2017-2018学年湖北省荆州中学高二下学期第二次半月考英语试题（Word版） 15页

‎2017-2018学年湖北省荆州中学高二下学期第二次半月考英语试题 第Ⅰ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。‎ 例：How much is the shirt? ‎ A.&19.15 B. &‎9.15 C．￡9.18. 答案：B ‎1. Where does the conversation take place?‎ A. In a hotel. B. In a school. C. In a supermarket.‎ ‎2. What is the woman doing?‎ A. Buying a handbag.‎ B. Drawing a colorful picture.‎ C. Trying on a piece of clothing.‎ ‎3. When will the man go to the cinema?‎ A. On Sunday morning. B. On Sunday afternoon. C. On Sunday evening. ‎ ‎4. What kind of tea does Tina usually drink? ‎ A. English tea. B. Japanese tea. C. Chinese tea.‎ ‎5. How much will the man pay?‎ A. $ 8. B.$32. C. $ 40.‎ 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6、7题。‎ ‎6. What is Jenny doing now?‎ A. Getting up in her room. B. Preparing for a party. C. Performing on stage.‎ ‎7. What did the man come for Jenny?‎ A. To bring her a dress. B. To get her some flowers. C. To invite her to a movie.‎ 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。‎ ‎8. What do we learn about the training?‎ A. It is paid by the woman.‎ B. It is partly done on work time. C. It runs from Wednesday to Friday.‎ ‎9. What does the woman think of her new job?‎ A. Satisfactory. B. Tiring. C. Badly paid.‎ 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10. Why is the man going to the airport?‎ A. To get his key. B. To see his aunt off. C. To pick up his aunt.‎ ‎11. Where is the man’s wallet?‎ A. At his home. B. In the car. C. In the airport.‎ ‎12. Why will the man go to his brother’s home?‎ A. For his phone. B. For some money. C. For spare keys.‎ 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13. Why does the woman make the call?‎ A .To buys a new service. B. To make a complaint. C. To say thanks.‎ ‎14. What is the woman s phone number?‎ A. 630740. B. 637040. C. 640730.‎ ‎15. What does the man suggest the woman do?‎ A. Check her account. B. Make fewer calls. C. Get an IDS service.‎ ‎16. What can we learn from the conversation?‎ A. The woman is from Europe.‎ B. Calling through IDS costs less.‎ C. Rates for calling have risen.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17. Who is the speaker?‎ A. A taxi driver. B. A police officer. C. A radio announcer.‎ ‎18. What makes driving taxi a hard job in London?‎ A. Bad traffic. B. Large population. C. Confused street names.‎ ‎19. How long will it usually take for a taxi driver to pass the test?‎ A. 25 days. B. 3 years. C. 5 months.‎ ‎20. What is the speaker’s advice when we are stuck on the road?‎ A. Look at a map. B. Change directions. C. Be considerate.‎ 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）‎ 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A As an adult, I like nothing better than to sit on the beach reading. Give me a satisfying “beach read” and I’m happy for days. However, I’m sad to say it isn’t really a thing for kids. Most kids would rather take their boards out beyond their parents’ comfort zone than read. And who can blame them? ‎ But the truth is that even when kids are on vacation, they need the same sort of relax, and reading time that we adults look forward to. The trick is getting them to sit for 5 or 10 minutes to refresh their bodies and to enjoy the pleasure of reading.‎ Books tend to be kind of heavy and they can get wet or filled with sand and are then pretty much ruined. Book chapters tend to be kind of long. Your child may refuse to read. And if your kids are anything like my daughter, they may hate to close a book in the middle of the chapter. ‎ You know what I’m going to say, right? Magazines won’t weigh you down. They can be thrown away if they get wet, and will provide just the right amount of reading for the times when my daughter is ready to sit under the umbrella and cool down for a few minutes. Literary magazines will allow your child to read wonderful fiction paired with beautiful ‎ illustrations. Discovery magazines deliver articles on all sorts of topics that will excite and interest your nonfiction lover.‎ So don’t leave the beach read behind when you pack the beach bags. Slip a magazine or two in the pocket of the bag and when your child needs a few minutes of rest, pull it out and get them to sit for 10 minutes or so. ‎ ‎21. Who is the text most likely intended for?‎ ‎ A. Parents. B. Kids. C. Travelers. D. Teachers.‎ ‎22. What does the author really want to say in Paragraph 3? ‎ ‎ A. Books become a burden for kids on holiday.‎ ‎ B. Books are not the best choice for “beach read”.‎ ‎ C. Kids don’t spend time reading books on holiday.‎ ‎ D. It’s a pity to throw away the books ruined on holiday.‎ ‎23. What can we infer about the author’s daughter from the text?‎ ‎ A. She reads thick books during her holiday.‎ ‎ B. She prefers to read some literary magazines.‎ ‎ C. She is likely to take some magazines with her on holiday.‎ ‎ D. She doesn’t want her magazines to weigh her down.‎ ‎24. What may be the best title for the text?‎ ‎ A. Enjoying Magazines on the Beach ‎ B. Making “Beach Read” a Thing for Kids ‎ C. Making Good Use of Kids’ Time on the Beach ‎ D. Packing Your Beach Bags with Literary Magazines B A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.‎ ‎“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard ‎ engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team started piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.‎ They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.‎ While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it is able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.‎ Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”‎ ‎25. The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that __________.‎ A. they had no model in their mind ‎ B. they did not have adequate time C. they had no ready-made components ‎ D. they could not put the components together ‎26. It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly __________.‎ ‎ A. consists of a flight device and a control system ‎ B. can just fly in limited areas at the present time ‎ C. can collect information from many sources ‎ D. has been put into wide application ‎27. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?‎ ‎ A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.‎ ‎ B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.‎ ‎ C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.]‎ ‎ D. Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.‎ C In a class this past December, after I wrote some directions on the board for students about their final examination, one young woman quickly took a picture of the board using her smart phone. When I looked in her direction, she apologized, “Sorry. Was it wrong to take a picture?” ‎ ‎“I can’t read my own handwriting,” the young woman explained. “It’s best if I take a picture of your writing so I can understand the notes.”‎ That remark started a class-wide conversation about taking a picture instead of taking notes. For those in the photo-taking camp, motivations extended beyond their inability to understand their own handwriting. Some took pictures of notes because they knew their phone was a safe place to store material. They might lose paper, they reasoned, but they wouldn’t lose their phones. Some took photos because they wanted to record exactly the manner in which I had noted information on the board. Others told me that during class they liked to be able to listen to the discussion attentively.‎ Yet the use of cameras as note takers, though it may be convenient, does raise significant questions for the classroom. Is a picture an effective replacement for the process of note-taking?‎ Instructors encourage students to take notes because the act of doing so is more than merely recording necessary information—it helps prepare the way for understanding. Encouraging students to take notes may be an old-fashioned instructional method, but just because a method has a long history doesn’t mean it’s out of date. Writing things down engages a student’s brain in listening, visual, and kinesthetic(触觉的) learning—a view ‎ supported by a longstanding research. The act of writing down information enables a person to begin committing it to memory, and to process and combine it, establishing the building blocks of learning new concepts.‎ Taking a picture does indeed record the information, but it deletes some of the necessary mental engagement that taking notes employs. So can the two be equally effective?‎ ‎28. The woman apologized in the class because she_________.‎ A. had the bad handwriting B. missed the teachers’ directions C. took a picture of the board D. disturbed other students’ learning ‎29. Which of the following may NOT explain students’ unwillingness to take notes?‎ A. They lack proper techniques for taking notes. ‎ B. They want to listen more attentively in class.‎ C. They believe smart phones are much safer for storing notes.‎ D. They want to have the exact version of the notes on the board.‎ ‎30. According to the passage, taking notes by hand__________.‎ A. requires students to think independently ‎ B. helps students actively participate in learning ‎ C. proves to be an old and useless learning method D. seems unsuitable for students to learn new ideas ‎31. What is the main idea of this passage?‎ A. The traditional way of note-taking should be replaced.‎ B. A modern way of note-taking is catching on. ‎ C. Note-taking by hand is not out of date.‎ D. A picture is worth a thousand words.‎ D For some people, music is no fun at all. About four percent of the population is what scientists call “amusic.” People who are amusic are born without the ability to recognize or reproduce musical notes (音调). Amusic people often cannot tell the difference between two songs. Amusics can only hear the difference between two notes if they are very far apart on the musical scale.‎ ‎ As a result, songs sound like noise to an amusic. Many amusics compare the sound of music to pieces of metal hitting each other. Life can be hard for amusics. Their inability to enjoy music set them apart from others. It can be difficult for other people to identify with their condition. In fact, most people cannot begin to grasp what it feels like to be amusic. Just going to a restaurant or a shopping mall can be uncomfortable or even painful. That is why many amusics intentionally stay away from places where there is music. However, this can result in withdrawal and social isolation. “I used to hate parties,” says Margaret, a seventy-year-old woman who only recently discovered that she was amusic. By studying people like Margaret, scientists are finally learning how to identify this unusual condition.‎ ‎ Scientists say that the brains of amusics are different from the brains of people who can appreciate music. The difference is complex, and it doesn’t involve defective hearing. Amusics can understand other nonmusical sounds well. They also have no problems understanding ordinary speech. Scientists compare amusics to people who just can’t see certain colors.‎ ‎ Many amusics are happy when their condition is finally diagnosed. For years, Margaret felt embarrassed about her problem with music. Now she knows that she is not alone. There is a name for her condition. That makes it easier for her to explain. “When people invite me to a concert, I just say, ‘No thanks, I’m amusic,’” says Margaret. “I just wish I had learned to say that when I was seventeen and not seventy.” ‎ ‎32. Which of the following is true of amusics?‎ ‎ A. Listening to music is far from enjoyable for them.‎ ‎ B. They love places where they are likely to hear music.‎ ‎ C. They can easily tell two different songs apart.‎ ‎ D. Their situation is well understood by musicians.‎ ‎33. According to paragraph 3, a person with “defective hearing” is probably one who __________.‎ ‎ A. dislikes listening to speeches B. can hear anything nonmusical ‎ C. has a hearing problem D. lacks a complex hearing system ‎34. In the last paragraph, Margaret expressed her wish that __________.‎ ‎ A. her problem with music had been diagnosed earlier ‎ B. she were seventeen years old rather than seventy ‎ C. her problem could be easily explained ‎ D. she were able to meet other amusics ‎35. What is the passage mainly concerned with?‎ A. Amusics’ strange behaviours. ‎ B. Some people’s inability to enjoy music.‎ C. Musical talent and brain structure. ‎ D. Identification and treatment of amusics.‎ 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。 ‎ ‎ Stop Negative Talk ‎“I’m so fat,” one of your friends says. The girl next to her joins in, “Well, I hate my hair today.” Without thinking, you respond: “No, you are not fat! I am fat. And my hair is flat and boring.” 36 It is easy for people to join in self-critical conversations, and once it starts there is often pressure for you to join in. 37 Maybe it is because “just talking” feels harmless. But before you know it, those opinions flow out of your conversations and into your life, where they start eating away at your self-respect.‎ ‎ 38 When you start talking about yourself in a negative way, you are not only affecting your self-respect, but your friends! When you criticize yourself, your friends might think you have the same standards for them. So, don’t start it.‎ But what if someone else starts? For example, your friend feels insecure about how well he played in his soccer game, so he puts himself down: “I hate soccer.” 39 Ask him, “Do you really think that? Why?” Maybe he is actually upset about someone’s comment, or is just getting down on himself over one bad play. Whatever it is, talking through the real issue will help him more than slipping into another negative talk.‎ It is important to talk to your friend about your insecurities, but make sure you are not talking about them just to put yourself down. 40 Instead of just focusing on the negative, talk about what makes you and your friends beautiful and unique—including what you love about your body and what you have accomplished. When you show yourself love, you set ‎ yourself as an example, and everyone benefits from you positively.‎ A. Negative talk affects self-respect.‎ B. Criticizing yourself helps nobody.‎ C. But why do we hesitate to praise ourselves?‎ D. But why is it acceptable to talk so negatively?‎ E. All it takes is just one comment and the negative talk starts.‎ F. It is better to resist negative conversations and create more balanced ones.‎ G. Before everyone puts himself down, see if you can get to the root of the problem.‎ 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，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。‎ A boy was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting （诱人的）apple on one of the branches of an apple tree hanging out over a tall fence. The boy wasn’t much of a fruit-eater, ‎41 a bar of chocolate if given the choice, 42 , as they say, the forbidden fruit can be tempting. Seeing the apple, the boy wanted it. The more he looked at it, the 43 he felt and the more he wanted that apple.‎ He stood on tiptoe, 44 as high as he could, but even as his tallest 45 he was unable to touch it. He began to 46 up and down, as high as he could, at the 47 of each jump stretching his arms to get the apple. Still it remained out of 48 .‎ Not giving up, he thought, if only he had something to 49 on. His school bag wouldn’t give enough height and he didn’t want to 50 the things inside, like his lunch box, pencil case, and Gameboy. Looking 51 , he hoped he might find an old box, a rock, or 52 luck, even a ladder, but it was a tidy neighborhood and there was nothing he could use. ‎ He had tried everything he could think to do. 53 seeing any other choices, he gave up and started to walk 54 . At first he felt angry and disappointed thinking about how hungry he had become from his 55 , and how he really wanted that apple. The more he 56 like this, the more unhappy he became.‎ ‎ 57 , the boy of our story was a pretty smart guy, even if he couldn’t always get what he wanted. He started to say to himself, “I don’t have the apple and I’m feeling miserable as well. This isn’t 58 . There’s 59 more I can do to get the apple, which is unchangeable--but we are supposed to be able to 60 our feelings. If that’s the case, what can I do to feel better?”[]‎ ‎41. A. preferring B. offering C. receiving D. allowing ‎42. A. so B. then C. but D or ‎43. A. sadder B. angrier C. hungrier D. tastier ‎44. A. expanding B. stretching C. swinging D. pulling ‎45 .A. strength B. length C. range D. height ‎46. A. jump B. look C. walk D. glance ‎47. A. tip B. stage C. top D. level ‎48. A hope B. hand C. sight D. reach ‎49. A. put B. stand C. get D. hold ‎50. A. break B. shake C. take D. strike ‎51. A. up B. forward C. down D. around ‎52. A. for B. with C. on D. of ‎53. A. After B. Through C. Without D. Upon ‎54. A. back B. away C. up D. down ‎55. A. wishes B. beliefs C. efforts D. goals ‎56. A. thought B. imagined C. tried D. claimed ‎57. A. Therefore B. However C. Moreover D. Otherwise ‎58. A. skilful B. cheerful C. harmful D. helpful ‎59. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing ‎60. A. change B. express C. forget D. describe ‎ ‎ 第Ⅱ卷 第三部分 英语知识运用 第二节 （共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ 阅读下列材料，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。‎ A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that 61 (perform) by humans. They also often appear as characters in stories. There is an interesting one about a household robot and a housewife 62 (write) by Isaac Asimov. When Claire first saw the robot, Tony, she felt 63 (alarm), for he seemed 64 like a human than a machine. However, Claire’s feelings toward Tony changed 65 the story developed. Tony managed to solve all problems in Claire’s life. The author, Isaac Asimov, is also known for his collection of short stories, I Robot(1950), in 66 he developed a set of three “laws” for robots. For example, the first law states that a robot must not injure human beings or allow them 67 (injure). Isaac Asimov had a talent 69 writing and exploring the development of science in the future. Some of his ideas are so influential that they have become a 69 (theory) framework for other writers and even scientists researching into artificial intelligence. 70 , he is regarded as one of the greatest American scientists and writers.‎ ‎ ‎ 第四部分 写作（共两节；满分35分）‎ 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。‎ 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号∧，并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ 删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。‎ 修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；‎ ‎ 2只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。‎ Dear editor,‎ I’m a senior high school student named Zhang Chu. Last week, our class have had a heated discussion about if the school should organize any outing for us students. The results are as follow.‎ Outings have lots of advantages. For one thing, they can make us relaxing and enjoy the beauty of nature. For other, they help enrich our social experience and gain some practical survival skills.‎ However, there has still something that we must keep in mind when going for an outing. Always put safety in first place, for outings will be meaningless without safety. What’s more, environmental protection should also be their concern. For example, we can’t throw any litter anywhere we go.‎ In my opinion, we should set down some time for outings to make us refreshed and get closely to nature.‎ ‎ Yours sincerely,‎ ‎ Zhang Chu ‎ 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 假定你是李华，你在在某网站上买了一个家用机器人，但使用过程中发现了一些问题，请根据以下提示给该网站写一封投诉信。‎ 1. 投诉的问题（不易操作、不服从主人的命令、经常出故障等等）‎ 2. 希望得到的结果（退货退款、修理或调换）‎ 注意:‎ ‎1.词数120左右，‎ ‎2.可以适当增加细节，以便使行文连贯 ‎ ‎ ‎ Dear Sir/ Madam, ‎ I ’m writing to complain about ________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________.‎ I’m looking forward to your early reply.‎ ‎ Yours sincerely,‎ ‎ Li Hua ‎ ‎ 参考答案 听力 1-20 BCCAB BCBAC ACBAC BCABC 阅读理解 21-21 ABCB 25-27CBD 28-31CABC 32-35ACAB 完形填空 41-50 ACCBD ACDBA 51-60 DBCBC ABDDA 语法填空　‎ ‎61.are performed 62. written ‎ ‎63. alarmed 64 .more ‎65. as 66.which ‎67. to be injured 68 .for ‎69. theoretical 70. Thus/Therefore 短文改错 ‎ ‎1. 去掉have; 2.if改为 whether; ‎ ‎3. follow改为follows; 4. relaxing 改为relaxed/relax; ‎ ‎5. other改为another; 6. has改为 is; ‎ ‎7. first前加the; 8. their 改为our; ‎ ‎9. down 改为 aside 10. closely改为close 书面表达 Dear Sir or Madam, ‎ I ’m writing to complain about the robot that I bought from your website several days ago. ‎ There seems to be something wrong with the robot. First of all, it is not easy to operate, which has caused me much trouble. Second, it sometimes disobeys my instructions. Once it even fought with me in public, making me embarrassed. Third, it often goes wrong, while a robot of high quality shouldn’t have so many problems.‎ Due to its poor quality and much inconvenience it has caused, I wonder whether you can do something about it. Could refund my money if I send the robot back? If it can’t be helped, I wish you could have it repaired or changed.‎ I’m looking forward to your early reply.‎ ‎ Yours sincerely,‎ ‎ Li Hua