2018—2019学年度下学期期中考试高二年级英语科试卷答题时间：120分钟满分：150分命题人：高二英语组校对人：高二英语组第一部分：听力第一节（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.What does the woman want to do?A.Find a place.B.Buy a map.C.Get an address.2.What will the man do for the woman?A.Repair her car.B.Give her a ride.C.Pick up her aunt.3.Who might Mr.Peterson be?A.A new professor.B.A department head.C.A company director.4.What does the man think of the book?A.Quite difficult.B.Very interesting.C.Too simple.5.What are the speakers talking about?A.Weather.B.Clothes.C.News.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6、7题。

6.Why is Harry unwilling to join the woman?A.He has a pain in his knee.B.He wants to watch TV.C.He is too lazy.7.What will the woman probably do next?A.Stay at home.B.Take Harry to hospital.C.Do some exercise.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.When will the man be home from work?A.At5:45.B.At6:15.C.At6:50.9.Where will the speakers go?A.The Green House Cinema.B.The New State Cinema.C.The UME Cinema.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.How will the speakers go to New York?A.By air.B.By taxi.C.By bus.11.Why are the speakers making the trip?A.For business.B.For shopping.C.For holiday.12.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A.Driver and passenger.B.Husband and wife.C.Fellow workers.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.Where does this conversation probably take place?A.In a restaurant.B.In an office.C.In a classroom.14.Where does John do now?A.He’s a trainer.B.He’s a tour guide.C.He’s a college student.15.How much can a new person earn for the first year?A.$10,500.B.$12,000.C.$15,000.16.How many people will the woman hire?A.Four.B.Three.C.Two.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17.How long has the speaker lived in a big city?A.One year.B.Ten years.C.Eighteen years.18.What is the speaker’s opinion on public transport?A.It’s comfortable.B.It’s time-saving.C.It’s cheap.19.What is good about living in a small town?A.It’s safer.B.It’s healthier.C.It’s more convenient.20.What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?A.Busy.B.Colorful.C.Quiet.第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题,每小题2分,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，从每篇短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AJanet Guthrie and Danica Patrick,first female Indy competitor and winner No complaints about woman drivers.Janet Guthrie,an space engineer who was training to be an astronaut,turned to car racing when she was cut from the space program for not having completed her doctors degree.In1977,Guthrie became the first female Indy500competitor.She didn’t take the lead,but Danica Patrick did.In 2005and in2008,Patrick became the first woman ever to win an Indy Car Series. Raymonde de Laroche,first female licensed pilotA former actress who'd been born Elise Raymonde Deroche in Paris in1882,Raymonde de Laroche was inspired to take up flying after seeing the Wright Brothers flight demonstrations in1907in France.Though she wasn’t the first female pilot,de Laroche was the first woman to earn a pilot’s license in1910.Gertrude Ederle,first woman to swim across the English ChannelOn August6.1926.Gertrude Caroline Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.Ederle,who lived to be98and died in2003,was also an Olympic swim champion and five-time world record-holder in five swimming eventsKathrine Switzer,Nina Kuscik and Joan Benoit,first major female marathoners.In1967,20-year-old Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run in the BostonMarathon,even though race officials had tried to stop her.Nina Kuscik became the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon,1972.In1984,American Joan Benoit became the first winner of the Women’s Olympic Marathon,finishing400meters ahead of Norway's Grete Waitz21.Why was Janet Guthrie forbidden to take up space program?A.She used to be a woman driver.B.She showed interested in car racing.C.She was employed as an engineer.D.She didn't gain doctors degree.22.What made Raymonde de Laroche decide to become a pilot?A.Her experience as an actress.B.Her settlement in Paris.C.Wright Brothers influence.D.Wright Brothers dialogues.23.What's the similarity between Gertrude Ederle and Kathrine Switzer?A.They were athleticB.They lived a long life.C.They had a higher fame.D.They were looked down upon.BFOR ALL the technological wonders of modern medicine, from gene-editing to fetal(胎儿的)surgery,health care—with its fax machines and clipboards(资料夹)—is often stubbornly old-fashioned.This outdated era is slowly drawing to a close as,slowly,the industry catches up with the artificial-intelligence(AI)revolution.And it should have happened earlier, argues Eric Topol,a heart doctor keen on digital medicine.Dr Topol’s vision of medicine’s future is optimistic.He thinks AI will be particularly useful for repetitive tasks where errors arise easily,such as selecting images,examining heart traces for abnormal symptoms or recording doctors’words into patient records.In short,AI is set to save time,lives and money.Much of this is imaginary—but AI is already defeating people in a variety of narrow jobs for which it has been trained.Eventually it may be able to diagnoseand treat a wider range of diseases.Even then,Dr Topol thinks,humans would watch over the rules,rather than being replaced by them.The author’s fear is that AI will be used to deepen the assembly-line(流水线)culture of modern medicine.If it awards a“gift of time”on doctors,he argues that this additional benefit should be used to extend the time of consultations,rather than simply speeding through them more efficiently.The Hippocratic Oath holds that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that“warmth,sympathy and understanding may be more important than the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug”.That is not just a cliché:the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to do better.As Dr Topol says,it is hard to imagine that a robot could really replace a human doctor.Yet as demand for health care goes beyond the supply of human carers,the future may involve consultations on smartphones and measurements monitored by chat robots.The considerately warmed stethoscope(听诊器),placed gently on a patient’s back,may become history.24.According to the author,health care has been generally considered____________.A.to bring out many technological wondersB.to boost the sales of fax machines and clipboardsC.to be out of date and fail to keep up with modern timesD.to constantly catch up with new technological progress25.AI is set to save time,lives and money because it can___________.A.repeat doctors’words and instructionsB.correct doctors’errors and mistakesC.select doctors according to patients’demandsD.replace doctors’tasks in certain fields26.The underlined word“cliché”is closest in meaning to__________.A.an idea so often used that becomes uninterestingB.an idea so interesting that is often usedC.an effective rule that applies to medicine and doctorsD.a benefit to both doctors and patients27.It can be inferred from the passage that_____________.A.AI will completely replace the jobs of doctorsB.doctors’sympathy and understanding should not be ignoredC.the application of AI will discourage the assembly-line cultureD.AI will bring warmth,sympathy and understanding to patientsCThe hemlock(铁杉)trees along the Wappinger Creek,New York,look healthy.However, scientist Gary Lovett says the white balls which provide protection for the bugs are created by a tiny insect.It’s hard to believe the tiny bug could kill a tree.However, trees can end up with millions and millions of the pests.When there are that many, it ends up killing the tree.The bug from East Asia is slowly killing trees across the USA.The trouble-making bug is just one of many invasive(入侵的)pests that have slipped into the United States. They can hurt other living things in their new home.Many invasive pests arrive on wooden pallets(运货板)piled inside shipping containers.They support and separate goods,and keep them from sliding around. Invasive pests often tunnel into the pallets.How can we stop pests from riding on pallets?Lovett says new rules are needed.The companies that make pallets don’t want more rules.Congress has added an amendment(修正案)in the2018Farm Bill to try and prevent this problem.However,Lovett is not hopeful it will make much of a difference.Pallets are checked by inspectors.Many are sprayed with bug-killing pesticide.“I believe in the system，”said Brent McClendon,president of The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association.He also said shipping containers are checked very carefully.Still,each year13million containers are shipped to the U.S.Each is full of wooden pallets.Lovett says:“Inspectors can’t possibly check everything.All it takes are a few bad pallets;we should get rid of wooden pallets.”He believes pallets should be made of plastic or eco-composite wood.Eco-composite wood is a mix of wood fiber and plastic.Insects cannot hide into it.One problem is that these choices cost more.They may be worth the extra money,though.Invasive pests cost the U．S. $5billion a year.Trees don’t just die in forests.They also die in cities and ouryards.Then,they need to be replaced.That costs money,too.28.All the statements are TRUE except that________．A.pesticide has been applied to bug-killingB.invasive pests are native to Wappinger CreekC.invasive pests hide in pallets used in shippingD.the companies making pallets don’t want more rules29.What can we infer from the passage?A.Bugs can be easily spotted by eyes.B.Bugs ruin the shipping goods slowly.C.Even tiny bugs could be a threat to a tree.D.Bugs cover trees with white soft balls to protect tress.30.Why does Gary Lovett want to get rid of wooden pallets?A.Because insects mostly die in them.B.Because plastic pallets are eco-friendly.C.Because they are not worth extra money.D.Because they are the major pest carriers.31.What does the passage mainly talk about?A.Invasive pests are harming plants in the USA.B.Effective measures have stopped the pest invasion.C.Congress contributes a lot to dealing with invasive pests.D.Ecosystem in the USA is poorly damaged by invasive woods.DWhile elephants born without tusks(长牙)are not unheard of，they normally form just2to6percent of the population.However,that is not the case at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park,where an astonishing33percent of female elephants born after the country’s civil war ended in1992are tuskless.While that may appear to be just a coincidence,Joyce Poole,an elephant behavior expert,has another theory. The researcher thinks we may be witnessing unnatural evolution of the species due to the constant hunting of elephants for valuable ivory.Poole says before the country’s15-year-long civil war,the100,000-acre parkwas home to over4,000elephants.However,by the time the conflict ended in1992, about90percent of them had been killed for ivory to help finance weapons(武器)and meat to feed the soldiers.Of the less than200survivors,over50percent of adult females had no tusks.Therefore,it is not surprising that the park’s tuskless elephant population has grown greatly.This is not the first time researchers have observed a great change in the population of elephants.At Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park and Lupande Game Management Area，areas which were heavily hunted in the1970s and1980s,35%of elephants25years or older and13%of those younger than25are now without tusks. A2008study published found that the number of tuskless females at the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania went from10.5percent in1969to almost40percent in1989,largely due to illegal hunting for ivory.The recent ban on ivory in both the US and China should help get rid of,or at least reduce,elephant hunting.However,scientists are not sure how long it will take for elephants with a higher rate of tuskless females,to change the trend.32.What is the probable cause of the phenomenon mentioned in Paragraph1?A.Illegal hunting.B.Constant farming.C.A pure coincidence.D.Natural evolution.33.Why did people kill so many elephants during the civil war in Mozambique?A.To get funds by selling ivory.B.To develop new weapons.C.To provide food for local people.D.To make ivory products.34.Which of the following had the earliest record on tuskless elephants?A.Gorongonsa National Park.B.South Luangwa National Park.C.The Ruaha National Park.D.Lupande Game Management Area.35.What does the underlined phrase“the trend”in the last paragraph refer to?A.Elephants facing greater danger.B.Elephants growing more slowly.C.Fewer female elephants staying alive.D.More female elephants being tuskless.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分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。