2021-2022学年甘肃省兰州市第一中学高二下学期下月期中考试英语试题试卷

兰州一中2021-2022-2 学期期中考试试题 高二 英语 说明: 本试题分为第I 卷（选择题）和第II 卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120 分，考试时 间100 分钟，答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。 第I 卷 第一节 单项选择（共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分） 1. She was on the of going out when the telephone rang. A. point B. sense C. spot D. moment 2. Lindsay wanted a chance to improve her spoken English. A. there was B. there to be C. there being D. there is 3. A new library is being built at used to be a wasteland. A. what B. which C. where D. that 4. The award will go to has the most beautiful collection of stamps. A. who B. the one C. anyone D. whoever 5. –What exactly made her so upset? – . A. She lost her wallet B. She losing her wallet C. Her wallet was lost D. That she lost her wallet 6. Can you imagine he had completing his study in the university? A. what difficult B. how difficult C. which difficulty D. what difficulty 7. During the break, some students went to relax on the playground, but the rest reviewing their lessons in the classroom. A. are B. was C. were D. is 8. 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LHS Pour-Over Coffee Maker. 12. What do we know about GK Smart Watch Fitness Tracker? A. It has a stainless steel filter. B. It documents the user’s health data. C. It features lightweight and comfort. D. It stays in place and seldom slips. 13. Where does this text probably come from? A. A news report. B. A tourist brochure. C. A sports magazine. D. A shopping pamphlet. B The producer appeared behind the recording studio window and smiled and waved to me like an old friend. And after I had read out a little test piece, he said, “That’s fine, wonderful, your voice is perfect, lively, wonderful.” Then I read a longer passage in English about the delights of touring in Britain, and another about the delights of visiting London, and both were “excellent” and “just right”, and I began to consider a job in radio. To be honest, I was fairly sure of myself though I lacked experience. Across the room in the Hamburg News Agency where we both worked, a friend named Peter Turner called to me, “I say, Mike, a man on the phone here wants someone to do a recording in English, and I’m booked up. Would you read something to him in English as a sort of test?” I did, and they said, “Perfect, lovely, wonderful, ...” Would I come round? It was after reading their passage in English in the studio that they noticed my vowel(元音) pronunciations were not altogether King’s English, or even Prince Philip’s, there was a larger silence than usual, then the voice said: “Fine, lovely..., but you said the word ‘castle’ with a short ‘a’. Could we have the passage again please, but this time say ‘castle’.” This was easy. But then he noticed other differences in my pronunciation. “It’s my northern English accent,” I said angrily because I had to apologize for it. “Oh, I see...but Mike, we’ll have to get it right, I’m afraid. The recording is for teaching English to German schoolchildren, and it must be spoken in the way it is taught in German schools.” I read the passage again...and again...and again. But of course you cannot change the pronunciation of a lifetime in an hour. The studio men were in the state of having lost hope and underlined the vowels which caused me to feel angry, so that I’d remember them. Few, really. But because I had to concentrate on them, I made a lot of mistakes in my reading. Everyone got somewhat irritable (easily made angry), so we all went out for a beer. 14. Broadcasting did not make Mike nervous _______. A. although he had never done any before B. because he worked in a news agency C. because he was used to talking on the phone D. although the passages were long 15. What happened after Mike had read the third passage? A. They made him repeat it. B. They said nothing. C. They began to discuss the King’s English. D. They could not understand one of the words. 16. They wanted Mike to change his pronunciation because _______. A. German schoolchildren did not like a northern accent B. it was different from the English taught in German schools C. it was different from the English spoken in Germany D. German schoolchildren were taught through recordings 17. Why did Mike’s reading of the passage get worse? A. He needed a drink to clear his throat. B. He was trying to do the recording in an hour. C. He was trying hard to get certain sounds right. D. He could not learn so many new sounds. C Plastic recycling is a hot topic. But what’s the real face behind it? You diligently sort your rubbish; you dutifully wash your plastic containers; then everything gets thrown in a landfill or in the ocean anyway. According to one analysis, only 9% of all plastic ever made has likely been recycled. Here’s the kicker: the companies making all that plastic have spent millions on advertising campaigns lecturing us about recycling while knowing full well that most plastic will never be recycled. A new investigation by National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) reports that the large oil and gas companies that manufacture plastics have known for decades that recycling plastic was unlikely to ever happen on a broad scale because of the high costs involved. “They were not interested in putting any real money or effort into recycling because they wanted to sell raw material,” Larry Thomas, former president of one of the plastic industry’s most powerful trade groups, told NPR. There is a lot more money to be made in selling new plastic than reusing the old stuff. But, in order to keep selling new plastic, the industry had to clean up its wasteful image. “If the publi