2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 1页，共 8页
2019－2020 学年第二学期期中考试
高二英语试题
命题人：解文娟 审题人：谢群
考试时间：90 分钟 试卷分值：100 分
注意：所有选择题的答案必须用 2B 铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置，否则，该大题不予记分。
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 20 分）
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 does the woman plan to do?
A. Go to a bar. B. Go on working. C. Read a book.
2. Who is the man most probably speaking to?
A. A family member. B. A teacher. C. A doctor.
3. When do the speakers plan to get to the concert?
A. At 7:00. B. At 8:00. C. At 8:30.
4. How does the woman feel now?
A. Embarrassed. B. Disappointed. C. Excited.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Sam's flight to Beijing. B. Sam's meeting in Beijing C. Sam’s arrival in Beijing.
第二节(共 15 小题;每小题 1.5 分)
听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独独白后有几个小题,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。听毎段对话或独白前,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. Which city did the woman travel to?
A. Chicago. B. Phoenix. C. New York.
7. How does the woman think of life in big cities?
A. Wonderful. B. Noisy. C. Stressful.
听第 7 段材料, 回答第 8、9 题。
8. What’s the woman worried about?
A. The man’s safety. B. The man’s job. C. The man’s health.
9. What does the woman want to do this afternoon?
A. To attend a conference. B. To play computer games. C. To play outdoors with Sam.
听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. Why won't the man go out with the woman today?
A. Because the air quality is bad. B. Because there's too much traffic
C. Because he suffers from a disease.
11. What does the man think has led to the issue?
A. The increase of factories. B. The increase of traffic jams.
C. The increase of vehicles. 2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 2页，共 8页
12. What does the woman advise to solve the issue?
A. To limit the purchase of cars. B. To stop car use on certain days.
C. To improve the public transport.
听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题
13. Why didn’t the man learn to cook?
A. Because he didn’t have any time. B. Because he wasn't interested in it.
C. Because there was no one to teach him.
14. What kind of food does the woman like most?
A. American food. B. Chinese food. C. French food.
15. What Chinese food has the woman had?
A. Sweet and Sour Pork. B. Peking duck. C. Dumplings.
16. How old is the woman now?
A. 22. B. 20. C. 17.
听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. What's the woman’s challenge?
A. To get her kids to be more active. B. To do sports with her kids. C. To make herself active.
18. What can we learn about the woman’s daughter?
A. She is quite active.
B. She has a wide range of interests.
C. She started doing sports at the age of 8.
19. What is the woman’s son interested in?
A. Joining organized sports. B. Watching football games on TV. C. Doing sports alone.
20. How will the woman help the kids?
A. By inspiring them in different ways.
B. By setting a good example for them.
C. By asking them to learn from each other.
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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Being a teenager is hard, which is why there are many amazing teen movies documenting the experience.
Some are so good that they will become classics in a few years. Here is a list for you.
Mean Girls
“You go, Glen Coco!” “It’s not going to happen!” “On Wednesdays we wear pink!” “You can’t sit with
us!” If you rank teen movies by how many lines( 台 词 ) of dialogues will live on forever, Mean Girls will
certainly be on top. So many classic lines!
Eighth Grade
This movie will take you back to the eighth grade and remind you of all the good and bad times you had at
that age. Kayla, a shy girl, who feels the most connected to the world through social media. It's Kayla's final
week in the eighth grade and she promises to make it as great as possible before she moves on to high school.
13 Going on 30
This classic follows Jenna Rink, a girl whose wish on her 13th birthday is to grow up and escape from high
school. The next day her wish comes true. She wakes up in her 30-year-old body only to find that she’s an 2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 3页，共 8页
editor of a major magazine in America. Although she loves her new life at first, she quickly finds out that
being grown-up isn’t that much easier than being 13.
Shazam!
Shazam! is about a kid named Billy Batson, who suddenly gets magic powers from the Wizard Shazam. By
calling Shazam's name, Billy can be changed into a hero with powers like strength, speed and flight. Like in
all the other movies of this kind, in Shazam! Billy is tasked with defeating his enemy who wants to steal all
his powers.
21. What is special about Mean Girls?
A. It is about girls' adventures. B. It ranks first on the movie list.
C. It is aimed at amusing the audience. D. It contains lots of classic dialogues.
22. Which movie refers to anxiety for adulthood?
A. Eighth Grade. B. 13 Going on 30. C. Mean Girls. D. Shazam!
23. What kind of movie is Shazam!?
A. A superhero film. B. A documentary. C. A comedy. D. A love story.
B
A decade ago, at the end of my first semester teaching at Captain, my student Jack stopped by for office
hours. He sat down and burst into tears. My mind started cycling through a list of events that could make a
college junior cry: His girlfriend had broken up with him; he had been accused of cheating in exams; he
forgot to turn in papers before the deadline. "I just got my first A minus, "he said.
Year after year, I watch in depression as students are crazy about getting straight A' s. Some sacrifice
their health; a few have even tried to charge their school after failure. They believe top marks are a ticket to
elite(精英的) graduate schools and rewarding job opportunities.I was one of them. I started college with the
goal of graduating with a GPA(平均分) of 4.0. It would be a reflection of my brainpower and willpower,
showing that I had the right things to succeed. But I was wrong.
The evidence is clear: Across industries, research shows that the association between grades and job
performance is modest in the first year after college and insignificant within a handful of years. For example,
at Microsoft, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have nothing to do with their
performance. (Of course, it must be said that if you got D's, you probably wouldn't end up at Microsoft.)
Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional
and political intelligence. Yes, straight A students master large amounts of information and reproduce it in
exams. But career success is rarely about finding the right solution to a problem—it’s more about finding the
right problem to solve. This might explain why Steve Jobs finished high school with a GPA of 2.65, and
Martin Luther King Jr. got only one A in his four years at Morehouse.
24. Why did Jack feel sad?
A. His girlfriend abandoned him. B. He was caught cheating in exams.
C. He failed to get straight A's. D. He didn't hand in his paper in time.
25. What did the author once believe?
A.It was wrong to care too much about marks.
B. Failure was schools' fault.
C. Marks didn't reflect willpower and brainpower.
D. Top marks meant well-paid job offers.
26. Why are the employees at Microsoft mentioned?
A. To indicate academic performance is important.
B. To stress the company values employees with top marks. 2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 4页，共 8页
C. To introduce successful examples in the technology industry.
D. To show academic excellence isn't a strong predictor of career performance.
27. What should people focus more on to succeed?
A. How to solve a problem. B. What problem to be solved.
C. How to be a creative leader. D. What to do with detailed information.
C
Reducing, reusing, and recycling is a way of life in Sweden. Recycling is required by law and garbage is
sorted at home before if goes to a recycling center. Recyclables are sorted into seven categories and recycling
stations are within just 300 meters of all residential areas. " Recycling almost everything is a must in Sweden
now. It actually feels very uncomfortable when you visit another country and cant find easy ways to recycle,
" said Owen Gaffney, an expert at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth.
But not all of its garbage is recycled. Sweden uses alternatives that include incinerating garbage to make
electricity instead of using fossil fuels(化石燃料)to heat 1.2 million homes. About half of household garbage
is sent to one of the 33 waste-to-heat plants. Sweden is importing garbage from other countries to keep these
plants running. Sweden is also a world leader in turning food waste into eco-friendly biogas(沼气). It has
made food waste collection compulsory beginning in 2021. There is a food waste biogas plant, which allows
biogas to be used to run public buses and to heat apartment buildings.
Sweden now wants to deal with those remaining items that cannot be recycled by using a circular(循环论
证的)economy approach. It means that products can be reused and only recycled when absolutely necessary.
The Swedish government formed an advisory group to find a way of making this part of its environmental
policy.
This will not work effectively unless people are taught to change their behavior. Now the government is
reforming its tax code so that people could get cheaper repairs or buy used things. The large Swedish
clothing retailer(零售商)H&M operates a recycling program that gives customers discounts when they bring
back old clothing.
Sweden is fighting climate change by doing all the right stuff. Waste recycling and the plans to switch to a
circular economy will go a long way in reducing its carbon footprint and will help stop global warming.
28. What do we know about Sweden?
A. Sweden imports household garbage for biogas.
B. It is convenient to recycle things in Sweden.
C. Half of garbage in Sweden is used to produce heat.
D. Everything is recycled after being used in Sweden.
29. What does the underlined word in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Burning. B. Treating C. Throwing D. Reusing
30. What does the advisory group do?
A. Teach people how to save fossil fuels.
B. Conduct a survey about the local economy.
C. Offer advice on environmental policy.
D. Make sure the citizens recycle wisely.
31. How does the government encourage its citizens to reuse?
A. It provides various recycling programs.
B. It cuts down taxes on new products.
C. It gives discounts to regular buyers. 2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 5页，共 8页
D. It offers lower prices for repairs.
D
More than a billion people around the world have smart phones, almost all of which come with some kind
of navigation(导航) app such as Apple Maps or Amap. This raises the age-old question we meet with any
technology: What abilities is our brain losing to these apps? But also, importantly: What abilities are we
gaining?
Talking with people who are good at finding their way around or good at using paper maps, I often hear a
lot of annoyance with digital maps. North/south direction gets messed up, and you can see only a small
section at a time. I can really understand that it may be quite disturbing for the already skilled to be limited
to a small phone screen。
But consider what digital navigation aids have meant for someone like me. Although being a frequent
traveler, I'm so terrible at finding my way that I still use Apple Maps almost every day in the small town
where I have lived for many years。
In many developed nations, street names and house numbers can be meaningful, and instructions such as
"go north for three blocks and ---then west" make sense to those familiar with these rules. In Istanbul,
however, where I grew up none of those hold true. For one thing, the locals seldom use street names. Besides,
the city is full of winding and ancient alleys(小巷 ) that cross with newer streets at many angles. In such
places, you’d better turn to the locals. In the American countryside, however, there is often nobody outside to
ask, In fact, along came Apple Maps, like a fairy grandmother whispering directions in my ear. Since then, I
travel with a lot more confidence, and my world has opened up。
Which brings me back to my original question: While we often lose some skills after depending on new
technology, this new equipment may also allow us to gain new abilities. Maybe when technology closes door,
we should also look for the doors it opens.
32. Why do people who are skilled at reading paper maps feel upset?
A. They like reading paper maps.
B. They are confused by digital maps direction.
C. They don't know how to use navigation apps
D. They are limited to a single smartphone app.
33. According to the text, which is the best way to find the destination in Istanbul?
A. Asking local people the way.
B. Following the navigation app.
C. Getting familiar with the city rules.
D. Looking for street names and house numbers.
34. What’s the author’s attitude towards the navigation apps?
A. Cautious. B. Negative. C. Favorable. D. Critical.
35. What could be the best title of the passage?
A. Benefits of Navigation Apps
B. Disadvantages of Navigation Apps
C. My World Opens Up by New Technology
D. Have Navigation Apps Worsened Our Brain?
第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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want to get into a good reading habit, there are a number of ways to develop it.
36.
You should give yourself at least thirty minutes in all for reading every day. When time is set, nothing
can change it. For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast or lunch time.
Always carry a book
Wherever you go, take a book with you. When you leave the house, make sure that you always carry a
good book as well as your school things. 37.
Find a quiet place
Find a place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. 38.
There should be no television, computer, music or even noisy family members around you.
Have a library day
Have a library card, and 39 . Make it weekly trip to the library, you can save a lot of money.
Blog it
One of the best ways to develop a good reading habit is to put it on your blog. 40 It’s free. Ask your
friends and family to go there to share your ideas and offer you suggestions.
A. Save much time.
B. Plan your time
C. If you don’t have one, create one.
D. Remember that a book always stays with you.
E. read as many good books as possible in the library.
F. When you read a book, no one will trouble you.
G. You can have a good rest in the chair and enjoy the quietness.
第三部分 语言运用（共三节，满分55 分）
第一节 完形填空（共15 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分30 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited 41 for 15
minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became 42 . When he saw a
photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had 43 . He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage,
which was not 44 in that situation. In a few moments, he was holding four small prints that 45
even him. He wrote his wife’s name on the back of the photos and handed them to a 46 behind the
desk in the booth. “ 47 you see a small, dark lady with brown eyes and an apologetic expression,
obviously 48 someone, would you please give her this? ” he said. He then 49 his office in
Morrison Building, 50 that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the four photos must be a good
51 ! He sat down with a smile. His wife 52 those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and
shows them to anyone who asks if she is married.
How are you with 53 ? One person calls it “wait training.” It seems that there is always something
we are 54 . We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to
complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind. Patience is an important 55 of a
happy and rewarding life. 56 , some things are worth waiting for. 57 presents many opportunities
for waiting training. We can hate waiting, 58 it or even get good at it! But one thing is 59 —we
cannot avoid it. How is your 60 coming along?
41. A. proudly B. respectfully C. patiently D. curiously
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43. A. a question B. a reason C. an opinion D. an idea
44. A. serious B. difficult C. regular D. convenient
45. A. hurt B. encouraged C. attracted D. shocked
46. A. clerk B. secretary C. passer-by D. friend
47. A. Since B. Before C. As D. If
48. A. looking for B. working for C. sending for D. paying for
49. A. called up B. returned to C. visited D. left
50. A. worried B. disappointed C. satisfied D. surprised
51. A. production B. preparation C. excuse D. lecture
52. A. Tore B. Saved C. Developed D. destroyed
53. A. your wife B. your family C. patience D. determination
54. A. hoping for B. waiting for C. ready for D. fit for
55. A. lesson B. experience C. purpose D. quality
56. A. For example B. After all C. Right now D. So far
57. A. Every age B. Every shop C. Every day D. Every office
58. A. accept B. control C. exchange D. reduce
59. A. certain B. interesting C. precious D. easy
60. A. photo taking B. job hunting C. decision making D. wait training
第二节 根据首字母或汉语释义填入单词完成句子。（共 10 题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
61. She is a ___________(志愿的) worker at the hospital.
62. The only choice you have is whether you will ___________(参与).
63. The events o (发生) against a background of continuing civil war.
64. Differences in attitude were a （明显的）between ethnic groups.
65. He was also f___________(禁止) from contacting her or going within a quarter of a mile of her house.
66. He looked around the room with ___________(满意)
67. The advertisement for engineers in the local paper attracted many ___________(申请人).
68. I knew that she could give me some ___________(有益的) tips.
69. Children under 12 must be ___________(陪伴) by an adult.
70. I want to express my ___________(祝贺) on your success.
第三节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
As the communication between China and Britain is becoming ___71____ (increasing)frequent, the
differences between them ___72____(cause)a heated discussion in the past few years.
Firstly, table manners are the essential procedure in everyone’s daily life. We get used to
____73___(use)chopsticks while Englishmen use knife and forks. It’s not polite to burst into laughter when
eating in Britain, ___74____indicates you don’t respect others. ___75____the contrary, we laugh and talk
during a meal. What’s more, in Britain, we have to wander along the left side of the road, but traffic in our
country keeps to the right. In addition, for Chinese students, ___76____they have experienced in studying is
an ___77___(organize) learning style. Students are required to follow a clear plan. ___78____(compare)with 2019—2020 学年第二学期期中考试（高二年级英语试题） 第 8页，共 8页
Chinese education, British education is ___79____flexible and imaginative. Students there are encouraged to
discuss the subject they want to learn. Last but not least, in China, “thank you”is not frequently used
between friends and family members while“thank you” is widely used in Britain.
There is no sense in debating which is better. We owe these manners ___80__ a long history, so you
should do as the Romans do.
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分 35 分)
第一节：短文改错（满分 10 分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误，
每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2、只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。
Everyone tends have many problems while gaining knowledge. Therefore, your willingness to deal with
these problems will eventually enable you to work it out. What I’d like to share are my approaches to solve
the problems.
First, you must focus on which you are faced with. There seemed to be a lot of attractive things, like
computers or games. To stay focused, you can list things and tell yourself you should touch them after
finishing your work. Second, believe in you. Though it is no doubt that each of us might make mistakes or
come across some tough problems in learning, but it can never be a reason for the loss of confidence.
Last but not least, keep modestly. Never feel embarrassed to turn to your teachers or classmates.
Everyone in your surroundings can be your teacher.
第二节：书面表达（满分 25 分）
假定你是李华，你校为了弘扬中华文化，计划举办一场中国古诗英语翻译大赛，请你写信邀请对中国古诗
有一定研究和兴趣的交换生 George 一同参加，内容包括：
1. 你邀请的理由；
2. 大赛举办的目的；
3. 大赛的时间和规则。
注意：
1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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