安徽省亳州市第二中学2018_2019学年高二英语下学期期中试题.doc

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1、亳州二中2018-2019学年度高二年级第二学期期中考试英语试卷 测试时间：120分钟 满分：150 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节：听下面5段对话，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项.1、Where does the woman live now ?A. In the heart of town. B. Near the center of town.C. In the south of town.2、What color suit did the man wear yesterday ? A. Green. B. Gray. C. Brown.3、How much d

2、oes the man have to pay ? A. Five yuan. B. Ten yuan. C. Fifteen yuan.4、What will the two speakers probably do next ?A. Go back home at once. B. Go to Marys home. C. Go and buy an umbrella.5、What is the probable relationship between the two speakers ?A. Mother and babysitter. B. Teacher and student.

3、C. Husband and wife.第二节：听下面5段对话或独白，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项.请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6、How will the man go to the station ? A. By subway. B. By taxi. C. By bus.7、What will the woman do ? A. Catch a train. B. Go. shopping . C. Visit her cousin请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8、Where did the man probably work before ? A. In a ho

4、spital. B. In a language school. C. In a French company.9、How long will the man work at his new job ? A. For about one year. B. For about three years. C. For about two years. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10、How many persons planned to spend the weekend with the man ? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.11、Why cant the w

5、oman go to Disneyland this weekend ? A. She plans to see some old friends. B. She has to prepare for a test.C. She wants to get some rest at home.12、With whom will the man probably spend the weekend ? A. Tom. B. Mike. C. Sam.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13、Why didnt the woman answer the phone ? A. She didnt ta

6、ke her phone with her. B. She didnt hear the phone ringing. C. She wants to get some rest at home.14、What day is it today ? A. Thursday. B. Wednesday. C. Friday.15、What has the man prepared for Anns birthday ? A. A special gift. B. A new CD. C. A surprising party.16、What will Anns pen friend do ?A.

7、Go to France tomorrow. B. Come to see Ann .C. Buy Ann a plane ticket .请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17、In which city did the speaker first meet Jenny ? A. New York City. B. Los Angeles. C. Chicago.18、How long did Jenny stay in the speakers city ? A. For one year. B. For six years. C. For ten years.19、How did t

8、he speaker and Jenny keep in touch first ?A. By writing letters. B. By making phone calls. C. By chatting online. 20、What happened to the speakers last month ? A. She came across Jenny. B. She lost touch with Jenny. C.She got in touch with Jenny online.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节: 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、

9、C和D）中，选出最佳选项 。AIn many fields youngsters are changing the world. Listed below are several influential young people Muzoon Almellehan, 19 Millions of children live in refugee camps（难民营）, where few have access to school.Almellehan experienced these conditions firsthand after fleeing Syria. Fighting to

10、 change that, she travels the world to tell people about the significance of education. Almellehan, UNICEFs（United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund） youngest-ever goodwill ambassador now, plans to return to her homeland Syria finally Aulii Cravalho, 17 The Hawaii native voiced the hero

11、ine in Disneys hit movie Moana. Now Aulii is taking on a new role. Shell star on NBCs Rise, a drama about a high school theater department that lifts the spirits of a struggling steel town in Pennsylvania. Based on a true story, the show has strengthened her belief that young people can bring about

12、real change Mikaila Ulmer, 13 Mikaila used to hate bees. She was stung（蜇）twice. But after learning honeybees are critical to the ecosystem and dying out, she developed a fascination with them. She was determined to help. Using her great-grandmothers recipe, Mikaila made a mixture, sweetened with loc

13、al honey. She sold it at community business fairs,donating 10% of her profits to honeybee-advocate groups. Mikaila also runs a nonprofit group called the Healthy Hive Foundation, whose goal is to raise awareness about the hardship of the honeybee21. What did Aulii Cravalho learn from the drama Rise?

14、 _ A. High school theater department can help the steel townB. She can voice any kind of NBC drama in the futureC. Young people indeed have the ability to make a differenceD. She has the ability to take up acting as her lifelong profession22. Mikaila began to do business with the purpose of _A. maki

15、ng money to help people in needB. putting her great-grandmothers recipe to good useC. developing a traditional technique for producing honeyD. rescuing the endangered but beneficial honeybees23. What do the three young people have in common？A. Theyre leading a wealthy and full lifeB. Theyve much inf

16、luence on the worldC. They are commercially successfulD. They have no interest in academic subjectsBImagine you are living in a city a few decades from now. An average morning might look something like this： There will be no alarm clock at your wake-up time - at least, not in the traditional formIns

17、tead, youll be waken by the smell of freshly brewed coffee， by light entering your room as curtains open automatically, and by a gentle back massage（按摩）administered（管理） by your hi-tech bedYoure more likely to awake refreshed, because on your bed theres a special sensor（传感器） that monitors your sleepi

18、ng condition, determining when to wake you so as not to interrupt your normal sleeping Your apartment is an electronic orchestra and you are the conductor. With simple gestures and spoken instructions, you can control temperature, music and lighting. You are able to skim through the days news on a s

19、creen while a newly cleaned suit is delivered from your wardrobe. You head to the kitchen for breakfast and the translucent（透明的）news display follows, as a digital image hovering just in front of you You take a cup of coffee and some fresh bread, baked to perfection in your computer-controlled oven,

20、and read through new emails on a screen in front of you. Your central computer system suggests a list of housework your robots should deal with today, all of which you approve You take up notes for a presentation youll give later that day to important new colleagues abroad All of your data - from yo

21、ur personal and professional life - is stored in the cloud, a remote digital-storage system. You own a few different digital devices（设备）; one is the size of a tablet, another the size of a pocket watch, while others might also be convenient to take with you. All will be lightweight, extremely fast a

22、nd will use more powerful processors than anything available today24. According to the text, what might wake you up in a future morning？ A. A massage from your hi-tech bedB. A traditional alarm clockC. The taste of freshly brewed coffeeD. The light switched on in the room25. What will you do in a fu

23、ture morning？A. Deliver the newly cleaned suit from the wardrobeB. Check a list of housework the robots will doC. Control the oven to bake the breadD. Make breakfast while reading news26. What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in paragraph 3？A. You can control things in your apartment with s

24、imple instructionsB. Your apartment is a good place to conduct the orchestraC. You can instruct an orchestra to do houseworkD. Your apartment can instruct you to control many things27. What are the proper words to describe future digital devices？A. Personal and professionalB. Remote and systematicC.

25、 Powerful and available D. Light and convenientCMany people have bought insurance, either life or property, commercial or compulsory（强制的）. Yet some people know little about it and some even misunderstand its nature and function Insurance is the sharing of risks. Nearly everyone is exposed to a risk

26、of some sort. The house owner, for example, knows that his property can be damaged by fire; the ship-owner knows that his ships may be lost at sea; the breadwinner knows that he may die at an early age and leave his family poorer. On the other hand, not every house is damaged by fire nor every ship

27、is lost at sea. If these persons each put a small amount of money into a pool, there will be enough to meet the needs of the few who do suffer losses. In other words, the losses of the few are met from the contributions of the many. This is the basis of insurance. Those who pay the contribution are

28、known as the insured and those who manage the pool of contributions as insurers The legal basis of all insurance is the policy. This is a printed form of contract on a piece of paper in best quality. It states that every year the insured shall pay an amount of money, which is called the premium；in r

29、eturn, the insurer will pay an amount of money or compensation for losses if the risk or event insured against actually happens The premium for insurance naturally depends upon how likely the risk is to happen, as suggested by past experience. If companies fix their premiums too high, there will be

30、more competition in their area of insurance and they may lose business. On the other hand, if they make the premium too low. they will lose money and may even have to drop out of business. So the ordinary forces of supply and demand keep premiums at a level satisfactory to both the insurer and the i

31、nsured28. The underlined phrase in Para.2most probably means _A. money paid by the insurersB. each premiumC. money paid by all those insuredD. the cost of administering insurance29. Insurance premiums do not become too high because _A. not many people insure themselvesB. premiums depend on the risk

32、of lossesC. insurers have to be more competitiveD. insurance companies can never lose money30. According to the passage， insurance business gains profit because _A. more and more people buy insuranceB. the firms have sound managementC. the premium is increased year by yearD. only a few of those insu

33、red suffer losses31. The purpose of the passage is to _A. explain an insurance policy B. introduce insurance businessC. persuade people to be insured D. warn people of possible lossesDIn ancient Egypt, the pharaoh（法老）treated the message runner like a prince when he arrived at the palace，if he brough

34、t good newsHowever，if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh unhappy news, his head was cut off Shades of that spirit spread over todays conversationsOnce a friend and I packed up some peanut butter and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked happily out of the door，picnic baske

35、t in hand, a smiling neighbor looked up at the sky and said，Oh boy，bad day for a picnicThe weatherman says its going to rain. I wanted to strike him on the face with the peanut butter and sandwichesNot for his stupid weather report, but for his smile Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. A

36、s I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the Greyhound counter，the sales agent said with a broad smile，Oh，that bus left five minutes agoDreams of head cutting! Its not the news that makes someone angryIts the unsympathetic attitude with which its deliveredEveryone must give bad news from time

37、to time，and winning professionals do it with the proper attitudeA doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation does it in a caring wayA boss informing an employee he didnt get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should share the feeling

38、of the receiver Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When youre tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk cheerfully said that your room isnt ready yet？When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter merrily told you that he just served the last piece？It makes you as a

39、traveler or diner want to land your fist right on their unsympathetic faces Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning. Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would have said,Oh, tha

40、ts all rightIll catch the next oneBig winners，when they bear bad news, deliver bombs with the emotion the bombarded（被轰炸的）person is sure to have32. In Paragraph 1，the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to _A. make a comparison B. introduce a topicC. describe a scene D. offer an argument33. In the

41、writers opinion，his neighbor was _A. not helpful B. friendlyC. warm-hearted D. not considerate34. FromDreams of head-cutting!（Paragraph 3）, we learn that the writer A. was reminded of the cruel pharaohB. wished that the sales agent would have bad dreamsC. dreamed of cutting the sales agents head tha

42、t nightD. was mad at the sales agent35. What is the main idea of the text?A. Receiving bad news requires great courageB. Helping others sincerely is the key to business successC. Delivering bad news with sympathy is important in communicationD. Learning ancient traditions can be useful第二节: 根据短文内容，从短

43、文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项。有两项为多余选项。A great life doesnt happen by accident. It is the result of allocating（分配）your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. It is t

44、he result of using what you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next 36 ! S - Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misunderstand what simplify means. 37 . When you focus on simplifying your life， you free up energy and time for the

45、work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first E - Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating it requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean re-evaluating how you spend your

46、time， or choosing to spend your money in a different way. Life will reward your best effort C - Create priorities（首要事情）. A great life is the result of creating priorities. 38, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way thats important to you. Focus on removing the ob

47、stacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities R - Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves-reserves of things, time， space, energy, and money. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear d