1、1三明一中 2018-2019 学年下学期开学考高二英语试题（时间：2019 年 2 月; 120 分钟；满分：150 分）注意：1.本试卷由四部分组成。第一、二部分和第三部分第一节为选择题，其余部分为非选择题。2.本试卷各试题答案必须在答题纸上规定的答题区域内作答，否则无效。第一部分 听力理解 （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. W
2、ho is coming for tea?A. Mark. B. John. C. Tracy.2. What will the man do next?A. Stay for dinner. B. Go to the railway station. C. Prepare for the dinner.3. What does the man come for?A. A dinner. B. A meeting. C. A party.4. What size does the man want?A. 9. B. 35. C. 39.5. What are the speakers talk
3、ing about?A. Life in Southeast Asia. B. Weather conditions. C. A holiday plan.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。6. Why doesnt the man want to book the seats
4、 downstairs?A. They are too expensive.2B. They are uncomfortable.C. They are too close to the stage.7. When does the man plan to see the performance?A. On October 1st. B. On October 21st. C. On October 25th.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题.8. Whats the complaint of the mans neighbor?A. Loud noise. B. Bad sleeping
5、 room. C. An important meeting.9. What were the man and his friends about to do?A. Change a room. B. Apologize to their neighbor. C. End their activity.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What is Miss Lan going to work as in Ola city?A. A doctor. B. A nurse. C. A teacher.11. What worries Miss Lan so much?A.
6、She has no friends in Ola.B. The work in Ola is hard to do.C. The people in Ola are not friendly.12. How will Miss Lan keep in touch with Mr.Huang after she arrives in Ola?A. By e-mail. B. By phone. C. By letter.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Why did the man miss the womans phone call yesterday?A. His p
7、hone was turned off.B. He was taking a shower.C. He didnt take his phone with him.14. What did the woman do yesterday?A. She went shopping.B. She went to a concert.3C. She played computer games.15. Why did the woman call the man?A. To invite him to her wedding.B. To ask something about Megan.C. To i
8、nvite him to her sisters wedding.16. When will the woman pick up the man next Saturday?A. At 13:00. B. At 13:20. C. At 14:00.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What does Alexandra Grace work for?A. New Zealand Embassy Beijing.B. QS World University Ranking System.C. The Multi-cultural Environment Organizat
9、ion.18. What stops some students choosing New Zealand for study?A. Its environment. B. Its size. C. Its population.19. Whats the total yearly cost for a Chinese student to study in a New Zealand university?A. 20,000 dollars. B. 25,000 dollars. C. 45,000 dollars.20. What message about New Zealand doe
10、s the speaker mainly convey?A. Its multi-cultural environment is good for tourists.B. Its higher education is suitable for Chinese students.C. Its breath-taking scenery is absolutely worth seeing.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。 AWelcome to t
11、he Electronic Village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.4Electronic Village Program (Thursday, June 18, 2015)Nearpod9:00 am to 10:00 am Room 501Nearpod is a software program that creates a rich context (语境) for students to learn vocabulary. The presenter will show how to use it.T
12、EO 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Room 502Our students come from different backgrounds but have the same desire to learn on-line. The presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with TEO.Kahoot10:30 am to 11:30 am Room 601Kahoot software can be
13、used to create grammar tests which can be graded on a network. It can provide students with instant feedback (反馈), including reports about their strengths and weaknesses.Prezi3:30 pm to 4:20 pm Room 602Uses of Prezi in listening and speaking courses draw students attention to speaking more fluently.
14、 The presenter will show how students can use Prezi to confidently present on a variety of topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies.21. Nearpod can be used to _. A. help vocabulary learning B. teach listening on-lineC. offer grammar tests D. gain fluency in speaking22. If you want
15、to improve your speaking skills, you can go to_.A. Room 501 B. Room 502 C. Room 601 D. Room 60223. Which of the following can assess your grammar learning?A. Nearpod. B. Kahoot C. TEO. D. Prezi.24. A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by _.A. 9:00 am B. 10:30 am C. 2:0
16、0 pm D. 3:30 pmB5Arthur Miller(1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists（剧作家） of the 20th century. Millers father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when hi
17、s family business was ruined in the Great Depression (大萧条时期) of the early 1930s.Millers most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators (标志) of worth. In Willy Lo
18、man, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his system, Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment (情绪): if he cant do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of t
19、his, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
20、, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama. It was the first play to win all the three of these major awards.Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.25. Why did Art
21、hur Millers father move to the USA?A. His family business failed.B. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.C. He was attracted by the “Great American Dream”.D. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.26. What do we learn about Willy Loman in the play Death of a Salesman?A. He is regarded as
22、 a hero by his colleagues.B. He is a victim of the American system.C. He runs the Wagner Company.6D. He treats his employer badly.27. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman _.A. achieved huge successB. won the first Tony AwardC. was warmly welcomed by salesmenD. was severely attacked by dram
23、atists28. What is the text mainly about?A. Arthur Miller and his family.B. The awards Arthur Miller won.C. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.D. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.CThe ocean bottom, a region nearly 2.5 times greater than the total land area of the earth, is even today largely
24、 unexplored. Until about a century ago, the deep ocean floor was completely inaccessible and hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. Totally without light and in the case of intense pressures hundreds of times greater than at the earths surface, the deep-ocean bottom is a strange env
25、ironment to humans, in some way, as fighting and remote as the outer space.Although researchers have taken samples of deep-ocean rocks for over a century, the first detailed global study of the ocean bottom did not actually start until 1969, with the beginning of the National Science Foundations Dee
26、p Sea Drilling Project(DSDP). Using techniques first developed for the offshore oil and gas industry, the DSDPs drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the oceans surface and drill very deep waters, taking samples of rocks from the ocean floor.The Glomar Challeng
27、er completed 96 voyages in a 15-year research program that ended in November 1983. During this time, it sailed 600,000 kilometers and took almost 20,000 samples of rocks around the world. Those samples have 7allowed geologists to reconstruct what the planet looked like hundreds of millions of years
28、ago and to make out what it will probably look like millions of years in the future. Today, largely on the strength of evidence gathered during the Glomar Challengers voyages, nearly all earth scientists agree on the theories of plate tectonics (构造学) and continental drift that explain many of the ge
29、ological processes.The sample of rocks drilled by the Glomar Challenger has also provided a climatic record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. The information of past climatic change can be used to predict the future climate.29. What does the underlined word “inaccessible” in paragraph1
30、mean?A. unrecognizable. B. unreachable. C. unusable. D. unreasonable30. The Deep Sea Drilling Project was significant because it was _.A. an attempt to find new sources of oil and gasB. supported entirely by the gas and oil industryC. conducted by geologists from all over the worldD. the first detai
31、led exploration of the ocean bottom31. What can we know about the Glomar Challenger?A. It provided a record of past climatic change.B. It took almost 600,000 samples of rocksC. It made its first DSDP voyage in 1983.D. It has gone on over 100 voyages.DWhat do you do when you need to look something up
32、? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia(百科全书)? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?Theres no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the si
33、te is available in more than 270 different languages. Its one of the most comprehensive resources 8available, which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. Its got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands
34、 of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you dont need any formal training.Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for h
35、armful comments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isnt easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, its also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.Some of the damage
36、 is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Platos biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of Barney the purple Dinosaur.But other things are harde
37、r to spot. The most common form of vandalism (恣意破坏公共财物罪)involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the d
38、irty tricks. For example, in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynns wartime hit Therell be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Haz
39、lehurst had written the S Club 7s hit Reach again, not true. So, if youre going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.32. We can we learn from the passage?A. Updated by 78 million people around the world, Wikipedia is sure to be attacked.B. Thanks to its populari
40、ty and convenience, Wikipedia is available in 1500 9languages.C. Anyone who has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like.D. The primary job of the administrators is to guarantee information conveyed is accurate.33. Whats the writers attitude to Wikipedia according to th
41、e text?A. Critical. B. Objective. C. Satisfied D. Supportive34. The main purpose of the last two paragraphs is to tell us that_A. All items of false information are not easy to get spotted.B. Information about famous people is likely to be inaccurate.C. No matter how famous the papers are, they will
42、 be cheated.D. You can never be careful enough while updating information online.35. What can be used as a suitable title for the text?A. Why Wikipedia Is So Popular?B. Wikipedia Is Reliable to UseC. How to Look up Information in Wikipedia?D. Wikipedia Has Advantages and Disadvantages第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题
43、 2 分，满分 10 分)根据短文内容，从后面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。Training for a marathon requires careful preparation and steady, gradual increases in the length of the runs. 36 , buy the best-fitting, best-built running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your
44、feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit. 37 . As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries. During the first week, d
45、o not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day. 38 , it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week, set a 10goal of at least a mile and a half per run. 39 . After two weeks, start timing yourself. 40 . Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up
46、 a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race. A. After six daysB. For a good marathon runnerC. Before you begin your trainingD. With each day, increase the distance by a half mileE. If they still feel good, you can begin running in themF. Time spent for preparation raises the quality of trai
47、ningG .Now you are ready to figure out a goal of improving distance and time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 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从短文后所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a g
48、irl born without arms, stands inside a(n) 41 . Although she was born without arms, that has 42 stopped her from doing one thing: using the 43 “cant”.Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to 44 using only her feet. She made whats seemingly 45 become a realit
49、y. Her certificate 46 her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.“Shes a good pilot and shes strong,” said Parrish, the flying 47 at San Manuels Ray Blair Airport. Parrish 48 a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didnt come close to Coxs 49 . “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew shed have no 50 flying a plane”Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she 51 early on that she didnt wa
