上海市浦东新区2017-2018学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题_Word版无答案

浦东新区2017学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测

高二英语试卷

(本试卷满分100分 考试时间90分钟）

(考生注意：请按要求把答案分别做在答题卡或答题纸上）

Listening Comprehension

Section A 5%

Directions: In Section A, you will hear five short conversations between two speakers. At the

end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and

the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it,

read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question

you have heard.

1. A. Teacher and student. B. Customer and salesman.

C. Customer and repairman. D. Visitor and headmaster.

2. A. At a post office. B. At a bus station.

C.In a department store. D. In a dental clinic.

3. A. He’ll go to bed early tonight.

B. He’ll change a room tonight.

D. He’ll study till past midnight.

C.He’ll sleep in his study for the night.

4.A. She had no idea how to write an English essay.

B.She hardly finished the English essay on time.

C.She felt too tired to write the English essay.

D.She had some trouble writing the English essay.

5. A. The man is deeply attracted by an amusing TV show.

B. The man doesn’t want to do the woman a favour.

C.The woman is tearing some paper from a book.

D. The woman can’t help watching an exciting TV show.

Section B 10%

Directions: In Section B, you will hear one short passage and one longer conversation, and you

will be asked two or three questions on each of them. The passage and the conversation will be

read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four

possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you

have heard.

Questions 6 through 8 are based one the following passage.

6. A. They welcomed over a million visitors. B. They showed visitors unique wildlife.

C.They got involved in the whaling industry.

D.They provided whales with natural homes.

7. A. Tourists may get to know different types of whale migration (迁徙).

B.It illustrates the ways whale interact with each other to the tourists.

C. Tourists can see whales in their natural surroundings with their own eyes.

D. It provides tourists with experiences of boating with the migrating whales.

8. A. Guarantees on whale watching tours.

B.A popular example of eco-tourism (生态旅游).

C.History and various types of eco-tourism.

D. Means of making money from whale watching.

Questions 9 through 10 are based one the following conversation.

9. A. How to dress properly. B. The woman’s fashion sense.

C. What birthday gifts to buy. D. The man’s dressing habit.

10. A. The man advise the woman to wear a suit and a tie.

B.They will go to the birthday party although uninvited.

C. There is a dress code (规则) for it will be a magnificent occasion.

D. Professor Green, president of the university, will hold a birthday party.

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A 10%

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and

grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form

of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Searching the skies

For thousands of years, scientists have wondered about the spots of light in the night sky.

In A.D. 125, Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer living in Egypt, claimed that the planets and the sun

moved around Earth. (11) other astronomers had different ideas, Ptolemy’s theory was held

for almost 1,500 years.

In the 1540s, the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus published many books, one(12)

explained how Earth and the other planets orbit the sun. In the early 1600s,Galileo proved that

Copernicus was right. Galileo made his observations by (13) (use) a telescope (望远镜).He

was the first astronomer to use one.

Today，astronomers use telescopes that are much (14) (powerfiil) than Galileo's In 1990,

the Hubble Space Telescope began to orbit Earth. The Hubble telescope studies some rays from distant

stars and galaxies (银河系).These are the rays that never reach Earth, because they (15) (stop) by Earth’s atmosphere. The Hubble telescope has found evidence of a black hole—a (16) (fall) star that takes in all matter that comes near (17) . The Hubble

telescope has also sent back information about some very young stars.

(18) (study) planets in our solar system, scientists have launched unarmed space

Probes (探测器).In 1997, the Pathfinder mission landed a small vehicle named Sojourner on Mars.

So far. Sojourner (19) (learn) that the composition of Mars is more like Earth than