1、- 1 -2017-2018 高二第一学期英语期中试卷第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）AElectric Underground 说7.30pm1.00am Free at the Cyclops TheatreDo you know whos playing in your area？Were bringing you an evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bandsAre you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording cont
2、ract（合同）？If so，come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye，a successful record producerHes going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce you musicGee Whizz8.30pm10.30pm Comedy at KaleidoscopeCome and see Gee Whizz performHes the funniest standup comedian on the comedy sceneThis
3、 joyful show will please everyone，from the youngest to the oldestGee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks（快餐） Simons Workshop5.00pm7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria StageThis is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedyThe worksho
4、p looks at every kind of comedy，and practices many different ways of making people laughSimon is a comedian and actor who has 10yearsexperience of teaching comedyHis workshops are exciting and funAn evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funnyCharlotte Stone8.00pm11.00pm Pizza WorldFi
5、ne food with beautiful jazz music； this is a great evening outCharlotte Stone will perform songs from her new bestselling CD，with James Pickering on the pianoThe menu is Italian，with excellent meat and fresh fish，pizzas and pasta（面食） Book early to get a tableOur bar is open all day，and serves cockta
6、ils，coffee，beer，and white wine1Who can help you if you want to have your music produced？A.Gee Whizz B. Jules SkyeCCharlotte StoneDJames Pickering2At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh？AKaleidoscope BThe Cyclops TheatreCVictoria Stage DPizza World3What do we know about Simons
7、 Workshop？AIt requires membership statusBIt lasts three hours each timeC It is held every WednesdayD It is run by a comedy club4When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs？A. 5.00pm7.30pm B. 7.30pm1.00am- 2 -C. 8.30pm10.30pm D. 8.00pm11.00pmBReading can be a social activityThink of the people who be
8、long to book groupsThey choose books to read and then meet to discuss themNow，the website BookCrossingcom BookCrossingcom turns the page on the traditional idea of a book groupMembers go on the site and register the books they own and would like to shareBookCrossing provides an identification number
9、 to stick inside the bookThen the person leaves it in a public place，hoping that the book will have an adventure，traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds itBruce Pederson，the managing director of BookCrossing，says，“The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books y
10、ou readBookCrossing combines both“Members leave books on park benches and buses，in train stations and coffee shopsWhoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found itPeople who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of itEmails are then sent to
11、 the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been foundBruce peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at homeBookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the“real“and not the virtual（虚拟） The site
12、 now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirtyfive countries5Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph？ATo introduce BookCrossingBTo explain what they areCTo stress the importance of readingDTo encourage readers to share their ideas6What does the underlin
13、ed word “it“ in Paragraph 2 refer to？A An adventure BThe bookCA public place DThe identification number7What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it？AMeet other readers to discuss itBKeep it safe in his bookcaseCMail it back to its ownerDPass it on to another reader8 What is the best titl
14、e for the text？AOnline Reading：A Virtual Tour BElectronic Books：A new TrendCA Website Links People through Books DA Book Group Brings Tradition BackCBad news sellsIf it bleeds，it leadsNo news is good news，and good news is no newsThose are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the - 3 -mor
15、ning papersBut now that information is being spread and monitored（监控） in different ways，researchers are discovering new rulesBy tracking peoples emails and online posts，scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories“The if it bleedsrule works for ma
16、ss media，“says Jonah Berger，a scholar at the University of Pennsylvania“They want your eyeballs and dont care how youre feelingBut when you share a story with your friends，you care a lot more how they reactYou dont want them to think of you as a Debbie Downer“Researchers analyzing wordofmouth commun
17、icationemails，Web posts and reviews， facetoface conversationsfound that it tended to be more positive than negative， but that didnt necessarily mean people preferred positive newsWas positive news shared more often simply because people experienced more good things than bad things？To test for that p
18、ossibility，DrBerger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories：thousands of articles on The New York Times websiteHe and a Penn colleague analyzed the“ most emailed “list for six monthsOne of his first finds was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the
19、 list than nonscience articlesHe found that science amazed Times readers and made them want to share this positive feeling with othersReaders also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny，or that inspired negative feelings like anger or anxiety，but not articles that left them merely sadT
20、hey needed to be aroused（激发） one way or the other，and they preferred good news to badThe more positive an article，the more likely it was to be shared，as DrBerger explains in his new book，“Contagious：Why Things Catch On“9What do the classic rules mentioned in the text apply to？A. Research papers BNew
21、s reportsCPrivate emalls DDaily conversations10What can we infer about people like Debbie Downer？ATheyre socially inactiveBTheyre good at telling storiesC Theyre careful with their wordsDTheyre inconsiderate of others11Which tended to be the most emailed according to Dr。Bergers research？AScience art
22、icles BSports new CPersonal accounts DFinancial reviews12What can be a suitable title for the text？ASad Stories Travel Far and Wide BOnline News Attracts More PeopleCGood News Beats Bad on Social NetworksDReading Habits Change with the TimesD- 4 -On one of her trips to New York several years ago，Eud
23、ora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinnerThey settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes，another customer was approaching their table“Hey，arent you from Mississippi？“the elegant，whitehaired writer remembered being asked by the stranger“Im from Mississipp
24、i too“ Without a second thought，the woman joined the Welty partyWhen her dinner partner showed up，she also pulled up a chair“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi，“Welty said“I didnt know what my New York friends were thinking“Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshineBy the
25、 time the group got up to leave，it was pouring outsideWeltys new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cabHeading back downtown toward her hotel，her bigcity friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi“My friend said：Now we believe your s
26、tories，“Welty addedAnd I said：Now you knowThese are the people that make me write them“ Sitting on a sofa in her room，Welty，a slim figure in a simple gray dress，looked pleased with this explanation“I dont make them up，“she said of the characters in her fiction these last 50 or so years“I dont have t
27、o“Beauticians，bartenders，piano players and people with purple hats，Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends，from walks through the streets of her native Jackson，Miss，from conversations overheard on a busIt annoys Welty that，at 78，her left ear has now given outSometimes，sitt
28、ing on a bus or a train，she hears only a fragment（片段） of a particularly interesting story13What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe？AHer childhood friends came inBTwo strangers joined her CA heavy rain ruined the dinnerDSome people held a party there14The underlined word “them“ in P
29、aragraph 6 refers to WeltysAreaders Bparties C stories D friends15What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction？AThey live in big cities BThey are mostly womenC They are pleasure seekers D They come from real life七选五Public Speaking TrainingGet a coach（16） ，so get helpSince there are about
30、 a billion companies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses，here are some things to look for when deciding the training thats right for youFocus on positives- 5 -Any training you do to become more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects
31、 of what you already do wellNothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you arent doing well （17） ，so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldnt do（18）_ If you find a public speaking course that looks as though its going to give you lots of
32、dos and donts，walk away!Your brain is so full of what youre going to be talking about （19） As far as were concerned，there are your friendsYou are a special person not a cloneMost importantly，good public speaking training should treat you as a special one，with your own personal habits （20） Your train
33、ing course should help you bring out your personality，not try to turn you into someone youre notA You already do lots of things wellBYou arent like anybody elseCCheck the rules about dos and donts D Turn your back on too many rulesEWhatever the presentation，public speaking is toughFThe one thing you
34、 dont want is for them to fall asleepGSo trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse第二部分：完形填空（共 1 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）Where do you go when you want to learn something？A friend？A tutor？These are all（21） places of learningBut it may well be that the learning you reallywan
35、t (22)_somewhere else insteadI had the（23）_ of seeing this first hand on a（24） _My daughter plays on a recreational soccer teamThey did very well this season and so（25） a tournament，which normally was only for more skilled club teams This led to some（26） experiences on Saturday as they played agains
36、t teams（27） trainedThrough the first two games，her（28） did not get on serious shot on goalAs aparent， I（29） _seeing my daughter playing her best， （30） still defeatedIt seemed that something clicked with the（31） between Saturday and SundayWhen they （ 32） for their Sunday game，they were（33） _different
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41、t from第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节（共 1 小题；每小题 15 分，满分 15 分）In much of Asia，especially the socalled“rice bowl“cultures of China，Japan，Korea， （41） Vietnam，food is usually eaten with chopsticksChopsticks are usually two long，thin pieces of wood or bambooThey can also be made of plastic，animal bone or me
42、tal Sometimes chopsticks are quite artisticTruly elegant chopsticks might（42） （make）of gold and silver with Chinese charactersSkilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal （43） （create）special designsThe Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand yearsPeople probably cooked their food
43、 in large pots， （44） （use） twigs（树枝）to remove itOver time， （45） the population grew，people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quicklyFood in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which（46） （gradual）turned into chopsticksSome people think that the great Chinese scholar
44、 Confucius， （47） lived from roughly 551 to 479 BC ，influenced the（48） （develop）of chopsticksConfucius believed knives would remind people of killings and （49） （be）too violent for use at the tableChopsticks are not used everywhere in AsiaIn India，for example，most people traditionally eat （50） their h
45、ands第二节 短文改错（共 1 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）- 7 -假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文文中共有 10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（） ，并在其下面写出该加的词删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉删除：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词注意：1每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分The summer holiday is comingMy classmates and I are talking about how
46、 to do during the holidayWe can chose between staying at home and take a tripIf we stay at home， it is comfortable but there is no need to spend moneyBut in that case，we will learn little about worldIf we go on a trip abroad，we can broaden your view and gain knowledges we cannot get from booksSome c
47、lassmates suggest we can go to places of interest nearbyI thought that it is a good ideaIt does not cost many，yet we can still learn a lot第四部分:书面表达（满分 25 分）19 （25 分）假定你是李华，与留学生朋友 Bob 约好一起去书店，因故不能赴约请给他写封邮件，内容包括：1表示歉意2说明原因3另约时间注意：1词数 100 左右；2可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯- 8 -高二英语期中试卷答案第一部分： 1-5 BACDA 6-10 BDCBD 11-
48、15 ACBCD 16-20 EADGC21-25ADCDA 26-30 BCCAD 31-35 BACBD 36-40 BACBD第二部分：英语知识运用41 and 42 be made 43 to create 44 using 45 as46 gradually 47 who 48 development 49 were 50 with改错：1.how-what 2.chose-choose 3.take taking 4.but-and 5.world 前加 the 6.your-our 7.knowledges-knowledge 8.去掉 can 或 can-should 9.thought-think 10.many-muchDear Bob，
