四川省南部县学年高二年级下学期期末考试英语试题.docx

1、四川省南部县学年高二年级下学期期末考试英语试题四川省南部县20172018年度下期高中二期末教学质量监测英语试卷本试卷分为第卷（选择题）和第卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分。考试时间120分钟 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短对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。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 happened to Jim?A. He held a birthday party B. He lost his glasses.

2、C. He won a basketball match.2. What does the woman mean? A. She doesnt need the job. B. She hasnt got a job yet.C. She has got a good job.3. How will the woman get to London?A. By plane B. By ship C. By train 4. Where probably are the speakers now? A. At an airport. B. At a bus stop. C. At a railwa

3、y station.5. What is the relationship between the two speakers? A. Boss and clerk. B. Coach and athlete. C. Teacher and student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。听第六段材料，回答第6，7小题。6. When will the woman c

4、ome back? A. On Friday. B. On Saturday C. On Sunday7. What does the man tell the woman to do?A. Ask someone else for help. B. Read the other side of the paperC. Buy a new holiday instruction.听第七段材料，回答第8至10题。8. How will the woman go to the airport? A. By taxi. B. By airport bus. C. In her brothers ca

5、r.9. Where is the woman staying in London? A. At Bettys. B. At a hotel C. At a college10. Who is Thomas? A. Joes friend. B. The womans boyfriend,C. The mans teammate at college.听第八段材料，回答第11至13小题。11. When does the man need his article? A. Tomorrow morning. B. This afternoon. C. This morning.12. How l

6、ong has the woman worked with the man?A. Ten years. B. Three years. C. Ten months.13. What can we know about the woman? A. She wants to leave the company.B. She does well in her job interviews.C. She is looking for a new job as she is out of work.听第九段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Why is the woman going to the Un

7、ited States? A. To see her grandma. B. To see her parents. C. To find a job there.15. When will the Woman leave for America? A. This Friday. B. This weekend. C. Next Saturday.16. How long will the woman stay there?A. Seven months. B. Half a year. C. Fifteen weeks.17. Which is the cheapest way to tra

8、vel in America?A. By bus. B. By car. C. By train听第十段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Who wrote the song Happy Birthday? A. An American girl. B. A British girl. C. A Canadian girl.19. Why was the girl sad? A. She lost her money to buy a gift.B. She didnt have enough money to buy a gift. C. She wasnt invited to the p

9、arty.20. Who appeared in the girls dream that night? A. Her father. B. Her mother. C. Her grandma.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A We are holding a party because our daughterALICE IS TURNING 2!Come bug out with us.Saturday, July 4th12 to 13:30The Pavilion

10、 Mississippi Museum of Natural Science2148 Riverside Drive, JacksonRegrets to the Queen BeeAt 601-555-411121. The card above is _A. a ticket B. a postcard C. an invitation D. an advertisement22. The party is for _A. a birthday party B. the Queen C. bee watching D. the Natural Day23. According to the

11、 card, If you are unable to go, you can_A. return the card B. visit the museum C. ignore the message D. contact Alices mother BIn American schools there is something called “Home coming” day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important e

12、vent of the year except graduation or commencement day (毕业典礼)Students plan homecoming day for many weeks in advance.Several days before Homecoming，students start to decorate the school，there are signs to wish luck to the team，and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come

13、to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.The number of school clubs build booths (摊位) and sell lemonade (柠檬)，apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and

14、they talk together about those happy years in school.Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student. I

15、t is a great honor to be chosen.Homecoming is a happy day，but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy Homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.24The most importa

16、nt event of the year except commencement day in high schools and colleges is _.AHomecoming Day Bthe football gameCGraduation DWinning the game25Which of the following is NOT done on Homecoming?ATo see old friendsBTo call on teachers they rememberCTo watch the football gameDTo go home to see their fa

17、mily26The underlined word “vote” in the fifth paragraph means “_”Aattend a meeting Belect or chooseChold a celebration Dhave a football match27Who can probably become Homecoming Queen or King?AThe student who is liked most by the othersBThe guest who is most popular with the studentsCThe student who

18、 is most liked by the guestsDThe player who plays best in the football game CThe blues(蓝调音乐) was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil war, the slaves were free but life was still not easy. They had to find new work. In the south, work camps were formed. Black peopl

19、e from these camps worked on farms and built up the Mississippi River banks. During the week, the people worked long and hard. They often lived on own, with their wives and children living far from home. On the weekends, the workers got together at picnics or drinking places. Traveling black musicia

20、ns with guitars entertained them. The musicians sang songs about the difficult life of the workers. These songs were called the blues. If you have the blues, it means you feel very sad. But blues songs were not always sad. Some of them were happy and many of them were funny. Early blue singers often

21、 had very interesting names like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Howlin Wolf. Sometimes, the blues singers had song contests. Each singer sang new words or a new style of the blues song. They made up the music as they played. In this way they created new music. This is called improvisation（即兴演奏）. Later, i

22、mprovisation became a very important part of Jazz music. The blues began in the country in the south. As blacks moved into the big cities to work, the blues went with them. There, they sang about life in the cities. W.C. Handy, a black band leader from Memphis made the blues popular all over America

23、. In 1914 he wrote the most famous song of all “The St. Louis blues.28. Black people often went to drinking places in the early 1900s because_A. they could meet their families B. they could have something to drinkC. they fell lonely without their familiesD. they were fond of singing and drinking.29.

24、 In the early 1900s, the blues was _A. very popular throughout the nationB. about the life of traveling musiciansC. traditional songs of the black peopleD. played where black workers got together30. How did “improvisation” come into being (形成)?A. new styles were played with guitarsB. new words were

25、added into old songsC. the blues singers created music while playingD. the blues singers got together to have contests31. The passage is mainly about the early history of_A. jazz music B. the blues C. improvisation D. the St.louis blues DChinese parents are very generous(慷慨的) when it comes to educat

26、ing their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese

27、 believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.Parents can see that their children are v

28、ery skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that todays children lack(缺乏) self-respect and self-confidence.The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills

29、they need to be confident, happy and clever.Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking requires patience and time. A good cook always tries to i

30、mprove his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him interest

31、ed in them. He will spend hours looking at them, tying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.32. Parents in China according to this passage _Abuy computers for their childrenBsend their children to foreign countriesCcare about their childrens musical talentDhave some problems in educating their children 33. It is known by parents that childrens skills _A. come from their parentsB. may be different in dif