广东省佛山市南海区南海中学2021～2022学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

南海中学2021—2022学年度第二学期高二年级英语科 期中考试 第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分） 第一节听力理解（共6小题；每小题2分，满分12分） 材料及问题播放两遍。每段后有两个小题各段播放前每小题有5秒回钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 听第一段材料，回答第1-2题。 1. A. A babysitter. B. A saleswoman. C. A hairdresser assistant. 2. A. Sad. B. Busy. C. Relaxing. 听第二段材料，回答第3-4题。 3. A. A completed paper. B. A bachelor’s degree. C. Some research experience. 4. A. For about 2 years. B. For about 4 years C. For about 6 years. 听第三段材料，回答第5-6题。 5. A. They didn’t open their wings. B. They didn’t stop moving around. C. They didn’t come down from the tree. 6. A. Talk about them at her school. B. Send them to the local paper. C. Enter them in a competition. 第二节回答问题（共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分） 听下面一段材料，然后回答问题，材料读两遍。 7. Answer:______ 8. Answer: ______ 9. Answer: ______ 10. Answer: ______ 第二部分阅读（共两节，满分40分） 第一节阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A My first newsroom was in a grand building with tall arched windows that dominated a street corner in the small Midwestern city where I worked. Inside, there was a high ceiling. “Did this use to be a bank?” many visitors would ask. But it had, in fact, always been a newsroom. I was young and shy when I first went to work there, and it probably took me a month before I talked to any of the other reporters. But eventually, they became my best friends, the core of my social life My second newsroom was the airy top floor of a historic building in the state capital of Maryland. It was smaller and less grand but far more energizing. My colleagues were older. I learned so much about bow to be a reporter from overhearing their phone interviews. This past summer, several American newspapers announced they would be closing their newsrooms. Many local newspapers have gone out of business in recent years, victims of declining circulation and shrinking advertising dollars. Then along c