四川省成都石室中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

成都石室中学 20172018 学年度下期高 2019 届半期考试 英语试卷 考试说明： 英语考试时间共 120 分钟，满分 150 分。 英语试题卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）。第 I 卷 1 至 10 页，第 II 卷 10至 11 页。考试做答时，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷、草稿纸上答题无效。 第 I 卷 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20 分） 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 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. When will the next underground arrive?A. At 1:55B. At 2:00C. At 2:052. What does the man like about the play?A. The story.B. The endingC. The actor3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. On a plane.B. On a trainC. On a ship4. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Coach and player.B. Boss and employeeC. Customer and seller.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. Surfing on the Internet.B. Sending a document via email. C. Writing an article.第二节（共 15 小题，每小题 1 分, 满分 15 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 项中选出虽佳选项，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 food does the woman order?A. Pork noodles.B. Roasted beef steakC. Fish salad.7. How does the woman order her food?A. By making a phone call.B. By using the Internet.C. By showing up in the restaurant.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. How did the womans son get injured?A. He had a car accident.B. He got hurt in a match.C. He got involved in a robbery.9. What will the man do in the next few hours?A. Do some tests.B. Get some rest.C. Take some medicine听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Whats the destination for the speakers?A. Greenwood Park.B. Sweetwater Mountains.C. Nightstar Valley11. Whats the purpose of the activity?A. For environmental protection. B. For a business reason.C. For physical exercise12. What probably will the man wear for the hiking?A. White T-shirt and grey pants. B. White T-shirt and brown pants. C. Grey T-shirt and grey pants.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the woman want to go?A. Oxford.B. NewcastleC. London14. When will the woman begin her tour?A. On July 30th.B. On August 6th.C. On August 12th.15. How much money should the woman pay for the trip in total?A. 700B. 2,800C.3,30016. What does the man remind the woman to do at last?A. Pay the money in advance.B. Get more information on the website. C. Call to confirm before departure.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Which road will stay closed for over an hour?A. M16B. M30C.M4318. Why is North Street closed to all cars?A. The snow hasnt been cleared. B. Theres an accident.C. It is under repair.19. How can passengers get the latest information about trains?A. By visiting a website.B. By sticking to the radio. C. By making a call20. What is the weather going to be like in the evening?A. Snowy.B. Windy.C. Cloudy.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，并在题卡上将该 项涂黑。 AIn 2013, Eric and Winnie founded their pany Dyelicious, the first kitchen trash workshop in the city.Their office is actually a small laboratory. Sometimes, they spend a whole day boiling or “cooking”, adding sugar, vinegar, and salt among other ingredients. In doing so, an orange peel can be turned into orange dye and a rotten pineapple might be turned into a beautiful yellow color.At the beginning, Eric and Winnie were always laughed at by local vegetable sellers when they asked for their waste. But when the sellers saw the results of their up-cycling, they became more supportive. Over the past five years, Dyelicious has turned more than six tons of food waste into dyes for dresses, scarves and handicrafts, turning the old saying of “one mans trash is another manstreasure” into a reality. Turning the food into dye is a small step in alleviating(缓解) food waste woes,but its at least a beginning.Dyelicious sells the dyed products and teaches people how to DIY their own nice clothes and handicrafts. While running the business is definitely not easy, the group says its worthwhile.The waste problem is a pressing issue in the city, as its landfills are expected to be full in two to three years. Eric and Winnie are trying to make a small step to change society and are hoping to gainbig improvements for environmental protection in the city.21. What does the underlined word “trash” in the first paragraph mean?A. Cooking equipment.B. Food waste, rubbish of food.C. A trap, a device to catch.D. A boiling and cooking container.22. When was this passage written?A. In 2008.B. In 2009.C. In 2013.D. In 2017.23. From the passage, we can see the writer may think that .A. Dyelicious is a bit too small as a kitchen trash workshopB. Dyelicious will make the clothes and handicrafts niceC. Dyelicious will make great contribution to the environmentD. Dyelicious can make a lot of money by selling its dyed productsBAs a child, visiting the zoo was more a punishment than a treat. I didnt find the chimps teaparties funny, nor the bird shows entertaining. Feeding time for seals was less painful, but their performances still seemed like they belonged more in a circus.And I hated circuses, especially the animal acts men teasing lions, girls balancing on elephants and monkeys playing football. I knew that every trick a circus animal did was unnatural, achieved through strict training and quite possibly cruelty.Happily, during my lifetime public attitudes and the law have changed. Circuses using wild animals are now almost extinct, and zoos have definitely evolved.When my children were young, I occasionally took them to our local zoo. The elephants were in tiny cages and the gorillas looked bored as they sat peeling bananas and staring at teasing visitors. Each cage had a sign which listed the animals name and where it came from. But, back then, there was little information included about the environmental challenges they faced.As a result, environmentalists and animal lovers often oppose zoos. “Animals belong in the wild,”is a mon and understandable plaint. But what do the animals themselves prefer?Generally speaking, zoo animals have a longer life. But you may protest they are not free. What? Free to be hunted and killed, free to die of hunger or thirst? Maybe sitting in a cage eating bananas isnt so bad.Nowadays, things are different due to the work of BIAZAthe British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. These days every zoo requires BIAZAs approval to operate, and the association sets the standards, observes conditions in zoos and develops animal-research programmes, both in the UK and abroad. BIAZA also organises the animal exchanges between zoos all over the world.Consequently, today, most zoo animals are born and raised in zoos, live in large, fortable enclosures and are cared for by well-trained, knowledgeable and caring zoo employees. Of course its no substitute for living in the wild but unfortunately this isnt always possible. Meanwhile, why not visit your local zoo and decide for yourself?24. The passage is mainly about .A. how zoos have improvedB. whether a zoo should be closed downC. a new environmental organisationD. the difference between zoos and circuses25. From Paragraph 2, we can guess that the writer believes circus animals _.A. had much shorter lives than those in the wildB. were not treated well by their trainersC. should have been placed in zoosD. were not as intelligent as those in zoos26. Which of the following roles are performed by BIAZA?A. Organising animal study projects and training zoo workers. B. Checking zoo conditions and arranging animal exchanges. C. Designing zoos and approving zoo operations.D. Caring for ill animals and setting zoo standards.27. Which of the following statements about zoos would the writer agree with?A. Zoo animals should be freed into the wild. B. Zoos are more popular now than in the past.C. Zoo animals are more restricted than in the past.D. Zoos now provide caring living conditions for animals.CTaste is such a subjective matter that we dont usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyones preference is that its one persons opinion. But because the two big colapaniesCoca-Cola and Pepsi Colaare marketed so aggressively, weve wondered how big arole taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought theyd have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them with four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas as the one group, diet versions as the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to pare the participants choices with what mere guesswork could have acplished.Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 out of27 identified all four samples correctly.Both groups did better than chance would predict, but nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.28. According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to .A. show that a persons opinion about taste is mere guessworkB. pare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks C. find out the role taste preference plays in a persons drinking D. reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers29. The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that .A. there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and PepsiB. few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from PepsiC. peoples tastes differ from one anotherD. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are peoples two most favorite drinks30. It is implied in the first paragraph that .A. the petition between the two colas is very strongB. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fansC. the purpose of taste test is to promote the sale of colasD. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola panies31. The authors purpose in writing this passage is to .A. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each otherB. remend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colasC. show that taste preference is highly subjectiveD. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy DThe death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europes colonial conquests caused a sharp decline in linguistic diversity, eliminating at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300 years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting and consolidating national languages and sidelining others. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media and the civil service, national governments have deliberately tried to knock out minority languages.This process of linguistic standardization has been pushed by industrialization and scientific progress, which have imposed new methods of munication that are swift, straightforward and practical. Language diversity came to be seen as an obstacle to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism became an ideal.More recently, the internationalization of economic markets, the spread of information by electronic media and other aspects of globalization have intensified the threat to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game.The serious effects of the death of languages are evident. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural capacity for linguistic inventiveness. We would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of “the first language”. As each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.Multilingualism is the most accurate reflection of multiculturalism. The destruction of the former will unavoidably lead to the loss of the latter. Imposing a language without any links to a peoples culture and way of life stifles the expression of their shared genius. A language is not only used for the main instrument of human munication. It also expresses the world vision of those who speak it, their ways of using knowledge. To safeguard languages is an urgent matter.32. Which of the following does not contribute to the death of languages?A. Colonial conquests of EuropeB. The boom of human populationC. Advances in science and industrializationD. The rise of nation-states33. The serious effects of the death of languages include all EXCEPT that _.A. People would fail to understand how languages originatedB. Language diversity would bee an obstacle to globalizationC. Monolingualism would lead to the loss of multiculturalismD. Human brains would bee less creative linguistically34. The underlined word “stifles” in the last paragraph probably means “ ”.A. indicatesB. fuelsC. imposesD. kills35. What is the authors purpose of writing this passage?A. To explain the reasons why languages are dying out.B. To warn people of the negative aspects of globalization.C. To call peoples attention to the urgency of language preservation.D. To argue how important it is for people to speak more languages. 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。By 2025, water shortage will be a big problem for about 1.8 billion people. In a world where water resource is increasingly short, nations cannot afford to waste it. 36 After we use water in our homes and businesses, it is washed away, and takes many valuable resources with it.Waste water is rich in carbon and nutrients. 37 A number of nations and major cities have already built waste water treatment plants. They can effectively recover nutrients and bioenergy, and produce “new water” that can be reused. But more than 80% of all waste water still currently flows into natural ecosystems, polluting the environment and taking valuable nutrients and other recoverable materials with it. 38 This is still better than the situation in smaller cities. In Latin American countries, those living in small and medium sized cities at most treat it in the form of septic tanks (化粪池) thatlack regular and proper maintenance.Imagine that outside one of these small cities lies a lovely piece of land on the surface which is pleasingly built and provides habitats for local wildlife. Beneath the surface is a wetland that treats waste water and produces energy. The energy produced saves families from having to use firewood collected in the wild. This is not a dream project. 39 A team of scientists have been looking into the potential of constructed wetland environments. Having analyzed 800 examples of biomass in more than 20 countries, they found that, depending on climate and the type of plant used in the construction of this type of wetland, up to 45 hectares of landcould be irrigated(灌溉) with waste water. 40 ABut that is exactly what we do.BThis can provide easy access to clean water.CThere is no longer any good reason to waste any type of water.DA constructed wetland environment is already in practice on a small scale. EThis would reduce the need for fresh water for irrigation and energy for pumping. FIf collected and treated properly, it could provide “new water”, fertilizer, and energy.GAlthough waste water systems in large cities are effective, the whole procedure usually costs much.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。The oldest person I know is a granny in a nursing home I often visit. She is the oldest member, aged 109. Born in the Qing Dynasty, Little Granny has bound (裹住) 41 , which remind me of how women were badly 42 a century ago. By merely looking at her feet, you would never 43how powerful her grip is. One day as I came near to say hello, she grabbed my hand. 44 I felt only skin and bones, her grip was much 45 than one would have expected from someone at herage.Such are the hands that 46 five childr