重庆市渝中区高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

重庆市渝中区2016-2017学年高二英语下学期期中试题注意事项：1. 答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2. 答选择题时，必须使用2b铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3. 答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4. 所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。本试卷分为第i卷（选择题）和第ii卷（非选择题）两部分。第i卷第一部分听力（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. at an airport. b. at a hotel. c. at a travel agency.2. who will probably decide the place to go? a. the man. b. the woman. c. harry.3. what does the man mean? a. he quite agrees with the woman. b. he enjoys the lecture the whole time. c. he doesnt agree with the woman.4. where will the man plant the tree? a. by the front door. b. next to the garage. c. in the back yard.5. why does the man want to see the manager?a. to put an advertisement. b. to sell him a mobile phone. c. to apply for a job.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. what colour is the suit?a. light green. b. dark blue. c. dark gray.7. what does the man think of the suit?a. its too small. b. its too expensive. c. its too dark.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. why does diana say sorry to peter?a. she has to give up her travel plan. b. she wants to visit another city.c. she needs to put off her test.9. what does diana want peter to do?a. help her with her study. b. take a book to her friend. c. teach a geography lesson.听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。10. where does the man want to go?a. to a lecture. b. to a concert. c. to a movie.11. what is the problem with taking the shuttle bus？a. the bus doesnt go to the music building. b. the bus goes very slowly to the music building.c. the bus will not come for a while.12. what does the man finally decide to do?a. walk. b. wait for the bus. c. think of another plan.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. whats the relationship between the speakers?a. landlord and tenant(房客). b. agent and tenant. c. agent and landlord.14. what does the woman want the man to do?a. to cut down the rent. b. to discuss with the landlord. c. to do some repair work.15. what is the mans reply for the request?a. he needs time to consider it. b. he thinks it is impossible. c. he cant decide it.16. what can we learn from the conversation?a. the woman hasnt made the decision yet.b. the man doesnt know how much the rent is.c. the woman doesnt think the house is good.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. where did the children mostly play?a. in the lake. b. only in the house. c. outside around the neighborhood.18. what did the speaker like the most as a child?a. visiting the yards. b. working in the garden. c. going to the lake.19. where did the family go on a trip?a. to a big lake. b. to new york city. c. to the pacific ocean.20. what did the speaker probably do later?a. he moved to a big city. b. he lived in the same house. c. he moved to a place near the ocean.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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。alost iphoneunexpectedly, i lost my white iphon5s in midtown on friday night. it had a blue green cover on it. there are many pictures of my son on it, and im heartbroken, please return, no questions asked. reward. reply to: -2652255359do you need a babysitter that you can trust?my name is tina. i am a responsible babysitter that you can trust. if you are looking for someone dependable and affordable i am that person! i have more than 30 years of experience (including disabled children)! i am a retired home health aid and absolutely love children. i work with my sister iris who has also 20+years as a teachers assistant. we look forward to meetinc you! available 24 hours and flexible with fees! i am fully bilingualspanish/english. please email me or call 712-867-7688.i babysit only at my home. i accept children from all ages. fee starts 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enjoying life, but then my whole world turned upside down. i had a heart attack. it felt like someone was stabbing (刺) me in the chest with a knife over and over again. after three months of rest i went back to college, but then things took a turn for the worse. i was staying at my nanas house and woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in my chest. i knew i was having a heart attack again. i couldnt even shout for help. luckily my grandpa was going to the toilet and heard me falling out of bed. if it wasnt for him, i probably wouldnt be here. the two holes in my heart were causing the problems and i needed an operation immediately to repair them. unfortunately, the surgery didntgo well and they only managed to repair one of the holes. when i woke up from theoperation, i had a really dry mouth and couldnt wait to have something to eat and drink. the biggestshock of all came when i was told that i needed a heart transplant and was put on the register. thedoctors were stunned at how quickly heart failure came on it usually takes years, but it took my heart less than six months to get to that stage. my whole world came crashing down, but i stayed strong. it was a choice between crying every day andgetting on with my life. as time went on, life became even harder. i hated feeling weak all the time and needing help with everything. it got to the point where i thought i would never get a new heart.iwas diagnosed with depression. even though i thought that christmas 2008 would be my last, i really enjoyed it and even had a good new year. everyonewas crying for me when the clock struck midnight and they told me to keep fighting. a week later, i got a call from the doctors saying theyd found a suitable donor (捐赠人). my wish came true and thankfully the operation went well. i spent four hours in surgery where they took out my old heart and put a new one in. when i woke up i burst out crying. i had a second chance at life.24. what happened when the author was having his second heart attack? a. he felt less pain than he had during the previous one. b. he realized what it was and shouted for help in time. c. he narrowly escaped death thanks to his grandfather. d. he decided to have an operation to repair the two holes in his heart.25. when the author learned that he needed a heart transplant, he _. a. couldnt help crying every day b. chose to continue to fight for his lifec. felt so depressed that he tried to kill himselfd. was so anxious that his heart failure developed very quickly26. at the beginning of 2009, the author _. a. was convinced that the past christmas had been his last b. felt blessed and grateful for his second chance at life c. received a heart transplant but the operation didnt go well d. felt hopeless all the time and was diagnosed with depression27.which one would be the best title for the text? a. choices matter b. rebuilding my worldc. waiting for a new heart d. the most special christmascnowadays, the selfie stick(自拍杆) has become so common. yet it was once considered so unnecessary that it was included in the book of 101 useless japanese inventionsalong with dust slippers for cats and the bath body suit (for taking a bath without getting wet). an early selfie stick, perhaps the first, was invented in the 1980s by hiroshi ueda, a japanese engineer and photographer. “whenever i went overseas i took my camera with me and took loads of photos.” he says. but while travelling in europe he encountered a problem. he was fond to get pictures of himself and his wife togetherbut passers-by couldnt always be trusted. a kid once took his camera and fled away. it was a problem crying out for a solution, so ueda was well-placed to find one. he invented an extendable stick(伸长杆), and it was patented(申请专利) in 1983 but, to uedas disappointment, it was not a commercial success. but the canadian toy inventor wayne fromm believes theres just one reason the selfie stick has become so popular: his own hard work. he invented a hand-held extendable selfie stick in the early 2000s. he was unaware of uedas earlier design, though he too came up with the idea during a european holiday. hes spent the past decade promoting his invention at trade fairs(商交会), on the tv shopping channel and on tv shows like dragons den. “it was a 10-year overnight success.” he says. fromm disclosed uedas extender in his patent(专利书) as “prior(先前的) art”, but he believes the current selfie stick craze is a direct result of his own model. “its i who invented what we call todays selfie stick,” he insists. fromms product, unlike uedas, has sold well. besides, says fromm, for inventors like him and ueda its not all about the money. “its that youre actually creating something fun or useful or helpful for people. so im happy that the world has embraced the selfie stick.” maybe in the near future, you wont have to bring your clumsy slr camera. you can just bring your mobile phone and a selfie stick with you to every spot. meanwhile, the camera function of mobile phones will be well promoted.28. why did ueda invent the selfie stick? a. because he wanted to take photos for himself and his wife together. b. because he always traveled oversea. c. because the passers-by couldnt be trusted when he took photos. d. because he wanted to put it into commercial use.29. which statement about wayne fromm is true? a. he was a japanese engineer, too. b. he had the same experience as ueda did in europe. c. he knew about uedas design of the selfie stick at the very beginning. d. he invented his selfie stick in the 1980s.30. from the passage, we can know that . a. ueda and fromm invented the selfie stick together. b. the selfie stick is a useless invention. c. uedas and fromms products are both sold well. d. the selfie stick was invented twice.31. whats the authors attitude towards the selfie stick? a. positive b. negative c. suspicious d. indifferentdhilversum(希尔弗瑟姆荷兰) is a medium-sized city between the major cities of amsterdam and utrecht in the gooi area of north holland, the netherlands. unlike most of the netherlands, hilversum is actually in a hilly area with the soil mostly consisting of sand. once called the garden of amsterdam, it still attracts travelers to come over to cycle and walk through the surrounding forests. they visit it for a relaxing day off from the urban madness. for dutch people, hilversum is all about textile (纺织品) and media industries, and modern architecture(建筑).in history, hilversum was largely an agricultural area. daily life was marked by farming, sheep raising and wool production. a railway link to amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from amsterdam to hilversum. they build themselves large villas (别墅) in the wooded surroundings of the town. one of the families moving in was the brenninkmeijers, currently the wealthiest family of holland. they moved in after big success in the textile industry and aided a substantial textile industry in hilversum. but the textile boom lasted only several decades. the last factory closed in the 1960s.the change to a media economy started in 1920, when the nederlandse seintoestedllen fabriek (nsf) established a radio factory in hiversum. most radio stations called in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town. television gave another push to the local economy. hilversum became the media capital of holland, and dutch television stars moved into the leafy neighborhoods surrounding the town.in the early 1900s, modern architects w.m. dudok and j. duiker placed hundreds of remarkable buildings in hilversum. these modern architectural masterpieces (杰作) are so many that hilversum almost feels like an open air museum. dudok alone shaped most 20th century hilversum and approximately 75 buildings in 1928-1931. it has wide international fame and is included in many architecture textbooks. the building has a remarkable shape and looks like a combination of “blocks”. actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking the w.m. dudok architectural route in hilversum.32. hilversum is different from most of the netherlands in that _.a. it has a large population b. it is cut off from big citiesc. it has many beautiful gardens d. it is in a hilly area with sandy soil33. what was the greatest contribution of the brenninkmeijers to hilversum?a. building a railway link to amsterdam b. helping its textile industry to develop c. constructing large villas for the poor d. assisting its agricultural industry34. the beginning of the media industry in hilversum was marked by the establishment of _.a. a radio factory b. the medial capital c. a radio station d. a tv station35. what is known about w.m. dudoks hilversum town hall?a. it consists of approximately 75 buildings.b. it looks like an open air museum in the city.c. it is a classic example in architecture textbooks.d. it has shaped most of 20th century hilvesum.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。 currently, an increasing number of chinese people choose foreign countries to spend their vacations. 36 so read our travel tips that are simple and practical, and you can always enjoy your travels. first, on a business card, write down the emergency contact information and place it in your wallet, 37 give your emergency contact a copy of your travel plan, a passport data page, and the visa information. second, give each piece of your luggage a unique look: tie a bright handkerchief to a handle or purchase a colored luggage tag. 38 third, if you cant speak the local language, carry a matchbox, or a brochure with the name and address of your destination. 39 fourth, to avoid being a target of crime, dont wear eye-catching clothing. dress appropriately, and dont wear or carry obvious signs of wealth (gold watches, expensive jewelry and etc.) and dont carry more cash. the whole world has known that chinese tourists like bringing plenty of cash with them. 40 to sum up, to make sure of a safe journey and avoid some unnecessary trouble when traveling in foreign countries，you should be more careful. agood preparations can always help you out as well bit will be easier for you to keep track of your bag from a distance cyou can bring your visa credit card instead of much cash. dinclude the name of anyone who should be contacted in an emergency eonce your wallet is stolen，you can let them know fof course everyone wants his travels to be trouble-free and enjoyable gyou can show it to taxi drivers or when asking for directions第三部分英语知识运用第一节完型填空（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。a restricted blockbuster(限制级大片) has been on. two kids begged their father excitedly for his permission to see a film. having read some 41about the movie on the internet, he firmly 42their request with the reason that movie presents 43 immorality (不道德) and violence. “but dad, those scenes are merely a few minutes of the 44 film, besides, goods 45 evils eventually. in addition, there are other 46 themes like courage and determination making up for its 47 !” but the father didnt 48 , and the two teenagers were upset. after a while, they heard the sounds of their father preparing something in the 49 . one of the teenagers said, “dad must be feeling 50 , and now hes trying to 51us with some tasty food.” soon their father appeared with a plate of steaming cakes and said, “before you eat, i want to tell you something: i love you both so much.” the teenagers smiled and 52with each other knowing glances. dad was softening. eating the mouth-watering cake, the two boys were getting 5