衡阳市八中2008年高二考试试卷
英语（模块五）
第一部分：听力（共三节，满分20分）
第一节（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）
请听下面5段对话，选出最加选项。
1. What’s the time now?
A. 10:20
B. 10:
2. Why can’t the woman keep up with her classmates?
A. She plays more and studies less.
B. She doesn’t like studying.
C. She doesn’t get along well with her classmates.
3. What does the man mean?
A. He will help the woman.
B. The clerk doesn’t like to be troubled.
C. The machine has not yet been repaired.
4. How is the man’s mother?
A. She sees the doctor once a year and feels great.
B. She hardly ever feels sick.
C. She is too old and often feels sick.
5. What does the woman do on Sunday mornings?
A. Enjoy concerts in the English Corner.
B. Play games in the English Corner.
C. Practice English in the English Corner.
第二节（共12小题，每小题1分，满分12分）
请听下面四段对话，选出最佳选项。
请听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三小题。
6. What does the man think of the news?
A. Boring. B. Informative. C. Serious.
7. Why doesn’t the woman join the man?
A. She wants to take part in the shopping show on Channel Two.
B. She doesn’t like the things that are more exciting and entertaining.
C. she thinks the news is boring.
8. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son. B. Father and daughter C. Husband and wife.
请听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三小题。
9. What kind of food will the speakers eat?
A. American food. B. Indian food. C. Chinese food.
10. How does the
woman know that the
A. She has been told about it.
B. She knows it form the TV
C. She has been there several times.
11. When will the speakers go out for a dinner?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.
请听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14三小题。
12. Where are the speakers most likely?
A. In a coffee shop. B. In a supermarket. C. In the street.
13. How long haven’t the two speakers seen each other?
A. For four years. B. For eight years. C. For ten years.
14. What can we know about the two speakers?
A. They meet unexpectedly with each other.
B. They made an appointment with each other in advance.
C. Both of them work in
请听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17三小题。
15. What happened to the woman?
A. She was robbed in a restaurant.
B. She lost her shoulder bag.
C. She picked up a shoulder bag in a restaurant at lunch time.
16. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. At the police station. B. In the woman’s home. C. In the man’s home.
17. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. There are some keys, an address book and a letter in the woman’s shoulder bag.
B. The woman didn’t find her shoulder bag until she got home.
C. The woman found her shoulder bag in the restaurant.
第三节（共3小题，每小题1分，满分3分）
请听下列一段材料，第18至第20三个小题的信息补充完整。每小题不超过三个单词。
Information
about the conference organized by
Goals
(1) To reduce poverty.
(2) For understanding and (18)________.
(3) To fight climate change.
(4) To strengthen governments.
People
Over 1,000 people, including current and former leaders form different countries.
Business leaders, educators and representatives of (19) ______ also attended.
Results
Over one million dollars promised to support the projects that produce energy form (20) _______ and the sun.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：单项选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
21. ― Don’t make any noise in the living room! My baby is sleeping.
― _____.
A. Excuse me, I’m wrong B. No, I don’t C. Sorry, I won’t D. Yes, I won’t
22. ? How you found the information about famous people _____ you can use for the report?
- Not yet. I’ll search some on the Internet.
A. which B. who C. what D. whom
23. My strongest __________ is the long race and came out first in the sports meet held last week.
A. event B. accident C. thing D. item
24. What _____ beautiful furniture! You do have _______ taste in beauty.
A. a; the B. /; the C. a; a D. /; a
25. _______ the fact that one of the engines was out of control, the pilot remained so calm as if nothing had happened.
A. With B. Despite C. Besides D. Because of
26. He was _____ eating, and his straight hair fell forward over his forehead(前额).
A. interested in B. absorbed in C. focused on D. kept on
27. ― What do you think made Mary so upset?
― ___ her mp4.
A. As she lost B. Lost
C. Losing D. Because of losing
30.
That they referred to that ______ thing made her very _____.
A. embarrassed; embarrassed B. embarrassing; embarrassed
C. embarrassed; embarrassing D. embarrassing; embarrassing
31. ? Look! He ______ with joy.
- Yes. He _______ the test.
A. is jumping; must pass B. jumps; passes
C. is jumping; must have passed D. jumped; passed
32. ______, most teenagers now listen to rock music. However, Jeffery prefers classical music.
A. In a word B. In general
C. In particular D. In total
33. Not only _____ polluted but ____ crowded.
A. was the city, were the streets
B. the city was, were the streets
C. was the city; the streets were
D. the city was, the streets were
34. ________, you always get something to eat on this airline.
35．______ is mentioned above, an increasing number of high school students are playing online games.
A. Which B. What C. As D. It
第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
Tom used to work at a little railway station. He was
very 36 about “rules”. For 37, he never smoked in a nonsmoker (不准吸烟的车厢), nor
He was there for 50 years and then he had to 39. He asked for a part of an old railway carriage（车厢）which, he thought, would remind him of the 40 days he had spent at the station.
About a week later, a carriage was 41 and was taken into Tom’s back 42. Tom worked at it, just as he had worked at the station. It was 43 and painted, and in a week 44 so it looked very nice.
One day, I went to visit old Tom. It was a 45 day for a visit. It was raining hard. I walked to the front door and 46, but there was no answer. However, the door wasn’t 47, so I opened it and went in. He was 48 to be seen. I thought he 49 be in that old railway carriage. So I went to the back. Sure enough, he 50 there, but he wasn’t sitting in the carriage; he was outside, on the step of the carriage, 51 his pipe. His head was 52 with a sack and the rain was running down his 53. “Hello, why on earth are you sitting here? Why don’t you go inside the 54 out of the rain?”
“Can’t you see?” said Tom. “The carriage they sent me was 55.”
36. A. careful
B. serious
C. strict
D. worried
37. A. some reason
B. some time
C. safety
D. example
38. A. allowed
B. persuaded
C. forbad
D. advised
39. A. rest
B. retire
C. return
D. leave
40. A. sad
B. happy
C. busy
D. interesting
41. A. made
B. repaired
C. sent
D. posted
42. A. room
B. kitchen
C. shed
D. garden
43. A. cleaned
B. washed
C. rebuilt
D. fixed
44. A. or
B. and
C. as
D. then
45. A. bad
B. good
C. terrible
D. cold
46. A. entered
B. stopped
C. looked
D. knocked
47. A. closed
B. shut
C. locked
D. opened
48. A. nowhere
B. anywhere
C. somewhere
D. elsewhere
49. A. must
B. might
C. can’t
D. might not
50. A. worked
B. stood
C. was
D. wasn’t
51. A. cutting
B. eating
C. examining
D. smoking
52. A. tired
B. covered
C. wrapped
D. hidden
53. A. legs
B. back
C. arms
D. chest
54. A. house
B. tent
C. carriage
D. train
55. A. too small
B. too dirty
C. a smoker
D. a nonsmoker
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30）
第一节（共12小题，每小题2分，满分24）
A
Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize ― a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.
She lives happily and totally alone ? growing her
vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month
or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually
including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from
friends in
At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.
But recently the very things that she had tried to get
free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has
been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What
she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things
began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in
56. Dorothea’s small houses ________.
A. are entirely surrounded by trees
B. have always been her home
C. were built for just a few people
D. are in a county with the same population
as
57. Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.
A. she doesn’t like living near people B. she is too old to move
C. machines destroyed her home D. there’s nowhere else for her to live
58. Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.
A. her sister B. some animals C. friends from Canada D. a postman
59. Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.
A. growing all the food she needs B. cutting down trees
C. listening to the radio D. studying languages
60. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Dorothea doesn’t hear from her sister once a month or so.
B. The cats and hens are settled down in a corner of the bookshelf.
C. More and more people come to visit her now.
D. Dorothea’s quiet life has been affected because of the making of a new road.
B
Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something that has not been said before. He hopes that the public will listen and understand ----he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visional artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experience into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain choice of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is very interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have notice these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artists.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in movement and at rest; their choices show that these aspects(方面)of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Modern artists might say that they only choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose totally without thinking about the character of their subjects.
If one painter chooses to paint a decaying(溃烂的) leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world . Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing(强调) something - all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.
61. It is hard to explain what a painter is saying because _______.
A. most painters do not express themselves well
B. a painter uses unusual words and phrases
C. a painter use shapes and colors instead of words
D. many painters do not say anything
62. Modern artists might say their choice of subjects ______.
A. carries a message to the public B. only provides interesting patterns
C. has no pattern or form D. teaches the public important truths
63. The writer says that modern art contains______
A. nothing but meaningless patterns B .uninteresting aspects of the world
C. subjects chosen partly for their meaning D. completely meaningless subjects
64. Which of the following is implied(暗示) but NOT directly stated in the passage?
A. A painting is more easily understood than a song
B. Art is only the arranging of shapes and colors
C. Every artist tries to say something to the public
D. One must look beyond shapes and colors to find out what an artist is saying
C
Some scientists say that animals in the oceans are increasingly threatened by noise pollution caused by human beings.
The noise that affects sea creatures comes
from a number of human activities. It is caused mainly by industrial underwater
explosions（爆炸）, ocean drilling, and ship engines. Such
noises are added to natural sounds. These sounds include the breaking of ice
fields, underwater earthquakes, and 
become
infected.
Many researchers whose work depends on ocean sounds object to a limit of one hundred and twenty decibels. They say such a limit would mean an end to important industrial and scientific research.
Scientists do not know how much and what kinds of noises are harmful to ocean animals. However, many scientists suspect that noise is a greater danger than they believed. They want to prevent noises from harming creatures in the ocean.
65. According to the passage, which of the following is increasingly dangerous to sea creatures?
A. The man-made noises. B. The noises made by themselves.
C. The sound of earthquakes. D. The sound of the ice-breaking.
66. Which of the following is discussed in the third paragraph?
A. Different places with different types of noises.
B. The very human ears sensitive to all types of noises.
C. The same noise measured differently on land and in the ocean.
D. The ocean animals' reaction to noises.
67. As to the influence of noises on whales, which of the following statements is true?
A. They are deaf to noises.
B. Noises at a certain level may hurt them.
C. They are easily confused by noises.
D. Noises will limit their ability to reproduce.
第二节：回答问题: （共3小题，每小题2分，小计6分）。
When many people are worried that there are no more heroes in the modem society, two university students who lost their lives to rescue drowning children have shown that heroes still exist.
According to the Inner Mongolia Morning
Post, the tragedy occurred on the afternoon of December 14, 2002 when
three school students skating on a frozen lake in
More than 20 university students who happened to be near the spot immediately went to the rescue of the children. They were astonished about what had happened in front of them.
Two children were quickly rescued, but the third died. The child’s body was not found for three hours. Two of the rescuers, Liu Ye and Hao Longbiao, also died of cold and exhaustion(筋疲力尽).
The body of Hao who took the lead in jumping into the lake was not found until the next day.
A student who was unwilling to tell his name said he and his classmates from the local college were taking photos at the lake. When they heard the children’s cries for help, they went to the ice hole hand in hand to rescue the children. But the ice kept breaking, causing most of them to fall into the icy water.
Local residents held mourning ceremonies (祭奠仪式) at the lake.
Eight of the students were seriously affected by the freezing water and were being kept in hospital for further observation, but their lives were no longer in danger.
68. Which word in the passage has the same meaning as the underlined word “occurred”?
_________________________________________.
69. What were the university students doing when the three students fell into water?(不超过6个单词)
____________________________________________.
70.When they tried to rescue the kids, why did most of students fall into the lake? (不超过6个单词)
__________________________________________.
第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分15分）
第一节：填空（5分）
阅读短文，根据所读内容在文后71-80的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。注意：没空不超过3个单词。
It is not surprising to hear that more and more people are trying to lose weight by using weight-loss pills. It is becoming a very popular way to deal with weight because then all that people need to do is simply take the pill and carry on with their normal eating habits all the while losing weight.
As with the seemingly endless supply of weight-loss programs, there is a wide range of weight-loss pills that you can choose from and they go from prescription drugs(处方药) to natural products that are supposed to have same effect but offer a safer choice.
Weight-loss pills can be highly effective when the appropriate drug is chosen for the patient and many people have quiet obvious results over a relatively short period of time once they have found a solution that has worked for them.
Still, you need to be aware that these natural weight-loss pills can have side effects and some serious reactions can be extremely dangerous to your health.
No matter what type of pills or products you are taking to lose weight, you really should discuss everything with your doctor first to ensure that your health won’t be in danger and in particular if you have any other health problems that need to be discussed.
With prescription drugs you are going to have to consult your doctor, so it would be a wise decision to talk about all the alternatives before deciding what the best for you is.
On the other hand there have been many people who have had obvious problems with weight-loss pills they have been using, whether it is prescription drugs or natural products. In some cases, these substances have no effect on the user.
It certainly isn’t worth endangering your life to lose weight as weight loss should actually be about improving you life.
Title: Be Careful When Using 71._________
Advantage
People can continue their usual 72._____ while taking them.
73.______
From prescription drugs to 74. ________.
Function
Highly effective when choosing 75._______
76._________
Possible 77.________and serious reactions may endanger people’s health.
Discuss everything, especially your health problems, with your doctor to ensure your78.______.
Let the doctor help you choose the best 79._____ for you.
Drugs or natural products may not be suitable for those with 80.___________.
第二节：写作（10分）
?在世界环保日到来前夕，联合国教科文组织就如何处理垃圾问题向全世界中学生征文。请你以Saving Our City为题，写一篇100词左右的短文。文章的第一句已给出，但不计入总词数。
提示：
1. 城市垃圾的危害：①污染环境；②有害健康。
2. 处理垃圾的措施有：①垃圾分类；②报纸、玻璃的再利用；③有害垃圾的处理；④废水处理；⑤制定法律。
It is very important to deal with the rubbish in cities...
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Keys：
1 -5 BAABC 6-10 BCACA 11-17 AACAB AA
18. conflict resolution 19. non-profit groups 20. wind
21- 25 CAADB 26-30 BCBDB 31-35 CBCAC
36-
46- 50 DCAAC 51-55 DBBCD
56-60 AABCD 61- 67 CBCDA CB
68. happened
69. They were taking photos.
70. The ice kept breaking.
71. Weight-loss Pills 72. eating habits
73. Choices 74.natural products
75. the appropriate drug 76. Attentions
77. side effects 78. health
79. solution 80. obvious problems
