发布时间 : 星期二 文章2017-2018学年湖北省汉川二中高二下学期期末考试英语试题(Word版)+听力更新完毕开始阅读
2017—2018高二下学期期末考试英语试卷
时间：120分钟 命题人：周玲
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 time now ?
A.2:30 p.m. B. 3:00 p.m. C. 3:30 p.m. 2.What did the woman do at the weekend ?
A. She watched TV. B. She went for a drive. C. She climbed a
mountain.
3.Where does the conversation take place ?
A. At a library. B. At a store. C. At a hospital. 4.What are the speakers mainly talking about ?
A. A book. B. A film. C.A story. 5.How will the speakers probably get to the cinema ?
A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By taxi.
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,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.What color do the speakers decide to paint their living room?
A. Bright orange. B. Dark brown. C. Light blue. 7.What is the man going to do at the weekend?
A. Buy the paint. B. Paint the walls. C. Repair the computer. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the party for ?
A. John’s birthday . B. Christmas. C. John’s wedding.
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9. What do we know about the man ?
A. He’ll go to the party with the woman. B. He looks forward to visiting the
woman.
C. He has told Anna to keep the party a secret.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.What was the survey about?
A.A new shopping center. B.A newly-built railway station. C.A television
program.
11.What does the woman think of the plan?
A. Great. B. Stupid. C. Just so-so. 12.What will the woman do next?
A. Work on a test paper. B. Write to a newspaper. C. Go shopping.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.Where are the speakers ?
A. In Britain. B. In Germany. C. In France. 14.What does the woman do most of her working hours ?
A. She makes coffee. B. She deals with e-mails. C. She handles telephones. 15.At what time does the woman usually get off work?
A.4:30pm B. 4:35pm C.5:15pm 16.What is the woman ?
A.A secretary. B. A director. C. An engineer. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.When is the talk given ?
A. During the exams week. B. At the beginning of a term C. Before the start of
a vacation.
18.What is the main purpose of lectures ?
A. To introduce new topics. B. To explore topics in depth C. To provide information on the textbooks.
19.What advice does the speaker give about taking notes ?
A. Write the exact words. B. Remember the examples. C. Focus on the main
points.
20.What does the speaker remind the listeners to do in the end ?
A. Take notes on the lecture’s advice. B. Borrow recorders from other students. C. Get the lecture’s permission before recording.
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）
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A. It has a red appearance. B. It isn’t very bright.
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They like using the Internet. They have lots of pocket money to spend, and they spend a higher proportion of it online than the rest of us. Teenagers are just the sort of people an online seller is interested in, and the things they want to buy — games, CDs and clothing — are easily sold on the Web.
But paying online is a tricky business for consumers who are too young to own credit cards. Most have to use a parent’s card. They want a service that allows them to spend money.
That may come sooner than they think: new ways to take pocket money into cyber (网络的) space are coming out rapidly on both sides of the Atlantic. If successful, these products can stimulate (刺激)online sales.
In general, teenagers spend huge amounts: $153bn (billion) in the US last year and ￡20bn annually in the UK. Most teenagers have access to the Internet at home or at school — 88 percent in the US, 69 percent in the UK. According to the Jupiter Research, one in eight of those with Internet access has bought something online — mainly CDs and books.
In most cases, parents pay for these purchases with credit cards, an arrangement that is often
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unsatisfactory for them and their children. Pressing parents to spend online is less productive than pressing on the high street. They are more likely to ask “Why?” if you ask to spend some money online.
One way to help teenagers change notes and coins into cyber cash is through prepaid cards such as Internet Cash in the US and Smart cards in the UK. Similar to those for pay-as-you-go mobile telephones, they are sold in amounts such as￡20 or $50 with a concealed (隐藏的) 14-digit number that can be used to load the cash into an online account. 24. What does the word “They” in paragraph 1 refer to? A. Sellers. B. Teenagers C.. Buyers. D. Parents. 25. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Most teenagers in the US and the UK have bought something online. B. Teenagers pay for goods online with their own credit cards.
C. More than half of the teenagers in the US and the UK have Internet access．
D. Teenagers found it easier to persuade parents to buy online than in a shop. 26. A new way to help teenagers shop online is to use _________. A. prepaid cards B. special coins and notes C. a new machine D. pay-as-you-go mobile phones 27. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The arrival of cyber pocket money. B. Internet users in the US and the UK. C. New credit cards for parents. D. Online shopping traps.
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There is no denying that some people live to be older than others. Followed are the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity (长寿）？ Are there any kinds of personalities contributing to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at these questions by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.
According to the study, those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic(神经质的）than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.
Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.
Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a
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