2019届四川省成都外国语学校高二下学期英语期中考试

成都外国语学校2017-2018学年度下期期中考试

高二英语试卷

命题人: 赵芳肖山审题人: 张嵘

注意事项:

1、本试卷分第Ｉ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

2、本堂考试120分钟，满分150分。

3、答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、学号填写在答题卡上并使用2B铅笔填涂。

4、考试结束后将答题卡交回。

第Ｉ卷（选择题共70分）

第一部分阅读理解（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。

A

City College

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

All high school graduates and anyone 18 years of age or older, with or without a high school diploma, are suitable for admission. Individuals under the age of 18 who possess a high school diploma are also suitable for admission.

HOW TO ENROLL IN CREDIT COURSES

New and readmitted students must complete and hand in a credit admissions application form available online at .

BEFORE YOU REGISTER:

●L earn about your skill level in English and Math through our assessment service;

●Attend an orientation (新生报到会) to hear about support services;

●Meet with a counselor (adviser) to select your courses;

●Find out if you are required for attendi ng the entrance examinations.

HOW TO ENROLL IN NONCREDIT COURSES

Courses in Noncredit Programs are free of charge (no enrollment fee). For information on how to enroll in noncredit courses, click here.

PARKING

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to use public transit. Click here for Parking Regulations.

SERVICES

City College services include a bookstore, cafeteria, health center, tutoring center, career and transfer center, counseling, financial aid, library, learning resource center, student government offices, campus police, disabled students programs and more.

1.Which kind of the following people could not be admitted to City College?

A. A high school graduate

B.An adult without a high school diploma

C. Anyone who possesses a high school diploma

D. A sixteen boy without a high school diploma

2. What do we know about the entrance examinations from the passage?

A. All new and readmitted students must take the examinations.

B. Those who are poor in English and Math must take the entrance examinations.

C. Not all the new students are required to take the entrance examinations.

D. The entrance examinations are free of charge.

3. Where can this passage be found?

A. In a college news report.

B. In a newspaper advertisement.

C. In a tour guide.

D. On an education website.

B

Spending money on time-saving services reduces stress and boosts (增进) happiness, according to a new research, but shockingly, few of us do it.

Whillans, a professor at HBS said, “Buying time helps to protect us from the stress in our lives caused by time pressure, and the feeling that we don’ t have enough minutes in the day to complete our tasks.’’

The effect was clearest in the Canadian experiment, in which 60 working adults were given $40 to spend in two different ways. One weekend, they were told to spend the money on a material purchase—a gift for themselves. The next weekend, they were instructed to spend the $40 on anything that saved them time, from paying the neighbor’s kid to run err ands (跑腿) to taking a Uber instead of a bus.

“On the day they made the time-saving purchase, they felt happier, in a better mood, and lower feelings of time stress than on the day they bought a material purchase” said Whillans.

The biggest surprise to the researchers was how few people would spend money on time-saving services. When they asked 98 working adults how they would spend a “windfall” of $40, only two percent named a purchase that would save them time.

“One reason,’’ said Whillans, “is that we’re very bad at remembering how much we hate doing certain tasks once the suffering has passed. That makes us less likely to take active steps to avoid that over burdened feeling in the future.” But another possible cause is good old-fashioned guilt. “If you f eel guilty about getting someone to clean your house for you, then you might get less happiness from outsourcing that task,” said Whillans, or you might just be less likely to spend your money in that way. ’’

4.In the Canadian experiment, the participants _________ .

A.were divided into two groups

B.were given $ 40 every two weeks

C.were asked to give money to a neighbor’s kid

D.were asked to spend the money in different ways

5.According to the author, what can make people less time-stressed?

A.Paying much for a concert ticket.

B.Taking a regular bus to get to work.

C.Employing someone to clean the garden.

D.Buying themselves an expensive present.

6.When it comes to spending money on ‘‘buying time”, ________ .

A.no people would like to do it

B.a small percentage of people choose to do it

C.more people will do it if extra money is given

D.most people like the idea but don’t practice it in life

7. What do the underlined words “that overburdened feeling” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A. The good old-fashioned guilt.

B. The feeling of spending money on goods.

C. The stress of having someone clean your house.

D. The discomfort when completing tasks we hate doing.

C

German artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash to make sculptures. “We are living in the time of garbage,” says Schult. “I created a thousa nd sculptures of garbage. They are a mirror of ourselves.” Here, Schult was talking about his 1,000 trash sculptures in the form of humans. He first exhibited them in 1996 in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“They are social sculptures,”he explains. “They are not only sculptures for the eyes. They are sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.” So far, Schult’s social sculptures have been on show in Paris, in Moscow’s Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo.

HA Schult’s work is unforgettable. Although his work has had a big influence on the art world, Schult remains modest about his creations: “Artists have to learn every time. We are not important. All that counts is the time in which we are living.”

Trash art has been around for years. But it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with trash. Why can’t common people be considered artists when they use the same things an d change them into some form of personal art? Maybe it’s because we all have our own preset ideas of what art is and isn’t, or who artists are or should be.

You can be an artist like Schult if you try. Look at used metal cans. What might be done with them? Imagine them in any number of new uses, or imagine them simply as an art form. What about boxes or clothing? Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for pets. And clothing? Imagine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or hanging organizers.

8. What do we know about Schult’s sculptures?

A. They served as garbage containers.

B. They reflected environmental issues.

C. They were first shown in Paris, France.

D. They were to raise economic awareness.

9. HA Schult’s artistic works a lso get the message across that an artist must__________.

A. be socially responsible

B. be as modest as possible

C. make garbage recyclable

D. take diverse artistic forms

10. According to the last 2 Paragraphs, the author probably agrees that __________.

A. it takes talent to be a trash artist

B. preset ideas are important to artists

C. trash art can't be seen as a real art form

D. average people can also make trash artists

11. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. Could You Be a Trash Artist?

B. What Are Social Sculptures?

C. Do You Know About Trash Art?

D. How Can We Deal with Used Cans?

D

As a child, visiting the zoo was more a punishment than a treat. I didn’t find the chimps’ tea parties funny, nor the bird shows entertaining. Feeding time for seals was less painful, but their performances still seemed like they belonged more in a circus.

And I hated circuses, especially the animal acts —men teasing lions, girls balancing on elephants and monkeys playing football. I knew that every trick a circus animal did was unnatural, achieved through strict training and quite possibly cruelty.

Happily, during my lifetime public attitudes and the law have changed. Circuses using wild animals are now almost extinct, and zoos have definitely evolved.

When my children were young, I occasionally took them to our local zoo. The elephants were in tiny cages and the gorillas looked bored as they sat peeling bananas and staring at teasing visitors. Each cage had a sign which listed the animal’s name and where it came from. But, back then, there was little information included about the environmental challenges they faced.

As a result, environmentalists and animal lovers often oppose zoos. “Animals belong in the wild,” is a common and understandable com plaint. But what do the animals themselves prefer?

Generally speaking, zoo animals have a longer life. But — you may protest — they are not free. What? Free to be hunted and killed, free to die of hunger or thirst? Maybe sitting in a cage eating bananas i sn’t so bad.

Not that such conditions are acceptable in modern zoos, due to the work of BIAZA, the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. These days every zoo requires BIAZA’s approval to operate, and the association sets the standards, observes conditions in zoos and develops animal-research programmes, both in the UK and abroad. BIAZA also organises the animal exchanges between zoos all over the world.

Consequently, today, most zoo animals are born and raised in zoos, live in large, comfortable enclosures and are cared for by well-trained, knowledgeable and caring zoo employees. Of course it’s no substitute for living in the wild but unfortunately this isn’t always possible. Meanwhile, why not visit your local zoo and decide for yourself?

12. The passage is mainly about __________.

A. how zoos have improved

B. whether a zoo should be closed down

C. a new environmental organisation

D. the difference between zoos and circuses

13. From Paragraph 2, we can guess that the writer believes circus animals __________.

A. had much shorter lives than those in the wild

B. were not treated well by their trainers

C. should have been placed in zoos

D. were not as intelligent as those in zoos

14. Which of the following roles are performed by BIAZA?

A. Organising animal study projects and training zoo workers.

B. Checking zoo conditions and arranging animal exchanges.

C. Designing zoos and approving zoo operations.

D. Caring for ill animals and setting zoo standards.

15. Which of the following statements about zoos would the writer agree with?

A. Zoo animals should be freed into the wild.

B. Zoos are more popular now than in the past.

C. Zoo animals are more restricted than in the past.

D. Zoos now provide caring living conditions for animals.

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项。

Language is part of our daily lives, no matter where we live in the world. It is the same with music, whether you listen to it on the radio on your drive to work or sit before an orchestra. Both language and music play a huge role in our culture. 16____

Both language and music have a writing system. In English we record language using the alphabet, which is a collection of letters. In the same way, we use notes to keep a record of music. Just as you are reading this collection of letters on the screen and find meaning in it, musicians read notes and create meaning in the form of music which we can hear. 17 By writing pieces of text or music, we are able to share experiences through time. I can read the ideas or hear the composition of someone who lived hundreds of years ago, which is really quite exciting.

18 You can make a good guess at where someone is from by listening to the language they use. In the same way, we know that styles of music are different around the world, giving us the opportunity to explore many different cultures through their music and providing us with music for every situation. 19 Even if you don’t like Britpop melodies, you may love the energy of Latin American salsa music.

Both share emotion. How do you know that I am angry? Of course you may be able to see it in my face, but you will know for sure through my words. 20 Music can show you exactly how the composer was or is feeling, and allows us to share in that emotion. When you feel happy, you might want to sing and dance to a happy song to celebrate your happiness. In contrast, you have probably also listened to sad music when you were feeling down. I think we have all used music to express or process our emotions, often combining it with language in the form of song lyrics.

A. Both vary with culture.

B. Here are some of their similarities.

C. They have some distinguishing characteristics.

D. So just as you read English, you can read music.

E. Similarly, music can sound angry, sad or happy.

F. This also means that there is something for everyone!

G. This also means everyone can learn language and music well!

第二部分完形填空（共20题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford. I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives with banks, consulting firms,

On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind,

with expensive new sports cars.

However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to

us tend to ignore --- and the very ones we need to consider most.

21. A. much B. never C. seldom D. well

22. A. policies B. standards C. experiments D. regulations

23. A. last B. least C. second D. best

24. A. cycled B. moved C. slid D. looked

25. A. shared B. paid C. equaled D. collected

26.A. advertised B. witnessed C. admitted D. demanded

27. A. complain B. dream C. hear D. approve

28. A. distribute B. hate C. applaud D. neglect

29. A. calm B. guilty C. warm D. empty

30. A. family B. government C. lifestyle D. project

31. A. accustomed B. appointed C. unique D. available

32. A. yet B. also C. instead D. rather

33. A. let out B. turn in C. give up D. believe in

34. A. fundamental B. practical C. impossible D. unforgettable

35. A. take off B. drop off C. put off D. pay off

36. A. missing B. inspiring C. sinking D. shining

37. A. harmful B. hard C. useful D. normal

38. A. measure B. suffer C. digest D. deliver

39. A. disasters B. motivations C. campaigns D. decisions

40. A. assessed B. involved C. covered D. reduced

第II 卷（非选择题共80分）

注意事项：必须使用黑色墨迹签字笔在答题卡上题目所指是的答案区域内作答。答在试题卷上无效。

第一节单句语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读每个小题，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

1.The book is full of interesting ___________ (observe) on the nature of musical composition.

2.What is also worthy ___________ (mention) is his excellent teamwork spirit and his superior English proficiency.

3.The tough competition discourages many athletes ___________ making a serious attempt to make the Olympic team.

4.Do you fancy ___________(come)on a day trip to Bath next Saturday?

5.A ___________(mark) improvement has been seen in gender equality in marriages and families in China over the past 20 years.

6.The stuffed dog barked as if it ___________(be) a real one.

7.As he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention___________ (fix) on the sky, he fell accidentally into the deepwell.

8.Pneumoniais a fatal disease that causes death unless ___________(treat) properly.

9.She's well aware ___________ her strengths and weaknesses as an artist.

10.His not ___________ (allow) to see his mother worried him most.

第二节首字母填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1.Recently, a great many young people have been o__________ with Musical.ly, a hugely popular social video app. Therefore, they can’t concentrate on their work or study.

2.The product is environmentally friendly but the d__________ is that it’s too expensive.

3.The number of the students in your group exceeded ten. You had to be s___________ into two groups.

4.Feeling a___________ at the fact that their children were addicted to playing with their mobile phone, some parents consulted the experts on how to get rid of the addiction.

5.It’s not acceptable to b___________ with greengrocers about the price of vegetables and fruit. They will feel insulted.

6.I used to drink 3 cups of coffee every day but now I have to r____________ myself to one cup to keep in shape.

7.I c ouldn’t get through to him. The line was e____________ the whole morning.

8.The announcement of the spring outing t___________ the little boy, making him wide awake in the deep night.

9.In the long and tough journey, he p__________ a reliable man who always lent a hand to anyone in need.

10.His e_____________ holiday was devoted to the voluntary work. He had no time to take care of his own family.

第三节根据语境选择恰当的短语并用其正确形式填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分

2.The people we ___________ with have more influence on our attitudes than we imagine.

3.The company provides cheap Internet access. ___________, it makes shareware freely available.

4.We’ve just missed the train! We should ___________ earlier to avoid the heavy traffic.

5.Perhaps the person ___________in the letter is not the person we seek.

6.If you were given the option of not ___________ that painful experience, would you take it?

7.My grandfather, who had helped ___________ a rebellion in Dublin, retired from the army in 1920.

8.On the evening of Oct. 11, Jack Ma ___________ at the Xiaomi Music Festival dressed like a rock star.

9.Children ___________ by their rural-to-urban migrant parents are more likely to suffer mental health problems.

10. After the blast, the ambassador ___________an olive branch saying the two nations were not naturally born enemies.

第四节（共10小题；每题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Have you ever noticed that you feel happier and more relaxed after you eat bread, pasta or fruit? Do you find that you are more energetic and awake after eating yogurt or beans? These things are not accidents.

on our moods are beginning to understand that we can influence our feelings with what we eat.

carbohydrates before a race.

you are feeling stressed.

much.

第五节短文改错 (共10小题; 每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文, 请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号 (∧), 并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线 (\) 划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者 (从第11处起) 不计分。

During the travel back to my hometown, in the plane, I sat next to an old lady who looked

very scary. She closed her eyes tight and grasped her red bag on her lap. I thought I might be

nervous, so I planned to chat with her to make her to feel relaxed. We talk a lot about our families and experiences. When the flight over, I also helped her carry her luggages. She was so grateful about my help that she gave me the big hug when we were going to leave. On our way out, we waved good-bye. She kept on turning back to see me unless we couldn't see each other any long.

第六节：书面表达（25分）

假定你叫李华，是我校高三（2）班的学生。你在校报英语专栏看到了学校“英语文化节”的一则招募启事，请阅读启事，并根据写作要点和写作要求写一封应征邮件。

Volunteers Wanted

Our annual English Festival, which will be held on November 12,2018, is now looking for 20 student volunteers to provide service for Talent Show, Speech Contest, and English Debate. If you are interested, please send an application email at your earliest convenience to Ms Chen at .

写作要点：1表明意图；

2.陈述应征目的；

3.说明应征条件（性格、能力等）。

写作要求： 1.词数：100词左右；

2.开头和结尾部分已写好，不计入总词数；

3.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Ms Chen,

I’m a student from Class 2,Grade 3.

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

高二英语听力答案

选择题部分

1-5 BCACB 6-10 CB CAB 11-15 BBCBB 16-20 CABCA

判断正误

AABAB

填空

1.unbearable

2. suffering

3. effective

4. surrounding

5. warned

6. elderly

7. extreme

8. audience

9. understand 10. invited

高二英语笔试答案

阅读理解

1--3 DCD 4--7 DCBD 8--11 BADA 12--15 ABBD 16--20 BDAFE

完形填空

21--25 DBABC 26--30 CABDC 31--35 AADCD 36--40 ABADB

单句语法填空

1.observations

2. to be mentioned

3. from

4. coming

5. marked

6. were

7. fixed

8. treated

9. of 10. being allowed

首字母填空

1.obsessed

2. drawback

3. split

4. alarmed

5. bargain

6. restrict

7. engaged

8.thrilled 9. proved 10. entire

选变填

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2. hang around

3. In addition

4. have set out

5. referred to

6. going through

7. (to) put down

8. showed up

9. left behind 10. held out

语法填空

1.how

2. its

3. to

4. were

5. connected

6.is found

7.the

8.enjoying/to enjoy 9.importantly 10.but

短文改错

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so I planned to chat with her to make her to feel relaxed. We talk a lot about our families and

talked

experiences. When the flight ∧over, I also helped her carry her luggages. She was so grateful

was luggage

about my help that she gave me the big hug when we were going to leave. On our way out, we

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waved good-bye. She kept on turning back to see me unless we couldn't see each other any long.

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