高二第二学期期末考试（英语）（考试总分：150 分）一、听力（本题共计1小题，总分30分）1.（30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，你将有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 will the woman do this afternoon?A．Do some exercise.B．Go shopping.C．Wash her clothes. 2．Why does the woman call the man?A ．To cancel a flight.B．To make an apology.C．To put off a meeting. 3．How much more does David need for the car?A．$ 5,000.B．$20,000.C．$25,000.4．What is Jane doing?A．Planning a tour.B．Calling her father.C．Asking for leave.5 ．How does the man feel?A．Tied.B．Dizzy.C．Thirsty.第二节( 每题1.5分，共15小题，共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。
听毎段对话或独白前，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6、7题6. What does Jack want to do?A. Watch TV.B. Play outside.C. Go to the zoo.7. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At home.B. In a cinema.C. In a supermarket.听第7段村料，回答第8、9、10、题8. What does Richard do?A. He’s a newsman.B. He’s a manager.C. He’s a researcher.9. Where is Richard going next week?A. Birmingham.B. Mexico City.C. Shanghai.10. What will the speakers do tomorrow?A. Eat out together.B. Visit a university.C. See Professor Hayes.听第8段材料，回答第11、12、13题11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. School friends.B. Teacher and student.C. Librarian and library user.12. Why does Jim suggest Mary buy the book?A. It’s sold at a discount price.B. It’s important for her study.C. It’s written by Professor Lee.13. What will Jim do for Mary?A. Share his book with her.B. Lend her some money.C. Ask Henry for help.听第9材料，回答第14至16题14. Where does Stella live?A. In MemphisB. In BostonC. In St Louis15. What would Peter and his family like to do on Beale Street?A.Visit a museumB. Listen to musicC. Have dinner16. What kind of hotel does Peter prefer?A. A big oneB. A quite oneC.A modern one听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17. How many lab sessions will the students have every week?A. OneB. TwoC. Three18. What are the students allowed to wear in the lab ?A. Long scarvesB. Loose clothesC. Tennis shoes19 .Why should the students avoid mixing liquid with paper?A. It may cause a fireB. It may create wasteC.It may produce pollution20.What does the speaker mainly talk about?A. Grades the student will receiveB. Rules the students should followC. Experiments the students will do.二、阅读理解（本题共计4小题，总分30分）2.（6分）AWelcome to the Electronic (电子设备的) Village to find new ways of language teaching and learning.21. Nearpod can be used to ______.A. offer grammar testsB. teach listening on-lineC.gain fluency in speakingD. help vocabulary learning22. Which of the following can assess(评估) your grammar learning?A. NearpodB. KahootC. TEOD. Prezi23. A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by ______.A. 9:00 amB. 10:30 amC. 2:00 pmD. 3:30 pm3.（8分） BHealthy Habits, Healthy BodyFeel tired lately? Has a doctor said he couldn’t find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the advanced equipment there showed that there was nothing wrong with you．Then, consider this：you might be in a state of sub-health(亚健康)．Sub-health, also called the third state or gray state, is explained as a border line state between health and disease．According to the investigation by the National Health Organization, over 45 percent of sub-healthy people are middle-aged or elderly．The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam-week．Symptoms(征兆)include a lack of energy, depression(压抑),slow reactions, insomnia(失眠),agitation, and poor memory．Other symptoms include shortness of breath, sweating and aching in the waist and legs．The key to preventing and recovering from sub-health, according to some medical experts, is to form good living habits, alternate work and rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open air activities．As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar．They should also eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish because they are rich in nutritional element---vitamins and trace elements that are important to the body．Nutrition(营养)experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract(消化系统)．They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding sub-health．24．According to this passage, which of the following is right?A．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should stay home and keep silent．B．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should go to see a doctor and buy some medicine．C．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should have yourself examined in foreign countries．D．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should find out the reasons and relaxyourself．25．Middle-aged people may be easy to get sub-health because ___.A．they have used up their energyB．they have lost their living hopesC．they have more pressure in life and workD．they begin to get older26．The key to preventing you from falling into a state of sub-health is that you should ___.A．work hard B．sleep moreC．form good living habits D．take more medicine27．As for food, experts suggest that ___.A．we should never eat meat B．we should have a variety of foodC．we should eat less than usual D．we should have meals without salt and sugar4.（8分）CResearch has shown that your talent for happiness is, to a large degree, determined by your genes. And yet, scientists who study happiness believe we can achieve happiness.1. Don’t worry: Choose to Be HappyThe most important step, however, is to make a choice to gain your happiness. In his book, The Achievement of Happiness, Bertrand Russell said, “Happiness must be an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort, both inward and outward, must play a great part.”Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose some good ways to gain happiness.2. To Be ThankfulIn his book, Real Happiness, professor Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise”. This helps people keep away from sorrow and despair, he says, and makes people happier.3. Remember: Money Can’t Buy HappinessResearch shows that having more money than you actually need brings very little extra happiness. “Part of the reason is that people aren’t very good at understanding what to dowith the money,” says George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University.4.Take Part in Meaningful ActivitiesPeople are seldom happier, says professor Michael, than when they’re in the “flow”. Yet he has found that the most common leisure（空闲）time activity—watching TV—produces some of the lowest levels of happiness. To get more out of life, we need to put more into it. “Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easily,” he writes in Finding Flow.So it turns out that happiness can be a matter of choice—not just luck. Some people are lucky enough to have genes that produce happiness. However, certain thought patterns and interpersonal（人际交往的）skills surely help people become “expert in experience”, says David Lynken.28. The passage mainly tells us .A. some useful ways to achieve happinessB. the importance of being engaged in good activitiesC. why some people are born happyD. some new discoveries related to happiness29. According to the passage, which of the following is the key to gaining happiness?A. To earn more money.B. To have some good genes.C. To change one’s attitude.D. To watch less TV.30. According to Martin Seligman, we know that .A. it is necessary to experience sadness if you want to be happyB. we need to put more into life if we want to get more out of itC. being thankful can help us get rid of our sadness and get happierD. we must work hard if we want to gain more happiness31. After reading the passage, we would know that .A. researchers hardly make mistakes.B. everyone can be happy if he chooses to be happy.C. our genes determine if we are happy.D. the author must be a famous doctor himself.5.（8分）DShopping is not as simple as you think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach our for that particular brand of product on the shelf.Coloring , for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packages in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive foods, like chocolates, are gold and silver.When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging.The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote（促进）their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.32. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text.A. The cost of its packageB. The price of the productC. The color of its packageD. The brand name of the product.33.The underlined parting paragraph 3 means that the colors ______.A. attracted the customers stronglyB. had weak effect on the customersC. tricked the customers into shoppingD. caused the customers to lose interest34. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales ?A. The way to promote goods.B The discovery of a geniusC. The team to produce a good productD. The brand name used by successful producers35. Which of the following would be the best title for this text ?A. Choice of Good ProductsB. Disadvantages of productsC. Effect of Packaging on ShoppingD. Brand Names and Shopping Tricks三、阅读七选五（本题共计1小题，总分10分）6.（10分）How to grow houseplantsHave you ever killed a beautiful houseplant? Are you still killing beautiful houseplants? 36 Well, look no further, just follow these step-by-step instructions and your plant killing days will be over.First of all, buy an easy-to-grow plant that can survive you. If you need a desert cactus (仙人掌) for a starter plant, then that's fine. 37Next, make sure your plant gets enough sunlight. 38 The window will act as a prism (棱镜) and fry your plant. What you want to do is have a window with a light curtain. It should be transparent (透明的). In that way your plant gets its needed sunlight but it won't be destroyed.39 If you give it the amount of water for a different plant, you could over-water or under-water it. If you know that everything needs water to survive, that's great, but you must also know that if you give something too much water you will kill it. Same thing goes for plants.Finally, you will want to prune (修剪) your plant weekly. If you don't, then the plant might become unhealthy or unattractive, and sometimes even both. You could use tools or your hands. 40 This makes for a great fertilizer, too, and then you won't have to buy fertilizer at the store!A. Not everyone has a gift for growing plants.B. However, never place it next to a glass window.C. Are you looking for a way to solve your problem?D. Water your plant as instructed for that specific plant.E. Does it prefer bright light and ordinary room temperatures?F. Just make sure you have a plant that you know you can take care of.G. When you remove the dead leaves from your plant, put them in the soil.四、完形填空（本题共计1小题，总分30分）7.（30分）Learning is a continuous process of life. We all learnfrom _____41__ things in life. One of the things that _____42______ me recently is what I learned from turtles(龟).Turtles could teach a vast number of people a lot about reaching goals. __43__, have you ever watched turtles making their way to a stream? Turtles _44_where they are going. In other words, they have set a goal. Many people _45go through life with no specific goals in mind. They seem to weave(穿行) back and forth because their life direction seems to _46_in relation to whatever influences them at the time.Turtles, on the other hand, have a set goal in mind __47 observed by taking the time to watch them. Turtles have only one _48_ . No matter how long it takes them, they will do everything they can to _49__ their objective.Sure, turtles may be 50 . But they keep going. Each step they take, no matter how small, keeps them __51__ to their destination. They never __52__ a step or break into a run. The reason is that turtles have a better 53__ of the necessity of taking small steps over and over again to reach final victory.The 54 thing about turtles is that they have hard shells. The significance of this shell is to help 55 themselves from anything that may attack them. And, as turtles taught me, we also need to develop a hard shell 56 those that would want us to fail.__57___ , turtles told me that the greatest characteristic to __58__ in reaching a goal is perseverance(坚持不懈). No matter what the obstacle is, there isa(n) 59 around it. No matter how many times one is 60 by negativity, there is strength in belief.41.A. unusual B. important C. practical D. different42.A. impressed B. worried C. disturbed D. excited43.A. As a result B. In other words C. For example D. Above all44.A. accept B. know C. forget D. search45.A. unfortunately B. unhappily C. surprisingly D. eventually46.A. grow B. expand C. follow D. change47.A. luckily B. hardly C. easily D. deeply48.A. instruction B. direction C. guide D. position49.A. reach B. match C. receive D. desert50.A. smart B. sweet C. shy D. slow51.A. higher B. closer C. farther D. straighter52.A. reject B. move C. skip D. meet53.A. sense B. smell C. taste D. trick54.A. rest B. last C. extra D. other55.A. remove B. protect C. prevent D. separate56.A. beyond B. through C. against D. among57.A. Gradually B. Finally C. Clearly D. Mostly58.A. possess B. inform C. include D. apply59.A. end B. tip C. path D. entrance60.A. praised B. blamed C. inspired D. stopped第Ⅱ卷五、语法填空（本题共计1小题，总分15分）8.（15分）Scotland is a country in Great Britain, to the north of England. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow is 61.________ largest city. Scotland has 62.________ (rough) 800 islands, but people only live on some of them.In the north of Scotland it is light until 11：30 p．m. in summer and in winter you can sometimes see the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis, 63.________ are spectacular (壮观的) lights in the sky. Energy from the sun turns the Earth's sky green, red and other 64.________ (color)．At public and 65.________ (culture) events you can often hear traditional Scottish music 66.________ (play) and see traditional Scottish dancing. Pipers play music on bagpipes, a Celtic wind instrument with pipes and a bag. Pipers and dancers usually wear kilts, a traditional skirt 67.________ (wear) by men and women. Scots enjoy all types of music from folk 68.________ rock and pop, and festivals like “The Edinburgh Festival” or concerts like “T in the Park” are very popular.The most popular sport in Scotland is football. Another popular game, golf, 69.________ (invent) in Scotland in the Middle Ages. The famous Scottish Highland Gamesare a 70.________ (combine) of culture and sport and Highland Games are celebrated all over the world.六、短文改错（本题共计1小题，总分10分）9.（10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
