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1、2017-2018 年上学期湘东五校联考高二年级期末考试本试卷分第 I 卷和第 II 卷两部分，共 12 页。满分 150 分。考试限定用时 120 分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分听力(共两节, 满分 30 分)第卷第一节(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。例：How much is the shirt?A.19.15B. 9.18C. 9.
2、151. What do the tw o speakers think of the rain?A. It is timely.B. It w ill stop soon.C. It is unw elcome.2. How old is the w omans bicycle probably?A. One year old.B. Three years old.C. Four years old.3. What is the w oman most probably going to do?A. Hav e a breakB. Continu e w ith the w orkC. Go
3、 home4. What impressed the man most in Australia?A. The sea.B. The beautiful beaches.C. The beautiful cit ies.5. Why didnt the w oman call the man yesterday?A. She lost her cellphone.B. Her cellphone w as pow er off.C. Her teacher took her cellphone aw ay.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
4、。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。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. Why w ont the boy play baseball w ith the girl?A. He has to help his mother. B. He has to go back home.C. He has promised to paint his house.7. What can the girl do to help th
5、e boy?A. Pack his clothes.B. Pack his odds.C. Pack his books.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. Whom is the party for?A. LisaB. JaneC. Ted9. Where w ill the party be held?A. At a pizza shop B. At a nightclub. C. At the mans.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. How long w ill the w oman stay in Australia?A. Three w eeks. B
6、. Tw o w eeks. C. One w eek.11. How w ill the w oman go to Australia?A. By p lane. B. By sea . C. By train.12. What happened w hen the man w as on his w ay to China?A. The engine caught fire. B. The runw ay caught fire. C. The pilot fell asleep.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the conversation
7、take place?A. At Ph ilips home. B. On the phone. C. In a gym.14. Why w ill the w oman miss the golf in Houston?A. She w ill be on business abroad. B. She w ill be busy in w orking.C. She w ill be having her holiday.15. When is the US Open Running?A. From April 27 to 30.B. From April 15 to May 15. C.
8、 From June 15 to June 18.16. What w ould be w onderful to the tw o speakers?A. Watch the game together. B. Be on a vacation C. Go to the USA.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the advantage of onlin e education?A. The set time of courses. B. Degrees offered easily. C.The independence.18. When did t
9、he University of Phoenix begin offering degrees online?A. In 1989. B. In 1993. C. In 2000.19. Which university offers a masters degree of business administration ?A. The University of Phoenix. B. Cardean Un iversity.C. Jones International Un iversity.20. What do educational advisers advise at last?A
10、. Mak ing sure you like the program you enter.B. Mak ing sure you w ork is related to the program you learn.C. Making sure your country recognizes the program you choose.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AAs old-fashioned as it sounds,
11、doctors say the best w ay to lose w eight is to eat less and exercise more. For w omen w ho are middle-aged or older, experts say one hour of daily exercise is necessary just to keep w eight.But for most w omen, taking exercise an hour in an already busy day is difficult, and it is even impossible.
12、Especially for many w omen, most hours are already filled w ith a full-time job and raising a family. At the end of the tiring day, at least in the U.S, instead of preparing a dinner, fast food becomes their first choice and makes them fatter and fatter.Nearly tw enty million w omen in the U.S. have
13、 the problem of obesity（肥胖）.The UnitedNations report notes that America is one of the countries that have the most obese people in the w orld and Mississippi has more overw eight w omen than any other state in the U.S. The U.S. Center for Disease Control says the number of overw eight w omen increas
14、ed by 60 percent betw een 2004 and 2009 in Am erica. The World Health Organizat ion says more than one billion w omen in other nations are in the same shape.While there is plenty of advice on how to lose kilograms, a new study is carried out on midd le-aged and o lder w omen w ho keep normal body w
15、eight, or BMI(Body Mass Index)(体质指数）. We found that physical activity w as effective in controlling w eight on ly among w omen w ho started to gain w eight from a normal BMI, I -Min Lee states. So, w hat can obese w omen do?Surprisingly, I-Min Lee and her colleagues found more exercise did not help.
16、Once a w oman is obese, there w as no relat ion betw een physical activity and w eight change among these w omen, Lee said. The researchers say the only w ay that obese w omen can lose w eight is to simply cut calories.21. What makes it difficult for most w omen to have an hour of exercise every day
17、?A. Losing confidence in exercising. B. Paying all attention to their jobs. C. Hav ing no interest in exercising.D. Being too busy to find spare time.22. The third paragraph show s us that .A. more and more w omen are caring about their w eight. B. the problem of w oman obesity w orldw ide is seriou
18、s. C. many organizations are built to care about fat women.D. America has more overw eight w omen than any other country.23. What should an obese w oman do to lose w eight according to Lee?A. Eat more vegetables and fruit and less fat.B. Keep busy all day long and do a lot of exercise. C. Find a hig
19、h energy costing and tiring job.D. Sleep less, eating less and exercising more.BDespite her delayed f light, Shir ley Sharratt, 48, w as excited to arrive in Pensacola last w eek and see her sister Jenna Callow ay, 44. The tw o sisters last saw each other more than 30 years ago w hen they w ere sepa
20、rated by the state child protection services in Seattle. It w as exciting, said Callow ay. We didnt know w hat to dow e hugged and hugged andjust looked at each other.When she w as just 11, Callow ay said she and Sharratt, w ho had the same mother but different fathers, w ere taken aw ay from their
21、parents and placed into foster(寄养) care.We had a really bad childhood, Callow ay said. When her dad found her, he took her aw ay, and I stayed in the foster home.For years Callow ay tried to find her sister. After hitt ing several dead ends, s he finally found her about six months ago w ith the help
22、 of the Internet.I w ant to go and see her, but her husband had just passed aw ay and it w as not a good time,she said.At the face-to-face reunion last w eek, Callow ay and her family gave Sharratt a celebrity-stylew elcome. Rebekah Williams, Callow ays 22-year-old daughter, held up w elcome signs a
23、nd reveled(狂欢） in the fun. Sharratt said she and Callow ay talked into the w ee hours of the morning, and she hardly remembered w hen she fell as leep.They chatted about children and grandchildren and thought about some of the fun times and laughed at the time w hen Sharratt tried to shave off her e
24、yebrow s.We w ere joking about how w e looked now, too, Callow ay said. We had a really badchildhood, but w e are just glad to have each other now.I just feel like Im at home, said Sharratt, w ho lives in Mount Vernon, Washington, but likes to be closer to her sister. For the first time, I feel like
25、 I actually belong.24. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Internet reunited tw o sisters separated over 30 years. B. Tw o sisters w ere separated for more than 30 years.C. Internet is of great importance for separated people. D. Tw o sisters experienced a hard childhood.25. According to the pas
26、sage, the tw o sisters separated .A. w hen they w ere staying w ith their motherB. w hen they w ere in the foster homeC. w hen they w ere staying w ith their fathersD. w hen they w ere at school26. The underlined w ords the w ee hours in the seventh paragraph refer to .A. the late morningB. the hour
27、s betw een midnight and daw nC. the hours in the eveningD. the hours in the night27. According to the passage, it is lik ely that .A. Sharratt w ill marry again soonB. Callow ay w ill live together w ith SharrattC. Callow ay is good at InternetD. Sharratt is likely to moveCElephants losing tusksPeop
28、le killing eleph ants for their tusks ( 象牙) has long been a problem w orldw ide. Although law s have been introduced to ban the selling of tusks, they have not been enough to save the eleph ants.But the g iant an imals have now developed their ow n solution to stay safe from hunters by notgrow ing t
29、usks at all.Scientists found that among female African elephants, as many as 98 percent of them now have no tusks, reported The Independent new spaper. The number w as 15 percent in 1998 and only 1 percent in 1930, according to the BBC.But th is solution has less been developed by elephants themselv
30、es, and more by evolution.Evolut ion is all about natural selection. When an environment changes, for example, animals and plants that can deal w ith the change w ill stay alive w hile others w ont. And for elephants, the change came w hen hunters started killing them for their tusks. As a result, e
31、lephants w ith big tusks couldnt stay alive because hunters w anted to shoot them. Those born w ith no tusks managed to stay alive and give their tuskless genes to their babies. As a result, more and more elephants are now being born w ithout tusks.But th is solution, as effective as it might be, is
32、 a high price to pay for elephants. Tusks are important and play a number of roles, especially for male eleph ants, including fight ing w ith other males, lift ing and digg ing things up.This is w hy scientists hope there can be other w ays to protect elephants against hunters. They believe that w h
33、en they are less likely to be killed, elephants w ill be able to grow tusks again.To David Cow drey, head of policy and campaigns at the International Fund for Anim al Welfare(IWAF) UK, how ever, this is not very likely to happen in the near future.Unfortunately, it comes dow n to the markets, he to
34、ld The Guardian. As long as people w ill pay high prices for products that come from endangered animals and plants, theyre going to have a price on them and that causes the hunting.28. What did scientists find out about elephants?A. All elephants in the w orld do not grow tusks now.B. Elephants no l
35、onger grow tusks to stay safe from other animals.C. An increasing number of female African elephants dont have tusks.D. The size of female African elephants tusks is becoming smaller and smaller.29. Which of the follow ing is TRUE about the evolution process that w orked on elephants?A. Elephants le
36、arned to lift and dig things up w ithout tusks.B. Elephants chose not to grow tusks because of their dangerous environment. C. Elephants w ith no tusks had a greater chance of passing dow n their genes.D. A tuskless elephant can give birth to more baby elephants than an elephant w ith big tusks.30.
37、What do scientists think of the change in elephants?A. It can help elephants in their day-to-day lives. B. It brings a lot of harm to elephants.C. It is valuable and cannot be replaced.D. It is the most effective w ay to protect elephants from hunters.31. What can be concluded from the last tw o par
38、agraphs?A. A better solution to protect elephants w ill come into effect in the near future. B. People should pay low er prices for products made w ith elephant tusks.C. Elephants liv ing env ironments w ill soon be improved.D. The key to elephant protection is stopping the trade in tusk products.D
39、Believing fake ne wsShocking news makes headlines all the time. Examp les include South Koreas presidentialscandal and the Pope supporting Donald Trump. But the difference betw een the tw o is that the former actually happened, w hile the latter is completely fake ( 假的). And the fact that the Pope s
40、upports Trump new s w as shared over 960,000 times on Facebook, despite its fakeness, trulyw orried the w orld.But th is w as only one of many cases in w hich people have fallen for inaccurate information. And according to David Rapp, a professor at Northw estern University, US, this has less to do
41、w ith peoples ignorance and more to do w ith how the human brain w orks.Rapp found that w hen people see a piece of new s, they tend to quickly dow nload the information into their memory because its easier than checking it first.We come across tons of information all day. Its a nightmare to evaluat
42、e( 评估) all of it, Rapptold Scienc e Daily.And just as first impressions are hard to change, the incorrect information gets stuck in our memory, even if w e later read otherw ise. When the brain tries to pull up information later, the incorrect information is likely to come to mind more easily than t
43、he correct information.Just because you can remember w hat someone said doesnt make it true, added Rapp.But our brains only explain the psychological side of things. The w ay new s spreads on social media has also added to the problem.Earlier studies found that people tend to be friendly to those w
44、ho are like-mind ed on socialmedia. Websites lik e Facebook also use algorithms ( 程序算法) to figure out preferences of users in order to feed them w hat they like to see. Both have helped create w hat researchers called an echochamber a space w here only similar opin ions spread around w hile things t
45、hat are uncomfortable or challeng ing are kept outside.The danger here is that you increasingly end up not seeing w hat people w ho think differently see, and in fact not even know ing that it exists, Eli Pariser, CEO of Upw orthy, a US -based liberal new s w ebsite, told US radio station NPR.This i
46、s w hy Rapp suggested that you look critically ( 批判地) at information right aw ay, even ifit might not fit your ideas or agree w ith w hat youve long suspected to be true.32. What is the main point of the first paragraph?A. Shocking news attracts public attention easily.B. Fake new s actually spreads
47、 faster than real news.C. Its important to be able to tell fake new s fr om real news.D. The w ide spread of fake news has become a concern for the w orld.33. Which of the follow ing w ould David Rapp probably agree w ith?A. People tend to rely on their first impression w hen they recall information they have received. B. People a