1、- 1 -河北省唐县第一中学高二年级 2018-2019 学年期中考试试卷英 语时间：120 分钟 总分：150 分说明：本试卷分卷（选择题）和卷（非选择题） ，两卷共四部分，满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。注意事项：1. 答题前, 先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上。2. 注意正确填涂答题卡和答题纸 。卷 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。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
2、。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What does the woman want to do?A. Plant trees. B. Buy a farm. C. Grow flowers.2. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Classmates. B. Teacher and student. C. Workmates.3. Why is the woman going to Germany?A. To study there. B. To attend a meeting. C. To look after her son.4.
3、What are the speakers talking about?A. A fire. B. A yard. C. A tree.5. What did the woman do yesterday?A. She worked out. B. She watched a match. C. She played basketball.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
4、，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。- 2 -听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. How did the woman travel?A. By ship. B. By car. C. By train.7. What does the woman want to drink?A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Water.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. When does the party start probably?A. At 10:00 a.m. B. At 2:00 p.m. C. At 7:00 p.m.9. What does t
5、he man offer to do for the woman?A. Lend her a bicycle. B. Carry the boxes upstairs.C. Prepare food for the party.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What does the woman think of the first tree?A. Very expensive. B. Too tall. C. A bit short.11. Where will the woman put the tree?A. In front of the window. B.
6、In front of the dining table.C. In front of the house.12. How much should the woman pay?A. $13. B. $20. C. $23.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At home. B. In an office. C. On the phone.14. Which bus will the man take tomorrow morning?A. The 5:40 one. B.
7、The 6:00 one. C. The 7:00 one.15. What kind of ticket does the man want?A. A round-trip ticket. B. A one-way ticket.C. A window seat ticket.- 3 -16. What is the man going to do tomorrow night?A. Watch a play. B. Meet Mr. Cock. C. See off his wife.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. When did Belfast develop
8、most quickly?A. During the 17th century. B. During the 18th century.C. During the 19th century.18. What is Belfast famous for?A. Shipbuilding. B. Movies. C. Tourism.19. What will the tourists visit tomorrow morning?A. A museum. B. A zoo. C. A garden.20. How long will the tour last?A. 10 days. B. 4 d
9、ays. C. 2 days.第二部分： 阅读理解（本题共两节 20 道小题，每题 2 分，满分 40 分）第一节：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，并在答题卡上填涂。本题共 15 小题，每题 2 分，满分 30 分。ASome students prefer a part-time job after class to earn some money and improve themselves. Here are some good companies:IN-N-Out BurgerIt is the best hamburger shop in the
10、 west of America. Regarded as one of the best employers, it offers flexible hours and the highest part-time salaries(薪水).Above all, the company treats its employees the way they would like to be treated: like family. However, there is no discount offered to its employees.Position: selling assistant
11、(experience required)Website: www.in-n-out.cmStarbucks CoffeeStarbucks has been at the forefront(前沿) of the United Statescoffee revolution. Working hours are flexible. Fit twenty hours of work into your week. There is also a 30% discount and a free pound of coffee or box of tea every week.- 4 -Posit
12、ion: assistant coffee taster(experience required)Website: www.SWhole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market is the worlds largest natural and organic food selling company. With its focus on organic ingredients, Whole Foods Market is all about health. Working hours are flexible. Benefits include paid-time of
13、f and a 20% discount so you can eat like a king or at least like a top chef in training. There are also training courses on health and food every week.Position: secretaryWebsite:.Lands EndLands End is a Wisconsin-based clothes store that focuses on casual comfort and warmth for the great outdoors. E
14、mployees (even part-time employees) have the chance to go to a company-owned entertainment centre and get a 25% discount on theme parks and movies, and an invitation to the yearly company picnic. Besides, for part-time employees, working hours are flexible and they can come to work anytime they like
15、 as long as they work for 4 hours a day.Position: salespersonWebsite:21. Which company offers its employees the best discount?A. In-N-Out Burger. B. Whole Foods Market.C. Lands End. D. Starbucks Coffee.22. Which website should you visit if you are interested in selling clothes?A. B. www.in-n-C. D.
16、 23. What do the four companies have in common?A. Working hours are flexible. B. Training courses are offered.C. Related experience is required. D. Employees can get high salaries.B- 5 -Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and the
17、n meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookC turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place,
18、hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it.Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”Members leave books on park
19、 benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where the
20、ir books have been found. Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more t
21、han one hundred thirty-five countries.24. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph?A. To explain what they are. B. To introduce BookCrossing.C. To stress the importance of reading. D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.25. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph
22、2 refer to?A. The book. B. An adventure. C. A public place. D. The identification number.26. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B. Keep it safe in his bookcase. C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner.27. What is the bes
23、t title for the text?A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour B. Electronic Books: A new Trend C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Books- 6 -CA study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the developmen
24、t of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿）connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.Researche
25、r Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern“A-B-B“. Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern “A
26、-B-C”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the“ A-B-B“pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order. Gervain is excited by these findings because th
27、e order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. “Position is key to language,” she says. “If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference:John caught the bear. is very different from The bear caught John.”Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found t
28、hat language delivered by televisions, audio books,the Internet, or smartphonesno matter how educationaldoesnt appear to be enough for childrens brain development. They carried out a study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group whod watched videos in Chinese to show the sam
29、e kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies regardless of whether they had wat
30、ched the video or listened to the audiolearned nothing.28. What makes connections in a babys brain?A. Having a higher IQ. B. Experiencing new information.C. The babys early age. D. The connection with other babies.29. What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?A. Babies identify diff
31、erent sound patterns. - 7 -B. Word order is relevant to meaning. C. Babies can well understand different words.D. A certain brain region processes language.30. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?A. Grammar is important in learning languages.B. Different orders have different meani
32、ngs.C. Different languages have different grammar.D. Words have different sounds.31. What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?A. Babies shouldnt watch a lot of television.B. Listening to different languages develops babies brain. C. Foreign languages help babies brain develop.
33、D. Social communication improves babies brain development. DJudy Wright and her husband decided to move closer to their son, Chris, who lived in Georgia. About a month after the move, Judy fell ill, suffering from her ongoing battle against Parkinsons disease.Her condition worsened rapidly and she r
34、equired medical care at home. The family hired a nursing aid who canceled at the last minute. Instead, a woman named TunDe Hector showed up in her place.One day, TunDe shared a story with Judy and her family. She remembered a particularly difficult day in 2014, when a stranger had helped her with a
35、kind gesture. She had run out of gas, and with only$5 in her pocket, was walking to a gas station, gas can in hand. A man saw her walking and turned his car around. He paid for her gas and gave her all the cash left in his wallet. Upon hearing the story, Judys son, Chris, took off his hat and said,
36、“That was me!” He was the stranger that had helped TunDe on that difficult day.During the care of Judy, the Wright family learned about TunDes family and her own dream. The nursing aid, TunDe hoped that one day she could become an OB-GYN nurse. Her tuition was past due（逾期）and she had a family to car
37、e for, but she was determined to achieve that goal for herself and her family.Judy died on July 9,2017. Instead of flowers, her family asked mourners(悼念者） to donate to TunDes education, to assist her in paying for her nursing school. In less than a week, they raised more than $8,000 and presented he
38、r with - 8 -the surprise check.32. Why did Judys family choose TunDe in the end?A. To help her with a kind gesture. B. To replace another nursing aid.C. To look after Judy in the hospital. D. To give Judy the best medical care.33. How might Chris feel when hearing TunDes story?A. Shocked B. Thrilled
39、 C. Puzzled D. Delighted 34. How did the Wright family help TunDe after Judys death?A. They paid for her education. B. They helped care for her family. C. They helped her realize her dream. D. They bought her a surprise present.35. What does the whole story mainly tell us ?A. Kindness comes full cir
40、cle. B. Actions speak louder than words.C. The truth never fears investigation. D. Constant dropping wears stone.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。选项中有两项为多余选项Have you ever seen an animal being mistreated (虐待)? Seeing a pet or wild animal get hurt might make you sad, angry, or
41、afraid. 36 In fact, the good news is that everyone including you can be a helping hand for animals.Keep your eyes and ears open.37 Watch for changes in the way they look or act. Look out for animals who:* have cuts or other bruises（伤痕）* avoid or attack people when people come close* are too thin* ar
42、e missing fur* are almost always left outsideThese signs dont necessarily mean a pet has been hurt on purpose, but they shouldnt be ignored. If you see any of these signs, set them down. 38 What did you see or hear? Where? When? Were other people around?39 Never move an injured animal! Ask a parent,
43、 teacher, or other adult you - 9 -trust for help. Find out whether the injured animal in your town can be saved by animal shelters or police. Keep their phone numbers at hand. If the person mistreating animals is a friend or family member, tell an adult you trust.Speak up.Let other kids know what to
44、 do if they see an animal being hurt. Using the information above, make posters to hang or flyers (传单) to hand out at school. Include the phone numbers of the police department or animal shelters who can save the injured animals. 40 They need us to speak up for them!A. Send it to animal shelters.B.
45、You might think theres nothing you can do.C. Remember, animals cant speak for themselves.D. Or if you see someone hurting an animal, write down the details.E. Get to know pets in your neighborhood.F. Animals are friends of human beings.G. Report it.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节：完型填空（共 20 题；每小题 1.5 分，满
46、分 30 分）Some people say that childhood is the best time of your life. 41 , being a child has both advantages and disadvantages.On the good side, you have very few responsibilities. 42 , you dont have to go to 43 , pay bills, or do the shopping, cooking, or cleaning. This 44 you have plenty of free 45
47、 to do whatever you want watch TV, play on the computer, go out with friends, play sports, or enjoy other 46 . On top of that, public transport, cinema, and sports centers 47 much less for children. All in all, being a child is a(n) 48 time in life.However, there are 49 some disadvantages. For one t
48、hing, you have to spend all day, Monday to Friday, at school. 50 usually means you have to do homework, 51 you have to take 52 . What is more, you may have a lot of free time, but you are seldom 53 to do whatever you want. You usually have to 54 your parents if you can do things, from going shopping in town to staying out late or going to a party. Last of all, 55 there are often cheaper prices for 56 , things are still - 10 -expensive and parents are not 57 generous with pocket money. Theres never enough to do everything you wan
