江西省九江市同文中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

江西省九江市同文中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，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个小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What will the man do next?A. Drink something. B. Learn to drive. C. Take a taxi.2. What does the man mean?A. He hates to smell smoke too.B. He will leave the office soon.C. The woman can open the window.3. What do the speakers plan to do at the weekend?A. Help with conference on drug abuse.B. Learn about a healthy lifestyle.C. Take a class on drug abuse.4. How is the woman feeling right now?A. Angry. B. Excited. C. Scared.5. What does the man suggest?A. Selling the old MP3 player.B. Having the old MP3 player repaired.C. Buying a new MP3 player.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. What will the man do first on Friday night？A. Return a book. B. Watch a game. C. Buy two tickets.7. Why does the woman agree to go in the end?A. She is tired of watching TV.B. She thinks the man is fun.C. She wants to listen to the music.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Where are the speakers probably right now?A. At home. B. At a barber shop. C. At Brads house.9. When will the speakers probably arrive at the restaurant?A. At 7:00. B. At 7:25. C. At 7:55.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How much will it cost to send the package by sea?A. $20. B. $80. C. $ 100.11. How long will it take to send the package by air?A. 4 to 6 weeks. B. 2 to 3 weeks. C. 10 to 14 days.12. What is the woman sending?A. Books. B. Clothes. C. Toys.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why did the womans sister hold the party?A. She got married.B. Her child got married.C. Her children were leaving home.14. What is Uncle Tony?A. A photographer. B. A designer. C. A sales manager.15. Where does Roger live?A. In Paris. B. In London. C. In Aberdeen.16. What do we know about Mark?A. He has long hair and a beard.B. He graduated from university of Oxford.C. He is the tallest one in his family.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who saw the blue whales an hour ago?A. A passenger. B. Some fishermen. C. The captain.18. What sea animals are monly seen in this season? A. Blue whales. B. Large sea turtles. C. Sea birds.19. What does the speaker suggest that passengers bring with them?A. A hat or sunglasses. B. A heavy jacket. C. Light shoes.20. What do we know about the tour?A. It will take two days.B. Passengers will have dinner on the boat.C. The price doesnt include drinks.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.ABest Places to Visit in IcelandWele to Iceland, a land that es across as being a unique and beautiful destination. It is open to visitors who like to study an unknown course, and everything about Iceland waits to be explored. Here are just a lot of places you can take on.DettifossDettifoss waterfalls, located 90km from the town Hsavk, is the most powerful waterfall in Europe. You can access the waterfall either by hiking or driving down along the road leading to the falls. The access roads, however, remain closed during the winter months. That is from January to April.LandmannalaugarLandmannalaugar or the peoples pools, is a major tourist attraction in Iceland. Known as the heart for hikers, the area is popular for hot springs. Open only during summers, it is accessible from Thorsmork Biking in this area. However, it is relatively difficult, and is remended only for trained mountain bikers.ReykjavikReykjavik, which actually means “Steamy Bay”, got its name from the sight of steam rising from the geothermal hot springs, which attracted the Vikings when they landed at the bay. You can relax by hiking, or go fishing in the Elliea River. Dont forget to go skinny-dipping in the famous Blue Lagoon, a geothermal（地热的）pool in the area.GotafossGotafoss, also known as the waterfall of the gods, is one of the most impressive attractions in Iceland. Located on the Skjalfandafljot river flowing south of road 1 or the Ring road, it is easily accessible, thus attracting tourists and divers alike. As the story goes, it was these falls that the Lawspeaker Thorgeir Ljosvetningagoti threw the statues of his Norse gods into, hence giving it the name Gotafoss.JkulsrlnKnown to be a museum of ice sculptures, Jkulsrln is a large glacier lake on the South Eastern border. The lake which is around 200meters deep is home to some of the big icebergs. During the summer months, you can use boat rides that will take you face to face with the ice sculptures that melt away splendidly. In the winters, you will spot a number of seals and the great Skua at the lake.21. The writers purpose in writing the passage is to_A. praise the beauty of nature in IcelandB. persuade more people to visit the places in IcelandC. tell people the culture and history of IcelandD. attract more people to explore the fields in Iceland online22. Which two places have the same attraction?_.A. Dettifoss and GotafossB. Jkulsrln and DettifossC. Gotafoss and LandmannalaugarD. Landmannalaugar and Jkulsrln23. It can be inferred from the passage that_A. we can see some attractions only in summerB. Iceland now is totally powered by the sunC. we can enjoy swimming in Reykjavik D. in winter we can drive down the road to visit waterfallBAccording to a legend, a young man while roaming the desert came across a spring of delicious crystal-clear water. The water was so sweet, he filled his leather canteen so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher. After a four-day journey he presented the water to the old man who took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student lavishly for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village with a happy heart. Later, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out, saying it was very smelly. It apparently had bee stale because of the old leather container. The student asked the teacher, “Master, the water was foul. Why did you pretend to like it?”The teacher replied, You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter. I think we understand this lesson best when we receive innocent gifts of love from young children. Whether its a piece of paper or a ruler, the natural and proper response is appreciation and we express thankfulness because we love the idea within the gift.Gratitude doesnt always e naturally. Unfortunately, most children and many adults value only the thing given rather than the feeling embodied in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. After all, gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart. 24. Where did the young man get the water?A. In the field. B. In the river. C. In his house. D. In the desert 25.Which of the following can be used to describe the water from the desert?A. Dirty and terrible. B. Clear and sweet.C. Clean but strange. D. Delicious but dirty.26. What does the underlined word “foul” mean?A. Wrong. B. Wonderful. C. Smelly. D. Tasty.27. From the legend, we should thank a kids worthless gift because of_.A. his kind words. B. his love within the gift itself.C. his small gift itself. D. his help and courage. CEach new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some call it the summer learning setback. Put simply, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more they forget. The only thing they might gain is weight. Recent studies show that children gain weight more quickly in the summer vacation than when they are in school. Most American schools follow a traditional nine-month calendar. Students get winter and spring breaks and about ten weeks of summer vacation. Some schools follow a year round calendar. They hold classes for about eight weeks at a time, with a few weeks off in between. But many experts point out that the number of class days in a year-round school is generally the same as in a traditional school. Last year, a study at Ohio State University reported that year-round students did not learn any more than other students. Lead researcher Paul von Hippel said year-round schools dont really solve the problem of the summer learning setback. They simply spread it out across the year. Across the country, research shows that students from poor families fall farther behind over the summer vacation than other students. Experts say this can be prevented. They note that many schools and local governments offer the programs that can help. But calling them summer schools could be a problem. The director of the summer learning center at Johns Hopkins, Ron Fairchild, recently wrote about this issue on his blog. He said that in American culture, the idea of summer vacation is connected to the beliefs about freedom and the joys of childhood. He said research with groups of different parents in Chicago and Baltimore found that almost all strongly disliked the term summer school. They said it created an image of children being forced to do work they missed during the school year.28. According to the first paragraph, the summer learning gap _.A. helps children to gain weightB. leads children to work harderC. improves childrens memoriesD. affects childrens regular studies29. pared to traditional schools, students in the year-round ones_.A. perform better and have more learning gainsB. have much less time for relaxation every yearC. have generally the same number of class daysD. hold more classes with more free weeks off30. Which of the following statements is true?A. Students from poor families often fall behind after the vacation.B. Year-round schools can solve the problem of the learning gap.C. There are schools in each state following a year-round calendar.D. Nothing can help the students who fall behind after the vacation.31. Why did almost all parents dislike the term “summer school”?A. They cherish the childrens rights of freedom very much.B. They are worried about the quality of the “summer school”.C. They want their children to be forced to make up the gap.D. They cant afford the further study during the vacationDWhile drunken driving may be on the decline, traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcohol related danger：drunken pedestrians. Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact, they are drunken more frequentlyand with higher blood alcohol levelsthan drunken drivers who are killed in accidents various studies have shown. Forty percent of adult pedestrians involved in fatal crashes have a blood alcohol level of at least 0.10which by law in most states signifies intoxication (醉酒) pared to only 25 percent of drivers in deadly accidents according to recent federal data. Some types of pedestrian accidents have been declining nationally especially those involving children but the number of adult pedestrians who are drunk when killed in traffic has remained relatively steady at 2500 a year. The total number of pedestrians killed annually in US traffic accidents is at least 7 000 or one of every seven highway accidents resulting in death. “Were dealing here, we think, with a very severe drinking problem that leads to a severe highway safety problem”, said Richard Blomberg, president of Dunlap and Associates Inc., in Norwalk Coon. Blomberg, whose consulting pany found a very high rate of alcohol involvement in a controlled study of pedestrian accidents in New Orleans, was among several researchers who spoke on the topic at the annual meeting of the Research Councils Transportation Research Board (TRE) in Washington in January. Pedestrian accidents have not received enough attention in the past according to Kay Colpitts who chairs the boards mittee on pedestrians. Few methods exist to monitor walking habits she said and researchers have been puzzled about how to prevent disasters.32. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Traffic Safety.B. Drunken Drivers.C. Drunken Pedestrian Accidents.D. A Severe Highway Safety Problem.33. Among the causes of walkers accidents the most serious problem is _.A. long delays in traffic signals causing pedestrians to lose patienceB. former drunken drivers whose licenses are not allowed to use for a timeC. a lack of adult keeping eyes on many children involved in accidentsD. taking too much alcohol and then hanging along the roads 34. According to recent federal data drunken drivers with an over 0. 10 blood alcohol level in deadly accidents_. A. are relatively steady at 2500 a yearB. are 15 percent less than drunken adult walkersC. are at least 7000 in US traffic accidentsD. make up one seventh of highway accidents35. From the passage we know that Blomberg is_.A. a researcherB. a specialist in traffic safetyC. a clerk of a consulting panyD. a government official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。Have you ever had someone in your organization who was always agreeable? A type of person who always agrees with everyone else. 36 We have most likely all met a yesman at one time or another. Yesmen are eager to please, but find it very difficult to voice their opinion. So what can you do as a leader to cope with them?Talk to them. The first step is an honest and objective conversation about their behavior. 37 Try to get them to see how they respond in these situations so they can start to see themselves objectively(客观地) as well. 38 Start with a recent time when they agreed with a decision, and ask for their opinion. Keep asking why? or how e? Acknowledge their views and let them know that the rest of the team is waiting to hear what they say.Find out why they always agree. It may be they are just very agreeable people. 39 Identify the causes and work with them to reduce the external (外部的) barriers to having their voice heard.Tell them they need to disagree, constructively, when they have the next opportunity. When that time es about, dont embarrass them by putting them on the spot. Instead, ask them what they think, avoid yes-no questions, and use why and how e questions to get their thoughts out there for the benefit of the team. Thank them for their ideas._ 40 A. Ask what their opinions are.B. They should provide value to the organizationC. Or they feel like they will be saying something stupid.D. Even if all the ideas presented conflict with each other!E. Sometimes the person does not realize that they agree with everything.F. Yesmen are a challenge in any organization that values individual contributions. G. This will build their confidence and allow them to continue doing what you have started in the future.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。Historians already know that Winston Churchill often took high-risk gambles（赌博）in his political life . But that Churchill was a gambler in41aspects of his life has tended not to catch his biographers42.Two new books attempt to fill this43.The first isNo More Champagnewritten by David Lough, a private-banker-turned-historian who looks at Churchills personal44during the ups and downs of his career. It is the first45to focus on this aspect of his life .Mr. Lough has46through Churchills personal accounts and found that he was as much a47when it came to his money as he was when he was48at the Admiralty or in Downing Street . 49Churchill was a descendant（后裔）of the Dukes of Marlborough, his50had “ very little money on either side ” but that never51them living the52life. Indeed, between 1908 and 1914 the Churchill household spent an average of1,160 on wine53each year-$145,000 in todays money. It is no54that Churchill spent most of his life leaping from one cash flow crisis to another , being constantly behind his suppliers55.Another new book ,Winston Churchill Reporting, by Simon Read , an American journalist , looks at one of the56Churchill eventually paid some of them :57.Mr. Read investigates how Churchill went from a young army officer to being Britains highest-earning war journalist by the age of 25 .The Churchill name58helped open newspaper editors doors across London. But it was that the young59was willing to take risks on60across the world that marked out his columns from those of his contemporaries .41. A. someB. the otherC. the sameD. other42. A. breathB. smileC. attentionD. voice43. A. gapB. holeC. postD. bill44. A. lettersB. beliefsC. donationsD. finances45. A. biographyB. diaryC. songD. poem46. A. travelledB. searchedC. cutD. got47. A. trouble-makerB. passer-byC. looker-onD. risk-taker48. A. keeping secretsB. making decisionsC. taking stepsD. giving lessons49. A. SinceB. WhenC. AlthoughD. Until50. A. childrenB. parentsC. wifeD. colleagues51. A. relievedB. encouragedC. stoppedD. banned52. A. lowB. miserableC. highD. new53. A. aloneB. jointC. binedD. separate54. A. useB. doubtC. needD. wonder55. A. productsB. billsC. priceD. service56. A. waysB. friendsC. ideasD. dreams57. A. readingB. writingC. fightingD. risking58. A. hardlyB. involuntarilyC. illegallyD. certainly59. A. historianB. bankerC. reporterD. editor60. A. battlefieldsB. farmsC. riversD. playgrounds第二节：语法填空（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1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式填空。Daniel Delvin lives in the same house as his children and sees them every day yet he is unable to recognize them at all. Mr. Devlin, 46, from Nunhead, London, is suffering from an 61 (ill) called prosopagnosia(人面失认症), also 62 (know) as face-blindness, meaning he struggles to recognize faceseven those of his own family. Mr. Delvin, 63 painter, has been forced to memorize his familys voices and body language in order to know who they are. 64 reading voices and body language doesnt always work, and he has even mistaken another boy his son when 65 (pick) his children up from school. Mr. Delvin said, “Humans have a special ability to recognize people by seeing their 66 (face), but I really dont have this ability. “Maybe a good way to imagine what its like to have prosopagnosia is to try and recognize people by 67 their hands look like. “If I 68 (see) my wife Katarina somewhere unexpected and she pretended not to know me, then Im not sure I would know it was her. It often leaves me in some awkward situations, 69 （especial）when I dont recognize the people 70 I should know or I think I know the people that I dont.”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）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。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：在错的词下面画一横线，并在其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。Dear Jin