高中英语是中国对英语教育阶段的一个部分组成。精品小编准备了大连二十中高二上学期英语期中试题，具体请看以下内容。

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. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At the railway station     B. At the woman’s home  C. At the bus stop

2. What telephone number is the man dialing?

A. 2354154     B. 2345145   C. 2435145

3. What is Julia Brown?

A. A singer    B. An actress      C. A lawyer

4. What do we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman is mad.   B. The man is angry with the woman.

C. The man can’t forgive the woman.

5. When will the woman go to see Professor Wang?

A. At 3 pm on Wednesday.     B. At 4 pm on Thursday.  C. At 10 am on Friday

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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. How much did the woman pay for the dress?A. $400.        B. $340.        C. $200.

7. When will the woman get to Rome?

A. On July 10th.          B. On July 11th.      C. On July 12th.

8. What does the woman want the man to do this weekend?

A. To meet her at the airport      B. To see her off at the airport C. To clean the house.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. When does the man need to turn right?

A. When he reaches the City Council.      B. When he reaches the traffic lights.

C. When he reaches the post office.

10. What is the Peace Hotel like?

A. It is a light green building.     B. It is a six-storey building.    C. It’s a white building.

11. What can we learn about the woman?

A. She is young.    B. She is beautiful.        C. She is patient.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Why does the man visit the girl’s home?

A. To explain why he didn’t answer the phone.

B. To talk about some matters with the girl’s father.

C. To ask the girl about her college study.

13. What did Madhuri probably major in at college?

A. Law.            B. Computer.          C. Medicine.

14. When will the girl’s mother come back home?

A. About 9 am       B. About 8:30 pm      C. About 9 pm

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

15. When do the two speakers plan to move out of the apartment?

A. This spring          B. In July        C. Before July

16. Why doesn’t the man want to ask a company to help them find a house?

A. Because he doesn’t want to pay more money.   B. Because he can’t find a good company.

C. Because his friends tell him not to do so.

17. How do they decide to look for a house at last?

A. Find a good company.      B. Put an ad in the newspaper.

C. Check the ads in the newspaper.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When was Michelle Obama born?

A. On January 17th, 1964.    B. On January 23rd, 1964.    C. On January 20th , 1955.

19. Where did Michelle meet Barack Obama?

A. In the University of Chicago             B. In a law firm in Chicago

C. In Harvard University Law School

20. What is the most important thing for Michelle to do at present?

A. To do public service well.               B. To raise her two daughters.

C. To give her husband support.

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，从每题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶)that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents(文件). Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

21. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A. Go shopping                       B. Take his family

C. Join his family                     D. Find a house

22. The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______.

A. a friend of his family                B. a Sydney policeman

C. a letter in his papers                 D. a stranger in Sydney

23. What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?

A. Showed                          B. Gave back

C. Delivered                         D. Sent out

24. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Turning Trash to Treasure..            B. Living in a New Country.

C. From India to Australia               D. In Search of New Friends.

B

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University(SMU)in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn’t afford the operation because her family was poor.

Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼)one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿). On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.

My father then set out to sell it. Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.

My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.

25. Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A. The author.       B. The author’s father.        C. The girl.    D.The girl’s mother

26. Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?

A. O. Henry once worked in Houston.           B. O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C. O. Henry once moved to Des Moines.      D. O. Henry once taught at SMU.

27. The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.

A. named            B. treated            C. proved      D. described

28. According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A. To meet the author himself.          B. To sell the O. Henry story.

C. To talk with the O. Henry expert.      D. To give money to the girl.

C

Why do Americans struggle with watching their weight, while the French, who consume rich food, continue to stay thin? Now a research by Cornell University suggests how life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel full. However, Americans tend to stop when their plate is empty or their favorite TV show is over.

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, a health expert, the French see eating as an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a fairly long time at the table, while Americans see eating as something to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans lose the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and frozen foods for the week. The French, instead, tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers’ markets where they have a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.

After a visit to the United States, Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get Fat, decided to write about the importance of knowing when to stop rather than suggesting how to avoid food. Today she continues to stay slim and rarely goes to the gym.

In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style changes may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity — or  extreme overweight — among adults is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains acceptance and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17% — and is growing.

29. In what way are the French different from Americans according to Dr. Joseph Mercola?

A. They go shopping at supermarkets more frequently.

B. They squeeze eating between the other daily activities.

C. They usually eat too much canned and frozen food.

D. They regard eating as a key part of their lifestyles.

30. This text is mainly the relationship between _________.

A. Americans and the French           B. life style and obesity

C. children and adults        D. fast food and overweight

31. The text is mainly developed __________.

A. by space            B. by process      C. by contrast     D. by classification

32. Where does this text probably come from?

A. A TV interview    B. A food advertisement    C. A book review  D. A health report