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第一学期期中测试
高二英语
木试卷共8页，满分130分。考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1.答题前，考生务必用2B铅笔将姓名、准考证号填写在答卷上，并用2B铅笔在答卷上规定
位置涂黑自己的试卷类型、考试证号和考试科目。
2.每小题选出答案后，用铅笔涂黑答卷上对应题目的答案标号。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，
再选涂其他答案。(答案写在试题卷上无效)
第一部分 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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答卷上将该项
涂黑。
A
If you have a passion for music, art, history and more, indulge it on a Yoyo Odyssey Cultural Tour!
How we travel can make the difference between just visiting a place, or really experiencing it from the inside
out, which is why Yoyo has created its new Odyssey Cultural Tours collection.
These small-group, luxury tours offer a deep dive into history, art, music, literature, dance and astronomy,
while enjoying everything that a destination has to offer, from exceptional places to stay to the best of local food.
Each holiday has the service of a Yoyo tour manager and we’ll take care of you every step of the way,
providing a VIP car service to your UK departure point for overseas trips, flights and transfers, all transports to
accommodations, travel insurance and much more.
For music lovers, Yoyo has partnered with the Royal Academy of Music to create unique short breaks in
London with concerts by talented young musicians from the Academy.
You’ll be in expert hands — each tour is accompanied by a specialist in their field who’s skilled at sharing
their expertise through insight-packed talks throughout the holiday. Backstage, behind-the-scenes visits give a
fascinating perspective on new places as well as cities that you may already know and love, all in the stimulating
company of like-minded travellers.
ABC Music readers will receive an exclusive 5 per cent discount on all Yoyo Cultural Odyssey Tours — just
quote the code ‘ABCR’ when booking. To find out more, please visit yoyo.uk / COT.
1. Why does Yoyo create the Cultural Odyssey Tours?
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂A. To create a music collection of Odyssey.
B. To help music lovers find like-minded friends.
C. To guide tour guests through a cultural experience.
D. To promote the ABC Music Magazine to new readers.
2. What can guests do during the tour?
A. Share their expert skills. B. Enjoy talks by a specialist.
C. Visit the backstage after a play. D. Play in a concert with musicians.
3. What should the ABC Music readers do for a discount when booking?
A. Use the required code. B. Find one more company.
C. Visit the website yoyo.uk / COT. D. Quote a comment about the ABC Music.
B
In the summer of 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was very ill. He had been wounded by a sick dog that had
rabies(狂犬病), a very dangerous disease. His parents were told that there was probably only one man who could
save Joseph’s life——Louis Pasteur.
When Pasteur was a young boy in France, he spent many hours every day with the chemist (药剂师) who lived in
his small town. At that time, the chemist had to make all the medicines himself. Young Louis enjoyed watching the
chemist as he worked and helped those people who came to him each day.
As a school boy, Pasteur worked slowly and carefully. At first, his teachers thought that young Louis might be a
slow learner. Through elementary school, high school, and college, Pasteur worked in the same thoughtful way.
Then he became a college professor and a scientist , and he continued to work very carefully.
Pasteur was studying about the germs(细菌)that cause rabies when Joseph Meister became ill.In fact Pasteur
believed he had a medical treatment for rabies, but he had never given it to a person before. At first, Pasteur was
afraid to treat Joseph, but the poor child was dying. Pasteur gave Joseph an inoculation(预防接种)every day for ten
days. Slowly, the child became better.
During his lifetime, Pasteur studied germs and learned how they cause diseases in animals and people. He
developed vaccinations(疫苗)that prevent many of these diseases. On September 28,1895, Louis Pasteur passed
away, at the age of 72. The work of this great man has been of great help to modern medicine.
4. The story of Joseph Meister is given to __________.
A. express the author’s sadness
B. introduce the subject of the text
C. show some common diseases in 1885
D. warn children to stay away from dogs
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂5. According to the text, young Louis _________.
A. was once badly hurt by a dog
B was very interested in medicine
C. made a living by working for a chemist
D. had been thought of by his teachers
6. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that Louis Pasteur __________.
A was always patient B. was clever but proud
C. was a slow learner D. was a humorous professor
7. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Germs and diseases
B. Rabies: a terrible disease
C. The earliest chemist in France
D. Louis Pasteur: a great scientist
C
Skyscrapers (摩天大楼) are the symbol of urban life. City people are used to seeing tall buildings and apartments.
Farms, on the other hand, are associated with rural life. However, there are experts who think skyscrapers should
become farms to meet the Increasing food needs.
By the middle of this century, some scientists suggest, almost 80% of the earth’s population could live in cities. In
addition, the population could increase to 9.1 billion people during that time yet the amount of land available for
farming will be the same. If current farming practices don’t change, we will need an area of new land to produce
enough food for the planet.
Vertical (垂直的) farms, where urban farmers could grow crops io environmentally friendly skyscrapers, could
be the solution. In spite of concerns over high costs, experts want to make it a reality and use these skyscrapers to
grow crops.
Vertical farms would have many advantages, supporters say. Unlike traditional farming, vertical farming could
be free of chemicals and diseases. Besides, crops would not suffer from problems like flooding. Finally, vertical farms
would reduce the cost and negative effects of transporting food over long distances.
Some argue that although crops growing in a tall glass building would get natural sunlight during the day, it
wouldn’t be enough. For this reason, vertical farms would need additional light sources, such as artificial light.
Another way of growing fresh food is to build urban farms on rooftops. This more practical approach may be
more achievable than the idea of farms in skyscrapers, researchers suggest. Experts agree that innovative (革新的)
farming practices are needed to support the need for more food at affordable costs, both to the farmer and to the
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂consumer, but the best ideas could be yet to come.
8. What primary problem could vertical farming settle?
A. Poor state of rural life.
B. Shortage of food supply.
C. High cost for transporting crops.
D. Environmental pollution by transitional farmings.
9. What is the advantage of vertical farming?
A. It can produce organic food.
B. It requires little care.
C. It can benefit transport industry
D. It needs very low cost.
10. What is a big challenge to make vertical farming a reality?
A. High costs. B. Crop diseases. C. Light sources. D. Climate conditions.
11. What can be the best title of the test?
A. Future Food Needs. B. Symbol of Urban Life.
C. Farming on Rooftops. D. Farms of the Future.
D
Owls are equipped with highly developed stealth (隐形；隐身) technology that helps them charge towards
prey—an animal hunted and eaten by another animal, a study has shown.
Owls have flight feathers that absorb aerodynamic (空气动力学的) sound and control the vibrations that
occur when a bird beats its wings. The result is perfect silence as it approaches a mouse or other prey.
Scientists used lasers and high-speed cameras to analyze and compare long-eared ow, eagle and pigeon
feathers during fight. While differing in size, all three kinds of birds have a similar wingbeat style. Professor Jinkui
Chu led the research, He said, “Many owls have a unique and fascinating ability to fly so silently that they are out
of their prey’s hearing range, duo to their feather structure. This behaviour has long been of interest to engineers, as
we seek to apply the owls’ noise-reduction mechanism (机制) to other purposes and situations that benefit society.”
“Now, however, wo know the owls’ silent flight ability is even better than we thought. Of all birds the owl is
the king of acoustic stealth. It manages to prevent not only the aerodynamic noise when the owls are gliding, but
also the mechanical noise caused by vibrations during flying.”
He added, “This is remarkable, considering the sudden jumping, bending and twisting the wings are subjected
to the noise that is created by other birds. In the scientific world, the process used to remove this mechanical noise
is called ‘damping’, which means the removal of mechanical energy from a vibrating system usually by changing
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂it into heat and allowing it to remain steady. Our research showed the long-eared owl has amazing damping skill,
meaning it can remain amazingly stable and remove the mechanical noise caused by the movement of its feathers—
quite an impressive achievement of engineering. This study will hopefully provide a further insight into the owls’
silent flight mechanism and help engineers develop ideas for special materials or structures, such as onshore wind
ships, where similar noise removal can be applied.”
12. What can we learn about owls according to the passage?
A. They are active during the day,
B. They attract much attention of engineers.
C. They have similar wings to eagles.
D. They beat wings without vibrations.
13. According to Jinkui Chu’s words in Paragraph 4, we can know that________.
A. owls are good at capturing prey
B. owls have a good sense of hearing
C owls are good at jumping and twisting
D. owls have silent flight ability
14. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. The mechanical noise.
B. The vibrating system.
C. Mechanical energy.
D. The removal of mechanical energy.
15. What is mainly talked about in this passage?
A. Facts about stealth technology.
B. Technique that owls use to fly.
C. The reason for researching into owls.
D A study about owls’ unique ability.
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。
Imagine that you are in a remote village somewhere with no medical clinic.___16___Once the doctors get to
you, they examine you and take blood samples, but they won’t be able to help you until they take the samples back
to the hospital to find out what is wrong.___17___ Thanks to engineer Andy Ozcan, many people may never be in
this situation. He has invented an app that turns your mobile phone into a diagnostic (诊断的) tool.
Ozcan’s invention is important because it is very accurate and easy to use. In many remote places, even if
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂doctors have microscopes and other instruments to help them make diagnoses, there may still be other problems.
Many doctors, for example, don’t have enough training to correctly interpret what they see. ___18___ With
Ozcan’s mobile phone app, health workers can take a special photo of a blood sample and send it to a central
computer at a hospital. The computer will then automatically interpret the photo and send a diagnosis back in a few
minutes.
___19___ His technology only requires a mobile phone and an Internet connection. As more than four billion
people already have cell phones, the cost of establishing the diagnostic system is fairly low.
By inventing a medical tool that uses existing technology—mobile phones—Ozcan has developed a medical
tool that is both practical and economical. Therefore, it can be effectively almost anywhere. ___20___
A. As a result, they may diagnose illnesses incorrectly.
B. People are trying to reduce the cost of this new medical tool.
C. This tool has become much more popular all around the world.
D. Another reason that Ozcan’s invention is important is that it is inexpensive.
E. You become very sick and must wait days until a mobile medical unit arrives to help.
F. Ozcan’s simple, cost-effective tool might just save millions of lives around the world.
G. Even though you may only have a simple infection, you might die because of the delay.
第二部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分30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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的选项。
Could you live without your smartphone for an entire year? A filmmaker and fantasy author from New York is
about to try in an effort to win $100,000.
Vitaminwater launched a contest in December, offering one contestant the____21____to end up with six figures
if she was able to go a____22____year without using with a smartphone or tablet.
After sorting through over 100,000____23____submitted online____24____how they would approach the
challenge, Vitaminwater aimed the company’s chosen candidate on Friday.
Elana Mugdan, 30,____25____an infomercial style video on Twitter that impressed the judges with its unique
approach and humor. “She____26____for her originality and creativity in our challenge,” says Natalia Suarez, a
brand manager at Vtaminwater.
Mugdan is____27____her iPhone for a flip phone (翻盖手机) provided by Vitaminwater. For the next year, she
can’t____28____any smartphones or tablets at all, even those____29____other people. She will be able to use laptops
and desktop computers. Devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo are OK, too, as long as they’re not____30____to
a smartphone.
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂Getting____31____to compete came as an absolute surprise to Mugdan, “I really thought that I was a
good____32____for it, but this was the kind of thing I never____33____that I would actually win,” Mugdan tells
CNBC Make It.
“At first I was shocked when they called me. I’m kind of a(n)____34____person, so I was having a panic attack,”
she says. But shock____35____turned to expectation, and now she feels she’s up for the challenge.
21. A. ability B. chance C. right D. task
22. A. full B. previous C. new D. tough
23. A. plans B. performances C. plays D. entries
24. A. telling B. predicting C. detailing D. announcing
25. A. watched B. submitted C. made D. shared
26. A. took up B. looked out C. made up D. stood out
27. A. exchanging B. transforming C. selling D. throwing
28. A. produce B. buy C. use D. borrow
29. A. belonging to B. appealing to C. confusing D. satisfying
30. A. adapted B. linked C. accustomed D. exposed
31. A. picked B. touched C. sent D. checked
32. A. name B. player C. fit D. author
33. A. appreciated B. expected C. decided D. promised
34. A. kind B. talkative C. optimistic D. anxious
35. A. completely B. normally C. slightly D. quickly
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。
Throughout the history of mankind, people have been communicating with body languages. In many
___36___(situation), the way you say something is far more important than what you say.___37___(communicate)
better with others, you are expected to pay attention to eye contact. It can signal friendliness or unfriendliness,
interest or boredom, and understanding or confusion.
In Western cultures, keeping eye contact in conversations is ___38___(particular) important. As a
matter___39___ fact, a westerner might consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest. In Spain, Italy and
Greece,___40___people stand close together talking to each other, eye contact is more frequent and lasts
___41___(long).
In many Asian cultures, avoiding direct eye contact is one of the ways to show respect. It is done during the
talk with anyone older. Habits like this can cause problems when people do not understand them. For
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂example,___42___ Asian might close his eyes in concentration or look down while ___43___ (listen) to a
speaker. A Western speaker might think the man is not interested,
However, in both West and Fast, totally avoiding eye contact might be considered a lack of ___44___(polite),
but staring at others is also considered rude and should ____45____(avoid).
第三部分 写作(共三节，满分50分)
第一节 单词拼写(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
请根据句子的意思和汉语提示完成下列句子，每空只填一词。将每一题的答案写在答卷相应
的横线上。
46. Waiting for exam results is a time of great________(焦虑；担心). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
47. She smiled________(略微；稍微；轻微地), as if she were hiding something. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
48. He is a very________(可靠的；可信赖的) and honest man who would never betray anyone. （根据汉语提
示单词拼写）
49. I’m having a hard time adjusting to the________(现实；实际情况) of this situation. （根据汉语提示单词拼
写）
50. Last year, she________(克服；解决；战胜) injury to win the Olympic gold medal. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
51. The exhibition will focus on various________(方面；层面) of life and culture in the Middle East. (根据汉语
提示单词拼写)
52. It was________(怀疑；疑有) that the drugs had been brought into the country by boat. (根据汉语提示单词拼
写)
53. I was in the kitchen,________ (倒出；斟饮料) out drinks. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
54. Politicians are skilled at ________ (辩解) themselves against their critics. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)
55. Buyers are holding back in________(期望；预期；期待) of further price cuts. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
第二节 完成句子(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
请根据中文及括号内提示翻译下列句子，每空只填一词。将每一题的答案写在答卷相应的横
线上。
56. 换句话说，流言蜚语之所以让人感到很满足，是因为它给人一种归属感甚至优越感。
________, gossip is satisfying because it gives people a sense of belonging or even superiority.
57. 我们正试图消除两个不同社区的年轻人之间的隔阂。
We’re trying to________between young people from both communities.
58. 我觉得我已经被赋予了第二次生命，可以献身于一些有意义而宏大的事情。
I feel that I’ve been given a second life to________something that is________and enormous.
59. 实际上，袁隆平在内心深处仍然是一位农民。身为土地之子，他不在乎名利。
更多资料添加微信号：hiknow_007 淘宝搜索店铺：乐知课堂________, Yuan Longping is still very much a farmer at heart. As a man of soil, he cares little for________or
money.
60. 由于森林遭到破坏，目前该国的部分地区水源短缺。
________of the destruction of the forests, parts of the country are now short of water.
61. 中国家庭会竭力让你有宾至如归的感觉。
The Chinese family go out of their way to make you________.
62. 但是，在巴西和德国，你应该避免做这个手势，因为这被认为不礼貌。
However, you should avoid________in Brazil and Germany, as it is not considered polite. (动词-ing形式作宾语)
63. 有机食品是否真正对人们更好依然不清楚。
________is really better for people remain unknown. (主语从句)
64. 世界粮食计划署致力于实现的东西是缓解饥饿、保障食品安全和营养。
________the World Food Programme aims to achieve is to relieve________and support food security
and________. (主语从句)
65. 来自宽街水泵的水被污染了。这是这条街有更多霍乱相关的死亡人数的原因。多亏了约翰·斯诺的不
懈努力，感染得到了控制。
The water from the Broad Street pump Was polluted. That was________there were more cholera related deaths on
this street. ________John Snow’s tireless efforts, the infection was brought under control. (表语从句)
第三节 读后续写(满分25分)
66. 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。
Alice is an ordinary woman with an amazing heart. One day, she was flying from Tampa to Hawaii for a
meeting. Her boyfriend, Rico, came to see her of. When they slowly made it to the safety check, they noticed the
airport security (安保人员) was asking a young lady to drop a package into the litter bin before boarding her plane.
The lady begged to place the package in Lost and Found Department instead of throwing it away. Sadly, it was
not allowed. The lady, after much begging, finally dropped her package and was heading to her gate. Alice, after
realizing the lady was nearly in tears, knew something was wrong. Then, it was her turn to pass through security.
While hugging Rico goodbye, she asked him to quietly go through the liter bin and pick up the deserted (丢弃
的) package to see what was inside of it. Alice was truly trying to help the lady.
After waving a final goodbye to his girlfriend, Rico went straight to the litter bin to get the package.
As soon as her plane landed, Alice called Rico about the package and was told that in it was a snow globe (水
晶球) with a picture of the young lady in the airport. On the base were the words “We love you, Katie. Grandma
and Grandpa." Alice immediately realized that the snow globe was far from ordinary. They should do something to
return it.
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1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 开头已给出。
Paragraph1:
Alice did the only thing that came to mind: asking for the help of strangers online.
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Paragraph 2:
One day, Katie heard a knock on the door.
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