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1、深圳市第三高级中学2011-2012学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语试题卷本试题分选择题和非选择题两部分，共8页，满分135分。考试用时120分钟一、语言知识及应用（共两节。满分45分）第一节 完形填空(共15小题。每小题2分, 满分30分)阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后从1-15各题所给出的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so _1_ tha
2、t there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one _2_ understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as _3_ as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant _4_. We might expect that the flowers,
3、 without any information about the time of day, did not open as they _5_ do. As a matter of fact, they _6_ to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the _7_. Their sense of time does not _8_information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, in
4、side them, a kind of “inner clock”.This _9_ may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also _10_ , including man, have this “inner clock” which _11_ the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this myster
5、ious _12_. Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.In the past, this did not really _13_ because people lived in natural condition. In the _14_ world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a
6、 lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very _15_, then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.1. A. familiarB. strangeC. similarD. special来2. A. partlyB. personallyC. reallyD. willingly3. A. complexB. simpleC. mature
7、D. meaningful4. A. quietnessB. darknessC. lonelinessD. sadness5. A. finallyB. completelyC. physicallyD. normally6. A. refusedB. decidedC. continuedD. failed7. A. timeB. secretC. processD. study8. A. deal withB. add toC. give awayD. depend on9. A. discoveryB. activityC. inventionD. method10. A. beast
8、sB. animalsC. strangersD. humans11. A. controlsB. studiesC. measuresD. destroys12. A. worldB. flowerC. powerD. experiment来13. A. happenB. existC. matterD. work14. A. ancientB. modernC. wonderfulD. peaceful15. A. hardB. expensiveC. convenientD. important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
9、上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个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。 A farmer and his son were taking their ass(驴) to a market. They wanted to sell it. They passed a group of girls, 16 laughed at how foolish the farmer was to have an ass and 17 (walk), so the farmer put his son 18 the ass. Further down th
10、e road, they passed some old people who scolded the farmer for allowing his young son to ride 19 said that he should be riding himself . Further along the road, they passed some travelers who said that if he wanted to sell the ass the two of them should carry him 20 the ass would be exhausted and wo
11、rthless. So the farmer and his son bound the asss legs to a pole and carried him. When they approached the town, people there laughed at the sight of them. The noise was so loud 21 the ass was frightened to 22 (die). He kicked out and 23 (fall) off a bridge into the river and drowned.The 24 (embarra
12、ss) farmer and son went home with nothing, except the lesson that you will achieve nothing by trying to please 25 .二、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，从每题所给出的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AIt was the summer of 1965. DeLuca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked DeLuc
13、a about his plans for the future. “Im going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” DeLuca recalls saying. “Buck said, You should open a sandwich shop.” That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check
14、 for $1000. DeLuca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldnt cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1000. But business didnt go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didnt know how badly, because we didnt have any fi
15、nancial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. DeLuca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. Theyd meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, We are so successful, we are opening a second sto
