浙江省金华市东阳市东阳中学2016-2017学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

东阳中学2016年下学期期中考试卷

（高二英语）

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。请将客观题答案用2B铅笔填涂在机读答题纸上，将主观题答案填写在机读答题纸上。考试结束后，只交机读答题纸。

第I卷 (选择题 共95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l0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 do we know about the woman?
   1. She plays in her brother’s band. B. She is learning to play the keyboard.
      C. She teaches the man to play the drums.
2. How many cups of coffee does the woman drink in a week?
   1. One.B. Three.C. Five.
3. Where are the speakers?
   1. In a restaurant.B. In a hotel.C. In a supermarket.
4. What is the woman doing?
   1. Having an interview.B. Taking a computer lesson.
      C. Looking for an experienced worker.
5. Why has the meeting been put off?
   1. One of the employees is ill. B. The man has an appointment with a doctor.
      C. There is a medical examination for all the employees.
      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2至4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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
      听下面一段对话，回答第6至第7题。
6. What does the man think of a cookery book?
   1. InterestingB. Useful.C. Boring.
7. What kind of book will the speakers buy for Lucy?
   1. Painting.B. Sailing.C. Cooking.
      听下面一段对话，回答第8至第9题。
8. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
   1. Where to park the car.B. When to go to the market.
      C. How to get to the sports stadium.
9. Where will the speakers meet?
   1. In the camera shop.B. In the market.C. In the sports stadium.
      听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12题。
10. What is the woman going to do this weekend?
    1. See a play.B. Watch a match.C. Attend a concert.
11. Why is the man unsure whether he can join the woman?
    1. He might have to work.B. His parents are visiting.
       C. He can’t afford the tickets.
12. What does the woman suggest the man do?
    1. Visit a website.B. Persuade his parents.C. Make a weekend plan.
       听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16题。
13. What happened when Matthew tried to sell his idea to companies?
    1. He received no replies.B. None of them was interested.
       C. Some companies wanted to see the game.
14. Where did Matthew borrow money to make his first game?
    1. From a bank.B. From a businessman.C. From some relatives.
15. 15. How did Matthew get his idea for a second product?
    1. He watched his sisters playing. B. Some other children told him about it.
       C. An American company made a suggestion.
16. What does Matthew want to do when he leaves high school?
    1. Run his own business.B. Continue inventing games.
       C. Do a course in business.
       听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20题。
17. What is the change of the trip for the listeners today?
    1. They will visit 2 towns.B. They will go to a wildlife park.
       C. They will look around a university.
18. Where will the listeners stop for coffee?
    1. By a lake.B. On a mountain.C. Near a waterfall.
19. When will the listeners return to the hotel?
    1. At 6:30.B. At 6:45.C. At 7:15.
20. What can we learn from the talk?
    A. Many people come to Brampton for the museums.
    B. People can see lions and tigers in the wildlife park.
    C. Brampton is well-known for the university.
    第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
    第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
    阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
    A
    Dear March - Come in -
    How glad I am -
    I hoped for you before ...
    Who knocks? That April -
    Lock the Door -
    I will not be pursued -
    He stayed away a year to call -
    When I am occupied -
    But trifles look so trivial -
    As soon as you have come ...
    This lovely poem was written by Emily Dickinson, who is considered a major American poet, though she didn’t receive this honor until well after her death.
    Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended school for only one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. She lived in almost complete isolation (隔离) from the outside world.
    She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barren Browning, as well as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded fromreading the poetry of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice.
    While Dickinson was extremely productive as a poet, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered forty hand-bound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems. Her younger sister began to share the enormous body of work that Emily left behind.
    Emily's odd punctuation, capitalization(大写), and formatting(格式) did not meet with standard publishing"approval" for earlier editions. There is an unusual or strange nature to many other poems, as the subject of death was the most frequent theme.
21. In the poem, the poetess was speaking to ______.
    A. a little girl B. a long-lost family member
    C. a nice season D. a cute animal
22. What does the underlined part “dissuaded fromreading” mean?
    1. persuaded not to readB. attracted to read
       C. begged not to read D. instructed to read
23. According to the text, Emily Dickinson _______.
    1. was completely homeschooled and had a talent for writing poems
    2. was greatly influenced by four of her contemporary poets
    3. is regarded as a leading poet in American literature
    4. published a large number of poems during her lifetime
       B
       Home to 8.2 million people, 36 percent of whom were born outside the United States, New York, known as the Big Apple, is the biggest city in America. Nearly twenty times bigger than the capital, Washington DC, you might expect New York to be twenty times more dangerous. Actually, it’s safer. Recent figures show that New York now has fewer crimes per 100,000 people than 193 other US cities. It’s also healthier than it used to be. For example, the smoking rate has gone down from 21.5 percent a few years ago, to 16.9 percent today.
       New Yorkers should be delighted, shouldn’t they? In fact, many feel that New York is losing its identity. It used to be the city that never sleeps. These days it’s the city that never smokes, drinks or does anything naughty (at least, not in public). The Big Apple is quickly turning into the Forbidden Apple.
       If you decided to have a picnic in Central Park, you’d need to be careful—if you decided to feed the birds with your sandwich, you could be arrested. It’s banned. In many countries a mobile phone going off in the cinema is annoying. In New York it’s illegal. So is putting your bag on an empty seat in the subway. If you went to a bar for a drink and a cigarette, that would be OK, wouldn’t it? Er … no. You can’t smoke in public in New York City. In fact, you can’t smoke outdoors on the street or in parks either. The angry editor of Vanity Fair magazine, Graydon Carter, says, “Under New York City law it is acceptable to keep a gun in your place of work, but not an empty ashtray.” He should know. The police came to his office and took away his ashtray.
       But not all of New York’s inhabitants are complaining. Marcia Dugarry, seventy-two, said, “The city has changed for the better. If more cities had these laws, America would be a better place to live.”
       The new laws have helped turn the city into one of the healthiest—and most pleasant places to live in America—very different from its old image of a dirty and dangerous city. Its pavements are almost litter-free, its bars clean and its streets among America’s safest. Not putting your bag on subway seats might be a small price to pay.
24. The author writes Paragraph 1 in order to tell the reader that New York is _____.
    1. bigger than Washington D.C.B. the city with most immigrants
       C. safer and healthierD. the most populated city in the U.S.
25. What does Graydon Carter imply?
    1. Some of New York’s new laws are not reasonable.
    2. A gun is much easier to get than an ashtray.
    3. The police had no right to take away his ashtray.
    4. There should be a law to keep guns away from people.
26. What is the author’s attitude towards New York’s new laws?
    1. Supportive.B. Negative.C. Neutral.D. Uninterested
       C
       Envy seems to be bad—but it doesn't have to be. Researchers are finding that, if approached the right way, there can actually be an advantage.
       Psychologists classify envy in two ways: negative and positive. With positive envy, you are motivated by another person's success and struggle to follow it. With negative envy, you want to cut the advantaged person down so you look better by comparison. Let's say you feel sufferings of envy after your rival(对手) at another firm gets promoted. Negative envy might drive you to destroy his success, but positive envy would inspire you to work harder and get promoted, too.
       Studies show positive envy can be a great motivator(动力). In a 2011 study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, researchers in the Netherlands conducted a series of experiments with more than 200 university students. Researchers found that when they caused feelings of positive envy—as opposed to admiration or negative envy—in the students, it drove them to want to study more and perform better on a test measuring creativity and intelligence. While admiration may feel better, the researchers found, it doesn't motivate performance like the pain and frustration of envy.
       “Those painful sufferings of envy are there for an evolutionary(进化的) reason,” says Texas Christian University researcher Sarah E. Hill, “warning us that someone has something of importance to us.” Building on this theory, Dr. Hill and others conducted a series of experiments, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, to test whether envy improves attention and memory—the tools needed to copy a rival's steps to success. In one experiment, half of the participants were asked to recall past feelings of envy; the other half weren't. The two groups were then shown mock(模拟的) interviews of imaginary peers. The group filled with envy paid closer attention and better recalled details about the interview subjects. In other words, envy made them more astute（机敏的）. Not only can envy motivate us to reach for higher goals, it may even give us the cognitive push to get there.
27. $来&源：What’s the bad effect of negative envy?
    1. It makes you lose heart and gets discouraged.
    2. It has you feel motivated.
    3. It makes you harm or hurt others on purpose.
    4. It reminds you to struggle to follow your dreams.
28. What’s the benefit of positive envy?
    1. It inspires you to find a possible rival to try to defeat them.
    2. It encourages you to work harder with a positive attitude.
    3. It won’t hurt your opponents in the same firm.
    4. It won’t destroy your success at another firm.
29. Compared to admiration, positive envy can__________.
    1. make you feel worse in all sides
    2. be more likely to get you to admire others
    3. make you feel the pain in your performance
    4. be more likely to get you inspired to get success
30. What is the main idea of the passage?
    1. Envy seems to be bad. B. Keep your envy in secret.

C. Make full use of positive envy. D. Forget about your envy now.

第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，共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，并在答题纸上将该项标号涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. 31“There are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount(越过) the pyramids — the eagle and the snail.”

If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention. I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. 32 The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown-up people say, “I could not fix my attention on the lecture or book, although I wished to do so,” and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.

If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice (怯懦),” says a wise author. 33The fear of ill exceeds(超过) the ill we fear. Dangers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of them. Be prepared for any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.

If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return. Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it. 34

35 I might write pages on the importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand straight and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.

Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, I would, if I were a boy again, try still harder to make others happy.

A. Perseverance is what it takes to achieve success.

B. If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say “No” oftener.

C. We too often borrow trouble, and expect that may never appear.

D. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.

E. If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy（礼貌） towards my companions and friends and indeed towards strangers as well.

F. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results.

G. Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love.

第三部分: 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：完形填空（共20小题, 每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，从短文所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

After my brother died in an accident, my mom’s attitude to safety greatly changed. Suddenly, everything around us became potentially dangerous.

I grew up 36 a lot of restrictions (限制) and rules that were 37 to protect me. Unlike my classmates, I couldn’t walk home from school by myself; I couldn’t attend evening parties or go to summer camp. I knew my mom was only trying to protect me. She was 38 about me because after my brother died, I was her only child — and what if something happened to me?

I became a 39 worrier too. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet,40 car accidents, and losing my job…41 big and small, real and imagined.

The funny part is that you’d 42 know it by looking at my life, because I’m constantly 43 myself to do the things that frighten or worry me. In fact, I have 44 a rule for myself: If something 45 me, then I have to do it at least once. I’ve done lots of things that would have shocked my46: I’ve ridden a motorcycle, and I’ve traveled in the rainforest…

There’s something else I don’t usually talk about,47 is the most important part in my belief. When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At her funeral I remember making a 48. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be “safe”49 I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes 50life.

In the end I think she would have been 51of me. Courage isn’t a natural quality of human beings. I believe that we have to 52 being courageous; using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I 53 do a lot more than I originally thought I could do.

54 I inherited (继承) my mother’s cautious nature, I’ve also come to believe that fear can be a good thing, if we 55 it bravely.

1. A. for B. inC. withD. by
2. A. planned B. meant C. used D. written
3. A. excitedB. confidentC. worried D. curious
4. A. common B. normal C. general D. natural
5. A. meeting withB. coming acrossC. getting throughD. looking into
6. A. diseases B. difficulties C. disasters D. adventures
7. A. still B. never C. always D. even
8. A. forcing B. allowing C. expecting D. warning
9. A. developedB. discoveredC. issuedD. improved
10. A. troubles B. interests C. scares D. attracts
11. A. friends B. brother C. dad D. mom
12. A. whichB. that C. what D. it
13. A. plan B. belief C. choice D. rule
14. A. butB. andC. soD. or
15. A. boring B. difficult C. amazingD. dangerous
16. $来&源：A. fond B. awareC. afraid D. proud
17. A. practice B. escape C. enjoy D. remember
18. A. must B. canC. shouldD. may
19. A. Now that B. Even thoughC. As though D. Ever since
20. A. face B. hideC. share D. avoid

第II卷（非选择题 共55分）

第二节（10个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式，并将相应答案写在答题纸上。

Happiness Is an Attitude

The 92-year-old confident and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably combed and makeup（化妆品） perfectly 56 (apply), though she’s completely blind, moved to a nursing home today.

Her husband recently passed away, 57 (make) the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled 58 (sweet) when told her room was ready. As she got into the elevator in her wheelchair, I provided a description of her tiny room.

“I love it,” she started with the enthusiasm of 59eight-year-old child having just been presented with a new dog.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room… just wait.”

“That has 60 to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. 61 I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture 62 (arrange)… it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a 63 (decide) I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice: I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body 64 no longer work or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones working. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I’ll focus 65 the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away… just for this time in my life.”

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节：句子翻译（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

根据括号内的提示将下列中文翻译成英文。

66. 几乎没有表扬为学校运动会做出很大贡献的那些人，这是没有道理的。(make no sense, give little credit to, contribution)

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67．因为沉浸在书本中, 所以当我走近他时，这位穿着制服的专家没有注意到我。(absorbed作状语, uniform, approach)
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68. 这样的下雪天气很可能会出交通事故。难怪这个谨慎的司机不愿意完成这项任务。(likely, no wonder, unwilling)

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69.为了满足我们的好奇心，这个热心的科学家决定作进一步的调查。(curiosity, enthusiastic, investigation)

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70.他不仅漏掉了一些重要的细节，而且还把这一次失败归咎于别人。(not only位于句首，leave out, blame)

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第二节：概要写作（满分25分）

阅读下面的短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

Punishing children is a controversial topic. Everybody has different opinions about how to act to correct a child’s behavior. Parents, teachers, doctors, and specialists like psychologists, have disagreements about whether it is good for a child’s education to punish him.

The word “punish” means different things to different people. Punishment can be physical or emotional. Physical punishment is when the parent hits, slaps or spanks the child.

On the other hand, emotional punishment is when the parent, in order to educate the child, doesn’t let him watch TV, go to play with his friends, or do things like that. The parent doesn’t teach him, but still he punishes the child.

Although many surveys and studies have been made about what the correct way is to raise a child, nobody has the answer or the truth. I think it will be very difficult to find the answer or get people to agree.

I think parents should love their child and give him the best education, but at the same time, they should punish the child if he deserves it. I think if you love your child, you should be rational when you apply the punishment. It should be reasonable but strict.

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One possible version:

People have mixed opinions towards punishing children.Punishment can be physical or emotional, but the key problem is the way they are punished.It is difficult to find the correct way to raise a child. Proper punishment can be instructive and necessary to children if it is reasonable and strict. But love and education are the most important for us to make our kids behave well.(66 words)