英语---湖北省宜昌市长阳县第二高级中学2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试试题

长阳二中高二期中考试英语试题试卷共72小题，1~20为三选一的单项选择题，21~35为四选一的单项选择题，36~40为七选一的单项选择题，41~60为四选一的单项选择题，61~70为填空题，71为改错题，72为写作题。

命题：金玲审题：高二英语组时间：150分钟第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节(共5小题，每小题1.5分)1.What will the man do first?A. Meet the group membersB. Complete the paper.C.Plan tomorrow’s work.2.When is the plane arriving?A. At 5:00 p.m.B. At 5:30p.m.C. At 7:00p.m.3.How does the woman get exercise?A. She dances quite often.B.She goes running regularly.C.She plays volleyball all the time4.What are the speakers talking about?A. A dress.B. A skirt.C. A jacket.5.What does the man suggest the woman do?A.Reach the airport in time.B. Finish her work earlier.C. Ask Mike for help.第二节(共15小题，每小题1.5分)听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.When was the e-mail sent?A. Two days ago.B. Three days ago.C. Five days ago.7.What does the woman offer the man?A.Free gifts.B. Lower prices.C. Extra supplies.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8.Where does the boy work?A. In a small restaurant.B. In a high school.C. In a big company.9.What does the boy plan to do next year?A. Work as an engineer.B. Go to college.C. Change his job.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.What does the woman mainly mention about his brother?A. His good friend.B. His army life.C. His great change.11. Why did the woman’s brother beat his dog?A. It bit him.B. It didn’t listen to him.C. It made his room dirty.12. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Give her some advice.B. Visit a stranger with her.C. Have a talk with her brother.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the most important transportation in Karl’s village?A. The plane.B. The bus.C. The boat.14. What type of work do many people in Karl’s village do now?A. They fish in a boat.B.They make tools by hand.C.They do business on the Internet.15. What does Karl think of the old lifestyle?A. Exciting.B. Easy.C. Dangerous.16. What is Karl most interested in?A. Modern clothes.B. Computer games.C. Hunting tales.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What is special about directed dreamers?A. They can control their dreams.B. They can remember their dreams.C. They can wake up while dreaming.18. Why did Dr Border do the experiment a few weeks ago?A. To communicate with directed dreamers.B. To know more about directed dreaming.C. To find some directed dreamers.19. What were the three people required to do?A. To develop new abilities.B. To have a special dream.C. To tell interesting experiences.20. What is Dr Border going to talk about next?A. The equipment of their center.B. The course of his research.C. The details of the experiment.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。

AIf you are a book-lover, you may be interested in the following.Dietland, by Sarai WalkerIf you’re sick of the stick-thin and perfectly slim models of society today, Dietland is for you. The funny novel follows Plum Kettle, an over-weight advice journalist who answers fan mail for a teen girls’ website. She’s convinced that her life won’t really start until she saves up enough money for her weight-loss operation —when she’ll finally look like the ―perfect‖ woman. But after she gets pulled into a series of adventures with a group of women who live life on their own terms, she begins to reconsider her own opinions of what ―beauty‖ really is.Orhan’s Inheritance, by Aline OhanesianAfter Orhan’s Turkish grandfather dies, he learns that while he’s taken over his grandfather’s successful business, the house that’s been in his family for generations was not left to him. Instead, it went to an 87-year-old woman who lives in L.A. that no one in his family has ever heard of. To get to the bottom of this, Orhan travels to L.A. to meet with the woman. It’s then that he uncovers the secrets of his family.Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah HarariIf the story of evolution (进化) has always interested you, this book is for you. In it, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari explores how, if 100,000 years ago there were six different kinds of humans on Earth, only one lived through to today: homo sapiens. He takes both an historical and biological approach to his discussion of how humans have evolved over time. He talks about the society created by sapiens and cultural wonders. And perhaps what is most fascinating is the evolution of humans.21. What does Plum Kettle want before she joins the women in the adventures?A. Natural beauty.B. A large sum of money.C. A healthy lifestyle.D. A slim shape.22. What puzzled Orhan after his grandfather’s death?A.Their house was given to a stranger.B.His grandfather’s business was such a success.C.He had to take care of the 87-year-old woman.D.The 87-year-old woman was one of his relatives.23. What’s the most interesting in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind?A. The advanced society.B. The rise of humans.C. The development of biology.D. The cultural wonders.BRegarded as one of the English language’s most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although Keats didn’t receive much formal literary education, his own studies and passion brought him much success. Additionally, his own life situation influenced his poetry greatly.Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle-class family, the young John didn’t attend a private school, but went to a public one. His teachers and his family’s friends regarded him as an optimistic boy who favored playing and fighting much more than minding his studies. After his father’s death in the early 1800s, followed by his mother’s passing due to tuberculosis (肺结核), he began viewing life differently. He wanted to escape the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on.At around the age of 16, the teenage John Keats began studying under a surgeon so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary appetite had taken too much of his fancy, especially with his addiction to the poetry of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, entitled O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written an entire volume of poetry, but was sharply criticized by a magazine. However, the negative response didn’t stop his pursuit of rhythm (韵律).John Keats’ next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story involves a shepherd who falls in love with the moon goddess and leads him on an adventure of one boy’s hope to overcome the limitations of being human. Following Endymion, however, he tried something more narrative-based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in poetry due to his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the ―knowledge‖ associated with his poems. His next work was Hyperion that would attempt to combine all that he learned. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy wouldkeep him from his work and eventually take his life in 1821.24. John Keats’ attitude towards life changed because of _________.A. his early education from schoolB. the deaths of his parentsC. Edmund Spenser’s poetryD. the criticism of a magazine25. What is the common thing between John Keats and his mother?A. They died of the same disease.B. They had a bad childhoodC. They read many books.D. They showed strong interest in poetry26. While pursuing his dream of becoming a poet at first, John Keats was _________.A. determinedB. experiencedC. knowledgeableD. impatient27. What do we know from the passage?A. Keats received little education at school.B. Keats once had a chance of becoming a doctor.C. In 1816 Keats spent two months writing a poem.D. Endymion was about a real love story.CThere are many thoughts on the origins of civilization. One of the major factors involved was the increase in population. The development of techniques, primarily irrigation and flood control, which permitted agriculture in special areas such as the flood plain of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made possible the support of large population. Once populations reach a certain number, the older pattern of social organization breaks down and new ones develop. Specifically the older system, whereby each individual participated in food production and maintained a similar standard of living and whereby kinship(家属关系) served as the basic method of social organization, was replaced by the occupational division of labor, political and religious hierarchies(等级制度), public works such as road and public building construction, class systems, codes of law, markets, new forms of warfare, and urban centers. Allied with these important sociological traits are material traits, such as monumental architecture and the development of science and, in many cases, metallurgy(冶金学) and writing systems.The earliest civilization, Sumer, developed in the Middle East. This was the Bronze Age of the Old World, during which people first developed the art of metallurgy, civilization also arose in other parts of the Old World, first in Egypt, China, and India, and later in Europe and Africa. Atthis time, civilization also developed independently in the New World, in the Mexican area and in Peru and its adjacent(邻近的) areas.In the Old World the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age, which saw the rise and fall of great empires and the shift of power from the Middle East to Greece and Rome and then to Western Europe. In the 1700s the Industrial Age began, leading directly to the modern civilization of today.28. The author of this passage_________.A. gives a comparison between ancient civilization and modern civilizationB. suggests that population increase is most important in the development of civilizationC. explore the relation between agriculture and industryD. tries to explain how civilization developed in human history29.According to the first paragraph, the increase in population _________.A.resulted in the development of agricultural technologyB. resulted from the breakdown of old social organizationC. was impossible without the development of agricultureD. caused the occupational division of labor30. The word ―traits‖ in Paragraph One most likely means _________.A. main appearancesB. great achievementsC. outstanding successesD. distinguishing features31. Which of the following is NOT included in the expression ―the Old World‖ used in thepassage?A. Both Western and Eastern Europe.B. American continent.C. African continent.D. Asian countries.DEveryone knows that death is natural, but do you have any idea of the process of dying? Modern scientists divide the process of dying into two phases---clinical or temporary death and biological death. Clinical death occurs when the vital organs, such as the heart or lungs, have ceased to function, but have not suffered permanent damage. The organism can still be revived(复活). Biological death occurs when changes in the organism lead to the ―breaking up‖ of vital cells and tissues. Death is then unchangeable and final.Scientists have been seeking a way to prolong the period of clinical death so that the organism can remain alive before biological death occurs. The best method developed so far involves cooling of the organism, combined with narcotic sleep. By slowing down the body’s metabolism(新陈代谢), cooling delays the processes leading to biological death.To illustrate how this works, scientists performed an experiment on a six-year-old female monkey called Keta. The scientist put Keta to sleep with a narcotic. Then they surrounded her body with ice-bags and began checking her body temperature. When it had dropped to 28 degrees the scientists began draining blood from an artery. The monkey’s blood pressure decreased and an hour later both the heart and breathing stopped: clinical death set in. For twenty minutes Keta remained in this state. Her temperature dropped to 22 degrees. At this point the scientists pumped blood into an artery in the direction of the heart and started artificial breathing. After two minutes Keta’s heart became active once more. After fifteen minutes, spontaneous(自发的)breathing began, and after four hours Keta opened her eyes and lifted her head. After six hours, when the scientists tried to give her a penicillin injection, Keta seized the syringe and ran with it around the room. Her behavior differed little from that of a healthy animal.32.For a person who suffers from the clinical death _________.A.he is still very much aliveB. he can not avoid final death.C. his most important organs are damaged.D. he still has the possibility of getting back to life.33. Scientists try to make the time of clinical death longer in order to _________A.cool the organism.B.delay the coming of biological death.C. slow down the body’s metabolism.D. bring vital cells and tissues back to active life.34. How did the scientists put Keta into clinical death?A.By putting her to sleep, lowering her temperature and draining her blood.B.By surrounding her body with ice-bags and draining her blood.C.By lowing her blood pressure and stopping her heart from beating.D.By draining her blood, lowering her blood pressure and stopping her breathing.35.All of the following indicate that the monkey has almost restored to her original physical state except the fact that _________A.her heart beat again.B.she rejected a penicillin injection.C. she regained her normal breath.D.she acted as lively as a healthy monkey.第二节根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。