湖北黄冈高二期末考试英语卷

As a good teacher, he should use different ways to encourage all children to realize their full         and achieve their goals.

She’s hoping her first performance in the US will be the first step on the road to success, then she wants to try her ________ in Hollywood.

Having finished his morning work, the manager stood up behind his chair, _______ himself.

The government _________ the diplomatic (外交的) note from that country for its unclear                 attitude to the trade between two countries.

Keep in mind: your efforts will ______.Don’t let one or two failures over the year get you down.       
A  take off           B. put off           C. pay back             D. pay off

Two pages of the original manuscript (底稿) of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity were________  on display in the Israel Pavilion of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
A．put up           B set down            C. sent up                           D. taken up

In the Gulf of Mexico the animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could ________ mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen.

Every child is __________, with their own needs, preferences and talents.

Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are likely to get their first taste of live 3D viewing during this year's World Cup, the vast majority of them in cinemas   at home, according to football body FIFA.
A. more than                B. rather than                C. other than                        D. less than

Stressful environments lead to unhealthy behaviors such as poor eating habits, which _________ increase the risk of heart disease.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和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。
When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was   31   to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She   32   the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old   33   thinking that she wouldn’t live   34   from then on.
Over the years, I   35   and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,   36   a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an)   37   trying (难受的) day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang   38  .
A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,   39   into my son’s room with a box of   40  . After 16 years, I still   41   Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about   42   since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she   43   the path for those people who were less   44   than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be   45  .
Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt   46  . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was   47  . From this person that I thought would have no   48   of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously (神奇的)   49   and we moved north, but I owe Helen   50   that I can never repay.

A．walking B．riding C．running D．driving

A．lived B．survived C．existed D．escaped

A．mind B．brain C．head D．thought

A．equally B．calmly C．quietly D．normally

A．studied B．moved C．worked D．1ived

A．suffering B．causing C．bearing D．catching

A．normally B．particularly C．necessarily D．eventually

A．up B．off C．back D．down

A．ran B．walked C．rolled D．moved

A．tissues B．presents C．pills D．candies

A．realized B．knew C．recognized D．reminded

A．her life B．her son C．her family D．her work

A．clear B．smooth C．clean D．open

A．rich B．healthy C．strong D．fortunate

A．money B．hope C．pity D．medicine

A．small B．pitiful C．weak D．shameless

A．admitted B．beaten C．hurt D．hospitalized

A．use B．value C．meaning D．quality

A．treated B．worsened C．relieved D．recovered

A．some money B．some tissues C．a debt D．a hope

Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland
An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria （NGV）, Australia
10 June—12 August 2009
Venue（地点）   The Ian Potter Centre
Admission     Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll’s extraordinary tale of Alice in Wonderland — the story of a Victorian girl who falls down a rabbit hole, meets a lot of funny characters and experience all kinds of things .At that time, Blackman’s wife was suffering form progressive blindness. The story of Alice moving through the strange situations, often disheartened by various events, was similar to his wife’s experiences. It also reflected so much of his own life. All this contributed to the completion of the Alice in Wonderland paintings.
Illustrator Workshop
Go straight to the experts for an introductory course in book illustration. The course includes an introduction to the process of illustration and its techniques, workshop exercise and group projects.
Dates Sunday 17 June &Sunday 5Aug.10am—1pm
Venue Gas Works Arts Park
Wonderful World
Celebrate the exhibition and Children’s Book Week with special activities just for the day, including a special visit from Alice and the White Rabbit.
Date  Sunday 24 June, 11am—4pm
Venue Exhibition Space, Level 3
Topsy- Turvy
Visit the exhibition or discover wonderful curiosities in artworks in the NGV Collection and make a magic world in a box. Alice and the White Rabbit will be with you. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland will be screened.
Dates　Sunday 8,15,22,29 July ,and Tuesday 24—Friday 27 July ,12noon—3pm
Venue Theatre, NGV Australia
Drawing Workshop
Distortions of scale (比例失真) can make artworks strange but interesting.Find out how Charles Blackman distorted scale in his paintings to create a curious world, then experiment with scale in your own drawings. More information upon booking.
Date Friday 27 July, 10:30am—3pm
Venue　Foyer, Level 3
Charles Blackman’s paintings come from _______.

Which two activities can you participate in on the same day?

To understand the Alice in Wonderland paintings, you should go to _______.

Activities concerning children’s books are to be held _______.

When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously , did not give her good service , pretended not to understand her , or even acted as if they did not hear her .
My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was she . I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人).I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan..”
And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me cheek already two week lone.”
And then, in perfect English I said : “I’m getting rather concerned .You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”
Then she talked more loudly. “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t tolerate any more excuse. If I don’t receive the check immediately , I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”
The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English.
When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.
From Paragorph 2, we know that the author was          .

After the author made the phone call,             .

What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

We can inter from the passage that Chinese English         .

That “Monday morning feeling” could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.
The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2,600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 per cent higher chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.
Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 per cent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.
A study of 11,000 Italians proved 8 am on a Monday morning as the most stressful time for the heart, and both studies showed that Sunday is the least stressful day, with fewer heart attacks in both countries.
The findings could lead to a better understanding of what is the immediate cause of heart attacks, according to Dr Stefan Willich of the Free University. “We know a lot about long-term risk factors such as smoking and cholesterol（胆固醇）but we don’t know what actually causes heart attacks, so we can’t give clear advice on how to prevent them,” he said.
Monday mornings have a double helping of stress for the working body as it makes a rapid change from sleep to activity, and from the relaxing weekend to the pressures of work.
“When people get up, their blood pressure and heart rate go up and there are hormonal（内分泌）changes in their bodies,” Willich explained. “All these things can have an unfavourable effect in the blood system and increase the risk of a clot（血凝块）in the arteries（动脉）which will cause a heart attack.”
“When people return to work after a weekend off, the pace of their life changes. They have a higher workload, more stress, more anger and more physical activity,” said Willich.
Monday morning feeling, as this passage shows,         .

To protect people from suffering from heart attack, doctors have paid much attention to    .     

It can be learned from this passage that heart attack has nothing to do with     .

If the researchers give us some advice to avoid Monday morning feeling, what might it be?

The huge Florida wetland known as the Everglades is a slow-moving river 80 kilometres wide but only a few centimeters deep. People call the Everglades a “river of grass” because sawgrass covers most of it. Sawgrass is not really grass. It is a plant that has leaves edged with tiny sharp teeth that can easily cut through clothes—and skin!
Travel in the Everglades is difficult. You cannot walk through shallow water because the sawgrass will cut you. The water is too shallow for regular boats. So, we use an airboat. An airboat is a flat, open boat. Like an airplane, it has a big propeller to move it. The propeller is fixed on the rear of the boat. It makes a tremendous noise, but it does the job. The boat skims along the water’s surface. Although we can still get lost in an airboat, at least we are above the alligators(短吻鳄).
While hundreds of different kinds of animals live in the Everglades, the most famous is surely the alligator. Once endangered, alligators are now protected within Everglades National Park. Visitors are likely to see them both on land and in water.
For a long time, dangers have threatened the Everglades. Around 1900, some people felt this precious wetland should be drained (排干). They said it was just a big swamp and not good for anything. In the 1920s, there was a land boom in Florida. People wanted to build homes everywhere, including in the Everglades. They built canals, levees (防洪堤) , and other water systems that stopped the rivers flowing into the Everglades. Factories were built near rivers that flowed into the wetland. These factories dumped poisonous waste that damaged the Everglades ecosystem.
 People are now working to preserve the Everglades National Park for the future. Right now, one big problem is the paperbark tree. This tree is an invader from Australia.
Paperbark trees soak up a lot of water. In the early 1900s, people brought them to Florida because they thought they would help drain the Everglades. However, the invaders adapted too well. Paperbark trees have taken over hundreds of thousands of acres of the Everglades and killed other trees. Scientists are cutting down these invaders or spraying them with herbicides (除草剂) to kill them. 
Which helps to explain why it is difficult to travel in Everglades?

Why do people use airboats instead of normal boats?

The following measures were taken to drain the Everglades except that people______. 

The underlined word "invader" probably means something______. 

Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption (消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned (given up) the practice of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial (最初的) attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s（自我的）potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary.
Fashion magazines today        .

A change in the consumer market can be found today that        .

The underlined sentence in paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly        .

The passage is mainly about         .

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，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
71．Expo 2010 Shanghai China ____________________ (在召开)on both banks of the Huangpu River in the city of Shanghai, China, from May 1 to October 31, 2010.（hold）
72．The official song of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa titled Waka Waka features many musical elements that_____________________（追溯到）the ancient times.(date)
73．He looks sleepy. He must_____________ (熬夜了)last night, writing the essay. (stay)
74．— Is Bob still performing?
— I’m afraid not. He is said ______________（离开）the stage already as he has become an official.(leave)
75．_________________ (适应) the tropical heat was more difficult than they had expected. (adjust)
76．When the survivor woke up, he wanted to know      ____________     (是谁) that saved him from that burning house. (who)
77．The more ways we have of looking at a problem , ____________________ （越有可能）that we can find a solution. (likely)
78．His younger sister teaches in a secondary school, in front of      _______________    (流淌着一条小河). (flow)
79．It is possible that the King of Stonehenge was linked to the stones: he __________________
(很可能参与了) in planning the monument, or in helping transport and pull up the stones. (hand)
80．Representatives attending Copenhagen Conference recommended that  _______________   (采取严厉措施) to reduce carbon emission. (take)

假设你将参加某英语杂志社开展的一次征文活动，征文的内容要求你在电视、手机和网络三者中，放弃其中的一个并陈述理由。请你以“Which would you give up: TV, cell, or Web?” 为题，写一篇英语短文。
注意：1.词数100字左右
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Which would you give up: TV, cellphone or Web
We are now living in an information age, ……