湖北五校高二上学期期中联考英语试卷

Many tourists visiting the USA on vacation enjoy shopping for bargains. You can find many bargains in the US if you know where to shop and how to take advantage of the competitive sales.
Department stores offer good quality and high fashion
Macy’s department stores offer a wide selection of merchandise(商品), including fashion clothing, luggage and jewelry. They normally offer good quality merchandise, well known brands and the latest fashions, but not low quality products at bargain prices. They frequently have seasonal sales with attractive discounts. At such times, you can get high quality or fashion merchandise at bargain prices.
General merchandise stores offer affordable quality
Sears and JCPenny are two large national chains with stores across the US. They are similar to department stores but they do not offer high fashion merchandise or luxury(奢侈的) brands. Instead, they feature good quality merchandise at affordable prices. They are particularly known for their selection of children's clothing and domestic goods. Sears is famous for its selection of tools and garden products.[]
Discount stores sell at low prices
Discount stores sell some good quality merchandise at affordable prices and some lower quality merchandise at very low prices. If you are not looking for the latest fashions, famous brands, or the best quality, you can find some very inexpensive merchandise at a discount store. Some national discount chains with stores across the US are K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Target and Caldor.
Outlet stores are a bargain hunter's wonderland
Outlet stores or factory outlets sell high quality merchandise and well-known brands at discounted prices. They usually offer merchandise with slight flaws(瑕疵) and remainders from the last season or the previous year. They do not have end-of-season sales like the department stores, as their merchandise is always discounted 20% to 40% below department store prices.
If you want to buy a new dress that is fashionable, you should go to _______.

What is a feature of general merchandise stores?

Which of the following is NOT true about outlet stores?

I was 16 when my father finally decided he would send me to wilderness camp for several months. He had threatened to do it many times before, but my mother had always managed to prevent him from doing so. This time he insisted on doing it.
The latest incident was the last straw. Impulsively(冲动地), I had pushed Mr. Ford, my math teacher, down a flight of steps at school. He broke his arm in two places. Anyway, he had agreed not to accuse me as a favor to my dad, who was in the middle of a tight race for sheriff(执法官) in our town. But my reckless behavior had my dad’s closest advisor talking.
“John, he’s your son and he’s a kid, but he is dragging you down,” I heard Jake Hutch tell my dad through his closed office door the night after I pushed Mr. Ford. “If you can’t make your son obey the rules, how can you make the law obeyed in this town?”
So, off to Pisgah National Forest I went. I imagined hours of untold abuse at the hands of some strong sergeants(军士). I was determined no to be broken. I was who I was.
Nearly every day for six months, a small group of other troubled teens and I carried our 30-pound backpacks on a difficult journey covering about 10 miles. We hiked in a rough wilderness that seemed untouched by civilization.
Our sergeants were firm but kind, not frightening as I had imagined. We learned how to make a fire without matches and create a shelter with branches and grass. We learned which plants were safe to eat out in the wild. I felt myself change. I was calm and often reflective. My old, impulsive self was gone.
One morning, six months later, my dad came to pick me up. I ran to hug him and saw relief and love in his eyes.
“So what’s it like being sheriff?” I asked on the ride home.
“I lost the race, Danny,” he said.
“I’m sorry, Dad.” I knew my behavior probably had a lot to do with the defeat.
Dad squeezed my shoulder and brought me close. “As long as I don’t ever lose you, I’m okay.”
The author was finally sent to wilderness because _____.

The underlined word “reckless” in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

What can we learn about the author from the passage?

How did the author’s father feel at the end of the story?

You may have experienced the annoyance of being fined because of parking illegally or finding your car towed away(拖走)after leaving it parked somewhere for a couple of minutes．But now a high-tech car sticker that’s designed to be stuck to a car’s windscreen could help motorists avoid such a situation．
The TowStop sticker sends a text message to a driver when touched by a traffic policeman，to allow motorists to send a reply and give them time to move their cars immediately．Frankfurt-based IT consultant，Daniel Kalliontzis，came up with the idea and is raising money to put his ￡43 sticker into production．
Car owners can put the sticker inside their car’s windscreen，having set it up with key information，such as their phone number．The slim design will include a sensor(传感器)that，when touched by a traffic policeman，will send a text message warning a driver of a possible fine．The driver could then type a reply for the policeman using a smartphone，which will appear on the sticker’s screen．
The smart sticker system will rely on the good will of traffic policemen and in a way，a German law．The law states：an officer has to choose the most efficient and inexpensive way for the car owner to remove the vehicle．It could be cheaper for the government to call the driver than to tow his car．
Mail Online asked the Department of Transport whether the sticker could be used in the UK in a similar way．A spokesman said，“In England there is no legal duty to warn the motorist before issuing the ticket．However，a policeman does have the discretion not to issue a ticket if he doesn’t think the situation is that bad or he just wants to issue a warning．”
So far，Mr．Kalliontzis has raised just over￡2,362 of his￡39,381 goal．If he manages to raise the money，the stickers will be shipped in June 2015．But it appears that car owners using the smart system could get some unnecessary warning messages，because anyone could touch the smart sticker．
The author wrote the third paragraph to _______________．

We may infer from the text that in Britain _______________．

The underlined word “discretion” in Paragraph 5 can best be replaced by“____________”．

What would be the best title for the text?

With the development of science and technology, new inventions, especially new electronic products, have made people’s lives easy and convenient. But as the saying puts: A coin has two sides.
One day, I was walking in the park with a friend and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation.
The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction. With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mom has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated, the alienation(疏远) index goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
Pumping petrol at the station? Why say good morning to the attendant when you can swipe(刷)your credit card at the pump and save yourself the bother of human contact?
Making a deposit at the bank? Why talk to a teller who might live in the neighborhood when you can just insert your card into ATM?
Pretty soon you won’t have the burden of making eye contact at the grocery shop. Some supermarket chains are using a self-scanner so you can check yourself out, avoiding those check-out people who look at you and ask how you are doing.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more, I find myself hiding behind e-mail to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up a call because I didn't really have time to talk. The communications industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier.
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging, with people who live near me，no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

Paragraphs 5 to 7 are listed as examples, which show that the use of modern communications is ___________.

The passage implies that _______________.

What does the writer think to do with the modern technology?

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。
Some animals can be trained to help humans. For example, specially trained dogs help blind people walk around the town safely. Some kinds of monkeys can be taught things too.     The monkeys pick up the phone when it rings, carry shopping bags and do housework.
In the wild, animals and humans are not usually friends.    In Africa, the honey- guide bird works with humans to find food. The bird likes to eat the grubs (幼虫) — a type of insect that lives inside a beehive (蜂巢). It knows how to find beehives but it can’t open them and get the grubs. People like to eat honey, but they aren’t very good at finding beehives.       The bird flies to a beehive and people follow it. When the people open the beehive and take the honey, they give the grubs to the bird.
In Laguna in the south of Brazil, fishermen and dolphins work as a team. The ocean isn’t very clean, so the fishermen can’t see the fish.      When the dolphins find a large group of fish, they make a noise to tell the fishermen. Then the dolphins push the fish to the beach. The fishermen wait in the water near the beach and catch a lot of fish in their nets. The fishermen’s nets make it easier for the dolphins to catch fish too. In Laguna, fishermen and dolphins have been working together for many years.   Meanwhile, the dolphins must be happy to help because they teach their babies how to work with the humans!

E. The fishermen teach their children how to work with the dolphins.
F. However, there are a few interesting examples where they can work together.
G. However, dolphins can find them easily by using sounds.

完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried  ________  for hours as the farmer tried to figure out   ________  to do. Finally he decided the animal was   ________  and the well needed to be________ up anyway, so it just wasn’t ________  to save the donkey.
He invited all his  ________ to come over and help him. They all grabbed (握起) a shovel (铁铲) and began to shovel ________  into the well. At first, the donkey   ________  what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s ________ , he was quiet.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked  ________   the well and was  ________   at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that   ________    his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would ________   it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors  ________ to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a ________   up. Pretty soon, everyone was surprised as the donkey stepped up over the   ________  of the well and ran off.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The best way of   ________   out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our   ________  is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest  ________   just by not stopping, never    ________  ! Shake it off and take a step upward!

A．sadly B．happily C．excitedly D．gradually

A．how B．what C．that D．which

A．strong B．old C．tall D．powerful

A．dug B．flowed C．covered D．emptied

A．important B．possible C．necessary D．worth

A．neighbors B．relatives C．enemies D．family

A．dust B．dusk C．disaster D．dirt

A．determined B．recognized C．realized D．admitted

A．sorrow B．relief C．fear D．amazement

A．down B．around C．above D．over

A．affected B．settled C．astonished D．upset

A．attacked B．packed C．recovered D．hit

A．shake B．blow C．sweep D．wash

A．attached B．continued C．pretended D．volunteered

A．base B．stage C．step D．breath

A．bottom B．track C．appearance D．entrance

A．holding B．getting C．sorting D．sticking

A．troubles B．happiness C．successes D．losses

A．ending B．distance C．mercy D．wells

A．setting up B．blowing up C．giving up D．picking up.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Jean is a 17-year-old high school student. On Saturday mornings, Jean and her friends take part in the program ＿＿(call) SAVE THE KIDS. They travel to a poor area of Washington D.C.. They help ＿＿(young) students learn how to read and to solve mathematics problems. Many American teenagers join in programs ＿＿serve their communities. ＿＿weekends Jean sometimes works at an ice-cream store. ＿ she is not working, she gets together with her girlfriends. They might go to a movie, to a shopping mall or to an eating place. Or they might attend ＿＿sports event of their high school. They also often stay at one girl’s house for night.
Like teenagers in most parts of the country , Jean began driving a car when she was 16 years old. ＿, she does not have her car. She must share the family car with her parents. About 70 percent of American teenagers have their own cars. Many of them drive their cars to school every day. Jean does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Neither do her friends. But many teenagers at her school do. Every weekend teenagers have parties, where ＿＿drink alcohol. Then they drive to other parties. People under the age of 21 ＿＿(not allow) to drink alcohol in the United States. And it is dangerous to drink ＿＿driving a car. Yet this does not stop some teenagers.

短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
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限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Mr. Johnson is a hardworked teacher. Every day, he spends too much time for his work. With little sleep and hard any break, he works from morning till night. Hard work have made him very ill. “He has ruined her health. We are worried about him.” That is which other teachers say. Yesterday afternoon, I paid a visit Mr. Johnson. I was eager to seeing him, but outside his room I stopped. I had to calm myself down. Quietly I stepped into the room. I saw him lying in bed, looking at some of the picture we had taken together. I understood that he missed us just as many as we missed him.

书面表达
一家英语报社向中学生征文，主题是“十年后的我”。请根据下列要点和你的畅想完成短文。
1. 家庭；    2. 工作；   3.业余生活。
注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已为你写好。
I often imagine what my life will be like in the future.