2019～2020学年高二年级（下）期中考试
英语试题
考生注意：
1. 本试卷共150分，考试时间120分钟。 2. 请将各题答案填写在答题卡上。 3. 本试卷主要考试内容：高考全部内容。 第一部分听力（共两节，满分30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1.5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。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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15. 答案是C。
1. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a library. B. In a restaurant. C. In a waiting room. 2. What did the woman apologize for? A. She made a late delivery. B. She went to the wrong place. C. She couldn’t take the cake back. 3 Why does the woman look very sad? A. She is ill. B Her friend died.
C. She quarreled with Susan. 4. How much is the change? A. $5. B. $3.5. C. $1.5. 5. What are the speakers talking about?
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A. A film. B. A TV play. C. A song.
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。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. Why does Rose dislike the beaches? A. They are too far away. B. They are badly polluted. C. They are crowded with people. 7. Where will Rose stay?
A. In a hotel. B. At Ann’s home. C. On a farm.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Who is Miley Cyrus? A. The man’s favorite dancer. B. The man’s daughter. C. A very popular singer.
9. What did the man’s daughter do yesterday? A. She did some change to her hair. B. She wore some strange clothes. C. She went to a concert.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What did the man have for lunch yesterday? A. Rice. B. Noodles. C. Fish.
11. Why did the woman fail to buy anything for the man? A. She was busy. B. She forgot it.
C. She had no money on her.
12. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Couples. C. Classmates.
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听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How long has Mr. Fox had headaches?
A. Nearly a year. B. About six months. C. Several weeks. 14. What is causing Mr. Fox’s headaches in the woman’s opinion? A. Stress. B. An accident at work. C. A lack of exercise. 15. What is Mr. Fox’s job?
A. A doctor. B. A fireman. C. A policeman. 16. What will Mr. Fox probably do soon? A. Take good care of himself. B. Go back to work as usual. C. Have a brain operation.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How long had no one seen the old man?
A. For about 5 years. B. For about 10 years. C. For over 20 years. 18. When did the servant tell the police about the old man’s death? A. A year after the old man died. B. A month after the old man died. C. A week after the old man died. 19. What was people’s guess?
A. The old man hid all his money in his house. B. The servant murdered the old man. C. The police took the money.
20. What did the old man leave to the servant? A. Some jewelry. B. A house. C. All of his gold.
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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
In 2007, Jamie Whitmore was considered as one of the most successful athletes in America. However, everything changed during a competition that seemed like many others she had
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conquered. As a professional athlete, Whitmore was used to suffering, but she never imagined the pain in her leg could be a deadly cancer.
What doctors found during surgery shocked them all: Whitmore had Spindle Cell Sarcoma, a soft tissue tumor (肿瘤) that can start in the bone, and the tumor was wrapped around her nerve and touching several vital organs. They couldn’t cut it out fearing to burst the tumor.
When she heard the diagnosis for the first time, Whitmore said, “time stood still, I couldn’t breathe. They were talking about the treatment and I started crying as I didn’t want to die.” Finally, the doctors enlisted the help of several specialists to remove the tumor. Whitmore developed sepsis (败血症) from the surgery and endured a two-month recovery. When she began to feel sick again, Whitmore was sure her cancer was back. Instead, doctors gave her unexpected news: She was pregnant-with twins. “That was a whole other freak-out,” Whitmore recalled.
She has never met a challenge she couldn’t overcome. Today, Whitmore is a mother of two sons and cancer-free. She is competing again, and has won a gold medal in the Paralympics (残奥会), nine world titles, and has set two world records. She travels as a motivational speaker when she doesn’t spend time with her sons. Whitmore has some words of advice for others with limitations: “Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. Some doctors told me I would never ride anything. And yet I rode my mountain bike 104 miles climbing from 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet. People with two good legs have fallen short of that task! You just can’t give up.” 1. How did Whitmore feel when knowing about her cancer? A. Sad and scared. C. Annoyed and frightened.
B. Ashamed and regretful. D. Astonished and inspired.
2. What does the underlined word “freak-out” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Something interesting. C. Something unusual.
B. Something demanding. D. Something meaningful.
3. What’s the purpose of Whitmore’s traveling as a speaker? A. To build up her character. B. To inspire those with limitations. C. To spend more time with her children. D. To earn more money in her spare time. 【答案】1. A 2. C 3. B
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【解析】
本文是记叙文。文章讲述了Jamie Whitmore被认为是美国最成功的运动员之一。她曾患有致命的癌症，但她凭借强大的意志力战胜了病魔，后来Whitmore担任演讲者去激励那些身体有局限性的人不管面对什么样的处境都不能放弃。 【1题详解】
推理判断题。根据第四段中的When she heard the diagnosis for the first time, Whitmore said, “time stood still, I couldn’t breathe. I started crying as I didn’t want to die.”可知，Whitmore第一次听到诊断时说：“时间停滞不前了，我无法呼吸。我不想死，我开始哭泣”。由此可知，在得知自己患癌时，她感到悲伤和恐惧。故选A。 【2题详解】
词义猜测题。根据第四段中的When she began to feel sick again, Whitmore was sure her cancer was back. Instead, doctors gave her unexpected news: She was pregnant-with twins.可知，当Whitmore再次感到不适时，她确定自己的癌症又复发了。而医生给了她一个出乎意料的消息：她怀了双胞胎。即这是Whitmore没有想到的，即可猜测出freak-out指的是“不寻常的事情”。故选C。 【3题详解】
推理判断题。根据最后一段中的She travels as a motivational speaker when she doesn’t spend time with her sons. Whitmore has some words of advice for others with limitations可知，当她不陪儿子时，她以激励人心的演讲者身份去旅行。Whitmore对有局限性的人提出了一些建议。即Whitmore担任演讲者的目的是激励那些身体有局限性的人。故选B。
B
When we’re studying a new language, many of us approach it with fear and anxiety. However, we would benefit a lot by changing our focus, according to communication skills trainer Marianna Pascal.
Pascal has spent 20 years in Malaysia helping people speak better English. Over time, she has discovered a surprising truth: How well somebody communicates in a new language has very little to do with his language level — but a lot more to do with his attitude.
Pascal noticed that a lot of Malaysians went into English conversations with the feeling that they were going to be judged by how many mistakes they were going to make. And they had the idea of what good proper English is supposed to be and how far they would have to go to get there.
As a teacher,she’d noticed one specific student named Faisal. Despite not knowing much
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2019-2020学年河北省邢台市高二下学期期中考试英语试题 解析版
