福州市2019年高二英语下半期期末考试附答案与解析

1. 听力选择题 详细信息
What will Lucy do at 11:30 tomorrow?
A. Go out for lunch. B. See her dentist. C. Visit a friend.
2. 听力选择题 详细信息
What is the weather like now?
A. It's sunny. B. It's rainy. C. It's cloudy.
3. 听力选择题 详细信息
Why does the man talk to Dr. Simpson?
A. To make an apology. B. To ask for help. C. To discuss his studies.
4. 听力选择题 详细信息
How will the woman get back from the railway station?
A. By train. B. By car. C. By bus.
5. 听力选择题 详细信息
What does Jenny decide to do first?
A. Look for a job. B. Go on a trip. C. Get an assistant.
6. 听力选择题 详细信息
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
【1】What time is it now?
A. 1:45. B. 2:10. C. 2:15.
【2】What will the man do?
A. Work on a project. B. See Linda in the library. C. Meet with Professor Smith.
7. 听力选择题 详细信息
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
【1】What are the speakers talking about?
A. Having guests this weekend. B. Going out for sightseeing. C. Moving into a new house.
【2】What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Neighbors. B. Husband and wife. C. Host and visitor.
【3】What will the man do tomorrow?
A. Work in his garden. B. Have a barbecue. C. Do some shopping.
8. 听力选择题 详细信息
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
【1】Where was the man born?
A. In Philadelphia. B. In Springfield. C. In Kansas
【2】What did the man like doing when he was a child?
A. Drawing. B. Traveling. C. Reading.
【3】What inspires the man most in his work?
A. Education. B. Family love. C. Nature
9. 听力选择题 详细信息
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
【1】Why is Dorothy going to Europe?
A. To attend a training program. B. To carry out some research. C. To take a vacation.
【2】How long will Dorothy stay in Europe?
A. A few days. B. Two weeks. C. Three months.
【3】What does Dorothy think of her apartment?
A. It's expensive. B. It's satisfactory. C. It's inconvenient.
【4】What does Bill offer to do for Dorothy?
A. Recommend her apartment to Jim.
B. Find a new apartment for her.
C. Take care of her apartment.
10. 详细信息
听下面一段独白,回答以下小题。
【1】What are the tourists advised to do when touring London?
A. Take their tour schedule. B. Watch out for the traffic. C. Wear comfortable shoes.
【2】What will the tourists do in fifteen minutes?
A. Meet the speaker. B. Go to their rooms. C. Change some money.
【3】Where probably is the speaker?
A. In a park. B. In a hotel. C. In a shopping center
11. 阅读理解 详细信息
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We also require a Skilled Welder (焊接工),to work 12-hour rotating shifts (轮班) in our cutting Department. The successful candidate must be a registered journeyman(熟练工人) within the Province of Alberta or a Red Seal.
We offer a great benefit package, including health, dental and RRSP’s. Numerous motivations: Profit Sharing, Pay for Years of Service, Fitness Program Allowance, and fun social events for you and your family.
Apply in person, and we’ll take you on a tour of our Production equipment or forward your personal information by fax or e-mail.
Black Cat Blades Ltd.
HR@ blackcatblades.com
5604-59 St., Edmonton, AB T6B 3C3
Fax: (780) 465-9595
【1】What is the most attractive about the company? .
A. Charged training. B. Desirable welfare.
C. Working time. D. Free travelling.
【2】Who can be admitted as a skilled welder?
A. An experienced operator. B. A person without a Red Seal.
C. A registered journeyman in Alberta. D. A clerk from Black Cat Blades.
【3】How many kinds of work does the company offer?
A. Three. B. Four.
C. Five. D. Six.
12. 阅读理解 详细信息
Have you read this before? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. That is the 90/10 Principle. You really have no control over 10% of what happens to us, but you determine the other 90%.
Let’s use an example. You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You severely scold your daughter and she breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you blame your wife for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt.
Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and she misses the bus. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at the school and your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye.
After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home, yet when you arrive home, you find a small wedge in your relationship with your wife and daughter.
Why did you have a bad day? Did the coffee cause it? Did your daughter cause it?
Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, “It’s ok honey, you just need, to be more careful next time”. Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.
Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different.
【1】According to the text, what happens after the coffee incident?
A. The mother gets to work late. B. The couple have an argument.
C. The father has a traffic accident. D. The daughter finishes breakfast soon.
【2】Why does the author use the example?
A. To prove the 90/10 principle. B. To compare different attitudes.
C. To give advice on self-control. D. To show the importance of harmony.
【3】What does the underlined word “wedge” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Improvement. B. Wound. C. Disadvantage. D. Change.
【4】According to the text, what leads to the different endings?
A. Your coffee. B. Your family. C. Your experience. D. Your reaction.
13. 阅读理解 详细信息
British parents encourage their children to play musical instruments as part of a family tradition and not to raise their social status as Americans do, research says.
Dr. Aaron Reeves of the University of Oxford found that UK parents did not see musical achievement by their children as character building or useful in getting university places or jobs. Instead, it was usually only those parents who played instruments that encouraged their children to follow suit.
This contrasted with research carried out by other academics in America, he said. “Middle-class parents in the US appear to associate cultural practice with other benefits, such as developing specific characteristics and paving the way for educational success. Middle-class families are often marked by a pattern of ‘concerted cultivation’, where parents organize music-centred activities for their children, often in addition to school-based musical practice.”
Researchers had owed this to “parental anxiety over the declining fortunes of educated Americans. These parents have become increasingly worried about providing their children with skills and abilities enabling them to stand out from their competitors in the job market.”
By contrast, for British respondents, no such connection was made between what is considered as an overbearing parenting style and future educational or career possibilities. The parents interviewed here did not connect music with usefulness but rather they focused on the value of music as a family tradition and, to a lesser extent, as something valuable in its own right.
One Scottish parent, a chemist by profession, said during the interviews, “We’ve got two learning musical instruments. If we think it’s maybe worthwhile we try and encourage them, but we wouldn't force them.” A housewife said, “My son’s just turned five and I want him to do the guitar because his uncle does it, but it’s up to him.”
In some UK families, said Dr. Reeves, music was even “believed to be an obstacle to educational success, or at least secondary to it.”
【1】What do British parents think of music learning?
A. Useful for job application. B. Helpful for character building.
C. Beneficial to further education. D. Worthwhile as a family tradition.
【2】What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Cultural practice. B. Educational success.
C. Concerted cultivation. D. School-based musical practice.
【3】What can be inferred from the text?
A. The future of American kids is not promising.
B. American parents hardly link music with success.
C. Music learning is a personal choice for British kids.
D. British parents show little concern about education.
【4】What is the text mainly about?
A. Reasons for British music preference.
B. British parenting style in music education.
C. Americans’ attitude towards music learning.
D. Differences between British and American parents.
14. 阅读理解 详细信息
If you had to guess which direction Apple would be headed in 2019, what might you say? The company’s iPhone business has been stricken because of an economic slowdown and a maturing smartphone market. It’s clear Apple needs to adapt to face new realities.
Some might say the obvious answer is to lower the prices on the iPhone. Others want it to expand its services beyond Apple devices to Android and Windows.
But what’s more likely to happen is this: iPhones will get even more expensive. The evidence for this is already starting to appear. A new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests Apple is going to give its entire 2020 iPhone line OLED screens(有机发光二极管屏幕)—the same very expensive tech currently only found in the iPhone X and XS.
This may seem surprising, but it’s all of a piece with Apple’s strategy: Make high profit, desirable tech, and get the rewards of creating a closed ecosystem.
So Apple wants to focus on the high-end in order to satisfy choosy customers, while also recognizing that in a mature market, people will replace smartphones less often. This means high-profit devices will be key to maintaining a healthy profit, which helps explain the shift to an all-OLED lineup. That shift also allows for more basic design updates, like curved screens or edges.
It is important to note, too, that even though iPhone sales are down, sales for the Apple Watch and iPad are up. For the future, Apple will continue to put more emphasis on those categories. And looking even further out, it is almost certain that Apple will enter new sectors.
Apple has made some mistake policies in recent years. But the company is not down and out. Far from it: By focusing on high-end, high-profit tech, plus services, all while keeping an eye to the future, Apple will likely keep its dominant position for many years to come.
【1】What can we know about OLED screens?
A. They haven’t been used by Apple. B. They will make iPhones expensive.
C. They will let Apple save cost. D. They have been used in computers.
【2】What does Apple think of market?
A. It’s not fully mature. B. It needs more smartphones.
C. It needs many design updates. D. Its customers are hard to be satisfied.
【3】Which of the following can best describe the future of Apple in the author’s opinion?
A. Uncertain. B. Terrible. C. Concerning. D. Promising.
【4】Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. IPhones Will Be More Expensive B. The Advantages Apples Will Have
C. IPhones Will Work Harder D. Apple Is Facing Difficulty
15. 其他阅读题型 详细信息
Live Every Day Like It’s A Holiday
We feel great on holiday because we let go of everyday stresses and strains. 【1】 So whether or not you’re going away this summer, there’s plenty you can do to make sure you benefit from that holiday feeling.
Sleep like a holidaymaker
Sleep like a baby when you’re on your holidays but stay awake when you’re in your usual routine? 【2】 To reset your sleep pattern, avoid bringing problems to bed. That includes your phone, TV or laptop. Make sure the room is dark and cool. Aim for at least seven hours’ —just as you would on holiday.
Get moving
【3】 Given that exercise is cheap, healthy and reduces stress, it makes absolute sense to build it into your day. A walk will release happy hormones, and eases anxiety and mild depression.
【4】
Part of the joy of going away is lingering over delicious food with families. Take up the holiday habit of sitting down as a family for at least one meal a day. Families who eat together experience less anxiety, less depression and less obesity, research has found.
Be a tourist in your own city
Part of the thrill of a holiday is the novelty of discovering a new place and doing new things. 【5】 At weekends, check out a new music venue, visit a different museum or have a drink in that interesting-looking pub you’re always walking past. It will get you out of routine and make you feel alive. A bit like a holiday, really.
A. Make your meals a celebration.
B. Carve out some dedicated quiet time.
C. If so, you might need to examine your sleep habits.
D. Just make sure you schedule it into your day or week.
E. But it’s also easy to be a holidaymaker in the place you live.
F. Research has even shown that vacations help health and well-being.
G. When you’re travelling, you walk around new cities without a second thought.
16. 完形填空 详细信息
It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and ______ to make a real difference. But all that changed when I ______ my good-deed-a-day project.
My daughter, Emily, was my primary ______. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be ______.
The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could ______ it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I ______ a blind man in the subway station. He ______ as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a ______ nursing home......I could only hope I was arousing ______ in others.
After just a few days, ______ I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a/an ______.
Every evening at the dinner table, I ______ that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began ______ what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she ______ to a neighbour’s pot of geraniums (天竺葵), which had toppled (摇晃) in the wind, and set it right. “That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect ______ from our neighbours for the food bank. We dropped off the food and, ______ we drove away, Emily announced ______ that she wanted to work there one day.
By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely ______ that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second ______. I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need, ______ looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.
【1】A. energy B. space C. wisdom D. salary
【2】A. stopped B. started C. forgot D. remembered
【3】A. donation B. expectation C. celebration D. inspiration
【4】A. lucky B. clever C. happy D. merciful
【5】A. get B. manage C. put D. appreciate
【6】A. watched B. waited C. guided D. ordered
【7】A. smiled B. sighed C. frowned D. jumped
【8】A. popular B. distant C. deserted D. local
【9】A. interest B. mercy C. awareness D. praise
【10】A. though B. besides C. therefore D. also
【11】A. discovery B. difference C. mistake D. fortune
【12】A. reminded B. pointed C. recalled D. described
【13】A. criticizing B. sharing C. laughing D. praising
【14】A. marched over B. pulled over C. turned over D. fell over
【15】A. money B. vegetables C. donations D. clothes
【16】A. before B. since C. until D. as
【17】A. proudly B. eagerly C. anxiously D. casually
【18】A. concerned B. convinced C. expected D. persuaded
【19】A. scene B. language C. nature D. skill
【20】A. by means of B. regardless of C. as well as D. instead of
17. 语法填空 详细信息
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952.He was in his first school play 【1】 he was eight and he started to act in TV shows and films while he was still in college.He made many 【2】 (success) films and TV shows but he is most famous 【3】 his Superman films.
【4】 (lucky), disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and 【5】(break) his back.The doctors did not expect him to live. 【6】, he made amazing progress.At first, he couldn’t breathe without a machine, but he learnt to breathe on 【7】 own.He would never walk again but he started 【8】 new life with great courage.
The second year after his accident, Christopher returned to film making.He also raised a lot of money 【9】 (promote) medical research into back injuries.He made speeches all over the USA about his experiences.This not only drew public attention to research into back injuries but also encouraged a lot of people 【10】 (live) with all kinds of problems.
18. 改错 详细信息
短文改错
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:在错的词下画(_)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。
With the growing popularity of the Internet, more and more children are addicted to play online games day and night. It does harm not only to their health, especial their eyes, but also to their studies.
Comparing with online games, many traditional games, like hide-and-seek, benefits kids mentally and physically. They were ever popular with several generations, which not only learned anything valuable but also enjoyed playing the games. Therefore, the games are dying away now.
Personally, I think teachers and parents should take measure to limit their children’s Internet time. Let children to know the harm of online games and the benefits of traditional games. Help children judge healthy and unhealthy games. What’s more, we should often organize events for children in which traditional games played.
19. 书面表达 详细信息
假定你是高三学生李华,听说暑假有一个中美文化交流夏令营活动(Chinese & American Culture Camp)邀请一些中学生参加,并在活动中展示与中国文化相关的技艺。你很感兴趣,打算申请加入。信的主要内容如下:
1.个人优势;
2.表达希望;
要求:1.为使行文连贯可适当增加细节;
2.词数:100词左右
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Yours Sincerely,
Li Hua