广东省深圳市耀华实验学校2017_2018学年高二英语下学期期末考试试题

2017-2018学年第二学期期末考试高二年级英语试题

2018.7 本试卷共10页，三大题, 满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答卷前，考生首先检查答题卡是否整洁无缺损，监考教师分发的考生信息条形码是否正确；之后务必用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔在答题卡指定位置填写自己的学校、姓名和考生号，同时，将监考教师发放的条形码正向准确粘贴在答题卡的贴条形码区，请保持条形码整洁、不污损。

2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能答在试卷上。不按要求填涂的，答案无效。

3．非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上，请注意每题答题空间，预先合理安排；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

第I卷

注意事项：

1．答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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, 从所给的A、B、C和D中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Organizations that support women and promote equality and fairness in wages, in behavior, and with opportunities have spent years putting women’s rights first as their missions. Check out the institutions that are helping fight f or what’s fair,

no matter where women are in the world.

School Girls Unite

This nonprofit deals with education discrimination among young women in developing countries. In Mali, Africa, for example, only one in four girls make it to the 7th grade. School G irls Unite sponsors the girls’ education, often at a cost as little as $75 per child, and follows them to complete their education.

Every Mother Counts

Model Christy Turlington Burns founded this activist group that seeks to improve medical care for mothers around the world by training professionals, improving transportation to care facilities, and donating crucial supplies to clinics. The organization has arranged funds that have improved mother mortality rates in Tanzania, Haiti, and India.

ANITA B. ORG

Since 1987, this social enterprise has pursued the mission statement of founder Anita Borg by putting women in a position to excel in the technology field. The group provides resources for education in coding and diversity both in the U.S. and abroad. In India, they organize career fairs for women only, offering companies the chance to improve their gender diversity in the workforce.

Dress For Success

Wearing appropriate clothes for a job interview is vital for potential employees. For over 20 years, the caregivers at Dress for Success have been helping women realize their professional goals by providing suits they might not otherwise be able to afford. The nonprofit accepts clothing donations and then distributes them to countries and areas in need.

1. How does School Girls Unite help women?

A. By training female instructors for the school.

B. By providing free guidance on girls’ education.

C. By financially aiding girls with their education.

D. By asking girls’ parents to support their education.

2. Who may benefit from Every Mother Counts?

A. A woman who majors in medicine.

B. A woman who is to give birth soon.

C. A mother suffering from discrimination.

D. A single mother raising children herself.

3. Which organizations aim at women employment?

A. ANITA

B. ORG and Dress for Success

B. School Girls Unite and ANITA B. ORG

C. ANITA B. ORG and Every Mother Counts

D. School Girls Unite and Every Mother Counts

B

Throughout high school, I failed to volunteer as much as I had wanted. As a college student, I am still busy with maintaining my grades and staying involved in my school’s community, but I decided to get out of my comfort zone and volunteer for America Recycles Day. And this turned out to be an awesome experience.

The organization Ouachita Green put together this event, which allowed people from the Monroe area of Louisiana to bring in their recyclables, free of charge. Unfortunately, Louisiana is lacking in environmentally-friendly initiatives(倡议) so recycling is not offered to most people in our community. In contrast, it is required by law to recycle back in my home New Jersey. This truth astonished me, but more importantly, it encouraged me to seek change.

I meant to make a difference. Through joint efforts, my classmates and I ended up starting the Green Club at the University of Louisiana. It focuses on creating a green attitude within the university and the greater Monroe area. While working on it, I met a group of ambitious high school students, who shared the same concern about the environment as us. While talking, we decided that working together would benefit not only the organizations at our schools, but also the community as a whole. If we let the community know we are serious, there is an even better chance that we will succeed and influence others.

If you are hesitant to volunteer or help out with an event in your community,

my recommendation is to go ahead and do it. Even if it may be out of your comfort zone, it is important to put yourself out there. At the end of the day, you miss all of the s hots you don’t take.

4. What surprised the author greatly?

A. Louisiana’s lack of environmental laws.

B. Louisiana’s limited access to recycling.

C. New Jersey’s legal requirement of recycling.

D. New Jersey’s great advantage over Louisiana.

5. What is the Green Club is intended to?

A. To offer part-time jobs for high school students.

B. To appeal for an environmentally-friendly lifestyle.

C. To make university life in the Monroe area colorful.

D. To help with community events in the Monroe area.

6. What did the high school students and the author agree on?

A. The need to co-operate.

B. The importance of recycling.

C. The possibility to succeed.

D. The drawbacks of seriousness.

7. What does the author suggest the potential volunteers should do?

A. To praise themselves.

B. To force themselves.

C. To believe themselves.

D. To challenge themselves.

C

A few years ago, I had an “aha!” moment regarding handwriting. I had in my hand a sheet of paper with handwritten instructions on it for some sort of editorial task. It occurred at first that I did not recognize the handwriting, and then I realized whose it must be. I finally became aware of the fact that I had been working with

this colleague for at least a year, maybe two, and yet I did not recognize her handwriting at that point.

It was a very important event in the computerization of life--a sign that was the informal. Friendly communication of people working together in an office had changed from notes in pen to instant messages and emails. There was a time when our workdays were filled with little letters, and we recognized one another’s handwriting the way we knew voices or faces.

As a child visiting my father’s office, I was pleased to recognize, in little notes on the desks of his staff, the same handwriting I would see at home in the notes he would leave on the fridge—except that those notes were signed “dad” instead of “RFW”.

All this has been on my mind because of the talk about The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, a book by Florey. She shows in her book a deep concern about the fall of handwriting and the failure of schools to teach children to write well, but many others argue t hat people in a digital age can’t be expected to learn to hold a pen.

I don’t buy it.

I don’t want to see anyone cut off from the expressive, personal associations that a pen still promotes better than a digital keyboard does. For many a biographer, part of really getting to know their subjects is learning to read their handwriting.

What some people advocate is teaching one of the many attractive handwritings based on the handwriting of 16th-century Italy. That may sound impossibly grand---as if they want kids to learn to draw by copying classical paintings. However, they have worked in many school systems.

8. Why was the author surprised at not recognizing his colleague’s handwriting?

A. He had worked with his colleague long enough.

B. His colleague’s hand writing was so beautiful.

C. His colleague’s handwriting was so terrible.

D. He still had a lot of work to do.

9. What did people working together in an office use to do?

A. To talk more about handwriting.

B. To take more notes on workdays.

C. To know bett er one another’s handwriting.

D. To communicate better with one another.

10. According to the author, handwritten notes _________________ .

A. are harder to teach in schools

B. attract more attention

C. are used only between friends

D. carry more message

11. What can we learn from the passage about the author?

A. He thinks it impossible to teach handwriting.

B. He does not want to lose handwriting.

C. He puts the blame on the computer.

D. He does not agree with Florey.

D

Money is the root of all evil (邪恶) and new study claims there may be some truth behind the saying. Scientists at the University of California Berkeley, US, announced on February 27 that rich people are more likely to do immoral things, such as lie or cheat, than poorer people. The scientists did a series of eight experiments. They published their findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNA《美国国家科学院院刊》).

They carried out the first two experiments from the sidewalk near Berkeley. They noted that drivers of newer and more expensive cars were more likely to cut off other cars and pedestrians at crosswalks. Nearly 45 percent of people driving expensive cars ignored a pedestrian compared with only 30 percent of people driving new modest cars.

In another experiment, a group of college students was asked if they would do immoral things in various everyday situations. Examples included taking printer paper from work and not telling a salesperson when he or she gave back more change. Students from higher — class families were more likely to act dishonestly.