1、1咸阳百灵中学 2017-2018 学年度第二学期期中教学质量检测高二英语试题第一卷第一部分：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. Where will the speakers go next?A. The office. B. Their home. C.A restaurant.2. What do we know about th
2、e man?A. He lives not far from the library. .B. He always borrows books these days.C. He goes to the library twice a month.3. What does the man imply?A. Everything is ready for the party. B. Too many people are invited to the party.C. Only a few close friends will attend the party.4. What did the ma
3、n think of the movie?A. Interesting. B. Serious. C. Impractical.5. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Buy the skirt. .B. Follow the fashion. C. Bargain over the price.第二节听下面 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
4、两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6. What is the woman doing now?2A. Making introductions to the man. B. Having an interview with the man.C. Showing the man around the company.7. When will the man have meetings?A. Every Monday. B. Every Thursday. .C. Every Friday.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. How does Jane fe
5、el?A. Excited. B. Exhausted. C. Anxious.9. What does Jane do?A. A professor. B. A doctor. .C. A student.听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. Why will the woman go to Brazil?A. To watch the RoboCup. B. To take part in a competition.C. To spend a vacation with her family.11. What is Mark crazy about?A. Footb
6、all. .B. Robots. C. Traveling.12. How many times has Marks team taken part in the RoboCup before?A. Twice. .B. Three times. C. Four times.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。13. What do the speakers usually do at the mall?A. Enjoy all kinds of delicious food. B. Look at things without buying them.C. Spend a l
7、ot of money on boots.14. How did the woman know about the outdoor market?A. From the Internet. B. From a friend. C. From TV.15. What does the woman say about the outdoor market?A. It isnt big enough. .B. There are eight halls. C. The food there is cheap.16. How will the speakers go to the outdoor ma
8、rket?A. By car. B. By subway. C. On foot.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。317. When can the students visit the language laboratory?A. On Monday. B. On Tuesday. C. On Wednesday.18. What lessons do the students have on Thursday morning?A. Listening and speaking. .B. Pronunciation and vocabulary. C. Writing a
9、nd computing.19. What will the students do first on Friday?A. Review lessons for the week. .B. Have a computer lesson. C. Practice writing.20. What does the speaker remind the students to do in the end?A. Finish the homework on time. .B. Do self-studying in the library.C. Turn to the teachers for an
10、y problems.第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分)第一节 阅读理解（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.D）中，选出最佳选项。ACan trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree
11、 attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell-a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of thei
12、r own leaves and make them less tasty.Communication, of course, doesnt need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in cer
13、tain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldnt trees have ways of sending 4message?21.It can be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that .Aare lying on the ground Bhave an unfamiliar shapeCbees dont like Dhave an unpleasant tast
14、e22.The willow tree described in the passage protected itself by .A.growing more branches B.changing its leaf chemistryC.communicating with birds and bees D.shaking caterpillars off 23.According to the passage,the willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by .A.giving off a special smell
15、B.waving its branchesC.dropping its leaves D.changing the colour of its trunk 24.According to this passage,bees communicate by .A.smelling one another B.touching one another C.making special movement D.making unusual soundBSome people go home for the holidays hoping just to survive, burying their at
16、tention in their phones or football to avoid conflict with relatives. Yet research now suggests that is the wrong idea. Family traditionsof any formcan save a holiday, making it well worth the effort of getting everyone in the same room.In a series of studies to be published in the Journal of the As
17、sociation for Consumer Research, hundreds of online subjects described traditions they performed with their families during Christmas, New Years Day and Easter, from tree decoration to egg hunts. Those who said they performed collective traditions, compared with those who said they did not, felt clo
18、ser to their families, which made the holidays more interesting, which in turn made them more enjoyable. Most surprising, the types of activities they describedfamily dinners with special foods, religious ceremonies, watching the ball drop in Times Squaredid not have a direct bearing on enjoyment. B
19、ut the number of 5them did. Apparently having family traditions makes the holidays better and the more the merrier.The study could measure only correlations(关联) between subjects responses, leaving causality uncertain Do traditions increase holiday pleasure, or do people who already enjoy the holiday
20、s choose to perform more traditions? Yet enjoyment ratings were higher after people describe traditions, suggesting that simply thinking about them can add a feeling of warmness to ones experience.“Whatever the tradition is, and however small it may seem, it helps people to really get closer to one
21、another,” says Ovul Sezer, a researcher at Harvard Business School and the papers primary author. “With some traditions we dont even know why we do them, but they still work,” she says.It could be that traditions offer “small, nonobvious ways” to get people to share an experience without feeling awk
22、ward or forced, suggests Kathleen Vohs, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota and one of Sezers co-authors.25. About the family collective activities, what really matters?A. The number of them. B. The form of themC. The place where they take place D. The time that they last26. The underlined
23、 word “causality” in paragraph 3 refers to the relationship between _.A. cause and effect B. opinion and factC. whole and part D. example and conclusion27. Why can family traditions bring people closer according to Kathleen Vohs?A. Because they offer chances for people to get together.B. Because peo
24、ple know the meaning of each tradition.C. Because they work in small and not obvious ways.D. Because people can do things together feeling relaxed.28. Whats the best title for this passage?A. Family traditions are on the rise . B. Family traditions increase happiness.6C. Put your smart phone down. D
25、. Family is where happiness lies.CSeated in a convertible（敞蓬车）with the top down at 60 miles an hour,Mary looked at the flies that sat on top of Marks hair.How could they stay there?She wondered.Mary had not seen Mark in years,until the other day when he came into the cafe where she worked.His appear
26、ance was different from when he was in high school.Now,he was a bit fat and thick glasses covered his eyes.However,that didnt change Marys feelings for him at all.He had just bought a brand new red sports car and asked her if she would like to go for a ride and then have dinner with him.Her heart be
27、at with excitement as he opened the door for her.She noticed something very strange as Mark got into the car started to drive away.On the hair was a group of flies just sitting there.Mary stared in amazement.It seemed the faster they drove,the more determined the flies were to stick to his hair.Mary
28、 remained silent.She leaned forward and turned the radio on,to try to divert her attention away from the flies,but she couldnt help thinking about them.She looked up at Mark,who was completely devoted to what was going on and continued to sing to the music while driving merrily along.Finally,Mark pu
29、lled the vehicle over to the side of the road beside a diner and looked in the mirror and said,”May,I would like to comb my hair before we get something to cat.Could you reach under the seat and give me my hair cream?”Mary reached under the seat and pulled cut a camping backpack,which contained a ro
30、und jar and started to laugh wildly as she pointed to the label（商标）.“Thats not hair cream on your hair,Mark!It says its Fly Trap Glue（捕蝇胶）！”729.What did Mary probably do?A.A car saleswoman. B.A waitress. C.A cook. D.A driver.30.We can learn from the text that .A.Mark used to be a thin boyB.Mark boug
31、ht a new sports car for MaryC.Mark and Mary had been in love for yearsD.Mary felt strange when she saw the red car31.The underlined word”divert” in Paragraph can be replaced by .A.take B.absorb C.replaceD.recover32.Whats the best title for this passage?A.A wonderful ride B.Unchanged love C.A hair tr
32、ick D.A funny mistakeD The Time TravelerA dreamer crazy about traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society which appears to be living in harmony an
33、d happiness, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden cruel and evil underground organization. The Three-Body Problem Set in Chinas Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to make contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruct
34、ion receives the signal and plans to attack the Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start to form, planning to either welcome them and help them take over the world, or to fight against them. The Graveyard(墓地) BookBod is an unusual boy who lives in an unusual placehes the only living residen
35、t of a graveyard. Raised by the ghosts, werewolves, and other graveyard 8creatures, Bod has learned many ghostly thingssuch as the ability to fade so ordinary people cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? The Giver It is
36、 the future. Its a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie below the surface! Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, hi
37、s life is never the same. Jonas discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems. 33. What type of literature are these books?A. Fantasy B. Travel log C. Documentary D. History34. What readers will The Three-Body Problem be recommended to?A. Reader interested in Chinese history B. Readers
38、believing in ghostsC. Readers into civilization of outer space D. Readers fond of time travel35. Which books tell of dark secrets under the peacefulness?A. The Three-body Problem and The Time TravelerB. The Time Traveler and The GiverC. The Graveyard Book and The Three-body ProblemD. The Giver and T
39、he Graveyard Book 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。Humor plays an important role in relationships. In new relationships, humor can be an effective tool not just for attracting the other person but also for overcoming any awkwardness or embarrassment. 36 Sharing the
40、 pleasure of humor creates a sense of connection between two 9people. When you laugh with one another, you create a positive tie between you. This tie acts as a strong buffer(缓冲) against stress, disagreements, disappointments, and bad patches in a relationship. And laughter really is infectious. 37
41、But dont worry if youre not naturally a lighthearted, humorous person-you can learn to access your playful side and develop your sense of fun.Like any tool, humor can be used in negative as well as positive ways. Humor can only help you overcome relationship problems when both partners can understan
42、d the joke. 38 If your partner or friend isnt likely to appreciate the joke, dont say or do it. Humor in relationships should be equally fun and enjoyable for both people.Dont use humor to cover up other emotions. 39 Thats when it is used as a cover for avoiding, rather than coping with, painful emo
43、tions. You can be funny about the truth, but covering up the truth isnt funny. When you use humor and playfulness as a cover for other emotions, you create confusion and mistrust in your relationships.40 The important thing is to find enjoyable activities that help you embrace your playful nature wi
44、th other people. As humor and play become an unseparated part of your life, youll begin to find daily opportunities for using your new-found skills to help build and maintain your relationships.A. Humor can help you and your loved one.B. There are times when humor is not healthy.C. Its important to
45、be sensitive to the other person.D. Its never too late to develop your humorous side.E. The more you joke, play, and laugh-the easier it becomes.F. Just hearing someone laugh can make you smile and join in on the fun.G. In longer-term relationships, humor can keep things exciting and fresh.10第三部分：英语
46、知识运用(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As I sat there one night in Namibia, staring out at one of the most perfect sunsets Id seen in a while, I realized why I never wanted to visit Africa alone. Sometimes the 41 of travel is no
47、t so beautiful when you dont have someone to 42 it with. And there I was, staring out at this gorgeous 43 , and I was alone. I had no one to share that moment.Sure, there was my tour group, but its not the same. Sharing a moment with people you have a bond with is much 44 from sharing it with strang
48、ers. Days later, I kept coming back to the 45 I felt at that moment. There was nothing wrong 46 anyone on my tour-they were all nice, polite, and talkative, and we got along well. But tours are 47 organized, and sometimes you closely 48 with people and sometimes you dont. Dining alone may well be one most awkward times of solo travel. But like anything, the more you do it the more you get used to it.And as I sat there looking at this beautiful sunset while zebra 49 from the nearby watering hole, a 50 hit me at the moment-I am alone .And I am 51 it. While Im an introvert(内向的人)and I like
