北京市丰台区2017-2018学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题.doc

丰台区2017-2018学年度第一学期期中考试联考
高二英语（A卷）考试时间：100分钟
第一部分：听力理解（共三节，20小题，每小题1分，20分）
第一节：听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、
C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。
1. Where are the two speakers?
A. On the plane. B. On the bus. C. On the train.
2. What is the weather going to be like this weekend?
A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.
3. Who is the woman?
A. A cleaner. B. A secretary. C. A manager.
4. What will the woman probably do during the holiday?
A. Visit her sister. B. Shop in her city. C. Travel in Hangzhou.
5. Why can’t the woman take the direct route?
A. The road is under construction.
B. The right-hand lane is closed.
C. There is no exit.

第二节：听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. What can we learn about the woman?
A. She didn’t watch the football game.
B. She is not interested in football.
C. She doesn’t work hard.
7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A football player. B. A football match. C. A football fan.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Why does the woman do research?
A. To study what music people prefer.
B. To show us that music is important.
C. To understand how music influences people.
9. What will the man do to help with the report?
A. Design the report.
B. Answer questions.
C. Hand out questionnaires.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What happened to Betty?
A. She was disturbed at the concert.
B. She was removed by security.
C. She fought with a boy.
11. What can we learn about Betty?
A. She doesn’t like children.
B. She often goes to concerts.
C. She seldom argues with others.
12. What does the man suggest Betty do?
A. Leave the theatre. B. Ask for help. C. Fight back.
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。
13. Why did Jane miss the film?
A. She was sick in hospital.
B. She got caught in the rain.
C. She had to take care of her sister.
14. What impressed the speaker most?
A. The plot. B. The acting. C. The setting.
15. What’s the speaker doing?
A. Leaving a message.
B. Making an appointment.
C. Giving a lecture.

第三节: 听下面一段对话，完成第16至20五道小题，每小题仅填写一个词。听对话前，你将有20秒钟的时间阅读试题，听完后你将有60秒钟的作答时间。这段对话你将听两遍。
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第二部分：知识运用 (共两节，25分)
第一节：语法 (共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)
从各题A、 B、 C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
Jane’s mother worked on the farm from dawn till dark, 21 just could make ends meet. To make Jane live a happy life，Mother was very careful about 22 money. 23 , Jane didn’t understand her. Every day, Mother was busy with her work while Jane 24 at school, so they had little time to enjoy themselves.
25 Jane was unhappy and even cruel to her, Jane’s mother decided to go skiing with Jane to make Jane happy.
On Sunday morning they went happily to the snowfield. Since they were both in white clothes, the manager advised them to buy ski clothes. He said 26 there was an accident, they might be easily found in their ski clothes. Mother couldn’t afford them, so she refused.
Then they went skiing in their white clothes. They were skiing happily on the mountain 27 suddenly the snowfield began to jump. It was the snowslide(雪崩). They ran a long way and escaped the snowslide finally, but they couldn’t find their way. Later, a helicopter was flying above, but people on it couldn’t see or hear them. Jane was in despair because she 28 her head seriously and blood dropped on the snow. Just then an idea struck Mother. She pierced (刺破) her wrist immediately and then bright red blood dropped down on the snowfield. A red SOS was on the snow. At last Jane 29 , but Mother died.
Every time I think of the blood 30 onto the snowfield, I feel painful. I believe anyone who hears the tragedy will admire Mother for her selfless love to her daughter.
21. A. that B. which C. what
22. A. spent B. spend C. spending
23. A. Therefore B. However C. What’s more
24. A. was studying B. studied C. will study
25. A. Realize B. To realize C. Realizing
26. A. in case B. before C. so that
27. A. while B. when C. as
28. A. had hurt B. has hurt C. was hurting
29. A. saved B. was saved C. had been saved
30. A. dropped B. to drop C. dropping
第二节：完型填空 (共15小题，每小题1分，共15分)
It was a cold afternoon. I was training a football team for first-graders. It was the day of our 31 practice.
I seated the kids on a long bench on the grass. Any time I was training a new team, I spent a few minutes getting them to 32 one another, each kid saying his name and the names of all the kids sitting to the left.
A few minutes later, I 33 to put the kids to a test. Alex was chosen to start at the far left end of the bench, go up to each kid, say that kid’s 34 and then shake his right hand.
Alex was doing well and he went down the row—Dylan, Micah, David, and Beau— 35 he reached Ben. He said Ben’s name and reached out his right hand, but Ben just 36 there, his right hand 37 in his jacket.
“Ben, why don’t you let Alex shake your hand?” I asked. Ben stood up, and said, “But I don’t have the 38 .” He pulled his jacket away from his right shoulder.
Ben’s arm ran from his right shoulder but his arm 39 at the elbow(胳膊肘). No forearm(前臂), no hand, no fingers!
I got 40 and couldn’t think of anything to say, but the little kids were unwilling to hide their curiosity(好奇心).
“Look at that,” said Alex.
“Hey, what 41 to your arm?” another asked.
“Does it hurt?”
Ben took off his jacket to 42 the kids what they all wanted to see. He explained to them that he had always been that 43 and that there was nothing 44 . What he meant was that he wanted to be treated like everybody else.
And he was from that day on.
From that day on, he was 45 Ben, one of the players on the team.
31. A. first B. next C. later D. last
32. A. help B. see C. know D. teach
33. A. forgot B. decided C. learned D. refused
34. A. number B. class C. story D. name
35. A. until B. because C. though D. if
36. A. sat B. played C. lay D. studied
37. A. opened B. raised C. waved D. hidden
38. A. finger B. hand C. foot D. leg
39. A. met B. pointed C. stopped D. joined
40. A. interested B. bored C. annoyed D. shocked
41. A. came B. grew C. happened D. changed
42. A. show B. give C. offer D. ask
43. A. style B. manner C. way D. nature
44. A. common B. special C. magic D. harmful
45. A. also B. even C. yet D. just

第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，20小题，28分）
第一节：阅读短文，从各题A、B、C、 D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
（共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
A
Money! What do you see when you hear this word? A round metal coin? Paper money? Most likely you think of one or the other. The money we see or use is made of paper or metal. But the money of long ago was not at all like the money we use today.
Coins were not always made of metal. Soap was once used as money by the people of Mexico. Blocks of coal were used as coins by the people of England. Stone money was used on the Pacific Ocean island of Yap.
Even food was used as money. In Russia coins of cheese could be used to buy things. Koku—a unit of rice was used to buy things in Japan. Bricks of tea leaves were used as money in old China. The tea leaves were first boiled in water. They were then pressed into hard brick shapes.
Coins were not always round. The coins of old China were once in the shape of a knife. In another land coins were made in the shape of a fish. Square money is still used by the people of India. Money in shapes of rings is also still seen in some parts of the world, making it easy to carry.
Did you ever hear anyone say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees” Is it true? Did money ever grow on trees? In Malaysia, people once made their own small trees out of tin. Small, round tin coins were joined to the trunk of the tin-money trees. People just broke off the money they needed. Wouldn’t it be nice if people had money trees of their own?
46. In which country was soap used as money?
A. Russia. B. England.
C. Malaysia. D. Mexico.
47. What shape of money is used in India?
A. A ring. B. A square.
C. A knife. D. A fish.
48. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Metal Coins B. Funny Money
C. Money Trees D. Money Trouble
B
Mary Cassatt: American Artist
By the young age of sixteen, Mary Cassatt had decided she wanted to become an artist. Unlike the other women painters of the time, she did not want to be merely an amateur(爱好者) —she wanted to make a living with her art. From 1860 to 1862, Mary studied drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which was near her home. What she really wanted to do, however, was go to Europe to study the works of famous painters, known as the “old masters”.
At first, Mary’s parents were opposed to the idea of her going to Europe, but she eventually changed their minds. Mary moved to Paris when she was 22 years old. After studying the old masters for a while, she began to believe that if she was to become a good artist, she would have to develop her own style.
In the early 1870s, the painter Edgar Degas asked Mary to join the group called the Impressionists. The Impressionists were a group of painters who had broken from the style of the old masters. Rather than painting only sitting or standing models, the Impressionists often painted from real life. Rather than painting in only dark colors, the Impressionists experimented with bright colors and the effect of light on color.
Mary Cassatt became quite successful as an Impressionist painter. In later years, however, she also worked in dry point. The process of dry point consisted of three steps. The first step was to draw a picture. She did this by scratching (刮) a sharp needle onto a sheet of copper (铜), called a plate. Next she applied ink to the plate with a roller. Then she pressed the plate onto a sheet of paper. The finished picture looks like a drawing, but it is actually made up of hundreds of tiny lines. Even later, Mary Cassatt began painting pictures of mothers with their children. These are some of Cassatt’s best-known paintings. In the 1890s, Mary Cassatt had many one-woman art shows in both the United States and Europe. Her works were well respected and sold very well. She bought a summer home in the country outside of Paris, where she lived until her death in 1926.
49. Mary Cassatt wanted to set herself apart from many women painters by
.
A. living on her art works
B. scratching pictures into copper pieces
C. working with the Impressionist painters
D. traveling to London to study old masters
50. How was the style of the Impressionists’ paintings different from that of the
old masters?
A. The artists pressed paper on plates.
B. The painters used only dark colors.
C. The pictures showed scenes from real life.
D. The paintings were about mothers with children.
51. What is “dry point”?
A. A kind of printmaking.
B. A special type of paper.
C. A new way of mixing colors.
D. A method of scratching needles.
C
Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant (无关的) and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with controlled light, temperature, wetness, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise or a complex in the Saudi desert.
The world already is having trouble feeding itself. Half the people on Earth live in cities, and nearly half of those—about 3 billion—are hungry or ill-fed. Food prices, currently increasing, are affected by dryness. Hoods and the cost of energy required to plant, harvest and transport it. And prices will only get more unstable(不稳定). Climate change makes long-term crop planning uncertain. Farmers in many parts of the world already are using water available to the last drop. And the world is getting more crowded: by mid-century, the global population will grow from 6.8 billion to 9 billion.
To feed so many people may require expanding farmland at the expense of forests and wilderness, or finding ways to completely increase crop output.
Gertjan Meeuws has taken the idea of a greenhouse a step further, growing vegetables and house plants in enclosed(封闭的）and regulated environments. In their research station, water flows into the pans when needed, and the temperature is kept constant(恒定的). Lights go on and off, creating similar day and night, but according to the rhythm of the plant.
A building of 100 square meters and layers(层) of plants could provide a daily diet of 200 grams of fresh fruit and vegetables to the entire population of Den Bosch, about 140,000 people. Their idea isn't to grow foods that require much space, like corn or potatoes.
Here sunlight is not only unnecessary but can be harmful. Plants need only specific wavelengths(波长) of light to grow. Their growth rate is three times faster than under greenhouse conditions. They use about 90 percent less water than outdoors agriculture. And city farming means producing food near the consumer, and there’s no need to transport it long distances.
52. What can we mainly learn from Paragraph 2?
A．The climate is worse and worse.
B．The city people live a hard life.
C．The world has difficulty feeding its people.
D．The world’s population is increasing fast.
53. Which of the following is true of the environments in the research station?
A．The temperature is often changed.
B．Sunshine is in great need for plants.
C．Day and night depends on plants.
D．Air quality is controlled by plants．
54．It can be inferred from the text that Gertjan Meeuws’s farming ．
A. helps save sea water a lot
B. is highly adaptable(适应性强的)
C. is like the greenhouse agriculture
D. suits the production of corn
55．What is the text mainly about?
A. Development of indoor farming.
B. Great Revolution(革命) in farming.
C. Advantages of indoor farming.
D. Sunless, rainless indoor farming．
第二节：阅读下面短文和问题，根据短文内容和每小题后的具体要求，在答题卡相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息，完成对该问题的回答。答语要意思清楚，结构正确，书写工整。（共4小题，每小题2分，共8分）
The British are known for their sense of humour. However, it is often difficult for foreigners to understand their jokes. The main point to remember is that the British often use understatement.
Understatement means saying less than you think or feel. For example, if someone gets very wet in a shower of rain, he might say, ‘