【英语】内蒙古呼和浩特市第六中学2018-2019学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

1、【英语】内蒙古呼和浩特市第六中学 2018-2019 学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题20190116 高中英语期末考试题号i ii iii ivv vi总分得分一、单选题（本大题共 10 小题，共 10.0 分）1. -how often do you go to the theatre？（ ） -_but usually once a montha.c.all dependit depends onb.d.it dependsall depends on2. the popular website contains a variety of resources，_ from music an

2、d ringstones to videos and e-books （ ）a.rangesb.to rangec.rangingd.having ranged3. why _ it rain on sunday？i cant go to play the football with my good friends （ ）a.mayb.willc.needd.must4. -there are so many things to be doneim too worried -_do them one by one（ ）a.c.keep good timetime and time againb

3、.d.take your timeat one time5. it is not just the size of the olympic games _makes them unique, but _they mean to us .a.which, thatb.that, whatc.that, becaused.that, that6. the education program _ combining brain work with manual labor is being widely spread throughout the country.a.c.to aim athavin

4、g aimed atb.d.aims ataimed at7. _ great efforts, we failed to carry our plans through, which made us very disappointed.a.in place ofb.instead ofc.in case ofd.in spite of8. news came from the school office _ wang lin had been admitted to beijing university.a.whichb.whatc.thatd.where9. -dont touch tha

5、t wire，my child-what _ if i _？（ ）a.b.c.d.will happen； will dowould happen； didwould have happened； had done happens； do10. although he knows clearly that smoking harms his health，he simply cannot_.a.c.give it upgive it outb.d.give it ingive it away二、阅读理解（本大题共 26 小题，共 52.0 分）aif you feel at present t

6、hat you don t have enough friends in your life, one reason may be thatyou have let yourself become too busy to make time for the relationships you already have. starting and keeping friendship requires effort and commitment.many of us let our lives become so busy with work and other responsibilities

7、 that we don t getaround to scheduling time for pleasure and renewal（叙旧）with the friends, relatives and acquaintances we already have.making the effort to call your friends more regularly and to accept more of the invitations you receive from others can improve your social life in a hurry!are there

8、any people you could call right now and be sure to receive a pleasant welcome? arethere people that you could count onto help you in time of difficulty? can you have close talkswith them? do you have fun when you are together? are you happy to have them in your life? if you haven t seen much of them

9、 lately, is it because you have become too busy? have yougrown apart? was there an argument?if the main reason you havent been getting together with the people you already know isthat you have got too busy. take a good look at how you spend your time. compare it with your real values and priorities

10、（优先考虑的事）in life. is your busy lifestyle really bringing you the quality of life that you want?if you have become too busy for friends, why has this happened? are you seeking material toysin your life at the expense of relationships with other human beings? have you allowed your time to be over spent

11、 because you never say “no” to anyone? do you insist on doing thingsyourself that could be appointed to others? if so, why? do you believe that everything depends on you?examine whether the way you are now spending your time accurately reflects your deepestvalues and priorities. make sure that you s

12、chedule adequate time for the things that are trulymost important to you. if you really want to keep friends in your life, make a space in your schedule, and a space in your heart for them.11. in this passage the author mainly discusses _ .a.b.c.d.how to spend our spare time.how to balance friendshi

13、p and work.whether we should keep friendship.whether we should invite friends to dinner regularly.12. which of the following doesnt indicate a good relationship?a.b.c.d.you have someone to count on when you are in trouble. you have someone to have close talks with.you have fun when you are with some

14、one.you feel depressed with others in life.13. the reason why you have become too busy for friends may be the followingexcept that_.a.you feel it difficult to keep friendshipb.c.d.you spend too much time seeking material toys in your life you stick to doing everything all by yourselfyou never refuse

15、 whatever other people ask you to do14. which would be the best title for the text?a.c.how to spend your timetoo busy for friendship?b.d.too busy with work?how to make new friendsba machine that takes sweat-laden （浸满汗水的） clothes and turns the sweat into drinkingwater is in use in sweden the machine

16、makes the clothes turn round quickly ，heats them toremove the sweat，and then passes the steam through a kind of special material to make purified water（净化水）s ince it has been brought into use ， its creators say more than 1000people have drunk otherssweatin gothenburgthey add the liquid is cleaner th

17、an local tap watert he device was built for the united nationschild-focused charity unicef to promote a campaign highlighting the fact that 780million people in the world lack access to clean waterthe machine was designed and built by the engineer andreas hammar，known locally for hisappearances on t

18、v tech showmekatronik he said the key part of the sweat machine was a new water purification part developed by a company named hvrit uses a technique called membrane distillation （膜蒸馏），he told the bbcwe use a specialkind of material that only lets steam through but keeps bacteria，salts，clothing fibe

19、rs and otherthings outthey have something similar to the international space station ，but our machine ischeaper to build the amount of water it produces depends on how sweaty the person is ，but one persons t-shirt typically produces 10ml，about a mouthfulthe device has been put on show at the gothia

20、cup-the worlds largest international youth football tournamentmattias ronge，chief executive of stockholm-based advertising agencydeportivo，said the machine had helped raise awareness for unicef，but in reality had its limitationspeople havent produced as much sweat as we hoped-right now the weather i

21、n gothenburg is lousy，mattias ronge saidso weve equipped the machine with exercise bikes and volunteersare cycling like crazyeven so，the demand for sweat is greater than the supplyand the machinewill never be produced in large numbers，since there are better solutions out there such as water purifyin

22、g pills15. unicef is mentioned in the text to _ a.b.c.d.show how the sweat machine workstell us who invented the sweat machineshow the importance of the united nationsexplain why the sweat machine was invented16. which of the following is the disadvantage of the sweat machine？ _a.b.c.d.the amount of

23、 water the machine produces is rather limited it costs a large amount of money to build the machineit takes too long for the machine to produce waterthe water processed by the machine is not clean enough17. what did mattias ronge think of the sweat machine？ _a.b.c.d.it did not work at allit was not

24、worth popularizingit could only be used in summerthe water it produced tasted sweet18. what is the passage mainly about？ _a.b.c.d.a better solution to purifying dirty water is discovered780million people in the world lack access to clean watera machine which turns sweat into drinking water is invent

25、edwater purifying pills are solutions to the water problemcit is a live celebration of the lasting power of letter writing!l etters live，which started in december 2013，was held at the freemasonshall in london fromm arch 10to 15the show invited various great performers who read remarkable letters tha

26、t had been written around the world over the centuriesbringing letters alive through outstanding performances is one of the most powerful ways inwhich the joy and pain and humor and tragedy of being human can be shared ，jamie byng ，managing director of canongate books publishing firm，told the nownes

27、s video channelbritish actor benedict cumberbatch agreedletters are windows into the love，beauty ，pain andhumor of their creators and receivers ，he told the guardian letters live makes us stop andimagine the lives behind the letters read and where they came from its a privilege to read this most anc

28、ient of communications 1ive to an audiencethis year ，the movie sherlock star treated the audience by playing the part of a 17-year tomhankshe put on the young actors voice when he read his letter to the hollywood directorgeorge roy hill，a letter that urged hill todiscoverhimthe letter revealed that

29、two-time oscarwinner hanksteenage dream was not tobe a big-time hollywood superstarbut to one day own a porsche ear and call his favorite us actor robert redford his nicknamebobother famous faces at the event included carey mulligan，who played a fictional laundry worker，a female activist fighting fo

30、r womens rights in the 2015movie suffragette the british actressonce again played the role of a suffragette ，when she read a very enthusiastic letter demandingthe vote for women the suffragette sent a precious 1913note to the daily telegraph newspapereveryone seems to agree upon the necessity of put

31、ting a stop to suffragist anger ，but no oneseems certain how to do so，mulligan read outthere ape two，and only two，ways in whichthis can be done both will be effectualone，kill every woman in the uk two，give women the vote19. what was cumberbatchs attitude towards jamie byngs opinion？ _a.doubtfulb.pos

32、itivec.optimisticd.cautious20. which of the following was a dream of tom hanks as a child？ _a.c.to become an actorto win oscar awardsb.d.to call himselfbobto have a famous car21. asuffragetteis a woman who _ a.b.c.d.sends a valuable note to newspaperreads out a letter to the audienceadvocates womens

33、 right to vote plays a famous role in a movie22. what can be a suitable title for the text？ _a.c.famous people gatheringletters brought to lifeb.d.letters of great performers rights given to womendharper lee，whose 1961novel to kill a mockingbird on the racial troubles of the american deep south，has

34、died at the age of 89until last year，lee had been something of a one-book literary legend to kill a mockingbird soldmore than 40million copies around the world and earned her a pulitzer prize，remaining atowering presence in american literature another novel ， go set a watchman ， wascontroversially p

35、ublished in july 2015as asequelto mockingbird，though it was later confirmed to be mockingbirds first draftbut from the moment mockingbird was published to almost instant success ，the authorconsistently avoided public attentionlee had lived for several years in a nursing home near thehouse in which s

36、he had grown up in monroeville，alabama-the setting for maycomb of herfamous bookher neighbor for 40years，sue sellers，said，she was such a private personallshe wanted was privacy ，but she didnt get much there was always somebody following her aroundjames naughtie，bbc books editor，commented on the nove

37、ls of harper lee：i think she stands，particularly among american readers，as someone who shone a light into a very dark placeshewas writing at a time when people were beginning to lift the lid on everything in the south which theyd chosen not to understandthat all changed in the 1960sso i think her st

38、atus for writing that book in its extraordinarily direct way will remain23. what does the underlined part in paragraph 2probably mean？ _a.b.c.d.lee became successful with stories on american southpeople owe lees success to luck to some degreemockingbird makes lee a wonder in american literature mock

39、ingbird was a bestseller by selling 40m copies24. what doesmaycombin paragraph 3probably refer to？ _a.a nursing homeb.lees hometownc.a fictional placed.a main character25. which best describes americansattitude towards racial troubles before the 1960s？ _a.c.tolerantsympatheticb.d.unconcerneddissatis

40、fied26. what can we learn from the text？ _a.b.c.d.lee based all her stories on her lifelee had to avoid being followed by her fanslee wrote go set a watchman before mockingbirdlee lived in the house where she grew up for the whole lifeeone of the most popular american singers of the twentieth centur

41、y was elvis presley he madethe rock & roll music popular around the world he sold millions of records and made many successful films，and he helped change the direction of popular music in the 1960selvis presley was born in a poor family in 1935 his parents were simple country people whooften took hi

42、m to church，where he learned to sing and he never forgot the kind of songs that he used to sing in church as a childwhen he was a teenager，elvis moved from tupelos to memphis in tennessee，where heattended high school，but he was not a good studenthis only real interest was singinghe began to sing in

43、the style that is calledcountry and westernin 1955he recorded some songs for his mothers birthday the people at the recording studioliked his singing and his musicthere was something different about itit was country andwestern music，but it also sounded a little like the music，which black people used

44、 to sing in the american south，music known asbluesshortly after that，elvis met tom parker，who became his manager and arranged（安排）concerts for him across the united states and new recordings as wellsoon elvis rose to fame all over thecountrylater，elvis went to hollywood and began to appear in films l

45、ike love me tender and king creolebut elvis found it hard to live with success，like many other entertainment personalities （娱乐圈内的人士）he began to take drugs and his health began to sufferwhen he died at an earlyage of 42in 1977 ，his many millions of fans were shocked the king is dead!the newspapersaid

46、but today his memory and his music live on and he will always be remembered as the king of rock & roll27. judging from the passage，we may conclude _ a.b.c.d.elvis forgot his church music at a later agehis church songs helped his development in his singingelvis didnt get any help from his parents in

47、singing his church songs didnt help develop his own style28. what was elviss style of singing like most probably？ _a.b.c.d.only country and westernonly country and blueboth western and countrynot only country and western but also a bitblues29. what was the main reason for death？ _a.c.a car accidentt

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50、-8：00pm basketball fri-sun.8 ：30am-6：00pmtel：789965430. the writer and his brother like _ best of alla.swimmingb.basketballc.footballd.sports31. the writer thinks its _ to swim oftena.c.good for healthexcitedb.d.like a cool fishvery boring32. the writer wants to swim on sundaywhere can he go？ _a.c.h

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52、ining up outsidewefood for a chance to purchase discounted items that would otherwise have ended up in therubbish bin because of damaged packaging or very short use by date. the items at wefood are priced at least 30 to 50 percent lower than at regular stores.“wefood is the first supermarket of its kind in denmark and perhaps the world, as it is not