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1、湖北省武汉市2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题（无答案）第一部分 听力 （共两节， 满分30分）做题时，请先将答案标在试卷上， 录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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. Whats the weather like now? A. Sunny. B. Rainy.C. Cloudy.2. How is Tin
2、a like her grandmother? A. She has blue eyes. B. She loves animals C. She has brown hair.3. When does the man wake up? A. At 8:00 a.m. B. At 10:00 a.m.C. At noon.4. What was the man probably doing just now? A. Getting off a taxi. B. Buying a train ticket. C. Checking out from a hotel. 5. What are th
3、e speakers mainly talking about? A. A public holiday. B. The mans boss.C. A bank.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。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 was the man planning to do earlier? A. Read at home.B. Watch a
4、 sports game.C. Go out for a nice dinner.7. Where will the speakers go? A. To a park. B. To an art gallery.C. To a movie theater.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Give up her dream of seeing a polar bear.B. Find some polar bears in the wild.C. See some polar bears at the z
5、oo.9. Where would the man like to stay? A. In very cold places.B. In warm places.C. In very hot places.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why wont the man read War and Peace? A. He never heard of it. B. He doesnt have too much time.C. He thinks the story isnt so interesting.11. Which language is the man good at?
6、A. Italian. B. Russian.C. French.12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Writer and reader.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Which country would the woman like to visit the most? A. Germany.B. France.C. England.14. How long is the womans holiday? A. T
7、wo months. B. One month. C. Half a month.15. What will the man probably do for the holiday? A. Go to the mountains. B. Go to the beach. C. Go to Disneyland.16. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Good friends.C. Assistant and customer.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who is thi
8、s speech mainly for? A. High school juniors. B. High school seniors.C. College students.18. When were there fewer diseases according to the speaker? A. Twenty years ago. B. Ten years ago.C. Five years ago.19. Why should people start language learning companies according to the speaker? A. To bring h
9、appiness to people.B. To help people earn more money.C. To introduce people to other cultures.20. What is the speakers dream for the listeners? A. They will become famous.B. They will become more intelligent.C. They will help people have better lives.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短
10、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。AAlmost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will in a lifetime, push the chromeplated contraptions many miles. But few will know or even think to ask who it was that invented them.Sylvan N. Goldman invented t
11、he shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers,
12、and would help to attract more business.On June 4, 1937, Goldmans first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldnt wait to see them using his invention.But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a
13、 long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they werent using his carts. “Dont you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket？” one shopper replied.But Goldman wasnt beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if
14、 only he could persuade people to give them a try. So Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假的) customers.As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and large
15、r numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come those who came bought more. With larger easiertohandle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.Todays shopping carts are five times larger than Goldmans original model. Perhaps thats one reason why Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937 the coming of the shopping cart.21What was the purpose of Goldmans invention?A. It w
