重庆市南岸区高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

重庆市南岸区2016-2017学年高二英语下学期期中试题本试卷分第i卷（选择题）和第ii卷（非选择题）两部分。 第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)该部分分为第一、第二两节。注意：回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂到客观题答题卡上。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。1what time is it now? a. 9:00. b.8:00. c.7:30.2. what are they going to do?a. have a rest. b. see a film. c. do some shopping.3. why does the woman want to buy a clock? a. she has trouble waking up. b. she wants to buy someone a gift. cher watch is broken4. where did the man spend his vacation? a. in a big city. b. on a farm. c. in a factory.5. when is janes birthday? a. june 5th. b .june 9th. c .june 20th.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。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. what does the man call the woman for? a. to hand in his roommates paper. b. to ask about his roommates illness. c. to ask her to see his sick roommate.7. what does the man have to do in the afternoon? a. visit the woman. b. meet the secretary. c. have a meeting.听第7段材料，回答8 至9题8. where does the man call the woman? a. around the bank. b. in the bus stop. c. in the shoe shop,9. how does the man probably go to the womans house? a. just by himself. b. the woman picks him up. c.a passer-by guides him to the house.听第8段材料，回答10 至12题10. why is the woman so angry? a. her son has ruined the carpet with steel wheels. b. her son is roller-skating in the living room now. c. her son is playing outside with much snow on the playground.11. what do we know about the man? a. he has been skating for many years. b. he is ashamed of his not performing well. c. he will take part in the new roller-disco rink（溜冰）on saturday.12. how long can the man continue to skate in the living room? a. four minutes. b. five minutes. c. fifteen minutes.听第9段材料，回答13 至16题13. what are the two speakers doing? a. they are having a friendly chat. b. one is interviewing the other. c. they are talking about each others family.14. why did the woman have to work after finishing high school? a. she didnt like to study. b. she had to work to support her family. c.a friend of her fathers offered her a job.15. why was the womans father disappointed at first? a. she had done her first job badly. b. she didnt do well in the art college. c. she has given up her job as an accountant.16. what are the womans brothers and sisters? a. accountants. b. students. c. photographers.听第10段材料，回答18 至20题17. what does the speaker want to emphasize? a. inspiration. b. bravery. c. honesty.18. what were the frogs traveling through? a. the river. b. the road. c. the woods.19. what did the other frogs tell the two unlucky ones? a. they should try their best to jump out. b. they had no choice but to die in the hole. c. they would try all means to help them out.20. what is the condition of the frog that got out? a. he was deaf. b. he was blind. c. he was foolish.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。athe other day i heard a few local musicians talking: “i hate all the terrible pianos in this town. i hate that rubbish they play on the radio. they cant even understand a bit of music.” “im never playing in that club again. too many drunks and nobody listens to us.” but, one younger musician said, “there are a few clubs that book my band a few nights a month, and im trying to find other places to play. im also looking to book a few summer festivals this year.” ive heard that you are the average of the five people whom you spend the most time with, or to put it another way, you are who your friends are.attitudes are important. whether theyre positive or negative, theyre rubbing off on you. if youre around people who complain about lack of work and about other musicians, or blame others, and you play the role of victim, chances are you will start to as well. so its time to take a look at the people you call “friends”. this is an easy exercise: make a list of the people who you hang out with, and simply stop spending time with the negative people on your list. set a new standard for yourself and dont become friends with people who fall below that standard. keep successful people around you and your own chances for success will be much better. ask them how they do it. ask if they will help you get the work youre looking for, or maybe give you some advice to help you on your career path. 21. which of the following would be the best title for this passage? a. a friend in need is a friend indeed b. how to make friendship last for ever c. you are who your friends are d. friends are the most important in ones success 22. the musicians words at the beginning are written mainly to show _. a. the musicians living conditions are quite poorb. people have poor taste in music c. people have different attitudes towards the same thing d. young people have greater chances of succeeding 23. the passage is mainly written for _. a. musicians b. managers c. negative people d. people wanting to succeedb lets face it-there are lots of reasons to hate mcdonalds: calories, cholesterol and, for me at least, that sickening feeling after munching (大口咀嚼) on mcnuggets. then theres always that childish salesman at the drive-through(免下车通道) who forgets the ketchup. well, add one more reason to spite mcdonalds: as the global economy spirals downward, mcdonalds is minting money. “in the worst of times for the restaurant industry, its the best of times for mcdonalds,” says butt flickinger iii, managing director of the strategic resources group, a retail-consulting company. in fact, the companys sales have increased for 55 straight months. profits grew 11% to $1.2 billion. the pricing of mcdonalds, highlighted by dollar-menu items like apple pies, side salads and yogurt, plus cheap combo meals is a key strength during the recession. in particular, consumers are fleeing casual, family chain restaurants for the convenience and savings of fast food. the economy is not the only reason people are drawn to mcdonalds. the companys management also deserves credit for its success. back seven years ago, americas obesity was a hot topic, and mcdonalds suffered from the strong negative reaction. changeless food and shabby stores also kept people away. “mcdonalds was actively persuading customers from coming back,” says john glass, a morgan stanley analyst. since that time, mcdonalds have remodeled 11,000 stores. at a neat and clean restaurant in the bronx one weekday evening, brian waters, a mailman, sat with his 9-year-old son in a booth. the bright dining area featured abstract paintings of new york citys bridges and the statue of liberty. “it used to be dark and dull in here,” waters says. “now its nice and clean. i dont mind sitting here anymore.” stores have also extended hours: 34% of the companys 14,000 u.s. restaurants are now open 24/7. the menu got an upgrade too. obscene “super-size” choices were phased out, and healthier options like apples and salads were added. the company changed its coffee blend; coffee sales have soared 70% over the past two years. chicken mcnuggets now consist solely of white meat, which has less fat and fewer calories than the darker-meat mix of old. like any other business in this environment, mcdonalds faces some potential roadblocks. as the recession wears on, fast-food-service growth may flatten out; plus, mcdonalds can expect more price competition. for example, steak n shake, the diner-style burger chain in 21 states throughout the midwest and south, is promoting four different meal combos for less than $4. “in los angeles, every other billboard is a 99-cent food price,” says glass. the battle for bargain-hunting eaters is on. but given its recent winning ways, mcdonalds might just add a few more billion consumers.24. one of the reasons why the author hates mcdonalds is that _a. there are always kids messing around in the restaurant.b. the salesclerk always forget to clean up the drive-through c. children always leave the ketchup at the drive-throughd. some salesclerk always forgets to give him the ketchup25. what isthe key for mcdonaldssuccesseven during the global economic downturna. itspricing policy.b. its managing policyc. its dollar-menu itemsd. its cheap combo meals26. what happened to mcdonalds seven years ago, according to john glass?a. it suggested that fast food not be abused.b. it persuaded customers to eat elsewherec. the size of its customers was shrinkingd. customers had more expectation on it27. when the battle for bargain-hunting eaters is on, the author expects that mcdonalds will most probably _a. increase its management expensesb. open more chain restaurantsc. have to cut its prices sharplyd. gain more customers c while theres never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. the average age of a cancer patient at diagnosis is 67. children with cancer often are treated at pediatric (小儿科的) cancer centers, but young adults have a tough time finding peers, often sitting side-by-side during treatments with people who could be their grandparents. in her new book crazy sexy cancer tips, writer kris carr looks at cancer from the perspective of a young adult who confronts death just as shes discovering life. ms. carr was 31 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that had generated tumors on her liver and lungs. ms. carr reacted with the normal feelings of shock and grief. she called her parents and stocked up on organic food, determined to become a “full-time healing addict.” then she picked up the phone and called everyone in her address book, asking if they knew other young women with cancer. the result was her own personal “cancer posse”: a rock concert tour manager, a model, a fashion magazine editor, a cartoonist and a mtv celebrity, to name a few. this club of “cancer babes” offered support, advice and fashion tips, among other things. ms. carr put her cancer experience in a recent learning channel documentary, and she has written a practical guide about how she coped. cancer isnt funny, but ms. carr often is. she swears, she makes up names for the people who treat her (dr. fabulous and dr. guru), and she even makes second opinions sound fun (“cancer road trips,” she calls them). she leaves the medical advice to doctors, instead offering insightful and practical tips that reflect the world view of a young adult. “i refused to let cancer ruin my party,” she writes. “there are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.” ms. carr still has cancer, but it has stopped progressing. her cancer tips include using time- saving mass e-mails to keep friends informed, sewing or buying fashionable hospital gowns so youre not stuck with regulation blue or gray and playing gloria gaynors “i will survive” so loud your neighbors call the police. ms. carr also advises an eyebrow wax and a new outfit before you tell the important people in your life about your illness. “people you tell are going to cautiously and not so cautiously try to see the cancer, so dazzle them instead with your miracle,” she writes. while her advice may sound superficial, it gets to the heart of what every cancer patient wants: the chance to live life just as she always did, and maybe better.28. which of the following groups is easier to get cancer?a. children.b. elderly people.c. young adults.d. people in their 20s and 30s.29. what does the underlined word mean?a. sorrowb. surprisec. angerd. joy30. all of the following statements are true excepta. kris carr is a female writerb. kris carr works in a cancer center c. kris carr is more than 31-year-oldd. kris carr is very optimistic31. from kris carrs cancer tips we may infer that _a. she learned to use e-mails after she got cancer.b. hospital gowns for cancer patients are usually not in bright colors.c. she wears fashionable dress even after suffering from cancer.d. the neighbors are very friendly with cancer patients.dis that folgers coffee in your cup or maxwell house? now you no longer have to rely on your nose to tell. researchers have developed an analyzer that can distinguish between 10 commercial brands of coffee and can even tell apart coffee beans roasted at various temperatures for different times. the advance could help growers determine within minutes whether a particular batch of coffee is just as good as the previous one or whether its undrinkable. researchers have been trying for years to come up with a simple way to analyze coffee. but its no easy task. the challenge is that the aroma(芳香) of roasted coffee beans consists of more than 1000 compounds that change with roasting temperatures and time. traditional methods of chemical analysis generally have difficulty distinguishing between compounds that are very similar to one another. and “electronic noses,” an array of dyes, and other devices that change color or chemical properties when they react with certain molecules suffer from the same drawback. over the past decade, chemist kenneth suslick and colleagues at the university of illinois, urbana-champaign, have refined the electronic nose approach. in the new study, they used dyes that interact strongly with other chemicals, making them more specific. they then put drops of 36 dyes on a polymer film the size of a nickel. the color in the dyes belonged to a range of chemical classes, including ph indicators and molecules that change color with certain chemical vapors. the device produced a pattern of colors as each coffees mixture of volatile （易蒸发的）compounds interacted with the dyes. when the investigators pumped vapors from various coffees including starbucks sumatra roast and folgers grande supreme decaf-over the arrays, all generated unique color patterns, like a molecular “fingerprint,” they report this month in analytical chemistry. the array doesnt give any information about the individual compounds in the smell. “the important thing is that we can easily tell the difference between different roastings and coffees,” notes suslick. and that should help growers quickly and cheaply analyze problems with coffee, such as burnt flavors, during their initial screening process says food scientist felix escher at the swiss federal institute of technology zurich. the applications for the kind of device created by suslicks team go beyond coffee, says chemist pavel anzenbacher jr. at bowling green state university in ohio. similar arrays, he notes, could be used in everything from detecting explosives to spotting contaminants（污染物） in water.32. the coffee analyzer developed by researchers is most probably intended for _.a. consumersb. coffee planters c. cafeteriasd. coffee wholesalers33. what is the disadvantage of the “electronic noses”?a. they cant tell similar compounds from each other.b. they react with certain molecules of the compounds.c. they change color or properties in chemicals reactions.d. they cant distinguish all the more than 1000 compounds.34. the electronic nose approach refined by kenneth suslick and colleagues can now _.a. tell the difference between similar compoundsb. use fewer dyes but produce more distinct colorsc. distinguish between different brands of coffee d. reduce the impacts of chemical reactions on dyes35. compared with the former electronic noses, the refined approach is intended to be _.a. less time-consumingb. more economicalc. less complicatedd. more accurate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。 secret codes (密码) keep messages private. bank, companies, and government agencies use secret code in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer. people have used secret codes for thousands of years. 36 code breaking never lags (落后) behind code making. the science of decoding and reading coded messages is called cryptography. there are three main types of cryptography. 37 for example, the first letters are “my elephant eats too many eels” spell out the hidden message “meet me.” 38 you might represent each letter with a number, for example, lets number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26. if we substitute a number for each letter, the message “meet me” would read “1 3 5 20 13 5”. a code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. to read the message of a real code, you must have a code book. 39 for example, “bridge” might stand for “meet” and “out” might stand for “me”. the message “bridge out” would actually mean “meet me”. 40 however, it is also hard to keep a code book secret for long. so codes must be changed frequently.a.itisveryhardtobreakacodewithoutthecodebook.b.inanylanguage,somelettersareusedmorethanothers.c.onlypeoplewhoknowthekeywordcanreadthemessage.d.aslongastherehavebeencodes,peoplehavetriedtobreakthem.e.youcanhideamessagebyhavingthefirstlettersofeachwordspellitout.f.withacodebook,youmightwritedownwordsthatwouldstandforotherwords.g.anotherwaytohideamessageistousesymbolstostandforspecificlettersofthealphabet. f. then you need to pick a name for your club.g. use a bright th