2017-2018学年四川省双流中学高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版

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. What time is it now?A 9:10 B.9:50 C.10:002. What does the woman think of the weather?A. It*s nice.B. It’s warm.C. It’s cold.3. What will the man do?A. Attend a meetingB. Give a lectureC. Leave his office4. What is the woman’s opinion about the course?A. Too hardB. Worth takingC. Very easy.5. What does the woman want the man to do?A- Speak louder B. Apologize to her C. Turn off the radio.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。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How long did Michael stay in China?A. Five days.B. One weekC. Two weeks7. Where did Michael go last year?A. RussiaB. NorwayC. India听第7段对话，回答第8、9题.8. What food does Sally like?A. ChickenB. FishC. Eggs9. What are the speakers going to do?A. Cook dinnerB. Go shoppingC. Order dishes 听第8段对话，回答第10至12题。

10. Where are the speakers?A. In a hospitalB. In the officeC. At home11.What is the report due?A. ThursdayB. FridayC. Next Monday12. What does suggest Stephanie do with the report?A. improveB. Hand it in laterC. Leave it with him.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Salesperson and customerB. Homeowner and cleanerC. Husband and wife14. What kind of apartment do the speakers prefer?A. One with two bedrooms.B. One without furnitureC. One near a market.15. H0W much rent should one pay for the one-bedroom apartment?A. $ 350.B. $400.C. $41516. Where is the apartment the speakers would like to see?A. On Lake Street.B. On Market Street.C. On South Street.听第10材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What percentage of the worlds tea exports go to London ?A. Almost 15%B. About 30%C. Over 40%18. Why do tea tasters taste tea with milk?A. Most British people drink tea that way.B. Tea tastes much better with milk.C. Tea with milk is healthy.19. Who suggests a price for each tea?A. Tea tasters.B. Tea exporters.C. Tea companies.20. What is the speaker talking about?A. The life of tea tasters.B. Afternoon tea in BritainC. The London Tea Trade Centre.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下列短文：从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，将正确的选项涂在答题卡上。

AEvery week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee (拼写大赛). In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along wi th gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy (书法) to be one of their primary contributions to civilization. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet. The correct character is chosen from a list The result? It’s possib le to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wantschildren to spend more time learning how to write.In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully attempting to reproduce th ose characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?” we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin, “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture,” she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.21. What can we learn about the Character Hero? ________A. It’s the most-viewed TV programs in China.B. It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.C. It draws great public attention across the country.D. It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.22. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?A. Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.B. Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.C. Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.D. Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.23. According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is ________.A. helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture aliveB. a requirement made by the Education MinistryC. necessary for adults to survive in ChinaD. an ability to be developed only when you are students24. Where does this text probably come from? ________A. A science report.B. A news report.C. Children’s literature.D. An advertisement.BPlan on traveling around the USA this summer? If you need help in arranging thetrip, or want ideas about where to go and what to do, there are a number of outstanding websites that can make your American dream come true.25. If you are going to the USA for the man-made attractions, you can drive along ________.A. Route 1B. Route 6C. the Las Vegas StripD. the California coast26. Why are the photos of the hotels in US cities and resorts real in ? ________A. Because there are qualifications of the authority.B. Because they are taken by inspectors of the website.C. Because there are comments of customers on each photo....D. Because they were taken by customers who once lived there.27. Travel ideas for a big family with kids and the old are available at ________.A. B. C. D. 28. What can be inferred from the passage? ________A. California’s Napa Valley is famous for its wine.B. is a newly established website.C. The National Scenic Byways Program covers all the roads in the USA.D. Discounted tickets of Walt Disney World are not available for everyone.CMy daughter Kelly is a cautious person. She needs to warm up to situations’ and is hesitant to try new things. When with close friends, she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants, “Girls rule, boys drool.” But when that comfort zone is not around her, she is shy and nervous.This has been challenging for me at times. “Shy”’ is not a word that I think has ever been used to describe me. But this has been a year of firsts for my girl that has filled her with a new sense of confidence. This year she moved to lap lane in swimming where she was preparing for a swim team. This year she learned to ride a bike without training wheels. And t his year she completed her first kids’ triat hlon (三项全能).On Saturday, with a thunderstorm coming soon and my son’s birthday party later in the day, we all went out in the dark of the morning for Kelly to participate in her first triathlon. We practiced transitions from swim to bike to run with her, we got all the equipment she’d need, and we kept talking about the race. But as we waited the two hours for the older kids to finish before her turn, she held my leg a littleharder and told me she loved me a few too many times. She was nervous but trying to keep it together.And then it was her turn. From the second she jumped into the water, my heart soared. My daughter transformed into the most confident human being I had ever seen. She dominated that swim, crushed that bike ride and ran to the finish with the biggest smile on her face.I can honestly say that I never felt so proud of someone in my entire life. It wasn’t because she did a sport or anything like that. It was because she was afraid of something and conquered that fear with confidence and a fire I hadn’t seen before.All day I would find myself just looking over at her and smiling. She might be wearing the finalist medal but I felt like I won that day. I won the chance to see my girl shine.Shine on, sweet baby.29. Kelly is nervous when ________.A. boys are around herB. she changes into a leaderC. she is away from her momD. situations are new to her30. We can know from Paragraph 3 ________.A. the race began in the early morningB. the whole family gave Kelly supportC. Kelly was eager for her turn in the raceD. Kelly prepared for her brother’s birthday party31. In the ending paragraphs the author “felt like I won that day” because Kelly ________.A. overcame the fearB. expressed love to herC. won the gold medalD. took part in the sportDThe world seems gloomy (阴沉的) and gray when you’re feeling blue. In fact, being down might even affect how you perceive (感知) the colour blue. A recent study about colour was published in the journal Psychological Science. It shows a direct connection between a person’s ability to perceive colour and their emotions.Psychologists have long known that emotions can affect the way people perceive th ings. That’s in part because chemicals from your brain might affect how you proc ess what you see. “Color is such an important part of our experience,” says lead author Christopher Thorstenson, a psychologist at the university of Rochester, in New York. There’s reason, he says, that sad people commonly describe the world as “colourless” and “gray”, and happy people use words like “bright” and “colorful”.In the experiment, the researchers randomly assigned people to one of two groups. People in the sadness group watched a sad scene from The Lion King. Those in the “amusement” group watc hed a comedy.Everyone was then asked to look at red, yellow, green, and blue patches (斑点) that had been changed to a grayish colour. “Some of the patches are pretty difficulty to make out,” Thorstenson admits he says it takes some time to figure out their shade. People were scored on how accurate their colour perception was. Then they completed an emotional evaluation.The result? Sad people had a hard time seeing the difference between shades along the blue-yellow colour axis (色轴). But they did not have problems seeing colours in the red-green spectrum (光谱). Thorstenson says this could be the result of an evolutionary need to see red as a response to anger.Thorstenson says these results highlight the possible important of dopamine in sight. Dopamine is a chemical that sends signals to the brain. Researchers are hoping to focus more on dopamine in the future. “We know dopamine affects how we see colours, too,” Thorstenson says “How we feel can really influence how we see the world around us” he says.32. According to paragraph 2, how people describe the world reflects________.A. how they feelB. how they thinkC. their world viewD. their language skills33. In the experiment, the participants were asked to watch different programs so as to ________.A. check their feelingsB. influence their moodsC. develop their interestsD. test their personalities34. Why were the patches made grayish in the experiment? ________A. To make them look prettierB. To make them hard to recognizeC. Because it changed the participants’ attitudesD. Because it was good for the part icipants’ eyes35. Which colour is easier to recognize for sad people? ________A. BlueB. YellowC. RedD. Gray第二节：（共5个小题；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。