广东省深圳市第三高级中学2011-2012学年高二英语下学期期中考试试题

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__ that 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, 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, inside 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 mysterious __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 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. familiar B. strange C. similar D. special[来

2. A. partly B. personally C. really D. willingly

3. A. complex B. simple C. mature D. meaningful

4. A. quietness B. darkness C. loneliness D. sadness

5. A. finally B. completely C. physically D. normally

6. A. refused B. decided C. continued D. failed

7. A. time B. secret C. process D. study

8. A. deal with B. add to C. give away D. depend on

9. A. discovery B. activity C. invention D. method

10. A. beasts B. animals C. strangers D. humans

11. A. controls B. studies C. measures D. destroys

12. A. world B. flower C. power D. experiment[来

13. A. happen B. exist C. matter D. work

B. modern C. wonderful D. peaceful 14. A. ancient

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