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　　高级中学2011-2012学年第一学期期中测试
　　高二英语
　　本试卷分为第I卷和第II卷两部分，共七大题。 请用2B铅笔将第I卷选择题的答案与第II卷的答案请用黑色签字笔写在答题卷的相应位置。
　　本试卷满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。
　　第I卷 （共90分）
　　一. 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）：
　　Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will ta further than any amount of experience. ”
　　How __1__ they were！Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into __2__ and strangers into friends.
　　“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you __3__ there when the situation gets tough. It is the inner voice that __4__ “I can do it” when others shout, “No, you can’t do it.”
　　It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be __5__ accepted. Yet she didn’t stop doing her experiments. Worch a deep __6__ for her that she never thought of stopping.
　　We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic __7__ -- as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant’s delight at the jingle of keys or the hurrying of a beetle.
　　It is this __8__ wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist(大提琴演奏家) Pablo Casals would start his day by __9__ Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulder would straighten and joy would __10__ in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was what made life a never __11__ adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the st to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the __12__.”
　　We cannot afford to waste __13__ on “might-have-beens”. Just as the saying goes, it’s no use crying over spilt milk. We need to live each moment __14__, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a backyard garden, the crayoned picture by a six-year-old, or the charming beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes and __15__ the wrinkles from our souls.  
　　1. A. elegant        B. responsible      C. right            D. successful 
　　2. A. opportunity    B. wealth          C. success         D. attempt
　　3. A. dress up       B. hang in         C. set off           D. hold up
　　4. A. cries          B. tells            C. warns           D. whispers
　　5. A. specially        B. accidentally      C. generally         D. naturally
　　6. A. pressure       B. fun             C. source           D. pleasure
　　7. A. wonder        B. talent           C. ability           D. nature
　　8. A. romantic       B. surprising       C. childlike         D. vivid
　　9. A. listening to     B. approaching      C. appreciating      D. playing
　　10. A. recover       B. reappear         C. refresh           D. resemble 
　　11. A. ending        B. appearing       C. coming          D. amusing
　　12. A. body         B. soul            C. life             D. blood
　　13. A. tears         B. sweat           C. money          D. efforts
　　14. A. successfully   B. dramatically      C. personally       D. wholeheartedly