上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学2024-2025学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题

华东师大二附中2024学年第二学期期中考试卷

高二  英语

（考试时间：120分钟    卷面满分：140分）

Ⅰ. Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. It is low in quality.    B. Its price is too high.

C. It is worth the price.    D. It needs washing by hand.

2. A. Try a vegetarian diet.    B. Find a new roommate.

C Look for a well-paid job.    D. Engage in physical exercise.

3. A. They wouldn’t mind taking a bus.    B. Someone would drive them home.

C. They wouldn’t be able to find a phone.    D. Their friends would take them to the beach.

4. A. It is a hot topic.    B. It is surrounded by plants.

C. It is designed by a gamer.    D. It is located in the rural area.

5. A. He finds his violin is out of tune now.

B. He’s too old to begin studying the violin.

C. He has worked as a violinist for a long time.

D. He probably lost some of his skills on the violin.

6. A. She is a great play writer.

B. She has just opened a Pandora’s box.

C She finished the whole season in a night.

D. She is inviting the man to watch TV with her.

7. A. He will see the exhibit after June.

B. He can see the exhibit before it closes.

C. He visited the new exhibition several times.

D. He wants to exhibit his work at the Student Center.

8. A. She is in favour of the man’s plan.

B. Her mobile phone needs recharging.

C. Her social media accounts are also deleted.

D. She thinks the man says too much but does too little.

9. A. He was absent last seek.    B. He didn’t win the first prize.

C. He canceled the speech contest.    D. He didn’t take part in the speech contest.

10. A. He succeeds because of luck rather than persistence.

B. He has always been dreaming of travelling to the moon.

C. He has never given up on his startup despite the difficulties.

D He invests a lot of money in a company related to space travel.

Section B

Directions: I Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. It draws them to her dancing studio.

B. It provides them with a chance to socialize.

C. It prepares them to be professional dancers.

D. It makes them more attractive than young people.

12. A. To illustrate why people dance.

B. To describe the steps of traditional dances.

C. To explain the origin of a popular dance style.

D. To compare traditional dances with modem ones.

13. A. To introduce a famous dancer.

B. To show the benefit of dancing.

C. To recommend a way to practice dancing.

D. To challenge the public opinion of dancing.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Economic growth patterns that succeed in Africa.

B. African countries that can buy their way out of hunger.

C. The impact of climate change on food supply in Africa.

D. The shift of crop farming in Africa due to climate change.

15. A. Potential population growth in Africa.   

B. The production of six major food crops.

C. Serious food shortages all over the world.

D. The increase in starving African countries.

16. A. They might struggle with the high cost of agricultural inputs.

B. They might be able to increase their purchasing power.

C. They might experience severe challenges in food security.

D. They might face population decline in the following years.

Questions 17 through 20 are based’on the following conversation.

17. A. Predicting dreams.    B. Scanning the brain

C. Guessing what people see.    D. Rebuilding viewed images.

18. A. Developing new scanning devices for the brain.

B. Tracking long-term changes in brain chemistry.

C. Identifying brain activity patterns.

D. Predicting the recovery time of brain-injured patients.

19. A. Fully satisfied.    B. Close to perfection.

C. Basic but promising.    D. Revolutionary but impractical.

20. A. Finding subjects.    B. Private investment.

C. Improper application.    D. Constructing facilities.

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.