贵州省铜仁市第一中学高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

铜仁一中2016-2017学年第一学期高二年级半期考试英语试题 本试题卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上（答题注意事项见答题卡），在本试题卷上答题无效。第卷注意事项：1. 答第卷时，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2. 选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面五段对话。 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，你将有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 will the speakers have for breakfast? a. bread and jam. b. eggs and milk. c. milk and bread.2what does linda want to be? a. a bike seller. b. an inventor. c. a writer.3. whats the girls favorite subject?a. science b. drawing. c. music4. how does the woman get to work?a. by bus b. by bike. c. by taxi.5. what are the speakers probably doing? a. listening to a speech b. singing c. memorizing words第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白。 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。每段对话读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. where does the conversation take place?a. in a store b. in a restaurant. c. at school.7. how much should the man borrow from his friend? a. $2 .50. b. $10.00. c. $12.50.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第10三个小题。8. what can we learn about the man?a. he needs another operation. b. he will stop taking any medicine soonc. his doctor is worried about his condition.9. whats the mans plan with the money left?a. buy some presents b. leave it to his family. c. set up a fund to help other people10. what does the woman think of his plan? a. she agrees with him. b. she has a better idea. c. she thinks it unpractical.2 听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。11. whats the relationship between the speakers?a. classmates b. mother and son. c. teacher and student.12. why didnt john answer any questions for the homework?a. he read the wrong chapter. b. he didnt want to do any homework.c .he totally forgot about it.13. what will he do next?a. go to finish his homework. b. hurry to another class c. go back home.听下面一段对话，回答第14至第16三个小题。14. who coo you thinly the man is? a. a full-time waiter. b. a student. c. a customer.15. how much can the man earn per week?a. $600. b. $300. c. $180.16. then is the busiest time for the man?a. at noon. b. at supper time c. in the morning.听下面一段对话，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. where can people see twelfth night? a. in the main theater. b. in the small theater. c. in the concert hall.18. who is the author of the mild duck?a. shakespeare. b. ibsen. c. bernard shaw.19. what can the visitors do on the third floor?a. see paintings from a childrens competition. b. enjoy a show of south american photos.c. have some snacks at charlies coffee shop.20. when will the center be closed?a. at around eleven oclock. b. at a quarter past eleven. c. at eleven thirty.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。ain 1943, when i was 4, my parents moved from coeur dalene, idaho, to fairbanks, alaska, where adventure was never very far away. we arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. all that sunlight was fantastic for mums vegetable garden. working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didnt care much about my bedtime. dad was a railway express agent and mum was his clerk. that left me in a mess. i usually managed to find some trouble to get into. once i had a little fire going in the dirty basement of a hotel. i had tried to light a barrel(桶) of paint but couldnt really get a good fire going. the smoke got pretty bad, though, and when i made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. the policemen took my matches and drove me home. mum and dad were occupied in the garden and dad told the police to keep me, and they did! i had a tour of the prison before mum rescued me. i hadnt turned 5 yet. as i entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. would it surprise you to know that i soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school? as for leonhard seppala, famous as a dog sledder(驾雪橇者), i think i knew him well because i was taken for a ride with his white dog team one sunday. at the time i didnt realize what a superstar he was, but i do remember the ride well. i was wrapped(包裹) heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather. in 1950, we moved back to coeur dalene, but we got one more alaskan adventure when leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbours of alaska. 21. what can be inferred about the authors family?a. his father was a cruel man. b. his parents used to be very busyc. his parents didnt love him. d. his mother didnt have any jobs.22. what happened when the author was 4?a. he learned to smoke. b. he was locked in a basement.c. he was arrested by the police. d. he nearly caused a fire accident.23. which of the following is true?a. leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.b. leonhard often visited the authors family after 1950.c. the author spent his whole childhood in alaska.d. the author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in alaska.24. what is the authors purpose of writing the text?a. to look back on his childhood with adventures. b. to describe the extreme weather of alaska.c. to show off his pride in making trouble d. to express how much he misses leonhard. brecordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough african elephants running away, a new study says. beehives(蜂窝)either recorded or realmay even prevent elephants from damaging farmers crops. in 2002, scientist lucy king and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. today, lucy wants to see if african honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. but before she asked farmers to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away. lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern kenya and set up a recorder. then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. next, lucy searched out elephant families in samburu national reserve in northern kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family. from a distance, lucy switched on the prerecorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. when lucy played the sound of a waterfall(瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place. lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. she hasnt tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial(最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. she has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away. 25we know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of _aloud noises bsome crops cvideo cameras dangry bees26as mentioned in the passage, lucy_aworks by herself in africa b has got farmers to set up beehives on their farmschas stopped elephants eating crops dneeds to test more elephant groups27why did lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?ato record the sound of bees. bto make a video of elephants.cto see if elephants would run away. dto find out more about the behaviour of bees.28which of the following is true according to the passage?ayoung elephants ignore african honeybees.bwaterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.celephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.dfarmers do not allow lucy to conduct tests in their fields.cperhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. strange as it may seem, if youre unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desiresnot that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you dont have enough tastes. real riches consist of well developed and hearty capacities(能力) to enjoy life. most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. they eat, wear, go and talk too much. they live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.your house of life ought to be a mansion(豪宅), a royal palace. every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. here are several rooms your house of life should have. art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. if you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when youre hungry. literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. to gain that love would go towards making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library. music like mozarts and bachs shouldnt be absent. real riches are of the spirit. and when youve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. and life is a matter of thrills. sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. no matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit. whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding. 29the author intends to tell us that_abig houses can in a sense bring richness of lifebbig houses are peoples most valued possessionsctrue happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair meansdtrue happiness comes from spiritual riches30the underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that_ahowever materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedbhowever materially rich, they remain spiritually poorcthough their house is big, they prefer a simple lifedthough their house is big, it seems to be a cage31it can be learned from the passage that _amore money brings more happiness bliterature can enrich your spiritual life cart is needed to make your house beautiful dsports contribute mainly to your physical fitness32what would be the best title for the passage?ahouse of life bsecret of wealth crest and refreshment dinterest and enthusiasmdbasketball statistician help wantedthe athletic department is looking for students to help assist staff during the fall 2016, winter 2016-17 and spring 2017 semesters. students in this position will be keeping live statistics during basketball games. students must meet all of the following requirements: good computer skills available evening and weekends knowing basketball rules and statisticsstudents interested in working for the athletic department should contact the athletic coordinator at their respective (各自的) campuses. tp/ss athletic coordinator, michael simone, 240-567-1308 rockville athletic coordinator, jorge zuniga, 240-567-7589 spring filed athletic coordinator, gary miller, 240-567-2273 germantown athletic coordinator, gauri chavan, 240-567-691533. when will the job start?a. in may 2016. b. in may 2017. c. in september 2016 d. in september 201734. who is more likely to get the job?a. sam, english major, member of the college basketball team. b. judy, it staff with night classes, childrens basketball team coach.c. ted, computer major, basketball fan, free on evenings and weekends.d. molly, part-time programmer, high school basketball player, new mother.35. whom should you contact if you want to apply for the job in rockville?a. michael. b. jorge. c. gauri. d. gary.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。how to make friendsfriendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. good friendship has many benefits. it offers companionship, improves self-worth and promotes good health. there are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. such changes often leaves us without a friend 36 . but for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage. below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends. 1. associate with others. the first step to making friends is associating with other people. you can go to public places to meet new people. besides, you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places. 2. start a conversationstarting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends. 37 you can always start the conversation. being able to make small talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people. 3.38 choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together, hanging out will always be a pleasant experience. 4. let it grow. it is a good thing to stay in touch. however, try not to press your new friend with calls, messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend. 39 . the best friendships are the ones that grow naturally. 5. enjoy your friendshipthe best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be themselves. 40 try not to change them from who they are to what you want them to be. become the kind of friend you will want your friend to be to you. a. be cheerful. b. try not to find fault with your friends. c. making new friends comes easy for some people. d. do things together. e. do not wait to be spoken to. f. so you will need to give your friend time to react to you.g. for a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）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和d)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 a new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. weboholism, a twentieth century disease，affects people from different _41_. they surf the net, use e-mail and _42_ in chat rooms. they spend many hours _43_ the computer，and it becomes a compulsive _44_. they cannot stop, and it _45_ their lives. ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become compulsive _46_ that could affect the social and physical life of computer _47_. this fascinating behavior has affected teenagers and college students. they are _48_ to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites. they become hooked on computers and _49_ their social and school life is affected by this situation. they spend all free time surfing and dont _50_ homework，so this addiction influences their _51_ and success at school. because they can find everything on the websites, they _52_ there. moreover，this addiction to websites influences their social life. they spend more time in front of computers than with _53_. the relation with their friends changes. the _54_ life becomes more important than their real life. they have a(n) _55_ that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes _56_ changes in society. because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the _57_ and live with their virtual friends. they _58_ their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. _59_ they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. it is a problem for the _60_. this addictive behavior is beginning to affect the whole world. 41.a.countries b.schools c.ages d.nations42.a.speak b.discuss c.say d.perform43.a.beside b.on c.in d.for44.a.problem b.focus c.habit d.character45.a.destroys b.affects c.ruins d.hurts46.a.behavior b.introduction c.response d.activity47.a.users b.producers c.makers d.operators48.a.possible b.probable c.likely d.maybe49.a.mainly b.normally c.particularly d.gradually50.a.concentrateon b.makeupfor c.lookthrough