贵州省铜仁市西片区高中教育联盟学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题含答案.docx

1、贵州省铜仁市西片区高中教育联盟学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题含答案铜仁市西片区高中教育联盟2017-2018学年度第二学期期末考试高二年级 英语 试卷（考试时间：120分钟）第一部分 听力 （共两节，满分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 is the man probably going to do tomorrow?A. Play baseball with Joe

2、. B. Study for the exam. C. Watch a game.2. Whose birthday is it today?A. Mikes. B. Hollys. C. Andrews. 3. What does the woman mean?A. She wants to keep one video until tomorrow. B. She hasnt taken the videos with her. C. She will return all the videos tomorrow. 4. When did the man arrive?A. On Sept

3、ember 2nd. B. On September 5th. C. On September 7th. 5. What is the mans suggestion?A. Having the computer repaired.B. Using his computer later.C. Going to the computer lab.第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面五段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、BC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，各个小题将给出5

4、秒钟的作答时间。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. What is the woman interested in?A. Following the fashion. B. Playing video games. C. Traveling with her friends. 7. Where does the man like to go for relaxation?A. The shopping mall. B. The restaurant. C. The seaside.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. What made the woma

5、n move to Portugal?A. Her mothers death. B. Her daughters education. C. Her job. 9. What is happiness in the womans eyes?A. To gain fame. B. To be herself. C. To become rich. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. What is the woman probably?A. A student. B. A saleswoman. C. A training manager. 11. When are the n

6、ew employees required to start?A. Within one week. B. Within two weeks. C. Within one month. 12. What does the woman promise to do?A. Receive induction training . B. Reply to the man soon.C. Work in the company. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What did the woman do in Thailand?A. She tried zip-lining. B.

7、She went camping. C. She rode elephants. 14. How long did the hike last?A. About one day. B. About two days. C. About three days. 15. Which country was the womans second stop?A. Laos. B. Vietnam. C. Myanmar.16. Where did the woman stay in Laos?A. In a city hotel. B. In a big tree house. C. In a comm

8、unity in the hills. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. What does the center aim to do?A. Encourage people to live a healthy life.B. Provide a colorful life for the retired people.C. Offer a relaxing place for sick people t recover. 18. What advice does the speaker give about exercising?A. Exercising as plann

9、ed. B. Trying all kinds of exercise. C. Doing exercise after lunchtime. 19. What entertainment does the center offer?A. Watching TV. B. Holding parties. C. Relaxing in the garden. 20. How can the members have newspapers sent to their rooms?A. Paying a little booking fee. B. Contacting the people at

10、reception.C. Informing the library of their demands. 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。AThere are always been some heated debates when it comes to medical cloning. Different people hold different attitudes towards the topic, some in favor of it while some

11、strongly against it. Peter Smith: “I suggest that medical cloning is very important for curing serious illnesses that at present have no cure; for example, to replace nerve cells(神经细胞) in someone who has suffered a stroke(中风). Most profitably, medical cloning can be used to help with diseases that g

12、radually cause people to lose their ability to move or to think ( such as Parkinsons Disease). With the help of special cloning techniques, such people can be restored to perfect health and be able to live a normal life again. This is a wonderful thing for human beings because it improves our qualit

13、y of life. As we can see, the benefits are very obvious. ”Louis Armstrong: “ Medical cloning is far more complicated than what some people claim to be. First of all, where do these stem cells(干细胞) come from? Well, from human cells of course. If you believe that human life comes into existence as soo

14、n as the cells begin to grow, then the practice of removing an embryo(胚胎) kills it. This embryo, if it was allowed to continue to grow and develop, would eventually become another human being. So by using stem cells to save one person, we are actually killing another. Is it morally justified(正当的)? I

15、 feel that the answer must be NO. Not to mention the uncertain risk and danger. ” Indeed, at the moment medical cloning research is a very new science. It has been proved successful in cloning some animals - but not all. There still exist a lot of unsolved problems in animal cloning. And the problem

16、s for human cloning will be even more serious as no human has yet been cloned. It is much more reasonable that we must be cautious about medical cloning until all these problems are settled. 21. What is Louis Armstrongs attitude to medical cloning? A. Optimistic. B. Indifferent. C. Opposed. D. Uncle

17、ar. 22. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?A. The author supports the idea that we should carry out medical cloning immediately.B. The author tends to be against Louis Armstrongs point of view. C. The author disagrees that there should be medical cloning. D. The author c

18、riticizes both Peters and Louiss idea. 23. How does medical cloning benefit human beings as far as Peter Smith is concerned?A. Medical cloning can cure all kinds of illnesses including Parkinsons Disease. B. Medical cloning can prevent people from getting diseases.C. Medical cloning can make human b

19、eings perfect and healthy.D. Medical cloning can help people with some serious diseases to restore health. BIn 1452 one of the greatest painters and inventors, Leonardo da Vinci, was born. His family was very poor and he grew up in the Italian countryside. But his drawing ability allowed him to stud

20、y under the famous painter from Florence, called Verrocchio. Leonardo gradually learned the skills needed to be a great artist and by the 1480s he had begun to produce paintings of his own. Unfortunately, at this time painting did not always provide a steady income, so the young Leonardo developed h

21、is drawing skills to earn money in other ways. He learned to design whatever his employer wanted: cities, canals, bridges or weapons. Leonardo became interested in machines when he was a boy. Some of his early drawings showed clearly how various machine parts worked. While he was studying under Verr

22、occhio, Leonardo observed and used a variety of machines. By studying and drawing them, Leonardo gained knowledge about their design and structure. Artists in Leonardos time knew how to build and repair many familiar kinds of machines, but nobody seemed to have thought about inventing new ones.Howev

23、er, Leonardo was different. He developed a new attitude towards machines. He realized that by understanding how each separate machine worked, he could improve them and combine them in different ways to improve existing machines. In this way he began to design machines no one had ever seen before. He

24、 set out to write the first systematic explanation of how machines work and how the parts of a machine are combined in the whole. His drawing skills enabled him to produce clear drawings of his mechanical ideas easily. Even more than five hundred years later, many of his designs can still be used to

25、 create perfect working machines.For him, the most interesting part was the use of mechanical gears(齿轮). Based on the gear, he came up with numerous designs, including the bicycle, a helicopter, an “ automobile” and some weapons of course.While making inventions Leonardo was also painting. One of th

26、ose who knew him best recognized his special abilities and described him in those words:“The most wonderful gifts seem to be given to certain human beings. Sometimes, marvellously(不可思议地), they can be found in one individual . This was seen and acknowledged by all men in the case of Leonardo da Vinci

27、, who demonstrated . a special grace in everything he did. His talent was so rare that he mastered any subject to which he turned his attention . He might have been a scientist if he had not been so skilled in other areas.” Today, we think of Leonardo da Vinci as one of the greatest painters, but if

28、 he had never been a painter, we would still appreciate him as one of the greatest inventors of his time. 24. Leonardo could learn painting under Verrocchio because of _.A. his rich family B. his interest in machines C. his drawing skills D. his painting ability25. When Leonardo was a boy, he _.A. s

29、howed no interest in machines B. lived with Verrocchio in FlorenceC. earned much money through painting D. led a life with terrible poverty26. According to the underlined description about Leonardo, we can say that _.A. Leonardo became a scientist at lastB. Leonardos inventions were not so good as h

30、is paintings.C. Leonardo was a man of talentD. Leonardo was regarded as a scientist as well as an artist.27. What is the best title for the text?A. Leonardo da Vinci: more than a painterB. Leonardo da Vinci: one of the greatest inventorsC. Leonardo da Vinci: a great painter of his timeD. Leonardo da

31、 Vinci: designer and creator of machinesCCollecting and writing news is like researching in history: the best information comes from those who were there at the time. So if we want to study the history of China in the sixth century AD, we look at the writings of the people who lived then. They are c

32、alled the primary sources because they tell us what it was like to live then. People at a much later date who write about the same events are called secondary sources. For example, when we read about the original writings of Jia Sixie on agriculture, we are reading a primary source; when we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading a secondary source because the passage was written about him and