高二英语上学期开学考试（9月）试题

湖北省襄阳市第五中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期开学考试（9月）试题第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)做题时，先将答案划在试卷上. 录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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 do we learn from the conversation?A. There will be a math exam tomorrow.B. Today is the mans birthday.C. The man doesnt like math exams.2. What colour is the womans dress?A. Blue. B. White. C. Black. 3. When did the mans daughter set a new world record?A. In 1999. B. In 2005. C. In 2009.4. What does the man mean?A. He moved the desk alone.B. He had some classmates move the desk.C. His classmates helped him move the desk.5. What time is it now?A. 3:10. B. 3:15. C. 4:10.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. Who might the man be?A. A waiter. B. The womans friend.C. The womans husband.7. Where was the wallet found?A. In the restroom.B. At the cash desk. C. On the table.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What are those children like?A. Shy. B. Active. C. Selfish.9. Why does the woman have to leave?A. Because her children are ill.B. Because her parents are in poor health.C. Because her friends made her leave.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What happened to the man?A. He got up late in the morning. B. He stayed up all night reading. C. He felt asleep while reading.11. What makes the man sleepy when reading?A. He doesnt like reading.B. He didnt sleep well last night.C. He doesnt understand the meaning of the book.12. What may help to better understand a book?A. Find the main idea first.B. Skip the difficult parts of the book.C. Recite the details of the book.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a party. B. In a shop. C. In a game room.14. Whose birthday is coming?A. The mans. B. The womans brothers.C. The womans sons.15. How much does the woman plan to spend?A. $50. B. $30. C. $20.16. What does the woman choose at last?A. A book about PC games. B. A magic car. C. A pencil-box.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who is the man talking to?A. His students. B. His parents. C. His children.18. Why was the mans mother mad at him?A. He didnt become a doctor.B. He painted everywhere in the house.C. He was crazy about taking photos.19. What is the mans father?A. A painter. B. A doctor. C. A photographer.20. What do we learn about the man?A. He gave up his dream because of his mother.B. He feels extremely regretful.C. He still paints as a hobby.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。AThe Kings School, Canterbury is an independent, coeducational secondary school. There are currently 791 pupils on the school roll (名单). The school has a long and distinguished history, and it is also one of the oldest charities in the country, providing scholarships to pupils and organizing a Charity of the Term.The curriculum (课程) at Kings is based on strong academic roots. It emphasizes and relies upon what is best in traditional independent school education: scholarly excellence supported by a caring and tutorial system, and a wide-ranging curricular programme. However, it is continually adapting and reacting to the changing demands of modern education: new subjects are added, new teaching techniques are adopted, and there is an increasing awareness of the need to provide programmes of study that match individual needs and skills.The curriculum is divided into three units: the Lower School (Year 9), an introductory year; the Middle School (Years 10 and 11), working to GCSEs; and the Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13), taking AS and A levels.Full details can be found in: Shell Guide and Handbook; Middle School Academic Guide 20092011; Middle School Academic Guide 20102012; Sixth Form Guide 20092011 and Sixth Form Guide 20102012.Formal and structured educational support, for those who need it, is available at all levels. The well-stocked library is open 7 days and 6 evenings per week. ICT facilities (including the Internet) are available for all and the whole school (studies within the houses as well as classrooms) is extensively networked.Pupils are offered extensive career advice throughout their time at Kings. Almost all go to university, either immediately or following a gap year. The most popular university destinations are Cambridge, Bristol, Nottingham, Durham, Leeds, Oxford, Edinburgh, Manchester, and University College, London.Director of Studies: Geoff Cocksworth:grckingsschool.co.ukExaminations Officer: Elaine McDowell:eamkingsschool.co.uk.If you need for more information, Click here.21. The passage is mainly about _.A. the achievements of The Kings School, CanterburyB. the curriculum at Kings C. the new teaching techniques at KingsD. the introduction of The Kings School, Canterbury22. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. The Kings School, Canterbury is a famous high school in Britain.B. The curriculum at Kings is best in traditional and modern education.C. All pupils of the school go to university immediately after they graduate.D. Pupils dormitories as well as classrooms are provided with network.23. The following can be inferred from the passage EXCEPT that_. A. the Kings School focuses on pupils individual developmentB. pupils in the Kings School who pass GCSEs will go to universityC. pupils in the Kings School have an easy access to the school libraryD. pupils in the Kings School receive good education24. The passage is probably taken from a _.A. handbookB. webC. magazineD. newspaperB“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy theyre given after all. Choices can be hard.” Jeff Bezos.I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. Id never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and Id been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldnt work since most start-ups dont, and I wasnt sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, Id been a garage inventor. Id always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didnt already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didnt think Id regret trying and failing.And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and Im proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices. 25. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?A. His dream of being an inventor.B. The support of his wife.C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.D. Millions of exciting titles.26. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.C. He would be always having a doubt if he didnt try.D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.27. We can know from the passage that _.A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the authorB. the author wanted someone else to try the ideaC. the author might not regret if he failed the ideaD. the author might go back to his boss if he failed28. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Cleverness and KindnessB. The Starting of AmazonC. Following My Passion D. We Are What We ChooseCPsychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us willconformto social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classic experiment, people were shown a vertical line and asked to find a line of identical (完全相同的) length from a selection of three.You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themselves they do it very well. However, psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed (受影响) by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one study, a group of three people was set up, where two of the people were confederates (同伙) of the experimenter. When the confederates deliberately gave wrong answers, people were often swayed to give the wrong answer also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion.But why do people conform in this way? In an easy task like this,it seems that people do not want to step out of line with the prevailing (普遍的) opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people also conform because they lose confidence in their own ability to make decisions and prefer to trust the majority opinion instead.A typical example of this kind of conformity arises when we come across people in distress. Would you help a woman who has been attacked in the street? It turns out that you are much morelikely to go to her assistance if you are alone. When other people are also around, a diffusion (分散) of responsibility occurs. People are paralysed into inaction, because everyone assumes that someone else will go to the womans assistance. 29. In Paragraph 1, the underlined word conform probably means“”.A. seek independenceB. disobey ordersC. seek pleasureD. follow what others do30. What is the purpose of the experiment described in Paragraph 2? A. To explain why people would be influenced by the opinions of others.B. To prove that people are easily influenced by the opinions of others.C. To train the confederates of the experimenter as independent-minded.D. To describe how people would be influenced by the opinions of others. 31. According to the author, why wouldnt one help the woman attacked in the street? A. He thinks he has no responsibilities to give a hand. B. He thinks he has nothing to do with it.C. He is too shy to give his helping hand. D. He thinks someone else will offer assistance.32. What method does the author mainly use to develop the text?A. Giving examples.B. Cause-effect analysis.C. Comparative analysis.D. Process analysis.DThe New York Times Room for Debate blog has a panel (专门小组) considering the pluses and minuses of summer homework. This has been the subject of debate in our house. Our 11th-grade daughters summer assignments were very challenging, to the point where I sometimes wondered if more of her time would have been better spent just riding a bicycle or swimming around a pool.Here are some opinions from the panel: Harris Cooper, psychologist, Duke University: “The long summer vacation disrupts the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting and requires time be spent reviewing old material when students return to school in the fall. My advice? Teachers, you need to be careful about what and how much summer homework you assign. Summer homework shouldnt be expected to overcome a students learning deficits（缺陷）; thats what summer school is for. Parents, if the assignments are clear and reasonable, support the teachers. ”Nancy Kalish, co-author of The Case Against Homework: “Schools should rethink summer homework, and not just because it stresses out kids (and parents). The truth is, homework doesnt accomplish what we assume it does. According to a Duke University review of more than 175 studies, there is little or no connection between homework and standardized test score or long-term achievement in primary school.” Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University: “To the general question of whether or not schools should assign summer homework, the answer is Yes. The reason comes not only from the brain drain of summer. It relates also to an attitude young people take toward education. They tie knowledge to the syllabus (教学大纲), not to themselves. They read and study to write the paper and score highly in the test, not to furnish their minds. In a word, they regard learning as a classroom thing. Thats all.”It seems to me that summer homework is a good idea to keep the brain cells moving, but like everything else it should be given in moderation. 33. Harris Cooper seems to believe that_.A. more summer homework causes students learning difficultiesB. students should go to summer school if they have no homeworkC. teachers should give careful consideration to summer homeworkD. parents should tell teachers how much homework their kids need34. In the 4th paragraph, Nancy Kalish explains her idea by_.A. making comparisonsB. giving research findingsC. raising questionsD. telling stories35. Mark Bauerlein might agree that summer homework_.A. should be based on the schools teaching programB. has no direct connection to students higher grades源C. brings more pressure to both students and their parentsD. helps students develop the right attitude toward learning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。Feeling both positive and negative emotions is a natural part of being human. We might use the word negative to describe more difficult emotions, but it doesnt mean those emotions are bad or we shouldnt have them. Still, most people would probably rather feel a positive emotion than a negative one. 36 .What matters is how our emotions are balanced how much of each type of emotion, positive or negative, we experience.How Negative Emotions Help Us Negative emotions warn us of threats or challenges that we may need to deal with. For example, fear can alert us to possible danger. 37 . Angry feelings warn us that someone is stepping on our toes, crossing a boundary, or violating our trust. Anger can be a signal that we might need to act on our own behalf.Negative emotions focus our awareness. 38 . But too many negative emotions can make us feel anxious, exhausted, or stressed out. When negative emotions are out of balance, problems might seem too big to handle.How Positive Emotions Help Us Positive emotions balance out negative ones, but they have other powerful benefits, too. Instead of narrowing our focus like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention, and memory. They help us take in more information and hold several ideas in mind at once. 39 .When positive emotions open us up to new possibilities, we are more able to learn and build on our skills. 40 . A. What helps you feel confident? B. That leads to doing better on tasks and tests. C. Its a signal that we might need to protect ourselves. D. They help us focus on a problem so we can deal with it. E. For example, its likely youd prefer to feel happy instead of sad.F. And they then make us understand how different ideas relate to each other.G. Pay attention to these powerful tools and find ways to make time for them.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四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）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。A few days ago my family and I were out for an evening walk. As we headed home, dark 41 started rolling in and we knew we probably wouldnt make it back without getting wet. 42 enough, the rain started falling just as we 43 our neighborhood. We all 44 down the street and into the house but when we got there I noticed that one of my sons was 45 . I went back out in the rain and found him 46 in an irregular pattern in front of the house. His face was one of 47 as he seemed to be going in circles. This is my child that usually hates getting 48 .I shouted to him, “What are you doing?!”“I hate getting wet!” he 49 back.“Then why are you running around in the 50 ? Hurry inside!” “Im trying to but I have to 51 the rain drops!”He was getting more wet than any of the rest of us 52 he was trying to avoid the raindrops. As I went and put him 53 my arm and walked him inside, I realized that there is a good 54 in this story.How often do you 55 life “avoiding the raindrops”? How often do you get so worried about the little 56 that might happen, the failures that you miss out on the great 57 that you could be having? We can spend all of our time running around in circles trying not to fail or we can accept that failure is going to come and 58 forward anyway. Any happy and successful person will tell you that the road to success is 59 with failures.But every time you fail, you learn. Every time you learn, you improve. The more you improve, the more 60 you will be.41. A. fog B. clouds C. mosquitoes D. smoke 42. A. Sure B. Anxious C. Strange D. Funny43. A. surrounded B. noticed C. crossed D. entered 44. A. paced B. escapedC. hurried D. advanced 45. A. missing B. outstanding C. disturbing D. charming 46. A. jumping B. trembling C. running D. sliding 47. A. happiness B. pleasure C. excitement D. suffering 48. A. cold B. wet C. hungry D. thirsty 49. A. screamed B. waved C. turned D. looked m50. A. distance B. darkness C. rain D. wind 51. A. collect B. experience C. fight D. avoid 52. A. because B. though C. unless D. if 53. A. with B. under C. by D. beside 54. A. ending B. plot C. lesson D. theme 55. A. care about B. rely on C. sort out D. go through 56. A. failures B. accidents C. emergencies D. disasters57. A. pains B. dangers C. diseases D. adventures58. A. float B. wander C. moveD. flow 59. A. equipped B. paved C. buried D. covered 60. A. successful B. generous C. considerate D. intelligent第 II 卷第三部分 英语知识运用第二节（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 is recommended that one of the effective ways to make your English writing skills improved should be keeping a diary. 61 (compare) with other forms of writing，it takes 62 (little) time as well as being shorter. It is 63 (universe) recognized that you will get to learn how to express yourself in English if you insist on practising. Apparently you may meet with a good many 64 (difficult) at times. Thetrouble isthat you cannot find appropriate words and phrases to give expression to your mind. In addition, there are lots of idiomatic ways of Chinese appearing in your diary. 65 my point of view, a piece of good advice is that there should be no other way more suitable than 66 (keep) a notebook and an English dictionary