广东省揭阳市惠来县第一中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题考试分值：135分；考试时间：120分钟。
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第I卷第一部分阅读理解（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。
AHolidaysHoliday NewsVacations (空位) now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home lies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices for low season.The Snowdonia CentreThe Snowdonia Centre for young mountain climbers has a mountain climbing lesson. The beginners’ costs are 57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment is included except walking shoes, which can be hired at a low cost.You must be in good health and prepared to go through a period of body exercises. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure.The World Sea Trip of a LifetimeOur World Sea Trip of 2008 will be unlike any holiday you have ever been on before.Instead of one hotel after another, with all its p acking and unpacking, waiting and travelling, you just go to bed in one country and wake up in another.On board the ship, you will be well taken care of. Every meal will be first-class (一流的) and every cabin (船舱) like your home.During the trip, you can rest on deck (甲板)，enjoy yourself in the games rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play.You will visit all the places most people only dream about — from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokyo and Hong Kong.For a few thousands, all you’ve ever hoped for can be yours.1. What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?A. Choose the holiday in Devon.B. Visit Acapulco and Hawaii.C. Join the World Sea Trip of 2008.D. Go to the Snowdonia Centre.2.In what way is the Snowdonia Centre different from the other two holidays?A. It provides chances of family gatherings.B. It offers comfortable rooms.C. It offers a sports lesson.D. It provides customers with good food.3. What is special about the World Sea Trip of 2008?A.You can have free meals on deck every day.B.You can sleep on a ship and tour many places.C.You have to do your own packing and unpacking.D.You will have chances to watch and act in a play.BSAN FRANCISCO — A phone app（应用程序）in San Francisco gives information about open parking spots. City officials in San Francisco introduced the app to try to reduce traffic jams in the city, but some say it raises safety concerns.In this city, drivers searching for parking spots lead to 30 percent of all downtownjams, city officials think. Now San Francisco has found a solution — a phone app for spot-seekers that shows information about areas with available spaces. The system, introduced last month, relies on wireless sensors（感应器）fixed in streets and city garages that can tell within seconds if a spot has opened up.But the system could come with serious consequences. Some people say that drivers s earching for parking could end up focusing on their phones, not the road. “It could be really distracting（使分心的）,” said Daniel Simons, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.City officials admitted the hidden problem. They are urging drivers to pull over before they use the city’s iPhone app, or to do so before they leave home. Nathaniel Ford, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said safety could actually improve if drivers quickly found a spot instead of circling and getting frustrated.San Francisco has put sensors into 7,000 parking spots and 12,250 spots in city garages. If spaces in an area open up, the sensors communicate wirelessly with computers that in turn make the information available to app users within a minute, said Mr. Ford, of the transportation agency. On the app, a map shows which blocks have lots of places (blue) and which are full (red).More than 12,000 people have downloaded San Francisco’s app, which is available now only for the iPhone.4.What is the phone app mentioned in the text mainly aimed at?A. Benefiting iPhone users.B. Preventing traffic accidents.C.Making the traffic flow smoothly.D. Making full use of the parking spots.5.According to the text, San Francisco city officials ________.A. don’t consider the app distractingB. are aware of the app’s disadvantagesC. believe more parking spots are neededD. advise drivers to park cars slowly6.The phone app mentioned in the text ________.A. is a bit slow in reactingB. hasn’t been put into serviceC. was introduced several years agoD. can’t be downloaded to all phones7.What’s the main idea of the passage?A. A phone app has been introduced to relieve the pressure on traffic in the city.B. Safety concerns are voiced about a phone app aimed at helping drivers find parking spots.C. Looking for parking spots contributes greatly to downtown traffic jams.D. Drivers’ attention is distracted in one way or another when they are driving.CThe Boy Made It!One Sunday, Nicholas, a teenager, went skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path. Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone, or other supplies. He was getting colder by the minute.Nicholas had no idea where he was. He tried not to panic. He thought about all the survival shows he had watched on TV. It was time to put the tips he had learned to use. He decided to stop skiing. There was a better chance of someone finding him if he stayed put. The first thing he did was to find shelter from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, which could quickly kill him. Using his skis, Nicholas built a snow cave. He gathered a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle. Then he piled branch es on top of himself, like a blanket, to stay as warm as he could. By that evening, Nicholas was really hungry. He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t lose too much water. Not knowing how much longer he could last, Nicholas did the only thing he could — he huddled (蜷缩) in his cave and slept. The next da y, Nicholas went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find anyone. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because without shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nicholas went out again to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him. After two days stuck in the snow, Nicholas wassaved.Nicholas might not have survived this snowstorm had it not been for TV. He had often watched Grylls’ survival show Man vs. Wild. That’s where he learned the tips th at saved his life. In each episode (一期节目) of Man vs. Wild, Grylls is abandoned in a wild area and has to find his way out.When Grylls heard about Nicholas’ amazing deeds, he was super impressed that Nicholas had made it since he knew better than anyone how hard Nicholas had to work to stay alive.8. What happened to Nicholas one Sunday afternoon?A. He got lost.B. He hurt his eyes.C. He broke his skis.D. He caught a cold.9. How did Nicholas keep himself warm?A. He lighted some branches.B. He found a shelter.C. He kept on skiing.D. He built a snow cave.10. On Tuesday, Nicholas ______.A. returned to his shelter safelyB. was saved by a searcherC. stayed where he wasD. got stuck in the snow11. Nicholas left Grylls a very deep impression because he ______.A. did the right things in the dangerous situationB. watched Grylls’ TV program regularlyC. was very hard-workingD. created some tips for survivalDDo you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.Here’s an example to show h ow honorable actions create happiness.Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky (暗中的) excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s att ention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable actions we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions.Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficu lt to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.12. According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our __________.A. advertising abilityB. financial rewardsC. self-respectD. friendly relationship13.The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to __________.A. lyingB. stealingC. cheatingD. advertising14.How will we feel if we let the clerk know the mistake?A. We’ll be very excited.B. We’ll feel unfortunate.C. We’ll have a sense of honor.D. We’ll feel sorry for the clerk.15.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?A. How to Live TruthfullyB. Importance of PeacefulnessC. Ways of Gaining Self-respectD. Happiness through Honorable Actions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。
