湖北省黄冈市2017_2018学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

湖北省黄冈市2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题注意事项：1.答卷前,先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上,并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2.选择题的作答:每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3.非选择题的作答:用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4.考试结束后,请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。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 an elevator.B. On a bus.C. In a taxi.2. What will the man do in Edinburgh?A. Do business with Justin. B. Tell Justin his new address. C. Give Justin the medicines.3. What kind of music does the man like?A. Jazz.B. Classical.C. Folk.4. When does the conversation take place?A. In September.B. In April.C. In February.5. Whose advice did the woman follow?A. The shop assistants.B. Her mothers.C. Her sisters. 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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题 6. What are the speakers mainly discussing?A. Where to buy tickets.B. Where to park the car.C. Where to get a camera.7. Where will the speakers meet?A. At the market.B. At the camera shop.C. At the sports stadium.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the man have to do now?A. Plan a trip.B. Look for a job.C. Make a decision.9. What does the woman think of the job in America?A. Dangerous.B. Exciting.C. Boring.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When should students meet for the field trip?A. At 7:00 am.B. At 7:15 am.C. At 8:00 am.11. How will the boy probably get to school today?A. Take the bus.B. Take his moms car.C. Take Mrs. Andersons car.12. What is the relationship between the woman and Mrs. Anderson?A. Colleagues.B. Neighbors.C. Best friends. 听第9段材料,回答第13至16题 13. What kind of people is The Knife and Talk popular with?A. Truck drivers.B. Office workers.C. Actors.14. What does the woman like most about the restaurant?A. Quiet environment.B. Great waitresses.C. Pop music.15. What does the man say about his favorite restaurant?A. Its tables are pink.B. It offers great food.C. It was just opened.16. What does the man have for lunch?A. Pancakes.B. Fish pies.C. Sausages. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Which competition is suitable for the listeners?A. The high level.B. The middle level.C. The low level.18. What is the topic for this year?A. Weather.B. Change.C. Travel.19. What are the listeners advised to do to get ideas?A. Ask Maria for help.B. Read the poem called Rain.C. Borrow books from the library.20. What will the school spend the prize money on this year?A. The library.B. The computers.C. The lab.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。AIf you enjoy reading, the realm of books will become a paradise(乐园) which cannot be experienced by watching television. A study has shown how those who read for pleasure achieve more in literacy(读写能力) and thinking abilities than those who dont. Actually, there is nothing else which will expand your language skills and make your imagination fly.To begin with, language skills can be better learned through reading for pleasure than through watching TV for entertainment. At best, watching television can be educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to raise literacy levels by simply sitting in front of a TV box.Therefore, only by reading can you enrich your vocabulary. However, it must be made clear that the link between literacy and reading is like comparing health to sport. One is something functional and the other is something you do because you enjoy it.The books that help you most in imagination are those which make you think the most. In this light, reading for pleasure, both paper-based and on-screen, is far more beneficial than watching TV. For example, there is always a book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit: imagination. Unfortunately, some peoples love of books is being ruined by television, which may be considered as a decline in thinking abilities.On the whole, watching TV is largely harmless as an entertainment and information tool, but there is no better way to enhance your language skills and imagination than reading for pleasure. For those who would continue to enjoy reading, there is a paradise not yet being lost. Having acquired an amount of language skills through wide reading, you might as well imagine that such a paradise would not be very unlike a kind of library.21. In the authors opinion, watching TV is_.A. a waste of time and energyB. a paradise for childrenC. beneficial to some extentD. just for entertainment22. What does the author think of reading?A. People can obtain the truest information through it.B. Watching TV offers more pleasure than it in reality.C. More language skills will be obtained as people do more of it.D. It plays the same role in firing kids imagination as watching TV.23. How is the passage mainly developed?A. By making a comparison.B. By describing a process.C. By using some examples.D. By following time order.BAlmost everybody is familiar with the classic image of Frankensteins monster(怪物): a tall man with light-green skin, who cant speak more than a few simple words. Perhaps, if you celebrate Halloween, you might have dressed up as him! But not so many people know the original book that he comes from.In the summer of 1816, a group of young writers were on holiday near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Unusually for summer in Switzerland, the sky was covered in dark clouds and it was pouring with rain, so the friends had to spend most of the week trapped in their house. To entertain themselves, the most famous of the writers, Lord Byron, decided they should have a competition. Each person had to create a ghost story and whoever wrote the scariest one would win. It was during this competition that Mary Shelley, who was only nineteen years old. had the idea of an ugly monster. Two years later, she published her first novel: Frankenstein.In the film, the monster cant really talk much, but in the book. he has a voice and can explain his side of the story. Although he is scary, ugly and violent, he also has understandable human emotions, and the book explores the reasons for his actions. The monster is abandoned by the scientist who creates him, and all of the human beings he meets are cruel to him without reason. He suggests that he only becomes cruel and violent because he has been treated cruelly and violently by other people.The reason I personally love Frankenstein so much is that it is so open to interpretation (解释).The problems and issues it talks about are simple and universal. It can be interpreted as a metaphor(隐喻) for family relationships, or for childbirth, or for racism: as s criticism of science or a criticism of religion: whatever you think it is about, it is for you to decide. 24. Frankenstein probably tells_.A. a love storyB. a horror storyC. a detective storyD. an adventure story25. Why is Halloween mentioned?A. To explain why the book is famous.B. Because the book is about the holiday.C. Because the film is played on Halloween. D. To show the image of the monster is popular.26. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. The features of the novel.B. How Mary Shelley became a writer.C. A competition held by Mary Shelley.D. The creation background of the novel.27. What can readers learn from the monsters story?A. There is none without a fault.B. Actions speak louder than words.C. Think about the effects of our actions. D. Science is usually extremely important.CMy four years at university had earned me double degrees in theater and philosophy and a fulltime job as a cleaner. Riding an electric cleaning machine at 7 a. m. was fun for the first month, but decreasingly so over the next five, until I was so bored that my boss took notice and fired me.My family and I lived in Norway when I was 3, but I grew up in California. By the end of college, I could feel the Norwegian language and culture fading. My brother decided to move back to Norway during my final year of college, and after I graduated, I followed him. He helped get me the job as a cleaner. Now Id have to find something new.Walking home, I saw a help wanted sign. I called the number and lined up an interview for the next day. There was only one problem: I didnt know what the job was.Whats a sivilarbeider? I asked my brother. He didnt know either. But it doesnt matter, he told me. Just say yes to whatever they ask.I went to the interview the next day. The second question was when I was ready for my siviltjeneste. I considered making up a date, but that seemed risky. I replied, I dont actually have a siviltjereste yet. But how do I get one?I ran home and immediately called the number the interviewer had given me. The woman at the other end of the line seemed happy to discover that I absolutely was qualified. Forms would be sent to me right away to fill out. I hung up feeling optimistic. Anything was better than mopping floors. I had to get this job.A few days later, a large envelope arrived. It had a photo of people in green fatigues(工作服) working together. Inside were brochures. I couldnt understand much, so I took the packet with me and visited my grandmother later that day.Oh, sweetheart, she laughed. You got yourself drafted(征召入伍). She then laughed so hand she started coughing.All Norwegian men are drafted when they turn 18. They have the option to do siviltjeneste, or civilian service, instead. I had been in California when I turned 18, so I hadnt been called to serve. Now Id returned to Norway, called the government, and asked them to draft me.28. What did the author ask his brother about?A. The benefits of a job.B. What a job was about.C. Some interviewing skills.D. How to learn the Local language.29. After calling the woman, the author thought_.A. he would get the jobB. he wouldnt like the jobC. he had made a big mistakeD. he should have listened to his brother30. Why did the author visit his grandmother?A. To ask for help.B. Because he missed her.C. Because she needed him.D. To share some good news.31. Why did the authors grandmother laugh?A. She was proud of him.B. She was so happy seeing him.C. The photo was very interesting.D. What happened seemed unbelievable.DDogs, unlike people, are capable of pure loveat least according to Freud. As more Americans live alone, unconditional affection is in demand. Pet ownership has risen for decades. More than a third of homes have at least one dog, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.But the popularity of four-legged friends has an unpleasant cost: dogs squeeze out more than twice the waste of the average person, or around 275 pounds a year. With over 83,000,000 dogs running around the country, that is a lot of waste.Around 60% of the stuff gets collected and trucked to landfills, where it releases methane, a greenhouse gas. The rest delivers surprises to pedestrians and can pollute waterways.The problem is particularly bad in cities, where green spaces are few and lonely souls seeking puppy love plentiful. There are over 600,000 dogs in New Yorkone for every 14 peoplegenerating over100,000 tons of turd (粪便) a year.This is a missed opportunity, says Ron Gonen, the citys former recycling tsar(掌权者).Now in the private sector, he is trying to launch Sparky Power, a programme to transform dog waste into clean energy in the citys dog parks.The idea is to fit parks with small anacrobic digesters(厌氧分解池). Dog owners would place their dogs turd into the machine, which then turns turd into gas for powering lamps and other park equipment. A year-long pilot would introduce digesters in three parks at a cost of around $ 100,000,000. The parks department is thinking about the proposal.Similar schemes in other cities have proved short-lived. An underground Energy Transformation Using Reactive Digestion (E- TURD) device created by Arizona State University students for a dog park in Gilbert, Arizona, in 2012 finally failed.Its great to turn it into a biofuel, but first you gotta pick it up, says Tom Boyd, an entrepreneur in Tennessee. His company, Poo Prints, shames the owners of dogs who fail to clean up their messes by testing DNA in uncollected turd. 32. What does the underlined part The problem in Paragraph 4 refer to?A. Lots of people feel lonely.B. Pet dogs produce a lot of waste.C. There are very limited green spaces. D. The greenhouse effect is getting serious.33. What do we know about the programme Sparky Power?A. It is about recycling household waste.B. It is operated by the local government.C. It aims to produce power from dog waste.D. It aims to clean parks with renewable energy.34. So far the programme Sparky Power _.A. has just startedB, is a great successC. has ended in failureD. is still under consideration35. What is the purpose of the company Poo Prints?A. To make good use of dog waste.B. To help people look for their dogs.C. To reduce the number of dog owners. D. To push people to pick up their dogs waste. 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。Everybody likes to get a freebie(赠品). On my way to work today I was offered a bottle of new mineral water. Lucky me eh? 36 where you can get a freebie depends on a number of factors.For businesses, giving out something for nothing is an important marketing technique. They want to see our reaction and hear our feedback(反馈) and finally make us buy more. 37 .They want to target the so-called trendsetters, in the hope that they will speak positively about the product and encourage people to buy more.Living in a capital city certainly improves your chances of getting a freebie. 38 . So if you live in London, Paris or Beijing, youll probably see a new promotional campaign starting there first. The hope is that the fashionable people there will try and like the new item and support it on social media. Eventually everyone around the country will know about it.How businesses give away freebies is also of interest. 39 : future selling, cross-selling and up-selling. The first is about giving something away assuming we will like it and buy more clients(客户) through an entrance product, with the intention of selling them additional products during its life cycle, and up- selling happens when a basic version is given away for free but charges a client for more advanced and complete versions.40 someone has to pay for it and this usually comes from a firms marketing budget which is funded by the products we buyso the expression theres no such thing as a free lunch could be true.A. We might not given it much thoughtB. Well its a not necessarily down to luckC. Of course a freebie is not actually freeD. But who they hear from is very importantE. Maybe you have experienced one of these approachesF. According to economist Enrico Trevisan, they have three approachesG. Not only is the population larger but these places are considered the trendsetter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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I want to share with you a story from my life. There was a time when I used to be 41 constantly for whom I was and what I did, said, and thought. I was 42 deeply. I had no one to share what I was feeling with, no one who could 43 what I was going through and no help at all to get away from those 44 remarks. And I was also very 45 . Many times I was too scared to speak up and on the few occasions, I found the 46 to do so, but things didnt end very well at all.However, the point is this: all that 47 and anger inside of me became 48 , which I used to take out on the court (球场)(I used to play badminton): And those days people often wondered how I played so 49 .I didnt know it at the time 50 deep down inside of me I had already decided to do my best to create a life where I 51 the rules of my own.And because of that 52 , today I have created for myself a wonderful life. Thanks to the suffering, I was able to 53 more than I could ever imagine. Thanks to people 54 and not believing in me, I got the drive to prove them 55 .What Im trying to say is that I dont see suffering as a bad thing. If we learn how to 56 our suffering in a way that can break us free I believe we can find our way to 57 .I dont think there is any 58 in suffering. Instead, we should be proud of all that we have gone through. We still stand strong. And we carry the 59 from our sufferings as a great 60 . So my suffering is my greatest source of power.Suffering is a part of life and the sooner we can accept that, the closer we will be to experiencing what happiness truly means.41. A. criticized B. admired C. punished D. respected42. A. pleased B. affected C. hurt D. missed43. A. accept B. remember C. bear D. understand44. A. funny B. brief C. careless D. bitter45. A. bored B. angry C. proud D. brave46. A. reason B. courage C. energy D. goal47. A. hope B. guilt C. pain D. surprise48. A. fuel B. water C. knowledge D. fire49. A. well B. regularly C. badly D. frequently50. A. and B. as C. or D. but51. A. bated B. changed C. made D. applied52. A. design B. accident C. decision D. mistake53. A. wa