四川省凉山州木里藏族自治县中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc
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1、- 1 -四川省凉山州木里藏族自治县中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语上学期期中试题第一部分:听力测试(共两节,共 20 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 30 分)第二部分 阅读理解第一节: 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。 (共 15 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 30 分)AFun DayTo celebrate the Year of the dogOrganised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High SchoolDate: 2 February 2018Time: 1
2、0 am5 pmPlace: Kwun Tong PlaygroundFee: $20 (buy three get one free)Programmes: drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performanceHighlights:1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera2) learn to make festival food with extra 5 dollarJoin us on the Fun Day!All are welcome!Free Soft DrinksNote:
3、 Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Center For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.21. What you have just read is a _.A. note B. report C. schedule D. advertisement22. How much do you have to pay in total if f
4、our of you go together?A. $20. B. $40. C. $60. D. $80.- 2 -23. Which of the following statements is true?A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School.B. Its unnecessary to take soft drinks with you.C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody.D. Festival food will be served without extra charg
5、e.24. What is going to take place on 2 February 2018?A. A big event to celebrate a Chinese new year. B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun.D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.BLanguage experts say that spoken English was almost
6、 the same in the American colonies and Britain two hundred years ago. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in1776. They wanted to make it different to separate themselves from the British in language, in the same way they separated themselves from the Briti
7、sh government.Some American leaders proposed major changes in the language. Benjamin Franklin wanted a whole new system of spelling. His reforms were not accepted. But his ideas did influence others. One was Noah Webster.Webster wrote language books for schools. He believed the United States should
8、have a system of its own language as well as government. Webster published a dictionary of the American language in 1828. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.Webster wrote that all words should be said in the order of the letters that spell them. This is
9、 why Americans use the letters “e-r” to end many words instead of the British “r-e.” He spelled the word “center,” for example, “c-e-n-t-e-r,” instead of the British “c-e-n-t-r-e.”Websters rule for saying every part of a word made American English easier for foreign settlers to learn. They learned t
10、o say “waist-coat,” for example, the way it is spelled instead of the British “wes-kit.”The different languages of immigration who came to the United States also - 3 -helped make American and British English different. Many of their foreign words and expressions became part of English As Americans s
11、peak them.Sometimes Americans and British people do not understand each other because of different word meanings. For example, the word “jumper” in Britain means a sweater. In the United States, it is a dress. The British word “brolly” is an “umbrella” in America. And the British call potato chips “
12、crisps”. All of these differences led British writer George Bernard Shaw to joke that Britain and America are two countries separated by the same language!25. What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?A. written English in Britain. B. Written English in America.C. Spoken Eng
13、lish in America. D. Spoken English in Britain.26. Why did American want their language to differ from British English?A. Because they wanted to have their own language and government.B. Because they found British English hard to spell.C. Because they found British English hard to speakD. Because for
14、eign settlers wanted them to change their language.27. Why do Americans use the word “meter” instead of the word “metre”?A. Because Benjamin Franklin didnt like the word “metre”.B. Because the word “meter” was absorbed from other languages.C. Because Webster thought the word should be said in order
15、of the letters that are spelt.D. Because Webster thought American English should be made easier for foreign settlers to learn.28. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why English began to change in America?A. The government leaders. B. Webster.C. Immigration to America. D. The difficulty
16、 Americans had in understanding the British.C “Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of - 4 -America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to ins
17、ects (昆虫) as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, refe
18、rring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes
19、 the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装 ) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a compute
20、r program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous n
21、ights discovering a bug in his invented record player.”29. We learn from paragraph 1 that_.A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bugB. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bugC. The word bug was still popularly used in England in the 19th centuryD. Both Englis
22、h men and Americans used the word bug in the 18th century30. What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?A. Fault. B. Explanation. C. Source. D. Finding.31. The passage is mainly concerned with _.A. the misunderstanding of the word bugB. the development of the word bugC. the public
23、 views of the word bugD. the special meanings of the word bugD Having a learning disability doesnt mean you cant learn, but youll - 5 -need some help and need to work extra hard. If you have a learning disability such as dyslexia or dyscalculia, remember that you are not slow or stupid. Learning dis
24、abilities can be genetic. That means they can be passed down in families through the genes, But kids today have an advantage over their parents. Learning experts now know a lot more about the brain and how learning works, and its easier for kids to get the help they need. Dyslexia is a learning disa
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