山西省原平市2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题

山西省原平市2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题
第Ⅰ卷
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 )
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 man probably do?
A. A shop assistant.
B. A policeman.
C. A postman.
2. How old is the man's daughter?
A. Six months old.
B. One year old.
C. Two years old.
3. When did the woman plan to go to Spain?
A. In spring.
B. In summer.
C. In autumn.
4. Where will the speakers go first?
A. A restaurant.
B. A cinema.
C. A hospital.
5. What does the man think of the lecture?
A. It was interesting.
B. It was far beyond his understanding.
C. It was long but easy to understand.
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，各个小题将给出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. What does the man usually do at home?
A. Do the washing-up.
B. Wash c lothes.
C. Clean the car.
7. What does the man promise to do at last?
A. Do all the housework from next weekend.
B. Clean the kitchen after cooking.
C. Prepare meals every day.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How long will the man most probably rent the bike?
A. From 7:00 am to 5:00 pm.
B. From 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.
C. From 9:00 am to 7:30 pm.
9. What will happen if the man brings the bike back after 7:00 pm?
A. He has to pay for the helmet.
B. He can't get the 20 dollars back.
C. He has to pay 50 dollars' extra money.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why is the woman a bit nervous?
A. She is afraid of getting up late.
B. She is a newcomer to the school.
C. She isn’t ready for the coming exam.
11. What must the students do before morning reading?
A. Hand in homework.
B. Do morning exercises.
C. Go to the teacher’s office.
12. What can the students do if they feel hungry?
A. Ask the teacher for some food.
B. Have something to eat in class.
C. Eat something during the break.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where is the woman going first?
A. Bergner’s.
B. Penny’s.
14. When should the woman have called Helen?
A. At 3:45.
B. At 4:15.
15. What’s the man’s telephone number?
A. 61199621.
B. 61299621.
16. What’s the relationship between the man and the woman?
A. Husband and wife.
B. Boss and employee.
C. Friends.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What kind of English lessons does the speaker recommend?
A. Examination skills.
B. Reading and writing.
C. Listening and speaking.
18. How can a learner take the lessons when he is not online?
A. By using the downloaded sound files.
B. By making conversations with others.
C. By reviewing words, phrases and idioms.
19. What is mentioned as an advantage of the speaker’s online course?
A. It helps learners to make friends.
B. It offers learners better study methods.
C. It improves learn ers’ listening and speaking skills quickly.
20. What is the speaker’s idea about learning English?
A. Being confident in learning.
B. Learning English little by little.
C. Having clear learning goals.
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）
A
Pete Sparks was a sensitive (敏感的) boy. So sensitive that even his hair was ticklish (怕痒的). You only had to touch his hair a little bit and he would start laughing. When this ticklish laughter started, no one could make him stop.
Pete tried everything to control his ticklishness, but nothing worked. So he began to feel sad for being different.
One day in the street, he met a special clown. The clown was very o ld and could hardly walk, but when he saw Pete in tears, he went to cheer him up. It didn’t take long to make Pete laugh. Later Pete told him about his ticklish problem, and he asked the clown how such an old man could carry on being a clown.
“I have no one to take my place,” said the clown. “I have a very serious job to do.” Pete looked at him, surprised. “Come, I’ll show you,” said the clown. So th e clown took Pete to many hospitals full of children who were sick. As soon as they saw the clown, their faces changed completely and lit up with a smile. Their short while spent with the clown changed everything for them. That day was even more special, b ecause in every show Pete’s laughter would end up with the kids lying on the floor, dying with laughter. When the visit came to an end, the old clown said to Pete, “Now do you see why I can’t retire (退休), even at my age?”
That was how Pete became a clown, and took the special old man’s place. From that day on, the fact that Pete was different actually made him happy, thanks to his special gift (天赋).
21. Pete wanted to change because he wanted to _____.
A. make a difference
B. just be a normal boy
C. make everyone happy
D. just be a special clown
22. The clown took Pete to the hospitals in order to _____.
A. treat his ticklishness
B. encourage him to be a clown
C. show him the meaning of his job
D. know whether Pete had told a lie
23. What does the s tory teach us?
A. Practice makes perfect.
B. Everyone is born useful.
C. Well begun is half done.
D. Where there is life, there is hope.
B
Ending the habit of smoking is an unpleasant experience. You need to deal with desire to smoke. In order to live a healthy life, you need to give up the habit of smoking. In this article, we will deal with some important methods to beat the habit of smoking.
Mark a date few weeks before you stop smoking. This method will give you enough time to prepare yourself mentally for upcoming changes. However, it will also permit you to start some medical treatment.
Avoid visiting the place and locations that will cause you to light cigarettes (香烟) . Even avoid the habits with which normally you smoked. For example,some people have a habit of smoking a c igarette with morning tea or coffee. So replace your habit of drinking tea or coffee. Stay away from visiting night pubs or clubs.
Save the money that you used to spend on buying cigarettes. Keep a record of daily expense that will help you to check your unnecessary expenses. Cut down this expense and you may be able to buy something useful for you.
Take part in physical activities.Include lots of sports in your daily life. Start going for long walks or walk down to groce ry store. Buy a bike for yourself,travel to nearby place with it instead of traveling with car.You can pick any physical activity that might interest you.
Change your eating habit. Include enough fresh green vegetables and fruits in your diet. Drink plenty of water throughout the day.
Ask help from your family and friends. They will help you to stay away from your habit .The last tip to stop smoking is to stay patient and calm ,that is to say ,believe in yourself and have confidence. Stick to your plans and schedules.
24. Why is stopping smoking difficult according to the passage?
A. We can never change our habits.
B. It's hard to solve the desire to smoke.
C. We lack the sup port of our family.
D. We can't rea lize the harm of smoking.
25. In order to stop smoking, we had better not
A. take exercise
B. turn to your friends
C. keep patient
D. visit night pubs
26. How many tips does the author offer in the passage?
A. 5
B. 6
C.
7 D. 8
27. The most probable readers for the passage are
A. students
B. Adults
C. smokers
D. non-smokers
C
In general, people talk about two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. Researchers in psychology think that there are also two groups of people: people who prefer warm colors and people who prefer cool colors.
The warm colors are red, orange and yellow. Where there are warm colors and a lot of light, people usually want to be active. People think that red, for example, is exciting. Sociable people, those who like to be with others, like red. The cool colors are green, blue and violet. These colors, unlike warm colors, are relaxing. Where there are cool colors, people are usually quiet. People who like to spend time alone often prefer blue.
Red may be exciting, but one researcher says that time seems to pass more slowly in a room with warm colors than in a room with cool colors. He suggests that a warm color, such as red or orange is a good color for a living room or restaurant. People who are relaxing or eating do not want time to pass quickly. Cool colors are better for offices or factories if the people who are working there want time to pass quickly. Researchers do not know why people think some colors are warm and other colors are cool.
However, almost everyone agrees that red, orange, and yellow are warm and that green, blue, and violet are cool. Perhaps warm colors remind people of warm days and the cool colors remind them of cool days. Because in the north the sun is higher during summer, the hot summer sunlight appears yellow.
28. Which of the following colors belong to cool colors?
A. Blue, violet
B. Yellow, green
C. Black, blue.
D. Brown, white
29. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Sociable people like warm colors.
B. Warm colors can make people excited.
C. People who like to be with others don’t like red.
D. Where there are warm colors, pe ople want to be active.
30. Which is the right color for different rooms?
A. Red or orange for offices.
B. Orange for dining rooms.
C. Blue for bedrooms.
D. Red for studies
31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Two groups of colours
B. Cool colours
C. Warm colours
D. Colours and people
D
A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as in English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much faster than a physics or economics textbook-but you can raise your average reading speed over the whole range of materials you wish to cover so that the percentage gained will be the same whatever kind of reading you are concerned with.
The reading passages which follow are all of an average level of difficulty for your stage of instruction. They are all about five hundred words long. They are about topics of general interest which do not require a great deal of specialized knowledge. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel. If you read this kind of English, with understanding at four hundred words per minute, you might skim (浏览) through a newspaper at perhaps 650-700, while with a difficult textbook you might drop to two hundred or two hundred and fifty.
Perhaps you would like to know what reading speeds are common among native English-speaking university students and how those speeds can be improved. Tests in Minnesota, USA, for example, have shown that students without special training can read English of average difficulty, for example, Tolstoy's War and Peace in translation, at speeds of between 240 and 250 words per minute with about seventy percent comprehension. Students in Minnesota claim that after twelve half-hour lessons, once a week, the reading speed can be increased, with no loss of comprehension, to around five hundred words per minute.
32. According to the passage, the purpose of effective（有效的）reading with higher speed is most likely to help you ________.
A. read a physics textbook only
B. improve your understanding of an economics textbook
C. study not only English but also other subjects
D. choose the suitabl e materials for you to practise reading
33. Which of the following does not describe the types of reading materials mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. Those beyond one's reading comprehension.
B. Those concerned with common knowledge.
C. Those concerned with specialized knowledge.
D. Those with the length of about five hundred words.
34. The average speed of untrained native speakers in the University of Minnesota is ________.
A. about 300 words per minute
B. about 245 words per minute
C. about 650-700 words per minute
D. about 500 words per minute
35. According to the passage, how fast can you expect to read after you have attended twelve half-hour lessons in the University of Minnesota?
A. You can increase your reading speed by three times.
B. No real increase in reading speed can be achieved.
C. Yon can increase your reading speed by four times.
D. You can double your reading speed.
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. Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.__36__
The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able
to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses.__37__So they are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.
Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed v ery little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. __38__However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.
Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains.__39__ We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.
__40__ But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way as our ancestors did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.
A. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.
B. People today probably do not want to live the way people thousands of years ago did.
C. Ancient people also lived in large groups.
D. But today, we eat a lot of these.
E. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise.
F. In that case, they would live much healthier.
G. People today probably live the same life as people thousands of years ago.
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；每题1.5分，满分30分）
My dad has been driving a truck for almost his entire life. He’s usually__41__all the weekdays and comes home only at weekends. Sometimes he stays 42 for two weeks at a time.
43 _I don’t get to see him as often as I wish，we remain very 44 .
My dad is the type of person who doesn’t let you__45__up anything that you start. When I was eleven，my father bought me a piano. At first I was so 46_ about it that I would spend hours and hours learning how to play. Then it got 47 _.I was so tired of it that I asked if I could stop. Much as I tried，he__48_me to go on. Now I have been playing for almost five years. I love it and I’m glad I 49__ my dad’s advice.
My dad is__50__talented，for he has been playing the guitar for over 20 years. Under his influence，I also like__51__now.Sometimes my dad can be my biggest _52__.He makes me smile
even when I lose in a talent show 53 sometimes he can be my biggest critic．He__54__ignores the small mistakes I make. He encourages me never to lose_55_because he thinks that all my efforts will 56__one day.
My dad is generous. Every Thursday night，he 57 to read to the children at a children’s club. When he reads，their__58 _light up with curiosity about what will happen next. I feel
59 of having a person in my family who cares enough to volunteer to__60__.
I love dad with all my heart. He’s a hero in my heart and the most wonderful person in the world.
41．A. on B．with
C．in D．out
42．A. home B．away C．inside
43．A . In case B．If only C．Even though D．As if
44．A. polite B．close C．different D．kind
45．A . put B．give C．take
46．A. nervous B．crazy C．anxious D．familiar
47．A .rough B．difficult C．boring D．disappointing
48．A. persuaded B．promised C．reminded D．suggested
49．A. took B．challenged C．received D．listened
50．A. physically B．typically C．exactly D．musically 51．A. dancing B．composing C．writing D．drawing
52．A. director B．sponsor C．scholar D．supporter
53．A. however B．and C．so
54．A. ever B．often C．even
D．never55．A. heart B．dream C．strength
D．aim
56．A .pay off B．take risks C．come true D．let out
57. A. agrees B．likes C．offers D．intends
58 A. faces B．arms C．hands
D． bodies
59．A. jealous B．proud C．optimistic D．happy
60．A. help B．work C．read
D．drive
第II卷
第二节短文填空（共10小题，每小题1．5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入一个单词或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。

Nowadays, it is far 61 （easy）to entertain children than it is to instruct them
in personal developme nt skills. In the current fast-paced society, parents choose
to 62 （occupy）with work in order to earn more and provide their children 63 a good living environment. They 64 （spare）enough time to play or communicate
with their children. So parents can easily offer their children new toys 65 than develop their children’s sense of duty, 66 will lead their children through
self-learning to understand the 67 （mean）of hard work and
patience. 68 , the best method for parents to teach patience to their children
is not by buying them things, but by giving their children an opportunity to explore
and learn about 69 interests them. 70 by using this method can parents eventually teach their children the same hard lessons that they have painfully learned too.
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）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处
语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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。

Today we visit a farm. Early in the morning we met at the school gate and went to there together. The farm worker gave us a w armly welcome. Then the head of the farm showed them around. What glad we were to see the crops or vegetables growing well. At noon we had picnic lunch in the sunshine. After a short rest, we had great fun singing, dancing, and told jokes
or stories. Two of us even played a game of chess. Time passed quickly. Until we knew it,
we had to say goodbye to the workers.
第二节：书面表达（25分）
假如你是李华，你的好友龙龙来信说他在高中英语学习过程中遇到一些困难，英语考试成绩不理想，感到很苦恼。

希望你就如何学好英语给他提些建议，要求内容包括以下几点。

1. 利用课余时间多听多读以增加词汇量；
2. 熟练掌握每模块的重要句型；
3. 一旦遇到疑难问题多与老师同学交流。

4. 不向困难屈服
5. 词数在120左右。

(首尾句已给出不计入总词数。

)
参考词汇：句型sentence patterns 熟练掌握 have a good command of
温馨提示: ⑴文章要分段; ⑵文章内容要包括这些词组: 增加词汇量; 熟练掌握; 与老师同学交流; 不屈服; ⑶可适当增加内容使行文流畅.
Dear Longlong,
I’m sorry to learn that you are feeling sad because you have some difficulty in
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Best wishes
Yours,
Li Hua
高二英语期末考试答案
听力: 1-5 CCBAB 6-10 CABCB 11-15 ACAAC 16-20 ACACB
阅读: 21-23 BCB 24-27 BDCC 28-31ACBD 32-35 CABD 36-40 FAEDB
完形: 41-45 DBCBB 46-50 BCAAD 51-55 BDBDA 56-60 ACABC
短文填空： 61. easier 62. be occupied 63. with
64. don ’t spare 65. rather 66. which
67. meanings 68. Therefore/Thus 69. what
70. only
短文改错 Today we visit visited
a farm. Early in the morning we met at the school gate and went to ＼ there together. The farm worker workers gave us a warmly warm welcome. Then the head of the farm showed them us
around. What How glad we were to see the crops or and vegetables growing well. At noon we had ∧a
picnic lunch in the sunshine. After a short rest, we had great fun singing, dancing, and told telling jokes or stories. Two of us even played a game of chess. Time passed quickly. Until Before we knew it, we had to say goodbye to the workers.
书面表达
Dear Longlong,
I’m sorry to learn that you are feeling sad because you have some difficulty in learning English. What’s worse, you do badly in the English exams. I’d like to give you some advice on how to learn English well.
Firstly, you should make full use of your spare time to do more listening and reading about English to increase vocabulary .It’s widely believed that practice makes perfect. Secondly, if you want to improve your writing, you should have a good command of important sentence patterns of each unit. Thirdly, once you come across problems, you can turn to your teachers and classmates for help. Lastly, never give in to any difficulties. Only in this way can you learn English well.
I hope you will find these suggestions helpful. Best wishes
Yours,。