河北省正定中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期中考试 英语 Word版含答案

高二第二学期期中考试

英语试题

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

第I卷

注意事项：

1. 答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷和答题卡相对应的位置上。

2. 选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分听力（共两节，满分20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分，满分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. What dessert will the man order?

A. Ice cream

B. A chocolate cake

C. Nothing

2. What will the man do this weekend?

A. Go to the movies with the woman

B. Celebrate his sister?s birthday

C .Go skiing with his parents

3. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A .Help him paint his bedroom

B .Make lunch for him

C .Take care of his brother

4. Who is the woman?

A. A waitress

B. A doctor C .A driver

5. What is the man doing?

A .Having an interview B. Talking with his boss C. Writing a résumé (简历)

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 size shoes did the woman wear last year?

A .6 B. 7 C. 8

7 .Why have the woman?s feet been hurting?

A .Her shoes were the wrong size B. She walked too much each day

C. Her shoes were of very low-quality

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where is the woman going?

A. To her house B .To an appointment C. To West 22nd Street

9. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman is in a rush

B. It is going to rain soon C .The traffic is heavy at the moment

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Who are the speakers?

A .Girlfriend and boyfriend B. Teacher and student C. Director and actor

11. How does the man appear to the woman?

A. Hurt

B. Mad

C. Happy

12. What does the woman want the man to do?

A .Express his sad feelings B. Show more anger C. Take a break

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where did the woman meet the man?

A. At the Berlin bus station

B. At the London bus station

C. At the woman?s apartment

14. How long was the man?s trip?

A. An hour and a half

B. Nine hours

C. Nineteen hours

15. Why did the man choose to take a bus?

A. To save money

B. To enjoy the country view

C. To be environmentally friendly

16. What did the woman say about the man?

A. He doesn?t look well

B. He could have taken a faster bus

C. He should care more about the environment

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Who is the speaker?

A A TV host B. A radio host C. A professor

18. What did the Harvard study find?

A. Fast readers get the best grades

B. Parents? education is important to kids? success

C. More books at home means success in school

19. According to the speaker, what is the best part of reading?

A .It?s a fun activity B. It?s relaxing at bedtime C. It?s a great way to communicate

20. When should parents start to read to their kids?

A .As early as possible

B. When their kids learn to speak

C. As soon as their kids can hold a book

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Actress Hayden Panettiere recently got into trouble with Japanese fishermen as she tried to stop them from killing dolphins.

The 18-year-old star with some other surfers sailed out to reach the dolphins in order to stop them from being driven into a nearby pool and killed, but the six surfers, from Australia and the United States, were stopped by a fishing boat before they could reach them. The fishermen blocked their way with a boathook (钩篙). It was an ugly, unfriendly and life-threatening struggle before the surfers were forced to return to the beach. It is believed that the dolphins were later taken into a pool and killed.

Panettiere, who is a brave surfer and loyal animal protector, made up her mind to

save the dolphins of Japan and said, "It was really frightening. Some of us were hit by the boathook, but in the end all we were really worried about was the dolphins. It was so sad. We were so close to them and they were jumping out of the water to see us." Breaking down in tears, she added, "One little baby dolphin stuck his head out and looked at me and the thought that it?s no longer with us is really ha rd to take."

The surfers left the country to avoid arrest (逮捕)by the Japanese police. Panettiere is now back in Los Angeles.

More than 22,000 dolphins are killed by fishermen in Japan every year. Many Japanese believe dolphins should be treated like fish. They have been hunting dolphins for centuries and see any criticism (批评) of this as an attack on their culture.

21. Why did the surfers get into trouble with the fishermen in Japan?

A. They said something that hurt the fishermen.

B. They entered a pool which wasn?t allowed to go into.

C. They attacked Japanese culture.

D. They tried to stop the fishermen from killing the dolphins.

22. From Paragraph 3, we can learn that Panettiere ________.

A. was really frightened and sad

B. succeeded in saving the dolphins

C. cried when they were hit by the boathook

D. didn?t like the Japanese

fishermen

23. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. What Happened While Surfing in Japan

B. Hayden Panettiere Cried in the Sea of Japan

C. People Worldwide Are Against Killing Dolphins

D. Protect the Wild Animals

B

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer?s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as …Would you really marry a woman who works?? And today it?d be …Would you marry one who doesn?t?? ”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

24. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.

A. first published on a newspaper

B. awarded ten Academy Awards

C. written in “The Dump”

D. adapted from a movie

25. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.

A. be very pleased with

B. show great respect for

C. be much taller than

D. show little interest in

26. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A. Because she was rich enough.

B. Because she was injured then.

C. Because her husband didn?t like it.

D. Because she wanted to write books.

27. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.

B. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.