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高二年级（上）期中英语试卷（考试时间120分钟，满分120分）第一部分听力（共两节；每小题1分，满分20分）略第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节：单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）21. Don’t leave your shopping on the back seat of your car. It’s an open_______ to a thief.A. floorB. causeC. contributionD. invitation22. Her cough_______ her presence behind the door.A. showedB. betrayedC. preservedD. reflected23. Soon after the interview, she became so nervous that she sat there, _______what to say.A. knowingB. to knowC. not to knowD. not knowing24. In his statement during the presidential election, Donald J. Trump said: “I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, _______ to be someone that I’m not.A. nor did I pretendB. nor I pretendedC. nor have I pretendedD. nor I have pretended25. My hearing is a little_______, especially when the noise level goes beyond what I can tolerate.A. sharpB. accurateC. sensitiveD. reliable26. The difference between the impossible and the possible ______a person’s determination.A. lies inB. lies withC. lies downD. lies about27. Desertification, the name for_________happens when land_________ can be used to grow crops turns into desert, is a growing world problem.A. which; thatB. what; howC. what; thatD. how; which28. Obesity is a huge tragedy. Children are growing up unhealthily and we need a lot more work on the long-term _________.A. conflictsB. considerationC. consequencesD. consumption29. If you don’t want it_________to yourself, do not do it to others.A. doneB. doingC. to doD. to have done30. The blue mushroom, indicating sadness and depression, ________ widely on the Internet nowadays.A. was employedB. is employedC. has been employedD. is being employed31. I _______ thank all of you here for the valuable support you have shown for the work of WHO.A. hopefullyB. sincerelyC. cheerfullyD. briefly32. Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui’s unexpected rise to super star, had little, if_______, to do with that bronze medal she earned.A. somethingB. anythingC. everythingD. nothing33. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for _______new poetic expressions.”.A. Being createdB. having createdC. having been creatingD. having been created34.On this International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, let us_______to do more to protect our atmosphere.A. commitB. swearC. agreeD. confirm35. --I believe humans will have to pay for what they did to nature.--_______. So it is mankind’s responsibility to find answers that are good for everyone and everything.A. I hope notB. I beg to differC. You’ve got a pointD. You can make it第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I can not remember a point in my life when I desired anything other than becoming a teacher.between me and my dream-lack of financial resources.At first, I was ready to give up. But my heart was in the right place, and I was 42 . I appliedAfter the holidays, my friends started receiving their acceptance letters from colleges, andI am now a junior at the University of Connecticut, pursuing a degree in English. In theI live by this quote: “Reach for the sky because if you should happen to miss, you’ll 55 be among the stars.”36. A. difficult B. particular C. expensive D. absurd37. A. argued B. struggled C. offered D. managed38. A. control B. reach C. order D. limit39. A. touring B. going C. reacting D. applying40. A. decision B. mistake C. contribution D. attempt41. A. hurdle B. bridge C. trouble D. gate42. A. narrow-minded B. disappointed C. hard-working D. determined43. A. win B. get C. lose D. pass44. A. cautiously B. bravely C. faithfully D. eagerly45. A. advised B. accepted C. reported D. introduced46. A. cried B. smiled C. waited D. hesitated47. A. appreciation B. administration C. admission D. adoption48. A. pretty B. really C. rather D. hardly49. A. use B. waste C. afford D. borrow50. A. Therefore B. However C. Meanwhile D. Moreover51. A. with regard to B. as a consequence of C. regardless of D. thanks to52. A. truly B. usually C. naturally D. constantly53. A. continued B. preferred C. offered D. decided54. A. reality B. belief C. duty D. ideal55. A. ever B. still C. even D. already第三部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

AThe Catskill Mountains are a year-round playground for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers. You will find a number of relaxing inns ready to meet your needs.Caleb Street’s InnLocated in the historic village of Catskill at the base of the mountains, Caleb Street’s Inn wa s built in 1785. It provides a view of the garden and Catskill Creek or guests can step outside for a walk along the Hudson River. A full breakfast is served every morning. Each of the four Pet-friendly rooms offers a private bath and a view of the river and neighboring buildings. Hiking trails(小路), golf courses and historic sites are only a short drive away.Winter Clove InnNature lovers can enjoy a pleasant location in the Northern Catskill Wilderness Preserve at Winter Clove Inn. With wood floors, each room has a private bath and air conditioning. With active days of tennis, hiking or cross- country skiing ahead, guests don’t have to go far for a breakfast, lunch or dinner beside the fireplace at inn’s restaurant.Windham HouseA former pub buil t in 1805, Christman’s Windham House is the oldest inn continually operating in the Catskills. The 300 acres of grounds in the town of Windham include a tennis court, golf course, heated pool and a restaurant. Guests can relax on private balconies overlooking a golf course and take their meals at Christman’s Windham House Restaurant. The inn is less than 2 miles from the hiking trails of Windham Mountain.Washington Irving InIf you’re looking for a mountain inn with a Victorian feel, Washington Irving Inn has much to offer. Living in each of the 15 rooms, you can enjoy the life back in the nineteenth century. Free breakfast is served. Hikers are a short walk from Kaaterskill Falls and Hunter Mountain trails.56. What of the following is TRUE?A. Caleb Street’s inn is rebuilt on the basis of a former club.B. There is an old-fashioned atmosphere in Washington Irving Inn.C. Windham House is located in the Northern Catskill Wilderness Preserve.D. Winter Clove Inn provides a view of the Hudson River for people and their pets.57. All the four inns in the passage ______.A. have private bathroomsB. are convenient for hikingC. have air conditioning in the roomsD. serve meals for freeBA group of college students is hoping to place a satellite powered only by powered only by water into an orbit around the moon.The students are from Cornell University in the state of New York. They are taking part in a competition called the Cube Quest Challenge. It is a program of NASA, the American space agency.The challenge is simple: to design, build and deliver ”flight-qualified, small satellites.” NASA officials say the satellites must be able to perform “advanced operations near and beyond the moon.”Ten teams are taking part in the competition. But the CisLunar Explorer satellites are different. They are the only ones using water to power their spacecraft.The idea for a water-powered vehicle came from Mason Peck, who works at Cornell University. He once worked as NASA's chief technologist. He has always wanted to use something other than rockets to push spacecraft beyond earth.“A lot of the mass we send into orbit these days is in the form of rockets – the only way we get anything into space,” he said.“But what if we could use what’s already there? If we could do that, if we could refuel spacecraft while they’re already in space...”The spacecraft is shaped like the English letter L. It measures about 30 centimeters in length, and the two pieces are connected. Water is stored in the lower part of the satellite. The sun will separate the water into two elements: hydrogen and oxygen. When one combines hydrogen and oxygen with a spark, an explosion happens. This provides a forward movement.The CisLunar Explorer team has an unusual way to guide its spacecraft. The idea is to copy how old-time sailors used the moon, sun and stars to fix their position on the oceans. The satellite is equipped with cameras. The cameras will take pictures of the sun, Earth and the moon and compare their positions and their size. Based on where the sun, moon and Earth are at any given time, the CisLunar Explorers will do the mathematics to find their position.The competition is being held in four parts. The Cornell team has been among the top three competitors during parts one and two. The winners of the third stage will be announced in about a month. The final three winners will be announced in early 2017. They will get to ride on NASA's space launch system in early 2018.58. Why are The CisLunar Explorer satellites unique?A. Their inventors are a group of college students.B. Their purpose is to do research on the Moon.C. Their spacecraft is powered only by water.D. Their design is based on a former program.59. What do we know about the Spacecraft?A. The Spacecraft will be in the NASA’s space launch system.B. The Spacecraft looks like “L”, with the two pieces connected.C. The guiding system of the spaceship is invented by the team.D. The cameras of the spaceship are used to help observe the moon.60.Which is the best title of the passage?A. A watery flight to the moonB. The winners of the ChallengeC. The inventor of the water-powered spacecraftD. A unique design of the water-powered spacecraftCScientists have argued for years about which event caused the dinosaurs to disappear, the huge volcanic eruption 66 million years ago or the meteorite(陨石)from space striking the coast of Mexico 150,000 years later.Sierra Peterson, from the University of Michigan, is a paleoclimatologist, who studies the climate from ancient times. To do that, she uses evidence from rocks and the fossilized remains of ancient creatures.“The timing of the volcano and the meteorite are quite close together, so it’s hard to tell them apart.”But now, researchers say they have found a clear record of what happened. The new evidence comes from Seymour Island where the rock record provides a clear picture of changes in the ancient climate.“At Seymour Island we can really separate the influences of each one, and that’s why we ca n see the climatic impacts of both as two separate events,” Peterson announced.For the first time, scientists were able to find out the temperature record during the dinosaurs’ last days. What they discovered was that things got hot -- not once, but twice. At first, the dinosaurs were hit by acid rain and volcanic dust after the huge volcanic eruption. And then things got a lot worse with the sudden temperature increase that followed.“It makes sense why people thought it was one or the other. And really t hey were both right,” according to Peterson.Peterson and Dutton, the partner, are not necessarily saying that the warming is what killed everything at the time. It could have been responsible for part of the dinosaurs disappearing.Why is it important to know about how and why the dinosaurs died off so long ago?Peterson and Dutton suggest people should pay close attention to their work. They say the effect so fast climate change in the Cretaceous period are similar to what scientists are seeing now from climate change.Peterson says the volcano eruption before the meteorite increased pressure on Earth’s environment. In that same way, the carbon dioxide gas emissions from human activities are affecting the environment today.“We are already seeing extinc tions and certain organisms being under a lot of environmental stress, reduced habitat, things like that. All of the same things we are observing today would have been in play in the Cretaceous as well. And so, you know, I guess fingers crossed for no meteorite impact.”And so it seems we might have a lot of learn from the dinosaurs’ disappearance.61. What have scientists agreed on for years about the effect of the Volcano and meteorite?A. Either of them caused the dinosaurs to die out.B. Either of them left little evidence of climate changes.C. Either of them had influenced people today.D. Either of them destroyed everything on the Earth.62. The extinction of the dinosaurs is probably caused by______.A. the break of food chainB. the huge volcanic eruptionC. the temperature increasing twiceD. the meteorite striking the Earth63. What can we learn from the passage?A. The scientist hopes no disasters would happen to us.B. The research is aimed to teach people today a lesson.C. The volcano and the meteorite happened at the same time.D. The dinosaurs could have been used to the climate changes.64. The passage intends to______.A. explain how climate changes happened.B. warn people of the danger of the climate changes.C. predict whether humans would extinct like the dinosaurs.D. introduce new evidence for the dinosaurs’ disappearance.D“We will give you twenty-four hours to think about it,” Mom said as she handed me the sheet of demands. Her skin was dark, having absorbed three weeks of thick July sunlight, and she looked five years younger. She walked back across the yard and began toying with the awning(帐篷的篷) of the tent . Dad lay on the overgrown grass, tongue running across his mustache as he dragged a paintbrush over a new sign. He saw me looking, gave a cocky smirk, and held it up, PARENTS LOCAL # 0001 ON STRIKE!in the hallways, with a horrible smell from the dishwasher. The eighty dollars a week Aunt Lynn gave Emmie and me for food limited our grocery shopping to the 7:11, and the same meals everyday left us bloated and half-nauseous. Mom and Dad had taken the keys to the car, leaving us to bike or walk our way across town on the few nights we wanted to hang out with friends; we couldn’t invite anyone over, not after the two-person human chain they had formed to block the front door had scared away my friend Chuck enough to keep him from coming back. They had even managed to scare away Grandma, yelling “Scab, Scab!” when she tried to walk up the front path with a few plates of fried chicken.The mood inside the house almost matched the smell. I blamed Emmie for pushing Mom too far with the constant complaining about the vegetables in her homemade Cobb salads or the complaints when Mom bought honeysuckle-scented shampoo instead of summer peach. She accused me, correctly, of not helping matters when I allowed the grass to grow to an unacceptable length after Dad’s repeated requests to cut it. This all came after the Orlando vacation we had to end early after my misbehavior got us kicked out of Disney World. Looking back, the morning we awoke to find them marching across the lawn, holding signs that read UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN=HATEFUL CHILDREN and NO RESPECT, NO PARENTS/KNOW RESPECT, KNOW PARENTS was much more surprising than it should have been. It took us until that night to realize it wasn’t a joke.I read their demands, written on the back of a Publisher’s Clearing house envelope and signed by both of them. Two car uses per day with a maximum of ten per week. Set allowance atone dollar per year of age. Chore ignorance resulting in an immediate twenty-five percent allowance reduction. Zero tolerance complaining policy. I tossed it into the overflowing trash basket.That night, after Emmie returned from the Goodwill store, we discussed it. “That means I’d only get thirteen dollars a week!” she said, digging into her bare arm with her fingernails. “That’s not even enough to go to a movie.”“Yeah, and I’d only get seventeen.” Couldn’t fill a car up with gas, if I’d had one. “Listen, though. They have to start teaching again in early August. No way can stay outside then. They can’t work without showers or computers or a comfortable bed.”She threw me a desperate look. Her green eyes peeked out from behind her puffy cheeks. “Two more weeks?” she ask ed, biting the inside of her lip.I nodded as I looked onto the lawn. A solitary light shone in their tent, casting an orange halo onto the driveway within which their blurry silhouettes(轮廓) danced. I could hear their laughter from inside. Two more weeks, I thought. Two more weeks.65. What does the underlined phrase “on strike” mean in the passage?A. children decided to take charge of the house.B. children were free to do anything they want.C. parents and children were arguing with each other.D. Mom and Dad refused to perform their duties as parents.66. After declaring they were on strike, Mom and Dad .A. became lazier and lazier.B. gave up within four weeks.C. required their demands to be met.D. managed to stay inside the house.67. What would happen to the children if the parents won the strike?A. They can enjoy fourteen car uses in one week.B. They might sometimes complain about Mom and Dad.C. There would be no enough money for the son to drive his car.D. Not helping with the housework would lead to less pocket money.68. Mom and Dad were determined to strike because their children were .A. lazy and hopelessB. foolish and selfishC. ungrateful and dependentD. Dependent and hopeless69. How did the children respond to their parents’ strike three weeks later?A. They tried to hang on there for another two weeks.B. They were both sure their parents would call for help.C. There decided to give in and let parents have their way.D. They still couldn’t believe their parents were on strike.70. The strike would probably last at least .A. two weeksB. three weeksC. five weeksD. six weeks第四部分任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。