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1、20182019学年度上期期中考试高二英语试题 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分 第卷第一部分 听力（略）第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分40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。 AWelcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.TimetableSunday8:30-11:30Personal InventionsMr. JohnsonYou can see many
2、inventions by the students; you may also bring your own inventions.Monday19:00-21:00Space and ManDr. Thomas WestIf you want to know more about the universe (宇宙).Wednesday19:30-21:00Modern MedicineMrs. Lucy GreenWould you like to know medical science?Friday18:30-21:00Computer ScienceMr. Harry Morison
3、 from Harvard University, USA.Learn to use Windows XP. 21. You may have a chance to introduce your inventions on _.A. Monday B.Sunday C. Wednesday D. Friday22. The person who teaches Computer Science is from_.A. Canada B. Japan C. America D. Australia23. You may learn something about a disease calle
4、d TB from _.A. Mrs. Green B. Mr. Morison C.Dr. West D. Mr. Thomas B When her five daughters were young. Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity（团结）. To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several
5、chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up. Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left
6、 their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didnt have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Dannys mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters he
7、lped in the restaurant when they were young. However. Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard. Eventually（最终）the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work i
8、n the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains. “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to hav
9、e unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.” Their expanding business became a large corporation（企业） in 1996, with three generations of An working together. Now the An corporation makes more than 20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaur
10、ant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.24.Helene tied several chopsticks together to show .Athe difficulty of growing up Bthe strength of family unity Cthe advantage of chopsticks Dthe best way of giving a lesson25.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An fam
11、ily .Astarted a business in 1975 Bbought a restaurant in San FranciscoCleft Vietnam without much money Dopened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles26.What can we infer about the An daughters?AThey were influenced by what Helene taught them BThey could not bear to work in the family businessCThey did not f
12、inish their college educationDThey were troubled by disagreement among family members27.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?AHow to Run a Corporation BStrength Comes from PeaceCFamily Unity Builds Success DHow to Achieve a Big Dream C More and more birds are flying to settle
13、 at Qinghai Lake, one of the highest inland lakes in China, thanks to the protection efforts of local governments. Covering an area of over 4,000 square kilometers. Qinghai Lake is also the countrys biggest saltwater lake. Located in Northwest Chinas Qinghai Province, the lake is famous for the two
14、islands at its northwest pointCormorant Island and Egg Island. The two islands have plenty of floating grass and various schools of fish, offering rich food sources for birds. The islands have become a paradise for different kinds of groups of birds and have been called“Bird Islands”Each March and A
15、pril, when ice and snow covering the QinghaiTibet Plateau starts to melt, over 20 kinds of birds fly to the Bird Islands to lay eggs. During the months, flocks of birds cover the whole sky over the islands and birds eggs can be found everywhere. Visitors can hear the singing of birds from miles away. These have become a world famous symbol of the lake.To protect this paradise for birds and support calls for ecological protection, China set up the Qinghai Lake Natur
