江西省会昌中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

1、- 1 -2018-2019 学年第一学期会昌中学期中考试高二年级英语试卷第 I 卷第一部分听力（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 is the woman eating?A. Some fruit. B. Some cookies. C. Some chocolate.2. What is the man probably?A.

2、 A visitor. B. A guide. C. A passerby.3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At a clinic. B. In a gym. C. In a hotel.4. Why does the woman ask for another beefsteak?A. She is too hungry.B. Her husband likes it.C. Her first beefsteak is on the ground.5. Why did the woman get the book s

3、o late?A. The man forgot it.B. The mans boss forgot it.C. The woman wasnt at home.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 至 7 题。6. What kind of person is Mr. Zhang?A. K

4、ind. B. Humorous. C. Generous.7. What does the man learn from Mr. Zhang?A. Maths. B. Jokes. C. Historic stories.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. What product does the man plan to buy?A. A tape. B. A radio. C. A recorder.9. What does the man think of the product?A. It looks good. B. It is a wellknown brand. C

5、. It is of poor quality.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Where are the two speakers?A. In a museum. B. In a car. C. In a shop.11. Why do they go into the shopping mall?A. The exhibition is there. B. Theyll do some shopping. C. Theyre lost.- 2 -12. What is Calvin Klein?A. A designer. B. A businessman. C. A

6、n artist.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What did the woman do last night?A. She went to a cocktail party.B. She met some nice people.C. She learned American social customs.14. When does the cocktail party start?A. At 5：30 pm. B. At 6 pm. C. At 7：30 pm.15. What is the purpose of their cocktail party acc

7、ording to the man?A. To welcome newcomers.B. To celebrate Christmas.C. To follow the American custom.16. What does the French phrase “faux pas” mean?A. Friend. B. Social manner. C. Mistake.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. When is the high tourist season in England?A. June and July. B. August and Septemb

8、er. C. July and August.18. When is the holiday period of state schools in England?A. From earlyJuly to midAugust.B. From midJuly to midAugust.C. From about midJuly to the end of August.19. Where do people prefer to stay for holidays?A. In hotels.B. In boarding houses.C. In rented houses.20. What may

9、 British people refuse to do?A. Change the times of their holidays.B. Try new places to take holidays.C. Talk about their holidays.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。AOff the Beaten Cart Path The best-selling travel book which includes

10、over 200 new places of interest, over 200 new full-color photographs, and all-new, up-to-date maps. It includes over 1,000 of the United States most must-see destinations.Cover price: $ 30.00 Our price: $ 19.80 Parents The most popular magazine for parents who want to raise smart and loving children

11、. It has child development guidance, advice on your childs health and - 3 -safety, and the best way to encourage your childs learning.Cover Price: $ 26.00 Our price: $ 12.60 Best Weekend Projects The projects are chosen from 80 special ideas to create an unusual living space. They are practical, as

12、well as creative. They will improve your home and yard and can be made on weekends. And the most important of all, they are easy to follow. Cover Price: $ 17.95 Our price: $ 13.90 Lucky The shopping magazine with the best buys, and the fashion tips. Youll need them before you go to the stores. What

13、makes Lucky really special is that it gives you the information you need before anyone else has it. Cover Price: $ 18.50 Our Price: $ 15.50 21. How much can you save to buy a copy of Best Weekend Projects now? A. $ 13.4. B. $ 10.2. C. $ 4.05. D. $ 3.22. Which book can give you some advice on shoppin

14、g? A. Parents. B. Lucky. C. Off the Beaten Cart Path. D. Best Weekend Projects. 23. Who may like the book Off the Beaten Curt Path most? A. Ladies loving shopping. B. Parents with new-born babies. C. Husbands wanting to improve their home.D. Persons loving traveling in America.24. What does the pass

15、age most probably belong to? A. A story. B. A report. C. A notice. D. An advertisement. BWhenever we see a button on a doorbell or on a remote, we may press it. This is true in most cases. But some buttons are actually fake(假的), like the “close” button on an elevatorMany people are in the habit of p

16、ressing the “close” button because they dont have the patience to wait for the elevator doors to shut. But according to experts, the buttons are a complete trickthe doors will not close any faster however hard you press.It started in the 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, mak

17、ing sure that all elevators stayed open long enough so that people with disabilities could enter. Only firefighters and maintenance workers(维修工) can use the buttons to speed up the door-closing process if they have a code or special keys. But to normal elevator riders, the buttons arent completely u

18、seless.According to psychologists, fake buttons can actually make you feel better by offering you a sense of control. Experts have showed that a lot of buttons - 4 -that dont do anything exist in our lives for this same purpose. For example, pedestrian crosswalk buttons dont live up to their names.

19、Pressing them used to help make the traffic signals change faster, but that was before computer-controlled traffic signals were introduced.But psychologists found it interesting that even when people are aware of these little “white lies”. They still continue to push fake buttons because as long as

20、the doors eventually close, it is considered to be worth the effort.That habit is here to stay, John Kounios, a psychology professor at Drexel University in the US, told The New York Times. “After all, Ive got nothing else to do while waiting. So why not try the chance?”25. The author writes the tex

21、t to_.A. inform readers of kinds of fake buttonB. analyze what roles fake buttons playC. explore different ways to push buttonsD. explain why fake buttons were introduced26. The underlined “for this same purpose” in Paragraph 4 probably refers to_.A. making people more patientB. improving peoples ba

22、d moodC. helping people build up confidenceD. offering people a sense of control27. What can we know from John Kounios words?A. Pressing fake buttons is of no meaning at all.B. People dont know that what they press is fake.C. Some people press fake buttons just to kill time.D. People are supposed to

23、 quit pressing fake buttons.CHave you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a n

24、ew name phubbers（低头族）.Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient

25、 die, a pretty woman takes selfie（自拍照）in front of a car accident site, and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world.Although the ending sounds overstated, the damage phubbing can bring i

26、s real. Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it. “Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying. “the neck is like a rope that breaks after long-term stretching.” Also, staring at cell phones for long peri

27、ods of time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report.But thats not all. Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family. At reunions with family or - 5 -friends, many people tend to stick to their cell phones while others are c

28、hatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Qilu Evening News reported.It can also cost you your life. There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents, and were robbed of their cell phones in broad daylight.28. For what purpose does

29、the author give the example of a cartoon in Paragragh2?A. To advertise the cartoon made by students.B. To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing.C. To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers.D. To warn doctors against using cell phones while treating patients.29. Which of the

30、following is NOT a risk a phubber may have?A. His social skills could be affected.B. He will cause the destruction of the world.C. His neck and eyesight will be gradually harmed.D. He might get separated from his friends and family.30. Which of the following may be the authors attitude towards phubb

31、ing?A. Objective. B. Supportive. C. Optimistic. D. Opposed.31. What may the passage talk about next?A. Advice on how to use a cell phone.B. People who are addicted to phubbing.C. The possible consequences of phubbing.D. Measures to reduce the risks of phubbing.DCounterfeit(假的) medicines are a widesp

32、read problem in developing countries. Like other counterfeits, they look like real products. But counterfeit drugs may contain too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.People do not get the medicine they need. And in some cases, counterfeits cause death. Twenty children in Bang

33、ladesh died last year after being given acetaminophen(对乙酰氨基酚).The medications contained ingredients that looked, smelled and tasted like the real thing. The medicine was produced by a local drug company that used a dangerous substitute to save money.The problem of counterfeit medicines is especially

34、 serious in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The WHO estimates that up to thirty percent of medicines on sale in many of those countries are counterfeit. The problem is less widespread among industrialized countries. The WHO says counterfeits make up less than one percent of the illegal drug market i

35、n countries like the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand.But the agency also says as much as fifty percent of the medicine sold on the Internet is counterfeit.Much is being done to fight counterfeit drugs. Several companies are developing ways to make counterfeits easier to identify. And th

36、ere are existing methods, like a machine that can quickly identify chemicals in pills to confirm if the pills are real. Other ideas include things like special tracking codes for drug packages. People could send a text message with the code and get a - 6 -message back, which proves that what they bo

37、ught is listed in a database. Some drug makers and other companies put three-dimensional images called holograms(全息图)on their products as a security device.32. Last year twenty children in Bangladesh died because of _. A. unreal drugsB. online medicinesC. acetaminophenD. unclean water33. We can draw

38、 a conclusion from the passage that_ . A.it is very cheap and convenient to buy medicines online.B. we had better not buy medicines online.C. more and more people will buy products online.D. medicine companies dont pay much attention to counterfeit drugs.34. What is the main idea of the last paragra

39、ph?A. It reveals(揭露) the reasons why counterfeit drugs are widespread.B. Special tracking codes for drug packages are used to identify counterfeits.C. It shows the danger of counterfeit drugs.D. Some measures are being taken to fight counterfeit drugs.35. Which of the following country may have seri

40、ous problems of counterfeit medicines?A. Canada. B. India. C. New Zealand. D. Japan.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。How to improve vocabulary fastYour vocabulary refers to the words in a language you are familiar with. We should learn some ways to expand it.Read e

41、very day. 36 . Choose reading material that is slightly above your level and keep a dictionary with you to look up words you do not know.37 . If you do not meet with an unfamiliar word in your daily reading, use your dictionary to search for one.Learn the correct definition and pronunciation for eac

42、h new word. Pronunciation is as important as definition because in order to add a word to your active vocabulary, you must be able to use it in speech.Elaborate (详尽阐述 ) on the meaning of the word. If you have just learned the word “stubborn”, think about the neighbour who will not lend you his car.

43、38 - 7 -Use your new word in speech and in writing. E-mail your sister about how your cat is stubborn about sleeping on your pillow. 39 . But the more you use it, the more fluent you will become in its use. Soon it will be a regular part of your active vocabulary.Tell everyone you are trying to incr

44、ease your vocabulary. Encourage them to ask you what your latest word is. 40 .The more you explain the meaning of a word to someone, the more likely you are to remember it.A. The vocabulary can be increased.B. Find a new word every day.C. Or let them ask for the definition of a new word you have use

45、d.D. The more often you read, the faster your vocabulary can grow.E. The first time you use a new word in speech it may seem strange.F. Imagine him shaking his head, and think of him as “stubborn in his refusal”.G. Your vocabulary contains the words you understand.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

46、 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。One day, a lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands. Her mum came in and 41 asked her little daughter with a smile, “My sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples?” The girl looked 42 a

47、t her mum for some seconds, then she suddenly took a quick _43_ on one - 8 -apple, and then quickly on the other.The mum felt the smile on her face 44 . She tried hard not to show her 45 . Then the little girl handed one of her 46 apples to her mum, and said, “Mummy, here you are. This is the 47 one

48、.”No matter who you are, how experienced you are, and how knowledgeable you think you are, always 48 judgment. Give others the privilege to 49 themselves. What you see may not be the 50 . Never conclude for others, which is why we should never only 51 the surface and judge others without understandi

49、ng them 52 .Those who like to pay the bill, do so not because they are loaded, but because they value 53 above money.Those who 54 first after a fight, do so not because they are wrong but because they value the people around them.Those who often text you, do so not because they have 55 better to do but because you are in their heart. One day, all of us will get 56 from each other; we will miss our conversations of every