山西太原外国语学校2014-2015学年下学期高二期中考试英语试题 (Word版含答案)

2014-2015学年第二学期期中考试试卷（高二英语）使用时间：2015年4月30日测试时间：90分钟总分：120分第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）（A）A man in a very splendid restaurant started to take off his jacket. Seeing this, the head waiter dashed to his table and said, ― I’m afraid I must ask you to keep your jacket on, sir, for it is not good manners to do it in such a smart restaurant.‖―Now listen,‖ said the man, ―I’ll let you know that the Queen of England gave me permission to remove my jacket here.‖―The Queen of England?‖ said the waiter in great surprise. ―Sure,‖ replied the man, ― When I was in England last month, a friend of mine who had a very important position in high society took me to see the Queen. It was rather hot, so I started taking my coat off. The Queen looked over and said, ―You may do that in the United States, but you may not do it here. ‖ So I got the Queen’s permission, right?1. When the head waiter asked the man not to take off his jacket, the man ______.A. took his advice immediatelyB. obeyed him without any hesitationC. apologized for his bad mannersD. refused to listen to him2. What the Queen really meant was that ______.A. people in the U.S. were stupid and less politeB. she permitted him to take off his jacket in AmericaC. the English and the Americans enjoyed different ways of lifeD. he shouldn’t take off his coat in such a formal occasion in England3. It is certain that the story happened ______.A. in EnglandB. in the Queen’s partyC. in AmericaD. in an ordinary restaurant（B）Rain, who was born on June 2, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea, is a popular singer with a very deep and rich voice. Jung Ji Hoon is his real name, known as the ―Michael Jackson of Korea‖for his amazing dancing skills. Rain is very modest and friendly, even a little shy.He released his first album Bad Guy in 2002, which caused a sensation. It took him to all the major award ceremonies, and many of them honored him with Best New Award. His following album How to Run from the Sun was successful, and his third album It’s Raining topped the charts for weeks.Rain is not only a singer but also an actor, who has given impressive performances in two TV series, Sang Doo! Let’s go to school（《尚道，上学去》）in 2003 and Full House（《浪漫满屋》）in2004. Rain’s leading role in Full House made him win Best Actor Award at the KBS Acting Awards and also deeply touched the hearts of many Asian female fans. At the same time it made him become one of the most popular Korean actors in Asia.Now Rain is very popular in China. It’s Raining has already sold more than 100,000 copies in China. Rain received the ―Korean Artist of the Year‖ award at the MTV -- CCTV Mandarin Music Honors held on July 24, 2005 at the Workers Stadium in Beijing, China. His recent Beijing concert caused a great hit, creating ―Korean Fever‖ in China.4. The reason why Jung Ji Hoon is called ―Michael Jackson of Korea‖ is that ______.A. he is a popular singer with a rich voiceB. his dancing skills are amazingC. he is very modest and friendlyD. he shares the same name with Michael Jackson5. What would be the best title for this passage?A. Michael Jackson of Korea --RainB. Jung Ji Hoon’s First Album – Bad GuyC. Rain, a Singer and a PainterD. Korea Fever in China6. Which of the following is True about Rain?A. His album ―How to Run from the Sun‖ was so successful that it topped the charts for weeks.B. Rain’s leading role in ―Sang Doo! Let’s go to school‖ made him win Best Actor Award at theKBS Acting Awards.C. Rain won the ―Korean Artist of the Year‖ award because of his music career.D. Rain has suffered a fever since his recent Beijing concert caused a great hit.7. Which of the following is the passage most likely from?A. Textbooks for senior school students.B. Entertainment newspapers.C. Textbooks for music students.D. A book written for Michael Jackson.（C）A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sport to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music.A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraghs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far from one reader is interested in what brings this variety together in. One place is its topicality(时事性), its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production thatgoes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient(短暂的) value. For all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.8. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following EXCEPT its ______.A. wide coverageB. uniform styleC. speed in reporting newsD. popularity9. According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the same newspaper is that ______.A. people scan for the news they are interested inB. different people prefer different newspapersC. people are not interested in the same kind of newsD. people have different views about what a good newspaper is10. It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ______.A. apply reading techniques skillfullyB. jump from one newspaper to anotherC. appreciate the variety of a newspaperD. usually read a newspaper selectively11. A good newspaper offers ―a variety‖ to readers because ______.A. it tries to serve different readersB. it has to cover things that happen in a certain localityC. readers are difficult to pleaseD. readers like read different newspapers（D）Life is difficult.But life is no longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it.Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nation.What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is painful. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.Yet, it is in this whole of solving problems that life has its meaning.Problems are the serious test that tells success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit we encourage the human ability to solve problems just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, ―Those things that hurts, instruct.‖ It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.12. From the passage, it can be inferred that ______.A. not everybody has problemsB. we become stronger by facing and solving the problems in lifeC. life is difficult because our problems bring us painD. people like to complain about their problems13. The writer uses just one short sentence in the first paragraph probably to ______.A. save spaceB. persuade readersC. make readers laughD. get readers’ attention14. According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ______.A. encourage them to learnB. make them sufferC. help them learn to deal with painD. help them understand life is difficult15. ―Those things that hurt, instruct.‖ From Benjamin Franklin suggests that ______.A. we do not learn from experienceB. we do not learn when we are in painC. pain teaches us important lessonsD. pain cannot be forgotten第二节（共5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。