高二英语上学期期中试题(A卷)

北京市丰台区2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题（A卷）

考试时间：100分钟

第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20小题，每小题1分，20分）

第一节：听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、

C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。

1. Where are the two speakers?

A. On the plane.

B. On the bus.

C. On the train.

2. What is the weather going to be like this weekend?

A. Sunny.

B. Cloudy.

C. Rainy.

3. Who is the woman?

A. A cleaner.

B. A secretary.

C. A manager.

4. What will the woman probably do during the holiday?

A. Visit her sister.

B. Shop in her city.

C. Travel in Hangzhou.

5. Why can’t the woman take the direct route?

A. The road is under construction.

B. The right-hand lane is closed.

C. There is no exit.

第二节：听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She didn’t watch the football game.

B. She is not interested in football.

C. She doesn’t work hard.

7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A football player.

B. A football match.

C. A football fan. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Why does the woman do research?

A. To study what music people prefer.

B. To show us that music is important.

C. To understand how music influences people.

9. What will the man do to help with the report?

A. Design the report.

B. Answer questions.

C. Hand out questionnaires.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What happened to Betty?

A. She was disturbed at the concert.

B. She was removed by security.

C. She fought with a boy.

11. What can we learn about Betty?

A. She doesn’t like children.

B. She often goes to concerts.

C. She seldom argues with others.

12. What does the man suggest Betty do?

A. Leave the theatre.

B. Ask for help.

C. Fight back. 听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。

13. Why did Jane miss the film?

A. She was sick in hospital.

B. She got caught in the rain.

C. She had to take care of her sister.

14. What impressed the speaker most?

A. The plot.

B. The acting.

C. The setting.

15. What’s the spea ker doing?

A. Leaving a message.

B. Making an appointment.

C. Giving a lecture.

第三节: 听下面一段对话，完成第16至20五道小题，每小题仅填写一个

．．词。听对话前，你

将有20秒钟的时间阅读试题，听完后你将有60秒钟的作答时间。这段对话你将听两遍。

(*请将答案填写在答题纸上，注意在答题卡上空出相应的题号)

第二部分：知识运用 (共两节，25分)

第一节：语法 (共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)

从各题A、 B、 C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

Jane’s mother worked o n the farm from dawn till dark, 21 just could make ends meet. To make Jane live a happy life，Mother was very careful about 22 money.

23 , Jane didn’t understand her. Every day, Mother was busy with her work while Jane 24 at school, so they had little time to enjoy themselves.

25 Jane was unhappy and even cruel to her, Jane’s mother decided to go skiing with Jane to make Jane happy.

On Sunday morning they went happily to the snowfield. Since they were both in white clothes, the manager advised them to buy ski clothes. He said 26 there was an accident, they might be easily found in their ski clothes. Mother couldn’t

afford them, so she refused.

Then they went skiing in their white clothes. They were skiing happily on the mountain 27 suddenly the snowfield began to jump. It was the snowslide(雪崩). They ran a long way and escaped the snowslide finally, but they couldn’t find their way. Later, a helicopter was flying above, but people on it couldn’t see or hear them. Jane was in despair because she 28 her head seriously and blood dropped

on the snow. Just then an idea struck Mother. She pierced (刺破) her wrist immediately and then bright red blood dropped down on the snowfield. A red SOS was on the snow.

At last Jane 29 , but Mother died.

Every time I think of the blood 30 onto the snowfield, I feel painful. I believe anyone who hears the tragedy will admire Mother for her selfless love to her daughter.

21. A. that B. which C. what

22. A. spent B. spend C. spending

23. A. Therefore B. However C. What’s more

24. A. was studying B. studied C. will study

25. A. Realize B. To realize C. Realizing

26. A. in case B. before C. so that

27. A. while B. when C. as

28. A. had hurt B. has hurt C. was hurting

29. A. saved B. was saved C. had been saved

30. A. dropped B. to drop C. dropping

第二节：完型填空 (共15小题，每小题1分，共15分)

It was a cold afternoon. I was training a football team for first-graders. It was the day of our 31 practice.

I seated the kids on a long bench on the grass. Any time I was training a new team, I spent a few minutes getting them to 32 one another, each kid saying his name and the names of all the kids sitting to the left.

A few minutes later, I 33 to put the kids to a test. Alex was chosen to start at the far left end of the bench, go up to each kid, say that kid’s 34

and then shake his right hand.

Alex was doing well and he went down the row—Dylan, Micah, David, and Beau—

35 he reached Ben. He said Ben’s name and reached out his right hand, but Ben just 36 there, his right hand 37 in his jacket.

“Ben, why don’t you let Alex shake your hand?” I asked. Ben stood up, and said, “But I don’t have the 38 .” He pulled his jacket away from his right shoulder.

Ben’s arm ran from his right shoulder but his arm 39 at the elbow(胳

膊肘). No forearm(前臂), no hand, no fingers!

I got 40 and couldn’t think of anything to say, but the little kids were unwilling to hide their curiosity(好奇心).

“Look at that,” said Alex.

“Hey, what 41 to your arm?” another asked.

“Does it hurt?”

Ben took off his jacket to 42 the kids what they all wanted to see. He explained to them that he had always been that 43 and that there was nothing 44 . What he meant was that he wanted to be treated like everybody else.

And he was from that day on.

From that day on, he was 45 Ben, one of the players on the team.

31. A. first B. next C. later D. last

32. A. help B. see C. know D. teach

33. A. forgot B. decided C. learned D. refused

34. A. number B. class C. story D. name

35. A. until B. because C. though D. if

36. A. sat B. played C. lay D. studied

37. A. opened B. raised C. waved D. hidden

38. A. finger B. hand C. foot D. leg

39. A. met B. pointed C. stopped D. joined

40. A. interested B. bored C. annoyed D. shocked

41. A. came B. grew C. happened D. changed

42. A. show B. give C. offer D. ask

43. A. style B. manner C. way D. nature

44. A. common B. special C. magic D. harmful

45. A. also B. even C. yet D. just

第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，20小题，28分）

第一节：阅读短文，从各题A、B、C、 D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

（共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）

A

Money! What do you see when you hear this word? A round metal coin? Paper money? Most likely you think of one or the other. The money we see or use is made of paper or metal. But the money of long ago was not at all like the money we use today.

Coins were not always made of metal. Soap was once used as money by the people of Mexico. Blocks of coal were used as coins by the people of England. Stone money was used on the Pacific Ocean island of Yap.

Even food was used as money. In Russia coins of cheese could be used to buy things. Koku—a unit of rice was used to buy things in Japan. Bricks of tea leaves were used as money in old China. The tea leaves were first boiled in water. They were then pressed into hard brick shapes.

Coins were not always round. The coins of old China were once in the shape of a knife. In another land coins were made in the shape of a fish. Square money is still used by the people of India. Money in shapes of rings is also still seen in some parts of the world, making it easy to carry.

Did you ever hear anyone say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”? Is it true? Did money ever grow on trees? In Malaysia, people once made their own small trees out of tin. Small, round tin coins were joined to the trunk of the tin-money trees. People just broke off the money they needed. Woul dn’t it be nice if people had money trees of their own?

46. In which country was soap used as money?

A. Russia.

B. England.

C. Malaysia.

D. Mexico.

47. What shape of money is used in India?

A. A ring.

B. A square.

C. A knife.

D. A fish.

48. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Metal Coins

B. Funny Money

C. Money Trees

D. Money Trouble

B

Mary Cassatt: American Artist

By the young age of sixteen, Mary Cassatt had decided she wanted to become an artist. Unlike the other women painters of the time, she did not want to be merely an amateur(爱好者) —she wanted to make a living with her art. From 1860 to 1862, Mary studied drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which was near her home. What she really wanted to do, however, was go to Europe to study the works of famous painters, known as the “old masters”.

At first, Mary’s parents were opposed to the idea of her going to Europe, but she eventually changed their minds. Mary moved to Paris when she was 22 years old. After studying the old masters for a while, she began to believe that if she was to become a good artist, she would have to develop her own style.

In the early 1870s, the painter Edgar Degas asked Mary to join the group called the Impressionists. The Impressionists were a group of painters who had broken from the style of the old masters. Rather than painting only sitting or standing models, the Impressionists often painted from real life. Rather than painting in only dark colors, the Impressionists experimented with bright colors and the effect of light on color.

Mary Cassatt became quite successful as an Impressionist painter. In later years, however, she also worked in dry point. The process of dry point consisted of three steps. The first step was to draw a picture. She did this by scratching (刮) a sharp needle onto a sheet of copper (铜), called a plate. Next she applied ink to the plate with a roller. Then she pressed the plate onto a sheet of paper. The finished picture

looks like a drawing, but it is actually made up of hundreds of tiny lines. Even later, Mary Cassatt began painting pictures of mothers with their children. These are some of Cassatt’s best-known paintings. In the 1890s, Mary Cassatt had many one-woman art shows in both the United States and Europe. Her works were well respected and sold very well. She bought a summer home in the country outside of Paris, where she lived until her death in 1926.

49. Mary Cassatt wanted to set herself apart from many women painters by

.

A. living on her art works

B. scratching pictures into copper pieces

C. working with the Impressionist painters

D. traveling to London to study old masters

50. How was the style of the Impressionists’ paintings di fferent from that of the old masters?

A. The artists pressed paper on plates.

B. The painters used only dark colors.

C. The pictures showed scenes from real life.

D. The paintings were about mothers with children.

51. What is “dry point”?

A. A kind of printmaking.

B. A special type of paper.

C. A new way of mixing colors.

D. A method of scratching needles.

C

Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant (无关的) and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with controlled light, temperature, wetness,

air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise or a complex in the Saudi desert.

The world already is having trouble feeding itself. Half the people on Earth live

in cities, and nearly half of those—about 3 billion—are hungry or ill-fed. Food prices, currently increasing, are affected by dryness. Hoods and the cost of energy required to plant, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable(不稳定). Climate change makes long-term crop planning uncertain. Farmers in many parts of the world already are using water available to the last drop. And the world is getting more crowded: by mid-century, the global population will grow from 6.8 billion to 9 billion.

To feed so many people may require expanding farmland at the expense of forests and wilderness, or finding ways to completely increase crop output.

Gertjan Meeuws has taken the idea of a greenhouse a step further, growing vegetables and house plants in enclosed(封闭的）and regulated environments. In their research station, water flows into the pans when needed, and the temperature is kept constant(恒定的). Lights go on and off, creating similar day and night, but according to the rhythm of the plant.

A building of 100 square meters and layers(层) of plants could provide a daily diet of 200 grams of fresh fruit and vegetables to the entire population of Den Bosch, about 140,000 people. Their idea isn't to grow foods that require much space, like corn or potatoes.

Here sunlight is not only unnecessary but can be harmful. Plants need only specific wavelengths(波长) of light to grow. Their growth rate is three times faster than under greenhouse conditions. They use about 90 percent less water than outdoors agriculture. And city farming means producing food near the consumer, and there’s no need to transport it long distances.

52. What can we mainly learn from Paragraph 2?

A．The climate is worse and worse.

B．The city people live a hard life.

C．The world has difficulty feeding its people.

D．The world’s population is increasing fast.

53. Which of the following is true of the environments in the research station? A．The temperature is often changed.

B．Sunshine is in great need for plants.

C．Day and night depends on plants.

D．Air quality is controlled by plants．

54．It can be inferred from the text that Gertjan Meeuws’s farming ．

A. helps save sea water a lot

B. is highly adaptable(适应性强的)

C. is like the greenhouse agriculture

D. suits the production of corn

55．What is the text mainly about?

A. Development of indoor farming.

B. Great Revolution(革命) in farming.

C. Advantages of indoor farming.

D. Sunless, rainless indoor farming．

第二节：阅读下面短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。答语要意思清楚，结构正确，书写工整。（共4小题，每小题2分，共8分）

The British are known for their sense of humour. However, it is often difficult for foreigners to understand their jokes. The main point to remember is that the British often use understatement.

Understatement means saying less than you think or feel. For example, if someone gets very wet in a shower of rain, he might say, ‘It’s a little damp (潮湿的) outside.’ Or, if someone is very impolite and shouts at another person, someone else might say, ‘She isn’t exactly friendly.’ Understatement is often used in unpleasant situation or to make another person look silly. Understatement plays an important part in British humour.

Another key to understanding British humour is that the British like to make fun of themselves as well as others. They often laugh about the silly and unpleasant things that happen to our everyday life when someone accidently falls over in the street. They also like to make jokes about people from different classes of society. They like to make jokes about their accents, the way they dress and the way they

behave. What’s more, the British love to watch comedies(喜剧) about people who do

not know how to behave in society. The comedies series Mr. Bean is a good example

of this kind of humor.

Mr. Bean is the character created by British actor Rowan Atkinson in 1990. Mr.

Bean doesn’t talk often, and instead he uses his body movement and facial

expressions to make people laugh. Perhaps what makes Mr. Bean so funny is that he

does things that adults in the real world cannot do. Mr. Bean is popular in many

countries round the world because you do not have to speak English to understand

the humour. Because of this, many people have become familiar with the British sense

of humour.

56. What does the underlined word “understatement” in Paragraph 1 mean? (答案不多于7个词)

57. What does Mr. Bean use to make people laugh? （答案不多于6个词）

58. 把划线句子翻译成汉语。

59. What’s the passage mainly about? （答案不多于6个词）

第四部分：书面表达(共两节，27分)（请在答题纸上作答）

第一节: 翻译句子（共6小题，每小题2分，共12分）。

60. 听到这个好消息，我们都跳了起来。

61. 在公园里，小丽看见一个小女孩在放风筝。

62. 他是一个用自信鼓舞了很多人的伟大的演员。

63. 我永远忘不了那个我度过童年的地方。

64. 直到现在，没有人在我们班弹琴比他好。

65. 身体语言是世界上最有力的交流方式之一。

第二节 : 短文写作：从A、B中任选一篇，按照要求和提示写作（共15分）

根据题目所提出的具体要求，在答题卡上写出一篇连贯完整的短文。词数不少于60。

A

请参考阅读理解B篇,以及我们课文中学到关于人物的描写，以“A good …in my life” 写

一篇文章描写一个人物。需要自己把题目补充完整同时文章需要包括以下内容：

1.Who is he /she and what kind of person is he/she?

2.What does he/she do? (What achievements does he/she get?)

3.Why do you think he/she is a good…? (What do you learn from him/her?)

B

你曾经去过哪些主题公园？请描述你曾经去过的一个主题公园。文章需要包括以下内容:

1.What is the theme park and where is it?

2.What is it famous for?

3.What can you do in the park?

高二英语第一学期中联考A卷答案

第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20分）

第一节

1. A

2. C

3. B

4. B

5. A

第二节

6. A

7. B

8. C

9. C 10. A

11. C 12. B 13. C 14. B 15. A

第三节

每小题1分。如出现拼写错误不计分；出现大小写、单复数错误扣0.5分；如每小题超过一个词不计分。

16. Germany 17. CA982 18. suitcase 19. Black 20. Hotel

第二部分：语言运用 (共两节，25分)

第一节

21. B 22. C 23. B 24. A 25. C

26. A 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. C

第二节

31. A 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. A

36. A 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. D

41. C 42. A 43. C 44. B 45. D

第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，28分）

第一节

46. D 47. B 48. B 49. A 50. C

51. A 52. C 53. C 54. B 55. D

第二节

56. Saying less than you think or feel.

57. His body movement and facial expressions.

58. 另外一个了解英式幽默的关键是英国人不仅喜欢拿自己开玩笑，他们也喜欢取笑自己。

59. The keys to understand English humor.

How to understand English humour.

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，27分）

第一节

60. Hearing the good news, they all jumped up.

61. Xiao Li saw a little girl flying a kite in the park.

62. He is a great actor who inspires the others with his great confidence.

63. I will never forget the place where I spent my childhood.

64. Up to now, no one has played the piano better than him in our class.

65. Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication.

第二节略