【100所名校】2017-2018学年湖北湖北大学附中高二上学期期末考试英语试题(解析版)

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第I 卷（选择题） 一、阅读理解AWhere can you find a nice place to relax on holiday for both you and your children? Well, I suggest youtry the beautiful and green Isle of Wight (IOW). The Isle of Wight is one of the main tourist attractions. Hereis some information on a few of the attractions on the IOW.Dinosaur IsleIt is located in Sandown, a seaside town on the southeast coast. It’s a large, lovely museum, both fun and educational. Here you can see a large fossil collection of all kinds of dinosaurs, as well as a gift shop. You can walk into the past and then the future, learning about the history and the development of the civilization ofdinosaurs that lived 120 million years ago.Robin Hill Country ParkThe park is in the beautiful countryside, and is suitable for children’s pa rties and games. It has five newgardens, and offers great opportunities to see and take pictures of the rare red squirrels.The West of the WightHere we have the Marine Aquarium, the Archaeology Exhibition and the Model Railway. They offeranother opportunity to combine fun with learning. This is a great place to see ancient boats crossing thenarrow strait between the island and the mainland.The Wight Bus MuseumThis museum is run completely by unpaid volunteers. It has a bus collection stored in what was once awarehouse （仓库）. Most of the buses in the museum date back to around the 1910’s.With all of these choices, what are you waiting for? IOW Tourism welcomes you! 1．In Robin Hill Country Park, children can NOT ______. A. have parties B. take pictures C. play games D. buy gifts 2．It can be learned from the passage that ______. A. there are five new gardens on Dinosaur Isle B. on Dinosaur Isle we can learn about all kinds of animals C. those running the Wight Bus Museum work for free D. visitors can drive buses in the Wight Bus Museum 3．The purpose of this passage is to ______. A. attract readers to come to the IOW B. tell readers what is worth visiting C. show the development of tourism on the IOW D. advise readers how to relax on holidays B Texting while walking is something that most of us are guilty of. We can’t help replying to that message we just received. However, while it’s fun to keep up with the latest gossip, we may actually be putting ourselves in danger. A team of researchers from two UK universities recently found that people who use their phones while on the move walk differently than usual. “Recently, a person in front of me was walking very slowly and weaving (迂回行进), and I thought, ‘Is this person drunk?’” Matthew Timmi s, co-author of the study, told the Guardian . It turned out that the person was just texting. Inspired by this, Timmis and his team set out to discover the effects of phone use on how we navigate streets. A group of 21 volunteers were asked to walk around a simulated (模拟的) street, complete with obstacles such as a step. The participants traveled the course a total of 12 times each, either writing or reading a message, making a call, or with no phone at all. It took the volunteers 118 percent longer to complete the course when using a phone. They also focused on the step obstacle 60 percent more and paid attention to the travel path 51 percent more when they weren’t using a phone.此卷只装订不密封 班级姓名准考证号考场号座位号Although there were no accidents, Timmis believes we should still be aware of w hat’s going on around us.“The big risk here is suddenly-appearing hazards (危险), like a pedestrian (行人) suddenly walking in front of you,” he told the Guardian. “You are not going to be able to respond to that as efficiently, which increases the risk of in jury.”To bring attention to the dangers of “text walking”, a temporary “texting lane” was set up in Antwerp, Belgium in 2015. And earlier this year, a special crosswalk featuring flashing red lights on the ground to get the attention of texters was set up in Wuhan, Hubei province.“Texting while walking can lead to collisions with poles or other pedestrians. You could even be endangering your own life when you cross the street without looking up,” a spokesperson for the company that made the Antwerp texting lane told Yahoo News.4．What did the UK researchers recently discover about text walking?A. It’s a common problem all around the world.B. People walk in a different way when texting.C. People are risking their lives text walking.D. It has caused more traffic accidents.5．How much longer did it take for people to complete the course when using a phone in Timmis’ experiment?A. 12 percent longer.B. 118 percent longer.C. 60 percent longer.D. 51 percent longer.6．What was the purpose of setting up the “texting lane” in Belgium?A. To provide a safe lane for text walking.B. To attract more people to walk in the lane.C. To give an example of a modern lane.D. To warn of the dangers of text walking.7．The underlined word “navigate” in par agraph 5 can be replaced by________.A. go upB. go awayC. go acrossD. go byCA day in the life of 18-year-old David Lanster is full of typical teenage stuff: school, baseball practice, homework. And then he starts cooking.“Some nights I’m up until I am making pies, or even later if we’re braising (蒸) beef,” said the student at Ransom Everglades High School in Florida, US.For the past year, Lanster and Kelly Moran, his classmate, have been hosting fancy dinner parties at Lanster’s parents’ home. Their meals have 17 courses and are all made by them.Their guests used to give them gifts to thank them, until the pair decided to do something nice for charity (慈善).“We got some really great Miami Heat tickets, a nice watch, and many kitchen gadge ts (小物件),” Lanster said. “But we wanted to make this something positive for people other than us.”Lanster and Moran focused on Common Threads, a charity that aims to teach kids in poor communities (社区) to cook and make healthy eating choices.The young cooks ask their guests to give however much they want as payment for their meals. It all goes to Common Threads because Lanster’s parents cover their food costs. After their last 12-person event, Lanster and Moran gave $1,600 (10,600 yuan) to the charity.No w, they’re taking their show out of the kitchen and on the road. Lanster and Moran have started to organize private dinner parties with a similar model: the host pays for the ingredients, and the guests make a donation to a charity of their choice.Without formal (正规的) training, Lanster said he had been interested in cooking since he helped his mom in the kitchen when he was very young. He learned how to cook by reading cookbooks and watching TV programs.Outside the kitchen, the two are busy preparing their college applications. Neither is sure what they will do in the future, but they’ve promised their parents that they’ll leave professional cooking alone until they finish school.8．How is Lanster’s life different from other teenagers’ lives?A. He stays up late to finish homework.B. He plays baseball every day after school.C. He goes to a cooking school in his spare time.D. He holds dinner parties to collect money for charity.9．After each dinner party, Lanster and Moran ______.A. receive thank-you cards from the guestsB. cover the food costs with the money they have collectedC. ask their guests to donate money to charityD. visit the poor children at Common Threads10．Which of the following about Lanster and Moran is TRUE?A. They received formal cooking training before starting their dinner parties.B. They hate going to school and trying to do something different.C. They’ve made up their minds to become professional chefs.D. Their way of giving to charity is different from others.11．Which of the following words best describe Lanster and Moran?A. Creative and helpful.B. Humorous and optimistic.C. Outgoing and patient.D. Confident and cautious.DAlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go.In March, 2016, the pride of humankind was crushed (粉碎) by a computer. Google’s AlphaGo defeated the South Korean grandmaster (围棋大师) Lee Sedol four games to one, as the world looked on with shock and awe (敬畏). Artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) had suddenly reached a new and unexpected height.But as smart as AlphaGo is, it’s no longer the best Go “player” in the world. Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has created the next generation of its Go-playing program, called AlphaGo Zero. The new AI program is unique in the way it learned to play Go. Instead of learning from thousands of human matches, as its predecessor (前任) did, AlphaGo Zero mastered Go in just two days without any human knowledge of the game and defeated AlphaGo by day three, reported The Guardian. It then went on to defeat AlphaGo 100 games to zero.To learn how to play Go, AlphaGo Zero played millions of matches against itself using only the basic rules of the game to rapidly create its own knowledge of it. Like the previous version, it used “reinforcement (增强) learning to become its own teacher,” according to DeepMind’s website.“It’s more powerful than previous approaches,” David Silver, AlphaGo’s lead researcher, told The Guardian, “because by not using human data, or human expertise in any fashion, we’ve re moved the constraints (约束) of human knowledge and it is able to create knowledge itself.”AlphaGo Zero’s approach to self-learning is a significant advancement in AI that could be applied to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems, according to a r ecent research report published in the journal Nature. For example, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis argues that AlphaGo Zero could probably find cures for a number of serious diseases within weeks, according to The Telegraph. Indeed, the AI is now being used to study protein folding, which is connected to diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.So now that AI has exceeded (超过) the bounds of human knowledge, perhaps the question is not about what AI can learn from humans, but what humans can learn from AI. We can only wait and see.12．What can we learn from the first three paragraphs?A. AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol five games to zero.B. AlphaGo Zero defeated AlphaGo within one day.C. AlphaGo Zero is the first program to defeat a human at Go.D. AlphaGo Zero has become the new best Go player.13．How is AlphaGo Zero different from previous Go-playing programs?A. It can collect human knowledge automatically.B. It can create knowledge without human limits.C. It can become its own teacher in learning Go skills.D. It can play many matches without a break.14．What’s the possible application of AI in the future according to the article?A. Treating diseases.B. Making new Go rules.C. Solving math problems.D. Creating new proteins.15．What is the author’s attitude towards AI?A. Mixed.B. Hopeful.C. Doubtful.D. Worried.二、七选五Ways To Manage Stress CreativelyStress is a huge problem for us all. Here’s what I’ve learned and applied to manage stress using my creativity.1.16．Putting my creativity and my work first, I often neglected to eat, exercise, even stand up from my desk.I now realize that how I feel physically (and mentally) is more important than the work I create. Taking care of myself includes all natural remedies(疗法). I’m learning how to say no to social pressures, in favor of my own well being.2. Don’t worry about what other people think of you.This is easier said than done, but I promise it does come with age.17．A lot of people do offer unsolicited(自发的) advice. It is human nature to want to help other people. But if that advice is coming froma place of control or judgment, RUN in the opposite direction.3. Don’t compare.18．Most people are not as happy as they describe themselves to be. The best advice I ever heard was this：Don’t compare your inside to other people’s outside. Be open to new experiences, be kind to yourself and accepting of the journey which is life. Being present means not thinking into the future, or harping(唠叨) on the past. The coolest thing about being present is that CREATIVITY LIVES IN THE MOMENT.19．4. Your intentions matter.20．What was your intention? I remind myself to enjoy the process of my creative fun stuff, it’s for me. If others like it, great, but it’s the enjoyment of my creative intenti on, in the moment, that I treasure.A. Stop judgingB. Each moment is UNIQUEC. We have to work in order to liveD. Take care of yourself--Mind AND BodyE. Stress is often caused by comparison to othersF. It’s important to remember why you started doing s omethingG. No one cares about what you’re doing unless what you’re doing affects them三、完形填空I still remember an old lady, a customer on the paper route in my hometown when I was 12 years old. She taught me a lesson in ________that I shall never forget.On a(n) ________ afternoon, a friend and I were throwing stones onto the ________ of the old lady’s house. The stone that I found was too smooth, ________ it slipped from my hand as I let it go and ________straight not for the covering on top of the hou se but for a small window on the house’s back porch. At the sound of broken glass, we knew we were_________We turned and_________I was too ________ about getting caught that first night to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window in the free zing weather. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn’t been________,I started to feel guilty about her________ . She still greeted me with a smile each day ________ I gave her the paper , but I was no longer able to act comfortably in her _________I ________my mind that I would save my paper delivering money , and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I calculated would pay for her window . I put the money in an envelope with a note ________ that I was sorry for breaking her window and ________that the seven dollars would cover the cost of repairing it.I waited until it was dark , moved ________ to the old lady ' s house and put the letter I didn ' t sign through the letter slot in her door . I felt ________ and could have the freedom of , once again , looking straight into the old lady ' s kind eyes .The next day , I handed the old lady her paper and was able to ________the warm smile that I was receiving from her. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of cookies she had made herself . I thanked her and proceeded(开始) to eat the cookies as I continued my ________.After several cookies . I felt an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope , I was ________. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said , " I ' m proud of you.”21．A. forgiveness B. trust C. bravery D. selflessness22．A. autumn B. summer C. spring D. winter23．A. window B. roof C. door D. chimney24．A. but B. for C. so D. or25．A. headed B. left C. stood D. landed26．A. in need B. in danger C. in charge D. in trouble27．A. got around B. held off C. ran away D. hung out28．A. embarrassed B. scared C. disappointed D. ashamed29．A. scolded B. punished C. discovered D. involved30．A. misfortune B. misunderstandingC. misbehaviorD. mistake31．A. until B. unless C. since D. when32．A. encouragement B. presence C. company D. comfort33．A. took B. put up C. made up D. picked up34．A. proving B. explaining C. showing D. convincing35．A. hoped B. predicted C. stated D. thought36．A. hurriedly B. patiently C. quietly D. firmly37．A. relieved B. confused C. concerned D. frustrated38．A. gain B. understand C. respect D. return39．A. effort B. route C. study D. journey40．A. satisfied B. annoyed C. amused D. shocked第II卷（非选择题）四、语法填空The art of paper-cutting in China may date back to the second century, since paper 41．(invent) by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. As paper became more affordable, paper-cutting became one of the most important 42．(type) of Chinese folk art. Later, 43．different regions adopting their own cultural styles, this art form spread to other parts of the world. 44．(usual), the artworks are made of red paper, as red is associated with 45．(happy) in Chinese culture, but other colors are also used.With 46．(it) long history, paper-cutting, 47．originated in China, has been very popular among the ordinary Chinese people. People put up papercuts on walls, windows and doors at wedding ceremonies or festivals 48．(strengthen) the cheerful atmosphere.Chinese papercuts are rich in content. The auspicious (吉祥的)designs symbolize good luck and the avoidance of evil, The child, lotus (莲花) and bat designs suggest a family with 49．large number of children and grandchildren. Birds, livestock, fruit, fish and worms are also familiar objects 50．(accept) by Chinese farmers. In a word, papercuts used in different occasions have different meanings,五、短文改错51．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。