高二年级2018-2019学年度下学期期末英语试题

高二年级2018-2019学年度第二学期英语期末试题试题总分：150分考试时间：120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，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称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the woman say about the World Cup?A. She has no interest in it.B. The ticket is too dear.C. It's not worth seeing.2. Who will go to KTV?A. The speakers.B. Patty and Avery.C. The woman and Avery.3. What is the woman?A.A teacher.B. A doctor.C. A shop assistant.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A.A team.B. A game.C. A goal.5. How much will the woman pay?A. $800.B. $500.C. $30.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，个小题将给出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's the relationship between the speakers?A. Fellow students.B. Co-workers.C. A couple.7. What season is it now?A. Spring.B. Autumn.C. Winter.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do we know about the woman?A. She stayed in London for 2 years.B. She knows a lot about the newspaper.C. She is good at sports.9. Why did the woman give up her first job?A. She was poorly paid.B. She wanted a higher positionC. She went to live in another city.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why can't the woman pick the man up at the station?A. She has to work.B. She can't find a taxi.C. She will meet her teacher.11. Why does the woman ask the man to get off at the golf course?A. They will play golf together.B. The pathway is tough for the taxi to go.C. It is the nearest place from her home.12. When will the speakers meet?A. At 12:00 noon.B. At about 12:30 pm.C. At around 8:00 pm.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How often are Martin's wildlife programs on?A. Once a day.B. Once a week.C. Once a month.14. Where were the wildlife programs filmed in the early 1960s?A. In the mountains.B. On the island.C. In the local zoo.15. What did the Head of Programs think of Martin's idea of filming in Africa at first?A. Great.B. Boring.C. Ridiculous.16. What is the feature of today's filming?A. It is strictly planned.B. The scenes are uncertain.C. It takes less time to prepare.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题.17. What is the passage mainly about?A. The history of hostels.B. The development of hostels.C. The reasons for the popularity of hostels.18. By whom were hostels mostly used years ago?A. Hikers.B. Business travelers.C. Older tourists.19. How did the economic crisis influence hostels?A. It brought down the price.B. It increased the business.C. It promoted the better services.20. What does the speaker say about modern hostels?A. Their services are various.B. Most of them are located in the countryside.C. They provide cheap plane tickets for the customers.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

AFacebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media web site has earned a reputation forreconnecting old friends. Last week, a guy whom I hadn't seen since my graduation party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for him to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out, after all.I learned from his profile(简介) that he was in a relationship and had a son. However, I'm pretty sure we won’tever write wall-to-wall, let alone e-mail each other. But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.My pool of friends consists of family members, college buddies, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail addresses, I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually.A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends, former classmates, distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on-screen relationships, keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions. After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends.Thanks to e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That's normal. People move from school to school, job to job, city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.Every day, the masterminds of Web 2. 0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However, convenience can be a crutch. Some things shouldn't be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.21. According to Paragraph l, the web site is famous because _______.A. it has an interesting name of “Facebook”B. it helps people get in touch with old friendsC. it can send people a greeting of some kindD. it reminds people of events in the past22. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.B. The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails.C. The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old e-mail addresses.D. It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.23. What does the author think of the convenience of communicating on line?A. The technology could not keep true friendship forever.B. The social web site of Facebook means nothing at all.C. There will be no ways of making real friends on line.D. People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook.BHave you ever noticed what happens to an idea once you express it? Just talking about it or writing it down causes you to make it clear in your own mind. How can you use this to increase your brain power? Start writing.By putting thoughts into words, you are telling yourself the logic（逻辑）behind what you think, feel, or onlypartly understand. Often, explaining a thought is the process of understanding. In other words, you increase your brain power by exercising your “explain power.”Try this experiment. Explain how you’ll increase your brain power, even if you have no idea how right now. Just start with anything, and create an explanation. For example, start with “I’ll learn chess,” or “I’ll read an articleon the mind every week.” Explain how that will help. You’ll be surprised how often this becomes a workable plan, and if you actually do this, you’ll have a better understanding of your b rain from now.Another benefit of writing is that it helps you remember. Many, if not most, highly productive people are always taking notes. You can try keeping it all in your head, but if you keep a journal of your ideas the next time you’re working on a big project, you’ll probably have more success.Want to understand a topic? Write a book about it. That’s an extreme example, but if you are learning something new, write a letter to a friend about it, and you will understand it better. Want to invent something? Write an explanation of the problem, why you want to solve it, and why it is worth solving, and you’re half-way there.Writers don’t always write because they clearly understand something beforehand. Often, they write about something because they want to understand it. You can do the same. Writing will help bring you to an understanding. Give it a try.24. What would be the best title for the text?A. A Way on How to Write.B. Increase Your Brain Power through Writing.C. Brain Power Helps Improve Your Writing.D. How to Start Your Writing.25. If a writer writes something, it means that he or she .A. has understood it very wellB. needs to understand it betterC. wants to remember it in his or her mindD. is exercising his or her “explain power”26. The underlined sentence “you’re half-way there” in the fifth paragraph implies that.A. you are already successfulB. you still need to work hardC. writing can help you walk half wayD. writing is important to solve problems27. What’s the main purpose of the writer writing the text?A. To advise readers to start their writing.B. To explain the importance of writing.C. To persuade readers to become writers.D. To increase readers’ brain power.C"Reduce, reuse and recycle, this familiar environmentalist slogan tells us how to reduce the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfills and waterways.The concept is being used to deal with one possibly dangerous form of waste – electronic junk , such as old computers, cell-phones, and televisions. But this process for managing e-waste may be used in an immoral way more often than not used, a recent report suggests.“A lot of these materials are being sent to developing nations under the excuse of reuse – to bridge the digital divide,” said Richard Gutierrez, a policy researcher.One of the problems is that no one proves whether these old machines work before they hit the seaways. Because of this, the report says, e-waste is a growing problem in Lagos, Nigeria, and elsewhere in the developing world. Much of the waste ends up being thrown away along rivers and roads. Often it’s picked apart by poor people, who may face dangerous exposure to poisonous chemicals in the equipment.Businessmen also pay workers a little money to get back materials such as gold and copper. This low-tech recovery process could expose workers and the local environment to many dangerous materials used to build electronics. According to Gutierrez, this shadow economy exists because the excuse of recycling and reusing electronics gives businessmen “a green passport” to ship waste around the globe. “Developing nations must takeupon s ome of the responsibility themselves,” Gutierrez said. But, he added, “A greater portion of this responsibility should fall on the exporting state.”China, for example, has become a dumping place for large amounts of e-waste. The nation is beginning to take action to stop the flow of dangerous materials across its borders. The Chinese government, after many years of denial, is finally beginning to take the lead.28.What does the fourth paragraph mainly discuss?A. Old computers and TVs still work before they are sent abroad.B. Poor people break up e-waste to collect some valuable materials.C. A lot of e-waste is reused in developing countries.D. The problem of e-waste is growing in developing countries.29. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.A. China has hidden a large amount of e-waste in many secret placesB. China has greatly changed her idea about the problem of e-wasteC. China has prevented poisonous materials from entering China for a long timeD. China is falling behind other countries in dealing with e-waste30. The passage mainly tells us that _______.A. developing countries are facing serious environmental problemsB. e-waste is a growing problem in developed countriesC. e-waste is sent to developing countries under the excuse of reuseD. developing countries are making full use of e-waste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。