四川省宜宾市第四中学2018_2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题.docx

2019年四川省宜宾市四中高二期中考试英语试题第I卷 选择题（100分）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小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例： How much is the shirt? A. 19.15 B . 9.18 C. 9.15 答案是 C。1.What does the man dislike about the work?A.The size. B. The color. C. The style2.Why does the man want a ride to work ?A. His car is being repaired. B. He lent his car to someone else.C.He doesnt want to take the subway.3.What happened to the spaghetti?A. The man had it for lunch. B.It was eaten by the woman. C. It has gone bad in the refrigerator4.Why is the woman returning the skirt?A. Its too short. B.Its too long. C. Its too dark5.Where does the man work now?A.At a furniture store B. At the post office. C.At a party supply store 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 did the woman go to England?A.On business B. To visit friends C. For further studies.7.What was the weather like in England?A.Rainy. B. Windy C. Sunny.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How did the man respond to the womans first complaint? A. He ignored her.B. He argued with her.C. He apologized to her.9. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife.B. Host and cleaner.C. Store owner and customer.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where are the speakers? A. In the police station.B. On the road. C. At the insurance company.11. What did the man first suggest they do? A. Talk to the people behind them. B. Pull over to the side of the road. C. Get their cars fixed together.12. How do the speakers deal with the situation in the end? A. They call the police.B. They go through their insurance. C. They settle it between themselves.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does the woman compare the toy to? A. A medicine.B. A ball.C. A hand.14. What age group is the toy popular with? A. Children.B. Teenagers.C. All age groups.15. Why do some teachers dislike the toy? A. It leads to theft.B. It causes arguments in class.C. It makes students lose focus.16. Who is the actual inventor of the toy? A. An academic researcher.B. An IT professional.C. A chemical engineer.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who usually leads the introductions? A. Matt.B. Steven.C. Karen.18. Where can you find tennis equipment? A. Near the bathrooms.B. At the center of the store.C. Just to the right of the speaker.19. What is Andrews main responsibility? A. Doing the accounts.B. Using the computers to list products.C. Keeping the area neat and organized.20. What will Laura do next?A. Help fill out a form.B. Pay for goods.C. Do some sports.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)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。AChanukah FestivalActivities for kids of all agesSunday, December 17 9:00 am4:00 pmJoin us on December 17th, 2017 (2nd day of Hanukkah) for our annual Hanukkah Family Fun Fest for an exciting day of fun activities for the whole family. The Hazimir Choir will provide holiday musical entertainment. Drum Tales will present “The Hearty Story of Hanukkah” show. There will be ceramic (陶瓷) painting of dreidels , menorahs (烛台) , and other Hanukkah items for the kids. And fun foods, crafts and activities will be happening throughout the day. Bring the whole family and enjoy a funfilled day! 11:30 Jolly Follies puppet showAges 2-12 A fun Muppet (提线木偶) style musical holiday story followed by a Hanukkah sing a song featuring the “Chipmunks” and other favorite characters. Adult: $7 Child $ 5 1:30Hazamir Teen Choir Sponsored by the Berman and Lerner families in memory of Cantor Moses L. Snyder 3:15Drum Tales presentsThe Hearty Story of Hanukkah Drum Tales is fun, interactive percussive (打击乐) and musical. It is much like the traditional drum circle concept. It combines story telling, musical instrumentation and song. Each participant is given a percussive instrument which becomes their media of transportation to far away lands and exotic (异国情调的) places, to ride the waves of mystery of an unfolding plot, and into the deep realm of imagination and the colorful beyond. Drumming, rhyming, rapping, clinking, shaking and clapping, this performance will leave you feeling refreshed after having returned from a journey through these stories! Adults $ 7 Child $ 5 Plus food and fun for the entire family Crafts with BBYO and Young Judea Ceramic painting with Jack and Jill T-Shirt fun with Computer Adventures Fun with Cyber - Connection Vendors Special visit by “Chanukah Bubby ” (Words:328)21. How much does a family of three (a kid and parents) have to pay if they attend Jolly Follies puppet show?A. $ 21. B.$ 19. C.$ 17 D.$ 15.22. What feeling will you not experience if you attend the Drum Tales?A. Mystery. B. Imagination. C. Horror D. Exoticism.23. What is NOT included in the Chanukah Festival?A. Fashion show. B. Fun foods. C. Computer adventures. D.Ceramic painting.BZero. Thats the number of points I scored the entire summer while playing in PhiladelphiasSonny Hill Future League when I was 12 years old. I didnt score. Not a free throw, not an accidental layup, not even a lucky throw-the-ball-up-oops-it-went-in-basket.My father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant and my uncle John “Chubby” Cox were Future League legends in their day. My father as a 610” point forward and my uncle as a 64” point guard.I was putting my family to shame!I considered maybe just giving up basketball and just focusing on soccer. Heres where my respect and admiration for MJ was forged (形成). I learned that he had been cut from his high school team as a freshman; I learned he knew what it felt like to be embarrassed, to feel like a failure. But he used those emotions to fuel him, make him stronger, he didnt quit. So I decided to take on my challenge the same way he did. I would channel my failure as fuel to keep my competitive fire burning. I became obsessed with proving to my family and more importantly to myself that I CAN DO THIS.It became an obsession. I learned everything about the game, the history, the players, the fundamentals. I wasnt just determined to never have a summer of zero again, I was driven to inflict (使遭受) the same sense of failure on my competition as they unknowingly inflicted on me. My killer instinct to score was born.Twenty-four years later, I pass my muse. What a journey this has been. Setting this mark is a huge honor. Thank you all for your love and support, it is much appreciated, even if the villain (恶棍) in me refuses to acknowledge it all the time.24.Why did the author feel like giving up basketball when he was a kid?A. He lost interest in basketball.B. He showed a greater talent for football.C. He felt that he didnt deserve his family name.D. His family was disappointed at his performance.25.What did the author think of failure after knowing about MJs story? A. Motivator.B. Nightmare. C. Embarrassment. D. Shame.26.What has the author achieved Twenty-four years later?A. He has beaten MJ in his achievement.B. He has known everything about basketball.C. He has become another Future League legend.D. He has defeated his nightmare of the Zero-scored summer.27.Which word can best describe the authors character?A. FragileB. AggressiveC. Optimistic D. ProudCWe already know that plants are capable of learning and adapting to their environment, just like any organism. But a new study seems to suggest that plants can do more than just adapt. They can actually make decisions at that.Perhaps we shouldnt be surprised. Plants might be rooted, but their environments can be complex. In fact, researchers discovered that competition and a dynamic environment are what really pushes plants decision-making to its limits.For instance, when competing with competitors for limited sunlight, a plant is faced with having to choose among a number of options. It can attempt to outgrow its neighbors, thus gaining more access to light. It can also attempt to go into a low-light survival mode, if it doesnt consider an arms race to be worthwhile. The plant might also need to determine which way it should grow to best maximize its resources.“In our study we wanted to learn if plants can choose between these responses and match them to the relative size and density(密度) of their opponents,” said Michal Gruntman.In the experiment, whenever plants were presented with tall competitors, they would go into shade-tolerance mode. On the contrary, when plants were surrounded by small, dense vegetation, they would attempt to grow upright. But there were also wise decisions built into each of these situations, too. For instance, plants in shade-tolerance mode would make their leaves thinner and wider to capture as much light as possible relative to the level of their competition.“Such an ability to choose between different responses according to their outcome could be particularly important in diverse environments, where plants can grow by chance under neighbors with different size, age or density, and should therefore be able to choose their appropriate strategy,” said Gruntman.All of this basically means that scientists are beginning to look more closely at how plants work through their decisions. Obviously plants dont have nervous systems, so more research will be needed to see exactly how these decision-making mechanisms (机能) operate within our plant friends.28. Why do plants need to make decisions?A. They are far different from other organisms.B. They know how to adapt to their environment.C. The environment where they are suited can change.D. They have the ability of learning about environment.29. The underlined phrase “an arms race” in Paragraph 3 means .A. the attempt to growB. the choice to surviveC. the way to maximize the resourcesD. the competition for more sunlight30. What influences the size and shape of plant leaves?A. How fierce their competitions are.B. Where the plants grow actually.C. Whether vegetation is dense or not.D. What small plants they are surrounded with.31. What is the best title for the text?A. Plants can easily adapt to the environment.B. Plants are capable of decision-making.C. Plants can work like other organisms actually.D. Plants compete for sunlight with each other.DScientists think they have answered a mystery: How some ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.A few million years ago, the largest whales, averaged about 15 feet long. Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale, the toothless baleen whale（须鲸类）became huge. Modern blue whales get as big as 100 feet. Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum said, “Why is that?” ”It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye, which makes it harder to figure out what happened,” said Graham Slater, lead author of the study. Their study has suggested an answer: Ice ages in the last 3 to 5 million years started it, changing the oceans and food supply for whales.The researchers used fossil records of the smaller whales to create a family tree for baleen whales which include blue whales, humpbacks and right whales. Using computer simulations（模拟）and knowledge about how evolution works, they concluded that when the size changes started, the poles got colder, ice expanded and the water circulation in the oceans changed and winds shifted,Slater and Pyenson said cold water went deep and moved closer to the equator(赤道）and then eventually moved back up with small fish and other small animals that whales eat.Baleen whale, which have no teeth, feed by eating huge amounts of fish they capture. Toothed whales, like sperm whales (抹香鲸), hunt individual fish, so the ocean chants that made food less evenly spread out didnt affect them as much. But baleen whales hunt schools of fish.Olivier Lambert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences calls it “a really convincing situation”. But he said the lack of fossils in certain time periods is an issue. As oceans warm from man-made climate change, the seas will be more like it was when the whales smaller and they will have a more difficult time surviving.32. What does the author mean by “It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye” in the second paragraph?A. The change of baleen whales happened too quickly.B. The change of baleen whales was too difficult to explore.C. Researchers paid little attention to the change of baleen whales.D. Researchers thought the change of baleen whales was unimportant. 33. What played the key role in baleen whales becoming huge?A. Man-made climate change.B. Its eating a huge amount of fish.C. The water circulation in the oceans.D. The increase of food supply for whales.34.What do we know about sperm whales and blue whales according to the text?A. Sperm whales eat more food.B. Blue whaler live much longer.C. Sperm whales prefer to hunt schools of fish.D. Blue whales usually swallow schools of fish.35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. There are no whale fossils now.B. The whales may become even bigger.C. Global warming has threatened the whales.D. Olivier Lamber thinks the study is perfect.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够填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Best Way to Save MoneyAlthough the best way to save money can vary from person to person, depending on age, family size and other characteristics, there are still some easy things that all shoppers can do to keep more money in their bank accounts. Avoid impulse（冲动的）purchases.When you shop, a best way to save money is to have a plan in mind to help you avoid impulse purchases. 36 And you only carry the exact amount of cash that you will need for your planned purchase. Some shoppers agree to discuss any purchases over a certain dollar amount with their spouses（配偶）first. 37 Sometimes the best way to save money in the long term is to spend a little more money right now. 38 A high-quality pair of shoes will last longer than a bargain pair and prevent foot pain. Leaner（瘦的）cuts of meat and organic produce provide health benefits for your family. Buy secondhand.Check classified ads, thrift stores and garage sales for used clothing, toys, furniture, and much more available at a part of their original cost. 39 And there members offer unwanted items for free to anyone willing to pick them up. Borrow instead of buy.If youre only going to use something once, try to borrow it instead of spending your money on it. Borrow a tool from your neighbor. 40 Check out the resources at your local library. Youll also be reducing disorder in your home.A. Make things by yourself.B. Exchange books with a friend.C. Know when to pay for quality.D. Refuse to buy things you cant use.E. For example, you might leave your credit cards at home.F. A good piece of furniture can stay in the family for decades.G. For the most secondhand savings, check out groups like Freecycle.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Once upon a time, there was a king whose name is Alexander. He was wise, 41 and loved by his people. After a few years he got 42 with being a king and would get tired very fast.To solve this problem he went to his guru in the forest and said,“ Im tired of all these problems and 43 ; if I solve one problem, another 44 . Im tired of all this! What should I do?”The guru said,“ If such is the 45 , then leave the kingdom.” The king said, “How can I do this? If I do this, it will make things 46 .” The guru said,“ You give me the kingdom and I will 47 it.” The king was happy and said ,“Yes, this is 48 to me.” Then the king 49 and started to leave. He said,“ I am going to the palace to 50 some money from the treasury and will go to a foreign land 51 Ill do a small 52 and lead my life.” The guru said,“ When you have given me the kingdom, the treasury is also mine and you have no right.” The king thought for a moment and said ,“That is true, 53 , now I will have to take a job somewhere else.” The guru said,“ If you have to take a job, come and work for me. I have such a big kingdom and I need somebody to 54 it. You have the 55 experience. Will you do this?” The king agreed it. Then the guru said,“ Go and from today run the kingdom 56 . Always remember that nothing is yours. You will only get a 57 .” Several months later the guru came to the palace and asked the king,“ So how are you ?Have you got bored? How is life with you?” 58 the king said,“ Im happy now. Im able to sleep well in the night. I work hard the whole day. Im solving the problems coming every day, staying cool and I have no tension! I give my best and leave the 59 things to you! Nothin