上海市嘉定区封浜高级中学2023学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

上海市嘉定区封浜高级中学2023年-2023年学年高二英语上学期期中试题 I. Listening Comprehension（1-10 每题1分，11-20每题2分） Section A Short Conversations Directions: In Part A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. A postwoman. B. A teacher. C. A journalist. D. A librarian. 2. A. On a plane. B. On a train. C. At a restaurant. D. At a travel agency. 3. A. 5 minutes. B. 10 minutes. C. 15 minutes. D. 20 minutes. 4. A. He spends too much money. B. He should watch more TV. C. He actually likes watching TV. D. He bought an expensive watch. 5. A. The woman should get a new watch. B. The woman needs to buy another battery. C. He knows what is wrong with the watch. D. The store can probably fix the woman’s watch. 6. A. He should work in the summer school. B. He shouldn’t go to New York in the summer. C. He may not want to do so. D. He may have difficulty in doing so. 7. A. Spend more time on the course. B. Turn to the graduate assistant for help. C. Drop the course as soon as possible. D. Help the graduate assistant with the course. 8. A. They should buy a lot of coffee. B. The supermarket isn’t going to be closed. C. Coffee is out of stock in the supermarket. D. They should wait for a better deal on coffee. 9. A. The final exam. B. A law school. C. A reference letter. D.The department policy. 10. A. He wasn’t able to find a seat there. B. He had to wait a long time for a seat there. C. The seats there are uncomfortable. D. It provides reading materials for customers. Section B (10*2) Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following news. 11. A. 2. B. 18. C. About 125. D. Over 1,300. 12. A. Helping good universities to enroll more students. B. Getting more financial support from foreign students. C. Encouraging more foreign students to travel around the UK. D. Attracting more excellent foreign students to work in Britain. 13. A. He voted for Donald Trump. B. He did not vote in the presidential election. C. He made a political speech in the concert. D. He sang for only 40 minutes in the concert. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. They can play many kinds of games with snow. B. They can see the beautiful scenery of falling snow. C. They can have several days off from school if it snows. D. They can enjoy steaming hot chocolate on a snowy day. 15. A. The building of snowmen for children. B. The removal of snow off their driveway. C. The spread of salt mixed with sand. D. The low temperature that snow brings. 16. A. Rare and exciting. B. Dangerous and challenging. C. Unusual but disappointing. D. Troublesome but interesting. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. It encourages wise consumption. B. It is impossible to get stolen. C. It makes it easier to pay off debt. D. It can be used in an emergency. 18. A. It makes people feel safer. B. It prevents people from overspending. C. It enables people to get things cheaper. D. It helps people know more about money. 19. A. Doing some shopping. B. Doing some reading. C. Opening an account. D. Taking a lesson. 20. A. Shop owners prefer cash to credit cards. B. The woman pays part of her bill each month. C. Most people don’t choose to use credit cards. D. The man wasn’t persuaded by the woman at last. II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Apart from the spelling of the word, there are, obviously, many differences between American and British humour. There is a common belief in the U.K. that Americans don’t understand irony(讽刺). This is of course not true. But what is true is that Americans don’t use it all the time. Irony may show up in American comedies, but people there don’t use it as much as Brits in daily life and it is generally seen as inappropriate in situations (21) ______it is normal in the U.K. On the contrary, irony