1惠州市实验中学 20112012 学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷考试时间：120 分钟 分值：135 分I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节 完形填空（共 15 题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 115 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。Today, many people are starving to death. Recently, a man who wanted to understand the conditions of such people conducted an experiment. He only ate one meal a day for a month but continued to work as he normally did.During the first five days he was hungry at his 1 mealtime, but after he had drunk a glass of water, his hunger went away. In the morning, when he ate his one meal, he ate quickly and had a 2 amount. During the next few days, 3 he was not hungry during the day, he quickly 4 every food stall (a table on which food is put to be sold), and the smell of food caught his 5 . During the third and the fourth weeks, he had hunger pains and 6 physical strength. He 7 his one meal and ate it slowly, enjoying every bite. 8 it, he knew he would have hardly enough energy to work.This 9 changed his attitude about some things. Having a cup of tea was not just a pastime. It also 10 him strength. He more frequently noticed overweight people and people who threw 11 leftover food. He realized the importance of 12 for the very hungry person. He could no longer easily 13 by a hungry beggar on the street. But most 14 , he could now sympathize(同情) in a 15 way with the hungry people of the world.1Aafter B formal C regular Dfrequent2Alarge Bsmall C ordinary Dcommon3Aif Bwhen Cas if D although4Arecognized Bnoticed C. glanced Ddigested5Aeyes Bimagination Cattention Dinterest6Aneeded B lacked Crequired Dwanted7Alooked forward to Bdevoted himself toC looked down upon Dtook pride in8AWith BWithout CRather than D Except for9Aaction BmovementCexperiment D performance10Agained Bgave Ctook Dleft11Ain Bup Caway Dabout12Afood Bmeals Cmoney Dwork13Acome B passCstand D stop14Afortunately B seriously Cnecessary Dimportant 15Agreat Bbig C small Dsimilar第二节 语法填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填2入适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25 的相应位置上。This morning, 16 I finished my homework, I went to the Peoples Park together with my classmate Mary to fly a kite. We got a very nice kite, and it was 17 a lovely day that we were sure to have a lot of fun. I began to fly 18 kite. Once it went up into the sky, I began to run very fast, in the hope that it would go higher and higher. Then suddenly I felt something wrong. 19 (look) up into the sky, I was 20 (disappoint) to find that the kite had got 21 (break). In no time the kite and rope fell over me. What a fool! I sat on the grass, feeling rather 22 (shame) of what I had done. Then Mary 23 (comfort) me, saying “Now, you know what makes a kite fly high. Its 24 (patient) and skills!” 25 (hear) this, I nodded my head.II 阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）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。AIn the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what keeping up with the Joneses is about, It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich life-style of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories, He called it Keeping up with the Joneses because Jones is a very common name in the United States. Keeping up with the Joneses came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momands series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are Jonses in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one