2022年-学年上海浦东第一学期高二英语期中质量检测名师制作优质教学资料

1、2021 学年第一学期期中质量检测高二英语试卷（本试卷满分 100 分,考试时间90 分钟.）（考生留意：请按要求把答案分别做在答题卡或答题纸上）I. Listening Comprehension Section A10%Directions:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. Attheendofeachconversation,aquestionwillbeaskedabutwhatwassaid.The conversations and the questions will

2、 be spoken only once. After you hear the conversationand the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At 9:00B. At 9:45C. At 10:00D. At 10:052. A.3 daysB. 5 daysC. 7 daysD.9 days3. A. In a hospital.B

3、. On a bus.C. On a plane.D. At an airport.4. A. It was too expensive.B. IT was quite old.C. It was not satisfactory.D. It was well-decorated.5. A. She went to a party with the man.B. She just moved into a new house.C. She is showing the man around a house.D. She works as an estate agent.6. A. HappyB

4、. EmbarrassedC. UpsetD. Annoyed7. A. Go with the woman.B. Eat at home.C. Go to the cafeteria alone.D. Wait for the woman.8. A. Her old classmate.B. Her husband.C. Her private doctor.D. her son s teacher.9. A. Go over his lessons.B. Take the final exam.C. Play computer games.D. Go out to enjoy some f

5、resh air.10. A. Fishing equipmentB. Fishing licensesC. Fishing netD. Fishing rodsSection B6%Directions:In Section B, you will hear two shortpassages, andyou will beaskedthree questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions willbe spoken only once. When you hear

6、a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and choose which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. MozartB. Antonio VivaldiC. Charles EmeryD. Beethoven可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载12. A. Turn them into geniuses.

7、B. Improve their verbal ability.C. Improve their learning ability.D. Enhance brainpower.13. A. Classical musicB. Gentle music with clear structuresC. Italian musicD. Violin Piece with exciting notes Questions 14 through 15 are based on the following passage.14 .A. PhysicsB. ChemistryC. English liter

8、atureD. Media studies15. A. More than 144000B. About 147500.C. 7.5% of all the test takersD. 4.6% of all the test taker16. A. Few students avoid harder subjects.B. Each subject has the same level of difficulty.C. Some subjects are more difficult than others.D. Pupils are important to the country s d

9、evelopment.II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A10%Directions:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word tha

10、t best fits each blank.In two days, it will be Christmas. Children all over the world 17look forward to this day for weeks. People celebrate Christmas with food, decorations, music and more. But for many people, gift-giving is the most exciting part of the holiday.I have fond memories of Christmas s

11、hopping with my family as a child. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping my parents gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right 18 可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载theirnoseswithoutthemseeing.Everyoneplaced19 Christmas tree until Christmas morning, 20we opened them.wrapgiftsunderthe可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载Picking a great gi

12、ft requires 21know the person you re giving it to. You need to know the person s tastes and find something the person doesn t already have. This canbe quite a big challenge. Often it s wise to provide a receipt 22the personneeds to exchange the gift.The best gifts are personal. Many Americans don t

13、feel money constitutes a good gift23_it doesn trequireanythought.Theyprefersomethingchosenjustfortheperson. If the gift is a highly-quality homemade gift, that s even better.Gift-giving reflects the reason 24people celebrate Christmas. Christmas in particular remember the birth of Jesus. When he was

14、 born, wise men traveled many miles tovisit Him, 25bring expensive gifts. But the greatest gift wasn t from the wise men,but from God-the baby Jesus. God gave the gift because everyone needed it. We need可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载Godtoforgiveourbadactionssothatwe26 liveforeverwithHim.SoonChristmas we give pres

15、ents to imitate God s action of giving the perfect gift.Section B9%Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. litteringB. blossomC. enormousD. relativesE. gardeningF. servedG. branchesH.

16、idealI. trunkJ. tolerate Grace, an old lady living in the northern part of Australia, is my good friend. She likes_27_verymuch.In her _28_garden,youcan seeflowersall the yearround,because Northern Australia is quite warm even in winter. When spring comes, new leaves come outof the _29_ , and the flo

17、wers are in full _30_ . Among the bushes there are often some lovely birds singing early in the morning. On sunny days she often walks her pet dog around the garden. Sometimes she asks some _31_ and friends to enjoy the beautiful scenery. They sit around the small stone table chatting, and nuts from

18、 her own garden are _32_ with tea or coffee. In hot summer, her pet dog often takes a bath in the small pond in the middle of thegarden.In autumn,manyleavesturnyellow,and thenfall off, _33_the groundas if the garden is covered with a golden blanket. In winter it s not very cold in that region, with

19、the lowesttemperatureaboutsix degrees.Butshe likesto be warmandcan not _34_cold weather. So she asks her son Tony to cut some branches off the trunks as wood. She putsthe wood into her fireplace to keep her house warm and comfortable. I think Grace really lives a meaningful and _35_ life.III. Readin

20、g ComprehensionSection A10%Directions:Foreachblankin thefollowingpassagesthereare fourwordsor phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.This hotel is36in the main shopping street of Northchester, three hundred yards from the Cathedral. The or

21、iginal building was37in 1710, but this structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel having been completed in 1910. It is four storeys38with a lift serving all floors. The public rooms consists of a dining-room可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载seatingfifty39 , a loungeanda bar.Therearesixteen

22、 40 andthirtydouble可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载bedrooms, three of the latter having private bathroom.41floor has one bathroom and two separate WCs. All bedrooms are42with washbasins with hot and cold43. The courtyard around which the hotel is built provides44space for ten cars and thereis 45fortwentymoreoffasid

23、estreettwohundredyardsaway.Thisisquite可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载inadequate.36. A. placedB. putC. situatedD. lain37. A. put upB. doneC. setD. made38. A. deepB. highC. wideD. height39. A. seatsB. menC. peopleD. women40. A. singleB. loneC. soloD. one41. A. EitherB. EachC. NoneD. Neither42. A. fixedB. builtC. fit

24、tedD. put43. A. gasB. waterC. fuelD. steam44. A. placingB. standingC. sittingD. parking45. A. spaceSection B10%B. spaciousC. roomsD. parksDirections:Read the following passage. It is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.

25、 Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.AEarly one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a ver

26、y difficult problem: it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.Thought he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream.He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages（野人） whose king wanted to kill and eat him unless he could build a perf

27、ect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe raninto the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into a cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. Ther

28、e was a hole in the tipof each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple ideathat fina

29、lly made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machine.Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light lamp, said his best ideas came to him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albe

30、rt Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre. To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on t

31、he problem you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or neverhavereallynoticed.It is onlywhenyoufall asleepthatthispartof thebraincansend messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in aspecial way. It uses str

32、ange images（图像） which the conscious part may not understand atfirst. This is why dreams are sometimes called“ secret messages to ourselves”.46. According to the message, Elias Howe was.A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his dreamsB. much more hard-working than other inventors.C. t

33、he first person to design a sewing machine that really workedD. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams47. Thomas Edison is spoken of because.A. he also tried to invent a sewing machineB. he got some of his ideas from dreamsC. he was one of Howe s friendsD. he also had difficulty in

34、 falling asleep48. Dreams are sometimes called “ secret messages to ourselves” because.A. strange messages are used to communicate ideasB. images which have no meaning are usedC. we can never understand the real meaningD. only specially trained people can understand themBRecently,inthehopeofearningb

35、othmoneyandsocialexperience,I becamea door-to-door salesman.I once read a saying,“ If somebody wants something of yours, you will be treated aswarmly as spring, but if they don t, you may be treated as coldly as winter.”You may consider this an exaggeration（夸张） , but if you are a salesman, it is cle

36、arly correct.You would never have found it to be so true if you hadn t been a salesman. You needn t standdoubtfullooksandfriendlycomments;youneedn tlistento somethi ng completelywrong and nod to say that it was quite right; you needn t always keep patience and a smile;you needn t repeat the same sen

37、tences over and over again; you needn t talk to somebody you dislike可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载I did this work for a month, and then I decided togive it up. Apart from the reasons above, I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time.The latest test result proved that my

38、grades were getting worse.Even worse, I hadn t enough time to join my classmates in co llege activities. SometimesI felt lonely and unhappy because of both my study and my part-time job. Now I don t think it is worth doing such a thing for even though I was earning money it came at great cost.Newspa

39、persandmagazinesoftenpublishstoriesaboutexcellentstudentswhodo part-timeworkwhilealsokeepinghigh scoresin class.But accordingto my experience, part-time work can have some strong negative（负面的） influences on study.Moststudentsdon tviewtherelationshipbetweenstudyandworkc orrectly.Inmyopinion, it isn t

40、 a must for financial reasons; students should be careful about taking up a part-time job.49. From the text, we can tell that the writer is.A. an unemployed manB. a middle school studentC. a college studentD. a door-to-door salesman50. Whichofthefollowingwordshastheclosestmeaningtotheunderlinedword“

41、 sacrificing”.A. giving upB. wastingC. usingD. gettingSection C8%Directions:Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentences to fill in the blanks and complete the passage. There are two extra sentences you do not need.A. They can be endlessly improved as we better understand how to

42、 treat animals.B. Experts have broken fresh ground in breeding captive animals.C. Yet critics suggest that animals should not be kept in cages.D. Studies have clearly shown that captive animals will live longer and be more active kept in an environment close to their native surroundings.E. This, the

43、refore, puts severe pressure on the legs and feet of these giants and causes long-lasting injury in some captive animals.F. Evidences indicate that some animals depend greatly on surroundings.Are zoos bad for animals.Zoos have existed since ancient times and were features of the great courts of Egyp

44、t and China. The display of unusual animals from foreign countries was, for a long time, ashow of wealth andpower.Today, zoosfocus on thepreservationof animal speciesand education of the public. 51 可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载Some animals are distinctly unsuited for life in a zoo, however noble the aims of the

45、organization. Keeping elephants in captivity（ 囚禁）has long caused argument among animal rights activists. Elephants in the wild wander constantly, coveringa wide territory on a daily basis. In captivity, they have no choice but to stand still for long periods of time. 52 Yet elephants are a threatene

46、d species in their native environments and are heavily caughtfor ivory （象牙） , leather and meat illegally.To protect the species from extinction, some expertsfeel thatcaptivebreedingprograms maybe the best strategyfor futuresurvival. Manyelephantsin captivitywererescuedfromcircuses （马戏团） , savedfromn

47、atural disasters or removed from the wild due to injury or abandonment.53 Thechancesare,if azoohasnothingbutcementfloorsandmetalenclosures, the animals will not do as well.Many famous zoos now construct enclosures allowing animals freedom of movement and native vegetation. Some zoos have even begun

48、housing species of animals together that normally interact I the wild, such as certain types of monkeys.Zoosarenota perfectsolutionforpreservation.54 Theyareundeniablyhelpful in repopulating declining animal species and encouraging a preservationist outlook, but they are unquestionably primary in th

49、eir treatment of some animals. Hopefully, animal activists and zoo advocates will continue to work together, finding ways to create the best environment for captive animals in breeding and repopulation efforts.IV. Summary Writing10%Directions:Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and t

50、he main points of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The voice in the BoxWhen I was quite young, my family had one of the first telephones in the neighborhood.I remember well the polished wooden case fastened to the wall on the lower stair landing.But my firs

51、t personalexperiencewith this genie-in-the-receiver came oneday whilemy mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the basement, I hurt myfinger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didnt seem to be much use crying,because there was no one home to offer sympathy.

52、I walked around the house, and finally arrived at the stairway. The telephone. Quickly I ran for the footstool and dragged it to thelanding. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver and held it to my ear.“Information Please,”Isaid into the mouthpiece just above my head.A click or two, and a small, clear

53、 voice spoke into my ear,“Information.” “I hurt my finger,”I cried into the phone. The tears came readily enough, now that Ihad an audience.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载“Isn t your mother at home.”came the question.“Nobody s home but me,”I sobbed.“Are you bleeding.”“No, ”I replied.“I hit it with the hammer and i

54、t hurts.”“Can you open your icebox.”she asked. I said I could.“Then break off a little piece of ice, and hold it on your finger. That will stop the hurt. Be careful when you use the icepick（冰锥） ,”she said.“And don t cry. You ll be all right. ”After that,I calledInformationPleaseforeverything.I asked

55、herfor helpwithmy geography, and she told me where Philadelphia was, and the Orinoco, the romantic riverthat I was going to explore when I grew up. She helped me with my arithmetic, and she told me that my pet chipmunk-I had caught him in the park just the day before-would eat fruit and nuts.V. Translation12% （ 1-3 每道题 2 分, 4-5 每道题 3 分）Directions:Translatethe following sentences into English, usingthe wordsor phrases given in the brackets.1，无论下雨仍是不下雨,我们都做早操.whether2，大家都不宠爱他和老师说话的方式.（ the way ）3，说实话,打网球并不是我最宠爱的运动.To be honest4，尽管你犯了许多错误,我仍是把你当成我最好的伴侣.Despite5，好的英语运用才能使他具备了当一名英语老师的资格.com