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武汉二中2016－2017学年度上学期期中考试
高二英语试卷
考试时间：2016年11月10日下午14:00－16:00　　　　试卷满分：150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 woman ask the man to do?
A. Look for his notebook in the library. B. Go to the library to borrow a book.
C. Search the desk for his notebook.
2. What will the woman do this afternoon?
A. Go jogging with the man.
B. Take care of her cousin’s son.
C. Look after her cousin.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A place. B. A flight. C. A trip.
4. What does the man mean?
A. The woman should keep on with her class.
B. The woman needs help with the class.
C. The woman can drop her class.
5. How much extra money should the man pay?
A. $25. B. $50. C. $75.
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。听完每段对话或独白前, 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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料, 回答第6、7题。
6. Why does the woman refuse the man’s invitation?
A. She has to prepare for a competition.
B. She needs to treat some guests.
C. She has to do some cooking.
7. What do we know about the woman?
A. She needs a part-time job.
B. She doesn’t like playing golf.
C. She can’t afford to play golf.
听第7段材料, 回答第8至9题。
8. What is the exhibition about in the Met at present?
A. Paper. B. Airplanes. C. Telephones.
9. What does the man say about the exhibition in the Met?
A. Popular. B. Out-of-date. C. Untrue.
听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。
10. When will the man need the balance sheets?
A. This evening. B. Tomorrow morning.
C. Tomorrow evening.
11. What is the company looking for?
A. A typist. B. An accountant. C. A secretary.
12. What relationship is Laura to the woman?
A. Her schoolmate. B. Her customer.
C. Her former colleague.
听第9段材料, 回答第13至16题。
13. What does the woman want the man to do?
A. Recommend a car to her. B. Buy her a new car.
C. Lend her his car.
14. What does the man think of power-driven cars?
A. They are advanced. B. They are too expensive.
C. They are environment-friendly.
15. What kind of cars appeal to the woman most?
A. Eco-friendly. B. User-friendly.
C. High-tech.
16. How does the guidance system predict traffic jams?
A. By recording road signs. B. By distinguishing traffic signals.
C. By analysing historical traffic data.
听第10段材料, 回答第17至第20 小题。
17. What is the most important in looking for an apartment?
A. Enough time. B. Lots of patience.
C. A little preparation.
18. What does the speaker suggest people do first?
A. Spare some time. B. Decide the price range.
C. Look for ads about apartments.
19. What does the speaker think people should consider first when picking out apartments?
A. Location. B. Price. C. Traffic.
20. What may disappoint people?
A. It will take a long time to find a perfect apartment.
B. All the really great apartments are expensive.
C. Apartments don’t look as good as described.
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, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.”
—Jeff Bezos
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision not to try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
21. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?
A. His dream of being an inventor.
B. The support of his wife.
C. Millions of exciting titles.
D. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.
22. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?
A. He would be very excited if he tried it out.
B. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.
C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.
D. The decision not to try the online bookstore would terrify him.
23. We can know from the passage that .
A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author
B. the author might not regret if he failed the idea
C. the author wanted someone else to try the idea
D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed
24. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Cleverness and Kindness B. The Starting of Amazon
C. We Are What We Choose D. Following My Passion
B
The universe looks like a pretty quiet place to live. But the universe is filled with dangerous things, all struggling to be the one to wipe us off the planet. Happily for us, they’re all pretty unlikely, but if you wait long enough, one of them is certain to get us. But which one?
1. Death by Asteroid (小行星)
Of all the ways we might meet our untimely death, getting wiped out by an asteroid is the most likely. Why? Because we sit in a universal shooting gallery, with 100 tons of material hitting us every day. The problem, though, occurs every few centuries when something big this way comes. If you could ask a dinosaur, I’d imagine they would tell you to take this seriously.
2. Death by Exploding Star
When a huge star ends its life, it does so with a bang, which sends death spreading across space in the form of high-energy radiation. Many studies show that the bang would have to be closer than about 75 light years to do us any harm. The good news: no stars so close are able to do the deed.
3. Death by Dying Sun
The sun is important to us; without it, we’d freeze. But the sun is also middle-aged, already halfway to running out of fuel, expanding into a red giant, and cooking us to a fine crisp. Even long before then, it’ll warm up enough to raise our average temperature and cause a runaway greenhouse effect, boiling our oceans.
Happily, that’s a long time from now.
4. Death by Black Hole
Black holes are misunderstood. They don’t wander the galaxy looking for tasty snacks in the form of planets and stars; they turn around the Milky Way just like the hundreds of billions of other stars do. But it’s possible that one could wander too close to us. If it did, planetary paths would be disturbed, causing the Earth to drop into the sun or be thrown out into deep space.
Given that it could be trillions of years or more before even that happens, we don’t have to worry too much about black holes.
My advice? Go outside, look up, enjoy the sun, the moon, and the stars. They may be there forever as far as any one of us is concerned...and forever is a long, long time.
25. The underlined word “this” probably refers to .
A. getting wiped out by a dinosaur B. an untimely death
C. a cosmic shooting gallery D. 100 tons of material
26. Which of the following will cause the earth’s average temperature to go up dramatically?
A. The dying sun. B. The black hole. C. The asteroid. D. The exploding star.
27. Which of the following statement is possible about black holes?
A. They wander the galaxy.
B. One of them wanders very close to the earth.
C. They turn around the galaxy.
D. They look for planets and stars.
28. While the author is introducing the ways the universe could wipe out humankind, he is
us.
A. warning B. comforting C. entertaining D. ignoring
C
Generally speaking, college graduation brings both the satisfaction of academic achievement and the expectation of a well-paid job. But for 6 000 graduates at San Jose State this year, there’s uncertainty as they enter one of the worst job markets in decades.
Ryan Stewart has a freshly minted degree in religious studies, but no job prospects. “You look at everybody’s parents and neighbors, and they’re getting laid off and don’t have jobs,” said Stewart. “Then you look at the young people just coming into the workforce.., it’s just scary.”
When those graduates entered college, the future never looked brighter. But in the four years they’ve been here, the world outside has changed dramatically. “Those were the exciting times, lots of dot-com opportunities, exploding offers, students getting top dollar with lots of benefits,” said Cheryl Allmen-Vinnidge, of the San Jose State Career Centre. “Times have changed. It’s a new market. The job situation is grim (严峻的) now.” Cheryl Allmen-Vinnidge ought to know. She runs the San Jose State Career Centre, (it is) sort of a crossroads between college and the real world. Allmen-Vinnidge says students who do find jobs after college have done their homework. “The typical graduate who does have a job offer started working on it two years ago. They’ve postured themselves well during the summer. They’ve had several internships (实习) ,” she said. And they’ve majored in one of the few fields that are still hot—like chemical engineering, accounting or nursing—where average starting salaries have actually increased over last year. Other popular fields (like information systems management, computer science, and political science) have seen big declines in starting salaries.
Ryan Stewart (he had hoped to become a teacher) may just end up going back to school. “I’d like to teach college some day and that requires more schooling, which would be great in a bad economy,” he said.
It is true more students are able to receive college education. It is also true that they will have to face fiercer competition in the job market as they graduate. It becomes harder and harder for the current graduates to get a foothold in job markets, but many of them have no choice but to follow the beaten track. To some students a degree may not be ticket to instant wealth. For now, they can only hope its value will increase over time.
29. What can we learn about Ryan Stewart?
A. He is a teacher. B. He majored in religious studies.
C. He found a job as soon as he graduated. D. He is going back to school.
30. Which of the following did NOT happen in the past four years?
A. Dot-corn opportunities decreased.
B. Salaries in chemical engineering increased.
C. The number of teaching jobs increased.
D. The number of jobs with benefits decreased.
31. What does Cheryl Allmen-Vinnidge mean when she says students “have done their homework”?
A. The have found full-time jobs as their future career before graduation.
B. The have gone to summer school for further studies.
C. They are good students who have finished their homework on time.
D. They have spent time preparing themselves to find a job.
32. What’s the meaning of the phrase “get a foothold” in the last paragraph?
A. Gain a safe position from which further advances can be made.
B. Find a place where you can stand.
C. Walk with steady footsteps.
D. Make great progress in a particular area or in a certain job.
D
The TV science-fiction series Star Trek no longer looked far-fetched (牵强的) as four men and four women in black space-suits locked themselves into a giant hi-tech greenhouse, known as a ‘biosphere’, in the Arizona desert yesterday for a two-year study of the environment.
As dawn broke over the Santa Catalina mountains, the eight waved goodbye to television cameras. Edward Ross, their multibillionaire sponsor from a Texas oil family, closed the door of the $150 million structure, with its mini-ocean, marsh, desert, savanna, rain-forest and 3,800 plant and animal species designed to allow the team to recreate Earth and its ecosystems.
The so-called Biosphere 2 is the latest of a dozen environmental projects started by the self-titled ‘ecopreneur’. The project’s main aim is to set up a self-sustaining community for possible use in a spaceship or on another planet. The crew members must plant, harvest and process their food on a half-acre farm in the seven-storey glass and metal structure, while conducting a series of experiments.
‘We will be custodians (监护人) of our new little world,’ said Abigail Mayer, aged 31, a US marine biologist on the team, her voice choking with emotion. ‘It is a brave new step.’ Many scientists, however, are more than skeptical. They point out that the largest closed ecosystem which survived more than a few days was smaller than a football. It was developed at the University of Miami and contained only shrimp, algae and other micro-organisms.
Critics have also accused Mr. Ross of being more interested in producing a profitable theme park than in carrying out serious scientific research. Hundreds of tourists visited the site daily in the summer before it was occupied by the team. They paid $9.95 to enter and all stopped at the souvenir shop.
33. What’s the location of the project?
A. Texas B. University of Miami.
C. Arizona desert. D. The space.
34. What can we infer from the passage?
A. There is a scene in Star Tre