1、山东省临沂市重点中学学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题山东省临沂市重点中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）。考试时间120分钟，满分150.第I卷注意事项：1. 答第I卷前，考生务必用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、座号、考号和科类填写在答题卡和试卷规定的位置上。2. 第I卷每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。3. 第II卷必须用0.5毫米黑色签字笔作答，写在答题卡上各题目指定区域内相应的位置，如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，再写上新的答案
2、；不能使用涂改液、胶带纸、修正带。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，共7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听两遍。 1. What is the mans phone number? A. 377-765-8697. B. 377-765-8679. C. 377-765-8769. 2. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a store. B.
3、 In a classroom. C. At a hotel. 3. What is the man doing? A. Giving the woman advice. B. Encouraging the woman. C. Frightening the woman. 4. What are the two speakers talking about? A. What the weather will be like this weekend. B. What they like doing in their spare time. C. What they will do this
4、weekend. 5. What will the man most probably do tomorrow? A. Go to the party. B. Spend time with Linda. C. Celebrate his 32nd birthday. 第二节：（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟时间阅读每小题，听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What did the woma
5、n think of the English literature course? A. Interesting. B. Difficult. C. Dull. 7. Which course is the woman going to take this term? A. English literature. B. Roman history. C. Chemistry. 请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. Why doesnt the man go to watch TV in the sitting room? A. He doesnt like watching news. B.
6、 He wants to spend time with Ann. C. He has no interest in watching TV. 9. How old will the man be when his mother buys him a laptop? A. 10. B. 12. C. 14. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What is the study the woman read mainly about? A. Most of the time people spend online at work is wasted. B. People spend s
7、ome time on Facebook every day. C. Most people like surfing the Internet at home.11. What do we know about the man? A. He isnt good at managing his time. B. He likes talking with his friends online. C. He surfs the Internet to relax at work.12. What is probably the woman? A. A newspaper reporter. B.
8、 An office lady. C. A computer expert. 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How many students took the course? A. 14. B. 15. C. 16.14. What does the man in the course do on Tuesday mornings? A. He learns to write poems. B. He reads well-known poems. C. He teaches kids poems.15. What kind of poems does the man thin
9、k are good poems? A. Poems that describe beautiful things. B. Poems that are written in beautiful words. C. Poems that show readers the world through the poets eyes.16. How did the kids respond to the poem Between Walls? A. They showed interest in it. B. They found it too difficult. C. They found it
10、 boring. 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When did Benet probably publish his fifth book? A. Around 1920. B. Around 1925. C. Around 1930.18. How did Benet make most of his money? A. By writing poems for local magazines. B. By writing stories for local newspapers. C. By writing stories for popular magazines.19
11、. What did Benet do with the award of 2,500 dollars? A. He donated it to an organization. B. He used it to continue his writing. C. He used it to study Americas Civil War.20. What do we know about Benet? A. He read his poems on American and British radio. B. He used his poems to teach history studen
12、ts. C. He received Americas Pulitzer Prize in 1929.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 Both my parents were born with green fingers. Our family depended on the food we grew in our huge vegetable garden. My mother canned much of the produce for
13、 winter, and my father sold vegetables to the stores and high schools. Our garden was the pride of the neighborhood. But one summer, we had a problem. Someone was stealing some of our vegetables. Then one of the neighbors tipped us off that an old bachelor Benny, who lived a short distance from us,
14、was seen selling some vegetables in a nearby town. Benny didnt have a garden, so he was obviously getting his vegetables from someone elses garden. Now, Benny wasnt a bad old fellow. My dad often hired him for some jobs just to help him out. My parents figured he was taking our vegetables to earn a
15、few extra dollars. But stealing is stealing. My father decided to handle this situation his own way: to hire Benny to guard the garden. But the others in my family were all against it. When my father approached him about the job, Benny was obviously a bit shocked, but Dad handled it pretty well. Ben
16、ny, he said, someone, probably some kids, has been taking vegetables out of our garden. I wonder if I could hire you to guard it? Benny thought about it for a while, and he finally agreed. Needless to say, there were no vegetables missing the next day. Whether or not Benny slept most of the night wa
17、snt important. The fact was that Dads plan was working. That solved our problem. But that wasnt the end of the story. Things worked out even better than my father had planned. You see, each morning, after Benny got done sleepingguarding the gardenhed stay long enough for breakfast and then follow us
18、 around in the garden. Now, Benny got to like this garden business. Then by the following spring, Benny had his own garden with my fathers help. Of course for some reason, we don t need a garden guard anymore.21. According to the text, the familys garden . A. was robbed by many thieves B. helped his
19、 family to live well C. was well-known all over the country D. provided vegetables for the neighbors22. What does the sentence But stealing is stealing in paragraph 2 mean? A. Benny was doing wrong. B. Stealing is not a serious thing. C. Stealing was Bennys lifestyle. D. The author would punish Benn
20、y.23. According to the text, the authors father was . A. optimistic B. brave C. kind D. humorousB Many of the inventions that form part of our everyday lives had their roots right here in the UK. Lets take a look at some of the most important inventions. The bagless vacuum cleaner（吸尘器)James Dyson, 1
21、979 There are some things we dont know we need until someone invents them. Step forward, the bagless vacuum cleaner. James Dyson came up with the idea after spending a lot of money on an expensive cleaner that simply pushed dirt around. Most of us would have left it that, but Dyson went on to change
22、 the basic principle of a vacuum cleaneran idea that hadnt been challenged for 100 yearsby designing a system that removed the necessity of the bag for good. His final version took five years of research. However, when Dyson first approached manufacturers with his idea, he couldnt interest them. But
23、 he didnt give up and set up a factory in Wiltshire in 1993 to produce them himself. Two years later, Dysons products were outselling the competition. The Mini Alec Issigonis, 1959 While the Americans were driving supersize Cadillacs, Britain famously went in the opposite direction and came up with
24、a small car. Alex Issigonis was responsible for the design and made a name for himself in motoring history with its launch(发行）in 1959 for the British Motor Corporation(BMC). The Mimis success wasnt overnight. Many thought it strange, but it developed into a love affair with the British thats never d
25、ecreased, helped by the fact that many stars loved it. The London sewage system（污水下水道系统）Joseph Bazalgette, 1865 Like any major city, London has always produced large amounts of waste. Give thanks, then, to Joseph Bazalgette, an engineer who developed a far-reaching underground sewage system. It chan
26、ged the process of getting rid of waste by dumping it into the Thames River. Even more impressive was his idea to construct pipes that would function for nearly 150 years and still be large enough to meet the need of an increasing population. As he said, Were only going to do this once.24. What do w
27、e know about James Dyson and his idea? A. His efforts paid off at last. B. He enjoyed immediate success. C. His idea attracted many manufacturers. D. He set up the first vacuum cleaner factory.25. The Mini won its popularity . A. soon after its launch in 1959 B. because it was advertised by stars C.
28、 with the help of some famous people D. because people lost interest in supersize cars26. The underlined sentence Were only going to do this once. in the last paragraph shows Bazalagette was . A. cautious B. far-sighted C. strong-minded D. confident27. What did the three British inventors have in co
29、mmon? A. Their success came after many failures. B. They influenced many other inventors. C. They made their inventions by accident. D. Their inventions changed peoples lives.C Imagine living in the year 2500. What would life be like? What would the schools be like, or wouldnt we even need to go to
30、school anymore? Many pupils have interesting ideas about what life in the future will be like. There probably wont be schools any more. Well just sit at home and see teachers talking on a flat screen. Our homework will just be sent to teachers. And they have ideas about which subjects they will have
31、 in the future. Apart from how to drive a space shuttle, they will learn how to communicate with foreign planets, like Mars and Pluto. On the other hand, older people cant imagine that life will be like that. Schools will not exist in the year 2500. But not because we wont need them anymore. There w
32、ont be any young people like us at that time. People will be born at an age of 18. Childhood isnt bad or boring, but the world will just need older people. They will have the chance to vote and the world will have more possibilities with older people in economic terms. Over the next 100 to 200 years it will become harder to tell the differe
