河南省上蔡县第二高级中学2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题

2020学年度上期期中考试高二英语试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分第Ⅰ卷第一部分听力（略）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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AWelcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.21. You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on ______.A. MondayB.SundayC. WednesdayD. Friday22. The person who teaches Computer Science is from______.A. CanadaB. JapanC. AmericaD. Australia23. You may learn something about a disease called TB from ______.A. Mrs. GreenB. Mr. MorisonC.Dr. WestD. Mr. ThomasBWhen her five daughters were young. Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity（团结）. To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However. Helene did not want her daughters to always work in thefamily business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually（最终）the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains. “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”Their expanding business became a large corporation（企业） in 1996, with three generations of An working together. Now the An’ corporation makes more than ＄20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.24.Helene tied several chopsticks together to show .A．the difficulty of growing up B．the strength of family unity C．the advantage of chopsticks D．the best way of giving a lesson 25.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family .A．started a business in 1975 B．bought a restaurant in San Francisco C．left Vietnam without much moneyD．opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles26.What can we infer about the An daughters?A．They were influenced by what Helene taught themB．They could not bear to work in the family businessC．They did not finish their college educationD．They were troubled by disagreement among family members27.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A．How to Run a Corporation B．Strength Comes from PeaceC．Family Unity Builds Success D．How to Achieve a Big DreamCMore and more birds are flying to settle at Qinghai Lake, one of the highest inland lakes in China, thanks to the protection efforts of local governments. Covering an area of over 4,000 square kilometers. Qinghai Lake is also the country's biggest saltwater lake. Located in Northwest China's Qinghai Province, the lake is famous for the two islands at its northwest point—Cormorant Island and Egg Island. The two islands have plenty of floating grass and various schools of fish, offering rich food sources for birds. The islands have become a paradise for different kinds of groups of birds and have been called“Bird Islands”．Each March and April, when ice and snow covering the QinghaiTibet Plateau starts to melt, over 20 kinds of birds fly to the Bird Islands to lay eggs. During the months, flocks of birds cover the whole sky over the islands and birds eggs can be found everywhere. Visitors can hear the singing of birds from miles away. These have become a world famous symbol of the lake.To protect this paradise for birds and support calls for ecological protection, China set up the Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone at the end of 1997.Meanwhile, the State has pointed out the Bird Islands and Spring bay of the Qinghai Lake as central protection zones.Inspection officials and management employees often patrol the lake, improving local residents' knowledge of related laws and spreading knowledge about animal protection to visitors. They are making great efforts to call on people to love and protect the birds. At the same time, they have built special fences around the island area to prevent wolves, foxes and other carnivorous animals, as well as illegal hunters from breaking up the birds' nestbuilding, egglaying and breeding. As a result, more and more birds are coming to the islands for sheltering and breeding.28. Why are more and more birds coming to the biggest saltwater lake in theGreat Northwest?A．Because it is getting warmer and warmer.B．Because it is being reformedC．Because the people there are becoming richer and richerD．Because environments there are getting more and more agreeable for them to live in.29. The birds feed on__________ according to the passage.A．grass moving on the water surface and different kinds of fishB．floating fish and various grassC．salt water and plenty of grainsD．corn from the local farmers30. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A.The ice and snow covering the QinghaiTibet Plateau doesn't change intowater, unless more than 20 kinds of birds come to the Bird Islands.B.“The ice on the Plateau begins to change into water” means sp ringis coming.C.Visitors can listen to the singing of birds from miles away, but theycouldn't see any birdD.Flocks of birds fly up to the whole sky over islands to lay eggs.31. The officials go around the lake mainly to________.A．let the farmers there know the animal protection lawB．tell the farmers there some knowledge about animal protectionC．call on people to love and protect the birdsD．all of the aboveDWhat is success? I am not going to try to define success. I think a precise(精确的) definition is impossible! Is it winning a Gold Medal at theOlympic Games or winning Wimbledon, or being awarded a Nobel Prize? What else?I believe personal success could be anything at all—it does not have to involve public recognition. Who is more successful? A millionaire who is unhappy, or an unnoticed person, who has led a simple, quiet sincere and happy life? The simplest definition of success, I think, is "to set out to do something and to succeed in doing it”.The first step on the road to success starts with belief. Believe you can succeed and you will. Achieving success in whatever endeavor (努力) you choose may be the goal of life; because it gives you freedom from worry. Could that be?Success means different things to every one of us. Some people believe it is measured in financial terms, others believe it is helping others rather than helping themselves. However, most people are motivated to a great extent by public recognition. How many people are really happy? How many people are really doing what they want to with their lives? Incidentally, the ability to imagine makes us different from animals. Most important of all, I believe success is a matter of personal growth. If every day you are developing or growing just a millimeter, I believe one is successful. Just being a slightly better person each day for me is success. I've got a very long way to go then! Finally, always remember success is a process and is not simply a matter of arriving at a destination. It’s the journey that real ly matters. Success is what you become in the often very difficult and dangerous journey down the river of life.32. What is personal success according to the author?A. Winning public recognition.B. Succeeding in doing what you want.C. Something impossible to define simply.D. Being an unhappy millionaire.33. Which plays an important role in your success?A. Intelligence.B. Wealth.C. Confidence.D. Kindness.34. According to the text, humans are different from animals in_______.A. imaginationB.beliefC.freedomD. success35. What can be the best title for the text?A.No true successB. What is success?C. How to be successfulD. Success is reaching a destination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。