北京师大附中2017-2018高二年级期末考试题(3).doc

PAGE 1 北京师大附中2017-2018学年上学期高二年级期末考试英语试卷 试卷说明 1. 考试时间100分钟，试卷满分120分。 2. 完形填空和阅读理解答案按题号填涂在机读卡上，其他答案填写在答题纸上， 填写在试卷上无效。 3. 考试结束后，收机读卡和答题纸。 第一部分 听力理解（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分） 你将听到两段听力材料，请根据所听内容填空，每空仅填写一个词。每段听力材料读两遍。 Task 1 How Will You “Ring in the New Year”？ Everyone around the world celebrates the New Year differently and at different times. Many Asian cultures celebrate the Lunar New Year. In India, the Hindu （印度教） New Year comes in __1__ or May. People have many different ways of ringing out the old and ringing in the new. But why are __2__ linked to the calendar change? √ The website CatholicC explains that they serve as a beautiful __3__ introducing a new year to be spent together as a community of families. √ In Japan, Buddhist （佛教） temples around the country begin ringing out the old year. Each ring stands for each of the earthly __4__ a Buddhist must try to overcome—all 108 of them. √ Those who aren’t religious but a little superstitious （迷信的） believe that the rings at midnight can scare off bad __5__. Task 2 Goucher Prison Education Partnership （GPEP） is a program with Goucher College, a private university located north of the city of Baltimore. With GPEP and programs like it, inmates （prisoners） can use their time in prison to make progress towards their first college __6__. Rena Sard is one example. Last January, Sard finished her sentence. Officers tell her that she is a completely different person than the one who entered the prison. She believes it was GPEP that helped give her the __7__ to be a better person and the __8__ to do something with her life. Along with the women’s prison where Sard was, GPEP has partnered with the Maryland Correction Institute Jessup, a prison for men. During the program’s five-year __9__, it has grown from 15 students to around __10__. 第二部分 完形填空（共20小题；每题1分，共20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could __11__ t