湖北省钢城四中学年高二英语下学期期中试题上Word文档格式.docx

1、3. When can the woman get the furniture at the soonest? A. On Tuesday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Saturday.4. What time is it now? A. 3:00. B. 2:30. C. 3:30.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A movie. B. An award. C. A band.第二节听6段材料，回答第6，7题。6. What room does the man want to stay in? A. A

2、single room. B. A double room. C. A private room.7. How much should the man pay each day if he stays in Room 313? A. 20 pounds. B. 25 pounds. C. 30 pounds.听7段材料，回答第8，9题。8. Why is Jim going to Europe in late July? A. To give a history lecture. B. To visit some historic buildings. C. To call on a hist

3、ory professor.9. What does the woman think of the mans summer plan? A. Complex. B. Meaningful. C. costly.听8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the woman do? A. An editor. B. A writer. C. A secretary.11. How does the man find publishing? A. Interesting. B. Rewarding. C. Boring.12. What can we know about the

4、womans company? A. It provides a much higher salary. B. It provides many promotion opportunities. C. It provides a relaxing working atmosphere.听9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Whats the relationship between the two speakers? A. Colleagues. B. Teammates. C. Coach and player. 14. Why was the woman away for a while

5、? A. To attend a wedding. B. To tale a vacation. C. To play a match.15. Who bought the new jackets for the team? A. A former coach. B. A basketball club. C. A former player. 16. What should the woman do to get the new jacket? A. Write an application letter. B. Turn in the old one. C. Fill out a form

6、.听10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How old was the speaker when he learned to say his first word? A. About 16 months old. B. About 18 months old. C. About 21 months old.18. What is the first word the speaker tried to say? A. Truck. B. Pack. C. Duck.19. What did his father do when the speaker screamed that word a

7、t the airport? A. He tried to shut him up. B. He corrected him at once. C. He hid himself somewhere.20. How did the speakers mother feel when she heard the speakers scream at the airport？ A. Surprised. B. Embarrassed. C. Frightened.第二部分 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）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和

8、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。ASuppose youre in a rush, feeling tired, not paying attention to your screen, and you send an email that could get you in trouble.Realisation will probably set in seconds after youve clicked “send”. You freeze in horror and burn with shame.What to do? Here are four common email

9、 accidents, and how to recover.Clicking “send” too soonDont waste your time trying to find out if the receivers has read it yet. Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.Writing the wrong

10、 timeThe sooner you notice, the better. Respond quickly and briefly, apologizing for your mistake. Keep the tone measured: dont handle it too lightly, as people can be offended, especially if your error suggests a misunderstanding of their culture（i.e. incorrect ordering of Chinese names）.Clicking “

11、reply all” unintentionallyYou accidentally reveal to the entire company what menu choices you would prefer at the staff Christmas dinner, or what holiday youd like to take. In this instance, the best solution is to send a quick, light-hearted apology to explain your awkwardness. But it can quickly r

12、ise to something worse, when everyone starts hitting “reply all” to join in a long and unpleasant conversation. In this instance, step away from your keyboard to allow everyone to calm down.Sending an offensive message to its subjectThe most awkward email mistake is usually committed in anger. You w

13、rite an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person youre discussing. In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry. Explain your frustrations calmly and sensiblysee it as an opportunity to clear up any difficulties

14、you may have with this person.21What should you do when an unpleasant conversation is started by your “reply all” email?AAvoid further involvement. BTry offering other choices.CMeet other staff members. DMake a light-hearted apology.22How should you deal with the problem caused by an offensive email

15、?ABy promising not to offend the receiver again. BBy seeking support from the receivers friends.CBy asking the receiver to control his anger. DBy talking to the receiver face to face.23What is the passage mainly about?ADefining email errors. BHandling email accidents.CReducing email mistakes. DImpro

16、ving email writing.BPerhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if youre unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desiresnot that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you dont have enough tastes.Real ric

17、hes consist of well-developed and hearty capacities to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.Your house of life ought to be a mansion （豪宅） , a royal palace. Eve

18、ry new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, th

19、ey would make you as happy as to find plenty of hamburgers and eggs when youre hungry.Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not

20、someone who has a library but who likes a library.Music like Mozarts and Bachs shouldnt be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when youve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a mat

21、ter of thrills.Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, played a bit.Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoy

22、ing life is to keep adding.24The author intends to tell us that_.Atrue happiness comes from spiritual richesBbig houses are peoples most valued possessionsCbig houses can in a sense bring richness of lifeDtrue happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means25The underlined sentence in the second pa

23、ragraph probably implies that_.Ahowever materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedBhowever materially rich, they remain spiritually poorCthough their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeDthough their house is big, it seems to be a cage26It can be learned from the passage that _.Amore money

24、brings more happiness Bart is needed to make your house beautifulCliterature can enrich your spiritual life Dsports contribute mainly to your physical fitness27What would be the best title for the passage?AInterest and Enthusiasm BSecret of WealthCRest and Refreshment DHouse of Life CTwo things chan

25、ged my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket. I have thought long and hard about it and its true. I would be a different person if my mom hadnt turned a silly bicycle accessory into a life lesson I carry with me today.My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but i

26、t mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out. Looking back, I honestly dont know how she did it. Managing the family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless. If we complained about not having what another kid did, wed hear something like, “I dont care what so-a

27、nd-so got for his birthday, you are not getting a TV in your room/a car for your birthday/a lavish sweet-16 party.” We had to earn our allowance by doing chores around the house. I can still remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table. My brothers can no doubt remember hours spe

28、nt cleaning the house. Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds （no one left the house until that was done）and picked up after ourselves. We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost, it was not replaced.It was summer and, one day, my mother

29、drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixedand there it was in the window. White, shiny, plastic and decorated with flowers, the basket winked at me and I knewI knew I had to have it.“Its beautiful,” my mother said when I pointed it out to her, “What a neat basket.”I tried to hold off at first, I

30、played it cool for a short while. But then I guess I couldnt stand it any longer: “Mom, please can I please, please get it? Ill do extra chores for as long as you say. Ill do anything, but I need that basket, I love that basket. Please, Mom. Please?”I was desperate.“You know,” she said, gently rubbi

31、ng my back while we both stared at what I believed was the coolest thing ever, “If you save up you could buy this yourself.”“By the time I make enough itll be gone!“Maybe Roger here could hold it for you,” she smiled at Roger, the bike guy.“He cant hold it for that long, Mom. Someone else will buy it