湖北省蕲春县学年高二英语上学期期中试题.docx

1、湖北省蕲春县学年高二英语上学期期中试题蕲春县2016年秋高中期中教学质量检测高 二 英 语 试 题蕲春县教研室命制 2016年11月7日上午10:0012:00说明：1本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150分，考试用时120分钟。2答题前请将密封线内的项目填写清楚。3请将第I卷和第II卷的答案统一填写在“答题卷”上，否则做零分处理。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

2、关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. Why wont Mike go to the movies?A. He has to study B. He has to work. C. He doesnt feel well2. How did the man go to Canada?A. By plane B. By car C. By train3. What are the speakers talking about?A. A brand of jeans B. popular stars C. School uniforms4. Who is the woman talkin

3、g to?A. A policeman B. A passenger C. A driver5. What does the man advise the woman to do?A. Get a bandage for her ankleB. Go to the drugstore at onceC. Attend a tennis lesson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

4、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、8题。6. Where does the woman work?A. In Tokyo B. In London C. In Oxford7. What are the speakers going to do together tomorrow evening?A. Visit Jane B. Have dinner C. See some customers8. What is the probable relationship between Tony and Jane? A. Manager and secretar

5、y B. Salesman and customer C. Husband and wife听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. What relation is the woman to Mrs. Mitchell?A. Her daughter B. Her Secretary C. Her boss10. Where is Mrs. Mitchell?A. At her house B. At her office C. On her way to the office11. What would the man like? A. A cup of tea B. A cup of cof

6、fee C. A glass of water听第8段材料，回答第12至14题12. What will the man drink?A. A large orange juice B. A medium orange juice C. A small orange juice13. Why does the man come to the restaurant?A. He likes the pies here.B. It has a good reputationC. The chicken-fried steak is special. 14. What does the woman s

7、ay about the baker?A. He slipped in the toiletB. He got injured two days ago.C. He couldnt make ice cream sundaes.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. Where will the speakers put the bed?A. Under the window. B. Opposite the sofa. C. Beside the desk.16. What will be put in the corner of the living room?A. A lamp B.

8、A plant C. A TV stand17. Which rooms will not be changed?A. The bedroom and the living room.B. The study and the dinning room.C. The kitchen and the bathroom.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题18. Why did the plane start to bounce?A. The weather was terrible.B. Some passengers jumped on it.C. There was something wron

9、g with it.19. What was the worst thing?A. The oxygen masks dropped down.B. The woman couldnt put the mask on.C. All the passengers were in a bad mood.20. What do we know about the woman?A. She got airsick on the plane.B. She was going to Hong Kong.C. She had the experience about three years ago.第二部分

10、 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ANow is the best time for Hong Kong shopping lovers, as most shops and markets are having their seasonal sales. With the same amount of money, you can find different kinds of goods in this city. Women, young and old,

11、 rarely resist the attraction of this shopping paradise(天堂) at this time of year. Lovers will surely have an exciting Christmas and New Years Eve celebrations at the Time Square or in the western styled bars. Spending your holiday in Hong Kong will be easy too, as several packing tours are available

12、 from CZL Travel Service, with four-day tours for less than 15,000 yuan.Tour package 1(3,200 yuan) : a 4-day tour including three nights accommodation, science helicopter flight, night ferrytour of Victoria Harbor and shuttle bus to the park to view the city at night.Tour package 2(1,880yuan): a 4-d

13、ay-shopping tour including three nights accommodation, tour to Golden Beach and the Vexwork Museum, shuttle bus to the Peak and shopping opportunities.Tour package 3 (1,480 yuan ) : a 4-day-DIY- tour including three nights accommodation in a four-star hotel and total freedom to do what you want , wh

14、en you want.21. Which month is the best time for Hong Kong shopping lovers?A. October B. November C. December D. January22. The advertisement is mainly intended to attract people to_.A. go shopping in Hong Kong B. purchase tour packages from CZL Travel Service C. enjoy Christmas and New Years Eve ce

15、lebrations D. Visit famous places of interests in Hong Kong23. If you want to go shopping while visiting the Vexwork Museum, youd better choose_. A. Tour package 1 B. Tour package 2 C. Tour package 3 D. Tour package 1&2BYou may never heard of Ladislao Biro, but you have certainly heard of the pen he

16、 inventedthe ballpoint pen（圆珠笔）, or biro. Before Biro invented his pen, people wrote with fountain pens. The ink sometimes went out. In the 1930s, Biro was a magazine editor in Budapest in Hungary. He noticed that the inks which the magazines printers used dried very quickly. Biro wondered if quickd

17、rying inks could be used in pens. He came up with the idea of a tube（管子）of ink with a freemoving ball on the end. As a person wrote, the ball collected ink from the tube and rolled it on to the paper. The pen would be cheap and could be thrown away when the ink was used up.Biro began to work on his

18、invention but he soon left Europe for Buenos Aires in Argentina, a country in South America, because of the Second World War. Biro and his brother George, who was a chemist, began to improve the pen. In the early 1940s, Biro began to produce his new pen, the biro. In 1944, he sold his invention to a

19、nother company, which began to produce the pen for Britain and America.Biro was pleased that his pen was popular, but he did not get much from his invention. The biro was later sold to the French company, Bic, which now sells twelve million pens a day. Biro sank into obscurity inSouth America. His n

20、ame, however, has become famous around the world.24. Biro is the name of _. A. a chemist B. a ballpoint pen C. a company D. a fountain pen25. According to the passage, Biros new pen was first produced in _. A. Argentina B. France C. Hungary D. Britain and America26. Which of the following can be fil

21、led in the box to show how Biro invented his new pen? came up with an idea worked on his invention ? produced his pen A.worked as an editor B. sold his invention C. improved his pen D. left for South America27. The underlined part “sank into obscurity”is the closest in meaning to “_”. A. was very po

22、pular B. was unknown to many people C. lost interest in business D. lost a lot of moneyCIt goes without saying that human intelligence is very advanced as opposed to（与相对） plants and other living creatures. Peoples capacity to fully understand, reason, organize, solve problems, display emotional inte

23、lligence, learn, communicate and think abstractly is out-standing. It is believed to be much more emphasized (强调) nowadays, when bright folks are normally one level higher than everyone else. Nowadays many people are for the view that a high intelligence quotient (IQ) is an excellent assistance in p

24、ulling through life. Statistics reveal that whatever activity enabling the brain to function and operate, no matter whether in the form of difficulties or other obstacles (障碍) that can be overcome by this specific body area, has a positive effect on it. So every time you are making full use of your

25、mind for right answers in a quick crossword（纵横字谜游戏）or if you are answering difficult riddles（谜语）, you might be, in fact, raising the probabilities of increasing your intelligence. You could play effective brain games like crosswords, chess, riddles, puzzles, Internet games, word games and other game

26、s. These are useful in raising your intelligence primarily because they let you think in a different way as you make an effort to uncover answers to certain problems. Aside from this, this form of brain training continually encourages the brain to function and widen its capacity（能力）to concentrate an

27、d learn. Needless to say, youve to make sure that you make the most of these brain exercises by not cheating yourself. Lastly, if you progress to a much more complicated level, try your best to answer difficult problems with no hints or clues so that you are able to further force your brain to work

28、on its own.28. The first paragraph mainly talks about_. A. the benefits of thinking and other brain exercises B. the difference between mankind and other creaturesC. the reasons for emphasizing human intelligenceD. the high level of human intelligence29. According to the author, many people increase

29、 their IQ in order to _.A. be one level higher than others B. deal with difficulties in life C. play games such as riddles D. enable the brain to function 30. According to the text, through continuous brain training, people can _.A. be happy and clever B. become a confident person C. improve the abi

30、lity of concentration D. communicate with others well31. What does the author mainly advise in the text? A. Making good use of brain exercises to increase your intelligence.B. Playing brain games to prevent brain disease.C. Solving difficult problems on your own. D. Getting rid of Internet games.DA

31、new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than todays buildings, underwater bubble cities and holidays in space. The report is from a company. It asked experts on space and architecture, as well as city planners, to give their ideas on the life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different from how we do these things today. The experts used the Internet as an example. They said that 25 years ago, peop