高二英語上學(xué)期期末模擬試題.doc

浙江省杭州市蕭山區(qū)第八高級中學(xué)2018-2019學(xué)年高二英語上學(xué)期期末模擬試題第1部分 聽力（共20小題，共30分）第一節(jié) 聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。1. What does the woman prefer to do?A. Find a quiet place B. Check in at the hotel C. Avoid the traffic jam2. who is probably the man?A. An exhibition visitor B. a ticket collector D. a policeman3. what subject does the boy show little interest in?A. Biology B. math C. physics4. what is the speakers opinion about the film?A. It makes them puzzled.B. It isnt worth watching.C. It has a surprising ending.5. where does the conversation probably take place?A. At home B. on a plane C. at a newspaper stand第二節(jié): 聽下面5段對話或獨(dú)白。每段對話或獨(dú)白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的A，B，C三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話或獨(dú)白前，你將有5秒鐘的時間閱讀各個小題；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。聽下面一段材料，回答第6和第7題。6. What will the speakers do next Saturday?A. Buy a new car B. travel to China C. look at some photos7. Whats the relationship between the speakers?A. Neighbors B. a couple C. fellow workers聽下面一段對話，回答第8和9兩個小題8. How long has the restaurant served breakfast?A. About 6 years B. about 16 years C. about 60 years9. What will Betty probably try?A. Fried eggs B. fruit salad C. French toast聽下面一段對話，回答第10-12小題10. Who is getting married?A. Judy B. Grace C. Clara 11. What will the man go for on Saturday?A. A birthday party B. a wedding C. a picnic12. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Attend the wedding a little lateB. Call her best friend to say sorryC. Go to the wedding and the party聽下面一段對話，回答第13-16題13. What program was put off to next week?A. Some news reports B. a talk show B. a football game14. Who was badly injured?A. The teacher B. the bus driver C. the truck driver15. How many students got hurt in the accident?A. 20 B. 18 C. 216. What caused the accident?A. Drunk driving B. bad weather C. speeding聽下面一段對話，回答第17-20題17. What can we see in Johns photo?A. A rainstorm B. a monkey C. a sleeping lion18. How much will John receive?A. $100 B. $500 C. $100019. What can we learn about Bens photo?A. It was taken in Africa. B. It happened by accident. C. It was in black and white.20. What is the speakers advice in the end?A. Entering next months contest.B. Checking back for more information.C. Being careful while taking pictures. 第二部分閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）第一節(jié)（共10小題；每小題2.5分，滿分25分）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。A Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health recently e-mailed good news to 277 applicants. The e-mails said the Ivy League school is “delighted to wele” the 277 applicants to its graduate program in public health. But less than one hour later, the applicants received another e-mail saying the acceptance e-mails were sent by mistake. Julie Kornfeld is the Mailman Schools vice president for education. She apologized for the mistake and said the school is working to make sure “this mistake will not happen in the future”. She said the school regrets the “stress and confusion caused by this mistake”. This if far from the first time a college has sent out “acceptance” notices by mistake. Last year, the State University of New York at Buffalo e-mailed 5,000 mistaken acceptance notices. The school quickly corrected the information. The applicants were told they were still being considered for admission, but that no final decision had been made. Time Magazine keeps a list of colleges that mistakenly tell students they were accepted. In 2014, John Hopkins University in Baltimore sent out acceptance notices to 300 applicants. That came as a surprise. Earlier, the students were told their applications had been rejected. The university quickly sent out another notice saying, regrettably, that the first rejection letter was correct. Anna Ivey is a college admissions adviser and a former college admissions officer. She said college officials “l(fā)ive in fear” of making a mistake on something as important as admission to a students dream school. But college admissions require “enough human data entry”, so it isnt avoided producing mistakes, Ivey said. Though such mistakes happen maybe 1 percent of the time, Ivey said, “Its a 100 percent failure rate for that applicant who gets the wrong letter.”21. How might the 5,000 applicants of the State University of New York feel when receiving the second e-mail?A. Angry and hopeless B. anxious and puzzledC.Disappointed but hopeful D. acceptable and reasonable22. Why did Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore send a third letter?A. To deny the second letter B. to explain the second letterC.to give details to the first letter D. to make an apology to the applicants23.What did Anna Ivey think of the mistakes made by universities? A. They are fair to the applicants. B. These mistakes are not forgivable. C.These mistakes should have been avoided. D. There exists possibility to make mistakes.B What will our world be like in 2050? There are two features in the growth of world population. First, the annual increase in population in 15 European countries, in the past few years, has been only 300,000. The United Nations estimate(估計) that by 2050, the population of European countries will decrease from the current 0.72 billion to 0.63 billion. Second, the population in developing countries is growing rapidly. By 2050, the population of Africa is expected to reach 1.8 billion, 0.9 billion more than its current population. A recent research report published by the United Nations indicates that it is quite possible that the Earths temperature is rising well above the previous estimate. The Antarctic ice sheet, which contains 90% of the worlds ice, has lost significant mass in the past few years. The discovery es as a surprise to scientists, who thought that the continent would gain ice this century because of increased snowfall in a warming climate. A research team from the University of Colorado used satellite data to estimate that the ice sheet will lose up to 48 cubic miles by 2050. Africas rivers face great change that will leave a quarter of the continent severely short of water by the middle of the century, according to a global warming study published today. Even modest decreases in rain in western Africa will see rivers lose as much as 80% of their water and a rise of what the scientists call “water refugees(難民)”. “In those areas where there is already a water shortage, its going to have a destructive(破壞性的) effect,” the study says. “If youre already walking 5 km to the nearest stream(小溪), by 2050, its going to mean walking 30 km or moving your whole household closer to the water source.”24.What surprises the scientists according to Paragraph 3?A. The Antarctic is sheet has decreased. B. The Earths temperature is going down.C.Global warming is destroying the Earth. D.Snowfall increases in the Antarctic area.25. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph stress?A. The ill fate of Africas rivers. B. The importance of doing exercise.C. The hard life of the African refugees. D. The seriousness of the water problem.26. What was the most possible feeling of the author when he wrote this text?A. Happy B. Angry C. concerned D. calmCThe engineer Camilla Olivetti was 40 years old when he started the pany in 1908. At his factory in Ivrea, he designed and produced the first Italian typewriter. Today the panys head office is still in Ivrea, near Turin, but the pany is much larger than it was in those days and there are offices all around the world, By 1930 there was a staff of 700 and the pany turned out 13,000 machines a year. Some went to customers in Italy, but Olivetti exported more typewriters to other countries. Camillos son, Adriano, started working for the pany in 1924 and later he became the boss. He introduced a standard speed for the production line and he employed technology and design specialist. The pany developed new and better typewriters and then calculators(計算器). In 1959 it produced the ELEA puter system. This was the first mainframe(主機(jī)) puter designed and made in Italy.After Adriano died in 1960, the pany had a period of financial problem. Other panies, especially the Japanese, made faster progress in electronic technology than the Italian pany.In 1978, Carlo de Benedetti became the new boss. Olivetti increased its marketing and service networks and made agreements with other panies to design and produce more advanced office equipment. Soon it became one of the worlds leading panies in information technology and munications. There are now five independent panies in the Olivetti groupone for personal puters, one for other office equipment, one for systems and service, and two for telemunications.27.From the text we learn that A. by 1930 Olivetti produced 13,000 typewriters a yearB. Olivetti earned more in the 1960s than in the 1950sC. some of Olivettis 700 staff regularly visited customers in ItalyD. Olivetti set up offices in other countries from the very beginning28. What was probably the direct result of Olivettis falling behind in electronic technologyA. Adrianos death B.A period of financial problemsC. Its faster progress D. Its agreements with other panies.29. What do we know about Olivetti?A. It produced the best typewriter in the world.B. It designed the worlds first mainframe puter.C. It exported more typewriters than other panies.D. It has five independent panies with its head office in Ivrea.30. The best title for the text would be A. The Origin of Olivetti. B. The Success of Olivetti.C. The History of Olivetti D. The Production of Olivetti.第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。How to Grow Houseplants Have you ever killed a beautiful houseplant? Are you still killing beautiful houseplants? _31_ Well, look no further, just follow these step-by-step instructions and your plant killing days will be over. First of all, buy an easy-to-grow plant that can survive. If you need a desert cactus(仙人掌) for a starter plant, thats fine. _32_. Next, make sure your plants gets enough sunlight. _33_. The window will act as a prism and fry your plant. What you want to do is have a window with a light curtain. It should be transparent(透明的). In that way your plant gets its needed sunlight but it wont be destroyed. _34_. If you give it the amount of water for a different plant, you could over-water or under-water it. If you know that everything needs water to survive, thats great, but you must also know that if you give something too much water you will kill it. Same thing goes for plants. Finally, you will want to prune(修剪) your plant weekly. If you dont, then the plant might bee unhealthy or unattractive, and sometimes even both. You could use tools or your hands. _35_. This makes for a great fertilizer, too, and then you wont have to buy fertilizer at the store.A. Not everyone has a gift for growing plants.B. However, never place it next to a glass window.C. Are you looking for a way to solve your problem?D. Water your plant as instructed for that specific plant.E. Does it prefer bright light or ordinary room temperatures?F. Just make sure you have a plant that you know you can take care of.G. When you remove the dead leaves from your plant, put them in the soil.第三部分語言運(yùn)用（共三節(jié)，滿分45分）第一節(jié)完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 We often see the final product of someones work and immediately jump to a conclusion. We may say, “The person who _36_ this has it all together.” We may never _37_ that a particular work of art was produced by someone we would call too _38_ to do such a thing. Stephen J. Cannell(1941-2010) was convinced that he was a(n) _39_ by the time he was eleven. Raised in a wealthy family, he attended private schools but _40_ classes almost every year and had to repeat three grades. His poor performance was not caused by _41_-young Stephen worked fairly hard. He was found to have dyslexia, a condition that makes it difficult for someone to read and spell. Many thought it _42_ that Stephen would ever be be able to perform anything but the most _43_ jobs. But Stephen was unwilling to _44_ and found the determination to make it through college. He then went to work for his fathers design pany in California. _45_ he had trouble putting things on paper, he had a dream of _46_ for a living. Encouraged by his wife to realize his dream, Stephen began to write for television. Although he _47_ that he was “scared to death”, Stephen _48_ and finally penned his first successful series, The Rockford Files. _49_ that were Baretta, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and others. _50_, he bee an internationally known producer and writer, showing that he was also a(n) _51_. He stood as an example to those who would not let disabilities stand in their way of _52_. Stephen did not just focus on personal _53_. He was a devoted spokesperson for dyslexia and supporter of children and adults with _54_ disabilities. When we overe a personal _55_, we often end up with great skills in that area.36. A.saw B. experienced C. knew D. created37. A.doubt B. think C. worry D. forget38. A.young B. disabled C. busy D. anxious39. A.loser B. pioneer C. star D. artist40. A.gave B. attended C. failed D. missed41. A.laziness B. loneliness C. tiredness D. sadness42. A.amazing B.acceptable C.clear D.impossible43. A.dangerous B.basic C. promising D.stressful44. A.set off B.go off C.give up D.show up45. A. Now that B. As if C. Even though D. Ever since46. A.writing B.travelling C. playing D.acting47. A.proved B.decided C.hoped D.admitted48. A.waited B.improved C. appeared D. continued49. A.Following B. Without C. Including D. Upon50. A. Eventually B. Suddenly C. Constantly D. Exactly51. A. stranger B. director C. overer D. partner52. A.happiness B.success C.research D.equality53. A.habits B. problems C. skills D. achievements54. A.talking B. moving C. learning D. working55. A.fear B. weakness C. crisis D. tragedy 第二節(jié)（共10小題：每小題1.5分，滿分15分）閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。 Albert Einstein was one of _56_ greatest scientists in the world. He developed many theories or ideas. These theories contributed greatly _57_ peoples understanding of the universe. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He didnt do well in school, but he was _58_(interest) in mathematics and science. While at college, he studied physics and math. After graduation, he worked in a government office. At the same time, he continued studying physics on _59_(he) own. In 1905 Einstein caused a stir by _60_(publish) five major research papers. One of these papers contained _61_(plete) new ideas about the “properties” of light(光的性質(zhì)). Einstein _62_(receive) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 192, mainly for the work in this paper. In another paper, Einstein put forward the special theory of relativity, _63_ changed how scientists thought about energy and matter. During World War II Einstein advised the United States _64_(build) nuclear weapons(核武器). He felt that these weapons might _65_(need) to defeat the Nazis. However, after World War II Einstein tried to prevent any future use of atomic weapons. Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955.第四部分寫作（滿分40分）第一節(jié) 應(yīng)用文寫作 （滿分15分）假定你是李華，正在教你的英國朋友Leslie學(xué)習(xí)中國文化。請你寫封郵件告知下次上課的計劃，內(nèi)容包括：（1）時間和地點(diǎn)；（2）內(nèi)容：學(xué)習(xí)剪紙（paper-cutting）；（3）課前準(zhǔn)備：簡要了解剪紙的歷史。注意：1. 詞數(shù)80左右；2. 可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。_第2節(jié) 概要寫作（滿分25分）閱讀下面的短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容寫一篇60詞左右的概要。In 1878, when Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, she was stating that there was no consistent（never changing）view on beauty. Standards of beauty change across time and cultural groups.Traditions and fashions, like society itself, change and adapt with time. So it is reasonable that our ideas of beauty change as well. In 19th-century Europe, women used to wear corsets to achieve a body shape that is no longer considered