2012届度广东省高二下期末英语综合测试题（二）

I told my friend Graham that I often cycle t miles to my company, but unfortunately there is a big hill on my way. He replied, “You are 1.” He explained that I should be thankful for the extra exercise that the hill provided.

My attitude to the hill has now changed. I used to 2  as I approached it, but now I think that this hill will exercise my heart and lungs and it will 3  me to lose weight and get fit. This hill is my friend. I even feel sorry for those who 4  to go to a gym and sit on exercise bicycles 5  I can get the same value for free.

We cannot achieve anything with an easy life. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to gain a university 6 . She wrote, “Character cannot be developed 7. Only through experiences of trial and 8 can the soul be strengthened, ambition 9 and success achieved.”

One of the main factors of success in life is our attitude towards adversity (逆境). 10 we face hardships, problems and difficulties. We cannot 11  the adversity, but we can choose our attitude towards it. Douglas Bader was twenty-one when he had both legs cut off following a flying 12 . He was determined to fly again and became one of the leading 13    in Britain. He said, “Don’t listen to anyone 14 tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Go to school, and join in all the games you can. Make up your mind, and you’ll succeed.”

Great people rise from adversity. Their common quality is that they did not become 15    in face of adversity. They chose to be positive. They took on the challenge and they won.

1.  A. unlucky          B. smart                C. lucky                D. brave

2. A. cry               B. smile                C. sing             D. complain

3. A. advise                B. persuade         C. help             D. expect

4. A. decide                B. manage           C. seem             D. pay

5. A. before                B. while                C. where                D. unless

6. A. degree                B. position         C. course               D. paper

7. A. with fear         B. at work          C. on purpose           D. in ease

8.  A. happiness            B. travel               C. learning         D. suffering

9.  A. inspired         B. developed            C. damaged          D. formed

10.     A. From time to time    B. Day and night        C. Around the clock D. For the time being

11. A. accept               B. recognize            C. stand                D. choose

12. A. accident         B. incident         C. experience           D. test

13. A. soldiers         B. doctors          C. pilots               D. writers

14. A. while                B. whose                C. whom             D. who

15. A. encouraged           B. puzzled          C. defeated         D. shocked

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Former Chinese athlete, Jin Jing, made her 16  (appear) in the National Stadium, 17  (carry) Paralympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.

But now she’s back in the Bird’s Nest, and this time she’s not competing, or carrying a flame, 18  working for the media. Jin said that she was a little regretful for not being able to participate 19  the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Born in 1981, Jin 20  (raise) in a common wage-earning family in Hefei, Anhui Province. Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 because 21    a malignant tumor on her ankle. She then became a member of she Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team on July 13, 2001, the same day Beijing was selected as    22  host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

After an incident in Paris, 23  she was part of the Torch Relay and a protestor tried to take away the torch from her while she protected the Olympic Torch with her body, she became 24  (know) as the “Smiling Angel in a Wheelchair”.

Now she is still smiling, but this time from the 25  side of the camera, as she watches Chinese athletes won another gold medal.

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Apple iPod classic 160 GB Black (7^th Generation) NEWEST MODEL

Meet a Musical Genius

Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other ones that go great with it. With a few clicks, the Genius feature finds the songs in your library that go great together and makes a Genius playlist for you. You can listen to the playlist right away, save it for later, or even refresh it and give it another go.

Hold everything

iPod classic gives you 160GB of storage (容量) capacity, good for up to 40,000 songs, 200 hours of video, or 25,000 photos. And you get up to 36 hours of battery life, so you can keep on rocking for a long long time.

With 160GB of space, iPod classic means you can always have your entire music and movie library with you. Carry it from the living room to a party in the backyard. Or take it on a cross- country road trip and never listen to the same song twice.

Watch movies and TV Shows

The bright 2.5-inch display makes video come alive. Purchase or rent movies, buy TV shows, and download video podcasts from the iTunes Store, then sync (同步) them to your iPod classic to watch anywhere, anytime.

Play iPod Games

Put hours of fun at your fingertips. iPod classic comes with three free games- Vortex, iQuiz, and Klondike, and you can purchase games such as Cake Mania from the iTunes Store. All iPod games are designed specially for the iPod interface.

Share your photos

iPod classic uses iTunes to sync the photos you have in iPhoto on a Mac. You can view photo slideshows complete with music and transitions on iPod classic, or play them on a TV using an AV cable.

1.If you order an Apple iPod classic now, you can save ________.

A. $218.54          B. $51.45           C.$24.36        D.$31.45

2.The advertisement wants to emphasize that ________.

A. the Apple iPod classic has a powerful storage capacity

B. the customer can enjoy a good post-sale service

C. the Apple iPod classic has a big display screen

D. you can enjoy photos while listening to music

3.The battery can last as long as ________.

A. 46 hours     B. 36 hours     C. 30 hours         D. 25 hours

4.You have to pay extra money of you want to play the game  ________.

A. Cake Mania        B. Vortex           C. iQuiz            D. Klondike

5. The writer wrote the passage mainly to ________.

A. introduce the newest model of Apple iPod      B. list the functions of Apple iPod classic

C. attract the customers to buy the newest model

D. tell the customers how to operate the new model

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Crossroads International

How does Crossroads work?

Crossroads is a resource network. We take goods Hong Kong doesn’t want and give them to people who badly need them. We collect those goods and give them out in the welfare arena(福利院) in Hong Kong, Mainland China, elsewhere in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. So Crossroads is just that: a Crossroads between need and resource.

Who do we help?

The welfare agencies we help do not run on large budgets(预算). They are grass-root groups who have seen a need and tried to meet it. They can’t get the job done without back-up, though, so our task is to help them do their task. Our warehouse is full of goods, from computers to high chairs, clothing to books, stationery(文具) to medical provision, cupboards to dinning sets. They send us a list of their needs and we try to match it with the resource we have in stock.

How do we operate?

Crossroads itself also operates on a low budget. We do not buy the goods we send. They are donated. Similarly, rather than raising funds for freight(货运)，we ask transport companies to donate their services. Nobody in our organization receives a salary. Even our full-time staff works on a voluntary basis.

Those that donate goods and services:

·Factories ·Manufacturers ·Hospitals ·Hotels  ·Householders

·Offices  ·Other Charities ·Transport Companies ·Educational Institutions

One resource that we are always in need of is people. While we receive large quantities of goods and there is never a short supply of requests for them, we are always in need of hands to help sort and prepare them for shipping.

What can I do?

We are always in need of people. We have a lot of tasks. If you are volunteering regularly, we can offer work in some of the following categories, some of the time. You are welcome to number your top three choices and we will do our best to accommodate them.

·Clothing categorization ·Sewing ·Toy categorization ·Furniture handling

·Driving ·Book categorization ·Household goods categorization ·Office work

·Electrical goods categorization ·Book keeping ·Fund- raising

·Stationery categorization ·Medical categorization

Where to find us?

All volunteer work is done at out warehouse:

Located in Basement Zone M of the Kai Tak Government Building

Our warehouse hours: Tues.-Sat. 10:00am-5:30pm

Postal address: 16 Man Tong, Silvermine Bay, Lantau Island, HK

Office details: Ph: 2984 9309, 2740 9657

1.Crossroads International is________.

A. a welfare agency     B. a place to store goods donated

C. an organization to collect goods for those who need them

D. an organization run by the government

2. People in poor areas can’t get help from the Crossroads if they need________.

A. toys and books              B. furniture and computers

C. fresh water and food            D. clothes and washing machines

3. Which of the following is not the choice if you decide to offer help?

A. Driving    B. Fundraising      C. Furniture handling   D. Teaching

4.The purpose of this brochure(小册子) is mainly to________.

A. look for volunteers to work for Crossroads        B. call on people to donate more goods

C. let people know what Crossroads International is   D. tell people what Crossroads can provide

5.From the above brochure, we can conclude that ________.

A. people who work at Crossroads get low pay from it

B. Crossroads doesn’t give goods directly to the people who need them

C. You can do whatever you like if you offer help at Crossroads

D. Crossroads has collected more goods than needed

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Experts do not really know when people began keeping fish as pets. But they say that people have been interested in fish for thousands of years. Some say the ancient Sumerians were the first civilization to keep fish in ponds more than four thousand years ago. The Chinese kept and studied carp and goldfish more than one thousand years ago. The ancient Romans kept eels as pets. And the Greek philosopher Aristotle made what is believed to be the first known study of sea life, including sharks and dolphins.

Keeping fish at home in small water tanks called aquariums is extremely popular today. And everyone seems to enjoy visiting huge public aquariums that have opened around the world.

By the middle of the eighteen hundreds, science had shown that plants, fish and other sea creatures could survive together under water. So it was no longer necessary to change the water in a tank for the fish to live there. This led to the building of the first public aquariums.

The first aquariums opened in London, England in 1853. in the next fifteen years, other aquariums opened in Europe and the United States. By 1928, there were about forty-five public aquariums.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been recognized as the first aquarium in the United States and it shows visitors the underwater life in the bay. The Georgia Aquarium opening in 2005 says it is the largest in the world. It has more than one hundred thousand sea animals in thirty million liters of water including two whale sharks---the world’s largest fish.

Another aquarium re-opened in 2005 in Camden, New Jersey. The Adventure Aquarium first opened in 1992. It spent about fifty million dollars expanding its building and improving its exhibits.

Aquariums provide the public with many chances to experience life under the sea. They can be found in most areas of the world. People might even want to start an aquarium at home and join the millions of people around the world who keep fish as pets.

1.Which aquarium opened again after its rebuilding ?

A. The Monterey Bay Aquarium.           B. The Adventure Aquarium.

C. The Georgia Aquarium.                    D. The first aquarium in London.

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned to have kept fish as pets?

A. The ancient Sumerians.       B. The ancient Romans. C. The Chinese. D. The ancient Indians.

3.Which of the following is correct?

A. People were not interested in fish until the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

B. The Moneterey Bay Aquarium is regarded as the best aquarium in America.

C. Plants, fish and other sea creatures could not survive together under sea.

D. People have to change the water in a tank frequently for the fish to live there.

4. The passage is written mainly ________.

A. to tell people the importance of keeping fish as pets

B. to explain why people want to visit aquariums

C. to let people know the development of the aquariums

D. to describe different aquariums

5.What does the underlined word “aquariums” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Exhibition centres where people can watch and enjoy different species of fish.

B. Small boxes made of glass, where people keep fish in, usually at home.

C. Places which shows visitors the underwater life in the bay.

D. Places which provides the public with many chances to experience life under the sea.

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Let’s say you have a piece of wood, a nail, and hammer. Pretend the wood is a person, the nail is a mean rumor (谣言) about that person. If you hammer in the nail, you’re obviously hurting him or her. If you then pull out the nail, there’s still a hole in the wood, and the damage has been done.

There are many reasons why that nail of a rumor can be so harmful. Rumors are, quite simply, a form of bullying (欺悔). When a person or a group makes up a rumor about someone or decides to spread gossip, it’s usually to hurt someone, break up a friendship, or make someone less popular. It’s the same thing as teasing, only it’s done behind someone’s back instead of to his or her face.

When you spread a rumor about someone, you’re sending a signal that the person is outside of the group, and somehow less worthy of friendship than others. You’re making fun of that person or pointing out negative things about him or her. This can let others think that it’s okay to make the person feel bad, and make him or her an outsider.

We need to be able to trust our friends, and gossip and rumors can break this trust. If you tell a personal secret to a friend, and he turns around and tells it to someone else, you might feel like you will get burned if you ever get close to him again.

Letting a rumor influence your behavior is like letting someone else make a big decision for you. Let’s say you hear that the teacher plans to call a Snow Day tomorrow because a blizzard (暴风雪) is coming. Expecting a day off, you don’t do your homework. The next morning, the blizzard turns out to be nothing more than a drizzle（毛毛雨）, and school isn’t off after all. You get zeroes on your work.

1.The purpose of the first paragraph is to ________.

A. help readers know what a rumor is        B. attract readers to read the following paragraphs

C. emphasize the damaging effects of rumors   D. explain how a rumor spreads

2.To tell a rumor and a tease apart, you depend on ________.

A. whether it is done behind someone            B. whether it is painful or not

C. whether it is a kind if bullying                 D. whether it is spread fast

3. If a rumor is spread about someone, others may ________.

A. point out his or her advantages B. keep away from him or her

C. not feel he or she is an outsider  D. be hurt if getting close to him or her again

4.From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________.

A. it is hard to keep rumors a secret             B. rumors can destroy your interest in learning

C. believing rumors can lead to bad choices    D. rumors can control your whole life

5. The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A. advise on how to deal with rumors  B. teach us how to judge a rumor

C. find out why rumors spread fast     D. explain why rumors hurt

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阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卷上作答。

首先阅读下列博客信息：

A：My name’s Marta and I’m from Mexico City, but I moved to Los Angeles, California, five years ago, now I am living in an apartment at No. 3178 SE Timmer Broad. I am 28, single. I am a customer service representative for a large financial company. I am an outgoing person. I love to laugh and have fun! I enjoy cooking, dancing and listening to music. I don’t like watching or playing sports. You should be an outgoing, considerate lady with a good sense of humor, to share the apartment. Are you the one? Email and let’s have further talk.

B: My name’s Mark, and I’m from Hollywood, California. I’m a fitness instructor in Los Angeles. I am a friendly and easy-going person; I love playing sports---especially football and working out at the gym. I also play the guitar. My best friend David, who often has sports with me, went to Mexico last month. To avoid loneliness, I’d like very much to own a new friend who would share the fun of sports with me. I am longing.

C: My name’s Park Jun Seo, but you can call me Jun. I move from Seoul Korea to Los Angeles two years ago. I am a graphic designer and I am looking for my younger brother, Lean Ban Seo, who might be in this city. As the story is too long, I just hope to find him and have my family reunited. He is lame at the right leg, 19 years old, 1.79 meters tall, with very big eyes and fair curly hair. With his picture of two years ago enclosed, I would be very appreciated if you have any information about that. Telephone me at 818-5789.

D: My name is Don and I am programmer at a computer company. I have designed several pieces of software that can help students learn better, especially suitable for primary students who have some language disability to learn words and help them pronounce more correctly. If you think you need one, please fax to 857-4693. You can purchase by post.

E: My name is Mauricio, and I’m a computer programmer working in Los Angeles area. I am kind of shy, but maybe you can help me to be more outgoing. I like cooking, playing computer games, and chatting whit friends online. If you think you are the proper one to be my E-pal, let’s chat!

F: My name’s Judy and I’m from Quebec, Canada. I am a sales woman in one of the women underwear stores in Montreal. I’d like to have more visitors to my shop. And you can bargain for a reduction of 10% to 30%, if you purchase in package. Let’s be friends.

请阅读以下网站回复的信息， 然后匹配回复的信息和网站原登出的博客信息，选项中有一项是多余的。

1. I am a professional sportsman and work in the same city. I am so glad that I will have a good friend who can be the opponent to improve my techniques. E-mail me at bitterflower@yahoo.com.

2.As a shop owner, I might drop in when I go downtown. But may I know your exact address? When is it convenient for a visit? Thank you.

3.God bless you! I’m a journalist and happened to read your brief story. A neighbor of mine looks exactly the same as the man in the picture you uploaded. This might be a chance in a million. Telephone me at 818-5690.

4.As a newcomer and a freshman, I am looking for a room as close to my university as possible. I would like to have some friends, too. I think your place might be the right choice for me. But can I know how much the rent is?

5. I am a salesman from Paris. My first difficulty working in this city is language. I would appreciate it if you could help me learn English through the Keyboard.

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中国青年志愿者协会Chinese Young Volunteers Association需要招聘一批志愿者，请根据下面内容为中学生英语报写一篇简要的英文招聘信。

【写作内容】

提示词：师范的 normal;  优先 favour

【写作要求】

1.必须使用5个句子表达全部内容。2.短文要连贯，不要逐字翻译。

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请根据以下的任务说明和写作要求，写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

　I once met a middle-aged stranger who said his money had been stolen at the railway station，so he had no money to go home. He begged for help from passers-by，but they all pretended not to have heard what he was saying and went by quickly. Then he stopped me and wanted me to give him the help. At first I could not accept that because I didn't think he was telling the truth. But when I saw tears in his eyes，I began to believe that he might be in the real trouble，so，just immediately I gave him all the money I had. When he took the money， his face turned red. Before he left，he expressed his great thanks and also said he would give back my money when he reached home.

　When I came back to school and told my classmates about my story，they held different opinions. Some of them thought that I did a good deed to have given a hand to the person in trouble，while others said that I was cheated. Some even laughed at me and called me a fool who could not judge things in the right way. Now，I am really confused！

　[写作内容]

　1.请用30个词概括短文的要点；

　2.然后用约120个词就"陌生人可不可信"的主题发表看法，并包括如下要点：

　（1）叙述你或你的朋友给予陌生人以帮助的一次真实经历;

　（2）说明你的理由。

　[写作要求]

　1.可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

　2.标题自定。

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