2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期初考试试题 (II).doc

xx-2019学年高二英语上学期期初考试试题 (II)注意事项：1. 答第卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2. 选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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. Why is the man going to Florida?A. To buy a cat. B. To take yoga classes.C. To attend a business meeting.2. How does the man probably feel now?A. Excited. B. Depressed. C. Surprised.3. What do the speakers probably do?A. They are performers.B. They are teachers. C. They are movie producers.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A jacket. B. A tie. C. An interview.5. Where are the speakers?A. In a restaurant. B. In a bank. C. In a supermarket.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2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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. What was the man looking for?A. A colored pencil. B. A book. C. Some paintings.7. Where did the woman find it?A. On the table. B. Under the sofa. C. In a corner.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why does Anne make fun of Christina?A. Christina is a bad student.B. Christinas English isnt very good.C. Christinas clothing is funny.9. What do we know about Christina?A. She will move to Spain soon.B. She is learning Spanish.C. She is adapting to a new environment.10. What is the principles main goal during the conversation? A. He wants Anne to feel accepted.B. He wants Anne to improve her English.C. He wants Anne to respect peoples differences.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. Who is on a banana diet?A. The mans sister. B. The mans neighbor. C. The mans cousin. 12. How does the man know the egg diet is harmful?A. He read it somewhere.B. He saw it on TV. C. He was told by the woman.13. What does the woman think of the steak diet?A. Its bad for the teeth.B. Its good for the heart. C. It costs too much money.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. How does the man sound?A. Worried. B. Angry. C. Excited.15. Whats the relationship between the speakers?A. Father and daughter.B. Teacher and student. C. Boss and employee.16. What is the punishment for Susan?A. She will be locked in her room.B. She will have to do more housework.C. She wont be allowed to use her electronics.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is true about Margies hit single Hold My Heart?A. It has sold five billion copies.B. Margie wrote it at the age of six.C. It was released this month.18. What kind of music did young Margie like?A. Rock. B. Country. C. Jazz.19. What was Margies high school life like?A. She focused on her music.B. She had an active social life.C. She did poorly in her schoolwork.20. What does the speaker think of Margie?A. She has a bright future. B. Shed work harder.C. She is too young to be famous.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第1节 （共10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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe Cost of Higher EducationIndividuals (个人) should pay for their higher education.In general, a university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Whether they are majoring in geography, geometry or any other subject, graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources (资源) of the government. Using taxpayers money to help small number of people to earn high ines in the future is not one of them.Full government funding (资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, the grand university having much glory, where the academics lived fortably off the ine received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work and when the academics were lazy and inpetent, the students grew similarly lazy in a gradual way.If students have to pay for their education, I guess they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers and have a better grasp of the subjects. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济). Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should be generous enough to pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital（资金） from the government to invest.Therefore, it is the individual, not the government who should pay for their university education.21. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to .A. taxpayers B. pressing callsC. college graduates D. government resources22. The author thinks that with full government funding _.A. teachers are less satisfied B. students are more demandingC. students will bee more petent D. teachers will spend less time on teaching23. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to_.A. argue against free university education B. call on them to finance students studiesC. encourage graduates to go into business D. show their contribution to higher educationBSitting is an art that isnt getting passed along. People these days feel as though they have to be doing something. If they are not working, they are jogging, or playing tennis or golf to guard against illnesses, or taking courses to improve their minds or bodies - or they are parked in front of the TV. Sitting in front of the TV isnt sitting - its watching.People used to sit a whole lot. You would walk down the street or drive down the road, and there they would be, out on the doorsteps, sitting. You could go to the grocery to buy some garlic or some fruits and vegetables and sit on the bench out front m the summer or around the fire in the winter. You could go down to the store to buy an outer garment, an electric grill or anything else. There were sitting benches out in the town square. At the garage, there were straight-backed chairs. There among the oilcans and tires and spare parts, you could kick back and sit.Houses used to have sitting rooms, where the grown-ups would go after Sunday dinner. Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Aunt Ruby would gather round, sit and digest (消化) the fried chicken and talk about Aunt Ethels illness, and how well the minister did today. They may just talk a load of garbage and even gesture with their hands when they bee excited. Outside, the younger generation, the children would play on the ground, and the afternoon would pass by in a fortable haze（ 悠闲的氛围).That sort of thing looks like doing nothing. A recharging battery (正充电的电池) doesnt look as if its doing anything either. Sitting restores your soul. If you want to enjoy a truly full life, dont just do something-sit there.24. What message does the author try to get through to us?A. People should make better use of their sitting room.B. People should spend less time watching TV.C. People should pass down their good habits.D. People should take things easy for their own good.25. We can learn from the second paragraph that_.A. people lived a more restful life in the pastB. towns were built to make living convenientC. small town garages had a lot to offerD. people enjoyed going out for a drive26. The sitting room mentioned in the text used to be a place for_.A. eating food B. watching TVC. gathering together D. playing with children27. From the text we know the writer believes_.A. sitting has a good spiritual effectB. sitting helps people remember the pastC. a sitting room may have different purposesD. a sitting room is important for the oldCWe have to admit that many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment friendly products have actually contributed to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced and these are difficult to get rid of.However, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they take action to buy a product, they ask questions like these “Will this shampoo add damage to the environment?” “Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?”A recent study showed that two out of five adults now take the environmental safety of a product into account before they buy it. This means that panies must now adjust the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green” that is, friendly to the environmentOnly a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds of them advocating green. In addition, some supermarket products carry labels (标签) to show that the product is green. Some panies have adopted the manufacturing (生产) of clean and safe products as their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising.The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making panies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of “Buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it.” The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act.28. It bees clear from the text that the driving force (动力) behind green products is A. public caring for the environment B. panies desire for bigger salesC. new ways of doing businessD. rapid growth of supermarkets29. What would be the best title for the text?A. Business and People B. Business Goes GreenC. Shopping Habits Are Changing D. Supermarkets and Green products30. The underlined word it” in the fourth paragraph refers to A. a selling pointB. the pany nameC. a great demand for health foodsD. the manufacturing of green products第2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。Right now you are reading English. That means that you are using your brain in a very active way. Reading is a very active process. 31 . When you read a text, you have to do some or all of these:Imagine a scene in your head Understand clearly what the writer is trying to sayAgree or disagree with the writerThere are also many advantages associated with reading, including:32 You will usually meet with new words when you read. If there are too many new words for you, then the level is too high and you should read something simpler. But if there are, say, a maximum of five new words per page, you will learn this vocabulary easily. You may not even need to use a pocket dictionary because you can guess the meaning from the rest of the text. 33 A model for writingWhen you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Texts that you read show you structures (结构) and expressions that you can use when you write.Seeing “correctly structured” EnglishWhen people write, they usually use “correct” English with a proper grammatical structure. 34 _. So, by reading you see and learn grammatical English naturally.35 .You can read as fast or as slowly as you like. You can read ten pages in 30 minutes. or take one hour to explore just one page. It doesnt matter. The choice is yours. You cannot easily do this when speaking or listening. This is one of the big advantages of reading because different people work at different speeds.A. Working at your own speedB. Learning vocabulary in context (语境)C. This is not always true when people speakD. Focusing on exactly what you want to learnE. You should write down unknown vocabulary in whole sentencesF. Not only do you learn new words, but you see them being used naturallyG. It is true that the writer does a lot of work, but the reader also has to work hard第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：完型填空（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。When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was _36_ to see that it was an English-English dictionary, also known as a monolingual (只用一种语言的) dictionary. _37_ it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, none of my classmates had one _38_, to be honest, I found it extremely _39_ to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and _40_ not fully understand the meanings. I was used to the _41_ bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are _42_ both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt gave me such _43_ to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I _44_ that monolingual dictionaries are _45_ in learning a foreign language.As I found out, there is, _46_, often no perfect equivalence (对应) between two _47_ in two languages. My aunt even goes so far as to _48_ that a Chinese “equivalent” can never give you the _49_ meaning of a word in English! _50_, she insisted that I read the definition (释义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better _51_ of its meaning. _52_, I have e to see what she meant.Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a(n) _53_ number of words, around 2,000, in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am _54_ exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas. _55_ this, I can express myself more easily in English. 36. A. worriedBsad CsurprisedDnervous 37.ABecauseBAlthoughCUnlessDIf38.Abut Bso Cor Dand39.AdifficultBinteresting CimportantDpractical40.Athus Beven Cstill Dagain41.Anew BfamiliarCearlierDordinary42.AexplainedBexpressedCdescribedDcreated43.AappreciationBcourageCadviceDpromise44.AimagineBremendCpredictDgrasp45.AnaturalBbetterCeasier Dconvenient46.Aat bestBin factCat timesDin case 47.AwordsBnamesCideas D. characters48.AhopeBdeclareCdoubt Dtell49. Aexact Bbasic CtranslatedDexpected50.ARatherBHoweverCTherefore DInstead51.AunderstandingBpracticeCexpressionDconsideration52.ALargelyBGenerally CGradually DProbably53.Aextra BaverageCtotal Dlimited54.ArepeatedlyBnearlyCimmediatelyDanxiously55.AAccording to BIn relation toCIn addition toDBecause of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。Silence is unnatural to man. He does all he can 56 (make) a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he 57 (introduce) to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as 58 failure, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation 59 (mean) no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).The aim of conversation is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as 60 (annoy) as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito 61 a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear. and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.Those 62 hate to pick up the weather as a 63 (conversation) opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of 64 (learn) anything new. Some of them are content if they are 65 _(mere) allowed to go on making a noise into other peoples ears.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）假定你是光明中学学生李明。你在China Daily上读到一则招聘中学生兼职记者的广告，你有意应聘这份工作。请写一封申请信，信的内容包括:1.表述申请意愿2.自我介绍以及申请理由。注意1.词数80左右，开头和结尾已为你写好，不计人总词数;2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。Dear Sir/Madam Thank you for reading my letter and Im looking forward to your reply.Sincerely yours,Li Ming第二节：读后续写（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。 “If mum finds out that Im going to the beach, Ill be in big trouble.” I said to myself softly in a low voice.I went downstairs slowly and tried to walk casually into the kitchen. As I was walking towards the back door, mum asked without looking up from her “dish-washing”, “Where are you going?” I answered back without hesitation,“ I am going to the garden to play.” After I got out of the kitchen, I breathed a sign of relief. My plan had worked out fine so far. I climbed the fence and jumped onto the muddy field next to my house and started running towards the bus stop at top speed,After half an hour I was at the beach scanning the crowd for my friends, Jimmy and Bobby. Two young men were racing in the canoes (独木舟). After a while, I saw them near a coconut tree. I ran towards them and got into my swimming trunk (游泳裤). For about an hour, we played volleyball happily.Suddenly, Bobby hit the ball too hard and the ball fell into the sea. Just as Bobby was going to pick up the ball, the tide came in and carried the ball further and further away from the shore. I wanted to show off my swimming skills so I declared to help get the ball for them.I dived into the water and started swimming at a steady pace. After swimming for about ten minutes, I became tired but when I saw that the ball was only a few feet away from me, I put inan extra burst of speed. However, just as I was going to get the ball, a very strong current swept the ball further away from me. At that moment, a string of weed （海草）tangled (缠绕) up with my feet and I could not swim properly.I struggled to keep afloat but it was no use. “ If I had listened to my parents, this would never have happened,” I thought silently.Paragraph 1Finally, after struggling for a minute or two, I still got pulled underwater. Paragraph 2When I woke up, I was in an empty room lying on a bed._