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四川省德阳五中2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题第卷第一部分 ：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，共7.5分）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。1. What was the weather like during the womans holiday? A. Sunny B. Rainy C. Cloudy2. Where is the womans niece standing in the picture？ A. On the right of Tim. B. On the left of Tim. C. On the left of Ann.3. What does the man probably think of the woman? A. Naughty B. Kind-hearted C. Careless4. What will the man probably eat first？ A. An apple. B. Some vegetables. C. A chocolate cake.5. Which part of the factory does the man want to change？ A. The packing area. B. The production line. C.The storage room第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。请听每6段材料，回答6、7题。6. Why will the man go to Shanghai？ A. To acpany his boss. B. To take a business trip. C. To see some old friends.7. What day is it today？ A. Thursday. B. Friday. C. Saturday.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why did Henry call the man？ A. To ask him to play football. B. To introduce some friends to him. C. To tell him the result of a job interview.9. What will the man do next？ A. Go outdoors. B. Call Henry back. C. Take a shower.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What was the mans opinion about the film？ A. It was amusing. B. It was scary. C. It was boring.11. Who did the speakers think acted well？ A. Roger Gale. B. Matt Damon. C. Jude Law.12. How many marks would the woman give the film？ A. Six. B. Seven. C. Eight.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How long did the man stay in Hawaii？A. For two days. B. For one week. C. For two weeks.14. What was the mans first problem？ A. The bus broke down on the way. B. The hotel was noisy at night. C. The room was not cleaned.15. What does the man ask to do in the end？ A. Give a discount. B. See the manager. C. Move to another room.16. Where does the conversation probably take place？ A. At a hotel. B. At a restaurant. C. At a travel agency.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where did the fire take place？ A. On Central Street. B. On Oxford Street. C. On East Street.18. Why is the traffic on Hampton Road moving slowly? A. A lion is sitting in the middle of the road. B. A big crowd is standing in front of the cars. C. Some is driving on the wrong side of the road.19. What kind of program will e after this report？ A. Wild animals. B.International news. C. Weather forecast.20. What time is it now probably？ A. 10:00. B. 11:00. C.12 noon.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。AChoose Your One-Day-Tours!Tour A - Bath &Stonehenge: including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge -37 until 26 March and 39 thereafter.Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.Tour B - Oxford & Stratford: including entrance fees to the University St Marys Church Tower and Anne Hathaways -32 until 12 March and 36 thereafter.Oxford: Includes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look over the city of dreaming spires(尖顶） from St Marys Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.Tour C - Windsor Castle &Hampton Court: including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace -34 until 11 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze (迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!Tour D -Cambridge: including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -33 until 18 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.21Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest university city?A. Tour A.B. Tour B.C. Tour C.D. Tour D.22Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?A. Windsor Castle & Hampton Court.B. Oxford & Stratford.C. Bath & Stonehenge.D. Cambridge23Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?A. It used to be the home of royal families.B. It used to be a well-known mazeC. It is the oldest palace in Britain.D. It is a world-famous castle Bputers have beaten human world champions at chess and, earlier this year, the board game Go. So far, though, they have struggled at the card table. So we challenged one AI to a game.Why is poker(扑克) so difficult? Chess and Go are “information plete” games where all players can see all the relevant information. In poker, other players cards are hidden, making it an “information inplete” game. Players have to guess opponents hands from their actionstricky for puters. Poker has bee a new benchmark for AI research. Solving poker could lead to many breakthroughs, from cyber security to driverless cars.Scientists believe it is only a matter of time before AI once again vanquishes humans, hence our human-machine match es up in a game of Texas Holds Em Limit Poker. The AI was developed by Johannes Heinrich, researcher studying machine learning at UCL. It bines two techniques: neural(神经的) networks and reinforcement learning(强化学习).Neural networks, to some degree, copy the structure of human brains: their processors are highly interconnected and work at the same time to solve problems. They are good at spotting patterns in huge amounts of data. Reinforcement learning is when a machine, given a task, carries it out, learning from mistakes it makes. In this case, it means playing poker against itself billions of times to get better.Mr. Heinrich told Sky News: “Today we are presenting a new procedure that has learned in a different way, more similar to how humans learn. In particular, it is able to learn abstract patterns, represented by its neural network, which allow it to deal with new and unseen situations.”After two hours of quite defensive play, from the puter at least, we called it a draw.24Why cant the puter beat humans at the poker game?A. Because humans are cleverer than the puter.B. Because humans practice playing the poker game every day.C. Because the puter cant learn the regular rules of the poker game.D. Because the puter cant know the other players cards pletely.25What does the underlined word “vanquishes” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Leaves.B. Defeats.C. Cheats.D. Serves.26. What do we know about the reinforcement learning of AI?A. It solves problems correctly every time.B. It is the same as the learning of humans.C. It learns from the mistakes appearing in a task.D. It is more developed than the studying ways of humans.27. What can be inferred from the text?A. The new procedure of AI has some features of humans.B. puters are stronger than humans in every aspect.C. Humans will beat puters at playing poker forever.D. Scientists feel unhappy about the result of the poker game.CMy color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of a lot of clothes that wouldnt fit. I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model. I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. The set worked so beautifully when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations signed off for the night. Fortunately, I didnt get any channels showing all-night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static(静电)noise. For some reason, when certain shows switched into a mercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds. Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to another channel and then change it back. Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound. I actually began to build up my arm muscles(肌肉)shaking my set.When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away. At last I ended up hitting the set with my fist, and it stopped working altogether. My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the set is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.28. Why did the author say he was fooled into buying the TV set?A. He got an older model than he had expected.B. He couldnt return it when it was broken.C. He could have bought it at a lower price.D. He failed to find any movie shows on it.29. Which of the following can best replace the phrase signed off in Paragraph 1?A. ended all their programs B. provided fewer channelsC. changed to mercials D. showed all-night movies30. How did the author finally get his TV set working again?A. By shaking and hitting it. B. By turning it on and off.C. By switching channels. D. By having it repaired.31. How does the author sound when telling the story?A. Curious. B. Anxious. C. Cautious. D. Humorous.DWe produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to depose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada Wide Science Fair, a 10,000 prize, a 20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.Burds strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms(微生物)If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.With this goal in mind, he grounded plastic bags into a powder and concocted(调制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growthThen he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 monthsFinally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a controlSure enough, the plastic exposed(暴露) to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of meOne day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bagsThe answer: not muchSo I decided to do something myself.” Said Daniel Burd.32. Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair because _.A. he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter timeB. he contributed much to environmental protectionC. he found a new kind of microorganismD. he could encourage microbe growth in an easier way33. Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to _.A. make the live bacteria work betterB. know which bacteria worked fasterC. test how effective his method wasD. control the temperature in the process34. Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because _.A. plastics can get hot easilyB. microbes can produce heat themselvesC. much carbon dioxide is producedD. the temperature can be controlled35. Daniel Burd got his idea from _.A. his school textbookB. the failure of researchersC. his everyday workD. the practice of other people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。The first time I went abroad was when I went to London. It was in the summer holidays about five or six years ago and I went with my friends. 36, so we decided to travel by coach. We left at five in the morning and the journey to London took about sixteen hours.We stayed in London for three days, in a youth hotel not far from the centre. 37. The beds were not very fortable and the bedroom was very small but it had a wonderful view overlooking the Thames. 38.First, we went to see all the famous sites: Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, and Buckingham Palace. Then we went shopping in Oxford Street. On the last day my friends and I went to Camden market. You can buy all kinds of jewelry and clothes there. 39. It was really sunny in the afternoon, so we went to watch a football game. Unfortunately, I think the ring fell out of my pocket during the game, and I had to buy another one. 40 , although the youth hotel was not perfect. Next time, I will stay at the Ritz but I will never feel as excited as I did that first time. A. I really enjoyed visiting LondonB. I bought a silver ring for my sisterC. We were all very excited on the coachD. The plane and train were quite expensiveE. While we were in London we walked a lotF. My friends and I had a big room on the top floorG. Ive been back to London several times since then第三部分 语言知识运用第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)Around twenty years ago I was living in New York. 41 I had a lot of experience and a Masters degree，I could not find 42 work.I was 43 a school bus to make ends meet and 44 with a friend of mine，for I had lost my flat. I had 45 five interviews with a pany and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not 46 the job. “Why has my life bee so 47 ?”I thought painfully.As I pulled the bus over to 48 a little girl; she handed me an earring 49 I should keep it 50 somebody claimed(认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.At first I got angry. Then it 51 meI had been giving all of my 52 to what was going wrong with my 53 rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 54 of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to 55 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for 56 from a lady who was a director at a large 57 . She asked me if I would 58 a oneday lecture on stress management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.My 59 there went very well, and before long I got a wellpaid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 60 that I pletely changed my life.41A. AsBThoughCIfDWhen42A. successfulBextraCsatisfyingDconvenient43A. drivingBrepairingCtakingDdesigning44A. workingBtravellingCdiscussingDliving45A. prepared forBattendedCasked forDheld46A. loseBlikeCfindDget47A. hardBbusyCseriousDshort48A. wave atBdrop offCcall onDlook for49A. orderingBpromisingCsayingDshowing50A. in caseBor elseCas if Dnow that51A. hurtBhitCcaughtDmoved52A. feelingsBattentionCstrengthDinterests53A. opinionsBeducationCexperiencesDlife54A. listBbookCcheckDcopy55A. connectBturnCkeepDadd56A. herBa passengerCmeDmy friend57A. hospitalBfactoryCrestaurantDhotel58A. listen toBreviewCgiveDtalk about59A. planBchoiceCdayDtour60A. operationBspeakingCemploymentDthinking第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式，答案写在答题卡上。Climate change has caused a rise in sea levels. This has increased the amount of salt in fresh water 61. (use) on coastal farms. As a result, farmers are 62. (gradual) unable to use fields close to the sea. However, Marc Van Rijsselberg, a farmer in the Netherlands is now using a 63. (mix) of sea and fresh water 64. (grow) healthy and tasty vegetables.He teamed up with scientists from the Free University and divided a farm 65. eight negated areas. Separate pipes pumped fresh and sea water, and a puter program created water with eight levels of salinity (含盐度).The water levels and the levels of salinity was 66.(control) by puterized measuring devices called “sensors”. Mr. Van Rijsselberg said he was able to harvest vegetables from most of the eight testing areas. He said the vegetables were smaller than 67. grown in fresh water. But he said they also had more sugar and salt, so they tasted much 68. (good).He found that potatoes grew better than the other vegetables in the bination of sea and fresh water. Mr.Van Rijsselberg said four kinds of these potatoes would be sent to Pakistan 69. 20% of land 70. (damage) by salinization last year.第四部分写作(共两节，满分35分)第一节短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线()划掉。修改：在错的词下划一个横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。Speaking of city life, we always think of tall buildings, crowded street and fortable living conditions. Therefore, there is too much pollution in the city. Citizens had to put up with noises and harmful gases. What about country life? The first thought es into our minds is peace and quietness. Villagers breathe freshly air and enjoy clean water. But this is known to all that life in the country is much more difficult than those in the city. Besides, life in the country lacks of the excitement of our modern times. In my opinion, if we human beings pay enough attention to protect the environment and natural resources, we will be able enjoy our life to the fullest.第二节书面表达（满分25分） 国庆节你外出旅游时发现许多不文明行为，如随地吐痰、乱涂乱画、乱丢垃圾等，请你给Beautiful China 编辑部写一封信，呼吁人们提高素质、文明出行。内容要点：1.你所看到的不文明行为及危害； 2.为建设美丽中国、提出你的倡议（至少两点）。注意：1.词数100左右； 2.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数； 3.不得出现真实姓名。参考词汇：吐痰 spit ；刻画 scratch；不文明行为 immoral behaviorsDear editor，I am writing to tell you about what I saw while traveling during this National Day Holidays.Best wishes! Yours， Li Hua学校：_ 班级：_ 姓名：_ 考号：_高2016级半期考试英语答卷（请注意：该部分题请用0.5毫黑色签字笔工整书写，如果使用铅笔或者其他颜色笔作答，以及使用涂改液等，一律作零分处理）第三部分 英语知识运用 第二节 语法填空 （满分15分）61_ 66_62_ 67_63_ 68_ 64_ 69_65_ 70_第四部分 写作 （共两节 满分35分）第一节短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)Speaking of city life, we always think of tall buildings, crowded street and fortable living conditions. Therefore, there is too much pollution in the city. Citizens had to put up with noises and harmful gases. What about country life? The first thought es into our minds is peace and quietness. Villagers breathe freshly air and enjoy clean water. But this is known to all that life in the country is much more difficult than those in the city. Besides, life in the country lacks of the excitement of our modern