高二英语下学期期中试题55

一岗双责落实还不到位。受事务性工作影响，对分管单位一岗双责常常落实在安排部署上、口头要求上，实际督导、检查的少，指导、推进、检查还不到位。福建省福州市2016-2017学年高二英语下学期期中试题考试时间:120分钟 试卷满分:150分 2017.4.27第I卷 （满分100分）第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节 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.When does the woman expect Mr Brown to be back?A. At 3:00. B. At 3:30. C. At 4:00.2.Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a hotel.B. In a hospital.C. In an office.3.What are the speakers talking about?A. Bank accounts.B. A computer crime.C. Computer games.4.Where was the man born?A. In Italy.B. In France.C. In Britain.5.Whom did the man visit last summer?A. His mother.B. His grandfather.C. His grandmother.第二节 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.Where are the speakers?A. In a garage.B. In a car park.C. In a car factory.7.What will the woman do next week?A. Sell her car.B. Pick up her car. C. Have her car repaired.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8.What did the woman do just now?A. She practised German with her friends online.B. She learned some German idioms online.C. She chatted with others online.9.What made the woman feel foolish?A. Nobody wanted to talk to her.B. She was laughed at by others.C. She couldnt make herself understood.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What is the womans problem?A. She spent all her allowance.B. She lost her money.C. She lent all her money to her friends.11.What is the womans salary a month in the supermarket?A. $250.B. $760.C. $950.12.Why doesnt the woman want to work more?A. Shell have no time to study.B. She doesnt like her job.C. Her manager doesnt like her.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13.Who is the electronic pet designed for?A. Children.B. Old people.C. Doctors. 14.What is used to connect Health Care Centres with the home of the electronic pet owner?A. A computer.B. A television.C. A telephone. 15.What can the electronic pet do to help its owner?A. It can have a conversation with its owner.B. It can call an ambulance if its owner is seriously ill. C. It can report to the Health Care Centres about its owners physical condition.16.How does the woman feel about the electronic pet?A. Interested.B. Worried.C. Excited.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17.When did Hemingway publish his first collection of short stories?A. In 1923.B. In 1929.C. In 1952.18.What is The Sun Also Rises about?A. People in New York.B. People in Paris.C. People in London. 19.What do we know about A Farewell to Arms?A. It was published in 1924.B. It was Hemingways third novel.C. It describes something related to World War I.20.What was The Old Man and the Sea based on?A. An old fishermans experiences.B. Hemingways experiences as a reporter.C. Hemingways experiences and hobby of fishing.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。ASeveral times my daughter had telephoned to say, Mum, you must come and see the daffodils(水仙花)before they are over. I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Lake Arrowhead. I will go next Tuesday, I promised, a little unwillingly, on her third call.The next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyns house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible(看不见的) in the cloud and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and thesechildren that I want to see!My daughter smiled calmly and said, We drive in such weather all the time, Mum.You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small road and on the far side of a small church, I saw a hand-lettered sign that read Daffodil Garden.We got out of the car and each took a childs hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up amazed. Before me lay the most beautiful sight. Flows of flowers of different colors seemed poured down the peak and slopes. There were five acres of flowers! A sea of daffodil! It was like a fairyland all beyond description. But who has done this? I asked Carolyn. Its just one woman, Carolyn answered. Thats her home. Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio(露台), we saw a poster. “Answers to the Questions I KnowYou Are Asking was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. 50,000 bulbs(鳞茎) it read. The second answer was, One at a time,by one woman. The third answer was, Began in 1958.I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than fifty years before, had begunone bulb at a timeto bring beauty and joy to this remote mountain top. Just planting one bulb at a time, year after year, had changed the world where she lived and created something of magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small amounts of daily effort, we too can accomplish great things. Everyone can do something to change the world.21. The writer wasnt going to see the daffodils at first because _.A. she cared more about the children.B. they were on a remote mountain top. C. it was not easy for her to drive there.D. the weather was not good enough.22. What do we know from the passage about the woman who grew daffodil?A. She must have been a modest woman.B. She worked as a professional gardener.C. She grew the daffodils over 50 years by herself.D. Being poor, she made a living by selling daffodils.23. What has the writer learned from this experience?A. Its never too late to learn.B.Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it.C. People can change the world where they live by growing flowers.D. Accumulation(积累) of small steps may lead to something magnificent.24. Which may be the best title for the passage?A. One bulb grown, magnificence dawns.B. A woman and Daffodils.C.The Daffodil Garden.D. An Unforgettable Experience.BSchedule a Tour University of South Carolina （USC) is famous for its warm southern hospitality(好客). Schedule a visit and feel it in person. Our walking tours are led by current students, called University Ambassadors, who are looking forward to telling you what its like to live and study in USC. Our walking tours run Monday through Friday and most are around 2 hours. The university will be closed on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 in observance of the holiday. We welcome your visit year round and will be ready for you, rain or shine. Please refer to the list below to determine which tour is best for you and remember to book at least two weeks in advance. 25. Why is USC closed to visitors on July 4?A. To prepare a tour. B. To update its website.C. To celebrate the holiday. D. To encourage a self-guided walk.26. Who does Admitted Student Day target at?A. AU visitors to USC. B. Those applying for fall 2017.C. Independent consultants. D. Those admitted for fall 2017.27. If a 15-people group requests a summer visit, they need to .A. submit Group Visit interest Form B. email C. call 800-922-9755 D. check out Virtual TourCWhy doesnt the unemployment rate ever reach zero? Economists, who generally believe that supply tends to meet demand, have long thought about this question. Even in good times, i.e. not now, there are people who cant find work. And even in bad times, i.e. now, there are job openings. With over 14 million people out of work and looking for a job, you would think every available job would be filled. But thats not the case. Not now and not ever.On Monday, the Nobel Prize committee awarded the prize for economics to the three scholars who have done the most to explain this phenomenon. Two of the winners are Americans, Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Mortensen of Northwestern. The third winner is Christopher Pissarides, who teaches at the London School of Economics and was born on Cyprus.Like most economists, what they have found about why the jobless and ready-employers dont find each other seems obvious. You have to find out there is job opening you are interested in. Employers need to get resumes. It takes a while for both employers and employees to make the decision that this is what they want. And these guys came up with a framework to study the problem of why people stay unemployed longer than they should and what can be done about it.So what would todays Nobel Prize winners do to solve the current problem of the unemployed? And does the awarding of the prize contribute to the politicians lowering joblessness?Speaking from his north London home, Pissarides told The Associated Press the announcement came as “a complete surprise” though his work had already helped shape thinking on both sides of the Atlantic.For example, the New Deal for Young People, a British government policy aimed at getting 18-24-year-olds back on the job market after long periods of unemployment, “It is very much based on our work,” he said.“One of the key things we found is that it is important to make sure that people do not stay unemployed too long so they dont lose their feel for the labor force,” Pissarides told reporters in London. “The ways of dealing with this need not be expensive training it could be as simple as providing work experience.”28. According to the writer, which is true about finding jobs?A. It is always difficult to find a job.B. Everyone can find a job in good times.C. It is possible to find a job even in times as bad as now.D. Contrary to popular belief, it is easier to find a job in bad times.29. What is it that leads to their winning the prize?A. They have found the reason for unemployment. B. They have put forward a set of ideas to deal with unemployment. C. They have found out why people dont want to be employed. D. They have long studied the problem of unemployment.30. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A. Pissarides thinks his work surprising.B. The work of Pissarides has influenced many economists.C. Some of the winners ideas have been put into practice.D. It is probable that unemployed young people in Britain benefit from Pissarides work.31. What is effective in dealing with unemployment according to Pissarides? A. Spending large sums of money on training.B. Providing work experience.C.Teaching some knowledge of economics.D. Keeping people unemployed for some time.DWhat do literary tourists look for when they visit the British Isles? Often its the charmingly old-fashioned bookshops that provide the perfect excuse to read uninterruptedly and to disconnect from the world. Until recently, the trend for fine coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the citys bookish crowd to be ruining Londons centuries-old tradition of disconnected reading.But a crop of bookshops is fighting against crazy online engagement and is creating environments where the real-life, Internet-free book reading is the most effective way to expand your social and professional networks. Leading the fighting is Libreria Books, which is in the company of Tenderbooks, Buchhandlung Wakther, Lutyens&Rubinstein etc., all independent bookshops without high-speed Wi-Fi and coffee.Mr. Silva of Libreria was inspired to open his shop after experiencing a common suffering for Londons book-loversthe repeated ring tones of smart phones ruining the peace of his bookshop experience. He wanted to get people reading without interruption. He said, “You can get Wi-Fi anywhere now, its not necessary in a bookshop.”Their mantra(原则) has drawn a wise, brainy crowd. The bookshop should be an escape from an information overload. “ If someone gets a phone call, they leave the shop. Its the same with the Internetpeople just know this isnt the space for being on line.” said Tamsin Clark, owner of Tender books. And in face of the Internet overload, some stores are proving to be among Londons hottest places.Mr. Silva said “an old-fashioned space” is clearly appealing to book-lovers. He said his shop has had twice as many customers as expected, with visitors from as far as Australia and China. Faced with a bookshelf recommended by the Queen or surrounded by first editions, who wants to download a morning full of emails?32. What would literary tourists like to find in an old-fashioned bookshop?A. Free coffee. B. Social networks.C. High-speed Wi-Fi. D. Peaceful reading time.33. Why did Mr. Silva of Libreria decide to open his own bookshop?A. He saw the trend of running bookshops.B. He aimed at banning Wi-Fi in bookshops.C. He was inspired by other bookshop owners.D. He had an unpleasant reading in a bookshop.34. What do Londons bookish crowd think of the Internet-free bookshops?A. Outdated. B. Attractive.C. Fashionable. D. Professional.35. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean?A. People prefer reading to being connected.B. Emails keep coming in all morning.C. You can still work efficiently.D. People have no access to downloading emails.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。 Social media and the mobile web have given rise to a strange phenomenon called the selfieIt refers to a picture of yourself, usually shared on any social networking website 36 Some selfies are extreme close-ups, and others show part of an arm held straight outwardA few of them even feature the subject standing in front of a bathroom mirrorEveryone takes selfies, but the younger crowd seems to be especially involved in the trendYoung people are relatively heavier digital usersThey are interested in staying connected to their friends 37 There are also kinds of psychological factors driving people to take a selfie and upload it to a social networking site 38 A quick and easy way to attract others attention is to get likes and comments from friendsSecondly, its human nature to show off your own great achievementsWhen you feel good about yourself or look good, its far too easy to take out your phone and document it all through one or several selfies 39 Thats rightSometimes people are bored at work, bored at school, bored at home and even bored on the toiletLast but not least, social media is about being social! If that means uploading as many selfies as possible, then so be itIts fun, and its a cool way to sort of document your own lifeFinally, there are things to be mindful of when youre postingIts easy to think youre sharing a photo with a few people 40 So dont post anything online, selfie especiallyA. There are lots of selfie stylesB. The rise of selfies has become universalC. Social media, to some extent, is the driving force of their selfie activityD. The desire to take, post and get likes on selfies goes back to a biologicalbehaviorE. But the whole world of social media is public and every individual can get access to itF. There are also people who will take selfies because they have nothing else better to doG. The leading factor is that people want to get attention from as many people as possible第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节：根据汉语提示完成句子(每空一词，每空1分； 满分20分)1. 在许多方面，我的残疾使我在心理上变得更加坚强、更加独立。In many ways my 41 has helped me grow stronger 42 and become more 43 . 2. 理科对我来说是最富有挑战性的课，因为我的学生对做实验没有概念。Science is my most 44 subject as my students have no 45 of doing 46 . 3. 阿西莫夫拥有超凡的想象力，这给予了他探索未来的能力，他还拥有惊人的智慧，使他能对现在和过去的一切事物做出解释。Asimov had both an 47 48 that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for 49 of everything.4. 二十年前，我被委任为一名火山学家。如今我仍然对火山的美丽景色以及它们那潜在的巨大破坏力惊愕不已。I was 50 as a volcanologist twenty years ago. After so many years, I am still amazed at their beauty as well as their 51 to cause great damage.5. 我们跑到岸边，看到对面有个庞然大物猛力跃出水面，然后又坠落到水里。We ran down to the shore in time to see an 52 animal 53 us throwing out of the water and then 54 down again.6. 我一直忙于工作， 以至于没有时间去参加社会活动。I have been so 55 with work that I havent had time for 56 activities.7. 克莱尔觉得，机器人向她表示同情，这是荒谬可笑的。Clair thought it was 57 to be offered 58 by a robot.8. 当我想家时，房东家代替我家，和他们在一起给了我很大的安慰。When I miss my family, its a great 59 to have a 60 family to be with .第二节：单句语法填空（每小题1分；满分10分）61. It remains _(see) whether the new policy can be put into practice. 62. Five people are reported _(kill) in the accident.63. _(not receive) the reply letter, I wrote another letter to the editor.64. When we saw the road_(block）with snow, we decided to spend the holiday at home. 65. It is you rather than I that are _ (blame) for the mistake.66. Anyone, once _ (test) positive for H7N9 flu virus, will receive free medical treatment from our government.67. _(be) more careful, and you can make fewer mistakes in English. 68. I lost a book, _ which the title I cant remember now.69. He reached Beijing in 1998, _, some time later，he became a professor70. In my opinion, _ plays, eats or sleeps in class should be criticized severely第II卷（满分50分）第四部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从7190各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。I remember arriving