2019-2020学年高二英语上学期学期初考试试题.doc

2019-2020学年高二英语上学期学期初考试试题第一部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Drinking too much alcohol（酒，酒精）seems to give pleasure to many people. Habit alone can keep people drinking. However, many heavy drinkers can offer some other reasons for their actions. Right now doctors are getting some attention in their protests against heavy drinking. Many people have cut down on their drinking. In general, everyone believes the doctors warnings. It is sometimes very easy to stop drinking heavily. For example, at a party a man has just one drink. He can stop thinking about having another one. Both health considerations(考虑) and the high cost of drinking help him to stay away from alcohol. All of his friends help, too. They always understand his problem and are really concerned（关注）. The heavy drinker needs friends like these.1Drinking too much alcohol _. Aseems to give pleasure to many people Bis a habit Cis reasonable Dwill do good to people2A heavy drinker _ Abelieves the doctors warnings Bhas no reasons for drinking Cneeds friends to help him stop drinking heavily Dcant stay away from alcohol3The best title for the passage is _ AAlcohol BNo Drinking CA Heavy Drinker DGive It UpBWe know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded. When cold weather es, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration（迁移）is probably the migration of the fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies there. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mice. They leave their mountain homes when they bee too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea. Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobsters（龙虾）. Every year, when the season of bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another, but at other times we dont. Maybe living things just like to travel. 4. Most animals move from one place to another at a certain time to _ . A. give birth B. enjoy warmer weather C. find food more easily D. find beautiful places 5. The fish called “salmon” spends a long life in _ . A. salt water B. rivers C. fresh water D. its birthplace 6. The mice in northern Europe move when _ . A. they give birth B. the weather is bad C. the place gets too crowded D. they havent enough food 7. The lobsters move _ . A. to the fresh water B. to the sea floor C. at a certain time D. to find more food 8. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Animals move in order to find food more easily. B. The migration of the fish called “salmon” is the most famous migration. C. Living things move from one place to another because they like to travel. D. Sometimes we know why and how living things move from one place to another, but sometimes we dont.CAre some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no amount of education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of persons intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from population, it is likely that their degree of intelligence will be pletely different. If, on the other hand, we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.9. Which of these sentences best describes the writers point in Paragraph 1?A. To some extent, intelligence is given at birth.B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.C. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.D. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.10. It is suggested in this passage that_.A. the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely to be in intelligenceB. unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligenceC. close relation usually have similar intelligence D. people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees of intelligence11. The phrase “at random”(Line3, para.2) means _ .A. purposely B. frequently C. independently D. aimlessly 12. The best title for this article would be_.A. On IntelligenceB. What Dose Intelligence Mean ?C. We Are Born with IntelligenceD. Environment Plays a Part in Developing IntelligenceDMy house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software.If you e to visit, youll probably be surprised when you e in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN （个人身份号码）to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When its dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that Ive put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones Ive put in today.I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, “How will I live without them?”13. What does the passage mainly discuss?A. How to develop a new system. B. The function of the PIN.C. A home for the future. D. Easy life in the future.14. The writers new house is different from ordinary ones mainly because _.A. it has been controlled by puters B. you can make a telephone call anywhereC. it has your favorite music following youD. the writer is able to change his new idea into practice 15. What is the writer most likely to be according to the passage?A. An IT expert. B. A famous doctor. C. An idealist D. An experienced teacher.第二节（共5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。What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, red? _16_. Do you prefer grey（灰色） and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be pessimist（悲观主义者）. At least, this is what psychologists（心理学家） tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference(爱好), as well as the effect that colors have on human beings. _17_ . If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly._18_. A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. _19_ . A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more suicides(自杀) than any other bridge in the area-until it was repainted green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply. Perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue._20_. It is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.A. On the other hand, black is depressing(压抑）.B. They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favorite color as grow up - we are born with our preference.C. The rooms are painted in different colors as you like.D. If you do, you must be an optimist （乐观主义者）, a leader, an active person who enjoys life.E. Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active.F. Life is like a picture or a poem, full of different colors.G. Colors do influence our moods-there is no doubt about it第2部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题, 每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I love my grandfather very much. He taught me a lot. One story will never fade from my memory . My grandfather dug water wells in Indiana and started his business during the great depression(美国经济大萧条)Although nearly everyone was out of work，people still needed 21 ，so he didnt lack jobs 22 ，in those days，it was awfully hard to get paid for what you didOne morning，a farmer showed up with a 23 -a whole side of fresh beef on his shoulder. “I 24 this ought to make us equal on that digging，”he said to my grandfatherGrandfather 25 It was wintertime，so the beef stayed fresh under damp cloth on the cold back porch(门廊)Each day, Nana stepped out onto the porch， 26 a good piece of the meat，and carried it into the kitchen 27 it were pure goldAfter a few daysNana noticed the 28 had been movedShe asked grandfather if he had touched the beefHe hadnt.“Well，then，”she said，“somebodys been eating our meatDo you always lock the back door?” My grandfather told her not to 29 She probably had moved the cloth herself, and had 30 forgottenThis 31 for many daysNana was 32 that someone was taking their meat，and grandfather just insisted she was 33 thingsIt wasnt until much later that we learned the real storyOn the morning after grandfather set the meat out on the back porch door, he 34 some footprints near the doorHe 35 followed the footprints to where they beganSoon the footprints in the snow led my grandfather to a house he instantly 36 It was the home of a poor single mother with two young childrenGrandfather 37 turned around and walked back homeHe didnt say a word about it to anyoneFrom then onNana would carefully 38 the lock on the porch door each night to make sure it was 39 Then grandfather, after waiting for Nana to go to bed，would return to the porch and 40 the lock againNana never knew about the family they were helping to feed that winter21Abeef BmoneyCwater Dfood22AHowever BThusCOtherwiseDBesides23AdiscountBpaymentC. bet Dpatience24AexpectBbineCdiscoverDdoubt25AapologizedB. permittedCagreed Dargued26A boughtBselectedCpreservedDmoved27Anow thatBas ifCeven ifDso that28AclothBgoldCtool Dblossom29AdisappointBforgetCworryDinterrupt30AsimplyBsuddenlyCexactlyDrarely31Awent upBwent overCwent byDwent on32AcertainBobviousCstrangeDreliable33AunderstandingBimaginingCrememberingDenjoying34A guidedBmarkedCnoticedDdressed35AfinallyBquicklyCcuriouslyDcoldly36A. forgaveBremovedCobservedDrecognized37AhopelesslyBpainfully CgraduallyDquietly38AcheckBcontrolCmendDwatch39AperfectBfreeCsafeDopen40. AexchangeBreleaseCreplace Dadjust第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。With technology advancing, cars are getting cheaper and cheaper. The number of private cars41._ (be)on the increase. which is also a source of serious traffic jams in most cities. Yet people do not like to give their own cars a rest in their garages（车库） and use other 42._ (form)of transport instead.Although there are many traffic Jams, citizens are not planning to allow walking, riding bicyclesand public transport to take 43._place of their own cars to reduce the traffic pressure. Forone thing, private cars are really 44._(fortable ) than other means of transport. For another, driving your own car is so convenient as It can take you to anywhere you want to go, which is 45._ (possible)for buses and subways. Furthermore, a private car is an important way formany people to show 46._rich they are.As the situation gets more serious, measures must 47._ (take) to improve the trafficconditions in cities. Governments should replan the road systems, broaden (加宽) the streets and educate drivers 48._ always put traffic rules aside. Policy (政策) is another effective way of 49._(solve) the problems, such as lowering the price of public transportation. Then we can 50._(hopeful) predict that our cities traffic will be more controllable in the near future.第三部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题； 每小题1分， 满分10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（）,并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。Dear Jenny,Wele to my school! When you arrive, there will be a party for you organizing by my classmates. You may attend to English classes to feel a differently learning style. After that, you can go to your host family that you can experience the Chinese way of life. You can have meals together chatting anything that interests us. The host family will also show you around some famous scenic spot. You can see people selling kites everywhere because our city was home to kites. There are many kinds of kites to choose from. So