江西省抚州市临川区第一中学学年高二英语上学期期中试题.docx

1、江西省抚州市临川区第一中学学年高二英语上学期期中试题江西省抚州市临川区第一中学2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期中试题第I卷（选择题 满分100分)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 does the man want to do?A. Take photos. B. Buy a camera. C. Help the woman.2. W

2、hat are the speakers talking about?A. A noisy night. B. Their life in town. C. A place of living.3. Where is the man now? A. On his way. B. In a restaurant. C. At home.4. What will Celia do?A. Find a player. B. Watch a game. C. Play basketball.5. What day is it when the conversation takes place?A. S

3、aturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或对白，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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What is Sara going to do?A. Buy John a gift. B. Give John a surprise. C. Invite John to France.7. What does t

4、he man think of Saras plan?A. Funny. B. Exciting. C. Strange.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter?A. She has to give up her travel plan. B. She wants to visit another city. C. She needs to put off her test9. What does Diana want Peter to do?A. Help her with her study. B. Take a book t

5、o her friend. C. Teach a geography lesson.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the man call the woman?A. To tell her about her new job. B. To ask about her job program. C. To plan a meeting with her.11. Who needs a new Hat? A. Alex. B. Andreu. C. Miranda.12. Where is the woman now?A. In Baltimore. B. In Ne

6、w York. C. In Avon.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?A. Where the restaurant is. B. Whether the prices are low. C. How well the food is prepared.14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?A. After he came back to Sweden.B. Before he went to th

7、e United States.C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982.15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?A. Talk to people in the street. B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerics.16. What do we know about Jan?A. He cooks for a restaurant. B. He travels a lot for his work. C. He prefers America

8、n food. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?A. Its a new building. B. Its a small town. C. Its a public place.18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?A. Saturday nights. B. Sunday afternoons. C. Fridays and Saturdays.19. Which street is known for its food

9、 shops and markets?A. Via del Mar Street. B. Fernando Street. C. Hernandes Street.20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?A. It has an old stone surface. B. It is named after a writer. C. It has a famous university. 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

10、选项。AReal SimpleFirst Issue: 2000 Published: MonthlyReal Simple is a lifestyle title owned by Time, Inc. This magazine covers topics from decorating and dieting to childcare and product guides. Like many lifestyle magazines, Real Simple is written with women in mind, but that doesnt mean men cant get

11、 something out of it! This one is especially good tor people who like to organize and simplify their lives. As the title implies, simple, authentic (真实的) living is the magazines main theme.Better Homes and GardensFirst Issue: 1922Published: Bi-Monthly Better Homes and Gardens is a household name whe

12、n it comes to lifestyle magazines ten around since 1922, so the title has a long history of providing high quality, useful content. Decorating and gardening, as the title suggests, are common topics in the magazine, but it is also known for its excellent recipes. Womans DayFirst Issue: 1937Published

13、: MonthlyIf youre looking for a magazine that combines lifestyle and fashion content, Womans Day might be a good choice. It has a readership of over 3 million women across the United States. Some of its unique characteristics include its focus on traditional values and its commitment to giving women

14、 realistic advice. Many magazines feature lifestyles that are out of reach for the major of American families, but Womans Day tries to give practical advice and suggestions that its real-world readers can put into practice.Taste of HomeFirst Issue: 1993 Published: Bi-MonthlyFor people who want a mag

15、azine thats entirely about cooking, recipes, nutrition, and other food-related content, Taste of Home has been a popular choice all the time. It has an unusually rich history of giving its readers what they want. The magazine only started including advertisements in 2007, before which it was adverti

16、sement-free. Now the magazine is doing pretty well financially.21. Which of following magazines has the longest history?A. Real Simple. B. Better Homes and Gardens. C. Womans Day. D. Taste of Home22. What do we know about Taste of Home?A. It has been losing popularity in recent years. B. It offers s

17、uggestions about childcare.C. It is a purely food-related magazine. D. Readers no longer find advertisements in it.23. Which of the following is TRUE about the four magazines?A. Real Simple mainly serves women readers. B. Womans Day is out of reach for most families.C. Readers could advertise in Tas

18、te of Home free. D. Better Homes and Gardens is published quarterly.BAfter the sudden loss of her 5-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, Natalia Spencer felt she needed to do something to honor the little girl. That strong wish inspired Spencer to start what she calls a “Walk of Love”, a 6,000-mile trek (长

19、途徒步旅行）along the British coastline.“Elizabeth particularly loved the beach and the sea and we visited the seaside a lot. After she passed away, I went to the seaside and it was the first time I had felt some comfort,” Spencer said. “I knew this was what I had to do. It was something I could do and it

20、 would somehow make life more bearable.”On Valentines Day, Spencer began walking Durdle Door in Dorset, England, the last beach she took Elizabeth to before she became ill. So far, Spencer has journeyed about 1,500 miles, walking through Dorset, Cornwall, Devon and the entire coast of Wales. Every d

21、ay, except Saturday, Spencer walks 20 miles. Often locals join her; many times they share stories about losing their own children. Everything changed for Spencer on Nov. 22, 2015. Spencer noticed Elizabeth was ill with what she thoughtwas a chest infection. But the girls health worsened rapidly. Doc

22、tors diagnosed her with a life-threatening immune condition where the immune cells damage tissue and organ. This caused Elizabeths organs to shut down and stopped the blood supply to her arms and legs. She was moved to Bristol Childrens Hospital where she spent 18 days on life support before passing

23、 away on Dec. 10.After Elizabeth died, Spencer struggled. She stayed with friends because it felt too hard to live in a house with the memories of Elizabeth. In January, a friend encouraged Spencer to go for a walk and the two ended up at the Gower Peninsula in Wales. Thats when she realized she wan

24、ted to walk along the coast for her daughter.While walking provides Spencer with time to grieve (感到悲痛)，shes also using the trip to raise100,000(about $144,000) for the Bristol .Childrens Hospital. She admired the doctors and nurses and wanted to raise money to allow another family access to treatmen

25、t.Spencer expects to complete her walk next spring. Shed love to finish on Valentines Day, but doesnt know if that is realistic.24. Why did Natalia Spencer decide to walk along the British coastline?A. To realize her daughters dream. B. To remember her dead daughter.C. To share stories with people a

26、round. D. To raise money for a childrens hospital.25. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?A. Spencers story-sharing with the local people. B. Spencers daily life after Elizabeths death.C. Spencers memory of traveling with Elizabeth. D. Spencers walking along the coastline.26. What do we know abo

27、ut Elizabeth?A. She encouraged her mother to walk around Britain. B. She once walked along the entire British coast. C. She died of an immune-system disease. D. She fell sick as a result of a chest infection.27. What could be the best title for the text?A. A Little Girls Struggle with a Strange Dise

28、ase. B. A Mothers Effort to Save Her Daughter.C. A Womans Action to Raise Money for Children. D. A Mothers Walk to Honor Her Lost Child.CIn most Hollywood movies, the Native American Navajos still fight on horses in the American Southwest. But during World War II, a group of Navajos made their langu

29、age into weapon to protect the United States. They were the Navajo Code Talkers, and theirs is one of the few unbroken codes (电码）in military history.Navajo was the perfect choice for a secret language. It is very complex. One vowel (元音）can have up to ten different pronunciations, changing the meanin

30、g of any word. In the 1940s, Navajo was unwritten language. No one outside of the reservation could speak it or understand it.The Navajo Code team had to invent new words to describe military equipment. For example, they named ships after fish: lotso-whale (battleship), calo-shark (destroyer), beshl

31、oiron-fish (submarine). When a Code Talker received a message via radio, he heard a series of unrelated Navajo words. He would then translate the words into English and use the first letter of each English word to spell the message. The Navajo words tsah (needle), wol-la-chee (ant), ah-kh-di-glini (

32、victor), and tsah-ah-dzoh (yucca) spelled NAVY.The Code Talker kept the code a secret. They memorized everything. There were no code books. As a result, no ordinary Navajo soldiers, if captured by the enemy, could understand the code. More than 3,600 Navajos served in World War II, but only 420 were Code Talkers with the US Marines. They coded and decoded battlefield messages bette