辽宁省沈阳市东北育才学校2017-2018学年高二英语下学期第二阶段
考试试题
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一小题，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秒种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 happened to the woman last weekend?
A. She got lost. brother.
2. Why is the woman having trouble hearing her music?
A. Her iPod isn’t working. B. Her earphones are broken. C. She has a hearing problem.
3. How will the speakers get to London?
A. By bus.
B. By car.
C. By train.
B. She missed a festival.
C. She visited her
4. Why does the woman think she’s losing customers?
A. She doesn’t have a website. B. Her jewelry is out of fashion. C. Her website needs to be updated. 5. Where might the man be?
A. In a hospital.
B. In a classroom.
C. In a hotel.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2-4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第6和7题。 6. What does the woman hope to buy?
A. A small blue bag. shirt.
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B. A medium blue bag. C. A medium blue
7. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man is a shop assistant.
B. The woman will come back herself next week.
C. The man has ordered more products than the woman wants. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至10题。 8. Where are the speakers now?
A. In the United States.
B. In Russia.
C. In Canada.
9. What happens in the man’s country?
A. People talk quickly.
B. The government solves problems well. C. Going to the bank often takes a short time. 10. What is true about the woman?
A. She wants to go to Russia. B. She has never been abroad before. C. She thinks Americans are more relaxed. 听下面一段对话，回答第11至13题。 11. Why did the man fall asleep?
A. He is sick.
B. He works at night.
C. His class was boring.
12. Why does the man have to work?
A. To pay for school. B. To pay his debts. bill.
13. Where will the man probably go next?
A. To a class. employment office.
听下面一段对话，回答第14至16题。 14. What is the woman doing?
A. Complaining about her school life. B. Showing the man around campus.
C. Telling the man about her experience in college. 15. What classes did the woman choose in the beginning?
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C. To pay his hospital
B. To the financial aid office. C. To the student
A. Classes that fit her major. B. Classes that seemed interesting.
C. Classes she thought would be important for her career. 16. What does the woman say about college classes?
A. They get harder as you get older. B. They are challenging in different ways.
C. They always involve the same kinds of preparation. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至20题。 17. Why is the plane delayed?
A. The weather is bad. B. The plane needs to be fixed. C. Some passengers haven’t arrived.
18. How long will the flight last?
A. About six hours.
B. About four hours.
C. About three hours.
19. What information can be found in the brochure?
A. Safety instructions.
B. Meals being served for lunch. C. Details about the entertainment. 20. What will passengers do next?
A. Get aboard.
B. Watch a video.
C. Get some sleep.
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，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail By Richard Peck Pages: 223
Queen Victoria lives in Buckingham Palace. But behind the walls and under the floorboards live the mice. And for every job a human does, a mouse is doing it too. The smallest mouse in the place, Mouse Minor, is determined to trod out who he is really. \
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a journey to meet Queen Victoria herself and ask her some questions. Better to Wish By Ann M. Martin Pages: 226
Abby Nichols is 8 years old and living with her parents in a small town in Maine during the Great Depression. The story follows the ups and downs of Abby's life. By the end of the book, Abby is 22. To find out what happens to her next, readers will have to wait for the second book of this three-part series.
Fish Finelli: Seagulls Don't Eat Pickles Book l By E.S. Farber. Illustrated by Jason Beene Pages: 155
Bully Bryce Billings challenges Fish Finelli and his friends to find Captain Kidd's lost treasure. In the action-packed adventure that follows, Fish and his pals arrived at an island and met many interesting people. But do they manage to find the lost treasure? You'll have to read the book to find out.
Middle School: My Brother Is “Big, Fat Liar By James Patterson and Lisa Papademetriou Pages: 304
Georgia Khatchadorian is entering Hills Village Middle School and thinks everything is going to be like elementary school, where she got good grades and had a lot of friends. She even makes a bet with her brother, Rafe Khatchadorian, that she will be popular at her new school. But things are different at Hills Village Middle School. Rafe used to go to this school, but he was kicked out because he broke all the rules. The teachers assume that Georgia is just like her brother, so they give her bad grades. To make things worse, Georgia gets bullied. Will Georgia be able to change the situation and win the bet? You'll have to read the book to find out. 21. What can we learn from the text?
A. Fish Finelli and his friends go to an island in order to meet many interesting people.
B. Abby Nichols is the writer who has just completed the first part of the three-part series.
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C. The story The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail is set in Buckingham Palace. D. Georgia makes a bet with her brother because she is able to change the worse situation.
22. Why do the teachers treat Georgia unfairly?
A. She is a new student. B. She doesn't obey school rules.
C. She doesn't work hard at her lessons. D. Her brother wasn't a good student. 23. What is the purpose of the text ?
A. To recommend some books to the children. B. To list some popular writers and their books.
C. To persuade readers to buy some new books. D. To find out which book is the most interesting.
B
A gunman killed two members of a television news crew in the United States earlier this week. Their TV station broadcast the shooting “live,” in real time. The shooting shocked many Americans and people around the world.
One U.S. teenager wants to help prevent such attacks. Kai Kloepfer lives in Boulder, Colorado. He has a talent for technology. He has been teaching himself engineering skills since he was a child. After the attack in Aurora, he decided to use his skills to help prevent mass shootings.
The young man’s goal was to make a gun that would not work in the hands of a killer. But he knew it would be impossible for him to stop dangerous people from buying guns. So he changed direction. He decided to create a gun designed to preventing accidental shootings. The gun Kai Kloepfer designed only works when unlocked by the fingerprint of the owner, and not for anyone else. The gun only recognizes the touch of its owner.
It took the teenager seven months and over 1,500 hours to create a plastic model of his \won. His award included a monetary prize. He received $50,000. Its goal is to support innovation in gun safety.
Kai Kloepfer is now 18 years old. He has been using the grant money to improve
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the technology. He says the weapon he designed doesn’t change the function of a firearm at all. It just makes it safer. He is now working to add the fingerprint lock technology to a real gun. He says he expects to one day see his “smart gun” for sale next to other firearms.
The young man plans to spend the next year improving his fingerprint handgun. Then he will start college at one of the world’s top universities - the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
24. Why does Kai Kloepfer try to invent the gun?
A. To prevent people from buying guns. B. To protect people’s life C. To limit functions of a gun D. To reduce power of a gun
25. The gun created by Kai Kloepfer is controlled by the owner’s fingerprint to ______.
A. keep it convenient to use B. make it safe to carry C. protect its owner from harm D. avoid being used by others 26. How is the progress of Kai Kloepfer’s gun invention?
A. It is being shown in a fair. B. It is under further research. C. It will soon come into the market. D. It needs designing once again. 27. What is Kai Kloepfer’s wish for the fingerprint gun?
A. It will bring enough money for him. B. It will replace traditional guns. C. It can be sold on the market. D. It can help forbid the use of guns.
C
Honesty is the best policy. We may agree that admitting mistakes and behaving in a genuine way is the right way to lead our lives, but is there something in our human nature that makes us immoral? For example, in some shops and car parks you can find an honesty box—a box where you pay for something by putting money in it—but it relies on you putting the right amount of cash in. This relies on people being honest and not trying to cheat but it does provide a temptation to get away with not paying the full amount．
Philip Graves, a psychologist, suggests that this temptation is part of our evolution. He says “ We have evolved with the ability to be dishonest. It's part
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