北京市西城区2016-2017学年高二上学期期末试卷英语试题.doc

北京市西城区2016—2017学年度第一学期期末试卷
高二英语 2017．1

试卷满分：140分 考试时间：120分钟
A卷满分90分
第一部分
I. 听力理解 (共三节, 满分22.5分)
第一节: (共4小题; 每小题1.5分，满分6分)
听下面四段对话,每段对话后有一道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听一遍。
1. What is the man’s suggestion about the woman’s watch?
A. Repair it. B. Buy a new one C. Keep it.
2. How does the man go to work now?
A. By car. B. By bike. C. By subway.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A wedding. B. A dress. C. The weather.
4. Where will the man go first?
A. To the theatre. B. To the library. C. To the office.
第二节:（共6小题;每小题1.5分，满分9分）
听下面三段对话, 每段对话后有两道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听两遍。
听第5段材料，回答第5至第6小题。
5. Which was the best part of the woman’s tour?
A. Hiking. B. Bungee jumping.C. Visiting friends.
6. Why did the man stay inside and watch TV?
A.It was raining.B. He was too tired. C. He was with his friends.
听第6段材料，回答第7至第8小题。
7. Why did David skip classes last week?
A. Because he wanted to surf on the Internet.
B. Because his parents quarreled a lot at home.
C. Because his friend asked him to chat in a café.
8. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Good friends.
听第7段材料，回答第9至第10小题。
9. What is the woman doing?
A. Selling her articles to Discoveries Magazine.
B.Having an interview with Discoveries Magazine.
C. Getting information about Discoveries Magazine.
10. Why did the woman steal something?
A. To visit friends in prison. B. To get public attention. C. To report on prisons.

(听力理解第三节见试卷第7页)

Ⅱ. 完形填空(共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从各题所给的A、B 、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In a lot of ways, Jamie Dudge seemed below average. Although he tried to do his best, it never got him very far. He wasn’t very 11 , so his school grades were always low. He wasn’t good at music or sports. He had an ordinary face and a personality to match. He didn’t get invited to many 12 .
Jamie was not likely to become famous, or rich, or popular. In one important way, though, he was a very 13 boy. Although he was not as successful as many other kids, he 14 to be unhappy about it. And he didn’t waste time wishing he were someone else. “I am what I am,” he 15 . “Trying to deny(否认) it won’t help. Dreaming impossible dreams is for the movies, not for me.”
Of course, Jamie wanted to know what was possible. “I am good for something,” he thought. And as he wondered about this, he began to notice other people. He didn’t focus on their looks, or their money, or their talents. Instead, he noticed their needs. He began to 16 that many people—even the very talented ones—had trouble or pain in their lives. So he decided to find 17 to help people. He decided to care.
Jamie’s first opportunity to 18 came up in math class. Jamie noticed that his teacher, Mrs. Hebert, was having a bad day. The class wasn’t paying attention, and she looked really 19 . After class, as Jamie left the room, he 20 dropped a little note on Mrs. Hebert’s desk. It simply said, “Mrs. Hebert, I 21 what you do for us. I think you’re a great teacher.”When Mrs. Hebert read the note later, she cried.
Writing that anonymous note to Mrs. Hebert made Jamie feel great. So he wrote more 22 to encourage other people. He knew some students were quite poor. So he began giving them money from his part-time job. He would slip the money into their desks, along with a note saying, “Someone cares.” Jamie found lots of other secret ways to 23 others. Soon, many thankful people were wondering who was being so kind to them. By now, you probably think you know the rest of the story: People 24 Jamie was the one helping them. They finally understood what a great guy he was. They started inviting him to parties. Sorry. That would be one of those impossible dreams. No, people never did uncover Jamie’s secret. 25 he didn’t mind. That was one thing he just didn’t care about.
11. A. active B. smart C. popular D. lucky
12. A. classes B. movies C. parties D. dinners
13. A. unusual B. unknown C. strange D. curious
14. A.intended B. refused C. managed D. chose
15. A. reported B. questioned C. complained D. decided
16. A. believe B. guess C. realize D. imagine
17. A. organizations B. support C. ways D. money
18. A. care B. notice C. react D. change
19. A. frightened B. amazed C. delighted D. discouraged
20. A. secretly B. simply C. accidentally D. carelessly
21. A. admit B. praise C. remember D. appreciate
22. A. notes B. letters C. articles D. messages
23. A. trust B. treat C. visit D. help
24. A. supposed B. predicted C. discovered D. suspected
25. A. And B. But C. So D. Then

III. 阅读理解(共11小题; 每小题2分, 满分22分)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Should online learning be encouraged?
Editor's note: As many parents have tried to give their children a head start, online education services, with their relatively cheap prices, are mushrooming across the world. What do you think? Should this mode of teaching be encouraged?

Ted M (UK)
Online education is not new. It has been found effective in many countries where access to schools is difficult. It lacks the opportunity for social learning of course, but in most systems there are weekend, summer and winter "camps" where students can arrange to meet and interact with others as part of the courses. Such education is valuable for remote learning in inaccessible regions.

Linda (China)
I find that children today spend less and less time playing outdoors than we did when we were young. We have the technology to enable us to teach students to learn with an amazing variety of resources but I do hope not at the expense of losing their childhood.

Breathing (Canada)
I think education is not about learning or gathering only textbook knowledge. It's about communicating with others, discussing, group work etc. Online education means distance education. At present it is spread all over the world. It has some good results too. But I like face-to-face education. It helps a student to build up his or her mental and physical strength besides textbook knowledge.

Jimmy (US)
It really depends on what kind of learner you are. If you are a self-motivated student and can manage your own time, online learning is for you. So long as you have the ability to learn on your own.

Sunny (Australia)
Online schools offer students with customized learning and help them gain access to courses that may not be provided in their assigned school. This is one of the primary reasons for the increased demand in online learning. Online learning is providing new options for kids and more choices for parents.

26. Which of the following is Linda’s opinion on online learning?
A. It limits the time children spend playing outdoors.
B. It is valuable for learning in remote regions.
C. It lacks the opportunity for social learning.
D. It is very popular all over the world.
27. Who is totally supportive to online learning?
A. Ted M B. Breathing C. Jimmy D. Sunny
28. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To list the benefits of online learning.
B. To introduce the access to online learning.
C. To show the quick spread of online learning.
D. To present different opinions on online learning.

B
A plane made a dangerous trip to the South Pole to rescue a sick worker from a U.S. research base.
The U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is home to a crew of 48 scientists. A rescue plane flew there on June 21 to rescue a sick worker. Battling subzero temperatures, total darkness, and other dangerous flying conditions, a plane left the South Pole on Wednesday after rescuing a sick worker from a U.S. research base. After the patient and flight crew rest, the plane will make its way to South America, where the patient will receive medical care.
The daring rescue mission began last week when two planes flew from Canada to Rothera, a British base on the Antarctic Peninsula. On Tuesday, just one of the planes left Rothera on a nine-to-ten-hour trip to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where the sick worker was located.
The station is usually unreachable during Antarctica’s long, harsh winter, from February to October. Forty-eight people live at the base, including a doctor and a physician’s assistant. But when the crew there determined the worker needed medical help that couldn’t be provided on site, the emergency rescue mission began.
The Twin Otter is the only type of plane capable of flying in Antarctica’s subzero winter temperatures. A small crew, including a pilot, copilot, medical worker, and flight engineer, made the 1,500-mile trip from Rothera in a Twin Otter plane. It is the only type of plane capable of flying in Antarctica’s winter cold. It can operate in temperatures as low as -103° Fahrenheit. The temperature in the South Pole on Tuesday was -73°F. In such conditions, an aircraft’s fuel and even its batteries need to be warmed up before it can take off.
The pitch-black sky and the threat of high winds and sudden weather changes make such flights extremely risky and rare. "The air and Antarctica are unforgiving environments," Tim Stockings told the Associated Press. He is the operations director at the British Antarctic Survey, in London. “Things can change very quickly down there."
This rescue is only the third time an emergency mission has been made to the research base since 1999. The National Science Foundation, which runs the station, has not said who was rescued, or the medical condition of the person. The names of the crewmembers who made the daring flight have not been made public either. But according to Peter West, a National Science Foundation spokesman, the mission “went all according to plan.”

29. Why did the plane fly to the South Pole to rescue the worker?
A. The worker was trapped in an emergency mission.
B. Necessary medical care couldn’t be provided there.
C. The worker was sick for home at the research base.
D. The reason for the flight rescue was not made public.
30. During the rescue, the plane had to battle the dangerous flying conditions EXCEPT for _______.
A. the threat of high winds B. the total darkness
C. subzero temperatures D. the lack of fuel
31. What is the Twin Otter?
A. A small crew. B. A Type of plane.
C. A British Antarctic Survey. D. A National Science Foundation.
32.What is the best title of the passage?
A. A Well-planned Trip B. The Importance of Teamwork
C. A Daring Rescue D. The Advantage of High-tech

C
Standing desks. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there are plenty of articles to back up whatever opinion you have.
On the one hand, studies have shown that standing desks could help reduce your risk of obesity (肥胖）and diabetes (糖尿病）. On the other, experts have said standing desks don’t help with weight loss and could give you back problems.
Now, another study has come out, this one in favor of standing desks. Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center found that standing desks helped employees get more done during the day. Though the results might not translate for all types of work environments, they should give standing desk supporters a reason to be pleased.
Published last week in the journal IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, the study followed 167 employees in a call center over six months. Seventy-four of them used standing desks, and researchers found that they were 46 percent more productive than those who sat at their desks.
The participants’ employer, a health services company that’s not named in the paper, sponsored the study to better understand the returns on the standing desks it had bought for the office.
Productivity was determined by the number of successful calls to clients that the health and clinical advisors made per hour. The company earned money for each successful call, during which an advisor checked in on a client’s progress in an exercise program, for example, or checked to see that a client was taking proper medication.
Employees typically made between 400 and 500 calls a month, and the company wanted them to average around two successful calls each hour. Those who had standing desks met that quota, while those who remained seated averaged 1.5 successful calls per hour, Gregory Garrett, a public health doctoral student and lead author on the study, told The Huffington Post. If an advisor was unable to reach a client over the phone, that was counted as an unsuccessful call.
Interestingly, the people who stood actually made more phone calls than the ones who sat, Garrett said.
The results almost seem too good to be true — after all, who wouldn’t want a nearly 50 percent boost in productivity just from using a standing desk?
“How do you prove ‘this desk makes me feel happier, and I feel better’? That’s not going to pay the bills,” Garrett said.
But, he continued, the study shows that standing desks can in fact “affect a company’s performance. That’s really significant.”
33. According to the passage, standing desks could result in ______________.
A.obesity B. back problems
C. diabetes D. medication problems
34. What does that quota in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A.400 and 500 calls a month.
B.2 successful calls each hour.
C.1.5 successful calls every hour.
D.The average number of calls per day.
35. It can be concluded from the passage that standing desks __________.
A. are worthy of much further research
B. can be used in all work environments
C.can help create a boost in productivity
D. are more comfortable than normal desks
36. What is the writer’s attitude towards standing desks?
A. Objective. B. Subjective. C. Positive. D. Negative.

第二部分
I. 听力理解
第三节：（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面一段独白, 根据题目要求在相应的横线上写下第1题至第5题的关键信息。每小题仅填写一个词。这段独白你将听两遍。
The Swimming Competition
Time
January14th, this Saturday
Place
the City Swimming Pool
Where to meet
at the school hall
When to leave
at 1 a.m.
How to get there
by 2
What to wear
sports 3 and sports shoes
What to bring
the student card, some food and 4
Whatto remember
not to 5 around
not to swim if not feeling well

II. 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
在下列句子中的空白处填入适当内容，或括号内单词的正确形式。
1. ––Oh no! We’re too late. The train ______________ (leave).
––That’s OK. We’ll catch the next train.
2. China's Yaogan-27 remote sensing satellite ____________ (send) into space on August 27，2015 from Taiyuan launch site in Shanxi Province, north China.
3.If we had known your tel