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1、- 1 - 201720172012018 8 学年上期期末联考学年上期期末联考 高二英语试题高二英语试题 本试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分，本试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分，试题卷共试题卷共 8 8 页，页，答题卷共答题卷共 2 2 页。请按要求把答案涂、页。请按要求把答案涂、 写在答题卡规定的范围内写在答题卡规定的范围内， 超出答题框或答在试题卷上的答案无效超出答题框或答在试题卷上的答案无效。 满分满分 120120 分分， 考试时间考试时间 100100 分钟。考试结束只收答题卡。分钟。考试结束只收答题卡。 第卷（选择题；第卷（选择题；共共 7070 分）分） 第一部分第一部分 听力听力（略）
2、第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） 第一节第一节（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，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。 A A Benjamin West, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age. But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one
3、. In those days, a brush was made from camels hair. There were no camels nearby. Benjamin decided that cats hair would work instead. He cut some fur from the family cat to make a brush. The brush did not last long. Soon Benjamin needed more fur. Before long, the cat began to look ragged (蓬乱). His fa
4、ther said that the cat must be sick. Benjamin was forced to admit what he had been doing. The cats lot was about to improve. That year, one of Benjamins cousins, Mr. Pennington, came to visit. He was impressed with Benjamins drawings. When he went home, he sent Benjamin a box of paint and some brush
5、es. He also sent six engravings (版画) by an artist. These were the first pictures and first real paint and brushes Benjamin had ever seen. In 1747, when Benjamin was nine years old, Mr. Pennington returned for another visit. He was amazed at what Benjamin had done with his gift. He asked Benjamins pa
6、rents if he might take the boy to Philadelphia for a visit. - 2 - In the city, Mr. Pennington gave Benjamin materials for creating oil paintings. The boy began a landscape (风景) painting. Wiliams, a well-known painter, came to see him work. Wiliams was impressed with Benjamin and gave him two classic
7、 books on painting to take home. The books were long and dull. Benjamin could read only a little, having been a poor student. But he later said, “Those two books were my companions by day, and under my pillow at night.” While it is likely that he understood very little of the books, they were his in
8、troduction to classical paintings. The nine-year-old boy decided then that he would be an artist. 21. What is the text mainly about? A. Benjamins visit to Philadelphia. B. Williams influence on Benjamin. C. The beginning of Benjamins life as an artist. D. The friendship between Benjamin and Penningt
9、on. 22. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 suggest? A. The cat would be closely watched. B. The cat would get some medical care. C. Benjamin would leave his home shortly. D. Benjamin would have real brushes soon. 23. What did Pennington do to help Benjamin develop his talent? A. He too
10、k him to see painting exhibitions. B. He provided him with painting materials. C. He sent him to a school in Philadelphia. D. He taught him how to make engravings. 24. Williams two books helped Benjamin to _. A. master the use of paints B. appreciate landscape paintings C. get to know other painters
11、 D. make up his mind to be a painter B B When Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, his unmarried mother decided to put him for adoption because she wanted a girl. So in the middle of the night, his mother called a lawyer named Paul Jobs and said, “We - 3 - have an
12、unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” But his mother told his future parents to promise that they would send Jobs to college. After Steve Jobs graduated from high school, he went to college but decided to drop out because it was so expensive that he had to sleep on the floor in his friends rooms. A
13、t 20, he and a friend(Steve Wozniak) started a company in a garage on April 1, 1976. Jobs named their company - Apple in memory of a happy summer he had spent at an orchard (果园) in Oregon. After 10 years of hard time and failures, starting from two kids working in a garage, Apple computer eventually
14、 grew into a big company with over 4000 employees. At 30, Jobs, however, was fired from the company he co-founded. But after he had to leave the company, Apple was under heavy pressure from rival (对手) Microsoft and in 1996 posted billions of dollars in losses. Apple needed Steve Jobs and he was appo
15、inted as Apples CEO in 1997. Under his leadership, Apple returned to profitability and introduced new products such as the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Steve Jobs once said, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick, Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was
16、that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love. If you havent found it yet, keep looking.” 25. Steve Jobs didnt finish his college education because he _. A. wanted to start a company. B. had financial problems. C. took no interest in his major. D. hated to share rooms with his friends. 26. It can be inferred that Apple _. A. wa
