广东省高州中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期期中试题.doc

广东高州中学 2016-2017 学年度第一学期期中考试 高二英语试题 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共8 页。 本试卷满分 150 分；考试用时 120 分钟。 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考号等相关信息填写在答题卡指定区域内。 2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后， 再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。 3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先 划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡交上。 第一部分 听力（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分） 听下面一段独白，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为 1-10的空格中。 Every Job Is Important Bob was a weatherman at a television station. He worked for twenty years and during those twenty years, he felt that his life was 1 . Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict the next days weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was 2 , some days it was sunny; sometimes rainy, while sometimes 3 . The weather changed each day, but Bob still felt that his job was always the same. His boss often told him to be 4 and smile more in front of the camera, but Bob rarely smiled. He thought that most people did not watch his weather report and his job did not 5 much to anyone. One day, he arrived at work, beginning to study the weather as usual. He 6 that something was different that day. Everything he studied told him that there was going to be a very big storm very soon, 7 he was not completely sure. Suddenly, Bob felt 8 . He ran to his boss’s office and asked to do a special weather report. The boss agreed and Bob gave a special report that afternoon, 9 people of the coming storm, because of which many people were 10 during the storm. Bob realized that his job was actually very important. 第二部分 阅读理解 第一节 篇章阅读（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，并在答题上将该题涂黑。 A Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of Alibaba Group. He was one of the 100 global future leaders of the 2001 World Economic Forum and the commercial leader of 2001 elected by US Commercial Association of Asia. Born in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejian