河南省2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题

精品 高二英语上学期期中试题

第一部分 听力(略)

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

A

Teen Art Show

Do you want to see your artwork displayed alongside other teens’ artwork? Don’t

miss your opportunity! Showcase(在玻璃橱窗陈列) your paintings, sculptures,

photographs and other artworks at the Environmental Educational Center. The show will

provide an opportunity for artists to network, provide feedback and become a resource

for others.

Location: Environmental Educational Center

Activity fee: $25

Night Fishing

Escape the night and join us as we fish at Desert Breeze Park. No experience needed.

We will provide the fishing poles, transportation, the bait(鱼饵), to help you catch

a fish and best of all, teens of 14 years and under do not require a license to fish.

Location: Desert Breeze Park

Activity fee: $ 22

Overnight Snow Trip

Join the City of Chandler in an exciting new trip! We will travel up to Camp

Tontozona and enjoy great food and a campfire in the early evening. Snow play will

be the highlight as we explore the snow-filled meadows (草地) of Woods Canyon Lake

and sled down small hills in the area. You will be responsible for your own ski/

snowboard equipment.

Location: Camp Tontozona

Activity fee: $ 30

Paint-balling

精品 Come out and play paintball with all your friends! Join the City of Chandler as

we go to Temp Indoor Paintball. This is a great way to join in the fun of paint-balling

for a low cost. All equipment is included. Please wear old clothes because clothes

can get dirty easily!

Location: Tempe Paintball

Activity fee: $ 28

21. What can people do in Desert Breeze Park?

A. Play with snow. B. Go fishing.

C. Play paintball. D. Meet with famous artists.

22. What is special about Paint-balling?

A. It might make your clothes dirty. B. It costs the least.

C. People can play with friends. D. People will enjoy a campfire.

23. In which activity should people take their own ski equipment?

A. Overnight Snow Trip. B. Teen Art Show.

C. Paint-balling. D. Night Fishing.

B

Lately a popular eight-floor bookstore in Hefei, Anhui province, has risen to

fame because it becomes the world’s first shared bookstore, in a move meant to

encourage more reading among Chinese citizens.

It comes to people’s attention as more than 200,000 visitors flooded the store

on its first day as a shared bookstore on July 16 this year, a record high since it

was reopened to the public in 2013. Some 4,000 books were brought home on the first

day, reported.

Customers are allowed to borrow up to two books valued under 150 yuan per visit

after registering with an app and paying the 99 yuan deposit fee (押金).

All books on sale in the bookstore are available for sharing. Returned books that

are damaged are sold at a discount. The bookstore also provides a bonus for bookworms.

People who finish reading 12 books in three months receive eight percent of their

deposit back, and members can be rewarded one yuan for every book read.

“We want to bring down the cost of reading so people could read more books,”

精品 Xu Xinwei, who helps run the bookstore, told Thepaper. cn.

Some parents buy a lot of books for their children, but they usually end up

collecting dust as their children grow up. Similarly, some popular novels for young

people also fall out of fashion, according to Xu. “Books are more effectively

circulated when they’re shared.”

24. The bookstore becomes a shared one .

A. to make more room for new books B. to inspire more people to read

C. to make more money D. to recommend new books

25. What does the underlined phrase “risen to fame” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. Broken up. B. Settled down.

C. Become well-known. D. Taken over.

26. What can we infer from the passage?

A. The bookstore was once the best in Anhui province.

B. The cost of reading can be reduced by sharing the books.

C. More than 4, 000 books were taken home on July 16 in 2013.

D. The books that are sold here can’t be borrowed.

27. What does the bookstore do to attract more readers?

A. The bookstore encourages parents to buy more books for their children.

B. The readers are allowed to borrow the books unconditionally.

C. The readers who are members can receive one yuan for every book read.

D. The bookstore is considering offering a bonus for anyone who likes reading.

C

Internet dating has become one of the biggest and most successful business

ventures on the Internet. Basically, Internet dating is a way to meet people for either

friendship or dating without actually having to meet them in person first.