1、北京市西城区2006年抽样测试高二英语试卷第一卷（共80分）I. 听力理解（共两节，满分15分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 听下面5段对话及对话后的问题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 听下面5段对话，回答1-5题。 1. Where are the two speakers? A. They are on the bus. B. They are at table C. They are in the hospital. 2. Which book has the womans sister got? A. An English textboo
2、k. B. A Chinese textbook. C. A history book. 3. What is the relationship between the two people? A. Father and son. B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient. 4. What can we learn about Mike? A. He has been job-hunting. B. He is offering the woman job. C. He is working for a company. 5. On which
3、 days doesnt the mans son work? A. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. B. Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. C. Monday, Friday and Saturday 第二节：（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 听下面四段对话或独白。每段对话和独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至第8题。 6. What examination did the man have this morning? A. Chinese. B. Math
4、s. C. Physics. 7. What does the man think of the maths examination?A. Too easy. B. Too hard. C. A little difficult. 8. Why didnt Li Lei come to school this morning? A. Because he was ill. B. Because he didnt want to. C. Because he had to look after his mother. 听第7段材料，回答第9至第10题。 9. Where does the dia
5、logue take place? A. In a restaurant. B. In a book store. C. At home. 10. How much does it cost?A. $1.70. B. $1.17. C. $17. 听第8段材料，回答第11至12题。 11. What does the woman offer to do for the man? A. To type his paper. B. To help him with his research. C. To present his findings at the July conference. 12
6、. What month is it now? A. May. B. June C. July. 听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。 13. What did the speaker do for his holiday last year? A. Went to the mountains. B. Stayed at home. C. Went to the beach. 14. How far is it to the seashore? A. 8 miles. B. 18 miles. C. 80 miles. 15. Where did the speaker decide to go
7、 at last? A. To the beach. B. To the countryside. C. To the mountains. II. 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 16. How would you like your coffee? . A. Its well done B. Very nice, thank you C. One cup. Thats enough D. The stronger, the better 17. It is a _that you missed such a wond
8、erful concert. A. wrong B. pity C. regret D. mistake 18. In Britain, sales of cigarettes have been reduced_30% in the past ten years. A. for B. by C. from D. to 19. Mum, why do you always make me eat an egg every day? _enough protein and nutrition as you are growing up. A. Get B. Getting C. To get D
9、. To be getting 20. As is known to us all, _life in_modern world is easier in some ways than the life our grandparents lived. A. the; a B. a; the C. /; the D. the; / 21. Will Peter come here? Yes, he promised to, but he hasnt _. A. turned out B. turned up C. turned into D. turned on 22. Tom looked a
10、t Jenny, tears filling his eyes, and shouted out the words_in his heart for years. A. having hidden B. be hidden C. hidden D. hiding 23. Yao Ming has begun his new season in NBA. Yes, he couldnt have wished for a _start to the new NBA year. He scored 19 points in 20 minutes in the opening game. A. b
11、etter B. good C. nice D. best 24. Only in this way_to make improvement in your English learning. A. you can hope B. you did hope C. can you hope D. did you hope 25. If I knew his phone number, I him about the result of the exam. A. will tell B. should tell C. would have told D. would tell 26. Im sor
12、ry I spent so much money, Mum. I wish you so. A. dont do B. havent done C. didnt do D. hadnt done 27. About 170 people were killed and now dozens more still missing after a flood hit an Indonesian town last week. A. are B. is C. were D. was 28. a car reaches the end of its life, it is taken apart an
13、d any part that can be reused is sold off. A. As B. With C. Once D. While 29. I made a promise if anyone sent the bag back to me, I would share the money inside with him or her. A. that B. what C. which D. it 30. Would you like to go to the park with us? Yes, Id love . A. to go B. to C. to do D. /II
14、I. 完形填空（共20小题；每题1分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughter. One day the man 31 his 5-year-old daughter for 32 a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became 33 when the child tried to decorate a 34 t
15、o put under the Christmas tree. 35 , the little girl brought the gift to her 36 the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.” The man was 37 by his earlier 38 , but got angry again when he found out the box was 39 . He yelled at her, saying, “Dont you know, when you give someone a present, th
16、ere is 40 to be something inside?”The little girl looked 41 at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, daddy, its not empty 42 . I blew kisses into the box. They are all for you, Daddy.” The father felt regret. He 43 his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her 44 . Only a short time la
17、ter, an 45 took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many 46 and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out a(n) 47 kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there. In a very real sense, each one of us, as human beings, have been g
18、iven a gold container 48 with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other 49 , anyone could hold, more 50 than this. 31. A. asked B. praised C. begged D. punished 32. A. wasting B. damaging C. selling D. holding 33. A. glad B. angry C.
19、sad D. upset 34. A. room B. hall C. box D. ball 35. A. However B. But C. Therefore D. And 36. A. father B. mother C. teacher D. sister 37. A. puzzled B. surprised C. scared D. embarrassed（难堪） 38. A. overwork B. overreaction C. overcoat D. overpass 39. A. empty B. heavy C. full D. wet 40. A. happened
20、 B. seemed C. supposed D. used 41. A. down B. back C. up D. forward 42. A. at all B. after all C. above all D. in all 43. A. put B. turned C. handed D. gave 44. A. kindness B. forgiveness C. sadness D. carelessness 45. A. event B. incident C. accident D. action 46. A. days B. months C. nights D. yea
21、rs 47. A. imaginary B. kind C. gentle D. warm 48. A. filled B. pleased C. crowded D. equipped 49. A. world B. feeling C. possession（财产） D. love 50. A. expensive B. precious C. comfortable D. interestingIV. 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。（A）Meeting foreigners to improve lang
22、uage skills An elder sister once told me, “The worst thing in learning a language is that you find nowhere to use it at all. And in the end it will get rusty, no matter how well you have learnt it. So, how can we find more opportunities to practice English?” God bless me. Im very lucky today because
23、 I found “the Language Exchange”column in the advertising of an English magazine. Many people badly want a language learning partner, as I do. Come and read the advertisement.Language Exchange1. Want to learn German Fluent English Chinese girl wants to learn German. Would love to meet a German who c
24、an speak English or Chinese. We can talk over coffee or dinner and be friends. Waiting for your reply. *2. Not only Chinese-English language exchange, but Chinese painting & handwriting for you as well. Want this deal? Contact Chen at 133 *85103. English-Spanish exchange Hi, Im a Latin guy, writing
25、his thesis（论文）related to Chinas international trade in English. As Im not an English native speaker I need a native English speaker to help me to revise（修订）my grammar. If you are interested in learning Spanish or improving it, in return I can help you with it. *4. To be or not to be? An energetic（精力
26、充沛的）American university student studying in China, 18, is seriously seeking a Chinese language partner. I like sports and music, esp. hip-hop. If you are interested in American pop-culture and other stuff, pls email met at * 51. How can you contact the girl in the first note? A. Via mobile phone. B.
27、 Via telegram. C. Via email. D. Via language exchange. 52. What kind of person does the Latin guy in the third note want? A. Spanish speaker. B. Native English speaker. C. English speaker. D. Native Spanish speaker. 53. What kind of music does the writer of the fourth note like best? A. Rock. B. R&B
28、. C. Hip-hop. D. Folk. 54. Which among the four notes do you think is useful to me? A. The first. B. The third. C. The second. D. The fourth.（B） The baobab tree grows in West Africa and Australia. It is a very strange-looking tree. Its big trunk（树干）sometimes measures as much as ten metres in diamete
29、r（直径）. It is thicker at the bottom than at the top. The branches nearest to the ground are very long; those near the top are very short. Strange-looking it may be, it is very useful. Its leaves are good to eat. Its white flowers turn into cool fruit which tastes rather like cucumbers（黄瓜）. When a bao
30、bab tree gets old, its trunk becomes hollow（空心）. An old tree has such a huge, hollow trunk that it can hold many people. When it rains, water collects in the hollow. The tree has such a lot of leaves and batches that the water remains cool and fresh. It is such a useful tree that some people can har
31、dly live without it. 55. The trunk of the biggest baobab tree in girth（周长）. A. can be nearly 32 metres B. is more than 10 metres C. is less than 30 metres D. is as much as 10 metres 56. Which of the following do you think the baobab tree is like? 57. Which of the following may be true? A. We can fin
32、d the baobab tree everywhere in Africa. B. The baobab tree is too big for anybody to make use of. C. People in Africa and Australia like to plant baobab trees around their houses. D. Monkeys like to eat the fruit of the baobab tree very much.（C） The year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet（彗
33、星）is heading towards the Earth. Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth. On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earths atmosphere（大气层）with a massive explosion. About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the
34、South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destr
35、oyed and millions of people are drowned. Before the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San F
36、rancisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north wont escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined.
37、The sun wont be seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive. Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million
38、years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldnt live through the cold climate that followed piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldnt live through the cold climate that followed and
39、they died out. Will we meet the same end? 58. What is mainly described in the passage? A. A historic discovery. B. An event of imagination. C. A research on space. D. A scientific adventure. 59. When the first piece hits the South Atlantic, it causes . A. an earthquake B. damages to cities C. an Ear
40、th explosion D. huge waves 60. Why cant the northern half of the earth escape for long? A. Because the land is covered with water. B. Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth. C. Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero. D. Because wars break out among coun
41、tries. 61. By giving the example of dinosaurs, the author tries to prove . A. animals could not live in the cold climate B. what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story C. the human beings will die out in 2094 D. the Earth could be hit by other objects in space（D） Erma Bombeck（1927-1996）
42、is best known for her humorous newspaper column about the daily life of housewives. Her column reaches thirty million readers in seven hundred newspapers across the United States. She was identified（认定）by the World Almanac（年鉴）as one of the twenty-five most influential women in America.My fatherBy Erma Bombeck When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the refrigerator. Every home had one, but none really knew what either of them did once the door was shut. My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to
