湛江市2018-2019第二學(xué)期期末高二英語試卷word版無答案

1、湛江市 2018-2019 學(xué)年度第二學(xué)期期末調(diào)研考試高二英語（選修7、選修8）試卷本試題卷共8 頁。全卷滿分120 分，考試用時120 分鐘注意事項：1. 本試卷分第I 卷（選擇題）和第II 卷（非選擇題）兩部分。答卷前，考生務(wù)必將自己的姓名、考生號、考場號和座位號填寫在答題卡上。因測試不考聽力，第I 卷從第二部分的“閱讀理解”開始，試題序號從“21”開始。2. 回答第 I 卷時，選出每小題答案后，用鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目的答案標號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其它答案標號。寫在本試卷上無效。3. 回答第 II 卷時，將答案寫在答題卡上。寫在本試卷上無效。4. 考試結(jié)束后，將本試卷和

2、答題卡一并交回。第I卷第一部分閱讀理解(共兩節(jié)，滿分40 分)第一節(jié)(共 15 小題；每小題2 分，滿分30 分)閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中，選出最佳選項，并在題卡上將該項涂黑。ASagrada Familia ( 2,056,448 visits/year)Opening hours: 09:00-18:00 (October-March) 09:00-20:00 (April-September).Admission: $11, or $10 with the Barcelona Card.Disabled access: Yes.The temple has

3、been under construction since 1882 and they ve still got another 30 to 8years to go before it will be finished. The project s vast scale (規(guī)模) a nd its special design havemade it one of Barcelona s top tourist attractions for many years.La Pedrera (1,133,220 visits/year)Opening hours: 09:00-18:30 (No

4、vember-February) 09:00-20:00 (March-October)Admission: $9.50. Save 20% with the Barcelona Card.Disabled access: No.This building used to be called Casa Mila, but nowadays it s more commonly knownPedrera. It was made of bricks and had colorful tiles ( 瓷磚 ).Barcelona FC Museum (1,032,763 visits/year)O

5、pening hours: 6th April-4th October: (Monday to Saturday) 10:00-20:00; the rest of the year: 10:00 to 18:30.Admission: $8.50 for entry to museum and an extra $17 for a guided tour.1/ 8Disabled access: Yes.It is now generally considered as the best football museum in the world. You can see so many tr

6、ophies ( 獎杯), pictures and statues of great football players. I m not a football fastill enjoyed walking round this museum.Mir oMuseum (518,869 visits/year)Opening hours: Check website for details as they vary depending on the time of the year.Admission: $8. Save 20% with the Barcelona Card.Disabled

7、 access: Yes.This museum has a wide range of Mir6 ' s works dating back as far as 1914. This artworkcollection includes not only his paintings but also a good selection of sculptures.21. Which of the following attractions is the most popular?A. Barcelona FC Museum.B. La Pedrera.C. Sagrada Famili

8、a.D. Mir Museum.22. What can we know about the four tourist attractions?A. Sagrada Familia is the largest building in Barcelona.B. Barcelona FC Museum will attract football fans.C. La Pedrera is well known for its colors.D. Mir Museum was built in as early as the year of 1914.23. What do the four at

9、tractions have in common?A. They are famous for their architectural styles.B. Their opening hours are changeable in different times.C. They are all accessible for the disabled people.D. Tourists can get a discount of 20% with the Barcelona Card.B“ Hello ” is a relatively new greeting. It first appea

10、red sometime in the m-i1d800s, but many people would not have dreamed of using it.“ Hello ” was considered a very impolite way to grsomeone. Instead, people used formal expressions like“ How do you do? ”Back then, there were several words that sounded like“ heullsoe,d to” gebtut they weresomeone s a

11、ttention or to express surprise. For example, if you caught your little brother stealing your snack, you might have said,“ Halloa there! Stop eating my cheese!” If you foundyour soup, you might have shouted,“ Hulloth! aHtogwetdiind there?”Everything started to change in 1876, when Alexander Graham B

12、ell invented the telephone.The first telephones didn t have numbers you could dial, nor did they have bells or ringers.Instead, your telephone sent signals along telephone lines to a central office where an operator would answer by saying something like“ Are you there, sir? ” or “ What is wanted?wou

13、ld then connect your phone to the phone of the person you wanted to reach. There was just one small problem: Since telephones didn t ring, how would the person you were calling know that you were “ on the line " ? The answer is you WOMc) yeto (your phone and hope 2/ 8someone on the other end he

14、ard you. But what would you yell? And what would the person you were calling say when they were going to answer? Bell suggested"Ahoy! Ahoy! ” but it dicatch on. Then the famous inventor Thomas Edison suggested the word hello. That caught on right away.“Hello " became so popular that by 187

15、8 telephone operators were requitedjse it. In fact, operators received the nickname （綽號）“Hello Girls. " Soon, “ hello " became not just thestandard way to answer the phone, but an accepted way to greet people in person.24. Why was “ hello " seldom used when it first appeared?A. It was

16、 too informal.B. It was considered to be rude.C. It was hard to pronounce.D. There were other words like“ hello ".25. “ Hullo " was used to show something.A. unexpected B. excitingC. boringD. interesting26. Paragraph 3 is mainly about.A. how the telephone improvedB. the friendship between

17、Bell and EdisonC. the invention of the telephoneD. how “ hello " was used to answer the telephone27. We can infer from the text that.A. ” hello " got popular as soon as the telephone was inventedB. people liked simple expressions like“ hello ”C. the telephone has changed the way people spe

18、ak D. Bell advised girls to use“ hello ”CA study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important. These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear a

19、nd feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion （ 萬彳乙） connections in the brain of a three-year-old child.Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of th

20、e brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba- ba. This is the pattern -B-B". Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern-B-C” .'The images showed that the part of the brain responsiblefor speech was more active during the %B-B" pattern

21、. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar. Position is key to language, " she says.something

22、is at the beginning4 / 8or at the end, it makes a big difference: John caught the bear. is very different fromcaught John. ”Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books, the Internet, or smartphones no matter how educational doesn atppear

23、to be enough for children s brain development. They carried out a study of-mnionneth-old American babies. They expected the first group who d watched videos in Chinese to showd tohfe same kinlearning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge di

24、fference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio learned nothing.28. What makes connections in a baby s brain?A. Having a higher

25、 IQ. B. Experiencing new information.C. The baby s early age. D. The connection with other babies.29. What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?A. Word order is relevant to meaning.B. A certain brain region processes language.C. Babies identify different sound patterns.D. Babies can

26、 well understand different words.30. What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?A. Words have different sounds.B. Different orders have different meanings.C. Grammar is important in learning languages.D. Different languages have different grammar.31. What is the main conclusion from the s

27、tudy led by Patricia Kuhl?A. Babies shouldn t watch a lot of television.B. Foreign languages are beneficial to babies brain development.C. Listening to different languages helps to develop babies brainD. Social communication improves babies brain dev elopment.DWhen Sir Ector saw Arthur pulled the sw

28、ord （ 劍 ） out of the stone and then pushed it back, he rubbed his eyes. “ I can t believe it! ” he cried. Then he fell on his knees before Arthur. please do not kneel before me. Tell me what you mean! ” Arthur said with great confusion.“ Listen, then, ” said Sir Ector. “ Years ago the wise magician,

29、 Merlin, carried a baby in his arms. That baby was you. Merlin told me to bring you up as my own son. Now I can guess. You must be the late king ? Ki ng Uther s son. Who else could have pulled out the sword? Arthur, we must let all England know you are qualified to be the new king.”“ I would rather

30、be your son than be a king!” cried Arthur.“On Christmas the Bishop重教）will give everyone a chance to pull the sword. You must take your turn and show everyone that you are the only person who can pull the sword out.4/ 8On Christmas Day the great crowd of knights（ 騎士 ） and lords gathered before the ch

31、urch.They pulled and pushed, but no one could make the sword move.Down the street came Merlin. Behind him came Sir Ector with Arthur." Who are thmen?” asked the Bishop. " Here is one who will try the sword," said Merlin. He laid his hArthur ' s shoulder. " Here, 10rds of Engl

32、and, is the true son of King Uther!” Arthuthe stone and laid his hand on the sword. Smoothly and easily he pulled it out. He held it high so all could see.So Arthur became King of all England. Some of the lords did not want him, and he had to fight them. As the years went by, he became stronger and

33、greater. Knights came from all lands to be in his court. At Camelot Arthur started the famous Knights of the Round Table. These were the greatest of all the knights. They made their names famous for all time.32. Sir Ector fell on his knees before Arthur because.A. Arthur pulled the sword out and Sir

34、 Ector knew who he wasB. Merlin told Sir Ector to respect Arthur as if he were the KingC. Sir Ector wanted to ask for forgiveness from the new kingD. Arthur was so powerful that Sir Ector admired him very much33. Arthur found it when Sir Ector said he was qualified to be the new king.A. believable B

35、. unchangeable C. enjoyable D. unacceptable34. What did Arthur do as King of all England according to the passage?A. Making friends with the foreign countries.B. Gathering the greatest knights.C. Developing the national economy.D. Making the famous table.35. What is the best title for the passage?A.

36、 Arthur Defeats EnemiesB. Arthur Trains KnightsC. Arthur Becomes KingD. Arthur Loves Swords第二節(jié) （共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多 余選項。Children's Games in Ancient ChinaUnlike the children nowadays, the children during ancient times didn't have smart phone, iPad or compute

37、r to entertain（娛樂）themselves. 36 Let's take a look.Flying kitesKites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. 37 For example, the swallow-shaped kite is a well-kno

38、wn Beijing style.Playing hide-and-seekHide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. Even nowadays,5 / 8many children like playing it. There are two ways to play. One way is covering a child's eyes while other kids run around to tease （戲弄）him. 3839The closest thing

39、to watching a film or television for entertainment during ancient times was going to see a shadow play. Folk artists manipulate puppets behind the screen, narrating stories and accompanied by music.Setting off firecrackers （ 鞭炮）Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that th

40、ere was a beast （ 野 獸）named Nian in ancient China. 40 After gunpowder was invented, it gradually replaced the bamboo joint cracker. Crackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize auspiciousness 曾禾 1）.A. Watching shadow playsB. Each of them has special features.C. Different materials

41、are used to make the kite.D. Shadow plays were the popular entertaining form in ancient times.E. And to scare off the beast, people burnt bamboo joints to make it blast.F. More commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.G. Instead, they came up with（想出）interesting games to play

42、in their childhood.第二部分英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 45分）第一節(jié)完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（ A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空 白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。My life wouldn't be so wonderful without my parents. Every time I look at them or even think of them, I am very 41.Our native country was Vietnam, but, to 42 the war,

43、we had to leave our home and all our 43 and go on a long boat journey to America. I was two years old and the youngest of seven children.This journey was not 44 for my parents, but throughout they thought of their children first. I was even told that they once ate only apple peels （ 蘋果皮）to45the frui

44、tpart for me. This was special because at that time many children were46by theirparents because of the war.Our journey to America was not the last of our47. We were also faced with startinga life in America with nothing. My parents' strong48to give their children a good lifewas what has taken us

45、 where we are today. Of course, our beginning years were hard. We lived on just enough food bought with food stamps, wore old clothes and played with toys bought at second-hand shops. 49 almost everything we had was bought at second- hand shops, we were 50 because our life was really peaceful.My par

46、ents 51 very hard to build a better life. I will always 52 how early 6 / 8they got up in the morning. After a few years my dad got a degree in business and then he got a(n) 53. Slowly, our living status began to54. My parents bought a car and55 they saved up enough money to buy a house; this was the

47、 true sign of my parents' 56.Today we moved out of the apartment, 57 all the hard times and starting our new 58. We really live very 59 and my parents' greatest achievement is that they have 60 that nothing is impossible.41. A. honorableB. admirableC. powerfulD. grateful42. A. preventB. endC

48、.escapeD. stop43. A. belongingsB. friendsC. colleaguesD. memories44. A. possibleB. easyC. longD. dangerous45. A. demandB. storeC.spareD. find46. A. adoptedB. raisedC. abandonedD. protected47. A. worryB. strugglesC. burdensD. pain48. A. decisionB. abilityC. patienceD. determination49. A. WhileB. Sinc

49、eC. UnlessD. Because50. A. cautiousB. nervousC.happyD. crazy51. A. workedB. expectedC. foughtD. thought52. A. cherishB. enjoyC. rememberD. understand53. A. substituteB. promotionC. statusD. partner54. A. riseB.appearC. continueD. follow55. A. immediatelyB. obviouslyC. suddenlyD. gradually56. A. chal

50、lengeB.hopeC. successD. cooperation57. A. fallingB. carryingC. forgettingD. leaving58. A. educationB. familyC. careerD. life59. A. comfortablyB. lonelyC. independentlyD. confidently60. A. describedB. provenC. declaredD. realized第II卷注意事項：用0.5毫米黑色筆跡的簽字筆將答案寫在答題卡上。寫在本試卷上無效。第二部分英語知識運用(共兩節(jié)，滿分 45分)第二節(jié) 語法填空(共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分)閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容(1個單詞)或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。Xie Lei, a Chinese student studying in Britain, shared her progress in both study and life. It was the first time she 61 (leave) her motherland. On arriving in London, she lived with a host family, in 62 they always helped her. It 63 ' s