精选高二英语上学期期末考试试题平行班
西安中学2016-2017学年度第一学期期末考试
高二英语（平行班）试题
（时间：120分钟满分：150分）
注意事项：
1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。
2．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。
3．以下所有问题均在答题卡相应位置。
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话之后，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. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. In a hospital.
B. In a friend’s house.
C. In the man’s house.
2. What is the woman going to buy?
A. A book on planes.
B. Pictures of ships.
C. A book on ships.
3. What kind of music does the man like?
A. Folk music.
B. Pop music.
C. Classical music.
4. Why doesn’t the woman buy the coat?
A. It is expensive.
B. There isn’t her size.
C. She doesn’t like the colo r.
5. What is the man doing?
A. Finishing his homework.
B. Doing physical exercise.
C. Smoking on the upper floor.
第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22．5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话和独白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话和独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题将给出 5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话和独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至8题
6. What’s the matter with Hudson’s mother?
A. She was ill, but she felt much better.
B. She was seriously ill.
C. She went to see him.
7. What kind of person is Mr. Hudson according to the dialogue?
A. A very good worker.
B. A person who often gets angry.
C. A person who cares nothing.
8. Which may be the reason why Mr. Hudson is so sad?
A. His mother’s illness.
B. Maybe his son has brought him some trouble.
C. His manager wants to fire him.
听第7段材料,回答第9至11题。
9. What are the two speakers generally talking about?
A. People served in shops.
B. Goods in various qualities.
C. Shopping in different places.
10.What is the man?
A. Salesman in a small shop.
B. A manager of a supermarket.
C. A staff of a department store.
11. What might the woman think of supermarket staff?
A. They’re unfriendly.
B. They’re very nice.
C. They’re wellpaid.
听第8段材料,回答第12至14题。
12. Why is it difficult for the woman to lose weight?
A. She enjoys delicious dishes too much.
B. She works too long.
C. She has no time for exercise.
13. Who is Michael?
A. John’s manager.
B. Julia’s husband.
C. Kate’s friend.
14. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Change her job.
B. Stop working and spend more time with her family.
C. Eat less and do more exercise.
听第9段材料,回答第l5至l7题。
15.Where does Mike work?
A. In a grocery.
B. In a language school.
C. In an art school.
16. What does the woman want to do for a change?
A. Learn to dance.
B. Learn a new song.
C. Learn to draw.
17.What is most difficult for the woman about learning Arabic?
A. Grammar.
B. Pronunciation.
C. Idioms.
听第10段材料,回答18至20题。
18. What kind of clothes does the speaker’s sister like?
A. Cheap clothes.
B. Ordinary clothes.
C. Clothes of new design.
19. What do the twin sisters have in common?
A. They enjoy loud music.
B. They enjoy friendship.
C. They want to have their children.
20. Why doesn’t the speaker like living in the same room with her twin sister?
A. The speaker likes to keep things neat while her sister doesn’t.
B. Her twin sister often brings friends home and makes too much noise.
C. They can’t agree on the color of the room.
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）
阅读下面短文，从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
When my daughter, Sophie, was admitted to a college, we were very happy, but a little worried about becoming empty nesters. I knew I had to do something to help myself adapt, starting with the summer before she left.
Sophie had a pack of colorful T-shirts. I knew she wouldn’t wear them anymore, so I decided to make a quilt（被子）out of them for her bed at college. It focused my energy, and also let me relive some memories. I tried to work on the quilt when Sophie wasn’t at home---which turned out to be often. She was very busy with her friends. Even when she was around, her door was shut more than usual. I felt a bit hurt. After all, we didn’t have much time together before she went to college, I was already missing her, and she hadn’t ever left yet.
When we arrived at the college, a wave of emotion flooded me. I tried to hold it back, but Sophie saw it in my face. She took a big red book from her bag. “I made this for you, mom,” she said. Then I knew why she had been staying behind a closed door that summer. It was an album of photographs documenting the life of our family over the last 17 years.
I broke into tears. Some of it was sadness at having to let her go, but some of it was joy. I knew that our connection was more powerful than ever, and that we’d always be connected by the strongest of threads, the love that went into every stitch of her quilt and every photo of my album.
In Sophie’s dormitory I unfolded the quilt on her bed. For a mo ment she was speechless. Then she threw her arms around me. “Mom, I love you,” she said. One of her new friends was calling her outside. Sophie turned, and I let her go.
21. What do we learn about Sophie from the passage?
A. She did not understand how her mother felt about her leaving.
B. She had few friends, and kept to hersel f at home that summer.
C. She made a photo album to show her love.
D. She liked her colorful T-shirts very much.
22. According to the second paragraph, why did the author feel hurt?
A. Because Sophie was not interested in what she was doing.
B. Because Sophie had little time for her.
C. Because Sophie was going to leave home for a long time.
D. Because Sophie did not help her to make the quilt.
23. How did the author feel when they arrived at the college?
A. She felt worried.
B. She felt nervous.
C. She was sorry to be leaving her daughter.
D. She missed her daughter very much.
B
People who show confidence really seem to have it made. They seize more rewarding careers, keep good relations and just see m to do everything with more styles than the rest of us.
So what is the secret? There isn’t one. Self-confidence is a skill and habit that anyone can learn to develop. And although people who are raised in an encouraging environment with confident role models have a hard start in self-confidence development, we all can learn to become more confident at any age.
Try these simple tips for practicing and increasing your self-confidence levels: Dare to fail. Anybody who’s out there bravely performing is going to fail repeatedly. If you are not failing, you are not trying. So don’t take failure too hard or too personally. Just learn to deal with it and use its lessons to keep improving.
When in doubt, pretend you know what you are doing. Because, if you are confident of your abilities, by the time you have done it, you will be experienced.
Dress for success. You don’t have to be beautiful to be confident. Make the most of your own unique physical characters and weaken your disadvantages.
Listen to yourself. You are the only person who knows what’s right for you. Don’t put others’ opinions above your own inner voice.
Build a confident vocabulary. Stop putting yourself down and give up continually blaming your tiny weaknesses. Learn to show up your strong points and the world will learn to see and celebrate them with you.
Pass on the praise. Praise others for their virtues and strengths. This practice will not decrease your confidence, but help increase it.
24. The passage is written mainly _______.
A. to explain the definition of self-confidence
B. to explain the secret of self-confidence
C. to tell people how important self-confidence is
D. to tell people how to build self-confidence
25. The main idea of the sixth paragraph is _______.
A. to be confident means to have no disadvantages
B. taking full advantage of your physical characters will help you be confident
C. your unique characters will help you be confident and be successful
D. to be confident means to be beautiful
26. All the following are tips to increase your self-confidence level EXCEPT ________.
A. not to be afraid of failure
B. dress yourself properly
C. pretend to know everything
D. make your advantages
27. _______ will weaken your self-confidence.
A. Praising others for their strong points
B. Always following others’ advice to do things
C. Giving up blaming your weaknesses
D. Believing in yourself
C
No poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation（解释）”of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once.
Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on films, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching cannot replace the student and teacher reading o r, best of all, reciting（背诵）it.
I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing”it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “a criticism of life”, and “a heightening（提升）of life”, It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else. But those, who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.
28. What is the better way to have a better understanding of a poem?
A. Discussing it with others.
B. Practising reading it aloud.
C. Hearing the poet read out.
D. Analyzing it by oneself.
29. According to the author, one of the purposes of teaching English is getting students _______.
A. to like poetry
B. to criticize life
C. to enjoy life
D. to teach poetry
30. The underlined word “make room” probably means _______.
A. to build a booth
B. to provide equipment
C. to learn a certain amount of time
D. to set aside enough space
31. The passage is mainly about _______.
A. teaching poetry
B. discussing poetry
C. reading a poem
D. reciting a poem
D
Rocky Lyons was five years old when his mother, Kelly, was driving along the country road with him. He was asleep on the front seat of their truck, with his feet resting on her lap. As his mom drove carefully down the winding country road, she turned onto a narrow bridge. The truck hit a rock and slid off the road. She attempted to bring it back up onto the road by pressing hard on the gas pedal and turning the steering wheel to the left. But Rocky’s foot got caught between her leg and the steering wheel and she lost control of the truck.
The truck fell into a 20-foot ravine（峡谷）. When it hit bottom, Rocky woke up. “What happened, Mama?” He asked, “Our wheels are pointing toward the sky.”
Kelly was seriously wounded and blindly by blood. “I’ll get you out, Mama,”announced
Rocky, who had surprisingly escaped injury. He climbed out from under Kelly, slid through the open window and tried to yank（用力拉）his mother out. But she didn’t move.
“Just let me sleep,” begged Kelly, who was out of consciousness. Rocky insisted, “Mom, you can’t go to sleep.”
Rocky managed to push Kelly out of the truck and told her he’d climb up to the road and stop a car to get help. Fearing that no one would be able to see her little boy in the dark, Kelly refused to let him go alone. Instead they slowly moved up to the road. The pain was so great that Kelly wanted to give up, but Rocky wouldn’t let her.
Rocky kept repeating the inspirational phrase, “I know you can, I know you can.”When they finally reached the road, Rocky broke into tears seeing his mother’s torn face clearly for the first time. Waving his arms and shouting, “Please stop!”the boy stopped a truck. His mother was sent to hospital.
It took 8 hours to rebuild Kelly’s face. She looks quite different today---“I used to have a straight long nose, thin lips and cheekbones; now I’ve got a flat cheeks and much bigger lips” --- but she has few scars and has recovered from her injuries.
Rocky’s heroics were big news. Everyone was surprised at this little boy’s power. “It’s not like I wanted it to happen,”The boy explained, “I just did what anyone would have done.”“ If it weren’t for Rocky, I’d have died,” said his mother.
32. According to the text, Rocky and Kelly _______.
A. were lost on a country road
B. had limited time to find their way
C. were involved in a truck accident
D. knew little of what happened to them
33. When he woke up, Rocky _______.
A. was frightened by his mother’s blood
B. found his mother had fallen asleep
C. was stuck against the door of the truck
D. found the car was turned over
34. What happened to Kelly at last?
A. She passed away.
B. She survived and recovered from injuries.
C. She became a hero.
D. She had a different life.
35. What is the best title for the text?
A. A Boy and His Mother
B. How to Behave Well?
C. I Think I Can
D. Nothing is Lost
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
So far, educationists have still failed to design anything more efficient（有效的）and reliable than examinations. Some people say examinations test what you know. 36 . They may be a good means of testing memory, or the skills of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and talent. 37 .
Then what is a good education? 38 . The examination system does anything but that. The student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge. Meanwhile, they lower the standards of teaching. 39 . Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they only train their students in exam techniques.
Are there any simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities?
40 Educationists, of course, should take the responsibility to face the challenge and come up with wise solutions.
A.The answer is ab solutely yes.
B.In a word, it’s not a good education.
C.Your whole future may be decided on one fateful day.
D.Because they deprive（剥夺）the teacher of all freedoms.
E.However, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite.
F. A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself.
G.Examiners are only human: they get tired and hungry; they make mistakes.
第三部分英语知识运用（共2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，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空
As a child, I started learning to play the piano, my favorite musical 41 , but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school 42 I could concentrate more on my studies.
It’s one of my biggest 43 to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would 44 . However, I didn’t keep my promise because I was 45 with my study. 46 I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been 47 that I never returned. I haven’t taken lessons since then but to be honest, I 48 to. Sitting at the piano, I co uldn’t help recalling many 49 ---times of my practicing at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher 50 after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so 51 that I could hardly say anything. But her 52 helped ease my shame. These memories, 53 good or bad, never caused my 54 for playing the piano again.
This thought then led me to think that 55 is like music, and that we all try to play different 56 in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch（高音）is 57 when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own 58 style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is 59 that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn’t 60 that I’ve stopped making music.
41. A. instrument B. performance C. room D. stage
42. A. because B. so that C. now that D. for
43. A. successes B. regrets C. decisions D. hobbies
44. A. play B. graduate C. leave D. return
45. A. occupied B. angry C. satisfied D. patient
46. A. Actually B. Constantly C. Suddenly D. Gradually
47. A. astonished B. glad C. disappointed D. amazed
48. A. liked B. needed C. wanted D. decided
49. A. dreams B. expressions C. words D. memories
50. A. instructed B. hurt C. punished D. respected
51. A. frightened B. moved C. embarrassed D. excited
52. A. happiness B. satisfaction C. comfort D. sigh
53. A. instead B. meanwhile C. therefore D. however
54. A. hope B. courage C. feeling D. effort
55. A. life B. learning C. attitude D. enjoyment
56. A. cards B. sports C. roles D. games
57. A. hard B. wonderful C. surprising D. complex
58. A. unique B. boring C. common D. similar
59. A. necessary B. strange C. possible D. important
60. A. matter B. mean C. report D. appear
第II卷
第三部分英语知识运用（共2节，满分45分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分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。
To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains.
61 actually the umbrella wasn’t invented as protection against rain. 62 (it) first use was a shade against the sun.
Nobody knows 63 first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first use it 64 the Chinese, way back in the eleventh century BC.
We know the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing 65 (connect) with it; it then became a symbol of honor and authority. Those nobles considered it 66 honor to carry an umbrella around. In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella. And the umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece.
During the middle ages, the use of umbrella practically 67 (appear). Then it appeared again in Italy in the late 68 (sixteen) century. And again it was considered a symbol of power and authority. By 1680, the umbrella appeared in France, and 69 (late) in England. By the eighteenth century, the umbrella was used against rain throughout most of Europe. It wasn’t until the twentieth century 70 women’s umbrellas began to be made.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题，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作文。
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
I prefer my English classes to be taught in English only. What we all know, a good learning environment is of greatly importance if we want to study English well. Classes teaching in English provide students for a better environment. When English is an only language in class, students will have more opportunity to practice listening and speaking. However, there were problems with this method. Sometimes we may find difficult to follow the teacher and some slow learners may even give up learn English. In spite of these difficulties, but I believe practice makes perfect. With enough practice, we can overcome the difficulties and benefit from English classes in the long run.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Bill听说你所在的城市曾因为雾霾(smog)停课，他
对这一情况十分关注，来信询问你此事。请你给他回一封信，主要内容如下：
1.感谢他的关注；
2.简介雾霾带来的危害，以及停课期间你们的学习情况；
3.谈谈你对于雾霾停课期间学校和学生应如何合理安排时间的看法。
注意：可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
总词数：120词左右。
Dear Bill,
I’m glad to receive your letter.____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
2016-2017学年度第一学期期末考试高二英语（平行班）参考答案
一、听力（每小题1.5分，共30分）
1-5 AACBB 6-10AABCB 11-15ACBAB 16-20 CBCBA
二、阅读（每小题2分，共30分）
21-25 CBCDC 26-30 CBBAC 31-35 ACDBC 36-40 EBFDA
三、完形填空（每小题1.5分，共30分）
41-45 ABBDA 46-50 DCCDA 51-55 CCDBA 56-60 CBADB
四、语法填空（每小题1.5分，共15分）
61. But 62. Its 63. who 64. were 65. connected
66. an 67. disappeared 68. sixteenth 69. later 70. that
五、短文改错（每小题1分，共10分）
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六、书面表达（满分25分）
Dear Bill,
I’m glad to receive your letter. I have learned from your letter that you are concerned about the smog which frequently appears in some areas of China. Thank you for your concern. I’m also worried about such terrible weather because it has brought much inconvenience or rather harm to people’s health. Besides, as a result of the terrible air quality, a large number of students have to stay at home during workdays. The efficiency makes both teachers and parents worried a lot, since some students just stayed at home doing nothing but playing computer g ames or watching videos for the whole day.
From my point of view, schools as well as students ourselves should do something to make full use of the time. Since we are living in an information era, schools and teachers can broadcast lessons or provide videos through the Internet. For us students, we should make a timetable everyday and keep ourselves away from computer games, online chatting and so on. Only thus can we make full use of the time at home.
Yours,
Li Hua