浙江省温州市学年高二英语下册期中考试题.docx

1、浙江省温州市学年高二英语下册期中考试题2018学年第二学期十校联合体高二期中联考英 语 试 卷（满分120分，考试时间：110分钟）第I卷(共75分)第一部分：听力（共两节，满分15分）做题时，请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1分，满分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. Where are the two speakers?A. In a plane.

2、 B. At the airport. C. At the railway station.2. How many chairs are needed?A. 13. B. 14. C. 15.3. Where is the man now?A. In Washington. B. In New York. C. In Boston.4. Where does this dialogue most probably take place?A. In a concert. B. In a museum. C. In a restaurant.5. What does the man mean?A.

3、 He doesnt like Japanese food.B. He doesnt want to eat out.C. He wants to pay.第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 听下面4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。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. Where did the man find his school bag?A. Under a tree. B. In th

4、e language lab. C. In a park.7. What is the price of the bag?A. $69.50. B. $69.15. C. $59.60.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Where is the bank?A. Beside the supermarket. B. Opposite the supermarket. C. Next to the bookstore.9. Which does the man choose to take?A. Bus No. 104. B. Street car B-102. C. Street car B-

5、201.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where is the mans mother now?A. In the hospital. B. At home. C. In the office.11. Why does the man ask a week off?A. Because he has to see a doctor.B. Because he needs to look after his mother.C. Because he hasnt hired anyone to help him yet.12. Why does the woman admire the

6、 man?A. Because he is a good son. B. Because he is helpful.C. Because he is a successful man.听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。 13. Why did the woman decide to leave the college in her second term?A. She didnt like the big lecture classes.B. She couldnt afford further education.C. She was not interested in education

7、.14. What does she think of her work experiences?A. They were personally rewarding.B. They should be part of school life.C. They gave her a chance to learn German.15. Where is the university she decides to go to in the end?A. In South Carolina. B. In Florida. C. In Ohio.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共10小题

8、；每小题2分，满分20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，并写在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A He met her at a party. She was outstanding while he was so normal. After the party, he invited her for coffee. She was surprised but being polite, she agreed.As they sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything and she f

9、elt uncomfortable. Suddenly, he asked the waiter, “Could you please give me some salt? Id like to put it in my coffee. ” Everyone stared at him. He turned red, but when the salt came, he put it in his coffee and drank. Curious, she asked, “Why salt with coffee? ” He explained, “ When I was a little

10、boy, I lived near the sea. I liked playing on the sea. I could feel the taste of sea, just like this salty coffee. ”That was a really nice talk, also a good beginning of their story. They continued to date. She found that actually he was a man who met all her demands. Then the story was just like ev

11、ery beautiful love story: they got married and lived a happy life.After 40 years, he passed away and left her a letter which said: My dearest, please forgive my life-long lie. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous that I asked for salt instead of sugar. It was hard for me to ask for a c

12、hange, so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our conversation. I tried to tell you the truth, but I was afraid that it would ruin everything. I dont like the salty coffee. But I have had the salty coffee for my whole life just because I love you!Her tears made the letter t

13、otally wet. Someday, someone asked her, “Whats the taste of salty coffee?” She replied, “Its sweet.”16. She accepted his invitation after the party because _.A. she was pretty B. he met all her demands C. he was humorous D. she was well-mannered17. How do you understand the last paragraph? A. The ta

14、ste of salty coffee is special. B. Her husbands love to her is sweet. C. Her memory about her life is great. D. She is used to the taste of the salty coffee. 18. The best title for this passage is _.A. The Great Love B. The Salty Coffee C. A Special Dating D. A Lifelong Lie B Not only fashion and mu

15、sic are making a returnhouses built in 1970s have proven to be better at cutting energy waste than those built today. The “tea cosy (茶壶套)” design, created in the mid-1970s and built in the early 1980s for low-income people, could provide a blueprint for meeting the Government aims of producing less

16、CO2 from homes. The 200 houses were designed to provide low-energy housing, and depend on an inner concrete (水泥) structure that holds in heat, protected by highly insulated (隔热的) setting which produces a “tea cosy” effect. The ordinary-looking houses also depend on more windows on south-facing sides

17、, with northerly facing doors protected by porches (门廊). A study found the houses are 50 percent more energy efficient than the average home and use a quarter of the average energy for space heating. According to researchers, they use less than two-thirds of the power of homes built to meet 2010 bui

18、lding demands. And they will still be 25 percent more efficient than houses built to even more strict proposed demands for 2018. The design is one of the few that will be able to meet 2018 demands for zero-carbon homes. They were in the beginning fixed with just one or two gas heaters per home, alth

19、ough most now have central heating, depending on the heat from the sun and high insulation to keep steady temperatures inside the house. To be comfortable, they only need to use heating for three to four months a year, compared with seven months for UK home on average, and can be lived with no heati

20、ng at all. With many house builders at present worrying that new homes are going to be much more expensive to build in order to meet the Governments ambitious targets, the“tea cosy”model meets this need perfectly. 19. The underlined word“blueprint”is closest in meaning to _.A. photo B. model C. serv

21、ice D. map 20. The writer develops Paragraph 3 mainly by_.A. analyzing dataB. giving examplesC. presenting reasons D. making comparisons21. According to the passage, “tea cosy” houses are better at _.A. saving heat for energy efficiencyB. producing solar energy at home C. designing and building mate

22、rialsD. saving building materials and energy C One of the Queens closest relatives and oldest friends was allowed to give a deep description into the family life of the Royals. Although there have been hundreds of other books declaring to offer a quick look behind the Palace doors, this is the first

23、 written by someone who is closely related to the Royal Family and has shared their livesnot only throughout the Queens reign (统治) but also through that of her father, King George VI. The Final Curtsey was written by her Majestys cousin and childhood playmate the Honorable Margaret Rhodes. It tells

24、in details the story of Mrs. Rhodess relationship with the Royal family over eight decades. The book, with delightfully informal and never-before-seen pictures, has been written with the full knowledge of the Queen, who has read and approved parts of it.Born in 1925, the Honorable Margaret Rhodes ha

25、s led an extraordinary life. She was the childhood playmate of her cousin, the Queen; a wartime M16 spy; and she was a lady-in- waiting (宫女) to her aunt, the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, from 1991 until the latters death in 2002. At the Queens 80th birthday in April 2006, Margaret gave an inte

26、rview to the BBC which she proved that, in her own opinion and despite several false reports, the Queen would not abdicate(退位). In this charming autobiography (自传)，she told how she was offered a house to live in the Royal farm in Windsor Great Park unexpectedly. One day when she and the Queen were o

27、ut riding outside, she suddenly returned and said, “Could you bear to live in the suburb?” “I think it should be OK.” Therefore Mrs. Rhodes is now still living there. 22. Compared with other books about the Royal Family, the biggest advantage of The Final Curtsey is that _.A. its author is very famo

28、us B. its author knows the Queen well C. it presents reader a very different Queen D. it has pictures that have never been seen23. When Mrs. Rhodes was offered to live in the Royal farm, she was _.A. unhappy B. surprised C. sad D. disappointed 24. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that Mrs. Rhodes _.A.

29、has lived quite a long life B. was so famous that BBC interviewed herC. has a close relationship with the royal familyD. has been very busy and kept on changing jobs 25. The passage is mainly about_. A. a book about royal family B. the Queens life C. the life of Margaret Rhodes D. the Queens abdicat

30、ion第二节（共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余选项。Are you addicted to computer games? Do you stay up all night playing them? 26 But should we worry about their effects on our health? Choices are various when it comes to gaming: 27 And there are shooting games where you can let out yo

31、ur anger and frustration in violent situations where you kill people with guns. 28 Popular games like Grand Theft Auto have been blamed for everything from falling results at school to provoking(激起) acts of extreme violence. Internet safety advisor, Alan MacKenzie, thinks “many people understandably

32、 will just think that a game is just a game and not realising the obvious content thats in there”. 29 There is evidence that playing video games could actually be good for us. Studies have also shown that the skills used in playing games can cause growth in certain areas of the brain, the ability to think in 3D and even improve our eyesight.Video ga