陕西省黄陵县2017_2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题重点班

高二重点班期中考试英语试题

第I卷（选择题共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 colour does the man prefer?

A. Brown.

B. Black.

C. Blue.

2. What is the woman going to do?

A. See the doctor.

B. Put on clothes.

C. Go to bed.

3. What is the man doing?

A. Visiting a company.

B. Having a job interview.

C. Making a telephone call.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The money.

B. The football.

C. The birthday.

5. What do we know about the woman?

A. She is supportive.

B. She is confident.

C. She is active.

第二节（共15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。每段对话读或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. Where’s the man going?

A. The street.

B. The yard.

C. The cinema.

7. Which turning should he take?

A. The first on the left.

B. The first on the right.

C. The second on the left.

8. How will the man get there?

A. By bus.

B. On foot.

C. By bike.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where did Sara paint the pictures ?

A. At home.

B. In the kitchen.

C. At school.

10. What colour are the trees in Sara’s picture ?

A. Red.

B. Blue.

C. Green.

11. What are in the sky in Sara’s pictures?

A. Trees.

B. Planes.

C. Sara’s father and trees.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What happened to the man ?

A. He was given a prize.

B. He lost his job.

C. His boss gave him two weeks’ leave.

13. How did the man feel about his boss’s decision?

A. He understood it very well.

B. He thought it completely wrong.

C. He didn’t understand it.

14. What was the man unable to do?

A. Use a computer.

B. Use a typewriter.

C. Use a printer.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What is going to be in Liberty Park next week ?

A. An art festival.

B. A concert.

C. A picnic.

16. How many artists will show their paintings?

A. Two traditional painters.

B. Two modern artists.

C. Three best local artists.

17. What information do we know about the art exhibitions ?

A. They start at the same place and time.

B. They start at different places and time.

C. They will show paintings from five foreign countries .

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What did the speaker use to do for a living ?

A. He ran a village shop.

B. He worked on a farm.

C. He worked at an advertising company.

19. What do we know about the speaker’s life in the past ?

A. It was stressful.

B. It was peaceful.

C. It was boring.

20. What made the speaker change his lifestyle?

A. The trouble with his family life.

B. His desire to start his own business.

C. His dream of living in a countryside.

第二部分：.阅读理解

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。

A

If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice: There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come_across,_but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful

at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably raking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect. 21．According to the author, which should you improve first among the four skills?

A．Reading and listening. B．Reading and writing.

C．Writing and speaking. D．Speaking and listening.

22．The underlined phrase “come across” in the second parag raph can probably be replaced by “________”．

A．meet by accident B．discover C．find on purpose D．look for 23．The author seems to agree with the view that_________．

A．everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day

B．you needn't practice listening if you keep on reading every day

C．being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening

D．you should take notes of whatever you are hearing

24．The passage is mainly about how to________．

A．choose suitable listening materials

B．deal with new words in reading

C．improve your English as quickly as possible

D．become fluent in speaking and writing English b

B

Saturday, March 24th

We have arrived in the hot, wet city of Bangkok. This is our first trip to Thailand. All the different smells make us want to try the food. We are going to eat something special for dinner tonight. The hotel we are staying in is cheap, and very clean.

We plan to stay here for a few days, visit some places in the city, and then travel to Chiang Mai in the North.

Tuesday, March 27th

Bangkok is wonderful and surprising. The places are interesting. We visited the famous market which was on the water, and saw a lot of fruits and vegetables. Everything is so colorful, and we have taken hundreds of photos already! Later today we will leave for Chiang Mai. We will take the train north, stay in Chiang Mai for two days, and then catch a bus to Chiang Rai.

Friday, March 30th

Our trip to Chiang Rai was long and boring. We visited a small village in the mountains. The village people here live the quiet life — no computers or phones. They are the kindest people I have ever met. They always smile and say “hello”. Kathy and I can only speak a few words of Thai, so smiling is the best way to show our kindness. I feel good here and hope to be able to come back next year. 25．The diaries above show the writer's ________ days in Thailand.

A．3 B．7 C．15 D．8

26．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Chiang Mai is a beautiful city in the south of Thailand.

B．The writer left Chiang Mai for Chiang Rai by bus.

C．The writer is traveling alone in Thailand.

D．The writer will take a bus to Chiang Mai.

27.What is the best title for the whole diary?

A．My First Travel B．The Outside World

C．Traveling in Thailand D．My Trip to Chiang Mai

C

If the crust (外壳) of the earth were not pretty solid (坚固的), it would be shaking about and moving up and down frequently. However, there are places in the rocks of the earth's crust where it isn't strongly held together — where faults exist. Along the faults, one rock might push against another with great force. The energy is changed to vibration in the rocks, so they begin to shake and we have an earthquake!

The most famous one in North America was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.Seven hundred people died and property (财产) damage amounted to about D|S425，000，000.The greatest destruction came from the fires that followed the quake.

One of the most famous earthquakes in Europe took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1755.The city was destroyed and at least thirty thousand people were killed. In 1908, in Calabria and Sicily, a quake killed about seventy-five thousand people. In 1915, in central Italy, hundreds of towns and villages were damaged and thirty thousand people were killed.

Two great earthquakes that caused great damage in Asia took place in Tokyo, Japan, and in Gansu Province in China. The Tokyo quake of 1923 killed more than one hundred thousand people and destroyed the city and the city of Yokohama, too. The Chinese quake in 1920 covered more than three hundred square miles and killed about two hundred thousand people.

28．The first paragraph mainly tells us________．

A．where earthquakes happen B．how earthquakes happen

C．the damage caused by earthquakes D．famous earthquakes in the world 29．The underlined word “vibration” in the first paragraph probably means “________”．

A．shaking B．force C．energy D．losing

30．Which of the following is the correct order of the years when the earthquakes happened?

①the San Francisco earthquake

②the earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal

③the earthquake in Calabria and Sicily

④the earthquake in central Italy

⑤the earthquake in Gansu Province

⑥the Tokyo quake

A．③④⑤⑥②① B．⑤⑥②①③④

C．②①③④⑤⑥ D．①③④②⑤⑥

31．We can infer from the passage that________．