唐山一中2017—2018学年第二学期期中考试高二年级英语试卷命题人：黄蕊潘晓丽刘佳审核人：李红娜说明：1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。

2.将卷Ⅰ答案用2B铅笔涂在答题卡上，将卷Ⅱ答案答在答题纸上。

卷Ⅰ(选择题共100分)第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节：（共5小题；第小题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答案，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 color does the man prefer?A. Light blueB. YellowC. White2. What do we know about the woman?A. She has got a new job.B. She will receive some training in Hawaii.C. She doesn’t like spending her holiday in Hawaii.3. Who is the woman speaking to probably?A. A policeman.B. A friend.C. A shop assistant.4. When did the man get up this morning actually?A. At 6:00.B. At 8:00.C. At 8:30.5. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In the theater.B. At the ticket office.C. In the shopping mall.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。

听完每段对话或独白前，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. What is Mr. Brown doing?A. Attending a meeting.B. Making a call.C. Leaving a message.7. What does the woman ask the man to repeat?A. His position.B. His address.C. His phone number.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Which season does the woman like best?A. Summer.B. Fall.C. Winter.9. How long has it rained?A. For two days.B. For a week.C. For two weeks.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the woman think of working in IT field?A. Hard.B. Popular.C. Well-paid.11. Who is the man’s father?A. An architectural designer.B. A college teacher.C. A biologist.12. What degrees will the man get?A. Architecture design and biology.B. Architecture design and computer science.C. Biology and computer science.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the woman decide to buy for her dad?A. Stamps.B. Postcards.C. Poker cards.14. Which goods among the three is the most expensive?A. The woolen hat.B. The Swiss army knife.C. The leather belt.15. How much money did the woman pay for all?A. $78.B. $108.C. $114.16. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The woman is visiting the region for the second time.B. The woman’s son is in primary school now.C. The woman buys two silk scarves for herself.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How many people were there running the Ford Motor Company together?A. 11.B. 12.C. 13.18. When did the company develop the production line?A. In 1903.B. In 1908.C. In 1913.19. How did the production line change manufacturing according to the speaker?A. Slightly.B. Slowly.C. Greatly.20. Which of the following was the main contribution made by the production line?A. More efficiency and less cost.B. Better cars and fewer workers.C. More cars for poor families.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10小题; 每小题2分, 共20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, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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How much do you want for it, sir?”“Twenty pounds,”I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll give you twenty pounds.”“It’s got a slightly broken leg,”I said. “Yes, I saw that, but it’s nothing.”Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. “What will you do with it?”I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done.”“I’ll buy it,”I said. “What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me,”he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I’m sorry; I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it. ”“You must be crazy,”he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair. ”“You’re right,”I said. “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said would you mend this chair for me?”“I wouldn’t have agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for a fiver (五镑钞票)?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.21. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ________.A. was rather impoliteB. was warmly receivedC. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chairD. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair22. The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ________.A. changed his mindB. accepted the offerC. saw the writer’s purposeD. decided to help the writer23. How much did the writer pay?A.￡5.B.￡7.C.￡20.D.￡27.24. From the text, we can learn that the writer was ________.A. smartB. carefulC. honestD. funnyBNanjing and Hangzhou summer camps offeredWe are looking for hard-working and open-minded English teachers to join the Nanjing (Jiangsu Province) and Hangzhou (Zhejiang Province) summer camps!Both of the summer camps will run from the beginning of July to the end of August. You will beexpected to teach spoken English to Chinese students of different ages. We encourage you to bring your own culture to the classes to make things more interesting.The information of the Nanjing camp:● Working hours: 40 hours per week, 5 working days per week.● Salary: about 7,000 RMB per month.● Accommodation: free (single room).The information of the Hangzhou camp:● Working hours: 5 hours per day (＝50 min./class × 6 classes), one day rest per week.● Salary: 20,160 RMB in total (420 RMB per day ＝70 RMB/class × 6 classes).● Accommodation: free (shared room).The requirements of the summer camps:● Native English speakers (US, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).● A university degree.● Teaching experience.Please send us your resume (简历), copies of certificates and passport if you are interested in the camps.E-mail: teacher1324@For more information you can visit our website at http: //www. Englishsummercamps. Looking forward to hearing from you soon!25. How long will a teacher work for the summer camps?A. About five weeks.B. About eight weeks.C. 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If you love animals and want to see some elephants wandering around the streets, then Durban is the place to go. You can even get to ride one if you want!Here you will also get to taste all the delicious South African food. You can choose from Italian cooking to its native dishes. Durban is a great place to tour with your friends and family. You will learn a lot about its history through the landmarks you will see down the streets. Tourists a nd even the local villagers just can’t get enough of these treats!However, it is important that you make the necessary arrangements. There are actually lots of tour guides that will help you as you make your journey along the streets of Durban. But if you prefer the best tour guides here in Durban, then you’d better choose the Street Scene Tours. Their staff are all well-trained and professional. They will certainly make your stay here an unforgettable one. No wonder tourists prefer the Street Scene Tours when it comes to Durban City Tours.28. The underlined word “strained” in Paragraph 2 means ______.A. easyB. stressfulC. relaxingD. wonderful29. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2?A. Durban is a relaxing city.B. People don’t like city life.C. It is good to have a place to relax.D. One can have fun riding elephants.30. If you walk in the streets of Durban, what will impress you most?A. Tourists from all over the world.B. The buildings and many kinds of animals.C. The streets and some wandering elephants.D. The friendly local people and the scenery.31. The author wrote the last paragraph mainly to ______.A. attract tourists to DurbanB. help readers make arrangementsC. introduce the tour guidesD. persuade tourists to choose the Street Scene ToursDTo many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential windowon the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey (猎物), meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a man cast away on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and destined to starve to death.So important is the web to an orb-web spider’s survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier (憔悴的), it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands (线). Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening andre-uses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactively labeled materials, it was found that95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day’s web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down.Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider’s highly preprogrammed brain, whichis larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate (无脊椎动物). If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finished building a normal web. One spider will even finish building the incomplete web of another.32. What is probably the best title for the passage?A. Secrets of Spiders’ AdaptabilityB. Importance of Webs to SpidersC. Secrets of the Spiders’ LifeD. Spider s’ Highly Preprogrammed Brain33. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Web-building spiders have good eyesight.B. One web-building spider usually conducts one web.C. Most spiders will stop conducting webs when hungry.D. Web-building spiders will probably die without their webs.34. A spider conducts a wider-meshed web when _______.A. it is 16 days oldB. it is getting weakerC. it has fewer strandsD. it hunts for food35. A spider’s ability to finish an incomplete web proves that _______.A. it has a highly preprogrammed brainB. it reuses its web protein to reproduce new silkC. the web is everything for a spiderD. it is able to rebuild a destroyed web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。