湖北省宜昌市学年高二英语上册期中试题.docx

1、湖北省宜昌市学年高二英语上册期中试题宜昌市葛洲坝中学20152016学年第一学期高二年级期中考试试卷 英语试题 考试时间：2015年11月第卷第一部分 听力（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. Why doesnt the man open the door?A. He hasnt got the key. B. The key doesnt work. C. H

2、e has got a wrong key.2. What relation is the woman to Tom? A. His manager. B. His girlfriend. C. His colleague.3. What are the speakers mainly doing? A. Having a party. B. Cooking. C. Shopping.4. What does the woman advise the man to do in the end? A. Take a walk alone. B. Wait for her in a park. C

3、. Wait until she finishes a letter.5. What is the woman going to do? A. See a doctor. B. Go to a party. C. Look after her children. 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。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What i

4、s the woman thinking about?A. The exams. B. The English class. C. The coming holiday.7. What makes the man change his mind? A. He thinks hiking is tiring. B. He wants to be with the woman.C. He wants to keep away from the cold weather. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What is the relationship between the speakers

5、?A. Workmates. B. Classmates. C. Club members.9. Why didnt the woman receive the mans e-mail?A. He sent it to someone else by mistake. B. There was a computer problem. C. She changed her e-mail address.10. What did the woman do last Saturday?A. She attended a party. B. She took part in a meeting. C.

6、 She went on a bike trip.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.12. What did Peter think of poems? A. They are fun to read but difficult to write. B. They are boring to read and hard to write. C. They are fun to read and e

7、asy to write.13. What did the woman do when Peter was little?A. She asked him to recite poems. B. She read nursery rhymes to him.C. She taught him how to read poems. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What does the man think of the Science Club?A. It is funny. B. It is attractive C. It is not enjoyable.15. Why do

8、 so many students like joining the Drama Club?A. To be outstanding on campus. B. To perform another person. C. To develop their talent in drama.16. What do we know about the man?A. He hates drama. B. He is a drama star. C. He is tall and smart. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where do children play games afte

9、r school?A. On the street corner. B. At home. C. At school18. What do old people do after breakfast? A. Read newspapers. B. Go to car races. C. Watch TV at home.19. How do young people go on outings at the weekends? A. By bike. B. By car. C. By train.20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?A. Di

10、fferent ways of enjoyment for Australians. B. Australians live a busy life.C. Living in Australia. 第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。 AFlowers only bloom(开花) when they are planted in the right soil. That is also true for me. I first moved to Foxbo

11、ro, Massachusetts, as a single mother with my baby daughter, Darcy. I was drawn to its New England beauty, friendly people and rich history. It happened that there were a lot of forsythia(连翘) bushes around the house in which I lived just like my childhood home. I joined St. Mark s Episcopal Church w

12、here I taught the Sunday school. At church, I met my second husband, Dean. For more than 25 years, I bloomed in Foxboro, and I had another two children.Then, when Darcy was a few years out of college, she moved to Alameda, California, to be near friends. I missed her badly. A year later my beloved h

13、usband Dean had deadly cancer. He only made it eight months. My heart was broken. Later I moved to Alameda with my children. It was a beautiful Victorian island, and I was grateful to spend more time with Darcy. I even attended a church and made a few friends there. Still, I couldnt help but miss Fo

14、xboro. It had everything and everyone I loved.One spring day, when I was walking by a school, something yellow caught my eyes. Forsythia bushes! They made me homesick and I kept back my tears. “I miss you, Foxboro,” I whispered. Then I went into a shop and looked at some ceramic(陶瓷的) pots lined up o

15、n a shelf. A large white one seemed to catch my attention. “Thatll be perfect in my living room,” I thought.I turned it over to look at the price. Instead I found these words: “New England Pottery, Foxboro, Massachusetts.” A piece of artwork, from my second hometown, was right here. It was able to s

16、pread across the country and so were forsythia bushes. I took it as a sign that I can bloom, right where I am.21. From the text we learn that the author .A. gave birth to three children in Foxboro B. planted forsythia bushes around her houseC. got to know her second husband at church D. worked as a

17、middle school teacher in Foxboro22. When the author saw forsythia bushes at a school she .A. wanted to buy a ceramic pot to put them in B. thought of her life in FoxboroC. felt they would look great in her living room D. believed they were real art work23. Why does the author compare herself to flow

18、ers?A. Because she wanted to show she likes flowers.B. Because girls are like flowers that are blooming.C. Because she moved across the country just like flowers.D. Because she can live in any place that is right like flowers.BOK, I admit it: emoticons (表情符号) are popular. Some people even think they

19、 are fun. Many seem unable to send an e-mail or Instant Message chat sentence without using one. Some feel that they add feeling and character to otherwise cold digital communications.Some, however, such as editor and Hollywood scriptwriter John Blumenthal, see the use of emoticons as “childish (幼稚的

20、) just like the people who use them”. He believes that words themselves should be enough. “If youre being funny, happy or sad, that should be obvious from the words that go before the emoticon,” he argues. In the eyes of Blumenthal, the use of emoticons is a gender (性别) issue. “Men dont use emoticon

21、s very much. Maybe not at all,” he said. “Teenage girls and women seem to use them a lot.”Its an interesting opinion, but it is not shared by all.In an interview with The New York Times, Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, said that emoticons are popular because

22、our brains are programmed “to seek out representations of humanity”. He believes that they appeal (吸引人) not because they are shortcuts for the lazy, but because they tap into (融入) something beyond language. They reach to our need to be with and communicate with people.All of these arguments may be s

23、omehow real. Each one of us will choose to communicate in our own way. I do not have much time for emoticons. I tried to use one once and felt like I was stealing in on a primary school class that I had no place being in. Id rather let my words do the talking.Friends, however, send me messages and e

24、-mails full of emoticons. I have no problem with this. I dont regard any of my friends as lazy or immature (不成熟的). Its just a question of individuality. :)24. According to the article, emoticons are popular because _.A. most of them look funny B. they are easy for lazy people to useC. they add feeli

25、ng and character to a communicationD. a reader cannot understand a message without them25. Which of the following views would John Blumenthal agree with?A. Instant Message chatters are childish.B. Its enough to use language in digital communication.C. Men never use emoticons.D. There is an emoticon

26、gene in everybody.26. From the text, we can conclude that the author _.A. feels he has no difficulty using emoticons B. thinks emoticons dont suit himC. encourage his friends to use emoticons D. believes that emoticons are suitable for everyone27. What is the main point of the article?A. Advice on l

27、anguage used over the Internet. B. The history of emoticons.C. Arguments over the use of emoticons. D. Reasons for the popularity of emoticons.CDont be surprised if you see a group of people dancing or shouting on the square. They are a flash mob. Confused by their name? Actually, a flash mob, organ

28、ized with the help of the Internet or other digital communications networks, is a group of people who gather suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as exchanging books, coming together to look at the sky, waving their hands and shouting something at the top of th

29、eir lungs for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive. Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harpers Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May 2003 and the first successful flash mob gathered on June 3, 2003 at Macys department store involving 100 people gatherin

30、g on Macys Department Store. Following this, about 200 people flooded the lobby of the Hyatt hotel, applauding in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next participants pretending to be tourists on a trip invaded a shoe shop in Soho. A later mob saw hundreds of people in Central Park making bird noise

31、s. Wasik claimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters （赶时髦的人）, and call attention to the cultural atmosphere Many web logs, chat rooms and Web groups are devoted to the craze. Though flash mobs were originally regarded as useless, the concept has already

32、 developed for the benefit of political and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the efficiency of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters can similarly use the “on and off” concept to be involved in political events. Such flash mob gatherings can sometimes shock or frighten people who are not aware of what is taking place. They also have enormous economic po