湖北省荆州中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

1、1湖北省荆州中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题 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。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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15.B. 9.15.C. 9.18.答案是B。1. What time is it now? A. 8:40. B. 8:55. C. 9:00.2. What happened to

2、Nancy? A. She tried out but failed.B. She was chosen for the lead role.C. She missed the chance of trying out.3. What does the man want to do?A. Play golf next Tuesday. B. Visit his parents. C. Take a day off.4. How will the woman deal with her bicycle? A. She will leave it in the apartment.B. She w

3、ill give it to the man for free.C. She will sell it to the man at a low price.5. What does the woman mean? A. She will help the man.B. She wont finish the paper.C. The man should depend on himself.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。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各

4、个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 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。26. What is the man?A. A policeman. B. A reporter. C. A salesman.7. What did the teenager look like? A. He was in a brown shirt. B. He was of medium height. C. He was thin with red hair. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Where does the conversation

5、 probably take place? A. At a station. B. At a theatre. C. At a shop.9. What does the woman tell the man to do? A. Add his name to the mailing list.B. Book the tickets in advance.C. Get the headphones tomorrow.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What are the speakers mainly discussing? A. The effects of stre

6、ss. B. The ways of relaxation. C. The ideas of healthy life.11. What does the woman say about computer games? A. Its no good playing them long.B. She feels it hard to play them.C. Sometimes theyre relaxing.12. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Keep a pet dog. B. Have a good rest. C. Do outd

7、oor activities. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Cartoon characters. B. Climate change. C. Pollution control agreements.14. What encouraged the man to create Mr. Carbon? A. His dream of making a movie.B. His concern about industrial pollution.3C. His disappoi

8、ntment at some governments inactivity.15. What has Mr. Carbon done? A. He has aroused peoples concern about climate change.B. He has played a role in a disaster movie.C. He has made a box office success.16. What kind of person is Mrs. Green? A. She is climate-ignorant. B. She is an energy saver. C.

9、She is wealthy. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. Why is Bettina living with the speakers family in Porchester?A. She has a job there. B. She is studying there. C. Her father is in hospital there.18. How did the speaker feel when Bettina first arrived?A. She was happy to have Bettina stay.B. She envied Be

10、ttinas good looks.C. She thought Bettina was hard-working.19. What do we know about Bettina?A. She takes care of her father.B. She often helps in Jades house.C. She works part-time in a cinema.20. What worries the speaker?A. Bettinas dad is badly ill.B. Her parents disbelieve her.C. She cant get alo

11、ng with Bettina.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。 APlanning to get away? Think passport firstIf youre planning to get away from it all this year, you should think passport first. Checking you have a valid passport before you book your trip tak

12、es minutes but could save you the 4trouble and cost of not being able to go.Renewing (更新) your passport before it runs outYou can renew your passport up to 9 months before it can no longer be legally used. So take the time now and save the tears later.Applying for a passport for the first timeOur el

13、igibility (资格) checks mean that it takes a minimum of one week to issue (颁发) a passport. So make sure you dont leave it to the last minute, and apply in plenty of time.Help with your application is just around the cornerSelected Post Office branches and Worldchoice travel agents offer a Check and Se

14、nd service that helps you with your application. Its convenient and you should receive your passport within 2 weeks.If you need to apply for or renew a passport, you can either:Pick up a Passport Application Form at Selected Post Office branches and Worldchoice travel agents.Or call the Application

15、Form Request line on 0901 4700 100 or visit www.passport.gov.ukIf your need is urgent, call 0870 521 0410 for an appointment at one of our offices. We cant guarantee to see customers without an appointment.From 14th January a guaranteed same day (passport renewals only) or one week service will be a

16、vailable from passport public counters.*Calls will be charged 60p per minute and the cost per call should not normally be more than 90p. *Calls are charged at national rates.21. When applying for a passport for the first time, you need to know that _.A. passports can be legally used foreverB. passpo

17、rts are issued at the last minuteC. application checks take at least one weekD. applications are selected by post office branches22. According to the passage, you can meet your urgent need by _. 5A. going to the offices directlyB. making a call for an appointmentC. visiting www.passport.gov.uk for a

18、 guaranteeD. getting in touch with Worldchoice travel agents23. What is the passage mainly about?A. Certain types of passports.B. Different functions of passports.C. Advantages of holding passports.D. Instructions on applying for passports.BWe Brits love the idea of a real Christmas treebut not so m

19、any of us like the realities of dragging (拖拽) a 7ft Norway Spruce through the house and leaving needles all over the place.If you count yourself among the reluctant group, then it may be time to go fake (假的) . After all, buying an artificial Christmas tree neednt mean accepting defeat. Theres a huge

20、 range of choices and sizes, including pre-lit trees, which will save you the frustration of trying to string your own lights.Another big advantage of choosing an artificial Christmas tree is cost: artificial trees can last for decades, so they work out cheaper than paying for a real tree every year

21、. Like now retailers (零售商) are offering great deals at the moment: at Tesco, theres 25 percent off artificial Christmas trees. Meanwhile, you can take advantage of the current 3 for 2 offer at Argos to fill your house with not one, not two, but three. You may perhaps partner up with friends who are

22、also looking to invest.Of course, keep your tree for years and years and it will start to pay you back in terms of carbon footprint; however, a “ real” one will always have to be transported, used and dealt with every year.Are there any downsides? Yes. You might think youre saving the planet, but a

23、fake tree is actually not an environmentally friendly option. Most are made in factories in Asia, resulting in some serious air miles to reach the UK. Theyre made from metal and plastic, and many end their lives in landfill (垃圾填埋).Another problem with a fake tree is that they dont look very naturala

24、nd of course you wont get that lovely pine smell either. Youll also need to 6find space for storage.24. What does the underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. Inactive. B. Related. C. Unwilling. D. Supportive.25. Which is the benefit of buying an artificial Christmas tree?A. Enoug

25、h choices. B. The lovely pine smell.C. Cheaper than a real one. D. Free for transportation.26. What can we learn from the passage?A. Fake Christmas trees are environmentally friendly.B. British people like to drag a real Christmas tree home.C. People need to find space to store a fake Christmas tree

26、.D. People may get 3 more if they buy two fake Christmas trees.27. What is the passage mainly about?A. Different reasons for choosing fake Christmas trees.B. Valuable suggestions on choosing fake Christmas trees.C. Efficient ways of saving money on choosing Christmas trees.D. Advantages and disadvan

27、tages of choosing fake Christmas trees.CTimes are a little tough at our house right now. Neither of us makes a lot of money, but years of experience have taught us how to walk between the raindrops and make it from one month to the next with a fair amount of grace. I cook a lot at home, more when we

28、re facing difficult times. When I know that I have to keep us fed on not much money, I fall back on my grandmothers recipes. She taught me to cook. When I was a kid, my twin brother and I spent long summer weeks and Christmas vacations with my mothers parents in the mountains of North Carolina. Rath

29、er than go hunting with my grandfather on mornings, I found myself more and more in the kitchen with my grandmother, watching her making a lemon cheese pie with her soft hands. My great-grandmother died when my grandmother was 11 years old. As the eldest daughter, she was expected to take on all of

30、the housework while attending school. Throughout the Great Depression, she learned how to make a little food go a long way. Vegetables were cheap, so she cooked a lot of them, 7mostly only using small amounts of meat for seasoning. Roast beef was a twice-a-month luxury, but there was nothing she cou

31、ldnt do with a chicken, every part of it. Nothing went to waste. Now I understand that her food was sacred (神圣的). I feel connected to my grandmother and to hundreds of years of family when Im in my kitchen making country food. In the delicious smells is a long tale of victory over hard times, of con

32、quering starvation of not just surviving, but finding joy and pleasure in every meal of every day. From grandmother I learned to take real satisfaction in feeding people. My grandmother would beam with pleasure over a heavily laden table and say: “Do you know what this would cost at the restaurant?”

33、 I never knew what restaurant in particular she had in mind, but I knew that the question was totally not fair, because no restaurant anywhere can cook like a grandmother. But now, thanks to her guidance and years of practice, I can. 28. According to the passage, the author cooks a lot at home becau

34、se _.A. she wants to try out her grandmothers recipes B. she is quite particular about foodC. the food in restaurants is unhealthy D. she and her husband are embarrassed financially 29. According to the passage, the authors grandmother _.A. learnt to cook because of the Great DepressionB. was good a

35、t cooking as well as careful in budgetingC. preferred chicken to beefD. had to walk a long way to learn cooking in a restaurant 30. It can be inferred from the passage that the author _.A. liked to compare her grandmothers food with that in restaurantsB. learnt something more precious than cooking f

36、rom her grandmotherC. hasnt found the joy in cooking though she can cook like her grandmotherD. feels connected to her grandmother when making country food in the kitchen 31. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? A. Cook like my grandmother B. My grandmothers sacred foodC. My

37、grandmothers recipe D. Joy and pleasure in cookingDFor years, there has been a prejudice against science among clinical 8psychologists (临床心理学家 ). In a two-year analysis to be published in November in Perspectives on Psychological Science, psychologists charge that many clinical psychologists fail to

38、 “provide the treatments which are given the strongest evidence of effectiveness” and “give more weight to their personal experiences than to science.” As a result, patients have no guarantee that their “treatment will be informed by science.” Walter Mischel of Columbia University is even crueler in

39、 his judgment. “The disconnect between what clinical psychologists do and what science has discovered is an extreme embarrassment,” he told me, and “there is a widening gap between clinical practice and science.”The “widening” reflects the great progress that psychological research has made in ident

40、ifying the most effective treatments. Thanks to strict clinical trials, we now know that teaching patients to think about their thoughts in new, healthier ways and to act on those new ways of thinking are effective against depression, panic disorder and other problems, with multiple trials showing t

41、hat these treatmentsthe tools of psychologybring more lasting benefits than drugs.You wouldnt know this if you sought help from a typical clinical psychologist. Although many treatments are effective, relatively few psychologists learn or practice them.Why in the world not? For one thing, says Baker

42、 from the University of Wisconsin, clinical psychologists are “very doubtful about the role of science” and “lack solid science training”. Also, one third of patients get better no matter what treatment (if any) they have, “and psychologists remember these successes, believing, wrongly, that they ar

43、e the result of the treatment.”When faced with evidence that treatments they offer are not supported by science, clinical psychologists argue that they know better than some study that works. A 2008 study of 591 psychologists in private practice(诊所) found that they rely more on their own and colleag

44、ues experience than on science when deciding how to treat a patient. If they keep on this path despite the fact that insurance companies demand evidence-based medicine, warns Mischel, psychology will “discredit itself.”32. Many clinical psychologists fail to provide the most effective treatments 9be

45、cause_.A. they are unfamiliar with their patients B. they believe in science and evidenceC. they rely on their personal experiences D. they depend on their colleagues help33. The widening gap between clinical practice and science is due to _.A. the cruel judgment by Walter MischelB. the great progre

46、ss that has been made in psychological researchC. the fact that most patients get better after being treatedD. the fact that patients prefer to take drugs rather than have other treatments34. How do clinical psychologists respond when accused that their treatments are not supported by science?A. The

47、y feel embarrassed. B. They doubt their treatments.C. They are disappointed. D. They try to defend themselves.35. According to the passage, what is Mischels attitude towards psychology?A. Negative. B. Neutral. C. Indifferent. D. Positive.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

48、两项为多余选项。Everyone makes mistakes. 36_ . Making a mistake at work, however, can be more serious. It may cause problems for your employer and even affect the companys bottom line Evil consequences will finally come down to you. Simply correcting your mistake and moving on may not be an option. When you make a mistake at work your career may depend on what you do next.Admit your mistake.Tell your boss about your mistake immediately. The only exception is if you make an insignificant error that will not affect anyone. Otherwise, dont try to hide your mistake. 37 .Present your boss with