【摘要】期中考试是一次阶段性的考试，是为了检验大家上半学期的学习成果。小编为大家整理了高二英语期中试题，供大家参考。

第I卷 (共90分)

一. 完形填空(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)：

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. ”

How __1__ they were!Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into __2__ and strangers into friends.

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you __3__ there when the situation gets tough. It is the inner voice that __4__ “I can do it” when others shout, “No, you can’t do it.”

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be __5__ accepted. Yet she didn’t stop doing her experiments. Work was such a deep __6__ for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic __7__ -- as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant’s delight at the jingle of keys or the hurrying of a beetle.

It is this __8__ wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist(大提琴演奏家) Pablo Casals would start his day by __9__ Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulder would straighten and joy would __10__ in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was what made life a never __11__ adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the __12__.”

We cannot afford to waste __13__ on “might-have-beens”. Just as the saying goes, it’s no use crying over spilt milk. We need to live each moment __14__, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a backyard garden, the crayoned picture by a six-year-old, or the charming beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes and __15__ the wrinkles from our souls.

1. A. elegant B. responsible C. right D. successful

2. A. opportunity B. wealth C. success D. attempt

3. A. dress up B. hang in C. set off D. hold up

4. A. cries B. tells C. warns D. whispers

5. A. specially B. accidentally C. generally D. naturally

6. A. pressure B. fun C. source D. pleasure

7. A. wonder B. talent C. ability D. nature

8. A. romantic B. surprising C. childlike D. vivid

9. A. listening to B. approaching C. appreciating D. playing

10. A. recover B. reappear C. refresh D. resemble

11. A. ending B. appearing C. coming D. amusing

12. A. body B. soul C. life D. blood

13. A. tears B. sweat C. money D. efforts

14. A. successfully B. dramatically C. personally D. wholeheartedly

15. A. separates B. smoothes C. softens D. spreads

二. 阅读理解 (共25小题; 每小题2分，满分50分):

A

There is an English saying that goes, "he who laughs last, laughs the hardest." High School Musical star and teen heartthrob (让人心动的男人)Zac Efron is laughing a lot these days.

As a young boy, Efron was picked on in school because he was always the smallest in his class and teased because he had a big space between his teeth. In sixth grade, Efron's basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime (两个加时赛), with three seconds left,he rebounded the ball and passed it to the wrong team! They scored and his team lost the game.

But history, as they say, is a thing of the past. Now at 21, Efron is one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People, graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly, Hollywood's most influential magazine, and is traveling the world promoting the third High School Musical film. Director Adam Shankman described Efron as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now." Simply google "Zac Efron" and you get more than 14 million responses. Yes, it seems Efron has a lot to smile about these days.

Efron was born and raised in California. He took school seriously. According to Efron, "he would flip out if he got a B and not an A in school, and that he was a class clown." It was his father who encouraged him to act. He took part in school performances and with a local theater group. He also took singing lessons. He graduated from high school in 2006 and was accepted at the University of Southern California to study film. But he deferred--why study movies when you can star in them.

Now he has signed on to star in the romantic comedy Seventeen Again and to play in the remake of the hugely popular movie, Footloose. Efron is also earning more than $3 million for his role in High School Musical 3. Not bad for a 21-year-old. But Efron still remembers those bullies.

"You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire," Efron said. "Also, when you get made fun of, when people point out your weaknesses, it's an opportunity for you to rise above."

Efron has risen all the way to the top of the movie business. And he can now laugh all the way to the bank.

16. Which of the following might be the best title to the passage

A. Don't give up B. He who laughs last laughs the hardest

C. Zac Efron's life story D. Zac Effort's success in musical film

17. How do you understand the sentence "But history, as they say, is a thing of the past." in paragraph 3?

A. History is a collection of the past.

B. Zac Efron's history is wonderful.

C. Different from history, Effort is quite popular now.

D. History plays an important role in Zac Efron's life.

18. What did Zac Efron do when he was laughed at?

A. He couldn't accept the fact in the beginning, so he escaped.

B. He was so angry that he shouted at the person who teased him.

C. He cried and told the whole matter to his father to get comfort.

D. He cheered himself up and used it as motivation to move on.

19. What's the main idea of Paragraph 3?

A. It mainly talks about Zac Efron's history.

B. It mainly focuses on how Zac Efron grew up.

C. It talks about how Zac Efron dealt with his business.

D. It talks about Zac Efron's successes in career.

20. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. Zac Efron was laughed at because he was the most foolish guy in the class.

B. Zac Efron is promoting his fourth High School Musical film in the world.

C. He once helped the other team win a match when he was playing basketball.

D. In his growing process to be a famous actor, his mother played a key part.

B

When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney (肾) to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a life-saving, "pay-it-forward" chain.

His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in 2007 set off a long-running organ donation that resulted in 10 sick people getting new kidneys over a year. It hasn't ended yet.

Jones, who lives in Petoskey, Michigan, heard a news report about a man giving a kidney to a stranger and thought he'd like to do that, too. He worked with a transplant center in Buffalo, NY, but no match worked out.

He ultimately(最后) was referred to Dr Michael Rees, a transplant surgeon at University of Toledo Nedical Center, who was trying to design an advanced living-donor pairing system.

It paired the 30-year-old Jones with Barb Bunnell, a 53-year-old Arizona woman whose husband wanted to donate a kidney to her but was incompatible.

Just after the July 18, 2007 surgery, Jones recalls feeling "like a truck had run over me". But he was well enough to go to a Diamondbacks baseball game five days later.

Bunnell's grateful husband, Ron, then became what Rees believes is the world's first "bridge" donor, meaning he donated his kidney later.

Ron Bunnell was on a plane a week later to give his kidney to a 32-year-old Toledo woman, Angie Heckman. She's a waitress at a bar owned by her mother, Laurie Sarvo. Sarvo then gave a kidney to a woman in Columbus, Ohio, whose daughter then became the fourth donor in the chain.

On it ran through patient-donor pairs including two more married couples, a daughter and father, and two friends. The last operation was done last March, with a 60-year-old woman in Toledo getting a kidney from a Baltimore donor. That recipient's daughter wants to donate a kidney, but a match hasn't worked out yet.

"There's a very good possibility that when I'm dead and gone, this chain will still be going on," Jone said.

21.What made Jones decide to donate his kidney?

A. His plan to start a life-saving kidney donation chain.

B. His plan to start a living-donor pairing system.

C. The example of a man who had donated a kidney.

D. The example of a man who had taken part in a donating chain.

22.The underlined word "incompatible" in Para.5 probably means "___".

A. of different types B. with health problems

C. for a better use D. in a good condition

23. According to the text, " 'bridge' donor" refers to ___.

A. a person who introduces a kidney donor to a patient in need

B. a person who donates a kidney after his family member receives one

C. a person who does the operation of moving a kidney

D. a person who is responsible for matching different types of kidneys.

24. Which of the following shows the RIGHT donor-patient relationship?

A. Matthew Jones---Michael Rees; Barb Bunnell---Ron Bunnell.

B. Matthew Jones---Michael Rees; Angie Heckman---a woman in Toledo.

C. Matthew Jones---Barb Bunnell; Ron Bunnell---Laurie Sarvo.

D. Matthew Jones---Barb Bunnell; Laurie Sarvo---a woman in Columbus.

25.What can be inferred about the kidney donation chain?

A. It was started in 2007, and ended in 2008.

B. It has included three couples up to now.

C. It encourages family members to help each other.

D. It has caused great debate among doctors.

C

Judging from recent surveys, most experts in sleep behavior agree that there is virtually an epidemic (流行病) of sleepiness in the nation.“I can’t think of a single study that hasn’t found Americans getting less sleep than they ought to,” says Dr.David.Even people who think they are sleeping enough would probably be better off with more rest.

The beginning of our sleep-deficit (lack) crises can be traced back to the invention of the light bulb a century ago.From diary entries and our personal accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries, sleep scientists have reached the conclusion that the average person used to sleep about 9.5 hours a night.“The best sleep habits once were forced on us, when we had nothing to do in the evening down on the farm, and it was dark.” By the 1950s and 1960s, the sleep schedule had been reduced dramatically, to between 7.5 and 8 hours, and most people had to wake to an alarm clock.“People cheat in their sleep, and they don’t even realize they’re doing it,” says Dr.David.“They think they’re okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours, when they really need 7.5, 8 or even more to feel ideally energetic.”

Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep, researches say, is the complexity of the day.Whenever pressures from work, family, friends and community increase, many people consider sleep the least expensive item on their program.“In our society, you’re considered dynamic if you say you need only 5.5 hours’ sleep.If you’ve got to get 8.5 hours, people think you lack drive and ambition.”

To determine the consequences of sleep-deficit, researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add columns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier.“We’ve found that if you’re in sleep deficit, performance suffers,” says Dr.David.“Short-term memory is weakened, as are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate.”

26.What is the main topic of the passage?

A.Research on the causes and consequences of sleep-deficit.

B.The epidemic of sleepiness in the modern times.

C.The history of people’s sleeping patterns.

D.The minimum of our sleeping hours.

27.Which of the following is Dr.David’s opinion?

A.People who think they are sleeping enough are better off than those who don't.

B.Some people can remain energetic with only 6.5 hours’ sleep a night.

C.If they get 8.5 hours’ sleep, people will be full of drive and ambition.

D.People’s metal power suffers if they are lacking in sleep.

28.People in the 18th and 19th centuries slept about 9.5 hours a night because ___.

A.they were forced by their parents to do so

B.they knew what was best for their health

C.they had no electricity

D.they were not so dynamic and ambitious as modern people are

29.The major cause of sleep-deficit of modern people is ___.

A.the endless TV programmes in the evenings and the internet

B.the heavy work load of the day

C.the sufficient energy modern people usually have

D.loud noises in the modern cities

30.What does the word “subjects” in paragraph 4 mean?

A.Person or thing that is being discussed or described.

B.Branch of knowledge studied in a school.

C.Person or thing being treated in a certain way or being experimented on.

D.Any member of a State apart from the supreme ruler.

D

When it comes to using technology to foster education, the prevailing wisdom has been that more is better. Over the past decade, universities around the globe have invested heavily in the wired classroom, adding everything from external laptop connections to Blu-ray DVD players. But there is little evidence that these devices enhance learning – and, critics believe, they might actually hinder it, making both students and teachers passive. What if classrooms were restored to the pre-Internet days of wooden tables and chalk?

Take technology out of the classroom. Jose Nowen, dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Texas, has done just that. He wants his faculty to “teach naked”, meaning without the aid of any machines. “Just because you have a PowerPoint presentation doesn’t mean you have a good lecture,” he argues. Classroom time should be reserved for discussions with the prefessor, aimed at teaching students to think critically, argue, and raise new questions. Due to the grim economic climate at most universities, he says, avoiding new technology is also a sound way to save money.

Bowen, who teaches music, delivers content via podcasts (播客)， which students must listen to on their own time. He then quizzes them on the material before every class to make sure they’ve done the work, and uses class time for discussions and research according to the recorded lessons. He’s been teaching the same material for 25 years, but since he implemented the new way, he says, his students have been more engaged and scored better on exams. College students asked by researchers to list what motivates them have consistently emphasized teacher enthusiasm, organization, and raport (融洽的关系), while naming lack of active participation as a major disincentive (遏制因素). Last spring the British Educational Research Journal published a survey that found that 59 percent of students called at least half their lectures boring – particularly those involving PowerPoint.

Technology has a place in education, but it should be used independently by students outside the classroom. That gives them more time to absorb lectures via podcast or video, and frees teachers to spend class time coaching students in how to apply the material rather than simply absorb it.

31. What’s the opinion of critics about the technology used in the classrooms?

A. It helps enhance teaching and learning.

B. It puts extra financial burden on schools.

C. It may serve as an obstacle to learning.

D. It has injected great vitality into the class.

32. What does Jose Bowen expect his teachers to do?

A. To teach the students how to use technology after class.

B. To explain the materials clearly in their unique ways.

C. To give PowerPoint presentation when teaching.

D. To teach the students without the aid of technology.

33. According to the passage, class time should be used to _____ .

A. discuss how to treat techonlogy B. learn the materials by heart

C. promote students’ critical thinking D. update students on new information

34. What do we learn from the third paragraph?

A. Active participation in class stimulates students to leran.

B. Students need tests to check what they have learned.

C. Most students regard lectures with PowerPoint as less boring.

D. Teachers’ influence is the most important factor in teaching.

35. What is the author’s attitude towards using technology in the classroom?

A. Concerned. B. Indifferent. C. Optimistic. D. Disapproving.