湖北省黄冈市黄州中学高二英语上学期期中试题（无答案）.doc

2016年秋季黄州中学高二年级英语期中考试试题 本试卷分第i卷(选择题)和第ii卷(非选择题)两部分,考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第卷第一部分 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，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关问题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。（ ）1. what happened to the boy after class yesterday?a. he was kept in the school. b. he was told some news. c. he was given one more english lesson.（ ）2. what did the people think of their leader?a. he was clever and honest. b. he was neither clever nor honest.c. he was clever but lackedhonesty.（ ）3. how often does the man do exercise every week? a. seven times. b. six times. c. five times.（ ）4. whats jack? a. he is a student. b. he is a teacher. c. he is a doctor.（ ）5. what will the man have to do? a. to take his luggage with him. b. to paint the room. c. to change for a new room.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。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。（ ）6. what are the speakers talking about? a. a new car. b. a used engine. c. a second-hand car（ ）7. how much does the man offer to pay the woman? a. $200. b. $2,000 c. $20,000听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。（ ）8. why does sarah look so blue?a. she has to do volunteer work.b. she has to read lots of books. c. she is stuck in the city.（ ）9. whats the man going to do?a. going to do volunteer work.b. going to join an outdoor club. c. going hiking.（ ）10. what does sarah like?a. sleeping in a tent, waking up for the sunrise. b. looking after the animals. c. staying in the city.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。（ ）11. who are the two speakers?a. they are students preparing for the coming college entrance exam.b. they are students preparing for the final exams.c. they are colleagues.（ ）12. what can we know from the conversation?a. they only suffer mentally.b. they only suffer physically. c. they suffer both mentally and physically.（ ）13. which of the following is not the reason for their going to college?a. to get more knowledge. b. not to let their parents disappointed. c. to have time for sports, films and so on.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。（ ）14. which of the statements is true about the girl in the dialogue?a. she fell onto the floor from her bed. b. she worked deep into the night for the exams.c. she had some difficulty in her study.（ ）15. what did the girl mean when she said “i came round after a few seconds”?a. i turned around after a few seconds. b. i became conscious after a few seconds.c. i showed up after a few seconds.（ ）16. what did the doctor ask the girl to do?a. to take some deep breathing. b. to have a test in another hospital. c. to get enough sleep.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。（ ）17. where does the conversation most probably take place?a. in a supermarket. b. in a company. c. in a restaurant.（ ）18. why does the man fell fed up?a. because he is tired of doing the same things day after day. b. because he cant go on a holiday.c. because he cant go hunting with his father.（ ）19. why does the man think the great-great-grandfathers had more fun?a. because they hunted for their food. b. because they grew their own vegetables.c. because they didnt do the same job for years and years.（ ）20. what suggestion does the woman give the man?a. going on a holiday. b. doing all the things by himself. c. hunting for food.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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。a modern humans have a hard time controlling their desire to eat. often you eat not because you are hungry, but because you are affected by other things. how much you eat is strongly affected by how much those around you eat. people eating alone eat least. people eating with one other person eat 35 percent more than they do at home. people dining in a party of four eat 75 percent more. eating with overweight friends? youll eat more. is your waitress overweight? youll eat more. wide variety of food? youll eat more. plates can decide how sweet dessert tastes. if people ate it off a paper plate, theyd say, “this is good.” if they ate it off a fancy silver plate, they would say, “this is the greatest cake ive eaten in my entire life.”your knowledge about what makes food good or bad also affects how much you eat. you tend to eat more when you think the food is good, and less when you think it is bad. so grandmas cookies always taste better than other cookies. “good food” even has a “health halo (光环) effect”. if we are eating something healthy, we feel that everything in that meal is healthy. due to this, people often believe that a cheese cake with a salad has fewer calories than the cheese cake alone. thats perhaps also why eating organic food might turn you into an annoying guy. your brain may use anything that makes you feel good about your own morality to excuse your immoral behavior.food and hunger affect your judgment too. hungry judges give more serious sentences. kids who dont eat breakfast behave worse than kids who eat their breakfast. people who have low blood sugar are more likely than the average person to have trouble concentrating and controlling their unpleasant emotions.21. what is mentioned as a cause of overeating?a. suffering from great loneliness. b eating with many friends.c. being treated to low quality food. d being served by a helpful waitress.22. according to the passage, an annoying person may be one who _.a. finds an excuse for eating more b. is crazy about the quality of platesc. competes with others in making cookies d. teaches people to stick to morality23. what would be the best title for the passage?a. when cant we go on a diet? b. where to find safe food c. how to make good food d. what affects eating?bone day a student was walking with his teacher in the countryside. as they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. they were a poor farmers, who was working in the nearby field.the student turned to the teacher saying，“we hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, and wait to see what he will do.”“my young friend，” answered the teacher, “we should never make fun of the poor. why not put a coin in each shoe, and then we hide ourselves and watch？” the student did so and they both hid themselves behind the trees. the poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes.after putting on his coat, he put his foot into one of his shoes, and felt something hard. then he bent (弯腰) down to feel what it was, and found the coin. surprised, he looked at the coin, turned it around and looked at it again. he then looked around, but no person was seen. he put the money into his pocket, and continued to put on the other shoe. his surprise doubled on finding the other coin.he couldnt control his feelings and fell to his knees, looked up at the sky and expressed his thanks. then he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread. he said the help would save them from dying.the student stood there deeply moved, and his eyes filled with tears.“now，” said the teacher, “are you not much happier than if you had hidden the shoes？”24when the student saw the shoes, he first wanted to_asteal them bgive the owner some money cfind their owner dplay a joke on the owner25according to the passage, the teacher is_aquiet and honest bstrict and careful cpatient and clever dkind and friendly26when the farmer saw the second coin, he_awas surprised and decided to find the ownerbwas worried and looked up at the skycwas very excited and gratefuldspoke of his difficulties and asked for more help27what can we learn from the passage?atrue happiness comes from helping others.ball good things come to an end.cwhere there is a will, there is a way.dit is never too late to learn.ceach year, millions of visitors crowd into our many national parks. with their unmatched beauty, the national parks offer people a place to go to restore(恢复) their energy. the parks we enjoy today, however, might not be around without the past efforts of a few people who supported an idea to protect the natural beauty of our country.one of these people was the naturalist john muir. in 1867, on his way west to san francisco, john muir walked through yosemite and quickly recognized its incomparable beauty. muir devoted himself to learning as much about the wilderness(荒原) as he could. then, he would pass this learning on to others in the many articles he wrote describing the beauty of the area. in order to protect yosemite from damage, muir became the voice behind a government bill that would create yosemite national park. soon other bills would follow, and muir would continue his fight to make americans understand the importance of protecting the wild. in 1901, muir wrote a book about the national parks, which caught the attention of people all over the united states, including president theodore roosevelt. at a young age, theodore_roosevelt_had_shown_signs_of_a_passion(热情)_that_would_strengthen_throughout_his_lifetime. during a trip to north dakota in 1883 he saw the damage done to the land and its wildlife.roosevelt would take his ideas about conservation(保护) with him to the white house as the countrys 26th president. he would go on to create the us. forest service,150 national forests, and 5 national parks. roosevelt even canceled a 1903 presidential speaking tour in order to spend two weeks camping in yellowstone, where he gave a speech calling for its protection. while visiting yosemite, roosevelt camped for three days with john muir, who showed the president around and persuaded him to make yosemite valley a part of the larger yosemite national park. after the trip, roosevelt commented that there was no better person in the world with whom to see and appreciate yosemite.the natural beauty that tourists from around the world enjoy today in the countrys national parks is largely due to the efforts of roosevelt and muir, who devoted themselves to an idea that has benefited all people.28john muir devoted himself to protecting yosemite by _.aasking americans to protect the wildblearning about the history of yosemitecwriting articles and putting forward billsdcatching the attention of president roosevelt29what made president roosevelt have the ideas about conservation?aa trip with john muirba camp experience in yellowstoneca presidential speaking tourda trip to north dakota30how does the author support the underlined point in paragraph 3?aby explaining how he ran north dakota.bby sharing others opinions of roosevelf.cby comparing his work with that of john muirdby describing the things he did throughout his life.31we can infer from the text that john muir and president roosevelt_aenjoyed going camping togetherbworked together to create all the national parkscfound a connection in their love of the wildernessdused their fame to bring attention to the environmentdin the course of working my way through school, i took many jobs i would rather forget. but none of these jobs was as terrible as my job in an apple factory. the work was hard; the pay was poor; and, most of all, the working conditions were bad.first of all, the job made huge demands on my strength. for hours a night, i took boxes that rolled down a metal track and piled them onto a truck. each box contained twelve heavy bottles of apple juice. i once figured out that i was lifting an average of twelve tons of apple juice every night.i would not have minded the difficulty of the work so much if the pay had not been so poor. i was paid the lowest wage of that timetwo dollars an hour. because of the low pay, i felt eager to get as much as possible. i usually worked twelve hours a night but did not take home much more than $ 100 a week.but even more than the low pay, what made me unhappy was the working conditions. during work i was limited to two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. most of my time was spent outside loading trucks with those heavy boxes in near-zero-degree temperatures. the steel floors of the trucks were like ice, which made my feet feel like stone. and after the production line shut down at night and most people left, i had to spend two hours alone cleaning the floor.i stayed on the job for five months, all the while hating the difficulty of the work, the poor money, and the conditions under which i worked. by the time i left, i was determined never to go back there again. 32. why did the writer have to take many jobs at that time?a. to pay for his schooling b. to save for his futurec. to support his family d. to gain some experience33. the following facts describe the terrible working conditions of the plant except_.a.loading boxes in the freezing cold b.having limited time for breaksc.working and studying at the same time d.getting no pay for lunch time34. what is the subject discussed in the text?a.the writers unhappy school lifeb. the writers hard work in an apple factoryc. the writers experience as a full-time workerd. the writers eagerness to earn money35. how is the text organized?a.topicargumentexplanation b. introductionsupporting examplesconclusion c. main ideacomparisonsupporting examples d. opiniondiscussion-description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。while it is impossible to live completely free of stress, it is possible to prevent stress as well as reduce its effect when it cant be avoided. the us department of health and human services offers the following suggestions for ways to deal with stress.try physical activity when you are nervous, angry or upset, try releasing (释放) the pressure through exercise or physical activity. _36_take care of yourself you should make every effort to eat well and get enough rest. if you easily get angry and cannot sleep well enough, or if you are not eating properly, it will be more likely that you will fall into situations of stress. _37_make time for yourself _38_ dont forget, play can be just as important as work. you need a break from your daily routine to just relax and have fun. go window-shopping or work on a hobby. allow yourself at least a half hour each day to do something you enjoy._39_ stress can result from disorganization (杂乱无章) and a feeling that “there is so much to do, and not enough time.” trying to take care of everything at once can be too much for you and, as a result, you may not achieve anything. instead, make a list of everything you have to do, then do one thing at a time. _40_ only in this way will you finish all you need to do and feel less stressful. a. bear in mind the most important task. b. schedule time for both work and play.c. check off each task as it is completed.d. make a list of the things you need to do.e. for example, you could take your job as your bobby.f. if stress repeatedly keeps you from sleeping, you should consult a doctor. g. running, walking, or playing tennis are just some of the activities you might try. 第ii卷第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45)第一节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题15分,满分30分)阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (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。for long, a little boy was wondering why his next-desk-pal could rank 1st in the class whenever he wanted to, whereas he himself 41 to: he only ranked 21st.at home, he asked his mom, mom, am i more stupid than others? i feel i am as 42 as him, but how come i always 43 behind? hearing the words, mom was 44 that her son began to gain self-esteem(自尊), which was now being 45 by the ranking system. staring at him, she went 46 ,not knowing how to explain. in another test, the son ranked 17th, 47 his pal remained 1st. back home, he raised the same 48. mom really wanted to inform her son that intelligence is 49 ,which means that students ranking 1st are 50 to be cleverer than normal ones. thank goodness, 51 ，she did not open her mouth. she thought it 52 to put any additional burden on his son and was trying to find out a perfect 53 .time going fast, the son finished primary school. 54 studying harder and better, he was still unable to 55 his pal. to show her pride of him, mom decided to take him to the 56 . during the trip, she managed to 57 an answer. she pointed to the beach and said, do you see the seabirds over there? when the waves come near, little birds can 58 quickly while “clumsy” sea-gulls would take more time to complete the 59 . however, have you noticed birds that finally fly 60 the endless ocean are none other than “clumsy” sea-gulls?now, the son no longer worries about his rankings, because, with the 1st ranking, he is accepted by tsinghua university. 41. a. failedb. wantedc. triedd. afforded42. a. cleverb. talentedc. carefuld. good43. a. leaveb. fallc. comed. go44. a. sad b. convincedc. awared. worried45. a. developedb. improvedc. questionedd. ruined46. a. crazyb. palec. angryd. wordless47. a. whileb. whenc. althoughd. as48. a. handb. questionc. wordd. trouble49. a. differentb. changeablec. funny d. frightening50. a. requiredb. supposedc. meantd. addicted51. a. meanwhileb. thereforec. howeverd. but52. a. cruelb. wisec. i