2017_2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题

共两节；第一节：共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
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1Sunday ,31 August
We’ve been in China for a month now. Dad, Mom, Harry and I moved to Tianjin on 25 August. We’re not very far from Beijing. Two days ago, we celebrated my 16th birthday. It was great celebrating in China;the only thing that was strange was the cake一here they’re not as sweet as the ones in New York. On Monday school starts—I wonder what it will be like.
Monday, 1 September
On my first day I was looking around for a locker to put my books in. However,here all the students keep all of their books at their desks. We stay in the same classroom because apparently we don’t have to go from class to class—teachers come to us!
Today we selected teacher assistants for each subject. Their duties are to collect homework, make announcements, and do other stuff for the teachers and the students. It’s kind of a big deal here! Since I am from the US, I was asked to be the English assistant. I felt so proud but quite nervous at the same time because I wasn’t sure what I had to do,but I accepted the job anyway.
Friday ,3 October
Boy, what a week! Now we have nine classes every day, including the morning class, a combination of our American schools“ Homeroom” and“ Study Hall”. I think Chinese students work too much! I ha ve to do my homework when I get back home. I don’t even have time to watch TV or surf the Internet like before. I sometimes miss New York and my school because we didn’t have to study so much. We had more time to hang out with our classmates and neighbors; here, besides their usual classes, students are involved in weekend classes in subjects such as English, Chinese and math.
I get a lot of attention, being from another country. Everyone wants to practice English with me! A really cute girl even asked me for my phone number on my second day and sent me a text message! I’m making a lot more friends now. I just need a lot of help to improve my Chinese. Some students want to do a language exchange program with me. Nice!
1.The passage mentions all the following points EXCEPT _______ .
A. food flavor
B.physics study
C. language exchange programs
D.free time activities
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the teacher assistant’s duty?
A. Making announcements.
B.Collecting homework.
C. Teaching classmates..
D.Helping
teachers with small errands (差事)
3.Where is this passage most probably from?
A.A guide book.
B.A storybook.
C. A magazine.
D.A diary.
4.The passage is best described by _______ .
A. multi-culture
B.culture shock
C.cultural background
D.unique culture
B
If you think it is cold where you are at the moment, then a visit to the Russian village of Oymyakon might just change your mind.
With the average temperature for January standing at–50°C, it is no wonder that the village is the coldest in habited settlement in the world. Known as the“ Pole of Cold”,the coldest temperature recorded in Oymyakon is–71.2°C,which is the lowest recorded temperature for any inhabited location on earth.
Ironically, Oymyakon actually means "non-freezing water" due to a nearby hot spring. Most homes in Oymyakon still bum coal and wood for heat and enjoy few modem conveniences.
Nothing grows there so people eat reindeer (驯鹿) meat and horse meat. A single shop provides the town’s bare necessities and the locals wo rk as reindeer-breeders, hunters and ice-fisherman.
The village is located around 750 metres above sea level and the length of a day varies from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in summer. And despite its terrible winters, in June, July and August temper atures over 30°C are not uncommon.
There are few modem conveniences in the village— with many buildings still having outdoor toilets and most people still burning coal and wood for heat. When coal deliveries are irregular, the power station starts burning wood. If the power ceases, the town will shut down in about five hours,and the pipes will freeze and crack.
Daily problems that come with living in Oymyakon include pen ink freezing, glasses freezing to people’s faces and batteries losing power. Loca ls are said to leave their cars running all day for fear of not being able to restart them.
Even if there is coverage for mobile phone reception, the phones themselves could not work in such cold conditions.
Another problem caused by the frozen temperatures is burying dead bodies,which can take anything up to three days.
5.According to the text,Oymyakon ____.
A. has got frozen water all over the year
B.is the coldest location on the earth
C.
can enjoy quite a few modem conveniencesD.gets its name because of a nearby hot spring
6.Mobile phones could not work in Oymyakon because ____.
A. the extreme coldness makes them lose power
B.the batteries are of poor quality
C. the phone reception is too far away to receive the signals
D.there is no coverage
for phone reception
7.We can learn from the text that ____.
A.the town often stops working because of no coal delivery
B.daily problems usually
accompany the localsC.locals have no awareness of saving their resourcesD.locals only live on reindeer meat and horse meat
C
The siesta competition took place in a supermarket, with plenty of shoppers, screaming babies, talking voices, and footsteps to take the competitors’ attention
away from their after lunch sleeps.
Five bright blue sofas were laid out, and five competitors at a time were allowed to take a 20-minute sleep. A doctor measured their pulse to time how long they actually spent on asleep. Competitors earned extra points for snoring (打鼾),sleeping in strange positions,or wearing silly pajamas (睡衣).The winners of each round advance to the next stage in the competition.
It’s amazing that any of those people would fall asleep in the middle of such a busy place,while on couches that they are not used to. Yet, many of them did. They hugged pillows or soft toy bears. They covered their eyes with sleep masks,too. Whatever it took to help them fall asleep fast and stay asleep.
The siesta is a tradition in Spain that many feel is becoming forgotten. It used to be that people would take a brief nap after lunch every day. This would energize them, and keep them going for the rest of the day. Not to mention the health benefits of a good nap. But,that’s all changing. People are too busy making money or watching gossip shows on TV after lunch to care about taking a nap.
The National Association of Friends of the Siesta wants to bring Spain back to their traditional roots. They are doing this by having the siesta competition. They set up the competition to reward the best sleepers with money. Actually, they were paid to sleep.
There are really health benefits to a midday nap. We could all learn from this tradition. It’s a much better way to get more energy than drinking a cup of coffee. It is also believed that a nap, and in fact a good night’s sleep, can help reduce heart disease. The more rested we are, the less stress we feel with day-to-day life.
8.The underlined word“ siesta” here probably means“ _____”
A. oversleep
B.night sleep
C. a short sleep after supper
D.a short sleep after lunch
9.In what situation did the competition take place?
A. In a noisy place.
B.In a quiet place.
C.In a comfortable place.
D.In a familiar
place.
10.When the competitors went to sleep, they could ____.
A. have their own beds
e nothing to cover their eyes
C. have doctors to help
e something to help them sleep
11.The competition is held because the Association wants to _____.
A. know if people still know the traditional habit
B.call on people to have their
traditional habit C.do some research on how people sleepD.give people money in this way
D
Wicked! Note the intonation(语调).It means“wonderful”“ greatcool”“splendid” .It came into English from United States’ slang in the 1980s or maybe earlier. Certainly it arrived in Britain in the late 1980s.
It was part of a trend which goes back decades to use bad words to mean good concepts,or the other way round. I mean you might remember saying,‘‘ That’s。