广西柳州铁路第一中学2016-2017学年高二上学期段考英语试卷及答案

柳州铁一中学2016—2017学年度高二上学期段考英语试题

命题人： 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。 1. When did the woman make her speech? A. This morning.

B. Yesterday. C. The day before yesterday.

2. What does the woman say about the iPhone? A. It‘s too expensive.

B. It‘s so fashionable. C. It may be a present.

3. Why does the man make the call?

A. To ask for information about a house. B. To put on an ad in Sunday‘s newspaper. C. To ask for the woman‘s name and number. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Who likes to use the electric bike. B. How to deal with the electric bike.

C. Whether the electric bike should have been thrown away. 5. What happened to the speakers?

A. They broke the window. B. They had a car accident. C. Their house was broken into. 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,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料,回答第6至7题。 6. How long is the track?

A. A quarter of a mile. B. Half a mile. C. A mile. 7. When will the woman have her first volleyball game?

A. Two weeks later. B. Tomorrow afternoon. C. Next week.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What is Mr. Johnson doing?

A. Answering the phone. B. Having a meeting. C. Working in the office. 9. Where will Mr. Johnson go at four?

A. To the airport. B. To the accounting office. C. To his customer‘s office. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the man make posters for the office walls? A. To make the office walls look very beautiful. B. To remind people to take a break every hour. C. To tell people to pay more attention to teamwork. 11. How does the woman feel about the man‘s idea? A. Great.

B. Doubtful. C. Meaningless.

12. What does the man advise doing?

A. Getting up early every day. B. Not staring at the computer too long. C. Practicing their spoken English together. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What did the man speaker promise to do last year?

A. Stop smoking. B. Save some money. C. Work harder than before. 14. Which of the following is the woman speaker‘s resolution this year?

A. Getting more exercise. B. Saving some money. C. Having a nice vacation. 15. Whose watch is always fast by ten minutes?

A. Henry‘s. B. The man speaker‘s. C. The woman speaker‘s. 16. Where will the speakers probably go after the conversation?

A. To a bookstore. B. To a watch store. C. To a fast food store. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What kind of use of plants is NOT mentioned in the talk?

A. Building houses. B. Making paper. C. Making dyes（染料）. 18. What do people mostly depend on flowering plants for?

A. Food. B. Fuel. C. Decorations.

19. Where can people find plants according to the speaker?

A. On snowy mountains. B. Under rocks. C. In deserts. 20. What does the speaker mainly want to tell us?

A. Plants exist on the earth long. B. Plants used to be widely used. C. Plants are the source of many things.

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）

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It's true that many dads in the wild aren't interested in parenting, but there are some that work pretty hard to give their little ones a good start. Maybe one of these dads will make you remember your own dad! The male giant water bug doesn‘t seem to mind a heavy load on his back for his kids. The female puts about 100 to 150 eggs on the back of the male, and then she leaves. Once the female is gone, the male has to look after the eggs. It usually takes one to two weeks for the eggs to hatch. The father giant water bug jumps around to make sure the growing eggs get enough air and water. All this time he can't fly because of the weight of the eggs growing rapidly on his back.

Now let's turn to the male stickleback fish. When the mother leaves after laying her eggs, the father tends his young. If the young fish go too far away, their father helps with their safe return by carrying them back in his mouth. The male stickleback looks after all his young — as many as 100 — until they can live on their own.

A similar example can be found in emperor penguins living in cold areas. The male emperor penguin goes without food while looking after his egg until it hatches. For about 62 to 67 days, the egg stays on top of the father's feet, in very cold temperatures that drop down to -39° C. As a result, the father may lose nearly 50 percent of his body weight while waiting for his baby penguin to be born!

21. What do we know about the giant water bug? A. It is unable to fly. B. The eggs grow on the father's back.

C. The male must keep still to hatch the eggs.

D. The female looks after her eggs together with the male.

22. During the hatching period, the male emperor penguin _______________. A. is unable to eat B. is fed by the female C. tries to lose some weight D. can't stand the cold weather 23. What is the best title for the text?

A. Mr. Moms in the Wild B. Animals Do Have Feelings C. Nature Loves Us like Our Dad D. Childbirth in the Animal Kingdom

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One of Scotland's most active centenarians ( 百岁的人), Lady Morton, drove for nearly 80 years. She loved driving and spent the war years as an ambulance driver for Bangour Hospital. Aged 100 she was still driving around Edinburgh, up to Perthshire and elsewhere — the oldest among all the drivers in Scotland. But she had her first ever accident several days after her 100th birthday — she hit a traffic island (a raised area in the middle of a road where people can wait until it is safe to cross) when she took her new car for a drive in Edinburgh.

Lady Morton, who celebrated her 100th birthday in July, was given a car as a present. She talked about the accident happened that night. “I wasn't going fast, but I hit a traffic island. I couldn't see it, because it had no light, which I think was unbelievable and unreasonable. But I am all right and luckily my car wasn't badly damaged.

资源%库ziyuanu.com Although Lady Morton had the accident, she didn't plan to stop driving.“Some people are just

born to drive, and I think I am one of them. I've been a good driver since the first time I got in a car, she said. ―I am musical, so I listen to sound of the car to know when to change gear (档位).

Lady Morton bought her first car in 1927. The main change she had noticed since then is the traffic. “It's appalling. However, I don't mind it, because I am experienced, but I feel very sorry for beginners,” she said.

24. What was special about Lady Morton?

A. She was 100 years old. B. She had the fewest traffic accidents.

C. She was the oldest driver in Scotland. D. She had the most years of driving experience. 25. How did Lady Morton's first accident happen?

A. She had poor eyesight. B. She was driving too fast.