湖北省宜昌市葛洲坝中学2019_2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题.docx

湖北省宜昌市葛洲坝中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题 考试时间：2019年11月第卷 （选择题 共100分）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。1. Who is the host of the dinner?A. Frank.B. Paul.C. The woman.2. Which month is the worst according to the woman? A. May.B. June.C. July.3. What will the woman probably do? A. See a doctor.B. Take some time off work.C. Continue going to work.4. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Boss and clerk.B. Husband and wife.C. Mother and son.5. How much more did the woman pay for her wedding dress than her sister? A. $400.B. $300.C. $100.第二节（共15小题；每小题15分，满分225分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What are the speakers doing today? A. Playing tennis.B. Playing football. C. Playing golf.7. How often does the man play on average? A. Once a month. B. Twice a month. C. Once a week.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What happened to the guy in the front of the stage? A. He fell off the stage.B. He got in a fight with some crazy people.C. He jumped into the crowd.9. What did the man like the most?A. The opening band.B. The audience.C. The design of the stage.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the man describe his city in the beginning?A. Its big.B. Its horrible.C. Its romantic.11. Whats the city center like according to the man?A. Its crowded with boats.B. Theres a famous church there.C. There arent many shops.12. Why doesnt the man like living there?A. Its too quiet.B. There are too many tourists.C. The drinking water is polluted. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What will happen next week?A. The mans friend will visit him.B. Mark will leave.C. Karen will come into town.14. Which word can be used to describe Mark?A. Selfish.B. Talented.C. Lazy.15. What do we know about Karen?A. She is shy.B. She has blue eyes.C. She is single.16. What did the speakers decide to do?A. Go cycling together.B. Introduce two friends to each other.C. Have dinner together.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. In which direction will the company move?A. North.B. West.C. South.18. Where will the employees get money for moving expenses?A. From the bank.B. From the community fund.C. From the Human Resources Department.19. What is the new office building like?A. It has 25 stories.B. Its next to a movie theater.C. It includes a big restaurant for employees.20. Whats the goal of the company?A. To rank among the top five providers of Internet service.B. To become the biggest Internet service provider by 2015.C. To have a total area of 50000 square feet.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。AAmerican WatersportsTuesday-SaturdayLocated on the beach of the Sea Gardens Beach Resort, there are fun things to rent for the whole family. They offer rentals for kayaks, jet skis, and even parasail! Enjoy the water up-close or from a birds eye view! No matter what activity youre enjoying, be sure to protect yourself and your family from the suns powerful rays and apply plenty of sun block!15th Street Boat Company Monday-Saturday15th Street Boat Company offers rental boats of all kinds. Theyre sure to have what you are looking for, whether its a small boat for a quick and simple outing or an extravagant boat with comfortable seats with a stereo and high tech navigation. You can rent a boat for half a day or a couple of days, or even weeks at a time. If you want it, theyve got it. Its fun for everyone!Coconuts Watersports 9am-5pm Monday through SundayCoconuts Watersports is open 7 days a week for your convenience and offers tons of water fun for the whole family. Jet Ski activities last 30 minutes or 1 hour and can make stops along the way. You must be at least 14 years of age to ride alone and can be as young as 3 to ride along with an adult. Everybody is required to wear a life jacket and a license is required to operate the Jet Ski. Bathing suits and shorts are recommended.Jet Ski Tours of Miami Thursday-Sunday 10am-7pmJet Ski Tours of Miami includes onsite parking, indoor restrooms, lockers, and life jackets for participants. You may choose a one or two tour and each Jet Ski can hold up to 3 people. You must be at least 18 years old in order to ride. As long as you are accompanied by an adult, there is no age limitation for any passenger. There is a restaurant nearby to eat at. The tour visits 6 different islands and passes by Bayside and Hard Rock. You may even catch a glimpse of dolphins or a manatee resting in these fabulous Florida waters.21. Which of the following can help you enjoy sailing a boat?A. Choose Jet Ski Tours of Miami.B. Go to the Sea Gardens Beach Resort.C. Visit 15th Street Boat Company. D. Visit Coconuts Watersports.22. Whats a necessary requirement to ride alone in the Jet Ski activities?A. One must stay with parents. B. One must be at least 14 years old.C. One apply plenty of sun block. D. One must wear bathing suits and shorts.23. What will you do to satisfy your sons curiosity about marine animals?A. You prefer the tour to Bayside and Hard Rock.B. You prefer a luxury boat with comfortable seats with a stereo.C. Youd like to choose American Watersports.D. You would like to rent a boat to ride with him.B This holiday weekend will be about more than Thanksgiving treats and extra days off from school for eighth-grader Shreya Nair. Shreya will also spent some of her time conducting an interview that will end up in the Library of Congress.Shreya, 13, is participating in a StoryCorps initiative called The Great Thanksgiving Listen. The project encourages students to interview family members and friends about their lives in an effort to preserve the stories and voices of an older generation.“It would be interesting to see her view on life and how its different from mine based on the circumstances she grew up in,”Shreya said about her interview.StoryCorps aim is to use audio to preserve the stories of people of all ages and backgrounds. Students will be able to record their interviews using a new app and upload them to the StoryCorps Archive at the Library of Congress.Shreyas English teacher decided to get involved in spreading the word about the project, by assigning the interview as homework.Alison Matthews teaches Shreya at McCall Middle School in Winchester, Massachusetts. She incorporated(纳入) the StoryCorps interview assignment into a unit on the book, The Giver. Matthews describes the novel as a“story about this community where theres one man the giver who holds all the memories of the community.”“The StoryCorps project fit in so perfectly. The Library of Congress is the keeper of our memories. So I asked kids to think about the importance of memory in our society,” Matthews said. Shreya said that her classmates like the assignment.”Its an interview that will help us not only understand the book were reading right now, but help us later in life,” Shreya said. “One of the things I like about the project is that you get to hear so many other peoples voices,”she added. “Sometimes in this world it feels like our opinion is the only one, but when you sit down and listen, its amazing what it can bring.”24.Whom might Shreya meet this holiday weekend?A. Her grandmother.B. one of her cousins.B. Her English teacher. D. one of her classmates.25.What is the purpose of the project?A. To start a new tradition.B. To narrow the distance between people.C. To record history through oral communicationD. To teach students to communicate more effectively.26.Why does Matthews support the project?A. It fits in a lesson perfectly.B. It is a new teaching method.C. Her students want to learn about interviewing.D. Her students want to visit the Library of Congress.27.What might be the best title of the passage?A. A Holiday Weekend.B. A Girl Participating in a New Project.C. An Interview to the Older Generation.D. A Meaningful Thanksgiving Day.CRecently, many e-commerce platforms, including Didi Taxi, Ctrip, Fliggy, JD and Taobao, have been uncovered that they are cheating their frequent customers. Their ways are pretty clever. When there are new users or conservative old users, they will give a quite appealing price to attract them into registering and buying goods. However, their big data is not that friendly to the stable users and frequent visitors. The system always offers them higher price for the same products or service. How does this happen? According to the data analysis, the system knows clearly that although they feel the price is high, they will finally pay the bill. By collecting and analyzing users profiles, buying habits and other information, big data recommends the same products to different users with different prices. Companies also try other ways to make money, making online consumption far more worrying. For example, video websites always offer 120 seconds advertisements, which drives people crazy. And even if you pay for the membership to get rid of the ads, you have to “enjoy” 15-second “private” ads. By broadcasting them, companies make huge profits -second to the membership fees. Also, owning 100Mbps network, you still put up with the slow speed when you are downloading a song. You have no choice but to become a VIP when you seek high quality services. Users seem to be lambs(羊羔) among wolves. Even though they say “Since you have money, Ill charge you more”, we cant do anything about it. It pains us that we havent figured out a way to deal with the problem. The only thing we can do is replacing our iPhones with Android phones if we want to buy a membership card, and applying for new accounts if we want cheaper hotels. Not finding a way to fight back, we cant do anything but accept them passively. 28. How does big data serve companies according to the text? A. By being kind to all users. B. By giving a discount to stable users. C. By attracting new users by analyzing their shopping habits. D. By recommending the same products with higher prices to regular users.29. What do we know from the second paragraph? A. Membership can rid you of all the ads. B. Only by being a VIP can you get a better service.C. The slow download speed is due to your poor network.D. Advertising income is the biggest income for video websites. 30. What is the author attitude towards the chances of finding a way to fight back? A. Uncertain.B. Casual.C. Negative.D. Positive. 31. What is the main idea of the text? A. The big data provides helpful information to users. B. We have to accept online consumption as it is. C. There exist many online consumption traps. D. Regular customers are richer. DAt one time it was the dream of many little girls to become a nurse. Today, however, America is facing its worst nurse shortage since World War I. Recently about 2,000,000 nurses are needed and 60 percent of all hospitals in the US have shortages, large enough to threaten the quality of care provided. The demand for nurses spreads widely throughout the nursing field.What has become of these women in white? The answer lies in not one but several causes. One possibility is the fact that women have greater career options. In the past, women who chose to work outside the home had two basic choices: nursing or teaching. Today, more women than ever are in the workforce, but their options have greatly increased. There are women doctors, lawyers, firefighters and police officers. In fact, women today are found in nearly every field of work. Nursing has been left behind, as women move on to jobs with higher pay and greater status. A woman or man in the nursing field is often looked down upon as“merely a nurse”. Teachers many be also at fault. Many high school students are actually away from nursing, told by teachers that they are“too bright to be a nurse”.Americans are living longer than ever and requiring more medical attention. In fact, the number of elderly patients has almost doubled in the past twenty years. Obviously a larger population requires more nurses. AIDS and other diseases have caused more and more people to need nursing care. Usually deadly diseases mean long hospital stay, that is to say, more nurses are needed to care for these patients. It is estimated that the demand for nurses will be doubled the supply in the coming ten years.32. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?A. How teachers have influenced their students.B. What has caused nurse shortage.C. How nurses have been looked down upon.D. Why women have chosen many different jobs.33. The passage tells that high school teachers are at fault for .A. not mentioning the worst nurse shortage in the USB. introducing jobs with higher pay and greater status to their studentsC. persuading the students not to be nursesD. not asking the government to raise the nurses payment34. The author writes the passage in order to .A. warn people to pay more attention to the nursing problemC. tell us womens free choices of jobs todayB. call on women to choose different kinds of jobsD. describe the unequal treatment of women in the US35. It can be inferred from the passage that .A. of all the hospitals in the world 60 percent more nurses are badly neededB. women in the US have greater career choices than those in other countriesC. high school students think themselves too bright to be nursesD. nursing used to be a popular job among women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。This Way to Dreamland Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing. Daydreamers are usually unknown of whats happening around them. They can seem forgetful and clumsy (笨拙的). _36_ They trouble us because they seem to be ignoring us and missing the important things. But daydreamers are also responsible for some of the greatest ideas and achievements in human history. _37_ Can you imagine what kind of world we would have without such ideas and inventions? So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or looking like a fool? First, understand that some opportunities for daydreaming are better than others. Feeling safe and relaxed will help you to slide into daydreams. _38_ And if you want to improve your chances of having a creative idea while youre daydreaming, try to do it while you are involved in another task preferably (最好) something simple, like taking a shower or walking, or even making meaningless drawings. _39_ “Mindfulness”, being focused, is a tool that some people use to avoid falling asleep. It requires slow, steady breathing for self-control that helps people stay calm and attentive. Finally, you never know what wonderful idea might strike while your mind has moved slowly away. _40_ Always remember that your best ideas might come when your head is actually in the clouds. A. They start off into space and wander by themselves.B. Having interesting things to think about also helps.C. Without wandering minds, we wouldnt have Coke relatively.D. At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. E. Daydreams, often simple and direct, are unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. F. Its also important to know how to avoid daydreams when you really need to concentrate.G. Therefore, its a good idea to keep a notebook or voice recorder nearby when youre in the daydream zone.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。I had worried myself sick over Simons mother coming to see me. I was a new _41_， and I gave an honest account of the students work. In Simons case，the grades were awfully low. He couldnt read his own handwriting._42_ he was a bright student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult comprehension. His work in no way reflected his _43_.So when Simons mother entered the room, my palms were sweating. I was completely _44_ for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you，” she said, surprising me beyond speech._45_ me, Simon had become a different person. He talked of how he _46_ me, he had begun to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had _47_ spent an afternoon at a friends house. She wanted to tell me how grateful she was for the _48_ I had nurtured (培养) in her son. She kissed me again and left.I sat, stunned(惊呆), for about half an hour，_49_ what had just happened. How did I make such a lifechanging difference to that boy without _50_ knowing it？What I finally came to _51_ was one day, several months before，when some students were _52_ reports in the front of the class. Jeanne spoke _53_， and to encourage her to raise her voice, I had said, “Speak up. Simons the expert on this. He is the _54_ one you have to convince, and he cant hear you in the _55_ of the room.” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up straighter, paid more attention, _56_ more，and became happy. And it was all because he _57_ to be the last kid in the last row.