2018-2019学年安徽省定远重点中学高二上学期期末考试英语试题Word版听力

2018-2019学年度上学期期末考试

高二英语试题

本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。请在答题卷上作答。

第I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，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。 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）

A

Keeping a journal can not only be beneficial to you, but it can also be a benefit to your family. Do you remember the family vacation to Disneyland when you were 12 ? What about your parents’ 20-year anniversary? Or your birthday party when you turned 15?

A family journal is a book, or a series of books, where family members can write about any event that has taken place. It could have photos, and may also include letters, announcements and other updates from family members.

You can also create a family travel journal. It is packed and taken along on every family vacation. Each family member can write down their daily or weekly experiences. This is a great place to add photos of your vacation as well as other items such as addresses and phone numbers of where you stayed, names of restaurants where you ate, or other attractions you visited. You can even include other souvenirs （纪念品）that were collected during each trip.

Your family journal can include the houses in which you live. You can document your family homes throughout the years. If you never move, you can take photos of when you change the paint color. Each family member can write an annual memory of living in that home.

Another function of your family journal can be to record health histories of your family members. This becomes a medical journal for easy reference to past medical histories. At the same time, you can record your family tree.

A family journal is a wonderful project that the whole family can work on together. This is something that becomes a priceless book filled with memories that can be enjoyed for decades to come.

21.According to the first paragraph, a journal can _____. A. predict what will happen in your future life B. do a lot of good to you and your family C. remind you of your friends’ names and addresses D. help you to remember your date of birth

22.According to the passage, a family journal may include the following things EXCEPT _____. A. special projects in your company B. health histories of your family members C. souvenirs D. photos

23.From this passage we can know that _____.

A. every family member has his or her own family journal B. a family journal can keep you happy and busy

C. you can record the changes of your house in a family journal D. a medical journal can prevent many kinds of diseases

24.A family journal is a valuable book that all family members _____. A. should try to update once a year B. must keep secret C. should read daily D. can share in the future

B

My father was the gentlest, most loving and caring dad in the world----until we had an argument. During those moments, my words surely never reached his “open mind” because his ears were closed. There was no point trying to argue with my dad. He always had the last word. I could never win.

When my father refused to understand that I needed the privacy of a phone in my room, my frustration turned to tears. He ended our “discussion”, leaving me silently defeated and miserable. So when he refused to change his idea about letting me go on my class trip to Montreal, I could do nothing but race from his room in despair.

With the hope that his eyes would be more open than his ears, I began to write a note that

began with “Dear Daddy” and ended with how much I respected his opinion, how much I hated to fight with him and how much I valued our relationship and, above all, how much I loved him. I folded my note into an envelope, slid it under the door of his bedroom and raced back to my own room. It was only minutes before I heard a knock at my door. When I saw the look on my father’s face, I knew that my note had melted his temper and touched his heart.

The victory of winning my dad’s permission to go to Montreal was sweet. But even sweeter was the discovery of a strategy that enabled me to have an argument with my dad that didn’t end in tears, but instead with a hug. My “Dear Daddy” notes became a follow-up to many of our arguments.

Years later, one of my favorite stories was the “Dear Daddy” notes. It always made me smile to remember some of our most passionate arguments and how my dad would become so pig-headed, until he read my notes.

25.What did the author think about her father during an argument? A. Gentle B. Stubborn C. Aggressive D. Open-minded

26.The “Dear Daddy” note is a good way to ______.

A. avoid meeting her father suddenly B. stop the argument in a funny way C. deliver her message more quickly D. persuade her father into supporting her 27.The author’s father impressed her most with his ______. A. last word B. generous love C. bad temper D. pig-headed decision

C

When I was in fourth grade, I worked part-time as a paperboy. Mrs. Stanley was one of my customers. She’d watch me coming down her street, and by the time I’d biked up to her doorstep, there’d be a cold drink waiting. I’d sit and drink while she talked.

Mrs. Stanley talked mostly about her dead husband, “Mr. Stanley and I went shopping this morning.” she’d say. The first time she said that, soda(汽水) went up my nose.

I told my father how Mrs. Stanley talked as if Mr. Stanley were still alive. Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and maybe she’d

work it out of her system. So that’s what I did, and it turned out Dad was right. After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery(墓地).

I finally quit delivering newspapers and didn’t see Mrs. Stanley for several years. Then we crossed paths at a church fund-raiser(募捐活动). She was spooning mashed potatoes and looking happy. Four years before, she’d had to offer her paperboy a drink to have someone to talk with. Now she had friends. Her husband was gone, but life went on.

I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named Edna with three kids. She asks me how I’m doing. When I don’t say “find,” she sticks around to hear my problems. She’s lived in the city most of her life, but she knows about community. Community isn’t so much a place as it is a state of mind. You find it whenever people ask how you’re doing because they care, and not because they’re getting paid to do so. Sometimes it’s good to just smile, nod your head and listen. 28.Why did soda go up the author’s nose one time? A. He was talking fast B. He was shocked C. He was in a hurry D. He was absent-minded

29.Why did the author sit and listen to Mrs. Stanley according to paragraph 3? A. He enjoyed the drink B. He wanted to be helpful C. He took the chance to rest D. He tried to please his dad

30.Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase “work it out of her system”? A. recover from her sadness B. move out of the neighborhood C. turn to her old friends D. speak out about her past 31.What does the author think people in a community should do? A. Open up to others B. Depend on each other C. Pay for others’ help D. Care about one another

D

Cultures are based on social and linguistic(语言的) communities.

In South Africa, we exist amongst diverse groups which are culturally different. This makes us multicultural. Toit, one sociologist in the U.S., explains that multiculturalism is more than the expression of cultural variety, and it also concerns communication. He adds that for multiculturalism to “succeed”, meaningful communication is a requisite.