2020版高二英語上學期期中試題 (IV)第一部分閱讀理解（共兩節，滿分40分）Electric Underground說7.30pm1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know whos playing in your area？Were bringing you an evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bandsAre you interested in being a musician and getting a recording contract（合同）？If so，e early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye，a successful record producerHes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce you musicGee Whizz8.30pm10.30pm edy at Kaleidoscopee and see Gee Whizz performHes the funniest standup edian on the edy sceneThis joyful show will please everyone，from the youngest to the oldestGee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks（快餐）Simons Workshop5.00pm7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria StageThis is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do edyThe workshop looks at every kind of edy，and practices many different ways of making people laughSimon is a edian and actor who has 10yearsexperience of teaching edyHis workshops are exciting and funAn evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funnyCharlotte Stone8.00pm11.00pm Pizza WorldFine food with beautiful jazz music； this is a great evening outCharlotte Stone will perform songs from her new bestselling CD，with James Pickering on the pianoThe menu is Italian，with excellent meat and fresh fish，pizzas and pasta（面食）Book early to get a tableOur bar is open all day，and serves cocktails，coffee，beer，and white wine1Who can help you if you want to have your music produced？A.Gee Whizz B. Jules SkyeCCharlotte StoneDJames Pickering2At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh？AKaleidoscope BThe Cyclops TheatreCVictoria Stage DPizza World3What do we know about Simons Workshop？AIt requires membership statusBIt lasts three hours each timeC It is held every WednesdayDIt is run by a edy club4When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs？A. 5.00pm7.30pm B. 7.30pm1.00amC. 8.30pm10.30pm D. 8.00pm11.00pmBReading can be a social activityThink of the people who belong to book groupsThey choose books to read and then meet to discuss themNow，the website BookCrossing BookCrossing turns the page on the traditional idea of a book groupMembers go on the site and register the books they own and would like to shareBookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the bookThen the person leaves it in a public place，hoping that the book will have an adventure，traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds itBruce Pederson，the managing director of BookCrossing，says，The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you readBookCrossing bines bothMembers leave books on park benches and buses，in train stations and coffee shopsWhoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found itPeople who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of itEmails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been foundBruce peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at homeBookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to therealand not the virtual（虛擬）The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirtyfive countries5Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph？ATo introduce BookCrossingBTo explain what they areCTo stress the importance of readingDTo encourage readers to share their ideas6What does the underlined word it in Paragraph 2 refer to？A An adventure BThe bookCA public place DThe identification number7What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it？AMeet other readers to discuss itBKeep it safe in his bookcaseCMail it back to its ownerDPass it on to another reader8 What is the best title for the text？AOnline Reading：A Virtual Tour BElectronic Books：A new TrendCA Website Links People through Books DA Book Group Brings Tradition BackC Bad news sellsIf it bleeds，it leadsNo news is good news，and good news is no newsThose are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papersBut now that information is being spread and monitored（監控） in different ways，researchers are discovering new rulesBy tracking peoples emails and online posts，scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob storiesThe if it bleedsrule works for mass media，says Jonah Berger，a scholar at the University of PennsylvaniaThey want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feelingBut when you share a story with your friends，you care a lot more how they reactYou dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer Researchers analyzing wordofmouth municationemails，Web posts and reviews，facetoface conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative，but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive newsWas positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things？To test for that possibility，DrBerger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories：thousands of articles on The New York Times websiteHe and a Penn colleague analyzed the most emailed list for six monthsOne of his first finds was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list than nonscience articlesHe found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with others Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny，or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety，but not articles that left them merely sadThey needed to be aroused（激發） one way or the other，and they preferred good news to badThe more positive an article，the more likely it was to be shared，as DrBerger explains in his new book，Contagious：Why Things Catch On9What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to？A. Research papers BNews reportsCPrivate emalls DDaily conversations10What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer？ATheyre socially inactiveBTheyre good at telling storiesC Theyre careful with their wordsDTheyre inconsiderate of others11Which tended to be the most emailed according to Dr。Bergers research？AScience articles BSports new CPersonal accounts DFinancial reviews12What can be a suitable title for the text？ASad Stories Travel Far and Wide BOnline News Attracts More PeopleCGood News Beats Bad on Social NetworksDReading Habits Change with the TimesDOn one of her trips to New York several years ago，Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinnerThey settled in at a fortable East Side cafe and within minutes，another customer was approaching their tableHey，arent you from Mississippi？the elegant，whitehaired writer remembered being asked by the strangerIm from Mississippi too Without a second thought，the woman joined the Welty partyWhen her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chairThey began telling me all the news of Mississippi，Welty saidI didnt know what my New York friends were thinking Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshineBy the time the group got up to leave，it was pouring outsideWeltys new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cabHeading back downtown toward her hotel，her bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a MississippiMy friend said：Now we believe your stories，Welty addedAnd I said：Now you knowThese are the people that make me write them Sitting on a sofa in her room，Welty，a slim figure in a simple gray dress，looked pleased with this explanationI dont make them up，she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so yearsI dont have to Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats，Weltys people e from afternoons spent visiting with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss，from conversations overheard on a busIt annoys Welty that，at 78，her left ear has now given outSometimes，sitting on a bus or a train，she hears only a fragment（片段） of a particularly interesting story13What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe？AHer childhood friends came in BTwo strangers joined her CA heavy rain ruined the dinnerDSome people held a party there14The underlined word them in Paragraph 6 refers to WeltysAreaders Bparties C stories D friends15What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction？AThey live in big cities BThey are mostly womenC They are pleasure seekers D They e from real life七選五Public Speaking TrainingGet a coach （16），so get helpSince there are about a billion panies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses，here are some things to look for when deciding the training thats right for youFocus on positives Any training you do to bee more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects of what you already do wellNothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you arent doing well（17），so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldnt do （18）_ If you find a public speaking course that looks as though its going to give you lots of dos and donts，walk away!Your brain is so full of what youre going to be talking about（19）As far as were concerned，there are your friendsYou are a special person not a cloneMost importantly，good public speaking training should treat you as a special one，with your own personal habits（20）Your training course should help you bring out your personality，not try to turn you into someone youre notA You already do lots of things wellBYou arent like anybody elseCCheck the rules about dos and donts D Turn your back on too many rulesEWhatever the presentation，public speaking is toughFThe one thing you dont want is for them to fall asleepGSo trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse第二部分：完形填空（共1小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）Where do you go when you want to learn something？A friend？A tutor？These are all（21）places of learningBut it may well be that the learning you reallywant (22)_somewhere else insteadI had the（23）_of seeing this first hand on a（24）_My daughter plays on a recreational soccer teamThey did very well this season and so（25）a tournament，which normally was only for more skilled club teamsThis led to some（26）experiences on Saturday as they played against teams（27）trainedThrough the first two games，her（28）did not get on serious shot on goalAs aparent，I（29）_seeing my daughter playing her best，（30） still defeatedIt seemed that something clicked with the（31）between Saturday and SundayWhen they （32）for their Sunday game，they were（33）_differentThey had begun to integrate （融合）the kinds of play and teamwork they had（34）the day before into their（35）They played aggressively and（36） scored a goalIt（37） me that playing against the other team was a great（38）_moment for all the girls on the teamI think it is a general principle（39）_is the best teacherThe lessons they may not be（40）_what they would have gotten in schoolBut they are certainly more personal and meaningful，because they had to work them out on their own21A traditionalBpublicCofficialDspecial22ApassesBworksCendsD lies23AdreamBideaC chanceDhabit24AtripBholidayCsquare Dweekend25A enteredBwonCorganizedDwatched26A strangeBpainfulCmonDpractical27AlessBpoorlyC betterDnewly28AfansBtutorsC teamDclass29A hatedBimaginedCavoidedDmissed30AifBorC asDbut31A parentsBgirlsCcoachesDviewers32A showed upBdressedCmade upDplanned33AslightlyBhardlyC pletelyDbasically34A knownBseenCheardDread35AstylesBtrainingC rulesDgame36A stillBevenCseldomDagain37A struckBconfusedCremindedDwarned38AtouchingBthinkingC.learningD.encouraging39A IndependenceBExperienceCCuriosityDInterest40Aharmful toBmixed withCapplied toD.different from第三部分：英語知識運用（共兩節，滿分45分）第一節（共1小題；每小題15分，滿分15分）In much of Asia，especially the socalledrice bowlcultures of China，Japan，Korea，（41）Vietnam，food is usually eaten with chopsticks Chopsticks are usually two long，thin pieces of wood or bambooThey can also be made of plastic，animal bone or metalSometimes chopsticks are quite artisticTruly elegant chopsticks might（42）（make）of gold and silver with Chinese charactersSkilled workers also bine various hardwoods and metal （43）（create）special designs The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand yearsPeople probably cooked their food in large pots，（44）（use）twigs（樹枝）to remove itOver time，（45）the population grew，people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which（46）（gradual）turned into chopsticksSome people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius，（47）lived from roughly 551 to 479 BC，influenced the（48）（develop）of chopsticksConfucius believed knives would remind people of killings and （49）（be）too violent for use at the table Chopsticks are not used everywhere in AsiaIn India，for example，most people traditionally eat （50）their hands第二節 短文改錯（共1小題，每小題1分，滿分10分）假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（），并在其下面寫出該加的詞刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（）劃掉刪除：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞注意：1每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；2只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分The summer h