高二上英语期中练习卷.docx

1、高二上英语期中练习卷高二上英语期中练习卷.（考生注意：请按要求把答案分别做在答题卡或答题纸上）I. Listening ComprehensionSection A 10%Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked abut what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken

2、 only once. After you hear the conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At 9:00 B. At 9:45 C. At 10:00 D. At 10:052. A.3 days B. 5 days C. 7 days D.9 days3. A. In a hospital. B.

3、On a bus. C. On a plane. D. At an airport.4. A. It was too expensive. B. IT was quite old.C. It was not satisfactory. D. It was well-decorated.5. A. She went to a party with the man. B. She just moved into a new house.C. She is showing the man around a house. D. She works as an estate agent.6. A. Ha

4、ppy B. Embarrassed C. Upset D. Annoyed7. A. Go with the woman. B. Eat at home.C. Go to the cafeteria alone. D. Wait for the woman.8. A. Her old classmate. B. Her husband.C. Her private doctor. D. her sons teacher.9. A. Go over his lessons. B. Take the final exam.C. Play computer games. D. Go out to

5、enjoy some fresh air.10. A. Fishing equipment B. Fishing licensesC. Fishing net D. Fishing rodsSection B 6%Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only

6、 once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and choose which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Mozart B. Antonio Vivaldi C. Charles Emery D. Beethoven12. A. Turn them into ge

7、niuses. B. Improve their verbal ability.C. Improve their learning ability. D. Enhance brainpower.13. A. Classical music B. Gentle music with clear structuresC. Italian music D. Violin Piece with exciting notesQuestions 14 through 15 are based on the following passage.14 .A. Physics B. Chemistry C. E

8、nglish literature D. Media studies15. A. More than 144000 B. About 147500.C. 7.5% of all the test takers D. 4.6% of all the test taker16. A. Few students avoid harder subjects.B. Each subject has the same level of difficulty.C. Some subjects are more difficult than others.D. Pupils are important to

9、the countrys development.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A 10%Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u

10、se one word that best fits each blank.In two days, it will be Christmas. Children all over the world (17) _ (look) forward to this day for weeks. People celebrate Christmas with food, decorations, music and more. But for many people, gift-giving is the most exciting part of the holiday.I have fond m

11、emories of Christmas shopping with my family as a child. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping my parents gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right (18) _ their noses without them seeing. Everyone placed (19) _ (wrap) gifts under the Christmas tree until Christmas morning, (20) _ we opened them.Pi

12、cking a great gift requires (21) _ (know) the person youre giving it to. You need to know the persons tastes and find something the person doesnt already have. This can be quite a big challenge. Often its wise to provide a receipt (22) _ _ the person needs to exchange the gift.The best gifts are per

13、sonal. Many Americans dont feel money constitutes a good gift (23) _ it doesnt require any thought. They prefer something chosen just for the person. If the gift is a highly-quality homemade gift, thats even better.Gift-giving reflects the reason (24) _ people celebrate Christmas. Christmas in parti

14、cular remember the birth of Jesus. When he was born, wise men traveled many miles to visit Him, (25) _ (bring) expensive gifts. But the greatest gift wasnt from the wise men, but from God-the baby Jesus. God gave the gift because everyone needed it. We need God to forgive our bad actions so that we

15、(26) _ live forever with Him. So on Christmas we give presents to imitate Gods action of giving the perfect gift.Section B 9%Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. littering B. bloss

16、om C. enormous D. relatives E. gardeningF. served G. branches H. ideal I. trunk J. tolerateGrace, an old lady living in the northern part of Australia, is my good friend. She likes _27_ very much. In her _28_ garden, you can see flowers all the year round, because Northern Australia is quite warm ev

17、en in winter. When spring comes, new leaves come out of the _29_ , and the flowers are in full _30_ . Among the bushes there are often some lovely birds singing early in the morning. On sunny days she often walks her pet dog around the garden. Sometimes she asks some _31_ and friends to enjoy the be

18、autiful scenery. They sit around the small stone table chatting, and nuts from her own garden are _32_ with tea or coffee. In hot summer, her pet dog often takes a bath in the small pond in the middle of the garden. In autumn, many leaves turn yellow, and then fall off, _33_ the ground as if the gar

19、den is covered with a golden blanket. In winter its not very cold in that region, with the lowest temperature about six degrees. But she likes to be warm and can not _34_ cold weather. So she asks her son Tony to cut some branches off the trunks as wood. She puts the wood into her fireplace to keep

20、her house warm and comfortable. I think Grace really lives a meaningful and _35_ life. III. Reading ComprehensionSection A 10%Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the conte

21、xt.This hotel is _36_ in the main shopping street of Northchester, three hundred yards from the Cathedral. The original building was _37_ in 1710, but this structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel having been completed in 1910. It is four storeys _38_ with a lift servin

22、g all floors. The public rooms consists of a dining-room seating fifty _39_ , a lounge and a bar. There are sixteen _40_ and thirty double bedrooms, three of the latter having private bathroom. _41_floor has one bathroom and two separate WCs. All bedrooms are _42_ with washbasins with hot and cold _

23、43_. The courtyard around which the hotel is built provides _44_ space for ten cars and there is _45_ for twenty more off a side street two hundred yards away. This is quite inadequate.36. A. placed B. put C. situated D. lain37. A. put up B. done C. set D. made38. A. deep B. high C. wide D. height39

24、. A. seats B. men C. people D. women40. A. single B. lone C. solo D. one41. A. Either B. Each C. None D. Neither42. A. fixed B. built C. fitted D. put43. A. gas B. water C. fuel D. steam44. A. placing B. standing C. sitting D. parking45. A. space B. spacious C. rooms D. parksSection B 10%Directions:

25、 Read the following passage. It is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AEarly one morning, more than a hundred years ag

26、o, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.Thought he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and

27、turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages（野人）whose king wanted to kill and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king fle

28、w into a cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of tr

29、ying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in

30、this way.Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light lamp, said his best ideas came to him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre. To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep.

31、 Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problem you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asl

32、eep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images（图像）which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.46. According to the message, Elias Howe was _ . A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his dreams B