高二上学期期末考试
第Ⅰ卷
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.Who made the woman’s personal website?
A. She herself
B. Her friend
C. The
man
2.How does Liz usually get to work?
A. By bus A. Expensive
B. By car
C. By taxi
C.
3.What does the man think of a second-hand bike?
B. Convenient
Troublesome
4.Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a library
B. In a classroom
C. In a
travel agency
5.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A broken door
B. A television
C. A theft
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。听每段对话或独白前，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 the woman to do?
A. Help him stop smoking Talk with his friends
7.Why does the man plan to stop smoking?
A. Smoking costs him a lot
B. He suffers from bad health
C. His
B. Go running with him
C.
parents ask him to do so
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8.When did the man begin to work in Courtaulds?
A. About 4 years ago
B. About 40 years ago
44 years ago 9. Who is Rover?
A. The man’s workmate
B. The man’s dog
man’s wife
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10.Where is the woman?
A. In her bedroom
B. In the kitchen
living room
11.What is Kate doing now?
A. Watching TV
B. Working on a report
on the phone
12.What does the woman suggest the boy do in the end?
A. Ask his sister for help B. Get help from his father C. Telephone his classmates
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13.What do we know about the paint shop?
A. It is near a bus station
B. It is often crowded
car park
14.Where does the woman suggest going first?
A. To a paint shop
B. To a supermarket
restaurant
15.What did the speakers discuss last night?
A. Where to buy the paint B. Whether to buy the paint C. What color paint to buy 16.What will the speakers do first?
A. Buy the paint
B. Have dinner
food
C. About
C. The
C. In the
C. Talking
C. It has a
C. To a
C. Shop for
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.How many key cultural sites are expected to be listed under state protection in China by 2020?
A.1800
B.1000
C.770
18.What did the Chinese government do with the cultural sites in the 1990s?
A. It passed new laws to protect them B. It spent much money on their protection C. It used special technology to protect them
19.In what aspect does the Chinese government protect cultural cities?
A. Ancient buildings and traditional cultures B. The natural environments C. Agricultural technology
20. What are the cultural experts planning to do?
A. Rebuild some ancient city walls
B. Introduce folk culture and art to more countries C. Carry out a protection project on ancient villages 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
We thought we had it all---a beautiful house, three healthy children and one more on the way, two cars, a couple of four-wheelers for entertainment---and we loved it. Then, the market turned and my husband’s job at a construction company was gone. The company was closing down for good.
We both started looking for jobs right away, but there weren't any to be found. With each passing day we were getting increasingly worried and we continued to work together in order to pull our family through. The more we pulled together, the closer we got. I felt feelings of admiration for my husband that I hadn't felt in years.
That's why it was so hard for me to watch him blame himself for our present situation. I continually asked him to stop, but he seemed to want to punish himself for not having a job.
Finally, one afternoon I pulled him aside and said, “We have four healthy children. That's what's important. That makes you a rich man.”
“But what if we lose the house? They'll hate me-you'll hate me,” he replied. I smiled at him and put my hands on both sides of his face to make him look me in the eye. “No matter where we live I will be happy--as long as I have you.” I smiled again. In all the struggling together I had found that deep love for him that I had on the day we said “I do”.
I could see his shoulders and neck relaxed. He held me close and we were able to talk and plan and dream together in a way that we hadn't for quite some time. It was a turning point for us as a couple and a family.
We are still struggling for our better life, but I consider us well-off because we have something that money can't buy and no one can take away from us. 21. Why was it hard or the author to watch her husband blame himself?
A. She thought she should be blamed B. She thought he had tried his best C. She thought he would get a job someday D. She thought it would remind her of sad memories
22. Which of the following can best describe the couple’s present life?
A. Bitter but quiet easy
C. Hard but happy A. We Have It All
B
Do you think that puppet shows(木偶戏) are just for children? In some parts of
D. Well-off and relaxing B. We Find It Again D. A Hard Time
23. The best title of the text might be .
C. A Perfect Couple
B. Comfortable and
the world, like Indonesia, a puppet show is an activity enjoyed by people of all ages.
At most puppet shows, the audience sits on one side of the screen and the puppeteer(操纵木偶的人) sits on the other. However, at an Indonesian front shadow puppet show, the audience can choose which side to sit on. From out front, audience members see shadows of puppets acting out exciting scenes of romance or battle. These people enjoy the fantasy that “real” events are taking place.
Behind the scenes, it can be fascinating to see a dalang, or puppeteer, in action. The dalang manipulates puppets made of buffalo hide by moving attached rods(棒) of buffalo horn or bamboo. Each of a puppet’s arms and the main part of its body have
their own rods, but its legs are rarely moved on their own.
Each puppet has its own voice and its own way of moving. The “good” puppets usually speak calmly and move gracefully; the “bad” ones have rough voices and move in a funny way. The stories acted out by the puppets are often based on ancient myths or legends. A specially written puppet show might also celebrate a birth, wedding, or harvest. Sometimes a dalang chooses an old story that he thinks is appropriate for the village where the performance will take place. Before the show, he may ask local people about current events in the village and then use the puppet show to illustrate possible solutions to local problems.
The audience of a shadow puppet show expects to settle in for a long evening. A show may start in the later afternoon and not end until four o’clock the next morning! Children and adults alike may fall asleep in the middle of a show and wake up hours later to find it still going on. Of course, the dalang must remain alert(警觉的) throughout the show. One dalang remarked, “I have no real sense of time until it’s all over.”
24.How is an Indonesian puppet show different from most other puppet shows?
A. A dalang may take a rest during a show B. People can leave in the middle of a show C. It is an activity enjoyed by people of all ages
D. The audience can choose to sit on either side of the screen 25.The underlined word “manipulates” in Paragraph 3 means “ ”.
A. builds D. watches
A. The “good” puppets move in a funny way
B. A dalang offers solutions to local problems before the show C. The audience determines the puppets’ voice and way of moving D. The dalang attempts to personalize the puppet show for the audience
C
A new study, a project of the researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, finds that fitness tracker(追踪器) probably does not help with weight loss.
The devices are designed to record your physical activity. They are usually worn
B. chooses
C. controls
26.What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?
高二上学期期末考试英语试题+Word版含答案
