福建省福州市八县一中2017-2018学年高二下学期期末联考试题 英语 Word版含答案

2017-2018学年度第二学期八县（市）一中期末联考高中二年英语科试卷完卷时间：120分钟满分：l50分第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）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. Where did the man get the book?A. From his brother.B. From the library.C. From a bookstore.2. How does Mike usually go to school now?A. By car.B. By bus.C. By bike.3. What is the weather like now?A. Cold but sunny.B. Windy and cold.C. Sunny and warm.4. What time does the woman want to meet the man?A. At 1:00 p.m.B. At 1:30 p.m.C. At 2:00 p.m.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. What to have for dinner.B. How to make Chinese food.C. Where to find an Indian restaurant.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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How often does the man go to the gym?A. Twice a week.B. Five times a week.C. Every morning.7. What does the woman want to go to the gym for?A. Dancing.B. Running.C. Swimming.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How many people are going hiking?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.9. When will the speakers go hiking?A. On Wednesday.B. On Thursday.C. On Friday.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does Aron say about his mother?A. She just changed jobs.B. She just moved to London.C. She just opened a law firm.11. What will Aron be doing in Paris?A. Looking for a job.B. Going to school.C. Taking a holiday.12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Co-workers.B. Friends at school.C. Brother and sister. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How long will the exhibition in Italy last?A. Two weeks.B. Four weeks.C. Eight weeks.14. Where is the second stop of the exhibition tour?A. Spain.B. Greece.C. Portugal.15. Why won’t the speakers go to the exhibition on Saturday?A. The woman has to go to classes.B. The man has to work on his paper.C. The museum will be crowded that day.16. Where will the woman probably be on Friday morning?A. In the library.B. At the gallery.C. In the classroom. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How many languages does Start Today teach at the moment?A. 11.B. 22.C. 57.18. Why do most people learn new languages according to the speaker?A. To become language experts.B. To get better opportunities.C. To travel around the world.19. What is the goal of Start Today?A. To make education free through technology.B. To develop more courses through technology.C. To create private experiences through technology.20. What is the learning process like at Start Today?A. Very fun.B. Very boring.C. Very difficult.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)AI felt like I had clicked my heels three times and come to a country away from home every morning as I walked through the doors at the Embassy of Australia in Washington. Musical Aussie accents, and Aboriginal art exhibits made me wonder if I had entered without a visa. In fact I was a temporary employee, a public affairs unpaid intern(实习) for three months during the summer in order to engage myself in the culture of the country where I planned to study the next spring.During the summer I read the Australian news every day. Working at the embassy allowed me to escape the U.S. for six hours per day and learn about what was going on across the planet. After reading the daily Australian and U.S. news I usually helped prepare a PowerPoint presentation for school kids who visited the embassy as part of a school activity. Depending on whether an embassy event was going on, I would attend weekly meetings to listen in on planning and see what I could do to help. Usually there were smaller tasks to be done such as creating visitors' guides.The most fantastic event in which I participated was the visit of the Australian prime minister. As the only American among countless Australian media and staff, I felt comfortable and was kept busy taking pictures and recording door-stop interviews at famous sites such as the Capitol. But as an intern, you will not be inside, exposed to top-secret information, when it comes to special events.Government work is a useful addition to one's experience. As an embassy employee you will gain invaluable knowledge while spending your summer in a culturally diverse workplace.21. What is the author talking about?A. Her foreign culture experience.B. Her trouble in finding a job.C. Her embassy internship.D. Her preparation for future employment.23. What was the author forbidden to do when the Australian prime minister visited America?A. Record door-stop interviews.B. Know top-secret information.C. Take pictures of special events.D. Stand among the Australian staff.24. What can we infer about her daily routine at the Embassy?A. It is tiring.B. It is disgusting.C. It is relaxing.D. It is exciting.BThree years ago Jenny Salgado, a Dominican shop assistant, moved to Highland town, a neighborhood of Baltimore. When she arrived the shop she works in was one of only a few Spanish businesses. Now there are many more. “It’s good now if you speak Spanish,” she smiles.Baltimore has been losing people for 60 years. To address this, its former mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, wanted to make it the most immigrant-friendly city in the world. Its libraries provide Spanish-language exercise classes. To help those with no papers, the city is introducing micro-loans (小额贷款）which require no credit checks. City police would no longer routinely check the immigration status of citizens or enforce any federal immigration law unless required to. The then governor, Martin O'Malley made it possible for illegal immigrants to get driving licenses. Such welcoming policies are spreading. Such cities as Cleveland, Dayton and Philadelphia all eagerly try to please immigrants. Rick Snyder, Governor of Michigan, has asked the federal government to offer 50,000 visas to people who agree to live in Detroit. His administration has made it easier for skilled migrants to get professional licenses.When a city’s population falls, both tax receipts and services fall. Half-deserted neighborhoods breed (滋生）crime, driving yet more people to leave.No city has escaped this without attracting new residents, says Steve Tobocman of Global Detroit. Several studies suggest that when immigrants arrive, crime goes down, schools improve and shops open up. In Detroit, immigrants living near the tiny separate city of Hamtramck have formed local watches to guard against thieves. Their neighborhoods are not just safer; they are also among the only places where it is as easy to buy fresh vegetables as drugs and alcohol.But attracting new immigrants to the cities which most need them is hard, argues Audrey Singer of the Brookings Institution. They care about the same things as everyone else: safe streets, good schools and jobs. Cities which have lost population for decades struggle with all of these.24. What does the underlined word “address” mean?A. deal withB. remark onC. get throughD. refer to25. Which can best describe the situation mentioned in Paragraph 3?A. A constant matterB. A dilemmaC. A death circleD. A classic case26. What is the topic of the last but one paragraph?A. Problems caused by immigrants.B. The positive role immigrants play.C. The living conditions of immigrants.D. Difficulties immigrants face in Detroit.27. Which statement may Audrey Singer agree with?A. There is no need to encourage such immigrant-friendly policies.B. Immigrants have higher expectations of a city than its locals.C. Attracting immigrants helps prevent a city from losing population.D. Attracting immigrants to cities losing people is demanding.CI recommend a lot of non-fiction books, and every once in a w hile I review a novel. But I don’t think I’ve ever written about a book of poetry before. That’s almost what Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart is, though. It’s poetry disguised as a novel.Three French 20-year-olds go surfing in the middle of the night, and a s they’re driving back from the beach just before sunrise, they have a car accident. Two of them survive but one of them, Simon, dies, and his parents have to decide whether to donate his heart or not. They finally decide to do it, and doctors transplant（移植）the heart, and the book is over. That’s just its story.The car crash happens in the first 15 pages, so the rest of the book is a meditation（冥想）on life, death, and, as the title suggests, the heart. There aren’t even that many characters: you meet Simon’s father and mother, the doctor on duty at the hospital when Simon gets there, the nurse assisting him, the head of the organ donation organization, the woman who gets the heart in the end , and a few other people.But just describing the plot is like sayi ng “during a heart transplant, doctors put one person’s heart into another person’s body” and leaving it at that. It’s not the plot that makes The Heart such a wonderful book. First of all, there’s the language. It makes me think of Vladimir Nabokov more than anybody else. The sentences are rich and full, and they go on and on, which is the exact opposite of how I write.At times I found myself reading more slowly than usual, simply because the way she describes things is so beautiful: at one point she desc ribes a character’s words an “reddening rocks from astill-burning fire”. The choices of words are very specific—I went to the dictionary a dozen times to look up the words I didn’t know.28. What does the author think of the story of the book?A. not complex.B. very touching.C. very interesting.D. very inspiring.29.From the 16th page, the book ________.A. starts telling storiesB. shows some poemsC. becomes more excitingD. talks about something big30. What makes the book wonderful according to the author?A. Its theme.B. Its plotC. Its writing styleD. Its characters31. This passage can be classified as________.A. an advertisementB. a book reviewC. a feature storyD. A news reportDWhen a laptop or smart phone battery starts losing its power, the only options are to buy an expensive replacement, or just keep it plugged in (接通电源的) all the time. But one woman may have found the answer to this problem.Mya Le Thai is a scientist studying at the University of California. She recently discovered a process that may lead to batteries that last forever.Thai said she had been frustrated that the batteries for her wireless devices degraded(退化) over time, until they failed to charge fully. Thai did not like having to keep her laptop connected to an electrical outlet (电源插座) to keep it powered on. So, she decided to do something about that problem. At first, she and her team at UC Irvine thought about inventing a new battery. But as they experimented, Thai discovered something that might permit lithium-ion (锂离子) batteries to last forever.Lithium-ion batteries power most wireless devices. Over time, the batteries lose the ability to hold a charge. Most of these batteries have a life span of about 7,000 charging cycles before they die. One of the reasons lithium-ion batteries degrade is their use of nanowires to carry electricity. Nanowires are extremely thin. A human hair is thousands of times thicker, for example. Nanowires are extremely efficient carriers of electricity, which makes them useful in batteries. But Thai said their thinness also makes them weak. “Nanowires break and fracture over time,” she said. “That’s why they lose capacity.”But, Thai had a theory – the nanowires might last longer if covered with a gel (凝胶). She and her team tested this theory. “It was a long process and a lot of work,” Thai said. The team tried many coverings for the wires. PMMA, a type of plastic, was one of them. The nanowires were coated with PMMA and cycled through charges 200,000 times. The PMMA-coated nanowires showed no evidence of damage. The results suggest that batteries could last forever, without losing charging ability. Thai said 200,000 cycles amount to about three months on just one device.Thai hopes to continue her research to understand why this gel works so well and to see if any other gel could create better results. Mya Le Thai said she is enjoying the publicity about her discovery. She said she never expected her research to get media coverage. “It’s kind of cool,” she said. “I’m really glad people are showing interest in my work and not just in the work itself, but also in technology and energy.”32. What caused Thai to work on lithium-ion batteries?A. She disliked the batteries for her laptop.B. She thought batteries were too expensive.C. She found that batteries gradually wear out.D. She and her team were assigned to invent a new battery.33. Which of the following sentences is TRUE about nanowires?A. They last only 7,000 charging cycles.B. They are too weak to carry electricity.C. They are not suitable to use in batteries.D. They are the main cause of battery degrading.34. The breakthrough may most probably lie in ______.A. a new kind of batteryB. coating nanowires in gelC. new materials for batteriesD. a new way of charging batteries35. What may be the best title for the passage?A. Why batteries are degradingB. Nanowires trying on new coatingC. Nanowires discovered by scientistD. Scientist invents life-long battery第二节七选五（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。