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第二学期阶段检测一
高二英语
一、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)
1. What will James do tomorrow?
A. Watch a TV program. B. Give a talk. C. Write a report.
2. What can we say about the woman?
A. She’s generous. B. She’s curious. C. She’s helpful.
3. When does the train leave?
A. At 6: 30. B. At 8: 30. C. At 10: 30.
4. How does the woman go to work?
A. By car. B. On foot. C. By bike.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient.
第二节(共15小题,每题1.5分,满分22.5分)
听下面一段对话,回答第6至7题。
6. What does the woman regret?
A. Giving up her research. B. Dropping out of college. C. Changing her major.
7. What is the woman interested in studying now?
A. Ecology. B. Education. C. Chemistry.
听下面一段对话,回答第8至9题。
8. What is the man?
A. A hotel manager. B. A tour guide. C. A taxi driver.
9. What is the man doing for the woman?
A. Looking for some local foods.
B. Showing her around the seaside.
C. Offering information about a hotel.
听下面一段对话,回答第10至12题。
10. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In an office. B. At home. C. At a restaurant.
11. What will the speakers do tomorrow evening?
A. Go to a concert. B. Visit a friend. C. Work extra hours.
12. Who is Alice going to call?
A. Mike. B. Joan. C. Catherine.
听下面一段对话,回答第13至16题。
13. Why does the woman meet the man?
A. To look at an apartment. B. To deliver some furniture. C. To have a meal together.
14. What does the woman like about the carpet?
A. Its color. B. Its design. C. Its quality.
15. What does the man say about the kitchen?
A. It’s a good size. B. It’s newly painted. C. It’s adequately equipped.
16. What will the woman most probably do next?
A. Go downtown. B. Talk with her friend. C. Make payment.
听下面一段独白,回答第17至20题。
17. Who is the speaker probably talking to?
A. Movie fans. B. News reporters. C. College students.
18. When did the speaker take English classes?
A. Before he left his hometown. B. After he came to America. C. When he was 15 years old.
19. How does the speaker feel about his teacher?
A. He’s proud. B. He’s sympathetic. C. He’s grateful.
20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. How education shaped his life.
B. How his language skills improved.
C. How he managed his business well.
二、阅读理解 (共两节,共50分,第一节 共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
A
Considering that Sundarbans National Park is situated in the tropics,September to March is the ideal time to come here.April,May and June are too hot while July and August often bring
heavy season winds that limit travel and don’t make for a very pleasant sightseeing experience.You can really enjoy doing lots of charming things in the Sundarbans during September to March.
Take a river tour
Most tourists who explore the Sundarbans arrive in Khulna City first.From there,you can join a boat tour that travels south along the Ganges River through miles of preserved forest all the way to Kotka,where there is a beautiful beach along the Bay of Bengal.
Visit a bird habitat
This bird habitat is a nesting place for dozens of tropical birds found in the Sundarbans.The best way to observe these birds is climbing up the Sajnekhali Watchtower.If you’re lucky,you’11 also catch the famed Bengal Tiger making its rounds through the swampy jungle.
Visit the Mangrove(红树林)Interpretation Centre
If you wish to spend some time indoors out of the sweaty heat,go to the Mangrove Interpretation Centre.This place is very educational with many posters,maps and exhibits showing the wildlife and varieties of mangrove plants found within the park.You’ll also get to see crocodiles in a small pool.
Take a tour of local villages
Experience village life that has largely remained unchanged for centuries.In this vast tropical region,there are villages made up of various ethnic groups who rely on fishing,farming and working in the local through growing tourist industry for their livelihoods.The Sundarbans is a UNESCO world heritage site where you can visit villages and talk to locals,who will gladly share their culture with you.
21. Which month is suitable for a visit to Sundarbans National Park?
A. December. B. August. C. June. D. May.
22. What can visitors do in the Mangrove Interpretation Centre?
A. See some plants and animals.
B. Put up posters about wildlife.
C. Feed crocodiles in a small river.
D. Observe birds by climbing up the trees.
23. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?
A. To advertise some natural animal habitats.
B. To advocate the protection of forests in Khulna City.
C. To introduce several charming villages in the vast tropical region.
D. To show visitors something attractive to do in the Sundarbans.
B
One picture in the Wonder Book of knowledge I had as a little boy showed a man reading a book while floating in the Dead Sea. What a miracle! How would it feel to lie back in water so thick with salt that it was impossible to sink?
Fed by the Jordan River and smaller streams, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on the earth’s surface, and its water is ten times saltier than the Mediterranean. With evaporation its only outlet, salt and other minerals become super-concentrated.
Earlier this year, I drove down the long, steep hill to realize my dream. The shoreline was a broad area of bare salt-mud, but the water edge was far out of sight. Had somebody pulled the Dead Sea’s plug? I wondered. Eli Dior, an Israeli official, explained the problem: “The Dead Sea is drying up. Every year, the surface drops about one meter, and as the water level falls, shadow areas are left high and dry.”
Over the last half-century, the five neighboring countries have collectively diverted nearly all the water flowing into the Dead Sea to meet human and agriculture needs. Result: the Dead Sea is being emptied.
With population in the region set to double at least in the next 50 years, there is little hope of restoring the water being diverted for human consumption. No country has a drop to spare for the Dead Sea, where they know it will just evaporate. To dream of opening the dams and restoring natural balance is plainly unrealistic.
Yet one ambitious high-tech dream may turn out to be not only the salvation of the Dead Sea but also a ticket to peace around its shores. The “Red-Dead” is a proposed $5 billion project to bring sea water some 240 kilometers by pipeline and canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The Red-Dead may be the only solution, but even if the project is carried out successfully, the Dead Sea will be 10 to 20 meters lower than now and two thirds of its current size.
Whatever the future holds, the Dead Sea’s magical mix of sun, mud, sea and salt will surely
survive. Many might complain that the Dead Sea is half empty—but for me the Dead sea will always be half full.
24. What’s the passage mainly about?
A. Dead Sea – miracle of the world.
B. Save the environment of the Dead Sea.
C. Slow shrinking of the Dead Sea.
D. Why is the Dead Sea so salty.
25. The shrinking of the Dead Sea is mainly caused by ________ according to the passage.
A. a severe reduction of the water flowing into the sea
B. rapid evaporation of the water in the Dead Sea area
C. the increasing quantity of water drawn from the sea
D. very low annual rainfall in the Dead Sea Area
26. Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A. With no outlet to any ocean, the Dead Sea has become by evaporation most dense waters on earth.
B. Though burdened with the growing population, the neighboring countries haven’t cut off the sources of the Dead Sea.
C. All the countries in the area will consider diverting less water from the Jordan River.
D. The Red-Dead Project has not only brought water to the Dead Sea, but peace to the area as well.
27. Which of the following statements will the author approve of?
A. If the Dead Sea dried up, great natural disasters would happen in the region.
B. The Dead Sea will not survive no matter what people do to save it.
C. The five neighboring countries should stop diverting water from the Jordan River.
D. Though the Dead Sea is shrinking gradually, it will not die.
C
You know the feeling — you have left your phone at home and feel anxious, as if you have lost your connection to the world. “Nomophobia” (无手机恐惧症) affects teenagers and adults alike. You can even do an online test to see if you have it. Last week, researchers from Hong Kong warned that nomophobia is infecting everyone. Their study found that people who use their phones to store,
share and access personal memories suffer most. When users were asked to describe how they felt about their phones, words such as “hurt” (neck pain was often reported) and “alone” predicted higher levels of nomophobia.
“The findings of our study suggest that users regard smartphones as their extended selves and get attached to the devices,” said Dr. Kim Ki Joon. “People experience feelings of anxiety and unpleasantness when separated from their phones.” Meanwhile, an American study shows that smartphone separation can lead to an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
So can being without your phone really give you separation anxiety? Professor Mark Griffiths, psychologist and director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, says it is what is on the phone that counts — the social networking that creates Fomo (fear of missing out).
“We are talking about an Internetconnected device that allows people to deal with lots of aspects of their lives ” says Griffiths. “You would have to surgically remove a phone from a teenager because their whole life is ingrained in this device.”
Griffiths thinks attachment theory, where we develop emotional dependency on the phone because it holds details of our lives, is a small part of nomophobia. For “screenagers”, it is Fomo that creates the most separation anxiety. If they can’t see what’s happening on Snapchat or Instagram, they become panicstricken about not knowing what’s going on socially. “But they adapt very quickly if you take them on holiday and there’s no Internet,” says Griffiths.
28. Which of the following may Dr. Kim Ki Joon agree with?
A. Phones have become part of some users.
B. We waste too much time on phones.
C. Addiction to phones makes memories suffer.
D. Phones and blood pressure are closely linked.
29. According to Griffiths, we get nomophobia because ________.
A. we are accustomed to having a phone on us
B. we worry we may miss out what our friends are doing
C. we need our phones to help us store information
D. we fear without phones we will run into a lot of trouble
30. Which of the following phrases has the closest meaning to the underlined phrase “ingrained in”
in Para4?
A. approved of .B. opposed to. C. relied on. D. determined by.
31. Where can you probably find the above passage?
A. In a research report. B. In a popular science magazine.
C. In a science textbook. D. In a fashion brochure.
D
Mental illness and disability were family problems for English people living between 1660 and 1800. Most women and men who suffered from mental illness were not institutionalized as this was the period before the extensive building of mental hospitals. Instead, they were housed at home, and cared for by other family members.
Now a new study by Cambridge historian Dr. Elizabeth Foyster will reveal the impact on families of caring for mentally ill and disabled relatives.
Much has been written about the insane themselves but few studies have considered mental illness from the perspective of the carers. The lifetime burden of caring for those individuals whose mental development did not progress beyond childhood, and who contemporaries labeled as ‘idiots’ or ‘fools’, has been little explored by historians. Foyster’s research, which has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, will carefully examine the emotional and economic consequences for families at a time when the Poor Law bound them to look after their mentally ill and disabled family members.
By asking key questions about the impact of ‘care in the community’ in the 18th century,Foyster hopes that her research will bridge social and medical history. Specifically, she aims to provide an historical perspective for contemporary debates such as how resources can be stretched to provide for children with learning difficulties and an aging population.
“The stresses and strains of family were worsened by high infant mortality and low life expectancy, and many individuals were pushed towards mental breakdown,” she explained. “Moreover, inherited conditions, senility(高龄) and what today would be described as ‘special needs’ could put great emotional demands on family members who had primary responsibility for their sick or disabled relatives.”
The research will shed light upon how caring for the mentally ill and disabled raised difficult issues for families about the limits of intergenerational responsibility, and whether family ties were
weakened or strengthened by the experience. The questions of how far shame was attached to having insanity or idiocy within a family, and at what point families began to seek outside help, will also be addressed.
“The family must have seemed an inescapable feature of daily life between 1660 and 1800,” said Foyster. “Although there were those who were abandoned and rejected, for the majority, mental disability was accommodated within the family unit. I aim to get to the heart of what this really meant for people’s lives.”
32. Which is NOT the reason why those mentally ill and disabled were not institutionalized from 1660 to 1800?
A. Mental illness and disability were family problems then.
B. The extensive building of mental hospitals didn’t start yet.
C. They were abandoned by the government and the family.
D. The family would be found guilty if they didn’t care for them.
33. Why does Foyster want to carry out this study?
A. Because it can provide some food for thought for some current social issues.
B. Because the stresses and strains of family life have driven many people crazy.
C. Because she’s looking for ways to communicate with the sick or disabled people.
D. Because the limits of intergenerational responsibility in such families, interest her.
34. Which question will NOT be studied in the research?
A. How should resources today be stretched to provide for an aging population?
B. How did caring for the sick and disabled affect the family’s earning power?
C. How shameful did a family feel when their insane or disabled relatives were found out?
D At what point did those families have to begin to look for outside help?
35. The passage is written in order to ________.
A. reveal the impact on families of caring for mentally ill and disabled relatives
B. provide an historical perspective to contemporary debates
C. shed light upon whether family ties were weakened or strengthened
D. introduce a new historical study carried out by a Cambridge historian
三、
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。(共5小题;每小题2.5分,满分12.5分)
Things only people who have worked overseas can understand
If you have ever worked or lived overseas, I’m pretty sure you can understand the following things!
We do not automatically become fluent (流利的) in another language. A lot of people believe that changing your geographic location can improve your language learning skills quickly.___36___ Language application takes time and has a number of factors that play into a person’s level of fluency.
We feel extremely lonely at times. Yes, living abroad can be wonderful.___37___ Sometimes, we think that no one back at home understands our true feelings and life challenges, but a lot of other people travel long term and work abroad. Maybe they are not facing the same problems as you, but they know exactly how you feel.
We don’t really like our birthdays. Usually, your special day ends with the last phone call you get from home and then you can look through all your greetings on social media.___38___ You may throw a small party with some of your new friends, but it’s going to be nothing compared with the goodold feasts you used to have with your loved ones back at home.
___39___ Too often we simply can’t tell you if we will be coming home for holidays this season. Sometimes, our working/living permits require us to stay in the country for at least a year. Adding up the flight costs and additional travel expenses, traveling home becomes quite a challenge for us.
We will change.___40___ You become more mature, independent and openminded. Usually, you return home as a better person than the one you left as.
A. The truth is: it isn’t like that.
B. We may not plan to move back home.
C. We don’t know when we’ll come home next.
D. However, it can get extremely lonely on some days too.
E. Living abroad makes us value the little things a lot.
F. Living and working abroad shape your personality a lot.
G. After that, you just act as if it’s another ordinary day in your life yet.
四、 完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15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。
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are __41__ —a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and __42__ languageand throw new light on an old scientific __43__: whether language, __44__ with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a __45__ behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the __46__ work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something __47__; among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural __48__, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the “hand __49__” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be __50__ any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people __51__ their signing as “substandard”(不够标准的). Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy – a belief contrary to what was generally accepted.
It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a(n) __52__. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages __53__ English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of _54_. “What I said,” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff(素材)—it’s _35_ stuff.”
41. A. unique B. specific C. inexact D. valid
42. 42. A. varies B. applies C. interrelates D. understands
43. A. argument B. definition C. conclusion D.
statement
44. A. familiar B. complete C. changeable D. comparative
45. A. adopted B. undertook C. introduced D. learned
46. A. pioneering B. concluding C. evaluating D. imitating
47. A. casual B. odd C. explicit D. tricky
48. A. clue B. file C. code D. port
49. A. talk B. gossip C. clap D. shake
50. A. characteristic of B. different from C. equal to D. worthy of
51. A. contributed B. classified C. conveyed D. regarded
52. A. evolution B. procedure C. revolution D. presentation
53. A. with B. among C. as D. like
54. A. space B. rhythm C. volume D. rate
55. A. culture B. brain C. muscle D. heart
五、 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。并将答案填写在答题卡上标号的相应位置。
A Bite of China
No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually,China has various kinds of delicious food,_56_(include) a wide variety of local snacks (小吃).
Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Mongolian Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese_57_(dish). China is a place_58_the food is not only delicious, but the__59__(cheap) I’ve ever found.
__60__my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table,_61_(attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful
chopsticks. I was handed__62__menu and found most of the prices__63__(be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you’ve ever eaten Peking duck---a little tortilla (玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.
Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I’d just take the rest back to my hotel __64_ (eat) later if I couldn’t finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck __65__(leave) on the plate. Umm, yummy!
六、 单词拼写(共10题,满分5分)
根据所给的首字母或中文完成下列句子
1. My educational background and professional experience make me to be _________(有资格) for the work。
2. She was able to give the police an ____________ (精确的) description of her attacker.
3. He was __________ (委任) as headmaster and wanted to tell his friend the good news.
4. He ___________(陷入) himself to despair when he lost everything in the world.
5. It is ___________(众所周知) that effective teacher's feedback can greatly motivate students to learn and
guide them to learn more efficiently.
6. According to the newlymade traffic regulation, whoever drives through red light shall be f________ at least
200 dollars.
7. I called the airline to confirm my flight r____________ a week before I left for Canada.
8. She accused the press photographers of v_________ her privacy.
9. There are more and more family problems a_______ from lack of communication,
10. Such a sharp comment is an i________ to a bitter argument.
七、写作(共2节,满分35分)
第一节 应用文写作(满分15分)
假定你是李华,你作为交换生在美国的游学即将结束。请你给美国好友David写一封电子邮件,要点如下:
1. 表示感谢; 2. 分享自己的游学体会; 3. 邀请他到中国玩。
注意:
1. 词数80左右;2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯;3. 邮件开头已为你写好。
Dear David,
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节(满分20分)
阅读下面材料, 根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段, 使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150左右。
An urgent call came into Jim Green’s bar this past March. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at the beach bar, couldn’t find her wallet. She didn’t care about her ID, credit cards, or $150 in cash — but her wedding ring was inside.
Jim, 42, didn’t like the idea that a theft could have occurred at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours checking the video tapes from 16 different surveillance cameras(监控摄像机), watching the woman’s every step in the bar until she went to sit on a bench outside and left when her ride arrived. Within minutes, a young man approached the bench, quickly put something in his pocket, and walked off. Jim posted a clip on the bar’s Facebook page. “I just asked if anybody knew who the guy was,” Jim said.
Within hours, Jim got a text from 17-year-old Peter. Peter admitted to having taken the wallet and told Jim he’d done it because he hadn’t eaten in two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake, so he took the money and threw the wallet off the public docks into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich.
Jim, unsure whether he believed Peter, told the teen to meet him at the docks. There, they got to talking, and Peter revealed that he wasn’t getting along with his family and had been living in
the woods for a week. Jim, a father of two, looked closely at Peter — his small height, his ruddy cheeks — and saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal.
But the risks were high. The police were already on the case, and because of the missing ring, Peter could be facing a serious crime charge. “I had to help him somehow,” Jim says.
The police wanted Jim to bring the teen down to the station. Instead, Jim called the police and told them, “He’s going to be at the docks with me tomorrow.”
Paragraph 1
Jim hired two local divers to search the waters where Peter had thrown the wallet.
Paragraph 2
And then a diver popped up.