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1、 北京师大附中2017-2018学年上学期高二年级期中考试英语试卷考试时间100分钟，试卷满分120分。第一部分 听力理解(共10小题；每小题1分，共10分) 你将听到两段听力材料，请根据所听内容填空，每空仅填写一个词。每段听力材料读两遍。Task 1 Kazuo Ishiguro，the Japanese-born English writer，has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in 1 . The Swedish Academy made the announcement Thursday in Stockholm. Sara Danius，the academys
2、 secretary，praised Ishiguro as a very interesting writer in many ways. His best known work The Remains of the Day，which was published in _2_，tells of a man who worked as a butler，the main male servant in the home of a rich person. He looks back on a life in service to the wealthy. The book deepens i
3、nto a darker story of the repressed(压抑的) _3_ and social environment of 20thcentury England. The work earned Ishiguro the Man Booker Prize. The 1993 film version of the book starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. The choice of Ishiguro for the Nobel Prize marked a change following two years ofunc
4、onventional choices. Last year，the prize went to American singer and song writer Bob Dylan. In 2015, it went to Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus，an investigative 4 . Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki，Japan and moved to Britain with his family at the age of 5. Although he did not return to Japan until he w
5、as in his 30s，Japanese 5 were important in his first two novels A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World.Task 2 New AustraliansToday there are more than 15 million people living in Australia. Until 1850 most of the 6 came from Britain and Ireland. Then in 1851, 7 was discovered in so
6、uth-eastern Australia. 700,000 people went to Australia, most of whom were Chinese. Since then, many different groups of immigrants have gone to Australia. ItaliansGreeks1. During the 1850s and 1860s different states in Italy were fighting for 8 and some Italians were forced to leave their homelands
7、.2. In 1891 the first group of 300 Italians went to work in the sugar-cane （甘蔗）fields of northern Australia.3. A lot of Italians are also in the fishing industry. 1. In 1830, Greeks went to work in vineyards （葡萄园）in south-eastern Australia, because their experience in making wine was very 9 . 2. Som
8、e went to work in the coalmines in Sydney. 3. Others started cafes, bars and restaurants.4. After the Second World War, 10 in Greece were very bad: little work and very poor people. Australia needed workers so Greeks went there to find a better life.第二部分 完形填空(共20小题；每题1分，共20分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C
9、、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Id been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tyre. So I had to stop and get the tools to 11 the problem. It certainly wasnt 12 doing this with a white shirt and suit on. Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled 13 from behind me. A man got out
10、and offered to 14 me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos(纹身) on his arm. I became 15 as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But 16 I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the 17 . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed som
11、eone sitting in the passenger seat. This had 18 me. Then，without 19 ，it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my car was unsafe. As the rain increased，getting us wet within seconds，I 20 agreed. When I settled into the back seat，a womans voice came from the front seat. “Are you a
12、ll right?”She turned around to me. “Yes，I am，”I replied with much 21 when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Morn，I thought. To my 22 ，the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you 23 with the tyre. ”“I am grateful for his help，”I said.
13、 “Me，too!”she said with a smile. He helped drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he 24 at the church and tutored disadvantaged students. The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed the tyre. I tried to offer him money and of course he 25 it. It was shameful that
14、 I judged people by the way they 26 . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my 27 . He said，“I experience that same 28 often. People who look like me dont do nice things. I 29 thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a 30 . So Ill leave you with the same question
15、I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again，would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did? 11. A. find B. make C. fix D. avoid 12. A. useful B. easy C. wise D. lucky 13. A. up B. out C. on D. round 14. A. carry B. lift C. drive D. help 15. A. discouraged B. frightened C. disappointed D. astonished 16. A. when B. until C. as D. before 17. A. tyre B. suit C. expression D. shirt 18. A. embarra
