1、绝密启用前 长阳一中2017-2018学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语试卷考试时间：120分钟 分数：150分 命题人：向国艳 审题人：向 辉本试卷共8页。全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1答题前，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。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1
2、.5分，满分7.5分）1. What will the man do on Sunday?A. Play tennis. B. Play football. C. Go swimming.2. What is the woman going to do?A. Buy herself a pair of shoes. B. Buy a gift for the man. C. Attend a birthday party.3. Why is the woman tired?A. She saw a movie. B. She took an exam. C. She studied all n
3、ight.4. What are the speakers talking about?A. Time. B. Money. C. A movie.5. What is the man doing at the airport?A. Flying to New York city. B. Waiting for his sister. C. Arriving at New York city.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What does the man worry about?A. Getting H1 N1 flu. B. Hav
4、ing a high temperature. C. Catching a cold.7. How often should the man take his medicine?A. Four times a day. B. Four times a week. C. Six times a day.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. How did the man go to the countryside?A. On foot. B. By car. C. By bike.9. Where did the man have his lunch?A. By the lake. B. On t
5、he mountain. C. In the village.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What makes the woman feel glad?A. The man will have more money. B. The man helps with her work. C. The man has retired.11. What does the woman do most probably?A. An engineer. B. A designer. C. A housewife.12. What kind of person is the woman?A. Se
6、lfish. B. Cold. C. Hardworking.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why are the speakers upset?A. It may snow during their vacation. B. They may not be able to take their vacation.C. They may fail to join the graduation ceremony.14. What can we learn about the speakers vacation?A. They are going skiing. B. They hav
7、e made bookings for their plane. C. Their flight has been canceled.15. What made the speakers miss so many classes?A. The bad weather. B. The spring break. C. The terrible flu.16. What are the speakers going to do right now?A. Speak to all of the other people. B. Talk to Professor Hampton. C. Call t
8、he travel agency.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Which aspect of Mark Twains life does the speaker focus on?A. His travels. B. His short stories. C. His family.18. When did Mark Twains father pass away?A. In 1835. B. In 1839. C. In 1847.19. Why did Mark Twain go to the West?A. He wanted to be a journalist. B.
9、 He was sent there by his army.C. He wanted to get away from the war.20. What connection does the speaker suggest between Mark Twains travels and his writings?A. His stories were inspired by his travels.B. His travels prevented him from writing.C. He traveled around in order to write stories.第二部分 阅读
10、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。 AThe Coolest Inventions An Oceans Vacuum Theres a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is
11、both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next years trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42 % over 10 years. Easy-On Shoes Matthew W
12、alzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the FlyEase. The basket
13、ball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike FlyEase shoes sells for $ 130. An Airport for Drones (无人机） As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. T
14、here, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goals is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.21. Whats the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?A. It can tear plastic i
15、nto pieces.B. It can grow year by year.C. It can be a money-saver.D. It can be put into wide use soon.22. What do we know about Nike?A. It offers free shoes to the disabled. B. It provides customer friendly services.C. It is designing new shoes frequently. D. It responded to Matthews request passive
16、ly.23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”?A. Because they are receptive to new technology. B. Because theyre easier to construct than roads.C . Because there are too many drones. D. Because road travel there is rough. BWhen I was a boy there were no smart phones, and our television only got one
17、channel clearly. Still, I never felt bored. The fields, hills and woodlands around my home were the perfect playground whose adventures were only limited by my imagination. I can remember once hiking to nearby lake and walking slowly around it. At the back of it I was amazed to find an old dirt road
18、 that I had never seen before. It was full of muddy tyre tracks and deep woods bordered it on both sides, but exploring it still seemed like a fine adventure.I walked on and on for what seemed like hours. I was sure my guardian angel was whispering in my ears turn around and head back home, but I wa
19、s stubborn and walked on. There was still neither a car nor a house in sight I noticed that the sun was starting to go down and I grew scared, I didnt want to end up trapped on this road, and I was worried that it would be dark before I could make my way back to the lake again.I continued to walk on
20、 with something growing inside of me. My heart was pounding and my legs were aching. I was almost in tears when I saw something in the distance. It was a house that I recognized. I jumped up and down and laughed out loud. It was still over a mile away, but my legs felt like feathers and I hurried ba
21、ck to my house in no time. I walked in with a big smile on my face just in time for dinner. Then I ended my adventure with a good nights sleep.I often thought of that experience recently. Actually, in our life, all roads, no matter how they twist and turn, can lead us home again. They can lead us to
22、 our homes in our hearts. May you always walk your path with love! May you always help your fellow travelers along the way! And may your roads always lead you home again!24. Why did the author hardly feel bored when he was young?A. He could watch TV all dayB. He could have fun in nature.C. He had ma
23、ny friends to play withD. He used to explore the old dirt road25 What does the underlined word something in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?A. Doubt B. Hope C. Fear. D. Courage26. How did the author feel when he was exploring the dirt road?A. He was contradictory in mind.B. He was unconscious of dange
24、r ahead.C. He was worried to be trapped in the woods.D. He was afraid of being scolded by his parents.27. What may be the best title for the passage?A. Every Effort Is Worthwhile.B. All Roads Lead Home.C. Be Determined in Your Life.D. Be Brave to Adventure.CRecently, a case of lifeboat occurred. On
25、April 4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while boating off the coast of South Africa, hit a rock. As the boat threatened to sink, the husband got off, but his wife was trapped in the boat. Instead of saving his wife and getting her to shore, Graham grabbed Rosie, their pet dog. With Rosie safe and sound, G
26、raham returned for Sheryl. All are doing fine.Its a great story, but it doesnt strike me as especially newsworthy. News is supposed to be about something fairly unique, and recent research suggests that, in the right circumstances, lots of people also would have grabbed their Rosie first.We have str
27、ange relationships with our pets. We lavish our pets with better health care than billions of people receive. We speak to pets with the same high-pitched voices that we use for babies. As an extreme example of our feelings about pets, the Nazis had strict laws that guaranteed the humane treatment of
28、 the pets of Jews being shipped to death camps.A recent paper by George Regents University demonstrates this human involvement with pets to an astonishing extent. Participants in the study were told a situation in which a bus is out of control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? W
29、ith responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended: What kind of human and what kind of dog?Everyone would save a brother, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog versus people less connected with thema distant cousin or a
30、 hometown strangervotes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40% of respondents, including 46% of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist. What does a finding like this mean? First, it shows that your odds arent so good if you find yourself in another country
31、with a bus bearing down on you and a cute dog. But it also points to something deeper: our unprecedented(史无前例的) attitude toward animals, which got its start with the birth of humane societies in the 19th century.We prison people who abuse animals, put ourselves in harms way in boats between whales a
32、nd whalers and show sympathy to Bambi and his mother. We can extend empathy(共鸣 ) to an animal and feel its pain like no other species. But lets not be too proud of ourselves. As this study and too much of our history show, were pretty selective about how we extend our humaneness to other human being
33、s.28. What is the function of the first paragraph?A. To create a relaxing mood for readers.B. To lead in the main topic of this essay. C. To present the theme of this essay straightly.D. To raise problems that will be solved later.29. The author mentions Nazi laws in the third paragraph _. A. to sho
34、w how cruel the Nazis were to the JewsB. as an example to persuade people not to love petsC. as an example to display the love of the Nazis D. to illustrate the strange relationship between human and pets 30. Which of the following is true according to the article?A. Human beings are more and more c
35、oncerned with animals nowadays.B. Most people surveyed choose to save their own dog rather than a human.C. It was in the 19th century that human beings started to love their pets.D. The story of the Anleys and their dog was too unique to be newsworthy. 31. What does the author mainly argue for?A. Pe
36、ts are of great significance to us human beings.B. It is kind of human beings to extend humaneness to animals.C. We should rethink about our attitude towards animals and mankind.D. We should be selective when showing attitude toward other human beings.DIt is quite apparent that competition surrounds
37、 every aspect of human life whether in the United States or the Amazon Rain Forest. Without it we would not have grown into primates(灵长类动物). Or we would probably still be struggling to sharpen a bronze tool while crawling around on four legs in search of meat. Without competition, Columbus wouldnt h
38、ave discovered America and Edison would never have invented the light bulb.Friendship, like all relationship between two people, involves competition. It isnt competition in a traditional sense because there are no goals to be scored and no prize. Perhaps the ecological definitionthe simultaneous (同
39、时的)demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients， living space, or light- better explain it.As in nature, high school life is governed by a set of laws, similar to a shortened version of Darwins theory of evolution, overpopulation, and competition. There is a
40、n abundance of high school students and to distinguish them, ranking and categorizing(分类)take place. In high school, friendships learn to co-exist with competition even though at times the relationship is rough. In fact, in some circumstances, competition is too much of a burden for a friendship to
41、bear, causing it to fall apart. College admission is the final high school objective. Four years of hard work is to achieve good grades, and a students fate is determined not only by these achievements, but by the records of thousands of other seniors trying to achieve a similar recognition.Neverthe
42、less, by necessity, competition between students exists in all aspects of high school life. It sets and improves the standards in everything from sports to school work. A healthy, friendly competition can have only benefits, but when it becomes too fierce, jealousy can tear friendships apart. Yet, d
43、espite all this, without competition, we would be lost.32. What does the ecological definition mainly explain?A. How friends compete with each other.B. How to win the competition.C. What the result of competition is.D. What competition exactly is.33. According to the writer, what causes the high sch
44、ool students to compete?A. The number of them is too large.B. Friendship is a burden for them.C. They know the laws of nature well.D. They are divided into different groups.34. Which best describes the relationship of friendship and competition?A. Friendship is always based on competition. B. The de
45、gree of competition is vital to friendship.C. Competition is terribly harmful to friendship. D. Competition is a result of lost friendship.35. What does the author think of competition?A. The results of competition are out of control.B. Competition becomes fiercer in high school.C. Competition is ce
46、rtain to happen at schools.D. Friendship is not as important as competition at schools.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。 There are so many things we do in our daily lives that have become a habit. 36 How you answer the phone is a habit. The way you sit in the car when y
47、ou drive is a habit. Have you ever tried to change the way you do something, after youve done it in a certain way for so long? Its not very easy to do. The minute your mind drifts to something else, you go right back to the old way of doing things. 37 its a way of doing things that has become routin
48、e or commonplace. To change an existing habit or form a new one can be a boring task.Lets pick something fairly easy to start with, like spending 15 minutes in the morning reading a book. If you want to turn something into a habit that you do every day, you have to WANT to do it. 38 Make a firm deci
49、sion to do this on a daily basis.Imprint it in your mind. Write several notes to yourself and put them in places where you will see them. By the alarm clock, on the bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator door, in your briefcase, and under your car keys are good places to start. After the newness wears
50、 off, then you will have to remind yourself, Hey, I forgot to. Keep using the notes if you have to. 39 Some people say it will take over a month to solidify it and make it something you will do without having to think about it. I tend to agree with the last statement. Two to three weeks will help yo
51、u to remember, but thirty days or more will make it a part of your everyday routine. 40 A. What is a habit anyway?B. Forming a bad habit is easy.C. Brushing your teeth is a habit.D. Is doing things in an old way good?E. If you dont, you will find a way to do everything but that.F. It takes 16 to 21
52、times of repeating a task to make it a habit.G. thats something you wont necessarily have to think about before you do ithabit.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 went with some colleagues from my office for a dinner in a ver
53、y popular local restaurant. It was 41 business time and the restaurant was packed. We 42 found a table in a corner for three of us.As soon as we sat down, we heard a crash when a cleaning boy 43 the floor with all the plates he was carrying. There was 44 and no one was saying or doing anything.In a
54、flash I remembered my 45 many years ago. Once. I passed out in the airport because I had rushed there on my own on a(n) 46 stomach I was 47 and taken care of by two strangers. Now this was my chance to 48 it forward.I ran to the young mans side immediately, turned him on his back and screamed for so
55、meone to 49 a hot drink. Soon people started asking if I was a doctor. I said I was not, 50 I was skillful at blacking out (晕厥).The kid soon opened his eyes, 51 what had happened. I 52 him by saying it was OK and I had had a 53 experience. He had not eaten anything. I held the 54 drink to his mouth
56、till he finished it and sat with him till he felt OK. By then the 55 had arrived. I asked her to give the kid something to eat. I offered to pay.The manager was kind enough to refuse the 56 and agreed to make sure the kid ate before he went home. By the time all this was 57 , it was getting late for
57、 my colleagues. Since we hadnt 58 anything yet, we decided to go home.I slowly walked home, feeling 59 for the opportunity that I gave the 60 I had received many years ago.41. A. peak B. localC. spare D. regular42. A. actually B. eventually C. eagerly D. gradually43. A. kicked B. touched C. hit D. s
58、wept44. A. silence B. danger C. doubt D. tension45. A. adventure B. flight C. experience D. lesson46. A. uneasy B. nervous C. empty D. vacant47. A. set up B. put up C. looked up D. picked up48. A. pay B. return C. take D. put49. A. drag B. buy C. serve D. bring50. A. and B. so C. because D. but51. A
59、. knowing B. ignoring C. wondering D. arguing52. A. reminded B. comforted C. answered D. encouraged53. A. memorable B. personal C. similar D. common54. A. cool B. refreshing C. sweet D. warm55. A. customer B. manager C. waitress D. doctor56. A. payment B. reward C. suggestion D. support57. A. up B.
60、away C. over D. behind58. A. prepared B. demanded C. received D. ordered59. A. ready B. anxious C. grateful D. comfortable60. A. kindness B. need C. love D. service第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。Take a tour of Monkey ParkSituated between Jerusalem and th
61、e coastal city of Tel Aviv, Israels Monkey Park is home 61 more than two hundred and fifty different species of monkeys.Considered one of the countrys most popular animal 62 (attract), Monkey Park offers a unique experience while 63 (educate)the public about these lovely creatures. It 64 (run)by the
62、 Israeli Primate Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose aim is 65 (provide) a rehabilitation(康复)center for monkeys.Over the last two years the park has received 650 monkeys from a breeding farm that shut down. Most monkeys in 66 park live in enclosures (圈地). Visitors are able to view them up clo
63、se and, thanks to one 67 (special) designed section, are even able to interact with them. Right outside the visiting area is the rehabilitation center. Thats 68 monkeys who need care are being nursed back to health.Among the family-friendly activities 69 (offer) at Monkey Park for human visitors are
64、 workshops, rides and wall climbing. There are also comprehensive guided walking tours, 70 last up to three hours. One feature of the Monkey Park is the childrens playground. But its still the monkeys that attract people most.第四部分 写作（共两节；满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。
65、删除：把多余的词用()划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。I will share one experience with you. With the Final Examination draw near , I was filled with great anxiety. However, I couldnt be absorbed in study, resulting my failing in the examination. I got very discouragi
66、ng. Just then, my English teacher, Mr. Zeng, approach me and said, In life we all have moment when we cant achieve what we want it. It is natural. Dont allow those moments to weak you, but turn them into motivation to inspire you. Her words were a reminder which provided myself with constant encoura
67、gement to smile at life. Consequently, I gained what I deserved. So it is an optimistic attitude which matters. It gives you the confidence to deal with difficulties and to achieve what you want in your life.第二节 书面表达（满分25分）假如你是李华，正在伦敦参加游学活动。你在英国科学博物馆参观时丢失一件夹克，已在失物招领处the Lost Property Office登记。请写一封电子邮件，询问是否找到。注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。Dear Sir or Madam,Yours,Li Hua