湖北剩州中学2017_2018学年高二英语下学期第二次双周考试题.doc

湖北省荆州中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期第二次双周考试题第卷第一部分 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。例：How much is the shirt? A.&19.15 B. &9.15 C9.18. 答案：B1. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a hotel. B. In a school. C. In a supermarket.2. What is the woman doing?A. Buying a handbag.B. Drawing a colorful picture.C. Trying on a piece of clothing.3. When will the man go to the cinema?A. On Sunday morning. B. On Sunday afternoon. C. On Sunday evening. 4. What kind of tea does Tina usually drink?A. English tea. B. Japanese tea. C. Chinese tea.5. How much will the man pay?A. $ 8. B.$32. C. $ 40.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6、7题。6. What is Jenny doing now?A. Getting up in her room. B. Preparing for a party. C. Performing on stage.7. What did the man come for Jenny?A. To bring her a dress. B. To get her some flowers. C. To invite her to a movie.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What do we learn about the training?A. It is paid by the woman.B. It is partly done on work time. C. It runs from Wednesday to Friday.9. What does the woman think of her new job?A. Satisfactory. B. Tiring. C. Badly paid.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why is the man going to the airport?A. To get his key. B. To see his aunt off. C. To pick up his aunt.11. Where is the mans wallet?A. At his home. B. In the car. C. In the airport.12. Why will the man go to his brothers home?A. For his phone. B. For some money. C. For spare keys.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the woman make the call?A .To buys a new service. B. To make a complaint. C. To say thanks.14. What is the woman s phone number?A. 630740. B. 637040. C. 640730.15. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Check her account. B. Make fewer calls. C. Get an IDS service.16. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The woman is from Europe.B. Calling through IDS costs less.C. Rates for calling have risen.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who is the speaker?A. A taxi driver. B. A police officer. C. A radio announcer.18. What makes driving taxi a hard job in London?A. Bad traffic. B. Large population. C. Confused street names.19. How long will it usually take for a taxi driver to pass the test?A. 25 days. B. 3 years. C. 5 months.20. What is the speakers advice when we are stuck on the road?A. Look at a map. B. Change directions. C. Be considerate.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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。AAs an adult, I like nothing better than to sit on the beach reading. Give me a satisfying “beach read” and Im happy for days. However, Im sad to say it isnt really a thing for kids. Most kids would rather take their boards out beyond their parents comfort zone than read. And who can blame them? But the truth is that even when kids are on vacation, they need the same sort of relax, and reading time that we adults look forward to. The trick is getting them to sit for 5 or 10 minutes to refresh their bodies and to enjoy the pleasure of reading.Books tend to be kind of heavy and they can get wet or filled with sand and are then pretty much ruined. Book chapters tend to be kind of long. Your child may refuse to read. And if your kids are anything like my daughter, they may hate to close a book in the middle of the chapter. You know what Im going to say, right? Magazines wont weigh you down. They can be thrown away if they get wet, and will provide just the right amount of reading for the times when my daughter is ready to sit under the umbrella and cool down for a few minutes. Literary magazines will allow your child to read wonderful fiction paired with beautiful illustrations. Discovery magazines deliver articles on all sorts of topics that will excite and interest your nonfiction lover.So dont leave the beach read behind when you pack the beach bags. Slip a magazine or two in the pocket of the bag and when your child needs a few minutes of rest, pull it out and get them to sit for 10 minutes or so. 21. Who is the text most likely intended for? A. Parents. B. Kids. C. Travelers. D. Teachers.22. What does the author really want to say in Paragraph 3? A. Books become a burden for kids on holiday. B. Books are not the best choice for “beach read”. C. Kids dont spend time reading books on holiday. D. Its a pity to throw away the books ruined on holiday.23. What can we infer about the authors daughter from the text? A. She reads thick books during her holiday. B. She prefers to read some literary magazines. C. She is likely to take some magazines with her on holiday. D. She doesnt want her magazines to weigh her down.24. What may be the best title for the text? A. Enjoying Magazines on the Beach B. Making “Beach Read” a Thing for Kids C. Making Good Use of Kids Time on the Beach D. Packing Your Beach Bags with Literary MagazinesBA team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.“Its extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team started piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything its connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it is able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”25. The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that _.A. they had no model in their mindB. they did not have adequate timeC. they had no ready-made componentsD. they could not put the components together26. It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly _. A. consists of a flight device and a control system B. can just fly in limited areas at the present time C. can collect information from many sources D. has been put into wide application27. Which of the following can be learned from the passage? A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects. B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments. C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly. D. Woods design can replace animals in some experiments.CIn a class this past December, after I wrote some directions on the board for students about their final examination, one young woman quickly took a picture of the board using her smart phone. When I looked in her direction, she apologized, “Sorry. Was it wrong to take a picture?” “I cant read my own handwriting,” the young woman explained. “Its best if I take a picture of your writing so I can understand the notes.”That remark started a class-wide conversation about taking a picture instead of taking notes. For those in the photo-taking camp, motivations extended beyond their inability to understand their own handwriting. Some took pictures of notes because they knew their phone was a safe place to store material. They might lose paper, they reasoned, but they wouldnt lose their phones. Some took photos because they wanted to record exactly the manner in which I had noted information on the board. Others told me that during class they liked to be able to listen to the discussion attentively.Yet the use of cameras as note takers, though it may be convenient, does raise significant questions for the classroom. Is a picture an effective replacement for the process of note-taking?Instructors encourage students to take notes because the act of doing so is more than merely recording necessary informationit helps prepare the way for understanding. Encouraging students to take notes may be an old-fashioned instructional method, but just because a method has a long history doesnt mean its out of date. Writing things down engages a students brain in listening, visual, and kinesthetic(触觉的) learninga view supported by a longstanding research. The act of writing down information enables a person to begin committing it to memory, and to process and combine it, establishing the building blocks of learning new concepts.Taking a picture does indeed record the information, but it deletes some of the necessary mental engagement that taking notes employs. So can the two be equally effective?28. The woman apologized in the class because she_.A. had the bad handwriting B. missed the teachers directionsC. took a picture of the board D. disturbed other students learning29. Which of the following may NOT explain students unwillingness to take notes?A. They lack proper techniques for taking notes. B. They want to listen more attentively in class.C. They believe smart phones are much safer for storing notes.D. They want to have the exact version of the notes on the board.30. According to the passage, taking notes by hand_.A. requires students to think independently B. helps students actively participate in learning C. proves to be an old and useless learning methodD. seems unsuitable for students to learn new ideas31. What is the main idea of this passage?A. The traditional way of note-taking should be replaced.B. A modern way of note-taking is catching on. C. Note-taking by hand is not out of date.D. A picture is worth a thousand words.DFor some people, music is no fun at all. About four percent of the population is what scientists call “amusic.” People who are amusic are born without the ability to recognize or reproduce musical notes (音调). Amusic people often cannot tell the difference between two songs. Amusics can only hear the difference between two notes if they are very far apart on the musical scale.As a result, songs sound like noise to an amusic. Many amusics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. Their inability to enjoy music set them apart from others. It can be difficult for other people to identify with their condition. In fact, most people cannot begin to grasp what it feels like to be amusic. Just going to a restaurant or a shopping mall can be uncomfortable or even painful. That is why many amusics intentionally stay away from places where there is music. However, this can result in withdrawal and social isolation. “I used to hate parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only recently discovered that she was amusic. By studying people like Margaret, scientists are finally learning how to identify this unusual condition.Scientists say that the brains of amusics are different from the brains of people who can appreciate music. The difference is complex, and it doesnt involve defective hearing. Amusics can understand other nonmusical sounds well. They also have no problems understanding ordinary speech. Scientists compare amusics to people who just cant see certain colors.Many amusics are happy when their condition is finally diagnosed. For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about her problem with music. Now she knows that she is not alone. There is a name for her condition. That makes it easier for her to explain. “When people invite me to a concert, I just say, No thanks, Im amusic,” says Margaret. “I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.” 32. Which of the following is true of amusics? A. Listening to music is far from enjoyable for them. B. They love places where they are likely to hear music. C. They can easily tell two different songs apart. D. Their situation is well understood by musicians.33. According to paragraph 3, a person with “defective hearing” is probably one who _. A. dislikes listening to speechesB. can hear anything nonmusical C. has a hearing problemD. lacks a complex hearing system34. In the last paragraph, Margaret expressed her wish that _. A. her problem with music had been diagnosed earlier B. she were seventeen years old rather than seventy C. her problem could be easily explained D. she were able to meet other amusics35. What is the passage mainly concerned with?A. Amusics strange behaviours.B. Some peoples inability to enjoy music.C. Musical talent and brain structure.D. Identification and treatment of amusics.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。 Stop Negative Talk“Im so fat,” one of your friends says. The girl next to her joins in, “Well, I hate my hair today.” Without thinking, you respond: “No, you are not fat! I am fat. And my hair is flat and boring.” 36 It is easy for people to join in self-critical conversations, and once it starts there is often pressure for you to join in. 37 Maybe it is because “just talking” feels harmless. But before you know it, those opinions flow out of your conversations and into your life, where they start eating away at your self-respect. 38 When you start talking about yourself in a negative way, you are not only affecting your self-respect, but your friends! When you criticize yourself, your friends might think you have the same standards for them. So, dont start it.But what if someone else starts? For example, your friend feels insecure about how well he played in his soccer game, so he puts himself down: “I hate soccer.” 39 Ask him, “Do you really think that? Why?” Maybe he is actually upset about someones comment, or is just getting down on himself over one bad play. Whatever it is, talking through the real issue will help him more than slipping into another negative talk.It is important to talk to your friend about your insecurities, but make sure you are not talking about them just to put yourself down. 40 Instead of just focusing on the negative, talk about what makes you and your friends beautiful and uniqueincluding what you love about your body and what you have accomplished. When you show yourself love, you set yourself as an example, and everyone benefits from you positively.A. Negative talk affects self-respect.B. Criticizing yourself helps nobody.C. But why do we hesitate to praise ourselves?D. But why is it acceptable to talk so negatively?E. All it takes is just one comment and the negative talk starts.F. It is better to resist negative conversations and create more balanced ones.G. Before everyone puts himself down, see if you can get to the root of the problem.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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasnt much of a fruit-eater, 41 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 42 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 43 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.He stood on tiptoe, 44 as high as he could, but even as his tallest 45 he was unable to touch it. He began to 46 up and down, as high as he could, at the 47 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of 48 .Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to 49 on. His school bag wouldnt give enough height and he didnt want to 50 the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking 51 , he hoped he might find