2016-2017学年陕西省延安市实验中学大学区校际联盟高二下学期期中考试英语试题(A)

延安市实验中学大学区校际联盟

2016—2017学年度第二学期期中考试试题（卷）

高二英语（A）

考试时间100分钟 满分100分

说明：卷面考查分（3分）由教学处单独组织考评，计入总分。

第Ⅰ卷 选择题 （共60分）

第一部分：听力（满分10分）

听下面10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 are the speakers talking about? A.A film.

B. A journey.

C. Unexpected news.

2.What will the woman do? A. Stay at home 3.Who is over there? A. Tom.

B. Henry.

C. Alice’s brother.

B. Visit a clothes shop.

C. Go to a fashion show.

4.When does the restaurant close? A. At 9:00 pm.

B. At 9:30 pm.

C. At 11:00 pm.

5.What happened to the woman last weekend? A. She had an unpleasant trip. B. Dirty water went into her kitchen. C. Her new apartment was flooded. 6. What is the man’s original plan?

A. Go to the picnic B. Work in the company C. Do his gardening 7. What will the man do?

A. Change his jacket. B. Buy a tie C. Have an interview 8. Where does the woman want to get married?

A. In a church B. In the open air C. In a country house 9. What is the man doing?

A. Taking a test B. Reading a book 10. What do we know about the man?

A. He is on the diet. B. He likes eating salad.

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

Of the three major drinks of the world—tea, coffee, and cocacola—tea is drunk by the largest number of people.

China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China had tea as early as five to six thousand years ago, and the history of tea planting dates back to two thousand years.

At present, more than forty countries in the world produce 90% of the world’s total tea. All tea trees in other countries have their beginnings directly or indirectly from China. The word for tea leaves or tea as a drink in many countries comes from the Chinese character “cha”.

The habit of tea drinking spread to Japan in the 6th century, but it was not introduced to Europe and America till the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the number of tea drinkers in the world is very large and is still growing.

Tea has been a necessary part of people’s daily lives in China for a long time. Countless numbers of people like to have a cup of tea after a meal.

In summer, tea seems to drive away the heat and bring on a cool feeling together with a feeling of relaxation.

In medicine, the tea leaf is very important to people who live mainly on meat. A popular saying says, “I’d rather go without salt for three days than without tea for a single day.”

Tea is also rich in various vitamins and, for smokers, it helps to remove nicotine from the body. After drinking wine, strong tea may prove to be a good way to keep one’s mind clear.

The above, however, does not mean that a stronger tea is better. Too much strong tea is bad for the stomach and can cause indigestion(消化不良). Drinking strong tea just before bedtime

C. He has a good appetite. C. Having a class

will make it hard for people to fall asleep. Often drinking very strong tea may give some people heart and blood pressure disorders, and make the teeth of young people turn brown. But it is not difficult to prevent these undesirable (不受欢迎的) effects: just don’t make your tea too strong. 11. ________ is the most popular drink in the world. A. coffee B. tea C. juice D. cacacola

12. _____ is the second earliest country that has the habit of tea drinking. A. Japan

B. China

C. England D. America

13. 90% of the world’s total tea is produced in ________ nowadays. A. China B. more than 45 countries C. Japan D. England 14. For a drunken man, tea is a good way to _____. A. relax him B. make him sleep C. drive away the heat D. keep his mind clear 15. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Drinking strong tea can make people keep clear mind. B. Drinking too much strong tea has bad effects on people. C. Drinking strong tea helps to make smokers give up smoking.

D. Drinking strong tea too often may cause people’s blood pressure disorder.

B

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is one of the most common sayings in the English languages. This is because apples were one of the first foods that medical professionals recognized as healthy—their benefits became obvious when, quite simply, doctors found that people who ate apples were sick less often than those who did not. Today we have a more specific understanding of why apples are so beneficial to overall health.

Apples can help keep your levels of bad cholesterol (胆固醇) down. The pectin (果胶) in apples helps you to maintain cardiovascular health and reduce LDL cholesterol(which is the “bad” kind). Apples themselves do not add cholesterol to your diet and are full of water and fiber to help prevent the cholesterol in other foods you might digest. According to Health Diaries, people who eat two apples per day may lower their cholesterol by as much as 16 percent.

Apples are naturally low in calories and high in water content. Eating an apple can satisfy your hunger and keep you from reaching for high-sugar, high-calories snacks. By eating apples,

you will be more able to maintain a healthy weight because they fill you up, potentially stopping you from eating food that encourages a waistline increase.

Apples contain respectable levels of boron (硼), which helps build healthy bones, and can also prevent diseases like arthritis. Apples are rich in vitamin C, which is known to help build immunity.

Studies have shown that apples can decrease the risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, and liver cancer. One theory is that the apple skins are responsible for this, so be sure not to peel your apple before you eat them, as you could remove some of the health benefits. 16. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. An explanation of an English saying. C. Apples are beneficial to our health.

B. How to make full use of apples. D. How to keep healthy in our daily life.

17. By eating apples we can get many benefits EXCEPT________. A. lowering the cholesterol C. building immunity

B. keeping a healthy weight

D. preventing heart disease

18. Which of the following can most probably replace the underlined word “respectable”? A. Admirable.

B. Considerable.

C. Reliable.

D. Valuable.

19.Which plays an important role in reducing the risk of breast cancer? A. The pectin.

B. The apple skins. D. The fiber of apples.

C. The flesh of apples.

20. What’s the author’s attitude towards the effect of eating apples? A. Positive.

B. Negative.

C. Doubtful. C

I went up to my mother's bedroom after her death and found a box full of papers. Inside was a letter. “Dearest Andrew,” it began, “there was never a right time to tell you.”

Along with the letter was my adoption paperwork—“Parents: unknown”—and two newspapers. The first described a newborn baby, wrapped in a pink blanket, discovered on a doorstep by a paperboy. The second was from a year later, reporting that the baby was still in a children’s home, yet to be adopted.

It was a shock. My childhood was happy; my adoptive father died when I was eight, but my mother made sure I couldn’t have had a more loving home. I didn’t do anything about trying to

D. Uncertain.

find out my birth parents for 15 years. However, there were so many questions. Why did my mother abandon me? Did she get into trouble? I didn’t feel angry with her for leaving me, but I wanted to know more about the circumstances surrounding my birth.

I started to research my history and went on local television news. Amazingly, a man called Ronnie got in touch with the TV station, saying I reminded him of his father, Angus. We met up and I was surprised to see a man 20 years my senior. We arranged a DNA test. The results were positive—Ronnie was my half-brother.

Ronnie told me that my father would have been 60 when I was born. He died before I started my search. My father was having an affair with a young woman during the year of my birth, but she is now married with her own family and I should respect her privacy. I would like my questions answered, but not at the expense of her happiness. “Abandoned” is such a sensitive word, but I don’t feel any sadness or rejection, because I don’t know the circumstances of my birth. Instead, I feel unique.

21. From the passage we can know that Andrew . A. was wrapped in a blanket when found B. was brought up in a children’s home C. served as a paperboy when his mother died D. was abandoned by his birth parents a year after birth 22. What contributed to Andrew’s looking for his birth parents? A. Anger.

B. Curiosity.

C. Bitter childhood.

D. Present poor life.

23. What can we know about Andrew and Ronnie from the passage? A. Neither has seen Angus.

B. Neither is the son of Angus. D. Both are at the same age.

C. Both have the same father.

24. Why did the author give up searching for his birth mother? A. He hated her because she abandoned him on a doorstep. B. He didn’t have evidence due to his father’s death. C. He felt it lucky enough to find his birth father. D. He didn’t want to put her into trouble.

25. Which of the following words can best describe the author’s attitude towards his adoptive mother?

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