山东省武城县第二中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

高二下学期期中考试英语试题第一部分 听力（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 will the speakers probably meet next week? A. On Monday.B. On Tuesday.C. On Friday.2. What will the man do next? A. Open a website.B. Give the woman a new card.C. Take a photo of the woman.3. Who visited Fragrant Hills last weekend? A. Evans uncle.B. Evans mother.C. Annies brother.4. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Husband and wife.B. Salesman and customer.C. Aircrew and passenger.5. Why does the woman order bread? A. She is very hungry.B. Itll keep her kid quiet.C. Its on the dinner menu.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. Whats the womans good news? A. She got a job offer.B. Shell move to a new house.C. She got accepted by a university.7. What do we know about the speakers? A. They live in the same city.B. They used to work together.C. Theyve never met in person before. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. Why is the girl so busy? A. She has too many classes.B. Shes doing a lot of writing.C. Shes working on a big project.9. What is implied about the boy? A. His major is engineering.B. He is still in high school.C. He wants to transfer to the girls school.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题10. What bad news does Sandra hear from her father? A. He just got fired.B. He lost his cell phone.C. He failed a job interview.11. Which major is Sandra more interested in? A. Finance.B. Business.C. Medicine.12. What will Sandra probably do next? A. Go out of town.B. Study for her classes.C. Tell her mother the news.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题13. What kind of artwork is in the living room now? A. A photograph.B. An oil painting.C. A watercolor painting.14. How long will Jareds grandparents stay at his house? A. For one week.B. For twelve days.C. For about half a month.15. What will be hanging in the living room next month? A. A painting of a bird.B. A picture of a forest.C. A picture of an ocean scene.16. What do Jareds parents think of the picture from Jareds grandmother? A. They dont like it at all.B. They value it very much.C. They think its a good color.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17. What does the speaker suggest visitors in Spain do? A. Meet new people.B. Read Spanish books only.C. Spend a lot of time on campus.18. How can visitors make more friends, according to the speaker? A. By starting a club.B. By working on a farm.C. By joining a book group.19. What does “take the easy way out” probably refer to? A. Not making much effort.B. Not getting any exercise.C. Doing something easily. 20. According to the speaker, how can visitors learn Spanish quickly? A. By moving to a village.B. By doing a language exchange.C. By being around native speakers.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AA Spanish pany Siesta &Go has opened the first public napping (小睡) space in Madrid. It promises people a quiet rest in the middle of the citys business center.Napping spaces are nothing new; places to rest are already set up in other big cities in the world. But the idea would appear to work well with the culture of Spain, where people traditionally take an afternoon nap, called siesta.The Madrid nap space recently opened with 19 beds. People can use them by the minute or by the hour, and they can also choose either a private or shared room. An hour of napping inside a private room costs about $ l5.Siesta &GO provides all bedding, clean nightshirts and other materials. Nippers can request to be woken up when their time is up. It also offers areas to work, with armchairs, newspapers and coffee for those not wishing to sleep.Philip Marco is one happy customer. Marco says he gets tired during the day because of hard work. He says a siesta is the perfect way to build up energy. “I e for about 30 minutes or something like that. That is usually enough for me to be full of energy.”While many Spanish people love their naps, others like Carlos Villarroja say they are just too busy to keep the tradition. “Its a Spanish tradition, but I think its more of a legend (传说) than a tradition. Because of the lifestyle and the working hours, we have very little free time for a siesta at least during the week.”But many health experts believe there is evidence that taking a short nap can be very good for the body and mind. Scientific studies show that taking a siesta can also prevent illness and lower blood pressure.21. What is not allowed for customers to do?A. Sleep for freeB. Choose a private roomC. Use it as an officeD. Share a room with others22. What does Philip Marco think of the Madrid nap space?A. Costly B. Helpful C. fortable D. Convenient23. Whats Carlos Villarrojas opinion on siestas? A. It is not necessary to take a nap. B. They can treat high blood pleasure. C. People have no time to take a nap.D. Its not true that Spanish people like naps.BWhen I was in fourth grade, I worked part-time as a paperboy. Mrs.Stanley was one of my customers. Shed watch me ing down her street, and by the time Id hiked up to her doorstep, thered be a cold drink waiting, Id sit and drink while she talked.Mrs.Stanley talked mostly about her dead husband, “Mr.Stanley and I went shopping this morning.” shed say. The first time she said that, soda (汽水) went up my nose.I told my father how Mrs. Stanley talked as if Mr. Stanley were still alive. Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and maybe shed work it out of her system. So thats what I did, and it turned out Dad was right. After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery(墓地).I finally quit delivering newspapers and didnt see Mrs. Stanley for several years. Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser (募捐活动).She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy. Four years before, shed had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with. Now she had friends. Her husband was gone, but life went on.I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named Edna with three kids. She asks me how Im doing. When I dont say “Fine”, she sticks around to hear my problems. Shes lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about munity. munity isnt so much a place as it is a state of mind. You find it whenever people ask how youre doing because they care, and not because theyre getting paid to do so. Sometimes its good to just smile, nod your head and listen.24. Why did soda go up the authors nose one time?A. He was talking fast. B. He was absent-minded.C. He was in a hurry. D. He was shocked.25. Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs. Stanley according to Paragraph 3?A. He wanted to be helpful. B. He enjoyed the drink. C. He took the chance to rest. D. He tried to please his dad.26. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase work it out of her system?A. turn to her old friendsB. move out of the neighborhoodC. recover from her sadness D. speak out about her past27. What does the author think people in a munity should do?A. Open up to others. B. Depend on each other.C. Pay for others help D. Care about one another.C Researchers have created a backpack that has a puter and medicines in it that can help even untrained soldiers save the lives of wounded troops. Wounded soldiers have a better chance of survival if they get help soon after being hurt and are quickly taken to a hospital or clinic. But soldiers who do not have medical training may not know how to help their injured friends.Doctors and engineers have developed what they call an “intelligent backpack”. It has a puter and electronic measuring devices. The backpack also has robotic instruments and medicines ready to give to injured troops.About 16 doctors and engineers from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and several other places are working on the project. The U. S. Department of Defense has given money to the project.Ron Poropatich leads the project. He is a retired army surgeon. He says the backpack will help soldiers care for those who are injured. The devices included in the backpack can monitor a persons heart rate and blood pressure. The robotic instruments can even tell whether the soldier has a collapsed lung.The intelligent backpacks puter can pare information gathered about the injured soldier with thousands of similar cases, and quickly tell the best methods to use to save the soldiers life.Sometimes, it is not always possible to quickly remove the injured soldier from the battlefield. So, Dr. Poropatich says, the researchers hope to create a backpack that will have devices that can keep a soldier alive for a long time. Dr. Poropatich hopes the backpack and its instruments will be ready for testing animals in about three years.28. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Soldiers should have taken medical training.B. Most of the soldiers cant use the backpack correctly.C. The backpack can play a big part in the battlefield.D. War or battle has brought harm to the world.29. How many kinds of items are mentioned in the backpack?A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D. 5.30. What can we know according to Ron Poropatich?A. The project got support from the whole world.B. The robotic instruments can monitor lungs.C. The injurers heart disease can be cured.D. The devices can adjust soldiers blood pressure.31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Researchers and Their Wonderful DiscoveryB. Medical Care Tested on the Wounded SoldiersC. Robotic Devices Used in the Battlefield D. Emergency Medical Care in a BackpackD Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books especially paperbacks, which are still paratively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers.There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts(自夸) of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet! Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers e along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand-carts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.32. “Londoners are great readers” means that _.A. Londoners are great because they read a lot. B. There are a great number of readers in LondonC. Londoners are readers who read only great books D. Londoners read a lot33. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road _.A. is in the suburbs of London B. contains various kinds of shops C. is famous for its bookshopsD. is the busiest street in London34. In this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean? _.A. move away from a busy streetB. buy books in a most busy street C. waste time looking for books D. take a risk of losing ones life35. On Farringdon Road, _.A. you can find fine bookshops for the latest booksB. you can see book sellers selling books on hand-cartsC. there are only small bookshops for the second-hand booksD. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold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。Long, long ago people couldnt write and they had no books. But they had stories. People learned the stories by heart and taught new ones to one another. Sometimes it was hard to remember them all. 36._The ancient Egyptians wrote their stories on something made from papyrus (纸沙草) plants. People in other places wanted to learn from the Egyptians to use papyrus.37._ So, parchment (羊皮纸), made from goatskin, later took its place.In ancient China books looked a little different. People there used ink to write on bamboo or silk. And then they invented paper. Made of trees, paper was easier and cheaper to make than papyrus or parchment.38._ Papermaking later spread to the West, but there was a big problem with these early books. Every single one had to be copied and written by hand.39._They carved (雕刻) a page of words into a piece of wood or stone. They could then print the page by spreading ink on the wood or stone and putting it against paper. But it wasnt until a German printer invented movable, metal letters that books became fast and easy to make. The letters could be used to print copy after copy, and the letters put together again and again to print different pages of words.40._ Once a luxury (奢侈品) only the rich could buy, they soon became a treasure everyone could enjoy.A. It took years to finish making just one book.B. But papyrus grew mainly in Egypt.C. Things grew a little easier when writing was invented.D. Finally books could be printed by the thousands.E. The Chinese were the first to think of a way to speed things up a little.F. Books in the West didnt change for a long time after that.G. Its surface was smoother and better for writing on too.第三部分 英语知识运用 （满分 30分） 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。 As we all know, the most valuable possessions are honesty and love. There was a story telling us about an old man. The old man wanted to retire 41._his poor health. The challenge was in deciding which son 42._take his place. As his children gathered to celebrate his birthday, the father announced his 43._. The old man took out two boxes and said to his two sons. “Each of you takes one. I want each of you to 44._it with what you believe to be the most 45._thing for our successful business. 46._your choices, I will decide who will take 47._the business,” father said. The next days the families and employees could sense the spirit of 48._between the boys.It was January 1st and the family 49._to celebrate again. “Please 50._with me whats in your box!” father said. The first son said, “Its outside on the back of truck. The box you gave me was much too 51._.” Father walked to the window and from that distance could see all. With a deep tone of 52._, he asked the other son， “What do you have to give?” The son 53._ his father the box. The old man looked inside and with great 54._looked up at his son. “Its 55._!” father said. “Are you telling me that you have found nothing of value in our business?”“On the contrary,” he said. “I could not place 56._I found most valuable in a box. How does one measure the value of quality and honesty? What size box would 57._the loyalty（忠诚） of our employees and customers? How big of a room would I need for our workers who have 58._from our generous pay and health plan? Finally, father, the most valuable possessions I 59._hold are the love of you and mother.”60._was obvious what decision was made that day. There will e a time when each of us will be asked by our father to share what we value most. I hope your box is empty.41. A. place of B. thanks for C. in spite of D. due to 42. A. need B. should C. must D. would43. A. experience B. money C. retirement D. knowledge44. A. cover B. fill C. bine D. provide45. A. valuable B. beautiful C. fortable D. adjustable46. A. Based on B. Stood for C. Protected from D. Dressed up47. A. up B. down C. over D. off48.A. teamwork B. achievementC. petition D. munication49. A. forced B. gathered C. refused D. adjusted50. A. share B. publish C. send D. write51. A. small B. big C. light D. large52. A. happiness B. loneliness C. illness D. sadness 53. A. posted B. packed C. handed D. wrapped54. A. delight B. shock C. mystery D. devotion 55. A. terrible B. wonderful C. empty D. ugly56. A. where B. when C. how D. what 57. A. sense B. hold C. measure D. pare58. A. heard B. suffered C. learned D. benefited59. A. severely B. luckily C. sadly D. slightly 60. A. They B. It C. You D. We第II卷（满分50分）第一节语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。The art of paper-cutting in China may date back to the second century, since paper 61 (invent) by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. As paper became more affo