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舒城中学2017—2018学年度第一学期第三次统考
高二英语
（本试卷分四部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。）
命题： 审题： 磨题：
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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’s the most probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Host and guest. B. Husband and wife. C. Waiter and customer.
2. What is the surprise for the woman?
A. A little cat. B. Some flowers. C. A diamond ring.
3. What does Heather do?
A. She is a teacher. B. She is a writer. C. She is an editor.
4. Where did the woman get the hat?
A. From an online shop. B. From a store downtown. C. From the man’s company.
5. What will the woman probably buy for her mother?
A. A watch. B. Some jewels. C. Two books.
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，从每题所给的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 time is it now?
A. 1:45. B. 2:10. C. 2:15.
7. What will the man do?
A．Work on a project. B. See Linda in the library. C. Meet with Professor Smith.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Entertaining guests. B. Going out for sightseeing. C. Moving into a new house.
9. What will the man do tomorrow?
A. Work in his garden. B. Do some shopping. C. Have a barbecue.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What does the woman like to do when surfing the Internet?
A. Do a course. B. Get information. C. Get in touch with her family.
11. What does the man hate?
A. His computer is expensive.
B. He can’t follow the English soccer.
C. There are too many junk mails online.
12. What do the man and the woman agree?
A. Internet has no disadvantage at all.
B. Spending hours online every day really costs a lot.
C. It’s easy to get information through the regular media.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers doing?
A. Saying goodbye to each other. B. Exchanging their pictures. C. Waiting for a flight.
14. What do we know about Jane?
A. She is studying at Cambridge University.
B. She will graduate next July. C. She is twenty-one years old.
15. Who is the woman’s daughter?
A. Jane. B. Beth. C. Tina.
16. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man has been traveling on business for a month.
B. The man’s son is a college teacher.
C. The woman likes playing the piano.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What day is it today?
A. Sunday. B. Saturday. C. Friday.
18. What is today’s weather like?
A. Fine but hot and wet. B. Warm and dry. C. Fine and partly stormy.
19. What is Saturday evening’s weather forecast for the state?
A. Light showers over the northern part.
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C. Light showers over the entire state.
20. When will the supermoon start?
A. On Friday night. B. On Saturday night C. On Sunday night.
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。
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Some Music Festivals
Pitchfork Music Festival
Anyone who adores indie (独立的) music and up-and-coming artists will have an amazing time at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park. This is a wonderful festival that explores more underground and less-known bands than the other big Chicago summer festival, Lollapalooza.
Date: July 14〜16
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Music Type: Indie
Price: $ 75〜$ 365
Essence Music Festival
No matter what time of the year it is, New Orleans is an incredible place to be if you love live music. The Essence Music Festival is a celebration of great artists like Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Mary J. Blige.
Date: June 29〜July 2
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Music Type: R&B, soul
Price: $ 126〜$ 2,700
Sziget Festival
Budapest knows how to organize a party, and Sziget is one of the biggest celebrations of music and culture in all of Europe. You can expect to watch favorite artists like Bad Religion and Mac DeMarco appearing on the stages here during this seven-day festival.
Date: August 9〜15
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Music Type: Eclectic, indie, rock
Price: $ 70〜$ 96
Flow Festival
The Flow Festival is a great excuse to explore the city of Helsinki. Artists including Lana Del Rey and The XX will be playing, among many others. Come to this festival to enjoy a relaxing atmosphere with an earth-friendly attitude.
Date: August 11〜13
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Music Type: Rock, soul, jazz
Price: $ 106〜$ 199
21. Where can you enjoy a music festival lasting a week?
A. In Chicago. B. In Budapest C. In Helsinki. D. In New Orleans.
22. Which music festival will be held in Finland?
A. Flow Festival. B. Sziget Festival.
C. Essence Music Festival. D. Pitchfork Music Festival
23. What is special about Pitchfork Music Festival?
A. It is more independent. B. It is held underground.
C. It focuses on unknown bands. D. It is more famous than other festivals.
B
To the people who came to Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn, he had no name. Tothem, he was “the ice cream man”. He was just two hands and a smile handing back ice cream from the van
（面包车）window. To me, he was my older brother, Andrew.
Once, he worked on Wall Street. But later he spent his days selling ice cream to anendless line of kids, moms and dads in swimming suits, perhaps daydreaming of a beachfaraway.
All day long, while he sold bags of potato chips, cans of soda, and all types of ice cream,he would do this sort of robotic motion—turn to the right, stoop down, hand the item out ofthe window and collect the money.
His drinking days were over now. They neared their end one night after he took a severebeating when someone followed him home and robbed him when he was drunk. It left himmemories of pain and misery. He was determined he would never take another drink again.
One day years later, I went to look for him. I slipped into the high driver’s seat and satquietly watching him work. Occasionally, he would ask me to hand him a diet root beer or abag of chips for sale, all the time bending over as he worked the long line.
As I watched him sell ice cream from a van window, he taught me something about livingthis life that we all pass through too quickly. It was a lesson about trying to live it with graceand dignity and style, no matter what.
He died in March 1999. He had served in the Army for two years in Europe in the 1950s.They gave him a soldier’s funeral with a folded flag.
24. Where was Andrew likely to sell the ice cream?
A. On a train. B. In a p舒中高二统考英语 第3页 (共10页)
ark. C. On Wall Street. D. In a supermarket.
25. What did the author think of Andrew’s job?
A. Busy and hard. B. Challenging but time-consuming.
C. Honorable and well-paid. D. Busy but badly-paid.
26. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The robbers. B. The painful memories.
C. The consumers. D. The drinking days.
27. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To remember his brother. B. To tell a regrettable story.
C. To share a sad life lesson. D. To state his attitude towards life.
C
Driverless technology will soon enter another major global industry: shipping. Several
companies recently announced plans to launch self sailing ships to improve safety and efficiency.
One of them is Norwegian chemical company Yara International. Yara has teamed up with another Norwegian company, Kongsberg, to build an autonomous goods ship expected to launch next year. Kongsberg developed the ship’s electrical technology and autonomous control systems. The ship is fully electric to reduce air pollution. It is designed to carry goods containers normally transported by truck. This means the ship will also improve road safety by replacing about 40,000 truck trips a year. The company plans to operate the ships by far-away control beginning sometime next year. By 2020, the ships should be loading and sailing themselves. While Yara’s ships will be limited to Norway at first, the company plans to greatly expand its autonomous shipping operations in the coming years.
Another company putting a high priority (优先) to self sailing ships is the world’s largest mining company, Australia’s BHP Billiton. The company’s Vice President of Freight, RashpalBhatti, recently spoke about the technology in a website post. Bhatti believes automation will be one of the biggest changes for shipping in the future. He said, “Autonomous ships offer significant opportunities to improve safety and provide better effectiveness results to the supply chain of the sea.” He added that self-sailing ships could become a reality within the next decade.
Rolls-Royce, the British automobile and engine manufacturer, is also developing unmanned shipping technologies. Oskar Levander is the company’s head of operations at sea. He told a conference last year, “This is happening. It’s not if, it’s when.”
Levander said these autonomous ships could be controlled by far-away operators from anywhere. He added, “Because these ships will be designed to be unmanned, they can be built smaller, more efficient and environmentally friendly.”
28. Why have several countries announced plans to produce self-sailing ships?
A. To save money.
B. To develop electrical technology in ships.
C. To compete in autonomous control systems.
D. To make shipping more effective and less risky.
29. How will the Norwegian autonomous ship be developed?
A. On the basis of Rolls-Royce.
B. By a single company independently.
C. By two native companies working together.
D. By taking electrical technology from Australia.
30. What do Oskar Levander’s words suggest in paragraph 4?
A. It is too early to make autonomous ships.
B. The supply chain of the sea will be busier.
C. People are more concerned about autonomous ships.
D. Unmanned shipping technologies are becoming more mature.
31. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Automation under Sail B. Self-sailing Ships in Use
C. Automation in Some Fields D. Automation in Imagination
D
Scientists think they have answered a mystery: How some ocean creatures got so huge so quickly.
A few million years ago, the largest whales, averaged about 15 feet long. Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale, the toothless baleen whalebecame huge. Modern blue whales get as big as 100 feet. Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum said, “Why is that?” “It happened in the glance of an evolutionary eye, which makes it harder to figure out what happened,” said Graham Slater, lead author of the study. Their study has suggested an answer: Ice ages in the last 3 to 5 million years started it, changing the oceans and food supply for whales.
The researchers used fossil records of the smaller whales to create a family tree for baleen whales which include blue whales, humpbacks and right whales. Using computer simulations（模拟）and knowledge about how evolution works, they concluded that when the size changes started, the poles got colder, ice expanded and the water circulation in the oceans changed and winds shifted, Slater and Pyenson said cold water went deep and moved closer to the equatorand then eventually moved back up with small fish and other small animals that whales eat.
Baleen whale, which have no teeth, feed by eating huge amounts of fish they capture. Toothed whales, like sperm whales, hunt individual fish, so the ocean chants that made food less evenly spread out didn’ t affect them as much. But baleen whales hunt schools of fish.舒中高二统考英语 第5页 (共10页)
Olivier Lambert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences calls it “a really convincing situation”. But he said the lack of fossils in certain time periods is an issue. As oceans warm from
man-made climate change, the seas will be more like it was when the whales smaller and they will have a more difficult time surviving.
32. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. The change of baleen whales happened too quickly.
B. The change of baleen whales was too difficult to explore.
C. Researchers paid little attention to the change of baleen whales.
D. Researchers thought the change of baleen whales was unimportant.
33. What played the key role in baleen whales’ becoming huge?
A. Man-made climate change. B. Its eating a huge amount of fish.
C. The water circulation in the oceans. D. The increase of food supply for whales.
34. What do we know about sperm whales and blue whales according to the text?
A. Sperm whales eat more food.
B. Blue whaler live much longer.
C. Sperm whales prefer to hunt schools of fish.
D. Blue whales usually swallow schools of fish.
35. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. There are no whale fossils now. B. The whales may become even bigger.
C. Global warming has threatened the whales. D. Olivier Lamber thinks the study is perfect.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
How to Be Good at Sports
If sports are something that interests you,it stands to reason that you would want to be good at them.Here are some tips that can help you become a good player.
Set ambitious but realistic goals.If you want to be great at sports,you need to set your aims high.___36___Instead, you should take a look at what you are,and figure out where you think you would like to be.Give yourself a suitable amount of time to achieve that goal.
Be patient.___37___Impatient athletes tend to make poor ones.If you're not patient,you'll try to jump into advanced techniques long before you're ready.You'll feel discouraged when you don't see immediate improvement.
Join a sports team.Most of the sports teams are free to join.If you go to school,you should go
for team tryouts when they're happening.___38___
Accept criticism.When you play sports,you will unavoidably receive criticism,whether from a coach or other players.___39___Are they angry because you missed a pass, or do they sincerely want to help you improve?In a lot of cases, you can use criticism as motivation to get better.
___40___A skill become mastered when you’re able to do it without thinking. Given enough time and practice, a skill will eventually fall under this category. When in a game, you won't have time to think everything through, so practice until it's all automatic.
A. Skills are often slow to build.
B.This does not mean being unrealistic.
C.You need to take most of it with a grain of salt.
D.Practice until your skills become second nature.
E.You also need to be clear about what you are good at.
F.If you're not in school, you can find a sports club online.
G.An important reason people join sports teams is to make friends.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When we seem to have finally obtained things we've worked hard for, most of us tend to think that we can relax and enjoy life.___41___,life has some rude awakenings for us.
This was the___42___for Stevie. He worked hard and years later, he was able to buy a really nice home on a cliff___43___ the ocean. It seemed that all his work___44__and that he had finally realized his dream.
Well, as life would have it, along came the events over which he had no__45 _.Above all, the cliff started to erode（风化）badly from the___46___winds and rains over the years. What was once a one-hundred-foot backyard was rapidly ___47___week by week, and to make matters even__48___,he became badly ill to the point___49___he had to take lots of time off from work.
Then, the most tragic things happened. The backyard totally disappeared and what was__50___was the back of the house sitting dangerously on the edge of the cliff. What was even
more destructive was that he had no house insurance___51___the family could not get any from insurance companies who knew of the___52___.No insurance, and so sick that he couldn't work—now what? A person who thought he had finally reached the___53___and now only to find almost everything had disappeared through no___54___of his own.
The good news was that he wasn't done—friends, neighbors and even those who didn't know him___55___responded to fund-raisers to help them start over.
Life has a way of___56___and kicking us from behind and even kicking again when we are really down. But life also gives us a way___57___if we don't give up. There is kindness and comfort___58___an opportunity to start again if we have a ___59___to move forward. Keep focused on new life and move beyond all those things that may___60___us to the present.
41. A. Evidently B. Unfortunately C. Consequently D. Actually
42. A. case B. point 舒中高二统考英语 第7页 (共10页)
C. sense D. occasion
43. A. approaching B. separating C. overlooking D. surrounding
44. A. took off B. paid off C. dropped off D. broke off
45. A. doubt B. advantage C. control D. authority
46. A. constant B. regular C. temporary D. steady
47. A. expanding B. shrinking C. declining D. growing
48. A. stranger B. simpler C. better D. worse
49. A. what B. where C. when D. which
50. A. left B. constructed C. preserved D. withdrawn
51. A. although B. but C. and D. because
52. A. profits B. risks C. pressure D. intention
53. A. dreams B. decisions C. agreement D. conclusion
54. A. expectation B. duty C. purpose D. fault
55. A. extremely B. casually C. personally D. eventually
56. A. showing up B. turning around C. standing out D. getting through
57. A. out B. off C. over D. across
58. A. in terms of B. as well as C. instead of D. regardless of
59. A. talent B. chance C. heart D. desire
60. A. limit B. connect C. lead D. drive
第二节（共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Blessed by the pleasant weather, the island province of Hainan is fast becoming known as China’s Florida”,___61___ (draw) masses of retirees escaping the biting cold of their hometowns.
“At home in Harbin, it can be-30°C, it is unbearable! But here the climate is ___62___ (suit),” said a 71-year-old woman from the ___63___ (extreme) cold province of Heilongjiang. She ___64___ (move) each winter to Sanya over the past eight years.
“Here the ___65___ (warm) is better for our health. We find so many people from our province ___66___ we are sure we will not get bored” said Qi Ningxia,___67___ 60-year-old man from Heilongjiang.
About 700,000 elderly people come to Sanya every winter, almost doubling ___68___(it) population. Nearly half of these “migratory birds”,___69___ they are called, come from the northern provinces in China.
The trend began in 2000 as people began buying Sanya apartments, opening business and persuading friends and family ___70___ (join) them, creating a snowball effect.舒中高二统考英语 第10页 (共10页)
第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加；在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Tower Bridge is not only a very specially landmark in London, but also one of the most famous bridge in the world. Tower Bridge had stood over the River Thames in London since 1894. On June 30, 1894, the bridge designing by Horace Jones and Wolfe Barry were constructed. Tower Bridge consists two huge towers, that are linked together. The bridge stands at a height of 60 meters but the
height of each tower is about 43 meters. The middle part of the bridge can be lifted it up when huge ships pass through that way. In a past, it was lifted up nearly 50 times per day.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
上周日你到飞霞公园游玩，刚好看到—个救人的过程。请根据下面所拍照片，用英语写—篇报道。
要求：①字数：120词左右。文章首句已给出，不计入总词数。
②最后一幅照片未能成功保存，请自行补充合理的情节，使报道完整。
Last Sunday I went to Feixia Park.
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