2022天津市三中高二上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

天津市第三中学2021~2022学年度第一学期

高二年级期中试卷 英语

 第I卷    选择题

一、听力（共15题，每题1分，共15分）

第一节：听下面五段对话。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 does the woman usually use her phone for?

A. Studying.    B. Playing games.   C. Watching films.

2. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A concert.    B. A restaurant.   C. A photo show.

3. How will the speakers go to the zoo?

A. By bike.    B. By bus.    C. By taxi.

4. When does the cooking lesson start?

A. At 2:30.    B. At 3:30.    C. At 4:00.

5. What does the man ask the girl to do?

A. Do her homework.     B. Help her sister.     C. Turn down the TV.

第二节：听下面几段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，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。听每段材料前，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。每段材料读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三个小题。

6. Why is the man unhappy?

A. He made a serious mistake at work.

B. He quarreled with Mr. Scott.

C. He missed a hiking trip.

7. What does the woman think of the man?

A. Mean.     B. Impolite.    C. Careless.

8. What will the man do next?

A. Contact his customer.     B. Make a complaint.     C. Call Mr. Scott.

听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三个小题。

9. What is needed to buy for the apartment?

A. A sofa.    B. A fridge.    C. A TV set.

10. What is the disadvantage of the apartment?

A. It’s a little small.     B. It’s on the top floor.     C. It’s at the corner.

11. What does the woman ask about the apartment at last?

A. Its location.   B. Its size.   C. Its price.

听下面一段独白，回答第12至第15四个小题。

12. Why will the speaker go to Melbourne?

A. To visit her sister.     B. To study at a university.    C. To enrich life experiences.

13. What does the speaker plan to do in Sydney?

A. See kangaroos.      B. Visit Royal Botanic Gardens.      C. Watch a music show.

14. Where will the speaker return on the 10th?

A. Melbourne.   B. Queensland.   C. Hamilton Island.

15. When will the speaker arrive in London?

A. On the 11th.   B. On the 12th.   C. On the 13th.

二、单项选择（共10题，每题1分，共10分）

16. By the end of last term, we ______ 2000 English words.

1. have learnt     B. had learnt        C. learnt      D. would learn

17. More than two hundred people attended Steven's wedding, half of ______ were his relatives.

1. them         B. who          C. whom         D. which

18. The number of smokers in China dropped by 17 percent last year, ______ was reported in today’s news.

1. which           B. when          C. where         D. who

19. The speech was so 　　　 that they were all _　　　. 

A. inspiring; exciting           B. inspired; excited

C. inspired; exciting          D. inspiring; excited

20. We would like to see closer ______ between parents and schools. 

A. evolution      B. cooperation    C. expectation       D. rejection

21. He became the first black man to be ______ president.

A. suspected       B. elected     C. concluded      D. examined

22. This issue has became even more ______, so you have to be more careful to deal with it.

A. distinct         B. vivid        C. abstract        D. complicated

23. Some students firmly believe that studying overseas enables them to be independent, and they will try their best to _____ a new life. 

A. lead to      B. reply to       C. turn to       D. adapt to

24. I am sure that your hard work will ______ in the future.

A. set off       B. give way        C. pay off      D. come true

25. With the development of science, more and more artificial intelligence technology has been _______ our life.

1. applied to    B. attached to     C. assigned to     D. devoted to

三、完形填空 （共15题，每题1分，共15分）

 Shreyaa Venkat’s desire for helping others started as soon as she could walk. Her parents, __26__ volunteers themselves, brought her along to attend their various voluntary projects. By fifth grade, she’d developed such __27__ for volunteering that she started setting up her own service __28__ NEST4US in her area.

“There was a homeless man holding a sign saying ‘__29__. Need Food’,” she remembers. “So I __30__ him my lunch and he was extremely __31__ . It was so easy because it only took me thirty __32__, and it really helped him.” Hunger is just one of the many serious realities of living. But this small act __33__ her to find a way to get food to the people in need.

It’s too easy for people living on the margins (边缘) of society to feel like they are invisible (隐形的) and no one __34__ them. Venkat knew what they needed was not __35__    food. So she took action and employed lots of volunteers to write __36__ of love, encouragement and optimism, which are then attached to the donations. Recently a homeless man has kept every note he’d __37__, saying, “They really help me __38__ up and know people are concerned about me.”

In her 17 years on the earth, Venkat has done more to help the people living on the planet than many adults who are two, three, and four times her age. The non-profit organization she    __39__ has helped serve over 12,000 homeless people by __40__ food and other supplies.

26. A. clever B. brave C. funny D. active

27. A. satisfaction B. enthusiasm C. humour D. pleasure

28. A. school B. factory C. organization D. store

29. A. Hungry B. Angry C. Cold D. Upset

30. A. bought B. gave C. awarded D. lent

31. A. curious B. disappointed C. pleased D. surprised

32. A. days B. seconds C. nights D. months

33. A. inspired B. warned C. instructed D. permitted

34. A. competes with B. argues about C. disagrees with D. cares about

35. A. just B. still C. even D. yet

36. A. letters B. notes C. books D. stories

37. A. gotten B. written C. hidden D. taken

38. A. pick B. cheer C. turn D. wake

39. A. discovered B. changed C. selected D. founded

40. A. selling B. cooking C. providing D. enjoying

四、阅读理解 （共15题，每题2分，共30分）

A

Clang(哐啷)， clang，clang! Mary Walton buried her head under her pillow(枕头). It was no use trying to sleep. In the 1880s，the sound of New York City’s Elevated (高架) Railway shook the whole apartment.

“Dad, why do the trains have to be so noisy?” “I don’t know, Mary,” her father replied, “ Maybe you can find a way to make the trains run quietly.”

So she went to the railway company to see what she could learn. But she heard that some of the top inventors in the country, even Thomas Edison himself, were trying to find a solution. If the great Thomas Edison hadn’t been able to find an answer, how could a girl like her?

However, Mary knew the solution was important. People needed to take trains to work, but they also needed calm, quiet, and good sleep! She began to ride trains during her spare time. Sometimes she walked under the high tracks, looking up to see how they were made. Watching and listening, Mary considered the problem.

One night Mary had to cover her ears with her pillow. "Maybe this will muffle the sound,” she thought. Suddenly she sat up and said, “That's it! I need a way to make the noise lower!” What about sand? If we put the he rails in sand and find a way to keep the sand together, it might work.” Mary spent many nights at the library. Finally she came up with a system to put the rails in sand that was contained in asphalt (沥青).

Mary sent her plan to the railway company. Weeks later, she was told her invention was accepted.

41. Why did Mary’s father reply to her question like that in Paragraph 2?

A. To make her happy after a sleepless night.

B. To encourage her to solve the problem.

C. To tell her the reasons for the noises.

D. To complain about the noises.

42. What did Mary do after coming back from the railway company?

A. She took trains and watched tracks.  B. She found how the train was made.

C. She stopped finding the answer.   D. She asked her teachers for help.

43. What does the underlined word “muffle” mean in Paragraph 5?

A. Hear.   B. Make.    C. Reduce.  D. Increase.

44. Which of the following can best describe Mary in the story?

    A. Strict.   B. Funny.   C. Patient.  D. Creative.

45. What is the passage mainly about?

A. People prefer to take trains to work every day.

B. Teenagers can make more inventions than scientists.

C. Mary, a teenager, solved a problem caused by the railway.

D. The noisy railway is a common problem in the world.

B

When milk arrived on the doorstep

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note----“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”----and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service.

Recently, I saw an old milk box in the countryside. I took it home and planted it on the back porch（门廊）. Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

46. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _______.

A. to show his magical power      B. to pay for the delivery  

C. to satisfy his curiosity         D. to please his mother 

47. What does “this” in the third paragraph refer to?

A. The milkman’s magic power.  B. The milkman’s kindness to me.

C. The note to change an order.  D. The home delivery service.

48. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy’s house?

A. He wanted to have tea there.     B. He was a respectable person.

C. He was treated as a family member.   D. He was fully trusted by the family.

49. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?

A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now.    B. It has been driven out of the market.

C. Its service is getting poor.       D. It is forbidden by law.

50. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?

A. He missed the good old days.        B. He wanted to tell interesting stories.

C. He missed it for his milk bottles.     D. He planted flowers in it.

C

Eating a diet high in processed (加工的) food increases the risk of depression (沮丧抑郁), research suggests. What's more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found.

Data on diet among 3, 500 middle-aged civil servants were compared with their emotional state five years later, a British journal reported. They split the participants (参与者) into two types of diet--those who ate a diet largely based on whole food, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high fat dairy products. After accounting for factors such as gender, age, education, physical activity, smoking habits and chronic diseases, they found a significant difference in the future depression risk with the different diets.

Those who ate the most whole food had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who ate the least whole food. By contrast, people with a diet high in processed food had a 58% higher risk of depression than those who ate a diet low in processed food.

Study author Dr Archana SinghManoux pointed out there was a chance the finding could be explained by a lifestyle factor they had not accounted for.

 “There was a paper showing a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of depression, but the problem with that is if you live in Britain, the likelihood (可能性) of you eating a Mediterranean diet is not very high.”

Dr Andrew Mcculloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said, "this study adds to an existing body of solid research that shows the strong links between what we eat and our mental health.”

He added people’s diets were becoming increasingly unhealthy. The UK population is consuming less nutritious, fresh produce and more saturated (含饱合脂肪酸的) fats and sugars.

51. The text is mainly about _____.

    A. the increasingly unhealthy diet of the UK population

B. the link between processed food and depression

C. the relationship between physical and mental heal

D. a healthy diet largely based on whole food

52. What do we know about the participants?

A. They are of different ages from young to old.

B. They have been eating a less healthy diet these years.

C. Most of them prefer whole food to processed food.

D. Those who ate whole food generally were happier in the long term.

53. What can we learn from what Dr Archana SinghManoux said?

A. It is difficult for most British people to have a Mediterranean diet.

B. The Mediterranean diet is the healthiest in the world.

C. Many studies have been done on the Mediterranean diet before.

D. The Mediterranean diet is not good for depression.

54. Dr Andrew McCulloch agrees that ______.

A. our diets are closely related to our mental health

B. the present study needs more facts and other information

C. the UK population will become ill in the near future

D. more saturated fats and sugars should be taken in

55. Why might the author have written this text?

A. To tell people what a healthy diet actually is.

B. To prove people's diets are increasingly unhealthy.

C. To encourage people to cut down processed food.

D. To introduce some experts on the research team.  

第II卷   非选择题

（共16题，共30分）

五、语法填空 （共10题，每题0.5分，共5分）

Although his father was against the journey, Charles Darwin still began his adventures on the ship, the Beagle, which would lead ___56___ one of the most important scientific ___57___ (discovery) of all time. During the journey, the ship was ___58___ (crowd) with samples of the plants and animals that he ___59___ (collect). When ___60___ (study) these, he asked himself the question of how different species ___61___ (come) to exist. The idea that maybe animals evolved as the adapted to their changing environments inspired Darwin ___62___ (look) for more evidence. Then he came up with a ___63____ (complete) new idea, a theory of evolution, after studying the finches on the Galapagos Islands. His scientific studies were___64___ convincing that more and more people started ___65___ (believe) his theory.

六、阅读表达 （共5题，每题2分，共10分）

Most people think that making a film is exciting. In fact, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. Earlier this year, I worked in a new film. It was about a bomb threat on a big British ship. Two hundred people were needed to act as the passengers in the film. I was one of them.

Before we left, we were wanted to bring some warm clothes. These were necessary because the ship was going to spend the whole 16 days sailing in bad weather.

 Then the day came and we sailed out of Dover. The boat had on board the film crew the director, the actors and actresses including Brinksley Meers, who acted the leading role, and us-200 amateur (业余的) extras (群众演员).

  People came for different purposes. Some wanted to meet Brinksley Meers in person. Others were curious to see how a film was made. A housewife with her three children came for free holiday and a bit of adventure.

During the navigation, a lot of people were very seasick. And although the work was very interesting, it was also very hard. We often worked all day on one scene performing it again and again under the hot lights. In the evenings, there were drink in the bar, but most people were so tired that they went to bed early. The next day often began at 6: 30 in the morning, sometimes with breakfast being filmed.

 When the ship finally returned to port, most people had enjoyed the trip, but were also so tired that they at least needed a week's holiday.

66. Which role did the author act in the film? (No more than 10 words)

  _________________________________________________________________________

67. Why were the film crew asked to bring some warm clothes? (No more than 15 words)

  _________________________________________________________________________

68. Who acted the leading role? (No more than 2 words)

  _________________________________________________________________________

69. What dose the underlined word in the 5th paragraph mean? (No more than 1 words)

   ________________________________________________________________________

70. What is the author's purpose of writing this article? (No more than 20 words)

   _________________________________________________________________________

七、书面表达 （共15分）

71. 假定你是李华，你校将在下周二举办关于唐诗吟诵 (Tang poetry recitation) 的讲座(lecture) 。请给你的英国朋友Alex写一封电子邮件，邀请他一同前往，内容包括：

1. 时间、地点、主讲人；
2. 内容：介绍唐诗吟诵的方法、 会后交流答疑等；
3. 活动的意义；
4. 表达期待与愿望。

注意:

1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Alex，

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                                                  Yours,

                                                                  Li Hua