广东省深圳市2017-2018学年高二第一学期期中英语试卷

广东省深圳市2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题
本试卷共10页，满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

试卷由两部分组成。

第一部分70分；第二部分80分。

注意事项：
1、答卷前，考生将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目涂写在答题卡上。

2、每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动用橡皮擦
干净后，再涂其它答案，不能答在试题卷上。

3、考试结束，监考人员将答题卡按座位号、页码顺序收回。

第一部分（满分70分）
一、阅读（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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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When you’re on the go, your best friend and resource can be your phone. In the age of smart phones, apps are like guiding stars: They can point you in the right direction for a hotel, list expenses, send postcards, and much more. When used together, these apps can be the basic travel tool, placing a wealth of information at your fingertips no matter where you are on the planet. U.S. News Travel has picked the essential travel apps, known for their utility and reliability. Best of all, they cost absolutely nothing.
Trip It
Your Personal Travel Agent
Be your own travel agent and plan every detail of your trip—from car rental to accommodating restaurants—with Trip It. You can make travel schedule by hand, or simply forward the email confirmations of your flight, rental car, train tickets, and hotels to plans.
Weather Free
Your Go-To Meteorologist(气象学者)
Stop trying to explain the weather forecast on the evening news (particularly when it’s in a foreign language). The Weather Free app informs you (in English) of the climate in various locations. It features the local weather, and other key factors that will inform your decision about what to wear before stepping outside. Goby
Your Event Guru
When you're in a foreign city, you sometimes look around and ask: Where are all the people? Goby has the answer. This app pinpoints the neighborhood hot spots
(including museums, hotels, eateries, and more) in your neighborhood. But its true value comes in finding nearby events. You'll discover concerts, plays, and more right around the corner.
1. What is the advantage of using travel apps picked by the U.S. News Travel?
A. They can solve any problem you come across.
B. They reduce your travel budget.
C. They exercise your fingertips.
D. They are reliable and free of charge.
2. With the help of the travel apps used together, travelers can do the following
things EXCEPT .
A. rent a car
B. decide what to wear
C. look for a friend while traveling
D. find the nearby museums
3. Where are the readers likely to read the passage above?
A. In a geography textbook
B. In a science and technology magazine
C. On a popular website
D. In a business report
B
Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York –he in computers, she in special education. “Teaching means everything to us,” Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life’s purpose.
Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton’s foundation (基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer’s hometown of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire,” Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, “as a reminder.”
Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on . The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.
The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish,” says Linda. The books –reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood board members –included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer book s like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.
Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than gratefu l: “This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of.”。