高二英语上学期期中试题高新部.docx

1、高二英语上学期期中试题高新部2019-2020年高二英语上学期期中试题高新部 第一部分听力 (共两节，20小题，每小题1分，满分20分)第一节听下面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.What is the woman going to do tomorrow?A. Go fishing B. Go swimming C. Go to the hospital2.How does the man find his job?A. It is in

2、teresting and fun. B. Its pay is good. C. It is always tiring.3.What are the speakers talking about?A.A story. B. A book. C.A movie.4.Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At the railway station. B. At the bus stop. C. At the airport.5.Where is the man going ?A. The classroom. B. The ci

3、nema. C. The library.第二节听下面5段对话或独白。选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料. 回答第6至7题。6.Why is the man going to the United States?A. To travel. B. To visit his friends. C. To attend a conference.7.When will the man probably leave for the United States?A. In mid-February. B. In mid-January. C. In early January请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8

4、.Why does the man say it wasnt easy to win the match?A. The visiting team was really strong.B. The coach of visiting team was very good.C. The best player in his team didnt play.9.When is the mans next match?A. This Friday. B. Next Friday. C. Next Sunday.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.For whom does the man or

5、der the puter?A. His wife. B. His friend. C. His daughter.11.What color does the man want?A. Red. B. Black. C. White.12.What size does the man want to buy?A.A 13-inch one. B. A 15-inch one. C. A 17-inch one.请听第9段材料. 回答第13至16题。13.What does the man want to do tomorrow?A. Go fishing. B. Go swimming. C.

6、 Go for a picnic.14.Why is Jenny so busy?A. She will give a performance soon.B. She will have a test soon.C. She has to go to the hospital frequently.15.What is Jenny crazy about?A. Singing. B. Reading. C. Dancing.16.Why wont the woman take her camera with her tomorrow?A. She has lost it .B. She has

7、 lent it to someone else.C. There is something wrong with it.请听第10段材料. 回答第17至20题。17.What is special about TCL TV sets?A. They are cheaper than the old ones.B. They are much lighter than the old ones.C. They show clearer pictures than the old ones.18.What will the woman get for free if she buys a TCL

8、 TV set now?A.A CD player. B.A DVD player. C. An MP5 player.19.How much should the woman pay if she buys two TCL TV sets?A.4000 dollars. B.6000 dollars. C.8000 dollars.20.How will the woman take the TV sets?A .She will take them by herself.B. She will pay the store to deliver them.C. The store will

9、deliver them for free.I. 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、D）中，选出最佳答案。 （A）Tour A Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge 37 until 26 March and 39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, th

10、e Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years. Tour B Oxford & Startford including entrance fees to the University St Marys Church Tower and Anne Hathaways house 32 until 12 March and 36 thereafter. Oxford: Inc

11、ludes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look over the city of dreaming spires (尖顶） from St Marys Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder. Tour C Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palac

12、e 34 until 11 March and 37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palac

13、e is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze (迷宫) where it is easy to get lost! Tour D Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great 33 until 18 March and 37 thereafter. Includes a gui

14、ded tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.1. Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest university city? A.Tour A. B.Tour B. C.Tour C. D.Tour D.2. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March? A.Windsor Castle & Hampt

15、on Court. B.Bath & Stonehenge. C.Cambridge. D. Oxford & Stratford.3. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? A.It used to be a well-known maze. B. It is the oldest palace in Britain. C. It is a world-famous castle. D.It used to be the home of royal families.B Today anyone will accept money

16、in exchange for goods and services. People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things we need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.Lots of the money today is made of paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first ki

17、nds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money.In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Some Africans once used elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt as money.The first metal coins were made in China. They were

18、round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money. Later, countries began to make coins of gold and silver.But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to impro

19、ve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.Money has had an interesting history, from the days of shell money until today.4. In the Philippines Islands _ was once used as money.A. rice B. knife C.

20、cloth D. wheat5. What was first used as money? _.A. Elephants tusks B. Cloth C. Salt D. Shells6. The first metal coins looked like _.A. square-shaped with some designs on them B. square-shaped with a round hole in the centerC. round-shaped with a square hole in the middleD. round-shaped with a round

21、 hole in the middle7. The first paper money _.A. was passed from west Asia to China B. looked like a note used todayC. was first used in Europe D. looked like a piece of fur8. We can infer from the passage that _.A. paper money isnt difficult to make B. money must be suited to carryC. people need mo

22、ney to exchange goods with each other D. people prefer metal coins to paper notes(C) Its roughly estimated that there are 450 million disabled people in the world. No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world. The number of disabled people inIndiaalone is probably more than d

23、ouble thetotal population ofCanada.In theUnited Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will bee less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.Disablement can take many forms and occur a

24、t any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others bee disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they bee. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a ment

25、al illness. All are affected by peoples attitude towards them.Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you w

26、ere going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is im

27、portant to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability not their disability that count.9.The first paragraph points out that_.A. there are many disabled people in the worldB. India has much more disabled people thanCanadaC. the number of disabled peop

28、le inIndiais the greatestD. it is impossible to get an exact figure of the worlds disabled people10.The last word of the passage count most probably means_.Abenumbered B. be most importantC. be considered D. be included11.Which of the following statements is not true?A. About 10 percent ofpeople in

29、theUKare disabled.B. Even the able-bodied may lose some of their body functions when they get older.C. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results from ignorance.D. The whole society should pay attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people.12.It can be concluded from the

30、 passage that_.A. both physical and metal barriers are hard to break downB. we should try our best to prevent disablementC. we should take a proper attitude towards the disabledD. the able-bodies people will never fully understand the disabled（D） Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths an

31、d about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general. The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems. But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and r