高二上学期期中考试英语试卷9

1、高二年级英语试卷（2016.11）考生须知：1.全卷分试卷和答卷。试题卷 10页，答题卷 2 页，合计 12 页，有四大题，满分150分，考试时间 120 分钟。 2. 本卷答案必须做在答题卷的相应位置上，做在试题卷上无效，使用机读卡的学校请将客观题的答案在机读卡相应的位置上涂黑。 3.请用黑色签字笔将学校、班级、姓名、考号分别填在答题卷和机读卡相应的位置上。一、听力测试（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，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小

2、题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. How much did Sue pay for the shirt? A. 30. B. 35. C. 40.2. Who will post the card later? A. The woman. B. The man. C. Emily.3. Where did Sally go this afternoon? A. To a library. B. To a supermarket. C. To a bike shop. 4. What does the man want to buy? A. A camera. B. A computer

3、. C. A phone.5. What will the woman buy? A. Bananas. B. Apples.C. Pears.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。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A.

4、Husband and wife. B. Customer and saleswoman. C. Boss and secretary.7. What will the man do in Bordeaux? A. Stay with his friends. B. Buy a castle. C. Plant grapes.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. What will the speakers have this week? A. Japanese food. B. Thai food. C. Chinese food.9. When will the speakers

5、get together? A. On Friday. B. On Thursday. C. On Wednesday.听下面一段对话，回答第10至12三个小题。10. How did Dan go to World of Music? A. By plane. B. By bus. C. By car.11. What does Toby dislike? A. Country music. B. Hip hop. C. Rap. 12. Who went to hear the jazz band?A. Penny. B. Sylvia. C. Toby.听下面一段对话，回答第13至16四

6、个小题。13. What are the speakers talking about? A. Regular activities. B. Colorful life. C. Hobbies.14. How does Conors mother keep healthy? A. By running. B. By swimming. C. By playing tennis. 15. What is Conors granddad good at?A. Playing the piano. B. Singing songs. C. Biking.16. Why cant Conor lear

7、n to play the piano? A. He is busy with his studies. B. He cant find a teacher. C. He has no more free time.听下面一段独白，回答第17至20四个小题。17. Which road will stay closed? A. M43. B. M30. C. M16.18. Why is North Street closed to all cars? A. The snow hasnt been cleared. B. There is an accident. C. It is under

8、 repair.19. How can passengers get the latest information about trains? A. By visiting a website.B. By reading a magazine. C. By making a phone call.20. What is the weather going to be like in the evening? A. Snowy. B. Windy. C. Sunny.二、阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节：（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下面短文并做每篇后面的题目。从A、B、C、

9、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题的最佳选项。A “I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” Thats the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada. When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploading pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it becau

10、se we had nothing to do, living in a small town.” “Id check different websites for the hottest songs, and Id record my own videos,” he explains. “Thats how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a record company. The result was the release of Austins first

11、 album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didnt put him off.“I kept working hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming. Austins ach

12、ievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austins unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way Free The children works and raises money. Because of Austin,

13、 his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austins presence certainly helps We Day, its good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that he cares about making the world a better place.21. Why did

14、Austin put pop songs on musical websites? A. He was bored with his life there. B. To attract peoples attention. C. To help advertise the songs. D. His friend asked him to do so.22. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to ? A. Austins sudden rise. B. Peoples dissatisfaction. C. T

15、he release of Junior Year. D. Signing with a record company.23. What Austin did at We Day . A. was a win-win situation B. set an example for all the singers C. first made him become known to the public D. led many young people to be volunteersBRick Garcia is going to play outside with his friends. H

16、e is taking out his reliever inhaler (缓解物吸入器) and taking two puffs (吸). Five minutes later, hes on the field with his friends, running after a soccer ball. Rick has asthma (哮喘), but he knows how to control it.Asthma is a lung disease. A person with asthma may cough or suffer from shortness of breath

17、. Asthma can begin at any age. Childhood asthma, often beginning when a child is younger than 10 years old, is one of the most common childhood diseases. Doctors report that the number of young people with asthma is increasing. It is the number one cause of absence from school. If parents have asthm

18、a, their children are more likely to develop the disease. Children in homes where an adult smokes are more at risk.It is important to find out the triggers for asthma. As we know, dust, pollen, or animals often make people suffer from asthma. Once a child learns the triggers, he can help prevent fut

19、ure attacks. About half of all children outgrow asthma and then asthma attacks stop when they are teenagers. However, many people live with the disease into adulthood. Children often take control drugs once or twice a day to help prevent asthma attacks, if a child begins to have an asthma attack, a

20、quick-relief drug is also necessary. This is often an inhaler. School-aged children usually carry their inhalers with them. This medication works quickly and children begin to breathe more easily in a few minutes. If a child has a serious asthma attack, he may need full-time care at a hospital or a

21、doctors office.24. The story of Rick Garcia is used to .A. show the importance of exerciseB. introduce the topic of the textC. show the popularity of soccerD. tell us how to control asthma25. The underlined word “ triggers ” in Paragraph 3 probably means . A. risks B. levels C. possibilities D. caus

22、es26. The last paragraph mainly deals with .A. the treatment of asthma B. the influence of asthmaC. the prevention of asthma D. some research on asthmaCToday, many people use plants from other places to design their yards. Well, do they have any influence on animals living nearby? As we know, plants

23、 supply food for things like insects and plant-eating animals. In turn, birds and meat-eating animals feed on these insects and plant-eating animals. It is easy to see how important plants are.Although foreign plants may look beautiful, they can cause problems when there are too many of them. I live

24、 in Virginia, USA, and sometimes see a plantcommonly known as Kudzu that seems to cover everything in the area, even climbing over whole trees and houses.Kudzu is an unbelievable plant since it grows very fast. It was first brought to the United States from south-east Asia around the 1870s as a crop

25、 that farmers could grow. However, Kudzu quickly came to be considered harmful throughout the southern United States.Since Kudzu grows fast in many different environments, it can completely cover areas of land quickly. The plant is also not eaten by any insects or birds in the United States so it ca

26、n grow unchecked. Kudzu can cover trees, bushes, and even houses. It costs the United States 500 million dollars a year to just keep Kudzu from growing too fast. The plant is a perfect example of what scientists call an invasive (侵略性的) species, which grows more quickly than other native plants.All f

27、oreign plants have the possibility to spread quickly. Not only are they costly, but planting them in gardens actually takes away food from insects. If everyone filled their garden with plants native to where they live, many lovely butterflies and other native creatures would be attracted to their ba

28、ckyards! So, take a look out of your window how does your garden grow?27. We can learn from the text that Kudzu in Virginia .A. is very popular B. is difficult to growC. can cause big trouble D. can make air cleaner28. Which of the following is TRUE of Kudzu?A. It served as food at first in America.

29、 B. It came to America in the early 19th century.C. It grows fast in Asia, but slowly in America. D. It is often eaten by insects or birds in America.29. How does the author sound when telling of these foreign plants?A. Sad. B. Worried. C. Proud. D. Excited.30. What does the author mainly discuss in

30、 the text?A. Everyone should learn to love nature. B. It is a hard job to grow plants in yards. C. Gardening has become a serious hobby.D. It is important to say no to foreign plants.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。Be an inventor The biggest secret about inventing is t

31、hat anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but its true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth. Wrong idea number 1: 31 Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists. 32 Wrong idea number 2:

32、 Inventors are born, not made. There are a lot of factors that make invention possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with a special talent for music. 33 His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was in kindergarten . 34 Very successful creato

33、rs dont give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question!” Wrong idea number 3: Inventors are always old people. 35 Here is an example of a young inventor: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was 15, he invented a sys

34、tem of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.A. Everyday things can give people lots of ideas.B. An invention has to be something completely new.C. But other factors were also important for his creativity.D. As a young man, George Nissen invented the trampol

35、ine (蹦床).E. Dont believe that you cant invent something when you are young.F. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “ 99% hard work and 1% inspiration ”!G. The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds. 三、英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：（共20小题；每小题1.5

36、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。When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my townMost of the 36 I spent there was with Mr. GillespieHe never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his 37 .I spent many days there holding his

37、 hand and talking to him, 38 anything that needed to be doneHe became a close friend of mine, 39 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my 40 Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷)I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was _41_I didnt have the 42 to a

38、sk any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might 43 me he had diedSeveral 44 later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar faceWhen I 45 who it was, my eyes filled with tearsHe was 46 ! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gille

39、spie. With an uncertain look _47_ his face, he replied yesI 48 how I knew him and that I had spent many days talking with him in the hospitalHis eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever 49 .He began to tell me that _50_ he lay there comatose(昏迷的), he could hear me talking

40、 to him and could 51 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie _52 believed that it was my voice and _53_ that had kept him aliveAlthough I havent seen him since, he fills my heart with 54 every dayI know that I made a(n) 55 between his life and his death36. A. timeB. energy C. effort D. mon

41、ey37. A. interests B. requestsC. conditionsD. opinions38. A. talking aboutB. looking after C. pointing outD. helping with39. A. so that B. even though C. soon after D. as if40. A. hand B. head C. nose D. arm41. A. killed B. lost C. gone D. changed42. A. energy B. chance C. courage D. time43. A. chea

42、t B. tell C. remind D. warn44. A. days B. weeks C. months D. years45. A. recognized B. wondered C. heard D. asked46. A. well B. alive C. happy D. alone47. A. at B. on C. behind D. in48. A. apologizedB. remembered C. explained D. admitted49. A. dreamed B. seen C. wantedD. received50. A. because B. if

43、 C. unless D. although51. A. notice B. feel C. imagine D. watch52. A. hardlyB. quicklyC. firmly D. nearly53. A. humor B. duty C. touch D. success54. A. sorrow B. excitement C. regret D. joy55. A. effort B. wish C. difference D. decision第二节：（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 N

44、owadays, it is common that more and more high school students open their own micro- blogs on the Internet. For one thing, it can provide a colorful platform to show their talent. For56 , it is a useful way to release their pressure. And all these make it more and more popular with high school studen

45、ts. 57 , many parents and teachers hold a different view. They think that managing ones micro blog will take a lot of time and energy, 58 should be used to study. In my view, I am greatly in favor 59 this activity. Today the Internet is playing 60 important and essential role in our life. Therefore

46、as high school students, we need to learn to make use of this 61 ( value ) tool to communicate and display ourselves. Whats more, opening microblogs need various abilities such 62 writing, designing , being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful mi

47、cro blog. As a result, we will improve ourselves while 63 (organize) our microblogs. In fact, microblog 64 ( oneself ) is of little harm. It is your attitude towards it 65 matters. We should take the advantages and avoid some bad effects.四、写作（共两节，满分40分）第一节：应用文写作（满分15分）假如你是Sandy Smith，你的笔友Li Hua给你写了一

48、封信，内容如下：Dear Sandy， Im writing this letter to ask for help. I will visit England soon, but I know little about the culture of England. Please give me a hand. Im looking forward to hearing from your reply soon. Yours， Li Hua请给Li Hua回一封信，要点如下：1交通和气候注意事项（适应靠左行走或驾驶的交通规则，出门带伞）；2公共场合的注意事项 (保持安静等)；3和英国人交往的

49、注意事项 (尊重隐私等)。注意：1词数：80左右，信的格式、开头和结尾已好，不计入总词数；2可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。Dear Li Hua,It is a great chance to visit England. Have a good time. Yours sincerely, Sandy Smith第二节：概要写作（满分25分）阅读下面短文，然后用60个单词左右概括短文的要点。Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed a

50、bout attitudes to dirt.In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French

51、king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the at