2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题 (II).doc

2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题 (II) 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，共12页。考试结束后，将答题卡交回。注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信 息条形码粘贴区。 2选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书 写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效； 在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。4作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5. 保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第卷 选择题（共 100 分）第一部分：听力（共20题，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。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 was the mans opinion about the film?A. True to life.B. Fairly interesting.C. Rather boring.2. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At the dentists.B. At home.C. At a nurses home.3. How long will the woman stay here?A. For three days.B. For seven days.C. For two days.4. What will the woman do tonight?A. See a movie.B. Stay at home.C. Go out with friends.5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Teacher and student.B. Fellow students.C. Sister and brother.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。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. When will the women meet the Professor? A. At two oclock.B. At three oclock.C. At four oclock.7. Where is the Professors office? A. On the first floor of Building E. B. On the second floor of Building T. C. On the third floor of Building E.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What did the man giving up doing? A. Smoking.B. Hiking.C. Mountain biking.9. Where does the man exercise? A. At home.B. At the gym.C. Just outdoors.听第 8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When did the woman begin collecting stamps? A. Ten years ago.B. Twelve years ago.C. Three years ago.11. What did both speakers do in the beginning? A. They only collected beautiful stamps. B. They bought new stamps. C. They felt bored and stopped the hobby.12. Why is the woman considered an expert in environmental protection? A. Because she collects and knows a lot about this topic. B. Because she likes collecting stamps on this topic. C. Because she buys many stamps.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What did the man bring as a gift? A. Flowers.B. A lunch box.C. A flowerpot.14. What does the man think of the house? A. A little messy. B. Clean and pretty. C. Small and fortable.15. What did the woman do to wele the man? A. She prepared delicious food. B. She waited in the sitting room. C. She looked around the house.16. What will they do next? A. Look around the house. B. Clean the house. C. Have a good lunch together.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What helps the speaker feel “love”? A. Friends.B. Family.C. Experience.18. Why does the speaker love reading? A. Because reading gives the treasure of knowledge. B. Because reading shows the right way to success. C. Because reading makes her rich and happy.19. What helps the speaker understand teamwork? A. Family.B. Music.C. Activities.20. How can the speaker find the treasure of life? A. By reaching out for their dreams. B. By facing all kinds of situations. C. By keeping going and trying.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。 A Griffith Observatory (天文台) is a national leader in public astronomy，and one of the most popular attractions in Los Angeles. It is located on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park at 1,134 feet above sea level. Visitors may drive to the observatory and park in its parking lot or on nearby roads. No reservation is required to visit. Parking is limited，and the busiest time is weekends. Buses, taxis, and car pools are wele. It provides weekend public bus service from the Sunset/Vermont Metro Red Line Station. Griffith Observatory is open six days a week. Admission and parking are free. Hours of Operation TuesdayFriday12 noon10 p.m. SaturdaySunday10 a.m.10 p.m. MondayClosed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day Closed Samuel Oschin Planetarium The Samuel Oschin Planetarium theater offers 8 to 10 live, half-hour presentations each day. There are usually four different shows from which to choose. Shows are presented every 60 to 90 minutes. Check the website，information desks，or the box office for each days show time. Being seated late is not permitted. Samuel Oschin Planetarium tickets must be purchased at the observatory and are only available on the day of the show. The ticket prices for shows are： Adults (1359 years old) $7.00 Children (512 years old) $3.00 Seniors (60 years and older) $5.00 Students $5.00 Children under 5 years old will be admitted only to the first show each day. Hearing assist devices are available on request. Public Telescopes Free public telescopes are available each evening the observatory is open and skies are clear. The Zeiss telescope on the roof is generally open by 7 p.m. All observing must be pleted by 9:45 p.m. 21. What can we learn about Griffith Observatory according to the passage? A.It is open all the year around. B.It is mostly visited at weekends. C.It bees famous because of Hollywood. D.It is the most attractive place in Los Angeles.22. To watch the show，a young couple with a 7-year-old son should pay_. A.$13.00 B.$15.00 C.$17.00 D.$20.0023. Which of the following is charged? A.Parking. B.Telescopes. C.Hearing assist devices. D.Watching presentations.B Meeting people from another culture can be difficult. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship. Different cultures stress the importance of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in “small talk”, usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many European countries, like the UK or France, people find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafe rather than at the office. Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively discussion, instead there was an unfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled. After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many words are unnecessary. Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values, however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture starts discussions and makes decisions more quickly. People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural environment will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from each other. 24. Whats the probable meaning of the underlined word “stress”? A.To draw special attention to. B.To ignore. C.To laugh at. D.To get close to.25. The author mentions his experience in Thailand to show that _. A.the English prefer to make long speeches B.too many words are of no use C.people from Thailand are quiet and shy by nature D.even talk and silence can be culturally different26. According to the text, how can people from different cultures understand each other better? A.By sharing different ways of life. C.By recognizing different values. D.By speaking each others languages.27. What would be the best title for the text? A.Multicultural Environment B.Cross-Cultural Differences C.How to Understand Each Other D.How to Build Up a RelationshipC Fei-Fei Li arrived in the U. S. from China at age 16 with many big dreams. And it took many unusual jobs to help her achieve them. Luckily, she was smart and extremely driven. And today, shes the director of Stanford Universitys artificial intelligence lab. “As one of the leaders in the world for A. L., I feel much excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and excellent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and excellent technologiststhats my calling.” Li said. She is also a loyal advocate for diversity in the tech industry. “I see extremely talented Stanford PhD students struggling with their visas and I find it unthinkable that we create so many barriers for the talents of the world”, Li said. While Li was in college at Princeton, she borrowed money from friends and even her high school math teacher to run a dry-cleaning business for her parents in order to help them get by. Li attended classes during the week and worked at the business on the weekends. Then, when Li was in graduate school, her mom developed cancer and had a stroke (中风). “It was difficult to keep moving ahead while all of this was happening. The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, live up to your sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about your dreams while doing it,” she said. Li was named a Great Immigrant of xx by the Carnegie Corporation, the nations oldest grant making foundation which honors roughly 40 naturalized U. S. citizens each year. Her graduate studies were supported by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.28. What do we know about Fei-Fei Li according to Paragraph 1? A. She was born in the United States of America. B. She has made many of her dreams e true. C. She worked very hard because shes not gifted. D. Shes now doing researches on AI in China.29. What does the underlined word “calling” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. Interest in technology.B. Desire to help. C. Creativity in science.D. Sense of duty.30. What was Fei-Fei Lis life like before she graduated from university? A. She had been struggling with her visa. B. Both her parents suffered from illness. C. Her family was faced with a tight budget. D. It was difficult for her to attend classes.31. Fei-Fei Li has achieved success because _. A. her awareness of her duty and goals made a difference B. an American foundation gave her support C. the Carnegie Corporation named her a Great Immigrant D. she was lucky enough to borrow money from othersD Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you are using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random. One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley(有轨电车) problem”: A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33.5 percent of smartphone users chose, pared to 22.3 percent of PC users. “What we found in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, “Dr Albert Barque-Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices pared to PCs.” As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque-Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily”. Its clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision making because were using screens at an ever increasing rate.32. Why did the author mention the trolley problem? A. To introduce a difficult problem to readers. B. To introduce the aim of carrying out the study. C. To show an example of the questions in the study. D. To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.33. How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas? A. Calmly.B. Cruelly. C. Hesitantly.D. Enthusiastically.34. Dr Albert believes that pared with PCs, smartphones _. A. help people bear more pressure B. help people make decisions quickly C. make people feel more mentally distant D. make people stay happier to solve problems 35. What can we infer from the text? A. Shopping online has a great effect on making moral decisions. B. The people using smartphones are more than those using PCs. C. People who often use smartphones or PCs always meet with dilemmas. D. It is mon for people to be involved in making moral decisions in daily life.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下面的文章，从文章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。 Perhaps you have heard the expression“WheninRome,doastheRomansdo”. So when you want to do business in France, you have to get to know French culture, make marketing plans, and run your business by local laws. 36 .The French take great pride in their language, so anyone who does not speak it may run the risk of being disrespected by his French colleagues or business partners. Also, another reason why learning French is important is that it is a great way to show every possible French business partner that you care and respect their countrys culture and language. The first thing that you should do when meeting someone new is to shake his hand firmly and always look at the person in the eye. In social meetings with friends, kissing is mon. Use first names only after being invited to. 37 . The French will sometimes introduce themselves using their surname first, followed by their first name. Dress well. 38 . Your business clothing is a reflection of your success and social status. Always try to be tasteful and stylish. Women are advised to dress simply but elegantly. The French are passionate about food, so lunches are mon in doing business in France, which usually consist of an appetizer, main meal with wine, cheese, dessert and coffee, and normally take up to two hours. 39 . Do not begin eating until the host says “bonappetite”. Pass dishes to the left, keep wrists above the table and try to eat everything on the plate. 40 . This may suggest that you find the food tasteless. If eating in a restaurant, the person who invites always pays.A. Remembertobeaspoliteaspossible.B. Thisisatimeforrelationshipbuilding.C. UseMonsieurorMadamebeforethesurname.D. Becarefulwithaddingsalt,pepperorsaucestoyourfood.E. Makeanappointmentwithyourbusinesspartnerinadvance.F. TheFrenchdrawinformationaboutpeoplebasedontheirappearance.G. LanguageshouldbethefocusofanyoneplanningtodobusinessinFrance.第三部分：语言知识运用（共三节，满分50分）第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own 41 .I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago. I took the head 42 job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.It was a tradition for the schools old team to play against the 43 team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didnt even practice to 44 the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, 45 to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldnt 46 I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to 47 that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were 48 me. I had to change my 49 towards their ability and potential. I started doing anything I could to help them build a little 50 . Most importantly, I began to treat them as 51 . That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their 52 , we met every day and 53 passing and kicking the football. Six months after suffering our 54 on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to 55 . Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a victory for us 56 we lost the game. But that wasnt what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest 57 of my life!From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can 58 the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and 59 them. I helped them to see themselves 60 , and they built themselves into winners.Winners are made, not born.41. A. luckB. testsC. effortsD. nature42. A. operatingB. editingC. consultingD. coaching43. A. successfulB. excellentC. strongD. new44. A. cheer forB. prepare forC. help withD. finish with45. A. soB. andC. butD. for46. A. believeB. agreeC. describeD. regret47. A. realizeB. claimC. permitD. demand48. A. reacting toB. looking forC. depending onD. caring about49. A. decisionB. attitudeC. conclusionD. intention50. A. confidenceB. cultureC. fortuneD. relationship51. A. leadersB. partnersC. winnersD. learners52. A. rewardsB. vacationsC. healthD. honor53. A. riskedB. missedC. consideredD. practiced54. A. defeatB. declineC. accidentD. mistake55. A. relaxB. improveC. expandD. defend56. A. as ifB. if onlyC. even ifD. as though57. A. chancesB. thrillsC. concernsD. offers58. A. surpriseB. serveC. interestD. affect59. A. encouragedB. observedC. protectedD. impressed60. A. honestlyB. individuallyC. calmlyD. differently第II卷 （50分）第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）根据汉意及首字母提示填入单词的适当形式61. The storm got worse. Finally, I was o_ to abandon the car and walk home.62. She underwent a t_ examination at the hospital.63. If youe_ someone, you meet them, usually unexpectedly.64. She went to Spain d_ the fact that her doctor had told her to rest.65. Her assistant was a_ of theft by the police.66. Her _ with Short-video began three months ago, which made her lag behind her classmates. (迷恋)67. A good dictionary is an _ on the meanings of words. (权威)68. As the evidence began to _, experts from the zoo are ready to investigate why these animals had died suddenly. (积累)69. The task had been _ in time, though all the workers were exhausted. (完成)70. You have the _ of speaking or keeping quiet.（可供选择的事物）第三节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 China has once again proved its 71 (able) to change the world with the “newfourgreatinventions”: high-speed railways, electronic payments, shared bicycles and online shopping. They are related to Chinas