writer, which of the following about Jim is TRUE？

3.What did Polly think of Jim?

4.The purpose of Polly’s letter is to _______.               .

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While IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tells you how smart you are. EQ (Emotional Quotient) tells you how well you use your smartness. Professor Salovery, the psychologist who created the term, EQ, says that it is IQ that gets you hired but it is EQ that gets you promoted.

Supported by his research, he suggested that when predicting future successes, a person’s brainpower, as measured by IQ tests, might actually matter less than a person’s character, or EQ. Professor Salovery may be correct. For example, have you ever wondered why some of the best and smartest students in your class end up failing exams? Perhaps it is because of their EQ. People often make the mistake of thinking that EQ is the opposite of IQ. It is not. Although it is hoped that people have both high EQs and IQs, there is little doubt that those with low EQs have a hard time surviving in life.

For a long time, researchers discussed if a person’s IQ could be raised. The geneticists said no, while the social scientists said yes. Furthermore, the social scientists said that it was possible to improve a person’s EQ, particularly in terms of “people skills”, such as understanding and communication.

Recently, a professor released the findings of a study on senior high school students. When some normal students were introduced to some disabled students, they found that afterwards they were more willing to help people in difficulties. At the same time, there was a marked change in the disabled students’ attitudes. They became more positive about their disabilities and were more eager to try new things. People with high EQs often have positive attitudes towards life and are open to different ideas, so they tend to be more creative in their thinking. Please remember that having a high IQ is helpful but having a high EQ might even be more helpful.

1.According to Professor Salovery, what factor matters the most in predicting whether a person will be successful or not?

2.The second paragraph tells us that __________.

3.Which of the following is the writer’s attitude toward EQ and IQ?

4.Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?

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Have you ever heard of blogs (博客)? If you haven’t, you should have. It’s here, it’s growing and it’s having an influence on our life. Surf the Internet and you’ll find blogs everywhere. A blog, shortened from “weblog”, is a public Internet journal written by one person or a group of people. It is a website in which a person or a group can place news, personal thoughts, text, photos, video or audio files, or links upon which visitors can comment. A blog lets you post on the Internet without having to know web design or be technical. You are given an environment to make dated entries on the topic of your choice which are “published”, so other people can read them.

Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Blogging has revolutionized Internet publishing in the last several years because it gives everyone with Internet access the opportunity to become an online writer. Objects, such as “text and photos” in a blog can be called “blog posts”, “posts”, or “entries”. The person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.

Now, somewhere around the world, a blog is created almost every 6 seconds. Because it’s great potential, Bill Gates views it as important as e-mail, BBS, and MSN. He’s trying to make blogs the important tools for future business communications.

1.A blog is __________ .

2.A person can do the following things in a blog EXCEPT _______.

3.Who is a blogger?

4.From the passage we know that _________.                  .

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All Eskimos live most of their lives close to sea or fresh water. They may follow game inland for several hundred miles, but they always return to the shores of rivers, lakes, or seas. Eskimo land has a bare look. Large rocks, pebbles, and sand cover much of the surface. Plants called lichen (地衣) grow on the rocks, and where there is enough soil, grass, flowers, and even small bushes manage to live. No trees can grow on Eskimo land, so geographers sometimes call it the Arctic plains. There are some animals in Eskimo land, such as rabbits, which eat the plants. Other animals, like the white fox and the gray wolf, eat the rabbits. The Eskimo is a meat-eater, too, and may even eat a wolf when food is scarce.

The Eskimo year has two main parts: a long, cold winter and a short, cool summer. Spring and fall are almost too short to be noticed. Summer is the best time, as food is usually plentiful. But it is also the time when Eskimos are very busy. Winter is never far away, and the men must bring home extra meat for the women to prepare and store, for seldom can enough animals be killed in winter to feed a family.

The Far North is sometimes called the land of the midnight sun. This is true in the middle of summer, for between April 21st and August 21st the sun never sets in Northern Greenland. But in midwinter the Far North is a land with no sunshine at all. Around Oct. 21st the Eskimos of Northern Greenland see the sun set directly south of them, and they don’t see it again until February 22nd. All places on earth get about the same amount of daylight during a year. As a result, if summer is lighter, winter has to be darker.

Winter nights in the Far North are seldom pitch-black. As in the rest of the world, the stars and moon provide a little light. The northern lights also help the Eskimo to see. And with the ground covered with snow, even a little light is reflected back to the Eskimo’s eyes.

1.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined words “pitch-black” in Paragraph 4?

3.From the passage, we can infer all of the following EXCEPT that_______.

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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。

1. The time and money that doctors spend on their medical education are probably one reason for this problem.

A visit to a doctor’s office costs from fifteen to fifty dollars. It is impossible to pay for the medical care they need. 2. Most doctors, however, disagree. They say that they were required to study medicine for a long time. Tuition（学费） for many years of medical education costs a lot of money. Doctors say that it is necessary for most medical students to borrow money from a bank to pay their tuition. 3, young doctors need a lot of money for their work. 4.

Therefore it is possible that the high cost of medical care in American is unnecessary. Because high tuition is one cause of high costs, 5.

E.  The cost of medical care in the United States is very high.

F.  Because this money must be repaid to the bank.

G.  So, they charge people high prices for medical care.

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根据汉意或所给首字母填写单词（5分）。

1.This d_______ of the culture is not surprising when you know the history of California.

2.Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very c________.

3.I could see he was terrified of being a_________ by us.

4.Nobody has the right to s______ in the street.

5.However, he was f___________ by the Guinness Book of World Records

6.The necklace was well _________ (保存).

7.This time with great __________(谨慎，小心) I bent down to examine the snakes and found them very sleepy.

8.Eliza is a poor flower girl who has _________ (雄心勃勃) to improve herself

9.Luckily, Tom could be our ____________(翻译)

10.How ________( 难为情) to be discovered by her friend, Claire thought.

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短语翻译(5分)

1.不管、别惹；让…..一个人待着

2.对…….知道、明白，意识到

3.保持优秀成绩，继续干下去

4.不可能的，不值得讨论的

5.与…..合作或一起工作

6.支持、赞成

7.偶尔，有时

8.次序颠倒，发生故障

9.就…..来说，从……角度

10.受……支配

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英语课上，老师要求同桌同学相互修改作文。假设以下作文为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。共有10处错误，每句最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不记分。

3 必须按答题要求做题，否则不给分。

I saw an accident happened on my way to home this afternoon. A girl was crossing the

street on a zebra crossing while a young man drove a motorbike towards her. The young

man saw the girl and tried to stop, and he drove too fast to stop. He hit the girl and fell

off her motorbike. The girl was badly hurt and couldn’t move. The young man didn’t

know how to do. I ran to a phone box nearby and dialed 110. Soon the police reached.

They sent her hospital at once. One of the policeman talked to the young man and wrote

something down while was talking. I think it is very dangerous to drive very fast.

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假如你叫李华，是某校的高中学生。请你根据目前MP3 / 4在中学中流行的现象，用英语给一家英文报社写信反映此事,并发表你的看法。

利：1. MP3/4 便于携带；

2. 有利于学习，尤其是训练英语听力；

3. 可以下载歌曲、音乐、电影等，丰富文化生活。

弊：

1. 频繁使用可导致听力下降，有害于健康；

2. 一些学生沉溺于歌曲、音乐等，影响学习；

3. 有些学生路上边走边听，影响安全。

注意：词数：100左右（信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数）

Dear Editor,

I’m a senior student. Now MP3/4 is popular among us middle school students. There are some advantages about it.  ______________________________________________

________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

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