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1、2016-2017学年度高二年级第二次阶段测试英语科试卷考试时间：120分钟 满分：150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 are the speakers doing?A. Working. B. Jogging. C. Having a drink. 2. What made the man so worried?A. The exam
2、. B. The paper. C. His teacher. 3. How long will the man stay in France?A. Five weeks. B. Three days. C. Two days. 4. What was wrong with Jack?A. He had a fever. B. He was in hospital. C. He was late for work. 5. Why was the man late for work?A. He was in an accident. B. His car was being repaired.
3、C. He couldnt get his car going. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）听下面5段对话或对白，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至8题。6. How many most beautiful subways are there on the earth?A. Nine. B. Nineteen. C. Eight. 7. When did the w
4、oman go to Shanghai?A. Two days ago. B. Last week. C. Last month. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The boss left very early. B. The speakers enjoyed themselves at the party. C. The man regretted having invited his wifes boss. 9. What is the boss like?A. Nice. B. Impolite.
5、 C. Shy. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What does the man want to sell?A. Furniture. B. Garden supplies. C. An apartment. 11. Why does the man want to sell his belongings? A. He needs money. B. He is moving. C. He likes new things. 12. How is the man going to pay? A. By check. B. In cash. C. By credit card. 听
6、第9段材料，回答第13至1 6题。13. Whats the relationship between Mary and John?A. Classmates. B. Mother and son. C. Brother and sister. 14. What is John doing?A. Putting his shoes on. B. Making a telephone call. C. Getting ready to go to school. 15. How does John go to school?A. By taxi. B. By bus. C. By bike. 1
7、6. How many people are there in Marys family?A. Three. B. At least five. C. No more than four. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How can people avoid forgetting things according to the speaker?A. By keeping a diary. B. By making a schedule. C. By being reminded by others. 18. What does “a master schedule” mean?
8、A. A schedule made for yourself. B. A schedule made for your boss. C. A schedule with all important things and the time to use. 19. How many different schedules are mentioned?A. One. B. Two. C. Three. 20. What can you use your daily schedule to do?A. Plan time well. B. Achieve short-term goals. C. A
9、chieve long-term goals. 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。AiOS 10 The worlds most advanced mobile operating system.Easy to UseFrom the moment you pick up your iOS device, youre up and running. Tap your favorite app and get right to work or play
10、. Swipe from the right side of the Lock screen to quickly pull up your camera. Scroll through thousands of photos in seconds. Everything about iOS is designed to look beautiful and work beautifully.So smooth and responsive you wont even notice it. And thats the point.Because iOS is engineered specif
11、ically for iPhone and iPad, everything looks and feels incredibly fluid. iOS uses a framework called Metal to maximize graphics performance. Whether youre surfing the web, moving from app to app, or playing the most complex 3D video game, the graphics and responsiveness are amazingly smooth. No othe
12、r mobile operating system is so effortless and natural.An OS with a remarkably high IQ.With sophisticated features like proactive(积极主动的) suggestions, predictive typing, and everybodys favorite personal assistant, Siri, iOS10 makes everything you do easier, quicker, and morefun.Nobody understands you
13、 quite like Siri.Siri learns how you talk, not the other way around. Thanks to Apple-developed machine-learning technology, you can simply speak naturally. So whether you say “Get a Lyft to SFO” or “Id like a ride to SFO using Lyft,” Siri will read you loud and clear.Siri even works with your favori
14、teapps.You can ask Siri to send someone a payment using Square Cash, book a reservation through OpenTable, and much more. And the number of apps incorporating Siri is growing every day.21. Instead of the complicated procedures of starting a camera on an iPhone, you can easily _. A. start the camera
15、by tapping the right side of the screen B. start the camera from the Lock screen C. start the camera by tapping the app from the Lock screen D. start the camera by scrolling thousands of photos in seconds22. According to the passage, “Metal” is _. A. an app which helps you surf the web B. a framewor
16、k which helps everything look more beautiful C. something that can promote the graphic performanceD. an app helping play the most complex 3D video games23. Siri can distinguish between different syntaxes(文法) by _. A. enabling you to learn how it talks B. machine-learning technologyC. apple-developed
17、 multi-tasking technologyD. speaking naturally BWhen my daughter Abigail got her learners permit a few months ago, I was appreciative of those drivers who saw a nervous teenager behind the wheel and treated her with patience as we drove around our neighborhood and the country roads close by.Her firs
18、t travels around our part of the Southern End were rather slow (cars piled up behind us). So thank you, nice people.But no kidding, I sincerely want to thank you “friends”, because you have taught my daughter not to take anything for granted on the roads. You deserve the credit for making her a defe
19、nsive driver.I warned her about “friends” like you, but your actions speak much louder than my words.Shes watched you go through red lights and stop signs, turn without signaling, fail to yield(让路) at the crossroads, or hesitate at a stop sign and then pull out into her path at the last millisecond
20、(毫秒).I especially appreciated the “friends” who pulled up beside us the other night at a stop sign on a two-way road and took off quickly as Abigail just started to make her move.“What was that!” Abigail shouted.“Thats a friend!” I yelled.And then there are those of you who find a slow-moving vehicl
21、e(farm machinery down our way) in your lane (车道) and swing out into the opposite lane to pass, oblivious(未察觉的）of vehicles coming in the opposite direction.My daughter has learned that a tractor coming her way means there might be an impatient “friend” hiding, ready to cross into her lane.Thats an in
22、valuable lesson. Thanks.And thank you to all the walkers, adults and children, who appear from between cars. “Be ready to stop” is a lesson that you have taught my daughter well. At the same time, I have taught her the rules for yielding to walkers.Teaching a teen to be a defensive driver isnt easy.
23、 I want you to know that I couldnt have done it without you, my “friends”.24. The people mentioned in the first two paragraphs were . A. tolerant B. strict C. cautious D. slow25. According to the text, the authors daughter . A. often turns without signaling and hesitates at a stop sign B. has made a
24、 lot of friends after she got her learners permit C. has learned to be careful of driver in a few months D. has become an experienced driver in a few months26. What is the authors attitude towards the drivers whom he calls “friends”? A. Excited. B. Indifferent. C. Sympathetic. D. Annoyed.27. What is
25、 the authors purpose in writing the text? A. To express his thanks to his friends. B. To warn people to obey traffic rules. C. To advise teens to be careful when driving. D. To explain to teens how to be a good driver.CThe other morning on the subway I sat next to an attractive young blonde woman wh
26、o was reading something on her iPad. She was very well-dressed, carrying a Prada bag with tastefully applied make-up indeed, she had an unmistakable air of wealth, material success and even authority. I suspected she worked as a highly-paid Wall Street lawyer or stockbroker or something of that sort
27、. So, I was curious to see what she was so focused on. The Wall Street Journal perhaps? The Economist?Quite the contrary; rather, she was concentrating on a romance novel. Then I realized that I have known many women who love romance novelssmart, attractive, successful, “liberated,” modern females w
28、ho nonetheless find some kind of deep satisfaction and thrill from those hyper-romantic, artificial and extremely unrealistic tales of handsome, manly heroes falling in love with virginal women, enduring a series of adventures, then no doubt having a happy ending.These romance stories are to literat
29、ure what hot dogs are to fine food. Yet, the genre(体裁) remains enormously popular. Consider some of these surprising statistics from the good folks at the Romance Writers of America (RWA):*More than 9,000 romance titles were released last year, with sales of about $1.44 billion (more than triple the
30、 taxes produced by classic literary fiction).*More than 90 percent of the market are women (okay, thats not at all surprising).* Readers are typically women between the ages 30 and 54 who are themselves involved in a romantic relationship (betraying the stereotype that only lonely women long for the
31、se tales of love and adventure).*Almost 40 percent of romance book consumers have an annual income of between $50,000 and $99,900 (placing them firmly in the middle class).I had thought that romance novels accounted for a very small share of the literary market, so I was quite surprised that this pa
32、rt has such enormous popularity. But I must wonder why so many womenforty years after the womens liberation movementcontinue to enjoy themselves in the fanciful tales?Im not sure if it represents a kind of “rejection” of the womens liberation movement, but clearly something is missing in the lives o
33、f contemporary ladies. A romance author named Donna Hatch who focuses on the Regency period (early 19th century Britain) explained the appeal of such books this way: “Regency men were civilized and treated women with courtesy. When a lady entered the room, gentlemen stood, doffed their hats, offered
34、 an arm, bowed, and a hundred other little things I wish men still did today. But they were also very athletic; they hunted, raced, boxed, rode horses. They were manly. Strong. Noble. Honorable. And that is why I love them!”Mrs. Hatch may have expressed the secret desires and attitudes of untold mil
35、lions of her peersthat is, in the early 21st century, have women grown tired of the burdens and expectations that the “freedoms” they have gained give them? Is this a rejection of modern feminism? Do women long for days of old when men were masculine gentlemen and women were feminine and protected a
36、s precious treasures and regarded as possessions?Perhaps most women (even the ones who get lost in romance novels) do not want to go all the way back but it is obvious, .28. What is the function of the opening paragraph?A. To summarize the whole passage.B. To prove the authors argument.C. To lead in
37、 the main topic of the passage.D. To raise problems that will be solved later.29. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph imply?A. Romance novels are satisfying and thrilling.B. Romance novels are not of much “nutrition”.C. Romance novels are as popular as hot dogs.D. Romance novels
38、 are an essential part of contemporary life.30. In the authors opinion, what is missing in the lives of contemporary women?A. Authority. B. Dignity. C. Liberty. D. Care.31. Which sentence can be put in the blank in the last paragraph?A. they prefer tales of innocent romance to classicsB. they are un
39、happy with how the world has turned outC. true love described in romance novels does exist in realityD. romance novels provide them with an access to societyDPlants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and
40、 ecosystems.Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures a
41、nd changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.“Predicting species reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researches of several U.S. universities. They said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have
42、 an effect on food chains and ecosystem services.The study, published on the Nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. It found that some experiments had underestimated the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by
43、4 times.“Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance for both leafing and flowering that results from temperature increases,” the study said.“The design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change.” it said.
44、Plants are necessary for life on the Earth. They are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis (光合作用) to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. They let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet.Scientists believe the worlds average temperature has risen by about
45、 0.8 since 1900, and nearly 0.2 every ten years since 1979.So far, efforts to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the Earth heating up beyond 2 this century a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes a
46、re common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.32What is the key information the author wants to give in Paragraph 1?A. Plants reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystems.B. The increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists expectation.C. Climate ch
47、ange leads to the change of food production patterns.D. Food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.33We can learn from the study published on the Nature website that _.A. plants flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafingB. there are 1,634 plant species on the four continentsC. scientists should improve the design of the experimentsD. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change34Scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because _.A. they can prove the climate change clearlyB. the