学年湖南省醴陵二中四中高二上学期期末考试英语试题.docx

1、学年湖南省醴陵二中四中高二上学期期末考试英语试题醴陵二中醴陵四中2017年下学期两校联考高二年级英语期末考试试卷时量：120分钟 分值：150分注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第卷第一部分听力（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。1. What is the woman going to do tonight?

2、A. Go to the cinema. B. Attend a meeting.C. Watch TV.2. What will the man buy for the woman? A. Notebooks. B. Pencils. C. Paper. 3. What is the mans favorite sport? A. Tennis. B. Volleyball.C. Basketball.4. Whats the weather probably like now? A. Rainy. B. Sunny. C. Cloudy.5. Whenwill the speakers p

3、robably leave for the train station? A. At 3:30 pm. B. At 4:00 pm. C. At 4:30 pm.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秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。6. Who is Sara? A. Alisas classmate. B. The womans teacher

4、. C. The womans friend. 7. Whatwill the woman probably do next? A. Do her homework.B. Take a photo of flowers.C. Introduce the man to Sara.听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。8. Who likes playing football? A. Sam.B. David.C. Maria.9. How did the man know Maria? A. They were in the same class. B. They met at the womans

5、party.C. They were in the same music club.听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。10. What is next to the new music club that the man talks of? A. A university. B. A park. C. A cinema.11. What may not be worn in the club? A. Sports shoes. B. Jeans. C. T-shirts.12. How much will the woman pay the first time she visits the

6、 club? A. 5 pounds. B. 7.5 pounds. C. 10 pounds.听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。13. What was the woman doing just now? A. Looking for a book. B. Reading the newspaper. C. Having lunch.14. When did the woman lose her book? A. Last Tuesday. B. Last Wednesday. C. Last Thursday.15. Where did the woman lose her book?

7、A. At a bookstore. B. In her office. C. In a restaurant.16. What will the man do next for the woman? A.Buy her a birthday present. B. Check at the front desk. C. Help find her book.听下面一段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did the speakers parents advise him to do? A. Go camping nearby. B. Stay at home. C. Take a

8、raincoat.18. How did the speaker get to the village five years ago? A. By subway. B. By car. C. On foot.19. What does the speaker want Polly to bring? A. Food. B. Drinks. C. A tent.20. How long will it take to get to the village by bus? A. One hour. B. Four hours. C. Five hours.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一

9、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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ATop 5 Must See Places in BeijingBeijing is an old capital city with a lot of tourists attractions. What is the most representative place in Beijing? The answers are various. Here are the Top 5 Must See Places in Beijing.Forbidden

10、City The Forbidden City is the ideal place for you to begin your exploration of Beijing. Make sure to wear comfortable shoes as you have to walk a lot! A multilingual guide recorder is recommended, as it can tell you the stories behind the palace.Opening Hour: 8:30-17:00Entrance Fee: RMB 60Tiananmen

11、 Square Lying in the heart of Beijing City, it is the place for massive parades and gathering. At sunrise and sunset the raising and lowering ceremony of the Chinese National Flag is well worth seeing. Ticket fees: FreeOpening Time: Whole DayGreat Wall Most of the sections of the Great Wall in Beiji

12、ng are well-preserved, and the most famous section is Badaling. For the Great Wall hiking, get ready for strong footwear. For hot weather, please also prepare sunblock, sunglasses and water.Badaling Great Wall:Ticket Fees: RMB40 (Nov. 01 to Mar. 31); RMB 45 (Apr. 01 to Oct. 31) Open Hours: 6:40 to 1

13、8:30 Summer Palace Regarded as the largest imperial garden in China, the Summer Palace is in fact a park-styled royal retreat. With masterly design and artistic architecture integrating the highlight of Chinese garden arts, it has earned a title of Royal Garden Museum.Open Time: 6:30-20:30Ticket Fee

14、: RMB 40 (low season) / RMB 50 (peak season during the holidays)Temple of Heaven The Temple of Heaven worked as sacrificial compound buildings for the Ming and Qing emperors. Whats the intriguing by-production of the temple is that if you enter the Temple of Heaven in the early morning, you can find

15、 many people doing all types of Kungfu, Taiji, dancing and other morning exercises. Open Time: 6:00-21:00Ticket Fee: RMB 3521. According to the passage, tourists are recommended to use a multilingual guide recorder when visiting _.A. Tiananmen Square B. Temple of HeavenC. Forbidden City D. Summer Pa

16、lace 22. At 5:45 in the morning, what could one enjoy? A. The artistic architectural design of the Summer Palace. B. Wandering about on the Tiananmen Square. C. The sunrise on the Badaling Great Wall. D. Exercises of Kungfu and Taiji in the Temple of Heaven. 23. Which is the most suitable place for

17、those who want to go square dancing in the morning?A. Temple of Heaven B. Tiananmen SquareC. Summer Palace D. Forbidden City24. If Li Hua wants to visit the Summer Palace and Badaling Great Wall during the National Day,how much should he pay for the tickets?A. 80 B. 85 C. 90 D. 95BBoth of my parents

18、 worked full-time when I was a little girl, so my grandmother would stay at our house during the day. We would watch game shows in the living room. Our favorite was The Price is Right. We would call out our answers along with the contestants.When I got older and started going to school, we couldnt w

19、atch our game shows regularly. That was okay with me, though, because the one thing I liked better than watching game shows with my grandmother was helping her bake. Watching her in the kitchen was amazing: she never seemed to need the recipes but everything she made tasted delicious.At first, I wou

20、ld just sit in the kitchen and watch, even though I didnt understand what she was doing. As I got older, she let me help with the easy parts, such as measuring the sugar. The day she let me separate the eggs，I felt like I had found complete pleasure.At last, my parents decided that I could take care

21、 of myself，and my grandmother stopped coming over every day. The love of baking, however, stayed with me. I started baking by myself, and even if the cookies ended up burnt sometimes, more often they turned out pretty well. I tried out new recipes, and whenever I got to a thorny part, I would call m

22、y grandmother for advice. Sometimes I would call her just to talk, too. I felt like I could talk to her about anything.My grandmother passed away ten years ago, but I still think of her every day. Last week, I found a recipe book she made for me. It included her recipes for brownies, cookies, and my

23、 favorite, lemon pie. As I looked through the pages, I thought I could hear her voice. She was the one who taught me not just about baking, but about life.25. While helping her grandmother bake, the author.A. missed the game showsB. refused to go to schoolC. showed great interestD. could take care o

24、f herself26. What does the underlined word “thorny in Paragraph 4 most probably mean?A. Basic. B. Common. C. Difficult. D. Special.27. From the passage we know the authors grandmother.A. lived with her familyB. was very skilled at bakingC. published a recipe bookD. had been on a game showCAs Interne

25、t users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remembering less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.In a recent study, Profes

26、sor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know how the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The s

27、econd group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and to

28、ld them where to find the information on the computer. The information was in a specific computer folder. Surprisingly, people later remembered the folder location better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is

29、 called “transactive memory (交互记忆).”According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories: that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able

30、 to access it at a later date. This doesnt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.28. The passage begins with two questions to _.A. introduce the main topic B. show the authors attitudeC. describe how to use the Internet D.

31、explain how to store information29. What can we learn about the first experiment?A. Sparrows team typed the information into a computer.B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.C. The first group did not try to understand the information.D. The second group did not understand the in

32、formation.30. In transactive memory, people _.A. keep the information in mind B. change the quantity of informationC. organize information like a computerD.remember how to find the information31. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrows research?A. We are using memory differently. B. We are becoming more intelligent.C. We have poo