北京市西城区2017-2018学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题(含答案)

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on a nine-to-ten-hour trip to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where the sick worker was located.

The station is usually unreachable during Antarctica’s long, harsh winter, from February to October. Forty-eight people live at the base, including a doctor and a physician’s assistant. But when the crew there determined the worker needed medical help that couldn’t be provided on site, the emergency rescue mission began.

The Twin Otter is the only type of plane capable of flying in Antarctica’s subzero winter temperatures. A small crew, including a pilot, copilot, medical worker, and flight engineer, made the 1,500-mile trip from Rothera in a Twin Otter plane. It is the only type of plane capable of flying in Antarctica’s winter cold. It can operate in temperatures as low as -103° Fahrenheit. The temperature in the South Pole on Tuesday was -73°F. In such conditions, an aircraft’s fuel and even its batteries need to be warmed up before it can take off.

The pitch-black sky and the threat of high winds and sudden weather changes make such flights extremely risky and rare. \Tim Stockings told the Associated Press. He is the operations director at the British Antarctic Survey, in London. “Things can change very quickly down there.\

This rescue is only the third time an emergency mission has been made to the research base since 1999. The National Science Foundation, which runs the station, has not said who was rescued, or the medical condition of the person. The names of the crewmembers who made the daring flight have not been made public either. But according to Peter West, a National Science Foundation spokesman, the mission “went all according to plan.”

29. Why did the plane fly to the South Pole to rescue the worker? A. The worker was trapped in an emergency mission. B. Necessary medical care couldn’t be provided there. C. The worker was sick for home at the research base. D. The reason for the flight rescue was not made public.

30. During the rescue, the plane had to battle the dangerous flying conditions EXCEPT for _______.

A. the threat of high winds B. the total darkness C. subzero temperatures D. the lack of fuel 31. What is the Twin Otter?

A. A small crew. B. A Type of plane.

C. A British Antarctic Survey. D. A National Science Foundation. 32.What is the best title of the passage? A. A Well-planned Trip C. A Daring Rescue

Standing desks. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, there are articles to back up whatever opinion you have. On the one hand, studies have shown that standing reduce your risk of obesity (肥胖）and diabetes (糖other, experts have said standing desks don’t help and could give you back problems.

Now, another study has come out, this one in favor of standing desks. Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center found that standing desks helped employees get more done during the day. Though the results might not translate for all types of work environments, they should give standing desk supporters a reason to be pleased. Published last week in the journal IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, the study followed 167 employees in a call center over six months. Seventy-four of them used standing desks, and researchers found that they were 46 percent more productive than those who sat at their desks.

The participants’ employer, a health services company that’s not named in the paper, sponsored the study to better understand the returns on the standing desks it had bought for the office.

Productivity was determined by the number of successful calls to clients that the health and clinical advisors made per hour. The company earned money for each successful call, during which an advisor checked in on a client’s progress in an exercise program, for

desks could help 尿病）. On the with weight loss plenty

B. The Importance of Teamwork

D. The Advantage of High-tech

example, or checked to see that a client was taking proper medication.

Employees typically made between 400 and 500 calls a month, and the company wanted them to average around two successful calls each hour. Those who had standing desks met that quota, while those who remained seated averaged 1.5 successful calls per hour, Gregory Garrett, a public health doctoral student and lead author on the study, told The Huffington Post. If an advisor was unable to reach a client over the phone, that was counted as an unsuccessful call.

Interestingly, the people who stood actually made more phone calls than the ones who sat, Garrett said.

The results almost seem too good to be true — after all, who wouldn’t want a nearly 50 percent boost in productivity just from using a standing desk?

“How do you prove ‘this desk makes me feel happier, and I feel better’? That’s not going to pay the bills,” Garrett said.

But, he continued, the study shows that standing desks can in fact “affect a company’s performance. That’s really significant.”

33. According to the passage, standing desks could result in ______________. A.obesity

B. back problems

C. diabetes D. medication problems

34. What does that quota in Paragraph 7 refer to? A.400 and 500 calls a month. B.2 successful calls each hour. C.1.5 successful calls every hour. D.The average number of calls per day.

35. It can be concluded from the passage that standing desks __________. A. are worthy of much further research B. can be used in all work environments C.can help create a boost in productivity D. are more comfortable than normal desks

36. What is the writer’s attitude towards standing desks? A. Objective.

B. Subjective.

C. Positive.

D. Negative.

第二部分

I. 听力理解

第三节：（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面一段独白, 根据题目要求在相应的横线上写下第1题至第5题的关键信息。每小题仅填写一个词。这段独白你将听两遍。

The Swimming Competition

Time Place Where to meet When to leave January14, this Saturday the City Swimming Pool at the school hall at 1 a.m. th How to get there by 2 What to wear What to bring sports 3 and sports shoes the student card, some food and 4 Whatto remember not to 5 around not to swim if not feeling well

II. 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

在下列句子中的空白处填入适当内容，或括号内单词的正确形式。

1. ––Oh no! We’re too late. The train ______________ (leave). ––That’s OK. We’ll catch the next train.

2. China's Yaogan-27 remote sensing satellite ____________ (send) into space on August 27，2015 from Taiyuan launch site in Shanxi Province, north China.

3.If we had known your telephone number, we _____________ (call)you last night. 4. I stopped the car __________ (take) a short break after three hours’ driving. 5. _________ (find) more energy sources is very important, for traditional sources of energy like oil and gas may run out some day.

6. We’ll come back to some of the issues _________(discuss) during today’s meeting.

7. ________ (try) in some provinces, the new method of farming resulted in a marked rise in grain production.

8. They have three daughters but _________ of them lives nearby.

9. You will achieve nothing unless you follow the advice _________ Professor Li gave you yesterday.

10.I can’t find my ticket. I think I ___________________ (lose) it.

III. 完成句子(共5小题; 第1、2小题每小题2分, 第3、4、5小题每小题3分, 满分13分)

根据括号中所给提示完成下列句子。

1. 乐于助人的人值得赞扬和尊重。 (be willing to )

_____________________________________________________________________

2. 使我们宽慰的是，大部分孩子有机会接受良好的教育。(have access to )

_____________________________________________________________________

3. 由于压力，他们最终离开了足球队。(end up )