辽宁省沈阳市东北育才学校2024-2025学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷

东北育才高中2024—2025学年度下学期

高二年级英语科期中考试试卷

答题时间：120分钟  满分：150分

第一部分：听力

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 is the man going to do on Sunday?

A. Visit his mother B. Repair his house C. Do some gardening

2. How many middle school students went to plant trees?

A. About 800 B. About 400 C. About 200

3. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A. Mother and son B. Boss and employee C. Teacher and student

4. What is the woman studying this year?

A. Yoga B. Cooking C. Dancing

5. Where did the man spend his holiday last year?

A. In Spain B. In Italy C. In Greece

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，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、7题。

6. What does the man want to do?

A. Buy another sweater B. Exchange a sweater C. Return a sweater

7. What's the problem of the sweater the man bought?

A. Its size B. Its color C. Its quality

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Where does Mary come from?

A. London B. Manchester C. A small town

9. How does the woman go to work in London?

A. On foot B. By underground C. By bus

10. What does the man think of going by bus?

A. Cheap and interesting B. Cheap but boring C. Interesting but expensive

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What does the woman have to do?

A. Fill out a form B. Register for a course C. Finish her homework

12. Where did the woman spend her childhood?

A. Texas B. Japan C. California

13. Why does the man ask the woman those questions?

A. To determine her nationality

B. To locate her mother

C. To find out her native language

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. How does the man feel about his job now?

A. Bored B. Inspired C. Satisfied

15. Why does the man want to talk to his manager?

A. He doesn't want to work there

B. He doesn't want to work overtime

C. He doesn't want to type all day long

16. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Ask for a pay rise B. Leave and find a new job C. Go on working in the centre

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What caused the accident?

A. A car following Jack B. A truck in front of Jack C. A car from a side road

18. What was Jack's driving speed?

A. 15 kilometers an hour B. 50 kilometers an hour C. 150 kilometers an hour

19. What can be inferred from the accident?

A. Nothing was done until the policemen came

B. The other driver should be responsible for the accident

C. The traffic condition was complicated

20. What do you think of the man and woman?

A. They are kind and helpful B. They are self-protective C. They are troublesome

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小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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All Fours By Miranda July

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James By Percival Everett

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The Wide Wide Sea By Hampton Sides

The story begins in Britain as the last traces of the Enlightenment are going out, a time when curiosity and empathy gave way to expansionist ambition and moral passion. Between tales of adventure on the open ocean, complex depictions of Polynesian culture and colorful scenes of a subarctic frost littered with animal life, Sides expertly probes the causes of Cook's growing anger and violence as the journey wears on and the explorer reckons with the fallout of what he and others had caused in expanding the map of Europe's power.

1. What central conflict is described in All Fours?

A. A woman wants freedom but fears being alone.

B. She wants change but risks her settled life.