安徽省滁州市定远县育才学校2018-2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题(实验班)

定远育才学校2018-2019学年第一学期期中考试卷
高二实验班英语
满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟
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 will the woman go first?
A.To the beach.
B. To the bank.
C. To the bathroom.
2. What does the woman mean?
A. The man forgot to do his hair.
B. The man forgot to put on a tie.
C. The woman is wearing clothes that don’t match.
3. How does the woman probably feel?
A. Annoyed.
B. Hungry.
C. Excited.
4. Why didn’t the man answer the phone?
A. He lost it.
B. He didn’t hear it.
C. His phone ran out of power.
5. Who did the woman want to call?
A. James.
B. Drake.
C. Daniel.
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. What does the man order?
A. Hot dogs and fries.
B. Burgers and fries.
C. Sandwiches and sodas.
7. How much does the man give the woman a tip?
A. Three dollars.
B. Two dollars.
C. One dollar.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。

8. Where are the speakers?
A. In a car.
B. On a boat.
C. On a motorcycle.
9. What is the man doing?
A. Looking at a paper map.
B. Trying to find a website.
C. Using a phone to give directions.
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man like about YouTube?
A. Watching funny home videos.
B. Learning about the special TV channels.
C. Putting his own videos on the website.
11. What kind of meals do the guys make in Epic Meal Time(《超级开饭时间》)?
A. Low fat meals.
B. Unhealthy meals.
C. Vegetarian meals.
12. What happens to the meals in the end?
A. They are tasted by the audience.
B. They are given to the homeless.
C. They are eaten by the cooks and their friends.
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their vets.
B. Money spent on pets.
C. Ways to buy dogs’medicine.
14. What is the man’s dog’s name?
A. Brett.
B. Fargo.
C.Ferguson.
15. What doesn’t the woman like about her vet?
A. The limited services.
B. The prices her vet charged.
C. The difficulty of getting an appointment.
16. What isn’t one of the man’s suggestions?
A. Going to his vet.
B. Looking online.
C. Going to a special pet store. 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17. When will the fire arrive close to Lakewood?
A. By six o’clock in the evening.
B. By five o’clock in the evening.
C. By six o’clock in the morning.
18. Where shouldn’t residents go to escape the fire?
A. Springfield.
B. Western Hill.
C. Point Cabina Station.
19. How long will it take residents to reach the safe zone?
A. Lesson than ten minutes.
B. Lesson than twenty minutes.
C. Less than thirty minutes.
20. What are residents advised to do before they leave?
A. Leave all pets behind.
B. Stay calm and do not panic.
C. Tell the state police where they are going
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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
What are the biggest problems that society will have to deal with in the new age? There re diseases like AIDS and cancer. There’s c limate change, of course. And what about producing enough cheap food and energy for the world’s growing population? Who’s going to solve all these terrible problems? Yes, politicians and world leaders will have a big part to play. Yes businesses will need to create the economic wealth to pay for some of these things. But who’s going to make a much greater difference to something like AIDS or climate change. It’s going to be a scientist. It is the scientist who can turn some new bit of science into a new technology to solve these problems. If you like thinking about the world around you, why not become a scientist?
It doesn’t mean you have to wear a white coat and plastic glasses and spend all
your time in a lab as most people often imagine! Scientists do all kinds of amazing
things that are actually interesting!
Military scientists develop not only new weapons but new military technologies
that could help make wars out of date. Forensic(法医的) scientists work with the
police to find quite small clues to catch criminals. Scientists work in schools and
colleges as the teachers and professors who will train tomorrow’s scientists.
Don’t think a scientist is far away! Maybe you like cooking? You could be a food
technologist helping to keep fruit and vegetables fresher for longer. Perhaps sport
is your thing? Do you know that most top athletes work with sports scientists in
order or improve their performance? You could even be the science writer who gets
to spend the life studying the latest advances and sharing them with the world.
Looking for something to do for the rest of your life? My advice? Take a long and
hard look at science. It is interesting and ever.
21.Many problems are mentioned in the first paragraph to .
A. suggest they are impossible to be solved
B. introduce the causes of these problems
C. show the writer’s worry about the future world
D. show scientists play an important part in solving them
22.What is needed to solve these problems? .
A. Advanced weapons
B. Enough energy
C. New technologies
D. A growing population
23.Most people think the life of scientists is .
A. amazing
B. boring
C. colorful
D. unreal
24.Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Owing to military technologies, there has been no wars
B. For those interested in cooking, food technologies may be a choice
C. Forensic scientists play an important part in dealing with crimes
D. Most athletes can achieve greater achievement with the help of sports scientists
B
25.Which of following magazines has the longest history?
A. Real Simple.
B. Better Homes and Gardens.
C. Woman's Day.
D. Taste of Home
26.What do we know about Taste of Home?
A. It has been losing popularity in recent years.
B. It offers suggestions about childcare.
C. It is a purely food-related magazine.
D. Readers no longer find advertisements in it.
27.Which of the following is TRUE about the four magazines?
A. Real Simple mainly serves women readers.
B. Woman's Day is out of reach for most families.
C. Readers could advertise in Taste of Home free.
D. Better Homes and Gardens is published quarterly.
C
One of the most popular comments I have heard about time is that we need to balance our time in order to live a more balanced life. We often feel that if we are focused and devoted, happy and positive, loving and generous, healthy and energetic, then we will be balanced people. And if the pie chart of our daily life has just the right ratios(比率) of work, life, family, health, and service, then our time will be
balanced.
The problem with trying hard for balance is that most people’s understanding of this state is so different from what balance actually is! Balance is not about walking around with a bunch of positive qualities; it’s about walking on the tight rope between the poles within us and the circumstances outside of us. Strictly speaking, in order to achieve true balance, we should accept we may have some shortcomings. We should accept and love the most challenging parts of life because they offer gifts for full, real living.
Even though we measure time in a linear(线状的) way, time is and will always be asymmetrical(不均匀的). One moment is not like another, just like each day is different and each tide that rolls in is different from the previous one. This is why it is impossible to balance our time through a pie chart in a time management book. Exploring asymmetrical time allows us to move in line with an unbalanced time and thus regain our relative balance. If we stop measuring ourselves against the standards of linear time, we can accept ourselves more fully. New possibilities arise as we accept the uncertainty.
28.W hy does the author think it’s difficult to achieve balance in life?
A. People don’t know the true meaning of balance.
B. People may not have enough good qualities.
C. People cannot create their pie charts of daily life.
D. People fail to realize the qualities they really need.
29.In the author’s opinion, what does a balanced life mean?
A. We should arrange our time wisely.
B. We should try to believe ourselves.
C. We should learn to improve ourselves and our lives.
D. We should accept the bad aspects of ourselves and life.
30.What does the last paragraph mainly want to tell us?
A. Uncertainty can help build up confidence.
B. It is difficult for us to accept ourselves fully.
C. There are always uncertain things occurring in life.
D. New possibilities can help us achieve balance in life.
31.What may be the best title for the text?
A. The true meaning of time
B. Seeking relative balance
C. Struggle for a balanced life
D. Popular comments about time
D
Arthur Miller （1915-2005） is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller’s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, attracted like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as symbol of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sympathy: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
32.Why did Arthur Miller’s father move to the USA?
A．He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B．He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.
C．He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D．His family business failed.
33.The play Death of a Salesman _______________.
A．exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B．discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C．talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D．focuses on the skills in doing business
34.What can we learn about Willy Loman?
A．He treats his employer badly.
B． He runs the Wagner Company.
C．He is a victim of the American system.
D．He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
35.After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman __________.
A．achieved huge success
B．won the first Tony Award
C．was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D．was severely attacked by dramatists
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。

Social media and the mobile web have given rise to a strange phenomenon called the selfie(自拍). It refers to a picture of yourself, usually shared on any social networking website.
36.Some selfies are extreme close-ups(特写镜头), and others show part of an arm held straight outward. A few of them even feature the subject standing in front of a bathroom mirror.
Everyone takes selfies, but the younger crowd seems to be especially involved in the trend. Young people are relatively heavier digital users. They are interested in staying connected to their friends.37..
There are also kinds of psychological factors driving people to take a selfie and
upload it to a social networking site.38. A quick and easy way to attract other's attention is to get "likes" and comments from friends. Secondly, it's human nature to show off your own great achievements. When you feel good about yourself or look good, it's far too easy to take out your phone and document it all through one or several selfies.39.That's right. Sometimes people are bored at work, bored at school, bored at home and even bored on the toilet. Last but not least, social media is about being social! If that means uploading as many selfies as possible, then so be it. It's fun, and it's a cool way to sort of document your own life.
Finally, there are things to be mindful of when you're posting. It's easy to think you're sharing a photo with a few people.40.So don't post anything online, selfie especially.
A. There are lots of selfie styles.
B. The rise of selfies has become universal.
C. Social media, to some extent, is the driving force of their selfie activity.
D. The desire to take, post and get "likes" on selfies goes back to a biological behavior.
E. But the whole world of social media is public and every individual can get access to it.
F. There are also people who will take selfies because they have nothing else better to do.
G. The leading factor is that people want to get attention from as many people as possible.
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）
Once when there was a famine (饥荒), a rich baker sent for twenty of the poorest children in the town, and said to them, “In this basket, there is a loaf (一条面包) for each of you. 41 it, and come back to me every42at this hour till better times come.”
The hungry children 43 eagerly around the basket, and quarreled for the bread 44 each wished to have the largest loaf. At last they went away without even45the good
gentleman. But Gretchen, a poorly-dressed little girl, did not 46 or struggle with the rest, but remained 47 modestly in the distance. When the ill-behaved children had left, she took the 48 loaf, which alone was left in the basket, 49the gentleman's hand, and went home.
The next day the children were as 50 as before, and poor, shy Gretchen received a loaf only nearly half the 51 of the one she got the first day. When she came home, her mother cut the 52 open, and then many new, shining pieces of silver fell out of it. Her mother was very much 53 , and said, “Take the money back to th e good 54at once, for it must have got into the loaf 55 . Be quick, Gretchen! Be quick!” But when the little girl gave the rich man her mother's 56 , he said, “No, no, my child, it was no 57 . I had the silver pieces put into the smallest loaf to 58 you. Always be as contented (满足的), peaceable, and 59 as you now are. Go home now, and the 60 is your own.”
41.A.Take B.Buy C.O rder D.Smell
42.A.month B.week C.da y D.year
43.A.stood B.sat
C.gathered
D.looked
44.A.but B.so
C.since
D.because
45.A.hearing B.thanking C.thi nking D.looking
46.A.play ugh
C.quarrel
D.speak
47.A.crying B.standing
C.quarreling
D.singing
48.A.best B.oldest
rgest
D.smallest
49.A.kissed B.took
C.seized
D.waved
50.A.hungry B.angry
C.eager
D.rude
51.A. size B.number C .length D.amount
52.A.letter
B.bread
C.basket
D.bag
53.A.surprised B.pleased
C.terrified
D.excited
54.A.policeman B.teacher
C.gentleman
D.child
55.A.by accident B.by heart C.by hand D.by itself
56.A. letter B.note
C.money
D.message
57.A.luck e
C.good
D.mistake
58.A.test B.reward
C.thank
D.attract
59.A.careful B.grateful
C.beautiful
D.enthusiastic
60.A.loaf B.basket
C.world
D.money
第二节（共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分）
Glasgow is situated in southwest Scotland along both banks of the River Clyde and has 61.population of over 590,000 people. It is the largest city in Scotland, 62 has successful business, finance, tourism, call centre, and an excellent harbour as well.
Glasgow is an 63. (attract) city in Europe. It has world-famous art 64.
(collect), the best shopping in the United Kingdom outside London, and the most 65. (enjoy) nightlife in Scotland. A must-see is the works of Scotland's best-known architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the unique style of whom 66. (decorate) attractions such as the Lighthouse, Glasgow School of Art and House for an Art Lover.
Art and culture are so important in Glasgow life 67.galleries and museums are great in number. There's a choice of over 2068.(include) the world's first Museum of Religion and the outstanding McLellan Galleries. 69. their credit, the Scots value traditional art and culture in Glasgow and have them well 70.(preserve) through long time.
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。

Sam went to the cinema the other night. Entered the cinema, he thought of taking off his coat. But the cinema was very cold and he has to keep his coat on. As there weren’t much space between the rows, his legs began to ache shortly after he took up his seat. Worse still, they found it difficult to breath easily. Looking around, he saw a lot of people smoking. At last the film started. That made him angry was that the person in front was wearing so big hat that he could hardly see the screen. To top it all, people all around him either told jokes nor laughed loudly. However, Sam missed most of the dialogue.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Mike来信说中国书法很难学。

就此请你用英语给他写一封回信，主要内容包括：
1.学习书法的意义；
2.学习书法的技巧；
3．给他鼓励和信心。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾己给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：书法calligraphy;毛笔writing brush
Dear Mike,
I’m sorry to know that you have difficulty in learning Chinese calligraphy. _____________________________________________________________________
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Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
2018~2019高二实验班英语期中考试答案
听力
ACA 6-10.BAACA 11-15.BCCBB 16-20.AABCB
阅读理解
21-25.DCBAB 26-30.CAADC 31-35.BBACA 36-40.ACGFE 完形填空
41-45.ACCDB 46-50.CBDAD 51-55.ABACA 56-60.DDBBD
语法知识填空
61.a
62.which
63.attractive
64.collections
65.enjoyable
66.decorates
67.that
68.including
69.To
70.preserved
短文改错
【1】Entered→Entering
【2】h as→had
【3】weren’t→ wasn’t
【4】去掉up
【5】they→he
【6】breath→breathe
【7】That→What
【8】hat前加a
【9】nor→or
【10】However → Therefore / So
写作
Dear Mike,
I’m sorry lo know that you have difficulty in learning Chinese calligraphy. In fact you are not alone. Many people, including some of my classmates, feel it hard to write with a writing brush.
However, it is very important to learn the artistic handwriting of characters. Learning Chinese calligraphy is very helpful in learning more about Chinese culture and history. Besides, written Chinese is well-known for its beauty.
If you want to be a good user of the writing brush, first you have to be patient. Second, you have to keep practising since practice makes perfect. Lastly, you should pay attention to the use of calligraphy models. Just be confident and practise hard and you'll be an expert in Chinese calligraphy.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua。