2017-2018学年浙江省东阳中学高二上学期期中考试英语试题

2017-2018学年浙江省东阳中学高二上学期期中考试英语试题

‎2017-2018学年浙江省东阳中学高二上学期期中考试 ‎（英语）‎ 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。‎ 1. What time is it now? A. 7:00 B. 7:30 C. 8:00‎ 2. What is the man probably? A. A repairman. B. A fireman. C. A neighbor.‎ 3. What is wrong with the speakers? A. They lose their way. B. They took the wrong bus. C. They can’t find their map.‎ 4. What was the weather like? A. Windy and rainy. B. Windy and snowy. C. Windy and cloudy.‎ 5. What might be the matter with the man on the ground? A. He has a bad cold. B. He has a headache. C. He has heart trouble.‎ 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至8题。‎ 6. Where did the robbery happen? A. On a bus. B. At a bus stop. C. Near the police station.‎ 7. What did the woman do when the robber took her handbag? A. She called the police. B. She held her handbag. C. She grabbed the robber’s knife.‎ 8. What happened in the end? A. The robber ran for his life. B. The woman was sent to hospital. C. The robber was taken to the police station.‎ 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。‎ 9. What does the man think of the dinner party? A. Bad. B. Very good. C. Just so-so.‎ 10. What do we know about the boss? A. He’s impolite. B. He’s funny. C. He’s kindhearted.‎ 11. What does the woman mean by her last words? A. The man shouldn’t invite such a man to his dinner party. B. The boss should say sorry to the couple. C. The man should let the boss leave earlier.‎ 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。‎ 12. Where is the woman? A. In a restaurant. B. In a radio studio. C. In a classroom.‎ 13. How many problems does the boy have? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.‎ 14. What will the woman do in the next part? A.‎ ‎ Comfort the boy. B. Introduce some friends to the boy. C. Give some advice on how to make friends.‎ 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。‎ 1. How long has the woman lived there? A. 16 years. B. 11 years. C. 5 years.‎ 2. What does the woman complain about? A. Her neighbors’ children. B. Noise and air pollution. C. Traffic conditions.‎ 3. Why isn’t the woman satisfied with her living conditions? A. The flat is too old. B. The flat is overcrowded. C. The flat is too dirty.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。‎ 4. When did the traffic accident take place? A. At 7:30. B. At 8:00. C. At 8:30.‎ 5. Where did the fire break out? A. In a store. B. In a car company. C. In the No.2 Hospital.‎ 6. What can we learn from the news? A. The two injured are out of danger. B. The fire lasted about 3 hours. C. The burned are in hospital.‎ 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）‎ 第一节（共10个小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）‎ 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is a writer, biologist, and environmentalist. As a trained scientist and a great writer, Rachel Carson did much to shape people’s attitudes toward the natural world. Born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, she shared from childhood her mother’s love of books and feeling for the beauty and mystery of nature. At Pennsylvania College for Women, she first majored in English, but later learned biology. The imagination of a creative writer with a scientific lobe for fact made her books successful. After graduating with honors, she won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University, where she earned an A.M. in zoology.‎ When her father died suddenly in 1935, she took a job as an aquatic(水生的) biologist. An article for the Atlantic Monthly led to her first book, Under the Sea Wind (1941). During World War II she wrote a series of booklets on wildlife refuges(收容所). Meanwhile she had been working on a book that would make her known throughout the world. Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us became an immediate best-seller, won many honors and literary awards, and was translated into thirty-two languages. After earning enough money, she could devote full time to writing. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea (1955), was also a success.‎ Rachel Carson’s last book, Silent Spring (1962), became one of the most famous books of the last half of the twentieth century. Ever since the end of World War II, when the insecticide (杀虫剂) DDT came on the market, she had been worried about the dangers in the uncontrolled use of the poisons: their effect on wildlife, on human life, and on the environment. She decided to speak out. The result was a book showing how modern society has been poisoning the earth on a worldwide scale. “A few thousand words from her,” wrote a newspaper editor, “and the world took a new direction.”‎ ‎21. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Rachel Carson?‎ ‎ a. She took a job as an aquatic biologist.‎ ‎ b. She studied at Pennsylvania College for Women.‎ ‎ c. She became a full-time writer.‎ ‎ d. She wrote her book Under the Sea Wind.‎ A. dcba B. badc C. bacd D. bcda ‎22. Which of the following is TRUE about Rachel Carson according to the passage?‎ ‎ A. Her book The Sea Around Us made the world take a new direction.‎ ‎ B. She was worried about the conditions of wildlife.‎ ‎ C. Her book The Edge of the Sea was popular with the youth.‎ ‎ D. Although her mother didn’t love reading, Rachel Carson fell into the habit of reading in her childhood.‎ ‎23. What made Rachel Carson’s book popular?‎ ‎ A. Her special college education. ‎ B. Her plenty of imagination.‎ C. Her beauty and her interest in poisons. ‎ D. Her imagination and strong feeling for nature.‎ B Facial expressions carry meaning that is determined by situations and relationships. For example, in American culture the smile is in general an expression of pleasure. Yet it also has other uses. A woman’s smile at a police officer does not carry the same meaning as the smile she gives to a young child. A smile may show love or politeness. It can also hide true feelings. It often causes confusion (困惑) across cultures. For example, many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even improper. Yet many Americans smile freely at strangers in public places (although this is less common in big cities). Some Russians believe that Americans smile in the wrong places; some Americans believe that Russians don’t smile enough. In Southeast Asian culture, a smile is frequently used to cover painful feelings. Vietnamese people may tell a sad story but end the story with a smile.‎ Our faces show emotions (情感), but we should not try to “read” people from another culture as we would “read” someone from our own culture. The fact that members of one culture do not express their emotions as openly as members of another do does not mean that they do not experience emotions. Rather, there are cultural differences in the amount of facial expressions permitted. For example, in public and in formal situations many Japanese do not show their emotions as freely as Americans do. When with friends, Japanese and Americans seem to show their emotions similarly.‎ It is difficult to make a general statement about Americans and facial expressiveness because of personal and cultural differences in the United States. People from certain cultural backgrounds in the United States seem to be more facially expressive than others. The key is to try not to judge people whose ways of showing emotion are different. If we judge according to our own cultural habits, we may make the mistake of “reading” the other person incorrectly.‎ ‎24. The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that smile can ___ .‎ ‎ A. show friendliness to strangers B. be used in the wrong places ‎ C. be used to hide true feelings D. show personal habits ‎25. What should we do before attempting to “read” people?‎ ‎ A. Learn about their relations with others. B. Figure out what they will do next.‎ ‎ C. Find out about their past experience. D. Understand their cultural backgrounds.‎ ‎26. What would be the best title for the test?‎ ‎ A. Facial Expressiveness B. Smiles and Relationship ‎ C. Cultural Differences D. Habits and Emotions C The year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet (彗星) is heading towards the Earth. Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth. ‎ On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth’s atmosphere with a massive explosion. About half of the piece is destroyed, but the remaining part hits the South Atlantic at 200 times the speed of sound. The sea boils and a huge hole is made in the sea bed. Huge waves are created and spread outwards from the hole. The wall of water, a kilometer high, rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kilometers an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and millions of people are drowned. ‎ Before the waves reach South America, the second piece of the comet lands in Argentina. Earthquakes and volcanoes are set off in the Andes Mountains. The shock waves move north into California and all around the Pacific Ocean. The cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo are completely destroyed by earthquakes. Millions of people in the southern half of the earth are already dead, but the north won’t escape for long. Because of the explosions, the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, temperatures around the world fall to almost zero. Crops are ruined. The sun won’tbe seen again for many years. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later, no more than 10 million people remain alive. ‎ Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened more than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 million years. Then 65 million years ago they suddenly disappeared. Many scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a piece of object in space. The dinosaurs couldn’t live through the cold climate that followed and they died out. Will we meet the same end?‎ ‎27．What is mainly described in the passage?‎ ‎ A．A historic discovery. B．An event of imagination. ‎ ‎ C．A research on space. D．A scientific adventure. ‎ ‎28．When the first piece hits the South Atlantic, it causes____________.‎ ‎ A．an earthquake B．damages to cities ‎ ‎ C．an Earth explosion D．huge waves ‎ ‎29．Why can’t the northern half of the earth escape for long?‎ ‎ A．Because the land is covered with water.‎ ‎ B．Because the light and heat from the sun can not reach the earth. ‎ ‎ C．Because people there can not live at the temperature of zero. ‎ ‎ D．Because wars break out among countries . ‎ ‎30．By giving the example of dinosaurs, the author tries to prove____________.‎ ‎ A．animals could not live in the cold climate ‎ ‎ B．what happened 65 million years ago was an invented story ‎ ‎ C．the human beings will die out in 2094‎ ‎ D．the Earth could be hit by other objects in space ‎ 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的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. 31 Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.‎ The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65 – team US men’s college basketball tournament (锦标赛). 32 Teams compete against each other in a single – elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.‎ Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. ____33____Colleagues against bosses.‎ Big – name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little – known universities.‎ This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little – known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. 34 ‎ College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 35 About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post – season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.‎ A. Husbands against wives.‎ B. The players will go all out for the games.‎ C. But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.‎ D. College students will ignore piles of homework.‎ E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.‎ F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.‎ G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.‎ 第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）‎ 第一节：完形填空（共20个小题；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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ I recently heard a story about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs．What set him so far apart from others?‎ He____36____that, in his opinion, it all came from an ____37____from his mother that happened when he was about 2 years old．He had been trying to____38____a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his ____39____on the slippery bottle and it _____40___, making its contents pouring all over the kitchen floor．‎ When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of ____41____at him, giving him a lecture, or punishing him, she said: “Robert, what a ____42____and wonderful mess you have made! I have ____43___ seen such a huge pool of milk．Well, the damage has already been done．Would you like to ___44_____down and play in the milk for a few minutes ____45____we clean it up?”‎ Indeed, he did．After a few minutes, his mother said: “You know, Robert, ____46____you make a mess like this, you have to clean it up at last and ___47_____everything to its proper order．So, how would you like to do that? We could use a sponge （海绵）, a towel, or a mop．Which do you ____48____ ?” He chose the sponge and together they ____49____the milk．‎ His mother then said: “You know, what happened just now is a ___50_____experiment in how effectively to carry a big milk bottle with two ____51____ hands．Let’s go out in the backyard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can ___52_____ a way to carry it without dropping it．” The little boy ____53____ that if he held the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it．‎ This scientist then ____54____that it was at that moment that he knew he didn’t need to be afraid to make ___55_____．‎ Wouldn’t it be great if all parents would respond the way Robert’s mother responded to him?‎ ‎36．A．added B．advised C．responded D．commented ‎ ‎37．A．experience B．accident C．experiment D．inspiration ‎38．A．send B．cool C．bring D．remove ‎ ‎39．A．hold B．control C．balance D．way ‎40．A．fell B．rolled C．turned D．burst ‎41．A．crying B．staring C．shouting D．laughing ‎ ‎42．A．powerful B．great C．touching D．moving ‎ ‎43．A．shortly B．always C．already D．rarely ‎44．A．put B．get C．take D．lie ‎45．A．when B．until C．before D．after ‎46．A．however B．whatever C．wherever D．whenever ‎47．A．recover B．restore C．recollect D．replace ‎48．A．like B．prefer C．take D．decide ‎49．A．cleaned up B．swept off C．sucked out D．took apart ‎50．A．finished B．shared C．failed D．valued ‎51．A．tiny B．clever C．smooth D．wet ‎52．A．invent B．discover C．imagine D．make ‎53．A．knew B．thought C．convinced D．learned ‎54．A．argued B．sensed C．remarked D．criticized ‎55．A．mistakes B．faults C．decisions D．differences 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（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ My grandfather is a__56__ (retire) worker. On summer evenings, we often sat together outside the house __57__ (enjoy) the cool air. It was the time that he told me lots of his experiences before liberation.‎ When my grandfather was fourteen years old, he worked in a coal mine. One day, when he and his two workmates were working in the tunnel, an__58__ (fortune) thing suddenly happened. A part of the tunnel fell down, and they were shut in it. They had no food __59__(eat). When they were hungry, they only drank some water there. It was very cold in it. In order to keep warm, they hugged one another. In the darkness, they didn’t know whether it was day__60__night, they only felt they had stayed there for a very long time. They were too hungry to speak or move, and thought they__61__(die). At last, the tunnel __62__(dig) through. They were saved. They had been there for fourteen days! My grandfather said they weren’t let out at once. If__63__，they would have died. They were kept at the entrance to the tunnel __64__it was very dim, and they were fed__65__some thin porridge. After a day or two, they had recovered a bit, and they were helped out.‎ 第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）‎ 第一节：应用文写作（满分15分）‎ 假如你是国际班的班长李华，你打算邀请外教Bruce到你们班作一个西方文化知识讲座。现请你给他写一封邀请信。内容包括：‎ ‎1. 同学们对他的课以及西方文化非常感兴趣；2. 大家特别希望详细了解节日文化；‎ ‎3. 讲座时间：下周三下午4:00到5：00。‎ 注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ 第二节 读后续写（共1小题；满分25分）‎ 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。‎ Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. She was ready for me. “No Santa Claus !” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it.” That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad. ‎ ‎“Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”‎ ‎“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money, ” she said, “and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.‎ I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for recess(放假) duringthe winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I settled on a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.‎ ‎“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down. “Yes.”‎ The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.‎ 注意：‎ ‎1.所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；2. 应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词；‎ ‎3. 续写分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。‎ Paragraph 1:‎ That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper.________________.‎ Paragraph2:‎ Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open and finally it ‎2017高二英语期中考试参考答案 听力 1 ABACC 6 BCCBA 11 CBBCA 16 BBAAB ‎ 阅读：21. BBD 24. CDA 27 BDBD 31.DFAGC 完形 36. CADAA 41. CBDBC 46. DBBAC 51. ABDCA 语法填空: 56.retired　 57.enjoying　 58.unfortunate　 59.to eat 60. or　‎ ‎61.would die　62.was dug　 63.so　 64.where　 65.on 应用文 Dear Bruce,‎ I am writing to invite you to give our class a lecture on western culture. We all show great interest in your lessons and are particularly curious about the customs and traditions in your country. They are so mysterious and fantastic. Therefore, we would appreciate it if you could deliver a lecture on all of them, especially something related to your traditional festivals. The time scheduled for the lecture is 4pm— 5pm next Wednesday.‎ I am looking forward to receiving your early reply.‎ 读后续写 ‎(P1)That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper. She wrote “To Bobby, From Santa Claus” on it, after which she drove me over to Bobby Decker’s house, explaining I was officially one of Santa’s helpers. Grandma parked down the street form Bobby’s house, and I took a deep breath, and dashed for his front door. Seeing no other people notice us, I put the Christmas present down, pounded his doorbell and then Grandma and I hid in the car.‎ ‎(P2)Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open and finally it opened. Out went Bobby Decker. Seeing the coat in the bag, he looked very astonished and then called his mother to go out. After hearing them say “Thanks” to Santa Claus, I felt very proud of what I had done. At that time I decided to be Santa’s helper for ever. It was on that night that I realized the truth that he who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.‎