英语是联合国的正式工作语言之一。精品小编准备了高二英语期中测试卷，具体请看以下内容。

第一卷

I. 听力部分(共两节，共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

第一节(共5小题，每小题1分)

听下面五段对话，每段对话后有一小题，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.How are the people in the dialogue traveling?

A.By plane       B.By car        C.By train

2.What does the man mean?

A.He doesn’t have the book.   B.He had the book,but lost it.     C.He has not read the book.

3.What is he going to buy?

A.Fish           B.Carrots.            C.Chicken

4.How did the man feel about the match?

A.He felt it was worse than the last match.

B.He felt it was the best match he had ever seen.

C.He felt it was the worst match he had ever watched.

5.What does the man mean?

A.He hates red shoes.

B.He doesn’t like them as well as the blue ones.

C.He likes the blue ones better.

第二节(共15小题，每小题1分)

听下面5段对话或独白。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。每段对话前，你都有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;听完后每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第六段材料，回答第6至8题。

6.Why did the man need help?

A.He bought too many books.

B.There was something wrong with his arms.         C.His arms were broken.

7.Why did the man buy so many books?

A.It was Christmas Day.

B.The books were cheap.                C.He wanted to hire some to his friends.

8.How much did the man spend on each book?

A.14 cents         B.15 cents           C.50 cents

听第七段材料，回答第9至12题。

9.Where are they having the conversation?

A.In a store.          B.At the airport     C.At school

10.What does the man want to do?

A.Go to his brother’s graduation.

B.Meet someone from Canada.              C.Invite the woman over to his house.

11.What can we learn about the man’s sister?

A.She lives in Canada.

B.She has just come back from Canada.         C.She will leave on Sunday.

12.Why can’t the woman come over?

A.She doesn’t  know the man very well.

B.Her sister is coming to town.               C.She has to go up to a graduation.

听第八段材料，回答第13至14题。

13.What is probably the relationship between the two speakers?

A.Husband and wife        B.Mother and son        C.Teacher and student

14.Where should Bill empty the basket?

A.On the floor       B.In the dustbin at the back of the school       C.On the playground

听第九段材料，回答第15至17题

15.What is John?

A.A farmer             B.A doctor           C.A postman

16.What can we learn about Fred?

A.He had the largest farm in America.

B.He grows cotton in his field.             C.He will buy more fields next year.

17.What did the woman once do at her brother’s?

A.Drinking milk        B.Killing a cow         C.Milking a cow

听第十段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.What sports does the man like to play after work?

A.Table tennis,running and golf

B.Tennis,jogging and golf               C.Tennis,running and golf

19.How often does the man play golf?

A.About once a week          B.About once a month         C.About once a year

20.What time will they meet at the club?

A.At 1:30 pm           B.At 1:30 am                 C.About 2:30 pm

II. 单项填空(共13小题;每小题1分，满分13分)

21. ----It looks heavy. Can I give you a hand?

----_______.

A. No, thanks      B. Yes, my pleasure

C. No, never mind  D. Yes, I do

22. Let’s go to ______ cinema – that’ll take your mind off the problem for _____while.

A. the; the          B. the; a         C. a; the          D. a; a

23. How much _______ she looked without her glasses!

A. well          B. good         C. best          D. better

24. The boss ____ department Ms King worked ten years ago look down upon women.

A. in which　　   B. in that　　　   C. in whose　　　　 D. whose

25. With the guide ________ the way, we finally got to the village which we were looking for.

A. led    B. leading   C. to lead   D. had led

26. ---Is Bob still performing?

---I’m afraid not.He is said ______ the stage already as he has become an official.

A.to have left       B.to leave       C.to have been left       D.to be left

27. The situation is very serious, even if the government tries to pretend ______.

A. furthermore       B. otherwise       C. actually        D. therefore

28. —Well, Randy is not quite ready to make a decision yet.

—So, ______, we have to wait, right?

A. in other words     B. on the other hand      C. in particular     D. above all

29. Most villagers agree that horses are far more pleasant _______ than tractors, but they are less efficient.

A. looking at      B. to look at    C. to be looked at     D. being looked at

30. He made another wonderful discovery , ____ of great importance to science.

A .which I think is　           B. which I think it is

C .which I think it             D.I think which is

31. The doctor recommend he _________ a few more days in hospital.

A. stays.       B. to stay       C. stay         D. would stay

32. The hospital ________ well, where many wounded _________ every day.

A. is operated, operation    B. operates, are operated on

C. operates; are operated    D. operates; operates on

33.____________ to tell him the news; he has been told of it.

A. There is no need        B. It is no need     C. You are no need     D. It needn’t

III. 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

James’s New Bicycle

James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully __34__ the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90! __35__ on earth was he going to get the __36_ of  the money?

He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was __37__ to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no __38__ asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to __39__.

There was only one way to get money, and that was to __40__ it. He would have to find a job. __41__ who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice, who usually had __42__ on most things.

“Well, you can start right here,” said Mr. Clay. “My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing.”

That was the __43__ of James’s odd-job(零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was amazed by the __44__ of jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the __45__ of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the __46__ increased and he knew that he would soon have __47__ for the bicycle he longed for.

The day __48__ came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He __49__ no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode __50__ home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard __51__ for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle __52__ he had bought it with his own money. He had __53__what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.

34. A. cleaned        B. covered       C. counted          D. checked

35. A. How     B. Why     C. Who       D. What

36. A. amount     B. part     C. sum      D. rest

37. A. brave      B. hard      C. smart     D. unfair

38. A. point     B. reason     C. result      D. right

39. A. split      B. spend     C. spare       D. save

40. A. borrow    B. earn     C. raise      D. collect

41. A. Or      B. So      C. For      D. But

42. A. decisions    B. experience    C. opinions     D. knowledge

43. A. beginning    B. introduction    C. requirement     D. opening

44. A. similarity    B. quality     C. suitability     D. variety

45. A. brand     B. number    C. size       D. type

46. A. effort     B. pressure    C. money     D. trouble

47. A. all      B. enough     C. much      D. some

48. A. finally    B. instantly    C. normally     D. regularly

49. A. gave     B. left      C. took      D. wasted

50. A. patiently    B. proudly     C. silently      D. tiredly

51. A. applying     B. asking     C. looking      D. working

52. A. since     B. if      C. than      D. though

53. A. deserved    B. benefited    C. achieved     D. learned

IV.阅读理解(共17小题;每小题2分，满分34分)

A

Like cats, geckos(壁虎)always land on their feet. If they happen to fall from a wall or leaf they’ve been climbing, a quick move of the tail makes sure that they always land on their feet first, a new study finds.

Geckos are truly built for climbing: their feet have hairy toes that can fix themselves to a wall or other vertical(竖直的)surfaces. However, geckos’ feet can’t always keep hold and they may fall to the ground. When geckos fall or jump off a wall, they always land stomach-side down. Geckos’ long tails become necessary during their falls, the new study shows.

Researchers did an experiment. They placed geckos up-side-down on the underside of a leaf. When they lost their foothold and fell, the geckos pitched (倾斜)their tails for balance. They then rotated(旋转)their tails to make their bodies rotate. As soon as they were right-side up, they stopped rotating. On average, it only took the geckos about a tenth of a second to right themselves so that they would land on their feet.

Cats use a different way to land on their feet after a fall. As their tails don’t have the power like geckos’ tails, cats can’t use them to right themselves. Instead they twist their bodies around mid-air.

Engineers are trying to build a robot that imitates the geckos’ climbing ability. A tail will be fixed to the robot to allow it to keep balance.

54. What do we know about geckos?

A. Their toes make it possible for them to walk on walls.

B. Their tails can fix them to a wall or other vertical surfaces.

C. They often land on their backs when they jump off walls.

D. It takes them a second to right themselves in mid-air.

55. How do cats avoid their injury during a fall?

A. By twisting their bodies.                 B. By fixing their toes to the ground.

C. By using their tails to right themselves.     D. By landing upside-down.

56. Geckos’special abilities have given engineers some new ideas to _________.

A. allow robots to climb vertical surfaces        B. reproduce geckos like robots

C. invent robots that can rotate on the ground

D. invent robots that can balance themselves using their tails

57. What is the text mainly talking about?

A. The interesting living habits of geckos.   B. The differences between cats and geckos.

C. Why geckos always land on their feet.     D. How geckos climb up vertical walls.

B

Susan Sontag (1933 — 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything — to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords(格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In ‘‘Notes on Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. ‘“Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’ over ‘content’ ,‘beauty’ over ‘morals’”.

By conviction(信念)she was a sensualist(感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist(伦理论者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor — published in 1978, after she suffered cancer — she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities (被压抑的个性), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. “Sometimes,” she once said, “I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending ... is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness.” And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

58. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means Sontag _____ .

A. was a symbol of American cultural life       B. developed world literature, film and art

C. published many essays about world culture

D. kept pace with the newest development of world culture

59. She first won her name through _____ .

A. her story of a Polish actress         B. her book Illness as Metaphor

C. publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review

D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

60. According to the passage, Susan Sontag ______.

A. was a sensualist as well as a moralist        B. looked down, upon the pop culture

C. thought content was more important than form

D. blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

61. As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she ______.

A. misunderstood the idea of seriousness        B. re-examined old positions

C. argued for an openness to pop culture       D. preferred morals to beauty

62. Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon _____ .

A. a tireless, all-purpose cultural view     B. her lifelong watchword: seriousness

C. publishing books on morals D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

C

The coyote (丛林狼), that clever animal of wide-open spaces, has come to the nation’s capital. In fact, coyotes have spread to every corner of the United States, changing their behaviors to fit new environments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature: the city coyote.

The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent. One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious (臭名昭著的) pest. Hunters trapped, shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s. It’s still one of America’s most hunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived. How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability? “I guess if you wanted to use one word, it’d be ‘plasticity’,” says Eric Gese, an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alone, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves; hunt at night or during the day; occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles; and live on all sorts of food, from lizards (蜥蜴) and shoes, to ants and melons.

Unbelievably people helped coyotes increase when they killed most of the wolves in the United States. The spreading of coyotes into city areas, though, is recent. They travel at night, crossing sidewalks and bridges, running along roads and ducking into culverts (钻入涵洞) and underpasses. No one knows why coyotes are moving into cities, but experts explain that cleverer, more human-tolerant (不怕人的) coyotes are teaching urban survival skills to new generations.

Occasionally, coyotes might attack human beings. There have been about 160 attacks on people in recent years. Therefore, people have been consistently told not to feed coyotes or leave pet food unsecured. That, plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood, has cut down on the coyote population.

63. The underlined word “plasticity” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.

A. the ability to fit the environment   B. notorious smartness

C. hunting ability                      D. being human-tolerant

64. The aim of the passage is to _____.

A. tell people how to fight against coyotes

B. tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animal

C. supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of notorious pest

D. explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities

65. According to the passage, coyotes _____.

A. originally lived in the west of the continent

B. sleep during the day but look for food at night

C. are teaching survival skills to their younger generations

D. suffered a population decrease because people killed wolves

66. According to the passage,to cut down the coyote population,people should ____________.

A. leave pet food sesured       B.keep coyotes in small regions

C.force coyotes to live alone    D.avoid using trapping programmes

D

It's only 4 hours flying time from Sydney, but a world away. What better place to rest than a country where the only place people hurry is on the football field and things are done in "Fiji time"?

Viti Lev--Great Fiji--is the largest island. Here you'll find the capital Suva and the international airport at Nadi Vatoa in the farthest part of Fiji. Then there are 331 other islands, many of them with places to stay.

With less than a million people living on islands, you'll never feel crowded . And with a climate that changes only for five degrees between seasons, there’s never a bad time to come.

From cities to villages, from mountains to beaches, from water sports to wooden artworks, Fiji can give you more adventures and special experiences than you could find almost anywhere in the world.

Whenever you come , wherever you go ,you’re sure to see some unforgettable events ,from war dances to religious songs,from market days to religious days. It's not just staged for tourists; it's still a part of everyday life in Fiji.And any one of us can enjoy Fiji's spirit by being part of the traditional sharing of yaqona—a drink made from the root of a Fiji plant.

So why not join us for the experience of a lifetime?

67. Where is the international airport of Fiji?

A. In Suva                      B. In Sydney

C. On the island of Vatoa          D. On the island of Viti Levu

68. What does the text tell us about Fiji people ?

A. They invented “Fiji time” for visitors.    B. They stick to a traditional way of life.

C. They like to travel from place to place.   D. They love taking adventures abroad.

69. One of the things that make Fiji a tourist attraction is

A. its comfortable hotels             B. its good weather all year round

C. its exciting football matches        D. its religious beliefs

70. Where can we most probably read this text?

A. In a personal diary                 B. In a science report

C. In a travel magazine                D. In a geography textbook

第二卷(共45分)

V. 选用正确的词组填空 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分;其中有三个多余项)

leave alone;   was aware ;   came across;    as far as he was concerned;    adjust to;

fit in with;    in the meantime;       dying to;        all in all;

had no difficulty;      upside down;

1.He has his faults,but _______________ he is an honest man.

2.You buy the fruit,________________ I'll cook breakfast.

3.Besides,____________________ ,what other people thought was not the most important thing.

4.His ideas didn't __________________ our aims.

5.How difficult do you think it is to ________________ living in another country?

6.I ______________ this book in an old bookstore near the Palace Museum.

7.I know you're ________________ hear all about my life here.

8.You'd better turn the bottle _________________ to empty out the oil.

(请将第V大题的答案写在答卷纸上!)

第Ⅰ卷(共115分)

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

请听下面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 do we know about the man’s car?

A. It doesn’t work at all.        B. It can be used as usual.      C. It’s completely damaged.

2. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In a bank.                 B. In a store.                 C. In a hotel.

3. What does the woman look like in the picture?

A. She looks thinner.           B. She looks fatter.           C. She looks taller.

4. What is the woman looking for?

A. A wristwatch.              B. A young lady.             C. A young man.

5. What is the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Teacher and student.         B. Boss and employee.        C. Guard and visitor.