2017-2018学年湖北省沙市中学高二下学期第一次半月考英语试题（Word版）

2017-2018学年湖北省沙市中学高二下学期第一次半月考英语试题（Word版）

‎2017-2018学年湖北省沙市中学高二下学期第一次半月考英语试卷 ‎ 考试时间：‎2018年 3月15‎ 日 第I卷 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，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。‎ 例：How much is the shirt? ‎ A．￡19.15. B．￡9.18. C．￡9.15.‎ 答案是C。‎ ‎1．What does the woman mean?‎ A．Cathy will be at the party. B． Cathy is too busy to come. C．Cathy is going to be invited.‎ ‎2．When does the second film start?‎ A．At 5：00 p．m. B．At 7：00 p．m. C．At 7：20 p．m.‎ ‎3．How did the woman know about the fire?‎ A．She read about it. B．She heard about it. C．She witnessed it.‎ ‎4．What does the man imply?‎ A．He is challenged. B．He is faced with danger in Tibet.‎ C．He needs some excitement.‎ ‎5．What is the woman trying to do?‎ A．Finish some writing. B．Print an article. C．Find a newspaper.‎ 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，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’s the probable relationship between the speakers?‎ A．Salesman and shopper. B．Waiter and customer. C．Neighbors.‎ ‎7．What happens to the woman?‎ A．She runs out of eggs. B．She needs some coffee.‎ C．She doesn’t know how to make a cake.‎ 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。‎ ‎8．Where does the woman advise the man to apply for a job?‎ A． In a newspaper office. B．In a travel agency. C．In a car factory.‎ ‎9．What does the man ask the woman about the job?‎ A．The pay. B．The working conditions. C．The experience. ‎ 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10．How does the woman's mother do housework?‎ A．By hand. B．By using machines. C．By having a maid.‎ ‎11．What does the woman think of robots?‎ A．They can reduce costs.‎ B．They can cause more unemployment.‎ C．They can make more jobs for people.‎ ‎12．What can a teaching machine do?‎ A．Do part of a real teacher's job.‎ B．Take the place of real teachers.‎ C．Teach with personal approaches.‎ 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13．What is a daypack?‎ A．A box. B．A bag. C．A lock.‎ ‎14．What surprises the girl at school?‎ A．Few students asking questions in class.‎ B．A lot of discussions in class.‎ C．Teachers giving little homework.‎ ‎15．At what time of the school term does the conversation most probably take place?‎ A．At the end of it. B．In the middle of it. C．At the beginning of it.‎ ‎16．What do we know about the girl?‎ A．She is new to the school.‎ B．She writes for the school newspaper.‎ C．She seldom asks questions in class in the US.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17．What was Maria's father?‎ A．He was a doctor. B．He was a driver. C．He was a factory manager.‎ ‎18．What did Maria do right after graduation?‎ A．She entered politics. B．She worked as a teacher. C．She worked for her father.‎ ‎19．Where did Maria set up her first coffee bar?‎ A．London. B．Singapore. C．New York.‎ ‎20．How many coffee bars does Maria have now?‎ A．10. B．80. C．85‎ 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中，选出最佳选项。‎ A Beloit‎ Summer Language If you’re serious about learning a language, come to one of the nation’s finest language summer camp programs, the Center for Language Studies (CLS) at beautiful Beloit College in Wisconsin. CLS is a four-or eight-week language program in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian that is open to high school students and people who are studying or working at college.‎ Phone: 608-363-2500‎ Email: admiss@beloit.edu Website: https://www.beloit.edu Georgetown‎ ‎University‎: Summer Medical Program If you’re a teen thinking about learning medicine in college, explore the medical summer camp program offered at Georgetown‎ ‎University. In this 20-day course, you will get a brief idea of the first-year medical school curriculum. The course includes lectures, laboratory work and ‎ fieldwork.‎ Phone: 202-687-7087‎ Email: highschool@georgetown.edu Website: http://scs.georgetown.edu Bard‎ ‎College‎ at Simon’s Rock Young Writers Workshop In the summer of 1983, Bard‎ ‎College at Simon’s Rock began offering a three-week writing workshop for high school students. Each year 84 academically motivated students are chosen to participate in the Simon’s Rock program. Former participants have gone on to such colleges as Bard, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and so on.‎ Phone: 413-528-7231‎ Email: jamieh@simons-rock.edu Website: https://simons-rock.edu Art: Summer at Penn Each summer, the University of Pennsylvania’s School‎ of ‎Design offers an unparalleled four-week summer art program for artistically gifted high school students. This pre-college art program in Philadelphia prepares you for the college admissions process as you experience university life. Courses are held within the School‎ of ‎Design’s fine art studios and you can develop your technical skills and expand your styles of creative expression.‎ Phone: 610-265-9401‎ Email: imagine@jkcp.com Website: http://www.jkcp.com ‎21. Which program accepts college students?‎ A．Bard‎ ‎College at Simon’s Rock Young Writers Workshop B．Georgetown‎ ‎University: Summer Medical Program C．Beloit Summer Language D．Art: Summer at Penn ‎22. If you want to improve your writing skill, you can send an email to_________.‎ A．admiss@beloit.edu B．imagine@jkcp.com C．jamieh@simons-rock.edu D．highschool@georgetown.edu ‎23. How can you learn more information about the art program?‎ A．By visiting http://scs.georgetown.edu B．By visiting https://simons-rock.edu C．By visiting https://www.beloit.edu D．By visiting http://www.jkcp.com B Zero. That’s the number of points I scored the entire summer while playing in Philadelphia’s Sonny Hill Future League when I was 12 years old. I didn’t score. Not a free throw, not an accidental layup, not even a lucky throw-the-ball-up-oops-it-went-in-basket.‎ My father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant and my uncle John “Chubby” Cox were Future League legends in their day. My father as a 6’10” point forward and my uncle as a 6’4” point guard.‎ I was putting my family to shame!‎ I considered maybe just giving up basketball and just focusing on soccer. Here’s where my respect and admiration for MJ was forged (形成). I learned that he had been cut from his high school team as a freshman; I learned he knew what it felt like to be embarrassed, to feel like a failure. But he used those emotions to fuel him, make him stronger, he didn’t quit. So I decided to take on my challenge the same way he did. I would channel my failure as fuel to keep my competitive fire burning. I became obsessed(着迷) with proving to my family — and more importantly to myself — that I CAN DO THIS.‎ It became an obsession. I learned everything about the game, the history, the players, the fundamentals. I wasn’t just determined to never have a summer of zero again, I was driven to inflict (使遭受) the same sense of failure on my competition as they unknowingly inflicted on me. My killer instinct to score was born.‎ Twenty-four years later, I pass my muse. What a journey this has been. Setting this mark is a huge honor. Thank you all for your love and support, it is much appreciated, even if the villain (恶棍) in me refuses to acknowledge it all the time.‎ ‎24．Why did the author feel like giving up basketball when he was a kid?‎ A．He lost interest in basketball.‎ B．He showed a greater talent for football.‎ C．He felt that he didn’t deserve his family name.‎ D．His family was disappointed at his performance.‎ ‎25．What did the author think of failure after knowing about MJ’s story? ‎ A．Motivator. B．Nightmare. 　　C．Embarrassment. D．Shame. ‎ ‎26．What has the author achieved twenty-four years later?‎ A．He has beaten MJ in his achievement.‎ B．He has known everything about basketball.‎ C．He has become another Future League legend.‎ D．He has defeated his nightmare of the Zero-scored summer.‎ ‎27．Which word can best describe the author’s character?‎ A．Fragile B． Aggressive　　C．Optimistic D．Proud C AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go.‎ In March, 2016, the pride of humankind was crushed (粉碎) by a computer. Google’s AlphaGo defeated the South Korean Go grandmaster (围棋大师) Lee Sedol four games to one, as the world looked on with shock and awe (敬畏). Artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) had suddenly reached a new and unexpected height. But as smart as AlphaGo is, it’s no longer the best Go “player” in the world. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has created the next generation of its Go-playing program, called AlphaGo Zero. The new AI program is unique in the way it learned to play Go. Instead of learning from thousands of human matches, as its predecessor (前任) did, AlphaGo Zero mastered Go in just two days without any human knowledge of the game and defeated AlphaGo by day three, reported The Guardian.It then went on to defeat AlphaGo 100 games to zero. To learn how to play Go, AlphaGo Zero played millions of matches against itself using only the basic rules of the game to rapidly create its own knowledge of it. Like the previous version, it used “reinforcement (增强) learning to become its own teacher,” according to DeepMind’s website. “It’s more powerful than previous approaches,” David Silver, AlphaGo’s lead researcher, told The Guardian, “because by not using human data, or human expertise in any fashion, we’ve removed the constraints (约束) of human knowledge and it is able to create knowledge itself.” AlphaGo Zero’s approach to self-learning is a significant advancement in AI that could be applied to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems, according to a recent research report ‎ published in the journal Nature. For example, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis argues that AlphaGo Zero could probably find cures for a number of serious diseases within weeks, according to The Telegraph. Indeed, the AI is now being used to study protein folding, which is connected to diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. So now that AI has exceeded (超过) the bounds of human knowledge, perhaps the question is not about what AI can learn from humans, but what humans can learn from AI. We can only wait and see.‎ ‎28．What can we learn from the first three paragraphs?‎ A．AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol five games to zero. ‎ B．AlphaGo Zero defeated AlphaGo within one day.‎ C．AlphaGo Zero is the first program to defeat a human at Go.‎ D．AlphaGo Zero has become the new best Go player.‎ ‎29．How is AlphaGo Zero different from previous Go-playing programs?‎ A．It can collect human knowledge automatically. ‎ B．It can create knowledge without human limits.‎ C．It can become its own teacher in learning Go skills.‎ D．It can play many matches without a break. 30．What’s the possible application of AI in the future according to the article?‎ ‎ 　A．Treating diseases. B．Making new Go rules. ‎ C．Solving math problems. D．Creating new proteins.‎ ‎31．What is the author’s attitude towards AI?‎ A．Mixed. B．Hopeful. C．Doubtful. D．Worried.‎ D ‎“I think I’m nothing more than a dead fish.” “I don’t want to do anything. ”“I’m so beat and so sad. “... The young generation in our country used to enjoy their “happy culture” but now they have become “beat and sad” slowly and secretly. Some people even called it “the beat culture”. The “Beat” youths don’t want to do anything. They have no purpose, no desire and they are totally depressed so that they only want to live an aimless life. The “Ge You slouch (葛优瘫)”and the song I feel like having been drained are the examples. ‎ Many media concern themselves about this phenomenon and try to persuade the youths ‎ into embracing positive and healthy feelings and encourage them to work hard to get rid of decadence. This is really a kind gesture. However, we don’t have to worry too much about this “beat culture.” In fact, it’s not a negative thing. “Beat” never means despair, but a way of self-mockery (自嘲) and pressure relief. ‎ In general, the youths in China are not “beat”. According to a recent international research, the youths in China hold positive attitude towards the future. 29% of the Chinese interviewees believe they will live and work in peace in China because “as long as you work hard, you can have your own day”. Around 93% of the Chinese interviewees believe the future is promising because of medicine industry, renewable energy sources and computer. Compared with Chinese youngsters, youths in developed countries are more pessimistic (悲观的). ‎ Of course there are some social reasons for the appearing of “the Beat Culture”. As urbanization develops rapidly, youths living in big cities are facing new challenges that their forefathers have never encountered before. Loneliness and feelings of insignificance and powerlessness are easy to get hold of the young people. Without proper care, they could threaten our mentality and cause many social problems. These problems probably need our attention more. ‎ ‎32．“The Beat culture” includes the following examples except that ‎ A．the young generation don’t feel like doing anything. ‎ B．the young generation consider themselves dead fish. ‎ C．the young generation in big cities are facing new challenges. ‎ D．the young generation enjoy the song I feel like having been drained. ‎ ‎33．Which word has the most similar meaning with “decadence” in Paragraph 2?‎ A．loneliness B．laziness C．sufferings D．pessimism ‎34．What can we learn from the passage?‎ A．Most people believe that with hard work, people can have their own day.‎ B．These days, young people suffer much more loneliness than their parents.‎ C．Chinese youths are more negative than young people in developed countries.‎ D．Social development does bring some pressure to the younger generation.‎ ‎35．What’s the main idea of the text?‎ A．The Chinese youths are not the beat generation.‎ B．How does “the Beat Culture” affect the Chinese youth.‎ C．“The Beat Culture” is positive to Chinese youngsters D．“The Beat Culture” is popular among the Chinese youngsters.‎ 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。‎ Master Your Deadlines ‎ The struggle begins in high school, sometimes earlier. Deadlines, and lots of them, start to pile up. At college, the pressure sometimes leads to last-minute rush an unsatisfactory work. At work, failing to meet deadlines can easily get you fired. 36 Here are a few best practices.‎ ‎ ▪Assign deadlines to what matters.‎ ‎ If the task isn’t of high importance, don’t set a specific deadline. In this way, you are able to keep it on your radar for a while without feeling pressured. 37 This will provide just enough pressure to ensure you get it done.‎ ‎ ▪ 38 ‎ Set a personal deadline for yourself a day or two before the actual deadline. 39 If you’re working with a group of people, add in even more time to account for potential follow-ups and the need for approvals.‎ ‎ ▪ Keep communicating. ‎ ‎ 40 This means letting others know when something is taking longer than expected, when a delivery didn’t come in, when a client is not providing the necessary information, etc. Although it may feel embarrassing to admit that something is not on schedule, being honest is much better for relieving your stress.‎ ‎ A．Plan for flexible hours.‎ ‎ B．Finish your project as early as possible.‎ ‎ C．But if an activity is urgent, set a deadline immediately.‎ ‎ D．In this way, you’ll never have to stay up late and feel stressed.‎ ‎ E．But handled properly, deadlines can actually improve productivity.‎ ‎ F．Whenever you feel challenged to finish work on time, communicate.‎ ‎ G．So if anything takes longer than expected, you can still wrap it up and submit it on time.‎ 第三部分 英语知识应用 （共三节，共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四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。‎ ‎ I was watching Family Feud a few years ago when they asked something like “What’s one thing you want your pilot to be?” And one of the answers was “A man.” Yes, I was 41 , but that just motivated me more. It’s 42 enough to see women pilots—for the first two years of my flight training classes, I was the only female student—and even more unusual to see a pilot who’s a woman of 43 . Black women 44__ about 7 percent of the U.S.‎ population, but less than 1 percent of pilots. And of course, most of them are a bit __45 than I am. I just graduated from high school in May. ‎ My mom is a crazy aviation (航空) 46 , so she always 47 me to air shows when I was younger. We’d watch the Thunderbirds or Blue Angels, and I’d get the pilots’ autographs (签名). With her 48 , I started taking lessons after I turned 12. Friends would ask me to 49 out, and I’d say, “Sorry, I have a flight”—they’d look at me 50 I had four heads. But the air felt like where I was 51 to be. ‎ Flying is 52 for many reasons: the 53 you can see only from above, visiting incredible places. But to me, one of the coolest things is being 54 the plane — the liberation of holding the controls. I plan to 55 the big jets as an airline transport pilot, which 56 doing lots of ground training, banking 1,500 hours of flight time, and 57 a bunch of certificates and ratings.‎ ‎ On my first plane 58 , when I was 4, the flight attendants gave me a little pin with wings. We took a picture of me in the cockpit(驾驶员座舱) next to 59 . Who would’ve 60 that someday I’d be sitting in his seat? ‎ ‎41．A. attacked B. moved C. pleased D. offended ‎42．A. odd B. rare C. common D. usual ‎43．A. responsibility B. colour C. achievement D. talent ‎44．A. occupy B. count C. make for D. account for ‎45．A. older B. younger C. taller D. stronger ‎46．A. collector B. fan C. supporter D. researcher ‎47．A. took B. brought C. showed D. limited ‎48．A. limit B. instructions C. encouragement D. understanding ‎49．A. speak B. move C. get D. hang ‎50．A. since B. as if C. for fear D. while ‎51．A. permitted B. expected C. supposed D. appointed ‎52．A. amazing B. frightening C. alarming D. disappointing ‎ ‎53．A. horizon B. reality C. beauty D. target ‎54．A. in search of B. in charge of C. in possession of D. in favor of ‎55．A. land B. fly C. own D. board ‎56．A. allows B. deserves C. means D. confirms ‎57．A. involving B. receiving C. collecting D. earning ‎58．A. performance B. lift C. ride D. lesson ‎59．A. my mum B. an attendant C. a passenger D. the captain ‎60．A. guessed B. assessed C. suspected D. declared 第II卷 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或括号内单词的正确形式 Aspirin and penicillin are two lifesaving medicines. Not only　61　aspirin proved vital for reducing fever and helping stop pain, 　62　it can also prevent strokes and reduce blood sugar levels. It is over 100 years, and yet there are more 　63　 (discover) about how it can help increase the length of people's lives. ‎ Penicillin, another drug that has helped increase the standard of people's health, 　64　(consider) by many to be one of the most important medicines in contemporary society. In 1928,　65　Scottish scientist noted that a dish in which he was trying to grow bacteria looked 　66　(normal) — there was blue mould in it. It 　67　(astonish) him to see the bacteria 　68　(surround) the mould dead. He tried this mould out 　69　 another bacterium and found it killed the bacterium too. Then,　penicillin, 　 70　(make) from the mould, became the greatest drug of the 20th century.‎ 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。每处错误仅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 Dear Tom,‎ Very happy to have heard you. In your last e-mail, you asked me for the advices on how to travel casually in China. Now I’d like to share my opinion.‎ Nowadays, take China’s high-speed trains is a popular way to travel. Firstly, it’s fast and convenient. By the end of last year, the high-speed railways have been built in most of the cities in China, which could help people travel to different places fast than ever. Up to now, the high-speed railway network has covered the total of 22,000 kilometers. Secondly, it’s stable. In 2015, which a Swedish man videoed surprised the whole world. She erected (竖立) a coin on the windowsill or it stood for 8 minutes. How amazing! So, buddy, why not to have a try?‎ Yours,‎ Li Hua 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 据报道，欧洲第一大连锁零售集团家乐福（Carrefour）即将进驻荆州。假定你是李华，给相关项目的外籍设计师Eric用英语写一封100词左右的建议信，希望他在设计超市时考虑残疾顾客的需求。请根据下面的要点写一封建议信。‎ 1. 写信的目的。‎ 2. 针对超市通道、停车场、卫生间等设施提至少三条建议并说明理由；‎ 3. 恳请对方考虑你的建议。‎ 注意：‎ ‎1．词数100左右；‎ ‎2．文章的开头结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；‎ ‎ 3．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ Dear Eric:‎ ‎ I read in the newspaper today that you are to be the architect for the new Carrefour supermarket in Jingzhou. I am writing ___________________________________________________________‎ Yours,‎ Li Hua 英语答案 ‎1-20 ACCCA CAACB BABAC ACBAC ‎21-40 CCD CACB DBAB CDDA ECAGF ‎41-60 DBBDA BACDB CACBB CDCDA ‎61. has 62 but 63 discoveries 64 is considered ‎‎65 a ‎66.abnormal 67 astonished 68 surrounding 69 on 70 made ‎ 第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ Dear Tom,‎ Very happy to have heard ∧ you. In your last e-mail, you asked me for the advices on how to travel casually ‎ ‎ from advice in China. Now I’d like to share my opinion.‎ Nowadays, take China’s high-speed trains is a popular way to travel. Firstly, it’s fast and convenient. By the ‎ ‎ taking/to take end of last year, the high-speed railways have been built in most of the cities in China, which could help people ‎ ‎ had travel to different places fast than ever. Up to now, the high-speed railway network has covered the total of 22,000 ‎ ‎ faster a kilometers. Secondly, it’s stable. In 2015, which a Swedish man videoed surprised the whole world. She erected (竖 ‎ what He 立) a coin on the windowsill or it stood for 8 minutes. How amazing! So, buddy, why not to have a try?‎ ‎ and 删除to Yours,‎ Li Hua Possible version:‎ Dear Eric:‎ I read in the newspaper that you are to be the architect for the new Carrefour supermarket in Jingzhou. I am writing to ask if you have thought about the needs of disabled customers. I hope you could take the following suggestions into account.‎ To begin with, there is supposed to be wheelchair access throughout the supermarket including public lifts to all floors, which makes the disabled feel they are as important as others customers. Besides, it would be handy to have wide aisles so that a person in a wheelchair has easy access to goods on the shelves. As is known to all, it is annoying if the only disabled toilet is a long way from the supermarket. For disabled customers ,it would be more convenient to place the toilets near the supermarket. Last but not least, more and more disabled people can drive at present , as a result of which parking lots for the disabled should be specially reserved.‎ I would be happy to know if my suggestions have turned out to be useful in your design of the supermarket. Looking forward to your reply.‎ ‎ Yours,‎ ‎ Li Hua