安徽省六安市舒城中学学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题含答案.docx

1、安徽省六安市舒城中学学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题含答案舒城中学20182019学年度第二学期期末考试高二英语命题人： 审题人： （时间：120分钟 总分：150分）第卷第一部分 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。第一部分 听力（共20题，每小题1.5分，共30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，并标在试卷的指定位置处。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. W

2、hat will the speakers do?A. Stay away for a couple of weeks. B. Look after Johnsons house.C. Move to another place.2. What do the speakers hurry to do?A. Play football. B. Go bird-watching. C. Buy tickets.3. What is the woman surprised at?A. A news story. B. The mans discovery. C. The mans behavior.

3、4. What are the speakers arguing about?A. The importance of liberation. B. The position of women in society.C. The necessity of career planning.5. Why doesnt the woman hire a gardener?A. To enjoy the extra exercise. B. To kill the spare time. C. To cut down the expenses.第二节(共15小题，每小题l5分，满分225分)听下面5段

4、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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。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秒钟的作答时问。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. Which gate will the man leave from?A. Gate 10. B. Gate 18. C. Gate 20.7. When will the plane take off?A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 1:30 pm. C. At 2:00 pm.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小

5、题。8. How does the girl go to school today?A. By taxi. B. By bus. C. By bike.9. How will the speakers deal with the bike?A. Repair it by themselves. B. Take it to the repair shop. C. Throw it away.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. What is the man doing?A. Renting a car. B. Booking a room. C. Checking out.11.

6、 How much should the man pay for renting the car?A. ￥200. B. ￥400. C. ￥500.12.Where did the man go last night?A. A concert. B. The beach. C. A shopping mall.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What is Jims new apartment like?A. It has no balcony. B. Its more expensive. C. Its farther from his office.14. What

7、does Jim like to do at night?A. Chat online. B. Do the laundry. C. Sleep early.15. What does Jim think of his new roommate?A. Hard-working. B. Friendly. C. Noisy.16. What will Jim probably do?A. Find another apartment. B. Complain to the landlord. C. Solve the problem in another way.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第2

8、0四个小题。17. Why should we outline the speech?A. To relieve the tension. B. To avoid forgetting the main point.C. To be the best speech writer.18. How should we start the toast speech?A. By introducing ourselves. B. By telling a short story.C. By referring to the purpose of the event.19. What is the ke

9、y to making a toast speech?A. Start the speech with humor. B. Make a brief speech.C. Outline the speech.20. What is the passage about?A. Different ways of making a speech. B. Tips on giving a great toast speech.C. The purpose of making a toast speech. 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

10、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，并在答题卡上讲该项涂黑。AKnowing which of these statements have been proved by SCIENCE and which are MYTHS(谬论) could improve your health. Here are some health facts your doctor wants you to know.Not all heart attacks have a symptom of chest pain.Truth! A 2012 study of more than 1

11、.1 million heart attack patients found that 31 percent of men and 42 percent of women didnt have any chest pain before being hospitalized. Call 911 for other symptoms, too, including shortness of breath, light- headedness, and pain elsewhere in the upper body.You do not need eight glasses of water e

12、very day.Truth! There is not any scientific evidence that eight is the magic number. You might need more or less than that, depending on factors such as climate and body size. To make sure you are getting enough, just drink water throughout the day.You need less sleep as you get older.Myth! Older ad

13、ults often sleep less as a result of serious conditions that are more common with age as well as the drugs used to treat them. But that doesnt mean they require less sleep. While sleep needs vary from person to person, most adults should get at least seven hours of sleep for health.Reading in dim li

14、ght will harm your eyes.Myth! It might tire your eyes in the short term, but theres no evidence that it will do any lasting damage. When reading, position light to shine directly on the page rather than from over your shoulder to reduce unpleasant bright light.21. Which of the following has been pro

15、ved to be true?A. You are in need of much less sleep as you get older.B. Reading in dim light does lasting damage to your eyes.C. Some heart attacks dont have a symptom of chest pain.D. You must get more than eight glasses of water every day.22. According to the text, what may be the result of using

16、 drugs?A. Heart attacks. B. Weak eyes.C. Less sleep. D. Shortness of breath.23. Whats the purpose of the text?A. To inform. B. To entertain. C. To advertise. D. To praise.BA couple of weeks ago, my 12-year-old daughter Ella, threatened to take my phone and break it. “At night youll always have your

17、phone out and youll just type,” Ella says, “Im ready to go to bed, and try to get you to read stories for me and youre just standing there reading your texts and texting other people,” she adds. I came to realize that I was ignoring her as a father. Ella isnt the only kid who feels this way about he

18、r parents relationship with devices. Catherine Steiner-Adair, a psychologist at Harvard, wrote The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age. For her book, Steiner-Adair interviewed more than 1,000 kids from the ages of 4 to 18. She talked to hundreds of teache

19、rs and parents. “One of the many things that knocked my socks off,” she says, “was the consistency with which children-whether they were 4 or 8 or 18-talked about feeling exhausted and frustrated or mad trying to get their parents attention, competing with computer screens or iPhone screens or any k

20、ind of technology.” A couple of years ago, my daughter got a laptop for school. And because she was becoming more independent, we got her a phone. We set up rules for when she could use the device and when shed need to put it away. We created a charging station, outside her bedroom, where she had to

21、 plug in these devices every night. Basically, except for homework, she has to put it all away when she comes home. Steiner-Adair says most adults dont set up similar limits in their own lives. “Weve lost the boundaries that protect work and family life,” she says. “So it is very hard to manage your

22、self and be present in the moments your children need you.” After my daughters little intervention（介入）, I made myself a promise to create my own charging station. To plug my phone in-somewhere far away-when I am done working for the day. Ive been trying to leave it there untouched for most of the we

23、ekend.24. Why did Ella threaten to break her fathers phone? A. Her father spent a lot of money on his phone. B. Her father did not do any housework at home. C. Her father made a lot of noise by talking on the phone. D. Her father gave his attention to his phone instead of her.25. The underlined phra

24、se “knocked my socks off” is closest in meaning to “_”. A. made fun of me B. surprised me a lot C. took my socks off D. made me exhausted26. In Steiner-Adairs opinion, parents_. A. should control their use of phones B. have a lot of things to learn from kids C. dont have to focus more on their kids

25、D. should not buy phones for their kids27. We can infer from the text that the writer_. A. will not use his phone from now on B. plans to create more charging stations at homeC. is a man who learns from his mistakes D. doesnt think a laptop is helpful to his daughter CSince the sex of a sea turtle i

26、s determined by the heat of sand hatching the eggs, scientists had suspected they might see slightly more females. Climate change, after all, has driven sea temperatures higher, which, in these creatures, favors female children. They found female sea turtles from Raine Island, the Pacific Oceans lar

27、gest and most important green sea turtle living area, now outnumber males by at least 116 to 1. “This is extreme,” says turtle scientist Camryn Allen.Biologist Michael Jensen wanted to know if climate change had already changed turtles sexes. By using genetic tests, hed figured out that he could fol

28、low turtles of all ages. Still, his research data would lack an important detail: sex. Only after a turtle matures is it possible to tell its sex from the outside-mature males have slightly longer tails. By then turtles can be decades old, so scientists often use laparoscopy (腹腔镜检查), sending a thin

29、tube into each animal, but thats not so practical if youre hoping to examine hundreds of creatures. Fortunately, at a turtle conference, he met Allen, and all she needed was a little blood.They compared their results with temperature data for nesting beaches. What worries them is that Raine Island h

30、as been producing almost female turtles for at least 20 years. This is no small thing. More than 200,000 turtles come to nest there. During high season, 18,000 turtles may settle in at once. “But what happens in 20 years when there are no more males coming up as adults? Are there enough to maintain

31、the population?” says Allen. They also found cooler beaches in the south are still producing males, but that in the north, its almost entirely females hatching. These findings clearly point to the fact that climate change is changing many aspects of wildlife biology.But how widespread is this phenomenon - and what is the consequence?28. How might the scientists feel if there were slightly more female turtles?A. Its normal. B. Its unique. C. Its extreme. D. Its doubtful.29. What is a scientists conventional way to identify a turtles sex?A. Testing its