浙江省嘉兴海宁中学等七重点校学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案.docx

1、浙江省嘉兴海宁中学等七重点校学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案2016学年第一学期嘉兴市七校期中联考高二年级英语试卷（2016.11）考生须知：1.全卷分试卷和答卷。试题卷 10页，答题卷 2 页，合计 12 页，有四大题，满分150分，考试时间 120 分钟。 2. 本卷答案必须做在答题卷的相应位置上，做在试题卷上无效，使用机读卡的学校请将客观题的答案在机读卡相应的位置上涂黑。 3.请用黑色签字笔将学校、班级、姓名、考号分别填在答题卷和机读卡相应的位置上。一、听力测试（共两节，满分30分）第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从

2、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. How much did Sue pay for the shirt? A. 30. B. 35. C. 40.2. Who will post the card later? A. The woman. B. The man. C. Emily.3. Where did Sally go this afternoon? A. To a library. B. To a supermarket. C. To a bike shop. 4.

3、What does the man want to buy? A. A camera. B. A computer. C. A phone.5. What will the woman buy? A. Bananas. B. Apples. C. Pears.第二节：（共15 小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. W

4、hat is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Customer and saleswoman. C. Boss and secretary.7. What will the man do in Bordeaux? A. Stay with his friends. B. Buy a castle. C. Plant grapes.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. What will the speakers have this week? A. Japanese food

5、. B. Thai food. C. Chinese food.9. When will the speakers get together? A. On Friday. B. On Thursday. C. On Wednesday.听下面一段对话，回答第10至12三个小题。10. How did Dan go to World of Music? A. By plane. B. By bus. C. By car.11. What does Toby dislike? A. Country music. B. Hip hop. C. Rap. 12. Who went to hear th

6、e jazz band?A. Penny. B. Sylvia. C. Toby.听下面一段对话，回答第13至16四个小题。13. What are the speakers talking about? A. Regular activities. B. Colorful life. C. Hobbies.14. How does Conors mother keep healthy? A. By running. B. By swimming. C. By playing tennis. 15. What is Conors granddad good at?A. Playing the

7、piano. B. Singing songs. C. Biking.16. Why cant Conor learn to play the piano? A. He is busy with his studies. B. He cant find a teacher. C. He has no more free time.听下面一段独白，回答第17至20四个小题。17. Which road will stay closed? A. M43. B. M30. C. M16.18. Why is North Street closed to all cars? A. The snow h

8、asnt been cleared. B. There is an accident. C. It is under repair.19. How can passengers get the latest information about trains? A. By visiting a website. B. By reading a magazine. C. By making a phone call.20. What is the weather going to be like in the evening? A. Snowy. B. Windy. C. Sunny.二、阅读理解

9、（共两节，满分35分）第一节：（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下面短文并做每篇后面的题目。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题的最佳选项。A “I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” Thats the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada. When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploadi

10、ng pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it because we had nothing to do, living in a small town.” “Id check different websites for the hottest songs, and Id record my own videos,” he explains. “Thats how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a

11、record company. The result was the release of Austins first album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didnt put him off.“I kept working

12、 hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming. Austins achievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austins unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way F

13、ree The children works and raises money. Because of Austin, his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austins presence certainly helps We Day, its good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that

14、he cares about making the world a better place.21. Why did Austin put pop songs on musical websites? A. He was bored with his life there. B. To attract peoples attention. C. To help advertise the songs. D. His friend asked him to do so.22. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to

15、 ? A. Austins sudden rise. B. Peoples dissatisfaction. C. The release of Junior Year. D. Signing with a record company.23. What Austin did at We Day . A. was a win-win situation B. set an example for all the singers C. first made him become known to the public D. led many young people to be voluntee

16、rsBRick Garcia is going to play outside with his friends. He is taking out his reliever inhaler (缓解物吸入器) and taking two puffs (吸). Five minutes later, hes on the field with his friends, running after a soccer ball. Rick has asthma (哮喘), but he knows how to control it.Asthma is a lung disease. A pers

17、on with asthma may cough or suffer from shortness of breath. Asthma can begin at any age. Childhood asthma, often beginning when a child is younger than 10 years old, is one of the most common childhood diseases. Doctors report that the number of young people with asthma is increasing. It is the num

18、ber one cause of absence from school. If parents have asthma, their children are more likely to develop the disease. Children in homes where an adult smokes are more at risk.It is important to find out the triggers for asthma. As we know, dust, pollen, or animals often make people suffer from asthma

19、. Once a child learns the triggers, he can help prevent future attacks. About half of all children outgrow asthma and then asthma attacks stop when they are teenagers. However, many people live with the disease into adulthood. Children often take control drugs once or twice a day to help prevent ast

20、hma attacks, if a child begins to have an asthma attack, a quick-relief drug is also necessary. This is often an inhaler. School-aged children usually carry their inhalers with them. This medication works quickly and children begin to breathe more easily in a few minutes. If a child has a serious as

21、thma attack, he may need full-time care at a hospital or a doctors office.24. The story of Rick Garcia is used to .A. show the importance of exerciseB. introduce the topic of the textC. show the popularity of soccerD. tell us how to control asthma25. The underlined word “ triggers ” in Paragraph 3 p

22、robably means . A. risks B. levels C. possibilities D. causes26. The last paragraph mainly deals with .A. the treatment of asthma B. the influence of asthmaC. the prevention of asthma D. some research on asthmaCToday, many people use plants from other places to design their yards. Well, do they have

23、 any influence on animals living nearby? As we know, plants supply food for things like insects and plant-eating animals. In turn, birds and meat-eating animals feed on these insects and plant-eating animals. It is easy to see how important plants are.Although foreign plants may look beautiful, they

24、 can cause problems when there are too many of them. I live in Virginia, USA, and sometimes see a plantcommonly known as Kudzu that seems to cover everything in the area, even climbing over whole trees and houses.Kudzu is an unbelievable plant since it grows very fast. It was first brought to the Un

25、ited States from south-east Asia around the 1870s as a crop that farmers could grow. However, Kudzu quickly came to be considered harmful throughout the southern United States.Since Kudzu grows fast in many different environments, it can completely cover areas of land quickly. The plant is also not

26、eaten by any insects or birds in the United States so it can grow unchecked. Kudzu can cover trees, bushes, and even houses. It costs the United States 500 million dollars a year to just keep Kudzu from growing too fast. The plant is a perfect example of what scientists call an invasive (侵略性的) speci

27、es, which grows more quickly than other native plants.All foreign plants have the possibility to spread quickly. Not only are they costly, but planting them in gardens actually takes away food from insects. If everyone filled their garden with plants native to where they live, many lovely butterflie

28、s and other native creatures would be attracted to their backyards! So, take a look out of your window how does your garden grow?27. We can learn from the text that Kudzu in Virginia .A. is very popular B. is difficult to growC. can cause big trouble D. can make air cleaner28. Which of the following

29、 is TRUE of Kudzu?A. It served as food at first in America. B. It came to America in the early 19th century.C. It grows fast in Asia, but slowly in America. D. It is often eaten by insects or birds in America.29. How does the author sound when telling of these foreign plants?A. Sad. B. Worried. C. P

30、roud. D. Excited.30. What does the author mainly discuss in the text?A. Everyone should learn to love nature. B. It is a hard job to grow plants in yards. C. Gardening has become a serious hobby.D. It is important to say no to foreign plants.第二节：（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为

31、多余选项。Be an inventor The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but its true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth. Wrong idea number 1: 31 Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come

32、from something that already exists. 32 Wrong idea number 2: Inventors are born, not made. There are a lot of factors that make invention possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with a special talent for music. 33 His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was