（2020）新牛津译林版高中英语高二上学期选择性必修第二册期中考试英语试题（含听力mp3）.rar

120212022 学年度第一学期期中考试高二英语试题（考试时间：120 分钟 总分：150 分）注意事项：1、本试卷共分两部分，第 I 卷为选择题，第 II 卷为非选择题。2、所有试题的答案均填写在答题纸或答题卡上，答案写在试卷上的无效。第 I 卷（选择题）第一部分：听力（共 20 题；每小题 1.5 分，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。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下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What will the woman do first?A. Help the man.B. Finish her homework.C. Watch a program.2. What does the woman think of Helen?A. Quiet.B.Sociable.C.Talkative.3. How much does the man need to pay?A. $90.B.$162.C.$180.4. Why is the woman late?A. Her flight was delayed.B. She was caught in a traffic jam.C. The road is under construction now.25. What relation is Walter to the speakers?A. Their former colleague. B. Their teacher.C.Their boss.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。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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6. What are the speakers talking about?A. A birthday party.B. The mans friends.C.A big box.7. How does the man sound?A.Surprised.B. Excited.C.Calm.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 10 三个小题。8. What will the woman do this weekend?A. Stay with her grandpa. B. Conduct a survey.C.Make a schedule.9. What do we know about the womans grandpa?A. He passed away.B. He will retire.C. He lives alone.10.What is the woman?A. A soldier.B.A student.C. A farmer.听下面一段对话，回答第 11 至第 13 三个小题。11. Where does the woman work now?A. At a shoe factory.3B. At a bank.C. At a shop.12. Why does the woman want to find another job?A.She is bored of her present job.B. She is dissatisfied with the present salary.C. She doesnt get along with her workmates.13. How is the woman advised to buy a house?A. By applying for a loan.B. By selling up her old house.C. By borrowing money from friends.听下面一段对话，回答第 14 至第 16 三个小题。14. What is the man reading for?A.A trip.B. An interview.C.A report.15. Where will the woman return after graduation?A.Britain.B.Canada.C.Italy.16. What is Johns plan according to the woman?A. Continuing his study.B. Traveling to Britain.C. Opening a shop.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17. What is being held in the new sports stadium now?A. A match.B. A conference.C.A concert.18. What is the disadvantage of the City Theater?A. The inconvenient route. B. The bad air conditioner. C. The limited space.19.Which place will the visitors go today?A. Victoria Park.4B.The City Theater.C.The Market Place.20. What does the speaker advise visitors to do in the end?A. Visit some shops.B.Go to the High Street.C. See animals in the city center.第二部分 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 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ALondon-A few hundred regular customers and pedestrians(行人）offered to help October Books of Southampton in England move books along the street last Friday. The shop had been struggling to afford the rising rent prices of the building that they had occupied since 1977 and decided to move to an old bank building down the block.But how would they be able to move their books to the new location without having to pay for expensive moving services? October Books put out a call for volunteers to form a “human conveyor belt” between their old store and the new location 500 feet down the street.They expected maybe a few dozen people to show up, but to their surprise, over 200 people lined up on the sidewalk to pass each of the stores 2,000 books to their new home. Amy Brown, one of the store s employees, said that she was astonished at so many people. “I was handing books to people without actually seeing the entire of it,” said Brown. “So it was only after about 20 minutes that I actually went out into the road and saw the extent of the people.” When passing pedestrians asked what people were doing, they would join in to give a hand. Nearby restaurants even brought hot teas and coffees for the volunteers.“It was really sort of surprising and positive, and just a really moving experience to see people joining in because they wanted to help. And they wanted to be part of something bigger,Brown said. Now this small independent book store in England isnt just surviving-it is growing thanks to the city that adores its literary services.21. What led to October Books moving to a new location?A. Financial difficulty.B.Government policy.C.Cultural difference.D. Business condition.22.How did the passers-by react to the “human conveyor belt”？A.They contributed their little bit to help.5B.They stopped and took some pictures.C.They bought hot teas for the volunteers.D.They felt astonished and called the local TV.23. Whats the best title of the passage?A. Booklovers Gather for Moving Books in England.B.Human Chain of People Help Move a Bookstore.C.Bookstore Gets Crowdfunding for Future Survival.D.People Feel Positive by Helping out a Bookstore.BCarl Allamby, owner of two auto-repair shops with 11 employees, had become anxious, wishing for something more. At first, he thought it must have to do with growing his business even further. Therefore, the Ohio resident decided to go for his bachelors degree in business management.After taking classes part-time over the next five years, Allamby was told, unexpectedly, he had to take biology to get his degree. It turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. The biology class rekindled a childhood aspiration that he had put away somewhere deep within himself. “ After the first day,I remembered this feeling of wanting to be a doctor back,” Allamby says.Growing up in a poor African American neighborhood, he faced low expectations and numerous barriers to pursuing his dream. His school didnt offer the advanced science classes that might have led him on a medical path. Even if it had, doing well in school could prove unsafe-students who brought books back home would always be robbed. So he set aside thoughts of becoming a doctor in favor of a more realistic career path-fixing cars.Years later, a different Carl Allamby, with the support of his wife and family, decided to skip business school in favor of the science classes hed need for a second career as a health-care worker.And in 2015, Allamby cut ties with his past, selling his two shops and everything that was in them. Then he started at Northeast Ohio Medical University. At the age of 47,as a medical doctor, he took a job in emergency medicine at Cleveland Clinic Akron General.“I heard so many that say you couldnt or shouldnt be a doctor”， he says. “Whether its because of my age, my race, my upbringing, my past career-these are all good reasons why I shouldnt be here. And yet, here I am.”24.Why did Carl take business management classes?A. To hire more employees.B.To get a bachelors degree.C.To better manage his two shops.D.To expand his car-fixing business.25.What does the underlined word “rekindled” mean?A.Released.6B.Promoted.C.Brought back.D.Carried away.26.What kept Carl from chasing his dream?A.The robbery happened to him.B.Establishment of another career.C. Schools inability to offer related classes.D.Low expectations from his neighborhood.27.What can we learn from the story?A. One is never too old to learn.B.Failure is the mother of success.C.A man owes his success to his family support.D.A great effort of determination is the key to success.CCan we vibrate(振动） ourselves healthy? Thats the basis behind a form of treatment called Whole Body Vibration (WBV). The idea is simple: Standing on a vibrating plate forces our muscles to do work, which could lead to countless health benefits. But, despite years of research and hundreds of studies, the true benefits of WBV are still unclear.A former study found that subjects who did leg exercises on a vibrating platform for 11 weeks had no increase in their jumping ability. Other early studies found no effects of WBV. More recent work suggests whole body vibration could offer important benefits to people unable to perform normal workouts. A 2016 Scientific Reports study of 40 people with cerebral palsy(脑瘫） found that the participants could both walk and stand up better after 20 weeks of WBV. A 2017 study in the Journal of Biomechanics found that whole body vibration had a greater effect on older peoples muscles than it did on those who were younger, an indication that it might offer benefits to seniors. A number of research groups have found some indications that WBV could help with cardiovascular health, and a group from Rio de Janeiro State University has shown it could help fight osteoporosis.These results are encouraging, says Silmara Gusso, a senior lecturer in exercise sciences at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, but more research is needed.And, she warns, not every kind of vibration is helpful to our bodies,so the commercially available vibration plates may not work as advertised.“We cannot imply that the results obtained with certain equipment can be applied to other equipment,” Gusso says. “Some types of vibration might even cause harm.”28.Who will benefit from WBV most?A. A weak man unable to run normally.B.A fit woman hungry for slimmer body.7C.An older citizen suffering from depression.D. A busy younger eager to improve jumping ability.29. Which of the following is Silmara Gussos idea?A.She wants to do more researches.B. Not all vibration is beneficial to us.C. Vibration has made our body in bad condition.D. Advertised vibration equipment is not effective.30. Which word best describes the author s attitude to WBV?A.Critical.B.Objective.C.Doubtful.D.Supportive.31.Where can you find the passage?A. A report on economy.B.A science magazine.C. A guidebook for patients.D. An advertisement brochure.DTheres new hope for corals in areas of the Great Barrier Reef damaged by warmer waters caused by climate change. Experts are using robots and clever methods to deliver millions of new baby corals. In recent years, coral reefs around the world have been damaged by rising ocean temperatures caused by global heating. This is often called “coral bleaching” because huge areas of corals can turn white as they die.Scientists in Australia are working on a new way of restoring damaged reefs. Their system uses underwater robots and robotic boats to deliver millions of tough coral babies onto damaged reefs. Corals reproduce by releasing eggs and sperm into the water. Eggs and sperm combine to become baby corals, some of which would settle back on the coral reef and grow there, while others would be washed to other areas to start new coral colonies.Professor Peter Harrison of Southern Cross University came up with an idea to help restore damaged coral reefs. His idea was to collect eggs and sperm from healthy corals that have survived in higher temperatures. The coral babies need about seven days to develop before they can be spread onto damaged reefs,so Professor Harrison created floating “nurseries”， preventing them from being washed away.The problem of how to get all these coral babies onto the damaged reefs is where robotics expert Matthew Dunbabin comes in. Professor Dunbabin works at Queensland University of Technology. In 2015, he designed an underwater robot called “RangerBot”. RangerBot can track down and kill a certain kind of sea star that is damaging coral reefs.8Last year,Professor Matthew Dunbabin changed his RangerBot design “LarvalBot”， which can deliver coral babies directly onto the areas where they are most needed. This robotic boat can cover an area six times at size in just six hours, which means delivering more coral babies farther and faster. If all goes well, in about three years these corals will release their own eggs and sperm, and begin to reproduce naturally.But Professor Harrison says that trying to restore coral reefs in this way is not enough to keep them safe. He says,“Urgent action on climate change is required” to make sure they survive.32.According to the passage,what will happen to the coral reefs suffering from rising ocean temperature?A.Become pale.B.Become dark.C.Become rising.D.Become hotter.33. Whats the idea put forward by Professor Peter Harrison?A. Using underwater robots and robotic boats.B.Helping coral reef from being washed away.C.Shortening the growth time of the coral babies.D.Collecting eggs from healthy corals and create floating “nurseries”。34.Whats the advantage of LarvalBoat?A.Releasing more coral eggs.B.Killing a certain kind of sea star.C. Transporting coral babies more efficiently.D.Covering an area six times at size in just six hours.35. Whats the writers purpose in writing the passage?A. To argue about the best way used.B. To explain the way corals reproduce.C.To promote an underwater robot called “RangerBot”。D. To introduce new scientific ways to protect coral reefs.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。The Olympic spirit is about sportsmanship, personal sacrifice, and a strong will to reach your goals. 36 Instead, its a source of motivation to keep going and try to improve every day.9The importance of the Olympic spirit goes far beyond the sports events. And its not just for professional athletes,either.37 Its goal is to encourage everyone, as people, and as citizens,to incorporate(使并人）these values into their lives.Its not easy to describe the Olympic spirit in words. Yet everyone who meets it probably knows what it means. One central aspect is having the knowledge that the greatest reward doesnt lie in getting to a particular goal or victory. 38Of course, were not trying to suggest that victory means nothing to an athlete or that goals arent important.When we speak of personal or professional dreams or goals,we re aware that reaching the objective is always ones greatest wish.Nevertheless,we shouldnt forget that victory is the result of a long process. Its only possible through the effort that leads up to it.39 Everyone who manages to gain victory has to travel a long way to get there. And it must necessarily include some failures and disappointments, but must never end with the person giving up.Lets take a track and field race as an example-just to keep going along the line of this sports thread.40_But all of the competitors are going to give the best of themselves throughout the competition. And you can expect theyll continue to do so just to improve themselves even after the race.A.Always try to achieve perfection.B. The Olympic spirit speaks to all of us.C. Its about the promotion of certain values.D.There are no people who are born champions.E.Instead, the process itself is the greatest reward.F. Another persons success is no reason to give up or envy.G. There can only be one winner at the end of every track or trial.第三部分 完形填空（共 15 题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。When we are suffering, we often ask ourselves “ Why me”。 Without doubt,the question is 41 . This way of thinking fuels self-pity and can 42 us. How do we defeat them? When I find myself heading toward a pity-party, I try to_43_what I cant change. I cannot change my adult son but I can change the way I_44 with him.Years ago when my son first cam