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1、- 1 -2017-2018 学年第一学期半期考试高二英语试题注意：本试卷分为卷 I（选择题）和卷 II（非选择题）两部分，总分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。第卷（选择题 共 100 分）第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 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 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 does the man ask the woman to do?A. Think again. B. Pay a
2、 visit to him C. Give the right answer now.2. Why is the boy in the womans office?A. He has the flu.B. He comes here to look for his friends.C. His mother has an appointment here.3. Who probably made the mess? A. The woman. B. The boy. C. The dog.4. What do we know about the man？A. He doesnt often g
3、o online. B. He can always know the newest events. C. He likes to get the information from the woman.5. How might the woman feel now? A. Disappointed. B. Excited. C. Confused.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
4、独白读两遍。 请听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至第 7 题。 - 2 -6. What degree does the man have? A. APHD in chemistry. B. A masters in marketing. C. A masters in design. 7. Where has the man been working for the past threeyears? A. In a school. B. In a research center. C. In a design company.请听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至第 9 题。8. When wil
5、l the woman take a vacation? A. In one week. B. In two weeks. C. In three months. 9. Where will the woman probably spend most of her vacation? A. On the beach. B. In the mountains. C. In the countryside.请听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What is the benefit of the farmers market? A. The items are imported
6、. B. The vegetables are local. C. The selection is huge. 11. Why cant the woman go to the sale? A. She will beat a soccer game. B. She will be out of town.C. She will be busy shopping. 12. Who is Tommy? A. The womans sonB. The womans husband. C. The womans neighbor.请听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. How d
7、id the woman get to the museum? A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car. 14. How many of the paintings did the woman see? - 3 -A. Very few of them. B. About half of them. C. Almost all of them. 15. Whose painting did the woman like the most? A. Diego Rivera. B. Frida Kahlo. C. Henri Matisse. 16. What doe
8、s the man want to do together with the woman? A. Make some paintings. B. Go traveling this summer. C. Go back to the museum. 请听第 10 段材料，回答 17 至 20 题。 17. What is the talk mainly about? A. How weather can affect everyone. B. What people can do on a fine day. C. How people prepare for bad weather. 18.
9、 According to the talk, what do many people do first after getting up? A. Play a game. B. Go out for a walk. C. Check the weather. 19. Why are special people hired? A. To arrange activities. B. To analyze news reports.C. To predict the weather. 20. How does the speaker feel about the information giv
10、en by professionals? A. He feels grateful. B. He has doubts about it. C. He has no idea about it.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，共 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。A- 4 -Reading a bedtime story to his son one evening, Carl Honore noticed that he was reading very quickly. He was thin
11、king about all the things he had to do later: check email, make phone calls, book a flight, prepare things for work, and so on. He suddenly realized that he had become caught in the trap of speed, rushing here and there, getting up early in the morning and burning the midnight oil at night. The more
12、 he thought about the fast pace of modern life, the worse he felt. He had ended up speed-reading to his son because he was so busy.As a journalist, he was curious about the phenomenon he was experiencing, so he did some research. He found that Americans now spend forty percent less time with their c
13、hildren than they did in the 1960s. Honore decided to write a book about the subject called In Praise of Slow. He wanted to let people know about the benefits of slowing down. He does not ask readers to throw out their TVs and become farmers. Instead, he describes the harmful effects of our love of
14、speed in our lives, such as stress and health problems, he also explains the philosophy of the Slow Movement. A growing number of people around the world are choosing to take things easy, to do less, in order to lead a fuller life. There is even an International Day of Slowness on June 21. Cark Hono
15、re strongly believes that if people would only slow down, they would enjoy life so much more.21.According to the passage, if American parents in the 1960s spent 6 hours with their kids, American parents now spend _ hours with their kids.A. 2 B. 3.6 C. 2.4 D. more than 622.If John burned the midnight
16、 oil at night, he was _.A. at play B. at leisure C. at work D. at rest23.According to the passage, which statement about Carl Honore is NOT true?A. He suffered from stress and health problems.B. He read a bedtime story to his son.C. He was a news reporter.D. He was the writher of In Praise of Slow.BHaving parked near the car wash beside the supermarket, I came away to wait for my wife to come f
