1、 - 1 - 浙江省杭州市实验外国语学校浙江省杭州市实验外国语学校 20172017- -20182018 学年高二英语下学期期中试学年高二英语下学期期中试 题题 考生须知 1本试卷分试题卷和答题卷，满分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。 2答题前，在答题卷密封区内填写姓名、班级、考场号、座位号和准考证号。 3所有答案必须写在答题卷上，写在试题卷上无效。 满分：150 分 测试时间：120 分钟 第第 I I 卷卷 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（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
2、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 has Paul been busy doing recently? A. Getting a novel published. B. Collecting poems. C. Writing a poem. 2. When does the next bus leave for New York? A. At 9:30 B. At 10:00 C. At 10:30 3. What does the man
3、 want the woman to do? A. Call the postman for him B.Attend a meeting with him. C. Post some packages for him. 4. What does the man want? A. A spare key B. A wake-up call service. C. A room next to the lift. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A sports center. B. Swimming pools. C. Spo
4、rts lessons. - 2 - 第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话或读白。每段对话或读白后有几个小题，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。听每段对话或读白前，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。每段对话或读白读两遍。 听第听第 6 6 段材料，回答第段材料，回答第 6 6、7 7 题。题。 6. Why didnt the woman major in art? A. It needed a lot of money. B. It required h
5、ard work. C. It was impractical. 7. What does the man think of the womans decision? A. Regretful. B.Reasonable. C. Strange. 听第听第 7 7 段材料，回答第段材料，回答第 8 8 至至 1010 题。题。 8. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a car. B. At home. C. In a shop. 9. What does the woman suggest doing right n
6、ow? A. Parking the car in a proper place. B. Going shopping after the rain stops. C. Putting on a raincoat before going out. 10. How does the woman feel about the weather? A.A. Excited. B. Unconcerned. C. Worried 听第听第 8 8 段材料，回答第段材料，回答第 1111 至至 1313 题。题。 11. What are the speakers mainly talking abou
7、t? A. A new community center. B. The womans friend Nat. C. Problems of the old. 12. What does the woman say about the old community center? A. Its Nats favourite place. B. It isnt suitable for the old. C. It was set up for people without family. 13. What does the man suggest the woman do? - 3 - A. W
8、rite a letter to the government. B. Ask her friends to do the work themselves. C. Collect some furniture from her neighbors. 听第听第 9 9 段材料，回答第段材料，回答第 1414 至至 1717 题。题。 14. Why does the woman make the call? A. To ask for help. B. To make a complaint. C.To make a request. 15. How is the womans house ow
9、ner? A. He is lazy and impolite. B. He is nice but care too much money. C.He is considerate and easy to get along with. 16. What can we learn from the womans birthday party? A. Her friends ate up all her food and drank up all her beers. B. Some neighbors got angry at her noisy party. C. All her neig
10、hbors went to her party. 17. What does the womans house owner want her to do? A. Pay for the repairs. B. Call him to fix the window. C. Mail the house rent on time. 听第听第 1010 段材料，回答第段材料，回答第 1818 至至 2020 题。题。 18. What may cause people fail to get their dream jobs? A. Lack of experience. B. Poor schoo
11、l report card. C. The nervousness during the interview. 19. What does the speaker suggest the listeners do when applying for a job? A. Build up self-confidence. B. Prepare for the possible questions. C. Go to the beauty salon before the interview. 20. What kind of clothes does the speaker suggest we
12、aring at an interview? - 4 - A. A designer suit. B. High quality clothes. C. A suit in a simple style. 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 3535 分）分） 第一节（共 10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 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。 A One day my two sons and I got into my old car to drive to the local po
13、st office. I backed out of my drive slowly like I normally do and then pulled to a stop at the side road that leads to the main highway. When it was clear I pulled out and stepped on the gas. As I stepped on the clutch（离合器）and tried to shift into second, though, I immediately knew that something was
14、 wrong. The normally solid gear shift（档位 杆）now felt like a spoon in a bowl of soup. I tried quickly to get it to lock into any of the gears but did not succeed. Thankfully, the steering wheel（方向盘）was still working fine and I allowed the car to go to the end of the side road where I was able to pull
15、safely into a wide spot and turn the engine off. It was only later in the day that I finally realized how blessed I had been. I could have been on the main road when that stick shift failed. I could have been in the middle of a curve with no place to turn off the road. I could have had a car too clo
16、se behind me that wouldnt have been able to stop in time. A hundred things could have made this incident dangerous or deadly. Yet, the gear shift broken at just the right moment to keep me and my boys safe. Far too often we only see the bad things in life. We get angry when things dont go out way, a
17、nd we fail to see the thousands of times that they do. Yes, my car broken down. Still, my sons and I are safe. We are loved. And we have been given more time here in this world to share our own love and light. 21. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. The clutch. B. The gear
18、 shift. C. The spoon. D. The car. - 5 - 22. How did the writer stop the car at last? A. By turning the engine off quickly. B. By turning to a local garage for help. C. By removing the steering wheel away. D. By letting it slow down to stop naturally. 23. The drivers thoughts in Paragraph 2 imply tha
19、t _. A. they were lucky enough to be safe B. the car needed to be repaired well C. the driver was good at driving a broken car D. it was important to find a suitable place to park 24. By writing the story, the writer expected us to _. A. be careful in our driving B. ignore the bad things in our life
20、 C. share our love with others in time D. find a bless even from a bad situation B B Ninety percent of Americans drive to work every day although working from home is on the rise. If youre lacking for topics of conversation at a party, chatting about your commute（通勤） is a pretty safe bet. According
21、to a recent study, driving for more than two hours each day can steadily decrease the IQ of middle aged drivers. The Sunday Times of London detailed the study, which looked into the lifestyle choices of over 500,000 Britons between the ages of 37 and 73. When looking at the data of the 93,000 partic
22、ipants who drove more than two to three hours per day, the study found a noticeable drop off in brainpower, measured by intelligence and memory tests. The study found similar results with participants who took part in several hours similarly sedentary (久坐的) activities, like television watching. As i
23、t turns out, stimulating activity stimulates your brain, while - 6 - non-stimulating activity, well, doesnt stimulate your brain. “Cognitive (认知的) decline is measurable over five years because it can happen fast in middle-aged and older people. This is associated with lifestyle factors such as smoki
24、ng and bad diet and now with time spent driving,” Kishran Bakrania, a medical epidemiologist(流行病学家） at the University of Leicester （莱斯特大学） told the Times. Fortunately for most Americans, the average commute time was recorded at approximately 26.5 minutes according to the 2015 United States Census. And if you th
