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山西省忻州市2013-2014学年高二第二学期期中联考试题英语

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第 Ⅰ 卷 (选择题，100分)

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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 is the man?

A. A postman. B. A shop assistant. C. A cashier.

2. What does the woman imply about Mathew?

A. He plays tennis better than she does.

B. He’s not interested in his school work

C. He doesn’t have much time for tennis.

3. What did Barbara do for the woman?

A. Wrote the composition

B. Typed the composition.

C. Made an outline of a composition.

4. What tome did Mr. Clinton leave?

A. 5:42. B. 5:43. C. 5:45.

5. When can we know about the woman?

A. She doesn’t get enough exercise.

B. She is sick with flu all winters.

C. She gets ill almost at the same time every year.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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. Why can’t the woman eat the ice-cream?

A. Because she doesn’t like it.

B. Because she’s on a diet.

C. Because she’ eating something else.

7. What kind of person is the woman?

A. She is fond of eating.

B. She is easy to persuade.

C. She’s iron-willed.

8. Which flavor isn’t mentioned in this dialogue?

A. Peach. B. Apple. C. Chocolate.

听第7段材料，回答9至11题。

9. Why doesn’t the woman want to see a doctor?

A. She doesn’t like the doctors.

B. She has taken some medicine.

C. She feels better now

10. What is the woman doing now?

A. Lying in bed. B. Reading an article. C. Taking medicine.

11. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Mother and son B. Teacher and student. C. Friends

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What does the man want to buy a bog screen TV?

A. To catch soap operas. B. To watch movies. C. To watch sports.

13. What do we know about Rocket Electric?

A. It’s pretty expensive.

B. It’s difficult to get to.

C. It’s next to Copy Depot.

14. Who will the man go to Rocket Electric with?

A. The woman. B. Only himself. C. His friend.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What will be finished in advance?

A. The training course. B. The website. C. The report.

16. When will the sales strategy be finished?

A. On the 30th of May.

B. Before the end of June

C. On the first of July.

17. What is the woman about to do for the marking material?

A. Do market research

B. Do a photo shoot.

C. Make a change.

听第10段材料，回答18至20题。

18. How many people are wounded in the gun attack in U.S.?

A. 6 B. More than 12. C. Around 20.

19. What was the consequence of the earthquake that happened in Chile?

A. Power cut. B. Serious injuries. C. A tsunami.

20. Which of the business strategies is NOT mentioned in the third news?

A. Offering visas to individual Chinese tourists.

B. Developing more travel packages.

C. Reducing the charges for packages tours.

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，满分50分）

第一节 （共15题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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

Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy – five, he gave $ 60,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s ground.

As a result of his kindness, he became famous. Many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.

The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had daily injection in his neck.Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.

21. Johnson became a rich man through _______.

A. doing business B. making whisky

C. cheating D. buying and selling land

22. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson _______.

A. had many children in the school B. was a strange old man

C. was very fond of children D. was very kind

23. Many people wrote to Johnson to find out _______.

A. what kind of whisky he had

B. how to live longer

C. how to become wealthy

D. where to have an injection

24. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that _______.

A. he needn’t an injection in the neck

B. there was something wrong with his neck

C. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening

D. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well

B

Grand Opening

Bentwood Truck Museum

Saturday, November 8, at 10:00 A. M.

After eighteen months of hard work by more than 100 volunteers, the Bentwood Truck Museum is ready to open. The old factory had been scheduled to be destroyed. When Roger Haygood heard about the plan to tear down the building, he bought it so that he could store his collection of old trucks there. Then he had the idea of turning the building into a truck museum.

During the past year and a half, the old building has been transformed into a treasure chest of memories. Instead of a dark and dull house, the building has become a cheery, bright home for all kinds of trucks from the past. The museum now houses 68 trucks, and we hope to have even more soon. There is a 1959 school bus, a 1942 bakery truck, and a 1937 fire engine. Our oldest vehicle is a 1919 milk truck. Our newest vehicle is a 1966 tow truck.

You can take a ride on a fire truck, a mail truck, or an ice-cream truck. Rides are $ 2.00, but you can get a ticket for a free ride at any grocery store in Bentwood.

Help us celebrate our grand opening by bringing your family and friends! There is something to interest everyone who attends. The Bentwood Truck Museum is a special piece of our history.

To get to Bentwood Truck Museum, take Route 29 (Kingston Highway) to Palmer Street. Go south on Palmer Street for one block and take a left onto Norman Drive. You will see the museum building and the amusement park on your left. Parking is available across the street, on your right.

25. Where is Bentwood Truck Museum?

A. On Norman Drive. B. On Palmer Street.

C. On Kingston Highway. D. On Route 29.

26. What is special about this museum?

A. It is built on the ruins of an old building.

B. It offers visitors free rides to the museum.

C. It exhibits trucks dating back to about 100 years ago.

D. It's transformed from an old factory by volunteers.

27. What's the purpose of writing this passage?

A. To introduce the old history of Bentwood Truck Museum.

B. To persuade readers to attend the opening of the museum.

C. To explain why Bentwood Truck Museum was set up.

D. To call on the visitors to take a ride in old trucks.

C

Down-to-earth means being honest, open, and easy to deal with. It is a pleasure to find someone who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to. He or she accepts others as equals. A down-to-earth person may be an important member of society, of course, but they do not let their importance go to their heads, and they do not consider themselves to be better than others who are less important. Someone who is filled with self-importance and pride, often without cause, is said to have his nose in the air. There is no way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.

Americans use another expression that is similar in some way to down-to-earth. The expression is both feet on the ground. Someone with both feet on the ground is a person with a good understanding of reality. He has what is called common sense. He may have dreams but he does not allow them to block his knowledge of what is real. The opposite kind of person is one who has his head in the clouds. A man with his head in the clouds is a dreamer whose mind is not in the world. Sometimes such a dreamer can be brought back to reality; and sharp words from the teacher, for example, can usually get a daydreaming student to put both feet back on the ground.

The person who is down-to-earth usually has both feet on the ground. But the opposite is not always true. Someone with both feet on the ground may not be as open and easy to deal with as someone who is down-to-earth. When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, we are realistic and we act honestly and openly toward others, and our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong.

28. If a person has his nose in the air, he _______.

A. is confident

B. is easy to deal with

C. is down to the earth

D. is always self-important and pride.???

29. What can a daydreamer probably be like?

A. A person full of dreams in life.

B. A person with his head in the clouds.

C. A person with both his feet on the ground

D. A person with a good understanding of reality.

30. The underlined sentence “But the opposite is not always true.” most probably means that ______.

A. the opposite direction is always wrong

B. the person who has his nose in the air is not true

C. a man with his head in the clouds is often not intelligent

D. a person who has both feet on the ground may not be down-to-earth

31. From the passage, we can infer the person who is _____ is the most popular kind of person.

A. down-to-earth B. standing on the ground

C. with his nose in the air D. with his head in the clouds

D

Who give us life, raise us and are our constant support and well-wishers？Our mothers. That’s why millions of people across the world take Mother’s Day as an opportunity to express thanks and send best wishes to their moms.

However, the celebration of Mother’s Day is not the recent thing that many believe it to be. It was the ancient Greeks who started the tradition by celebrating their a