陕西省富平县2024-2025学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题(无答案)

2024-2025年度第一学期期中考试英语试题
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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，选出最佳选项。
1. What will the woman cat
A. Beef. B. Fish. C. Salad.
2. How much should the speakers pay for a ticket each
A. 5. B. 7. C. 10.
3. What does the woman ask the man to do first
A. Draw some pictures. B. Write about his paintings. C. Take his paintings home.
4. What is the woman probably going to do next
A. Go back home. B. Buy an umbrella. C. Leave without the man.
5. What are the speakers talking about
A. Where to go. B. What to wear. C. When to leave.
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，选出最佳选项。
听第6段材料，问答第6、7题。
6. What relation is the woman to John probably
A. His wife. B. His customer. C. His secretary.
7. What is the man going to do
A. Leave a message. B. Send John an email. C. Call back this afternoon.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of party are the speakers going to hold
A. A birthday party. B. A holiday party. C. A going-away party.
9. Where will the party take place
A. At home. B. In the office. C. In a restaurant.
10. What will the man probably do next
A. Send out the invitations.
B. Choose a gift with the woman.
C. Give the woman some money.
所第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. When will the man’s family move house
A. In May. B. In June. C. In July.
12. Where will the man’s family move to
A. York. B. Leeds. C. Liverpool.
13. How does the man feel about moving
A. Excited. B. Worried. C. Annoyed.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why does the man talk to the woman
A. To ask for information. B. To make an invitation. C. To work on a project.
15. What will the woman and her friends do for the film this week
A. Decide the film type. B. Plan the ending. C. Choose the music.
16. When will the result of the competition be announced
A. On June 12th. B. On June 19th. C. On June 30th.
17. Where will the film festival be
A. At a film school. B. At the arts centre. C. At the cinema.
听第10段材料，问答第18至20题.
18. Why did Jimmy take an online course at first
A. To save money. B. To have longer lessons. C. To study on his own.
19. What problem did Jimmy have with online learning
A. The time. B. The course. C. The language.
20. What do we learn about Sally’s time in the classroom
A. She got annoyed with some students.
B. She found it hard to concentrate .
C. She had to leave the lessons early.
第二部分 阅读（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。
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Books For Africa (BFA) welcomes all book donations. It costs BFA 50 cents to ship each book to Africa. Consider making a financial donation to cover the costs of shipping the books you donate.
Drop Off Books
Books can be dropped off at both our St .Paul and Marietta locations:
1. BOOKS FOR AFRICA WAREHOUSE (仓库)-MINNESOTA
717 Prior Ave. N, Suite B, St. Paul, MN 55104 USA
Hours
Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
2. BOOKS FOR AFRICA WAREHOUSE-GEORGIA
149 Cobb Industrial Drive, Bldg B. Marietta. GA 3066 USA
Hours
Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. & Saturday 9:00 a.m.-noon
Large drop-offs must be arranged of time by calling the Minnesota (651-251-8896) or Georgia (404-603-8680) warehouse.
OR
Send Books By Mail
If mailing books, please send book donations to the Georgia warehouse.
Please do send boxes that weigh ore than 50 pounds and do not include any non-recyclable packing materials.
Book Donation Requirements
Books For Africa accepts:
Children’s books.
Primary, secondary, and college textbooks published in the last 15 years;
Dictionaries or reference books published in the last 10 years, except encyclopedia (百科全书) sets;
Medical, nursing, technical (技术的) and science books published in the last 10 years.
Books For Africa does NOT accept:
Magazines or journals of any kind, including academic (学术的) journals;
Home decorating or wedding books;
Cookbooks;
Music books for K-12.
21. When can you drop off books at the Georgia warehouse
A. A8:00 a.m. on Monday. B. At 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
C. At 4:00 p.m. on Friday. D. At 10:00 a.m. on Saturday.
22. What should you do if you want to send books by mail
A. Put 50 cents into boxes.
B. Use recyclable packing materials.
C. Call the warehouses ahead of time.
D. Send boxes that weigh over 50 pound.
23. Which of the following will be accepted by Books For Africa
A. Dictionaries published 15 years ago. B. Music magazines.
C. Children’s books. D. Cookbooks.
B
Now Isaac Winfield, a kind-hearted 11-year-old boy, needs to buy more sheds (棚) to store the donated items.
“We’d always donated to the local food banks, and during the pandemic, he helped deliver food packages to the needy,” said his mom Claire, who added that recently Isaac had moved to a specialist school that didn’t have a similar program, leaving him frustrated that he couldn’t continue to help people.
“But the tough boy didn’t stop. He said, ‘We’ll give them food at my house,” said Claire. “He used his own birthday money to launch a food bank service which he runs from his garden shed. He fills bags of groceries (食品杂货) and hands them out to the needy around his hometown.” His parents give him a lift at weekends, but sometimes it’s Isaac who takes the bags of groceries to people on foot. Those in need are also able to go to Isaac’s food bank shed, which is open round the clock, and help themselves.
“At the beginning, he put all the food he bought in a little greenhouse with some lights and started offering it from there,” Claire remembered. “Someone spotted it and put it on one of those Facebook community sites and it went mad. The greenhouse lasted four weeks before I had to go and get a shed because we ran out of room.” Now Isaac is planning to open his second food bank in the town and has a local charity sponsoring (赞助) him.
Isaac was born with a rare chromosome disease (罕见的染色体疾病), and the food bank has helped “massively” with his confidence, as he can’t read or write. “For his 11th birthday, he just wants to get as many donations in as possible to help as many people as he can,” said Claire. Isaac has now been nominated (提名) for a local business award.
24. What does the underlined word “frustrated” in paragraph 2 mean
A. Confused. B. Surprised. C. Upset. D. Satisfied.
25. What do we know about Isaac’s food bank
A. It was established at his new school. B. It was funded by a local charity.
C. It hires locals to deliver food. D. It is open 24 hours a day.
26. How did locals react to Isaac’s food bank according to paragraph 4
A. They considered it as useless. B. They gave some advice on it.
C. They showed great interest in it. D. They donated lots of money to it.
27. What does the food bank do for Isaac
A. It cures him of a disease. B. It improves his confidence.
C. It costs him too much money. D. It has a bad influence on his studies.
C
In 1879 Mark Twain wrote an idea he had for a story in his notebook: “A poor man was loaned a 1,000,000 note for 30 days and he got rich on it because nobody could change it.” In the following years, he thought of the idea occasionally, putting down the title as a reminder or outlining a related idea, but nothing came of it.
A decade later, financial problems at Charles L. Webster & Co., the publishing firm (公司) founded and owned by Twain, had become serious. The company’s balance sheet was destroyed by ongoing investments (投资) in a hopeless typesetting machine and by disappointing sales. To keep the company afloat, he had to continue investing his own money in it. Things didn’t get better.
In the summer of 1891, worried by the dwindling income and rising debts (减少的收入和增加的债务), Mark Twain and his family left their large house, sold the horses, laid off their servants, and took off for Europe so that the internationally celebrated author could cash in on his name abroad. In addition to writing travel articles for McClure’s Magazine and the New York newspaper The Sun, Twain earned money by giving readings in various European cities. Eventually, he earned enough to pay back all the debts.
While having an expensive lifestyle in Europe, dining with important persons, and enjoying the widespread attention of the media, Samuel Clemens, the man behind the personality known as Mark Twain, was very poor; the future that awaited him included the closure of his publishing firm and personal bankruptcy (破产). As a virtually penniless man everyone assumed was rich, he doubtlessly realized the absurdity (荒唐) of his situation and the time must have seemed right to take that idea of a million-pound note and turn it into a story about the nature of wealth. He finished the story while in Florence during the fall of 1892 and sent it off to the editors of Century Magazine.
28. What was Mark Twain’s idea for a story in 1879
A. A man develops a company from nothing.
B. A poor man becomes rich by working hard.
C. A man with a million pound loan becomes rich.
D. A wealthy man loses everything and becomes homeless.
29. What happened to Mark Twain’s publishing firm according to paragraph 2
A. It opened several overseas branches.
B. It got into financial difficulties.
C. It faced plenty of competition.
D. It published many bestsellers.
30. Why did Mark Twain travel to Europe
A. To experience a different lifestyle. B. To escape from paying his debts.
C. To sell his new books. D. To make money.
31. What inspired Mark Twain to complete the story occurring to him in 1879
A. His desire for wealth. B. The media attention he got.
C. The situation he found himself in. D. His meetings with important persons.
D
Child-focused financial tech services — apps and banks designed to educate and teach children about finance — are on a mission to educate the masses from a very young age. And they’re growing fast.
GoHenry has got a customer base of over 2 million in the UK and the US. Now, the firm is hoping to conquer continental Europe (欧洲大陆) with its acquisition (收购) of Pixpay, a leader in teen banking in France and Spain with nearly 200,000 members. “We’re hugely excited to help further our mission to make every kid and teen smarter with money.” Louise Hill, cofounder of GoHenry said. Launched in 2012, GoHenry is a financial education app and offers prepaid debit card (借记卡) targeted at 6-18 year-olds, featuring “gamified money lessons” with parental oversight (照管).
Pixpay, meanwhile, offers a replacement for banks for children young as 10. It offers them a Mastercard payment card and a mobile app, enabling them to pay, get paid, save money or even get discounts on their favourite things.
One of the many reasons for the success of the child-centred financial tech industry is its ability to keep up with the changing times. Children today are given easier access than ever to buying goods.
Hill said one of the key inspirations behind founding GoHenry was finding herself “trying to explain to my children at home that by clicking the download button on iTunes they were spending money”. “They just didn’t understand it, and the move to cashless payment and the popularity of online shopping has just made the problem worse.”
If left unaddressed, poor financial literacy (能力) caused by limited education can lead to money issues in the future. GoHenry and similar financial education services are, to some extent, filling the gap left by the lack of financial literacy caused by the British education system offering parents the tools to educate their children about the value of money.
32. What does GoHenry hope to do after buying Pixpay
A. Launch a financial education app for teenagers in the UK.
B. Offer more gamified money lessons to kids in the US.
C. Get to know about teen banking in France and Spain.
D. Have more young customers in Europe.
33. What can kids as young as 10 do with Pixpay
A. Design their own mobile apps.
B. Buy some things at a lower price.
C. Draw money from different banks.
D. Play games without their parents’ permission.
34. What made Hill start GoHenry
A. A family talk. B. A trip with her children.
C. An attempt to use iTunes. D. An online shopping experience.
35. What message is mainly shown in the last paragraph
A. Parents have to be educated properly.
B. Money issues are worsening day by day.
C. The British education system is a total failure.
D. Financial knowledge needs to be readily accessible.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
As parents, we want our kids to be carefree for as long as possible. 36 Think again. Experts agree that by the time kids are tackling (应付) basic math at school, they’re ready to learn more about money. Teaching them the benefits of saving money from an early age helps set them up for a lifetime of financial security (安全).
The earlier kids start, the sooner they can make saving a habit. Spending is easy, but learning how not to spend money is hard. The earlier kids learn how to save money, the more it will become a part of their value system and a habit. 37
Saving money helps kids become self-reliant (自立的) and independent. It may be easier for kids to ask for some money, but do you know what feels better Not needing to ask for permission. 38 That’s a powerful feeling.
39 Discipline (自制力) and self-control can be difficult for anyone, especially when it comes to money. The fact is, we won’t always be able to afford the things we want right away — at least not without going into debt. But kids who learn self-control are less likely to have credit problems later in life.
Kids can practise having an emergency fund. 40 If kids are able to dip into (动用) their own emergency fund when life goes sideways, it can build the confidence needed to weather life’s surprises.
A. Why is saving money early important
B. Kids need to keep track of their own funds.
C. Kids aren’t ready to learn about saving money, right
D. Kids knowing how to save money are more likely to stay out of debt.
E. Good attitudes toward money mean having a little set-aside for the unexpected.
F. By saving money, kids will realise that they can get what they want by themselves.
G. Experts say kids tend to develop their financial habits between the ages of six and 12.
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A driver was praised for returning a lost wallet containing about $500 in cash, as well as several bank cards.
Mr Shinderpal Singh, 34, was 41 at Block 917 Jurong West Street 91 that day at about 830 am when he 42 the black wallet on the floor.
The man was unable to take the wallet to a police station 43 as he was busy between jobs. He then 44 the wallet and added the photo to a post 45 finding the owner of the wallet.
Social media users tried to 46 the driver to contact the owner of the wallet. Many netizens (网民) also praised Mr Singh for his 47 .
Mr Singh left his 48 number in the post and received a call at about 4.30 pm from a man saying that he knew the 49 of the wallet.
The man linked (联系) him up with the owner and they 50 to meet in a car park that evening.
“When we 51 , I checked his documents to make sure that he was the 52 person, before I returned the wallet,” Mr Singh said.
The owner, Mr Nagalingam, 53 Mr Singh and wanted to give him $100 as a reward (奖励) but Mr Singh 54 the offer.
Mr Singh said: “If I 55 money, I would have taken the wallet. I’m a father, and I believe our kids are watching us and we as parents should set a great example.”
41. A. working B. shopping C. studying D. exercising
42. A. threw B. opened C. stole D. noticed
43. A. secretly B. directly C. bravely D. patiently
44. A. cleaned B. chose C. photographed D. returned
45. A. in the hope of B. on the basis of C. at the risk of D. for the love of
46. A. order B. invite C. help D. allow
47. A. humor B. honesty C. leadership D. beauty
48. A. account B. car C. house D. phone
49. A. owner B. content C. size D. prize
50. A. learned B. arranged C. remembered D. happened
51. A. gave up B. stood up C. met up D. grew up
52. A. right B. strange C. common D. bad
53. A. saved B. joined C. needed D. thanked
54. A. considered B. refused C. made D. hated
55. A. had B. spent C. wanted D. lent
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。
A 12-year-old girl gave her older sister 300 yuan from her savings to encourage her to study hard.
The older girl, surnamed (姓) Ma, from Zhengzhou in Henan Province, received the money 56.__________ her little sister when she returned to university after 57.__________ (visit) her family.
At the start of the new academic year, Ma had her luggage (行李) packed and returned to school. When she unpacked her things she found a small envelope.
She was 58.__________ (surprise) when she saw an unsigned note attached on top with the words, “Not to open until getting to campus”.
Ma then realised it was placed by her younger sister.
“Important things should 59.__________ (repeat) three times,” her little sister had written in 60.__________ last sentence.
Inside the envelope, Ma noticed that there were three 100 yuan banknotes 61.__________ another handwritten note.
“Please study hard and do not let 62.__________ (I) down,” her sister wrote in the second note.
Ma said she was 63.__________ (extreme) moved.
The story also struck a chord with (引起共鸣) online 64.__________ (user).
One person commented: “The sisters must love each other very much, so the little girl is willing 65.__________ (give) everything she can to her sister.”
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
假定你是李华，你所在的英语学习小组本周讨论话题为“肢体语言在沟通中的重要性”。请你准备一篇英语发言稿参与讨论。
注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
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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。
The Araguaia River is one of the biggest rivers in Brazil. It is home to thousands of animals, like bright blue and yellow macaws. River dolphins swim and play in the water, and there are many different coloured fish.
In one town, a 13-year-old boy named Rhenan walks along the river every day. But looking at the river makes him worry because there is trash (垃圾) everywhere. He sees plastic bottles, old clothing, and empty food packages. The water looks dark and ugly.
At school, Rhenan asks about the dirty river. “You wouldn’t want trash in your house,” says his teacher. “Think about the poor animals!” For days, Rhenan couldn’t stop thinking about the river. It doesn’t seem right to him that this big and powerful river is filled with trash. “It’s hurting the animals in my area,” he thinks. “And it’s also hurting the families who live here.” Then Rhenan has an idea.
The next morning, Rhenan talks to his mother about his plan for the river. He wants to go around his town and ask for everyone’s help. Maybe if they all work together, they could clean up the river! Rhenan’s mother loves his idea. “I believe the most important thing for you, Rhenan, is learning how to change things that you care about. That will stay with you forever.” she says. She tells him she will help him along the way.
The next day, Rhenan goes to the police department. Next he goes to the Mayors office (市长办公室). He visits offices, businesses, and other schools. Soon he has a very big group of people who like his idea! They all decide to meet at the river the following week. On the day of the river clean-up. Rhenan is excited — but he is also nervous. What if no one shows up But when he and his mother arrive, there are almost a hundred people there, including many of Rhenan’s friends.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
Over the whole day, they all work together to clean up the trash. _______________________________________
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