湛江市第二中学2011-2012学年高二第二学期第二学段英语考试卷I 语言知识及应用第一节 完形填空(共15小题，每题2分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从115 各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I have a marriage of 19 years with my wife. However, last weekend my wife asked me to take another （1） out to dinner. The “she” that my wife mentioned was my MOTHER, who I could visit her only (2) . That night I called to (3) her to go out for dinner. “Are you OK?” she asked. My mother is such a woman who (4) that a late night call is a (5) of bad news. “ I thought that it would be (6) to spend some time with you,” I responded . “Just the two of us.” She agreed after a few minutes.To be honest, that Saturday when I drove over to pick her up, I was a bit nervous. When I (7) _at her house, I noticed that she , too , seemed to be (8) about our date. She was wearing the dress that she had worn to (9) her last wedding anniversary.We went to a restaurant which was not elegant but very nice and (10) . When I read the menu, Mom sat there （11） at me with a warm smile. A few (12) later, my mother died of a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didnt have a(n) (13) to do anything for her. Then, I received a letter which read “I wasnt sure whether I could be there; but I (14) for two plates in advance at the same restaurant we had dinner a few days agoone for you and the other for your wife. I love you , son.” At that moment, I understood the importance of saying “I LOVE YOU” (15) and sincerely. 1. A. boyB. womanC. girlD man2. A. occasionally B. constantlyC. usuallyD. eventually3. A. orderB. adviseC. inviteD. force4. A.suspectsB. doubts C. valuesD imagines5. A. symbolB. signalC. signD mark6. A. playfulB. pleasingC. pleasedD. pleasant7. A. reachedB. gotC. arrivedD landed8. A. nervousB. hopefulC. anxiousD. upset9. A. memorizeB. celebrateC. congratulateD. honor10. A. neatB. dirtyC. expensiveD. splendid11. A. glancingB. seeingC. staringD. watching12. A. yearsB. monthsC. weeksD. days13. A. chanceB. occasionC. fortuneD. courage14. A. costB. paidC. spentD. took15. A. weeklyB. dailyC. yearlyD. timely第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）仔细阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的正确形式填空。）There are two kinds of memories: short-term and long-term. Information (16) long-term memory can be remembered at a later time (17) it is needed. On the contrary, information in short-term memory （18） （keep）for only a few seconds. The following experiment shows how short-term memory has been studied. Henning studied (19) students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. The subjects (20) (test) in his experiment were 75 students. To begin with, the subjects listened to (21) recording of a native speaker, reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see (22) words they remembered. Some of the questions had four choices that sounded alike. (23) of the questions had four choices that had the same meaning, method, way and manner. Henning found the students with (24) (low) proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike while students with higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on words (25) (have) the same meaning. II 第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(A)“Regardless of social class, race, age, men say they hate to shop,” says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor. “ Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books , music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, theyll say, Well , thats not shopping. Thats research .”In other words, what men and women call “buying things” and how they approach that task are different. Women will wander through several 1,000-square-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a special task or a game to be won. “Men are frequently shopping to win,” says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. “They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they manage to do that it makes them happy.” “When women shop, theyre doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy,” says Ann. “Theyre kind of shopping for love.”“Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen.” Zukin says. “And although mens magazines such as GQand Esquire have long had shopping art