2019年高二英语下学期期末考试试题

2017-2018学年度下期期末考试高二英语试题第I卷第一部分：听力（略）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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

AA SAFE HOMEIt is sad but true that people die in earthquakes from falling furniture （家具）and bricks. Earthquake safety is very important and there is more to it than just keeping buildings from falling down. So if your home is in an earthquake area, you should prepare carefully before the earthquake comes.First, make sure you buy a house which is earthquake safe. All pipes should be fixed to the wall and all walls should be especially thick and strong. You also have to make sure that there are bolts underneath your house. They are one of the most important ways of protecting a house. Make sure the building has no broken windows and is well repaired.Second, look at the objects in your house. Those in the living room, which are the most likely to hurt us, are computers, televisions and lamps. They can be tied to tables or stuck to them so they won’t easily move around. The kitchen, which is also very dangerous, must have strong doors on all the cupboards. This is the place where many small things are stored that might fall down. The water heater （水暖气）should have a case round it too. Windows are a special problem. When they break, glass can cause many accidents. It is better to use safety glass if you can, especially for pictures.Always remember: “It is better to be safe than sorry.”1. Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?A. It’s necessary for people whose homes are in an earthquake area to prepare carefully before an earthquake comes.B. Never buy a house which is earthquake safe.C. Make sure that all pipes are fixed to walls that are thick and strong.D. It is important to have a house which has bolts underneath and no broken windows.2. Anyone __________ will be hurt in an earthquake if the window glass breaks.A. who lives in the houseB. who walks in the open airC. who stands close to windowsD. whose house has safety glass3. The passage suggests that those __________ should read it carefully.A. for whom this advice is writtenB. who are going to buy housesC. whose houses are earthquake safeD. who build the buildingsBThree Travellers’ StoriesSALLY’S STORYI was going overseas on a short holiday. I needed to take some medicine from the doctor with me. The pills were in a big bottle, so I counted out how many I needed for the holiday and put them into a small bottle. When I arrived at my destination, a customs officer at the airport looked in my bag and found the pills. The officer wanted to know what the pills were for and why they weren’t in their proper bottle with my name and the doctor’s name on it. I explained that the bottle had been too big and heavy. Then he wanted to know if I had a letter from my doctor explaining about the pills. I didn’t. I found out it was illegal to have these pills without a doctor’s permission. In the end a customs officer called my embassy and the embassy telephoned my doctor. I didn’t get to my hotel till after midnight and I was very stressed.PAUL’S STORYI was staying in a small village in Turkey. The countryside around the village was very beautiful so I decided to go for a walk. I had been walking for about an hour and a half when suddenly I slipped and fell down a riverbank. I hurt my ankle and I couldn’t stand up. I didn’t know how I could get back to the village. I hadn’t told anyone where I was going, so no one would know where to look for me when they realized I was missing. I began to worry that I might have to stay there all night. I had no water or food and no warm clothes. I was very frightened. Luckily, a couple of hours later, a young boy came past on a horse. He lifted me onto the animal and took me back to the village.DONNA’S STO RYIt was a very hot day so I put on some shorts and a T-shirt to go sightseeing. I hadn’t gone very far when I noticed everyone was looking at me, and they didn’t seem very friendly at all. One woman even spat on me as I walked past. I decided to get off the crowded streets and so I turnedleft down a small, quiet street. I hadn’t gone very far when I realized my mistake. Two men were following me. I started to run but suddenly my way was blocked by two other men walking towards me. Luckily for me a taxi came around a corner and I was able to stop it and jump inside quickly. On the way back to the hotel the taxi driver explained that this was a very religious town and that the people did not approve of women walking around in clothes that didn’t cover them properly.4. If you have to take special medicine while travelling overseas, ___________.A. have your doctor go with youB. take the pills in a new bottleC. carry a doctor’s letter that explains thisD. phone your family5. If travelling alone, you should let someone know the following except ______.A. where you are goingB. when you will be backC. where to search for you if you don’t get backD. what you will do because it is private6. Donna’s story tells us when travelling, always wear __________________.A. shorts and a T-shirtB. clothes that the local people will find acceptableC. a cap and sunglassesD. religious clothes that cover you properly7. The three stories tell us that _____________.A. travelling overseas is dangerous.B. any dangers and problems could happen.C. we should not travel alone and wear proper clothes.D. we should carry enough money with us.CYou cannot imagine how the name of Robben Island made us afraid. It was a prison from which no one escaped. There I spent the hardest time of my life. But when I got there Nelson Mandela was also there and he helped me. Mr Mandela began a school for those of us who had little learning. He taught us during the lunch breaks and the evenings when we should have been asleep. We read books under our blankets and used anything we could find to make candles to see the words. I became agood student. I wanted to study for my degree but I was not allowed to do that. Later, Mr Mandela allowed the prison guards to join us. He said they should not be stopped from studying for their degrees. They were not cleverer than me, but they did pass their exams. So I knew I could get a degree too. That made me feel good about myself.When I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a job. Since I was better educated, I got a job working in an office. However, the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government buildings. So I lost my job. I did not work again for twenty years until Mr Mandela and the ANC came to power in 1994. All that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives or friends. Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben Island. I felt bad the first time I talked to a group. All the terror and fear of that time came back to me. I remembered the beatings and the cruelty of the guards and my friends who had died. I felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged me. They said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward after working all my life for equal rights for the Blacks. So now at 51 I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own land.8. The author felt good about himself because ____________.A. the prison guards studied with himB. Mandela taught them himselfC. many of his friends passed the examsD. he believed he could get a degree if he had the chance9. As a leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela helped prisoners of Robben Island by _________.A. giving them an educationB. giving them moneyC. putting the guards in prisonD. giving them a job10. The author lost his job because ___________.A. he wasn’t well-educated when he was in prisonB. the boss knew he had been in prisonC. he was not fit for his workD. he didn't get on well with the other workers11. The underlined number in the last paragraph refers to __________.A. the room number of prisonB. the author’s number in prisonC. the author’s ag eD. the work timeDA good joke can be the hardest thing to understand when studying a foreign language. As a recent article in The Guardian newspaper noted, “There’s more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar.”Being able to understand local jokes is often seen as an incredible（难以置信的）ice-breaker for a language learner who is eager to form friendships with native speakers. “I always felt that humor was a ceiling（上限）that I could never break through,” Ha nnah Ashley, a public relations account manager in London, who once studied Spanish in Madrid told The Guardian, “I could never speak to people on the same level as I would speak to a native English speaker. I almost came across as quite a boring person because all I could talk about was facts."In fact, most of the time, jokes are only funny for people who share a cultural background or understand humor in the same way. Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong found this out first-hand. He had achieved huge success in the U.S., but when he returned to China in 2008 for his first live show in Beijing, he discovered that people didn’t think his. Chinese jokes were as funny as his English ones.In Australia, meanwhile many foreigners find understanding jokes about sports to be the biggest headache. “The hardest jokes are related to rugby because I know nothing about rugby,” said Melody Cao, who was once a student in Australia. “When I heard jokes I didn’t get, I just laughed along.”In the other two major English-speaking countries, the sense of humor is also different. British comedian Simon Pegg believes that while Britons use irony-basically, saying something they don’t mean to make a joke-every day, people in the U.S. don’t see the point of using it so often. “British jokes tend to be more subtle and dark, while American jokes are more obvious with their meanings,a bit like Americans themselves,” he wrote in The Guardian.12. The writer quoted the sentence, “There’s more to understanding a joke in a foreign la nguage than understanding vocabulary and grammar.” to show that ___________.A. making jokes can help you make friends with native speakersB. local jokes can help you to understand the local culture betterC. understanding jokes requires a good knowledge of vocabulary and grammarD. to understand its jokes, you’d better learn the culture13. What can we guess about Hannah Ashley?A. She feels confident in using Spanish.B. She believes that one had better rely on facts when speaking a foreign language.C. She thinks that Spanish people do not have much of a sense of humor.D. She feels that not being able to share their humor makes her seem boring to Spanish people.14. Joe Wong is used as an example to __________.A. show that there are cultural differences in humorB. prove that it can be difficult to translate jokesC. suggest that bilingual people（双语者）have no problems in making people laughD. show that the expressing ability affects the sense of humor15. From the article, we can learn that ___________.A. jokes about sports are the most difficult ones for foreign people who have different cultural backgroundsB. Americans might not be able to enjoy British jokesC. not all English native speakers can understand English jokes easilyD. British people’s dark jokes often make people uncomfortable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。