江西省抚州市临川区第一中学2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题

江西省抚州市临川区第一中学2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题第I卷（选择题 满分100分)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 does the man want to do?A. Take photos.B. Buy a camera.C. Help the woman.2. What are the speakers talking about?A. A noisy night.B. Their life in town.C. A place of living.3. Where is the man now?A. On his way.B. In a restaurant.C. At home.4. What will Celia do?A. Find a player.B. Watch a game.C. Play basketball.5. What day is it when the conversation takes place?A. Saturday.B. Sunday.C. Monday.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或对白，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. What is Sara going to do?A. Buy John a gift. B. Give John a surprise.C. Invite John to France.7. What does the man think of Sara's plan?A. Funny.B. Exciting.C. Strange.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter?A. She has to give up her travel plan. B. She wants to visit another city. C. She needs to put off her test9. What does Diana want Peter to do?A. Help her with her study. B. Take a book to her friend.C. Teach a geography lesson.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the man call the woman?A. To tell her about her new job. B. To ask about her job program.C. To plan a meeting with her.11. Who needs a new Hat?A. Alex.B. Andreu.C. Miranda.12. Where is the woman now?A. In Baltimore. B. In New York. C. In Avon.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?A. Where the restaurant is. B. Whether the prices are low. C. How well the food is prepared.14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?A. After he came back to Sweden.B. Before he went to the United States.C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982.15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?A. Talk to people in the street. B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerics.16. What do we know about Jan?A. He cooks for a restaurant. B. He travels a lot for his work. C. He prefers American food. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?A. It's a new building. B. It's a small town. C. Its a public place.18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?A. Saturday nights. B. Sunday afternoons. C. Fridays and Saturdays.19. Which street is known for its food shops and markets?A. Via del Mar Street. B. Fernando Street. C. Hernandes Street.20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?A. It has an old stone surface. B. It is named after a writer. C. It has a famous university. 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。AReal SimpleFirst Issue: 2000 Published: MonthlyReal Simple is a lifestyle title owned by Time, Inc. This magazine covers topics from decorating and dieting to childcare and product guides. Like many lifestyle magazines, Real Simple is written with women in mind, but that doesnt mean men can't get something out of it! This one is especially good tor people who like to organize and simplify their lives. As the title implies, simple, authentic (真实的) living is the magazine's main theme.Better Homes and GardensFirst Issue: 1922Published: Bi-MonthlyBetter Homes and Gardens is a household name when it comes to lifestyle magazines ten around since 1922, so the title has a long history of providing high quality, useful content. Decorating and gardening, as the title suggests, are common topics in the magazine, but it is also known for its excellent recipes.Womans DayFirst Issue: 1937Published: MonthlyIf you're looking for a magazine that combines lifestyle and fashion content, Womans Day might be a good choice. It has a readership of over 3 million women across the United States. Some of its unique characteristics include its focus on traditional values and its commitment to giving women realistic advice. Many magazines feature lifestyles that are out of reach for the major of American families, but WomansDay tries to give practical advice and suggestions that its real-world readers can put into practice.Taste of HomeFirst Issue: 1993 Published: Bi-MonthlyFor people who want a magazine that's entirely about cooking, recipes, nutrition, and other food-related content, Taste of Home has been a popular choice all the time. It has an unusually rich history of giving its readers what they want. The magazine only started including advertisements in 2007, before which it was advertisement-free. Now the magazine is doing pretty well financially.21. Which of following magazines has the longest history?A. Real Simple. B. Better Homes and Gardens. C. Woman's Day.D. Taste of Home22. What do we know about Taste of Home?A. It has been losing popularity in recent years.B. It offers suggestions about childcare.C. It is a purely food-related magazine.D. Readers no longer find advertisements in it.23. Which of the following is TRUE about the four magazines?A. Real Simple mainly serves women readers.B. Woman's Day is out of reach for most families.C. Readers could advertise in Taste of Home free.D. Better Homes and Gardens is published quarterly.BAfter the sudden loss of her 5-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, Natalia Spencer felt she needed to do something to honor the little girl. That strong wish inspired Spencer to start what she calls a “Walk of Love”, a 6,000-mile trek (长途徒步旅行）along the British coastline.“Elizabeth particularly loved the beach and the sea and we visited the seaside a lot. After she passed away, I went to the seaside and it was the first time I had felt some comfort,” Spencer said. “I knew this was what I had to do. It was something I could do and it would somehow make life more bearable.”On Valentine's Day, Spencer began walking Durdle Door in Dorset, England, the last beach she took Elizabeth to before she became ill. So far, Spencer has journeyed about 1,500 miles, walking through Dorset, Cornwall, Devon and the entire coast of Wales. Every day, except Saturday, Spencer walks 20 miles. Often locals join her; many times they share stories about losing their own children.Everything changed for Spencer on Nov. 22, 2015. Spencer noticed Elizabeth was ill with what she thoughtwas a chest infection. But the girls health worsened rapidly. Doctors diagnosed her with a life-threatening immune condition where the immune cells damage tissue and organ. This caused Elizabeth's organs to shut down and stopped the blood supply to her arms and legs. She was moved to Bristol Children's Hospital where she spent 18 days on life support before passing away on Dec. 10.After Elizabeth died, Spencer struggled. She stayed with friends because it felt too hard to live in a house with the memories of Elizabeth. In January, a friend encouraged Spencer to go for a walk and the two ended up at the Gower Peninsula in Wales. That's when she realized she wanted to walk along the coast for her daughter.While walking provides Spencer with time to grieve (感到悲痛)，shes also using the trip to raise100,000(about $144,000) for the Bristol .Childrens Hospital. She admired the doctors and nurses and wanted to raise money to allow another family access to treatment.Spencer expects to complete her walk next spring. Shed love to finish on Valentines Day, but doesnt know if that is realistic.24. Why did Natalia Spencer decide to walk along the British coastline?A. To realize her daughter's dream.B. To remember her dead daughter.C. To share stories with people around.D. To raise money for a childrens hospital.25. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?A. Spencers story-sharing with the local people. B. Spencers daily life after Elizabeths death.C. Spencers memory of traveling with Elizabeth. D. Spencer's walking along the coastline.26. What do we know about Elizabeth?A. She encouraged her mother to walk around Britain. B. She once walked along the entire British coast. C. She died of an immune-system disease.D. She fell sick as a result of a chest infection.27. What could be the best title for the text?A. A Little Girls Struggle with a Strange Disease. B. A Mothers Effort to Save Her Daughter.C. A Woman's Action to Raise Money for Children. D. A Mothers Walk to Honor Her Lost Child.CIn most Hollywood movies, the Native American Navajos still fight on horses in the American Southwest. But during World War II, a group of Navajos made their language into weapon to protect the United States. They were the Navajo Code Talkers, and theirs is one of the few unbroken codes (电码）in military history.Navajo was the perfect choice for a secret language. It is very complex. One vowel (元音）can have up to ten different pronunciations, changing the meaning of any word. In the 1940s, Navajo was unwritten language. No one outside of the reservation could speak it or understand it.The Navajo Code team had to invent new words to describe military equipment. For example, they named ships after fish: lotso-whale (battleship), calo-shark (destroyer), beshloiron-fish (submarine). When a Code Talker received a message via radio, he heard a series of unrelated Navajo words. He would then translate the words into English and use the first letter of each English word to spell the message. The Navajo words tsah (needle), wol-la-chee (ant), ah-kh-di-glini (victor), and tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca) spelled NAVY.The Code Talker kept the code a secret. They memorized everything. There were no code books. As a result, no ordinary Navajo soldiers, if captured by the enemy, could understand the code. More than 3,600 Navajos served in World War II, but only 420 were Code Talkers with the US Marines. They coded and decoded battlefield messages better and faster than any machine. They could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line English message in 20 seconds. Machines of the time required 30 minutes to perform the same job. Even after the war the code remained top secret. When they were asked about their role, Code Talkers just said: “I was a radioman.” War movies and histories came out without mentioning them. The code was never used again and was finally declassified in 1968. Only then did the secret came out.28. What do we know about the Navajo language?A. It had complex spoken and written forms.B. It was created during the Second World War.C. It was understood only by the Navajos.D. It consisted of ten vowel letters in total.29. What did the Navajo Code team do after receiving a message?A. They put the unrelated Navajo words in order. B. They recorded the message in Navajo letters.C. They submitted it to the officer immediately. D. They turned It into English in a secret way.30. What does the underlined word “declassified” most probably mean?A. Replaced.B. Approved.C. Made known.D. Forbidden.31. What can be inferred from the passage?A. The Navajo Code Talkers can be found to fight on horses in US movies.B. The Navajo language contributed a lot to the US army in World War II.C. War messages were translated into English through Navajo code books.D. Around 12% Navajo soldiers were taken prisoner during World War II.DI was at my parents dinner table. Before me was a worn journal of thin and discolored pages. It was my grandfather's journal and now belonged to my father. My grandfather had passed away in the months leading up to my birth. I never got to visit the places he had frequently and people who had been a part of his lifes journey.I was now about to enter his world, through the words he had left behind. Within minutes, I was attracted by the power of the written words. In the magical script before me, I was transported to another age when food was an everyday art, planned, prepared and enjoyed in the company of others, and a time when people had the heart to pause，their own lives to embrace (拥抱）each others struggles. All this was conveyed to me in the beauty of the words that flowed together to connect with the writers mind and understand the world they lived in.That kind of writing seems to be lost on us today. We have gotten used to writing in bite-sized pieces for a public looking for entertainment, and hungry for information. No wonder, there are nearly 200 million bloggers on the Internet and a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. Instead of adding to our collective wisdom, most of these writings reflect the superficiality (肤浅)and impatience of our day and age.This not only robs us of the skill of writing impressive essays, it also prevents us from exploring what is truly important. Writing humbles us in a way that is vital for our character growth, by reminding us about the limits of the self and our appropriate place in the vast flow of life. Writing frees us by helping us explore the unknown so that we truly open up to the magic of the world around us. I saw all of this in the writing s of my grandfather. And Ive seen it again and again in the writings of the greatest thinkers of humanity. Their writings reflect deep thought on issues of human importance.32. Why does the author begin the text with her grandfathers journal?A. To show her respect for her grandfather.B. To present the importance of good writings.C. To raise the problem of todays writing.D. To express her great interest in the journal.33. What did people use to do in the authors grandfathers age?A. They used to live a hard life.B. They cared about each other.C. They were fond of writing.D. They taught kids how to cook.34. What does the third paragraph mainly discuss?A. The current situation of public writing. B. The large number of blogs on the net.C. Peoples lack of wisdom nowadays.D. The information age we are living in.35. What does the author try to convey in the last paragraph?A. To express her eagerness to learn writing skills. B. To show her reflection on humanity in her age.C. To discuss what good writings should be like. D. To stress the effect of her grandfathers journal on her.第二节 （共5小题，每小题2分，共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。选项中有两项为多余选项。Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day and the Friday before Cyber Monday in the United States. It is a busy shopping day and is a holiday in some states. Many people have a day off work on Black Friday. Some people use this to make trips to see family members or friends who live in other areas or to go on vacation. 36Shopping for Christmas presents is also popular on Black Friday. Many stores have special offers and lower their prices on some goods, such as toys.37 Many people take a day of their annual leave on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Many organizations also close for the Thanksgiving weekend.Public transport systems may run on their normal schedule or may have changes. 38 There can also be congestion (拥挤）on roads to popular shopping destinations.Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days in the USA. 39 One theory is that the wheels of vehicles in heavy traffic on the day after Thanksgiving Day left many black markings on the road surface, leading to the term Black Friday.The other theory is that the term Black Friday comes from an old way of recording business accounts. 40 Many businesses, particularly small businesses, started making profits before Christmas. Many hoped to start showing a profit, marked in black ink, on the day after Thanksgiving Day.A. Black Friday is a public holiday in some states.B. Black Friday is a shopping day for a lot of reasons.C. Losses were recorded in red ink and profits in black ink.D. Others use it to start shopping for the Christmas season.E. Some stores extend their opening hours on Black Friday.F. As time goes on, a new explanation of black Friday has become popular.G. There are two popular theories as to why the day after Thanksgiving Day is called Black Friday.第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。On Christmas Eve despite the fun and laughter from relative reunions, 13-year-old Frank Wilson did not cheer up. It was true that he had 41all the presents he wanted. And he also 42 the big Christmas dinner with family members. 43，Frank was not happy because this was his first Christmas without his brother, Steve, who was killed in a car accident. Frank 44 his brother and the close companionship they had together.Frank said good-bye to his parents and relatives, saying he was leaving early to see a friend. Since it was cold outside, Frank 45 his new jacket, his favorite gift from Grandma. He placed the other 46 on his new sled (雪横）and then headed out.As Frank went down the street toward home, through one front window, he saw a room with old 47 hanging over an empty fireplace. A woman was seated nearby, crying. The stockings 48 him of the way he and his brother always 49 theirs side by side. The next morning they would find presents.A sudden 50 struck Frank. He knocked on the door. “Yes? the 51voice of the woman answered. “May I come in?” asked Frank. “You are very welcome,” she said, seeing his 52 full of gifts and thinking he was making a 53 of gifts. “But I have no food or gifts for you. I have 54 for my own children.” “Thats why I am here.” Frank said. “Please 55 whatever presents you would like for your children from the sled.” “Why? God bless you!” the 56 woman answered. She took some candies, a toy plane and a doll. Finally, the stockings were 57. The woman thanked Frank and he left.Franks 58 was full of happiness. Later he gave his jacket to a poor boy. At last, he 59 all his presents. Now Frank was wondering how he could 60 to his parents where his presents had gone.41. A. boughtB. receivedC. lostD. wrapped42. A. preparedB. deliveredC. enjoyedD. reserved43. A. HoweverB. InsteadC. ThereforeD. Otherwise44. A. praisedB. missedC. forgotD. admired45. A. put awayB. handed outC. set asideD. put on46. A. presentsB. clothesC. shoesD. foods47. A. furnitureB. lampsC. stockingsD. books48. A. warnedB. remindedC. informedD. convinced49. A. foundB. sharedC. madeD. Hung50. A. thoughtB. problemC. beliefD. expression51. A. frightenedB. excitedC. sadD. confused52.A.faceB. roomC. bagD. sled53. A. surveyB. deliveryC. collectionD. donation54. A. everythingB. nothingC. somethingD. anything55. A. takeB. showC. offerD. bring56. A. disappointedB. surprisedC. worriedD. interested57. A. emptyB. brokenC. goneD. full58. A. heartB. familyC. presentD. holiday59. A. picked upB. turned inC. took overD. gave away60. A. declareB. proveC. explainD. admit第卷（非选择题 满分50分）第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Writing text messages (短信）while walking is dangerous. A study says it is more dangerous than texting while driving. Researchers found that there are more 61 (injure) to texting pedestrians (行人) than there are to texting motorists. Their report says walking is not as easy 62 we think. We must focus on many things at the same time to walk safely in a straight line. The researchers said that people forget how to walk 63 (proper), so dangerous things happen to them. They bump into walls and other people. They walk into cars, fall over things in the street, and even fall into holes 64 down stairs.A professor said walking is a difficult action. There are several reasons 65 texting makes walking dangerous. 66 is that people cannot see the street. Another is that they focus on their phone keyboard instead of their feet. A final reason is tha