中学高二英语上学期期中试题

肇东一中高二英语期中试题本试卷分第I卷 (选择题) 和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

考试用时100分钟,满分150分。

第一部分阅读理解(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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

AWhen I was nine years old，I loved to go fishing with my dad. But the only thing that wasn’t very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn’t catch anything.I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why. He always answered，“Son，if you want to catch a fish，you have to think like a fish.” I remember being even more upset then because，“I’m not a fish!” I didn’t know how to think like a fish. Besides，I reasoned，how could what I think influence what a fish does？As I got a little older I began to understand what my dad really meant. So，I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings. I learned that a fish is a cold一blooded animal and therefore is very sensitive to water temperature. That is why fish prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer. Besides，water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the shade. Yet, fish don' t have any eyelids(眼皮)and the sun hurts their eyes…The more I understood fish，the more I became effective at finding and catching them.When I grew up and entered the business world，I remember hearing my first boss say，" We all need to think like salespeople.” But it didn' t completely make sense. My dad never once said, "If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.” What he said was，“You need to think like a fish.” Years later, with great efforts to promote long-term services to people much older and richer than me，I gradually learned what we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job. I wil l show you how in the following chapters.1 .Why was the author upset in fishing trips when he was nine？A. He could not influence a fish as his father did.B. He could not catch a fish.C. His father did not teach him fishing.D. His father was not patient withhim.2. According to the author，fish are most likely to be found .A. in shallow water under waterside treesB. in deep water on cloudy daysC. in shallow water under sunlightD. in deep water on sunny days3 .After entering the business world，the author found .A. it easy to think like a customerB. his first boss’s sales ideas reasonableC. his father' s fishing advice inspiringD. it difficult to sell services to poor people4. This passage most likely comes from .A. a fishing guideB. a millionaire’s biographyC. a novel on childhoodD. a popular sales bookBIn its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, “No, thanks. I’ve got a good horse under me.”The city planners decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasn’t enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city’s streets by as much as 12 feet.This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?That’s where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousandsof jackscrews beneath the buildings’ foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman’s signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn’t even notice anything was happening.Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago’s early history, e very eng ineer ing solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago’s waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city’s next step was to clean the polluted river.5. The author mentions the joke to show _______.A. horses were fairly useful in ChicagoB. the Chicago people were very humorousC. Chicago was very dangerous in the springD. Chicago’s streets were extremely muddy6. The underlined word “hoist” in Paragraph 4 means “_______”.A. liftB. changeC. repairD. decorate7. What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?A. It interrupted the business of the hotel.B. It separated the building from its foundation.C. It went on smoothly as intended.D. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.8. The passage is mainly about early Chicago’s _______.A. successful engineers and their achievementsB. engineering problems and their solutionsC. environmental disasters and their causesD. popular lifestyles and their influencesCResearchers are placing robotic dogs in the homes of lonely old people to determine whether they can improve the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck，an expert in human-animal relationship，and Nancy Edwards，a professor of nursing，are leading theanimal-assisted study concerning the influence of robotic dogs on old people’s (expression，physical activity，and life satisf action. “No one will argue that an older person is better off being more active, challenged, or stimulated(刺激)，Edwards points out. “The problem is how we promote that，especially for those without friends or help.A robotic dog could be a solution.In the study，the robot，called AIBO，is placed for six weeks in the houses of some old people who live alone. Before placing AIBO in the home，researchers will collect baseline data for six weeks. These old people will keep a diary to note their feelings and activity before and after AIBO. Then，the researchers will review the data to determine if it has inspired any changes in the life of its owner.“I talk to him all the time，and he responds to my voice，”says a seventy-year-old lady，“When I’m watching TV，he’11 st ay in my arms until he wants clown. He has a mind of his own.The AIBOs respond to certain orders. The researchers say they have some advantages over live dogs，especially for old people. Often the elderly are disabled and cannot care for an animal by walking it or playing with it. A robotic clog removes exercise and feeding concerns.“At the beginning，it was believed that no one would relate to the robotic dog，because It Was metal and not furry，”Beck Says. “But it’s amazing how quickly we have given up that belief.“Hopefully，clown the road，these robotic pets could become a more一valuable health helper. They will record their masters’ blood pressure，oxygen levels，or heart rhythms. AIBOs may even one day have games that can help stimulate older people’s minds.9. The purpose of Beck and Edwards’ study is to .A. understand human-animal relationshipB. promote the animal-assisted researchC. find the causes of old people’s lonelinessD. make lonely old people’s life better10. In the research，the old people are asked to .A. note the activities of AIBOsB. keep AIBOs at home for 12 weeksC. record their feelings and activitiesD. analyze the collectedinformation11 .What is the advantage of AIBO over live dogs?A. It is easier to keep at home.B. It can help the disabled people.C. It responds to all the human orders.D. It can watch TV with its owner.12. The author seems to suggest that the future robotic dogs may .A. cure certain diseasesB. keep old people activeC. change people’s beliefsD. look more like real dogsDExpensive perfumes come in tiny bottles，but many hide a whale一sized secret.To perfect a particular smell，perfume(香水)一makers often use an ingredient that comes from sperm whales，called ambergris. But using ambergris，which helps a perfume last longer, is strongly opposed by many people wh o think it is wrong to kill Whales just so we can smell sweet. Joerg Bohlmann is neither a per fumer nor a whale expert. He’s a plant biologist at the University of British Columbia in Canada. But his discovery of a new plant gene might push whales out of the perfume business.The gene comes from fir trees，found throughout North America and commonly used as Christmas trees. The trees produce a chemical that can be used in perfume in place of ambergris-but with a catch.“There’s a problem that many people wouldn’t consider. In the tree，the chemical is mixed with many others. That makes separation a challenge，” Bohlmann says. “It’s like trying to isolate sugar from a biscuit.”This is where science becomes useful. When Bohlmann learned that fir trees produce the ambergris-like chemical，he decided to use his gene know-how to find the instructions for how to make the ambergris-substitute.Bohlmann found that gene and took it out of the tree cells. Then he did something that might sound strange to someone who don’t work in genetics: Bohlmann put the gene from the tree into yeast(酵母)cells.Yeast may so und familiar because it’s used to make things like bread，wine and beer. Biologists like to work with yeast because it easily adopts new genes and changes its features and behaviour. When Bohlmann put the fir tree gene into the yeast，the yeast startedmaking the same chemical that had been produced by the tree.Perfumers pay big money for ambergris because it is a fixative，which means it holdsa smell in place on a person’s body.“Cheap perfumes smell good in the first hour or so and then everything is gone，”explainsBohlmann. “But expensive perfumes are much more stable. Their smell lasts much longer,for hours or even a day after you apply them.”The new chemical，made from the tree genes，can be used as a fixative，too. And using yeast to make it is far cheaper than acquiring ambergris.Bohlmann admits he never thought he’d get into the perfume business. But now，he Says，producers have been calling to find out how to use his technology in new perfumes.13.It can be inferred from the passage that if a perfume contains ambergris， .A. its user probably supports whale huntingB. its smell will last for about anhourC. there will be a whale symbol on the bottleD. it is probably very expensive14. The underlined expression “with a catch" in Paragraph 3 means .A. being difficult to holdB. having a hidden problemC. needing further testingD. being too similar15 .What is the best title for the passage？A. The Christmas tree’s secretB. The sweet smell of successC. Whale-free perfumeD. Save the whale第二节七选五（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，选项中有两项为多余选项。