(B)

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65. Who is this passage most probably written to?

A. People apply for energy supply B. People moving home

C. Persons in trouble D. Energy users of Eastern Energy

66. If you have any complaints, what should you do?

A. Make a call or send a mail B. Contact Help and Advice Department

C. Go the company directly D. Ask for special services

67. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. You are not expected to read your own gas or electricity meters

B. It is now cheaper to use gas than electricity as a form of heating

C. You are not charged for the call when you report supply failure

D. You should inform Eastern Energy of a change of address on arrival at your new home

(C)

The English are famous for manners. The phrase “manners makes the man” was coined by Englishman William of Wykeham back in 1324, but they’re just as important today. Books are written on the subject, advice columns in magazines tell people how to behave, and “finishing schools” still exist to ensure that young girls become young “ladies”.

The best example of English manners is in their mastery of the art of forming a queue. It is a popular joke in England to say, “If only queuing was an Olympic sport, we’d win all hands down.” No one knows exactly how and when it started, but queuing plays a necessary role in the English social make-up. School children are taught to queue for roll-call, meetings and lunch, and English people across the land form orderly queues at shops, banks, cinemas and bus-stops every day. The English obviously aren’t the only people who queue, but they seem to do it better than anyone else. As one visitor said, “I have travelled across Europe, the Middle and Far East and nowhere have I seen the single-file queues which are formed in England.” Perhaps it is best summed up by the humorist George Mikes who said, “An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”

The English are also knowingly polite when it comes to language. Whereas many other nations are more direct in their communication, the English prefer a more indirect form of asking for things. For example, an American who wants to talk to a colleague might say, “Got a minute?”; however an English person will often use a more indirect means might of requesting the chat, “Sorry to bother you, but would you possibly have a minute or so to have a quick chat if you don’t mind, please?”

68. Which of the following contributing to manners of the English are NOT mentioned?

A. Books. B. Magazines. C. Schools. D. Olympics.

69. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Queuing was once an Olympic sport, and the English won it.

B. When it comes to being polite, the English are the champions.

C. The English wish that queuing would become an Olympic sport.

D. Queuing must become an Olympic sport some day.

70. What does George Mikes mean by saying “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one”?

A. The English are interested in queuing. B. When an English is alone, he has to queue.

C. The English form a good habit of queuing. D. Not queuing is illegal in England.

71. Which of the following can reflect manners of the English?

A. Wanting to talk to a workmate, he might say “Got a minute?”

B. School children often crowd their way onto the bus.

C. “Excuse me, would you possibly tell me how to get to the bank?”

D. When he is alone, he can’t form an orderly queue.

(D)

Global warming threatens Antarctica and its tuxedoed inhabitants(穿礼服的居民，指南极的企鹅), whose numbers have plummeted more than 80% since 1975, a new book says.

Author and journalist Fen Montaigne chronicles(记录) his five months studying Antarctica's penguins and climate change’s impact at a research station with ecologist Bill Fraser. His book says Antarctica’s midwinter temperature has risen 11°F in the past 60 years.

In Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica (Henry Holt, $26), released this week, Montaigne shows the otherworldly beauty of one of Earth’s wildest place, its mysterious quality to explorers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton and the impact of rising temperatures.

Here’s King George Island at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where Montaigne in the three-plus decades of Fraser’s landmark research, this western region of Antarctica has warmed faster than almost any other place on the planet, causing sea ice to disappear and glaciers to retreat. The Adelie penguins depend on sea ice for survival. They use it as a platform from which they feed on krill larvae and silverfish eggs, the supply of which has been reduced because of scant sea ice. Their numbers near Fraser’s research station have plummeted from about 33,000 breeding pairs in 1975 to 5,600.

“It seems that their endless instinct and their natural intelligence can take them only so far,” writes Montaigne, senior editor of the online magazine Yale Environment 360. “Today, in at least one corner of Antarctica, the continent's iconic penguin is starting to falter(衰弱).”

Montaigne first visited Antarctica in 2004 to cover Fraser’s research for National Geographic, spending a month with him near his base at Palmer Station, one of three U.S. research centers on Antarctica. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation to return for five months beginning in October 2005.

He says the saga of the Adelies is a “cautionary tale” and calls Fraser a “sentinel(哨兵), working in a part of the planet that most of us will never visit and bearing witness to rapid changes that foreshadow(预示) our own futures.” For more pictures of his time in Antarctica, visit Montaigne's website or read his article in New Yorker magazine.

72. The underlined word “plummeted” in Paragraph 1 probably means .

A. increased quickly B. fell suddenly C. stopped suddenly D. changed rapidly

73. Who wrote the book Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctic?

A. Sir Ernest Shackleton B. Bill Fraser C. Fen Montaigne D. The author of this article

74. Where do you guess this article comes from?

A. A magazine B. A radio station C. A newspaper D. A website

75. From the last paragraph we can conclude that .

A. global warming will not influence man’s life in the future

B. global warming will lead to the extinction of penguins

C. global warming will certainly affect man’s life greatly

D. global warming will be stopped by man in future

(E)

In the early 1950s, researches found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. Bilingual (说双语的) people scored higher than monolinguals, people who speak only one language.

Researchers presented their newest studies last month at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The latest evidence shows that being bilingual does not necessarily make people smarter. But researcher Ellen Bialystock says it probably does make you better at certain skills.

Ellen Bialystok said, “Imagine driving down the highway. There're many things that could capture (捕获) your attention and you really need to be able to monitor (监视) all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?”

And the answer, she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention —a function called the executive control system.

Ms. Bialystock is a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She says the best method to measure the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. A person is shown words in different colors. The person has to ignore the word but say the color. The problem is that the words are all names of colors.

Ellen Bialystok said, “So you would have the word blue written in red, but you have to say red. But blue is so salient (显著的), it's just lighting up all these circuits in your brain, and you really want to say blue. So you need a mechanism (机制) to override that so that you can say red. That's the executive control system.”

Her work shows that bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to stop one to be able to speak in the other.

This mental exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are better able to separate a word from its meaning, and more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing dementia (痴呆) or Alzheimer's disease.

76. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Bilingual people are smarter B. Monolingual people are smarter

C. Bilingual people are better at some skills D. Bilingual people have longer lives

77. The underlined word “override” in Paragraph 6 probably means .

A. pay attention to B. take no notice of C. take an interest in D. take care of

78. In the Stroop Test, supposing you have the word yellow written in white, you will have to say _____ .

A. white B. yellow C. blue D. red

79. Which group of people can most likely pass the Stroop Test?

A. People who can speak only Chinese B. People who can speak only Japanese

C. People who can speak more than one language D. People who can speak only English

80. Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the text?

A. A bilingual child is better at separating a word from its meaning.

B. A bilingual child can more easily make friends with a foreign child.

C. Bilingual people are more able to monitor several things at the same time.

D. It’s not possible for bilingual people to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

五、单词拼写(10分)(略，见试卷的答题卷)

六、短文改错(10分)(略，见试卷的答题卷)

七、书面表达(30分)(请完成在试卷的答题卷上)

目前，不少中学生喜欢看小说，对此不同的人有不同的看法。请你阅读下表内容写一篇短文，并发表自己的观点。

大多数人认为 看小说可以增加知识、拓展视野;看小说可以丰富生活、释放压力、改善情绪;看小说可以净化心灵、引导做人。

其它人认为 看小说浪费时间、影响学习;一些小说内容不健康。

你的观点 ……

注意：1、字数：100---120。

2、参考词汇：释放: relieve; 情绪：mood

高二英语期中考试答案

听力：1---20 BBABC ACAAB CACCB BCBCA

单选：21---40 DBCBA　 ADBDB DCCAB CDACA

完型：41---60 ACABD BDADC ACBDB CDCAB

阅读：61---64 DBAB 65---67 DAC 68---71 DBCC 72---75 BCDC 76---80 CBACD

单词拼写：

1. crowded 2. entertainment 3. Reducing 4. confused 5. overcame

6. whispered 7. represented 8. various 9. approaches 10. famous

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