1、重庆市第一中学级高二英语上学期期末试题2016年重庆一中高2017级高二上期期末考试英 语 试 题 卷 2016.1 英语试题卷共10页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2.答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3.答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A, B, C三
2、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. How many people will attend the party?A. 8. B. 10. C. 18. 2. How does the man feel now? A. Confused. B. Calm. C. Angry.3. What is the woman doing? A. Watching a movie. B. Doing a project. C. Having dinner.4. How did the man get the s
3、hirt? A. It was a present from his uncle.B. He bought it when he turned twenty. C. His friend bought it for him last week.5. What do the speakers want to do? A. Pick up Larry. B. Set up a website. C. Employ someone.第二节听下面五段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有2至4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5秒钟的时间
4、阅读各个小题；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. Where are the speakers? A. In a bar. B. In a park. C. In the countryside.7. What is not allowed according to the woman? A. Parking. B. Drinking. C. Barbecuing.听第7段材料，回答第8，9题8. What represents the modern Canada? A. Canada Place. B. Stanley Park.
5、C. The Vancouver Art Gallery.9. Where will the speakers go next? A. To a hotel. B. To a mall. C. To a museum.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. When did the man take the business marketing course in college? A. In his first year. B. In his second year. C. In his third year.11. What does the man think of the cours
6、e? A. It sounds boring. B. Its difficult. C. Its useless.12. Which course will the woman take? A. Finance. B. Engineering. C. Business marketing.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where are the speakers? A. In London. B. In Paris. C. In Barcelona.14. When was the building turned into a school? A. In 1815. B. In 1
7、964. C. In 1976.15. What does the woman say about Picasso? A. He started out painting simple things.B. His strange appearance shocked people.C. He was a very creative artist.16. What influenced Picassos paintings in 1907? A. African art. B. His physical condition. C. Certain kinds of shapes.听第10段材料，
8、回答第17至20题。17. Who was Reeva Steenkamp? A. She was a movie star.B. She was a well-known model.C. She was a successful athlete.18. What did the police say about the murder? A. It took place at 3:00 in the afternoon.B. It took place at Pistoriuss home.C. It was the result of an accident.19. What is tru
9、e about Pistorius? A. He was born without legs.B. He was fitted with artificial legs recently.C. His lower legs were removed.20. What did Pistorius do at the London Olympics? A. He raced in the 400-meter event.B. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter race.C. He made the finals of the 400-meter race.第
10、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，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中选出最佳选项。 ATo win an Oscar is an achievement at any age. To do so at 22, as Jennifer Lawrence has, is just amazing. Recently, the American star won Best Actress at Academy Awards for her role in the film The Silver Linings Playbook
11、. According to Time magazines Richard Corliss, Lawrence is that rare young actress who “lends a mature intelligence to any ro1e”. Though Lawrence has found great success through her big screen work, Lawrence wasnt sure what she really liked doing before the age of l4. She thought shed go to college
12、and may be find a career as a doctor or a travel agent.Lawrences two brothers were star athletes and one of them was a straight-A student. Unlike them, she suffered through school, never quite finding where she belonged. However, during a trip to New York, Lawrence suddenly realized that she wanted
13、to be an actress. When she was enjoying the beautiful city, a model seeker asked if he could take her picture, and the next day he called her in for an audition(试镜).“I read the play and it was the first time I had that feeling like I understand this.” Lawrence said. “Within 20 minutes, in the cab ri
14、de from the hotel room, I decided I didnt want to be a model. In fact, I wanted to be an actress.” Having appreciated this young ladys performance, the agency was so impressed with her reading that they signed her on the spot. But she insisted on finishing high school so she could give her full atte
15、ntion to her acting career.Lawrence burst onto the Hollywood scene with The Hunger Games, which established her as the highest box office female action hero of all time. Rolling Stone called her “the most talented young actress in America”.21. What can we know about Jennifer Lawrence from Paragraph
16、2?A. Her parents were really strict with her.B. Her school performance made her todays reputation.C. She seemed not to fit in with her school days well.D. Her two brothers were doing well in all school subjects.22. Lawrence made up her mind to be an actress because of _. A. her brothers examples B.
17、a model interview C. the taxi-ride to her hotel room D. the beautiful scenery of New York23. What is the best title of the text? A. Winning Young B. Acting WiselyC. Choosing Early D. Following Dreams BMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370, after its shocking disappearance, has caught the attention of milli
18、ons around the world as the search for the airplane and its passengers and crew continues. What happened to the flights 239 passengers and crew after the plane left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday? It is becoming an increasingly desperate question as the days pass.But its hardly the first mystery of its ki
19、nd. Here are some half-solved and unsolved airlinemysteries that kept investigators clueless for years.Air France Flight 447: An Airbus A330flight fromRio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 passengers and crew on board. But it took a full five days for searc
20、h and rescue teams to find the wreckage（残骸）and another three years for investigators to report that ice crystals had caused the autopilot (自动驾驶仪) to disconnect. The bodies of 74 passengers remain unrecovered.Amelia Earhart: Top pilot Amelia Earhart disappeared in her twin-engine monoplane Electra ov
21、er the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to travel around the globe. No sign of her plane was ever found even after a multi-milliondollarsearch effort, and Earhart was officially declared dead in 1939.Flying Tiger Line Flight 739: A U.S. military flight left Guam in 1962 with more 90 personnel hea
22、ded for the Philippines, but it never arrived. The pilots never issued a distress call, and 1,300 people involved in the U.S. military search never found any sign of wreckage.British South American Airways: It took more than 50 years to find any trace of the 11 people aboard a 1947 flightthat disapp
23、eared in the Andes Mountains. A pair of Argentineans rock climbers discovered engine wreckage in the Andes in 1998, and an army expedition later found human remains aswell.Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: Aflight headed to Santiago, Chile carrying 45 passengers and crew crashed into the Andes Mountai
24、ns in poor weather in 1972, killing twelve people. In the meantime, eight were killed in an avalanche (雪崩) that hit the planes wreckage where they were taking shelter, and the rest stayed alive by eating the flesh of the dead before they were finally found more than two months after disappearing out
25、 of the sky.24. The underlined word “plunged” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _. A. jumped B. broke C. dived D. flew25. What can we learnfromUruguayan Air Force Flight 571? _. A. 12 people were lost until now. B. 25 people were rescued immediately. C. The rest who stayed alive killed 8 peopl
26、e. D. 8 were killed by a fall of a large mass of snow down a mountainside.26. From the passage, what could have led to British South American Airways crash? A. The bad weather. B. Not mentioned.C. The ice crystals. D. The lightning.27. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? _.A. Ea
27、rhart was declared dead by the local government two years later.B. The bodies of Flight 447 had all been found after three years.C. Two Argentineans rock climbers discovered the dead in the Andes.D. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was regarded as the largest air crash.CA couple of days ago, as the te
28、st results came out, my son and a group of his 13-year-old friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the last-day-of-school party at McDonalds. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight As, and Laurie got a cell-phone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPad, and shes only in third
29、 grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $10 for each A.”I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cell-phone, and the DVD player?I saw the road ahead:As the
30、 homework load increased, my income would decrease.I saw my comfortable lifestyle disappear before my eyes no more of those $5 bags of already-peeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal achieved by my two children fetch a reward? A high
31、 grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns? What about the orchestra? Would first chair pay more than second? Id be penniless by eighth-grade graduation.“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor a
32、cross the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but thats about it.”Dont you just hate that? Were all running around looking for the MP3 player with the most updates, and shes spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation; we get negotiatio
