2017-2018学年辽宁省庄河市高级中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版

2017-2018学年辽宁省庄河市高级中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版

第I卷(客观题 共70分）‎ 第一部分 听力（略）‎ 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，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，在答题卡上将该项涂黑 A The Grand Canyon (大峡谷) Helicopter Tour You’ll discover the natural beauty of the Grand Canyon as your helicopter flies to the west edge, passing over Lake Las Vegas. Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. During the flight, you can listen to a recorded introduction to the Grand Canyon and its surroundings via headphones. At noon, you’ll land for an unforgettable champagne picnic, 3,200 feet below the edge. While you share a bottle of champagne, your pilot and guide will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Your flight ends with a low-level pass over the famous Las Vegas Strip. On landing, a comfortable car is waiting to bring you back to your hotel.‎ Each helicopter carries a maximum of 6 people including your pilot. For a roomier experience, upgrade your flight to an EC-130 helicopter which provides larger leg room and can accommodate more weight per seat. See Additional Info for details on weight restrictions.‎ Pricing Information ‎• Services included: 45-minute (approx.)f light each way, hotel pickup and drop-off by limousine, lunch.‎ ‎• Our price is constantly updated. Click to check pricing & availability on your preferred travel date.‎ Additional Information ‎• The maximum weight per passenger to ride in on A-Star helicopter is 2751bs.‎ ‎ If passengers weigh in between 2751bs and 3001bs, you will be required to upgrade to the EC-130.‎ ‎• Pickup is available from selected Las Vegas hotels. You must contact the local travel agency to fix your pickup lime.‎ ‎• All flight times arc approximate and might be influenced by weather conditions.‎ Traveler Review This is an absolute must do. The view of the Grand Canyon at his height was absolutely amazing! Our pilot was funny, knowledgeable and a great guide. All the staff from booking to check-in and helicopter departure were fantastic. I would recommend this tour to everyone.‎ ‎21. Where will you have your lunch during the tour?‎ A. In the hotel. B. On the helicopter.‎ C. In the Canyon. D. On the Las Vegas Strip.‎ ‎22. In what condition will you be advised to take an EC-130 flight?‎ A. You weigh less than 275lbs. B. You travel with over 6 people.‎ C. You want to spend less money. D. You want to travel more comfortably.‎ ‎23. What should you do to be picked up from the hotel?‎ A. Turn to your guide. B. Call the travel agency.‎ C. Book in advance. D. Pay an extra charge.‎ ‎24. What’s the purpose of the last part of the text?‎ A. To praise the pilot and staff. B. To describe the view of the tour.‎ C. To encourage potential consumers. D. To introduce the writer of the review.‎ B During the 1800s, African Americans worked long days in the fields of the American South. To ease their labor, they sang “field hollers (号子)” that they had brought from Africa. One person sang a line. Then a group of workers repeated it. The song’s ‎ words told of the hardships that people suffered. This call-and -response singing style was also used in churches. African Americans sang joyous religious songs. They clapped their hands and stamped their feet to the music.‎ After the Civil War (1861-1865), the music changed greatly. African American music, from ballads to church music, took new forms. It was also adapted dance music, called “jump-ups”. Then banjos became popular. A blues singer usually played a call and response with the banjo. He or she sang a line and then played the banjo response. By the early 1900s, the guitar had replaced the banjo as the main blues instrument.‎ Northern Mississippi—called the Delta—was the center of blues tradition. By the 1920s, the Delta had many clubs, so-called juke joints. African Americans listened and danced to music in these clubs. Some of the greatest blues men and women performed there.‎ The words of blues songs describe everyday life. They are often very emotional and personal. They tell about sorrow and overwork. They tell about finding or losing love, having money or being poor, being happy or sad and lonely. Blues may use humor to describe life’s struggles and joys.‎ By the 1940s, large numbers of African Americans had left the Delta and moved north to work. Many settled in Chicago. There, a new kind of “electric” or “Chicago” blues began. Many of its themes were the same, but these blues had electric guitars and harmonicas. The Chicago blues with a strong loud beat was excellent dance music. Chicago blues led to the birth of a new music style—rock and roll.‎ ‎25. What does the underlined word “banjo” in paragraph 2 refer to?‎ A. A blues singer. B. A line in a song.‎ C. A style of dance music. D. A kind of musical instrument.‎ ‎26. What information can we get in paragraph 4?‎ A. The techniques in blues. B. The themes of blues.‎ C. The influence of blues. D. The development of blues.‎ ‎27. According to the text, rock and roll .‎ A. is full of humors B. was formed in Delta C. first appeared in churches D. developed from Chicago blues ‎28. The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to .‎ A. inform B. persuade C. instruct D. entertain C Kobe Bryant, the former US National Basketball Association league star, launches a $ 100 million venture capital fund known as Bryant Stibel at the New York Stock Exchange.‎ Mr Bryant, 37, the former captain of the Los Angeles, retired from basketball earlier last year after a 20-year career. He told The Wall Street Journal he felt he had a talent for identifying entrepreneurs (企业家). Mr Stibel is an entrepreneur and investor who founded several companies including Web.com. Mr Bryant has invested with Mr Stibel before, but this fund is the first formal partnership between them. The pair are financing the fund themselves. Since 2013, they have invested in 15 companies together including sports website The Players Tribune, video game designer Scopely, and legal services company Legal Zoom. The “Bryant Stibel” fund will invest in tech, media and data companies.‎ Mr Bryant, who was known for his strong work ethic (道德) in basketball, said, “Similar skills are needed for sport and growing a business. It’s the inner belief that a person has that he will bear no matter what the obstacle may be. It’s a strong will that makes the entrepreneur do what he or she truly believes in and truly loves to do.”‎ The pair said the fund would last a few years and look to target companies where they felt they could add value through their business insight, and not through Mr Bryant’s celebrity. Mr Stibel told The Wall Street Journal, “We don’t want to be in the business of investing in others’ companies, where someone can use Kobe as an endorser (代言人). That’s not interesting. The point is to add real value.”‎ ‎29. What can we know about Bryan Stibel?‎ A. It has invested in tech and media.‎ B. It was created the moment Kobe retired.‎ C. Its fund is provided by Kobe and Stible.‎ D. It is the first cooperation between Kobe and Stible.‎ ‎30. What docs Kobe think matters in running a business?‎ A. Enthusiasm. B. Determination C. Partnership D. Intelligence.‎ ‎31. Why did the pair want to set up the fund?‎ A. To add value to some companies.‎ B. To invest in the companies in trouble.‎ C. To take advantage of Mr Kobe’s celebrity.‎ D. To contribute to the development of sports.‎ ‎32. What type of writing is this text?‎ A. A sport event. B. A news report. C. An interview. D. A biography D A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.‎ Frank Hurley’s pictures would be outstanding---undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism---if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.‎ The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.‎ As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched, story, the Endurance adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.‎ ‎ Scott’s last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world’s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.‎ ‎33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?‎ A. They were made last week B. They showed undersea sceneries C. They were found by a cameraman D. They recorded a disastrous adventure ‎34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?‎ A. Frank Hurley B. Robert Falcon Scott C. Caroline Alexander D. Ernest Shackleton ‎35. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?‎ A. Artistic creation B. Scientific research C. Treasure hunting D. Money making 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符合各段大意的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ ‎（注：选 E 涂 AB；选F涂AC；选 G 涂AD)‎ Although many young people expect to go to college, they don’t want to be an exchange student, worried that if they go to a foreign land, they won’t know how to get around and will look and feel like tourists constantly. 36 In the majority of eases, people who become exchange students love the time they spent in n foreign country, especially when they went to a country that they had some interest in. 37 ‎ Many who come back from nil exchange trip say that the thing they loved the most was learning about the different lifestyles that people live in the country that was visited. 38 But those who travel to other countries under the foreign exchange student program learn that there are many different ways to live.‎ Some students are worried that they won’t like the cuisine of the country that they go to. 39 Can you imagine eating a fresh pastry in France? How about some real Italian food in Italy? Being an exchange student often lends one to find that they enjoy a much wider variation of cuisines than they originally thought they did.‎ Some decide that the language barrier is the key to keeping them from going anywhere as an exchange student..‎ ‎ 40 . And even if you go to a non-English-speaking country many people there know how to speak English enough to allow you to communicate without too much problem. You can enjoy the chance to learn about different cultures and their languages.‎ If you are coming up with reasons to avoid going anywhere as an exchange student, think about the many benefit you’ll get from a trip abroad before you make up your mind.‎ A. This, however, isn’t the case.‎ B. Most young people decide to go to college to have new experiences.‎ C. Many in the United States believe that our way of life is the only way of life.‎ D. The truth is that most countries that allow for exchange students have amazing food.‎ E. Actually, there are many places that you can go where English is the native language.‎ F. If you decide to be an exchange student, there are tons of things that you can learn and enjoy.‎ G. Before you choose to study abroad, think carefully about the country that you wish to study in.‎ 第三部分：英语知识运用（）（共两节，满分45分） ‎ 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ I was the fool at school, regarded as a special needs student. I was termed as such. Obviously, because I was not interested in school and did not care for my 41 .‎ Over time, I started to believe in my stupidity. I 42 the fact that I was ‎ in special needs classes and poured it out as anger and depression. But one activity 43 this view of myself: chess.‎ I started to play chess with my father after school simply because I wanted to 44 him at something. My father was a 45 man, fond of physics, writing, religion... almost every 46 . He was called a walking dictionary. So, winning in chess against my father would be a 47 that I had intellectual power. On the small chessboard, I had a chance to 48 my so-called inability. ‎ Game after game, I wanted to beat my father even more. I started to study chess books and play against a chess computer to 49 my skills. One weekend, I finally checkmated (将杀) my father on a ferry ride, which made me feel 50 .‎ Two years later. I became the second board on my school chess team, with our top board being the best high school player in the state. But before the tournament season, our top player 51 to come. There came my chance to play as top board against the best players in other states.‎ I was determined to show who I had become: a(n) 52 person able to win with calculation, logic and will. My most 53 game came in the final round. Our team was facing a high school which only excellent students attended. It was 54 a match between a special needs student and a smart soul. My opponent (对手) was playing well and kept 55 while I kept defending to keep my king safe. He spent long trying to break down my defenses, but could not find the final push. I 56 with more defensive moves, trying to make it as difficult for him as possible. With little 57 left, he started to make rapid moves. 58 he could make the final decision, he ran out of time. Honestly, as his clock flag fell. I jumped up out of my seat and kissed the floor out of excitement. Of course it was not the most sportsmen-like 59 , but I could not control my emotions.‎ While holding my winner’s cup, I knew I was not 60 . The inferiority complex (自卑感) had melted away, and I realized that underneath our thoughts, each person is a genius.‎ ‎41. A. habits B. grades C. plans D. benefits ‎42. A. noticed B. explained C. accepted D. ignored ‎43. A. changed B. supported C. questioned D. showed ‎44. A. please B. comfort C. beat D. disturb ‎45. A. smart B. strict C. quiet D. strong ‎46. A. method B. topic C. event D. field ‎47. A. dream B. lesson C. theory D. sign ‎48. A. prove B. expose C. overcome D. promote ‎49. A. teach B. sharpen C. choose D. invent ‎50. A. overjoyed B. disappointed C. puzzled D. interested ‎51. A. promised B. managed C. happened D. failed ‎52. A. brave B. lucky C. active D. intelligent ‎53. A. terrible B. memorable C. dangerous D. popular ‎54. A. normally B. possibly C. actually D. partly ‎55. A. attacking B. smiling C. pausing D. escaping ‎56. A. returned B. quit C. won D. exchanged ‎57. A. patience B. time C. energy D. wisdom ‎58. A. Once B. Until C. Before D. Unless ‎59. A. spirit B. thought C. comment D. behavior ‎60. A. proud B. stupid C. bright D. lazy ‎ 第II卷(主观题 共50分)‎ 第三部分 英语知识运用（）（共两节，满分45分）‎ 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（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ It’s spring again, and it’s the season of fireflies. Their warm and gentle lights glitter in the quiet darkness, especially in 61 (mountainous) areas or near water. No matter 62 you are, or how old you are, you’re sure to fall under their spell. ‎ For many older people, fireflies are a reminder of childhood. That’s 63 they were a lot more common long ago, before the industrial development 64 (destroyed) so much firefly habitat. Wetlands 65 (appear) and chemicals were dumped into rivers. Fireflies were left with nowhere 66 (feed) or breed. What’s more, fireflies seem to keep away 67 artificial lights. As these spread, the bugs retreated. Not until they had almost vanished 68 people realize what was happening. ‎ Over the past few years, though, conservation groups and enthusiastic firefly lovers have come together to save these special creatures, 69 are making a comeback. In natural settings all around the island, fireflies are once again lighting up the night and helping create special 70 (memories) for the next generation.‎ 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）‎ 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。‎ 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ 删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。‎ 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；‎ ‎2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。‎ The problem of “white pollution” was caused by using plastic is becoming increasingly serious, on which plastic shopping bags play an important role. In China, about three billions plastic shopping bags arc consumed every day, which results in a great waste of resources and heavy environmental pollution. Unfortunate, the government has put a nationwide ban on the use of free plastic bags, demand that no stores or supermarkets should provide customers to free plastic bags. The rule will undoubtedly reduce use of plastic bags or promote the awareness of environmental protection. Which is highly suggested is that everyone turns to cloth bags und shopping baskets.‎ 第二节 书面表达（）（满分25分）‎ 假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Bob在给你的邮件中提到他对中国广西文化很感兴趣，并请你推荐一个了解广西文化的好去处。请你给Bob回信，内容包括：‎ ‎1. 推荐去处：广西民族博物馆(Guangxi Museum of Nationalities)；‎ ‎2. 推荐理由：最大民族 (ethnic) 文化博物馆：典型文化代表---铜鼓 ‎3. 邀请Bob来南宁参观。‎ 注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ Dear Bob,‎ I’m glad to hear that you’re greatly interested in Guangxi culture.‎ ‎ ‎ 辽宁省庄河市高级中学2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试 英语试题答案 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）‎ ‎21-24 CDBC 25-28 DB DA 29-32 CBAB 33-35 DBD 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分 ，满分10分）‎ ‎36~40 AFCDE 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分55分）‎ 第一节 完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分30分）‎ ‎41-60 BCACA DDCBA DDBCA ABCDB 第二节 语法填空（共10小题； 每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ ‎61. mountainous 62. who 63. because 64. destroyed 65. disappeared ‎ ‎66. to feed 67. from 68. did 69. which 70. memories 第四部分 ‎ 短文改错（满分10分）‎ ‎1. was划掉 2. on 改in 3. billion 4. Fortunately 5. demanding ‎ ‎6. to 改with 7. 插入the 8. or 改and 9. Which 改What 10. turn ‎ 写作（满分25分）‎ Dear Bob,‎ I’m glad to hear that you’re greatly interested in Guangxi culture, and I’d like to recommend you a good place to learn more about it in Nanning—Guangxi Museum of Nationalities.‎ The museum, the largest of its kind in Guangxi, displays the traditional ethnic culture. There are varieties of exhibits, such as architectures, food, costumes and musical instruments. The bronze drum is a typical symbol of Guangxi culture and is widely used in all kinds of ceremonies. People hit bronze drums to pray for rain and a good harvest and celebrate important festivals. What’s more, visitors can have a better understanding of the real objects displayed in the museum with the help of the guides.‎ Welcome to Nanning and wish you a wonderful tour here.‎ Yours,‎ Li Hua ‎ ‎