1、- 1 -四川省凉山州木里藏族自治县中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语上学期期中试题第一部分：听力测试（共两节，共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）第二部分 阅读理解第一节： 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。 （共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）AFun DayTo celebrate the Year of the dogOrganised by Lam Tin Youth Centre and Kwun Tong High SchoolDate: 2 February 2018Time: 1
2、0 am5 pmPlace: Kwun Tong PlaygroundFee: $20 (buy three get one free)Programmes: drama, lion dance, magic show and ballet performanceHighlights:1) enter the lucky draw to win a digital camera2) learn to make festival food with extra 5 dollarJoin us on the Fun Day!All are welcome!Free Soft DrinksNote:
3、 Tickets are available at the General Office of Lam Tin Youth Center For those who would like to be a volunteer, please contact Miss Olivia Wong one week before the activity.21. What you have just read is a _.A. note B. report C. schedule D. advertisement22. How much do you have to pay in total if f
4、our of you go together?A. $20. B. $40. C. $60. D. $80.- 2 -23. Which of the following statements is true?A. Tickets are sold in Kwun Tong High School.B. Its unnecessary to take soft drinks with you.C. Free digital cameras are provided for everybody.D. Festival food will be served without extra charg
5、e.24. What is going to take place on 2 February 2018?A. A big event to celebrate a Chinese new year. B. A social gathering to raise money for wildlife.C. A party for close friends to meet and have fun.D. A meeting of Kwun Tong High School students.BLanguage experts say that spoken English was almost
6、 the same in the American colonies and Britain two hundred years ago. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in1776. They wanted to make it different to separate themselves from the British in language, in the same way they separated themselves from the Briti
7、sh government.Some American leaders proposed major changes in the language. Benjamin Franklin wanted a whole new system of spelling. His reforms were not accepted. But his ideas did influence others. One was Noah Webster.Webster wrote language books for schools. He believed the United States should
8、have a system of its own language as well as government. Webster published a dictionary of the American language in 1828. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.Webster wrote that all words should be said in the order of the letters that spell them. This is
9、 why Americans use the letters “e-r” to end many words instead of the British “r-e.” He spelled the word “center,” for example, “c-e-n-t-e-r,” instead of the British “c-e-n-t-r-e.”Websters rule for saying every part of a word made American English easier for foreign settlers to learn. They learned t
10、o say “waist-coat,” for example, the way it is spelled instead of the British “wes-kit.”The different languages of immigration who came to the United States also - 3 -helped make American and British English different. Many of their foreign words and expressions became part of English As Americans s
11、peak them.Sometimes Americans and British people do not understand each other because of different word meanings. For example, the word “jumper” in Britain means a sweater. In the United States, it is a dress. The British word “brolly” is an “umbrella” in America. And the British call potato chips “
12、crisps”. All of these differences led British writer George Bernard Shaw to joke that Britain and America are two countries separated by the same language!25. What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to?A. written English in Britain. B. Written English in America.C. Spoken Eng
13、lish in America. D. Spoken English in Britain.26. Why did American want their language to differ from British English?A. Because they wanted to have their own language and government.B. Because they found British English hard to spell.C. Because they found British English hard to speakD. Because for
14、eign settlers wanted them to change their language.27. Why do Americans use the word “meter” instead of the word “metre”?A. Because Benjamin Franklin didnt like the word “metre”.B. Because the word “meter” was absorbed from other languages.C. Because Webster thought the word should be said in order
15、of the letters that are spelt.D. Because Webster thought American English should be made easier for foreign settlers to learn.28. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why English began to change in America?A. The government leaders. B. Webster.C. Immigration to America. D. The difficulty
16、 Americans had in understanding the British.C “Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of - 4 -America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to ins
17、ects (昆虫) as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, refe
18、rring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes
19、 the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安装 ) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a compute
20、r program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous n
21、ights discovering a bug in his invented record player.”29. We learn from paragraph 1 that_.A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bugB. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bugC. The word bug was still popularly used in England in the 19th centuryD. Both Englis
22、h men and Americans used the word bug in the 18th century30. What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?A. Fault. B. Explanation. C. Source. D. Finding.31. The passage is mainly concerned with _.A. the misunderstanding of the word bugB. the development of the word bugC. the public
23、 views of the word bugD. the special meanings of the word bugD Having a learning disability doesnt mean you cant learn, but youll - 5 -need some help and need to work extra hard. If you have a learning disability such as dyslexia or dyscalculia, remember that you are not slow or stupid. Learning dis
24、abilities can be genetic. That means they can be passed down in families through the genes, But kids today have an advantage over their parents. Learning experts now know a lot more about the brain and how learning works, and its easier for kids to get the help they need. Dyslexia is a learning disa
25、bility that means a kid has a lot of trouble reading and writing. Kids who have trouble with math may have dyscalculia. Other kids may have language disorders, meaning they have trouble understanding language and understanding what they read. It can be confusing, though. What qualifies as “trouble“
26、enough to be diagnosed as a learning disability? Reading, doing math, and writing letters may be tough for lots of kids at first. But when those troubles dont fade away and its really difficult to make any progress, its possible that the kid has a learning disability. Finding out you have a learning
27、 disability can be upsetting. You might feel different from everyone else. But the truth is that learning disabilities are pretty common. And if your learning specialist or psychologist has figured out which one youre facing, youre on the right track. Now, you can start getting the help you need to
28、do better in school. But for this special help to really work, youll need to practice the new skills youre learning. It may take a lot of efforts every day. That can be a challenge, but you can do it soon, youll enjoy the results of all your hard work: more fun and success at school. 32. Children ar
29、e likely to have a learning disability . A. if their parents have the same problem B. if they are not interested in a subjectC. if they dont get help in time D. if they dont work hard33.If a chinese student cannot understand English articles,what lerning disability they may have? - 6 -A. dyslexia B.
30、 dyscalculia C. genetic disability D. language disorders34. How can you know if you have a learning disability?A. Your teacher says you are a slow student. B. You cant make progress after hard work. C. You have trouble with some lessons at first. D. Your learning style is different from others. 35.
31、Whats the main purpose of the text?A. To find out the reasons for the learning disability. B. To get parents to know more about their children. C. To help people know and handle learning disability. D. To ask teachers to help students with learning disability. 第二节：阅读短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每小题只有一
32、个最佳选项, 选项中有两项是多余选项。 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）Everyone is forgetful, but as we age, we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bitand that can be a very annoying（烦人的） thing. 36 Read on for some techniques（技巧） worth trying. 37 People who regularly made plans and looked forward to upcoming events had
33、 a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimers disease (早老性痴呆症), according to a recent study. 38 Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. Theres evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do be
34、tter. In other words, keep your brain looking forward. Go for a walkMildly raised glucose (葡萄糖) levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain
35、. 39 Learn something newTake a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A - 7 -study found that mental stimulation (刺激) limits the weakening effects of aging on memory and the mind. 40 And you are physically active at the same time.It should be something like learning garde
36、ning.In addition, you can go dancing with your friends.A. Focus on the future.B. This can be especially harmful to the aged.C. But the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new.D. So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.E. so you should work out purposes in advance for the
37、future.F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to avoid those moments.G. In other words, when you take exercise to take care of your body, you take care of your brain.第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45）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，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。I wa
38、s broke after the bankruptcy(破产) of my company and before that, my marriage also came to an end, which may be the hardest truth to me.Suddenly, I got 41 lost. That “one can start from nothing” thing was much like nonsense（胡扯）. It was never easy! So I chose to 42 myself at home. Unexpectedly, my mom
39、came to my 43 and took me to the hospital.After my 44 , she paid for my exercise class in a gym just to 45 my mind.One day, my mom was driving me back from 46 . We were talking. All was well. The 47 slowly went on. And she said, smiling, “By the way, todays my birthday. No one 48 me so I thought I s
40、hould just say so.”I went 49 .She laughed. A laugh so 50 ! I wanted to cry. She hadnt had a proper birthday celebration in twenty years.She 51 again, “Its OK. Its a little thing. But do you know what the - 8 -52 truth is? That is, love is one sided, most of the time. Thats 53 most people want love b
41、ut not the responsibility(责任) it 54 . Parents take all that responsibility. They take it 55 . I promise you. Theyll take it to their grave(坟墓), even if they 56 get it back.”I bowed my head.She continued, “When you were 57 , I was as heartbroken as you, if not more heartbroken 58 you. When you were k
42、illing yourself, you were 59 my body. I would always like to be tortured（折磨） by the one-sided love. Very much! But I just expect you to become 60 .”41 A. actually B. hopelessly C. gradually D. surprisingly42 A. kill B. calm C. upset D. thank43 A. power B. apartment C. company D. office44 A. job B. s
43、uccess C. recovery D. graduation45 A. pack B. change C. reduce D. strengthen46 A. survey B. study C. practice D. examination47 A. car B. talk C. road D. day48 A. celebrated B. asked C. praised D. ignored49 A. blank B. loose C. fluent D. straight50 A. happy B. sweet C. strange D. painful51 A. stopped
44、 B. chatted C. requested D. laughed52 A. hardest B. interesting C. half D. entire53 A. what B. because C. when D. how54 A. comes up B. comes across C. comes with D. comes out55 A. little B. some C. much D. all- 9 -56 A. never B. frequently C. always D. maybe57 A. smiling B. listening C. speaking D.
45、crying58 A. before B. than C. for D. as59 A. suffering from B. adding up C. cutting off D. setting down60 A. free B. lonely C. brave D. grateful第二节 阅读下面短文，填入适当的单词（共 10 题，每题 1.5 分，共 15 分）Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a 61 (total) different c
46、ountry? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.The term “thirdculture kid” _62. (use) in the 1960s for the first time by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon(现象）while researching North American children 63 (live) in India. In general, third-culture kids benefit from 64. (they) intercultu
47、ral experience and they often reach excellent academic results.Yet many 65 (difficulty) may arise from this phenomenon. Third-culture kids may not be able to adapt themselves completely 66 their new surroundings. Also, they often find it hard 67 (develop) new friendship. Additionally, for a third-cu
48、lture kid, it is often easier to move to a new country 68 to return to his homeland. For example, after living in Australia for many years, Louis finally returned to the country 69 she was born. She didnt know anything about current TV shows 70 fashion trends. And she didnt share the same values as
49、other teens of her age.第四部分写作（共两节满分 35）第一节 单句改错（本大题共 1 小题，共 10.0 分）下列每句话中仅有一处错误，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 Last Sunday morning, when I was having a walk in the park near my home, I came across many people make a new film with one of my favourite actor. I didnt have my camera with me at that time, but I rushed back home to get. - 10 -Unfortunate, by the time I got back, they had finished the scene and the actor couldnt be s
