山东省苍山县高二下学期期末模块水平考试英语

______ is known to us all that the 2012 Olympic Games will take place in London.

It suddenly ______ to me that we could use a computer to do the job.

The noise was so ______ that he was so ______ that he stayed awake the whole night.

The thought ______ he might fail in the exam worried him a lot.

Come and see me whenever ______.

A．you are convenient	B．you will be convenient
C．it will be convenient to you	D．it is convenient to you

Don’t ______ to contact me if you need any more information.

Gong Li, a famous film star, once said: “______ performance, it is not that different between Hollywood and Asia.”

______ the right kind of training, these teenage football players may one day grow the international stars.

She was very ______ about her father’s sudden death.

Over the past decades, forest area ______ in China as a result of massive deforestation.

After spending a weekend away with my adult son, I was so impressed by his generous heart that I sent him this letter.
Dear son,
I want to thank you for teaching me a very valuable lesson in life by the great example you   31  . When we were eating at that cafe in Boston and a person who had  32  his hamburger didn’t have enough money to pay for it, without   33  , you went over and   34   the extra $2 into his hand.
When we were leaving, you   35   threw a five-cent coin onto the pavement and said something like, “Some kid will really enjoy   36   this.”
Last week, a young man   37   me in the line at a petrol station didn’t have   38   money to pay for his petrol. I asked the money collector, “How much   39   is he?” She told me he had meant to put $15 of petrol in his car   40   he had been looking at the wrong gauge (计量表) and had put in 15   41  , which came to a little over $20. That is an easy mistake as both gauges run fast.
Something made me think of you and   42   you did that night at the cafe in Boston. I handed the man $6. He was so   43   and said, “But why would you do this for me?” I just smiled as I thought of you.
Thank you, son, for teaching me that “it’s   44   to give than to receive”. Now when I see a five-cent coin on the   45   and want to pick it up, I think of you and leave it there, just in case some kid will get a kick out of finding it.
Love always, Mum.

A．followed B．gave C．set D．took

A．ordered B．booked C．offered D．bought

A．hesitation B．doubt C．permission D．difficulty

A．spread B．put C．threw D．loaded[

A．again B．already C．only D．also

A．finding B．accepting C．looking for D．pointing at

A．behind B．beyond C．ahead of D．next to[

A．much B．some C．any D．enough

A．far B．long C．short D．high

A．and B．but C．so D．while

A．kilometers B．kilograms C．pounds D．litres

A．what B．which C．how D．that

A．excited B．surprised C．interested D．encouraged

B．better C．faster D．worse

A．comer B．mud C．ground D．carpet

Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both questions is yes.To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random (随意地) from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that integigence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates (表明) that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who lives in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.
Which of the following best describes the writer’s point in Paragraph One?

In the first paragraph,“no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence” suggests that       .

The last paragraph mainly shows       .

The best title for this passage would be       .

Which statement about the passage is true?

The researchers, led by Hwang Woo-suk, insist they cloned an Afghan hound, only to help investigate (研究) human disease, including the possibility of cloning stem cells (干细胞) for treatment purposes.
But others immediately renewed calls for a global ban on human reproductive cloning before the technology moves any farther.
“Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any species of mammals, including humans,” said Ian Wilmut, a reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh who produced the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, from an adult cell nearly a decade ago.
Researchers have since cloned cats, goats, cows, mice, pigs, rabbits, horses, deer, mules and gaur, a large wild ox of Southeast Asia. So far, efforts to clone a monkey or another primate with the same techniques have failed.
Uncertainties about the health and life span (寿命) of cloned animals continue to exsist; Dolly died at a young age in 2003 after developing cancer and arthritis.
Wilmut and others complimented Hwang’s achievement, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. But they said politicians and scientists must face the larger issue — how to go on with the research without crossing the moral boundary of copying human life in the lab.
“The ability to use the technology is hopeful,” said Robert Schenken, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. “However, the paper also points out that in dogs as in most species, cloning for reproductive purposes is unsafe.”
The cloned puppy was the lone success from more than 100 dogs implanted (嵌入)with more than 1,000 cloned embryos.
In a news conference in Seoul, the cloning team also condemnedthe reproductive cloning of humans as “unsafe and inefficient.” Human reproductive cloning already is banned in South Korea. Other nations, including the United States, are divided on whether to ban just human cloning or cloning of all kinds, including the production of stem cells.
An Afghan hound is a kind of ______.

A ______ is a large wild ox of Southeast Asia.

Accrding to the passage, scientists haven’t been able to clone a ______ so far.

The underlined word complimented is probably similar in meaning to ______.

The cloning of human beings is banned in ______. 

多数人统治，人头都算数；少数人统治，人头就落地。
Under m     rule, heads are counted; under minority(少数) rule, heads are cracked.
愚者的心长在嘴里，智者的嘴藏在心里。
The heart of a fool is in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is in his h    .
快活的人通常都是傻瓜。
A m     man is usually a fool.
趁热打铁。
S     the iron while it is hot.
麻烦不找你，别去找麻烦。
Never trouble trouble until t     troubles you.
不要以从别人那里借来的观点为生。
Don’l     on the borrowed opinions of other men .
幸运和不幸是邻居。
F     and misfortune are next-door neighbors.
世界是一出戏，要是事先知道情节，就不值得看了。
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the p   .
患难见真情。
A friend in n    is a friend indeed.
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
A craftsman who wishes to do his work well must first s     his tools.

阅读下面课文段落，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文的连贯要求，空格处各填入一个适当的单词，使短文通顺完整。请将答案写在二卷答题纸上。
◣ A ◢
(Book 8  Unit 1 California)
GOLD MINERS
In 1848, not long after the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in California. The dream of becoming     quickly attracted people from all over the world. The nearest, and therefore the first to arrive,    South Americans and people from the United States. Then adventurers from Europe and Asia soon followed. In fact, few achieved their    of becoming rich. Some died or returned home, but most remained in California to make a life for themselves despite great hardship. They    in the new towns or on farms. By the time California elected to become the thirty-first federal    of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society.
◣ B ◢
(Book 8  Unit 3 The problem of the smakes)
When I called up my mother in the countryside on the telephone she was very upset. “There are some    in our courtyard,” she told me. “Snakes come near the house now and    , and they seem to have made their home here, not far from the walnut tree. Can you    rid of them please?” I felt very proud. Here was a chance for me to    myself by inventing something merciful that would    snakes but not harm them. I knew my parents would not like me to hurt these living creatures!

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的词数要求，并将答案写在二卷答题纸上)。
［1］ What does a successful language learner do? Language learning research shows that successful language learners are similar in many ways.
［2］ First of all, successful language learners are independent learners. They do not depend on the book or the teacher. Instead of waiting for teachers to explain, they try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves. They are good guessers who look for clues and form their own conclusions.
［3］ Secondly, successful language learning is active learning. Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language but                . They find people who speak the language and they ask these people to correct them when they make a mistake. They will try anything to communicate. They are not afraid to repeat what they hear or to say strange things. They are willing to make mistakes and try again. When communication is difficult, they can accept information that is inexact or incomplete. It is more important for them to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word.
［4］ Finally, successful language learners are learners with a purpose. They want to learn the language because they are interested in the language.
［5］ What kind of language learners are you? If you are a successful language learner, you have probably been learning independently, actively and purposefully. On the other hand, if your language learning has been less than successful, you might do well to try some of the techniques above.
What is the main idea of the text？ (Please answer within 10 words.)
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Which sentence in the text can be replaced by the following one?
They make efforts to seek their own ways of learning rather than wait for explanations from their teachers.
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Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 8 words)
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If you want to be a successful language learner, what should you do? (Please answer within 20 words)
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Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese.
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假设你叫高健,作为“做文明市民、创建文明城市”主题活动之一，你所在的班级最近就交通事故原因进行了讨论，同学们发表了不同的看法，讨论结果如下表所示，请根据表格所示结果写一封信给临沂日报，并发表自己的看法。

注意：1. 不得逐条翻译要点提示，可适当发挥。 
2. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
3. 字数要求：120—150词左右。
参考词汇：1. 骑自行车的人—cyclists     2. 行人—pedestrians
Dear editors,
Recently, we had a heated discussion about the causes of traffic accidents. ____________
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Yours sincerely,
Gao Jian