修远中学2017-2018学年度第二学期期中阶段测试高二英语试题第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20分)第一节(共5小题；每小题l分，满分5分)1. What does the man think of the actress?A. She looks good. B. She works hard. C. She isn't attractive. 2. Why can't the speakers exercise next week?A. Because they'll go out to work. B. Because they'll fix some pipes. C. Because one pipe goes wrong. 3. What is the man going to do this weekend?A. See Jim off. B. Make a wish. C. Host a party. 4. How will the man pay the woman?A. 10 dollars an hour. B. 12 dollars an hour. C. 15 dollars an hour. 5. What are the speakers doing?A. Listening to a lecture. B. Listening to music. C. Having a discussion. 第二节(共15小题； 每小题1分，满分15分)听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What can we know about the computer?A. It can only be used in a fixed place. B. It can only be ordered over the phone. C. It comes with a fourteenday free trial. 7. What can buyers get if they pay by credit card?A. A bigger discount. B. A faster delivery. C. A lower risk. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. Why is the plane delayed?A. Because of the building. B. Because of flight itself. C. Because of the weather. 9. What can we know from the conversation?A. The woman is going to celebrate her son's birthday. B. The airport has just been finished a short time ago. C. The speakers will not wait for this flight to Seattle. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. How did the man learn about Martin Harris?A. From the woman. B. From the radio news. C. From the newspaper. 11. What do we know about Martin Harris?A. He saved many people in the flood. B. He bought a small boat for the storm. C. He gave advice to people in the flood. 12. What should you do if you are stuck in the flood?A. Find a boat for you to get to a high place. B. Hold on to something that floats. C. Wait for Martin Harris for help. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题13. What is the most probable relationship of the two speakers?A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Classmates. 14. What is the boy's uncle?A. A doctor. B. A nurse. C. An insurance agent. 15. Why did the boy hesitate in talking about his dream at first?A. He was afraid of being laughed at. B. His uncle didn't want him to talk about it. C. He was worried that it wouldn't come true. 16. Which of the following is true?A. The boy's uncle advised him to be a nurse. B. The boy often visits his uncle's hospital. C. The woman thinks positively of the boy's dream. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why does the speaker write this letter?A. To show his thanks. B. To show his regrets. C. To show his good wishes. 18. Which of the following is true about the speaker?A. He likes eating beef stew and potatoes. B. He preferred seeing snow to skating on the lake. C. Looking at the stars in the sky was his longtime wish. 19. What did the speaker dislike about the trip last week?A. The weather. B. The noise. C. The food. 20. What does the speaker and his family plan to do to welcome Monica?A. Send her some tickets. B. Show her around his house. C. Take her to watch basketball matches. 第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)第一节：单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)请阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21. According to the local law, no one ______ enter the building site without permission.A. can B. must C. shall D. dare22. By making it possible for cancer to be detected early in people with no symptoms through a simple blood test, we aim to greatly decrease cancer deaths by finding the disease at a stage ______ it can be cured.A. which B. when C. where D. what23. The auto factory ______ new profit records through technical innovation — 10% growth rate in the last two years and hopefully 15% this year.A. set B. has set C. is setting D. has been setting24. Why do you turn to me for help ______ you can easily work out the problem independently?A. until B. when C. after D. unless 25. The leaders of the BRICS countries Friday reached important ______ on building an open world economy and improving global economic governance（管理）during their informal meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany. A. consideration B. consensus C. commitment D. confirmation 26.—What about going abroad for further study? —Great, but I never expected ______ a chance for me before. A. there to be B. there being C. it to be D. it being 27.Nowadays, more and more students tend to ______ online courses instead of taking courses at the training center. A. subscribe to B. appeal to C. adapt to D. stick to28. A waterfall theme park in Kunming, finished and opened to public for free last month, __________ a 400-meter-wide man-made waterfall and attracts thousands of visitors.A. expands B. focuses C. occupies D. features 29. In 1776, two Spanish men were seeking a way to travel from Santa Fe, in ________ is now New Mexico, to California on the west coast of North America. A. where B. that C. which D. what30.－The rain is coming down so hard!－________ my umbrella this morning, I wouldn’t be trapped here now. A. Did I take B. Had I taken C. Were I to take D. Would I take31. The technology is ______ changing, so it isn’t an easy job to choose a cell-phone today. A. constantly B. automatically C. temporarily D. immediately32. At first glance, my hometown is no different from any other small town, its scenery actually ________ among the best in the country. A. ranks B. rank C. ranking D. to rank 33. I had trouble telling Pedro he’d lost his job. I started ______ and talking about one door closing and another door opening.A. beating a dead horse B. adding fuel to the fireC. beating around the bush D. opening Pandora’s box34. —Did you have butterflies in your stomach at the interview? —______. That was my first job interview.A. It depends B. Not really C. You bet D. I mean it35. Fish: “You couldn’t see my tears because I am in the water.” Water: “But I could feel your tears because you are in my ________.”A. heart B. brain C. hands D. bones 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）请阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Dear doctors,As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis, they 36 me at about the 15th name that I recall. The 37 includes the doctors, nurses, social workers, and even cleaning staff members who 38 her. “How do you 39 any of their names?” they ask.“How could I not?” I respond.Every single one of you treated Laura with such professionalism and kindness as she lay 40 . When she needed shots, you 41 that it was going to hurt a little, whether or not she could hear. You spread a blanket not only when her body temperature needed 42 but also when the room was just a little cold and you thought she’d sleep more 43 that way.Then there was how you 44 me. How would I have found the 45 to make it through that week without you?How many times did you 46 me to see whether I needed anything, or to see whether I needed a better 47 of a medical procedure or just someone to talk to? How many times did you hug me and comfort me 48 I fell to pieces? How many times did you deliver bad news with comforting words and 49 in your eyes?On the final day, all I wanted was to be alone with her, so I asked the nurses if they could give us one hour without a single 50 , and they 51 , closing the curtains and the doors and shutting off the lights.I lay down softly beside her. She looked so beautiful, and I kissed her and laid my 52 on her chest, feeling it rise and fall with each 53 , her heartbeat in my ear. It was our last 54 moment as a husband and a wife, and it was more natural and pure and comforting than anything I’d ever felt.I will remember that last hour together for the rest of my life. It was a 55 beyond gifts. Really, I have all of you to thank for it.With my gratitude and love,Peter DeMarco36. A. helpB. stopC. neglectD. bother37. A. answerB. entryC. itemD. list38. A. worried aboutB. checked upC. cared forD. came across39. A. rememberB. identifyC. findD. confirm40. A. uncertainB. unluckyC. uncomfortable D. unconscious41. A. apologized B. insistedC. declaredD. displayed42. A. decreasingB. monitoringC. regulatingD. observing43. A. gentlyB. freelyC. deeplyD. comfortably44. A. treatedB. persuadedC. showedD. trusted45. A. opportunityB. strength C. solutionD. motivation46. A. check onB. look afterC. count onD. seek after47. A. excuseB. causeC. explanationD. instruction48. A. whereB. thoughC. untilD. when49. A. hopelessnessB. sadnessC. calmnessD. nervousness50. A. recognitionB. interruptionC. restrictionD. description51. A. smiledB. weptC. sighedD. nodded52. A. eyesB. handC. headD. body53. A. chokeB. touchC. breathD. tremble54. A. bitterB. desperateC. cheerfulD. sweet55. A. lifeB. giftC. memoryD. fate第三部分 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
ADINERSTONY SOPRANO’S LAST MEAL Between 1912 and the 1990s, New Jersey State was home to more than 20 diner manufacturers who made probably 95 percent of the diners in the U.S., says Katie Zavoski, who is helping hold a diner exhibit. What makes a diner a diner? (And not, say, a coffee shop?) Traditionally, a diner is built in a factory and then delivered to its own town or city rather than constructed on-site. Zavoski credits New Jersey’s location as the key to its mastery of the form. “It was just the perfect place to manufacture the diners,” she says. “We would ship them wherever we needed to by sea.” VISIT “Icons of American Culture: History of New Jersey Diners,” running through June 2017 at The Cornelius House / Middlesex County Museum in Piscataway, New Jersey GOOD FOOD, GOOD TUNES Suzanne Vega’s 1987 song “Tom’s Diner” is probably best known for its frequently sampled “doo doo doo doo” melody (旋律) rather than its diner-related lyrics. Technically, it’s not even really about a diner — the setting is New York City’s Tom’s Restaurant, which Vega frequented when she was studying at Barnard. Vega used the word “diner” instead because it “sings better that way,” she told The New York Times. November 18 has since been called Tom’s Diner Day, because on that day in 1981, the New York Post’s front page was a story about the death of actor William Holden. In her song Vega sings: “I Open / Up the paper / There’s a story / Of an actor / Who had died / While he was drinking.” LISTEN “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega MEET THE DINER ANTHROPOLOGIST Richard J.S. Gutman has been called the “Jane Goodall of diners” (he even consulted on Barry Levinson’s 1982 film, Diner). His book, American Diner: Then Now, traces the evolution of the “night lunch wagon,” set up by Walter Scott in 1872, to the early 1920s, when the diner got its name (adapted from “dining car’’), and on through the 1980s. Gutman has his own diner facilities (floor plans, classic white mugs, a cashier booth); 250 of these items arc part of an exhibit in Rhode Island. READ American Diner: Then & Now (John Hopkins University Press) VISIT “Diners: Still Cooking in the 21st Century,” currently running at the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island56. In what way is a diner different from a coffee shop? A. Its location. B. Its management. C. From what it is built. D. Where it is constructed.57. What do we know about Vega’s 1987 song “Tom’s Diner”? A. It warns people not to drink. B. It was inspired by Tom’s Diner Day. C. Its melody is preferred to its lyrics. D. Its original title was Tom’s Restaurant.BAfter a fight and before forgiveness often comes an apology. But saying “I’m sorry” comes more easily for some people than doing that for others. A new study suggests that specific personality traits offer clues about whether a person is likely to offer a sincere apology.Psychologist Andrew Howell and his colleagues at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton designed a questionnaire to measure a person’s willingness to beg someone’s pardon. They asked participants to indicate their level of agreement with a series of statements, such as “My continued anger often gets in the way of me apologizing” or “If I think no one will know what I have done, I am not likely to apologize.” The researchers then used the answers to determine every participant’s “proclivity(倾向) to apologize,” and they cross-referenced(相互参照) these scores with results from a variety of personality assessments.From the beginning, Howell was confident that people with high marks on compassion and agreeability would be willing apologizers — and the study results confirmed his hypothesis(假设). But the experiment also turned up some surprising traits of the unrepentant(不思悔改的).People with low self-esteem, for example, were less inclined to apologize, even though they probably feel bad after a conflict. Unlike people who experience guilt about a specific action and feel sorry for the person they have wronged, individuals who experience generalized shame may actually be feeling sorry for themselves.In contrast, “people who are sure of themselves have the capacity to confess to wrongdoing and admit it,” Howell suggests. But just the right amount of self-esteem is the key. The study also found that narcissists — people who, in Howell’s words, “are very egocentric, with an overly grand view of themselves” — were reluctant to offer an apology.The researchers were most surprised to find that a strong sense of justice was negatively correlated with a willingness to apologize, perhaps suggesting that contrition(忏悔) and an “eye for an eye” philosophy are incompatible(不相容的). Reconciliation(和解) may end a conflict, but it cannot always settle a score.58. What kind of people are more likely to apologize?A. Intelligent people. B. Confident people.C. People valuing fairness.D. People feeling sorry for themselves.59. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests _____________. .A. an end of conflict doesn’ t mean wrongdoers have been punished B. “an eye for an eye” philosophy cannot solve an argumentC. only by deep regret can one learn the lesson of his wrongdoingD. unsatisfactory compromises cannot end a conflict peacefully60. The study done by Andrew Howell and his colleagues reveals _____________.A. what influences one to be a willing apologizerB. when people might apologize willinglyC. what a willing apologizer is all aboutD. how to become a willing apologizerC The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeds to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effects”, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects----a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen---is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death."George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like surgery, " he says. “We don't call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you're a physician, you can risk your patient's suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide."On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care.The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,” to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse.” He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear ... that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.”61. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that_____________. A. doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients' pain. B. it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives. C. the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide. D. patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide.62. Which of the following statements is true according to the text? A. Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients' death. B. Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery. C. The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed. D. A doctor's medication is no longer justified by his intentions.63. Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive" (line 3, paragraph 7 ) ? A. Bold. B. Harmful. C. Careless. D. Desperate.64. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they __________. A. manage their patients incompetently B. give patients more medicine than needed C. reduce drug dosages for their patients D. prolong the needless suffering of the patientsDMyth was born in childhood of human being. It is a product of ancient imaginations, which can conquer nature，dominate nature and make the power of nature have its own image. It is a cultural phenomenon in civilized society. China and Greece are birthplaces of Orient and Western civilizations. Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis of Greece once pointed out: “The civilization of China brought light to the Far East and the whole of Asia，as Greece thought，the cornerstone of European civilization，brought light to the West.” However，for some reasons，there are many differences between Chinese and Greek myth，which show their own unique national spirits and moral principles. The ancestors of Chinese nation lived on land before one million and seven hundred thousand years. After long uncivilized times, ancient Chinese gradually created civilization. In prehistory, ancient Chinese liv。