1、1西安中学 2018-2019 学年度第一学期期末考试高二英语试题（时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分）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. When does the man want to play?A. Later today. B. Tomorrow. C. Right now.2. What does the wo
2、man want to eat?A. Fruit. B. Eggs. C. Pancakes. 3. How does the man get to work?A. By car. B. By train. C. By bus. 4. Why was Mr.Johnson in the hospital?A. His wife was ill. B. His wife had a baby.C. He went to visit his daughter. 5. What are the speakers talking about?A. A lightweight bag. B. Thing
3、s to wear. C. The warm weather.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. What did the woman want to do today?2A. Play tennis. B. Go for a run. C. Go to the park.7
4、. How was the weather last weekend?A. Sunny. B. Windy. C. Rainy.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Which room are the speakers painting?A. The bedroom. B. The dining room. C. The living room. 9. What color does the woman want it to be?A. Green. B. Red. C. Blue.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What does the woman do at
5、 night?A. She keeps all the lights on. B. She sleeps in a very dark roomC. She turns a night light on in her room.11. How old was the woman when a man broke into her home?A. About four years old. B. About five years old.C. About eight years old.12. What was the womans father carrying?A. A knife. B.
6、A bat. C. A gun.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What is the man doing?A. Playing with fire. B. Watching people on the street. C. Making paper airplanes.14. What can the woman see across the street?A. A crowd of people. B. A building. C. A big airplane15. What will happen to the man according to the woman
7、?3A. He will get into trouble. B. He will get a reward. C. He will get sick.16. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Brother and sister. B. Father and daughter. C. Mother and son.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What does the speaker do?A. A reporter. B. A business woman. C. A writer
8、.18. Where does Kareen Christenson work?A. At the Local Business magazine.B. At the marketing department.C. In the Twin Towers building.19. Why does the speaker want to talk with James?A. For an article. B. For a new movie. C. For her business.20. At what time does the speaker want to meet James?A.
9、This week. B. Next week. C. Next year.第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分 30 分）第一节 （共 10 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 20 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。AWinter is the perfect time to see Washington in a different light. The crowds have thinned, and those humid 95-degree days are long gone. And the National Zoo is a differen
10、t experience because of 500,000 bulbs that illuminate the annual Zoo-lights celebration.Eco-friendly twinkly lights will decorate zoo walkways, trees and buildings. Sculptures featuring popular zoo residents, including elephants and giant pandas, light up in time to music.If walking and watching isn
11、t enough excitement, head to Lion limited parking is $22. Charges for tubing, train rides and carousel rides.For more information: A parent can visit nationalzoo.si.edu/events/zoolights.More ZooLights celebrations: For those outside of the D.C. area, here are some links to other zoos with similar ev
12、ents (not all are free):Columbus Zoo, Ohio: Through January 1.Detroit Zoo, Michigan: Through December 31.Denver Zoo, Colorado: December 2-January 1.Houston Zoo, Texas: Through January 15.21. What do we know about the zoo walkways in the National Zoo?A.They are free of charge.B. They light up in time
13、 to music.C. They are usually very crowded all the year round.D. They are very humid in winter.22. Who are the intended readers of the passage?A. Students. B. Tourists. C. Parents. D. Zoo keepers.BPerhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if yo
14、ure unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires-not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you dont have enough tastes. Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities to enjoy life. 5Most people are already swamped with things. They eat
15、, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.Your house of life ought to be a mansion, a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should
16、have.Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when youre hungry.Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful,
17、 richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.Music like Mozarts and Bachs shouldnt be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And
18、 when youve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are. you would be more human, and your ho
19、use of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.23. The author intends to tell us that_.A. true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair meansB.true happi
20、ness comes from spiritual richesC. big houses can in a sense bring richness of lifeD. big houses are peoples most valued possessions24. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably implies that_.A. however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied6B. however materially rich, they remain sp
21、iritually poorC. though their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeD. though their house is big, it seems to be a cage25. It can be learned from the passage that_.A. more money brings more happinessB. literature can enrich your spiritual lifeC. art is needed to make your house beautifulD. sports c
22、ontribute mainly to your physical fitness26. What would be the best title for the passage?A. House of Life B. Secret of WealthC. Rest and Refreshment D. Interest and EnthusiasmCAn Invisible Smile Mr Dawson was an old man who always complained a lot, and everyone in town knew itKids ever went into hi
23、s yard to pick a delicious apple. Old Dawson, they said, would come after them with his gunOne Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to walk by Dawsons house on the way to Amys house, but as they got close, Janet saw him sitting on his front porch and su
24、ggested they cross over to the other side of the street. Like most of the children，Janet was scared of the old manAmy said not to worry, Mr Dawson wouldnt hurt anyone. Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old mans house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with
25、 his usual frown, but when he saw it was Amy, a broad smile changed his entire face as he said, “Hello, Miss Amy. I see youve got a little friend with you today. ”Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying overnight and they were going to listen to music and play games. Mr Dawson said that sound
26、ed fun and offered them each a fresh picked apple off his tree. They gladly accepted. Mr Dawson had the best apples in the whole town7When they left, Janet asked Amy, “Everyone says hes the meanest man in town. How come he was so nice to us?”Amy explained that when she first started walking past his
27、 house he wasnt very friendly and she was afraid of him, but she pretended he was wearing an invisible smile and so she always smiled back at him. It took a while, but one day he half-smiled back at herAfter some more time, he started smiling real smiles and then started talking to her. Just a “hell
28、o” at first, then more. She said he always offered her an apple and was always very kind“An invisible smile? ”questioned Janet“Yes， ”answered Amy, “my grandma told me that if I pretended I wasnt afraid and pretended he was smiling an invisible smile at me and I smiled back at him, sooner or later he
29、 would really smile. Grandma says smiles are contagious ”If we remember what Amys grandma said - everyone wears an invisible smile, we too will find that were always on the go trying to accomplish so much, arent we?Its so easy to get caught up in everyday life that we forget how simple it can be to
30、bring cheer to ourselves and others. Giving a smile away takes so little effort and time. Lets make sure that were not the ones that others have to pretend to be wearing an invisible smile27. Kids were scared of Mr Dawson because _ A. he was mean with his appleB. he would fire them with a gunC. he w
31、as always very coldD. he was wearing an invisible smile28. We can infer from the passage that _ A. Janet was so lovely a girl that Mr Dawson couldnt resist her smilesB. it was Grandmas advice that helped bring Amy and Mr Dawson closerC. Mr Dawson was friendly to Amy because she always wore an invisi
32、ble smileD. Janet and Amy were going to invite Mr Dawson to listen to music and play 8games29. The underlined word “contagious” in Paragraph 9 means “_”.A. meaningful B.moving C. infectious D. supportive30. What is the main message that the author intends to send to us readers?A. Always wear an invi
33、sible smileB. Smile whenever we canC. Try our best to transform othersD. Pretend that we are happy even if we are not第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据文章内容，从短文后的七个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。Culture means any human behavior that is learned in human society. All of the meaningful parts of a culture are p
34、assed on to different generations through tradition or social learning. 31 Culture exists in agricultural as well as industrialized societies.Culture is necessary for the survival and existence of human beings. Practically everything humans know, think, value, feel, and do is learned through taking
35、part in a sociocultural system. 32 Here is one of the cases of children growing up apart from human society. In the province of Midnapore in India, the director of a childrens home was told by local villagers that there were “ghosts” in the forest. Upon looking into the case, the director found that
36、 two children, one about eight years old and the other about six years old, appeared to have been living a pack of wolves in the forest. 33 In his diary, the director describes his first view of Kamala (as the older child was named) and Amala ( the name given to the younger child):Kamala was a terri
37、ble-looking being, the head, a big ball of something covering the shoulders. 34 Their eyes were bright and sharp, unlike human eyes. They were very fond of raw meat and raw milk. Gradually, as they got stronger, they began going on all fours, and afterwards began to run on all fours, just like squir
38、rels.9Children learn human language in the same way they learn other kinds of human behaviorby taking part in a cultural community. 35 A. From this viewpoint, all human groups have a culture.B. Close at its heels there came another terrible creature exactly like the first, but smaller in size.C. Hum
39、an beings can only develop human abilities by the local people.D. This statement is well supported by some well-written cases.E. These children were the ghosts described by the local people.F. Culture refers only to the high art and classical music of a particular society.G. They learn a certain hum
40、an languages as well as certain kinds of human behavior through their membership in a certain cultural community.第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分 45 分）第一节 完型填空 （共 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。We lived in an old building on a farm years ago. It was a wonderful house for
41、children. Also on the farm was the old 36 building for the wood company my grandfather had 37 . It was a few hundred feet of the house. There was a big sign across the front 38 “office.” Later it was no longer 39 as an office, so it became my playhouse.In the room was a safe that my grandfather used
42、 for his 40 .It was locked. We didnt know what was inside, 41 none of the family ever tried to open it. I used it for a 42 . I had my dishes and little things on it.One night there was a terrible 43 . I was always afraid of it, so when I heard the thunder, I 44 out of bed and ran downstairs to my pa
43、rents. They comforted me and 45 me the storm was about over.The next day when I went back to my 46 , I opened the door and discovered papers spread all over the floor. The front of the safe was 47 and my little dishes were all around the room. It was a 48 !10I ran to tell my parents what Id seen. So
44、on it was 49 all over the neighborhood. Of course, thats an extraordinary 50 , and everyone wanted to see the damaged safe. Maybe someone thought there was 51 in it.The loud “thunder” I heard during the night had almost 52 the safe, so it was 53 for some men to blew it apart. But we just saw some pa
45、pers and several books. Everybody calmed down and left 54 .Later I still used the damaged safe as a table, but years later, the picture of that old safe and the peoples expression 55 me. 36. A. teaching B. office C. hospital D. learning37. A. threw B. sold C. covered D. owned38. A. Saying B. writing
46、 C. speaking D. listing39. A. bought B. developed C. used D. removed40. A. family B. business C. school D. power41. A. and B.so C.or D.but 42. A .table B. bed C. chair D. room43. A. story B. snow C. storm D. wind44. A. wandered B. jumped C. walked D. moved45. A. reminded B. directed C. bargained D.
47、convinced 46. A. playhouse B. classroom C. study D. library47. A. repaired B. fixed C. damaged D. explored48. A. film B. mess C. goal D. joke49. A. information B. announcement C. news D. problem50. A. sight B. puzzle C. secret D. trick51. A. waste B.dirt C. money D. wood52. A. turned up B. blown up
48、C. cut up D. added up53. A. impossible B. difficult C. hard D. easy54. A. disappointedly B. happily C. proudly D. angrily55. A. hurt B. changed C. impressed D. puzzled11第二节 （共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Last Monday, my father would be on a 56 (busy) trip for five da
49、ys. Having gotten my promise of being great at home and taking care of my mother, he rest assured and put his luggage into the trunk of his car. 57 (see) my fathers driving away, my mother and I waved our hands and said goodbye to him. For a moment, I began to miss my father, 58 (wish) that he would be safe and well the next days. I thought everything would go well, as this was not t
