甘肃省临夏中学2019_2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题（无答案）.docx

甘肃省临夏中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题（无答案）第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分30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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge! The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the sixth annual Curiosity Challenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue, Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honor at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th and March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :.1. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?A. School students. B. Cambridge locals.C. CSF winners. D. MIT artists.2. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A. On February 8th. B. On March 10th.C. On March 15th D. On April 21st.3. What type of writing is this text?A .An exhibition guide. B. An art show review.C. An announcement. D. An official report.BWolves are important animals in the traditions and stories of most Native American tribes. To Native Americans, wolves often represent bravery. The animals also are signs of strength, loyalty, and success at hunting. Other culturessuch as the ancient Celtic and Nordic peoplesalso placed high value on wolves.However, from the wolves in horror films to the wolves in childrens stories, wolves get a bum rap(不公正的惩罚) in both literature and English expressions. To begin with, there is the term lone wolf. The lone wolf isnt a bad person. But they like to do things on their own. However, the term can mean something less than desirable. Lone wolf makes you think the person doesnt want to be around people because he or she dislikes them.Now, lets move on to the home.Parents might criticize their children for wolfing down their food. In other words, the child eats very quickly and without care. And if someone says a child was raised by wolves, that child has bad manners and is behaving like a wild animal. A wolf at the door means someone to whom you owe money is waiting just outside your door.By the way, there are two popular wolf-related expressions that come from Aesop, the ancient Greek storyteller.The first is a wolf in sheeps clothing. A wolf in sheeps clothing describes someone who acts and looks nice on the outside but is bad on the inside.Aesops other wolf fable also involves a shepherd, but not a hardworking one. He is known as the boy who cried wolf. People who cry wolf are not trusted. People are so familiar with this story, you simply have to say cry wolf for them to know what you mean.4. According to the passage, which group of people may think wolves are bad animals?A. The ancient Nordic people.B. The ancient Celtic people.C. Native Americans.D. The English people.5. Which of the following can describe a person who often acts alone?A. A wild wolf.B. A lone wolf.C. A wolf at the door. D. A wolf in sheeps clothing.6. What may you probably mean by saying someone cries wolf?A. The person is selfish. B. The person is a liar.C. The person is stubborn. D. The person is a troublemaker.7. What is the passage mainly about?A. Stories about wolves.B. The research on wolves.C. Expressions about wolves.D. The cultural differences about wolves.CSomeday, umbrellas may do more than just keep people dry. A researcher in the Netherlands has designed a simple sensor(传感器) that “listens” to rain. And that sensor can turn an umbrella into a rain-measuring expert.Tools like this can let anyone gauge the weather. That can help scientists make sure that satellites and radar(雷达)systems that track storms are doing a good job.“Rain radar is a beautiful way of seeing where rainfall is up in the air. But you never know where it hits the ground, says Rolf Hut. He designed the umbrella sensor.Researchers want to know how much rain makes it to the planets surface. Not all rain that falls from a cloud reaches the ground. And it can be difficult for radar and satellites to measure that rain, particularly in cities. A host of big buildings can change how air and rain move during a storm. “It also explains why a single, expensive sensor-the kind that might be found at an official weather station-wont give accurate city-wide data, Hut says. But by putting a low-cost rain measuring tool into peoples hands, scientists can learn more about how much rainfall differs in these and other hard-to-measure places.On the inside of the umbrella is a small, yellow disk. It is the rainfall sensor. The sensor is attached to a black Bluetooth headset that sends the collected data to a smartphone.Hut came up with the idea to stick the same type of sensor on an umbrella when he was talking to kids about science. He showed them a photo of a policeman who was holding an umbrella and talking to a crowd in a microphone. Why not put the two together? He thought it could make a cool rainfall sensor .When a storm came through, Hut compared the umbrellas new “ear” for rain to official rain measuring equipment. And to his delight, he found the umbrellas measurements were “pretty good. ” His next step is to improve the umbrella sensor to be more accurate8. The purpose of this passage is to_A. promote a unique umbrellaB. inform us of a new inventionC. make readers interested in scienceD. praise a researcher for his Invention9. The underlined word “gauge” in Paragraph 2 most probably means_A. changeB. controlC. measureD. sense10. Why can it be hard for official weather stations to measure the rain in cities?A. Big buildings influence the move of air and rainB. They are lacking in weather measuring equipmentC. Rainfall differs hugely depending on various areasD. Their collected data cannot be sent to smartphones11. What do we know about Huts new invention?A. Hut is not satisfied with his new invention at allB. Huts invention is something useful but expensive.C. He got the idea when talking to kids about scienceD. A policeman in the rain helped Hut with the inventionDWhen Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time in 1989, the reactions of the public were quite different from those of scientific circles. People who were not scientists described the book as a masterpiece. They said the book helped them understand what a very complex world astrophysics was. But scientists responded differently. They claimed the book was not scientific enough and relied too much on guessing, rather than on solid facts. Despite these conflicting views, the book has been wildly popular. Since its release in 1989, over 5.5 million copies have been sold with translations published in 33 different languages. A Brief History of Time covers a broad and diverse range of topics regarding the nature of the universe and time. Did time actually have a beginning? Does time have an end? Is the universe infinite? Hawking deals with these interesting issues only after reviewing former theories that tried to unlock the mysteries of the universe. These included Galileos and Newtons works. Of course, but even more importantly, Hawking raises questions on Einsteins theory of relativity (which deals with the infinitely large) as well as his work in quantum mechanics(which deals with the infinitely small).Hawking studied these theories, as well as cosmology, during his education at Oxford University in England. He explained his love for physics as an extension of mathematics: “To me, mathematics is just a tool with which to do physics.”In A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Hawking explores unknown areas of deep space. He builds his observations on the idea that “At one point, the earth we now walk on was distributed so tenuously (稀薄地)that a gram of soil would have occupied a column the size of an entire planet In a sense, each of us has been inside a star; in a sense, each of us has been in the vast empty space between stars; and if the universe ever had a beginning each of us was there!”He is referring to a time before the Big Bang, when all of the matter on and surrounding earth did not exist as it does today. Rather, that matter took shape through temperature and pressure at the centre of a star. As a result of this pressure and temperature, the star, or supernova, exploded. Physicists are still trying to create mathematical models that come close to representing the evolution of the universe from that time forward.12. What did Hawking study during his time at Oxford University?A. Galileos works. B. Newtons works. C. Einsteins theory of relativity. D. All the above. 13. Which of the following is true about A Brief History of Time?A. Only 5.5 million copies of it were published.B. It was brought out in 1989.C. The public agreed with scientists on the quality of the book.D. It was not a widely read book. 14. By quoting (引用)Hawking s remark in the third paragraph, the author intends to .A. show that mathematics is not important in his studiesB. tell us that mathematics can help us understand physicsC. suggest that physics is just part of mathematicsD. make it clear that Hawking s study of mathematics was second to his love for physics 15. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Peoples different attitudes toward A Brief History of Time.B. Hawking s ideas about the nature of the universe.C. An introduction to A Brief History of Time.D. Hawking s fight against his disease and his achievements in research. 第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。In the city of Fujisawa，Japan，lives a woman named Atsuko Saeki. When she was a teenager，she_16_of going to the United States. Most of what she knew about American_17_was from the textbooks she had read.“I had a_18_in mind：Daddy watching TV in the living room，Mummy_19_cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.”Atsuko_20_to attend college in California. When she arrived，however，she found it was not her_21_world.“People were struggling with problems and often seemed_22_”，she said.“I felt very alone.”One of her hardest_23_was physical education.“We played volleyball，”she said.“The other students were_24_it，but I wasnt.”One afternoon，the instructor asked Atsuko to_25_the ball to her teammates so they could knock it_26_the net. No problem for most people，but it terrified Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face_27_she failed.A young man on her team_28_what she was going through.“He walked up to me and_29_，Come on. You can do that.”“You will never understand how those words of_30_made me feel.Four words：You can do that. I felt like crying with happiness.”She made it through the class. Perhaps she thanked the young man；she is not_31_.Six years have passed. Atsuko is back in Japan，working as a salesclerk.“I have_32_forgotten the words，”she said.“When things are not going so well，I think of them.”She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness_33_to her.“He probably doesnt even remember it，”she said. That may be the lesson. Whenever you say something to a personcruel or kindyou have no idea how long the words will_34_.Shes all the way over in Japan，but still she hears those four_35_words：You can do that.16A. learned Bspoke Cdreamed Dheard17A. way Blife Ceducation Dspirit18A .photo Bpainting Cpicture Ddrawing19A. baking Bfrying Csteaming Dboiling20A. hoped Barranged Cliked Dattempted21A. described Bimagined Ccreated Ddiscovered22A. tense Bcheerful Crelaxed Ddeserted23A. times Bquestions Cclasses Dprojects24A curious about Bgood at Cslow at Dnervous about25A. kick Bpass Ccarry Dhit26A. through Binto Cover Dpast27A. after Bif Cbecause Duntil28A. believed B. considered Cwondered Dsensed29A. warned Bsighed Cordered Dwhispered30.A.excitement Bencouragement Cpersuasion Dsuggestion31A. interested Bdoubtful Cpuzzled Dsure32A .never Balready Cseldom Dalmost33A .happened Bapplied Cseemed Dmeant34A .continue Bstay Cexist Dlive35A. merciful Bbitter Csimple Deasy第三节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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。I lived in Suzhou for one year, working as an English Language Assistant for the British Council. Teaching Chinese students was one of the most rewarding _36_(experience) I have ever had. In a relatively tough education system, I _37_(try) to provide a space for them to relax and have fun while learning English. _38_ made me feel part of the school community was some school activities such as _39_(make) Zongzi for the annual Dragon Boat Festival. They also enabled me to get closer to my students and learn _40_(much) about their culture and daily life.For my farewell party, I encouraged my students _41_(perform) the song “See you again ”on stage in front of their peers. Seeing their confidence and language ability progress throughout the year was really _42_ amazing experience. I was also invited on stage to give a farewell speech _43_ Chinese. At the end of the party I received a beautiful silk scarf as a symbol of the schools _44_(appreciate) for my time at the school. I will treasure it as it reminds me of the support and care I received from _45_(they) during my stay.第四节：单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）46The police_ (怀疑) the young man of taking away the