北京市丰台区2017-2018学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题(A卷)Word版含答案(高中 高二 英语试题)

31 practice.

I seated the kids on a long bench on the grass. Any time I was training a new team, I spent a few minutes getting them to 32 one another, each kid saying his name and the names of all the kids sitting to the left.

A few minutes later, I 33 to put the kids to a test. Alex was chosen to start at the far left end of the bench, go up to each kid, say that kid’s 34 and then shake his right hand. Alex was doing well and he went down the row—Dylan, Micah, David, and Beau— 35 he reached Ben. He said Ben’s name and reached out his right hand, but Ben just 36 there, his right hand 37 in his jacket.

“Ben, why don’t you let Alex shake your hand?” I asked. Ben stood up, and said, “But I don’t have the 38 .” He pulled his jacket away from his right shoulder.

Ben’s arm ran from his right shoulder but his arm 39 at the elbow(胳膊肘). No forearm(前臂), no hand, no fingers!

I got 40 and couldn’t think of anything to say, but the little kids were unwilling to hide their curiosity(好奇心).

“Look at that,” said Alex.

“Hey, what 41 to your arm?” another asked. “Does it hurt?”

Ben took off his jacket to 42 the kids what they all wanted to see. He explained to them that he had always been that 43 and that there was nothing 44 . What he meant was that he wanted to be treated like everybody else.

And he was from that day on.

From that day on, he was 45 Ben, one of the players on the team. 31. A. first 32. A. help

B. next B. see

C. later C. know C. learned C. story C. though C. lay

D. last D. teach D. refused D. name D. if D. studied D. hidden

33. A. forgot 34. A. number 35. A. until 36. A. sat

B. decided B. class B. because B. played B. raised

37. A. opened C. waved

38. A. finger 39. A. met

B. hand B. pointed

C. foot C. stopped C. annoyed

D. leg D. joined D. shocked D. changed D. ask D. nature D. harmful D. just

40. A. interested B. bored 41. A. came 42. A. show 43. A. style

B. grew B. give B. manner B. special B. even

C. happened C. offer C. way C. magic C. yet

44. A. common 45. A. also

第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，20小题，28分）

第一节：阅读短文，从各题A、B、C、 D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

（共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）

A

Money! What do you see when you hear this word? A round metal coin? Paper money? Most likely you think of one or the other. The money we see or use is made of paper or metal. But the money of long ago was not at all like the money we use today.

Coins were not always made of metal. Soap was once used as money by the people of Mexico. Blocks of coal were used as coins by the people of England. Stone money was used on the Pacific Ocean island of Yap.

Even food was used as money. In Russia coins of cheese could be used to buy things. Koku—a unit of rice was used to buy things in Japan. Bricks of tea leaves were used as money in old China. The tea leaves were first boiled in water. They were then pressed into hard brick shapes.

Coins were not always round. The coins of old China were once in the shape of a knife. In another land coins were made in the shape of a fish. Square money is still used by the people of India. Money in shapes of rings is also still seen in some parts of the world, making it easy to carry.

Did you ever hear anyone say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”? Is it true? Did money ever grow on trees? In Malaysia, people once made their own small trees out of tin. Small, round tin coins were joined to the trunk of the tin-money trees. People just broke off the money they needed.

Wouldn’t it be nice if people had money trees of their own? 46. In which country was soap used as money?

A. Russia. C. Malaysia.

B. England. D. Mexico.

47. What shape of money is used in India?

A. A ring. C. A knife.

B. A square. D. A fish.

48. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Metal Coins

B. Funny Money D. Money Trouble

C. Money Trees

B

Mary Cassatt: American Artist

By the young age of sixteen, Mary Cassatt had decided she wanted to become an artist. Unlike the other women painters of the time, she did not want to be merely an amateur(爱好者) —she wanted to make a living with her art. From 1860 to 1862, Mary studied drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which was near her home. What she really wanted to do, however, was go to Europe to study the works of famous painters, known as the “old masters”.

At first, Mary’s parents were opposed to the idea of her going to Europe, but she eventually changed their minds. Mary moved to Paris when she was 22 years old. After studying the old masters for a while, she began to believe that if she was to become a good artist, she would have to develop her own style.

In the early 1870s, the painter Edgar Degas asked Mary to join the group called the Impressionists. The Impressionists were a group of painters who had broken from the style of the old masters. Rather than painting only sitting or standing models, the Impressionists often painted from real life. Rather than painting in only dark colors, the Impressionists experimented with bright colors and the effect of light on color.

Mary Cassatt became quite successful as an Impressionist painter. In later years, however, she also worked in dry point. The process of dry point consisted of three steps. The first step was to draw a picture. She did this by scratching (刮) a sharp needle onto a sheet of copper (铜), called a plate. Next she applied ink to the plate with a roller. Then she pressed the plate onto a sheet of

paper. The finished picture looks like a drawing, but it is actually made up of hundreds of tiny lines. Even later, Mary Cassatt began painting pictures of mothers with their children. These are some of Cassatt’s best-known paintings. In the 1890s, Mary Cassatt had many one-woman art shows in both the United States and Europe. Her works were well respected and sold very well. She bought a summer home in the country outside of Paris, where she lived until her death in 1926.

49. Mary Cassatt wanted to set herself apart from many women painters by . A. living on her art works

B. scratching pictures into copper pieces C. working with the Impressionist painters D. traveling to London to study old masters

50. How was the style of the Impressionists’ paintings different from that of the old masters?

A. The artists pressed paper on plates. B. The painters used only dark colors. C. The pictures showed scenes from real life. D. The paintings were about mothers with children. 51. What is “dry point”?

A. A kind of printmaking. B. A special type of paper. C. A new way of mixing colors. D. A method of scratching needles. C

Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant (无关的) and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with controlled light, temperature, wetness, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise or a complex in the Saudi desert.

The world already is having trouble feeding itself. Half the people on Earth live in cities, and nearly half of those—about 3 billion—are hungry or ill-fed. Food prices, currently increasing, are