广东省普宁市勤建学校高二英语上学期期末考试试题

普宁勤建中学2018届高二第一学期期末考试
英语试题
注意事项：
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第Ⅱ卷必须用0.5毫米黑色签字笔书写作答.若在试题卷上作答，答案无效。

3.考试结束，监考员将试题卷、答题卡一并收回。

第I卷（选择题共100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. What does the man think Michael has been doing this week ?
A. Going to class.
B. Looking for a job.
C. Resting at home.
2. What does the woman want to do?
A. Live outside the city.
B. Start her own company.
C. Go hiking with the man.
3. What is the woman going to do?
A. Celebrate her success.
B. Study for the final exam.
C. Prepare her arguments.
4. What is the man doing?
A. Reading a menu.
B. Drinking wine.
C. Eating dinner.
5. What does the man mean?
A. The woman could do better.
B. The woman did an excellent job.
C. The woman did worse than he expected.
第二节
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，每小题将给出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. Which road will the speakers take next?
A. The freeway.
B. The side street.
C. The country road.
7.What is true about the man?
A. He doesn’t like the traffic report on the radio.
B. He is new to the city.
C. He is quite familiar with the routes.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Father and daughter.
B. Teacher and student.
C. Boss and employee.
9. Why is the man disappointed in the girl?
A. Most of her grades were bad..
B. She didn’t try her best.
C. She doesn’t like Spanish at all.
听第8段材料，回答第10至第12题。

10. How many hours was the man late for his meeting?
A. Five hours.
B. Two and a half hours.
C. Two hours.
11. Why were there so many people at the airport?
A. It was a Saturday.
B. Many of the planes couldn’t take off.
C. There was something important going on in Zhengzhou.
12. How does the man feel about the woman’s suggestion?
A. It’s creative.
B. It’s hard to understand.
C. It’ s not a good idea.听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。

13. Who is the woman?
A. A guest from a town in California.
B. An employee of Food Magazine.
C. A guest in room 468 of the hotel.
14. What does the man think is the best about the restaurant?
A. The food they serve.
B. The warm environment.
C. Their service.
15. What does the woman order first?
A. Some wine.
B. Some bread.
C. Some water.
16. What will the woman probably do next?
A. Order dinner for her friends.
B. Have a meal by herself.
C. Wait for her husband to arrive.
听第10段材料，回答第17至第20题。

17. Where did the speaker see a woman trying to change a flat tire?
A. At the practice field..
B. On the sidewalk.
C. At the parking lot.
18.Who did the speaker think of when he offered to help the woman?
A. His mother.
B. His wife.
C. His boss.
19. Why did another woman wait until the speaker finished the work?
A. To clean the tire.
B. To wipe the car.
C. To give the speaker some wipes.
20. What will the speaker do in the future?
A. Let his children help change tires.
B. Set a good example to his children.
C. Teach his children to learn from others.
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）
阅读下面的短文，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
"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, " some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. " But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫).But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug,that is,"to install(安装)an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly
to others' conversations. Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant" to cheat" , and since the 1940s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison" had been up the two previous nights discovering' a bug' in his invented record player."
21．We learn from Paragraph 1 that___________.
A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug
B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug
C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century
D. both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century
22．What does the word"flaw"in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Explanation.
B. Finding.
C. Origin.
D. Fault.
23．The passage is mainly concerned with___________.
A. the misunderstanding of the word bug
B. the development of the word bug
C. the public views of the word bug
D. the special characteristics of the word bug
There are some strange driving laws in different countries.
necessarily.”
riding with or lendin
24．Where should you go to wash your car when you are in Moscow?
A. Your home.
B. Any public place.
C. The car wash facilities.
D. The forest.
25．What can you get fined for in Cyprus?
A. Forgetting to carry a portable breathalyzer.
B. Putting your hands above your head.
C. Not having a Cyprus driver’s license.
D. Driving without a shirt.
26．If you are fined thousands of dollars in Japan, you may have been ________________.
A. in an irregular position in your car
B. impolite to other drivers
C. splashing a person with mud
D. sitting in a car with a drunk driver
27．This passage can most likely be found in __________.
A. a book on interesting cultures
B. a fashion magazine
C. an international newspaper
D. a law document(文件)
Worst Game Ever？
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a video game that came out for the Atari 2600 game system in 1982. It was based on a very popular film of the same name. Star programmer Howard Warshaw created it with consultation from the film director Steven Spielberg.
It was July 27th, 1982. Howard Warshaw was hot off the success of his most recent game, Raiders of the Lost Ark. He received a call from Atari C.E.O, Ray Kassar. Atari had bought the rights to make a video game version of Spilberg’s Movie, E.T., wh ich had just been released（发行） in June. Kassar told Warshaw that Spielberg had specifically asked for Warshaw to make the game Warshaw was honored, but there was one huge problem. Atari needed the game finished by September 1st in order to start selling it during the Christmas season. It had taken Warshaw six months to create Raiders of the Lost Ark. The game he made prior to that took him seven months. He was expected to create E.T. in around five weeks. Warshaw accepted the challenge anyway and production began. Spielberg wanted Warshaw to create a simple maze game similar to Pac-man, but V had a bigger vision. He wanted players to explore different environments in 3D world. Usually companies like Atari have people test games before releasing them, but they decided to skip testing due to time limitations.
The game was a hot holiday item at first. Unfortunately, Atari overestimated how many they would sell. They made 5 million copies and they only sold 1.5 million. Most people who played the game hated it. The graphics（画面）were bad. Game play was awkward. Players got stuck in holes that they couldn’t escape. Some people who stuck with the game grew to like it, but it wasn’t the mainstream success that Atari had hoped it would be.
Too many copies of the game sat on store shelves. One employee remembers the game being discounted five times, from $49.95 to less than a dollar. A newspaper in New Mexico reported that between 10 and 20 semitrailer truckloads of Atari products were crushed and buried at landfill in Alamog ordo. Atari lost over $100 million on E.T.. The game was so bad that
it was said to have affected Atari’s reputation. The video game industry soon fell into a deep depression, with a profit $3.2 billion in 1983 to just over $100 million in 1985, almost a 97% drop. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial will long be remembered as one of the worst games ever made, if not one of the causes of the decline of entire video game industry. 28．What can we learn about Howard Warshaw from the passage?
A. He was ambitious.
B. He was cautious.
C. He was unreliable.
D. He was inexperienced.
29．Why did E.T. end up one worst video game ever?
A. It was produced in a hurry.
B. It was set in a 3D environment.
C. It was released at a wrong time.
D. It was based on a popular movie.
30．According to the passage, the failure of the game E.T. may have____
A. destroyed the reputation of the film E.T.
B. given chances to other companies to rise
C. led to the fall of the video game industry
D. made peopl e lose interest in 3D environment
31．In the passage the author describes Atari’s failure________
A. in a disapproving way
B. with a supportive attitude
C. with a feeling of pity for the company
D. without expressing his/her own opinions
Nearly a quarter century after a German boy threw a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he's received an answer.
A 13­year­old Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with his parents on a beach when he saw something lying in the sand.
“I saw that bottle and it looked interesting, ” Korotkikh t old The Associated Press on Tuesday.“It looked like a German beer bottle and there was a message inside.”
It said, “My name is Frank, and I'm five years old.My dad and I are travelling on a ship
to Denmark.If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you.” The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.
The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29.His parents still live at the letter's address.
The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month through an Internet video link.The Russian boy said he did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea.He believed it had been hidden under the sand where he found it for a long time. Uesbeck was especially happy that he was able to have a positive effect on a life of a young person far away from Germany.“It's really a wonderful story, ” he sa id.“And who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person.”
32．What is this passage mainly about?
A．Message in a bottle. B．A beautiful beer bottle.
C．Travelling on a ship. D．Meeting an old friend.
33．When the German boy threw the bottle into the sea, ________．
A．he was going back home
B．he was already 29 years old
C．he was walking with his parents on a beach
D．he was travelling to Denmark by ship with his dad
34．According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．Korotkikh's parents still live in the town of Coesfeld.
B．The German boy did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea. C．Frank Uesbeck and Daniil Korotkikh have met each other in person.
D．Daniil Korotkikh and Frank Uesbeck have got in touch with each other.
35．Why was Uesbeck very happy when he got the information of the 24 years' message bottle? A．Because he could have a new friend.
B．Because the two boys could surf the Internet together
C．Because he finally got what he had lost.
D．Because he could have a positive influence on a life of a young person.
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。

温馨提示：本题答案请涂在计算机答题卡上，如果选A、B、C、D则正常填涂，如果选E请涂AD来表示，选F涂BD，选G涂CD。

You might dream of fluency in this or that language, and maybe you’ve already achieved fluency in a foreign language. ___36．____.
Fluency, like all abstract terms, has no universal meaning. Each individual must determine what the term means. ____37．___.
Perfect fluency means knowing every word you encounter, speaking quickly, clearly and easily and having no accent. ___38．___. You aren’t familiar with every word o f your native language, and sometimes you have to search for the right wor d, even in your mother tongue.
Quick fluency is the type of fluency you see in advertisements, because “Master a Language in Two Months!” sounds way catchier than “Fluency in Twenty Years!” ___39．__. It is possible to achieve quick fluency, but the fluency achieved after such a short time frame will be a very thin, superficial fluency.
___40．____. Native-like fluency means that you generally know all the same words that a native knows and can speak at the same pace with the same amount of ease as a native speaker. You will likely have an accent, but as long as your conversation partner can understand you, it doesn’t matter.
Literary fluency is like graduating from native-like to educated-native-like fluency. It focuses on the more intellectual（知识性的） side of a language: indulging in literature, attending university, composing song lyrics, etc.
There are a ton of other things that fluency could potentially（可能地）be, but that’s up to you to fig ure out.
A. It sounds too good to be true.
B. However, Nobody is “perfectly fluent” in any language.
C. Quick fluency is good if you have some sort of deadline.
D. But have you ever considered what fluency really means?
E. But does fluency have the same meaning to other person as it does to you?
F. Unlike perfect fluency, native-like fluency is a reasonable and attainable goal.
G. To assist you in determining what fluency is, I’ll describe a few different types of
fluency.
第三部分：英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选
项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，
并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer. But while studying 41 at university in Mumbai,
she decided to quit her major and do something more 42 .
Remembering helping her mother in the 43 during her childhood, she decided to work with
food instead of legal cases. So she 44 her parents to let her go to study cooking.
One day, her friends took h er to one of the best macaron（杏仁小圆饼）shops in Paris. After
just one 45 , Ms Dhingra determined that when she 46 to Mumbai she would open her
own macaron store, the first of its kind in India.
Upon graduation, she started 47 macarons in her paren ts’ kitchen, but it was a complete 48 . The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it 49 to make delicious cakes. After 60 failed 50 , she finally got an ideal recipe.
51 being both young and female meant she faced additional 52 . “The bigg est problem
was to get people to take you 53 .” she tells us. “For example, 54 I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me.”
However, she 55 opened her first shop in 2010. To 56 sales in a city where very
few people knew what a macaron was, Ms Dhingra 57 free samples to customers. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon took off thanks to the 58 evaluation.
Now, Ms Dhingra is the 59 of three busy macaron shops. She has planned to 60 her business across the country. One newspaper article called her “the macaron queen of India”.
41. A. design B. law C. literature D. medicine
42. A. creative B. confident C. enthusiastic D. effective
43. A. bedroom B. study C. kitchen D. basement
44. A. reminded B. warned C. forgave D. convinced
45. A. drink B. effort C. breath D. bite
46. A. replied B. traveled C. returned D. walked
47, A. eating B. making C. bringing D. selling
48. A. comfort B. honor C. failure D. success
49. A. appealing B. difficult C. smooth D. available
50. A. preparations B. opportunities C. statements D. attempts
51. A. Yet B. Still C. Even D. Just
52. A, praises B. sacrifices C. tasks D. challenges
53. A. slightly B. pleasantly C. seriously D. peacefully
54. A. if’ B. after C. though D. unless
55. A. eventually B. suddenly C. eagerly D. unwillingly
56. A. check B. promote C. ban D. decrease
57. A. put away B. smoothed away C. cleared away . D. gave away
58. A. familiar B. positive C. plain D. critical
59. A. customer ‘ B. inventor C. driver D. owner
60. A. expand B. sell C. abandon D. protect
第II卷（50分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

注意事项：用0.5 毫米黑色笔迹的签字笔将答案写在相应题序位置，写在原文中的答案无效。

There’s a science to setting goals. Below, we share some research-backed tips to help you carry out successful goals.
Choose a goal that 61 (matter), not just easy win.
A meaningful goal— 62 that truly inspires you to change—requires going deeper. Think about what you want in the coming year, then ask yourself why you want that. For example, if you want to quit 63 (smoke), ask why do you want to quit? Then, if you want to quit for your health, ask why do you want good health?
Set up your goals positively.
How you describe your goal makes a big 64 (differ). Focusing on what you want to bring
into your life—not what you want to avoid—will make you more likely to 65 (actual) struggle for it.
Prepare for failure (in a good way).
Moments of failure can’t 66 (avoid), but most of us abandon the goal entirely when slight failures start piling up. At the moment when you fail, often the first instinct (本能) is to push the goal away. It’s so __67__ (comfort) to be in that condition of self-doubt or self-criticism and guilt.
Your task is not to avoid failures, 68 to plan for them. For example, if you’re likely to choose unhealthy m eals when you’re hungry, carry a light snack with you.
69 conclusion, wise choices and full preparations are 70 (rely) measures to reach our goals.
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。

错误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—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。

When I fi rst learn to write in English, I ran into much difficulties. The main problem was that I always thought in Chinese and tried to translate into my own language everything which I came across while I was reading. My teacher advised myself to keep a diary. I followed his advices and put down 100 words or so each day.
Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself as I was learning to express myself with simple English. One day I wrote a story and showed to my teacher. He liked it very much that he read it to the class. All said that the story was a good one. Their words were an great encouragement to me.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华,贵校在学生中征集意见,询问学生是否赞成开设iPad课堂（iPad classrooms）。

你支
持开设iPad课堂；请给校长写一封建议信,要点如下：
1. 资源丰富；
2. 促进交流；
3. 利于环保；
4. 其他理由。

注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。

Dear Headmaster,
We have been asked about our opinions on opening iPad classrooms.____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
英语参考答案
听力答案 1-5BCCAB 6-10BCABB 11-15BCCAA 16-20 CCACB
阅读：21—23DDB 24—27 CBDA 28—31AACD 32-35ADDD 36-40DGBAF
完形：41—45 BACDD 46—50 CBCBD 51—55 ADCAA 56—60 BDBDA
语法填空：
61. matters 62. one 63. smoking 64. difference 65. actually
66. be avoided 67. uncomfortable 68. but 69. In 70. reliable
短文改错
71 learn--learned 72 much--many 73去掉which或改为that
74 myself--me 75 advices--advice 76 talk—talking
77 with--in 78 showed后加it 79 very—so
80 an—a
写作答案:
书面表达（共1小题，满分25分）
Dear Headmaster,
We have been asked about our opinions on opening iPad classrooms. I am in favor of this plan for the following reasons. To begin with, everyone learns differently. Students can customize their iPad with materials that fit their level and learning style, and thus tailor it to different needs. Moreover, when connected to the Internet, students can interact with teachers and classmates about what they learn m ore conveniently. For the sake of environmental protection, opening iPad classrooms is a good way to save trees that we have been cutting down for paper. Most importantly, I believe students will develop their interests in the subjects by enjoying a new way of learning.
I hope you would take my ideas into consideration and we look forward to attending an iPad class.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua。