高二下学期期中考试英语试题 含答案.docx

1、高二下学期期中考试英语试题 含答案2019-2020年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 含答案 第一节（共五小题，每小题1分，满分5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. Whats the weather like now? A. Windy. B. Sunny. C. Snowy.2. What does the woman plan to do tonight? A. See a French singer. B. Meet a fri

2、end. C. Get some extra sleep.3. Why didnt the woman go to Yunnan with her boyfriend? A. She couldnt get time off work.B. She went to Germany.C. She will go there with someone else. 4. What is the mans hobby? A. Collecting stamps. B. Taking photos. C. Feeding fish.5. Where is the man? A. In a restaur

3、ant. B. In a hotel. C. At his home.第二节（共15小题，每小题1分，满分10分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What are the speakers doing? A. Looking for someone. B. Playing a game. C. Drawing pictures.7. What does Mi

4、ke look like? A. He has brown eyes. B. He has a beard. C. His hair is curly.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What do we know about War Horse? A. Its an action movie. B. It doesnt win any awards. C. Its a sad movie.9. Why does the man enjoy action movies? A. He is an action star. B. They are very exciting. C. They

5、have a great story.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the woman think of her city? A. Its exciting. B. Its small. C. Its noisy. 11. What is true about the city center? A. There is a famous statue there.B. Its not crowded at all.C. Life is interesting there.12. Whats the weather like in the city? A. Its

6、hot most of the time.B. Its quite wet.C. Temperatures are too high in summer.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What will the man do this summer? A. Buy a suit for his friend. B. Go to a wedding. C. Go to China.14. According to the woman, how much are the suits at H&M? A. About 200 yuan. B. Over 500 yuan. C. Abou

7、t 5000 yuan.15. Why does the woman want to get a dress made in China? A. She wants a Chinese style. B. Its very popular nowadays in China. C. Its inexpensive.16. What else will the woman probably buy this week? A. Shoes. B. A scarf. C. Silk.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How long has the speaker been getting

8、 headaches? A. For the past ten years. B. For about ten days. C. Only since yesterday.18. What did the speaker do about his headache yesterday? A. He took some medicine. B. He asked his neighbor to come over. C. He did nothing about it.19. How did the speakers neighbor help him? A. He sent for a doc

9、tor.B. He gave the speaker some painkillers.C. He gave the speaker a special kind of treatment.20. What does the speaker mean in the end? A. The pain almost killed him.B. His headache was already cured. C. The pain had gone by itself.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第1节（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）A Like most people, I wa

10、s brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving away makes life much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money. This is how I experimented with giving away. If an idea for improving the window display

11、 of a neighborhood store flashes to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper. One discovery I made about giving away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back, though the return often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday mor

12、ning, the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home, though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later I needed a post office box for a new business I was starting. I was told at the window that there w

13、ere no boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list. As I was about to leave, the postmaster appeared in the doorway. He had overheard(无意中听到)our conversation. “Wasnt it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home？” I said yes. “We

14、ll, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You dont know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints.”21From the passage, we understand that _Athe author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late

15、 thirtiesBthe author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than giversCthe author received the same education as most people during his childhoodDthe author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting22The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper _Ai

16、n writing Bin person Cin the window display Dabout the neighborhood23When the author needed a post office box, _Ahe had put his name on a waiting list Bhe wrote the postmaster a note of appreciationCmany people had applied for post office boxes before him Dhe asked the postmaster to make one for him

17、 B Securityfor the information on your smart phone, as well as for the phone itselfis a hot topic these days.The truth is that youre packing a lot of sensitive information on your phone, and you should keep it safe. When it comes to physical security, iPhone users would do well to download Find My i

18、Phone, a free app from Apple that allows you to visit a website and see your (lost, stolen or misplaced) phone on the map.You can then sound an alarm, send a message that will pop up on its screen, lock the phone or erase all your data. Android does not have an exact equivalent(等价物), but there are p

19、lenty of alternatives.A free app called Lookout offers the findmyphone feature.The paid version allows you to wipe the data from your phone remotely. Then there is your coffee shops WiFi network.Anyone with minimal technical expert skill can snoop on(窥视) people using shared wireless networks, harves

20、ting passwords and other personal data.Lookout will caution you when youve logged on to an insecure network, but cannot protect you once youre there. In order to protect yourself on such networks, you can use a virtual private network, or VPN.This turns all your activity into nonsense to anyone tryi

21、ng to read along with you from across Starbucks.It also keeps websites from tracking you and, if youre travelling, allows you to get access to sites that may be blocked in other countries. If you have an iPhone, the simplest VPN app is probably Hotspot Shield, whose distinguishing feature is said to

22、 be that it automatically kicks in each time you start browsing (浏览), as opposed to other VPN apps that require you to start them up manually(手动地)This matters, because even if you decide you want a VPN app, you want to spend approximately zero time thinking about it.For the most part, that was true

23、of Hotspot Shield, though occasionally it took a while to connect or temporarily lost connection without warning.I found myself having to turn the app on and off sometimes, which involved setting my phone constantly. If even reading about the settings on your phone drive you crazy, then it is probab

24、ly best to stay away from a VPN app.But if youre the type who cant resist checking your bank balance from your corner bar, the hassle(麻烦) may be preferable to the risk.24Which of the following can warn you against the insecure network?AAndroid. BVPN. CLookout. DFind My iPhone.25By using VPN, users c

25、an _Afind their lost phones on the InternetBremove all the data from the phone remotelyCcheck the bank balance now and thenDsave their browsing from being tracked26The underlined word “that” in Para.6 refers to the fact that _Aa VPN app kicks in automaticallyBthe users start VPN apps manuallyCthe ap

26、p takes a while to connectDusers spend no time thinking about itC Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world.We go fishing, sit in the garden, have a picnic, live in the suburbs or go to the seaside.The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk.When joggers jog, they don

27、t run the streets.Every one of them tend to go to the park or the river. But despite this, our children are growing up naturedeprived(剥夺)I spent my boyhood climbing trees.These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and s

28、trange new ideas about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found. The truth is to be found elsewhere.A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHDattention deficit hyperactivity disorde

29、r(多动症)Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%. ADHD is one of the great problems of modern childhood.One study after another indicates that contact with nature gives h

30、uge benefits to ADHD children.However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places. The life of old people is measurably better when they have access to nature.The increasing concern for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years.And study after study fi

31、nds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality.Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.We need the wild world.It is essential to our wellbeing, our health and our happiness.27According to the author, people enjoy _ to seek nature.Ajogging on the street Bsitting in the gardenCshopping in the supermarket Drunning in the gym28From the second paragraph, we can see that _Aadults deprive the children of their rights to approach natureBcli