2018-2019学年高二英语9月起点考试试题.doc

2018-2019学年高二英语9月起点考试试题第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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。1. What does the man want to do?A. Build a garden B. Water the flowers C. Pick some flowers2. Why does the woman want to return the dress?A. It is too expensive. B. It is the wrong size. C. It is of poor quality.3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At home. B. At school. C. In a restaurant.4. What is the man doing?A. Making a phone call. B. Applying for a job. C. Preparing a speech.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. The mans health. B. The mans breakfast. C. The mans favorite food.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至7题。 6. Why does the man feel upset?A. He lost his money. B. He made a big mistake. C. He quarreled with his boss.7. What does the man decide to do?A. Be more careful. B. Make an apology. C. Leave the pany.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。 8. What do the speakers think of Mias act?A. Inspiring. B. Unbelievable C. Annoying9. What do the speakers plan to do?A. Go to the shop. B. Turn to Mia for help. C. Take exercise together.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why will the woman go to the park? A. To meet a friend . B. To talk with others. C. To play with the man. 11. When will the speakers meet tomorrow? A. At 4:00pm. B. At 5:00 pm. C. At 6:00 pm.12. Whats the most probable relationship between the speakers?A. Dance partners. B. School friends. C. Family members. 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. How often does Brian visit his grandmas town? A. Once a year B. Twice a year. C. Once a month. 14. What does Brian think of the town? A. Clean and quiet. B. Crowded and noisy. C. Quiet and less developed. 15. Why do few people in big cities go to work by bike? A. It is too slow. B. It makes people tired. C. It is unsafe to ride in traffic.16. What does the woman think are necessary in big cities? A. Car-only paths B. Bus-only paths C. Bike-only paths请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the aim of the new rule? A. To improve childrens living skills. B. To reduce inequality in education C. To build more responsible schools.18. Why will the rule make little difference in France?A. Most parents disagree with the rule. B. Most children start attending schools at 3 now. C. Most people have no confidence in early education.19. What is the school starting age in Finland?A. 3 years old B. 5 years old C. 7 years old20. What is the speaker doing?A. Hosting a news program B. Giving a speech on education. C. menting on a problem in France. 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。Big Messaging Apps AbroadWhile WeChat is Chinas biggest mobile messaging app, there are many similar apps in other countries that offer similar features.WhatsApp (US)Users: more than 300 millionPlatforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerryFeatures: Text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharingWith more than 300 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChats biggest petitors.Developed by two ex-Yahoo employees in xx, WhatsApp originally focused on text chat, but on Aug. 6 it also started push - to - talk service. Its noted for its accessibility, easy use and the absence of advertisements. The service is free for the first year, after which $ 0.99 (6. 06 yuan) is charged for a one year subscription.Kakao Talk (South Korea)Users: more than 100 millionPlatform: Android, iOS, windows Phone, BlackBerry and Bada (an operate system developed by Samsung)Features: Text chat, group chat, pushtotalk, group calls, file sharingWith more than 100 million users in more than 230 countries, Kakao Talk is a multi - platform (多平台) texting application that allows users to send and receive messages for tree. With Kakao Talk, users can message each other one-on-one or in group chats with unlimited numbers of friends. You can also choose from more than 250 animated emoticons and share them with friends.Line (Japan)Users: more than 200 millionPlatforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PCFeatures: Text chat, group chat, pushtotalk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickersLine tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging, Line provides its users with more than 250 original stickers and emotions to buy from its own shop. In the first quarter of xx alone, it made $ 17 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the Line games.21. The first paragraph of the passage is used to_.A. introduce the most popular mobile messaging apps in ChinaB. talk about new features in the latest mobile messaging appsC. draw readers attention to various popular mobile messaging appsD. explain how mobile messaging apps have bee so popular22. pared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out?A. Push-to-talk. B. Stickers . C. File sharing. D. Text and group chat.23. One of the popular features of WhatsApp is that users_.A. can send and receive messages for freeB. can enjoy live video chats within groupsC. regularly set free stickers and emoticonsD. dont need to worry about unwanted adsBService Foods makes it easier for cooks to reduce mealtime plaints. Service Foods is so confident that they can reduce plaints, and in fact, that the pany is offering a series of mealtime plaint-reduction tips.According to a representative of Service Foods, plaints can occur when busy cooks serve substandard（不达标的）, low quality meats. As products sit in packaging in the meat case at the store, the meat can age out too much. The natural flavor disappears, and it can be replaced with an undesirable strange flavor. According to Service Foods, plaints from children are mon when you serve substandard meats. Kids may not have the words to describe why they dont like the meats, but theyre certainly willing to express their displeasure. By serving meats from Service Foods, plaints can be reduced. Service Foods meats are all natural and organic, meaning the meats have no chemicals or water or colorings that could change the taste. And the meats are flash-frozen right after cutting, so they wont taste strange to your children.If youre facing different types of plaints, Service Foods may still be able to help you. Some families have mealtime boredom. The same meals, served in the same way, week after week, can be unbelievably boring and hard to look forward to. When it es to these plaints, Service Foods has the answer right on the web. Just go to . Servicefoods. and youll find a long list of recipes（菜谱） to try. Some of these recipes are made in demonstration format（示范格式）, so you can watch the video and get step-by-step instructions on how to prepare the meals. By following these recipes from Service Foods, plaints relating to boredom can certainly be reduced.While Service Foods knows plaints at mealtime can never be totally eradicated, as picky kids will always be picky kids with concerns, the pany is doing everything possible to deal with the problem and get cooks the help they need.24. Service Foods can solve mealtime boredom by _.A. serving flash-frozen meat B. expressing childrens plaintsC. instructing different ways of cooking D. supplying natural food without chemicals25 .The underlined word eradicated in the last paragraph can be replaced with _.A. covered B. accepted C. reduced D. removed26. From the passage we can learn that Service Foods can do the following EXCEPT _.A. help reduce plaints about foods B. teach how to prepare mealsC. provide natural and organic meat D. cook food for picky kids27. What will the readers probably do after reading the passage?A. Pay for Service Foods service. B. Buy organic meat from now on.C. Write recipes for Service Foods. D. Answer plaints on the web.CAbout 150 years ago, a village church priest, Patric Bronte, in Yorkshire, England, had three lovely, intelligent daughters but his hopes fell entirely on the only male successor(继承人), Branwell, a youth with remarkable talent in both art and literature.Branwells father and sisters saved their pennies to pack him off to Londons Royal Academy of Arts, but if art was his calling, he dialed a wrong number. Within weeks he ended up going back home, a penniless failure.Hopes still high, the family landed Branwell a job as a private tutor, hoping this would free him to develop his literary skills and achieve the success and fame that he deserved. Failure again.Still, the selfless sisters set aside their own goals, farming themselves out as teachers and governesses in support of their increasingly indebted brother, convinced the world must eventually recognize his genius. As failure multiplied, Branwell turned to alcohol, then opium, and eventually died as he had lived: a failure. So died hope in the one male but what of the three sisters?During Branwells last years, the girls published a book of poetry at their own expense (under a pen name, for fear of reviewers prejudice against females). Even Branwell might have laughed: they sold only two copies.They didnt give up. Instead, they continued in their spare time, late at night by candlelight, to pour out their contained emotion, writing of what they knew best, of women in conflict with their natural desires and social condition, in reality, less fiction than autobiography (自传)! And 19th century literature was transformed by Annes Agnes Grey, Emilys Wuthering Heights, and Charlottes Jane Eyre.But years of sacrifice (牺牲) for Branwell had eventually ruined their health. Emily took ill at her brothers funeral and died within 3 months, aged 29; Anne died 5 months later, aged 30; Charlotte lived only to age 39. If only they had been highly thought of instead of sacrificed.No one remembers Branwells name, much less of his art or literature, but the Bronte sisters tragically short lives teach us even more of life than literature.28. What might lead to the sad ending of the three Bronte sisters?A. That to be a writer was a really tough road to go.B. The social prejudice against women in those days.C. Their poor family.D. The failure of their brother.29. What does the underlined part probably mean in paragraph 2 ?A. He gave a wrong call to a person. B. He shouldnt have spent much on art.C. He was not talented in art at all. D. He was actually not promising on the way of art.30. According to the passage, what can be inferred from the story of Branwell?A. Gift is not necessarily a guarantee of success.B. Gift is a burden for a person.C. A persons success is largely due to the support of his family.D. Too many choices may lead to success in none.31. Were Patric Bronte alive, what might he regret most?A. Not taking good care of his children. B. Intending his son for an artist or a writer.C. Putting all of his eggs in one male basket. D. Sacrificing too many pennies for his son.DAccording to a new research from the University of Cambridge in England，sheep are able to recognize human faces from photographsThe farm animals, who are social and have large brains, were previously known to be able to recognize one another, as well as familiar humans. However, their ability to recognize human faces from photos alone is novelThe recent study, the results of which were published in the journal Royal Society: Open Science, shows the woolly creatures could be trained to recognize still images of human faces， including those of former President Barack Obama and actress Emma WatsonInitially, the sheep were trained to approach certain images by being given food rewardsLater，they were able to recognize the images for which they had been rewardedThe sheep could even recognize images of faces shown at an angle, though their ability to do so declined by about 15percent - the same rate at which a humans ability to perform the same task declines.Anyone who has spent time working with sheep will know that they are intelligent, individual animals who are able to recognize their handlers,” said Professor Jenny Morton, who led the Cambridge study. Weve shown with our study that sheep have advanced face-recognition abilities, close to those of humans and monkeys.Recognizing faces is one of the most important social skills for human beings, and some disorders of the brain, including Huntingtons disease, affect this abilitySheep are long-lived and have brains that are similar in size and plexity to those of some monkeys. That means they can be useful models to help us understand disorders of the brain, such as Huntingtons disease, that develop over a long time and affect cognitive(认知的) abilities. Our study gives us another way to monitor how these abilities change, Morton said.32. According to the new research， whats unusual about sheep? _A. They have large brains close to monkeys. B. They can recognize their handlers.C. They can tell animals from humans. D.They can recognize human faces from photographs.33How did the researchers train the sheep?_A. By guiding them to follow their handlers.B. By showing photos of humans and monkeys by turns.C. By rewarding them with food.D. By showing photos of famous people.34. What can be inferred from the passage? _A. Sheep have a higher face-recognition ability than monkeysB. The sheeps face-recognition ability stays the same when shown photos at any angleC. The sheeps face-recognition ability may prevent some disorders of the brainD. The new discovery is beneficial to the study of cognitive ability changes35. Whats the best title of the passage?_A. How Sheep Recognize Human Faces. B. A New Discovery About Sheep. C. A Scientific Way Of Feeding Sheep. D. The Secret Life of Sheep.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 selfie(自拍). It refers to a picture of yourself, usually shared on any social networking website. 36 Some selfies are extreme close-ups(特写镜头), and others show part of an arm held straight outward. A few of them even feature the subject standing in front of a bathroom mirror.Everyone takes selfies, but the younger crowd seems to be especially involved in the trend. Young people are relatively heavier digital users. They are interested in staying connected to their friends. 37 .There are also kinds of psychological(心理的) 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 ments from friends. Secondly, its human nature to show off your own great achievements. When you feel good about yourself or look good, its far too easy to take out your phone and record it all through one or several selfies. 39 Thats right. Sometimes people are bored at work, bored at school, bored at home and even bored on the toilet. Last but not least, social media is about being social! If that means uploading as many selfies as possible, then so be it. Its fun, and its a cool way to sort of record your own life.Finally, there are things to be mindful of when youre posting. Its easy to think youre sharing a photo with a few people. 40 So dont post anything online, selfie especially.A. The desire to take, post and get likes on selfies goes back to a biological behavior.B. To some degree, social media is the driving force of their selfie activity.C. The rise of selfies has bee universal.D. There are lots of selfie styles.E. But the whole world of social media is public and every individual can get access to it.F. There are also people who will take selfies because they have nothing else better to do.G. The leading factor is that people want to get attention from as many people as possible.第三部分 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）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Medical bills were piling, kids needed glasses, cars needed repairs and the dog needed surgery. On top of that, Christmas was 41 , so presents needed to be purchased (买).But all of those were 42 when my husband, Brian, was waiting in our local tire(轮胎) shop to have his six truck tires 43 on a snowy night. He overheard the tire salesman 44 a young mom with 3 children that she was in bad 45 of all new tires, as each one was almost 46 out. 47 , the young mom said she didnt have the money to replace more than one tire on her car.On hearing that, Brian 48 to pay for a tire to be installed(安装), 49 of the one tire this woman was able to buy. Brian knew that even though it was just a start, the young mom would be much 50 driving on the 51 roads with a balanced set of two new tires than they would with just one new tire.The young mom was so surprised that she 52 choked up（哽咽）. Eyes filled with tears, she thanked Brian and pulled away.My husband is a naturally modest, 53 man who feels rewarde