湖南省宁远县第一中学等三校2017-2018学年高二上学期期中联考英语试题

2017年下期永州四中、祁阳一中、宁远一中高二期中联考

英语试卷

命题、审题：周玉华 蒋启辉 时间：120分钟 总分：150分

第一部分 听力（共两节，30分）

第一节（共5小题：最小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。 1. What is the man doing ?

A. Giving a gift. B. Buying chocolates. C. Making chocolates. 2. Where is the woman`s father now?

A.At home. B. In a hospital. C. At the office. 3. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers? A. Couple. B. Neighbors. C. Colleagues. 4. Why is the baby crying according to the man?

A. He is hungry. B. He is ill . C. He is alone. 5. What are the speakers talking about?

A.An accident. B. A flight. C. A pilot. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。 请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. When should Tom be back?

A. At 7:30. B. At 7:00. C. At 6:30. 7. How did Tom go to school today ?

A. By bus. B. By motorcycle. C. By bike. 请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. Why was the woman on the news ?

A. She had written a song for the TV station. B. She had won a music contest. C. She had sung a song for charity. 9. what does the woman think of singing ? A. It will make her famous one day.

B. It takes too much of her time. C.It is what she really likes to do. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Who is the woman probably ?

A. Alice`s sister . B. Alice`s teacher. C. Alice`s mother. 11. What reason does the woman give for her worry ? A. Artists work too hard. B. Artists earn a low salary. C. Artists have few oppportunities. 12. What will the speakers do tonight?

A.Go out for supper. B. Give Alice some money. C. Have a talk with Alice. 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Where does the woman come from ?

A.America. B. Australia. C. Canada. 14. Which place does the woman suggest the man visit?

A. Bondi Beach. B. The Opera House. C. The Blue Mountains. 15. What do we know about the small hotels in Sydney? A. They are cheap but well-equipped. B. Some of them can be found online. C. Older travelers like to stay in them.

16. What is probably the best way for the man to travel around ? A. By train. B. By car . C. By air. 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What was Hank`s father doing when the speaker saw him ?

A. He was running. B. He was sitting alone. C. He was painting. 18. How did Hank`s father feel when he saw the speaker ? A. Pleased. B. Strange. C. Surprised. 19. Why did the speaker talk with Hank`s father about painting ? A. They both had a lot of painting experiences. B. The speaker was interested in painting.

C. Hank`s father was a painter.

20. How often did the speaker go to learn to paint?

A. Every day. B. Every two days. C. Every other week.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 （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。

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Have you seen the movie Changjiang 7 (CJ7)? The story is a boy called Dickey. He lives a poor life with his father. His father doesn’t have any money to buy toys for him. One day his father finds him a strange toy from a junkyard.Dickey names it Changjiang 7 (CJ7). It is an alien dog. It can do many things that humans cannot do. Dickey takes it to school to help him in many ways.

CJ7 is a popular movie of 2008. Xu Jiao, born on August 5, 1997 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, plays Dickey. On April 21, the girl won Best New Performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her play in CJ7. Now Xu Jiao becomes a new film star, she is well-known especially among young kids. Many of them want to own such a helpful toy as CJ7.

Xu once said it was difficult to play a boy. “To get an idea of what a boy is like,” she said, “I watched boys and I also studied and played with them a lot.” 21. What can we know about Xu Jiao from the passage? A．She was born in Hong Kong. B．She lives a C．She plays a boy in

the

poor life．

movie． act in CJ7．

D．She said it was easy to

22. ______ finds a toy from the junkyard.

A. Dickey B. Xu Jiao C. Xu Jiao’s father D. Dickey’s father 23. CJ7 is the name of _______.

A. a toy B. a cat C. a place D. an award B

No one was left in the museum now, and John was walking round to see if everything

was all right. Suddenly he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John picked it up and gave it to the director of the museum. The director called several museums to check and see if it was a stolen painting, but no one claimed it. So the director decided to hang it in the museum. All the experts came to look at the painting. Each one said it was beautiful and had a very deep meaning. The director was proud to have such a painting in his museum and congratulated John on his discovery. Some weeks later a woman and her little son came to the museum. While they were looking at the new painting, the little boy began to cry. The director went over and asked him.“Why are you crying?” The child pointed to the painting and said, “That’s my painting on the wall and I want it back.” “Yes,” said his mother, “he left it on the floor

a few weeks ago. If you look carefully, you can see his name on the painting.” 24. John was perhaps _______.

A. a painter B. an expert on painting C. a visitor to the museum D. a man working in the museum 25. John found the painting _______.

A. before the museum opened B. after the museum was closed C. during his visit to the museum D. while he was enjoying his walk 26. After the director heard what the woman and the boy said, he must have been very _______.

A. angry B. afraid C. proud D. surprised 27. All the experts thought the painting good because _______. A. it was really very beautiful and had a very deep meaning B. the painting was drawn by a famous painter though he was a child C. none of them looked carefully enough D. they examined it very carefully C

Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.