宜昌市第一中学2017年秋季学期高二年级期末考试
英 语 试 题
考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 命题人：王莉 审题人：郑晓辉
第I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 does the woman ask John to do? A. Leave the room for a moment. B. Have a discussion with Peter. C. Get something to eat.
2. How much will the speakers pay for the match?
A.￡24. B.￡42. C.￡48. 3. Why can't the woman pick up the man now? . A. Her car is under repair. B. She can't open the car door. C. She locked her car keys in her house. 4. Where are the speakers?
A. In a restaurant. B. In the man's office. C. In a theater. 5. How does the man feel?
A. Relieved. B. Worried. C. Angry. 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 are the speakers talking about?
A. A notebook computer. B. A mobile phone. C. A new T-shirt. 7. What can the tiny computers do?
A. Receive messages. B. Switch lights on and off. C. Operate the air conditioner. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What is the woman doing?
A. Deciding on the time for a holiday trip. B. Learning about some festival customs. C. Looking through her schedule. 9. When is Easter this year?
A. April 6th. B. April 8th. C. April 9th. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How will the man go to the Art Museum?
A. By motorbike. B. By bus. C. By car. 11. What should the man do when he comes to the third turning?
A. Turn right. B. Turn left. C. Go straight. 12. Where is the Art Museum?
A. Opposite a bus station. B. Beside a hotel. C. Behind a bank. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How often will the man be available to work? A. No more than two evenings a week. B. Up to three evenings a week. C. At least three evenings a week.
14. Why does the man apply for a part-time job? A. To gain work experience. B. To improve his social skills. C. To earn some money. 15. What is the man good at?
A. Solving problems. B. Communicating with people. C. Working in a group.
16. What will the man do on September 10th?
A. Have a lesson. B. Work for the community. C. Meet the woman. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. From whom did the speaker get the information of the project?
A. Her neighbors. B. Her cousins. C. Her friends. 18. Where did the speaker come from?
A. China. B. Thailand. C. Australia. 19. What does the speaker ask her family to do? A. Learn about sea animals. B. Recycle as much as possible. C. Take part in the cleaning project.
20. What will One-Day Clean-up focus on January 11th next year?
A. The woodlands. B. The seaside. C. the rivers. 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，选出最佳选项。
A
Fancy some fresh fruit and vegetables? At Parkside Farm we grow a wide variety of delicious summer fruits and high-quality vegetables for you to come and pick your own. Why not pay us a visit? About us
Our family has been farming at Parkside Farm since 1938. Although we no longer keep fields of wheat and other crops. We started growing strawberries for Pick Your Own back in 1979. Since then, we have made the Pick Your Own area larger and we now grow about 20 different crops. Opening times
The season starts in late June, but opening hours are variable the first week. Please ring
our message line to check. From July onwards, we are open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9 am to 5:30 pm (last entry 5 pm). Opening hours are variable on Sundays. Mondays CLOSED. Crop calendar
Some crops may be in limited supply at certain times, so always ring the message line for daily updates before setting out.
Strawberries: early June to mid-October Blackcurrants: early July to mid-August Raspberries: mid-June to mid-August Redcurrants: mid-July to mid-August Blackberries: mid-July to mid-October Plums: mid-July to early September Prices
There is a minimum charge of ￡3 for each adult or child who enters the Pick Your Own area. This means that every person has to spend at least ￡3 on Pick-Your-Own fruits or they will be charged this amount when they leave.
Strawberries: ￡4.49/kg Blackcurrants:￡4.79/kg Raspberries: ￡6.39/kg Redcurrants: ￡4.79/kg Blackberries:￡5.39/kg Plums: ￡ 2.99/kg Find us
Parkside Farm is in the Enfield of London, north of the city center.
For more information, please call our message line on 020 8367 2035 or check our website: . 21. What do we learn about Parkside Farm from the text?
A. It has a small Pick Your Own area.
B. It has limited supply of some crops on Mondays. C. It sells fruit and vegetables online. D. It doesn’t open on Mondays.
22. If a family of three buy 1 kg of strawberries and 1 kg of plums on the farm, they should
pay_______.
A. ￡7.48 B. ￡9 C. ￡10.48 D. ￡16.48 23. What is the main purpose of the text?
A. To instruct farmers how to grow crops. B. To advise people to grow crops. C. To attract visitors to pick fruits. D. To tell readers how to pick fruits. B
One advantage of the Internet is shopping conveniently online for clothes; one disadvantage of the Internet is also shopping conveniently online for clothes.
“Nothing fits,” said Lam Yuk Wong, a senior in electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. “Everyone says this. They order clothes and they don’t fit. People get very unhappy.”
Wong and her design partner, Xuaner “Cecilia” Zhang, are Team White Mirror, creators of what they call a “virtual (虚拟)fitting room”. Their goal is simple and consumer-friendly: to let online clothing shoppers have a perfect fit and a perfect look when shopping every time. Both women are from China, Wong from Hong Kong and Zhang from Beijing. They both order most of their clothing online. They got the idea from their own experiences as consumers and from listening to the complaints of friends and relatives. “They say, ‘The color is wrong’ or ‘I got the right size but it still does not fit.’ We want to make it like you’re in the store trying on the clothes,” Zhang said.
Using a Kinect developed by Microsoft for use with its Xbox 360 video game player, Zhang
scans (扫描) Wong and turns her image into, in effect, a virtual model, keeping Wong’s dimensions (尺寸), and even her skin and hair color. “We put the clothes on the shopper’s 3-D body models and show how they look when they are dressed,” Wong said. So far, Wong and Zhang have adapted the software to show dresses and shirts, and they are now working on shorts.
Asked if she thought men as well as women might be interested in using their virtual fitting room, Wong said, “I think their wives will care about this, so it will also be important to men.”
24. Wong and Zhang got the idea to design a virtual fitting room from ____.
A. a program at their university B. some shop-owners’ complaints C. their shopping experiences D. the Xbox 360 video game player 25. Which of the following shows the process of using the virtual fitting room?
A. scanning -- trying on clothes -- getting images B. trying on clothes -- getting models -- scanning C. trying on clothes -- getting images – scanning D. scanning -- getting models --trying on clothes 26. What did Wong think of her virtual fitting room?
A. It is perfectly developed. B. It is limited to women shoppers.
C. It is like a kind of video game player. D. It will have its market share. 27. What would be the best title of the text?
A. Advantage? Disadvantage! B. Great women, great design
C. Team White Mirror and their virtual fitting room D. An amazingly powerful software C
Chinese students’ extremely neat handwritten compositions have aroused a heated debate among Internet users since photos of the compositions and a teacher’s picky remarks were published on Daily Mail Online.
“Can you believe this essay is handwritten?” Daily Mail Online asked.
The website reported on the compositions that looked like they had been machine printed and on the teacher’s remarks at Hengshui High School in North China’s Hebei Province, one of China’s top 100 high schools. The teacher wrote, “not one stroke (笔画) more, not one stroke less” about some compositions that weren’t neatly written.
The story immediately aroused a heated debate among British Internet users and got 652 comments after it was published on Wednesday. Some British readers were amazed by the neat handwriting and attributed (归于)China’s growing development to this strict teaching method. A reader named Jim said, “This is another example of why China is rising to the top”, and his comment gained 72 supports. But some readers thought the too-picky method doesn’t make sense in helping students learn better English and suppresses（压制） students’ creativity.
Chinese Internet users also expressed different opinions after English newspapers, a user of China’s Twitter like Sina Weibo, posted the story along with its comments on Weibo on Thursday. Since then, the post has received 1, 479 comments. Sina Weibo user wenjinzetui said, “Beautiful handwriting proves an ability.” However, another Weibo user, honorificabilitus, said, “It’s meaningless to pursue that neat English handwriting, since learning language is for communicating, let alone English students don’t write that neatly. ”
There are also many Weibo users showing worry about this too-strict teaching method, as weibo user li-owl-stop said, “We should reflect on the Chinese-style education, and it’s hard to imagine what would happen if all the schools in China adopted the teaching method at Hengshui High School. ”
28. As for the Chinese students’ extremely neat handwriting, the British Internet users ______.
A. were amazed by it
B. thought it suppresses students’ creativity C. had different views about it D. thought it meaningless
29. What Sina Weibo user wenjinzetui said tells us that ______.
A. a person whose handwriting is beautiful must be an able man
B. one’s handwriting can reflect his or her certain ability in a way C. a person whose handwriting is neat must be beautiful
D. beautiful handwriting is not required for English students
30. According to the weibo user li-owl-stop, what is the Chinese-style education?
A. The education using very strict teaching method. B. The education encouraging students’ creativity. C. The education for all the Chinese people. D. The education at Hengshui High School.
31. Which of the following is closest to the underlined sentence in paragraph5?
A. Attitude determines altitude. B. Pride hurts, modesty benefits. C. Practice makes perfect. D. The style is the man.
D
Throughout Europe golf has been popular for many years. A recent report says that in Great Britain alone, 700 new golf courses will have to be built over the next ten years to meet people's needs.
This is all good news for golf lovers, but it worries those who want to protect the environment. Their argument is that the new courses are disturbing the balance of nature. Woods, ponds and fields are being dug up to make way for the courses. The birds and animals that used to live there are being killed or forced to leave. The amount of water that a club uses to keep its courses in good condition is reducing the amount of water available for industrial and other uses. The chemicals used to control insects are sinking into the underground water.
There may be some truth in this, but it is not the whole truth. The days are long past when building of any kind was allowed in beautiful places with no thought for the environment. Planning permission, nowadays, is as strict for golf courses as it is for any other type of development. Before any such project is given the go-ahead, many things are studied. It is only when it is clear no harm will be done to the area that the builders are allowed to move in.
A strong case can even be made that golf courses are actually good for the areas where they are built. Courses are usually built in the areas which are not areas of natural beauty. The new courses often make the area look livelier. To make holes more difficult, trees are planted and lakes are filled in around greens. Not surprisingly perhaps, it is not unusual to find that, within months of a course being completed, a lot of animals and birds have moved in.
Obviously, careful thought has to go into the design of the new courses. As few changes as possible should be made to the natural environment. Woods and wildlife should be also protected. But this can be, and is being, done. There is no reason why golfers and nature cannot live peacefully together.
32. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2?
A. The rules for playing golf. B. How to protect the environment.
C. The disadvantages of building golf courses. D. Whether golf courses should be built or not. 33. According to Paragraph 4, golf courses________.
A. may make the local area a better place B. provide more jobs for local people C. are harmful to the local environment
湖北省宜昌市第一中学2024-2024学年高二上学期期末考试英语含答案
