1、2018-2019 高二英语上学期期中试题与答案高二英语试题（考试时间：120 分钟 总分：150 分钟）第卷 (选择题，共 100 分)第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 5 个小题：每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的 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 color is the book that the man wants? A. Red. B. Black. C. Blue.2. What
2、 will the woman do next? A. Go home. B. Copy her ID. C. Deposit her check.3. When should Tony return the money to Emma? A. In July. B. In August. C. In September.4. What time of day is it? A. Morning. B. Afternoon. C. Evening.5. What is the womans job? A. A shopkeeper. B. A waitress. C. A saleswoman
3、.第二节（共 15 小题：每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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. How much is the cheapest shirt? A. $10. B. $7. C. $3.7. What do we know about the mans daughter? A. Shes three feet ta
4、ll. B. Shes five years old. C. Shell get some gifts soon.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Why does the woman look depressed? A. Her parents have no time for her.B. She cant communicate with her parents.C. She doesnt meet her parents expectation.9. What is the womans mother always doing? A. Talking about her wo
5、rk. B. Showing off her daughter. C. Complaining about everything.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What is on the mans web page? A. All the lecture notes. B. The students grades. C. A list of all assignments.11. When does the man suggest the woman read each chapter? A. Before class. B. During class. C. Aft
6、er class.12. What does the man think is the most important? A. Having confidence. B. Being prepared. C. Answering questions.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Throw away her sofa. B. Clean her living room. C. Help her move something.14. Why is Jack giving the woman
7、his sofa? A. Its old and dirty. B. Hes moving abroad. C. His new place is too small.15. How does the man know Jack? A. Theyre neighbors. B. Theyre co-workers. C. Theyre classmates.16. What is the man hoping will happen? A. Hell get a new truck. B. Jack will give him some furniture.C. Hell find a pla
8、ce with a great view.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. How many beaches are in the San Diego area? A. Seven. B. Fifteen. C. More than one hundred.18. What can you find at Scripps Pier? A. Many surfers. B. A statue of dolphin. C. A marine science university19. Where are the rides?A. At Mission Beach. B. At
9、 Coronado Beach. C. At Blacks Beach. 20. What is true about Imperial Beach? A. Its next to Mexico.B. Its the best beach for diving.C. Its one of the top ten beaches in San Diego.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。AThe history of the Louvre Museum,
10、which today contains one of the most important art collections in the world, dates back to the Middle Ages. Built in 1190 as a fortress（堡垒） protect Paris from the Vikings, it was transformed into a palace by Francesco I. Since then, for four centuries, French kings and emperors have expanded it. The
11、 glass pyramid of I. M. Pei was added to the courtyard of honor in 1989. All galleries can be reached from here.The glass pyramidThe projects for the monetization and expansion of the Louvre date back to 1981. They included the construction of a main entrance to the museum. The American architect of
12、 Chinese originI. M. Peiwas in charge of the project. Pei designed a pyramid that had to become an entrance to the museum. Its glass walls allow visitors to admire the surrounding historic buildings and to light up the entrance hall.The Louvre collectionThe Louvre treasures can date back to the coll
13、ection of Francesco I (15151547), who bought many Italian paintings. During the rule of Louis XIV ( 16431715) this amounted to only 200 artworks, but it also increased as a result of donations and purchases. It was opened for the first time to the public in 1793. Since then the Louvre collection has
14、 been continuously enriched.The fallen guideThe main entrance is under the glass pyramid. The artworks are exposed on four floors: the display rooms of the artworks are organized according to the countries they are from. There are eight sections in all. The European painters collection is very large
15、, with 40 percent of French works, while the collection of sculptures is less complete.21. What does the first paragraph say about the Louvre Museum?A. It was first intended as a royal palace. B. It has a history of less than ten centuries. C. It has the largest art collection worldwide. D. It exper
16、ienced nonstop expansion in the past.22. Which of the following in a function of the glass wills of the pyramid?A. Acting as a good viewpoint. B. Making visitors move faster.C. Making the entrance hall less bright. D. Preventing heat by reflecting sunlight.23. The arrangement of the display rooms is
17、 based on the artworks .A. historic values B. cultural meaningsC. countries of origin D. levels of perfectionBAn 11-year-old girl from Belthangady, India, recently made news headlines for having around 60 dead ants pulled from her eyes. As for how the insects got there, some doctors thought they ent
18、ered her body through the ears.Last week, the girl, known only as Ashwini, started complaining of severe pain in her eyes. She told her parents that she felt there was something stuck in her eyes, and when they checked, they did find a small ant in one of her eyes. They didnt pay much importance to
19、it, as they assumed the insect had gotten there by accident, but it wasnt long before the girl again started reporting pain in her eyes. They discovered more dead ants, and this time, they took her to hospital.A local doctor told Ashwinis parents that the insects must have first entered her body thr
20、ough the ears and then somehow made their way to her eyes. He gave her some eye-drops to help with the irritation（刺激）, but the girl still has 5 to 6 ants pulled from her eyes daily. A week ago, the Daily Mail reported that Ashwinis eyes produced around 60 dead ants in a period of 10 days.As doctors
21、in Belthangady were left scratching their heads about how the ants reached Ashwinis eyes or what they could do to stop the unusual phenomenon, she was taken to an eye hospital in Moodabidri, where her family hope to get some answers.IB Times reports that Ashwinis parents feared she had been affected
22、 by some evil spirit, so they also took her to an astrologer（占星家） who told them that the ants in the eyes were caused by something called Naga Dosha. But who knows?24. Why did Ashwini recently make news headlines?A. Because of her love for insects. B. Because of her extraordinary skills.C. Because o
23、f her strange experience. D. Because of her abilities to control ants.25. How did Ashwinis parents react when finding an ant in her eye?A. They didnt take it seriously. B. They tried their best to comfort her.C. They sent her to hospital immediately. D. They didnt think it was just an accident.26. T
24、he underlined part in paragraph 4 most probably means “ ”.A. feeling angry about B. showing disagreement aboutC. being optimistic about D. feeling puzzled about27. What can be inferred about Ashwini from the text?A. Her eyes no longer produce dead ants. B. Eye-drops are of little help to her eyes.C.
25、 The dead ants cause no harm to her eyes. D. Only the astrologer has found out the truth. CI like writing; I like meeting people; I like discovering new things, then telling everyone about them; and I couldnt keep a secret if you paid me. So I became a journalist.I wrote for my school magazine, did
26、unpaid work on my local paper, took a masters degree, got a part-time job, and then became a full-time journalist.Or at least that is what my resume would say; but the life of a journalist is more exciting than that-even if that excitement can come with a side of pain and frustration.I have lost cou
27、nt of the numbers of e-mails I have had ignored. I have spent hours at meetings listening as hard as I could for a story-only to go home empty-handed.Once I ran around knocking on doors in a dark, dangerous-looking street in the snow to find a woman who (my editor had told me) “woke at night to find
28、 water pouring on her head”. Somehow I found her. I took photos. I interviewed her, the building owner and the fireman. I wrote the story then I opened the paper to find it at the back, which on name on it, only 100 words long.Strangely, though, that challenge made me want to keep going. If you do succeed, the rewards of journalism are truly great.
