2017-2018学年第二学期位育中学期末考试试卷
高二年级 英语学科
（考试时间120分钟，总分150分）
I. Listening Comprehension Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1.
A. Waitress and customer. C．Teacher and student. 2. A. At 5:00. 3. A. C.
B. Doctor and patient.
D. Mother and son.
D. At 7:00.
B. At 5: 15.
C. At 5:30.
In a bookstore. B. In Professor Smith’s office.
In a language lab. D. In a restaurant.
4. A. The man can stay in her brother’s apartment.
B. Her brother can find an apartment for the man. C. Her brother can help the man find a cheaper hotel. D. The man should have booked a less expensive hotel. 5. A. 6. A.
A company.
B. An employee.
C. A program.
D. A university.
He was pleased to get the medal. B. He used to set a fire. D. He was very courageous. B. Buy a gift for her Granny.
D. Ask someone else for suggestions.
C． He was accused of causing a fire. 7.
A. Plan her budget carefully. C．Give him more information.
8. A. The tickets sold online are at half price.
B. It’s better to buy the tickets beforehand. C. It’s not easy to buy the tickets on the spot.
D. The tickets are more expensive than expected. 9. A. The girl can use his calculator.
B. He did fine because he had no calculator. C. The high-tech stuff isn’t a must for study.
D. The girl can have either a calculator or a laptop computer. 10. A. The woman emptied the litter bin.
B. The man placed the socks on the bed. C. The man regrets being absent-minded. D. The woman saved the man some trouble.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. They are low in fat.
B. They are only for hungry teenagers. C. They are made by expensive ingredients. D. They can be bought in many local stores.
B. Flour.
C. Sugar.
D. Salt.
12. A. Baking powder. 13. A. Instant cookies.
B. Cookies for teenagers. D. Fattening cookies.
C. Chocolate chip cookies.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. English education.
C. Japanese education.
B. Indian education. D. Spanish education.
15. A. He enjoys telling them stories about his life.
B. He distracts them from playing video games.
C. He points out the wildlife and plants along the way. D. He teaches them how to survive in emergency situation.
16. A. Have a family hike every year to relax them. Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. What’s the man’s destination? When will the man depart? What’s his flight number? What kind of meal does the man request? Compete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. What will Susan do at 12:30? What will Susan help Julie with? What will Susan do for her family at 5:30 p.m.? What does Susan suggest the man do before he comes? Compete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THTEE WORDS for each answer.
She will see____21____. ____22____. She will____23____. He should____24____ her. Stockholm, ____17____. On 23rd, ____18____. Flight ____19____. A ____20____ meal. B. Enroll kids into schools early to help them learn better. C. Tell kids interesting stories so they will be creative.
D. Talk with kids about problems so they learn how to solve them.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(A) Families changing
What does “family” mean to you--- a place of happiness, a house of love, or a shelter from hardship? For a country, families mean more than all of that. A small change in the average family can have a big impact 25______ society.
That’s why the government keeps track of changes in Chinese families. On May 13, it issued the 2015 report on family trends in China, 26______ (cover) 32,494 families across our country.
One of the most significant changes for Chinese families is 27______ they have kept shrinking, from 5.3 people on average 60 years ago to 3.35 today. The family planning policy has played a big role in cutting Chinese families down into 28______ (small) ones. Introduced in the 1970s, the policy has slowed down the growth of the young population and helped cause the older population to make up a larger part of the total.
But this trend has led to new challenges for the country---a shrinking labor force and a growing number of elderly people. 29 ______ (keep) developing rapidly and better support the elderly, almost all provinces and municipalities have given the green light to couples who want to have two children 30______ one of the two parents is an only child.
China’s quick urbanization has also led more of the labor force to move to big cities, creating new types of family. If your parents work in another city, they are part of the country’s recurrent families, 31______ make up 17.2 percent of the total.
But China is by no means the only country that 32______ (see) an increase in the diversity of family types in recent years. The UK, for instance, has the most single-parent families among major countries in Europe.
(B)
Being an ambitious lady
In the 1960s, I set up my own software house in Britain. People laughed at 33______ very
idea because software, at that time, was given away free with hardware. 34______ would buy software, certainly not from a woman. 35______ women were then coming out of the universities with decent degrees, there was a glass ceiling to our progress. And I’d hit that glass ceiling and wanted opportunities for women.
I recruited professionally-qualified women who had left the industry after marriage or when
their first child 36______ (expect). We pioneered the idea of women going back into the workforce after a career break. We pioneered all sorts of new, flexible work methods: job shares，profit-sharing, and so on.
I changed my name from “Stephanie” to “Steve” in my business development letters to get
through the door 37______ anyone realized that “ he” was a “she”…
When I started my company of women, the men said, “How interesting! It only works
because it’s small.” And later, as it became sizable, they accepted：“Yes， it is sizable now, but of no strategic interest.” And later, when it was a company 38______(value) at over 3 billion dollars, and I’d made 70 of the staff into millionaires, they sort of said, “Well done , Steve!”
You 39______ always tell ambitious women by the shape of our heads: they’re flat on top
from 40______ (pat) patronizingly (傲慢地) by man. And we have larger feet to stand away from the kitchen sink.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. stable B. separately C. evidence D. academic E. communication F. adapted precisely You may not know much about John Nash, who passed away in an accident with his wife Alicia on May 23 at the age of 86. His lifelong work has been recognized as a key contribution to the 41______ world.
Nash was a mathematic genius, who completed his doctoral thesis when he was 21. The
G. economics H. inspired I. silent J. suspects K.