最新高二下学期英语期中试卷附答案听力

1、.最新高二下学期英语期中试卷附答案听力考试时间共120分钟，满分150分 试卷分为第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必在答题卡上将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号用0.5毫米黑色签字笔填写清楚，考生考试条码由监考老师粘贴在答题卡上的“条码粘贴处”。2.选择题使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡上对应题目标号的位置上，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后再填涂其它答案；非选择题用0.5毫米黑色签字笔在答题卡的对应区域内作答，超出答题区域答题的答案无效；在草稿纸上、试卷上答题无效。3.考试结束后由监考老师将答题卡收回。第I卷（共100分）第一部分：听力（共两节，每题1.5分，共20题，满分30分）第

2、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. Where will the speakers go next? A. The office. B. Their home. C.A restaurant.2. What do we know about the man?A. He lives not far from the library. B. He always borrows books these days.C. He goes to

3、 the library twice a month.3. What does the man imply?A. Everything is ready for the party. B. Too many people are invited to the party.C. Only a few close friends will attend the party.4. What did the man think of the movie?A. Interesting. B. Serious. C. Impractical.5. What does the man suggest the

4、 woman do?A. Buy the skirt. B. Follow the fashion. C. Bargain over the price.第二节听下面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 is the woman doing now?A. Making introductions to the man. B. Having an in

5、terview with the man.C. Showing the man around the company.7. When will the man have meetings?A. Every Monday. B. Every Thursday. C. Every Friday.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. How does Jane feel?A. Excited. B. Exhausted. C. Anxious.9. What does Jane do?A. A professor. B. A doctor. C. A student.听下面一段对话，回答第1

6、0至第12三个小题。10. Why will the woman go to Brazil?A. To watch the RoboCup. B. To take part in a competition.C. To spend a vacation with her family.11. What is Mark crazy about?A. Football. B. Robots. C. Traveling.12. How many times has Mark´s team taken part in the RoboCup before?A. Twice. B. Three

7、 times. C. Four times.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What do the speakers usually do at the mall?A. Enjoy all kinds of delicious food. B. Look at things without buying them.C. Spend a lot of money on boots.14. How did the woman know about the outdoor market?A. From the Internet. B. From a friend. C. From

8、 TV.15. What does the woman say about the outdoor market?A. It isn´t big enough. B. There are eight halls. C. The food there is cheap.16. How will the speakers go to the outdoor market?A. By car. B. By subway. C. On foot.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. When can the students visit the language laborat

9、ory?A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Wednesday.18. What lessons do the students have on Thursday morning?A. Listening and speaking. B. Pronunciation and vocabulary. C. Writing and computing.19. What will the students do first on Friday?A. Review lessons for the week. B. Have a computer lesson. C.

10、Practice writing.20. What does the speaker remind the students to do in the end?A. Finish the homework on time. B. Do self-studying in the library.C. Turn to the teachers for any problems.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，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项 A² The Time Traveler A dreamer

11、 crazy about traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society which appears to be living in harmony and happiness, but as the Traveler stays in the fut

12、ure he discovers a hidden cruel and evil underground organization.² The Three-Body Problem Set in China´s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to make contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction receives the signal and plans to

13、attack the Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start to form, planning to either welcome them and help them take over the world, or to fight against them. ² The Graveyard(墓地) Book Bod is an unusual boy who lives in an unusual placehe´s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raise

14、d by the ghosts, werewolves, and other graveyard creatures, Bod has learned m any ghostly thingssuch as the ability to fade so ordinary people cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? ² The Giver It is the future. It&

15、#180;s a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie below the surface! Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is

16、never the same. Jonas discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems. 21. What readers will The Three-Body Problem be recommended to? A. Reader interested in Chinese history B. Readers believing in ghosts C. Readers into civilization of outer space D. Readers fond of time travel22. Which

17、 books tell of dark secrets under the peacefulness? A. The Three-body Problem and The Time Traveler B. The Time Traveler and The Giver C. The Graveyard Book and The Three-body Problem D. The Giver and The Graveyard Book 23. What type of literature are these books? A. Fantasy B. Travel log C. Documen

18、tary D. HistoryB Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris on October 7, 1955, to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University. The family moved to New York when Ma was

19、seven years old. At a young age, Ma began studying violin and piano and finally settling on the cello(大提琴) in 1960 at age four. The genius began performing before audiences at age five and performed for Presidents Dw ight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy when he was seven. At age eight, he appeared

20、 on American television with his sister in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. He attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Children´s School, from which he graduated at age 15. He then appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra playing Tchaik

21、ovsky´s Variations. Ma studied at the Juilliard School of Music at age 19 and attended Columbia University but dropped out. He was later admitted to Harvard College. Before entering Harvard, Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals.

22、He steadily gained fame and performed with many of the world´s major orchestras. He received his bachelor´s degree from Harvard in 1976. In 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard. Ma has a group called Silk Road Ensemble(合奏团), following the famous trade route which several hu

23、ndred years ago was used for trade, all the way across Europe and Asia to China. His goal was to bring together musicians from diverse countries all of which are historically linked via the Silk Road. With over 90 albums, 18 of which are Grammy Award winners, Ma has also been praised as a man of unq

24、uestionable character. He really stands out for his humble spirit, modest manner, and humanitarianism.24. What´s the right order of these events? Ma made his first show on TV. Ma graduated from the Juilliard School. Ma´s family settled down in New York.Ma was awarded an honorary degree fro

25、m Harvard.Ma started playing solo with an orchestra.A. B. C. D. 25. Why does Ma form Silk Road Ensemble?A. To revive the trade along the Silk Road. B. To unite musicians from various backgrounds.C. To raise money for the Silk Road´s repair work. D. To make the Silk Road known to the world.26. W

26、hat would the author introduce in the paragraph that follows?A. Stories showing Ma´s good personal qualities.B. People´s comments on Ma´s performances.C. The albums which brought him Grammy Awards.D. Ma´s next goal in his musical career.27. What´s the main idea of this passa

27、ge?A. The hard training Ma received. B. Ma´s contributions to music.C. Ma´s life in music. D. Ma´s classical musical work.C Some people go home for the holid ays hoping just to survive, burying their attention in their phones or football to avoid conflict with relatives. Yet research

28、now suggests that is the wrong idea. Family traditionsof any formcan save a holiday, making it well worth the effort of getting everyone in the same room. In a series of studies to be published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, hundreds of online subjects described traditions

29、they performed with their families during Christmas, New Year´s Day and Easter, from tree decoration to egg hunts. Those who said they performed collective traditions, compared with those who said they did not, felt closer to their families, which made the holidays more interesting, which in tu

30、rn made them more enjoyable. Most surprising, the types of activities they describedfamily dinners with special foods, religious ceremonies, watching the ball drop in Times Squaredid not have a direct bearing on enjoyment. But the number of them did. Apparently having family traditions makes the hol

31、idays better and the more the merrier. The study could measure only correlations(关联) between subjects´ responses, leaving causality uncertain Do traditions increase holiday pleasure, or do people who already enjoy the holidays choose to perform more traditions? Yet enjoyment ratings were higher

32、 after people describe traditions, suggesting that simply thinking about them can add a feeling of warmness to one´s experience. “Whatever the tradition is, and however small it may seem, it helps people to really get closer to one another,” says Ovul Sezer, a researcher at Harvard Business Sch

33、ool and the paper´s primary author. “With some traditions we don´t even know why we do them, but they still work,” she says. It could be that traditions offer “small, nonobvious ways” to get people to share an experience without feeling awkward or forced, suggests Kathleen Vohs, a psycholo

34、gist at the University of Minnesota and one of Sezer´s co-authors.28. About the family collective activities, what really matters?A. The number of them. B. The form of themC. The place where they take place D. The time that they last29. The underlined word “causality” in paragraph 3 refers to t

35、he relationship between _.A. cause and effect B. opinion and factC. whole and part D. example and conclusion30. Why can family traditions bring people closer according to Kathleen Vohs?A. Because they offer chances for people to get together.B. Because people know the meaning of each tradition.C. Be

36、cause they work in small and not obvious ways.D. Because people can do things together feeling relaxed.31. What´s the best title for this passage?A. Family traditions are on the rise . B. Family traditions increase happiness.C. Put your smart phone down. D. Family is where happiness lies.D Brai

37、n activity may continue for more than 10 minutes after the body appears to have died, according to a new study. Researchers had previously thought that brain activity ends before or shortly after the heart stops beating. But a team of doctors affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Cana

38、da has documented a case in which a patient continued to experience brain wave activity for about 10 minutes after he had been announced clinically dead (or brain dead). The unusual circumstance came about as the team in Canada was conducting routine research regarding the process of death in humans

39、. As four ter minal patients were removed from life support, their vital signs(生命体征) were monitored for a length of time. Three of the patients stopped sending brain signals almost immediately after their hearts stopped, but the fourth instead began producing signals that are normally seen in a pers

40、on that is in a very deep sleep delta waves and continued to do so for 10 minutes and 38 seconds. In the case, d octors confirmed their patient was dead through a range of the normal observations, including the absence of a pulse(脉搏) and unreactive pupils(瞳孔). They also conducted a series of tests t

41、o make sure all of the equipment was working fine. After finding no problems, they reported that they had no explanation for what the y had observed. Scientists not involved with the research are cautious to draw any sort of conclusions since the phenomenon only occurred in one of four test patients

42、. What happens to the body and mind after death remains almost entirely mysterious to scientists. Two other studies last year, for insta nce, showed that genes appeared to continue functioning and even function more energetically in the days after people die. What´s really going on? That´s

43、 the rational question following this latest brain activity study.32. Previously, brain activity was thought to _.A. last much longer than heart beat. B. end as the heart stops.C. stop in a very deep sleep. D. prevent genes functioning.33. What was special about the fourth patient after death?A. His

44、 pupils made no reaction. B. He had no pulse already.C. His brain waves were monitored. D. His life support wasn´t removed.34. What´s the scientists´ attitude towards this observation?A. Careful. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Uninterested.35. Why does the writer mention the other two s

45、tudies done last year?A. To express dissatisfaction with the scientists´ work.B. To show brain activity after death remains a mystery.C. To invite the readers to give more such examples.D. To encourage scientists to do more brain studies.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

46、多余选项。 Everyone strives to be a great person, kind and caring. But for some, that´s not always the case. 36 A few of these harmful characteristics are offered for you below. If you happen to realize that you possess any of them quit! You are self-centered. Many people do this unconsciously. You

47、think you are the only one that matters, and often don´t care what others have to say. If this is you, it´s time to change. 37 You are always in competition. Are you the person who has to be better than everyone else? If so, you´re unattractive. 38 If they overcame their fear of heigh

48、ts and climbed 10 feet in the air, don´t say, “That´s all? I´ve climbed 30 feet!” Instead say, “That´s awesome. I´m really proud of you.” 39 You are definitely unattractive when constantly asking why others don´t see you as important as you think they should. For instan

49、ce, your two friends went somewhere without you. It doesn´t matter to them, but to you it does. Get over it. Your friends´ lives don´t stop when you´re not around. You are the boss. 40 If you´re the one always making decisions, needing to be in charge, or trying to control w

50、hat others are doing, you´re acting in an unattractive way.A. You should let your friends have their moment.B. In a group of friends, everyone should be on an equal playing field.C. There are many behaviors making people unattractive or annoying.D. You are unreliable, yet dependent u pon others

51、.E. You question your importance to others.F. People seen as unattractive are often in fights with their friends.G. No one wants such a friend as only cares about themselves.第三部分 英语知识运用（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） Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long h

52、air out of the way, then kiss my forehead. I don´t remember when it first started 41 me -her hands pushing my hair that way. But it 42 make me annoyed, for they felt work-worn and rough against my young skinFinally, one night, I shouted at her: Don´t do that any more your 43 are too rough!

53、 She didn´t say anything in 44 . But never again did my mother close out my day with that 45 expression of her love Time after time, with the 46 years, my thoughts returned to that night. I´m not a little girl any moreMom is in her mid - seventies, and those hands I 47 thought to be so rou

54、gh are still doing things for me and my 48 . Now, my own children are 49 . Mom no longer has Dad. It was late on that Thanksgiving Eve, as I went to sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand 50 before stealing across my face to brush the hair from my 51 . Then a kiss, ever so 52 touched my b

55、row. In my 53 , thousands of times, I 54 the night my young voice complained. 55 Mom´s hand in my hand, I said how 56 I was for that night. I thought she´d remember, as I did, 57 Mom didn´t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten and 58 long ago. That night, I fell asleep wit

56、h a new 59 for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt I had carried around for so long was 60 to be found 41. A. amazing B. hurting C. surprising D. annoying42. A. does B. doesn´t C. did D. didn´t43. A. hands B. noises C. feelings D. words44. A. silence B. reply C. anger D. fear45. A. perfect B. healthy C. familiar D. popular46. A. Following B. passing C. coming D. remaining47. A. never B. even C. once D. often48. A. ne