18学年下学期高二第二次月考英语试题附答案4.docx

1、18学年下学期高二第二次月考英语试题附答案42017-2018学年度河北定州中学第2次月考高二英语第一部分： 听力 （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。1. What are the speakers talking about ?A. A literature class. B. A teacher. C. A novel.2.Where are the cash machin

2、es?A Next to an Internet caf. B Beside a department store . C Across from a bank.3.What is the woman thinking about ?A. What to buy for Susans birthday. B. How to celebrate Susans birthday. C. Whether to go to Susans birthday party.4 What does the man mean?A The Steelers will win the game. B. The ba

3、d weather will affect the result of the game. C. Its difficult for the Steelers to play under bad weather.5 What makes the woman happy ? A .She has got a promotion. B. She has got a new job. C. She has rented a new house.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。听每段对话

4、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秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题6.What is the man probably?A. A secretary. B. A tour guide. C.A hotel receptionist.7. Why will the woman visit St. Petersburg again?A. To do business.B. To visit the man.C. To attend a festival.请听第7段材料，回答第8-10题8. Where are the spea

5、kers probably? A. In a restaurant. B. In the mans apartment . C. In the womans apartment.9.What would the man like to drink ?A. Milk tea. B. Black coffee. C. Coffee with sugar.10. What is said about the Taylors ?A. They live in the same building as the woman. B. They have two notebook computers. C.

6、They were robbed last month.请听第8段材料，回答第11 、12题11. What happened to the man about ten days ago?A. He had a very bad cold.B. He had a small operation.C. He felt too tired to go to work.12. What is the man going to do ?A. Go for a check-up. B. Go to work. C. Visit a doctor.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题13.What does

7、 the man ask the woman to do? A .Get a taxi for him. B Show him her bag. C. Drive him to the railway station.14. How does the woman react to the mans request? A. She acts politely. B. She is rude. C. She turns a deaf ear.15.What do we know about the woman? A. She might have done something illegal. B

8、. She likes collecting mens watches. C. She smokes in public.16.What will the man do next?A .Apologize to the woman.B. Ask the woman to hand in her bag.C. Take the woman away by force.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17. What is the speaker? A. A host. B .A governor. C. A shop owner.18. What are the prices in the

9、survey based on ?A. The price of goods representing the country.B. The cost of the same basket in a city of the country.C. Money spent on buying the same goods in the typical city of the country.19.Which country has the second highest price according to the survey?A. Denmark. B. Sweden. C. France.20

10、.What is said about Poland? A. It has the lowest standard of living. B. It has the lowest pay. C. It is at the bottom of the table of working hours.二、阅读理解That robots, automation, and software can replace people might seem obvious to anyone whos worked in automotive manufacturing. But MIT business sc

11、holars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfees claim is more troubling and controversial. They believe that rapid technological change has been destroying jobs faster than it is creating them.They believe that technology increases productivity and makes societies wealthier, but it became clear to them

12、that the same technologies making many jobs safer, easier, and more productive were also reducing the demand for many types of human workers. Technologies like the Web, artificial intelligence, and big data are automating many routine tasks. Countless traditional white-collar jobs, such as many in t

13、he post office and in customer service, have disappeared.As evidence, Brynjolfsson and McAfee point to a chart on which separate lines represent productivity and total employment in the United States. For years after World War II, the two lines closely tracked each other, with increases in jobs corr

14、esponding to increases in productivity. Then, beginning in 2000, the lines diverge; productivity continues to rise steadily, but employment suddenly shrinks. By 2011, a significant gap appears between the two lines, showing economic growth with no parallel increase in job creation.United States Prod

15、uctivity and EmploymentBut are these new technologies really responsible for a decade of lackluster (无生气) job growth? David Autor, an economist at MIT who has studied the connections between jobs and technology, doubts that technology could account for such a sudden change in total employment. Moreo

16、ver, he also doubts that productivity has, in fact, risen steadily in the United States in the past decade. If hes right, it raises the possibility that poor job growth could be simply a result of a depressed economy. The sudden slowdown in job creation “is a big puzzle,” he says, “but theres not a lot of evidence that i