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广西南宁市第八中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期中试题本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：本试卷包含两卷。第卷为选择题，所有答案必须用2B铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置。第卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填在答题卡的相应位置。答案写在试卷上均无效，不予记分。 第卷（三部分 共100分）第一部分 听力 （共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节 （共5小题，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，并标在答卷的相应位置。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 is the man going to do on Easter?A. Hold a party. B. Go to a concert. C. Have a picnic. 2. How long does the woman have to finish the paper?A. Twenty minutes. B. Half an hour. C. Forty minutes. 3. What are they doing?A. Watching a movie. B. Talking to a man. C. Looking for seats.4. How was the English exam?A. Easy. B. Difficult. C. Boring. 5. Whats the weather like? A. Sunny and warm. B. Windy and rainy. C. Windy and sunny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，每个小题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7题。6. What does the man think of the food in vegetarian(素食) restaurants? A. Not so good. B. Very delicious. C. Quite healthy. 7. What kind of food will they have? A. Fast food. B. Vegetarian food. C. French food. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What is worrying the man? A. His family. B. his work. C. His study.9. What does the doctor advise the man to do?A. Drink some coffee. B. Drink some wine. C. Drink some milk. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What did the boy have for breakfast? A. Some rice. B. An egg. C. A cup of tea. 11. Why does the boy never drink too much milk? A. He doesnt want to be fat. B. He isnt used to it. C. Its bad for his health.12. What is the girl busy doing in the morning? A. Doing exercise. B. Washing. C. Making breakfast 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the boy look for a host family? A. To save money. B. To learn English. C. To make friends. 14. How many people are living in the house now? A. Seven. B. Two. C. Five. 15. What is Randall like? A. He is quiet. B. He is friendly. C. He likes animals.16. How does Randall go to school? A. By car. B. On foot. C. By subway. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。17. How did Slat feel when he saw the ocean with rubbish? A. Angry. B. Upset. C. Surprised18. What was Slats idea for cleaning up the oceans? A. Cleaning rubbish by waves. B. Recycling rubbish in oceans. C. Building fences in ocean. 19. What do we know about the experiment? A. It lasted for two years. B. It cost a lot of money. C. It was done in the Pacific Ocean.20. Where is Slat planning to build a barrier(障碍)? A. In Asia. B. In Africa. C. In Europe. 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）AI was at the costume store with my Mom and my sister Megan, who was only 6 months old. I was looking at the pictures in the pattern book, trying to decide what to be for Halloween. I wanted to be a princess, but I didnt get a chance to ask Mom to help me find that page. She was busy taking care of baby Megan.All the women bent over Megans carrier. Mom wasnt even looking at me. Megan started to cry. Mom asked if I had decided yet. I looked down at the book and saw a picture of a kid in a banana costume. I pointed at it although I didnt want to be a banana. Mom bought the banana pattern for me. I knew I had made a mistake. Everyone would laugh at me, a big banana in yellow tights(紧身衣).“Youll be different,” Mom says. “Itll be great.”I pulled on the tights. When we walked into the party, everyone smiled at cute baby Megan.I sighed. Then I wandered around the party.“Oh! You look so cute,” a woman said.“Im a banana,” I told her.I walked around the party. People smiled when they saw my costume. Many of them told me I was cute.I smiled. I knew I looked funny. And everyone was looking at me. The clowns, the pop stars and the grown-ups. They were all looking at me.They thought I was cute and funny, in a good way. And guess what? I was the only banana at the party, and there were three princesses!Later Mom waved me over to where she was sitting against the wall. She looked tired. A thin blanket covered Megan. Mom pulled me into her lap. “Megans finally asleep, and Im not going to let you go. You are the most precious, most attractive little banana!”That was Mom. She was funny.So, being a banana was pretty good, because I was different.21. Why did the author sigh when she went into the party? A. She felt extremely tired.B. She was laughed at by other kids. C. She thought she was ignored by others.D. She looked ugly in the banana costume.22. What did the people at the party think of the author in the banana costume? A. She looked lovely.B. She was strange. C. She was the prettiest girl.D. She should have been a princess.23. The authors mom talked to her after Megan fell asleep mainly to . A. show her love for the authorB. let the author stay with Megan C. tell her she made a good choiceD. explain why it was a good costume24. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A. Terrible HalloweenB. A Big MistakeC. I m a BananaD. I Want to Be a Princess BThe booking notes of the play “the Age of Innocence”:Price: 10BOOKING:There are four easy ways to book seats for performance:In personThe Box Office is open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. By telephoneRing 01324976 to book your tickets or to pay by credit card（Visa, MasterCard and Amex accepted） By postSimply complete the booking form and return it to Global Theatre Box Office. On lineComplete the on-line booking form at www. Satanfiedtheatre.comDISCOUNTS:Saver:2 off any seat booked anytime in advance for performances from Monday to Thursday. Savers areavailable for children up to 16 years old, over 60s and full-time students.Supersaver: half-price seats are available for people with disabilities and one companion. It is advisable tobook in advance. There is a maximum of eight wheelchair spaces available and one wheelchair space willbe held until an hour before the show.Standby: best available seats are on sale for6 from one hour before the performance for people suitablefor Saver and Supersaver discounts and thirty minutes before for all other customers.Group Bookings: there is a ten percent discount for parties of twelve or more.School: school parties often or more can book6 standby tickets in advance and will get every tenth ticketfree.Please note: we are unable to exchange tickets or refund money unless a performance is cancelled due to unforeseen situations.25. You can book a ticket EXCEPT .A. using the InternetB. going to the Box Office on SundaysC. completing a booking form and posting it to the Box OfficeD. ringing the booking number and paying for the tickets by credit card26. According to the notes, who can get2 off?A. A full-time college student.B. The people who book the tickets on Fridays.C. A woman who is 55 years old.D. A teenager who is 18 years old.27. If you make a group booking for a group of 14 adults, how much should you pay?A.120 B.126 C.140 D.15028. What kind of tickets are the cheapest?A. The standby tickets.B. The tickets for group bookings.C. The tickets for Saver discount.D. The standby tickets for school parties of ten or more.C Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol. The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern. I see people trapped in a pathological(病态的) relationship with timesucking technology，where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money. What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life flee of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming(声明) the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful. ” But its time to discover that it does not work for technology. Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies. To break the grand digital connection, people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without todays overused technology. 29. The underlined word “allure in Paragraph 1 probably means . A. advantage B. adaption C. attraction D. attempt30. From the passage, technology companies aim to .A. deal with cultural diseases B. provide the latest informationC. improve peoples quality of life D. attract people to buy their products31. It can be inferred from this passage that people .A. consider too much technology wonderfulB. may enjoy life better without overused technologyC. can regain freedom without high-tech devicesD. have realized the harm of high-tech devices32. Whats the authors attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?A. Disapproving. B. Sceptical. C. Neutral. D. Sympathetic. DWhy is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys? The answer depends largely on cultural values as well as personal experiences. To the Egyptians, green was a color that represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. In China, children are given money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is a symbol of protection and religious beliefs. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect themselves against evils(灾祸).Peoples choice of colors is also influenced by their bodies reactions(反应) toward them. Green is said to be the most restful color. It has the ability to reduce pain and relax people both mentally and physically. People who work in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches. Red can cause a persons blood pressure to rise and increase peoples appetite(食欲). Many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. Similarly, many commercial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that easily catches a persons eye.Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue can cause people to lose appetite. So if you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help. The next time you are deciding on what to wear or what color to decorate your room, think about the color carefully.33. Muslims regard green as a symbol of heaven mainly because of their . A. cultural values B. commercial purposesC. personal experiences D. physical reactions to the color34. Why will many commercial websites have a red “Buy Now” button? A. To relax people physically. B. To encourage people to buy the goods.C. To increase peoples appetites.D. To cause a persons blood pressure to rise.35. Which of the following would be the most proper title for the text? A. Colors and Human Beings B. The Cultural Meaning of ColorC. Colors and Personal Experiences D. The Meaning and Function of Color 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。I always reflect on (反思) what happened in my life. I think this is importantto appreciate our wins, losses, new passions, insights, etc. 36Here are some tips for you on reflection.1. Focus on the process and not the outcome(结果).This thought was beautifully summed up by Srikumar Rao. He explains how we fail because we focus our energies on the outcome rather than the process itself. When a child learns to walk, she never focuses on the outcome but on the process.2. Failure is a lead not a stop sign.When you hit a wall and things dont turn up the way they are intended, no one is saying to you, “This is where you stop because you failed”. If you do, you are reading the wrong information. Failure tells us, “ 37Try another method.”3. Happiness is not the destination but the journey.We think that happiness is a result that comes after having acquired or achieved something we dont have. This is not quite right. 38Its about stepping back and enjoying the ride rather than expecting it at your destination point.4. Wisdom comes from the balance between your knowledge and your heart.Let your heart talk more; its wiser than you think. You can be as knowledgeable and clever as one can be. 39Wisdom is really having reached a stage where you balance all your knowledge with your heart.5. Thankfulness is the energy-drink of the soul.Say thank you to the universe every morning. Appreciation can lift your soul from anxiety which weighs you down. Try it out. 40It will help you appreciate life with more depth and perspective. A. Failure is the mother of success.B. Happiness is when we accept and enjoy everything as it is.C. This method and the intended result do not match.D. Be thankful to at least one thing in your day.E. Not reflecting on our lives and experiences is a wasted chance for growth.F. Happiness means achieving your goals and getting what you want.G. But if your mind doesnt go with your heart, you are losing energy in internal (内部的) conflicts.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，然后从4160各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I looked up at the signs, trying to make sure which train I needed to take to Narita Airport. So I could catch the flight that would take me home to Canada. I was feeling the _41_ of my huge pack, which contained gifts for my family. The Japanese language was _42_ to me. You could imagine how hopeless I felt when I failed to see any symbol that _43_ familiar. Just then, a woman stopped and asked in _44_ which way I wanted to go. She helped me _45_the platform number, the price and the time of departure. I thanked her. Having ten minutes left, she _46_ I join her for a quick tea. She told me she was born in Japan, _47_spending a year backpacking in New York had let her experience the life of a woman_48_alone. We excitedly traded stories but soon our_49_chat was over. Her train was leaving. Before leaving, she hurriedly_ 50_both our drinks. “Save your money,” she said. I stood up and pulled the load once more onto my back._ 51_, she reappeared with a square box_ 52_in white and red paper. She pushed the box into my_ 53_. It was warm. “For the train. Goodbye.” I had_ 54_these specially prepared boxed meals for sale in the stations. They looked delicious but they were _ 55_my budget.As I waited on the platform, my pack didnt feel _ 56_ heavy as before. Though I had been given one more _ 57_to carry, I felt light-hearted with the taste of warm food, the_ 58_ of my homecoming and the generosity(慷慨) of a Japanese woman I_ 59_ran into on the way. And I never even_ 60_her name when she introduced herself.41.A. pressureB. weightC. content D. value 42.A. attractiveB. simple C. funnyD. mysterious 43.A. soundedB. appearedC. turnedD. remained 44.A. EnglishB. JapaneseC. FrenchD. Chinese 45.A. call for B. account for C. find out D. work out 46.A. demandedB. insistedC. w