2014年最新高二英语下学期期中试题

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共5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 kind of sports is the man’s favorite?

A. Golf.   B. Basketball.  C. Football.

2. How many people are there in the woman’s family?

A. 4    B. 5         C. 6

3. What does the man mean about Betty?

A. She doesn’t like going shopping.

B. She went shopping yesterday.

C. She prefers shopping to studying.

4. What does the man want to learn?

A. Russian.   B. Spanish.   C. English.

5. Why did Bob fail to pass the driver’s test?

A. He hadn’t enough practice.

B. He was too nervous

C. He wasn’t good at driving.

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，回答第6至7题。

6. Where has the man been?

A. Manchester.   B. Paris.   C. London.

7. Who will the man talk with this evening?

A. The woman.  B. His boss.    C. Tom.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the teacher ask his students to call him?

A. James.  B. Mr. Black.  C. Jim.

9. What does the man think about studying chemistry?

A. It’s good to have a chemistry teacher.

B. It’s important to watch carefully.

C. It’s interesting to study chemistry.

第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节 多项选择(共10小题;每小题1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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. When delivering a speech, you should adjust your language to the age of your ______ audience.

A. target  B. entry           C. boundary  D. concept

22. But for his help, we wouldn’t have succeeded. So we ______ his timely aid.

A. distributed      B. contributed      C. acknowledged     D. admitted

23. It seemed somewhat ________ of a sensible man to drive 3 hours just for a 10-minute face-to-face talk, but I did that to interview Justin Bieber.

A. absurd  B. relevant     C. clumsy        D. aware

24. The outbreak of this incident has given us much for thought, forcing us to ______ seriously on the past and the future.

A. depend  B. reflect     C. concentrate    D. congratulate

25. I always think it was such a(n) ______ for me to have spent a day with kids in the Children’s Home.

A. certificate        B. assessment     C. privilege        D. arrangement

26. While the government says there is a(n) ______ supply of houses, prices of apartments have been going up these years.

A. parallel        B. absent    C. abundant     D. short

27. Since Australia is a multicultural and unique society, it is probably hard for Chinese students to _______ it.

A. end up with   B. fit in with     C. put up with    D. come up with

28. One day, when I was walking in the street, someone dropped a pie from a window above, and it _______ missed landing on my head.

A. narrowly       B. sharply   C. constantly      D. vividly

29. Several merchant princes declared bankruptcy(破产). Before long, panic on the stock market ______ a wave of selling.

A. set about     B. set off         C. set down  D. set out

30. We won three games and lost two. ______, I'd say it was a successful tournament.

A. In total      B. In particular      C. In need           D. All in all

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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D) 中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

On a cold winter day, I waited in line to see my hero, Jack Canfield, the author of The Success Principles.

During his talk, Jack   31   his wallet, pulled out a hundred-dollar bill, and said, “Who wants this?”   32   shot up in the audience; people leaned forward to see whom Jack would   33  . But I jumped up, ran up the   34   to the stage, and grabbed the bill. As I was launching myself in the air, thoughts   35   through my mind — was I about to be humiliated (羞辱) in front of 800 people? Would they   36   security guards and take me from the stage?   37   my desire for brave action was louder than any   38   voice.