浙江省宁波市效实中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

浙江省宁波市效实中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期中试题

( 说明：本卷总分为105分，其中附加分5分，考试时间为100分钟。所有试题必须答在答题卷上。)

I. 听力（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

第一节    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 does the man think of the lions?

  A. Sweet.     B. Amusing.    C. Frightening.             

2. Where is the woman going?

  A. To a park.    B. To a church.   C. To a flower shop.[来源:学科网]

3. What does Laura always do?

  A. She goes swimming.  B. She goes fishing.  C. She talks with friends.

4. Where does the conversation probably take place?

  A. At a baker’s.    B. At a supermarket.  C. At a restaurant.

5. What do we know about the woman?

  A. She has got a new job.

  B. She has been absent for some time.

  C. She is fired by the company.

第二节  听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7题。

6. What is the man doing?

  A. Booking a table.   B. Buying some food.  C. Having dinner.

7. How much is the man going to pay?

  A. At least $500.    B. At least $300.   C. At least $100.

听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9题。

8. What does the woman want to do?

  A. Find a map for the man. 

  B. Let someone get the man. 

  C. Ask others for directions.

9. Where is the woman now?

  A. On King Road.   B. Near a square.   C. In the middle of a block.

听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12题。

10. Why did the woman make a trip around the world in a helicopter?

  A. To raise money for sick children.

  B. To make money for her company.

  C. To make her rest life unforgettable.

11. How old was the woman when she started to learn flying?

  A. 52.      B. 54.     C. 57.

12. What happened to the woman during the trip?

  A. She did little sightseeing.

  B. She stopped to camp very often.

  C. She dealt with the engine problem from time to time.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16题。

13. Which apartment do the speakers dislike?

  A. The one on Park Avenue.

  B. The one on North Parade.

  C. The one on Ablington Road.

14. What is one of the disadvantages of the apartment on Park Avenue?

  A. The kitchen is small.

  B. The view outside is awful.

  C. There is no suitable place to put a desk.

15. What do we know about the woman?

  A. She never works at home.

  B. She wants to have privacy.

  C. She doesn’t have any visitors.

16. Where does the man suggest putting the desk in the apartment on North Parade?

  A. In the living room.   B. In the dining area.  C. In the bedroom.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20题。

17. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

  A. A website.    B. Food shortage.   C. A piece of advertisement.

18. How are the donations given?

  A. In the form of money to the poor areas.

  B. In the form of food to the UN World Food Program.

  C. In the form of money to the UN World Food Program to buy food locally.

19. How many levels of difficulty does the FreeRice game have?

  A. 20.      B. 48.     C. 55.

20. What can we learn from the speech?

  A. It has become more difficult to carry out the food aid during the last nine months.

  B. The game offers words of different levels that can be easily passed.

  C. John Breen makes some money from the advertisers.

II. 单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

21. Discovering a cure for cancer will be a major medical _________.

  A. advantage  B. application   C. advice                D. advance

22. Totally ________ out after long hours of fierce matches, the basketball players waved goodbye to their fans.

  A. being burning  B. having burnt  C. burnt   D. burning

23. ________ I admit cloning can benefit humans a lot, I insist that cloning, especially human cloning, is dangerous and breaks the law of nature.

  A. While   B. When    C. As   D. If

24. I can’t ________ my studies with all that noise going on.

  A. comment on  B. concentrate on  C. base on  D. remark on

25._________ the fierce competition in finding a good job in big cities, many fresh graduates are       trying fortune in medium-sized ones.

  A. Regardless of  B. Apart from   C. Instead of  D. Due to

26. Compared with his sister, Jerry is even more ________ to, and more easily troubled by, emotional problems.

  A. committed  B. available   C. cautious  D. sensitive

27. The silence of the library is sometimes broken by a sudden cough or the sound of pages   _________.

A. turning     B. turned      C. being turned    D. having turned

28. Paper produced every year is _______ the world’s production of vehicles.

  A. the three weight of      B. three times the weight of

  C. as three times heavy as     D. three times as heavier as

29. —The room is in a mess again!

   — Sorry. It is _______who_______.

  A. I; am to blame       B. me; is to blame                                            

  C. me; am to be blamed      D. I; is to be blamed

30. —I have tried very hard to find a solution to the problem, but in vain.

   —Why not consult with Frank? You see, ________.

  A. great minds think alike

  B. two heads are better than one

  C. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

  D. it’s better to think twice before doing something

 

III. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

I believe in miracles because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to（被引荐） me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a  31  in my upper jaw,” she said. “I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he  32  I come to see you”.

    Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He  33  to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the  34  of her mouth. A careful examination later  35  that it was a bad sort of cancer.

    During her next appointment I explained to her the  36  of the problem. She held my hand firmly in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just  37  .”

    I thought otherwise. After considerable  38  on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to  39  me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected,  40  treatment.

    About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and  41  . “How are you?” I asked. “I’m just fine, honey,” she responded  42  high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假牙)?”

     43  to see her at all, I answered confusedly, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it. ”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had  44  nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness  45  .

I had read of such things happening, but had  46  seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting  47  to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle,  48  through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to  49  the miracles of one another.

    Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that a miracle exists  50  we choose