吉林省辽源五中学年高二英语下学期期中试题.docx

1、吉林省辽源五中学年高二英语下学期期中试题吉林省辽源五中2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分 150分，考试用时120 分钟。.第一部分：听力 （共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分）第一节 （共5小题）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. Where is the man going for holiday? A. India. B. Australia. C. Italy.2

2、. Why did the woman get a ticket while Vivian didnt? A. Vivian didnt bring enough money. B. Vivian didnt want to go to the show. C. Vivian was after the woman in the line.3. What are they going to do? A. They will go to the party. B. They will go to sleep. C. They will go to have breakfast.4. Where

3、is the man? A. In a hotel entrance. B. In a movie theatre. C. In a clothing store.5. Whats the weather like now ?A. Hot. B. Cloudy. C. Raining.第二节 （共15小题）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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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秒钟时间作答。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What party

4、does the woman want to have? A. A dancing party B. A dinner party C. A drinking party7. Why does the man want to invite the Browns ?A. He likes Mr and Mrs Brown. B. He hasnt seen them for long. C. They invited him to their party.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题8. What causes the conversation? A. A TV programme. B. A

5、n article. C. An advertisement.9. What is the main topic of the conversation? A. The relationship between shopping and time spent on shopping. B. The time required for shopping. C. How to select goods.10. What does the man say about people who shop quickly? A. They knew what they want to buy. B. The

6、y had little time to spend. C. They shopped in the cheapest shop.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题11. Whats the man doing now?A. Fishing. B. Preparing the fishing equipment. C. Doing housework.12. Whats the womans hobby?A. Making home movies. B. Seeing movies. C. Taking photos.13. What does the woman want to buy ? A

7、. A movie camera. B. A movie ticket. C. A Japanese-made camera.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题14. Whats the boy doing?A. Building a house. B. Pointing a house. C. Decorating a house.15. Whats the woman going to do for the boy?A. Clean the house. B. Buy a carpet. C. Make some curtains.16. Why does the boy say sorry

8、 to the woman?A. He dropped some paint on the carpet. B. He made the whole house dirty. C. He used a colour that the woman doesnt like.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17.How many differences about eating between Indonesia and America are mentioned?A. One. B. Two. C. Three.18. Whats the main food in Indonesia? A. M

9、eet. B. Rice. C. Vegetables.19. How long do the Americans prepare the food before eating?A. One and a half hours. B. One hour. C. Two hours.20. Which of following do the Indonesia people like? A. Sweet taste. B. Cool food. C. Hot taste.第二部分: 阅读理解 （共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）第一节 （共15小题，每小题2分，共30分）A Songs help

10、memoriesThe power of music Most people can remember important news stories clearly, whether it was the murder of President Kennedy in the US or the events of 9/11. But now psychologists Martin Conway and Catriona Morrison, from the University of Leeds in the UK, are investigating how music can creat

11、e “autobiographical memories” of the main events in our lives. The study is online. People have to choose a song by the Beatles and describe the memories that they have when they listen to it.Reminiscence bump Morrison explained that they looked at different age groups and their memories. We often r

12、emember more from when we are teenagers, and this is called “the reminiscence bump”. This is the time in your life when you form your idea of who you are. For old people who have memories related to the Beatles music, most of those memories are from when they were teenagers. But younger people also

13、had clear personal memories from their past.She loves you This study was different from other memory studies, because people remembered events from their past with lots more details. Morrison explained: “It was like people had travelled back to the past, and they had very clear memories of things th

14、at had happened. When they heard a song like She Loves You by the Beatles, they could remember one night in autumn 1963. They remembered what they were wearing, what the weather was like and what their friend said to them. You get a lot more information than if you just say,tell me about a night you

15、 remember.” The study has found that music could be used with people who have problems remembering the past. “You could use music to help improve peoples ability to remember,” said Morrison. “In the future, we would like to do more experiments to see how useful music is in helping people to remember

16、 the past, and compare it to other things that might also help.”21. Professor Conway and Dr Morrisons research aims to_?A. see how music can help people remember the pastB. study old songs influence on peoples behaviourC. find out what influences peoples memories of the pastD. find ways to help peop

17、le with memory difficulties22. Which is TURE about the research according to the article? A. Older people remember their past more clearly than younger people. B. Different age groups have different responses to the music C. People remember more things that happened in their youth D. Peoples memorie

18、s are often of moments when they had doubts about themselves23. The example of She Loves You is used to show that _.A. love songs can help people to have clearer memories B. songs tell stories that are similar to our experiences C. music can take people back to their teenage years D. people can reme

19、mber more details with the help of music24. Morrisons teams future research is probably on _.A. why some people have memory problemsB. what methods can best help people bring back memoriesC. how music can help people in their studies or workD. how to help older people remember more details about the

20、 pastBWalk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been there around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests might have reacted to

21、the cold, dry climate of the ice ages, but till now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to solve global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal

22、to the total amount of CO2 given off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to the future climate change? If it gets drier, will it survive and continue to draw down CO2? Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understand

23、ing how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past.Unfortunately, collecting information is incredibly difficult. To study the past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen(花粉) kept in lake mud, Going back to the last ice age means drilling down into lake sediments(沉淀物), which re

24、quires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled(未取样). So far, only a handful of cores ha

25、ve been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon forest reacts to climate change.25. How do scientists study the past climate change?A. By predicting the climate change in the future.B. By drilling down deep into land sediments.C. B

26、y analyzing fossilized pollen in lake mud.D. By taking samples from rivers in the Amazon.26. Why is it difficult to collect information about the past climate change?A. Because scientists cant find proper equipment and machinery.B. Because it is very difficult to obtain complete samples.C. Because h

27、elicopters and aeroplanes have no place to land.D. Because none of the cores provide any information.27. Where is the passage most probably taken from?A. A medical journal. B. A news report.C. A travel brochure. D. A science magazine.28. The best title for the text may be_ .A. Secrets of the Rainfor

28、ests B. Climates of the AmazonC. The History of the Rainforest D. Changes of the RainforestC The American Relay for Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight

29、 back against the disease. At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or an open place and take turns in walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Because cancer never sleeps, its an overni

30、ght event of up to 24 hours in length. Relay began in 1985 when Dr. Klatt, a surgeon in Tacoma, Washington, ran and walked around a track for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Since then, Relay has grown from a single mans passion for fighting cancer into the worlds largest mo

31、vement to end the disease. Each year, more than 3.5 million people in 5,000 communities in the United States, along with additional communities in 19 other countries, gather to take part in this global event and raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from cancer.Anyone can participate i

32、n Relay for Life. Friends, families, neighbors, classmates, sports teams, etc., can form their own teams. No matter who you are, theres a place for you at Relay.The only requirement to participate in Relay for Life is the $10 registration/commitment fee per person. It is recommended that each participant set a personal goal to raise $100. If you raise more, thats even better. Even if you do