黑龙江省五校2021-2022学年高二上学期期中联考英语试题

高二英语第页共6 页 1 2021-2022 学年度上学期五校期中联考高二英语试题 满分120 分考试时间100 分钟 第一部分阅读（共两节，满分50 分） 第一节（共15 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分37.5 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项， 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A The homestay( 寄宿家庭)provides English language students with the good chance to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of an American home. What to Expect The host will provide places to live and meals. Rooms will be cleaned every day. And the host is there to offer help and advice on your physical and mental(精神 的)health. Living Area Host families are mainly in Zones 2,3 and 4. Most hosts don’t live in Zone 1 because much of central New York is trading center. Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger houses in uncrowded areas. But it’s very convenient to travel to the center of New York by subway. Meal Plans It’s important to know that few American families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your breakfast mainly includes fruit juice, bread and coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not part of the breakfast. Dinners are usually, made up of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee. Friends If you wish to invite a friend to visit you, you must ask your host for permission(许可) first, because some families feel uncomfortable when there are strangers at their home. 1. What can you expect from your host? A. Tour guide. B. Big kitchen. C. Living places. D. Free transport. 2. Which of the living areas is in central New York? A. Zone 1. B. Zone 2. C. Zone 3. D. Zone 4. 3. Which food is included in your breakfast? A. Cold meat. B. Coffee. C. Cheese. D. Fruit. 4. What can we know from last paragraph? A. Strangers may make you feel uncomfortable. B. All the host families hate strangers at their homes. C. You are not allowed to invite a friend to your host family. D. Your friend can visit you in your host family with permission. B To "sacrifice" means to give up something for the sake of something else. We decided to sacrifice our luxurious city life to move to a seaside village with our children aged 9 and 3. In the city, we had a beautiful home and plenty of money but little real security because crime was on the increase every day. We never knew if we would all make it home safely each night. We were very happy in the new town but life was very difficult economically. Our income was very much dependent on tourism and the jobs at other times are few. Although many of the long-standing residents live well, it is a very competitive 高二英语第页共6 页 2 environment for newcomers. Reading the newspapers from big cities assured us that we had made the right choice. There is so much violence and crime there! However, it was not always easy to explain to the children why they could no longer have what they used to have, especially when our "rich" friends came from the city to visit us. Generally, they have so much but think they have so little and are always looking for more. One day, one of our rich friends came to visit us. His son preferred riding in the back of our beat-up little pickup (小卡车) to his father' s big modern car. Our little daughter called me and said, “Mom, please help me to explain to James the reason why he is wrong. He said, ' today, if you don't have money you are nothing. ' I know that is not true. If you do have money you share it with your friends and if they don't have money, you share it with them. That is what makes us all rich. " This made me realize that the sacrifice was well worth it. Our kids understand that they may not have all the spoils of city life but they do have a solid set of values and they know that our most precious gifts are our good friends and a wonderful environment. 5. What was the reason why the family moved away from the city? A. They were tired of city life. B. The city was not safe enough. C. The people in the city were not friendly. D. The cost of living in the city was too high. 6. Why was it "a very competitive environment" for them according to the author? A. The residents were all very poor. B. It was hard to make a living. C. Their children couldn't get what they had in the city. D. They had few friends in their new environment. 7. What assured the author that they had made the right choice according to the passage? A. What she read in the newspaper. B. The beautiful scenery of countryside. C. The residents' living conditions. D. That fact that they had been accustomed to the new place. 8. What does the underlined word "beat-up" probably mean? A. Old. B. Convenient. C. Powerful. D. Expensive. 9. What did the family gain from their sacrifice? A. They had a beautiful house in the seaside village. B. They made a lot of money during the tourist seasons. C. The parents got very good jobs in the new town. D. The children developed good values. C There was a man playing the piano in a bar. He was a good piano player and always performed in this bar. People came in just to hear him play. But one night, a customer told him that he didn't want to hear him just play the piano any more. He wanted him to sing a song. The man said, "I don't sing." But the customer was persistent(执着的). He told the bar manager, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want that man to sing!" The manager shouted across the room, "If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing!" So he did. He sang a song. A piano player who had never sung in public did so for the first time. And everyone was surprised by his song Mona Lisa. He got lots of 高二英语第页共6 页 3 applause(掌声) that night. He had such a talent for singing, but he just had been sitting on his talent for the past years! If without such a chance, he may have lived the rest of his life as a noname piano player in a noname bar. However, now he has become one of the best-known singers in America. You, too, have skills and abilities. Maybe your "talent" is not as great as the singer above, but it may be better than you think! And with effort, most skills can be improved. So, in your life, you should be brave enough to try doing different things and find out what talents you really have! 10. Why did the man start to sing? A. Because he wanted to make more money. B. Because the bar manager said he liked his song. C. Because the manager asked him to sing at the request of a customer. D. Because he wanted to show everyone that he had a talent for singing. 11. What do you think of the bar manager? A. Strict. B. Rude. C. Patient. D. Kind. 12. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Some people really have no skills or abilities. B. None of us is as great as the singer. C. Sometimes through effort we can know our talents. D. No skills can be improved even if you try your best. D Most children now chat daily either online or through their mobile phones. They are connecting to a huge number of other children all over the world. Some are shy “in real life” but are confident to communicate with others online; others find support from people of their own age on relationship issues, or problems at home. Sometimes the online world, just like the real world, can introduce problems, such as arguments. Going online is great fun, but there are also a few people who use the Internet for offensive (冒犯性的) or illegal aims. Children must be made aware of both the good things and the dangers. To keep children safe, your management must cover the family computer. Just as you decide which TV pro-grams are suitable, you need to do the same for the websites and chat rooms your children visit. Remind your children that online friends are still strangers. Reminding them of the risks will keep them alert (警惕). Computer studies are part of schoolwork now, so it’s likely that your children may know more than you do. We get left behind when it comes to the latest gad-gets and the interactive areas of websites, like chat rooms and message boards, which are especially strange. The language of chat is strange to many parents, too. Chatters love to use abbreviations (缩写) such as: atb — all the best, bbfn — bye bye for now, Idk — I don’t know, im