2021邵东县三中高二上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

英语试题

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 did the nurse do?

A. She drove the man to the hospital.

B. She looked after the man in the hospital.

C. She showed the man around the hospital.

2. What does the woman say about the library?

A. It will be finished on time.

B. It is only open during the day.

C. The work crew are about to complete it.

3. What will the woman do this Saturday afternoon?

A. Do some sports.

B. Watch the Olympic Games.

C. Watch a badminton game on TV.

4. How many students actually showed up for the party?

A. 25.    B. 15.    C. 5.

5. What is the woman’s job?

A. Travel agent.  B. Office secretary.  C. Hotel receptionist.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，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7两个小题。

6. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a restaurant.  B. At an airport.       C. Over the phone.                     

7. When should the man check in at the airport?

A. At 8:45 pm.  B. At 9:25 am.   C. At 8:45 am.

听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8. What does the woman ask the man to do?

A. Have dinner in her house.

B. Help her with moving.

C. Rent the apartment from her.

9. What do we know about the new apartment?

A. It’s on the sixth floor.

B. There’s a garden.

C. It’s far away from the woman’s present place.

听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10. What exactly does the man want to find out?

A. People’s opinion about the bus service.

B. How many people are using the bus service.

C. Which group of people use the bus service most often.

11. What does the woman think of the bus service?

A. The distance between bus stops is too long.

B. The bus timetables are full of mistakes.

C. Buses are not often on time.

12. Why does the woman say her husband is lucky?

A. He often goes to work in a colleague’s car.

B. He doesn’t need to go shopping by bus.

C. He lives close to the bus station.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13. What happened when Thomas was climbing a mountain?

A. His equipment lost.  B. He lost his way.  C. He caught a bad cold.

14. What caused Thomas’ losing legs?

A. The weather.   B. The poor equipment. C. The doctor’s mistake.

15. What did Thomas do after losing his legs?

A. He did nothing.

B. He built great new legs.

C. He learned more modern technologies.

16. What’s Thomas’ attitude toward life?

A. Positive.         B. Negative.          C. Indifferent.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17. What percent does the old people account for in non-industrialized nations?

A. 4% to 8%.         B. 13% to 20%.      C. 14% to 18%.

18. What should we do for the old?

A. Pay attention to their needs.

B. Buy them big houses.

C. Do the housework.

19. What is the special character of the old people?

A. They can take care of their grandchildren.

B. They are rich in knowledge and experience.

C. They are intelligent and hard-working.

20. What can we get from the old?

A. Lots of wealth.  B. Skills to make things.  C. Encourage to do things.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。

A

Theaters of the Past

The Greek Theater

Theaters developed in many parts of Greece. Ancient Greek theaters were built in natural open air sites on conveniently shaped hills. This allowed a lot of people to enjoy a show at a time. Due to this, actors placed emphasis on exaggerated(夸张的) action and speech. And, colorful symbolic masks and costumes were used.

The Medieval Theater

The Medieval theater started in churches. That’s why medieval plays were about Bible stories. At first, it was a tradition for priests (牧师) to act out brief scenes during Christmas and Easter. Later the church didn’t allow priests to participate in any such events again, so ordinary people began these performances outside. Performances were set in the town square, with several stage settings around it.

The Elizabethan Theater

The main feature of Elizabethan theater was the stage, It has three parts: The fore stage for outside scenes; the inner stage for scenes inside a building; an upper stage for various purposes. The reason for this design is that there were no scene changes, or breaks during the play. Very little scenery was used, so the actors had to create a scene through their voices and dialogues.

The Restoration Theater

Some of the plays told sad stories, but most of the plays were really funny. Many specialized machines were used to create the scene. The stage was a very clever idea , in that on the sides of the stage large back shutters(百叶窗) were painted with the scene.

21. Why were ancient Greek theaters built on hills?

A. To build a big and strong stage.

B. To hold a large audience.

C. To have a better sound effect.

D. To emphasize exaggerated performances.

22. In which theater could actors’ voices and speech help create scenes?

A. The Greek Theater

B. The Elizabethan Theater

C. The Medieval Theater

D. The Restoration Theater

23. What is special about the Restoration Theater?

A. Colorful masks were used.

B. Ordinary people were the performers.

C. Most of its plays were sad.

D. The stage was smartly designed.

B

When asked why he or she wears clothes, some people will probably answer “to keep warm and to cover my body”. These are the basic reasons why clothes are worn, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.

If people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and cheap. In most Western countries, however, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the cloth or the cost of making the clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion(时尚).

Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. Sometimes they pay thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It’s just a suit and a tie but they pay these prices because of the famous name of the designer. A suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearer’s body just as well.

Fashion is always changing, which means those who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month's clothes have only been worn once or twice. Some people have wardrobes full of clothes that have hardly been worn but are no longer in fashion. Being fashionable, therefore, can be a very expensive pastime(消遣)!

24. What do people basically wear clothes for?

1. Keeping warm and covering bodies.
2. Following the fashion.
3. Looking attractive to others.
4. Appearing successful to others.

25. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. fashion is not always changing

B. fashion is an expensive pastime.

C. fashion designers like expensive clothes

D. expensive clothes are warmer

26. What does the underlined word “wardrobes” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Fashionable clothes shops.

B. Cupboards for storing clothes.

C. The clothes that some people have.

D. Shelves used for keeping books.

27. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Clothes and fashion. B. Suits and ties.

C. Cost and pastime. D. Beauty and success.

C

I'll never forget the day when Mary came into my office and said, I am too old to learn how to use a computer. I shook my head. Here was a woman who had raised 6 children and who had made great progress in her career telling me that she was too old to learn something new. I told her that I always believed people were never too old to learn.

Mary followed my advice and did learn how to use the computer. Now,she is retired and leading a very active life volunteering in her community, using her computer skills and helping anyone that needs help.

When she was in her sixties, one day she called me and said she had played the piano for others all her life,and now she was going to make a CD of her own. My mind flashed back to the day when she told me she was too old to learn. You can imagine my surprise and delight.

To produce the CD, she had a lot of things to learn.It was not just sitting at the piano and playing. She had to research the songs, learn about copyright(版权), and learn about marketing. It was pretty amazing for someone who once said she was too old to learn. And finally she made it.  Now she has her own CD.

Most of you probably have heard about some people who have gone back to university in their seventies and have also graduated. They are on their way again to charging themselves with a new skill and a new attitude towards life. The point is you are unable to learn anything at any age if you believe you are too old. On the contrary,you can achieve anything at any age if you believe you can.

28. When Mary said she was too old to learn, the author________.

A. did not agree with her

B. felt sad and decided to help her

C. became disappointed with her

D. thought what she had said was true

29. Why did Mary call the author one day in her sixties?

A. To ask him for some help.

B. To talk about her new CD.

C. To ask him to make a CD.

D. To tell him about her plan.

30. The author thought it________for Mary to make a CD.

A. Impossible B. interesting

C. Unnecessary D. difficult

31. What does the text mainly tell us?

A. We should always learn new skills.

B. We're never too old to learn.

C. Some people succeed for a reason.

D. Interest is the best teacher.

D

Working on a farm and taking care of crops can be difficult. Engineers have long wanted to build robots to lighten the load. But it has proved a difficult task. Robots that walk or roll along the ground can step on the easily damaged plants heavily. And they have to stop working when it rains. “Tarzan”, however, could deal with some of those challenges.

Jonathan Rogers is a robotics expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. When it comes to a farm environment, he realized robots would face many problems. “Many robots tend to get stuck,” he says, “It's very hard to leave them out for long periods without a human helping them.”

What if the robot could move above the crops? Jonathan Rogers says. Then his team set out to design a robot that could swing(荡走) hand to hand along wires hung above the field. He named their invention Tarzan after the jungle-swinging character in a movie.

Mark Spong, a robotics researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas says that he admires Tarzan for its using swinging movement to save energy and the idea of building a wire structure to move around above crops.

Rogers first predicted that Tarzan could help farmers monitor crops with sensors (传感器) and cameras. But he also said future robots might take water to a particularly thirsty plant. And adding a third “hand” could allow such a robot to harvest fruits and vegetables. Finally the robot could move off the farm and into the city, helping deal with the traffic and security.

32. What worried the engineers when they built the farm robots?

A. They took up too much space.

B. They made the farming process slow.

C. They had difficulty exploring in fields.

D. They caused certain damage to crops.

33. What does Jonathan Rogers think about most farm robots?

A. They take much time to make.

B. They get out of date more easily.

C. They depend too much on people.

D. They get used to the environment slowly.

34. What attracts Mark Spong most about Tarzan?

A. Its strong wings. B.Its low cost.

C.Its creative design. D.Its powerful engine.

35.How did Jonathan Rogers feel about Tarzan’s future?

A. It could be found everywhere.

B. It could be put into more practical uses.

C. It could be used to do all the farm work.

D. It could be popular with working people in cities.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Nowadays parents and their children are spending less and less time communicating with each other.  36  It is reported that American parents today spend about 40 percent less time with their children than parents did a generation ago. To keep your family time creative and enjoyable, below is a list of helpful family time tips.

Eat together & listen to each other

Most children today don’t know the meaning of a family dinnertime. Yet the communication and unity built during this time is necessary to a healthy family life. Sharing a meal together allows parents and their children the opportunity to talk about each other’s lives.  37 

Read often

It’s important for parents to read to their children. The latest research shows that reading to your children develops an interest in knowledge and contributes to language development. It also increases their concentration on things and helps them become more curious.  38  After reading, ask questions about what the books are about.

Start a hobby or project

Choose a fun activity that your children are interested in. Activities like cooking, fishing or biking can be their great hobbies.  39   Once a child learns a new skill, let him or her take the lead under your direction.

Plan a family outing

  40   Jump into the family car and go for a drive. Prepare a picnic lunch and visit a local park. Take time to play or ride a bike. A slow and relaxing walk in the woods will help parents communicate with their children better. Also, a visit to the zoo or museum will inspire enthusiasm in a child and lead to long discussions.

A. They can open the door to exciting family time.

B. It is very important for children to exercise.

C. New technology has made video games more popular with children.

D. This is also a time for parents to listen and give advice to their children.

E. Sometimes getting out of the house is important.

F. Look for books that your children would enjoy reading.

G. As a result, many children are getting less love than their parents once got.

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分15分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

William Weaver was one of 14 black students who studied at the all-white West High School. A teacher told him that he “didn't belong.” He had a test and the teacher stood over him and then just took the paper away and said, “Time is up.” The first report card he got was 41 F’s. So he started to think maybe he didn't belong and that he was 42 .

One evening he was at home and Edward Hill, his science teacher from the 43 school, came by to visit. Weaver told Mr Hill that the white school were trying to 44 him away. Mr Hill asked Weaver to come to his old school after school. So every day waiting for him would be Mr. Hill with other teachers and they 45 him. Once he got past those F’s, he stopped 46 himself. But no matter what he did, he was never 47 at that school. Weaver never had a conversation with a counselor(辅导员) about going to college. But, to his 48 , he got a letter telling him he had been awarded a scholarship(奖学金). Weaver 49 it and went on to 50 Howard University.

Many years 51 , Weaver came across Mr Hill and told him, “Mr Hill, if I had not gotten that 52, I don’t know what would have happened. And I don't know 53 I got the scholarship because I never even applied for it.” Mr Hill said, “I know, because I filled in the 54 and sent it off for you.” So Mr Hill stepped in and changed his life, 55 at that time Weaver didn't realize how much he was being helped.

41.A. no     B.all    C. some    D. few

42.A. stupid    B.excellent   C. ordinary   D. extraordinary

43.A. new   B.best   C. black   D. worst

44.A. put    B.drive   C.turn   D. give

45.A. taught   B. liked   C. praised  D. scolded

46.A. pushing   B. doubting  C. blaming  D. behaving

47.A. realized   B. recognized  C. remembered D. punished

48.A. delight   B. excitement  C. surprise  D. credit

49. A. received  B. refused  C. accepted   D. won
50. A. found     B. answered  C. attend   D. decline

51.A. later   B. before   C. ago      D. around

52.A. help   B. scholarship  C. ignorance  D. anxiety

53.A. when     B. where   C. that    D. how 

54.A. form   B. name   C. details     D. information

55.A. and    B. since   C. unless     D. though

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

My friend had a chance to make a trip to Hong Kong 56  August 15, 2011. He had dreamed about 57 (visit) it since his boyhood and it 58 (be) the first time that he had been there. The following was  59  he had seen.

60  (arrive) there, he 61 (impress) by its beautiful scenery and tall buildings. It is said that Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers in the world. Wherever he went, he saw many smiling faces there. People in Hong Kong were kind, generous, easygoing and ready to help 62 (other). Much to his surprise, he saw that people there always kept order in public places. 63 crowds of people were waiting for the next train at the subway station, they were talking in such a low voice as not to disturb one another.

Chinese and English are their official languages. English is 64 (wide) used in governments, markets, service centers and other fields.

Staying there for only a week was a good experience 65  he will never forget.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假如你是李华，你的加拿大笔友Daniel来信向你求助。他最近和妈妈闹矛盾，因为妈妈不让他过多上网，他对此很不理解。请你给他写一封回信，

内容包括：建议他向妈妈道歉；说明过多上网的危害；列举一些健康的休闲方式。

注意：80词左右；适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Daniel,

I’m sorry to hear that you had an argument with your mother.                               

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150词左右。

There was a rich couple who was holding a big new year party at their house. So they went shopping at the market where everything was expensive, but they didn’t mind paying a lot for it. After buying everything they needed, they called a porter(搬运工) to carry it and drop it off at their home. The porter who came was of an old age, not very healthy looking. His clothes were torn and he looked as if he wasn’t even able to meet his daily needs.

They asked the porter about the charges for sending their goods at their home. The old porter quoted(报价) $20, a price well below the market rate. Yet, the couple argued and bargained(讨价还价) with the porter and finally settled for $15. The porter was trying to make money for every meal so he needed anything he could earn.

The couple was very happy thinking how well they bargained with the poor porter and paid him $15 in advance and left after giving the porter their home address. They reached their home and two hours passed, the porter still hadn’t delivered their stuff.

The wife started to get angry at her husband, “I always tell you not to trust such person but you never listen to me. Such a person is not even able to earn to feed himself for one time in a day, and you handed him everything we bought for our big party. I am sure he must have disappeared with everything. We must immediately go back to the market to inquire(询问) and then to the police station to file the complaint against him(报案).”

They both went to the market. On their way, near the market, they saw another porter. They stopped him to inquire about the old porter and noticed that he was carrying their stuff(东西) in his cart!

Paragraph 1:

The angry wife asked him, “Where is that old thief? This is our stuff.”                 

Paragraph 2:

Upon hearing this, the husband had tears in his eyes and turned to his wife.             

英语试题

1—5 CCAAC    6—10 CCABA    

11—15 CABAB   16—20 AAABB

21-23 BBD 24-27 ABBA 28-31 ADDB 32-35 DCCB

36-40 GDFAE  

41-45 BACBA  46-50 BBCCC  51-55 ABDAD

56 on   57 visiting    58 was   59 what

60 Arriving 61 was impressed  62 others   63 When/While

64 widely   65 that/which  

英语作文评分标准

第一节：

Dear Daniel,

I'm sorry to hear that you had an argument with your mother.

In my opinion, you should apologize to your mother, as she has done nothing wrong to prevent you from Internet addiction. Although the internet plays an important role in modern life, we can’t ignore its harm to us. Many students spend most of the time playing computer games or chatting aimlessly with others, which may not only result in poor health and decline in study, but also loss of communication in the real world.

As students, we should devote our energy to study. When available, you may as well walk outside with your friends or take some exercise to keep fit instead of playing computer games. Only in this way can you live and study happily and healthily.

第二节：

The angry wife asked him, “Where is that old thief? This is our stuff.” The porter replied, “Madam, please calm down. That poor old man was sick since last month. He wasn’t able to earn money to even have a single meal of the day. He was on the way to deliver your stuff, but he, who was hungry and sick, couldn’t gather the strength to go any further in this heat of the noon. He fell down and he handed me $15. His last words were, “I had taken an advance for this delivery, you take this and please deliver it to this address.””

Upon hearing this, the husband had tears in his eyes and turned to his wife. “He was hungry, he was poor, but he was an honest man,” the husband said. The wife felt quite ashamed that she was angry with her husband’s decision. She had no courage to look at her husband’s eyes. Suddenly it dawned on her that honesty has no class. Respect everyone regardless of their financial and social status. It is always a good deed to give the one who deserves.