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1、2022年高二英语上学期期中试题(VII)本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。共8页。全卷120分，考试时间100分钟。第一部分： 听力（略）（满分30分）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）ACharlie works in a post office. His father lost his job five years ago and his mother is often ill. And he has two brothers and a sister. He works hard and tries his best
2、to buy enough food for his family.Last month his family had to move to an old house outside the city. Its farther from the post office and he has to get up early in the morning in order to catch the 6:30 train. The head of his office is strict and everybody has to get there on time. He knows what it
3、ll mean if hes late. A friend of his had pity on(同情) him and lent his old car to him. The young man was happy and from then on he could go to work by car.Last Saturday Charlie went to buy some medicine for his mother. Bad luck! When he came out of the shop, he couldnt find the car. He was quite worr
4、ied and began to look for it in front of the shop but he didnt find it. Suddenly he saw a woman parked a car there and hurried into the shop. Charlie saw the car wasnt locked. He got on it and drove it at once. He was afraid the loser would run after him and drove fast. A truck hit it at a crossing
5、and he lost consciousness(知觉).This morning the young man came back to life and saw there were a few policemen standing by his bed. He asked, Where am I?In Room 103.In hospital or in prison ?1. Therere _ people in Charlies family.A. four B. five C. six D. seven2. Charlies family moved to the old hous
6、e outside the city because _.A. its very quiet there B. they hoped to save some moneyC. he could get to his office by train D. his father had found a job there3. Charlie has to get to his office on time because _.A. the head is strict with them B. he wishes to be praisedC. hes usually on dutyD. hes
7、afraid to be fired4. For did Charlie buy any medicine last Saturday. A. himself B. his father C. his sister. D. his motherBA large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in Germany.“Women often wish that they had the same chance
8、as men have, and believe it is still mens world,” said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study. Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil pany. She also believes in “Womens Liberation(解放)”.“I dont wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I dont think many women do. But
9、 I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but we get less paid. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones that open only to men. If youre a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. Ho
10、w many women pilots are there or engineers or scientists?”5. What can we learn from the first paragraph? A. There are more Western European women wishing to be born men. B. Women in Western European countries wish to deliver boy-babies. C. 60% women in Germany wish that they were born men. D. 60% We
11、stern European women wish that they were born men.6. “it is still mens world.” means “_.” A. Therere more men than women in the world B. Therere more men scientists or engineers in the world C. Women cannot live on themselves without men D. Women have not been given the same chance as men7. Anne Har
12、per considers that women should _. A. be really liberated B. live a better life than men C. be well paid D. get better jobs than men CWhen I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the puter, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. Personally, I could do
13、without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology. Point 1 The telephone creates the need to municate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter es home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends
14、 an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about? Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the
15、 A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue. Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at and time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went. Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were
