辽宁省大连渤海高级中学2018_2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题.docx

渤海高中2018-2019学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语试卷考试时间：100分钟 试题满分：120分 考试范围：必修1注意事项：1. 答卷前，务必将姓名，考号填写在答题纸上并贴好条形码。 2. 答题时，务必将客观题答案在答题纸上涂黑，主观题写在答题纸上。否则无效。第一部分：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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A,B,C和D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并在答题纸上涂黑。AFrogmore House has been a royal place since the 18th century and is today used by the Royal Family for private entertaining. It is especially linked with Queen Charlotte, the wife of George , and her daughters, whose love of botany and art is reflected throughout the house. Unfortunately, parts of a visit to Frogmore are unsuitable for wheelchair-users. For information about access, please telephone 020 7766 7324.Frogmore House and Garden 18, 19, 20 May 10:0017:30 (last admission 16:00) 28, 29, 30 August 10:0017:30 (last admission 16:00) Please telephone 020 7766 7305 for admission prices.Summer Opening for Pre-booked Coach Groups 3 August30 September every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10:0015:00. Adult: 10.50 Over 60/Student (with valid ID): 8.80 Child (under 17): 5.80 Child (under 5): Free Price includes a guided tour of the house.Private Evening Tours 17:3019:00. 25.00 per person. Price includes a guided tour, a copy of the official guidebook and a glass of champagne（香槟酒）. The minimum（最小的） group size for all visits is 10 people. Please note that there is no access for private cars. To make a group booking, please telephone 020 7766 7315. For more information including BSL (British Sign Language) interpretation, please telephone 020 7766 7326.1. When can you enjoy a visit to Frogmore House and Garden?英语试卷 第页（共8页）A. At 9:00 on 19 May.B. At 18:00 on 20 May.C. At 13:00 on 28 August.D. At 17:30 on 31 August.2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. A person in wheelchair can easily get access to all parts of Frogmore.B. Price for Private Evening Tours includes a guided tour.C. A child of six years old can get free admission.D. You are permitted to go through the entrance in your car.3. If a visitor to Frogmore knows little about English Sign Language, he or she can dialfor help.A. 020 7766 7324B. 020 7766 7305C. 020 7766 7315D. 020 7766 7326BA typical school day in the UK starts around 8：30 am. This is often even earlier elsewhere in the world，with students sitting down to their first lesson at 7：30 am in the US. The average teenager ideally needs eight to nine hours sleep each night，but in reality a lot of teenagers struggle to get this much. A lot of problems arise because our sleep patterns are not fixed，and they change as we grow.So a later school start time could help to solve this problem，by ensuring teenagers to get their eight plus hours of sleep and react properly to their bodys natural rhythms. There has been a general shift over the past 25 years to shorten the school day. This is not at the cost of teaching time (which has remained constant) but at the cost of natural breaks，which has led to reduced lunch time and lesson breaks.Later start times could help teens grades and health. This is mainly because it makes the management of children easier. Supervising(监管) hundreds of children “playing” requires effective staffing. And there is always the fear that behavior worsens during breaks. So the theory goes that having them in class and strictly supervised must be better.But this means that students barely have enough time to absorb what they were doing in maths before suddenly they are thrust into ancient history. And teaching staff also transit from one class to another，with hardly a rest or time to refocus.Clearly rethinking the school day could benefit everyone involved. Anyway，it could also lead to better achievement in teenagers and less of a struggle for parents in the mornings. For teachers，it could also mean a less stressful day all aroundand what could be better than that?4How do schools often shorten the school day?AThey increase more holidays. BThey reduce the teaching time.英语试卷 第2页（共8页）CThey properly adjust childrens natural rhythms.DThey reduce childrens lunch time and lesson breaks.5Whats the purpose of the childrens short lesson breaks according to the text?ATo reduce childrens excitement.BTo make children quickly take in what they learned.CTo supervise children more easily.DTo make children behave better in class.6What can we learn about later school start time from the text?AIt will add to the teachers pressure. BIt has always been there for 25 years.CIt benefits the students only. DParents may support it.7What can be the best title for the text?AThe Benefits of a Less Stressful Day BHow to Solve Teenagers Sleep ProblemCThe Benefits of Later School Start Time DThe Reasons Why Teenagers Sleep DifferentlyCAs a child, I was generally happy, singing and dancing to my favorite songs, smiling and laughing with my friends and family. But as far back as second grade, I noticed a “darkness” about me. I didnt enjoy participating in many things.In middle school things in my life began to get even worse. I began withdrawing from everything I once enjoyed. I was always tired. Everything was horrible. Finally, midway through eighth grade, I was told I had a chemical imbalance, diagnosed (诊断) with clinical depression, and had to take medicine. It took months for me to feel the effects of the medicine.When I began to feel happy again is when I realized that I had to take the responsibility for getting better myself, rather than relying on medicine. Aristotle said, “To live happily is an inward power of the soul,” and I believe that this quote describes what I had to do to achieve happiness. Happiness is a journey. Everyone seems to need different things to be happy.“The essentials (要素) to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for,” a quote from William Blake sums up what I believe people need to realize to be truly happy in life. People need love; I feel they need their family and their friends more than anything else in the world. People need work to do, something to make them feel they are making a difference in the world. People need to know that more good is to come in the future, so they continue to live for “now” instead of constantly worrying about the bad that could come. Love and hope are happiness.英语试卷 第3页（共8页）8. From Para. 2 we know that the author.A. was found clinical depression in Grade SevenB. spent months recovering from the clinical depressionC. hated going to sleep as he couldnt sleep wellD. suffered a great deal from clinical depression9. Who helped the author to be happy again?A. The authors friends. B. Aristotle.C. The author himself. D. The authors friends.10. Which of the following about being truly happy is unnecessary in the authors opinion?A. Love. B. Ambition. C. Hope. D. Work.11. What may be the best title for the text?A. Happiness Is Love B. The Essentials to HappinessC. Everyone Needs to Be Happy D. Ways to Overcome ShortcomingsDNeil Jordan, a conservation biologist, has come up with a novel method for protecting cattle from African lions: paint eyes on their behinds. The lions will think their intended prey（猎物）has seen them and will give up, since theyve lost the element of surprise. This psychological trickery has been called iCow, which is actually not as strange as it sounds. The eye-like patterns on butterfly wings are known to prevent preying birds and woodcutters in Indian forests wear masks on the backs of their heads when working to discourage hungry tigers. The inspiration for the iCow strategy came while Jordan was based in a village in Botswana, when two lionesses were killed by local farmers to revenge their cattles death. The African lion is avulnerable species, with numbers dropping from over 100,000 in the 1990s to about 30,000 today. Much of that decline is due to these kinds of revengeful killings because farmers have no effective strategies for protecting their herds. Lions are hunters that like to attack by surprise. They move slowly, quietly, and carefully to their prey, get close, and jump on them unseen, he said. When Jordan was watching a lion follow an antelope one day, he noticed the lion gave up the hunt once the antelope spotted it. So he joined one of the local farmers on a 10-week trial study, painting eyes on one-third of a herd of 62 cattle. When the cattle returned each night, they took a head count to see how many had survived. Only three cows were killed by lions during this period-all without the painted eyes on their behinds. And all the painted cows survived. However, Jordan warned that so far this is just a 英语试卷 第4页（共8页）promising idea. He is now back in Botswana for a more ambitious study, equipped with GPS devices to better monitor the movement of predators（捕食者）and prey. 12. The iCow strategy is designed to.Akill the lionsBscare off PredatorsCidentify cattleDhave fun13. When hunting, lions like to.Agive up halfwayBhesitate to take actionCchase their prey steadilyDlaunch surprising attacks14. What does the underlined word vulnerable mean in the third paragraph?Abadly behavedBlikely to attackCeasily cheatedDeasily damaged15. What can be inferred from the passage?ANeil Jordan got the inspiration from the patterns on butterfly wings.BIn the 10-week trial study, more cattle were killed.CThe iCow strategy is likely to bring great benefit.DThe farmers will continue to take their revenge on the lions.第二节：（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从文后选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。选项中有两项是多余选项。Its important for you teenagers to know how to save money. You know that the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think its a difficult task and dont know how to do it, please do as the followings. 16My dad always tells me that if one doesnt respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, its important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expenses at the end of the month, you will realize what you have spent more money in doing.17Open a savings account.Opening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal; say (forexample), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college.18Do not carry much cash.Do you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money around with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, 英语试卷 第5页（共8页）which will not even help you buy a drink.19Save the changes.Save the changes that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some changes, then do not spend them.20And youll be surprised at the huge amount of money after days.Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, theyll help you to be more responsible in your life.A. Keep a record of your daily expenses.B. After a few days, youll get rid of this habit.C. Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank.D. By that time, you will realize the importance of saving money.E. Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom.F. Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part.G. Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money.第二部分：语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：（共20小题，每小题1.5分 ，满分30分）阅读下面的短文，从A,B,C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。I retired from my family business four years. But Ive never been 21 of a challenge. Ive sailed around the world before. And Ive decided to fly east from Western Australia in a 22 . For the last two years I have trained hard, spending 150 hours 23 with my ground team. When the big day came, thousands of people gathered to 24 the launch. It was a 25 start, with a smooth and steady takeoff . I was 26 but still had some doubts - I was flying into the 27 . I couldnt guarantee Id see my friends and family again. The capsule where I stayed was designed to 28 if I landed in water, but I was not sure whether I could 29 the cruelty of the Ocean. 30 , I kept watching the weather, communicatingwith my land team and 31 altitude to achieve the perfect speed and direction. On my fifth day, I was terrified to notice I was losing oxygen. 32 , I managed to save my life by adjusting the pressure in the oxygen cylinder(氧气筒) to stop the oxygen escaping. I know it was vital to stay 33 to control the flight, altitude and my oxygen flow, so I held a spoon between two fingers - if I 34 , it would fall and wake me up. I never questioned why I was doing this. It is such a unique 35 to see our beautiful planet from high above. Seeing the coast of Australia again on my 11th day was a huge 36 . I knew my journey was 英语试卷 第6页（共8页）nearly over. It was to be a new would record. I could see my team 37 below as I flew over. This 38 really pushed me to my limits, but it hasnt 39 me. Next year, I want to fly even higher to break another 40 for the hot-air balloon flight.21. A. shyB. doubtableC. fondD. confident22. A. planeB. helicopterC. wing suitD. hot-air balloon23. A. debatingB. preparing C. carvingD. travelling24. A. welcomeB. inspectC. delayD. witness25. A. perfectB. falseC. poorD. fresh26. A. amusedB. amusedC. excitedD. frightened27. A. futureB. unknownC. shelterD. recycle28. A. digestB. recycleC. floatD. fly29. A. surviveB. showC. evaluateD. comment30. A. FinallyB. HoweverC. ThereforeD. Besides31. A. losingB. ignoringC. provingD. adjusting 32. A. StrangelyB. LuckilyC. NormallyD. Conveniently33. A. calmB. awakeC. patientD. relaxed34. A. looked aroundB. carried onC. dropped offD. turned up35. A. experienceB. excuseC. dreamD. tradition36. A. lossB. disasterC. burdenD. relief37. A. exercisingB. celebratingC. escapingD. quarreling38. A. challengeB. accidentC. raceD. failure39. A. interestedB. confusedC. annoyedD. discouraged40. A. promiseB. balanceC. recordD. barrier第二节：（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（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。During my first year in China, I spent the summer holiday61_my family at the seaside in Beidaihe. The hotel62_we were staying in was near the sea, so we used to spend most of our time63_(swim). Now, my wife is from Switzerland and when she was at home, she bought me a watch as64_present. The watch she bought 65_(be) waterproof (防水的) and I never took it off, even when I was having a bath. When I went 英语试卷 第7页（共8页）swimming at Beidaihe, I didnt take my watch off either. On the last day of our holiday, I went swimming and66_(come) out of the sea without my watch. As I was leaving, the manager of the hotel said, “Leave your address and phone number so that we can send your watch to you if we can find it.” I did so but I wasnt very67_(hope). One week later, I got a phone call from the hotel. The man who68_(find) my watch was a PLA man. He picked it up when he was out69_(walk) on the beach one day and handed it in at the police station. After several70_(day), I got my watch back and it was still working.第三部分：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）Nowadays, we can still see a few act against public morals. When wait for a bus, we often see that many people dont stand in line. Whats worse, littering and spitting can be seen everywhere in public places. In our astonishment, some people even break traffic rules regardless of their own safe. Faced with these impolite phenomena, and we must take measures to improve the situation. The government supposed to make laws to make people behave proper. In my view, no matter what a smaller effort we make, they can make a difference. Only in this way can we live in the more pleasant world.第二节：书面表达（满分25分）假定你是李华，你的外籍教师Peter计划暑假回国。他写信向你咨询有什么礼物可以代表中国文化，他想买给他母亲。请回信向他推荐合适的礼物。内容包括：1. 推荐礼物；2.推荐原因；3.表达祝福。注意：