2011年北京市夏季普通高中会考英语试题

2011年北京市夏季普通高中会考

英 语 试 卷

一、听力理解 （共20小题，20分）

第一节：听下面八段对话或独白，从各题A、B、C三个选项中, 选出能回答问题的最佳答案。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第1题。

1. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At a library. B. At a cinema. C. At a railway station.

听下面一段对话，回答第2题。

2. What does the man want to do?

A. To make an invitation. B. To have lunch.

听下面一段对话，回答第3题。

3. What’s the man going to do in the summer vacation?

A. To visit places of interest.

B. To read some books. C. To pay bills. C. To teach English.

听下面一段对话，回答第4题至第6题。

4. Where did the woman go yesterday?

A. A watch shop. B. A police station.

5. What does the woman want to do?

A. To book movie tickets. B. To find what she lost.

6. Which watch belongs to the woman? C. A movie theater. C. To buy a watch.

B. C. A.

听下面一段对话，回答第7题至第8题。

7. What’re the speakers talking about?

A. Their travel plan. B. Their favorite food. C. Their final papers.

8. What’s the man interested in?

A. Banana growing. B. Animal protection. C. Seafood industry.

听下面一段对话，回答第9题至第10题。

9. What’s the weather like tomorrow morning?

A. Fine. B. Snowy. C. Rainy.

10. What’s the woman going to do tomorrow?

A. To visit friends. B. To go shopping. C. To play bowling.

听下面一段对话，回答第11题至第13题。

11. What’s the relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Husband and wife.

12. What’s the woman doing?

A. Asking the man to get up. B. Preparing some food. C. Making a phone call.

13. What does the man want to do?

A. To go to school. B. To do sport. C. To sleep longer.

听下面一段独白，回答第14题至第16题。

14. What’s Bob’s major interest?

A. Listening to the radio. B. Sports and games. C. His own job.

15. What does Bob do after work?

A. Take exercise. B. Go home. C. Attend parties.

16. What kind of person do you think Bob is?

A. Lonely. B. Polite. C. Active.

第二节：听下面一段对话，根据题目要求在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下第17题至第20题的关键信息。此段对话你将听两遍。

从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

21. The twins blamed for over-watering the houseplants.

A. another B. each other C. either D. the other

22. —I wonder, Mr. Adams, you’d mind us asking a few questions.

—Not at all. Go ahead.

A. that B. why C. if D. where

23. John was honored giving lifesaving first aid to his neighbor.

A. of B. as C. by D. for

24. In those two years, Professor Brooks often had us some oral presentations in class.

A. to do B. do C. done D. did

25. To lead a happy successful life requires a high EQ—the higher, .

A. the good B. the better C. the much D. the more

26. No one knows exactly how the earth , as it happened so long ago.

A. has begun B. begins C. had begun D. began

27. —Excuse me, but could you please tell me the way to the gas station around here?

—Sorry. There isn’t gas station nearby, I’m afraid.

A. the B. 不填 C. a D. one

28. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes in the earthquake.

A. had been destroyed B. had destroyed

C. were being destroyed D. were destroying

29. The roses in the park good in June.

A. feel B. smell C. sound D. taste

30. He made many successful films and TV shows, he is most famous for his Superman films.

A. for B. or C. but D. so

31. According to the recent report, almost 1,000 animals and plants in the last few years.

A. have disappeared B. had disappeared C. will disappear D. are disappearing

32. —How long in Shanghai?

—Till I get the job done.

A. are you staying B. would you stay C. had you stayed D. have you stayed

33. at a strange-looking house, I was shown into a large, bright room.

A. Arrived B. Being arrived C. Arriving D. To arrive

34. She has helped to set up special places birds can live safely.

A. which B. that C. whom D. where

35. In 1983, there were only 200 computers to the Internet.

A. to connect B. connecting C. connect D. connected

三、完形填空 （共15小题，15分）

阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

Piano Lessons

Susie loved to hear her older sister, Emma, play the piano. Listening to the pretty notes and watching Emma’s fingers press the keys made Susie want to play too. But every time Susie asked to would tell her that it took hard work to learn to play the piano well. Susie was sure she learn to play even if she was a few years younger, she decided to show her mother that she was ready for her responsibility. Susie her mom around the house by washing the dishes and dusting.

“Mom, can I take piano lessons?” Susie asked.

“Susie, so long as you know that you have to every day, you can take them,” her mom said.

Susie was so excited. She could not wait to play “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” one of her favorite songs. Very quickly, she thought, she would play as as Emma!

Susie was excited and nervous for her first piano lesson. When she finally got there, she was her teacher had flashcards and a book for her. Susie did not know there were so many other things to learn about the piano before she could begin to play it. She had to learn each of the notes, or the sounds, that the piano makes. , she had to know which key on the piano made each note. There were Italian words she had to learn! Her teacher showed her everything she needed to remember before the next lesson. During that lesson, Susie never even had a chance to a key on the piano.

“Don’t people to play the piano at piano lessons?” she wondered.

The next day, when Susie got home from school, her mom had her snack all ready. Susie ate it fast and started to run

outside.

“Where’re you going?” her mom asked.

“Outside to play basketball,” Susie said. “Bye mom!”

“Not so fast, you must your piano flashcards,” her mom said. “Then, you can play.”

“But mom, everyone is playing basketball,” Susie complained.

“Susie, this is what you to do your work first,” her mom said firmly.

36. A. music B. games C. basketball D. cards

37. A. listen B. watch C. play D. share

38. A. must B. could C. should D. might

39. A. or B. but C. for D. so

40. A. followed B. took C. helped D. showed

41. A. practice B. check C. rest D. call

42. A. early B. well C. loudly D. long

43. A. surprised B. excited C. satisfied D. amused

44. A. Yet B. Instead C. However D. Then

45. A. only B. once C. just D. even

46. A. next B. first C. later D. final

47. A. turn B. hold C. touch D. feel

48. A. fail B. refuse C. get D. happen

49. A. present B. collect C. pick D. study

50. A. deserved B. wanted C. minded D. supposed

四、阅读理解 （共15小题，30分）

第一节：阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

A

You and your friends will have lots of fun with Rabbit Ears Walkie-Talkies. You can talk to someone who is in another room at your house or someone who is up to 180 feet away from you. You can take your walkie-talkie with you when you go camping or walking.

Rabbit Ears Walkie-Talkies are easy to use. This is what you do:

1. Push the ON button.

2. Hold the TALK button in and say something. If your friend has his/her walkie-talkie on, he/she will hear you.

If you want to talk for a long time, you can lock the TALK button. Just push the button in and up. When you finish talking, push the TALK button down.

3. When you finish talking, let go of the TALK button and listen. When your friend pushes the TALK button and says something, you will hear what your friend says through your walkie-talkie.

4. When you finish talking with your friend, push the ON button again to turn your walkie-talkie off.

51. What are Rabbit Ears Walkie-Talkies used for?

A. Talking with others. B. Listening to music.

C. Giving directions. D. Locating places.

52. How can you lock the TALK button?

A. Keep the button on. B. Hold the button back.

C. Push the button in and up. D. Turn the button off and down.

53. Which button will you push when you can’t hear clearly?

A. S B. L

C. TALK D. ON

54. The author writes this passage to ________.

A. tell how to make Rabbit Ears Walkie-Talkies

B. show how to use Rabbit Ears Walkie-Talkies

C. explain to the readers his camping experience

D. introduce some special ways to make friends

B

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that others can have a better life.

Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After college, she became a teacher. Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them.

Dolores liked teaching but she decided to quit her job so that she could spend more time helping her students and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for their parents, farm workers. Thus they could buy their children what they needed.

Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables, like grapes and tomatoes. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got fair pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless new laws were made to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were passed that gave farm workers fair pay.

Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.

55. What did Dolores find about her students?

A. They worked hard to make a living. B. They lived far away from schools.

C. They were hungry sometimes. D. They had little time to play.

56. Why did Dolores stop teaching?

A. She wished to be a lawyer.

B. She moved to another place.

C. She got little money by teaching.

D. She wanted to help her students more.

57. Thanks to Dolores’ great effort, the farm workers ________.

A. got fair pay

B. got better jobs

C. had more time off

D. had a settled way of life

58. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. One can change their jobs often.

B. One person can make big changes.

C. One person can work hard for others.

D. One can make life better by themselves.

C

The Pursuit of Happiness

Perhaps the most curious and interesting phrase ever put into a public document is “the pursuit (追求) of happiness”.

It is declared to be an inalienable (不可剥夺的) right. It cannot be sold. It cannot be given away, either.

The pursuit of happiness! It is not strange that men call it a dream. But I am satisfied that it is not happiness itself, but the pursuit, that is a dream. Instead of thinking of the pursuit, why not fix our thoughts upon the moments, the hours, the days, of this wonderful peace, this merriment of body and mind, that can be repeated and continually extended by the simplest of all means? Perhaps the Latin poet was right in saying that no man can count himself happy while in this life, that is, in a continuous state of happiness. The point I make is that we should not habitually postpone that season of happiness to the future.

Sometimes wandering in an ancient forest, in all the magic power of the woods, surrounded by the kindliest nature, the wild flowers in the trail, the call of the squirrels, the singing of the birds, the howl of the wind, and the spots of sunlight on the brown carpet, I find myself unaware of the beauty and postpone my enjoyment until I shall reach a hoped-for open place of full sun.

The comparison cannot be pushed, for it is the common experience that these open spots in life, where relaxation and contentment await us, are usually grown up with barriers, to say nothing of the labors and duties and difficulties.

The pitiful part of this inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is, however, that most men interpret it to mean the pursuit of wealth, and struggle for that always, postponing being happy until they get a fortune, in the end to find that the happiness has gone. They have not developed that in themselves which alone can bring happiness. More than that, they have lost the power of the enjoyment of the basic pleasures of life. I think that in our day a poor woman who put her little money into the contribution-box gets more happiness out of that than some men have experienced in founding a university.

59. In the passage, the author advises the readers to ________.

A. live in the present

B. spend time in nature

C. carry out their duties

D. give money to the poor

60. What can be concluded from the passage?

A. The main goal of life is pleasure.

B. It is easier to be happy if you are wealthy.

C. Life is full of duties and difficulties as well as beauties.

D. People have the power to control the quality of their lives.

61. The underlined phrase “ in Paragraph 5 indicates that the woman ________.

A. gained wealth eagerly

B. donated money regularly

C. spread happiness constantly

D. gave what she could willingly

62. The passage is most probably ________.

A. a political speech B. a welcome speech

C. a persuasive speech D. an acceptance speech

第二节：阅读下面信件和问题，根据信件内容，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息（不多于五个单词），完成对该问题的回答。答语要结构正确，书写工整，字迹清楚。

Dear Sir,

I read your May 10th column (专栏) about electronic books, or e-books, with great interest. You made several good points about the disadvantages of e-books. But you may not have noticed some of the ways in which they are better than traditional books. Yes, e-books are expensive, but actually they are convenient, effective and environment-friendly.

E-books, for anyone who is unfamiliar with the term, are about the same size and shape as regular books. They

have a large screen in the middle, however. This screen shows the reader a page of text that has been downloaded from a computer. Once the reader has finished reading the page on the e-book screen, he or she moves the text down to see a new page. The process continues until the entire book has been read.

As you pointed out, Mr. Slocum, it’s great to lie on a warm, sandy beach with a book. You can do that just as easily with an e-book as you can with a traditional paper book. In fact, because e-books are so light, you can take them wherever you wouldn’t want to take paper books. Say, for example, that you like to read on the bus. Which would you rather carry with you—a heavy 800-page novel, or an e-book that weighs only a few ounces (盎司)?

Another important advantage is offered by e-books as well. They are more environment-friendly than traditional books. Currently, thousands of trees are cut down each year to meet the publishing industry’s demand for paper. Books that don’t sell are eventually returned to the publisher and destroyed. This shocking waste could be avoided if everyone used e-books, which require no paper.

Sincerely,

David Eng

回答下面问题，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息（不多于五个单词）。

63. What are the advantages of e-books?

64. Why will people take e-books wherever they wouldn’t want to take paper books?

65. Why does the writer write the letter?

五、书面表达 （共20分）

本题包含可供选择的（A）和（B）两道题，你可任选其中一题。根据（A）或（B）所提出的具体要求，在答题卡上写出一篇连贯完整的短文。词数不少于60。

(A)

你校英文校刊 Students’ Voice 专栏开展关于e-books（电子图书）使用的专题讨论。请你参考上面阅读材料（阅读理解第二节）提供的信息，写一篇短文参加讨论。内容包括你对使用e-books 的观点，并说明其理由。

注意：短文的开头已为你写好，写作时请将短文的开头抄写在答题卡上。

Today e-books are used more and more in people’s daily life.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

(B)

美国某中学生代表团即将来你校参观，你作为学生代表要在接待仪式上发言。请你参考以下信息，准备一篇发言稿，介绍你校的基本情况和学生的学习生活。

注意：发言稿的开头和结尾已为你写好，写作时请将发言稿的开头和结尾抄写在答题卡上。

Basic information:

 in the centre of the city

 founded in 1976

 about 200 teachers and nearly 1,500 students

 two teaching buildings, a lab building, a sports ground, a library …

Welcome to Evergreen High School. It’s a great honor for me to meet you and make a general introduction to our school. ___________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Hope you enjoy your visit to our school. Thanks.