高二英语上学期期中卷宜宾市南溪区第二中学校2014-2015学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

南溪二中高二年级半期考试英语试题
第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分40分）
第一节单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. —Why do you eat all ________vegetables but leave the meat untouched?
—I’m on________ diet.
A. a; the
B. the; /
C. /; a
D. the; a
2.Public transport provides convenience to get around inYibin. Fares are cheap,_______ at one
yuan.
A. starts
B. to start
C. starting
D. start
3.The church tower which ______ will be open to tourists soon. The work is almost finished.
A. has repaired
B. has been repaired
C. is repaired
D. is being repaired
4．There is a cup of tea. Please pass _____to me
A. that
B. it
C. one
D. this
5.________ you arrive, I’ll come and meet you.
A. No matter late
B. However late
C. Whenever late. D whatever
6. ________ you’ve passed the final exam, you can prepare for the coming holiday.
A. Now that
B. As soon as
C. Although
D. If
7. He is looking forward ________his father.
A. of receiving
B. of hearing from
C. to hearing from
D. to hear from
8. —Will you stay for lunch?
—Sorry, ________. My brother is coming to see me.
A. I mustn’t
B. I can’t
C. I needn’t
D. I won’t
9. In our class there are 46 students, half ________ wear glasses.
A. in whom
B. in them
C. of whom
D. of them
10. Up to now, he______ more then two thousand English words.
A. learnt
B. learn
C. had learnt
D. has learnt
第二节完形填空（共20小题; 每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31-50各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One morning, it was about 8:30 when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the hospital. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for appointment （约会）at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a 11 in the waiting area, 12 him it would be at least 40 minutes 13 someone would be able to see him. I saw him 14 his watch and decided, since I was 15 busy---my patient did n’t 16 at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he 17 to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his 18 .He told me that she had been 19 for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be 20 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 21 knew who he was, that she had not been able to 22 him for five years now. I was 23 and aske d him, “And you 24 go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said ,“She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back 25 as he left.
Now I 26 that in marriages(婚姻), true love is 27 of all that. The happiest people don’t 28 have the best of everything; they just 29 the best of everything they have.
30 isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
11.A.breath B. test C. seat D. break
12.A.persuading B. promising C. understanding D. telling
13. A. if B. before C. since D. after
14. A. taking off B. fixing C. looking at D. winding
15. A. very B. also C. seldom D. not
16. A. turn up B. show off C. come on D. go away
17. A. needed B. forgot C . agreed D. happened
18. A. daughter B. wife C. mother D. sister
19. A late B. well C. around D. there
20. A. lonely B. worried C. doubtful D. hungry
21. A. so far B. neither C. no longer D. already
22. A. recognize B. answer C. believe D. expect
23.A. moved B. disappointed C. surprised D .satisfied
24.A. only B. then C. thus D. still
25.A. curiosity B. tears C. words D. judgment
26. A. realize B. suggest C. hope D. prove
27. A. agreement B. expression C. acceptance D. exhibition
28. A. necessarily B. completely C. naturally D. frequently
29. A. learn B. make C. favor D. try
30. A. Adventure B. Beauty C. Trust D .Life
第二部分阅读理解（共二两节，共50分）
第一节（共20小题，共40分）
A
Good afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.
The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol (酒) in this country if you are under 18 years of age, nor may your friends buy it for you.
Secondly, noise. Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don’t make unnecessary noise, particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.
Thirdly crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of he road in this country. Use pedestrian crossings (人行横道) and do not take any chances when crossing the road.
My next point is about litter (throwing away waste material in a public place). It is an offence (违法行为) to drop litter in the street. When you have something to throw away, please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it in a litter bin.
Finally, as regards smoking, it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco (烟草) if you are under 16 years of age.
I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assista nce, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.
Now, are there any questions?
31. How many laws are there discussed in the speech?
A. Three.
B. Four.
C. Five.
D. Six
32. From the speech we learn that ____
A. In this country, if you are under 18 years of age, you may not buy alcohol, but your friend can
buy it for you.
B. You may not buy cigarettes or tobacco unless you are above 16 years of age.
C. Because the traffic moves on the left side of the road, you must use pedestrian crossings when
crossing the road.
D. You can’t make noise except at night.
33. The underlined word contact in the seventh paragraph means ____.
A. keep in touch with
B. get in touch with
C. join
D. report
34. Who do you think is most likely to make the speech?
A. A policeman
B. A lawmaker
C. A teacher
D. A lawyer
B
When I was about twelve, I was headed to a restaurant for dinner with my family. It was winter, and on that night, the wind was really blowing.
As my mom and I headed towards the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother came up to us. They asked if we had any spare change. My mom immediately asked where they kept their things. They pointed to an old car in a parking lot across the street. The girl said there were six of them living in that car, which was the same size as my own family.
My mom said she had something to do, and after handing the people a few dollars, we said good-bye. Then, my mother sent us inside the restau rant but she didn’t come.
Later, I found out that she had gone home and emptied our cupboards into a few bags. Then, she brought that food over to the car and handed the bags to the family. I wasn’t there when that part happened, but I can only imagine the joy it brought to their faces.
A few days, later, when I actually found out about what she had done, I asked her why she helped those people. She told me that we were lucky and that her family wasn’t as lucky. I remember the face of that girl who had asked us for change-- how she was the same age as me, yet we looked so different.
I remember thinking that the other girl didn’t have any food to eat, and she was headed back to a cold car shared with her family. I will never forget what my mom did that night, and how she taught me one of the best lessons I ever learned.
35. What was the writer going to do that winter?
A. Go to the parking lot.
B. Go to a restaurant.
C. To meet his mother.
D. Go home.
36. How many people were there in the writer’s family?
A. Four.
B. Five.
C. Six.
D. Seven.
37. What did the cupboard contain?
A. Money.
B. Food.
C. Clothes.
D. Toys.
38 What lessons did the writer learn?
A. Never go to the restaurant for dinner.
B. Don’t go out in winter.
C. Be lucky than the poor girl.
D. Help the one in need.
C
A new study has found some secrets of people’s understanding of large
numbers.Researchers studied a group of people who were born deaf and never learned any spoken language or a formal sign language, but they have developed a gesture system to communicate with people around them. The gestures let them express approximate amounts, but not exact numbers.
“Up to three, they’re fine,” says Elizabet Spaepen, a researcher a t the University of Chicago
and an author of the study. “But past three, they start to fall apart.” In one test, Spaepen would knock her fist against a study participant’s fist a certain number of times and then ask them to respond with the same number of knocks. “If I were to knock four times on their fist, they might knock on my fist five times,” she says.
The finding offers a clue to just how much language affects our understanding of numbers. That has been a big question since 2004, when other researchers published data on two tribes in the Amazon whose members also lack words for big numbers. “What they have are words that mean one and two,” Spaepen says, “and then they have a word to mean many.”
Members of the Amazonian tribes also had trouble matching numbers larger than three or four. But some scholars felt that these earlier studies failed to prove that language was the reason. They pointed out that the tribes lived in groups that didn’t use money and had no need for exact numbers.
The new research a ppears to answer that criticism. “It proves that the kinds of problems in understanding numbers that we found in the Amazonian tribes are not due to just the cultural or environmental circumstances,” says Peter Gordon of Columbia University, one of the res earchers involved in the earlier studies.
39. The participants of the new study ______.
A. cannot communicate with one another
B. use a formal sign language to express numbers
C. have some physical disability
D. come from a distant tribe
40. According to the passage, the new study _______.
A. ignored the cultural influence on the participants
B. is doubted by many people
C. has found it is harder to learn numbers than learning a sign language
D. has shown that our understanding of numbers is influenced by our mastering of language.
41. The tribes involved in earlier studies _________.
A. often dealt with big numbers.
B. didn’t use money in their daily life
C. didn’t have their own language
D. often made trouble for the researchers
42. In which part of a newspaper would you most probably find this passage?
A. Science
B. Health
C. Politics
D. Lifestyle
D
The New Year is the time to buy a new calendar(日历). Yet it can take a lot of time just to choose the right one. There are lots and lots of choices. There are small ones. Big ones. Calendars sit on a desk. Calendars hang on the wall. Calendars are carried around. In one way all calendars are the same. They all list the same days of the year in exactly the same order.
Calendars have become popular gifts because many are filled with beautiful pictures. Some have pictures of famous art works. It is like hanging a different painting on your wall each month. You can even learn from calendars. They often give information about their subject—such as famous writers or American Indians or flower gardens.
There are calendars about food and about beautiful places in the world. Calendars about sports and about movies. Funny calendars with popular cartoon characters. For pet lovers, there are calendars with pictures of cats doing unusual things. Three hundred sixty-five of them—one for each day of the year. There are calendars with pictures of cars, too. There are even calendars for children who can draw the pictures themselves.
Some people do not just look at their calendars. They use them to write down important things they must remember, like meetings or doctor’s appointments. Busy people can buy small calendars to carry around to help them organize and plan their life.
Since there are so many choices, you must spend your time choosing your favourite calendars.
43. Why are the calendars the same?
A. Because they are small.
B. Because they are big.
C. Because they can be put on the desk.
D. Because they show the day in the same order.
44. To a dog lover, what kind of calendars does he want to buy?
A. Calendars with pictures of dogs.
B. Calendars with famous art works.
C. Calendars about movies.
D. Calendars about beautiful places.
45. What are calendars for children special for?
A. They can receive much information.
B. They can draw their own pictures.
C. They can about beautiful places in the world.
D. They can even learn from calendars.
46. From the passage we can know that________.
A. You may see the same painting on your wall each month.
B. Some people do not even look at the calendars.
C. There aren’t calendars with popular cartoon characters.
D. Calendars can help busy people to make a plan for the life.
E
I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet. Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too strict to depart from their routine.
I can't count the times I called my sister and said,“How about going to lunch in half an hour?” She would gasp and stammer(结结巴巴地说), “I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.”And my personal favorite response:“It's just Monday.”She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.
Life has a way of going faster as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises made to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all have to show for our lives is repetition of “I'm going to”,“I plan on” and “Someday, when things are settled down a bit.”
When anyone calls my“seize the moment” friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of
Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to, not something on your SHOULD DO list.
47. The example of the writer's sister serves as__________.
A. an argument
B. an introduction
C. a support
D. a conclusion
48. The writer thinks that the underlined excuse “It's just Monday.”is acceptable, because
__________.
A. it is still likely that they can have lunch together some time later
B. it sounds most reasonable of all the excuses.
C. it shows respect for the writer's suggestion
D. it indicates the time when they can have lunch together
49. The underlined word “contagious” in the fourth paragraph means “_________”.
A. appropriate
B. influential
C. practical
D. evident
50. What is the purpose of the writer by writing this passage?
A. To suggest how time flies.
B. To persuade busy people to relax.
C. To advise people to keep their promise.
D. To convince readers to be flexible on their schedule for practical joy.
第二节．根据对话内容，从下面方框中选出五个适当的句子补全对话，并在答题卡上按要求作答。

其中有两项是多余的。

（每小题2分,共10分）
A: Ben, you look worded.
B: Yes, Ms. Paula. 51
A: You said you liked English. What' s the problem?
B: I can' t get the pronunciation right.
A: Well, why don' t you borrow the teacher's tapes? 52
B: Sounds great. 53 .
A: You can write the new words in your notebook and study them at any time.
B: That might really help! Thanks.
A: Can you understand when people talk to you?
B: No, not always. 54 .
A: Why don't you join an English club to practice speaking English? The English club meets on Tuesday and Friday.
B: I will go. The only other problem I have is that I don' t get much writing practice.
A: Maybe you should find a pen friend.
B: 55 Thanks, Ms. Paula.
A. Sometimes I just don' t understand what people are saying.
B. That' s a funny way to practice writing.
C. Do you have any trouble in grammar?
D. But what about the new words?
E. I' m having trouble learning English.
F. You can listen to them at home after school.
G. What do you think is the best way to learn English?
第Ⅱ卷(共45分)
第三部分书面表达(共三节，满分45分)
第一节阅读表达(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到相应的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求)。

Mr.Turner worked in the government. As an educational inspector(督学)，he often inspected schools. He was strict in everything，so the teachers and students were afraid of him.
One day the inspector reached a middle school. The headmaster showed him around the school. He came into a classroom and saw a terrestrial globe(地球仪)on the desk. And a boy was just watching it. He asked the boy，“Can you tell me why the globe slopes down(倾斜)？”
Hearing this，the boy was so afraid that he hurried to answer，“I’m sorry，sir，I don’t touch it at all.”
And at that moment a girl came in. Mr.Turner turned to her and ________.The girl came near to crying and said，“Sorry，I don’t know，sir. You see I’ve just come in.”
The_inspector_turned_to_the_geography_teacher_and_asked_what_the_matter_was.The teacher said，“Don’t be angry，Mr.Turner！We’re taking good care of it.”
“I don’t think it’s their fault，Mr.Turner.” the headmaster thought for a while and made an excuse. “Our school is short of money and nobody supports us，you know. We had to buy an inferior(恶劣的) globe.”
56．What did Mr.Turner often do？(Please answer no more than 5 words.)
____________________________________________________________________
57．Why were the teachers and students afraid of Mr.Turner？(Please answer no more than 10 words.) _____________________________________________________________________
58．Fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words.(Please answer no more than 6 words.)
______________________________________________________________________
59．Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese.
60．What do you think of Mr.Turner？Why？(Please answer no more than 30 words.)
____________________________________________________________________
第二节:短文改错(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
下文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I often read English aloud and trying to learn something importance by heart. It help me remember what I have learned and form a good habit of thinking in English. I listen a lot and communicate with others with English. In this way, I have been improved both my listening ability and my speaking English. I keep a diary in English every day and my written English is
becoming better and better. I also try my best learn the necessary grammar knowledges. And gradually（渐渐地）, I can express myself correct. T hat’s what I have been learning English.
第三节．书面表达（共35分）
假设你是李华，你的朋友Dick给你来信，询问现在中国学校的情况，请你用以下要点给他回信。

1.一切都发生了改变。

每所学校都参与到减负活动中来了。

2.过去，我周末通常学习到深夜11：30，但是现在，我可以安排自己的事情，比如看书、参观博物馆，或者参加电脑培训班。

晚上我还可以看电视新闻或看看报纸。

3.而且，我的父母还很支持我，他们说虽然我还是个学生，但是也不必成天到晚都学习。

我觉得减负这一概念很能为大家接受。

提示单词：减负campaign of reducing learning load
参考答案
1-5 DCDBB 6-10 ACBCD
11-15 CDBCD 16-20 AABDB 21-25 CACDB 26-30 ACABD
13-35 CBBAB 36-40 CBDCD 41-45 BADAB 46-50 DCABD
51-55 EFDAB
任务型阅读
56. He_often_inspected_schools.
57.Because_he_was_strict_with_everybody_and_in_everything.
58. asked_her_the_same_question
59. 督学转向地理老师，询问事情的原委。

/督学转向地理老师，询问是怎么回事。

60.I_think_he_is_a_learned_man_and_quite_qualified_for_his_job/position.Because_he_is_
strict_in_everything.
短文改错答案
1.trying-----try
2.importance-----important
3.help---helps
4.with----in
5.去掉been
6.speaking----spoken
7.learn前加to
8.knowledges----knowledge
9.correct----correctly 10.what---how
作文
Dear Dick,
How time flies! I'm very glad to hear from you again. You want to know what is going on in schools in China. In a word, everything has changed. Every school takes part in the campaign of reducing learning load. In the past, I used to study until 11,30 at weekends. But now I can arrange things on my own, such as reading books, visiting museums, or taking computer lessons in my weekend days. In the evening I can watch news on TV, or read newspapers. What's more, my parents support me. They said although I was a student, I didn't have to work all day long. I think the idea of reducing learning load is well accepted by everyone.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua。