山东省武城县第二中学高二英语下学期期中试题

高二下学期期中考试英语试题第一部分听力（每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节听下面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. When will the speakers probably meet next week?A. On Monday.B. On Tuesday.C. On Friday.2. What will the man do next?A. Open a website.B. Give the woman a new card.C. Take a photo of the woman.3. Who visited Fragrant Hills last weekend?A. Evan’s uncle.B. Evan’s mother.C. Annie’s brother.4. What’s the relationship between the speakers?A. Husband and wife.B. Salesman and customer.C. Aircrew and passenger.5. Why does the woman order bread?A. She is very hungry.B. It’ll keep her kid quiet.C. It’s on the dinner menu.第二节听下面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. What’s the woman’s good news?A. She got a job offer.B. She’ll move to a new house.C. She got accepted by a university.7. What do we know about the speakers?A. They live in the same city.B. They used to work together.C. They’ve never met in person before.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. Why is the girl so busy?A. She has too many classes.B. She’s doing a lot of writing.C. She’s working on a big project.9. What is implied about the boy?A. His major is engineering.B. He is still in high school.C. He wants to transfer to the girl’s school.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题10. What bad news does Sandra hear from her father?A. He just got fired.B. He lost his cell phone.C. He failed a job interview.11. Which major is Sandra more interested in?A. Finance.B. Business.C. Medicine.12. What will Sandra probably do next?A. Go out of town.B. Study for her classes.C. Tell her mother the news.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题13. What kind of artwork is in the living room now?A. A photograph.B. An oil painting.C. A watercolor painting.14. How long will Jared’s grandparents stay at his house?A. For one week.B. For twelve days.C. For about half a month.15. What will be hanging in the living room next month?A. A painting of a bird.B. A picture of a forest.C. A picture of an ocean scene.16. What do Jared’s parents think of the picture from Jared’s grandmother?A. They don’t like it at all.B. They value it very much.C. They think it’s a good color.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17. What does the speaker suggest visitors in Spain do?A. Meet new people.B. Read Spanish books only.C. Spend a lot of time on campus.18. How can visitors make more friends, according to the speaker?A. By starting a club.B. By working on a farm.C. By joining a book group.19. What does “take the easy way out” probably refer to?A. Not making much effort.B. Not getting any exercise.C. Doing something easily.20. According to the speaker, how can visitors learn Spanish quickly?A. By moving to a village.B. By doing a language exchange.C. By being around native speakers.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

AA Spanish company Siesta &Go has opened the first public napping (小睡) space in Madrid. It promises people a quiet rest in the middle of the city’s business center.Napping spaces are nothing new; places to rest are already set up in other big cities in the world. But the idea would appear to work well with the culture of Spain, where people traditionally take an afternoon nap, called siesta.The Madrid nap space recently opened with 19 beds. People can use them by the minute or by the hour, and they can also choose either a private or shared room. An hour of napping inside a private room costs about $ l5.Siesta &GO provides all bedding, clean nightshirts and other materials. Nippers can request to be woken up when their time is up. It also offers areas to work, with armchairs, newspapers and coffee for those not wishing to sleep.Philip Marco is one happy customer. Marco says he gets tired during the day because of hard work. He says a siesta is the perfect way to build up energy. “I come for about 30 minutes or something like that. That is usually enough for me to be fullof energy.”While many Spanish people love their naps, others like Carlos Villarroja say they are just to o busy to keep the tradition. “It’s a Spanish tradition, but I think it’s more of a legend (传说) than a tradition. Because of the lifestyle and the working hours, we have very little free time for a siesta at least during the week.”But many health experts believe there is evidence that taking a short nap can be very good for the body and mind. Scientific studies show that taking a siesta can also prevent illness and lower blood pressure.21. What is not allowed for customers to do?A. Sleep for freeB. Choose a private roomC. Use it as an officeD. Share a room with others22. What does Philip Marco think of the Madrid nap space?A. CostlyB. HelpfulC. ComfortableD. Convenient23. What’s Carlos Villarroja’s opinion on siestas?A. It is not necessary to take a nap.B. They can treat high blood pleasure.C. People have no time to take a nap.D. It’s not true that Spanish people like naps.BWhen I was in fourth grade, I worked part-time as a paperboy. Mrs.Stanley was one of my cust omers. She’d watch me coming down her street, and by the time I’d hiked up to her doorstep, there’d be a cold drink waiting, I’d sit and drink while she talked.Mrs.Stanley talked mostly about her dead husband, “Mr.Stanley and I went shopping this morning.” she’d say. The first time she said that, soda (汽水) went up my nose.I told my father how Mrs. Stanley talked as if Mr. Stanley were still alive. Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and maybe she’d work it out of her system. So that’s what I did, and it turned out Dad was right. After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery(墓地).I finally quit delivering newspapers and didn’t see Mrs. Stanley for several years. Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser (募捐活动).She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy. Four years before, she’d had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with. Now she had friends. Her husband was gone, but life went on.I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named Edna with three kids. She asks me how I’m doing. When I don’t say “Fine”, she sticks around to hear my problems. She’s lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about community. Community isn’t so muc h a place as it is a state of mind. You find it whenever people ask how you’re doing because they care, and not because they’re getting paid to do so. Sometimes it’s good to just smile, nod your head and listen.24. Why did soda go up the author’s nose one time?A. He was talking fast.B. He was absent-minded.C. He was in a hurry.D. He was shocked.25. Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs. Stanley according to Paragraph 3?A. He wanted to be helpful.B. He enjoyed the drink.C. He took the chance to rest.D. He tried to please his dad.26. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase "work it out of her system"?A. turn to her old friendsB. move out of the neighborhoodC. recover from her sadnessD. speak out about her past27. What does the author think people in a community should do?A. Open up to others.B. Depend on each other.C. Pay for other’s helpD. Care about one another.CResearchers have created a backpack that has a computer and medicines in it that can help even untrained soldiers save the lives of wounded troops. Wounded soldiers have a better chance of survival if they get help soon after being hurt and are quicklytaken to a hospital or clinic. But soldiers who do not have medical training may not know how to help their injured friends.Doctors and engineers have developed what they call an “intelligent backpack”. It has a computer and electronic measuring devices. The backpack also has robotic instruments and medicines ready to give to injured troops.About 16 doctors and engineers from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and several other places are working on the project. The U. S. Department of Defense has given money to the project.Ron Poropatich leads the project. He is a retired army surgeon. He says the backpack will help soldiers care for those who are injured. The devices included in the backpack can monitor a person’s heart rate and blood pressure. The robotic instruments can even tell whether the soldier has a collapsed lung.The intelligent backpack's computer can compare information gathered about the injured soldier with thousands of similar cases, and quickly tell the best methods to use to save the soldier’s life.Sometimes, it is not always possible to quickly remove the injured soldier from the battlefield. So, Dr. Poropatich says, the researchers hope to create a backpack that will have devices that can keep a soldier alive for a long time. Dr. Poropatich hopes the backpack and its instruments will be ready for testing animals in about three years.28. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Soldiers should have taken medical training.B. Most of the soldiers can’t use the backpack correctly.C. The backpack can play a big part in the battlefield.D. War or battle has brought harm to the world.29. How many kinds of items are mentioned in the backpack?A. 2.B. 3.C. 4.D. 5.30. What can we know according to Ron Poropatich?A. The project got support from the whole world.B. The robotic instruments can monitor lungs.C. The injurer's heart disease can be cured.D. The devices can adjust soldiers’ blood pressure.31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Researchers and Their Wonderful DiscoveryB. Medical Care Tested on the Wounded SoldiersC. Robotic Devices Used in the BattlefieldD. Emergency Medical Care in a BackpackDLondoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books— especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, p rinted on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers. There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts(自夸) of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand-carts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.32. “Londoners are great readers” means that _____.A. Londoners are great because they read a lot.B. There are a great number of readers in LondonC. Londoners are readers who read only great booksD. Londoners read a lot33. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road ______.A. is in the suburbs of LondonB. contains various kinds of shopsC. is famous for its bookshopsD. is the busiest street in London34. In this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean? ______.A. move away from a busy streetB. buy books in a most busy streetC. waste time looking for booksD. tak e a risk of losing one’s life35. On Farringdon Road, ______.A. you can find fine bookshops for the latest booksB. you can see book sellers selling books on hand-cartsC. there are only small bookshops for the second-hand booksD. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold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。