高二下学期期末考试 英语 含答案.docx

1、高二下学期期末考试 英语 含答案2021-2022年高二下学期期末考试 英语 含答案第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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。1. Where does the conversation take place?A. In an elevator. B. On a bus. C. In a taxi

2、.2. How much does each ticket cost?A. 3.70. B. 4.70. C. 7.40.3. What item is needed the most?A. Batteries. B. Cell phones. C. MP4s.4. What do we know about Karen?A. She hasnt been in contact with the speakers.B. She has turned away from all her friends.C. She really likes her studies.5. Why did the

3、woman change her job?A. She didnt like machines. B. She was not good at doing business.C. She didnt like accounting.第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。6. At what time will the

4、 speakers go to see the Smiths?A. 3:30. B. 4:00. C. 4:15.7. How will they go there?A. By bus. B. By bike. C. On foot.8. Where will they meet?A. At the bus stop. B. Opposite the factory. C. In front of the bookstore.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. Why does the man like Joplins?A. Because of the location. B. Becau

5、se of the benefits. C. Because of the salary.10. What does the woman suggest? A. He should reconsider. B. He should ask for more benefits. C. He should apply for it.11. Why is the woman familiar with Joplins? A. Her husband was employed there. B. She lives near there. C. She once worked there.听第8段材料

6、，回答第12至14题。12. Whats Charles problem?A. He has to rent a room. B. He has to pay the rent. C. He has to leave his home.13. What do we know about the woman in the past?A. She always lent money to the man. B. She got financial problems.C. She always bought lotteries.14. How did the woman get so much mo

7、ney?A. She won the lottery. B. She found a good job. C. Her uncle left it to her.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。 15. What is the womans first impression of the television?A. Its too big. B. Its beautiful. C. Its of high quality.16. How much did the TV cost the man?A.1000. B.1200. C.2400.17. What does the woman su

8、ggest the man do? A. Watch less television. B. Have the old television fixed.C. Return the television and get his money back.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What roles do fathers play nowadays?A. They mainly stay at home looking after children.B. They work outside the home leaving childcare to their wives.C.

9、Besides working they help with childcare as well.19. What do people often do on Mothers Day?A. Mothers and children go shopping together.B. They have outdoor picnics. C. They wear carnations.20. What is most important on these two days?A. What children write on cards. B. The value of gifts.C. Love a

10、nd respect given to parents.笔试部分 (满分120分)第一卷一、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，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(A)When it es to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities i

11、lluminate（照亮）me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was being fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behavi

12、ors. We said little at school, but she would e to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say: “Lets start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud

13、. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend, He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did

14、 not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.For almost four years I have had a remarkable friend whose imagination illum

15、inates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the others dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes, I must tell.”We h

16、ave never met.It is such forting panions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist（心理学家），who will only fill up the healing（愈合的）silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.1. In the eig

17、hth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to _. A. bee serious about her study B. go to her friends house regularly C. learn from her classmates at school D. share poems and stories with her friend2. In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means _.A.

18、 our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of usB. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from LondonC. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared D. we parted with each other in London3. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _.A. call each other regularly B. have s

19、imilar personalitiesC. enjoy writing to each other D. dream of meeting each other4. What is the best title for the passage? _. A. Unforgettable Experiences B. Remarkable ImaginationC. Lifelong Friendship D. Noble panions(B)Driving a car is not just handling controls and judging speed and distance. I

20、t requires you to predict what other road users will do and get ready to react to something unexpected. When alcohol is consumed, it enters your bloodstream and acts as a depressant (抑制药), damaging eyesight, judgment and co-ordination(协调), slowing down reaction time and greatly increasing the risk o

21、f accidents. Even below the drink driving link, driving will be affected.Alcohol may take a few minutes to be absorbed into the bloodstream and start action on the brain. Absorption rate is increased when drinking on an empty stomach or when consuming drinks mixed with fruit juice. To get rid of alc

22、ohol from the body is a very slow process and it is not possible to speed it up with any measures like taking a shower or having a cup of tea or coffee.The present Road Traffic Ordinance states clearly that the limit of alcohol concentration is: 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of blood; or 22 mic

23、rograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath; or 67 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of urine (尿液).Drivers who cause traffic accidents, or who mit a moving traffic offence or are being suspected(怀疑) of drink driving will be tested.Any driver found drinking beyond the limit will be charged. The driver decla

24、red guilty may be fined a maximum of HK $25,000 and be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison and punished for 10 driving-offence points; or temporarily banned from driving.The same punishment applies to failing to provide specimens (样本) far breath, blood or urine tests without good excuse.Drink drivi

25、ng is a criminal offence. Be a responsible driver, think before you drink. For the safety of yourself and other road users, never drive after consuming alcohol.5The first paragraph is mainly about _.A. the introduction of driving skills B. the damage of drinking to your bodyC. the effect of drinking

26、 on driving D. the process of alcohol being absorbed6The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “_”.A. alcohol B. absorption C. blood D. process7Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Drinking below the drink driving limit has no effect on driving.B. Alcohol is ta

27、ken in more quickly when drunk with fruit juice.C. Having a cup of tea helps to get rid of alcohol from the body.D. 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100ml of breath is below the drink limit.8A driver suspected of drink driving _.A. should provide specimens for testing B. will be forbidden to drive for 3

28、yearsC. will be punished for 10 driving-offence pointsD. should pay a maximum fine of HK $25,000(C)A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists(悲观者) who expected their future to

29、 be worse. The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to xx.Survey respondents (受访者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction

30、 on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far

31、more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future

32、than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more caref