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2017学年第一学期期中质量检测
高二英语试卷
（本试卷满分100分，考试时间90分钟。）
（考生注意：请按要求把答案分别做在答题卡或答题纸上）
I. Listening Comprehension Section A 10%
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked abut what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear the conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. At 9:00
D. At 10:05 2. A.3 days days
3. A. In a hospital. B. On a bus. plane. D. At an airport.
4. A. It was too expensive. old.
C. It was not satisfactory. D. well-decorated.
5. A. She went to a party with the man. B. She just moved into a new house..
C. She is showing the man around a house. D. She works as an estate agent.
6. A. Happy Upset
B. Embarrassed
C.
It
was
B. IT was quite
C.
On
a
B. 5 days
C. 7 days
D.9
B. At 9:45
C. At 10:00
D. Annoyed
B.
Eat
at
7. A. Go with the woman. home.
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8. A. Her old classmate. C. Her private doctor. teacher.
9. A. Go over his lessons. final exam.
C. Play computer games. enjoy some fresh air.
10. A. Fishing equipment licenses
C. Fishing net
D. Wait for
B. Her husband.
her
son’s
D.
B. Take the
D. Go out to
B. Fishing
D. Fishing rods
Section B 6%
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and choose which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Mozart
B.
Antonio
Vivaldi
C.
Charles Emery D. Beethoven
12. A. Turn them into geniuses. Improve their verbal ability.
C. Improve their learning ability. D. Enhance brainpower.
13. A. Classical music
B.
Gentle
B.
music with clear structures
C. Italian music with exciting notes
Questions 14 through 15 are based on the
2
D.
Violin
Piece
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14 .A. Physics B.
Chemistry
C.
English literature D. Media studies
15. A. More than 144000 147500.
C. 7.5% of all the test takers all the test taker
16. A. Few students avoid harder subjects. B.
Each
subject
has
the
same
level
of
D. 4.6% of
B.
About
difficulty.
C. Some subjects are more difficult than others.
D. Pupils are important to the country’s development.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 10%
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
In two days, it will be Christmas. Children all over the world (17) ______ (look) forward to this day for weeks. People celebrate Christmas with food, decorations, music and more. But for many people, gift-giving is the most exciting part of the holiday.
I have fond memories of Christmas shopping with
my
family
as
a
child. I
enjoyed
the
challenge of keeping my parents’ gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right (18) ______ their noses without them seeing. Everyone placed (19) ______ (wrap) gifts under the Christmas tree until
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Picking a great gift requires (21) ______ (know) the person you’re giving it to. You need to know the person’s tastes and find something the person doesn’t already have. This can be quite a big challenge. Often it’s wise to provide a receipt (22) ______ ______ the person needs to exchange the gift.
The best gifts are personal. Many Americans don’t feel money constitutes a good gift (23) ______ it doesn’t require any thought. They prefer something chosen just for the person. If the gift is a highly-quality homemade gift, that’s even better.
Gift-giving reflects the reason (24) ______ people celebrate Christmas. Christmas in particular remember the birth of Jesus. When he was born, wise men traveled many miles to visit Him, (25) ______ (bring) expensive gifts. But the greatest gift wasn’t from the wise men, but from God----the baby Jesus. God gave the gift because everyone needed it. We need God to forgive our bad actions so that we (26) ______ live forever with Him. So on Christmas we give presents to imitate God’s action of giving the perfect gift.
Section B 9%
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. littering B. blossom C. enormous D. relatives E. gardening F. served G. branches H. 4
.FOXCONN ideal I. trunk J. tolerate Grace, an old lady living in the northern part of Australia, is my good friend. She likes _27_ very much. In her _28_ garden, you can see flowers all the year round, because Northern Australia is quite warm even in winter. When spring comes, new leaves come out of the _29_ , and the flowers are in full _30_ . Among the bushes there are often some lovely birds singing early in the morning. On sunny days she often walks her pet dog around the garden. Sometimes she asks some _31_ and friends to enjoy the beautiful scenery. They sit around the small stone table chatting, and nuts from her own garden are _32_ with tea or coffee. In hot summer, her pet dog often takes a bath in the small pond in the middle of the garden. In autumn, many leaves turn yellow, and then fall off, _33_ the ground as if the garden is covered with a golden blanket. In winter it’s not very cold in that region, with the lowest temperature about six degrees. But she likes to be warm and can not _34_ cold weather. So she asks her son Tony to cut some branches off the trunks as wood. She puts the wood into her fireplace to keep her house warm and comfortable. I think Grace really lives a meaningful and _35_ life.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A 10%
Directions: For each blank in the following passages
there
are
four
words
or
phrases
marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
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2017-2018学年上海浦东第一学期高二英语期中质量检测(含答案)
