发布时间 : 星期五 文章江西省南昌市第二中学2016-2017学年高二第一学期期末考试英语试卷更新完毕开始阅读a92104b159fb770bf78a6529647d27284a733755
南昌二中2016—2017学年度上学期期末考试
高二英语试卷
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。满分为150分。考试用时120分钟。 第I卷（共100分） 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 does the man play?
A. Sports. B. Musical instruments. C. Computer games.
2. What will the woman probably do today?
A. Attend the wedding. B. Go over her lessons. C. Eat out with the man.
3. What’s the man’s major?
A. Journalism. B. Business. C. International relations.
4. Where does this conversation take place?
A. At a bus stop. B. At the railway station. C. At the airport.
5. What does the man mean?
A. He has been to the restaurant many times. B. He heard about the restaurant from Tom. C. He intends to try a better restaurant. 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，各个小题将给出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. Who says organic food tastes better?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. The woman’s friend.
7. What does the woman suggest doing?
A. Only buying organic products. B. Trying some organic vegetables. C. Asking Joe for advice about food. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What does the woman think of washing clothes by herself?
A. Troublesome. B. Fun. C. Not a big deal. 9. Why will she take her clothes to the laundry tomorrow?
A. It’s too tiring to hand-wash sheets. B. She has too much work to do.
C. She just heard about the laundry. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What happened to Tony today? A. He lost his job.
B. He was criticized by his boss. C. His vacation in summer was cancelled.
11. How did he feel about it? A. Astonished. B. Extremely angry. C. Sad but not surprised. 12. What is he going to do?
A. Wait to be called back to the company. B. Talk with his boss about his problems. C. Start to look for a new job. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Where did chopsticks originate?
A. In Japan. B. In China. C. In Korea. 14. What kind of chopsticks are often used by ordinary Chinese people?
A. Wood or bamboo ones. B. Jade ones. C. Plastic ones.
15. Why did ancient kings and emperors use silver chopsticks? A. To show their wealth.
B. To see if their food was poisoned. C. To show their power.
16. What do Chinese people think knives and forks suggest? A. Violence.
B. High quality life. C. Gentleness.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What course is English Literature 201?
A. A course on the works of William Shakespeare. B. A course on the history of English literature. C. A course on classics of English literature. 18. When will the midterm exam be held? A. After Romeo and Juliet. B. Right after Macbeth. C. During Week 6.
19. Which of the following is NOT on the list of books? A. Hamlet. B. Macbeth.
C. A Midsummer Night's Dream 20. What is the talk mainly about?
A. Changes in homework assignments. B. The life of William Shakespeare.
C. William Shakespeare’s masterpieces. 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
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.
When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle: “No pain, no gain”. He hardly watered his new trees, an attitude which flew in the face of conventional wisdom.
Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water.
So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.
Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some 25 years ago. They were tall and strong.
I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to encounter hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart. 21. With the trees planted, Doctor Gibbs often______.
A. kept watering them every morning B. talked to them to get their attention C. paid little attention to them D. beat them to make them grow deep roots
22. What does the underlined word \Adversity\ A. Difficult living conditions. B. Lack of sunshine.
C. Enough care or attention. D. Bad weather.
23. Which prayer does the author wish for his sons?
A. Have an easy life, without too much to worry about. B. Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives.
C. Have good luck, encountering less hardship in their life. D. Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future.
B
Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.
The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn’t become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around. But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren’t going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design. In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same time, metal hubs(the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre (充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads (柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.
24. What might explain why transport wheels didn’t become popular for some time? A. Few knew how to use transport wheels. B. Humans carried farming tools just as well. C. Animals were a good means of transport.
D. The existence of transport wheels was not known. 25. What do we know about road design from the passage? A. It was easier than wheel design. B. It improved after big changes in vehicle design. C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.
D. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop. 26. How is the last paragraph mainly developed? A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons.
C. By following time order. D. By making classifications.
27. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The beginning of road design. B. The development of transport wheels.