陕西省城固县第一中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

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1、- 1 -城固一中 2018-2019 学年高二第一学期期中考试英 语 试 题本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分 第一卷 （选择题，满分 100 分）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 does the woman want to do?A. Find a hotel. B.Buy an apartm

2、ent . C.Rent a room .2. What will the woman tell the man?A. Her companys name. B. Her new address . C. Her office number.3. How much will the woman have to pay?A. 50. B. 100 . C. 150. 4. How does the man feel about his job?A. He enjoys it. B.He doesnt like it at all. C. He wants to find a new job5.

3、What is the woman going to do?A.To buy a silk dress. B. To attend a party. C. To change a new dress.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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，每个小题将给出 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 is the man lo

4、oking for?A.The police station. B. A drugstore. C. The nearest post office.7. What does the woman suggest the man do?- 2 -A. Call the police. B. Buy a guidebook . C. Take some medicine.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 11 题。8. Why does the woman congratulate the man?A. He lost weight B. He won the marathon. C. He be

5、came a soccer team member.9. How many hours does the man train for a marathon each week?A. 10 hours B. 12 hours. C. 14hours10. Which sport does the man think is cheap and relaxing?A.Boxing B. Swimming. C. Cycling.11. What does the man think of soccer ?A. Its a team sport. B. Its relaxing. C. Its exp

6、ensive.听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。12. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At a hotel. B. In the street. C. In a park.13. Where is the woman going? A. The bus stop. B. The Medical College. C. The main road.14. What does the woman take at last?A. A bus. B. A car. C. A taxi.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至

7、 17 题。15. Where does the woman want to go?A. The police station. B. The Waterloo Bridge. C. The Waterloo Station.16. How far away is the station?A. Its about 5 minutes walk B. Its about 15 minutes walk C. Its about 50 minutes ride 17. Where should the woman turn left?A. At the first crossing B. At t

8、he second crossingC. At the third crossing.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. Why must Mr Mora find the ticket? A. He might be fined. B. He forgot where to go.- 3 -C. He wrote something important on it .19. What should Mr Mora do in Preceton?A. Give a lecture. B. Meet an old friend. C. Visit a university20

9、. What kind of person is Mr Mora?A. forgetful B. careful C. bad-tempered第二部分 阅读理解（共 20 小题，每小题 2 分，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AA Language Programme for TeenagersWelcome to Teenagers Abroad! We invite you to join us on an amazing journey of lan

10、guage learning.Our CoursesOur Standard Course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areasspeaking, listening, reading and writing.Our Intensive Course builds on our Standard Course, with 10 additional lessons per week, guaran

11、teeing the fastest possible language learning (see table below).Course Type Days Number of Lessons Course TimetableStandard Course MonFri 20 lessons 9:0012:3020 lessons 9:0012:30Intensive Course MonFri10 lessons 13:0014:30Arrivals and TransferOur programme offers the full packagestudents are taken g

12、ood care of from the start through to the very end. They are collected from the airport upon arrival and brought to their accommodation in comfort. We require the students full flight details at least 4 weeks in advance.Meals/Allergies(过敏)/Special Dietary Requirements- 4 -Students are provided with

13、breakfast, dinner and either a cooked or packed lunch(which consists of a sandwich, a drink and a dessert). We ask that you let us know of any allergies or dietary requirements as well as information about any medicines you take. Depending on the type of allergies and/or dietary requirements, an ext

14、ra charge may be made for providing special food.21. How does Intensive Course differ from Standard Course?A. It includes more lessons. B. It focuses on speaking.C. It is less effective D. It gives you confidence.22. When can a student attend Standard Course?A. 13:0014:30 Monday. B. 9:0012:30 Saturd

15、ay.C. 13:0014:30 Friday. D. 9:0012:30 Tuesday23. With the full package, the programme organizer is supposed to_.A. inform students of their full flight detailsB. look after students throughout the programmeC. offer students free sightseeing tripsD. collect students luggage in advance24. Which of the

16、 following may require an extra payment?A. Cooked dinner. B. Mealtime dessert. C. Special diet. D. Packed lunch.BWhen her five daughters were young,Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结) . To show this, she held up one chopstick,representing one person. Then she easily brok

17、e it into two pieces. Next,she tied several chopsticks together,representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. Howev

18、er,when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975,they didnt have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Dannys mother, Diana,who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon - 5 -afterwards , Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small

19、 Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However,Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves,but one b

20、y one,the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other,they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains , “ Our mother taught us that to

21、 succeed we must have unity,and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family,there is no business.“Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Altho

22、ugh they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.25. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show A. the advantage of chopsticks B. the difficulty of growing upC. the strength of family unity D. the best way of giving a lesson26. We

23、 can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family A. left Vietnam without much moneyB. had a large restaurant in California in 1975C. bought a restaurant from DianaD. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles27. What can we infer about the An daughters?A. They did not finish their college education.B. They

24、 could not bear to work in the family business. C. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.D. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.28. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. How to succeed in business B. Strength comes from peace- 6 -C. Family unit

25、y builds success D. How to achieve a big dreamCAs Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, do people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changi

26、ng what we remember and how.In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood th

27、at the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment, the

28、researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location (位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the

29、information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory (交互记忆)“.According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to org

30、anize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesnt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.29. What can we learn about the first experiment?A. Sparrows team typed the informat

31、ion into a computer.B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.C. The first group did not try to remember the formation.D. The second group did not understand the information.- 7 -30. In transactive memory, people _.A. keep the information in mind B. change the quantity of information

32、C. organize information like a computer D. remember how to find the information31. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrows research?A. We are using memory differently. B. We are becoming more intelligent.C. We have poorer memories than before. D. We need a better way to access infor

33、mation.32. The underlined word in last paragraph means _. A. remember B. send C. keep D. gainDAt thirteen, I was diagnosed(诊断) with a kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.In my first literature class, Mrs. Smi

34、th asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.”She glanced down at me through her glasses, “You are no different from your classmates, young

35、man.”I tried, but I didnt finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home. In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldnt get much education. But Louis didnt give up. Instea

36、d, he invented a reading system of raised dots(点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.Wasnt I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to dance. I completed the - 8 -task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I

37、 was no different from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problems, why should I ever give up?I didnt expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next daywith an “A” on it. At the bottom of

38、 the paper were these words: “See what you can do when you keep trying?”33.What do we know about Louis Braille?A.He had good sight. B. He made a great invention.C.He gave up reading. D. He learned a lot at school.34. What was Mrs. Smiths attitude to the author at the end of the story?A. angry. B. im

39、patient. C. sympathetic. D. encouraging.35. What is the main idea of the passage?A. The disabled should be treated with respect.B. A teacher can open up a new world to students.C. One can find his way out of difficulties with efforts.D. Everyone needs a hand when faced with challenges.第二节（共5小题，每小题2

40、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。iPads vs. TextbooksWhat if you could have your whole backpack at the touch of your fingertips? In the first month of the Apple iPads release, 25million were sold! People all over the world use iPads for all sorts of different things, but one of their

41、 finest qualities is the ability to be a textbook. 36 To begin with, iPad are less expensive. Textbooks become outdated and schools have to buy new books, but with an iPad schools can update them for free. 37 Schools dont have to spend $500 every year for iPads because they last a while and can be u

42、pdated.38 Students usually have multiple(多种多样的)classes, which results in multiple textbooks. Heavy backpacks filled with books can cause back problem. A - 9 -solution to that is an iPad, which only weighs 1.33 pounds and can hold all of a students textbooks.Third, schools should get rid of their tex

43、tbooks and get iPads because they have more abilities. Some might think all of the apps are distracting, but the apps actually make iPads more efficient. 39 Textbooks cannot do those tasks, but iPads can easily do them with just a tap of the fingertip.Lastly, iPads are a better choice for schools in

44、stead of textbooks because these devices allow students to access their learning anywhere at any time. 40 With iPads, they find it easier to get their homework done.In conclusion, schools should get rid of their clumsy textbooks and switch to iPads. iPads have allowed this generation to have their e

45、ntire backpack in the palm of their hands.A. Therefore, they can use the saved money for other programs.B. Second, iPads cost less and are more popular.C. These tablets are perfect for busy students.D. iPads have already replaced textbooks in over 600 American counties.E. Moreover, in high school, t

46、extbooks have an average of 4.8 pounds each.F. Schools have every reason to do away with their school books and switch to iPads.G. iPads absorb the need to buy calculators, dictionaries, and other items that are found within the device.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

47、文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。That was a lovely winter afternoon . With the sun shining, people stepped out to enjoy the warmth. I 41 to take my daughter to the local playground. As soon as we got there, my daughter headed for the 42 and asked for a push. As I was pushing my daughter to go hi

48、gher and higher, I 43 another little girl trying in vain(徒劳地 )to get her own swing going. Her elderly grandmother was sitting - 10 -quietly on a nearby bench and 44 at me.I walked over and 45 if she needed a push,too. She smiled and said “Yes!” I soon had her 46 flying towards the clouds. She laughe

49、d happily. For the following two hours I found myself 47 swings and playing with my daughter and the little girl. I was 48 worn out, but my spirits were still higher than those swings.Two years later after a long days work I went to 49 my kids from the local school. 50 , I stood in the waiting area 51 for my children. 52