“长汀、上杭、武平、连城、漳平、永定一中”六校联考2018—2019
学年第一学期半期考高二英语试题
（考试时间：120分钟 总分：150分）
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共100分）
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. Whose book does Suzie have? A. Hannah’s. A. By train. A. Three.
B. Her mother’s.
C. Deborah’s.
2. How will the woman go to the town center?
B. By bus.
B. Five.
C. By taxi.
C. Six.
3. How many shirts will the man buy? 4. Who is Jack probably talking with? A. His mother. A. Have a picnic. himself.
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，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、7题。
6. How many people will there be in the party? A. Twelve. A. In a park. co-worker’s house.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What did the man give the woman? A. A bill.
B. A key card.
C. Some money.
9. What did the man enjoy about his trip? A. The room service.
B. The helpful people.
C. The pleasant weather.
B. Fourteen.
C. Twenty.
C.
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7. Where will the party be held?
B. At the office. B. His teacher.
C. His dentist.
C. Study math by
5. What will the boy probably do this weekend?
B. Learn about science.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why does Michael feel sorry? A. He is having a lot of problems.
B. He forgot his grandmother’s birthday.
C. He hasn’t called his grandmother for a long time. 11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Michael’s birthday. busy schedule.
12. How does Michael probably feel about going to college? A. Worried.
B. Confident.
C. Disappointed.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where does the conversation take place? A. At a bank.
B. At a drugstore. B. In St. Louis.
C. At a post office.
C. In Memphis.
14. Where is the man’s mother?
A. In Atlanta.
15. Why is there extra cost for the man to pay?
A. He is paying for overnight service. B. He is paying with a credit card. C. He has a fragile (易碎的) item. 16. What is the man giving to his mother?
A. A box of cookies.
B. Some cash.
C. A cup.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What is the important weather news?
A. There will be rain all night. B. There will be a storm this morning. C. There will be sunny skies tomorrow. 18. When will the storm pass?
A. On Tuesday. A. In Tulsa. A. Umbrellas.
B. On Saturday.
C. On Sunday.
C. In Oklahoma City.
19. Where is the tornado starting?
B. In Springfield. B. Rain boots.
20. What supplies does the speaker suggest people prepare in the end?
C. Water and food.
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
2016 Exhibitions in the British Museum
Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds
19 May－ 27 November 2016 Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery Adults￡16.50, Members/under 16s free
Sunken under the sea for over a thousand years, two lost cities of ancient Egypt were lately rediscovered. Their amazing discovery is transforming our understanding
B. Michael’s grandfather.
C.
Michael’s
of the deep connections between the great ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece. Their story is told for the first time in this exhibition. Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome
21 January－ 14 August 2016 Room 90/ Open late Fridays Free, just drop in
Come and experience 18th-century Rome through an astonishing series of watercolours not displayed together since 1805. Sicily: culture and conquest
21 April－ 14 September 2016 Room 35
Tickets: Adults￡10, Members/under 16s free
This exhibition tells Sicily’s fascinating stories－ from the arrival of the Greeks and other settlers, to the extraordinary period of enlightenment(启蒙) under Norman rule in the 11th to 13th centuries. Early British exploration of the classical world
14 March－ 27 July 2016 Room 90a/ Open late Fridays Free, just drop in
This small display features a remarkable selection of drawings by British explorers and architects, who discovered and documented some of Sicily’s best surviving classical sculpture and architecture. 21. Which place does Francis Towne’s works describe?
A. Sicily.
B. Rome. C. Egypt. D. France.
22. What art works are housed in Room 90a?
A. Sculptures. B. Watercolours. C. Drawings. D. Buildings. 23. Which exhibition can you attend in October?
A. Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds. B. Sicily: culture and conquest.
C. Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome.
D. Early British exploration of the classical world.
B
John Adams took office in 1797. Two major issues marked Adams’ presidency. The first involved America’s relations with France.
France helped America win its war for independence from Britain. The friendship formed during the war continued afterward when Thomas Jefferson served as Minister to Paris. Relations began to go bad as soon as he returned home. The man who replaced him openly supported the losing side in the French revolution. After the revolution succeeded, the new French government demanded that he leave. Most Federalists(联邦主义者) didn’t want good relationships with France. They searched for any signs of insult(侮辱) and any excuse to declare war.
President Adams wanted to improve relations with France through negotiations (协商). Yet he said the United States would strengthen its defenses. One incident,
especially, brought the two nations close to war. It’s known in American history books as the “ X, Y and Z Affair ”.
President Adams had appointed three ministers to negotiate with the French government. French officials kept these three men waiting for several weeks. While they waited, they had a visit from three Frenchmen---later called X,Y and Z. X,Y and Z told the Americans that France would sign an agreement if the United States did three things. It had to lend the French government twelve million dollars. It had to apologize for anti-French statements in a recent message from President Adams to the American Congress. And it had to pay the French foreign minister 250,000 dollars.
The American ministers were willing to pay. But they wanted to sign the agreement first. The French foreign minister refused. First the money, then the agreement. The Federalists finally had the excuse they were looking for. France had insulted the United States. The only answer was war.
24. Why did America and France have a good relationship at first?
A. Because Thomas Jefferson worked hard on it. B. America supported the French revolution. C. America and France often helped each other. D. France helped America get away from Britain.
25.What happened to the three ministers when they arrived in France?
A. No one came to negotiate with them at first. B. They were treated very nicely.
C. They were asked to apologize at once. D. They were watched over by three men.
26. What was the excuse that the Federalists found?
A. France hurt the three ministers.
B. France looked down upon the United States. C. France asked for too much money.
D. France was unwilling to sign the agreement. 27. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The relations between France and the US. B. John Adams’ great achievement as President. C. How the war between the US and France started. D. How the friendship between the US and France started.
C
When Mark Levine, an English-language instructor at Beijing’s Minzu University of China, was first invited to attend a Chinese colleague’s wedding in Jiangsu province in 2017, his second year in China, the California native was ready to present a small decorative gift for the new couple as he used to do in the United States.
However, his gesture suddenly didn’t seem proper as he realized the Chinese at the ceremony had red envelopes filled with cash to present rather than a packed gift.
“It’s a little bit embarrassing when you present something that people didn’t expect to receive on certain occasions,” Levine, who used to be a social worker in the US, told China Daily recently.
“In the US, people do that as well but only for close relatives. People would normally give things as presents, while here in China red envelopes are more commonly welcomed.”
It was the first time the 66-year-old discovered the ceremony－including taboos(禁忌)－in gift giving. He was not alone, as the recent argument following a British minister’s visit to Taipei, Taiwan, revealed.
British Minister of State for Transport Baroness Susan Kramer presented a watch in January to Ko Wen-je, mayor of Taipei, when she visited the city, immediately sparking headlines as she broke a long-held taboo in Chinese culture.
A clock or watch, or zhong in Mandarin, signifies “the end” in Chinese, and many associate it with death. Therefore, giving someone, especially an elder, a clock or watch implies “your time is up”.
Kramer later apologized for the gaffe（失礼）, but Ko was also blamed for his “rude” response as he told reporters that he had no use for the watch and would sell it for cash.
However, some foreigners in China, such as Mark Dreyer, support Ko in this particular debate. “When I heard about the story, I felt embarrassed,” said Dreyer, a British citizen who has lived and worked in China since 2007. “After all, ‘don’t give clocks or watches to your hosts’ is on page 1 of most China travel guides. I’m embarrassed by the lack of respect shown by the British for not even reading about the customs ahead of time.”
28. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph3 refer to?
A. Presenting gifts. B. Giving cash. C. Attending weddings. D. Receiving money. 29. How did the public view Ko’s response to the gift?
A. They considered it a smart move. B. They believed he had no other choice. C. They saw it as a rudeness. D. They thought it proper. 30. What was Dreyer’s attitude to the British Minister’s gift?
A. Negative. B. Supportive. C. Positive. D. Doubtful. 31. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Presenting red envelopes is a bad custom in China. B. British know nothing about Chinese customs. C. Americans don’t expect to receive cashes as gifts. D. Chinese don’t expect to receive clocks as gifts.
D
The function of education is to prepare children for life, so we ought to concentrate on teaching them really useful things. Here is what I think our schools should teach. Courtesy(礼貌)—The sooner our young people learn this, the better. Politeness and consideration are the signs of civilization. In any case, a lot more can be accomplished by a smile and good manners than with a PhD（博士学位）.
Managing Money—Like it or not, for most of us, our adult lives will be consumed by the struggle for this. Is borrowing on a credit card a good thing? How do you live within your means? No one should be expected to pick this up after leaving school
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