1、浙江诗阳市第二高级中学高二英语上学期期中试题东阳二中202X下期期中考试高二英语试卷 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.What does the man want to do?A.Fly a kite. B.Go to the park. C.Play on the lnternet.2.What will the girl buy this even
2、ing? A.Sunglasses. B.A scarf. C. Gloves.3.What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Take a taxi. B.Walk to the hotel. C.Ask someone else for help.4.Who is the woman probably? A.A hotel clerk. B.A police officer. C.The mans wife.5.What are the speakers mainly talking about? A.A birthday party B.New
3、Years gifts C.The mans parents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、7题。6.How does the man probably feel? A.Excited. B.Nervous. C.Regretful.7.What will the man do next? A.Talk to Sam
4、antha. B.Dance with the woman. C.Attend a graduation ceremony.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What will the man do with his girlfriend on Valentines Day? A.Go to a movie. B.Go to a concert. C.Eat at a nice restaurant.9.According to the woman, what would be a special gift? A.A song. B.A poem. C.A piece of jewelry.听
5、第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.How does the man want his hair cut? A.All off the back. B.All off the sides. C.A little off the top.11.What did the man complain about? A.The woman got shampoo in his eyes. B.The woman cut his ear accidently. C.The towel was too dirty.12.Why cant the man complain directly to the m
6、anager? A.He is on vacation. B.He is out to lunch. C.He is dealing with another customer.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.Who is the woman? A.The boys aunt. B.The boys mother. C.The boys grandmother.14.What did the woman enjoy doing when she was young? A.Playing with a cat. B.Doing art projects. C.Taking photogr
7、aphs.15.What is the boy like? A.He is shy. B.He likes to paint. C.He doesnt have many friends.16.What does the woman imply about her husband? A.The boy looks just like him. B.He held the boy before she did. C.He would be pleased with the boy.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Where will visitors go on the first d
8、ay of the tour? A.Arches National Park. B.Temple Square. C.Goblin Valley.18.What do we know about Little Wild Horse Canyon? A.Its very narrow. B.Its in northern Utah. C.It was formed from an earthquake.19.What is included in the tour? A.Entrance fees. B.Three meals a day. C.Transportation in Utah.20
9、.When can you make a reservation for the tour? A.Two weeks in advance. B.One week in advance. C.Four days in advance.第二部分 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）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。AIn early autumn I applied for admission to college. I wanted to go nowhere but to Cornell Uni
10、versity, but my mother fought strongly against it. When she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of Cornell, she tore it up. “You cant say its not a great university, just because Papa went there.”“Thats not it at all. And it is a top university.” She was still holding the
11、pieces in her hand. “But we cant afford to send you to college.”“I wouldnt dream of asking you for money. Do you want me to get a job to help support you and Papa? Things arent that bad, are they?”“No,” she said. “I dont expect you to help support us.”Father borrowed money from his rich cousins to s
12、tart a small jewelry shop. His chief customers were his old college friends. To get new customers, my mother had to help. She picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women, so that she could get to know more people. Whether those people would turn into customers was another ques
13、tion. I knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment（投资）could show returns. Whats more, they had not wanted enough to be rich and successful; otherwise they could not possibly have managed their lives so badly. I was torn between the desire to help them and ch
14、ange their lives, and the determination not to repeat their mistakes. I had a strong belief in my power to get what I wanted. After months of hard study I won a full college scholarship. My father could hardly contain his pride in me, and my mother eventually gave in before my success. 21. The autho
15、r was not allowed to go to Cornell University mainly because _.A. his father graduated from the universityB. his mother did not think it a great universityC. his parents needed him to help support the familyD. his parents didnt have enough money for him22. Why did the mother renew her membership in
16、the league? A. To help with her husbands business.B. To raise money for her son.C. To meet her long-forgotten friends.D. To better manage her life.23. According to the text, what was the author determined to do in that autumn? A. To get a well-paid job for himself.B. To improve relations with his mo
17、ther.C. To go to his dream university.D. To carry on with his fathers business.BOne of the latest trend（趋势）in American Childcare is Chinese au pairs. Au Pair in Stamford, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese au pairs from zero to around 4,000 since 2004. And thats true all
18、across the country. “I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age,” Joseph Stock, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son. “I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in the future. After only six months of being cared by a 25-yea
19、r-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions.” his dad says. Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China. She didnt want her children to miss out on their roo
20、ts. “Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to learn the language and culture.” she says. “Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom,” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of Children. “But parents must understand tha
21、t just one year with the au pair is unlikely to produce wonders. Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12.” The popularity of au pairs from China has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children to learn Chinese. It is expected
22、that Americans demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.24. What does that term “au pair” in the text mean?A. A mother raising her children on her own.B. A child learning a foreign language at home.C. A professor in language education of children.D. A young foreign woman takin
23、g care of children.25. Li Drake has her children study Chinese because she wants them _.A. to live in China some dayB. to speak the language at homeC. to catch up with other childrenD. to learn about the Chinese culture26. How can children learn a foreign language best according to Flynn?A. From the
24、ir parents.B. By attending classes.C. From a native speaker.D. By starting at an early age.27. What can we infer from the text?A. Learning Chinese is becoming popular in America.B. Educated woman do better in looking after children.C. Chinese au pairs need to improve their English skills.D. Children
25、 can learn a foreign language well in six months.CJerry Morris died on 28 October 2009. He was 99 years old. You have probably never heard of him. He was a professor of public health. More than 50 years ago he produced one of the most famous epidemiological（流行病学）papers of the 20th century. His study
26、 showed that bus conductors were much less likely to die of heart disease than bus drivers. Why? Becausethe conductors spent their working day walking. It seems obvious now but in the middle of the last century doctors were puzzled by the rising numbers of people who got heart diseases. Jerry Morris
27、 found one of the main causes: asedentary（久坐不动的） lifestyle. He started exercising for a few minutes eachday and lived until his 100th year. If you wish to protect your heart, you have to do more than wander in the garden. The exercise needs to be reasonable. Jogging is not for everyone and a round t
28、rip to the gym takes a couple of hours, plus the monthly membership fee is only good value if you visit regularly. Theanswer is simple: walk. A half-hour purposeful walk five times a week will lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Older people sometimes feel they have left it too l
29、ate. But it is never too late to start and there are no upper age limits. Start gently. Take your time: a15-minute flat walk in the nearest park, four or five times a week. Within a month or so, you are already beginning to protect your heart. Build the walks up. When you can comfortably walk for ha
30、lf an hour in the park, go further: try following rivers and canals.Regular walkers have their own natural gymnasium. Thereis no membership fee, just some of the finest scenery in the world. Great Britain is the walkers gym. Whenyou have followed the rivers and canals, and are enjoying walking for a
31、 couple of hours, head for the coast. Once again, build it up slowly. When you are comfortable with long coastal walks, you can think of our national parks. 28. Jerry Morris is mentioned in the first paragraph mainly to _.A. make his epidemiological message known to the publicB. praise his research
32、into ways of improving public healthC. introduce the topic of doing exercise and keeping healthyD. give an example of a person who lives a healthy and long life29. We can learn from the passage that _.A. walking is better than doing sports in a gym because it saves time and money B. doctors in the 1950s knew why heart diseases kept
