湖北省普通高中学年高二下学期期中联考英语试题 Word版无答案.docx

1、湖北省普通高中学年高二下学期期中联考英语试题 Word版无答案2017-2018学年春季湖北省普通高中联考期中考试卷 高二英语试卷考试时间：150分钟 试卷满分：150分第卷（选择题）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）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。1. What does the woman mean? A. She often mentions the writer. B. She never hears about the writer. C. She cant answer the question at once.2. Where d

2、oes the conversation most probably take place? A. In a theater. B. In a museum. C. In a publishing house.3. What is the man doing? A. Changing money. B. Paying a bill. C. Making a bargain.4. Whats the woman worried about? A. Her sons ability for the job. B. Her sons studies. C. Her sons health.5. Wh

3、at are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A house. B. A subway station. C. A community.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. How many Apple products does the woman have now? A. 5. B. 4. C. 3.7. What does the woman actually tell the man? A. She buys Apple products because

4、 of Jobsname. B. Jobs company is creating user-friendly products. C. She just likes design and style of Apple products.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Who said that Oxford English Grammar is good? A. The mans teacher. B. The mans classmates. C. The woman.9. How much will the man pay? A. $80. B. $81. C. $90.请听第8段

5、材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where are the speakers most probably? A. In a library. B. In a classroom. C. In a studio.11. Which novel has the man been reading from the age of 15? A. Pride and Prejudice. B. Sense and Sensibility. C. Emma.12. When did Jane Austin release her most famous works? A. In her thirties.

6、 B. In her forties. C. In her fifties.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is Harrods in the UK famous for? A. Its Food Hall and Egyptian Hall. B. The amount of its food stores. C. The history of its Egyptian building.14. How do people feel when they see the Egyptian Hall? A. They will like the Egyptian cultu

7、re immediately. B. They want to taste its 250 kinds of cheese. C. They feel they are in another world.15. Where does Harrods get most of the electricity? A. From its own production. B. From a small town. C. From national electricity department.16. How much do the customers spend a day at the most du

8、ring the January sales? A. 1.5 million pounds. B. 9 million pounds. C. 10.5 million pounds.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Who named the eastern states of New Hampshire and New Jersey? A. The British explorers. B. The Spanish explorers. C. The French explorers.18. What did California mean when the Spanish ex

9、plorers used it to name the area? A. A land of flowers. B. A Spanish book. C. An island of gold.19. Why did French explorers call a river in the Midwest “Missouri”? A. Because the Indian tribe lived along the river. B. Because the name Missouri meant a rich place. C. Because it showed the influence

10、of Indians.20. How many ways of naming places are mentioned in the talk? A. 3. B. 4. C. 5.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。 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was born in Kansas, USA, and moved to Chicago in 1914 when her father was fired from the Rock Island Rai

11、lroad. After graduating from high school in 1915, she went to Canada where she worked as a nurses helper. In 1919 she attended Columbia University but gave up after a year to join her parents in California. In 1920 Earhart went to her first air show and was attracted. She took flying lessons and bou

12、ght her first plane, which she flew to a height of 14,000 feet in October 1922, a womens world record. In 1925 she moved to Boston and got a job as a social worker. During that time, she also wrote local newspaper columns (专栏) on flying. Earhart will be mainly remembered for being the first woman to

13、 fly solo (单独) non-stop across the Atlantic. On May 20, 1932, she took off from New Brunswick, Canada. She wanted to fly to Paris, but poor weather conditions and mechanical(机械的) problems forced her to land in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was certain that Earhart would attempt a round-the-world fligh

14、t and she left Miami, USA on June 1, 1937. After stopping in South America, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, she arrived in New Guinea, an island in the southwest Pacific Ocean, on June 29. She left on July 27, but while she was crossing the Pacific, contact (联系) was lost. The US

15、government spent $4 million looking for her, but she was never found. Earhart published two books about her flying experiences: 20 Hours 40 Minutes and The Fun of It, but she went missing before her third book was published. She was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress and the Cross of

16、 Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government. 21. Amelia Earhart took an interest in flying _. A. during her stay in Canada B. after watching an air show C. after she moved to Chicago D. after graduating from university22. Paragraph 3 is mainly about Amelia Earharts _. A. early career B.

17、 greatest achievement C. early life and education D. publications and prizes23. What do we know about Amelia Earhart from the text? A. She wrote two books in her life. B. She was the first woman pilot in the USA. C. She got lost when flying across the Pacific. D. She finished her round-the-world fli

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26、lowed to talk during the painting classes26. If you visit , you may _. A. book a party B. get free tickets C. see your grades D. win free food and drinks27. What type of writing is this text? A. A lesson plan. B. A practical guide. C. An official report. D. An announcement. Long ago, sailors sailed

27、to faraway places without the ability to rely on modern instruments to lead the way. Still, many were able to sail across vast, uncharted oceans and arrive at their destinations safely. Why didnt more sailors get lost at sea? What kinds of equipment did they use to find their way? In early sailing h

28、istory, few maps were available. Sailors had to rely on memory and on written guides called pilot books. Pilot books offered sailors information about how long it took to get to certain ports and instructions about getting in and out of the ports. Pilot books did not offer much information about sai

29、ling far from land. Later, sailors used maps, charts, and information from other explorers to plan their trips. Early maps and charts offered descriptions of islands and coastlines that helped sailors navigate. Experienced sailors learned where harbors, fresh water, supplies, and friendly people mig

30、ht be found. They were also able to warn others about dangers. Some of the early navigation practices and equipment used on these ships proved to be quite trustworthy. Early sailors used a tool called the astrolabe (星盘) to figure out the positions of stars and the sun to determine their location. Fo

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