2017年上学期两校高二年级英语科期中考试试卷
总分: 150分 时量:120分钟
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. What does the woman want to buy online?
A. Some books. B. A pair of shoes. C. A skirt. 2. What is the weather like today?
A. Cloudy. B. Sunny. C. Rainy. 3. How many students have taken the exam?
A. Twenty-five. B. Forty. C. Fifty-five. 4. Where does this conversation probably take place?
A. At an airport. B. At a railway station. C. At a bus stop. 5. Which bus should the woman take to the shopping center? A. The No.30 bus B. The No.3 bus C. The No. 300 bus.
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，各小题给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话读或独白两遍。
听第6段材料, 回答第6至7题。
6. How much will the woman pay for the suitcase? A. 400 yuan. B. 450 yuan. C. 500 yuan. 7. What color does the woman want?
A. White. B. Blue. C. Black. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. When will the show, Survivor Games, be on?
A. At 7:50. B. At 8:00. C. At 8:10. 9. What does the man think of Survivor Games?
A. It’s exciting. B. It’s boring. C. It’s relaxing. 10. Who will watch Survivor Games tonight?
A. The man alone. B. Both of them. C. Neither of them. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Customer and manager. B. Customer and waiter. C. Husband and wife.
12. Why does the man want to talk to the manager? A. To get a waiter’s service. B. To complain about the food.
C. To get free drinks.
13. What dissatisfied the woman last time?
A. The drinks. B. The long distance. C. Her seat. 听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Which language does the woman wish to learn?
A. Chinese or English B. Chinese or Japanese. C. French or Japanese. 15. What is the woman’s native language?
A. French. B. Spanish. C. Italian. 16. Who is working in China now?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. The woman’s boyfriend. 17. Which country will the woman visit this summer holiday? A. France. B. China. C. Spain. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. At what age did Dayna start writing her book? A. Eight. B. Nine. C. Ten.
19. What was the most difficult thing for Dayna? A. Writing the first paragraph of a book. B. Writing compositions at school. C. Learning about writing styles. 20. Why did Dayna write the book? A. To inspire people to write. B. To make people happy.
C. To encourage people to read.
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,D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
If you plan to visit Fiji, you are probably looking for some fun things to do. Below are four unusual places.
The Poseidon Resort
The Poseidon resort is an underwater resort that gives visitors a beautiful view of sea life. This resort covers 255 acres. It’s covered and surrounded by a lagoon (咸水湖) that covers 5,000 acres and is about 90 feet under water, giving you a beautiful view of sea life right before your eyes. This resort even has a hotel for those who would prefer to have the unusual experience of sleeping and waking up to the beautiful scenery all around them. The Sabeto Mud Pool
If you’re looking for something unusual to do, you can’t pass up the mud pool at Sabeto. It is located in a mountain range with a huge group of Geothermal (地热的) pools full of nice, warm mud. Getting down and into the mud in the pool is believed to have benefits for healthy skin. This is unusual, but adults and especially kids will love it. Fire Walking
Fire walking in Fiji is believed to have originated on the island of Beau. Fire walking is when you walk on white-hot stones barefoot. To do this, you have to be mentally prepared for it. Trust me; there is a lot of preparation and strict rules that travelers follow in order to do this safely.
The Fiji Museum
The Fiji museum is unusual due to all the amazing artifacts you’ll see dating back 3,000-4,000 years. This museum has a certain attraction that makes it funny—a shoe. It’s been said that a man named Thomas Baker was eaten by the locals several centuries ago and the only thing left was his shoe. This unusual museum is a great idea if you bring the whole family to Fiji.
21. Visitors who have the unusual experience of sleeping at the Poseidon resort can _________.
A. enjoy the excellent service in the hotel B. open windows to see sea life swimming C. see sea life around them in the room D. only watch videos about sea life
22. Why do adults like to get down into the mud pool? A. To float on the warm mud B. To make them strong
C. To play with the warm mud D. To keep their skin healthy
23. Which of the following things needs more courage and stricter rules? A. Trying fire walking
B. Visiting the Poseidon resort
C. Getting into the Sabeto Mud Pool D. Visiting the Fiji museum
24.What does the passage mainly talk about? A. How to travel.
B. Introducing some interesting places for fun. C. How to choose the places of interest. D. Why people love to visit the places.
B
Lita Cabellut is one of Spain’s most successful artists. Her paintings now sell for more than $100,000, but she spent her early years living on the streets.
Cabellut was born in 1961. While she was a baby, she was left with her grandmother by her parents. In fact, she spent most of her time out with other homeless children on the streets. She didn’t go to school and it never crossed her mind that one day she would become an artist. So what changed Cabellut’s life so greatly?
Cabellut’s grandmother died when she was about 10 years old. And she lived in an orphanage(孤儿院) before being adopted by a family at the age of 12. They took her to museums and introduced her to art. One painting by Goya, a famous Spanish painter, made a deep impression on her. She even tried to copy one of Goya’s other paintings. The result was not very good, but her adopted family encouraged her to keep painting.
And for the first time in her life, she also started going to school. She says, “It’s hard to start learning to read and write when you are 13. I had a lot of private classes at home because I had to learn everything.” She slowly made progress at school and started to listen to the radio program Voice of Art. After graduating from university, she kept painting.
Today, Cabellut is best known for her portraits (肖像画)，which include not only paintings of famous people such as Charlie Chaplin, but also ordinary people who some might consider
ugly.
“I don’t see ugly people,” says Cabellut. “I paint different people. I paint people in whom you need to find the real beauty behind the skin.”
She always says, “People are not buying just paintings---it’s the magic and emotion that is the spirit of art.”
25.We can learn from the text that Cabellut_______.
A. hasn’t succeeded as an artist B. is more than fifty years old now
C. dreamed of being an artist as a little girl D. was sent to an orphanage after her birth
26.What happened when Cabellut was about 10 years old?
A. She went to school for the first time. B. She was adopted by a family. C. Her grandmother passed away.
D. Her talent for painting was first found. 27.What do Cabellut’s paintings mainly focus on?
A. The appearance of different people. B. The real beauty behind every person. C. Famous people in different times.
D. People who are usually considered ugly.
C
Melbourne(墨尔本) is the second largest city in Australia, and is the capital city of the state of Victoria, always in competition with Sydney in different fields such as sport and economy. Melbourne is located near the Yarra River and for some time was the main city in Australia. It is called the Marvelous Melbourne for its unique environment; it has modern buildings, beautiful beaches and is the most multicultural city in the country. It attaches a lot of importance to sports. That is shown by the city hosting the famous Australian Tennis Open, the Melbourne Cup and the Australian Grand Prix.
Melbourne can be considered the world’s largest city in area, being about 6,110 square kilometers. It has many gardens and parks which occupy a third of the area.
The city was founded in 1835 by John Batman, and its name is in honor of 2nd Viscount Melbourne, William Lamb, during the British occupation of Victoria. After that, Melbourne began to grow as a city and business centre on the north end of Port Phillip. In 1847 Melbourne was declared a city by Queen Victoria.
In 1850, with the gold discovery, Melbourne turned into a major port of Victoria region. The Melbourne’s hustle and bustle was unbelievable then, with ships from all over the world arriving there. In 1854 its population increased by nearly 400%. The city developed quickly and the service industry was introduced, and with all of this Melbourne became a main financial center in Australia.
Because of the gold rush, Melbourne received many migrants（移民）from many parts of the world, especially from Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey and Vietnam. All of this contributed to making Melbourne a very special and varied city, and this mixture can also be seen in its restaurants, architecture and festivals.
28. Melbourne is called the Marvelous Melbourne because of ___________. A. its large population B. its wonderful sports
C. its special his history D. its unique environment 29. When was Melbourne declared a city?
A. In 1835. B. In 1847. C. In 1850. D. In 1854.
30. What do the underlined words “hustle and bustle” in Paragraph 4 probably mean? A. Status. B. Success. C. Being busy. D. Being popular. 31. What brought many migrants to Melbourne? A. Melbourne’s cultural diversity. B. The British occupation of Victoria. C. The service industry. D. The gold rush.
D
It is generally accepted these days that reading a book will help you relieve stress. And it may actually make you a more thoughtful person as you learn to connect with the various characters. But there’s more. A new study discovered that reading more than 3.5 hours per week actually increased a person’s lifespan（寿命）by 23 percent---about 12 years for the people involved in the study.
The study was led by a group of researchers at Yale University. It looked at 3,635 people, both men and women but all older than 50. The researchers divided them into three categories: those who didn’t read books; those who read up to 3.5 hours a week; those who read more than 3.5 hours a week.
After the researchers adjusted for factors like education, health and income, the data showed that, on average, those who read about 3.5 hours a week were 17 percent less likely to die.
In addition, the study examined people who read newspapers and magazines and found that they were 11 percent less likely to die than non-readers, but only if they spent more than seven hours reading each week. That may be due to the different forms of these items. When people read newspapers or magazines, they tend to skim the material rather than read it fully. Avni Bavishi, the study’s leader, said, “We believe people need to know, learn and understand more things when they are reading books, because
They’re longer and there are more characters, more plots to follow, and more connections to make.”
From all of this, the authors concluded that, as with a healthy diet and exercise, books appear to promote a “significant survival advantage.”
Clearly, there is a need for more study. We’re certain that book lovers all around the world will be glad to provide the data needed to make further conclusions. 32. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. A few people think that reading can help them relax. B. Reading can make a person more sensitive. C. Reading can help a person to live a longer life.
D. Most people think that reading can help them to live a better life. 33. What can we learn about the people in the study from the text? A. All of them were older than fifty. B. Most of them were women readers.
C. More than half of them were college students.
D. They were divided into four groups by the researchers.
34. Generally speaking, those who read newspapers and magazines______ than those who
read books. A. live longer
B. are more likely to be positive C. have a better ability to understand
D. get fewer benefits in terms of the lifespan
35. In the last paragraph, the writer aims to_________. A. tell readers about the importance of reading B. tell readers that the study needs more data
C. call on book lovers to provide more data for the study
D. encourage readers to make further conclusions by themselves
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Having met someone interesting, you may want to learn more about that person. 36._______ However, it will be easy to do with some careful plans.
37.________ If you show the person who you are, he or she can easily expose himself or herself to you. You can also learn about the interests of the person by displaying yours.
Pay attention to the person’s reactions to different incidents. 38.______Every day you have many chances to see what the person does when different things happen. This will help you to see through the person.
Pay attention to the person’s body language. Observe if the person is facing you or looking at you frequently. 39.________
Ask personal but not too deep questions. Be sure to make it natural; otherwise, it won’t make the person willing to continue the conversation.
40.______ There is a saying that “birds of a feather flock（聚集）together”, and it is often true. Spending time with these friends may help you to really learn more about the person. A. Show the person who you are. B. Don’t ask any private questions.
C. Show your kindness to the person first.
D. Finally, hang out with the person’s close friends.
E. Without any guidance, you may not know how to do it.
F. If the gestures seem nervous, they might mean something bad.
G. Getting to know someone better is more than just knowing what the person says.
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小涂黑。
Like many families in Sanyati, a small countryside town in western Zimbabwe（津巴布韦）, Johnson’s family does not have a television. One day after school, Johnson arrived home and 41.______ something unusual in the house. At first, he 42.______ his father had bought a television, but when his mother said it was a computer, he was 43.______.
It’s not that Johnson didn’t like the 44.______; he just didn’t know how to use it. Johnson and his father didn’t even know how to turn it on. \45.______ a computer,\