高2016级高二下学期半期英语试题第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）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

1. What is the man doing?A. Giving advice.B. Asking for permission.C. Making an invitation.2. What will the speakers do next?A. Stay where they are.B. Go out for a walk.C. Go to a coffee shop.3. Which sport will the man do this weekend?A. Diving.B. Swimming.C. Water skiing.4. What does the woman want with her coffee?A. Cream.B. Milk.C. Sugar.5. When should the woman meet with Mr. Jackson?A. At 2:20 pm.B. At 2:30 pm.C. At 2:40 pm. 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. What are the speakers talking about?A. A weekend plan.B. An after-work activity.C. A night class.7. How does the woman advise getting to their destination?A. By boat.B. By bus.C. By car.请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. How did the woman plan the trip?A. By making a decision alone.B. By consulting with her parents.C. By turning to an agent.9. What does the man intend to do during the vacation?A. Work.B. Study.C. Travel.10. What does the woman think of the man?A. Considerate.B. Independent.C. Hard-working. 请听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. How far is it from here to the man's neighborhood?A. Thirty minutes' drive.B. Fifteen minutes' drive.C. Thirty minutes' walk.12. What does the woman want to eat first?A. A bar of chocolate.B. A box of biscuits.C. A piece of bread.13. What do we know about the man?A. He seldom has fast food.B. He doesn't like Chinese food.C. He doesn't have much money.请听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What is the woman?A. A collector.B. A writer.C. A reporter.15. Why does the woman know children so well?A. She has her own children.B. She once taught in some kindergartens.C. She likes children and spends much time with them.16. What are the speakers supposed to do after the conversation?A. Go fetch some books.B. Read some stories.C. Have a rest.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What was the weather like last Monday morning?A. Windy.B. Snowy.C. Rainy.18. What did the speaker and her classmates do at school last Monday?A. They had a discussion.B. They bought some food.C. They collected some clothes.19. How did the cleaners first feel about what the students had done?A. Happy.B. Calm.C. Surprised.20. What did the students decide to do after such an experience?A. Do such things whenever they are free.B. Never throw away wastes any more.C. Call on more people to do the Help.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。

ADear E2 Students,Our trip on May 25thAfter all your hard work on the homework on the history of this city, we have decided to visit the Maritime Museum. Here we are going to have a tour and learn about the sea and rivers in our city. We are going to meet a guide who will show us around the museum. Please make sure you read the information I have given you for homework, as our guide will ask you some questions. We will also get the chance to go inside a 200-year-old trading boat. This boat is very famous. Our trip will finish with a beautiful boat trip along the river.The trip is from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. After the trip, your parents can pick you up from school. Here is the day's timetable:10:00 am: Meet at the front of the school.10:15 am: Walk to the station to catch the train to the museum.10:45 am: Meet our guide — visit museum and boat.11:45 am: Free time to see the rest of the museum.12:30 pm: Lunch (one hour).1:30 pm: Meet me at the front of the museum (Don't be late!)1:45 pm: Boat trip on the river.2:15 pm: Walk back to school.Please make sure that you are at school on time. The school is paying for the trip. All you have to bring is your lunch, water, a camera, a pencil or pen, good shoes and an umbrella or coat in case it rains.Any problems, for example: if you get lost, are sick on the day of the trip or are going to be late for school, please call me on my mobile number: 07993 561992.See you all then!Andrew21. What do we know about the trip?A. Students will be guided around the museum.B. Students are going to have lunch on the boat.C. Students have to wait outside the museum at 10:00 am.D. Students must bring money for the museum entrance fee.22. What is the author's purpose of writing this text?A. To solve a problem.B. To give information.C. To make suggestions.D. To offer an invitation.23. Who wrote this text?A. A student.B. A teacher.C. A parent.D. A tour guide.BWhen Robert Hewitt came to the surface, he realised straight away that something was wrong. He'd been diving for crayfish (小龙虾) off the coast of New Zealand with a friend, and had decided to make the 200-metre swim back to shore alone. But instead, strong underwater currents had taken him more than half a kilometre out to sea. “I'm not going to die. Someone will come,” he told himself. But three hours passed and still no one had come for him.He was now a long way from the coast, but he decided not to try to swim for shore. He felt it was better to save his energy and hold on to his brightly coloured equipment. As night approached, Robert came up with a way to help him survive in the water. To stay warm, he kept himself moving and took short naps (小睡) of less than a minute at a time.When he woke the next morning, he couldn't believe he was still alive. Using his bright equipment, he tried to signal to planes that flew overhead. But as each plane turned away, his spirits dropped.Robert woke on the third day to a beautiful blue sky. Now seven kilometres off the coast, Robert decided he had to swim for it. But he quickly ran out of strength. Robert then started to think he might not survive.On the fourth day, the lack of food and water was really starting to affect him. Half unconscious (失去知觉的), and with strange visions ( 幻觉) going through his head, he thought he saw a boat coming towards him with two of his friends in it. They put him in the boat and he said something like “Oh, how's it going? What are you guy s doing here?” Then he asked them the question:“ Can I have some water?” As they handed him the water and he felt it touch his lips, he knew it was not a vision. He'd been found!24. What happened to Robert?A. He was stuck at sea.B. He lost his best friend.C. He failed to hunt crayfish.D. He was hurt by underwater currents.25. Faced with the problem, what did Robert decide to do at first?A. Have a good sleep.B. Try to swim for shore.C. Find something to eat.D. Save energy and wait for help.26. When did Robert start to lose hope?A. On the third day.B. At the end of the first day.C. In the middle of the fourth day.D. At the beginning of the second day.27. When Robert was found, he _____.A. was very excitedB. couldn't believe itC. was terribly afraidD. refused to accept the helpCBedtime has come and gone, and your 10-year-old is staring hopelessly at his half-finished essay ( 文章). It must be handed in tomorrow, and there's a choice before you: Send him to school with the work undone or give him a little“help”to get the job done. There likely isn't a parent out there who hasn't been faced with the problem: How much help is the right amount?Think of yourself as a coach, say parenting experts and researchers. Not a kind helper that takes on all the things, but someone who provides the tools (the desk, the pencils, the quiet space), the cheers and the occasional suggestion.“Be helpful but don't hold the pen,” says Linda Cameron, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and experienced teacher, who researches homework and admits to helping her own now-grown children a little too much on occasion. “You can inspire them and give them snacks.”And while parents should not give the answers, Dr. Cameron says, they should never send their children to school the next day without a note telling the teacher why their homework isn't done —don't leave it up to your children to give excuses. “I wrote many notes to school, saying we spent much time on it and we need sleep time,” she says.While our kids are being hurried by forces from all sides, researchers suggest the most powerful often comes from parents, who need to be more sensitive about their expectations and careful about piling on too many scheduled activities.“Many parents want their kids to be the best and get into H arvard University, so they support more homework without thinking about what it means for their kids,” says Dr. Cameron.28. What can we infer about the child in Paragraph 1?A. He is not willing to do his homework.B. He is a student good at writing essays.C. He cannot finish the homework by himself.D. He often does his homework around bedtime.29. What does Cameron think of her way to help her kids with their homework?A. It is wrong sometimes.B. It makes them cheerful.C. It helps raise their confidence.D. It makes them tired sometimes.30. What is the purpose of the note suggested by Cameron?A. To express parents' thanks to the teacher.B. To explain reasons for the unfinished work.C. To ask the teacher to be strict with the child.D. To encourage the child to work hard at school.31. Which might be the researchers' advice to parents?A. Try not to limit their kids' freedoms.B. Try to know their kids' expectations.C. Don't give their kids too much pressure.D. Encourage their kids to enter a university.32. What is the text mainly about?A. Why parents should help their kids with studies.B. How parents should help their kids with homework.C. Why kids need their parents to help with homework.D. How kids should ask their parents to help with homework.DTechnology seems to be advancing daily, but the Pilot by Waverly Labs, the world's first translation earpiece, might be a truly huge step forward for communication.Though the Pilot is still very much in development, the product will be sold as two earpieces and a smartphone app. When first released, the technology will translate between only five European languages —English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. The earpiece has microphones to isolate ( 使分离) the speaker's voice, after which the speech will be sent to the app. The app runs speech recognition, machine translation and speech synthesis ( 合成) processes before sending the new speech to the listener's earpiece.The Pilot is joining other machine translators like Skype Translator and Google Translate, but it's the first to add earpieces to it. The added convenience of these will make the device (设备) useful in several social fields, particularly business and travel.When the fundraising for the Pilot was launched on Indiegogo in May, 2016, it became obvious just how much the market wanted the product. It reached its US $75,000 goal in 15 minutes, US $1 million in hours and eventually more than US$2 million with the help of over 11,000 supporters. It seemed that the Pilot caught the imagination of many who had seen similar technology in science fiction, like a Forbes writer expressed it in the following quote: “The Waverly Labs Pilot is as close as I've seen to the Universal Translator I was promised by Star Trek when I was a kid.”Though the Pilot's translation app is available now, the entire earpiece package is planned for delivery in May 2017 at a retail cost (零售价) of US $250 to $300. For now, Waverly Labs is still hard at work improving the Pilot's speed of translation and developing an offline mode. Additional language packages will be developed and sold soon after the product's release so that people everywhere can make use of this amazing device.33. What do we know about the Pilot by Waverly Labs?A. It can provide offline translation now.B. It will be sold together with a smart phone.C. It can translate between any two languages.D. It has an app that is responsible for translation.34. What is the advantage of the Pilot compared with other translators?A. Its earpieces.B. Its translation speed.C. Its microphones.D. Its translation mode.35. What can be inferred about the Pilot from Paragraph 4?A. It was expensive.B. It was very popular.C. It was particularly made for kids.D. It was copied from science fiction. 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。