北京师大附中2017-2018学年上学期高二年级期中考试英语试卷
考试时间100分钟，试卷满分120分。
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
Kazuo Ishiguro，the Japanese-born English writer，has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in 1 . The Swedish Academy made the announcement Thursday in Stockholm. Sara Danius，the academy's secretary，praised Ishiguro as a very interesting writer in many ways. His best known work The Remains of the Day，which was published in ___2___，tells of a man who worked as a butler，the main male servant in the home of a rich person. He looks back on a life in service to the wealthy. The book deepens into a darker story of the repressed(压抑的) ___3___ and social environment of 20th—century England. The work earned Ishiguro the Man Booker Prize. The 1993 film version of the book starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
The choice of Ishiguro for the Nobel Prize marked a change following two years of unconventional choices. Last year，the prize went to American singer and song writer Bob Dylan. In 2015, it went to Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus，an investigative 4 . Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki，Japan and moved to Britain with his family at the age of 5. Although he did not return to Japan until he was in his 30s，Japanese 5 were important in his first two novels A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World. Task 2
New Australians
Today there are more than 15 million people living in Australia. Until 1850 most of the 6 came from Britain and Ireland. Then in 1851, 7 was discovered in south-eastern Australia. 700,000 people went to Australia, most of whom were Chinese. Since then, many different groups of immigrants have gone to Australia. Italians Greeks 1. During the 1850s and 1860s different 1. In 1830, Greeks went to work in states in Italy were fighting for 8 vineyards （葡萄园）in south-eastern and some Italians were forced to leave Australia, because their experience in their homelands. making wine was very 9 . 2. In 1891 the first group of 300 Italians 2. Some went to work in the coalmines in went to work in the sugar-cane （甘蔗）Sydney. fields of northern Australia. 3. Others started cafes, bars and 3. A lot of Italians are also in the restaurants. fishing industry. 4. After the Second World War, 10 in Greece were very bad: little work and very poor people. Australia needed workers so Greeks went there to find a better life. 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。
I'd been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tyre. So I had to stop and get the tools to 11 the problem. It certainly wasn't 12 doing this with a white shirt and suit on.
Nightfall was approaching. Suddenly a car pulled 13 from behind me. A man got out and offered to 14 me. Seeing his unpleasant appearance and tattoos(纹身) on his arm. I became 15 as thoughts of robberies flashed through my mind. But 16 I could say anything he had already begun to take the tools to change the 17 . While watching him I happened to look back at his car and noticed someone sitting in the passenger seat. This had 18 me.
Then，without 19 ，it began to rain. He suggested that I wait in his car because my
car was unsafe. As the rain increased，getting us wet within seconds，I 20 agreed. When I settled into the back seat，a woman's voice came from the front seat. “Are you all right?”She turned around to me. “Yes，I am，”I replied with much 21 when seeing an old woman there. It must be his Morn，I thought. To my 22 ，the old woman was a neighbor of the man who was helping me. “Jeff insisted on stopping when he saw you 23 with the tyre. ”“I am grateful for his help，”I said. “Me，too!”she said with a smile. He helped
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drive her to see her husband twice a week in a nursing home. She also said that he 24 at the church and tutored disadvantaged students.
The rain stopped and Jeff and I changed the tyre. I tried to offer him money and of course he 25 it. It was shameful that I judged people by the way they 26 . As we shook hands I began to apologize for my 27 . He said，“I experience that same 28 often. People who look like me don't do nice things. I 29 thought about changing the way. But then I saw this as a chance to make a 30 . So I'll leave you with the same question I ask everyone who takes time to know me. If Jesus returned tomorrow and walked among us again，would you recognize Him by what He wore or by what He did? \ 11. A. find 12. A. useful 13. A. up 14. A. carry
B. make B. easy B. out B. lift
C. fix C. wise
D. avoid D. lucky
D. round
C. on
C. drive D. help
D. astonished
15. A. discouraged B. frightened C. disappointed 16. A. when B. until C. as
D. before
17. A. tyre B. suit C. expression 18. A. embarrassed B. concerned 19. A. warning
B. realizing
D. shirt
C. discouraged D. puzzled C. knowing D. waiting C. hurriedly D. unwillingly
D. excitement
20. A. directly B. happily
21. A. fear B. satisfaction C. relief 22. A. regret B. amusement 23. A. working 24. A. studied 25. A. refused 26. A. behaved
B. repairing B. performed B. kept B. spoke
C. surprise D. delight C. fighting
D. struggling
C. grew D. volunteered C. ignored C. looked
D. left D. thought
27. A. selfishness B. stupidity 28. A. life
C. weakness D. disability
D. change
B. incident C. reaction
29. A. hardly B. actually C. finally 30. A. point
B. start
D. probably
C. remark D. comparison
第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题；每题2分，共40分)
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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。
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I travel a lot, and I find out different“styles”of directions every time I ask，“How can I get to the post office?”
Foreign tourists are often confused in Japan because most streets there don't have names; in Japan，people use landmarks(地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example，the Japanese will say to travelers，“Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop. ” In the countryside of the American Midwest，there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains，so the land is very flat；in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks，people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example，people will say，“Go north two miles. Turn east，and then go another mile. ”
People in Los Angeles，California, have no idea of distance on the map；they measure distance in time，not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh，”they answer，“it's about five minutes from here. ” You say，“Yes，but how many miles away is it?” They don't know.
It's true that a person doesn't know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say，“Sorry，I have no idea. ”But in Yucatan，Mexico，no one answers，“I don't know. ”People in Yucatan believe that“I don't know” is impolite. They usually give an answer，often a wrong one. A tourist can get very，very lost in Yucatan!
31. When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place，they usually _______. A. describe the place carefully B. show him a map of the place C. tell him the names of the streets
D. refer to recognizable buildings and places
32. What is the place where people measure distance in time?
A. New York. C. Kansas.
B. Los Angeles.
D. Iowa.
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