【Ks5u发布】浙江省杭州二中2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题-Word版含答案.docx

杭州二中2022学年其次学期高二班级期中考试英语试题
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和其次卷（非选择题）两部分，共100分，考试时间90分钟。
命题：何玲 校对：黄科 审核：江晔雯
第I卷(共65分)
I、听力（满分15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 will the woman do?
A. Pick up Louis B. Go to a school C. Chat with the man
2. Where are the speakers?
A. On the sea. B. At home. C. At a harbour.
3. What is the woman probably?
A. A doctor. B. A teacher. C. A policewoman.
4. How soon will the plane arrive?
A. In half an hour. B. In an hour and a half. C. In an hour and 20 minutes.
5. What does the woman mean?
A. She has found a new job.
B. She is determined to leave her job.
C. She is considering whether to quit her job.
其次节 （共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面3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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各个小题将给出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6至8题。
6. What is the man?
A. An actor. B. A director. C. A writer.
7. What do we know about the woman?
A. She’s only interested in a lead role.
B. She’s never had a part in a play before.
C. She tries to please the man.
8. What does the man offer to do for the woman?
A. Help her prepare for the tryout. B. Give her a lead role. C. Get her a copy of the play.
听下面一段对话，回答9至11题。
9. What does the woman think of the advertisement put up in the Local Business News?
A. It’s helpful and efficient.
B. It’s so boring that nobody reads it.
C. It’s good but cannot reach the target customers.
10. Where does the man suggest putting up their advertisement?
A. In the Local Business News. B. In the Local Service Paper. C. In the Local Paper.
11. What advice does the woman give the man on sending out the brochures?
A. Hire some students.
B. Use a professional firm.
C. Ask some colleagues to help them.
听下面一段对话，回答12至15题
12. How many time keepers are needed for Sports Day?
A. Four. B. Nine. C. Fifteen.
13. Why are a number of receptionists needed?
A. Some parents of the athletes will come to watch the games.
B. Some school leaders will attend the prize-giving ceremony.
C. Some old school members will take park in some events.
14. What is the first requirement for the helper?
A. They ought to be honest.
B. They need to wear a worker’s uniform.
C. They have to arrive in time for the event.
15. What should the listeners do if they are interested in becoming a helper?
A. Get in touch with Miss Johnson. B. Call the Sports Club. C. Call the speaker.

II、单项填空(共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
16. --- I think I’m going to die.
--- ______, Joe. You only have a cold.
A. Don’t mention it B. Take it easy C. It’s hard to say D. Take care
17. His success at ______ first attempt didn’t satisfy him. Instead, he went all out to try ______ second time.
A. the; the B. the; a C. a; the D. a; a
18. The teacher often helps me with my English after class, and it is ______ I can feel his care about me.
A. what B. which C. where D. how
19. For years, people in this city have been living under the ______ of drugs and violence.
A. shadow B. sorrow C. shock D. barrier
20. Jane accidentally ______ where she had hidden her father’s birthday present.
A. let out B. try out C. give out D. pick out
21. ________ anyone phone, tell them I’m out of town on business.
A. May B. Must C. Would D. Should
22. Those girls worked out every morning, ______ losing weight.
A. aim at B. to aim at C. aimed at D. aiming at
23. Over the last decade, the number of private cars has been increasing sharply. ______, smog occurs more frequently.
A. In fact B. In other words C. As a consequence D. On the other hand
24. After ten years of hard life, she is no longer the girl ______.
A. that used to be B. what she used to C. she was used to D. as she used to be
25. --- ______ that he managed to get the information?
--- Oh, a friend of his helped him.
A. Where was it B. What was it C. How was it D. Why was it
26. The police have ______ anyone with information to come forward and talk to them.
A. applied to B. stuck to C. preferred to D. appealed to
27. The fellow felt rather ______ as he was the only person that wore sportswear at the party.
A. in place B. out of place C. in the place D. out of the place
28. Despite the fact that all three teams ______ different approaches to the problem, they were all immediate successes.
A. acquired B. adapted C. achieved D. adopted
29. It won’t be quite a long time ______ your son is back, so don’t be worried.
A. that B. since C. before D. until
30. Mary ______ music and she could play many kinds of instruments at an early age.
A. has a preference for B. has a nose for C. has a gift for D. has a dislike for
31. The infection seems quite______, so she should be better soon.
A. temporary B. mild C. evident D. concrete
32. The Smiths have just moved here and they are busy with their new house and ______.
A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing
33. Tom would have met you at the railway station, but he ______ caught in a traffic accident.
A. has been B. had been C. were D. was
34. But for the help of my English teacher, I ______ the first prize in the English Writing Competition.
A. would not win B. would not have won C. would win D. would have won
35. With so many beautiful dresses ______, the little girl didn’t know which one to buy.
A. choosing from B. chosen from C. to choose from D. to be chosen from

III、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，把握其大意，然后从36-50各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
The weekend was over, and Begbie had returned to town, strangely unhappy. There was within him a strange sense of something lost. He unpacked his suitcase, __36__ its contents with the catalogue（名目）of his weekend needs. Everything was there, yet that sense of something __37__ still oppressed（压迫）him. Then __38__ there flashed across his mind a full realization of what the lost object was. “That’s it!” he said with a sigh of __39__, “I’ll write at once to my hostess and ask her to return it.” __40__ followed the decision, and, seating himself at his desk, Begbie wrote:
My Dear Mrs. Shelton,
Upon my return from the golden hours at Sea Cliff, I have lost one of my possessions. It is of value perhaps to __41__ but myself. Poor as it is, I cannot very well do without it. It is my __42__. If you happened to have __43__ it, and it is of no use to you, will you be good enough to return it to me? Or, if by some good fortune you find it worth keeping, will you please let me know, __44__ I may know it is being taken good care of by you? It is the __45__ one I have, and it has never passed out of my keeping before.
Harrison Begbie
The following morning, Begbie received a letter addressed in the familiar handwriting of his hostess. __46__ he tore it open.
My dear Mr. Begbie,
What __47__ creatures you men are! I have found ten such articles as you described in my house during the past ten days, and I cannot quite __48__ which one is yours. Almost all of them are badly cracked. Only one is still in first-class condition. I’m hoping it’s yours. __49__, on receipt of this letter, would you come down here at once and we can check them up together? I’ll meet you on the arrival of the 12:15 at Wavecrest station. Meanwhile, knowing how important a heart truly is, I send you __50__ to take the place of the other. You may keep it until your own is returned to you.
Mary Shelton
36. A. combined B. connected C. matched D. compared
37. A. left behind B. put aside C. kept out D. given away
38. A. gradually B. suddenly C. frequently D. consequently
39. A. satisfaction B. relief C. disappointment D. worry
40. A. Practice B. Plan C. Discussion D. Action
41. A. somebody B. anybody C. nobody D. everybody
42. A. brain B. mind C. soul D. heart
43. A. found B. recognized C. caught D. learned
44. A. even though B. as if C. or else D. so that
45. A. latest B. best C. only D. last
46. A. Surprisingly B. Confidently C. Excitedly D. Calmly
47. A. stubborn B. careless C. sensitive D. funny
48. A. decide B. admit C. believe D. describe
49. A. To some degree B. In any case C. For some reason D. On the whole
50. A. yours B. his C. theirs D. mine

IV、阅读理解（共15小题；第一节每小题2分，其次节每小题1分，满分25分）
第一节：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。
A
People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories according to pictures.
About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.
The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic-strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.
By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.
These days we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the streets, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.
 51. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ________.
A. the hunters wanted to see the pictures B. the painters were animal lovers
C. the painters wanted to show imagination D. the pictures were thought to be helpful
52. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ________.
A. the former was easy to write B. there were fewer signs in the former
C. the former was easy to pronounce D. each sign stood for only one sound
53. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ________.
A. should be made comprehensible B. should be made interesting
C. are of much use in our life D. are disappearing from our life
B
A letter of reply is sometimes a most treasured thing. Here is a story that tells about this common and natural human sentiment.
The busiest woman in Labrador during one bitter cold Christmas not very long ago, was a nurse Kate Austen. But she was not too busy to acknowledge with a long, friendly letter every gift of food or clothing received for distribution to the natives in that cold and poor district of the north. Among the gifts was a box of knittings for children, knitted（编织）and sent by a woman in Toronto.
Nurse Austen was busy, exhausted and not feeling too well that winter. She could have written just ordinary routine notes of acknowledgement. But that was not her way. She sat down and wrote the woman in Toronto a real letter telling all about the village, and the names of the children who were wearing the knitted gloves and caps, and what they said when they got them, and how they looked when they wore them. She wanted the woman who had knitted and sent all those lovely knittings “to see how much happiness and warmth she had created.” Not long after, she received the following answer from Toronto.
Dear Miss Austen:
Your letter made me happy. I did not expect such a full return. I am eighty years old, and I am blind. There is little I can do except knit, and that is why I knit so many caps and sweaters and scarves. Of course I cannot write this, so my daughter-in-law is doing it for me. She also sewed the seams and made the buttonholes for the knitted things.
I know something of the work you are doing. At the age of nineteen I married a man who was going to China to be a missionary (传教士). For forty years, with an occasional year at home in America, we worked in China, and during that time our two sons and a daughter were born to us, of whom only one son survives. After forty years, my husband’s health began to fail. We returned to the States where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York. A surprising number of the problems we faced there were similar to the problems we had met in China. When my husband died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughter-in-law. They are very good to me, and I pride myself that I am little trouble to them, though it is hard for a blind old lady to be sure of anything.
What I most want to say, my dear, is this. For sixty years I have been making up missionary packages of such clothing or food or medicine or books as I could collect. In various parts of the world and to various parts of the world I have sent them. Sometimes I have received a printed note of acknowledgement from the headquarters depot or mission board, sometimes nothing. Occasionally I have been informed that my contribution was planned for Syria or Armenia or the upper Yangtze. But never before in all that time have I had a personal letter picturing the village and telling me who is wearing the clothing and what they said. I did not suppose that ever in my lifetime I should receive a letter like that.
May God bless you.
Sincerely yours,

54. The underlined word “sentiment” most probably means “________”?
A. basic knowledge B. gentle feeling C. high aim D. good manners
55. The underlined sentence “But that was not her way” implies that ________.
A. she would not just write a simple letter of thanks like most people did
B. she had never been exhausted or sick at this time of a year before
C. she was so busy that she had no time to write a note of acknowledgement
D. she didn’t