浙江省台州中学学高二英语下学期期中试题-精

台州中学2015学年第二学期期中试题高二英语本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II 卷（非选择题）第I卷第一部分听力（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 does the man want to do?A. Learn to play the guitar again.B. Ask Jodie to play the drums.C. Invite Jodie to join his band.2. Which sport will the speakers do after lunch?A. Swimming.B. Basketball.C. Tennis.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. What the film is about.B. When they will meet.C. Whether there are advertisements.4. How much does the camera in the shop cost now?A. ￡150.B.￡180.C.￡200.5. What is the man going to do?A. Pick up the woman at midday.B. Listen to the weather report.C. Wait for the woman’s call第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面对话或独白，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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7题。

6. What relation is the woman to the man?A. His customer.B. His secretary.C. His boss.7. What will the man do at ten tomorrow?A. Meet a customer.B. Discuss with the woman.C. Telephone Miss Takemura. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10题。

8. What does the man think of the journey to the lakeside house?A. Enjoyable.B. TiringC. Uncomfortable.9. What was the problem for the man?A. There was no time to think and read.B. The lakeside house was quite small.C. The local shop was too far away.10. How did the man go shopping during his trip?A. On foot.B. By car.C. By bike.听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13题。

11. Where are the speakers?A. At home.B. At a restaurant.C. At a supermarket.12. What are the speakers doing?A. Ordering food for children.B. Preparing for a family get-together.C. Buying things for a long journey.13. What will the woman do tomorrow?A. Buy a lot of food.B. Pick up the man’s mother.C. Send her car to the garage.听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17题。

14. How did Katherine do her most recent climb?A. In a group.B. With a guide.C. On her own.15. What made Katherine’s first climb of Mont Blanc difficult?A. The poor weather conditions.B. The long climbing time.C. The crowded people.16. What did Katherine do before her second climb to make it easier?A. She made a detailed plan.B. She spent a few days in Chamonix.C. She climb smaller mountains for training.17. What special advice does Katherine offer about climbing Mont Blanc?A. Wear enough clothes.B. Have the right equipment.C. Improve the physical condition.听下面一段对话，回答第18至第20题。

18. How will this year’s dance classes be different from last year’s?A. They will take place every week.B. Children can show off what they learn in class.C. Children will be divided into two groups.19. Why is the time of the dance classes changed?A. To offer convenience to parents.B. To give children more spare time.C. To make each class longer.20. What should people do if they want their children to join the dance class?A. Make a phone call to Melanie.B. Go straight to the dance club.C. Book a place in advance.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35 分）第一节（共10 个小题；每小题2.5 分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

AEveryone has a story and this is mine. My name is Irma Carter. My company is newly founded and was born out of pain, as all babies are. So now, let me take you back before the birth. I worked for a company for 18 years, faithfully and hard. I loved my profession as a Medical Billing Supervisor(监督员) and loved the physicians I worked for. I worked so much that my family time took second place.Well with life comes change and here comes the change. What was the least of my worries soon became a major reality. My position was removed. Fear immediately gripped my heart. At that time I was so upset that I couldn’t think straight. One day a s I was surfing the web for a job, I began reading about some of the challenges other people were having. It was then that I realized that there are many people out there who have gone through what I’ve also gone through or a similar situation. Before I wa s fired, work was all I knew. Later, I came to realize that my life was totally out of balance at that time, so I needed to change things.I began to surf the web again. This time I wanted to find ways to become healthier, more energetic and peaceful. I surfed for ways to make money by working from home, and ways to educate my beautiful grandchildren. I began to buy products that helped me to get my life back on track and taught me how to live a more simple and peaceful life.I am now living a simple and relaxing life that I never knew existed. My hobby has always been to help others. The products being offered here are designed for everyone. You just have to find the right product that will help change your life and h opefully increase your days of health, wealth and prosperity.21. What did Irma Carter think of his life before he was fired?A. Quite satisfyingB. Rather challengingC. Very boringD. Totally unbalanced22. The underlined part “What was the least of my worries” in para.2 refers to __________.A. setting up a companyB. losing his jobC. worrying about his familyD. changing his position23. What do the last two paragraphs mainly tell us?A. The writer’s new life after losing his job.B. The web’s help to the writer.C. What the writer did when surfing the web.D. The writer’s plan for helping others.BParents who are planning to give their children mobile phones must understand that mobile phone ownership requires discipline (自制力). Therefore, in order to prepare children for the responsibilities that come with mobile phone ownership, parents must plan everything well: themselves and their children.The decision to give children mobile phones com es from parents’ desire for their children to be readily accessible to them. Parents want to be sure that they can contact their children anytime they want. To be able to do so gives them an assurance that in case of emergencies, their children can always reach them, and vice versa (反之亦然).What many parents do not realize is the fact that mobile phone ownership, especially when it relates to children, is something that must be planned well. It is more than just choosing the right phone, or the right mobile phone service provider, or the right mobile phone plan.Mobile phone ownership, to some degree, requires maturity (成熟) from the mobile phone user. Surprisingly, it’s not only about maturity in age; it’s also about mental andemotional maturity, which is not really based on age. It is a fact that some people can be 30 years old and still be immature emotionally and mentally, while someone can be 15 years old yet can be emotionally and in a way, mentally mature.Parents have a serious responsibility to prepare and help their children develop and become mature, physically, mentally, and emotionally, by allowing them to go through the process of learning by “doing”. Therefore, mobile phone ownership, in some ways, can actually be used to teach children responsibility, but only when parents understand why.It is vital that parents and children both understand the conditions, effects, responsibilities, and the risks that come with mobile phone o wnership, especially if the children are still very young. Parents should make sure that their children are prepared, responsible and disciplined enough to be trusted with a mobile phone.24. Why do parents decide to buy their children mobile phones?A. To help their children become mature.B. To ease their feelings of loneliness.C. To contact their children conveniently.D. To ensure the safety of their children.25. What should parents consider most if they want to buy their children mobile phones?A.The right mobile phone service provider.B. The functions added to the mobile phone.C. A good plan for mobile phone ownership.D. The reason for buying phones for children.26. What can we learn about mobile phone ownership from the passage?A. It should be a thing carried out by adults only.B. It shouldn’t be given to anyone with men tal disease.C. It can be the best way to teach children responsibility.D. It requires a person of psychological maturity.CSpeed-reading is a necessary skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and WeChat to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of a certain text. Surrounded with information from our electronic devices, it would be impossible to cope if we read word by word, line by line．But a new trend calls on people to unplug and enjoy reading slowly, listing benefits beyond the intelligent stimulation (刺激)．A recent story from The Wall Street Journal reported on a book club in Wellington, New Zealand, where members meet in a cafe and turn off their smart-phones. They sink into cozy chairs and read in silence for an hour. Unlike traditional book clubs, the point of the slow reading club isn't exchanging ideas about a certain book, but to get away from electronic devices and read in a quiet, relaxing environment. According to the Journal, the Wellington book club is just one example of a movement started by book lovers who miss the old-fashioned way of reading before the Internet and sm art phones．Slow readers, s uch as The Atlantic's Maura Kelly, say that a regular reading habit sharpens the mind, improves concentration, reduces stress levels and deepens the ability to sympathize (同情). Another study published last year in Science shows that reading novels helps people understand others’ mental states and beliefs, a basic skill in building relationships．Yet technology has made us less attentive readers. Screens have changed our reading patterns from the straight and left-to-right sequence to a wild skimming and skipping pattern as we hunt for important words and information. Reading text interrupted by links leads to weaker understanding than reading plain text. “The Internet may have made us stupider”, says Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian. “Because of the Internet,” he says, “we have become very good at collecting a wide range of interesting news, but we are also gradually forgetting how to sit back, reflect (反思), and relate all these fact s to each other.”Slow reading means a return to an uninterrupted, straight pattern, in a quiet environment. “Aim for 30 minutes a day.” Advises Kelly from The Atlantic. “You can squeeze in that half hour pretty easily if only during your free moments, you pick up a meaningful work of literature .” Kelly said, “Reach for your e-reader, if you like. Kindles make books, like War and Peace, less heavy and also ensure you'll never lose your place.”27. The book club in Wellington mentioned in Paragraph 2 shows____________．A. the new trend of slow readingB. the decline of electronic devicesC. the importance of exchanging ideasD. the increasing number of club readers28. According to Patrick Kingsley, people are stupider partly because of_____________．A. a non-stop reading patternB. the straight, left-to-right screenC. a wide range of interesting newsD. the lack of reflection29. According to the passage, slow reading___________．A. contributes to understanding among peopleB. develops the current technologyC. provides people with a quiet environmentD. cures the memory loss of elderly people30. What's the best title for the passage?A. Benefit of Reading Clubs．B. Return of Slow Reading．C. Reading of the Internet Age.D. Influence of Speed Reading．第二节（共5个小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。