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（北京）股份有限公司 高二期中考试 英 语 第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30 分) 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。 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. What was the hotel like in the past? A. The meals were good but not the rooms. B. The rooms were good but not the meals. C. The meals and the rooms were terrible. 2. What time will the ship leave? A. At 6：55. B. At 7：05. C. At 9：15. 3. What are the two speakers trying to do? A. Call a taxi. B. Catch a bus. C. Find a timetable. 4. What did the man buy? A. A briefcase. B. A suitcase. C. A cigarette case. 5. What day of the week is it? A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday. 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。听年段对话或独白前，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 至 8 题。 6. How old was the woman when she became famous? A. Twenty. B. Fifteen. C. Sixteen. 7. Why has the woman given up swimming? A. She can’t stand the hard training. B. She cannot compete with others. C. She cannot win any international competitions now. （北京）股份有限公司 8. How does the woman feel about her future? A. Very excited. B. A bit lost. C. Very discouraged. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 9、10 题。 9. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a park. B. At a restaurant. C. In an office. 10. What is Alice doing now? A. She’s looking for a new job. B. She’s working for a company. C. She’s studying at a university. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。 11. What are the man and the woman talking about? A. A place where people can have a drink. B. A time when people can have fun. C. A friend they both like to talk with. 12. For how many hours is a pub usually open? A. From morning till night. B. Four to eight hours a day. C. It depends on the owner. 13. Who is not allowed to go into a pub in England? A. Young people. B. Children under 14. C. Students. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。 14. What is Robert? A. A doctor. B. A director. C. A retired manager. 15. What is the man’s job? A. A tennis instructor. B. A physical education teacher. C. A sports club manager. 16. How would the woman describe herself? A. Easy-going. B. Agreeable. C. Unable to handle pressure. 17. What can be the relationship between the man and the woman? A. Teacher and student. B. Colleagues. C. Husband and wife. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。 18. What does the speaker really want to do? A. She wants to give some advice to middle school students. （北京）股份有限公司 B. She is announcing an advertisement. C. She wants to tell us how to choose a university. 19. What is the speaker’s suggestion? A. To earn money after middle school. B. To go on to study. C. She doesn’t know what to do yet. 20. Which of the following is NOT true? A. The more years of school you attend, the more money you are likely to make. B. The more educated you are，the more choices you have. C. You can only choose colleges to study further beyond middle school. 第二部分 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，从题中所给的A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The dazzling beauty of abandoned cinemas Old and historical cinemas are all around us and yet so unnoticed. A new photobook reveals their often overlooked beauty. Loew’s Palace Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut Originally opened as the Poli’s Palace Theatre in 1922 by architect Thomas W. Lamb as one of a double theatre complex along with the nearby Poli’s Majestic Theatre. In 1934, both theatres were taken over by Loew’s and operated as film theatres. In the late 1970s, an attempt to turn the building into a Christian Revival Centre never came to fruition. The theatre is presently vacant and awaiting restoration. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia Originally founded as the Philadelphia Opera House in 1908, it was designed by local architect William H. McElfatrick, who was in charge of the design of 40 theatres in his career. The Philadelphia Opera House was designed for opera impresario Oscar Hammerstein as his ninth opera house. In 1910, it was sold to the Metropolitan Opera of New York City and was renamed the Met. Through the 1920s, it showed silent films in addition to hosting various opera companies. In the late 1930s, it became a ballroom, and in the 1940s a sports area for basketball, wrestling, and boxing events. It finally closed in 1954 and was turned into a church. （北京）股份有限公司 Robin’s Theatre, Warren, Ohio Opened in 1923, it had 1,500 seats, and was designed by architects I. J. Goldston and Detroit-based C. Howard Crane. It was operated by The Robins Theatre Enterprises Co. , a local company founded by Daniel Robins, who was an early partner of Albert Warner of Warner Bros. It closed in 1974 and was vacant until 2018, when it was renovated and reopened as a multipurpose venue in 2020. 21. At present, which cinema are you likely to go to for a concert? A. Poli’s Palace Theatre. B. Robin’s Theatre, Warren, Ohio. C. Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia. D. Loew’s Palace Theatre, Bridgeport, Connecticut. 22. What do the three cinemas have in common? A. All of them were renamed. B. All of them are currently in use. C. All of them have been restored. D. All of them have undergone some changes. 23. Where is the text probably taken from? A. An illustrated magazine. B. A campus poster. C. An advertising brochure. D. A research paper. B A terrible thing happened to me while I was watching TV recently: I realized that I had aged. Now of course I know that I am aging; it’s just that I hadn’t realized quite how old I was until I saw a participant who I recognized on a reality TV show. Well, I didn’t recognize her, but I recognized her name. I’d slightly known her in my 20s when she’d been the celebrity who had stolen my roommates’ boyfriends. However, here’s the thing that shocked me — I hadn’t recognized her because rather than the beauty I remembered, on my TV was a middle-aged mum cooking. And then it hit me: that’s what I look like too. It’s a particularly cruel change of nature that we can’t see ourselves as others do. We see our own face so often that the wrinkles that start to cut through it just go unnoticed. Occasionally, we might get a rude awakening when suddenly our bodies stop working as expected but, for the most part, we’re left to get on with growing old without too many reminders. But when you get a reminder...oof! Since that show aired, I （北京）股份有限公司 have sat in front of the mirror analyzing my face and wondering how I came to look so like my mother without noticing. I’ve also realized that my waist no longer fits into baby fat but a middle-aged spread. I also fear that I don’t know what middle age looks like for my generation. Did my mother still feel 24 when in reality she was 15 years older? And why do I not feel like I’m where I should be as I approach 40? I definitely remember writing a list of things I will have achieved by the time I’m 40 at 19. Where is the house in the South of France or the Porsche 911 she so desperately wanted? Since then, I’ve started to redefine myself. I don’t want to put everything down to age, but I can’t quite stop myself. Tired again? Must be my age. Thank God then for social media. All around me I see amazing women at the other end of their 40s. They’ve accepted their age and seem to love it, so I’m hopeful that as I move into the next decade, that will be me too. And maybe I’ll get the Porsche before I’m 50. 24. What is implied in Paragraph 1? A. The author was once very familiar with the TV celebrity. B. The TV celebrity used to be popular among boys. C. The TV celebrity now lives a life of extreme luxury. D. The aging process doesn’t affect the TV celebrity. 25. In most cases, how do we perceive the aging process? A. We clearly know what happens. B. It is very likely to slip our mind. C. We can accept it quite peacefully.