四川省成都外国语学校2017-2018学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含答案

成都外国语学校2017-2018学年高二下期末

英语试卷

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．选出每小题答案前，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, 再选涂其他答案标号框, 不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

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. What was the woman’s first job?

A. A teacher.

B. A secretary.

C. A doctor.

2. When did the show begin?

A. 9: 50.

B. 9: 40.

C. 9: 30.

3. What are the two speakers doing?

A. Enjoying meeting each other.

B. Saying good-bye to each other.

C. Planning to see each other again.

4. Where does the dialogue take place?

A. In an office.

B. In a clothing shop.

C. In the man’s house.

5. What will the woman do tonight?

A. She will stay at home with the man.

B. She will send for a doctor by herself.

C. She will watch the weather forecast.

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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How does the boy go to school every day?

A. By bus.

B. By bike.

C. On foot.

7. Why didn’t the girl go to school by bike?

A. Because she hated the heavy traffic.

B. Because she didn’t have a bike herself.

C. Because she didn’t like to ride a bike.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where did the accident happen?

A. On a highway.

B. On a freeway.

C. On a road.

9. What was strange about the accident?

A. Two people got hurt.

B. The truck turned over.

C. No one was killed.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does Susan think of her life in New York?

A. She doesn’t like it at all.

B. She thinks highly of it.

C. She feels it just so-so.

11. What can we learn about Henry from the dialogue?

A. He is heavier than before.

B. He looks younger than ever.

C. He decides to keep on a diet.

12. Why does Susan look younger?

A. Because she is more energetic.

B. Because she stays in warm weather.

C. Because she lives a healthier life.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where will the woman plan to work in summer?

A. In a hotel.

B. In a market.

C. On a farm.

14. How long will the woman work in the morning?

A. One hour.

B. Three hours.

C. Four hours.

15. What will the woman prefer to do in her free time?

A. Go walking.

B. Pick fruits.

C. Sell drinks.

16. What are the two speakers talking about in general?

A. Part-time jobs.

B. Music festivals.

C. Summer plans.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How long will the course run this year?

A. Six weeks.

B. Seven weeks.

C. Eight weeks.

18. What was the problem last year?

A. Few people wanted to attend.

B. There were too few workers.

C. Nothing to do on rainy days.

19. What will the children do for the first time this year?

A. They will join in art activities.

B. They will do new outdoor sports.

C. They will attend a talent show.

20. What’s important for parents whose children attend the course?

A. Attending the American Night with the children.

B. Sending money to Molly as soon as possible.

C. Informing Molly about any food the children cannot eat.

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40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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

A

Some parents say summer is the time when teachers should get more pay．But not everyone is grateful to teachers for keeping kids occupied between June and August--Washington state representative Liz Pike has written a Face book post and responded to teach ers’ complaints of rising cost of living．After reading her post，I feel that Liz Pike should rethink her criticism of public school teaching and avoid comparing it to the private sector．

Many of us teachers would certainly like teaching to be more like the private school．It’s nothing wrong with fair pay for fair performance．With standardized testing popular throughout the education, teachers are some of the most analyzed and performance-measured employees in the United Sates. Liz Pike is very angry that teachers want raises even while test scores are dropping．Well，how are they supposed to have discipline in the classroom when our hands are tied and we can hardly do anything with naughty students?

Teachers would love to be able to turn education around and improve student performance．,However, unlike private school businesses．public schools cannot turn away “customers”．A private school business serves customers who walk through the door of their own free will，while public schools have to educate students who only attend school because laws say they must．

She says those teachers who are uninspired by a lack of a cost of living increases should give up teaching．Is this the message that she thinks should be sent to the students whose academic performance she claims to care so much about? I think supporting teachers can make teachers teach children how to stand up for themselves.

21．Why do parents think teachers should get more pay?

A．Because it’s hot in summer B．Because their children are too busy.

C．Beca use teachers’work is not easy D．Because teachers’pay is too low

22．What problem do teachers face in the author’s opinion?

A．Many schools become private．

B．Unfair pay for fair performance．

C．Popular standardized tests and their tied hands．

D．Facing naughty students and their tied hands．

23．The underlined word “customers” probably refers to _________.

A．poor students B．bad teachers

C．clever businessmen D．private schools

24. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that__________

A. teachers shouldn’t complain their hard living cost

B. Liz Pike doesn’t mind students’ academic performance

C. some teachers are not excellent enough

D. supporting teachers is good for students

B

Say you're in the wine store and you want to buy something new. You have nothing to go by outside of the label. Will the label tell you anything you should know? Here's some general advice: Vintage. This is the first thing we look for ourselves. You don't need to care whether 2001 or 2002 was a better year in the Sierra Foothills. The vast majority of wines at the store are meant to be drunk right away, so you make sure the wine isn't too old, particularly if you're buying it

expecting lively, fresh fruitiness. We often see five-year-old Pinot Grigio and two-year-old Beaujolais Nouveau at stores, for example, so as soon as we see that kind of age on wines like those, we know we can skip them and move on(and possibly not shop there again).

Alcohol content. Too many wines have too much alcohol, which leaves them unbalanced. Sure, there are some classic wines with high alcohol levels, but many of today's regular table wines--Merlot, Chardonnay--have levels at 15% or above. Some of those might be terrific, but if we had nothing else to go on, we'd look for alcohol content at about 14% and below.

__________The more specific the better. A wine that says it's from Napa is probably a better bet than a wine that simply says it's from California. Unfortunately, this will also probably be reflected in the price, so this might not tell you much about value, If you care enough to know a few of famous vineyards for producing high-quality grapes, they might help you make an educated guess about quality.

Old vines. Theoretically, older vines produce fewer, but more flavorful grapes, but the problem is that no one has defined what an "old vine" is, so anyone can put this on the label. Just ignore it.

A phone number. You'd be surprised many small-production wines these days include a phone number on the back and an invitation to call the winery, which is a sign of a highly personal winery. We have called those numbers many times over the years and it's amazing how often the winemaker or winery owner answers the phone.

25. It's better to buy__________

A. five-year-old Pinot

B. the wine labeled from older vines

C. the wine from famous vineyards

D. two-year-old Beaujolais Nouveau

26. From the passage we Can infer that

A. the wine with high alcohol levels is definitely terrific

B. most wines at the store are intended to be drunk right away

C. older vines have lower production

D. some winemakers keep the promise all the time

27. What is paragraph 4 mainly about?

A. Geography.

B. Price

C. Quality.

D. Grapes.

C

Expensive perfumes come in tiny bottles, but many hide a whale-sized secret.

To perfect a particular smell, perfume-makers often use an ingredient that comes from sperm whales, called ambergris. But using ambergris, which helps a perfume last longer, is strongly opposed by many people who think it is wrong to kill whales just so we can smell sweet. Joerg Bohlmann is neither a perfumer nor a whale expert. He's a plant biologist at the University of British Columbia in Canada. But his discovery of a new plant gene might push whales out of the perfume business.

The gene comes from fir trees, found throughout North America and commonly used as Christmas trees. The trees produce a chemical that can be used in perfume in place of ambergris ——but with a catch.

"There's a problem that many people wouldn't consider. In the tree, the chemical is mixed with many others. That makes separation a challenge," Bohlmann says. "It's like trying to isolate sugar from a biscuit."

This is where science becomes useful. When Bohlmann learned that fir trees produce the ambergris-like chemical, he decided to use his gene know-how to find the instructions for how to

make the ambergris-substitute.

Bohlmann found that gene and took it out of the tree cells. Then he did something that might sound strange to someone who doesn't work in genetics: Bohlmann put the gene from the tree into yeast (酵母) cells.

Yeast may sound familiar because it's used to make things like bread, wine and beer. Biologists like to work with yeast because it easily adopts new genes and changes its features and behaviour. When Bohlmann put the fir tree gene into the yeast, the yeast started making the same chemical that had been produced by the tree.

Perfumers pay big money for ambergris because it is a fixative, which means it holds a smell in place on a person's body.

"Cheap perfumes smell good in the first hour or so and then everything is gone," explains Bohlmann. "But expensive perfumes are much more stable. Their smell lasts much longer, for hours or even a day after you apply them. "

The new chemical, made from the tree genes, can be used as a fixative, too. And using yeast to make it is far cheaper than acquiring ambergris.

Bohlmann admits he never thought he'd get into the perfume business. But now, he says, producers have been calling to find out how to use his technology in new perfumes.

28. It can be inferred from the passage that if a perfume contains ambergris,

A. its user probably supports whale hunting

B. its smell will last for about an hour

C. there will be a whale symbol on the bottle

D. it is probably very expensive

29. The underlined expression "with a catch" in Paragraph 3 means

A. being difficult to hold

B. having a hidden problem

C. needing further testing

D. being too similar

30. According to the passage, why are yeast cells often used in genetic research?

A. They can take on the characteristics of other genes.

B. They can reproduce much faster than other cells.

C. They share some of the qualities of plant genes.

D. They're much cheaper to use than ambergris.

31. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Christmas tree's secret

B. The sweet smell of success

C. Whale-free perfume

D. Save the whale

D

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, “Do you think they’ll let me play” Shay’s father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son, mentally and physically disabled, were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed

sense of belonging and some confidence．

Shay’s father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play, not expecting much．The boy loo ked around and said, “We’re losing by six runs （分）and the game is in the eighth inning （局）．I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the