安徽省郎溪中学2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

郎溪中学20182019学年度第一学期高二年级期中考试英语试题总分：150分 考试时间：120分钟注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将准考证条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用合乎要求的2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答：用合乎要求的签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How much do two jackets cost today?A. $40.B. $45.C. $50.2. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Stay indoors.B. Take exercise.C. Eat fresh fruit.3. Whose bowl is it?A. The mans.B. Aunt Bettys.C. The womans.4. What will the speakers do next?A. Go on shopping.B. Have something to eat.C. Go to a Mexican restaurant.5. Why will the speakers return to the museum next weekend?A. It is too large to cover in a day.B. There are too many people today.C. There will be a special exhibit then.第二节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，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、7题。6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. How to spend Christmas.B. What to do with their family.C. When to stay with their family.7. What will the woman probably do?A. Cook and wash up for her kids over Christmas.B. Go and stay in a cottage in Wales.C. Visit her parents.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What is the woman doing?A. Confirming her visa.B. Waiting for a visa.C. Applying for a visa9. What does the man offer to do for the woman?A. Bring her glasses.B. Fill in a form.C. Take her to the visa section.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the man go to the train station?A. By taxi.B. By bus.C. By bike.11. How long does the local train take to get to Metro City?A. About two hours.B. About one hour.C. About fifteen minutes12. What day is it today probably?A. Sunday.B. Monday.C. Friday.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the man make the telephone call?A. To book a room.B. To check the rate.C. To ask about a hotel.14. What is the main reason that the woman remend the Imperial to the man?A. It is near the city center.B. It is a four-star hotel.C. It is less expensive.15. What does the woman say about the Imperial?A. It is almost fully booked.B. It is cheaper than her hotel.C. It is better known than her hotel.16. What does the man want to know about the Imperial in the end?A. The location.B. The price.C. The telephone number.听第10材料，回答第17至20题。17. How much should one pay if he buys one adult ticket and two child tickets?A. 13.50B12C85018. Where is the film Dont Open the Door! set?A. In the mountains.B. At a car factory.C. On a ship19. What do we know about the film Streetmatch-the Return?A. It is shown at 10: 15.B. It is about cars.C. Maggie stars in the film.20. Which film is directed by Jean-luc Ducroix?A. Ships in the Night.B. Don t Open the Door!C. Streetmatch-the Return.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，AWele to the North Pole AdventureThe North Pole Adventure is a one-of-a-kind interactive Christmas attraction for the entire family. Unlike other Christmas attractions, it is open from November 25 until Christmas Eve. It is not a guided tour. While elves (小精灵) are throughout the adventure to interact with your children, your kids can spend as much time in each area as they wish. The adventure features a replica (复制品) of the North Pole including everything you imagine at Santas North Pole.Santas HouseKids will experience what its like at the North Pole and see first-hand what it takes for Santa and his elves to get ready for Christmas each year. The memories your children will take away from Santas House will be ones they will remember for a life time.Post OfficeAll kids will be assisted by Santas elves in writing a letter to Santa and then depositing it in Santas magical mailbox. A few days before Christmas, they will receive letters at their own homes from Santa.Elf UniversityElf University is the place where elves go to school. Its also the place where kids enjoy making Christmas presents, coloring Christmas pictures, and even filling out applications to bee elves one day.AdmissionBuy your tickets online to avoid waiting in line. If the tickets sell out when you buy them online, there will still be tickets available at the ticket office.21. Where can children see first-hand what it takes for Santa to get ready for Christmas?A. Post Office.B. Santas House.C. Elf University.D. Nowhere. 22. What can we learn from the passage?A. Kids can have fun in Santas House by dressing up like SantaB. Elf University offers kids opportunities for being elvesC. Kids who visited Post Office would receive letters on Christmas EveD. Tickets to the adventure can be bought online if they sell out at the ticket office23. Where can you probably see the article?A. a tourist booklet B. a science fiction C. a newspaperD. a story bookBFei-Fei Li arrived in the U. S. from China at age 16 with many big dreams. And it took many unusual jobs to help her achieve them. Luckily, she was smart and extremely driven. And today, shes the director of Stanford Universitys artificial intelligence lab.“As one of the leaders in the world for A. I., I feel much excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and excellent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and excellent technologists thats my calling.” Li said.She is also a loyal advocate (拥护者) for diversity in the tech industry.“I see extremely talented Stanford PhD students struggling with their visas and I find it unthinkable that we create so many barriers (阻碍) for the talents of the world”, Li said. While Li was in college at Princeton, she borrowed money from friends and even her high school math teacher to run a dry-cleaning business for her parents in order to help them get by. Li attended classes during the week and worked at the business on the weekends. Then, when Li was in graduate school, her mom developed cancer and had a stroke (中风). “It was difficult to keep moving ahead while all of this was happening. The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, live up to your sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about your dreams while doing it,” she said.Li was named a Great Immigrant of 2016 by the Carnegie Corporation, the nations oldest grant making foundation which honors roughly 40 naturalized U. S. citizens each year. Her graduate studies were supported by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.24. What do we know about Fei-Fei Li according to Paragraph 1?A. She was born in the USA.B. Shes now doing researches on AI in China.C. She worked hard because shes not gifted.D. She has realized many of her dreams.25. What does the underlined word “calling” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A. Sense of duty. B. Desire to help.C. Creativity in science. D. Interest in technology.26. Who funded Fei-Fei Lis graduate studies?A. Stanford University.B. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.C. The Carnegie Corporation.D. Princeton.27. Fei-Fei Li has achieved success because _.A. an American foundation gave her supportB. she was named as Great ImmigrantC. her awareness of her duty and goals made a differenceD. shes lucky enough to borrow money from othersCAs puters bee all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly relying on puter keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the puter too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes（笔画）of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more. Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a puter as early as primary school. And puter dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their writings are typed on a puter. All the students interviewed say they usually use a puter. Its faster and easier to correct if using a puter. And thats why puters are being used more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in puters increasingly, problems appear. “When Im writing with a pen, I find I often cant remember how to write a character, though I feel Im familiar with it.”“Im not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper.”Many students dont feel this is something to worry about. Now that its more convenient and efficient to write on a puter, why bother to handwrite? Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei, the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with puter keyboards only maintain their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And handwriting contains the writers emotion. Through ones handwriting, people can get to know ones thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes pulsory(必修的)and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.28. Which of the following can BEST serve as the title of the passage? A. The Importance of Handwriting and Typing B. To Type or To Hand Write C. Writing By puter Will Replace Writing By Hand D. Practical and Aesthetic Value of Chinese Characters29. The students interviewed prefer to write using a puter mainly because _. A. they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and essays. B. puters have bee a trend and fashion in China. C. they find it not easy to remember how to write a character. D. they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently. 30. The underlined expression “taking stock in” in the fourth paragraph probably means _. A. being crazy about B. getting bored with C. getting dependent on D. looking forward to31. We can draw the conclusion from the passage that _. A. more and more students will give up writing on a puter. B. writing by hand will give way to typing by puter one day. C. more and more students will pay attention to handwriting. D. the typed article better expresses ones emotion and quality.DIs beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive(主管的) circle, beauty can bee a disadvantage.While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required. This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political (政治的) candidates. She asked 125 college students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.The results showed that attractive males pletely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.32. In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness _. A. makes women look more honest and capable B. strengthens the manly qualities required C. is of no importance to women D. often enables women to succeed quickly33. Bowmans experiment shows that when it es to politics, attractiveness _. A. affects men and women alike B. has as little effect on men as on women C. is more of a disadvantage to womenD. turns out to be a disadvantage to men 34. According to the passage, peoples views on beauty are often _. A. practical B. one-sided C. old-fashioned D. supportive35. The passage is mainly about _. A. the disadvantages of being attractive B. the advantages of being attractive C. equal rights for women D. the importance of appearance第二节 （共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 Things You Should Stop Doing to Be Successful Are you a happy person? How often do you think about reasons why everyone around you is successful though they are not better than you in general? What do you do wrong? Here are some things you should stop doing to be successful.1. 36 Different people may interpret “success” in different ways: some of theme measure it in money, other ones in positive changes to people around them and the world in general. 37 And do not worry about what other people think, and go after what makes you happy.2. Do not believe anything without questioning it. 38 They are critical thinkers, and they understand that we are all ruled by our prejudices, so they will always question new information.3. Do not worry about unpredictable things that may happen to you. If you want to be successful, stop thinking about everything that MAY happen to you. 39 Be ready to change your deeds and decisions when things suddenly dont go according to your plan.4. Do not care about what other people think of you. 40 Your attempts to bee “good” for everyone will turn into nothing but new worries, stresses, and problems. Successful people do not concentrate on the quantity of people to please, but worry about their quality and focus on developing friendships with people they really care about.A. Do not wait for the “right time” to do anything.B. Try to feel fortable with the reality and accept the fact that your future cant be predicted.C. Do not let others decide what “success” is for you.D. As far as we all know, its impossible to please all the people that surround us.E. Successful people do not just accept any new information to be true.F. If you want to be successful, do not let others force their interpretation of success on you.G. Successful people never ignore or avoid problems, no matter how big and awful they seem.第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 45） 第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。On Thanksgiving morning I got up early to run in the local race. It was 41 above freezing so everyone there was jumping around to stay 42.At the roadside, sitting in the 43 was a man coated with a blanket. Its pretty obvious hes 44 and as usual most people 45 not to see him. I went over and talked with him. He told me hes a veteran(退伍军人) and had hoped he could 46 a few dollars that morning to buy a Thanksgiving dinner. His eyes 47 when he talked about hot turkey. 48, theres no work for himvolunteers did everything for the 49. Then its time for the race 50 I told him Id talk to him more after. He said hed be there watching to see me 51 the finish line. During most of the race, I 52 this man. Im in the military too and it always 53 to see someone who served going through such a(n) 54 time. He hadnt asked me for anything, but I was 55 to do something for him. But with just a couple of dollars, how could I?After the race I went 56 over and sat in the grass next to him, which got me more than a few 57 looks from other runners. I gave him the cash I had, saying “Im 58 special but I really hope it might get you a little something 59 during the day” “Thank you very much but I cant accept it. This has been so 60 . You know, I havent really talked to anybody in a real long time,” he said. Sometimes those who are noticed the least can do the most to lift us up.41. A. clearlyB. quickly C. hardlyD. absolutely42. A. calmB. positiveC. aliveD. warm43. A. cornerB. backC. grassD. crowd44. A. homelessB. carelessC. shamelessD. fearless45. A. plannedB. pretendedC. agreed D. promised46. A. begB. saveC. produceD. earn47. A. shoneB. openedC. closedD. narrowed48. A. LuckilyB. UnfortunatelyC. GenerallyD. Certainly49. A. groupB. localsC. judgesD. race50. A. beforeB. soC. ifD. after51. A. touchB. reachC. crossD. break52. A. put up withB. suffered fromC. worked outD. thought about53. A. hurtsB. paysC. worksD. aches54. A. fantasticB. uncertainC. toughD. unfair55. A. worriedB. pleasedC. disappointedD. determined56. A. out B. aroundC. back D. forward57. A. ordinaryB. strangeC. admiringD. caring58. A. nobody B. somebodyC. everythingD. something59. A. importantB. extraC. extraordinaryD. valuable60. A. niceB. awfulC. longD. funny第II卷第三部分 英语知识运用第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Keeping a diary in English is one o