海南省海南枫叶国际学校2017_2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题

海南省海南枫叶国际学校2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题第一部分单词短语（共两节，满分30分）第一节写出对应单词的中文意思或者中文的对应英语单词。

（共14小题；每小题1分，共14分）1.confusion2.预定3. 令人放松的4.标志5. renewable6.detective7. 任务，使命 8.accountant9. extend 10.自由11.celebration 12.个性，性格13. determined 14.绑，系第二节写出对应短语的中文意思或者中文的对应英语短语。

（共16小题；每小题1分，共16分）15.追溯到date back 16.取笑make fun17.和…一样；也as well 18.完结come to end19. 起飞，脱掉 take 20.装扮dress21.放弃give 22.逃跑run23. 编造；组成make 24.捉弄某人play a trick sb.25.上气不接下气out of 26.出发，启程set27.申请apply 28.特别，尤其 particular29.遭受…痛苦suffer 30.以为…理所当然take… granted第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节阅读下列短文，从A,B,C,D中选出最佳选项。

（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）AIn 1826, a Frenchman named Nieple needed pictures for his business. But he wasnot a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837.That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. The kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype. Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all over the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains.In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of films and other machines. But this did not stop them, for example, some in the United States worked so hard.Mathew Brady was a famous American photographer. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were lifelike. Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed the author’s ideas and feelings, like other kinds of art.根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

31. The first photo taken by Nieple was a picture of .A. his businessB. his houseC. his gardenD. his window32. The daguerreotype was .A. a FrenchmanB. a kind of pictureC. a kind of cameraD. a photographer33. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to .A. watch lots of filmsB. buy an expensive cameraC. stop in most citiesD. take many films and something else with him34. Mathew Brady .A. was very lifelikeB. was famous for his unusual picturesC. was quite strongD. took many pictures of moving people35. This passage tells us .A. how photography was developedB. how to show your ideas and feelings in picturesC. how to take pictures in the worldD. how to use different camerasBI was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads. Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to step rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something, “I’m awfully sorry,” I said and stepped forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things that constantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to try to guess if the bus had arrived.Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.But on this particular evening no one joined me at the stop. It seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I let them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.36. The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________.A. she might be recognizedB. asking for help looked sillyC. she was normal and independentD. being found blind was embarrassing37. After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.A. began to runB. hit a person as usualC. hit a lamppost by accidentD. was caught by something38. At the request stop that evening, the girl___________.A. stopped a big lorryB. stopped the wrong busC. made no attempt to stop the busD. was not noticed by other people39. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?A. Other vehicles also stopped there.B. It was unreliable for making judgments.C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl.D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus.40. Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping__________.A. to find people thereB. to find more buses thereC. to find the bus by herself thereD. to find people more helpful thereCThe days of staring attentively at the computer screen pretending to be interested in an assignment even though you are bored out of your mind may soon be coming to an end. That’s because if Dr. Harry Witchel has his way, computers of the future will be able to detect boredom and even react to it real-time.But before you get concerned, the machine is not reading your mind. It is just keeping track of the constant involuntary movements that people exhibit when in front of a computer or even a television. These are not the bigger instrumental actions like moving a mouse or using the remote, but subtle barely noticeable movements like scratching or stretching. Witchel says the level of movement isdirectly relative to how absorbed the person is in what he/she is reading or watching — the higher the interest level, the lesser the movement!To test the theory Witchel and his team invited 27 people and exposed them to a variety of digital content for three minutes at a time. The activities ranged from playing online games to reading documents like the EUbanking regulations that most people would find boring. A video motiontracker monitored their movements as they powered through each assignment. Just as the researchers had suspected, the involuntary actions decreased surprisingly, by as much as 42%, when the subjects were totally absorbed in what they were reading or seeing.Fortunately, the scientists are not planning to use the findings that were published in the online Journal to create machines that report students who are not focusing at school. Instead, they believe that combining the motion detecting technology into future computers will help enhance the digital learning experience.The scientists say that being able to measure the student’s interest level, will enable educators to adjust the materials real-time and re-engage the student. Witchel also believes that the technology can provide filmmakers with honest audience opinions and in the future, also be used in developing more understanding companion robots.41. Dr. Harry Witchel wants future computers to have the competence to_______.A. sense when users feel tired and less absorbedB. record how long people surf on the InternetC. help educators to prepare teaching materialsD. read the people’s mind in front of a computer42. What can we infer from the text?A. The machine will be used to detect whether the students are focusing at school.B. Subjects will make fewer unconscious movements if they are concentrated.C. Future computers are intended to cure adolescents of their network addiction.D. Most people think banking documents boring because they are of little value.43. What may be the best title for the text?A. Being Exposed to Computers All Day Long Makes You Bored.B. Scientists are Developing a More Advanced Computer Now.C. Computers of the Future May be Able to Detect Boredom.D. The Future Machine is Helpful to Teachers And StudentsDMusic is particularly popular in the medical profession, especially among surgeons.A recent survey shows that 90% of surgeons in the UK put music on the sound system in the theatre during operations. Plastic surgeons（整形外科医生）play the most music; it appears that ear, nose, and throat specialists the least.But it isn’t only in surgeries where music is popular. In another recent survey, one-third of the 1,613 people said they listen to music while working. And 79% of them said that humming（哼歌）along improves their job satisfaction or productivity.Is listening to music at work a good idea? Yes, say the experts. Many surgeons say that music helps to create a “calm atmosphere”, and a third of them added that it avoids getting bored! Also, listening to music raises the levels of a brain chemical that can help people focus. Office workers say it improves job satisfaction. Several studies suggest that it’s also good for hospital patients. Those listening to music through headphones during surgery require less anesthetic（麻醉剂）, up to 50% less in some cases, and recover more quickly afterwards. “Sure, music reduces anxiety before surgery,” says Zeev Kain, an anesthetist at Yale University.So, what type of music should we be listening to? Surgeons from the previous survey preferred rock, pop music and classical. And hip-hop is popular too. However, whatever the kind, it appears that self-selected music is the best choice. Pennsylvania State University research showed that when people chose their own music there was more stress reduction. And other researchers found that when listening to self-selected music, surgeons did the maths faster and more accurately than when they were listening to music chosen for them.44．The surveys mentioned in the passage show ________.A. music is popular in some professionsB. most surgeons in the UK are fond of singingC. office workers learn a lot from listening to musicD. fewer than half of the people listen to music at work45．What are the advantages of listening to music at work? ________.①improving memory②keeping people relaxed③improving job satisfaction④improving eyesightA. ①④B. ①②C. ②④D. ②③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。