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湖北省汉川二中2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题时间：120分钟 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.What is the time now ?A.2:30 p.m. B. 3:00 p.m. C. 3:30 p.m.2.What did the woman do at the weekend ?A. She watched TV. B. She went for a drive. C. She climbed a mountain.3.Where does the conversation take place ?A. At a library. B. At a store. C. At a hospital.4.What are the speakers mainly talking about ?A. A book. B. A film. C.A story.5.How will the speakers probably get to the cinema ?A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By taxi.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.What color do the speakers decide to paint their living room?A. Bright orange. B. Dark brown. C. Light blue.7.What is the man going to do at the weekend?A. Buy the paint. B. Paint the walls. C. Repair the puter.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What is the party for ?A. Johns birthday . B. Christmas. C. Johns wedding.9. What do we know about the man ?A. Hell go to the party with the woman. B. He looks forward to visiting the woman. C. He has told Anna to keep the party a secret.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.What was the survey about?A.A new shopping center. B.A newly-built railway station. C.A television program.11.What does the woman think of the plan?A. Great. B. Stupid. C. Just so-so.12.What will the woman do next?A. Work on a test paper. B. Write to a newspaper. C. Go shopping.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.Where are the speakers ?A. In Britain. B. In Germany. C. In France.14.What does the woman do most of her working hours ?A. She makes coffee. B. She deals with e-mails. C. She handles telephones.15.At what time does the woman usually get off work?A.4:30pm B. 4:35pm C.5:15pm16.What is the woman ?A.A secretary. B. A director. C. An engineer.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.When is the talk given ?A. During the exams week. B. At the beginning of a term C. Before the start of a vacation.18.What is the main purpose of lectures ?A. To introduce new topics. B. To explore topics in depth C. To provide information on the textbooks.19.What advice does the speaker give about taking notes ?A. Write the exact words. B. Remember the examples. C. Focus on the main points.20.What does the speaker remind the listeners to do in the end ?A. Take notes on the lectures advice. B. Borrow recorders from other students. C. Get the lectures permission before recording.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）A Are you looking for a reading lamp/ If you are, here are some for you to choose from.1. Home Design Lamp With Side Reading LightListed Price: $50This lamp by Home Design Lighting is suitable to small or medium side rooms. You can place it in the corner for a living room for mood light. You can also place it next to a tall bookshelf to help show a collection: Standing just over 71 inches tall, the lamp has a black painted finish and a beautiful plastic shade(灯罩).2. Import Wp 48 Gry Goose Floor LampListed Price: $60Buy now and get up to 25% off the price!If you are looking for a lamp whose light looks like sunlight, then this is a great one that you should take a close look at. The lamp is best for reading and studying. Of course, it is also useful when you do any office work at night.3. KVART Floor Reading Lamp Listed Price: $ 45It is certainly not the kind of lamp you want to provide enough light in your rooms. However, it is perfect if you need a floor reading lamp. A long flexible(易弯曲的) neck makes this lamp easy to change directions and direct the light wherever you might need it to be. The lamp is available in various colors as well.4. Bell and Howell Brass Tone Sunlight LampListed Price: $70Buy now and get a 50% discount.This is a great sunlight lamp. It provides visibility to help you see more clearly and fortably and also helps reduce eyestrain, An energy efficient 27 watt bulb provides as much light as a l50 watt bulb. The lamp will add a beautiful look to any room.21. What do we learn about the first lamp?A. It has a red appearance. B. It isnt very bright. C. It is really worth collecting. D. It shouldnt be in the sitting room.22. Which of the following es in different colors? A. The KVART Floor Reading Lamp B. The Bell and Howell Brass Tone Sunlight Lamp C. The Import Wp 48 Gry Goose Floor Lamp D. The Home Design Lamp With Side Reading Light23. If you buy an Import Wp 48 Gry Goose Floor Lamp now, how much do you need to pay? A. $35 B.$40 C $50 D. .$45BThey like using the Internet. They have lots of pocket money to spend, and they spend a higher proportion of it online than the rest of us. Teenagers are just the sort of people an online seller is interested in, and the things they want to buy games, CDs and clothing are easily sold on the Web.But paying online is a tricky business for consumers who are too young to own credit cards. Most have to use a parents card. They want a service that allows them to spend money.That may e sooner than they think: new ways to take pocket money into cyber (网络的) space are ing out rapidly on both sides of the Atlantic. If successful, these products can stimulate (刺激)online sales.In general, teenagers spend huge amounts: $153bn (billion) in the US last year and 20bn annually in the UK. Most teenagers have access to the Internet at home or at school 88 percent in the US, 69 percent in the UK. According to the Jupiter Research, one in eight of those with Internet access has bought something online mainly CDs and books.In most cases, parents pay for these purchases with credit cards, an arrangement that is often unsatisfactory for them and their children. Pressing parents to spend online is less productive than pressing on the high street. They are more likely to ask “Why?” if you ask to spend some money online.One way to help teenagers change notes and coins into cyber cash is through prepaid cards such as Internet Cash in the US and Smart cards in the UK. Similar to those for pay-as-you-go mobile telephones, they are sold in amounts such as20 or $50 with a concealed (隐藏的) 14-digit number that can be used to load the cash into an online account.24. What does the word “They” in paragraph 1 refer to?A. Sellers. B. Teenagers C. Buyers. D. Parents.25. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Most teenagers in the US and the UK have bought something online.B. Teenagers pay for goods online with their own credit cards.C. More than half of the teenagers in the US and the UK have Internet accessD. Teenagers found it easier to persuade parents to buy online than in a shop.26. A new way to help teenagers shop online is to use _.A. prepaid cards B. special coins and notesC. a new machine D. pay-as-you-go mobile phones27. What is the passage mainly about?A. The arrival of cyber pocket money. B. Internet users in the US and the UK.C. New credit cards for parents. D. Online shopping traps. C There is no denying that some people live to be older than others. Followed are the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity (长寿）？ Are there any kinds of personalities contributing to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at these questions by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100. According to the study, those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic(神经质的）than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times. Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways. Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible. Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mothers personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28, 000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when were adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger. Personality isnt destiny, and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isnt just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.28.The purpose of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is .A. to see whether peoples personality affects their life span B. to find out if ones lifestyle has any effect on their healthC. to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeD. to examine all the factors contributing to longevity29. What does the author imply about outgoing and sympathetic people?A. They have a good understanding of evolution. B. They are better at negotiating an agreement.C. They are more likely to get over hardship. D. They generally appear more resourceful.30. What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectation?A. Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.B. Such characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.C. Advantageous personality characteristics actually vary with times.D. Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity.31.What is the main idea of this passage?A. Anger and depression cut ones life span short. B. Health is in large part related to ones lifestyle.C. Personality plays a decisive role in longevity. D. Longevity results from mental and physical health DLast week, two panies, Kitty Hawk and Uber, announced their plans to bring flying cars to reality very soon.Imagine never having to worry about traffic, stop lights, or road construction. A flying car would get to a place much faster than one travelling by road. On the other hand, imagine having to avoid drones (无人驾驶飞机) and other flying cars. Also, what if your battery dies when you are in the air? And, how will you know where to land?Kitty Hawk is a start-up tech pany supported by Google co-founder, Larry Page. According to the Kitty Hawk website, its car will be able to travel at speeds up to 40 kilometers an hour in the air. It says under US aviation law such a machine “does not require registration or a pilots license and may be flown in uncongested (不拥挤的) areas for recreational purposes.” As of now, the car can only be flown over fresh water.Kitty Hawk is making a list of people interested in buying the flying car. They must pay a deposit of US$100. Those who get their names on the list early will receive US$2, 000 off the final cost of the car. However, Kitty Hawk has not yet announced the price. Kitty Hawk expects its first flying cars will go on sale by the end of this year.At a conference last week, Uber announced plans for flying taxis to begin carrying passengers. Unlike the Kitty Hawk pany, Uber does not plan to build its flying cars. Instead, it will use the resources of partner panies.Like the Kitty Hawk car, Uber flying taxis will use electric power. Uber says its flying taxis could travel up to 241 kilometers an hour. The pany said that could reduce the travel time between San Francisco and San Jose, California from two hours on the road to 15 minutes in the air.Riders could use the Uber app to book a flying taxi to take them to their destinations. The pany has not yet said how costly air taxi travel would be pared to road taxi travel.32. What could the main problems for flying cars be?A. There is not enough space for them to land. B. Sky transportation would cause more traffic jams. C. They may hit other flying cars or have a dead battery in the sky. D. They travel much more slowly than travelling by road. 33. According to the passage, the pilots of flying cars _.A. must be professional pilots B. are not required to have a pilots license C. are required to fly in crowded space D. are not only allowed to fly in urgent situations34. What is Kitty Hawk doing to attract customers? A. Reducing the price for all customers. B. Giving rewards to those visiting its website.C. Advertising its first flying cars on public media. D. Offering is a discount to those paying a deposit early.35. What is the difference between Uber and Kitty Hawk in the flying car market?A. Ubers flying taxis will use electric power. B. Uber intends to build its flying cars to fly very fast.C. Uber prefers to use the resources of partners rather than build its flying cars.D. The trips made by Ubers flying taxis are much cheaper than road taxis.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。Negative situations happen all the time. We cant avoid them, so how can we deal with their negative effects?36Join a positive support group.Its important to join a positive support group. Surrounding yourself with positive people will help you stay positive in a negative situation.37 Their negative attitudes will bring you down and prevent you from practicing positive thinking.38Talk about the things you are grateful for with your friends. Keep a gratitude journal to record the thankfulness you feel on a daily basis. Actively acknowledging what youre grateful for will help you to always have a grateful mind and heart, even when bad things happen.Retrain your mind.Do you constantly question your actions?39 The more you talk negatively to yourself, the more that negativity will bee a part of you. Instead, practice the power of positive thinking. Any time a negative thought es into your mind, replace it with a positive one. Gradually, this will bee more natural for your brain to automatically turns a negative into a positive.Exercise your body and mind.Exercise is good for your bodies and your minds! 40 Besides, getting out there and moving around will keep your body in better shape, as well as boosting your self-esteem for having the discipline to exercise.A. Express what you are grateful for.B. Retrain your brain to stop doing that to yourself.C. There are plenty of negative people out there avoid them!D. The positive people help to focus on the brighter side of things.E. It releases the chemical in your brains that makes you feel better.F. Here are some tips that help us to stay positive in negative situations.G. When youre in a negative situation, you can get stressed out very easily.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节）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， 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Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba, Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown WinnipegThey saw a man 41 out of a garbage canShe asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungryHannah was very 42 She couldnt understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough foodHannah started to think about how she could43 ，but，of course，there is not a lot one fiveyearold can do to solve（解决）the problem of homelessnessLater , when Hannah attended school， she saw another homeless person It was a woman，44 an old shopping trolley（购物车）which was piled with45 It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them This made Hannah very sad, and even more46 to do somethingShe had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people 47 they first saw the homeless manHer mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad，she wouldn t48 as badHannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provincesShe hoped to49 her message of hope and awareness. She started the Ladybug Foudation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness She began to 50 Big Bosses lunches， where she would try to persuade local business leaders to51 to the causeShe also organized a fundraising（募捐）drive in Ladybug Jars to collect everyones spare change during Make Change month. More recently, the foundation began another 52 ca