2018-2019学年高二英语下学期开学考试试题 (VII).doc

2018-2019学年高二英语下学期开学考试试题 (VII)（时间：xx2月; 120分钟；满分：150分）注意：1.本试卷由四部分组成。第一、二部分和第三部分第一节为选择题，其余部分为非选择题。2.本试卷各试题答案必须在答题纸上规定的答题区域内作答，否则无效。第一部分 听力理解 （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小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. Who is ing for tea?A. Mark.B. John.C. Tracy.2. What will the man do next?A. Stay for dinner.B. Go to the railway station.C. Prepare for the dinner.3. What does the man e for?A. A dinner.B. A meeting.C. A party.4. What size does the man want?A. 9.B. 35.C. 39.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. Life in Southeast Asia.B. Weather conditions.C. A holiday plan.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. Why doesnt the man want to book the seats downstairs?A. They are too expensive.B. They are unfortable.C. They are too close to the stage.7. When does the man plan to see the performance?A. On October 1st.B. On October 21st.C. On October 25th.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题.8. Whats the plaint of the mans neighbor?A. Loud noise.B. Bad sleeping room.C. An important meeting.9. What were the man and his friends about to do?A. Change a room.B. Apologize to their neighbor.C. End their activity.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What is Miss Lan going to work as in Ola city?A. A doctor.B. A nurse.C. A teacher.11. What worries Miss Lan so much?A. She has no friends in Ola.B. The work in Ola is hard to do.C. The people in Ola are not friendly.12. How will Miss Lan keep in touch with Mr.Huang after she arrives in Ola?A. By e-mail.B. By phone.C. By letter.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why did the man miss the womans phone call yesterday?A. His phone was turned off.B. He was taking a shower.C. He didnt take his phone with him.14. What did the woman do yesterday?A. She went shopping.B. She went to a concert.C. She played puter games.15. Why did the woman call the man?A. To invite him to her wedding.B. To ask something about Megan.C. To invite him to her sisters wedding.16. When will the woman pick up the man next Saturday?A. At 13:00.B. At 13:20.C. At 14:00.听第10段材料，回答第17至20 题。17. What does Alexandra Grace work for?A. New Zealand Embassy Beijing.B. QS World University Ranking System.C. The Multi-cultural Environment Organization.18. What stops some students choosing New Zealand for study?A. Its environment.B. Its size.C. Its population.19. Whats the total yearly cost for a Chinese student to study in a New Zealand university?A. 20,000 dollars.B. 25,000 dollars.C. 45,000 dollars.20. What message about New Zealand does the speaker mainly convey?A. Its multi-cultural environment is good for tourists.B. Its higher education is suitable for Chinese students.C. Its breath-taking scenery is absolutely worth seeing.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。 Wele to the Electronic Village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.Electronic Village Program (Thursday, June 18, xx)Nearpod9:00 am to 10:00 am Room 501Nearpod is a software program that creates a rich context (语境) for students to learn vocabulary. The presenter will show how to use it.TEO 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Room 502Our students e from different backgrounds but have the same desire to learn on-line. The presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with TEO.Kahoot10:30 am to 11:30 am Room 601Kahoot software can be used to create grammar tests which can be graded on a network. It can provide students with instant feedback (反馈), including reports about their strengths and weaknesses.Prezi3:30 pm to 4:20 pm Room 602Uses of Prezi in listening and speaking courses draw students attention to speaking more fluently. The presenter will show how students can use Prezi to confidently present on a variety of topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies.21. Nearpod can be used to _. A. help vocabulary learningB. teach listening on-lineC.offer grammar tests D. gain fluency in speaking22. If you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to_.A. Room 501 B. Room 502 C. Room 601 D. Room 60223. Which of the following can assess your grammar learning?A. Nearpod. B. Kahoot C. TEO. D. Prezi.24. A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by _.A. 9:00 am B. 10:30 am C. 2:00 pm D. 3:30 pmBArthur Miller(1915-xx) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists（剧作家） of the 20th century. Millers father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.Millers most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he cant do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner pany, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, xx, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.25. Why did Arthur Millers father move to the USA?A. His family business failed.B. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.C. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.D. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.26. What do we learn about Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman?A. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.B. He is a victim of the American system.C. He runs the Wagner pany.D. He treats his employer badly.27. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _.A. achieved huge successB. won the first Tony AwardC. was warmly weled by salesmenD. was severely attacked by dramatists28. What is the text mainly about?A. Arthur Miller and his family.B. The awards Arthur Miller won.C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.CThe ocean bottom, a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the earth, is even today largely unexplored. Until about a century ago, the deep ocean floor was pletely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and in the case of intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the earths surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strange environment to humans, in some way, as fighting and remote as the outer space.Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundations Deep Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDPs drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the oceans surface and drill very deep waters, taking samples of rocks from the ocean floor.The Glomar Challenger pleted 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks around the world. Those samples have allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challengers voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics (构造学) and continental drift that explain many of the geological processes.The sample of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger has also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The information of past climatic change can be used to predict the future climate.29. What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in paragraph1 mean?A. unrecognizable.B. unreachable.C. unusable.D. unreasonable30. The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was _.A. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gasB. supported entirely by the gas and oil industryC. conducted by geologists from all over the worldD. the first detailed exploration of the ocean bottom31. What can we know about the Glomar Challenger?A. It provided a record of past climatic change.B. It took almost 600,000 samples of rocksC. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1983.D. It has gone on over 100 voyages.DWhat do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia(百科全书)? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?Theres no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. Its one of the most prehensive resources available, which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. Its got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you dont need any formal training.Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful ments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isnt easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, its also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Platos biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of Barney the purple Dinosaur.But other things are harder to spot. The most mon form of vandalism (恣意破坏公共财物罪)involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty tricks. For example, in an article about British edian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynns wartime hit Therell be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune poser Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7s hit Reach again, not true. So, if youre going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.32. We can we learn from the passage?A. Updated by 78 million people around the world, Wikipedia is sure to be attacked.B. Thanks to its popularity and convenience, Wikipedia is available in 1500 languages.C. Anyone who has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like.D. The primary job of the administrators is to guarantee information conveyed is accurate.33. Whats the writers attitude to Wikipedia according to the text?A. Critical.B. Objective.C. SatisfiedD. Supportive34. The main purpose of the last two paragraphs is to tell us that_A. All items of false information are not easy to get spotted.B. Information about famous people is likely to be inaccurate.C. No matter how famous the papers are, they will be cheated.D. You can never be careful enough while updating information online.35. What can be used as a suitable title for the text?A. Why Wikipedia Is So Popular?B. Wikipedia Is Reliable to UseC. How to Look up Information in Wikipedia?D. Wikipedia Has Advantages and Disadvantages第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从后面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。Training for a marathon requires careful preparation and steady, gradual increases in the length of the runs. 36 , buy the best-fitting, best-built running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit. 37 . As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries. During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day. 38 , it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run. 39 . After two weeks, start timing yourself. 40 . Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race. A. After six daysB. For a good marathon runnerC. Before you begin your trainingD. With each day, increase the distance by a half mileE. If they still feel good, you can begin running in themF. Time spent for preparation raises the quality of trainingG .Now you are ready to figure out a goal of improving distance and time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，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n) 41 . Although she was born without arms, that has 42 stopped her from doing one thing: using the 43 “cant”.Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to 44 using only her feet. She made whats seemingly 45 bee a reality. Her certificate 46 her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.“Shes a good pilot and shes strong,” said Parrish, the flying 47 at San Manuels Ray Blair Airport. Parrish 48 a pany of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didnt e close to Coxs 49 . “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew shed have no 50 flying a plane”Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she 51 early on that she didnt want to use prosthetic（假体的）52 .Not only did Cox 53 a license to fly airplanes on October 10, xx, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful 54 as a motivational speaker. What doesnt Cox have? Arms. From 55 on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any 56 adaptations.“I highly encourage people with 57 were confident enough to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps 58 the traditional idea that people with disabilities are powerless into the belief that they are 59 and capable of setting high 60 and achieving them.”41. A. aircraftB. wheelchairC. armchairD. microscope42. A. stillB. almostC. onlyD. yet43. A. meaningB. mottoC. speechD. word44. A. leapB. jogC. fly D. flee45. A. awesomeB. impossibleC. grand D. theoretical46. A. scansB. dragsC. bumpsD. qualifies47. A. instructorB. panionC. fellowD. architect48. A. conductsB. resignsC. runsD. designs49. A. abilityB. boundaryC. satisfactionD. disability 50. A. ambitionB. courageC. affectionD. problem51. A. speeded upB. figured outC. took upD. marked out52. A. cushionsB. tanksC. devicesD. scanners53. A. earnB. observeC. abolishD. envy54. A. awarenessB. reflectionC. assessmentD. career55. A. timeB. thenC. birthD. now56. A. immediateB. physicalC. flexibleD. special57. A. faithsB. disabilitiesC. purposesD. decisions58. A. transformB. suckC. scareD. urge59. A. generousB. responsibleC. powerfulD. independent60. A. spiritsB. goalsC. attemptsD. profits第二节 完成句子（共空，满分分）61. 为了减体重，我正考虑报名参加一项瑜伽课程。In order to lose weight, Im considering _ _ _ a yoga course.62. 经常接触英语文学作品，孩子们很快地提高了英语语言综合能力。Constantly _ _ English literature works, the children improved their prehensive English language ability quickly.63. 尽管残疾，但比尔开朗外向，已经适应了身体上的残疾并且变得更加独立了。Though disabled, Bill is _. He has _ _ his disability and bee more independent.64. 像其他身体健康的青少年一样，残疾儿童应当有尊严地享受生活。Like other healthy teenagers, disabled children should enjoy life _ _.65. 午餐后，我们结账离开宾馆向火车站走去。After lunch, we _ _ of the hotel and _- _ _ to the train station.66. 她因为贫穷而辍学给人看孩子。She _ _ _school due to poverty and worked as a baby-sitter.67. 从他的简历来看，他是我们要找的适合这项工作的人。_ _his resume, hes the suitable person for the job we are looking for.第四部分 写作（共三节，满分35 分）第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。Last Monday, the students at an elementary school weled a new student. He was not shy at all and seemed 68 (recognize) all kids by their names immediately . You may wonder who can do that. Well, the new student was not a human 69 a robot. The 1.2 meter tall student is part of a robot experiment. The experiment is to test 70 if robots can naturally deal with a group of people.71 (pare) to other students, the robot appeared to be smarter than his “classmates”, because he was programmed with the facial 72 (photo) and voiceprints of all kids and teachers there. Also, he 73 (design) with the contents of all the textbooks. As 74 result, he impressed everyone by answering every question 75 (correct).In fact, this is not the first time the robot 76 (be) around humans. In the past years he has done many tasks, one of 77 was acpanying patients at hospital.第二节 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：在错的词下划一横线，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。Dear Sir,Im glad to remend my student Li Ming to you. During middle school years, he did well in several subject, including math, physics and chemistry. Later, his efforts paid off when he admitted into Beijing University majoring in physics. After that, he went to abroad for further education. Because for his excellent work and performance, he gets a doctors degree at Cambridge University. Today that attracts him most is our countrys great succeed and he hopes to e back home to do something for our country. I will be most gratefully if you consider his remendation and offer him a job in your pany.Looking forward to receive your early reply. Yours truly,