2018-2019学年高二英语上学期第二次调研考试(期中)试题.doc

2018-2019学年高二英语上学期第二次调研考试(期中)试题满分：150 分时间：120 分钟命题人：第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第卷第一节 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 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每 段对话仅读一遍。1. What kind of films does Tina like?A. Thrillers.B. edies.C. Cartoons.2. What happened to the boy yesterday?A. He lost his keys.B. He broke his cell phone.C. He forgot to take his bag.3. How much is the green dress?A. $200.B. $400.C. $800.4. Why is the woman late?A. Her flight was delayed.B. She was caught in a traffic jam. C. The road was under construction.5. What did Jason do?A. He went to a concert.B. He played with Lily.C. He did his homework.第二节 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，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6. What will Alice do during her holiday?A. Walk on the beach.B. Do some reading.C. Go swimming.7. When will Jim leave for Florida?A. Next Tuesday.B. Next Monday.C. This Saturday.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. At what time does the truck e?A. 8:00 pm.B. 5:00 am.C. 8:00 am.9. What does the woman mean in the end?A. Tony is often late for school.B. Tony should take the rubbish out now.C. Tony is a naughty boy.听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. How does the man feel about saying “no”?A. Easy.B. Difficult.C. Hurtful.11. What can make a relationship longer in the womans opinion?A. Having mon hobbies. B. Saying “yes” at any time.C. Rejecting a request sometimes.12. What will the woman do tonight?A. Eat out with the man.B. Invite the man to dinner.C. Visit her friends with the man.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。13. Where does the man want to go?A. A supermarket.B. A department store.C. A discount shop.14. What is the womans most expensive thing?A. A pair of boots.B. A pair of jeans.C. A suit.15. What does the woman like?A. Window shopping.B. Famous brands.C. Expensive clothes.16. What will the woman do for the man?A.Send an e-mail.B. Design a pattern.C. Make a sweater.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17. Where are the listeners probably?A. On a bus.B. At the airport.C. At a tourist spot.18. What is the speaker?A. A ticket seller.B. A bus conductor.C. A tour guide.19. How much does a ticket cost an adult?A. $14.B. $15.C. $25.20. Where will the listeners have lunch?A. At the Nicolet Shopping Center. B. At the St. Anthonys Falls.C. At the Waller Art Center.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。AThe blooming of social media and interactive smartphone-based apps has proved that e-marketing is an unchangeable trend. In the case of China, the latest battlefield is beauty camera apps, which have bee an overnight hit in the West.1. MeituPicDeveloped by the Xiamen-based Meitu Inc, MeituPic is the panys flagship beauty camera app and was the first to bee a big hit among Western users. The app has drawn some 456 million users, who use it to post more than 6 billion photos every month.In addition to MeituPic, Meitu Inc has developed a series of beauty camera apps such as Beauty Plus, Poster Labs and Meipai, each specializing in facial feature improvement, video editing and many other features.2. TiantianpituTiantianpitu, is a beauty app developed by Chinas Internet giant Tencent. Similar to other photo-editing apps, Pitu offers a number of beautifying filters, blemish（瑕疵）removing tools and virtual makeup choices for users to choose from.Launched in xx, Pitu has accumulated 106 million monthly active users (MAUs). While the number is not as impressive as that of Meitu s apps, some argue that the user base of Tencent s gaming products and chat applications, such as QQ and WeChat, gives Pitu great potential for further growth. According to Chinese app watchers, Pitu s target audience is younger and more individualized than that of MeituPic. 80 percent of Pitu s users are younger than 25, giving the app more room to try out more new features.3. FaceUIn contrast with most other beauty apps, FaceU, focuses more on the social feature, encouraging users to video chat with friends and even strangers while playing with its fun stickers ( 贴纸) and the strategy is undoubtedly working. Launched in xx, the app, which mainly targets female users between 15 and 35, hastwice made it onto the Apple store s Chart for top apps.21. Meitu Inc has developed a series of beauty camera apps except .A. MeipaiB. MeituPicC. Beauty PlusD. Tiantianpitu22. What gives Tian Tian Pi Tu more room to grow potentially?A. The amount of Meitu Appss potential users.B. Users of Tencents gaming products and chat apps. C. The various kinds of photo-editing functions.D. The room to try out more new features.23. According to the passage, what do the three Apps have in mon?A. They mainly target young users.B. They all launched in xx.C. They are popular and hot.D. They specialize in photo editing.BMatthew Shifrin got his first Lego blocks when he was 5. “I have been in love with Legos ever since,”he says. Shifrin is blind. Now 18, he has spent years trying to make Legos easier for blind kids to enjoy.The blocks themselves are not difficult for blind people to put together. But Legos large sets including bridges, starships, historic scene, and famous buildings are a different story. They have hundreds or even thousands of pieces and plex written instructions. These make it very hard for blind people to build a set without a lot of help from a person who can see. “I was always just drooling over the sets because they sounded so amazing,” Shifrin says. “But I knew that I would never have access to them.”That changed on Shifrins 13th birthday. Lilya Finkel, a family friend, gave him the Lego set Battle of Alamut, a castle with 821 pieces. She had translated the instructions into Braille( 盲文). She had also made other changes, like dividing the pieces into plastic bags based on which step they were to be used in. Shifrincould build the set without his parents help. “This was a rare case in which the impossible was made possible and the playing field was leveled,” he says.Now Shifrin hopes to share accessible Lego instructions with other blind kids. He and Finkel have translated more than 20 Lego instructions for the blind. Shifrin has also set up a website, Lego for the Blind, where people can download instructions and volunteer to help translate instructions into Braille. “I hope that the next generation of blind children will benefit and will feel the level playing field that I felt when I built that first set,” he says.24. What does the underlined word mean in para 2?A. creativeB. crazyC. indifferentD. unconcerned25. What was special about Shifrins birthday gift from Finkel?A. It was a castle.B. It was bagged well.C. It was blind-friendly.D. It was hard to put together.26. Which of the following words can best describe Shifrin?A. Helpful.B. ChildishC. Optimistic.D. Cautious.27. What is the best title for the text?A. Amazing success. B. Games for children. C. The way to build with Legos.D. For the love of Lego.CLondoners are great readers. They read and buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books especially paperbacks, which are still paratively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound(装订) betweenhard covers.There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in bookselling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collectors must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers e along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handcarts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.28. “Londoners are great readers.” means that .A. Londoners are great because they read a lotB. There are a great number of readers in LondonC. Londoners are readers who read only great booksD. Londoners read a lot29. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road .A. is in the suburbs of LondonB. is famous for its bookshopsC. contains various kinds of shopsD. is the busiest street in London30. What does the underlined part in paragraph 3 mean?A. Buy books in a most busy street.B. Waste time looking for books. C. Move away from a busy street.D. Take a risk of losing ones life.31. On Farringdon Road, .A. you can find fine books for the latest booksB. there are only small bookshops for the secondhand booksC. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are soldD. you can see booksellers selling books on handcartsDSomething in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines, say UKresearchers.Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a third more effective in stoppingcoughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at present.The Imperial College London researchers who published their results online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatment. “While coughing is not necessarily harmful it can have a major effect on the quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem,” said Professor Peter Barmes.Ten healthy volunteers ( 志愿者) were given theobromine, codeine or placebo, a pill that contains nomedicine, during the experiment. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers knew who received which pill. The researchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicines are stopping coughs.The team found that, when the volunteers were given thebromine, the capsaicin needed to produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they need only slightly higher level of capsaicin to cause a cough pared with the placebo.The researchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a verve activity ( 神经 活动 ), whichcause coughing. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no side effects such as sleepiness.32. According to Professor Barnes, theobromine .A. can be a more effective cure for coughsB. can be harmful to peoples healthC. cannot be separated from chocolateD. cannot be as effective as codeine33. What was used in the experiment to cause coughing?A. TheobromineB. CodeineC. CapsaicinD. Placebo34. We learn from the text that volunteers in the experiment .A. were patients with bad coughsB. suffered little side effectsC. received standard treatmentsD. were divided into three groups35. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Codeine: A New MedicineB. Chocolate May Cure CoughsC. Cough Treatment: A Hard CaseD. Theobromine Can Cause Coughs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。Easy Ways to keep Your Brain SharpEveryone is forgetful, but as we age, we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bitand that can be a very annoying thing. 36 Read on for some techniques worth trying.1. 37 People who regularly made plans and looked forward to uping events had a 50 percent reducedchance of Alzheimers disease (早老性痴呆症), according to a recent study. 38 Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. Theres evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do better, In other words, keep yourbrain looking forward.2. Go for a walk.Mildly raised glucose (葡萄糖) levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain. 39 3. Learn something new.Take a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A study found that mental stimulation (刺激) limits the weakening effects of aging on memory and the mind, But the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new and are physically active at the same time. 40 Or go dancingwith your friends.A. Focus on the future.B. This can be especially harmful to the aged.C. It should be something like learning gardening.D. So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.E. But dont worry if your schedule isnt filled with life-changing events.F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to avoid those moments.G. In other words, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选取可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。When I was twelve years old back in the 1950s my parents allowed me to apply for an afternoon newspaper route. I had a friend who was a little older than me. He had a morning route and he was 41 what I considered big money. I had helped him 42 his newspapers a few times and I thought I could 43 it, too. In those days most towns had both a morning newspaper and an afternoon newspaper. My parents did not want me to have to 44 before dawn but they said yes to an afternoon route.I was 45 about being able to make my own money. 46 , I needed a bike to be able to handle the large bag 47 for carrying the newspapers. I was not a large boy and the only bike we had in our family was too 48 for me to handle with a load of newspapers. I needed a 49 one. My fathersuggested we go shopping for a 50 bicycle with the understanding that I would pay for it out of my51 .In the 1950s the Western Auto pany had a line of bicycles. My father arranged( 安 排 ) for me to 52 a bicycle that was just the right 53 for me. But for the next several months I 54 rode my bike to the Western Auto Store to make my $5.00 monthly bike 55 .It was a great 56 for a twelve-year-old boy to learn. I learned how to make money and pay my57 . I did not know it at the time but that bicycle impacted ( 影响) hugely on my life. It gave me my first taste of 58 . But most of all it led me to wife because her parents were among my 59 on thenewspaper route. Get on your bike and ride and you 60 know where it will take you.41. A. showingB. borrowingC. demandingD. earning42. A.deliverB. readC. buyD. fetch43. A. rememberB. noticeC. understandD. manage44. A. get upB. go backC. give inD. e over45. A. worriedB. disappointedC. excitedD. moved46. A. ThereforeB. BesidesC. MoreoverD. However47. A. requiredB. achievedC. changedD. conveyed48. A. tinyB. tallC. slowD. old49. A. lighterB. strongerC. prettierD. smaller50. A. usefulB. beautifulC. suitableD. expensive51. A. behaviorB. wishC. ineD. promise52. A. buyB. borrowC. rentD. try53. A. weightB. styleC. qualityD. size54. A. graduallyB. nervouslyC. dutifullyD. carefully55. A. paymentB. repairC. checkD. cleaning56. A. successB. shockC. surpriseD. lesson57. A. respectB. debtC. dreamD. goal58. A. laborB. treasureC. challengeD. independence59. A. friendsB. customersC. relativesD. classmates60.A. neverB. sometimesC. usuallyD. seldom第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 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。Self-confident people are admired 61 others and inspire confidence in others. They know that no matter what difficulties e their way, they have the ability 62 (solve) them. Self-confident people tend to see their lives in a positive light even when things arent going so well, and they are typically 63(satisfy) with themselves. Wouldnt 64 be amazing to have this kind of self-confidence? Guess what? You can.Self-confidence can be learned, practiced and mastered just like any 65 skills. You can begin by changing your body language. Just the simple act of 66 (pull) your shoulders back gives others the67 (impress) that you are a confident person. Next, look at the person you are talking to keeping eye contact shows confidence. Last, speak slowly. Research has proved that those 68 take time to speak slowly and 69 (clear) feel more self-co