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莆田一中2017～2018学年度下学期期初考试试卷
高二 英语选修六
命题人:陈亚妹 审核人: 邹荔生
第Ⅰ卷
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. When will the man play volleyball?
A. Today. B. This weekend. C. Today and tomorrow.
2. How much will the woman spend?
A. $220. B. $230. C. $250.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A book. B. European paintings. C. A yellow coat.
4. What will the man probably do with the computer?
A. Have it fixed. B. Give it to the woman. C. Get a new one.
5. Why is the girl’s father special?
A. He finds time for his kids.
B. He has an important job.
C. He makes time for himself.
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. When did the man start drawing?
A. Five years ago. B. Six years ago. C. When he was five years old.
7. How does the woman feel about the man’s art?
A. She thinks it is great.
B. She is too shy to tell him.
C. She likes his photography the most
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Which countries has the woman already been to?
A. Canada and Australia.
B. Singapore and America.
C. China and Korea.
9. What can we learn about Norway?
A. It is always cold all over the country.
B. It snows almost everywhere in winter.
C. It’s very dry in summer.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why will the man be late?
A. He’s stuck in traffic.
B. He had an accident.
C. He didn’t make it onto the bridge in time.
11. When is the plane scheduled to leave?
A. In 45 minutes. B. In two hours. C. In 30 minutes.
12. How does the man probably feel?
A. Positive. B. Stressed out. C. Apologetic.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did the man get a new job?
A. He wanted to work closer to his house.
B. He wanted to make more money.
C. His old job was too stressful.
14. What did the man probably do at his last job?
A. Handle money. B. Drive a car. C. Take care of patients.
15. Where does the man’s mother live?
A. In Chicago. B. In California. C. In New York.
16. What will the man do in a year?
A. Move back to where his family live.
B. Gain more experience in the hospital.
C. Find enough time to visit his parents.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where is Washington Square Park located?
A. In Upper Manhattan.
B. Between 6th St. and 4th St.
C. In the Washington Village neighborhood.
18. What is true about Washington Square Park?
A. It covers ten city blocks.
B. Dogs have their own areas to play.
C. Eating and drinking are not allowed.
19. Who especially likes the park’s fountain area?
A. Artists. B. Students. C. Children.
20. When was the Washington Arch built?
A. In 1889. B. In 1806. C. In 1871.
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。
A
Your local grocery store is a psychological minefield, where even the bananas are ripe with mystery.
1．Southpaws (左撇子) have an invisible advantage
You've probably seen that stores keep go-to items—produce, meats, dairy—on the outer edge. But did you notice that most of them are set up to make you run counterclockwise (逆时针)? Ninety percent of us are right-handed, so we buy more when
it's counterclockwise. You'll also often find the dairy section in the back left corner: Because dairy is likely on your list, stores make sure you take the longest route to get there. In fairness, it's also a more convenient place to put a fridge.
2．Everything is in its place
It's safe to say that nothing you see on a shelf is there by chance. The cookies on sale at the end of a passage are likely the result of smart product placement. More expensive items are usually placed at an adult's eye level, while colorful treats and other products for kids are positioned lower—to catch the attention of children.
3．Time goes by so slowly
Stores rarely have windows or clocks.With no reference to the outside world, customers can easily lose track of how long they've been there so that they can buy more. Grocery stores may use another trick to control your sense of time: small floor tiles (瓷砖)．
4．Goods are an art form
Grocers know exactly what shade of banana you're most likely to buy. To ensure the bananas on display are the closest to this shade, stores use a ripeness scale that ranges from one (all green) to seven (yellow with brown spots). Some stores even use special lighting to make bananas look more appealing. As for the water sprayed on the other produce? It makes veggies look fresh, but keeping them wet actually makes them rot faster. It also makes produce heavier—and therefore pricier.
21.Why do stores usually put dairy in the back left corner?
A. Because it is a quiet place.
B. To attract people's attention.
C. To make people buy more.
D. Because most people are right-handed.
22. You are more likely to find toys________．
A. on lower shelves B. in corners
C. at an adult's eye level D. at the end of a passage
23. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Secrets of stores B. Advantages of stores
C. How to shop in stores D. How to operate a store
B
People took bets on when Le Ho's business, Capital City Waste Services (CCWS), would fail，but she has proved the doubters wrong by turning the waste management business into a multi-million dollar empire.
Le Ho had a poor start to life in Australia. When she was 18 days old, her family arrived in Australia from Vietnam on a fishing boat.At the age of 21, Ho started her first business called Honey Bee, a bridal store. In six years she grew that to six stores, but the market for Internet shopping changed things greatly. Therefore, she wanted to find some business that, whatever the economy, would be there.
It turned out the answer was waste management. Ho first came across CCWS when she helped to run the business for a friend who was a director and had to go overseas.In 2010，Ho decided to buy it for $50，000 although the business was losing about $20，000 a month.
To cut down costs, Ho took on all the roles in the business from sales to driving a truck. She started the day with a waste collection run and then changed clothes to go to meetings. Evenings were spent reading books and sending emails. She worked 18 hours a day for the first 12 months.
Ho's hard work paid off after her business doubled in the first 12 months. Over the next 12 months the income doubled again. Ho picked the right industry with IBISWorld (an Australian research company) analysis valuing solid waste collection services at $6.2 billion for 2015-2016 and predicting annual growth of 3.8 per cent in the future.
However, Ho faced discrimination (歧视) when starting out in an industry controlled by men. But it only inspired her. She regarded it as a driving force for her to get in the truck at 6 am. She said that any business or job that men can do, women can do too. And she proved it with her success.
24. When Le Ho was in her twenties，she________．
A. took a boat trip to Vietnam
B.moved to Australia with her parents
C. got interested in online shopping
D. owned several bridal stores
25. Le Ho took over CCWS mainly because________．
A. her own business had failed
B. her friend advised her to do so
C. she believed the waste industry is more stable
D. she wanted to make a bet with others
26. According to the IBISWorld analysis, we can infer that Le Ho is________．
A. far-sighted B. ambitious
C. competent D. strong-willed
27. How did Le Ho deal with the discrimination against her?
A. She simply ignored it.
B. She chose to keep silent.
C. She used it to encourage herself.
D. She expressed her anger publicly.
C
What makes you grow? While rolling many ideas around in my head to write this piece, I narrowed my focus a bit and chose: family and sense of purpose.
My family keeps me excited to be alive — beginning the day with a morning kiss from the man I love. He is there to listen and guide, to laugh and sigh, to explore and relax, and to make each day meaningful. Together we have three delightful children. Even though they caused various gray hairs over the years, they have also provided love and laughter.
Friends fall into the family category as well. Although they are not cut of the same cloth, they are part of the same quilt. True friends are often as giving and maybe even more giving as family. Even though our friends enter our life later than our family, strong relation exists. In fact, sometimes friends know us better than family.
The second drive is a sense of purpose. While impossible to describe, it is very easy to picture as we think of everything of value that touches us. A purpose may
be a happy family, home life, and so on. Actually in most cases it is a combination of all these as they affect our lives deeply.
Purpose is new, fresh, exciting and always changing. You’re taking up the same job each day except that sometimes you are challenged. I always wanted to be a teacher, for example, and I chose junior high French. However, over the years my tasks changed so that I had various chances to teach K-12 and beyond in a wide range of subjects, levels and school districts. I remained in the same profession for more than 40 years but never in the same setting.
28. What did the author do before writing this article?
A. She chose her own family as the main topic for writing.
B. She took some concerned drives into consideration.
C.She studied many families in detail for some ideas.
D. She had a quick mind in writing.
29. What’s the author’s attitude to her marriage?
A. Curious. B. Puzzled. C. Sad. D. Satisfied.
30. What is the closest meaning of the underlined sentences in Paragraph 3?
A. Friends wear different clothes but sleep on the same bed.
B. Though not born into a family, friends are considered life mates.
C. A friend in need is a friend in deed.
D. Blood is thicker than water.
31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Everyone has his own purpose.
B. Purpose needs to be flexible.
C. Teachers must be knowledgeable.
D. Teaching is very difficult in America.
D
Nobody likes feeling lonely, and isolation (孤立) isn't only a psychological
problem. Loneliness increases a person's risk of death by 26 percent, an effect comparable to the health risks posed by obesity.
So some researchers are investigating what it is, exactly, that makes lonely people stay lonely. One long-held theory has been that people become socially isolated because of their poor social skills—as they spend more time alone，the few skills they do have start to fail from lack of use. But new research suggests that this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the socially isolated. It's just that when they're in situations where they need those skills the most, they choke.
Professor Megan L. Knowles and her team tested the social skills of 86 undergraduates, showing them 24 faces on a computer screen and asking them to name the basic human emotion each face was showing: anger, fear, happiness, or sadness. In the end, the lonelier students did worse than the non-lonely students on the emotion-reading task—but only when they were told they were being tested on their social skills. When the lonely were told they were just taking a general knowledge test, they performed better than the non-lonely.
So the lonelier people are, the better they are at accurately reading facial expressions and decoding tone of voice.Lonely people may be paying closer attention to emotional cues (暗示) precisely because of their willingness to belong somewhere and form interpersonal connections, which results in technically superior social skills.
This presents a fairly new way to think about lonely people. It's not that they need to improve the basics of social skills, which they've likely already shared.Instead, lonely people may need to focus more on getting out of their own heads, so they can actually use the skills they've got to form friendships and begin to find a way out of their isolation.
32. According to the traditional point of view，why do lonely people stay lonely?
A. They are happy to stay alone.
B. They are difficult to get along with.
C. They have few chances to practice social skills.
D. They are likely to misunderstand others' opinion.
33. In the test mentioned in Paragraph 3, the lonely performed better when they________．
A. did not know the real purpose of the test
B. were under great pressure
C. were told it was a test on social skills
D.felt not very lonely
34. Compared to non-lonely people，lonely people________．
A. can better control their emotions
B. can better express their emotions
C.can better handle people's emotions
D. can better read people's emotions
35. What inspiration may lonely people get from the text?
A. Be brave to make friends.
B. Show sincerity in friendship.
C. Find ways to learn social skills.
D. Make good use of your lonely time.
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。
When we are grown-ups, it’s quite natural to look back on our different stages of life and remember who was there to see us through. 36 While some people’s high school friendships gradually end, mine have stuck with me through every bit of life since. And I suppose high school friends are the friends you’ll build the strongest relationships with.
37 Whether it is the bad haircut or the braces you wear, your high school friends help you through it all. They tell you that you look wonderful when you cannot go out in public with that hairdo. 38
They understand the most about you. High school friends know you better than anyone else. They can just look at you and know how you’re feeling. You cannot hide much from them. 39 and they’d rather help deal with the problem at hand than let it go. So even when you don’t want to hear it, prepare yourself –because they are
not going to stop trying until you’re back to your normal self.
They make for the best reunion. Reunions are harder to organize when friends live across the country. However, with high school friends, it’s easy to enjoy the time together — you can often pick up just where you left off, no matter how long ago that was. Friendship can be hard to keep. 40
A. We could depend on our friends all the time.
B. For me, I often think about my fantastic group of high school friends.
C. Let’s pray the flower of friendship would always bloom brightly in our hearts.
D. They build up your self-confidence to get you through each tough situation.
E. They can sense something is off when you’re the slightest bit strange
F. But it never seems like hard work with the ones you’ve known and loved for long.
G. They are with you through your embarrassing stages.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（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四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Here’s an amazing fact: Of the 1.1 million firefighters in the United States，about 780,000 are volunteers. Roughly a third of the population is 41 by mostly or allvolunteer fire departments.
Also 42 , perhaps. Sometimes they have to pay for their own gear (设备)．
I 43 this because I volunteer as a firefighter in Durango, Colorado. I responded to more than 50 calls in 2014, everything from wildfires to car accidents. In that period, I spent close to $ 1, 000 on the gear not 44 by my department, things like higher-quality flashlights, knives, and better gloves, which make my 45 easier.
In January 2015, a bill was 46 in Congress that would give a significant tax break to those who volunteer their time and make 47 responses to the fire or other dangerous situations. I hope it passes, not because it will put some money in my pocket 48 that’ll be nice, but because it will ease the 49 burden on volunteers and
acknowledge their time commitment. I believe it will 50 more people to help. And there’s a(n) 51 for that.
In rural areas where population density is low and calls for fire and EMS services are __52 rare, it just doesn’t 53 to have career firefighters on the staff 24/7(全天候). 54 , volunteers are used to fill in the 55 . We are ready to help someone on what is the worst day of their life. 56 we have never met before, and might never again, but it doesn’t matter in a crisis. 57 volunteers, the whole system would collapse.
There’s a T-shirt that’s popular among us, reading “For Pride, Not 58 ”. We volunteer because we know our 59 need us. We don’t need a small tax break. Without one, we’ll still put on our gear when the alarm goes off without any 60 ．But we'd appreciate one, and if it gets more people to join us, it’s worth it.
41. A. guided B. inspired C. protected D. supported
42. A. surprising B. amusing C. confusing D. disappointing
43. A. predict B. understand C. prove D. analyze
44. A. replaced B. supplied C. assigned D. afforded
45. A. action B. life C. project D. job
46. A. approved B. introduced C. ended D. revised
47. A. favorable B. negative C. general D. immediate
48. A. whether B. unless C. though D. because
49. A. physical B. mental C. financial D. social
50. A. encourage B. persuade C. require D. allow
51. A. purpose B. necessity C. passion D. explanation
52. A. absolutely B. gradually C. relatively D. practically
53. A. take the lead B. make a difference C. come as a surprise D. make sense
54. A. Otherwise B. Moreover C. Instead D. Besides
55. A. time B. hole C. form D. gap
56. A. Especially B. Certainly C. Probably D. Frankly
57. A. Except for B. But for C. In spite of D. In case of
58. A. Respect B. Pay C. Sympathy D. Experience
59. A. communities B. neighbors C. friends D. members
60. A. thought B. word C. hesitation D. reason
第II卷（共60分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Few people like changing their habits, good or bad. Whether it is smoking, drinking __61__over-eating, they continue “enjoying” them to the end.
On every packet of cigarettes, people __62__ (warn) not to smoke, “Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is__63__(danger) to Your Health.” However, millions of them start smoking or go on smoking. Why?
Facts show that families and surroundings play an important part in influencing smokers. Almost all smokers come from smoking families or have friends or relatives addicted__64__ smoking. Films and TV plays also play a part, in __65__ people often watch their “heroes” smoking cigarettes. “Heroes” seem to fear nothing, neither killing __66__ (they) nor killing others with cigarettes. If they are not afraid of the harm of smoking, __67__should common people be afraid?
The simple warning on the cigarette packet does not influence smokers' habits. Even stronger warnings, like showing pictures of smokers __68__ (die) of cancer, don't seem to work.
Knowing and believing seem to be two different __69__ (thing). If smoking is really as harmful as doctors say, it is time that smokers__70__(take) it seriously and tried to give it up!
第四部分 写作（共两节 满分35）
第一节 短文改错（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。
My parents run the restaurant in our city.I often help out there after school every time when I am free.Yesterday afternoon I went there to help out as usually.While I was there，two foreigners from Australian came to have a meal.Learned that they didn't speak Chinese at all，I went up and greeted them with simple English.I recommended some typical dish and they did have a nice meal.After the meal，they expressed their satisfaction with the food and praised me for my English.It was the first time that I have communicated with foreigners.My parents felt proud of mine and they encouraged me study English well.
第二节 书面表达 (满分25分)
假定你是李华，是一名高中生。最近，你笔友Jim发来一封电子邮件，询问你心仪的大学。请给他回一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 你最想上哪一所大学；
2. 选择这个大学的原因；
3. 如何实现自己的梦想。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jim，
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
莆田一中2017～2018学年度下学期期初考试
听力1—5 ABACA 6—10 CACBA 11—15 BBCCB 16—20 ABBCA
阅读 21-35 A) CAA B）DCAC C) BDBB D)CADA 36-40 BGDEF
完型 41-50 CABBD BDCCA 51-60 BCDCD CBBAC
填词 61.or 62. are warned 63. Dangerous 64. an 65. Which
66. themselves 67. why 68. dying 69. things 70. took
My parents run restaurant in our city. I often help out there after school every time I am free.Yesterday afternoon I went there to help out as .While I was there，two foreigners from came to have a meal. that they didn't speak Chinese at all，I went up and greeted them simple English.I recommended some typical and they did have a nice meal.After the meal，they expressed their satisfaction with the food and praised me for my English.It was the first time that I communicated with foreigners.My parents felt proud of and they encouraged me study English well.
【参考范文】
Dear Jim,
Just like many other teenagers, my dream university is Tsinghua University, which is one of the best universities all over the world.
There are some reasons why I want to study in Tsinghua University. First, when I was a child, I made up my mind to go to Tsinghua University because many famous scientists graduated there. Second, it is well known for its positive academic atmosphere, where the students work hard to meet new challenges.
I know it is hard to be admitted to Tsinghua University, but I will spare no efforts to do well in my lessons. I am sure I will turn my dream into reality if I try really hard.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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