宁夏银川一中学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案.docx

1、宁夏银川一中学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案银川一中2016/2017学年度(上)高二期中考试英 语 试 卷命题教师：本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）。第卷 (选择题）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节：（共5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答案，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. What does the man me

2、an? A. The woman isnt helpful. B. His new shirt doesnt fit him. C. He hasnt worn his new shirt.2. What is the man worried about? A. He hasnt heard from his sister since last month. B. He can travel to the western areas alone. C. He isnt familiar with public transportation.3. Where will the woman go?

3、 A. To the post office. B. To the fruit store. C. To the supermarket.4. How much time is there until the movie begins? A. About five minutes. B. About fifteen minutes. C. About twenty five minutes.5. Why is the woman so disappointed? A. The man was too busy to watch the play. B. The man watched the

4、play without her. C. The man didnt get the ticket for her.第二节：（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。听完每段对话或独白前后，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 does the man want to do? A. Buy a pair of shoes. B. Have his shoes mended. C

5、. Sell his shoes.7. How will the man get to the place? A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By car.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why does the man come to the woman? A. To help her with her work. B. To have a talk with her. C. To ask her to help him.9. What is the woman doing right now? A. Preparing for a test on Friday. B

6、. Chatting with her history teacher. C. Working on her history paper.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When did the man finish high school? A. Last year. B. Last month. C. Last week.11. How many sisters does the man have at least? A. One. B. Two. C. Three.12. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Discuss hi

7、s situation with his parents. B. Ask his parents to help with his decision. C. Find a chance to go to college.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Writer and reader C. Interviewee and interviewer.14. Why might people be eating insect

8、s in the future? A. They are easy to get. B. They are especially rich in vitamin. C. They are a good source of calcium.15. What does the man say about work in the future? A. People wont operate machines any longer. B. There will gradually be fewer new jobs. C. Computer engineers wont worry about bei

9、ng fired.16. What does the man tell the woman at last? A. What love will be like in the future. B. That she should let other students ask some questions. C. That he would ask others their opinion about her question.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What was Mark Twain famous as according to the talk? A. A publi

10、c speaker B. A story writer. C. A joke teller.18. What happened to one of Mark Twains friends? A. He left his wallet at home. B. He lost his money. C. He lost his ticket.19. What was the friend doing when the conductor (火车售票员) came to check the tickets? A. He was lying on the seat. B. He was sitting

11、 on the seat. C. He was lying under the seat.20. Why did Mark Twain speak in a loud voice? A. To make his friend hear him. B. To make the conductor hear him. C. To make the others around hear him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）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AAs a little ch

12、ild，I was always plump (胖的)In college I startedblowing up. It got out of control when I went to law school.Id made a decision a thousand times：Im going to lose weight now. But what motivated （激发）me to get serious about it was turning 30. I weighed 414 pounds. I was always tired. Some of my family me

13、mbers have suffered from heart disease, and I was frightened. I also wanted to look better. So after my birthday, I walked into the office of a weight loss doctor.She was very understanding. Her focus was on balanced meals and she wanted me to exercise.Walking was all I could do at first. I started

14、by walking a few blocks and gradually increased the distance, until one weekend，I heard myself saying，“Wow，this seems pretty easy.” So I started to run.I was losing nine or ten pounds a month，and I had more energy. I started to think about the New York City Marathon. For years，I watched the runners

15、and thought，“This looks like fun，but I could never do that.” But now I realized that maybe I could. I joined the New York Road Runners. I ran a 10km，then a half marathon. I still wasnt confident I could run a full 26 miles. But I told myself I was going to do it，no matter what.By my 33rd birthday，I

16、was down to 180 pounds. I started formally training for the marathon. And on the morning of November 1，I stood on the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island with more than 40,000 other runners，waiting for the event to start.It was unbelievable to have the audience cheering me on，handing me cups of water.

17、 And I crossed the finish line. My friends sprayed (向喷射) me with beer，as if Id won the Super Bowl. And at that moment，I knew：If I set my mind to something，nothing is impossible.21. The underlined phrase “blowing up” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_.A. going weaker B. growing high C. becoming

18、 healthier D. becoming fatter22. From the passage we can know that the author _. A. controlled his weight at college B. may have a family history of heart attack C. was satisfied with his figure as a kid D. began to consider losing weight at 3023. Which of the following sayings can best summarize th

19、e passage?AA good beginning is half done.BPride comes before a fall.CWhere there is a will，there is a way.DPractice makes perfect.BThe forest in Senegal, a country in western Africa, is full of the chimps usual noises. Suddenly dogs bark. Larger male chimps drop from the trees to face the threat whi

20、le the others climb to safety. Then the dogs young human masters appear.One mother chimp with a tiny baby tries to run. The dogs attack and separate them. The two teenage boys quickly catch the baby chimp. But they dont act out of sympathy - they save the baby so they can sell it.After the teenagers

21、 return to their hometown, they visit a man who is said to be very interested in chimps. When they ask the man, Johnny Kante, if he wants to buy the baby, he replies, “Thats not what we do.” Kante is a member of a scientific team. Although Kante is angry with the teens for capturing the chimp, he hi

22、des his anger and persuades them to take him to the baby chimp.Unsure of what to do next upon seeing the chimp, Kante calls Jill Pruetz, the head of the chimp research team. “Im really worried,” says Pruetz, doubtful that the mother is still alive. But knowing that wild chimps sometimes adopt orphan

23、s（孤儿）， Kante and pruetz decide they must try to return the baby chimp to its wild community.Kante pays another visit to the teenagers. After he explains how much trouble they are in, because chimps are an endangered species, he requests they should give him the frightened baby without payment. They

24、agree. Kante takes the baby chimp to his home and feeds her milk from a bottle whenever she cries.The next morning, Pruetz and Kante leave the baby with another team member and begin their search for the wild chimps. Pruetz quickly finds the group in the woods. She recognizes the female that is with

25、out her child.Pruetz is so excited that she runs the entire mile back to bring the baby chimp to the tree where the chimps are hanging out. The researchers place the baby on the ground near the tree and back away. Almost immediately, a male chimp drops to the ground and stares at the baby curiously.

26、 He carries her back to where the mother is waiting.Pruetz still cant believe how fortunate they were to have reunited the mother and child. “Surprising is the only word I can think of,” she says.24The dogs master visit Johnny Kante to _.Asell the baby chimpBask him to take care of the baby chimpCwa

27、sh the baby chimps woundDask him to return the baby chimp to its wild community25When Kante sees the little chimp the first time, hes _.Aa bit at a loss BexcitedCangry Dclear about how to save her26It can be learned from the passage that _.AKante feeds the baby chimp carefully in the labBlarger male

28、 chimps protect other chimps when there are dangersCthe teenagers get some money after setting the baby chimp freeDPruetz and Kante take the baby chimp with them to search for the wild chimps.27What is the main idea of the passage? _AHow precious chimps are.BAn adult chimps deep love for her baby.CT

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