英语是事实上的国际交流语言。精品小编准备了高二英语期中测试题，具体请看以下内容。

第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20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 do the speakers need to buy?

A. A fridge   B. A dinner table   C. A few chairs

2. Where are the speakers?

A. In a restaurant.   B. In a hotel C. In a school.

3. What does the woman mean?

A. Cathy will be at the party. B. Cathy is too busy to come.

C. Cathy is going to be invited

4. Why does the woman plan to go to town?

A. To pay her bills in the bank. B. To buy books in a bookstore.

C. To get some money from the bank

5. What is the woman trying to do ?

A. Finish some writing   .B. Print an article.    C. Find a newspaper.

第二节(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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。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、7题。

6. What is the man doing ?

A. Changing seats on the plane B. Asking for a window seat

C. Trying to find his seat

7. What is the woman’s seat number?

A. 6A    B. 7A     C. 8A

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why doesn’t the woman take the green T-shirt?

A. It’s too small B. It’s too dark C. It’s too expensive

9. What does the woman buy in the end?

A. A yellow T-shirt   B. A blue T-shirt   C. A pink T-shirt

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How long has the man been in London?

A. One year. B. A few years C. A couple of months

11. Why did the woman leave her hometown?

A. To lend a city life      B. To open a restaurant. C. To find a job

12. Where did the woman come from?

A. London. B. Arnside C. Lancaster.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is a daypack?

A. A box B. A bag C. A lock

14. What surprise the girl at school?

A. A lot of discussions in class B. Teachers giving little homework

C. Few students asking questions in class.

15. At what time of the school term does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At the end of it.   B. In the middle of it   C. At the beginning of it

16. What do we know about the girl?

A. She is new to the school   B. She writes for the school newspaper.

C. She seldom asks questions in class.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where does Mr Henry Stone do?

A. A bank clerk B. A teacher C. A writer

18. What does Henry like doing at airport?

A. Watching people    B. Telling stories        C. Reading magazines.

19. What did Henry learn from the newspaper the day?

A. A valuable suitcase was missing B. A man stole money from a bank

C. A woman ran away from home

20. Why was the woman at the airport?

A. She was traveling on business B. She was seeing the man off.

C. She was leaving for Greece

第二部分  英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)

第一节  单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15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. -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. Edward, you play so well. But I        you played the piano.

A. didn’t know     B. hadn’t known

C. don’t know    D. haven’t known

23. The computer was used in teaching. As a result, not only     , but students became more interested in the lessons.

A. saved was teachers’ energy    B. was teachers’ energy saved

C. teachers’ energy was saved   D. was saved teachers’ energy

24 Everybody was touched        words after they heard her moving story.

A. beyond   B. without       C. of       D. in

25.His project is concerned with _____ the technology to practical business problems.

A. replying   B. devoting   C. supplying   D. applying

26. We demanded that we _____ of any change in the plan that they put forward.

A. informed   B. be informing   C. be informed   D. had been informed

27. The food here is so bad that every other restaurant in the world must be ____ this one.

A. referred to   B. eager to   C. tired of   D. superior to

28. More and more fast-food restaurants have _____ all over the town in the last few years.

A. come up   B. taken up   C. sprung up   D. put up

29. The situation is hard to ___, because he isn’t a man easy to ____.

A. be dealt, communicate        B. be dealt with, be communicated

C. deal with, communicate with     D. deal , be communicated with

30. ______ all day, he was terribly hungry.

A. Having not eaten                 B. Eating nothing

C. Not having eaten                 D. Nothing having eaten

31. After staying in hospital for long, the patient was advised to go to the seaside to__ his health.

A. take up        B. pick up        C. carry up        D. make up

32. E-mail, as well as telephones,         an important part in daily communication.

A. is playing      B. have played       C. was playing        D. play

33. The audiences’ reaction made it _____ that this play was a great success.

A. evident   B. familiar   C. relevant   D. skeptical.

34. Will these vegetables _____ for four to five days in the fridge?

A. be stayed fresh   B. stay fresh   C. stay freshly   D. be stayed freshly

35.We        such great advance without your efforts. Thanks a lot.

A.can’t have made     B.couldn’t have made

C.were unable to make    D.are unable to make

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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(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。

“This Friday we’ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge,” said our science teacher, Mr. Baker.

“ You can work alone with a partner.”

My friend, Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects 36.

The 37 of the Challenge was simple— to build a projective container to keep an egg from breaking when 38 the stadium wall.

I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie. 39 the butter-cream gave me an idea.

“I have a brilliant design for our 40 container!” I said when Cassie arrived. “We can 41 the egg with some butter-cream.

“Why not put the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落伞) 42 ?” Cassie rolled her eyes.” The parachute is better than that stupid idea.”

I couldn’t believe it. Of course we’d had our little 43 in the past, but she’d never called any of my ideas “44” before.

“Then I’ll build mine and you build yours!”

45 words had been out, our friendship was challenged.