宁夏银川一中2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

银川一中2016/2017学年度(上)高二期中考试

英 语 试 卷

命题教师：

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。

第Ⅰ卷 (选择题）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节：（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

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答案，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. What does the man mean?
   1. The woman isn't helpful. B. His new shirt doesn't fit him.
      C. He hasn't worn his new shirt.
2. What is the man worried about?

1. He hasn't heard from his sister since last month.
2. He can travel to the western areas alone.
3. He isn't familiar with public transportation.
   3. Where will the woman go?
   1. To the post office. B. To the fruit store.

C. To the supermarket.

4. How much time is there until the movie begins?

1. About five minutes. B. About fifteen minutes.
   C. About twenty five minutes.
   5. Why is the woman so disappointed?
   A. The man was too busy to watch the play.
   B. The man watched the play without her.
   C. The man didn't get the ticket for her.
   第二节：（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
   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。听完每段对话或独白前后，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 does the man want to do?
   1. Buy a pair of shoes. B. Have his shoes mended.C. Sell his shoes.
      7. How will the man get to the place?
      1. On foot. B. By bus. C. By car.
         听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
         8. Why does the man come to the woman?
         A. To help her with her work.B. To have a talk with her.
         C. To ask her to help him.
         9. What is the woman doing right now?
         A. Preparing for a test on Friday.B. Chatting with her history teacher.
         C. Working on her history paper.
         听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
         10. When did the man finish high school?
         A. Last year. B. Last month. C. Last week.
         11. How many sisters does the man have at least?
         1. One.B. Two. C. Three.

12. What does the woman suggest the man do?

A. Discuss his situation with his parents.

B. Ask his parents to help with his decision.

C. Find a chance to go to college.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student. B. Writer and reader

C. Interviewee and interviewer.

14. Why might people be eating insects in the future?

A. They are easy to get. B. They are especially rich in vitamin.

C. They are a good source of calcium.

15. What does the man say about work in the future?

A. People won't operate machines any longer.

B. There will gradually be fewer new jobs.

C. Computer engineers won't worry about being fired.

16. What does the man tell the woman at last?

A. What love will be like in the future.

B. That she should let other students ask some questions.

C. That he would ask others their opinion about her question.

资*源%库听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What was Mark Twain famous as according to the talk?

A. A public speaker B. A story writer. C. A joke teller.

18. What happened to one of Mark Twain's friends?

A. He left his wallet at home. B. He lost his money. C. He lost his ticket.

19. What was the friend doing when the conductor (火车售票员) came to check the tickets?

A. He was lying on the seat. B. He was sitting on the seat.

C. He was lying under the seat.

20. Why did Mark Twain speak in a loud voice?

A. To make his friend hear him. B. To make the conductor hear him.

C. To make the others around hear him

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分 ）

1. （共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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。
   A
   As a little child，I was always plump (胖的)．In college I started blowing up. It got out of control when I went to law school.
   I’d made a decision a thousand times：I’m going to lose weight now. But what motivated （激发）me to get serious about it was turning 30. I weighed 414 pounds. I was always tired. Some of my family members have suffered from heart disease,and I was frightened. I also wanted to look better. So after my birthday,I walked into the office of a weight loss doctor.
   She was very understanding. Her focus was on balanced meals and she wanted me to exercise.
   Walking was all I could do at first. I started by walking a few blocks and gradually increased the distance, until one weekend，I heard myself saying，“Wow，this seems pretty easy.” So I started to run.
   I was losing nine or ten pounds a month，and I had more energy. I started to think about the New York City Marathon. For years，I watched the runners and thought，“This looks like fun，but I could never do that.” But now I realized that maybe I could. I joined the New York Road Runners. I ran a 10km，then a half marathon. I still wasn’t confident I could run a full 26 miles. But I told myself I was going to do it，no matter what.
   By my 33rd birthday，I was down to 180 pounds. I started formally training for the marathon. And on the morning of November 1，I stood on the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island with more than 40,000 other runners，waiting for the event to start.
   It was unbelievable to have the audience cheering me on，handing me cups of water. And I crossed the finish line. My friends sprayed (向……喷射) me with beer，as if I’d won the Super Bowl. And at that moment，I knew：If I set my mind to something，nothing is impossible.
   21. The underlined phrase “blowing up” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to________.
   1. going weaker                                 B. growing high

C. becoming healthier D. becoming fatter

22. From the passage we can know that the author _____________.

A. controlled his weight at college

B. may have a family history of heart attack

C. was satisfied with his figure as a kid

D. began to consider losing weight at 30

23. Which of the following sayings can best summarize the passage?

A．A good beginning is half done.

B．Pride comes before a fall.

C．Where there is a will，there is a way.

D．Practice makes perfect. 

B

The forest in Senegal, a country in western Africa, is full of the chimps’ usual noises. Suddenly dogs bark. Larger male chimps drop from the trees to face the threat while the others climb to safety. Then the dogs’ young human masters appear.

One mother chimp with a tiny baby tries to run. The dogs attack and separate them. The two teenage boys quickly catch the baby chimp. But they don’t act out of sympathy --- they save the baby so they can sell it.

After the teenagers return to their hometown, they visit a man who is said to be very interested in chimps. When they ask the man, Johnny Kante, if he wants to buy the baby, he replies, “That’s not what we do.” Kante is a member of a scientific team. Although Kante is angry with the teens for capturing the chimp, he hides his anger and persuades them to take him to the baby chimp.

Unsure of what to do next upon seeing the chimp, Kante calls Jill Pruetz, the head of the chimp research team. “I’m really worried,” says Pruetz, doubtful that the mother is still alive. But knowing that wild chimps sometimes adopt orphans（孤儿）， Kante and pruetz decide they must try to return the baby chimp to its wild community.

Kante pays another visit to the teenagers. After he explains how much trouble they are in, because chimps are an endangered species, he requests they should give him the frightened baby without payment. They agree. Kante takes the baby chimp to his home and feeds her milk from a bottle whenever she cries.

The next morning, Pruetz and Kante leave the baby with another team member and begin their search for the wild chimps. Pruetz quickly finds the group in the woods. She recognizes the female that is without her child.

Pruetz is so excited that she runs the entire mile back to bring the baby chimp to the tree where the chimps are hanging out. The researchers place the baby on the ground near the tree and back away. Almost immediately, a male chimp drops to the ground and stares at the baby curiously. He carries her back to where the mother is waiting.

Pruetz still can’t believe how fortunate they were to have reunited the mother and child. “Surprising is the only word I can think of,” she says.

24．The dogs’ master visit Johnny Kante to ______________.

A．sell the baby chimp

B．ask him to take care of the baby chimp

C．wash the baby chimp’s wound

D．ask him to return the baby chimp to its wild community

25．When Kante sees the little chimp the first time, he’s __________.

A．a bit at a lossB．excited

C．angryD．clear about how to save her

26．It can be learned from the passage that ___________.

A．Kante feeds the baby chimp carefully in the lab

B．larger male chimps protect other chimps when there are dangers

C．the teenagers get some money after setting the baby chimp free

D．Pruetz and Kante take the baby chimp with them to search for the wild chimps.

27．What is the main idea of the passage? ________

A．How precious chimps are.

B．An adult chimp’s deep love for her baby.

C．The dangers the wild chimps are facing.

D．How caring people reunite a baby chimp with her mother.

C

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28．We can learn from the first paragraph that Blogit is __________.

A．a website on which people can make friends

资*源%库B．located at a small community

C．a website which makes no money

D．developing fast

29．What is Blogit doing to meet writers’ needs according to the passage?

A．Replying to most questions every day.

B．Upgrading its system regularly.

C．Giving writers special software to install.

D．Choosing different topics for readers

30．The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to _________.

A．tell people a good way to make money online

B．offer some information about Blogit

C．attract people to sign up for Blogit

D．guide people to realize their dream to write

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。选项中的两项为多余选项。

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life. 31So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. 32 However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

Parents can see that their children’s skills differ. Some children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others. 33The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in

life.34 It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully step by step. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to repair them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. 35 And that is more important.

A. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

B. The more cost in education, the better the result will be.

C. Cooking requires patience and time.

D. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today's children are badly off for self-respect and self-confidence.

E. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is.

F.These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind.

G. Thus, the more the children use the computer, the better the result will be.

第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节：完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1.5分, 满分30分)

阅读下面短文。从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A cactus(仙人掌)stood all alone in the desert, wondering why it was stuck in the middle of nowhere．

“I do nothing but 36 here all day,” it sighed．“What 37 am I ? I'm the ugliest plant in the desert. I can't 38 any passing traveler with shade or juicy fruit．I don't see what I can do 39．”All it did was stand in the sun day after day, growing taller and fatter．Its spines grew longer and its leaves tougher…It truly was strange-looking．

“I wish I could do something useful,” it 40．By day, eagles circled high overhead．“What can I do with my life?” the cactus called．Whether they heard or not, the eagles sailed 41．

At night, the moon floated into the sky and 42its pale light on the desert．“What good can I do with my life?” the cactus called．The moon only stared coldly as it went on its way．

A lizard（蜥蜴）moved by, 43 a little trail （痕迹）in the sand with its tail．“What worthy thing can I do?” the cactus called．“You?” the lizard laughed, pausing a moment．“Worthy deed? Why, you can't do 44! You do nothing but get uglier every day．”

And so it 45year after year．At last the cactus grew 46 , and it knew its time was short．“Oh, God” it cried out, “I've 47so long, and I've tried so hard．48 me if I've failed to find something worthy to do．I am afraid that now it is too 49.”

But just then the cactus felt a strange stirring and unfolding．A flow of joy drove away all 50. At its very tip, like a sudden crown, a beautiful 51 suddenly opened. 52 had the desert known such a blossom. Its fragrance went through the air far and wide and brought 53 to all passing by．

In the desert, a voice was sounding．“You have waited long, and the heart which seeks（寻求）to do good will always bring something 54to the world, something for which all can be happy ---- 55 for only a moment.”

36. A. lieB. sitC. sleepD. stand

37. A. goodB. advantageC. useD. help

38. A. provideB. lendC. offerD. make

39. A. after allB. at lastC. at allD. in all

40. A. smiledB. statedC. announcedD. sighed

41. A. awayB. outC. upD. down

42. A. turnedB. threwC. litD. burnt

43. A. sweepingB. runningC. leavingD. passing

44. A. anythingB. nothingC. somethingD. everything

45. A. went backB. went downC. went offD. went on

46. A. strongB. bigC. oldD. ugly

47. A. grownB. missedC. movedD. wondered

48. A. TellB. ForgiveC. PromiseD. Kill

49. A. lateB. longC. earlyD. young

50. A. hopeB. depressionC. contentD. optimism

51. A. flowerB. fruitC. seedD. weed

52. A. NeverB. EverC. EvenD. Always

53. A. sadnessB. enjoymentC. laughterD. freedom

54. A. considerateB. modestC.subjectiveD. worthwhile

55. A. as ifB. now thatC. even thoughD. only if

第II卷 (非选择题)

_____________班级______________学号_________

★阅读第二节七选五答案：31._______ 32.________ 33.________ 34.________ 35.________

资*源%库第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第二节：（共10小题；每题1.5分，共15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Once upon a time, a blind man was sitting at the roadside with a hat by his feet. There was a sign beside him, 56. _______ (say),“I am blind. Please help me.” 57. __________ good many passers-by walked by him, but few of them helped him.

A creative young man named Tom was going to his office. While walking by the blind man, he stopped 58.______________(see) that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He bent down and put a few of his own coins in the hat.Without asking for the blind man’s59. _____________(permit), he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

60. _______ (late) that afternoon, when Tom returned to the blind man, he saw the hat 61. _________(fill) with bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if 62. ________ was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know 63. ________ the man had done to the sign.

Then the young man told the blind man that he 64.____________ (write) something like this on the sign, “It is spring now, but I can’t see it.” 65. _________（hear）what the young man said, the blind man expressed his gratitude to him and went home happily.

第四部分：课本知识运用（共两节，满分20分）

第一节: 单词拼写。根据下面各句句意以及所给单词的首字母或汉语提示词，写出该单词的正确形式（每空一词, 一空1分，共11分）。

66．He s_______________ in medicine at university. Now he is a doctor.

67．Jane Goodall made a lot of a________________ in doing research on chimps.

68．If you come across new words while reading, you’d better r_________ to a dictionary.

69．I will try and give you some __________________(解释) of how the machine works.

70．Every classroom in our school is e________________ with a computer, which makes it convenient for us to have classes.

71．----What is your o________________?

---- I am a teacher.

72．The silent films acted by Charlie Chaplin are famous t____________ the world.

73．What you said at the meeting is __________________(令人信服的). I really show great respect for you.

74．Have you ever met with an _______________（场合）where you are mistaken?

75．At the meeting they discussed three different ______________（方法）to the study of mathematics.

76．A soldier’sduty is d_______________their motherland against the enemies.

第二节：根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空（一空1分，共9分）。

77．Many a performer _______________ （disturb）to hear the result of the competition yesterday.

78．Not only all the students but also the teacher _________________(observe) the star move up to now.

79．______________(rid) each person in the world of hunger is the dream of all the nations.

资*源%库80．It is no good _________________( focus) your attention on such a meaningless thing for 3 hours.

81．Tom’s ________________(star) in the movie astonished many people around him greatly.

82．The stranger entered the office without ___________________(invite) to it.

83．I failed in the last exam. I really regret not __________________ (study) hard.

84．When he came into the sitting room, he found his father ________________ (entertain) his guests to some fruit.

85. __________________(struggle) for two decades, Mr Smith is a successful businessman.

第五部分：写作(共两节, 满分35分)

1. ：短文改错 (共10分;每小题1分,满分10分)
   假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误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(∧), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
   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。
   Zhuge liang, who was born in a wealthy family in Han Dynasty, is better known at home and abroad for his wisdom and devotion.
   His parents died in his childhood, make him an orphan. He experienced many difficulties in his youth. Fortunate, his passion for study made him the most knowledgeable in his time. It is said that he joined in Liu Bei after Liu visited him in person three times. He persuade Liu to unite Sun Quan to battle against Cao Cao. His efforts paid off at last. Under his help, Liu Bei founded the Kingdom of Shu. What's more, Zhuge Liang made a lot of invention. Among them are Kongming lantern, that is still in use for entertainment.
   Nowadays, Zhuge Liang is remembered as not only an important strategist (军事家)and politician but also a famous inventor.
   第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
   假如你是国际捐赠中心( International Donation Centre)的一名志愿者。为了帮助贫困山区的人们过冬，该中心号召大家捐赠自己不穿的旧衣物。请你用英语写一篇捐赠倡议书发布到网站上，要点如下：
   1. 以暖和的厚衣服为主；
   2. 没有破洞；
   3. 邮寄前洗净并分类；
   4. 咨询电话:1234567。

注意：1.词数：100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.参考词汇：donor (cn.) 捐赠者； donate(vt.) 捐赠；

donation(un.)捐赠，(cn.)捐赠物

Dear donors,

The winter is coming._________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

International Donation Center

一．听力（20分）

1----5 BACBC. 6---10 BABCA 11---15 BCACA. 16--20 BABCC

二．阅读理解（30分）

21—23 DBC 24—27 AABD 28---30 DBC 31—35 EADCF

三．完型填空（30分）

36—40 DCACD 41—45 ABCAD 46—50 CDBAB 51---55 AABDC

四．语法填空：（15分）

56. saying 57. A 58. to see 59. permission 60. Later

61. filled / was filled 62. it 63. what 64. had written 65. Hearing

五．单词拼写和用单词适当形式填空（20分）

66. specialized / specialised 67. achievements 68. refer 69. explanations

70. equipped 71. occupation 72. throughout 73. convincing 73. occasion

75. approaches 76. defending

77. was disturbed 78. has observed 79. To rid 80. focusing 81. starring

82. being invited 83. studying / having studied 84. entertaining / was entertaining 85. Having struggled

六．短文改错（10分）

1. in Han Dynasty在in后加the 2. better---well 3. make--making

4. Fortunate --- Fortunately 5. joined in 去in 6. persuade – persuaded

7.Under his help --- With 8. invention --- inventions

9. Among them are Kongming lantern --- is 10. that --- which

七．书面表达范文（25分）

Dear donors,

The winter is coming. People in the mountainous areas are in great need of your selfless help. If you have old or used clothes that you don't need, why not donate them to those people in need? Please pay attention to following requirements when you give away the old clothes?

To begin with, make sure that what you will donate is mainly warm, thick and suitable to be used for the winter months. In addition, please do not include the clothes with holes in your donations. Last but not least, clean up and sort out the clothes which you will donate before you go to the post office.

What you will do certainly makes a great difference to the people there. We would appreciate it if you could offer your help to them. If you have any questions, please call us at 1234567. Thanks for your help in advance.

International Donation Center