1、 - 1 - 莒县二中高二级第一次测试莒县二中高二级第一次测试 英语试题英语试题 满分满分150150分分 ,时间,时间120120分钟分钟 20182018 年年 1010 月月 本试卷分第卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题) 第第卷(选择题卷(选择题 共共 100100 分)分) 第一部分:听力(共两节,满分第一部分:听力(共两节,满分 3030 分)分) 第一节第一节 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. Who doe
2、s the man want to speak to? A. Mr. Ford. B. Mr. Taylor. C. Ms. Davidson. 2. What did the man give his father? A. A hat. B. A card. C. A shirt. 3. When did the lecture begin? A. At 8:50. B. At 9:00. C. At 9:10. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. How to find a cheap hotel. B. Where to s
3、pend their holiday. C. When to go to Disney World. 5. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In an office. B. At a laundry. C. At a department store. 第二节第二节 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
4、第 6 段材料,回答第 6、7 题。 6. What sport are the speakers going to play? A. Soccer. B. Basketball. C. Baseball. - 2 - 7. Why is the woman worried? A. She never plays sports. B. She doesnt know the other guys. C. She thinks people will make fun of her. 听第 7 段材料,回答第 8、9 题。 8. How many days a week does the tea
5、m practice? A. Seven. B. Six. C. One. 9. How does the woman feel about the practices? A. They are pretty easy. B. They are worth the effort. C. They are long and serious. 听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. Where does the womans grandmother usually live? A. In Oregon. B. In California. C. In Washington Stat
6、e. 11. What will the woman do with her grandmother? A. Go to a mall. B. Go for a hike. C. Go to a restaurant. 12. What happened to the womans grandfather? A. He died. B. He retired. C. He moved away. 听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. How many groups will there be in total? A. Nine. B. Eight. C. Six. 14. W
7、hat will the students do in the museum? A. Take notes. B. Take photographs. C. Listen to a lecture. 15. Where will the students meet all together at noon? A. In the cafeteria. B. In front of the museum. C. In one of the museum rooms. 16. What type of assignment will the students do? A. An art projec
8、t. B. A history project. C. A photography project. 听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What is the top news story? A. An animal was missing. B. There is a thief at the zoo. C. The school year - 3 - changes. 18. Who is Lacy? A. A school director. B. A zookeeper. C. A monkey. 19. How does the speaker describ
9、e Lacy? A. Frightened. B. Dangerous. C. Crazy. 20. When did the school year finish before? A. In early June. B. In mid-June. C. In late June. 第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分 4040 分)分) 第一节第一节 (共(共 1515 小题;每小题小题;每小题 2 2 分,满分分,满分 3030 分)分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该 项涂黑。 A A The wor
10、ld is changing so fast that English,perhaps the most worldly of languages,is struggling to keep up. Learners in the future are likely to be much younger.Young children are often said to be better at languages learning than older learners but they also have special challenges.Young children dont usua
11、lly have the kind of instrumental motivation and determination for learning English that older learners often have.English lessons must therefore be fun and rewarding. The reasons why people learn English are also changing.Globalization is bringing together more people than ever who speak different
12、languages and who are turning to English as the means of communication. The English learners of the future may be less worried about sounding exactly like a native speaker and more concerned about how to use English effectively in crosscultural communication.We may be hearing more nonnative speakers
13、 in dialogues and a wider range of the “New Englishes”now used around the world. Technology will allow English to come to you,rather than you having to go to a special place to learn English. Learning English has always involved both pain and pleasure,private effort and social activity. Traditional
14、learning provided takeit or leaveit mixes of these as well as of content but in future learners will be able to choose a plan which suits - 4 - their cultural and psychological disposition (性情),or their particular needs at that moment.They,rather than their teachers,will decide how,what and when the
15、y will learn. Above all,learning English is about communication and an important benefit of learning English is being able to exchange views and make friends with people all over the world.Despite the growing independence of learners,trusted institutions and brand names will remain important. 2121Co
16、mpared to older learners,young English learners_ Aare more active in learning Bare more hardworking in learning Chave more difficulties in learning Dhave less lasting determination in learning 2222What can we learn about the future English language? ABritish English will be more popular. BAmerican E
17、nglish will be more popular. CMost people will speak standard English. DMany different kinds of Englishes will appear. 2323What can we learn from the passage? A. Future English lessons will be more interesting. BOld people wont have to learn English in the future. CPeople will pay more attention to
18、English pronunciation. DTeachers will play a more important role in ones English learning. 2424What can be inferred from the passage? A. Learning English means no pain in the future. BEnglish training schools will not be popular with young people in the future. CEnglish learners will become less ind
19、ependent in the future. DMore attention will be paid to personal needs in English learning in the future. B B I find it humorous sometimes that even the most common happenings can have a powerful influence on our awareness. My family moved into our home nine years ago and we spent a lot of time and
20、energy in the yard to get it looking like it does today. The entire side of the yard is surrounded by a carefully built rock wall. The front of the house, though, is another story. The - 5 - rocks seem to be just thrown up onto the dirt, as if someone were in a hurry to finish it. We did the best to
21、 live with it and called this area our “rock garden”. Whenever we had leftover flowers or plants, my wife or I would throw them out front, just to bring some color to the area. Last summer I had reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately identifyide
22、ntify. I knew I didnt plant it and Denise claimed that she didnt either. We decided to let it continue growing until we could figure out what it was. Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the mystery plant, it appeared to be a sunflower. It was long and thin with a tall skinny stalk and only one
23、 head on it. I decided to baby it along and weed around it. As I pulled rocks from the area to get to the weeds, I noticed something unusual. The sunflower had not started where I saw the stalk begin. It actually had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the sun. Thats when I realized that if a tiny little sunflower didnt let a big rock stand in its way of developing, we too can do the same thing. We need to believe in ourselves like the sunflower and have faith that we h