2021年高二上学期中段考试英语试题 含答案

2021年高二上学期中段考试英语试题含答案
考试时间: 120分钟总分:135分
I 语言知识及应用(共45分)
第一节完形填空(共30分)
My daughter is a single parent. She works hard to ____1_____ for herself and her three young sons. She spends money carefully and manages to plan for the little luxuries(奢侈品) and treats that others take for granted. When her eldest son, David, wanted a ____2____ so that he could do after-school newspaper delivery job, she saved up and soon, he was the proud ____3____ of a good second-hand bike.
One afternoon, my daughter asked David to go to a local shop. He rode his bicycle, but foolishly left it outside the shop without ____4____ it up. When David came out of the shop, it was ____5____. He walked home in ____6____ and then, together with his frustrated mother, went to the local police station to report the ____7____.
Imagine their ____8____ when they arrived at the station: a car parked outsides had David’s bike in its boot(尾箱). The ____9____ told them how he’d seen a group of kids ____10____ the bike once my grandson had gone
inside the shop.
The driver—in his late teens himself—had called out to them to “leave that bike alone!” Despite this one member of the group ____11____ on the bicycle and rode it away while the others followed. Not to be ____12____, the teen got in his car, drover after them and ____13____ that they give the stolen bike back.
He was happy to be able to ____14____ it to my grandson together with a lecture about the silliness of ____15____ to use the bike lock. Finally, in all the excitement, he slipped away, without even giving them his name or telephone number.
1. A.stand B.provide C.change D.watch
2. A.bicycle B.watch C.phone D.backpack
3. A.driver B.worker C.seller D.owner
4. A.locking B.picking C.covering D.hiding
5. A.left B.missed C.borken D.gone
6. A.surprise B.trouble C.tears D.peace
7. A.danger B.theft C.accident D.fight
8. A.joy B.regret C.anger D.disappoitme
nt
9. A.policeman B.manager C.teacher D.driver
10
.
A.ride
B.fix
C.steal
D.knock
11
.
A.jumped
B.touched
C.walked
D.moved
12
.
A.annoyed
B.angry
C.confused
D.discouraged
13
.
A.advised
B.demanded
C.allowed
D.promised
14
.
A.donate
B.explain
C.return
D.pass
15 .A.learning B.teaching C.remindin
g
D.failing
第二节语法填空(共15分)
How much would you pay for Wi-Fi? In a recent experiment, some people ____16____(accident) agreed to a high price—giving up their eldest children in order to connect ____17____ a network.
F-secure, the security pany ____18____ paid money for the experiment, set up a Wi-Fi hotspot in London, UK but ____19____(ask) people to sign up to some strange terms and rules beforehand, according to The Guardian. They promised free Wi-Fi only ____20____ the person signing up agreed to give “their first born child to us for …ever”.
Six people still signed up. The research, ____21____(organize) by the Cyber Security Research Institute, was done to show how ____22____ public is sometimes not aware of serious security issues with Wi-Fi.
However, F-Secure has said that ____23____ won’t be taking its exp eriment too seriously, and “as this is an experiment”, it “will be returning the children to their parents”.
So, let this be a ____24____(warn) to read what you are agreeing to—you never know ____25____ you might be giving up!
II 阅读理解(共40分)
A
If you live in the United States, the law says you can’t have a full-time job until you are 16 years old. At 14 or 15, you can work part-time after school or on weekends, and during summer you can work 40
hours each week. Does all that mean that if you are younger than 14, you can’t earn your own money? Of course not! Kids who are between the ages of 10 and 13 can earn money by doing lots of things.
Valerie, 11, told us that she made money by cleaning up other people’s yards. Lena, 13, makes money by knitting (织) dog sweaters and selling them to her neighbors, and Reisa said she had started taking art classes and showing her work to people. People have asked her to draw pictures for them and they pay her for them. Jasmine, 13, writes articles for different magazines!
Earning is learning. By working to earn your own money, you are learning the skills you will need to succeed in life. These skills can include things like getting along with others, using technology and using your time. Some people think that asking for money is a lot easier than earning it; however, when you make your own money, you don’t have to depend on someone else. The five dollars that you earn will probably make you feel a lot better in your hand than the twenty dollars you ask for.
26. Kids can have full-time jobs at the age of ________ in the USA.
A. 14
B. 17
C. 13
D. 10
27. If you are 15 years old, you can't work ________.
A. after school
B. on weekends
C. on weekdays
D. during summer
28. Reisa makes money by________.
A. drawing pictures for others
B. cleaning up other people's yards
C. writing articles for different magazines
D. knitting dog sweaters and selling them to her neighbors
29. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Kids don't need to get along with others when making money.
B. Kids are encouraged to live independently in the USA.
C. Earning one's money is better than asking for money from others.
D. You are learning how to succeed by working in your teens.
30. From the passage we know that ________.
A. parents won't let their children earn their own money
B. it's hard for kids under 14 years old to earn money in the USA
C. kids can learn skills if they try to earn money on their own
D. if kids try to earn money, they won't have enough time
B
The world itself is being much smaller by using modern traffic and modern munication means. Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution es in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But this is no longer true.
Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad for all living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They stop people
from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from putting
is now the most dangerous kind dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO
2
of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.
31. _______, our world is being much smaller.
A. Because of the rise in pollution
B. Thanks to science development
C. Because the earth is being polluted day and night
D. Because the earth is blown away by the wind every year
32. Hundreds of years ago, life was __________ it is today.
A. much easier than
B. as easy as
C. much harder than
D. as hard as
33. Pollution es in many ways. We can even hear it. Here “it” means _______.
A. rubbish
B. noise pollution
C. air pollution
D. water pollution
34. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution because _______.
A. it makes much noise
B. it makes us angry more easily
C. it makes our rivers and lakes dirty
D. it’s bad for all living things in the world
35. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Many countries are making rules to fight pollution.
B. The pollution of the earth grows as fast as the world population does.
C. The problem of pollution is not so serious because there are not so many people living on the earth.
D. If people could go to work by bus or bike instead of car or motorbike,
.
it would be helpful in fighting against the problem of SO
2
C
In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand（木架）with a small notebook（记事本）and a hole for a pencil.
I’m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I a m
remending to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can’t be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
“I’m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “You still use a pencil. Ca n’t you afford a pen?”
My mother replies a little sharply. “It works perfectly well. I’ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days.”
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, “One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real
breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on.”
This story—which happened before I was born—reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I plain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible（看不到的）exhibits at every meal.
36. Why has the author’s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?
A. To leave messages.
B. To list her everyday tasks.
C. To note down maths problems.
D. To write down a flash of inspiration.
37. What is the aut hor’s original opinion about the wooden stand?
A. It has great value for the family.
B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.
C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood.
D .It should be passed on to the next generation.
38. The author feels embarrassed for _________
A. blaming her mother wrongly.
B. giving her mother a lot of trouble.
C. not making good use of time as her mother did.
D. not making any breakthrough in her field.
39. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A .The mother is successful in her career.
B. The family members like traveling.
C. The author had little time to play when young.
D. The marks on the breadboard have disappeared.
40. In the author’s mind ,her mother is____
A. strange in behavior.
B. keen on her research.
C. fond of collecting old things.
D. careless about her appearance.
D
One evening in February, A student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path. That's when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio parked across a railway line. Second later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks. Ceely's near miss made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device.She had never driven the route before. It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS. But it made no mention of the crossing. "I put my plete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she told the BBC.
Who is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely's story in his book When Machines Fail US, fingered at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says,
But our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless key boards.
The problem with his argument in the book is that it is not clear
why he only focuses digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the G PS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say.
It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat puter-based locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says once again that not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it’s also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. Or changing social circumstances. Or some bination of these factors.
The game between humans and their smart devices is plex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be way a wiser use of technology.
If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.
41 .What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her ac cident?
A. She was not familiar with the road.
B. It was dark and raining heavily then.
C. The railway works failed to give the signal.
D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing
42. The phrase “near miss”(paragraph 2) can best be replaced by _______.
A. close bit
B. heavy loss
C. narrow escape
D. big mistake
43.
Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably ag
ree with?
A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.
B. Digital technology often falls
short of out expectation.
C. Digital devices are more
reliable than they used to be.
D. GPS error is not the only
cause for Celery’s accident.
44. In the writer’s opinion, Stevenson’s argument is________.
A. one-sided
B. reasonable
C. puzzling
D. well-based
45.What is the real concern of the writer of this article?
A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.
B. The relationship between humans and technology
C. The shortings of digital
devices we use.
D. The human unawareness of technical problems.
III 词汇和语法（共25分）
第一节：单词填空（每题1分）
根据每题给出的中文意思，在Book5 unit1-4的生词表中，选择适当的单词，以其适当的形式填空。

注意在答题卷相应位置写上完整的单词。

46. It is widely recognized that personality __________(贡献) most to one’s success.
47. I have to say it is a pretty __________(积极的) idea.
48. Zhang Quandan, who is an __________(助理的) quality checker in Futu, is a typical example.
49. He left the public with a powerful __________(印象) on his first TV show.
50. His __________(专业的) performance conquered all the audience.
51. His __________(精确的) pronunciation of English frightened the Indians and Japanese.
52. His ments let many international enterprise, like Sansung and Nokla, feel __________(有罪的).
53. His __________(同事) all think highly of him.
54. They consider him as a __________(向导) of their lives.
55. They said that a person like him can __________(完成) whatever he want to.
56. Last month Futu officially __________(宣布) that he was the Best Employee of the Year.
第二节：完成句子（每题2分）
按照给出的中文意思或者要求完成句子。

57. 如果我也想如此成功，我就必须要对自己更加的严格。

（strict）
If I want to be as successful as him, I _____________________________.
58. 再多的羡慕也是没有意义的。

（make sense）
Even more admiration _________________________________________.
59. 我承认要复制他所取得的成功并不容易。

(过去分词做定语, achieve)
I admit that it is not easy to copy ________________________________.
60. 他通过自身的努力让自己的人生充满了辉煌的成就。

（过去分词做宾补, fill）
Through his own effort, he made his life __________________________.
61. 尽管我觉得很困惑，我还是决定去学开挖掘机。

（过去分词做状语, confuse）
_________________________________________ operating mechanical digger.
62. 不成功我绝不放弃。

（使用倒装句）
___________________________________________________________.
63. 只有在蓝翔，我才有可能成为比张全丹更加优秀的男人！(使用倒装句)
Only in the Blue Fly ___________________________________________. IV 读写任务（共25分）
阅读下列短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

Two years ago，when I was an oversea student，I worked early mornings and late nights to pay for my school fees.
One day，I was seriously ill with a very high fever. I had stayed at home for a few days，and I had run out of food. Because I had been in this town just for a
short time，I also had no friends nearby who could help. So I went out to get some food. I would have gone to the supermarket，but on this occasion，I went into a small store because it was closer. I picked up a few items. When I handed them to the shopkeeper，she said，“You are unwell.”“Yes，”I nodded.
She pointed at the salami and bread I was buying and offered，“I can make you a sandwich，so you don't have to do it yourself.”So，she made the sandwich and asked me to wait a moment. She went in the back room and returned with a bowl of hot soup.
“It will warm you up.” she said with a genuine smile.
What really warmed me up was not the soup，but her kindness. It made me want to be as kind as the shopkeeper who had been kind to me.
[写作内容]
1．请你以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

2．请你以约120词描述一次你受到他人帮助或者你帮助他人的经历，内容包括：
(1)事情的起因, 经过和结局。

(2)事后的感受。

[写作要求]
1作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事．也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

茂名市第一中学xx学年度第一学期中段考试
高二英语参考答案
完形填空
1-5 BADAD 6-10 CBADC 11-15 ADBCD
语法填空
16.accidentally 17.to 18. that/which 19. asked 20. if 21. organized 22. the 23. it 24. warning 25. what
阅读理解
26-30 BCAAC 31-35 BCBDC 36-40 DBCAB 41-45 DCBAB
单词填空
46. contributes 47. positive 48. assistant 49. impression 50. professional
51. accurate 52. guilty 53. colleagues 54. guide 55. acplish
56. announced
完成句子
57. have to be more strict with myself.
58. doesn’t make any sense.
59.the success achieved by him
60.filled with impressive achievements
61.Though terribly confused, I made up my mind to learn
62.Never will I give up before I succeed.
63.will it be possible for me to bee a man better than Fulleg Zhang.
读写任务
When the author, an oversea student, was badly ill, a shopkeeper made him a sandwich and offered hot soup. Feeling warm with her kindness, the author decided to be as kind as her.
Memories came flooding back when I read the story, with tears welling up in my eyes.
It was the early summer last year, when I was busy preparing for the highshcool entrance tests. Bored and tired, I felt so painful that I decided to quit. When I told my desk mate Li Hua about my decision, he said nothing but asked me to stay in the classroom after school. Though confused, I stayed. Then I began the two-month special course. Every day, he talked with me about his understanding of the classes for more than half an hour, which really helped me a lot and sent me here, the best highschool around.
Never will I forget Li Hua. Thanks to him, I understand friendship. And I miss him so much, for he is now studying in Shandong, so far away from me.
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