高二英语第二学期期中试卷
I. 听力（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the man mean?
A. It’s extremely cold outside.
B. They should have eggs for supper.
C. It’s extremely hot outside.
2. When is the man’s birthday?
A. April 1st. B. April 2nd. C. April 3rd.
3. What happens to Mary?
A. She’s in hospital.
B. She must look after her mother.
C. She’s late for school.
4. Whose recorder is the worst?
A. The man’s. B. Jack’s. C. The woman’s.
5. When did the man graduate?
A. In 1984. B. In 1985. C. In 1986.
请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. When did the woman go to see Kate?
A. A week ago. B. Two days ago. C. A few days ago.
7. What can we know about Kate?
A. She’s too busy to see a doctor.
B. The doctor’s advice does her no good.
C. She hasn’t fully recovered though she’s seen a doctor.
请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. How many people became homeless as a result of the storm?
A. Over two hundred. B. Over fourteen. C. About fifteen.
9. Where were Mr. Smith’s children when the storm started?
A. In the bedroom.. B. In the kitchen. C. In the yard.
10. Why did Mr. Smith go back inside their house?
A. To get his missing child.
B. To get some food.
C. To get some clothes.
II. 单项填空：（共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分）
11. It is reported that two suspects were caught by the local police _______ rare wild animals in the jungle.
A. hunt B. to hunt C. hunted D. hunting
12. Could you tell me who on earth prevents our plans _______?
A. carrying out B. from carrying out C. to carried out D. from being carried out
13. When _______ at the door, Mother asked, “Who was it?”
A. knocking B. knocked C. someone was knocking D. she was knocking
14. ---I regret _______ you that you didn’t do well in the exam yesterday.
---Now I regret not _______ your advice.
A. to tell; to accept B. telling; to have accepted
C. to tell; having accepted D. telling; having accepted
15. Was it for that reason _______ you didn’t come to join us in the speech competition?
A. that B. why C. which D. what
16. _______ that Ding Junhui, an 18-year-old boy, won the champion in the 2005 World Snooker China Open.
A. The news comes here B. Here comes the news
C. The news here comes D. Here the news comes
17. I personally think _______ more listening, speaking, reading and writing is the key to _______ our English.
A. Doing; improve B. To do; improve C. Do; improving D. Doing; improving
18. When _______ about her hard life on the island alone with her little son, the woman burst into tears.
A. asking B. to be asked C. asked D. to ask
19. All of the members in the club _______ this conference to be a successful one.
A. hoped B. agreed C. expected D. suggested
20. To our great surprise, the English evening organized by children themselves _______ a great success.
A. turned on B. turned out C. turned to D. turned up
21. This is the largest clock in the world, _______ the minute hand is six metres long.
A. whose B. which C. of which D. its
22. I didn’t go to the concert, but I do wish I _______ there.
A. was B. were C. had been D. have been
23. The citizens demand strongly that a flyover _______ where there are a lot of roadblocks in our city.
A. need to build B. need being built
C. need to be building D. need building
24. They lost their way in the forest, and ______ made matters worse was that night began to fall.
A. what B. it C. that D. which
25. --- Do the Smiths live next door to you?
--- No, but they _______.
A. used to B. used to do C. used to doing D. used to be
26. The Friendship Hotel _______ we stayed at last night is very comfortable.
A. where B. which C. in which D. when
27. _______ soft and smooth, the silk produced by using a new technique sold very well in
the market.
A. Feeling B. Being felt C. Felt D. Having felt
28. Whom would you rather _______ the annual report for the production of our company?
A. have write B. get write C. have to write D. get writing
29. The ordinary-looking young fellow was considered _______ the right person for this position.
A. being B. to be C. as to be D. as being
30. Nobody in our office has such an expensive cell phone _______.
A. as this B. as he C. like this D. like he
III. 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The 31 said something that caught my 32 . “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30.” Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 33 with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 34 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 35 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right!
First, I looked at some of the 36 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 37 that bodies of different weights 38 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 39 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 40 of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other 41 .
Then how about this in 42 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 43 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 44 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 45 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six!
But why don’t best years come after 30? After 30, I 46 , most people don’t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people 47 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 48 was writing wonderful 49 at the late age of 50, 50 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90!
Perhaps there is still hope for me.
31. A. announcer B. conductor C. speaker D. hostess
32. A. mind B. care C. attention D. surprise
33. A. disagree B. talk C. meet D. advise
34. A. chance B. discovery C. research D. fortune
35. A. happened B. wanted C. succeeded D. managed
36. A. last B. scientific C. oldest D. modern
37. A. found B. proved C. doubted D. showed
38. A. disappear B. move C. drop D. fall
39. A. invented B. improved C. published D. made
40. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. all
41. A. fields B. science C. courses D. ages
42. A. election B. politics C. leaders D. society
43. A. age B. brain C. living D. leadership
44. A. finished B. won C. started D. defeated
45. A. led B. devoted C. began D. gave up
46. A. guess B. know C. believe D. agree
47. A. as B. to be C. like D. about
48. A. first B. writer C. poet D. former
49. A. painting B. idioms C. fiction D. works
50. A. when B. while C. who D. after
IV. 阅读理解 （共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Happy birthday! Do birthdays really make people happy? Of course they do. Birthdays celebrate the day we were born. Besides, that extra candle on the cake suggests another year of growth and maturity（成熟）---or so we hope. We all like to imagine that we are getting wiser and not just older. Most of us enjoy seeing the wonder of growth in others, as well. For instance, seeing our children develop and learn new things makes us feel proud. For Americans, like people in most cultures, growing up is a wonderful process. But growing old? That is a different story.
Growing old is not exactly pleasant for people in youth-oriented (以年轻人为中心) American culture. Most Americans like to look young, act young and feel young. As the old saying goes, “You’re as young as you feel.” Older people joke about how many years young they are, rather than how many years old. People in some countries value the aged as a source of experience and wisdom. But Americans seem to favor those that are young, or at least “young at heart.”
Many older Americans find the “golden years” to be anything but golden. Economically, “senior citizens” often struggle just to get by. Retirement at age 65 brings a sharp decrease in personal income. Social security benefits usually cannot make up the difference. Older people may suffer from poor nutrition, medical care, and housing. Some even experience age discrimination (区别). American sociologist Pat Moore once dressed up like an older person and wandered city streets. She was often treated rudely---even cheated and robbed. However, dressed as a young person, she received much more respect.
Unfortunately, the elderly population in America is increasing fast. Why? People are
living longer. Fewer babies are being born. And middle-aged “baby boomers” are rapidly entering the group of the elderly. America may soon be a place where wrinkle are “in”. Marketing experts are ready noticing this growing group of consumers.
51. Growing up is a wonderful thing because______.
A. people can celebrate their birthdays
B. people can become more mature and wiser
C. people can receive many presents
D. people will feel younger at heart
52. We can infer from the second paragraph that______.
A. young people lack experience and wisdom
B. American older people often joke about their old age
C. American culture is very young
D. different countries have different opinions on the old age
53. The underlined sentence (in paragraph 3) means “______.”
A. The golden years can make the old earn lots of money and receive good medical care
B. The old people in America are leading a hard life without good nutrition, medical care or housing
C. The old in America have to retire at the age of 65
D. American social security benefits are not good
54. From the last paragraph we know that the underlined word “in” can be replaced by ______.
A. serious B. cool C. disappearing slowly D. growing fast
B
Weather Report
(8:00 a.m. December 17—8:00a.m. December 18)
Influenced by a cold front, northern Xinjiang, the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the northern and eastern parts of Heilongjiang are expected to experience light snow today. Drizzle (a shower of fine rain) is forecast for most areas of Sichuan and eastern coastal areas of South China. Northerly winds of force 4-6 are expected to affect western and southwestern Inner Mongolia, and most parts of Northeast China while northerly winds of force 5-7 will sweep across the Bohai Sea, the northern parts of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Straits, and the central and northern parts of the South China Sea.
Weather forecast for major Chinese cities
| City | Max(C°) | Min(C°) | Weather |
| Beijing | 10 | -2 | clear |
| Changchun | 0 | -6 | clear |
| Changsha | 19 | 5 | clear |
| Chengdu | 9 | 4 | drizzle |
| Chongqing | 10 | 5 | overcast |
| Dalian | 12 | 3 | clear |
| Fuzhou | 18 | -12 | cloudy |
| Guangzhou | 23 | 15 | cloudy |
| Guilin | 19 | 4 | clear |
| Haikou | 19 | 14 | overcast |
| Hangzhou | 18 | 5 | clear |
| Harbin | -3 | -8 | clear |
| Hongkong | 21 | 16 | cloudy |
| Jinan | 14 | 3 | clear |
55. According to the weather report, we know it doesn’t rain in the following areas except______.
A. Xinjiang B. Qinghai-Tibet C. Heilongjiang D. Chengdu
56. From December 17 to December 18, if you go to ______, you may be caught in the snow.
A. Northern Xingjiang and Tibet
B. Sichuan and South China
C. Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang
D. Qinghai and Sichuan
57. On December 17, the East China Sea will be swept by ______.
A. a cold front B. light snow
C. northerly winds of force 4 D. northerly winds of force 5-7
58. The temperature in Harbin Min ( C° )is ______ lower than that in Guangzhou Min( C° ).
A. 23 B. 31 C. 26 D. 7
C
Failure is probably the most fatiguing(令人疲劳) experience a person ever has. There is nothing more tired than not succeeding, being blocked, not moving ahead. It is an evil circle. Failure causes fatigue, and fatigue makes it harder to get to work, which adds to the fatigue.
We experience this tiredness in two main ways: start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task that we are forced to take up. Either because it is too boring or because it is too difficult, we avoid it. And the longer we put it off, the more tired we feel.
Such start-up fatigue is very real, although not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones. The cure is obvious, though perhaps not easy to apply: willpower exercise. The moment I find myself turning away from a job, or putting it under a pile of things I have to do, I clear my desk of everything else and attack the difficult item first. To prevent start-up fatigue, always treat the most difficult job first.
Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle. Here we are willing to get started, but we can’t seem to do the job right. Its difficulties appear to be insurmountable and however hard we work, we fail again and again. The mounting experience of failure carries with it an ever-increasing burden of mental fatigue. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can, and then let the unconsciousness take over.
59. Which of the following can be called an evil circle?
A. Success---tiredness---success---tiredness
B. Failure---tiredness---failure---tiredness
C. Failure---success---failure---success
D. Success---failure---success---failure
60. According to the passage, when keeping putting off a task, we can experience______.
A. failure B. performance fatigue C. start-up fatigue D. unconsciousness
61. To overcome start-up fatigue, we need ______.
A. doing exercise B. prevention C. strong muscles D. strong willpower
62. The underline “insurmountable” (in the last paragraph) probably means “______”.
A. too difficult to overcome B. easy to understand
C. imaginary D. known to everyone
D
The noise made by tourist boats for whale-watching may be causing communication problems for the whales, say researchers in a study in Nature this week.
Whale-watching is a popular tourist activity in areas where groups of killer whales live, and often dozens of boats, filled with tourists who want to watch the beautiful animals roll through the waves, go whale-watching each day. Unfortunately, the engines of the boats make a lot of noise.
The whales travel in groups, called pods, and communicate with each other through sonic calls that some scientists refer to as singing. The sounds of the boat engines may be creating too much background noise for the whales in the pods to be able to hear each other well. As a result, say the researchers, whales have started to sing for longer than they used to, kind of like a person shouting to a friend in a noisy room.
The researchers listened to recordings of whale calls made between fifteen and twenty-five years ago, before whale-watching became popular, and compared them to more recent recordings made now that whale-watching has become popular.
Since scientists don’t yet understand the whales’ calls, they don’t know what the whales are saying, but they think it may be communication of hunting or breeding (繁殖) information. Some experts worry that all this whale-watching noise may have a bad effect on the whale population in the long run, since the noise may be drowning out important communication about mates (配偶) or food.
The killer whales studied were those off the coast of Washington state. The population of killer whales in that area has been decreasing for several years, but scientists are not sure why.
63. According to the text, the whales sing longer than before probably because ______.
A. their hearing is weakening B. tourists on boats make too much noise
C. they are pleased to see the tourists D. they have difficulty passing on messages
64. Which of the following is the possible result of whale-watching?
A. Fewer fish in the ocean.
B. Misunderstanding between the whales.
C. Reduced number of the whales in the area.
D. Serious water pollution along the coast.
65. What is mainly discussed in the text?
A. Recent advances in the study of whale population.
B. New explanations for whale singing.
C. Whale-watching disturbs whale life.
D. Whale-watching becomes popular in Washington state.
V. 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
66. Everyone experiences cultural shock in one way or another when he goes to live in a new place. But sooner or later he will a________ to the life there.
67. Although people with disabilities might have to depend on other people for some things, with the right attitude and hard work, it is possible to live an i________ life.
68. It cost me a great deal, but I don’t r________ spending a year traveling around the world.
69. She felt e________ when asked whether she needed help dressing.
70. Claire felt she was the happiest woman in the world when the prince d________ his love for her ahead of all the people at the party.
71.The high cost of a________ makes life hard for him in London. So he has to rent a flat together with some other students.
72. When her brother and other students went on the journey without her last night, she had a feeling of being a________ and cried all night in her room.
73. Everyone wanted to take the opportunity to see whales at close r________ on the whale watching tour. Unfortunately, they saw only one whale in the distance.
74. He d________ his suitcase along the platform. They were too heavy to carry.
75. His color isn’t r________ to whether he’s a good teacher. We shouldn’t judge a stranger by his appearance.
VI. 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
When the world enters the 21st century, the development in the 76. ____________
science and technology will bring us many more new hopes and 77. ____________
chances we have never imagined before. People are expecting have 78. ____________
a peaceful and highly developing world. To catch up with the new 79. ____________
development and to be success in the new century the younger 80. ____________
generation is required to possess different kind of skills and abilities, 81. ____________
such like the computer science and the English language. 82. ____________
Besides one will be left behind. Young people should 83. ____________
study even hard at school and prepare themselves mentally and 84. ____________
physically to meet with the challenge of the new century. 85. ____________
VII. 书面表达（共1小题，满分10分）
李华是家里唯一的孩子，随父母来到美国已有半个月了，但他感到烦恼。请你根据下面提供的有关信息以李华为名用英语给当地报纸写一封信，请求帮助。
1、 父母忙于工作和学习；
2、 单独在家，整天与电视为伴；
3、 没有朋友，感到孤独；
4、 请求帮助。
注意：（1）信的开头与结尾已给出，不计词数； （2）词数：80个左右。
January 12th, 2005
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to you for help. ___________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二学期高二英语期中试卷答卷
Class_______________ No.__________ Name________________________
V. 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
66. a 67. i 68. r
69. e 70. d 71. a
72. a 73. r 74. d
75. r
VI. 短文改错（共10小题，满分10分）
When the world enters the 21st century, the development in the 76. ____________
science and technology will bring us many more new hopes and 77. ____________
chances we have never imagined before. People are expecting have 78. ____________
a peaceful and highly developing world. To catch up with the new 79. ____________
development and to be success in the new century the younger 80. ____________
generation is required to possess different kind of skills and abilities, 81. ____________
such like the computer science and the English language. 82. ____________
Besides one will be left behind. Young people should 83. ____________
study even hard at school and prepare themselves mentally and 84. ____________
physically to meet with the challenge of the new century. 85. ____________
VII. 书面表达（共1小题，满分10分）
January 12th, 2005
Dear Editor,
I’m writing to you for help. _________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
第二学期学军中学高二期中考试英语试卷”:
I. 1. CBCBA 6. CCABA
II. 11. DDCCA 16. BDCCB 21. CCDA A 26. BAABA
III. 31. ACABD 36. BBDCA 41. ABACD 46. ACDDB
IV. 51. BDBD 55. DADA 59. BCDA 63. DCC
V. 66. adapt 67. independent 68. regret 69. embarrassed 70. declared
71. accommodation 72. abandoned 73. range 74. dragged 75. relevant
VI. 76. in the→in 77.√ 78. expecting→expecting to 79.developing→developed
80. success→successful 81. kind→kinds 82. like→as 83. Besides→Otherwise/Or
84. hard→harder 85. meet with→meet
VII. One possible version:
January 12th, 2005
Dear Editor,
I am writing to you for help. I am the only child in my family. I came to America half a month ago. My parents are always busy with their work and they have to go to evening classes to learn English. When they are out, I have to stay at home alone, doing nothing but watching TV all day. Though the programs are interesting, I still feel lonely because I haven’t got any friends here now. I don’t know what to do. Could you give me some advice?
Best wishes,
Yours,
Li Hua
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