陕西省黄陵中学2020学年高二英语下学期期中试题（重点班）

黄陵中学2020学年度第二学期高二重点班英语期中试题 第I卷第一部分 听力（共两节，共计15小题，每小题1.5分，满分30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 special about the womans house?A. Its covered with red flowers. B.A tree is near the front gate. C. Its bigger than all the others.2. Why is Bill absent from the party?A. Hes gone to the concert. B. Hes not feeling well. C. He has to study at home.3. What is the woman?A.A doctor B.A cook CA policewoman4. What will the man do today ?A. Attend Steves party . B. Give Mary a call C. Have a picnic5. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a furniture store B. At a design company. C. At the womans home第二节听下面5段对话或独自。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6和第7两个小题。6. What did the Amy do on the Saturday morning?A. She went shopping. B. She went jogging. C. She went to the gym.7. When did Amy go on a date?A. On Saturday night. B. On Sunday afternoon. C On Sunday night.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. How far can the man run at most in this pair of shoes ?A.200 miles B.300 miles. C.500 miles.9. What does the woman offer to do?A. Pick the man later. B. Buy the man a cheap pair C. Go shopping with the man.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10.How does the man feel in the beginning?A. Disappointed B. Exhausted. C. Proud.11. What color was the sky in the city this morning?A. Blue B. Yellow . C. Dark .12. What will the speakers do next?A. Spend the night there. B. Look for an old couple. C. Walk down the Great Wall.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What kind of seat does the man prefer?A. A window seat. B. An aisle seat. C.A middle seat.14. Whats the weight of the mans luggage?A.17 kilos. B.20 kilos. C.23 kilos.15. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Take a carry-on bag. B. Pack a few books C. Use a bigger suitcase.16. When does the plane take off?A. At 6:55 pm. B. At 6:35 pm. C. At 6:15 pm.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. How old was Florence when she died?A. 70 years old. B. 80 years old. C. 90 years old.18. What made Florence want to be a nurse?A. The sick animals B. The visits to the poor . C. The war in185419.How did Florence change the hospitals in the Crimea?A. She made them clean. B. She made them large. C. She made them Russian-style20. What did Florence do in London after the war?A. She opened a school. B. She interviewed many heroes. C. She worked as a nurse at home.第二部分 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。ATowards evening, Jennifer was walking on the beach with a gentle breeze blowing through her hair. Looking up at the golden red sun ball, she was surprised by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.The atmosphere relaxed her. This was what she needed. “Its getting late,” she thought, “I must go home. My parents will be wondering where I am.” She wondered how her parents would react when she got home after the three days she was missing. She kept on walking, directing herself to bungalow(平房)163, where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and silently. Just in a few hundred meters, she would have been safe in her house。It was really getting dark now. She wished she had her favorite coat on. It might keep her really warm. She imagined having it with her. This thought dissipated(消散) when she finally saw her front door. It seemed different. Nobody had taken care of the outside garden for a few days. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and nowShe entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen and saw a note written by her father, “Dear Ellen, theres some coffee ready; I went looking.” But where was Ellen? On the right side of the hallway was her parents room. She went in and saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, was sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadnt slept for days. She was really pale. Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up, but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up something was different. She wasnt in her mothers room and she wasnt wearing the old clothes she ran away in. She was in her cozy bed in her pajamas(睡衣).It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice. “Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you got us very, very scared.”21.The author mentions the views of the beach in Para. 1 in order to _.A. tell us the time of the story B. show Jennifers eased mindC. show Jennifers loneliness D. indicate the beauty of nature22.Jennifer decided to go home because _.A. it was getting cold B. she realized her parents were worriedC. she began to miss her parents D. she knew nobody would take care of the garden23.What can we infer from the passage?A. Jennifer went home to fetch her favorite coat.B. Jennifers father was so worried that he couldnt take care of the outside garden.C. Jennifer understood why the outside garden was left uncared for.D. Jennifers father used to be too strict with her.24.Which of the following shows the change of Jennifers feeling?A. Relaxed Lonely Tired Upset. B. Angry Relaxed Fearful Comfortable.C. Fearful Relaxed Cheerful Lonely. D. Relaxed Anxious Shocked Comfortable.BRevolutionary TV EarsTV Ears has helped thousands of people with various degrees of hearing loss hear the television clearly without turning up the volume(音量) and now its better and more affordable than ever! With TV Ears wireless technology; you set your own headset volume, while other TV listeners hear the television at a volume level thats comfortable for them. You can even listen through the headset only and put the TV on mute(静音) if the situation calls for a quiet environmentmaybe the baby is sleeping. 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He can onceagain hear and understand the dialogue.”Darlene & Jack B, CA Risk Free Trial!TV Ears comes with a30-dayrisk free trial. Special Offer Now$59.95. If youre not satisfied, return it. Money-back guarantee! Call now!800-123-783225.TV Ears helps you _.A. improve your sleeping quality B. listen to TV without disturbing othersC. change TV channels without difficulty D. become interested in ballgame programs26.What makes TV Ears different from other headsets?A. It can easily set TV on mute. B. Its headset volume is adjustable.C. It has a new noise reduction ear tip. D. It applies special wireless technology.27.This advertisement is made more believable by _.A. using recommendations B. offering reasons for this inventionC. providing statistics. D. showing the results of experiments.CThe style of writing poetry differs from person to person, long or short meters, three or four lines to a stanza. But the great thing is, no matter how a poem is written it still holds great emotion. Some common techniques are used in poetry.Onomatopoeia(拟声) is one of the easiest ways to learn and use. The definition of onomatopoeia is a word copying a sound. For example, “buzz”, “moo” and “beep”. This can be used in a variety of ways, giving the reader a “hands on” feel.One technique that you might be familiar with is alliteration(头韵). This procedure is used by starting three or more words with the same sound An example of this would be “The crazy crackling crops”. The three words dont have to have the exact same beginning to have this effect.The next style is assonance(谐音). It is defined as a repetition of vowel sounds within syllables with changing consonants. This is also used in many different situations. One would be “tilting at windmills”. Notice the vowels within each syllable that sound the same.Rhyming is probably the most well-known technique used. However, unlike popular belief, it does not need to be within a poem to make it a poem.As for similes(明喻),they are often used within poetry. They are an expression that compares one thing to another. A paradigm of this would be “The milk tasted like pickles”. This method is used in all forms of poetry and generally has the words “like” or “as”.The last but not least style is metaphor(隐喻). A metaphor is a word or phrase used one way to mean another. Metaphors are sometimes hard to find and it takes some thinking to figure out, but they give writers more power to express their thoughts about a certain situation. In fact, not only is it found within the story, the story itself is a metaphor of memory and the constant reminder of the narrators loss.To have a full grasp of poetry, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, rhyming, simile and metaphor should behousehold words.28. To write a poem, you_.29. A. neednt start with three exact same sound words.B. should pay more attention to vowels and consonants.C. C. have to use the words such as “like” and “as”.D. should use one word to refer to another meaning.29. According to the text, the use of onomatopoeia makes_.A. poems sound more like a poem. B. readers experience a lifelike feeling.C. the writer expresses himself in a free way. D. readers have difficulty understanding a poem.30. Which of the following means “a word or phrase used one way to mean another”?A. Alliteration. B. Rhyming. C. Metaphor. D. Assonance.31. The underlined words “household words” may refer to words that_.A. describe the life of people at home. B. are used by family members.C. are connected with a home. D. are very well-known.DWhen her five daughters were young, Helene Ann always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didnt have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Dannys mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ann.s working together. Now the Anns corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.32. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show _.33. A. the strength of family unity. B. the difficulty of growing up.34. C. the advantage of chopsticks. D. the best way of giving a lesson.35. 33.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the Anns family _.36. A. started a business in 1975. B. left Vietnam without much money.37. C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco. D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles.38. 34.What can we infer about the Anns daughters?39. A. They did not finish their college education.B. They could not bear to work in the family business.C. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.D. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.35.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. How to Run a Corporation. B. Strength Comes from Peace.C. How to Achieve a Big Dream. D. Family Unity Builds Success.E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。Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It expresses agreement or approval._36_Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(乔克托语).The Choctaw word “okeh ”means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s.He said the word began being used in the 1830s._37_ Some foreign-born people wrote “ all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK. Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put the first letters of his name-O and K-on each object people gave him to send on the train._38_The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840.They called their group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born-Old Kinderhook, New York.Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.!_39_ One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.There are also funny ways to say okay. _40_These expressions were first used in the 1930s.Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way. He says okely-doke.A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.D. But many experts dont agree on what the expression means.E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.第三部分 语言知识运用第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）Khiev began writing and performing poetry in a prison in the US, but he wasnt an American citizen. His family 41Cambodia(柬埔寨)because of the war and moved to the US when he was only one year old. Khiev 42 to grow up in the US. His family was poor. And his father was 43in Cambodia.As Khiev grew up, he didnt feel he 44in the US. When he was thirteen, he joined a(n) 45group of young men. He had friends, but the group also got him into 46. When he was sixteen, Khiev shot and injured two people. 47, he was sent into prison and had to stay there for 16 years.While in prison, Khiev got into a 48. As a punishment, he was put in a small room, where he was completely49. He told the BBC that his time in the small room 50his life. He said, “You had to talk to 51I began writing down my thoughts and fe