福建省福州市八县市一中学年度下学期期中联考高二英语.docx

1、福建省福州市八县市一中学年度下学期期中联考高二英语福建省福州市八县（市）一中20182019学年度下学期期中联考高二英语试题完卷时间：120分钟 满分：150分注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题

2、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。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、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ATower & GardensBegin your visit to Bok Tower Gardens with a stop in the Visitor Center. Our friendly volunteer staf

3、f will help you make the most of your visit by sharing information about getting around the Gardens and introducing you to the Gardens with a 15-minute orientation film.Information DeskAs you begin your visit to the Gardens, pick up a Visitor Guide & Map, Garden Adventure Guide, or Discovery Backpac

4、k from our volunteer staff in the Visitor Center Hall. During the period of your visit, our volunteers will be glad to answer any questions you might have.Orientation FilmThis 15-minute film is played continuously throughout the day in the Visitor Center Theater. For those who arent familiar with Ed

5、ward W. Bok, the Singing Tower, or Pinewood Estate, this film is a great way to find out everything about what Bok Tower Gardens has to offer.Exhibit HallThese historical displays provide insight on Edward W. Boks life and influence, as well as the history behind the Singing Tower and Gardens. Visit

6、ors can see the original carillon keyboard, learn more about the habitat of the Lake Wales Ridge, and much more.Art ExhibitsThese exhibits feature artworks showing Floridas environment, gardens, plants, and architecture. Many of the artworks on display are available for purchase. The art in the Gard

7、ens exhibits is sponsored by Pat Cain Wealth Solutions / Raymond James.The Blue Palmetto CafOur chef can skillfully make a variety of delicious signature salads, soups, sandwiches and wraps for all to enjoy. Our menu is also ripe with fruit and specialty desserts, beer and wine. Relax with us indoor

8、s or on our patio overlooking our beautiful landscaped gardens.The Tower & Garden Gift ShopStop in the Tower & Garden Gift Shop to find unique treasures to take home to commemorate your visit to the Gardens. Our Plant Shop also gives you a chance to find a plant to take home for your own garden! Som

9、e of our Gift Shop treasures can also be found online.21. Whats the 15-minute film about?A. Various gifts worth purchasing before leaving. B. Floridas environment, plants and architecture.C. A brief introduction to Bok Tower Gardens. D. The history of the Blue Palmetto Caf.22. What can visitors do i

10、n Art Exhibits?A. Play the oldest carillon keyboard.B. Buy the artworks being displayed.C. Learn about Edward W. Boks life.D. Donate to Pat Cain Wealth Solutions / Raymond James.23. Where can visitors have a view of the Gardens from above? A. In the Lake Wales Ridge. B. In the Blue Palmetto Caf.C. I

11、n the Visitor Center Hall. D. In the Tower & Garden Gift Shop.BThe first time our fifth grader bought a salad for school lunch, she proudly told me the news as soon as she walked in the kitchen door. I didnt share her delight.“Honey, just so you know, salad isnt a meal. Its a side,” I said. “Vegetab

12、les wont keep you full.”“But a salads healthy, right?” she asked.Of course the objective answer is yes. But my answer was more complicated. I couldnt celebrate her otherwise healthy choice because I was worried she had begun to model my dieting and restrictive eating habits she saw as a younger chil

13、d habits that included lots of salad eating (and little else) and finally led to my anorexia nearly two years ago. Was this monkey see, monkey do?Even though our daughters who are now 10, 8 and 6 are old enough to make their own regular food choices, what my husband and I have modeled for them will

14、make a difference. I learned something about restrictive eating from watching my own father, who often struggled with his weight. Of course, I dont blame him for my disorder he never intended for his choices to be a weight-loss book for me, though sadly, they were. So knowing what I know now, it wou

15、ld be stupid, if not irresponsible for me to think that just because I never told our daughters to restrict or to spend hours each day exercising that they wouldnt have understood what my “healthy” lifestyle really meant. To be clear, there are countless medical reasons why some parents chose restri

16、ctive diets, but when restriction or a diet becomes a way of life that starts to affect relationships, thats not healthy.I knew I was wrong to shame the salad our daughter bought for lunch, which is why I reconsidered my response and told her that salad for lunch was, indeed, a healthy choice, and t

17、hat it should include cheese, meat or nuts, which would keep her brain focused for the rest of her school day. She smiled at my answer. “Well, I also had cheese, eggs and chicken on my salad.”24. How did the author feel on hearing about her daughters lunch?A. Relaxed. B. Disappointed. C. Delighted.

18、D. Uneasy.25. What do we know about the authors father?A. He was often on a diet. B. He exercised a lot to keep fit.C. He once suffered from a disorder. D. He was a good model for the author.26. What was worrying the author?A. Her kids ate too much fat every day. B. Her kids spent too little time ex

19、ercising.C. Her kids were influenced by her lifestyle. D. Her kids knew nothing about food choices. 27. What kind of lunch did the authors daughter have that day?A. High-fat. B. Balanced. C. Weight-loss. D. Vegetarian.CCounting whales has never been easy boats, planes, even submarines can travel lim

20、ited distances, and catching the site of these giant animals is hit-or-miss. Now, researchers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge have confirmed that they can count at least four different species using satellite images taken 600 kilometers above the ocean.Previously, satellite camera

21、s were of no use in whale spotting. Their resolution, which maxed out at 46 centimeters, made most whales look like undistinguishable blobs. But the new privately owned WorldView-3 satellite, which has a resolution of 31 centimeters, enabled BAS graduate student Hannah Cubaynes to count 200 whales a

22、cross 4,230 square kilometers of ocean. She and her colleagues reported last week in Marine Mammal Science.Cubaynes started with seven images from four areas across the world known to specially host southern right whales, fin whales, humpback whales, or gray whales at certain times of year. “Oh my G

23、od,” was her first reaction, because the whales were so easy to see. Nearly half of her identifications were definitive, and the whales looked different enough from space that she expects to be able to tell species apart should they occur together in following images.Next, researchers will use the i

24、mages to develop a computer program that can pick out probable whales, the identification of which will be confirmed by experts. Cubaynes says the system will aid conservation efforts by better revealing where whales go and how many there are.But to do so, she first has to figure out how to account

25、for wind, sun glare, and whales that are at angles to the surface or moving and thus not fully visible. And like aerial and ship surveys, satellite surveys will still be affected by bad weather.28. How did Cubaynes count whales?A. By boat. B. By plane. C. By satellite. D. By submarine.29. What shock

26、ed Cubaynes in Paragraph 3?A. The variety of whales. B. The weight of whales.C. The number of whales. D. The images of whales.30. Why will researchers develop a computer program?A. To account for wind. B. To support ship surveys.C. To help whale conservation. D. To avoid the weathers effect.31. What

27、s the text mainly about?A. A new way to count whales. B. How satellite images are used.C. What we can do to protect whales. D. The process of an oceanic survey.DPeople love the “comeback kid”, the “down and out guy”, and any variety of defeated people whom weve seen fail, then manage to dust off the

28、ir bootstraps（独自所做的努力）and take on life again. Everyone should get this chance in life, and they should get it over and over and over again. Everyone, that is, except our teenagers, right?At least that is how parents, teachers, college admission officers, coaches, and others who spend time with adole

29、scents have led all of us to believe. We have all bought the great lie that there is not only zero room for todays teenagers to fail academically, but any form of failure is a great embarrassment to everyone involved. And I do mean everyone.Ever notice how quick parents are to share college acceptan

30、ce letters, scholarships, SAT scores, and pretty much all the perfect resumes of their high schoolers for everyone to see on social media? Surely it makes moms and dads extremely proud. We all want to take credit for our teenagers great accomplishments, and while that is all well and good, it also m

31、eans that when failure happens, we scatter like sheep when a wolf arrives, because failure on their part means failure on our part.Adolescent brains do not have the bandwidth to process that failure is temporary, and that high school is but a small spot on their life map. Unfortunately, while we may

32、 talk that talk, our actions do not bolster it. Anyone who has been through the competitive college application and scholarship process knows this all too well, because there is no room for any form of failure. But this is wrong.Tell your kids that failure doesnt define them. Tell them its normal, natural, and expected. Tell them failure creates comeback stories, and the opportunity to rise even high