江西省临川实验学校2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题.doc

临川实验学校2017—2018学年下学期期中试卷
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5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 should the man concentrate on according to the woman?
A. The details. B. The important ideas. C. Everything Professor Young has talked about.
2. Where will the man probably live next year?
A. In the dormitory. B. In his parents’ house. C. In a rented apartment.
3. What does the woman want to do?
A. Change jobs. B. Get a pay raise. C. Work part-time at night.
4. What is the problem with the woman’s cell phone?
A. It doesn’t work. B. It got food on it. C. Its screen was broken.
5. How does the woman feel about the man’s actions?
A. Sorry. B. Angry. C. Amused.
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。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 the assignment?
A. Writing a paper. B. Writing any kind of poem. C. Writing a story about imagination.
7.How might Alice find a topic?
A. From nature. B. From her classmates. C. From her textbook.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Father and daughter. B. Boss and employee. C. Professor and student.
9.What is the woman possibly worried about?
A. The man is still angry with her.
B. Her report will not be good enough.
C. She will make more mistakes in the future.
10. what is the woman like?
A. She is too proud. B. She is confident. C. She is modest.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11.What is the woman doing?
A. Complaining about campus food. B. Pushing for changes in campus food.
C. Seeking comments about campus food.
12. What does the man think of the campus food?
A. Acceptable. B. Excellent. C. Unsatisfactory.
13. What is the man unhappy with?
A. The soup. B. The closing time. C. The dessert.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why does Dr. Downs want his students to have the five books?
A. The books are very interesting. B. the students need to read more. C. He wants to discuss them in detail.
15.What does the woman say about the books?
A. They cost a lot B. They are useful. C. They aren’t worth buying.
16.What do the speakers agree about buying the books?
A. They’ll each pay half of the total amount.
B. The woman will pay the man $50 for sharing.
C. The man will buy three and the woman will buy two.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.What kind of notice is this?
A. A schedule. B. A warning. C. An advertisement.
18.Who controls the land?
A. A building company. B. The U. S. government. C. The Blackfoot Indians.
19.What are people with a written permission allowed to do?
A. Go fishing. B. Visit the land. C. Build houses.
20.What should people do if they have questions?
A. Call American government officials.
B. Read the rules of the Blackfoot Land Act.
C. Write a letter to the Blackfoot Leadership Group.
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）
A
In the coming months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare’s plays in their own language, in our Globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for. Please come and join us.
National Theatre of China Beijing|Chinese
This great occasion(盛会) will be the National Theatre of China’s first visit to the UK. The company’s productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre. This production of Shakespeare’s Richard III will be directed by the National’s Associate Director，Wang Xiaoying.
Date & Time : Saturday 28 April, 2. 30pm & Sunday 29 April, 1. 30pm & 6. 30pm

Marjanishvili Theatre Tbilisi | Georgian
One of the most famous theatres in Georgia, the Marjanishvili, founded in 1928, appears regularly at theatre festivals all over the world. This new production of It is helmed（指导）by the company’s Artistic Director Levan Tsuladze.
Date & Time :Friday 18May, 2. 30pm & Saturday 19May, 7. 30pm

Deafinitely Theatre London | British Sign Language （BSL）
By translating the rich and humourous text of Love’s Labour’s Lost into the physical language of BSL, Deafinitely Theatre creates a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy and aims to build a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds by performing to both groups as one audience.
Date & Time : Tuesday 22 May, 2. 30pm & Wednesday 23 May, 7. 30pm

Habima National Theatre Tel Aviv | Hebrew
The Habima is the centre of Hebrew-language theatre worldwide , Founded in Moscow after the 1905 revolution, the company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s, Since 1958, they have been recognised as the national theatre of Israel . This production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice marks their first visit to the UK.
Date & Time :Monday 28May, 7. 30 & Tuesday 29 May, 7. 30pm

21. which play will be performed by the National Theatre of China?
A. Richard Ⅲ. B. Lover’s Labour’s Lost
C. As You Like It D. The Merchant of Venice
22. What is special about Deafinitely Theatre?
A. It has two groups of actors B. It is the leading theatre in London
C. It performs plays in BSL D. It is good at producing comedies
23. When can you see a play in Hebrew?
A. On Saturday 28 April. B. On Sunday 29 April
C. On Tuesday 22 May. D. On Tuesday 29 May
B
There are some food banks in the USA, but what do they do?
It’s known to us when we taste delicious food, some people in the USA are in hunger. They live a hard life. They are poor and always don’t have enough food to eat.
Food banks are the organizations to help these poor people. Food banks receive the food from companies or supermarkets, and also from donations from the public. In this way, they collect extra food and other things and give them out to people who are hungry.
The first food bank was St. Mary’s Food Bank. It started in 1967 in Arizona. In 1979, it became a larger organization named America’s Second Harvest Network-made up of over 200 food banks across the USA. Each year, the Network provides food for more than 25 million hungry people in the United States, including more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million old people.
Volunteers are important to food banks. There are many different was for you to volunteer. You can help out through activities such as:
*Sorting, boxing and packaging donated food.
*Tutoring poor kids at your local Kids Cafe
*Transporting or delivering food
It’s simple. Take part in it today, and let’s try to make our world without hunger!
24. What are food banks according to the passage?
A. Some banks in the countryside. B. The banks to receive food
C. The banks for poor people D. Some organizations
25. What does the underlined word “donations” in Paragraph 3?
A. delicious food B. food for rich people C. something given D.extra food
26. What does Paragraph 5 tell us the author wants?
A. He will work harder to help the hungry people
B. He hopes to see more people become volunteers
C. More and more people want to become volunteers
D. He wants to set up more food banks
27. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. Food banks B. Help the people in hunger
C. Let’s become volunteers D. Make our world without hunger
C
It is commonly believed that all over the world, boys and girls attend a mixed school, where they study together. But boys' schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music.
Always boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to correspond to(和…相符) the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man".
Surprisingly, the findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.
George Carl, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls. He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.
The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when girls do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.
But in single-sex schools teachers can adjust lessons to boys' learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study's author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia.
Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them. Because boys generally have more acute vision, learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given "hands-on" lessons where they are allowed to walk around. "Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine（女性的) and prefer the modern genre (类型) in which violence and sexism are major themes," James wrote.
Single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel that they had to be "masterful and in charge" in relationships. "In mixed schools, boys feel forced to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means," the study reported.
28. The writer argues that a single-sex school would __________.
A. force boys to hide their emotions to be "real men".
B. help boys to be more competitive in schools.
C. encourage boys to express their emotions more freely
D. naturally strengthen boys’ traditional image of a man
29. Traditionally, in a mixed school boys __________.
A. perform relatively better. B. behave more responsibly.
C. grow up more healthily. D. receive a better education.
30. In Abigail James’ opinion, one of the advantages of single-sex schools is ______.
A. boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested in
B. teaching can be designed to promote boys' team spirit
C. boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted
D. teaching can be adjusted to suiting the characteristics of boys
31. The underlined word “acute” in paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to ______ .
A. lovely                  B. sharp                   C.  serious    D. dull 
D
During Tom’s growing up, other kids felt sorry for him. His parents always had him do all kinds of housework. But when Tom reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates. He was more satisfied with his job, his marriage, and his health. For him, life seems easy.
A study that followed the lives of 450 teenage boys from New York revealed the finding, which showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not. “Boys who worked in the home or community gained competence (能力) and came to feel they were worthwhile members of society,” said George Smith, the psychologist (心理学家) who made the discovery. “And because they felt good about themselves, others felt good about them.”
Smith’s study followed these males in great detail. Interviews were repeated at ages 25, 31 and 47. Under Smith, the researchers compared the men’s mental-health scores with their boyhood-activity scores. Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.
The finding revealed the link between childhood activities and adulthood job is sharp. Working---at any age----is important. Childhood activities help a child develop responsibility, independence, confidence and competence---the underpinnings (基础) of emotional health. They also help him understand that people must cooperate and work toward common goals. The most competent adults are those who know how to do this. Yet work isn’t everything. As Tolstoy once said, “One can live meaningfully in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work.”
32. Tom is a person who ______.
A. received little love from his family.
B. had few childhood friends.
C. enjoyed his life when he grew up.
D. was envied by others in his childhood.
33. Smith’s words in Paragraph 2 serve as _____.
A. a description of personal values and social values
B. an analysis of how work was related to competence
C. an example for parents’ expectations of their children
D. an explanation why some boys grew into happy men
34. Smith’s team got their findings by _____.
A. recording the boys’ effort in school
B. evaluating the men’s mental health
C. comparing different sets of scores
D. measuring the men’s problem solving ability
35. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. competent adults know more about love than work.
B. Emotional health is important to a wonderful adult life.
C. Love brings more joy to people than work does.
D. Independence is the key to one’s success.
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
When we think about the dreams we have, it is surprising to see how many people failed even if they could have succeeded. So today I’m going to tell you five ways to kill your dreams.
l Believe in overnight success.
Everyone knows the story of a tech guy who built a mobile app and sold it for a lot of money. ___36___ If you investigate further, you will find that he is well educated and has been working on the project for 20 years. Therefore, your overnight success is always a result of what you’ve done in your life.
l ___37___
Constantly, people around you always have opinions on which path you should take. But whichever way you choose, there are other ways you have to pick as well. And one day you need to solve those problems yourself.
l Decide to rest when success is guaranteed.
When your life is going great and everything is set—time to rest. Actually, when you’re growing towards a peak, you need to work even harder and find yourself another peak. If you were content with what you’ve accomplished, it would stop you from a greater success. ___38___
l Believe the fault is someone else’s.
I constantly see people saying, “I created this great product, but the market is so bad.” If you have dreams, it’s your responsibility to make them happen. Yes, the market may be bad. But if no one bought your product, surely there is something there that is your fault. ___39___
l Believe that the only things that matter are the dreams themselves.
Achieving a dream is a short moment, but your life is not. ___40___ And the only way to really achieve all of your dreams is to fully enjoy every step of your journey.
A. When we face difficulties, believe in ourselves.
B. The overnight su