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吉林省松原市实验高级中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题（总分：150分； 考试时间：120分钟）第I卷（共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。1. Where are the speakers going?A. To Mexico. B. To Canada. C. To New York.2. Why cant Tim take Jennys shift?A. He has to go to a funeral. B. He is on vacation. C. He has a soccer game. 3. What does the woman mean?A. More than enough food has been prepared.B. They will probably run out of food.C. There is a bomb in the refrigerator.4. What subject does the woman think less difficult?A. Mathematics.B. History.C. Literature.5. What did the woman study in college?A. Business.B. Art.C. Spanish. 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。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。听下面一段对话，回答第6-7题。6. What happened to Miguel last weekend?A. He lost his textbook. B. His house was burned to the ground.C. He took care of his grandma.7. Why will Miguel be late to Ms. Perrys office?A. He has to make food for his grandma.B. He has to do his homework.C. He has to buy his lunch. 听下面一段对话，回答第8-10题。8. What does the man do for his job?A. He cleans houses.B. He sells houses.C. He does paperwork.9. When does the conversation take place?A. On Friday.B. On the weekend.C. On Thursday.10. Why does the woman remend the man her friend?A. She enjoys working with him.B. Her friend is moving to Springfield.C. She is moving. 听下面一段对话,回答第11-13题。11. How old is Sam?A. Hes in college.B. Hes still a young kid.C. Hes in high school. 12. What does Sam plan to do this summer?A. Work at the pool.B. Go to the lake with his mother. C. Learn to skateboard. 13. What does Sam need help with?A. Shopping in a supermarket.B. Filling out job applications.C. Paying for summer school.听下面一段对话，回答第14-17题。14. Why does the woman always sleep in?A. She doesnt work. B. She needs more sleep than most people. C. She sets her own schedule.15. When does the man get to work?A. Around 9. B. Around 7.C. Around 10.16. What does the man suggest to the woman?A. They should switch schedules. B. She should get up earlier. C. She should learn to go to bed on time.17. What will the speakers do today?A. Go to the movies. B. Go on a hike.C. Go to work.听下面一段独白，回答第18-20题。18. How do Uber drivers know where to go?A. A map shows them where people need cars.B. They are requested to get it on the website.C. They call a phone number.19. Who mostly drives for Uber?A. Former taxi drivers. B. People who have other jobs.C. University students.20. What does Travis Kalanick predict?A. Uber will totally replace taxis.B. Prices for transportation will go up everywhere.C. Cars will be able to drive themselves.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。 AIn modern society there is a great deal of argument about petition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity (繁荣). Others say that petition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit (追求) of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame petition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under petitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesnt matter because I really didnt try.” What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true petitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that ones self-respect relies on how well one performs in parison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve (缓解) can we discover a new meaning in petition.21. What does this passage mainly talk about?A. petition helps to set up self-respect.B. Opinions about petition are different among people.C. petition is harmful to personal quality development.D. Failures are necessary experience in petition.22. The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means .A. those who try their best to winB. those who value petition most highlyC. those who are against petition most stronglyD. those who rely on others most for success23. What is the similar belief of the true petitors and those with a “desire to fail”?A. Ones worth lies in his performance pared with others.B. Ones success in petition needs great efforts.C. Ones achievement is determined by his particular skills.D. Ones success is based on how hard he has tried.24. Which point of view may the author agree to?A. Every effort should be paid back.B. petition should be encouraged.C. Winning should be a life-and-death matter.D. Fear of failure should be removed in petition. BOne evening, author Neils son was angry. Neil had said one of those things that parents say, like “isnt it time you were in bed.” His son looked up at him, angry and said, “I wish I didnt have a dad! I wish I had a goldfish!” That conversation gave birth to Neils book, “The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish”. The book is a funny adventure of a son searching for the dad he swapped.Whether they realize it or not, fathers play an important role in their childrens development. Roland Warren, Director of the National Fatherhood Initiative, says that, “The shape of their dads has a role in the kids soul.” I agree. We live in the best of times and the worst of times for fatherhood. We live in the best of times because fathers who are engaged in their childs life spend more time than fathers of any previous generation. We live in the worst of times because there are still millions of children who continue to miss the regular presence of Dad.What difference does a dad make? Are they really that important? For the most part, studies have proved clearly that fathers, whether they live with their children or not, matter in the lives of their children. When fathers are present, they provide economic support for their children and care-giving responsibilities. Well-fathered children are shown to be more emotionally intelligent and socially successful as adults. When fathers are absent, their absence may negatively influence childrens academic achievement, general behavioural adjustment and anger management, especially in males.Yet just being physically present isnt enough to be a great father. It is important that a dad be warm and emotionally available to his child. Author and researcher, John Gottman, describes this kind of father as an “emotion coaching father”. Emotion coaches are parents who listen to their childrens feelings, see the sharing of feelings as an opportunity for intimacy (亲密). It is not just the mere presence of fathers that matters, but how they are present. Most children long for and need a loving, devoted and responsible father.25. What does the author mean in Paragraph 2 by saying “We live in the worst of times ”?A. Todays fathers dont care about their childrens emotions.B. Lots of childrens fathers have to work every day.C. Lots of childrens fathers are absent from their lives.D. Todays fathers dont have care giving responsibilities.26. According to the text, a well-fathered child is more likely to .A. lose control of angerB. obtain high academic achievementC. have low emotional intelligence D. have good social skills27. We can learn from the text that an “emotion coaching father” is a father who .A. gives economic support to his child B. shares his childs emotionsC. tries to change his childs emotions D. is always available to his childCNature has its own way of balancing itself out, but when we humans get involved, we tend to throw things out of control. Forests and oceans are natural carbon sinks (洗涤池) that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but since weve been pumping too much into the air, those sinks cant keep up. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, led by biologist Tobias Erb, have figured out a way to supercharge (使超负荷) plants to make them better at absorbing CO2, which could be a key defense against climate change.Erb and his team figured out a way to make plants more efficient at absorbing carbon, so that they consumed more carbon in a shorter amount of time. “If you think about plants, they are efficient CO2-fixing filters (过滤器), but they are not fast,” Erb said. “I think there is a chance to improve existing biology with artificial biology.”Erbs team identified 17 enzymes (酶) from nine different organisms, re-engineering (再设计) three of them, that had an enlarged carbon consumption. When those enzymes worked together as a team, they worked better at not only plants natural enzymes, but also themselves individually. Existing enzymes in plants consume about 5 to 10 molecules (摩尔) of CO2 per second. The team of enzymes that Erb used consumed 80 molecules per second.So far, these enzymes have only been tested in test tubes in the lab, but the next step is real world testing where the enzymes would be introduced into plants to see if the same result occurs. If those tests show that plants really can be supercharged, we could have a new tool in the fight against climate change where not only do we protect the amazing carbon-absorbing forests we have, but we also add these super plants or an artificial leaf technology using the enzymes into other mixed fields.28. Why cant forests and oceans balance nature?A. Because oceans and forests are getting smaller.B. Because a large number of forests are cut down.C. Because we human beings give off too much CO2.D. Because there are too many creatures in the world.39. Which is the key defense against climate change according to Erb and his team?A. To increase the plants ability and efficiency to absorb CO2.B. To make oceans and forests to absorb more CO2 quickly.C. To reduce the humans activities giving off too much CO2.D. To increase the number of plants in the world.30. What can we get from the last paragraph?A. The enzymes have proved useful in real world.B. The technology has worked against climate change.C. The enzymes have not been used in the lab.D. The technology may have a bright future.31. This passage is intended to .A. call on people to pay more attention to the balance of natureB. introduce a possible way to better plants ability of absorbing CO2C. analyze the cause and result of climate change related to plantsD. explore the possibility of using plants to fight against climate change DThe first drawings on walls appeared in caves thousands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest (抗议) poems on buildings. Modern graffiti (涂鸦艺术) seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writing their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were pletely covered in spray (喷射) paintings known as masterpieces.In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned with marking their territory (领地). They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing”the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time when it began to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.The debate over whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor (顾问), thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone elses property it bees a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming (开拓，改造) cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities livelier.For decades graffiti has been a springboard (跳板) to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before being a respected artist in the 80s. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have achieved international fame by producing plex works with stencils (模板), often making political or humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over 100,000. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.32. Why was the seventies an important decade in the history of graffiti?A. That was when modern graffiti first appeared.B. That was when modern graffiti first became really popular.C. That was when graffiti first reached New York.D. That was when graffiti first appeared on subway car windows.33. What does the underlined word “taggers” in the second paragraph mean?A. Names of people who draw graffiti.B. Building where paints were sprayed.C. People who marked surface with graffiti.D. People who were interested in graffiti.34. The Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City holds the view that ?A. involving young people in graffiti stops them being involved with serious crime.B. graffiti helps the public to own the streets and take control away from advertisers.C. graffiti actually increases the value of property by making the area more attractive.D. graffiti can free artist from being caught by the police.35. What is the authors final opinion about graffiti?A. Graffiti has now bee mainstream and can benefit artists.B. Graffiti is not a good way to bee a respected artist.C. Some popular graffiti artists end up being ignored by the art world.D. Some graffiti caused inconvenience to the local environment.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。To meet the global climate crisis that is approaching, big lifestyle changes are required of those of us. The good news is that our way of life can remain meaningful and worthy as our consumption bees sustainable (可持续发展的). 36 Eat less meat and move toward a plant-based diet. This is one of the most effective things we can do because the food we now produce and consume is destroying the very ecosystems that we depend upon for survival. Here are some of the grim (冷酷的，无情的) facts.The U. S. uses about one-half of its land for agriculture. 37 For example, the U. S. uses over 90 million acres of good agricultural land to produce corn, which is mostly fed to livestock (家畜).With 7.6 billion people on earth, the demand for food is enormous and constantly on the rise. Its easy to feel we cant make a difference. 38 We should not ignore the power of the choices we make.Even one person can make a big difference by eating less meat and moving toward a plant-based diet and make contributions to the health of the planet as well as your own. Recognize how the food we eat is connected to other living beings. It often helps us make much wiser buying choices. 39 This way, we will help people around the world enjoy more eco-friendly and nutritious foods. 40 When you change your diet to be more sustainable, you bee visible proof that changing our food habits is doable, healthy, and enjoyable.A. Little things matter in your relationship with the earth.B. By buying mindfully (留神地，小心地), we support local, affordable agriculture.C. But we can change our diet to heal the earth as we heal ourselves.D. Unfortunately, the majority is used to raise livestock or for crops consumed by them.E. Your choices create positive impacts on the food system and inspire the people around you.F. Theres one step you can take right away to reduce harm to Mother Earth.G. We can try to reduce waste by using leftovers and eating the fresh produce we buy.第三部分 语言知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)第一节 完形填空 (共20小题；每题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中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Human growth is a process of experimentation, trial, and error eventually leading to wisdom. Each time you choose to trust yourself and take action, you can never quite be certain how the situation will 41 .Sometimes you are victorious, and sometimes you bee disappointed. The 42 experiments, however, are no less valuable than the experiments that finally prove successful; in fact, you 43 learn more from your “failures” than you do from your 44 . If you have made what you think to be a mistake or failed