2018-2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题 (IV).doc

2018-2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题 (IV) 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，共12页。考试结束后，将答题卡交回。注意事项： 1.答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚，将条形码准确粘贴在考生信 息条形码粘贴区。 2.选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须使用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔书 写，字体工整、笔迹清楚。3.请按照题号顺序在各题目的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效； 在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。4.作图可先使用铅笔画出，确定后必须用黑色字迹的签字笔描黑。5.保持卡面清洁，不要折叠，不要弄破、弄皱，不准使用涂改液、修正带、刮纸刀。第卷 选择题（共 100 分）第一部分：听力（共20题，满分 30 分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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 does the conversation take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In a shop.C. In a bank.2.What soup does the man order?A. Tomato soup.B. Chicken soup.C. Onion soup.3.How much time did it take the woman to do the room cleaning?A. About 4 hours.B. About 6 hours.C. About 8 hours.4.What do you know about the woman?A. She likes her necklace. B. She lost her necklace. C. She made her boyfriend unhappy.5.What lessons does the woman want to have?A. Waterskiing.B. Sailing.C. Swimming.第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，总分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 girl ask the boy for help?A. She doesnt know how to do her homework.B. She doesnt want to walk to school.C. She doesnt want to get into trouble.7.What did the boy think the girl wanted him to do in the beginning?A. Hand in her homework.B. Do the homework for her.C. Collect her homework.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8.What did Jay do every day in the hotel? A. He played tennis.B. He swam.C. He played golf.9.What does the man think of the hotel? A. Noisy.B. Expensive.C. Fine.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.What can be found in the sitting room?A. An old bed.B. A new desk. C. A big sofa.11.What does the woman say about the apartment?A. It has modern furniture. B. It is in a quiet neighbourhood. C. It is close to public transportation.12.What will the woman probably do?A. Wait for the mans call.B. See the apartment. C. Meet the man.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What are the speakers going to do on Monday?A. Take photos of the signs. B. Interview some native speakers. C. Have an interview with a manager.14.What will the speakers visit on Tuesday?A. The education department in North County. B. The education department in San Diego. C. The California University.15.How did the woman contact Mr. Cooper?A. She mailed him. B. She e-mailed him. C. She telephoned him.16. Why do the speakers take the trip?A. To do research on languages.B. To report the lives of the natives. C. To make a parison among education departments.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.What is the speaker mainly talking about?A. School routines.B. Travelling plans.C. Outdoor courses. 18.What place will the listeners visit?A. A lake.B. A forest.C. A beach.19.What will the students learn to do?A. Make a birdhouse.B. Build a house.C. Design a backpack. 20.How many hours will the students spend on the courses?A. 12.B. 15.C. 36. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 With the advance of human society, along with the development of modern science and technology, people are faced with an increasing number of pollutions. One of the severe pollutions is noise pollution. Many parents express their plaints over noise pollution, especially car alarms.AnchorAlmost anyone who has lived in a big city can tell you how irritating it is to be awakened in the middle of the night by the wail of a car alarm. The loss of sleep can drive you crazy, but this is just one in a long list of problems that such high decibel noises can cause.JonathanPeople in this noisy neighborhood in upper Manhattan are fed up with car alarms. Theyre angry enough at being jolted awake several times a week, but more than that they worry about what effect these alarms will have on their children. Already studies have shown that continuous exposure to high-decibel noise can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.AndreaBy the time my child can read, he will already have been exposed to the constant roar of the traffic, but the intense siren of a car alarm is way above the level of safety.MichaelI have a valid concern. According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), exposure to noise above 85 decibels for 8 hours or more is a danger to your health. City traffic and trucks are about 90 decibels. The siren of a car alarm is about 120 decibels, about the same as a plane taking off.The parents here are sick and tired of listening to the shrill siren of car alarms. However, its for their children that they are most concerned. Theyve started a group called Parents to Silence Car Alarms. They dont think that making the owner of a car pay a fine is enough. These parents have started a campaign to have car alarms banned.21. According to the passage, which one of the following statements is true?A. Anchor thinks the high decibel noises only causes the loss of sleep.B. Jonathan holds the view that exposure to decibel noises can give rise to heart disease.C. According to NIOSH, exposure to noise above 85 for 8 hours or more threatens peoples health.D. Andrea believes the intense siren of a car alarm is acceptable.22. According to the passage, what is the parents attitude towards car alarms?A. Neutral.B. Critical. C. Favorable.D. Indifferent.23. What is the main idea of the passage?A. People in modern society is faced with noise pollution.B. Anyone who lives in a big city is tired of car alarms.C. A car alarm is out of control and beyond the level of safety.D. Parents plain about car alarms, trying to fight against them.B The Digital Revolution, also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, is the shift from mechanical and analogue electronic technology to digital electronics which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. Central to this revolution is the mass production and widespread use of digital logic circuits, and its derived technologies. These technological innovations have transformed traditional production and business techniques.1980sIn developed nations, puters achieved ubiquity during the 1980s as they made their way into schools, homes, business, and industry. Automated teller machines, industrial robots, CGI in film and television, electronic music, bulletin board systems, and video games all fueled what became the zeitgeist of the 1980s. Millions of people purchased home puters, making household names of early personal puter manufacturers such as Apple, modore, and Tandy. To this day the modore 64 is often cited as the best selling puter of all time, having sold 17 million units (by some accounts) between 1982 and 1994.1990sThe first public digital HDTV broadcast was of the 1990 World Cup that June; it was played in 10 theaters in Spain and Italy. However HDTV did not bee a standard until the mid-xxs outside Japan.The World Wide Web became publicly accessible in 1991, which had been available only to government and universities. In 1993 Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina introduced Mosaic, the first web browser capable of displaying inline images and the basis for later browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Stanford Federal Credit Union was the first financial institution to offer online internet banking services to all of its members in October 1994. xxsCell phones became as ubiquitous as puters by the early xxs, with movie theaters beginning to show ads telling people to silence their phones. They also became much more advanced than phones of the 1990s, most of which only took calls or at most allowed for the playing of simple games.xxsBy xx, over 2 billion people used the Internet, twice the number using it in xx. Cloud puting had entered the mainstream by the early xxs. By xx, tablet puters and smart phones were expected to exceed personal puters in Internet usage. By xx, half of the worlds population was connected.24. According to the passage, which one of the following statements is true?A. The digital revolution only focuses on the mass production.B. The World Wide Web became available to government and universities in 1991.C. Phones of the 1990s merely made calls.D. The number of people using the Internet in xx is approximately 1 billion.25. What does the underlined word in Paragraph Two refer to?A. Wide existence.B. Abrupt disappearance.C. Quick movement.D. Abundant amount.26. How does the writer develop the whole passage?A. By presenting times.B. By making parisons.C. By listing data.D. By drawing conclusions.27. What is the best title for this passage?A. The Traditional ProductionB. The Digital RevolutionC. The Connected PopulationD. The World Wide WebC When I was watching some children attempting to catch butterflies on a hot July afternoon, an incident in my own childhood occurred to me. When I was 15, something happened to me, which forever cured me of desiring to put any wild life in a cage.We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would e and rest in the tree and sing. There isnt a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and that way have my own private musician.I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home, I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.I had left the cage out on our back porch（门廊）, and on the second day of the birds captivity my new pets mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth . The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.The following morning when I went to see how my captive was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened? I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time and, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred: “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.28. Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy?A. He had just got a new cage.B. He liked its beautiful feather.C. He wanted it to sing for him.D. He wanted a pet for a panion.29. Why did the mocking bird die?A. It was frightened to death.B. It drank the poisonous water by mistake.C. It ate the poisonous food its mother gave it.D. It refused to eat anything.30. What is an ornithologist likely to be?A. A specialist in birds.B. A religious person.C. A headmaster.D. A considerate person.31. What is the most important lesson the author learned from the incident?A. Be careful about the food you give to baby birds.B. All birds put in a cage wont live long.C. You should keep the birds from their mothers.D. Freedom is very valuable to all creatures.D One day, “supercharged plants” may help feed people around the world. Supercharged plants are ones that grow faster than normal plant life. Scientists can speed up the growth by modifying, or changing, the structure of plants genes. The modifications make them react quickly to changes in light. This all has to do with photosynthesis(光合作用), the process in which plants turn sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into food.Plants grow fastest in the sun. That is when they make the most food for themselves. But their rate of growth can slow when things like clouds or trees block sunlight. But when the sun returns, it can take many minutes for growth to speed up again.This can be a problem because it means some of our most important crop plants are not as productive as they could be. Researchers say demand for food is expected to increase up to 70 percent by the middle of the century. They also note rising temperatures on Earths surface. That is why they are looking for ways to improve photosynthesis and make plants more productive.Steve Long is a plant biologist at the University of Illinois. He wanted to find a way to help plants get back up to speed quickly after a period of darkness. So he and his team added genes that shortened the recovery time. It also increased the speed at which the plants grew. His modified plants grew up to 20 percent more than untreated ones.In Longs study, his group used a form of genetic engineering called transgenics (转基因). It means taking genes from one plant, then putting them into another. Now they are experimenting soybeans, rice, cowpeas and cassavas.32. What is the advantage of supercharged plants?A. They can grow more quickly.B. They can grow in severe conditions.C. They can offer high-quality grains.D. They can replace normal plants.33. What can make plant growth slow down? A. Too hot weather.B. Old farming methods. C. Lack of sunlight.D. Too much sunlight.34. What was Steve Longs goal in his study? A. To find out what makes plants grow slowly. B. To create a new plant that can grow with weak sunlight. C. To find another way to help plants benefit each other. D. To make plants recover quickly when the sun returns.35. How can researchers shorten the recovery time of plants? A. By changing their nature.B. By adding new genes to them. C. By developing new plants.D. By supplying more sunlight.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下面的文章，从文章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。Alternative Sources of EnergyThe worlds number one energy source is not man-made. It is much bigger than anything that Man could ever dream of designing or manufacturing, and in fact produces all the energy needs of everybody on Earth. 36 . Apart from it, other energy sources are being exploited by Man to facilitate the development of the modern civilization.Solar EnergySolar energy is a simple and already familiar source of more direct renewable energy production. Its use is on the increase as technology improves. 37 . In India there are plans to power 100,000 villages and install 500,000 solar powered telephones. During the course of one year, Europe receives approximately 1000-kilowatt hours of solar energy each square meter.Water EnergyWater power is used in countries that have a lot of natural rivers and streams. 38 , because in order to generate hydroelectric power, engineers must first build a dam to block a river and create a reservoir. Power is generated as the water flow from reservoirs is directed to turn turbines and electric generators. Wind Energy. 39 . Many countries have also traditionally used wind as a source of power by building windmills. Some windmills even have been used for more than a century, but there has been a significant increase since the 1970s. They are already a familiar sight in Netherlands, Denmark and on windy islands such as Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.Of course there are many other alternative sources of energy (geothermal power, tidal power, etc.), which are currently being researched and used in countries around the world. These sources often create less pollution than traditional sources of power and are being more economical to use as technology improves. 40 .A. Solar energy is said to keep down the costs of maintenance and energy.B. It is happening in both developed countries and emerging economies like India.C. The best source of energy is wind energy.D. They are the logical choice towards a more environmentally conscious planet.E. That energy source is by all means the Sun. F. Another form of energy with us for centuries is the use of wind power.G. Some environmentalists claim that this type of power can be hazardous to local ecosystems.第三部分：语言知识运用（共三节，满分50分）第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。A Call to ActionWe are here today because we want to stop global warming. Like me, you are trying hard to 41 your own personal carbon footprint. And these small, 42 changes do have an impact, do help 43 our carbon emissions.But it is not 44 for individuals to change. We need governments to change. We need industry to change. We need big changes if we want to prevent global warming 45 destroying our planet.One third of our global carbon emissions-35 percent-es from 46 electricity. As a result, we need government and industry to work together to lower these 47 , more importantly, to develop new, cleaner technology to heat our homes, 48 our factories, and to keep lights 49 .Another 20 percent, 20 percent of our emissions es from transportation. 50 , We need government and industry to work together to build more energy 51 cars and trucks. Good 52 public transportation will allow us to 53 our cars and the pollution they produce forever.Another 20 percent of all emissions es from ind