2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题 (I).doc

2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题 (I)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. Which train will the woman take? A.The 11:30 one.B. The 12:50 one.C. The 2:15 one.2. Who will interview the man? A. Robert Craig.B. Mr Wagner.C. Gloria Taylor. 3. When will the speakers have a party? A. On Wednesday.B. On Thursday.C. On Saturday.4. What are the speakers talking about? A. The mans teacher.B. A pair of sunglasses.C. An English lesson.5. What do we know about the man? A. He will practice the guitar tomorrow. B. He will play football with Matthew tonight. C. He has no time visiting his friend tomorrow.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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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67题。6. What is the bottle bank built for? A. Selling glass.B. Making bottles.C. Collecting bottles.7. What will the man do next? A. Seek some help.B. Make a plaint.C. Demand an apology.听下面一段对话，回答第89题。8. What do we know about the boys birthday party? A. It will offer chopsticks. B. It hasnt been arranged yet. C. It will be held at Sallys house.9. What will the woman do for the boys birthday? A. Make a cake.B. Buy some dessert.C. Cook a Chinese meal.听下面一段对话，回答第1012题。10. What relation is Mark to the woman? A. Her classmate.B. Her father.C. Her boyfriend.11. How did the womans parents feel about her news? A. Pleased.B. Angry.C. Surprised.12. What does the woman decide to do? A. Finish her course.B. Live in Canada.C. Attend a wedding.听下面一段对话，回答第1316题。13. Where does the conversation take place? A. At home.B. In the mans office.C. At a store.14. What do the speakers agree? A. Its easy to use a puter. B. The instructions are badly written. C. Its better to study in the evening classes.15. What does the woman persuade the man to do? A. Take puter classes. B. Buy a new puter. C. Restart the program.16. What can we learn from the conversation? A. There is something wrong with the puter. B. The man has never used the puter before. C. The woman thinks it easy to learn skills at a young age.听下面一段对话，回答第1720题。17. What does the speaker think of the school life nowadays? A. Boring.B. Colorful.C. Tiring.18. What was unimportant at the speakers school? A. Being correctly dressed. B. Behaving politely. C. Passing exams.19. Why did the teacher get angry with the speaker? A. She talked in class. B. She was absent from school. C. She did not do her homework.20. What punishment did the speaker receive? A. She stayed behind after school. B. She wrote a sentence 100 times. C. She picked up litter in the playground.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项 A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。Building a foundation for your child of family values may not be as easy as you think. Often we believe that our child will pick up on our values if they live in the same home. While they may pick up many of our values, parents need to remember they are not the only influence in their childs life. These outside values often pete with family values for your childs attention. If we do not make a conscious(有意的) effort to instill our values into our children, they may not get instilled at all. I wish I had learned that lesson a little earlier. I thought if I lived my values for my children they would pick them up and make their own. Sometimes this happened and sometimes it didnt. I often see twenty-something “kids” who have no faith in many of the values of their family in favor of the values of their friends. Children will often pick up the negative you show quicker than the positive, so the positive things need extra focus to set them. Some of the influences your children face every day include their church, their school, their friends, any clubs or sporting groups they are part of and more. Kids spend many hours a day at school and with their friends. Sometimes in the business of life, we suppose our children will obtain that foundation we want for them. Instilling a foundation of family values to sustain(维持) your child requires more than living it in front of them. That is important, but building up your child with this important foundation must bee intentional. That means we plan times to gather as a family. We plan activities together that show the values we want to pass on. We talk about our values; we live our values; we discuss the values of others and how they differ from ours; we constantly look for opportunities and make our own opportunities to share these values in word or deed with our children.Family values give our children a foundation to build upon. It helps them know they are loved and gives them a sense of belongings. Upon this sure foundation, they can spread their wings and grow to bee parents who share these same values with their own children.21. The underlined word “instill our values into” in the 1st paragraph probably means “_”. A. get our ideas out ofB. impress our ideas on C. collect our ideas forD. force our ideas upon22. We can learn from the passage that children _. A. sustain their family values easilyB. will hold their family values with age C. often discuss family values of othersD. accept negative values more quickly 23. The passage mainly tells us about _. A. the importance and the way to pick up family values B. a lesson the writer learned in educating his(her) kids C. the influences the children face while growing up D. some negative and positive family valuesBThere are many people you are well advised to treat kindly: Your childs teacher, your husband or wife, your boss and so on.Until now, that best-behavior-required list has not included your Uber driver, or for that matter, taxi drivers. Old thinking: Hey, theyre here to serve me. I dont have to make a special effort to be nice to them.Dangerously wrong.A recent New York Times story told the instructive tale of a Uber passenger, Hussein Kanji, who says hes really not sure how he made his driver angry. All he knows is that his driver-generated rating went way down and the wait for a Uber car became hours instead of minutes.Be careful, Uberians: If youre feeling angry when you slide into the back seat and you give your driver the silent treatment, your reputation may get damaged in the driver-generated ratings. If youre among the people one Uber driver described as “generally negative”, watch out.Uber isnt the only front on this battlefield. The ability to rate someones service is one of the successes of the Internet. It helps everyone weed out people with bad attitudes and worse habits. These ratings should cut both ways. A while back, the auction site(拍卖网站) eBay made many of its sellers angry when it started preventing them from giving negative ratings to buyers. Until then, sellers and buyers had threatened each other with negative reviews. Too many negative reviews could get you thrown off.Then eBay shifted the balance of power to buyers. Sellers can still write a bad ment, but the overall rating cannot be anything but positive. Thus eBay has bee a place where all is for the best. Think positive!We know that being nice to people all day can be exhausting. Weve also seen people who shout at those who dont measure up to their expectations for service.Uber is reportedly about to spread worldwide. It is a wele petitor because it fits the needs of customers in a new way. We know Uber is a two-way street. But drivers who get too picky may end up with no passengers.Everyone, behave!24. In general, people think of Uber drivers as people who _.A. they can take advantage ofB. they dont have to be nice toC. are required to be on their best behaviorD. need better treatment from customers25. The underlined phrase “weed out” (Para. 6) can best be replaced by _.A. hate B. get rid of C. value D. win back26. The author has written this article to _.A. show that when using services like Uber, your behavior directly affects the service you getB. prove that giving and receiving bad ratings can influence your lifeC. suggest that tools like Uber and eBay can reflect what kind of person you areD. stress that both customers and service providers should be generally respectful and positiveCThe Lion King was one of Disneys most successful movies. The movie was so well-loved by audience everywhere, that Disney executive Michael Eisner, began thinking it would make a successful stage play as well. When he told co-worker Thomas Schumacher to start planning, Schumacher was stunned. He felt the project was impossible. But Eisner insisted. He said that all they needed was a “brilliant idea”.After many months, Schumacher found his brilliant idea. “The answer,” he recalls, “was, in fact, quite simpleJulie,Taymor,” a woman who has been creating magical theatrer for many years.Taymor accepted the challenge, putting all her years of theatrical experience into creating a new concept for the Lion King. When she began to address the question of how to bring the animal characters to life, she knew she did not want to hide the actors inside big animal suits. She wanted the audience to see the actors faces and bodies, which would represent the animals human qualities. So she designed costumes that revealed the actor within.Not every good idea works out, so even the most creative person must be willing to let go of an idea and look for a better one. For example, the mask for Mufasa, the lion king, went through many changes. At one point, Taymors co-designer, Michael Curry, created a large mask that the actor would lift on and off. But it looked awkward, so Curry went back to the drawing board and came up with a better idea.Creative ideas are not always plex. Sometimes, the simplest idea is the most powerful. Taymor calls these simple, but powful ideas “true theatre”. For example, ribbons can show someones tears, and blue silk can show water.Many people helped make The Lion King a success. It was a team effort in every sense of the word, yet each person added his or her personal touch to make the production memorable.The creative work of the entire team pays off every night. People are thrilled by this imaginative journey to Africa. After the glorious opening, the amazing sights continue. The audience sees frightening hyenas, an elephant graveyard, an eye-popping stampede-everything, in fact, that was in the moive, but different enough to be a whole new event. By the end of the show, many in the audience find it hard to remember that the Lion King was ever a movie.27. Michael Eisner thought that the movie The Lion King could bee a successful stage play because _. A. he has a brilliant idea B. all his co-workers are creative C. the movie was great hit D. it was one of Disneys movies28. To bring the animal characters to life, Julie Taymor managed to _. A. provide animal suits to create real stage effects B. motivate audience to approach characters on stage C. design costumes to hide the actors inside D. display human qualities of the animal characters29. When designing the mask for Mufasa, the lion king, Michael Curry _. A. put every good idea into practice B. made a lot of changes to seek a better design C. found his create ideas failing all the time D. had created a mask which proved a success30. According to the passage, the stage play proved to be very successful due to the following factors EXPECT_. A. the design of plex plot B. the cooperation of the entire team C. the choices of better ideas D. the power of simple ideas第二节（共5个小题；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。选项中有两项为多余选项。Handwritten thank-you letters are such a simple way of making other people feel good, it is strange that so few people write them anymore. At work, a thank-you letter to employees is unbelievably effective. It costs little and has no side effects. The effort involved in writing letters very low. The pleasure on receiving them is very high. 31 Doug Conant, manager of Campbells Soup pany since xx, knows the power of thank you letters. He said that every day he works with an assistant, searching the pany for people deserving thanks. 32 Over the past 10 years he has sent 30,000 thank-you letters to his employeesmore than 10 each day. The reward is huge: his pany has remained one of the most successful in its field for years. 33 There seem to be three reasons. Firstly, chief executives(主管) running panies think their own work is more valuable than that of others. 34 Secondly, they arent close enough to the business to know who deserves thanks. Thirdly, they have forgotten the strange human truth that almost everyone would do almost anything in return for a few words of appreciation.In these days of such busy schedules and people running all over the place and trying to get ahead, sometimes we forget the simplest things in life are the most powerful and rewarding. You need to think to yourself about a time someone sent you a thank-you and how much it meant to you. 35 A. You may ask what side effects exactly mean.B. He then writes them a thank-you letter.C. This makes them an excellent way to reward and motivate staff.D. Why are thank-you letters so important?E. Always remember to “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you!”F. But if these letters are so inspiring, why dont more managers write them?G. Since no one ever writes them thank-you letters they dont write any themselves.第三部分：语言运用（共三节，满分45分）第一节：完形填空（共20个小题；每小题1.5分；满分30分）阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Over the years, thanks to my lifes obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully 36 the beauty of our strength and a humans motivation to 37 . Mom had a two-week 38 in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didnt realize the fact that Ike 39 cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more 40 , making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane 41 . Two days later, both oil and ice were in 42 demand.In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to 43 the storm in their homes, 44 others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more 45 side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most 46 belongings in the car and 47 the East Texas town of Lufkin.As Ike pushed farther inland, we 48 power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us through cell phone that our 49 had remained well. Our hopes could not have been 50 . But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had 51 , and it was sitting on our living room, 52 a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗). We wouldnt be allowed to return home 53 September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes 54 crying, but 55 is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.36.A. observeB. appreciateC. exploreD. improve37.A. workB. apologizeC. recoverD. change38.A. vacationB. journeyC. meetingD. schedule39.A. mustB. mightC. should D. would40.A. closelyB. constantlyC. warningly D. differently41.A. adventureB. equipmentC. suppliesD. reports42.A. basicB. highC. pure D. neat43.A. get throughB. put awayC. test outD. suffer from44.A. sinceB. whenC. until D. while45.A. dangerousB. abundantC. peaceful D. awesome46.A. availableB. concreteC. treasured D. potential47.A. set outB. headed forC. settled downD. watched out48.A. providedB. reducedC. produced D. lost49.A. gardenB. houseC. pool D. yard50.A. clearerB. wilderC. lower D. higher51.A. passedB. stoodC. gone D. followed52.A. leavingB. diggingC. filling D. kicking53.A. byB. beforeC. until D. after54.A. in spite ofB. instead ofC. apart from D. in terms of55.A. faithB. willC. strengthD. laughter第二节：语法填空（10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Through a series of experiments, an American scientist has gained an understanding of the social structure of ant societies. The ants 56._ (exami