福建师大附中2017-2018学年下学期期中考试
高二（实验班）英语试卷
时间： 120分钟
满分： 150分
第Ⅰ卷 (共79分)
第一部分：听力（共20题；每小题1分, 满分20分） 第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的ABC 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. According to the man, who wrote the poem? A. John Keats.
B. William Wordsworth. C. T. S. Eliot.
2. What does the woman suggest they do? A. Join a tour group.
B. Explore on their own.
C. See some tour routes online.
3. How does the man probably feel? A. Angry.
B. Surprised.
C. Understanding.
4. Where are the speakers? A. In a stadium.
B. In a company.
C. In a hotel.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A book. 第二节
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. Why are the neighbors complaining? A. The leaves are falling in their yard. B. Their fence was damaged by the storm. C. The tree is about to fall over into their yard.
7. What will the speakers probably do for their neighbors?
B. A vacation.
C. The man’s job.
A. Cut down the whole tree. B. Pick up leaves in their yard. C. Cut off the branches on their side. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What did the woman think about the race? A. It was awful. B. It was a lot of fun. C. It was very serious.
9. How fast was the woman going when she crashed? A. 190 miles per hour. B. 90 kilometers per hour. C. 20 miles per hour.
听第8段材料，国答第10至12题。 10. What's wrong with the woman?
A. She got lost. B. She hurt her ankle. C. She is tired from walking. 11. What does the woman ask the man for? A. A stick.
B. Some water.
C. Some medicine.
12. What do the speakers plan to do?
A. Wait there for help. B. Continue on after a while. C. Go back the way they came. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What has happened to the woman recently? A. She was fired. B. She got a pay raise.
C. She was transferred to another bank branch. 14. How many branches has Garret worked for in total? A. Three.
B. Four.
C. Five.
15. What did the woman find out about Garrett? A. He will leave soon.
B. His customers don’t like him. C. He doesn’t have much experience.
16. How does the man probably feel in the end? A. Confused. B. Surprised. C. Understandable. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Where will flight AC30 land? A. In Canada. B. In the United States. C. In Britain.
18. Which flight leaves in one hour? A. The one to Seattle. B. The one to New York. C. The one to Vancouver.
19. Where should passengers check in for flight AS190? A. Counters D8 to D14
B. Counters C8 to C18.
C. Counters Cl9 to C26.
20. What are passengers advised to do? A. Give their seats to the elderly. B. Get their travel documents ready.
C. Throw away large batteries at the boarding gate.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节, 满分29分）
第一节 （共 16 小题；每小题 1.5 分, 满分 24 分）
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What do literary tourists look for when they visit the British Isles? Often it’s the charmingly old-fashioned bookshops that provide the perfect excuse to read uninterruptedly and to disconnect from the world. Until recently, the trend for fine coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city’s bookish crowd to be ruining London’s centuries-old tradition of disconnected reading.
But a crop of bookshops is fighting against crazy online engagement and is creating environments where the real-life, Internet-free book reading is the most effective way to expand your social and professional networks. Leading the fighting is Libreria Books, which is in the company of
Tenderbooks, Buchhandlung Wakther, Lutyens&Rubinstein etc., all independent book shops without high-speed Wi-Fi and coffee.
Mr. Silva of Libreria was inspired to open his shop after experiencing a common suffering for London’s book-lovers—the repeated ring tones of smart phones ruining the peace of his bookshop experience. He wanted to get people reading without interruption. He said, “You can get Wi-Fi anywhere now, it’s not necessary in a bookshop.”
Their mantra(原则) has drawn a wise, brainy crowd. The bookshop should be an escape from an information overload. “ If someone gets a phone call, they leave the shop. It’s the same with the Internet—people just know this isn’t the space for being on line.” said Tamsin Clark, owner of Tender books. And in face of the Internet overload, some stores are proving to be among London’s hottest places.
Mr. Silva said “an old-fashioned space” is clearly appealing to book lovers. He said his shop has had twice as many customers as expected, with visitors from as far as Australia and China. Faced with a bookshelf recommended by the Queen or surrounded by first editions, who wants to download a morning full of emails? 1. What would literary tourists like to find in an old-fashioned bookshop?
A. High-speed Wi-Fi. C. Peaceful reading time.
B. Social networks. D. Free coffee.
2. Why did Mr. Silva of Libreria decide to open his own bookshop?
A. He saw the trend of running bookshops. B. He aimed at banning Wi-Fi in bookshops. C. He had an unpleasant reading in a bookshop. D. He was inspired by other bookshop owners.
3. What do London’s bookish crowd think of the Internet-free bookshops?
A. Attractive. C. Fashionable.
B. Outdated. D. Professional.
4. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean?
A. You can still work efficiently.
B. People prefer reading to being connected. C. Emails keep coming in all morning.
D. People have no access to downloading emails.
B
Americans recognize that there is a past on which the present rests. But they have not developed their sense of the depth of time as much as this has been done in the Middle East and South Asia. The Arab looks back two to six thousand years for his own origins. History is used as the basis for almost any modem action. The chances are that an Arab won’t start a talk or a speech or analyze a problem without first developing the historical aspects of his subject. The American assumes that time has depths but he seldom stresses its importance of it.
The American never questions the fact that time should be planned and future events should be fitted into a schedule. He thinks that people should look forward to the future and not talk too much on the past. His future is not very far ahead of him. Results must be obtained in the foreseeable future — one or two years or, at the most，five or ten. Promises to meet deadlines and appointments are taken very seriously. There is real punishment for being late and for not keeping commitments in time. The American thinks it is natural to calculate the value of time. To fail to do so is unthinkable. The American calculates how much time is required to do everything. “ I’ll be there in ten minutes. ” “ It will take six months to finish that job. ” “ I was in the Army for four and a half years. ”
The Americans, like so many other people，also use time as a link that chains events together. If one event occurs on the heels of another, we will certainly try to find a causal relationship between them. If A is seen around the area of B’s murder shortly after the crime has been committed we automatically form a connection between A and B. However, events which are separated by too much time are difficult for us to connect in our minds. This makes it almost impossible for us as a nation to engage in long-range planning.
5.How do Americans see past time according to the first paragraph? A. It’s valueless. B. It’s limited.
C. It reflects today. D. It helps start a talk.
6.What does the underlined phrase “to do so” in paragraph 2 refer to? A. To calculate the value of the past. B. To plan a schedule for future events. C. To figure out the importance of time. D. To meet deadlines and appointments. 7.When will Americans chain two events together?
A. When common evidence is found. B. When the two events happen one by one. C. When A is found near the scene of B’s crime. D. When one event happens long after another.
8.What does the author mainly want to tell Americans to do? A.See time further. C.Remember the past time.
B. Make a long-range plan. D. Keep their commitments.
C
Are we getting more stupid? According to Gerald Crabtree, a scientist at Stanford University in the US, we are.
You may not want to hear this, but Crabtree believes that human intelligence reached its peak more than 2,000 years ago and ever since then has been going downhill. “If an average Greek from 1,000 BC were transported to modern times, he or she would be one of the brightest among us,” Crabtree told The Guardian.
At the heart of Crabtree’s thinking is a simple idea. In the past, intelligence was critical for survival when our ancestors had to avoid dangerous animals and hunt for food. The difference of being smart or stupid is often life or death. However, after the spread of agriculture, when our ancestors began to live in crowded farming communities, the need to keep their intelligence in peak condition gradually reduced.
This is not hard to understand. Most of the time, pressure is what keeps us going – you need the pressure from your teachers to finish your homework; the pressure of looking pretty makes you lose weight when summer comes. And the same is also true of our intelligence – if we think less, we become less smart.
These mutations(变异) are harmful to our intelligence and they were all developed in the past
3,000 years. The other evidence that Crabtree holds is in our genes. He found that among the 2,000 to 5,000 genes that we have that determine human intelligence, there are two or more mutations in each of us.
However, Crabtree’s theory has been criticized by some who say that early humans may have better hunting and surviving abilities, but people today have developed a more diverse intelligence. For example, spearing a tiger doesn’t necessarily require more brainpower than playing chess or writing a poem. Moreover, the power of modern education means a lot more people have the opportunity to learn nowadays.
“You wouldn’t get Stephen Hawking 2,000 years ago. He just wouldn’t exist,” Thomas Hills of the University of Warwick, UK, told Live Science. “But now we have people of his intellectual capacity doing things and making insights that we would never have achieved in our environment of evolutionary adaptation.”
9. What is Crabtree’s recent finding according to the article?
A. The Greeks from 1,000 BC could have been the smartest in human history. B. Our ancient ancestors had no better surviving abilities than we do nowadays. C. Humans have been getting steadily more intelligent since the invention of farming.
D. Mutations in genes deciding human intelligence have affected the development of intelligence.
10. According to Crabtree, ancient humans _______.
A. had much more genes that determine human intelligence B. were forced to be smart due to natural selection pressures C. relied more on group intelligence than individual intelligence D. developed a diverse intelligence to adapt to the severe realities 11. Some argue that Crabtree’s theory is false because they think _______. A. people today are under much more pressure than early humans B. it’s ridiculous to compare a hunter’s and a poet’s intelligence C. modern education is far more advanced than ancient education D. human intelligence nowadays is different from that of the distant past 12. What is Thomas Hills’ attitude toward Crabtree’s theory? A. Supportive B. Unfavorable C. Concerned
D. Puzzled.
D
The subtitle of my 1995 book Emotional Intelligence(EI) reads, “Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.” That subtitle, unfortunately, has led to misunderstandings of what I actually say. Some people even make the absurd claim that “EI accounts for 80 percent of success.”
I was reminded this again when looking through comments on an Australian study that fails to find much of a connection between teenagers’ level of emotional intelligence and their academic achievements. For me, there’s no surprise here. But for those misguided people who think I claim EI matters more than IQ for academic achievement, it would be a “Gotcha!” moment.
My argument is actually that emotional and social skills give people advantages in areas where such abilities make the most difference, like love and leadership. EI does better than IQ in “soft” areas, where intelligence matters relatively little for success. That said, another such area where EI matters more than IQ is in performance at work, when comparing people with roughly the same educational backgrounds like MBAs or accountants.
IQ is a much stronger predictor than EI of which jobs or professions people can enter. However, having enough intelligence to hold a given job does not by itself predict whether one will be a star performer or rise to management or leadership positions in one’s field. In part this is because everyone at the top level of a given profession has already been examined for intelligence. At those top levels a high IQ becomes a basic ability, one needed just to get into and stay in the game.
The one place I expect we will be seeing more data showing a relationship between skills in the emotional and social area and school performance will be in studies of children who have gone through social/emotional learning (SEL) programs. These courses give students the self-management skills they need to learn better. And so to the degree that advantage promotes learning, they should do better on academic achievement scores. A study from the University of Illinois finds around a 10 percent increase in achievement test scores among these students. Probably, the SEL programs would also have meant higher scores on the particular assessment of EI used in the Australian study, and so if they had tested such children, there may well have been a positive connection.
So learning seems to be another area where EI may matter—whether more than IQ is a question based on experience.
13. The author writes the passage to ________. A. state his new opinion on IQ and EI
福建省师大附中2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题(实验班)Word版附参考答案
