浙江诗阳中学2017_2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题2018051711124.doc

浙江省东阳中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节 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 woman go first? A. To the beach. B. To the bank. C. To the bathroom.2. What does the woman mean? A. The man forgot to do his hair. B. The man forgot to put on a tie. C. The man is wearing clothes that dont match.3. How does the woman probably feel? A. Annoyed and unconcerned. B. Hungry and impatient. C. Surprised and excited.4. Why was the woman worried? A. The man lost his phone. B. The man would be back very late. C. The man didnt answer the phone.5. Who did the woman want to call? A. James.B. Drake.C. Daniel.第二节 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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 does the man order? A. Hot dogs and fries. B. Burgers and fries. C. Sandwiches and sodas.7. How much does the man give the woman as a tip? A. Three dollars. B. Two dollars. C. One dollar.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Where are the speakers? A. In a car. B. On a boat. C. On a motorcycle.9. What is the woman doing? A. Looking at a paper map. B. Trying to find a website. C. Using a phone to give directions.10. What will the speakers do next? A. Give up and go home. B. Ask a person for advice. C. Listen to some instructions.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What does the man like about YouTube? A. Watching funny home videos. B. Learning about the special TV channels. C. Putting his own videos on the website.12. What kind of meals do the guys make in Epic Meal Time ? A. Low fat meals. B. Unhealthy meals. C. Vegetarian meals.13. What happens to the meals in the end? A. They are tasted by the audience. B. They are given to the homeless. C. They are eaten by the cooks and their friends.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Their vets. B. Money spent on pets. C. Ways to buy dogs medicines.15. What is the mans dogs name? A. Brett. B. Fargo.C. Ferguson.16. What doesnt the woman like about her vet? A. The limited services. B. The prices her vet charged. C. The difficulty of getting an appointment.17. What isnt one of the mans suggestions? A. Going to his vet. B. Looking online. C. Going to a special pet store.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. When will the fire arrive close to Lakewood? A. By six oclock in the evening. B. By five oclock in the evening. C. By six oclock in the morning.19. Where shouldnt residents go to escape the fire? A. Springfield. B. Western Hill. C. Point Cabina Station.20. What are residents advised to do before they leave? A. Leave all pets behind. B. Stay calm and do not panic. C. Tell the state police where they are going. 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题，每题2.5分， 共25分）：阅读下面短文并做每篇后面的题目。从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。A Its a safe bet that a robot made your car and made your computer. Pretty soon, they could be making your bed and breakfast too. Increasingly, engineers are saying that robots are going to move out of research departments and into your home. Companies including General Electric are working on designs for small robots. Products like the Roomba, a robot that can clean floors, are flying off the shelves. Whats behind this new robot revolution? Its partly a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots to move around. They can walk, crawl or ride on wheels. Robots are being made smaller and smaller. They are also becoming more and more able. A bigger part of the story is on the demand side. From the day the television remote control was invented, people around the world have searched for new ways to be lazy. Take into consideration that more and more people can afford robots, and the time seems ripe to introduce robots to the ordinary family. To be sure, robots that walk on two legs and talk like people are still a long way off. However, robots that do basic housework such as cleaning or gardening are sure to come out soon. One thing is certainwhen these robots do come into our homes, it will change things forever.21. The underlined part “flying off the shelves” in the second paragraph means_. A. Selling well. B. Cleaning the shelves smartly. C. Flying freely D. Dropping onto the floor22.Which plays a more important role in revolutionizing the robot? A. Science and technology. B. Rapid development of companies. C. Effective marketing means. D. Great demand from the buyers.23. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Robots have already come into every home. B. Technology is the only basis of the development of robots. C. General Electric is not interested in designing small robots. D. Robots that can walk on two legs and talk like people are still far from us. BFew of us make money by losing sleep. But three graduate students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation(睡眠不足).Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Browns business and engineering schools. They began thinking about ways to sleep better. They discovered they werent alone in burning the midnight oil. Around 20% of Americans get less than six hours of rest a night.The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time people spend in the most restorative(有恢复作用的) stages of the sleep cycle: REM (rapid eye movement) and deep sleep. What would it cost to design such a thing? Five years of research, 20 employees, $14 million and a whole lot of doubting from investors and scientists.Their company, Zeo, based in Newton, Mass, launched its product in June, 2009. The Zeo device uses a headband with tiny sensors(传感器) that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states-REM, light, deep and waking sleep. The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you as youre not in REM sleep. In the morning you can upload the data to the companys Web site, and so track your sleep over time. Most of the feedback(反馈) comes in the form of Zeos ZQ score showing how well youve slept.“Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep,” says Dave Dickinson, a health-care CEO.Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer, who will also need to make lifestyle changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 P.M.For now the company is selling Zeo online only. Dickinson also plans to spread it to countries such as Australia, where sleep deprivation approaches US levels.24. Who will support Zeo? A. People full of imagination. B. People suffering sleeping problems. C. People having access to the Internet. D. People having bad lifestyles.25. Why did the three graduate students imagine a smart alarm clock? A. To wake them up on time in the morning. B. To earn enough money for their study. C. To improve the quality of peoples sleep. D. To enjoy their life while working at night.26. To design the Zeo device, the three graduate students _. A. spent much time and money B. were widely supported by scientists C. worked by themselves all the time D. attracted many investorsCSome people seem easy to understand: their character appears obvious on first meeting. Appearances, however, can be deceptive. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. For my own part I find that the longer I know people, the more they puzzle me.I read in this mornings paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died. He was a businessman and he had been in business in Japan for many years. Once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, Id never have believed that he was capable of such an action. He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and position. He didnt talk much, but what he said was sensible. You couldnt imagine hed possibly raise his voice in anger. Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows. Hed tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth hed been something of an athlete. He was a rich man and hed made every penny himself. I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so weak; he aroused your instincts(本能) of protection. You felt he couldnt bear to hurt a fly.One afternoon Burton told me a “funny” story in a quiet, dry humour:“There was a namesake(同名人) of mine, who was the best bridge player I ever met. He seemed to have a fantastic instinct about the cards. He won a good deal of my money by card-playing.”“One day he came to me when he lost all his fortune. He came to see me in my office and asked me for a job. I asked him how old he was.”“ Thirty-five, he said.”“ And what have you been doing ever since ? I asked him.”“ Well, nothing very much. he said.”“ Im afraid I cant do anything for you just yet I said. Come back and see me in another thirty-five years, and Ill see what I can do. ”“He didnt move. He went rather pale. He hesitated for a moment and then he told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time. He lost everything he had. He hadnt a penny. He was down and out. If he couldnt get something to do hed not survive.” “I looked at him for a bit. I could see now that he was all to pieces. Hed been drinking more than usual and he looked fifty.” “Suddenly I had an idea.” Pausing in his story, Burton turned to me. “When I was young I swam over three miles round the beacon(灯塔) and landed at the river of Tarumi. Its rather difficult on account of the currents round the beacon. Well, I told my young fellow about it and I said that if hed do it Id give him a job.”“I could see he was rather surprised. He was not in good condition for sports. He looked at me for a moment and then he nodded.”“I told him Id drive round to the river at half past twelve and meet him.”“ Done, he said.”“I wished him good luck and he left me. I had a lot of work to do that morning and I only just managed to get to the river Tarumi at half past twelve. But I neednt have hurried; he never turned up.”“Did he fear it at the last moment?” I asked.“No, he didnt fear it. He started all right. But of course hed ruined his constitution(体质) by drink. The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage. We didnt get the body for about three days.”I didnt say anything for a moment or two. I was rather shocked. Then I asked.“When you made him that offer of a job, did you know hed be drowned?”He looked at me with his kind blue eyes, smiling. “Well, I hadnt got a position in my office at the moment.”27. The underlined word “deceptive” may mean .A. puzzlingB. misleadingC. complex D. impressive28. For some time, Edward Burton impressed the author most with his . A. age and positionB. wealth and abilityC. sensibility and humorD. kindness and weakness29. We can infer from Burtons story that his namesake .A. never saw through his trickB. annoyed him by playing cardsC. could not do any job wellD. intended to cheat him with a lie30. We learned from the story that Edward Burton . A. knew the young man would kill himself B. arranged the end of his namesakes lifeC. did much for the poor fellowman D. killed his card-friend by mistake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的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。For some people, the warmest memories from childhood come from being read a great story._31_ It develops children's language skills and increases their ability to succeed in school and, later, work.A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics says reading aloud is so important that parents should start as soon as their children are born and continue to read aloud even after their children can read by themselves. They say parents should also point to and talk about pictures in books for infants(婴幼儿)._32_The company Scholastic is a major US publisher of children's books. Every two years, Scholastic publishes a report on American reading attitudes and habits. The 2015 report says only 31 percent of children in the US read a book for fun almost every day._33_ One is simply to have books in the home. Elizabeth Lyttleton, the mother of three, is lucky. Her mother once wrote and illustrated children's books, so the family always have plenty to read. She says all her children learn from books-but in different ways._34_ Researchers from the Scholastic company found that 80% of children surveyed of all ages say they love being read to. And children ages 6 to 11 whose parents do not read to them anymore say they miss it._35_ Of all the 6- to 17-year-olds in the Scholastic study, more than 90% said their favorite books are the ones they chose for themselves.A. The Scholastic report also suggests permitting children to choose their own books.B. Scholastic also identifies some ways to develop a love of reading in a child. C. A book does not have to be serious to be good for kids.D. For young children, parents should ask questions about the book.E. Do children still read for fun?F. Another way to develop a reading habit in children is to read to them.G But reading to children does more than create warm memories.第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：完形填空（共20个小题；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A、B、C 和D四个选项中，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。Brandon Craggs was born with cerebral palsy(脑性麻痹). Doctors told his parents the boy would always be too_36_to take part in sporting events _37_major competitions.But the youngster from Wolverhampton has proved doctors_38_by winning a major championship. Mum Helen who works as a_39_said Brandon had always been extremely determined and that his_40_ resulted from his never giving up. She said, “He had problems with his fine movement and had weak_41_. We were really sad when we were told by doctors that he may never walk_42_and they warned us he would be clumsy when_43_sports. But we did exercise his weak ankles and he_44_ the boots every day for around three years. His dad has always loved_45_ and when Brandon was five he would walk around behind h