陕西省学年黄陵中学高新部高二第二学期期中考试英语试题

黄陵中学高新部2018-2019学年度第二学期高二英语期中试题第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，共计15小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节听下面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 is special about the woman’s house?A. It’s covered with red flowers.B.A tree is near the front gate.C. It’s bigger than all the others.2. Why is Bill absent from the party?A. He’s gone to the concert.B. He’s not feeling well.C. He has to study at home.3. What is the woman?A.A doctor．B.A cook．C．A policewoman．4. What will the man do today ?A. Attend Steve’s party .B. Give Mary a callC. Have a picnic5. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a furniture storeB. At a design company.C. At the woman’s home第二节听下面5段对话或独自。

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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6. What did the Amy do on the Saturday morning?A. She went shopping.B. She went jogging.C. She went to the gym.7. When did Amy go on a date?A. On Saturday night.B. On Sunday afternoon. C On Sunday night..听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8. How far can the man run at most in this pair of shoes ?A.200 milesB.300 miles.C.500 miles.9. What does the woman offer to do?A. Pick the man later.B. Buy the man a cheap pairC. Go shopping with the man.. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10.How does the man feel in the beginning?A. DisappointedB. Exhausted.C. Proud.11. What color was the sky in the city this morning?A. BlueB. Yellow .C. Dark .12. What will the speakers do next?A. Spend the night there.B. Look for an old couple.C. Walk down the Great Wall.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13. What kind of seat does the man prefer?A. A window seat.B. An aisle seat.C.A middle seat.14. What’s the weight of the man’s luggage?A.17 kilos.B.20 kilos.C.23 kilos.15. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Take a carry-on bag.B. Pack a few booksC. Use a bigger suitcase.16. When does the plane take off?A. At 6:55 pm.B. At 6:35 pm.C. At 6:15 pm.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17. How old was Florence when she died?A. 70 years old.B. 80 years old.C. 90 years old.18. What made Florence want to be a nurse?A. The sick animalsB. The visits to the poor .C. The war in185419.How did Florence change the hospitals in the Crimea?A. She made them clean.B. She made them large.C. She made them Russian-style20. What did Florence do in London after the war?A. She opened a school.B. She interviewed many heroes.C. She worked as a nurse at home. 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）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

ATowards evening, Jennifer was walking on the beach with a gentle breeze blowing through her hair. Looking up at the golden red sun ball, she was surprised by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.The atmosphere relaxed her. This was what she needed. “It’s getting late,” she thought, “I must go home. My parents will be wondering where I am.” She wondered how her parents would react when she got home after the three days she was missing. She kept on walking, directing herself to bungalow(平房)163, where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and silently. Just in a few hundred meters, she would have been safe in her house。

It was really getting dark now. She wished she had her favorite coat on. It might keep her really warm. She imagined having it with her. This thought dissipated(消散) when she finally saw her front door. It seemed different. Nobody had taken care of the outside garden for a few days. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and now…She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen and saw a note written by her father, “Dear Ellen, there’s some coffee ready; I went looking.” But where was Ellen? On the right side of the hallway was her parents’ room. She went in and saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, was sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadn’t slept for days. She was really pale. Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up, but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jenniferwoke up something was different. 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Call now! 800-123-7832 Ears helps you _____.A. improve your sleeping qualityB. listen to TV without disturbing othersC. change TV channels without difficultyD. become interested in ballgame programs26.What makes TV Ears different from other headsets?A. It can easily set TV on mute.B. Its headset volume is adjustable.C. It has a new noise reduction ear tip.D. It applies special wireless technology.27.This advertisement is made more believable by _____.A. using recommendationsB. offering reasons for this inventionC. providing statistics.D. showing the results of experiments.CThe style of writing poetry differs from person to person, long or short meters, three or four lines to astanza. But the great thing is, no matter how a poem is written it still holds great emotion. Somecommon techniques are used in poetry.Onomatopoeia(拟声) is one of the easiest ways to learn and use. The definition of onomatopoeia is aword copying a sound. For example, “buzz”, “moo” and “beep”. This can be used in a variety of ways,giving the reader a “hands on” feel.One technique that you might be familiar with is alliteration(头韵). This procedure is used by starting three or more words with the same sound An example of this would be “The crazy crackling crops”. The three words don’t have to have the exact same beginning to have this effect.The next style is assonance(谐音). It is defined as a repetition of vowel sounds within syllables with changing consonants. This is also used in many different situations. One would be “tilting at windmills”. Notice the vowels within each syllable that sound the same.Rhyming is probably the most well-known technique used. However, unlike popular belief, it does not need to be within a poem to make it a poem.As for similes(明喻),they are often used within poetry. They are an expression that compares one thing to another. A paradigm of this would be “The milk tasted like pickles”. This method is used in all forms of poetry and generally has the words “like” or “as”.The last but not least style is metaphor(隐喻). A metaphor is a word or phrase used one way to mean another. Metaphors are sometimes hard to find and it takes some thinking to figure out, but they give writers more power to express their thoughts about a certain situation. In fact, not only is it found within the story, the story itself is a metaphor of memory and the constant reminder of the narrator's loss.To have a full grasp of poetry, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, rhyming, simile and metaphor should be household words.28. To write a poem, you ________.A. needn't start with three exact same sound words.B. should pay more attention to vowels and consonants.C. have to use the words such as “like” and “as”.D. should use one word to refer to another meaning.29. According to the text, the use of onomatopoeia makes ______.A. poems sound more like a poem.B. readers experience a lifelike feeling.C. the writer expresses himself in a free way.D. readers have difficulty understanding a poem.30. Which of the following means “a word or phrase used one way to mean another”?A. Alliteration.B. Rhyming.C. Metaphor.D. Assonance.31. The underlined words “household words” may refer to words that ________.A. describe the life of people at home.B. are used by family members.C. are connected with a home.D. are very well-known.DWhen her five daughters were young, Helene Ann always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn’t have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny’s mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ann.’s working together. Now the Ann’s corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.32. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show _____.A. the strength of family unity.B. the difficulty of growing up.C. the advantage of chopsticks.D. the best way of giving a lesson.33.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the Ann’s family _____.A. started a business in 1975.B. left Vietnam without much money.C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco.D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles.34.What can we infer about the Ann’s daughters?A. They did not finish their college education.B. They could not bear to work in the family business.C. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.D. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.35.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. How to Run a Corporation.B. Strength Comes from Peace.C. How to Achieve a Big Dream.D. Family Unity Builds Success.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。