内蒙古通辽市科左中旗实验高中2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版含答案（无听力部分）

科左中旗实验高中
2010-2021学年度第二学期期中考试英语试卷
考试时间：120分 总分：150分
第I卷
第一部分　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D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
I took the bus to work for many years. No one knew each other; the passengers all sat there sleepily in the morning. The bus was cheerless and silent.
One of the passengers was a small gray-haired man who took the bus to the center for senior citizens every morning. No one ever paid very much attention to him.
One July morning he said good morning to the driver and smiled. The driver nodded guardedly(戒备地). The rest of us were silent.
The next day, the old man boarded with a big smile and said in a loud voice: “A very good morning to you all!” Some of us looked up, amazed, and murmured “Good Morning” in reply.
The following weeks, our friend was dressed in a nice old suit and tie. His thin hair had been carefully combed. He said good morning to us every day and we gradually began to nod and talk to each other.
One morning he even had a bunch of wild flowers in his hand. The driver turned around smiling and asked: 揌ave you got yourself a girlfriend, Charlie? We never got to know if his name really was 揅harlie, but he nodded shyly and said yes. The other passengers whistled and clapped at him. Charlie waved the flowers before he sat down on his seat.
Every morning after that Charlie always brought flowers. Some passengers also brought flowers for him. The bus became a happy place.
Then, one morning, as autumn was closing in, Charlie wasn抰 waiting at his usual stop. When he wasn抰 there the next day and the day after that, we started wondering if he was sick or梙opefully on holiday somewhere.
When we came nearer to the center for senior citizens, one of the passengers asked the driver to wait. We all held our breaths when he went to the door.
The old gentle man was fine, but one of his close friends had died over the weekend. How silent we were the rest of the way to work.
The next Monday Charlie was waiting at the stop, stooping (弯腰) a bit more, a little bit more gray, and without a tie. Inside the bus was silent. Even though no one had talked about it, all of us sat there silently, our eyes filled with tears and a bunch of wild flowers in our hands.
1. From the passage, we can infer that .
A. people always cared about each other on the bus
B. people were unhappy and sleepy on the bus because they were tired
C. smiles can shorten the distance between people
D. people are not good at communicating in the country
2. What are we sure about the old man?
A. His name was Charlie.
B. He worked at the center for senior citizens.
C. He got sick over the weekend.
D. He was in great sorrow when we saw him the next Monday.
3. Which of the following is not true?
A. The atmosphere on the bus was cheerful and lively at first.
B. People were surprised at the old man抯 first greeting.
C. People were worried about the old man抯 absence.
D. People on the bus at last shared happiness and sorrow together.
4.Which would be the best title for the passage？
A. How to Shorten the Distance between People
B. Smiles Make a Bus Feel Like Home
C. Charlie, A Smiling Gentle Man
D. The Key to Friendship — Communication
B
Welcome to the Ambassador Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities（设施） to the full.
Dining Room
Breakfast is served in the dining mom from 8 to 9:30 a.m.. Alternatively, the room staff will bring a breakfast tray to your room at any time after 7 a.m., if you place an order for it by telephone. In this case, please fill out a card and hang it outside your door when you go to bed. Lunch: 12:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Dinner: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Telephone:48752
Room Service
This operates 24 hours a day. Phone the Reception Desk, and your message will be passed on to the room staff.
Telephone:48759
Telephone
To make a telephone call, dial 0 for Reception and Laundry (洗衣店), and ask to be connected. We apologize for delays in putting calls through when the staff are very busy. There are also public telephone booths(电话亭)near the Reception Desk. Early calls should be booked with Reception.
Shop
The hotel shop is open for souvenirs（纪念品）, gifts and toiletries（化妆品）from 9 a.m. to 5:30p.m.
Telephone:48687
Laundry
We have a laundry on the premises（附属）and will wash, iron and return your clothes within 24 hours. Ask the room staff to phone the laundrymen to collect them.
Telephone:48867
Bar
The hotel bar is open from 12 to 2 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.. The Reception staff will cash cheques and exchange money in many foreign currencies（货币）.
5.The announcement(通知) mainly gives us information about ________.
A.facilities in the hotel B.providing passengers all kinds of service
C.the ways of serving D.carrying out the promise of the hotel
6.The card in a bedroom of the hotel is announced that ___________.
A.you should keep silence when walking past the room
B.the passenger of the room is taking a rest
C.the waiters mustn抰 enter the room
D.any visitors won抰 bother the hotel guest
7.You have arrived to stay at the hotel at 2 a.m., and want a snack(快餐), What should you do ?
A.Go to the hotel shop. B.Go to the hotel bar.
C.Give a message to the waiter. D.Phone Reception
C
Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today抯 children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
8. Parents in China, according to this passage, ____________.
A. are too strict with their children
B. are too rich to educate their children
C. have some problems in educating their children correctly
D. are too poor to educate their children
9. Generally speaking, what most parents fail to realize is ______.
A. that their children need to take extra-course activities
B. that the more expensive an education is, the better it is
C. that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence
D. that their children first need to be a good cook if they want to get good marks in the exams
10. The writer of this passage does not seem to be satisfied with_______.
A. the parents ideas of educating their children
B. the education system
C. children抯 skills
D. children抯 hobbies
11. Doing some cooking at home helps children_________.
A. learn how to serve their parents
B. learn how to become strong and fat
C. benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future
D. make their parents believe that they are clever
12. According to the last paragraph we can conclude that______.
　A. broken radios and television sets are useful
　 B. one's curiosity may be useful for his later life
　 C. an engineer must fix many broken radios
　 D. a good student should spend much time repairing radios
D
Ant farm lessons
I learned about life from an ant（蚂蚁）farm. When I was 7 years old, my family created one for me. First, we put clean sand (沙子)in a thin glass box, and then we waited for the live ants to arrive. Shortly after the ants were dropped into the glass structure（结构），they got to work making tunnels (隧道). I was surprised that each one knew just what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had assigned jobs. With my mom’s help, I kept a diary of what happened each day and named the ants.
One day a tragedy（悲剧) struck the ant farm. The pages of my diary, still wrinkled（起皱） where tear drops fell, indicate the depth of the tragedy. I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally tipped（翻倒）it over, caving（坍塌）in all the tunnels. Although the ants survived their earthquake, one by one they began to die.
I was terrified as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm．My mother said that the ants were dying of “frustration”. They simply could not stand the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed (毁坏).
Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, but it taught me much more. 0ver the years, I came to realize how much the ants benefited from their teamwork. Working together, they were able to create an amazing world for themselves. I also learned that they should be admired for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored（劳动）at their task, The ant farm showed that teamwork and perseverance (坚持不懈）are two key ingredients to success.
But there was an even larger lesson that I did not realize until recently: Adversity（不幸）is a natural part of life, and must be accepted. Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face disappointment. Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel caves in, we just have to build another.
Giving up, I say, is not a choice.
13.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?
The author and her mother guided the ants about where to make tunnels.
It took the ants several days to realize that they should make tunnels.
The author抯 family created an ant farm for her and put some ants inside.
The author was very interested in the ants and spent lots of time watching them.
14.What happened after the author tipped the ant farm over?
A. All the tunnels were destroyed
B. Some ants were crushed to death
C. The ants started working again even though they were very sad
D. The ants that survived left those who had died in the sand
15.What is the biggest lesson that the author learned from the ants?
New beginnings are always hard.
Adversity is what makes people successful.
Teamwork and perseverance are key to success
When things don’t go well, we shouldn’t give up.
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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。
There is an English saying:揰__16.__. Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. __ 17_____.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. 18__. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. _____19.____.
___20._______. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
A. Laughter can prolong one抯 life.
B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients condition by encouraging them to laugh.
C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain.
D. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.
E. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice.
F. Laughter is the best medicine.
G. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health
第二部分　英语知识运用(共两节，满分60分)
第一节　完形填空(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。
A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful 21 , and knowing her husband could 22 it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the 23 , her husband told her how 24 he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He 25 her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and 26 a Bible. 27 , she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible? She was so 28 that she left him.
Many years passed and the lady was very 29 in business. She owned two large companies. She 30 her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to 31 him. But before she could, she 32 a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and 33 things.
When she arrived at his house, sadness 34 her heart. She saw the still new 35 , just as she had left it years before. With 36 , she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring 37 from the Bible to the floor and a 38 could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LUV U ALWAYS”.
39 your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the 40 .
21. A. watch B. ring C. coat D. box
22. A. afford B. like C. design D. guess
23. A. holiday B. performance C. birthday D. meeting
24. A. proud B. kind C. sorry D. brave
25. A. lent B. asked C. gave D. moved
26. A. carried B. found C. missed D. held
27. A. Politely B. Lightly C. Patiently D. Angrily
28. A. calm B. upset C. grateful D. careless
29. A. failing B. lonely C. successful D. poor
30. A. wondered B. hoped C. realized D. explained
31. A. visit B. understand C. catch D. help
32. A. passed B. wrote C. sent D. received
33. A. take care of B. pay for C. look for D. give away
34. A. covered B. broke C. left D. filled
35. A. car B. Bible C. letter D. table
36. A. smiles B. laughter C. tears D. interests
37. A. hid B. dropped C. disappeared D. made
38. A. book B. pen C. flower D. card
39. A. If B. But C. Although D. So
40. A. hand B. eye C. face D. heart
第Ⅱ卷
第三部分　英语知识运用(共两节，满分60分)
第二节(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
My good friend, Sam, and I had to say goodbye to each other. We experienced differently.Sam went to a boarding school and studied there. Because it was the ___41_____(one) time he left his parents and he was not used ____42____ the new school life, he felt homesick and even ____43____ (fall) ill. As ____44____ exchange student, I went to Australia to study in a middle school for one year. At first, I was happy and excited because everything around was so attractive and interesting to me. As time went by, I found many ___45___ (challenge), such as cultural differences, language barrier and no friends there. I began to feel homesick and lonely. At night, I couldn’t fall ____46____(sleep) and during the day, I couldn’t focus my attention on my study in class because my parents always seemed ___47___ (appear) in front of me. My head teacher, Miss White, was kind and helpful. She asked my classmates to make friends with me and she ___48___ (her) helped me with my English. ____49____ (gradual), I felt I was one of Australian students and was _____50_____ (little) homesick.
第四部分　写作(共两节，满分50分)
第一节　短文改错(共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
It is a good way for students to learn and communicating by volunteering, and it is very importantly. When I was a Junior High student, I worked as volunteer for the sports meeting in our city, My major job is helping the students and teachers taking part in the competition, some of whom were unfamiliar to the center of our city. I felt pleasing to help them, However, sometimes, faced with a tough problem, I stretched my mind but wasn’t able to offer a solution, but I was upset.
Now I still remember the experience which was filled with tears or laughters. I also learn that to be a volunteer will offer a chance to communicate with others and learn much useful things that we can’t learn them at school.
第二节　书面表达(满分30分)
假如你叫李明，升入高中已经一学期了，你认识了很多新同学和老师，还结交了许多新朋友，其中同桌是你最好的朋友。请你写信给老朋友琳琳，介绍一下你的情况, 并希望大家都能努力, 为三年后的高考而奋斗。
注意:
(1) 词数：100左右
(2) 开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
(3) 参考词汇: the National College Entrance Examinations高考
Dear Linlin,
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Yours,
Li Ming
科左中旗实验高中2020-2021学年第二学期
期中考试英语试卷参考答案
一．阅读理解
1-4:CDAB 5-7:BBD 8-12:CCACB 13-15:DAD 16-20:FGDCB
二．完形填空
21-25:BACAC 26-30:BDBCC 31-35:ADADB 36-40:CBDAD
三．语法填空
41．first 42．to 43．fell 44．an 45.challenge
46．asleep 47．to appear 48．herself 49．Gradually 50．less
四．短文改错
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五．书面表达