2017-2018学年安徽省蚌埠市第二中学高二上学期期中考试英语试题

2017-2018学年安徽省蚌埠市第二中学高二上学期期中考试英语试题

蚌埠二中 2017-2018 学年度高二第一学期期中考试 英语试题 考试时间：120 分钟 试卷分值：150 分 注意：本试卷包含Ⅰ、Ⅱ两卷。第Ⅰ卷为选择题，所有答案必须用 2B 铅笔涂在答题卡中相应 的位置。第Ⅱ卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填写在答题卷的相应位置。 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 are the speakers talking about? A. A friend. B. A phone call. C. A computer game. 2. Where is the man going to plant the tree? A. By the front door. B. Beside the garage. C. In the garden. 3. What will the woman do today? A. Visit a friend. B. Attend a lecture. C. Do an experiment. 4. How is the woman going to Tibet? A. By train. B. By air. C. By car. 5. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Enter by the side door. B. Get off at 37th street. C. Use the front entrance. 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. Where are the speakers going this evening? A. To a shoe shop. B. To a party. C. To a supermarket. 7. What is the woman doing at the moment? A. Shopping. B. Driving. C. Working. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. Why did Tom fail to sec Lily at lunchtime? A. Lily didn’t have lunch at all. B. Lily was busy preparing for the exam. C. Lily’s English class didn’t finish on time. 9. What’s Tom’s weakest subject? A. English. B. Math. C. Biology. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. When is Mr. Smith leaving? A. This Sunday. B. Next Monday. C. Next Tuesday. 11. Where will they have dinner? A. At Pizza Hut. B. In the classroom. C. At the conference hall. 12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Fellow students. B. Teacher and student. C. Headmaster and teacher. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What would the man like to do as his job? A. Teach in a university. B. Do scientific research. C. Work for a science magazine. 14. What will probably happen to graduates like the man? A. They will find a job easily. B. They will be refused easily. C. They will change their jobs often. 15. How does the woman feel about human cloning? A. She is ready to be cloned. B. She is afraid of herself being cloned. C. She is worried about the failure of cloning. 16. What is the research of human cloning focusing on nowadays? A. Cloning more humans. B. Cloning parts of a human body. C. Cloning an exact copy of a person. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What is the speaker talking about? A. A new discovery. B. A research team. C. A new invention. 18. Where did the shark attacks happen? A. In Western Australia. B. In South Australia. C. In South Africa. 19. What’s the new discovery about sharks? A. They are color-blind. B. They like white and blue. C. They like giving warnings. 20. What kind of sharks will be tested with? A. Tiger sharks. B. Whale sharks. C. Great white sharks. 第二部分：阅读理解（共 15 小题，每题 2 分，满分 30 分） 第一节(共 10 小题,每小题 2 分,满分 20 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 A Many years ago, when we were a young couple with two small children, aged 2 and 4, we were practically penniless. My in-laws lived from hand to mouth, so we didn’t expect any help from them. My parents lived a great distance away, and I was too ashamed to let them know about our situation. My husband was trying to earn a living with an old pick-up truck, carrying groceries for local shopkeepers, but it was constantly breaking down. It took almost all the money we had it fixed. The truck was also the only means of transportation for us. We lived in the countryside, and we always used the back door because the driveway led to it. One winter evening, I stepped outside to take a bag of trash to the barrel and almost tripped over something. It was nearly dark, and I had to bend down to see what it was. I could hardly believe my eyes. There sat a large basket loaded with food. It was heavy, so I called my husband to carry it into the house. Once inside, we discovered two loaves of bread, some butter, several cans of vegetables, a can of orange sauce, and a large turkey. There was so much that I can’t remember it all, but it was everything we needed to fix a wonderful dinner—everything except potatoes. A little while later I remembered that I hadn’t taken the trash to barrel. By now it was dark, so I had to turn on the yard light— and that’s when I spotted a small bag of potatoes on the porch. That dinner was the best I can remember. We won’t able to thank our donators, though, because we never found out who had been so generous in helping a struggling young family. Whoever it was, we are forever grateful. 21. How did the author’s husband support the family? A. By starting a garage. B. By selling food door to door. C. By delivering goods. D. By working as a shop assistant. 22. How did the author feel when she saw the basket? A. She was annoyed. B. She was terrified. C. She was astonished. D. She felt a sense of relief. 23. What may be the best title for the text? A. A tale of potatoes B. A helping hand in time C. A reward from a stranger D. A struggling young couple B 　 One of the latest trends(趋势) in American childcare is Chinese au pairs. Au Pair in Stamford, for example, has got increasing numbers of requests for Chinese au pairs from zero to around 4,000 since 2004. And that‘s true all across the country. 　　“I thought it would be very useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age,” Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year-old son. “I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in the future.” After only six months of being cared for by a 25-year-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions, his dad says. 　　Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China: She didn‘t want her children to miss out on their roots. “Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to keep exposed to( 接 触 ) the language and culture.” she says. 　　“Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom,” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of Children. “But parents must understand that just one year with au pair is unlikely to produce wonders. Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12.” 　　The popularity of au pairs from china has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children to learn Chinese. It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years. 24. What does that term “au pair” in the text mean? 　 A. A mother raising her children on her own. 　 B. A child learning a foreign language at home. 　 C. A professor in language education of children. 　 D. A young foreign woman taking care of children. 25. Li Drake has her children study Chinese because she wants them ______. 　 A. to live in China some day 　 B. to speak the language at home 　 C. to catch up wit other children 　 D. to learn about the Chinese culture 26. What can we infer from the text? 　 A. Learning Chinese is becoming popular In America. 　 B. Educated women do better in looking after children. 　 C. Chinese au pairs need to improve their English Skills. 　 D. Children can learn a foreign language well in six months. C Biophysicist Hugh Herr was a climbing talent. He would spend summers with his family from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in distant destinations across the United States, including Alaska and the Rockies. From a very young age, Herr rapidly progressed to climbing steeper and steeper mountains. When he was seventeen years old, Herr set out with a partner to climb Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. The highest peak in the northeastern United States, the mountain is famous for changeable and extreme weather. Their intention was to take a route that included an 800-foot ice wall. But Herr and his climbing partner became lost near the top during a snowstorm and what was meant a single day turned into a four-day painful experience. They both suffered frostbite during negative twenty-degree weather. After their eventual rescue and months of effort by a medical team, both of Herr’s legs were cut off below the knee. “When I was first fit with prostheses( 假 肢 ), about two months after the surgery, I was just shocked at how simple they were,” Herr said. “Basically, sticks if you would. I just said to myself, ‘You’re kidding me. This can’t be all that exists.’ But it was true. That was in 1982.” Not discouraged by the initial assessment（最初的评估） that he would never climb mountains again, Herr started making new prostheses in a machine shop. He said that two weeks after being fit with traditional prostheses, he was rock climbing again. This time he was equipped with prostheses of his own design. The same energy he brought to rock faces, Herr brought to the laboratory. In MIT’s Media Lab, Herr continues to push the boundaries of prosthetics（修复学）. His aim is twofold: to assist people with disabilities and to strengthen human capabilities, all with bionics(仿生学). Justin Pratt, a certified prosthetist of the Osser Academy, said these kinds of motorized prosthetics are “of the future.” “Bionics is pretty much the way it [prosthetics] is progressing,” he said, pointing out that bionics is becoming more attainable, Herr lifts his pant leg to show the world’s first bionic foot and calf system, which is sold by his startup company, called BiOM. It’s a complex device of shiny metal, wires and machinery. 27. What caused Hugh Herr’s injury? A. His inexperience. B. The freezing weather. C. Too much ice on the mountain. D. His partner’s inaccurate judgment. 28. How did Hugh Herr feel about his initial prostheses? A. He was excited about them. B. He felt hopeful because of them. C. He showed great curiosity about them. D. He expressed dissatisfaction with them. 29. What does the author stress by saying the underlined sentence? A. Herr’s view about bionics. B. Herr’s interest in technology. C. Herr’s enthusiasm for climbing. D. Herr’s contribution to prosthetics. 30. Which of the following can best describe Hugh Herr? A. Honest and responsible. B. Adventurous and determined. C. Innocent and single-minded. D. Ambitious and sensitive. 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。 Today we eat on the go, at our desks and even in front of computers. We eat takeout, delivered and packaged meals. 31 “Over the past three decades, people have started eating out more than ever before and buying more prepared foods at the grocery store, which tend to contain more fat, salt and sugar than their home-made foods,” noted US healthy living website Spark People. 32 It encourages us to value the time we spend preparing, sharing and consuming food, as a recent USA today article put it. It all started in 1986 with the efforts of Slow Food’s founding father, Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who wanted to bring back food varieties and flavors that had gone dark in the face of industrialization. 33 Now his idea is almost the mainstream. Starting at the table, the movement promotes an unhurried way of life founded on the idea that everyone has a right to cooking pleasure, and that everyone must also take responsibility to “protect the heritage (遗产) of food, tradition and culture that make this celebration of the senses possible”, wrote The Phnom Penh Post. “ 34 . It means turning down the speed at which we eat and increasing the amount of time we spend dining together with other people,” Althea Zanecosky, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, told The Huf fington Post.” 35 Dinner table conversations keep families together,” noted the Belgian non-profit organization Greenfudge. A. It is a way to bring back the social togetherness of yesterday. B. It seems that we have adapted our foods to our fast-paced lives. C. So the Slow Food Movement has occurred against this fast-food trend. D. Slow Food doesn’t necessarily mean food that takes a long time to cook. E. It is based on the idea that we should spend as much time as possible on cooking. F. It’s not only the food itself but also the time we spend dining together that matters. G. At that time, he asked people to follow a more sustainable (可持续的) living model. 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，掌握其大意，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。 Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I____36____across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and ___37___with dust. Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They ___38___ . As I carefully opened each letter, ___39___of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page ___40___unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives. My father used to ____41____ in the army. So his letters were full of frontline ___42___of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was ___43___to these letters like a magnet (磁铁). Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very ___44___and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a ___45___kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the ___46___. He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had ____47____to him when he had been so far from home. It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the ____48____letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside. At his bedside, I joked with him, saying ___49___, "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more ____50____ when I handed him the old ___51___. He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he ___52___it, his eyes were filled with tears. My father, in a___53___tight with emotion(情感)read the loving message he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years ____54____. And this time, he could read it to her ____55____ . 36. A. came B. hit C. drew D. fell 37. A. hidden B. covered C. buried D. filled 38. A. refused B. smiled C. shocked D. agreed 39. A. all B. none C. both D. neither 40. A. recently B. usually C. previously D. occasionally 41. A. work B. study C. serve D. report 42. A. accounts B. documents C. introductions D. occupations 43. A. devoted B. addicted C. thrown D. drawn 44. A. sad B. dead C. dangerous D. ill 45. A. typical B. traditional C. different D. familiar 46. A. wars B. illnesses C. letters D. hospitals 47. A. meant B. intended C. planned D. said 48. A. divided B. sorted C. separated D. updated 49. A. sadly B. angrily C. softly D. loudly 50. A. curious B. enthusiastic C. fantastic D. positive 51. A. card B. envelope C. basket D. lipstick 52. A. found B. wrote C. recognized D. missed 53. A. sound B. noise C. whisper D. voice 54. A. later B. earlier C. before D. ahead 55. A. in person B. in private C. in danger D. in peace 第 II 卷（共 45 分） 第二节 语法填空（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。 Have you ever had the feeling that no one understands you? Well, here 56 (come) “pepper”, which could be about to change all that. Pepper is the first robot 57 (read) human feelings. Using its emotion functions, Pepper can make jokes, dance and 58 (surprise) it can even sing to people. The robot is like a lovely girl. It is four feet tall with a tablet computer in its chest. It will be showed to attract people on Friday. Pepper can tell different facial 59 (express), human voices and signs, then make an answer. Pepper is used at home or stores, 60 we enjoy pleasure and entertainment. At home, not only 61 it tell jokes, it can also help people in trouble. If a natural accident happens, it can encourage them, make them laugh and feel 62 (relax). Pepper will be on sale 63 the price of $2,000 in August. At present, several Peppers are on show at stores for people to visit. Before 64 (sell) Peppers, the creators want them to store more knowledge in order to get much 65 (well) along with human beings. 第四部分　写作(共两节, 满分 45 分) 第一节 单词拼写(共 10 小题;每小题 1 分, 满分 10 分) 66. Your skin should not be e____________ to the sun for too long, or you will get sunburnt. 67. We are （乐观）about our chances of success. 68._________________(粗略地) speaking, I would say about 100 people attend the meeting. 69. This book gives a good d__________________ about life in the jungle of South America. 70. The company is starting a new advertising campaign to a_______________ new customers to its stores. 71. The stronger the _________________(动机) is, the more quickly a person will learn a foreign language, 72. She is one of my ________________(同事) working in the same limited company. 73. Please keep me i________________ of what is happening on the playground; I want to know which team will win. 74. If you promise to help me with my English, I’ll t_____________ you to a big dinner. 75. A new supermarket has been built for the _____________ (方便) of the people nearby. 第二节　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。 I'd like to share with you my progresses in study in these three years. To be honest, I was not so good at my study when I came to high school， often feel tired out and at loss. Sometimes, I am even on the point of giving up. Therefore, my change happened when my teachers and my classmates as well as came to encourage me one day in Senior Two. It was their encouragement and my own thinking which resulted in my achievements in study finally. Still not excellent although I am now, I have found myself filled with greatly confidence to face any difficulty and challenge. It is no doubt that I am bound to fight for my dream to the end in the coming months! 第二节　书面表达(满分 25 分) 假定你是学生李华，你校正在开展“创建美丽校园”的活动。请你用英文给全校学生写 一封倡议书。要点包括： 1.创建美丽校园的重要性； 2.校园内存在的不文明现象； 3.你的态度。 注意：1. 词数 100 左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总数）； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯性。 Dear fellow students, I’m writing to call on everyone to take an active part in building a beautiful campus. Li Hua 高二英语期中考试答案 一、听力 1-5 BBCCA 6-10 BACBC 11-15 CABAB 16-20 BCAAC 二、阅读理解 21-23CCB 24-27DDA 28-30BDDB 31-35BCGDA 三、完形填空 36-40ABDAC 41-45CADDC 46-50CABCA 51-55BCDBA 四、语法填空 1. comes 2．to read 3．Surprisingly 4．Expressions 5．where 6. can 7. relaxed 8. at 9. selling 10．better 五、单词拼写 1.exposed 2. optimistic 3. Roughly 4. description 5. attract 6. motivation 7. colleagues 8. informed 9 treat 10. convenience. 六、短文改错 1.progresses-progress 2.feel-feeling 3.at loss-at a loss 4.am-was 5.Therefore-However 6.as well as-去掉第二个 as 7.which-that 8.although-as/though 9.greatly-great 10.It-There 七、书面表达 Dear fellow students, I’m writing to call on everyone to take an active part in building a beautiful campus. As we know, we spend most of our time on campus. An attractive campus can make our learning pleasant and as a result, improve our grades. However, some students can be seen running on the lawn, picking flowers or kicking young trees on purpose. Some even spit in public or throw rubbish everywhere. Their deeds have already done great harm to our school environment and it’s time we did something to change the situation. I think everyone is responsible for the beauty of our campus and if each of us avoids doing anything improper, our campus will no doubt become more beautiful. Every effort matters. Let’s take action now! Li Hua