江西省景德镇市第一中学2017_2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题（16、17班无答案）.docx

江西省景德镇市第一中学2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题（16、17班，无答案）第I卷第一部分 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 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。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。听完每段对话或独白前，你都有时间阅读各个小题，每个小题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。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，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。AI am Peter Hodes, a volunteer stem cell courier. Since March 2012, Ive done 89 trips - of those, 51 have been abroad, I have 42 hours to carry stem cells (干细胞) in my little box because Ive got two ice packs and thats how long they last. In all, from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor to the time they can be implanted in the patient, weve got 72 hours at most. So I am always conscious of time. I had one trip last year where I was caught by a hurricane in America. I picked up the stem cells in Providence, Rhode Island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London. But when I arrived at the check-in desk at Providence, the lady on the desk said: “Well, Im really sorry, Ive got some bad news for you - there are no flights from Washington.” So I took my box and put it on the desk and I said: “In this box are some stem cells that are urgently needed for a patient - please, please, youve got to get me back to the United Kingdom.” She just dropped everything. She arranged for a flight on a small plane to be held for me, re-routed (改道) me through Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier than originally scheduled. For this courier job, youre consciously aware that in that box youve got something that is potentially going to save somebodys life. 21. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “courier” in Paragraph 1? A. providerB. collector C. delivery man D. medical doctor 22. Why does Peter have to complete his trip within 42 hours? A. The ice wont last any longer. B. The donor can only wait for that long. C. The operation needs that much time. D. He cannot stay away from his job too long.23. Which fight did the woman put Peter on first? A. To Newark. B. To London. C. To Providence. D. To Washington. BThe discovery of an ancient giant panda skull has confirmed its bamboo diet dates back more than 2 million years and may have played a key part in its survival. A Chinese-US research team reports its results today following studies on a fossil skull found in South Chinas Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2001. The six fossils unearthed in Jinyin Cave are dated between 2.4 and 2 million years ago, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious US journal. Jin Changzhu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and lead author of the paper, said the smaller fossil skull indicates the giant pandas were about a third smaller than todays pandas. Researchers knew the panda reached its maximum size about 500,000 years ago, when it peaked, and then gradually became smaller. Jin, a paleontologist（古生物学者） at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleonanthropology （古人类学）affiliated to the CAS, said the size variation was a basic rule of evolution. A species tends to grow bigger when it reaches the peak of its population, but becomes smaller when numbers decline, he said. The dental remains of the skull, which is the oldest giant panda skull ever found, are similar to todays pandas, indicating the type of teeth that could munch（津津有味地嚼） mountains of bamboo. A panda can eat up to 40 kg of bamboo per day. Paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon, the US co-author at the University of Iowa, said the pandas focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years. Once an animal begins to rely on a prevalent and stable food source, such as bamboo, it tends to evolve a larger body size, he said. As individuals of the evolving species grow bigger, they have a better chance not to be eaten by predators（肉食动物）due to their larger body size. 24According to the research of the CAS, there were most pandas in the world .A2 million years ago Bbetween 2.4 and 2 million years ago C500,000 years ago Dnowadays25The underlined word “variation” in Para 6 means . Afall Bchange Cincrease Ddecrease 26From the passage, we can learn . Apandas began to eat bamboo 2 million years ago Ba species tends to grow smaller when numbers decline Cthe giant pandas were about a third the size of todays pandas Dpandas bamboo has played an important role in its development27The passage mainly tells us that . Apandas are endangered Bpandas had a long history Cpandas had bamboo to beat predators Dtodays Pandas are similar to the oldest onesCThe government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the worlds food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill（钻孔）deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0C. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0C. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the worlds safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.28The project is meant to _.Aincrease the worlds food output in the future Bcarry out some scientific experiments on plant genes Cbuild an exhibition center of the worlds plant seeds Dprotect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters29Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?AThe government of Norway will perform the project alone. BSeeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago. CSpitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever. DTemperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.30We can infer from the text that _.ANorway had meant to build the storage center about 20 years before. BThe storage center will greatly promote world agriculture CPeople will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.DThere havent been any seed storage centers in the world before.31What is probably the best title of the passage?AThe Best Place to Store Seeds BNoahs Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in PlanCConcerns of World Food Supply DA New Way to Feed the World DIn Japan many workers who work in large corporations have a guarantee of lifetime employment.During their employment, they will not be laid off during recessions(经济萧条) or when the tasks they perform are taken over by robots. To some observers, this is what they call capitalism at its best, because workers are treated as people not things. Others see it as necessarily inefficient and they also believe it cannot continue if Japan is to remain competitive with foreign corporations by being more concerned about profits and less concerned about people.Defenders of the system argue that those who call it inefficient do not understand how it really works. In the first place not every Japanese worker has the guarantee of a lifetime job. The lifetime employment system includes only “regular employees”. Many employees are not included in this category, including all women. All businesses have many part-time and temporary employees. These workers are hired and laid off during the course of the business cycle just as employees in the United States are. These “irregular workers” make up about 10 percent of the non-agricultural work force. Additionally, Japanese firms keep some flexibility through the large-scale use of subcontractors（转承包者）. This practice is much more common in Japan than in the United States.The use of both subcontractors and temporary workers has increased remarkably in Japan since the 1974-1975 recessions. All this leads some people to argue that the Japanese system is not all that different from the American system. During recessions Japanese corporations lay off temporary workers and give less business to subcontractors. In the United States, corporations lay off those workers with the least seniority(资历). The difference then is probably less than the term “lifetime employment” suggests, but there still is a difference. And this difference cannot be understood without looking at the values of Japanese society. The relationship between employer and employee cannot be explained in purely contractual(合同的) terms. Firms hold on to the employees and employees stay with one firm. There are also practical reasons for not jumping from job to job. Most retirement benefits come from the employer. Changing jobs means losing these benefits. Also, teamwork is an essential part of Japanese production. Moving to a new firm means adapting to a different team and at least temporarily, possessing lower productivity and lower pay.32.It is stated in the second paragraph that _.A. defenders themselves do not appreciate the systemB. about 90% of “irregular workers” are employed in agricultureC. the business cycle occurs more often in Japan and in the U.S.D. not all employees can benefit from the policy33. During recessions those who are to be fired first in the U.S. corporations are _.A. regular employees B. part-time workersC. junior employees D. temporary workers34. According to the passage, Japanese firms are remarkably different from American firms in that the former _.A. use subcontractors in larger amountB. are less flexible in terms of lifetime employmentC. hold on to the values of societyD. are more efficient in competition than the latter35. Which of the following does NOT account for the fact that a Japanese worker is unwilling to change his job?A. He will probably be low-paid.B. He will not be able to possess some job benefits.C. He has got used to the teamwork.D. He will be looked down upon by his prospective employer.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。A garden thats just right for youHave you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum of its parts? 36 . But it doesnt happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process. 37 Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers. 38 . However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.Recall your childhood memoriesOur model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandmas rose garden and Dads vegetable garden might be good or bad, but thats not whats important. 39 . how being in those gardens made us feel. If youd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 40 . Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.A. Know why you gardenB. Find a good place for your own gardenC. Its delightful to see so many beautiful flowersD. Its our experience of the garden that mattersE. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plantsF. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, tooG. For each of those gardens, writer down the strongest memory you have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；每小题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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As I had my first child, I promised myself never to be a pushy parent. I was going to be a very 41 and understanding mother.Five years later my little boy was about to 42 for his yellow belt in karate(空手道). As a five-year-old child, he wasnt taking it 43 , because it was Mom trying to help him. I found myself yelling and telling him he would never get the belt acting like that. I was trying to 44 him his back-flip（背摔）. He continued to play and I continued to 45 . Finally I had made him feel like he couldnt 46 anything, just as I promised myself I wouldnt do.Still mad and stubborn I couldnt 47 . I had to teach him his flip. He was doing fine with it by the time we had to leave to go to karate. While taking the test, he did 48 . His instructor would ask him to do something, and it became 49 for him. He never asked him to do the back-flip. He had passed his yellow belt test.We got in the car to 50 when he looked at me and said ”Mom, why did you make me do that back-flip so many times, 51 it wasnt even on the test.” The words wouldnt have 52 anything to anyone else, but it was a slap in my face. That night while 53 in bed, I told him I loved him.He was 54 and didnt say anything, just giggled. I said “I really do love you baby.” I was still feeling 55 , and also wondering if he had 56 me. Finally he replied in the 57 voice, “I know you do, but I love you more.”He had forgiven me and I had decided that his feeling were more 58 than any test he would 59 take. I made a new 60 to be better mother and to accept that he was only a child.41ApatientBgoodCpoliteDaffectionate42AlookBtestCplayDpractise43AeasyBhappilyCseriouslyDfairly44AhelpBtellCmakeDteach45AyellBspeakCsmileDteach46Aaccomplish Bfeel Ctry Dpass47Agive upBgive outCgive awayDgive in48AbadBworseCgreatDbetter49AquickBnaturalCcommonDnormal 50Ago shopping Bgo homeCrest ourselvesDenjoy ourselves51AwhileBonceCwhenDif52AexpectedBmeantCdemandedDreached53AreadingBstudyingClyingDtalking2009011754AplayingBmovingCworkingDcrying55AstubbornBhappyCupsetDguilty56AforgivenBhatedCforgottenDloved57AsaddestBbiggestChappiestDsweetest58AtrueBimportantCsincereDfaithful59AstillBevenCeverDnever60AgiftBplanCexperimentDpromise第II卷第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）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。Once there was a wise landowner who had two sons. After a few years, the landowner fell ill badly. So he considered_ 61_ (select) one of them to rule the family according to their abilities. He called both of them and _62_ (give) each one a room. He said，“You must fill your room completely with anything you wish. It can be anything! But there should not be any space _63_ (leave) behind and you should not seek advice _64_ others! The next day, the l