河北省定州中学届高中英语毕业班下学期期中试题.docx

1、河北省定州中学届高中英语毕业班下学期期中试题河北省定州中学2018届高中英语毕业班下学期期中试题 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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15.答案是C。1. What are they doing?A. Taking a trip. B. Working on a

2、farm. C. Feeding the cow.2. When will the man go to Mongolia?A. In June. B. In July. C. In August.3. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a laboratory. B. In a library. C. In a cafe.4. Why does the man fail to rent this apartment?A. He wants to rent a smaller one. B. He thinks it is too expe

3、nsive.C. He intends to share a flat.5. What does the woman mean?A. Johns hairstyle is great. B. Johns hairstyle doesnt fit him.C. Johns hairstyle is different from his friends.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，并标在试卷相应位罝。听每段对话或独白前，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

4、钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Who is the man?A. A car seller. B. The womans friend. C. The womans husband.7. Why does the woman want to buy a car?A. To drive to work. B. To drive her kids to school. C. To drive on holidays.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What can we know from the man?A. Its too cold to run

5、outside.B. Its healthy to run in cold weather.C. Its good for lungs to run outside.9. What does the woman want to do right now?A. Sleep in bed. B. Get her gym clothes. C. Do make-up.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why will the woman have a dinner party?A. To chat with the doctor. B. To celebrate her paper.C. T

6、o welcome the chairman.11. When will the man come?A. At around 6:30 on Saturday. B. At around 7:00 on Saturday.C. At around 7:00 on Sunday.12. What does the man think of the girl?A. She is pretty. B. She is friendly. C. She is hard-working.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What are the girls old shoes like?A. Th

7、ey are lovely. B. They are casual. C. They are old.14. Whats wrong with the first pair of shoes the girl tries on?A. They dont match the dress. B. They are out of style.C. They feel uncomfortable.15. How much does the girl have to pay?A. 130 dollars. B. 230 dollars. C. 260 dollars.16. What do we kno

8、w about the girl?A. She is wearing a red dress. B. She bought a pair of yellow shoes.C. She will wear the red shoes home.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do colors mean to drivers?A. Life-saving information. B. Means of transportation.C. Traffic police.18. Which of the following is NOT mentioned?A. Colors

9、 can change peoples mood.B. Colors can make people beautiful.C. Colors can increase peoples appetite.19. What is more important in a sports competition?A. Luck and ability. B. Luck and psychology.C. Ability and psychology.20. What does the speaker think of artists works?A. They are as colorful as a

10、rainbow.B. They are more colorful than a rainbow.C. They are more beautiful than a rainbow.二、阅读理解Can you imagine printing food? Some scientists are trying to revolutionize the dining experience by doing this. They hope that having a 3D printer in the kitchen will become as commonplace as the microwa

11、ve. Scientists say that they are easy to use:you simply have to select a recipe and put the raw food inks into the printer. You can also change the instructions to make the food exactly how you want it. This means that it would be very quick and easy to create tasty and nutritious meals.They say tha

12、t if people used 3D printers to create meals there would be less need for traditional growing, transporting and packaging processes as food production would be a lot easier. For example, alternative ingredients (原料) such as proteins from insects could be changed into tasty products. And as is known,

13、those traditional activities are not beneficial to our surroundings.This technology could also help people who suffer from dysphagia (a swallowing disorder).The patients could program the printer and softer versions would be made so that they would not have trouble swallowing them.However,some peopl

14、e think that using 3D-printed foods would be a disaster. It could take away many jobs,including those for growing,transporting and packaging food. Imagine a world where there was no need for farming or growing crops and the same tastes could be printed from a raw food ink. Likewise, traditional cafe

15、s and restaurants might lose business. Also, there are concerns about the nutritional value of printed food:is it really possible to get the nutrients we need from food-based inks?Whats more, cooking and eating together with family and friends has long been a traditional and enjoyable activity. It i

16、s hard to imagine a world where the pastime of cooking is dead and meals can be created at the touch of a button.21What do scientists think of 3D food printing?A. It is cheap to use lt. B. It is environment-friendly.C. It is advancing quickly. D. It needs improving.22What does the underlined part in

17、 Paragraph 3 refer to?A. The printed foods. B. Their favorite foods.C. The more nutritious foods. D. The more tasty foods.23What can we infer about the printed foods from Paragraph 4?A. Their raw food inks are more nutritional.B. People would get more jobs produced by them.C. People need more eviden

18、ce about their nutrition.D. They would be bought in traditional restaurants.24What is the best title for the text?A. The growth of 3D food printing B. The future of 3D food printingC. The 3D food printing business D. The two sides of 3D food printingThe first drawings on walls appeared in caves thou

19、sands of years ago. Later the Ancient Romans and Greeks wrote their names and protest poems on buildings. Modern graffiti seems to have appeared in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, and by the late sixties it had reached New York. The new art form really took off in the 1970s, when people began writi

20、ng their names, or “tags”, on buildings all over the city. In the mid-seventies it was sometimes hard to see out of a subway car window, because the trains were completely covered in spray paintings known as masterpieces.In the early days, the “taggers” were part of street crowds who were concerned

21、with marking their territory (领地）. They worked in groups called “crews” and called what they did “writing”-the term “graffiti” was first used by The New York Times and the novelist Norman Mailer. Art galleries in New York began buying graffiti in the early seventies. But at the same time that it beg

22、an to be regarded as an art form, John Lindsay, the then mayor of New York, declared the first war on graffiti. By the 1980s it became much harder to write on subway trains without being caught, and instead many of the more established graffiti artists began using roofs of buildings.The debate over

23、whether graffiti is art or deliberate damage is still going on. Peter Vallone, a New York city councilor, thinks that graffiti done with permission can be art, but if it is on someone elses property it becomes a crime. “I have a message for the graffiti destroyers out there,” he said recently, “and

24、your freedom of expression ends where my property begins.” On the other hand, Felix, a member of the Berlin-based group Reclaim Your City, says that artists are reclaiming cities for the public from advertisers, and that graffiti represents freedom and makes cities livelier.For decades graffiti has

25、been a springboard to international fame for a few. Jean-Michel Basquiat began spraying on the street in the 1970s before becoming a respected artist in the 80s. The Frenchman Blek le Rat and the British artist Banksy have achieved international fame by producing complex works with stencils (模板), of

26、ten making political or humorous points. Works by Banksy have been sold for over 100,000. Graffiti is now sometimes big business.25Why was the seventies an important decade in the history of graffiti?A. That was when modern graffiti first appeared.B. That was when modern graffiti first became really

27、 popular.C. That was when graffiti first reached New York.D. That was when graffiti first appeared on subway car windows26What does the underlined word “taggers” in the second paragraph mean?A. Names of people who graffitied.B. Building where paints were sprayed.C. People who marked surface with gra

28、ffiti.D. People who were interested in graffiti.27What can we know from the third paragraph?A. New Yorkers think graffiti is art.B. Graffiti was accepted by officials completely.C. Buildings can be covered with graffiti freely.D. There were once advertisements on city surface.28What is the authors f

29、inal opinion about graffiti?A. Graffiti has now become mainstream and can benefit artists.B. Graffiti is not a good way to become a respected artist.C. Some popular graffiti artists end up being ignored by the art world.D. Some graffiti caused inconvenience to the local environment.In my very first

30、job with some archaeologists, I wasnt digging objects out of the ground, instead I was employed as an artist, drawing what they found. However, I was soon more interested in the stories behind the objects than in drawing them and thats how my career in archaeology started. I still draw what I find i

31、n my work as a specialist on the Silk Road, the old trade route running from Egypt to Mongolia, and I also work on some underwater projects too.In archaeology, my all-time hero is an American called Raphael Pumpelly. I first heard about him when I was a student on a trip to Turkmenistan, a country r

32、ight in the heart of Asia. To get around the country, I had to learn Russian so that I could speak to the local people. When I got there I thought, “Wow! Im one of the first Americans here!” Then an old man told me about an American archaeologist, Raphael Pumpelly, who was there doing the same thing