1、1江西省上饶县中学 2017-2018 学年高二英语下学期补考试题时间：120 分钟 总分：150 分第卷（三部分，共 115 分）第一部分：听力(共两节, 满分 30 分)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 does the woman mean?A. She doesnt like the movie.B. The movies scenes are
2、 much better than its plot.C. The scenes and the plot of the movie are both good.2. When will the man see the manager?A. At 10:00. B. At 10:30. C. At 11:00.3. What did the man do last night?A. He went to a party. B. He had a high fever.C. He took his roommate to the hospital.4. How will the woman ge
3、t to Tokyo?A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train.5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Husband and wife. B. Boss and employee. C. Host and guest.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，各小题给出
4、5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. What is the womans problem?A. She cant find the airport. B. She cant find the subway.C. She cant find the correct street.Where is the subway?A. At the end of the street. B. Near the store.C. Across the road.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 9 题。8. What makes the woman want
5、to quit her job?A. The unsatisfactory salary. B. The terrible relationship with her colleagues.C. The heavy and high-pressure workload.9. What does the woman finally decide to do?A. Take a break. B. Take the promotion. C. Quit her job.2听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Where does the woman put the cup?A. I
6、n the refrigerator. B. In the bedroom. C. On the table.11. What can be thrown away?A. The paper. B. The fruit. C. The pencils.12. What will the woman do when she has finished doing everything?A. Turn off the lights and shut the door. B. Go out for a walk. C. Talk with a man.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13
7、. What is the womans favorite song by Adele?A. Rolling in the Deep. B. Someone Like You. C. Skyfall.14. What kind of seats would the woman prefer?A. Ordinary seats. B. Guest seats. C. VIP seats.15. How much will the speakers pay for the tickets, in total?A. 1,800 yuan. B. 2,700 yuan. C. 3,000 yuan.1
8、6. How will the speakers buy the tickets?A. On the Internet. B. Over the phone.C. From the ticket office.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. When was the National Art Centre opened to the public?A. In 1960. B. In 1970. C. In 1983.18. Where is the Magic Flute performed?A. In the Garden Hall. B. In Cinema 2.
9、C. In Gallery 119. When can people see the Canadian film in the Centre?A. At 7:30p.m. On Tuesday evening.B. At 8p.m. on Wednesday. C. At 11a.m. on Saturday.20. How much does a ticket to the “Faces of China” exhibition cost?A. Eight pounds. B. Four pounds fifty. C. Its free.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 40 分)第一节(
10、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。AThe season for family, friends, and fun! Unfortunately, it can also be the season for stress. Here are five simple ways to beat holiday stress.Get Outside and ExerciseGetting physical activity as a family is a great way to establish healthy
11、 habits with your kids, and to spend shared time celebrating together. A short 3walk counts. Follow along with some exercise or yoga DVDs. Your body will thank you with the feel-good endorphins（内啡肽）that follow any continuous workout.Shop OnlineWant to skip traffic, crowds, and the time spent on holi
12、day shopping in stores? Just click it away. Shopping online allows you to easily compare prices. Gifts can be delivered, often wrapped, to your door.Manage your relativesTension from contentious(爱争论的) relatives increase the stress level in any holiday gathering. But you can minimize the challenges c
13、reated by this difficult people.Firstly, limit your time at stressful family events. Show up early, and leave within an hour after dessert. Secondly, celebrate with relatives you like. Dont feel like you have to spend an equal amount of time with annoying relatives. Thirdly, volunteer at a shelter o
14、r food bank. Doing good will make it easier to ignore any family negativity.Stay on BudgetStart budgeting by factoring in all holiday-related purchases, including cards, postage, decorations, new clothes, food, entertaining and travel. How much should you spend during the holiday season? A good stan
15、dard is 1.5 percent of your annual income.Stay OrganizedTake a moment each night to review and update the next days to-do list, keeping each item reasonable and specific. Use a family whiteboard or calendar to stay on top of family activities. Then, make a point of eating breakfast as a family to es
16、tablish any shared tasks for the day.21. The first paragraph serves as a(n) _.A. explanation B. introduction C. comment D. background22. How should you deal with the relatives you dont like during holiday gatherings?A. Shorten the stay time with them. B. Prepare some food for them.C. Ignore the exis
17、tence of them. D. Come up with some topics they like.23. If you can earn $1500 a month, the proper expense for the holiday should be _.A. $300 B. $270 C. $225 D. $350BSlipping her gold rings off and putting them into a dish, my mother would use her hands to massage a mixture of flour and water. Then
18、 shed shape the mixture into loaves of bread and put them into the oven. After they had been baked, shed take them out. Then, with her short fingers, shed put them directly onto the plates.“How do you do that?” I asked her, moving aside quickly so that the heat 4wouldnt hit my eight-year-old face. “
19、Doesnt it hurt?”She laughed and put a loaf of bread onto a plate for me. The tips of her fingers were numb and couldnt feel anything after decades of touching direct heat. “Oh, you get used to it.”I have a photo of my mum close to my age, 24. When I was younger, I hated this photo. Everyone was surp
20、rised at how much we looked alike: thick dark hair, round nose and strong chin. I have my dads cheekbones and his smile, but I got everything else form my mom - whether I wanted it or not.I grew up surrounded by girls named Ashley and Jessica, with hair the colour of straw(麦秆), beak-like noses and g
21、ood figures. I wanted to look like them, rather than broad-shouldered and coffee-coloured, like my mother. You probably know this, but it took me a while to figure it out: its difficult to change literally everything about the way you look.The older I get, though, the more I see her all over my body
22、, and the more I like myself. The skin on my shoulders feels like hers. Our frown is the same, too. But the most striking is how my hands are aging into hers.My moms hair is grey now, and she has a small sunspot(雀 斑 ) on her cheek ( in the same place Im getting one, too - thanks, Mom). But in my hea
23、d, shes stuck in her 20s in that photo. And the older I get, the more its an unexpected comfort to know that wherever I am, I see her somewhere with me. 24. The mother was able to pick up the hot bread with her fingers because _.A. she was used to the heat B. she was braveC. the bread was not that h
24、ot D. she liked to eat hot bread25. Why did the author hate her mothers photo at first?A. Because she thought her mother was not beautiful.B. Because the photo was very old.C. Because she hated people saying she was like her mother.D. Because no one liked her mother.26. What is the correct order of
25、the authors feelings about her mother in the text?Fondness. Curiosity Hatred GratitudeA. B. C. D.27. What does the text mainly reflect?A. The authors family life.B. The difference between the author and her mother in appearance.C. The knowledge that the author learned from her mother.D. The authors
26、love and respect for their mother.CRegarded as one of the English languages most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although Keats didnt receive much formal literary education, his own studies and passion brought him much success. Additi
27、onally, his own life situation 5influenced his poetry greatly. Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle-class family, the young John didnt attend a private school, but went to a public one. His teachers and his familys friends regarded him as an optimistic boy who favored playing and fi
28、ghting much more than minding his studies. After his fathers death in the early 1800s, followed by his mothers passing due to tuberculosis (肺结核), he began viewing life differently. He wanted to escape the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on. At around the age of 16, the te
29、enage John Keats began studying under a surgeon so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary appetite had taken too much of his fancy, especially with his addiction to the poetry of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, entitled O S
30、olitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written an entire volume of poetry, but was sharply criticized by a magazine. However, the negative response didnt stop his pursuit of rhythm (韵律). John Keats next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story i
31、nvolves a shepherd who falls in love with the moon goddess and leads him on an adventure of one boys hope to overcome the limitations of being human. Following Endymion, however, he tried something more narrative-based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in
32、poetry due to his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the “knowledge” associated with his poems. His next work was Hyperion that would attempt to combine all that he learned. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy would keep him from his work and eventually take
33、 his life in 1821. 28. John Keats attitude towards life changed because of _. A. his early education from school B. the criticism of a magazineC. Edmund Spensers poetry D. the deaths of his parents 29. What is the common thing between John Keats and his mother? A. They died of the same disease. B. T
34、hey had a bad childhoodC. They read many books. D. They showed strong interest in poetry30. While pursuing his dream of becoming a poet at first, John Keats was _. A. knowledgeable B. experiencedC. determined D. impatient31. What do we know from the passage? A. Keats received little education at sch
35、ool.B. Keats once had a chance of becoming a doctor.C. In 1816 Keats spent two months writing a poem.D. Endymion was about a real love story.6DDo lobsters(龙虾), crabs(蟹) or other crustaceans(甲壳纲动物) feel pain? We certainly consider they dont. Most chefs cook lobsters and crabs alive, usually by throwi
36、ng them in boiling water, along with melted butter. We may feel a bit of guilt, or maybe just discomfort, when we hear the creatures making sharp, knocking sounds around the inside of the pot as the water boils. But that feeling usually dissolves for lobster lovers by the time they eat the delicious
37、 meat. We wouldnt dream of doing the same thing to a live chicken or pig which is dead well before the cooking process begins, but those crustaceans are different. They dont even feel pain. Right?Actually, they just might. Thats the conclusion of a new study published in the Journal of Experimental
38、Biology. Robert Elwood and Barry Magee examined the reaction of common shore crabs to small electric shocks.Ninety crabs were placed in a brightly lit tank and were given the choice of moving to one of two dark shelters. (Shore crabs like to hide in dark spaces.) Once theyve made their choice, the c
39、rabs in one of the shelters were exposed to an electric shock. After a rest period, the crabs were returned to the lit tank. Most of the crabs went back into the dark shelters, and then the same crabs were given another electric shock. When they were placed back into the lit tank for the third time,
40、 the majority of the shocked crabs instead went to the other dark shelter, avoiding the one where they had repeatedly been given shocks.As Elwood put it, the crabs choice indicated that they wanted to escape the shocks: having experienced two rounds of shocks, the crabs learned to avoid the shelter
41、where they received the shocks. They were willing to give up their hideaway in order to avoid the source of their probable pain.32. According to the author, people cook crabs alive due to the belief that _.A. it is not guilty to treat a crab cruellyB. it is too hard to kill a crab C. a crab doesnt f
42、eel pain as a chicken or a pig doesD. the crab is a kind of popular and healthy seafood33. The underlined world “dissolves” in the first paragraph probably means “_”.A. becomes weaker B. strengthens gradually C. comes into being D. remains unchanged34. In the experiment, the shore crabs _.A. were pl
43、aced into two dark sheltersB. were given electric shocks in the lit tankC. were able to choose which shelter to go toD. were put into the lit tank twice35. What does Robert W. Elwood and Barry Magees new study prove?A. It is hard to tell whether a voiceless shore crab is feeling pain or not.B. Shore
44、 crabs react to electric shocks and seemingly feel pain.7C. Shore crabs prefer a dark shelter as their habitat.D. Bright light causes discomfort to crustaceans.第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2 分, 满分 10 分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Empathy(情感共鸣)Last year，researchers from the University of M
45、ichigan reported that empathy，the ability to understand other people，among college students had dropped sharply over the past 10 years. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time，the researchers said. 36 .Jennifer Freed，a codirector of a teen program，has another ex
46、planation. Turn on the TV，and youre showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting，competing，and generally treating one another with no respect. 37 There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially related by nature. Having relationships with other people is
47、an important part of being human and having empathy is decisive to those relationships. Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high selfrespect. 38 Empathy is also an indication of a good leader. In fact，Freed says，many top companies report that empathy is one
48、of the most important things they look for in new managers. 39 “Academics are important. But if you dont have emotional intelligence，you wont be as successful in work or in your love life,”she says. Whats the best way to up your EQ ? For starters，let down your guard and really listen to others. 40 T
49、o really develop empathy，youd better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital，join a club or a team that has a diverse membership，have a “sharing circle” with your family，or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter. A. Today，people spend more time alone and are less likely to join groups and clubs.B. “One doesnt develop empathy by doing a lot of talking， ” Freed says. C. Humans learn by example and most of t
