湖北省黄冈市2017-2018学年高二上学期期末考试英语---精校Word版含答案

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第一部分 听力(共两节,满分30分)

做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分,满分7.5分)

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。

A

If you enjoy reading, the realm of books will become a paradise(乐园) which cannot

be experienced by watching television. A study has shown how those who read for

pleasure achieve more in literacy(读写能力) and thinking abilities than those who

don't. Actually, there is nothing else which will expand your language skills and

make your imagination fly.

To begin with, language skills can be better learned through reading for pleasure

than through watching TV for entertainment. At best, watching television can be

educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to raise literacy levels by

simply sitting in front of a TV box.

Therefore, only by reading can you enrich your vocabulary. However, it must be

made clear that the link between literacy and reading is like comparing health to - 2 - sport. One is something functional and the other is something you do because you enjoy

it.

The books that help you most in imagination are those which make you think the

most. In this light, reading for pleasure, both paper-based and on-screen, is far

more beneficial than watching TV. For example, there is always a book which is opened

with expectation and closed with profit: imagination. Unfortunately, some people's

love of books is being ruined by television, which may be considered as a decline

in thinking abilities.

On the whole, watching TV is largely harmless as an entertainment and information

tool, but there is no better way to enhance your language skills and imagination than

reading for pleasure. For those who would continue to enjoy reading, there is a

paradise not yet being lost. Having acquired an amount of language skills through

wide reading, you might as well imagine that such a paradise would not be very unlike

a kind of library.

21. In the author’s opinion, watching TV is______.

A. a waste of time and energy

B. a paradise for children

C. beneficial to some extent

D. just for entertainment

22. What does the author think of reading?

A. People can obtain the truest information through it.

B. Watching TV offers more pleasure than it in reality.

C. More language skills will be obtained as people do more of it.

D. It plays the same role in firing kids' imagination as watching TV.

23. How is the passage mainly developed?

A. By making a comparison.

B. By describing a process.

C. By using some examples.

D. By following time order.

B - 3 - Almost everybody is familiar with the classic image of Frankenstein's monster(怪物): a tall man with light-green skin, who can't speak more than a few simple words.

Perhaps, if you celebrate Halloween, you might have dressed up as him! But not so

many people know the original book that he comes from.

In the summer of 1816, a group of young writers were on holiday near Lake Geneva

in Switzerland. Unusually for summer in Switzerland, the sky was covered in dark clouds

and it was pouring with rain, so the friends had to spend most of the week trapped

in their house. To entertain themselves, the most famous of the writers, Lord Byron,

decided they should have a competition. Each person had to create a ghost story and

whoever wrote the scariest one would win. It was during this competition that Mary

Shelley, who was only nineteen years old. had the idea of an ugly monster. Two years

later, she published her first novel: Frankenstein.

In the film, the monster can't really talk much, but in the book. he has a voice

and can explain his side of the story. Although he is scary, ugly and violent, he

also has understandable human emotions, and the book explores the reasons for his

actions. The monster is abandoned by the scientist who creates him, and all of the

human beings he meets are cruel to him without reason. He suggests that he only becomes

cruel and violent because he has been treated cruelly and violently by other people.

The reason I personally love Frankenstein so much is that it is so open to

interpretation (解释).The problems and issues it talks about are simple and universal.

It can be interpreted as a metaphor(隐喻) for family relationships, or for childbirth,

or for racism: as s criticism of science or a criticism of religion: whatever you

think it is about, it is for you to decide.

24. Frankenstein probably tells_______.