2016年高二(英语)五校期中试题.doc

成都市“五校联考”高2015级第三学期期中试题英 语（全卷满分：150分 完成时间：120分钟）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）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。1. What are the two speakers most likely to buy? A. Apples.B. Oranges.C. Strawberries. 2. How will the woman probably go to the station? A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By train. 3. Where does this conversation probably take place? A. At a store. B. At a hotel. C. At a laundry. 4. When did the woman hurt her leg? A. Yesterday. B. Three days ago. C. A week ago. 5. What is the man doing? A. Asking for advice. B. Giving a suggestion. C. Making a complaint. 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。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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. What does the man think of Italian food? A. It is hot. B. It is delicious. C. It tastes terrible. 7. Where are the two speakers going to have dinner? A. At an Italian restaurant. B. At a Chinese restaurant. C. At a Japanese restaurant. 听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。8. What does the woman think of Professor Johnson? A. He is easy to get along with. B. He usually gives his students good grades. C. He seldom gives homework to his students. 9. What will the man do next? A. Choose another class. B. Cheat in the history exam. C. Continue to stay in the class. 听第8段材料, 回答第1012题。10. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a library. B. In an office. C. In a classroom. 11. How many brothers and sisters does the man have? A. 5. B. 3. C. 2. 12. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Love. B. Friendship. C. A family. 听第9段材料, 回答第1316题。13. How many children are injured every year in Britain? A. About 10,000. B. Less than 100,000. C. More than 1,000,000. 14. How can parents prevent children from falling down the stairs? A. By using mats. B. By fitting safety gates. C. By accompanying the children all the time. 15. What is the most dangerous room according to the woman? A. The kitchen. B. The bathroom. C. The living room. 16. What probably is the man? A. A writer. B. A TV host. C. A radio host. 听第10段材料, 回答第1720题。17. What occupation is mentioned in the talk? A. A manager. B. A teacher. C. A salesman. 18. How can we show our interest in the company? A. Asking proper questions about the company. B. Letting the interviewer know more about you. C. Giving as much advice as possible to the interviewer. 19. How can we succeed in an interview according to the speaker? A. Being friendly as much as possible. B. Being confident and preparing well. C. Giving as much information as possible. 20. How many tips does the speaker give us? A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. 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。AWhich boy hasnt dreamed of being a cool secret agent (特工)? The wonderful fighting abilities and the world-saving adventures are much more colourful than most peoples everyday lives. Well, Cody Banks is just like any other boy, except that he is not just dreaming. He has a big secret his friends never know about. He was trained to be a spy (间谍) by a special CIA programme, which was made to look like a summer camp. He learned high-speed driving, hand-to-hand fighting and the use of high-tech tools.After proving he could become a young hero by saving a baby from a runaway car, Banks gets his first real task. He must make friends with a popular girl at school, Natalie Connors. Then, he must spy on her father, a scientist who has developed a dangerous technology. Banks must stop a group of bad people from forcing Natalies father into using the technology to endanger the world.The CIA may have taught him first-class self-defence moves, but they didnt show him how to talk to girls. Banks has zero ability when it comes to dealing with girls. How can he get around his problem and get an invitation to the girls upcoming birthday party? Will he finally become Natalies boyfriend and find out whatever he can about her fathers work?Agent Cody Banks has everything that young people are interested in: big explosions, breathtaking performances and funny girl-dating experiences. It was listed No.2 in the American box office last week.“This story is interesting and fun for the whole family to enjoy, and especially cool for young boys.” said Paul Perkins, a film reviewer in the US.21. Banks wanted to go to Natalies birthday party to _.A. meet her fatherB. know more peopleC. make friends with herD. steal some information22. What is considered as a great danger in the text?A. The technology developed by Natalies father.B. An explosion set off by some bad people.C. The CIAs training of boys for its tasks.D. Secret agents spying on scientists.23. What is the purpose of the text?A. Making known the work of the CIA.B. Telling the story about a cool boy.C. Showing the dark side of science. D. Introducing a new film.BYesterday, as I approached the front door of our public library, a white-haired gentleman stepped back to hold the door for me. You see, I have to go everywhere these days with a walker, and folks are constantly holding or opening doors for me, so this was not unusual. However, I told the gentleman that the door had an automatic opener, and he did not need to stay to hold it open. He said, “Here I thought I would have an opportunity to be helpful.”At that, I backed up, let the door close, and allowed him to reopen the door, not using the automatic control this time. His comment then was “Well, now I feel like that I have accomplished something helpful and worthwhile today.”We never know how someone else is feeling. We seniors seem to feel we can take care of ourselves at all times. That random act of kindness brightened not only my day, but to my joy and delight, also the day of that white-haired senior citizen. I felt a glow for the rest of the day, and, hopefully, so did he!So, gentle readers, never hesitate to offer kindness. You may find to your amazement that there is more kindness in your community than you ever believe possible. 24. What does the underlined word “this” in the first paragraph refer to? A. Going everywhere these days. B. Going to the public library. C. A white-haired gentlemans opening doors for me. D. A walkers holding the door for me. 25. Why did the author allow the gentleman to reopen the door? A. Because the door was closed after he entered it. B. Because the door was broken by the white-haired gentleman. C. Because he wanted to control the automatic door. D. Because he wanted to give the gentleman an opportunity to be helpful. 26. According to the passage, the author is _. A. a senior citizenB. a young manC. a gentle white-haired manD. a walker27. What did the author want to tell us by writing the story? A. Offering kindness can bring happiness. B. Senior citizens need our care. C. Opening doors for others is helpful. D. The white-haired gentleman was kind. CEndless playing of songs like All I Want for Christmas Is You in shops during the festive season doesnt just drive us mad the songs also make us more careless with our money, theresearch has warned.While the repeated performance of Jingle Bells may seem like an innocent attempt to raise customers spirits during the nightmare of Christmas shopping, the songs also have a more delicate impact.“Background music or Muzak can be used by marketers to impose cultures such as the commercialization of Christmas onto consumers and influence their behaviour,” experts said.Dr Alan Bradshaw of Royal Holloway, University of London, said，“Festive jingles are forcefed to Christmas shoppers to change their mood, influence their sense of time and what sort of products they buy. In other words, this is an attempt to control their shopping habits in a way that they might hardly be aware of.”“Often we are told that we have the freedom to choose where we want to shop, but during Christmas the use of music in this way is so common that our freedom to choose disappears.”Dr Bradshaw and Professor Morris Holbrook of Columbia University examined the phenomenon and found that retailers often “dumb down” the music played in shops to relax customers, meaning it is easier to control their behaviour.It is thought that slowing down the rhythm of music in shops can trick customers into thinking less time has passed, and therefore they spend more time examining the shelves, for example.Some providers of background music have been known to promote their services by claiming they can boost profits by controlling the behaviour of customers.“A common trick is to take a popular current song and record an instrumental version which can be slowed down or sped up at different time of the day to influence behaviour in different ways,” Dr Bradshaw said.Background music is often classed as “Muzak” in honour of the Seattlebased company which began producing its softsounding melodies in the 1930s.28. According to Dr Bradshaw, in what ways does Christmas music influence customers?their moodtheir incometheir sense of time the sort of products they buyA. B. C. D. 29. Shopkeepers slow down the rhythm of music in shops to _.A. let customers spend more time shoppingB. make customers and sales assistants relaxedC. let customers enjoy the beautiful musicD. help customers find what they really want30. What kind of music is now often adapted to influence customers in shops?A. Classical music.B. Popular modern songs.C. Folk songs.D. Jazz music.31. What is the best title of the passage?A. Music makes happy ChristmasB. Christmas “Muzak”C. How to make Christmas musicD. Christmas music makes us spend moreDWhy elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has confused scientists for decades. A study was led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and Arizona State University, including researchers from the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation may have found the answer. According to the results, elephants have 38 additional modified copies of a gene (基因) that encodes p53, a well-defined tumor (肿瘤) suppressor, as compared to humans, who have only two. Further, elephants may have a more powerful mechanism for killing damaged cells that are at risk for becoming cancerous. In isolated elephant cells, this activity is doubled compared to healthy human cells, and five times that of cells from patients with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, who have only one working copy of p53 and more than a 90 percent lifetime cancer risk in children and adults. The results suggest extra p53 could explain elephants increased resistance to cancer. “Nature has already figured out how to prevent cancer. Its up to us to learn how different animals overcome the problem so we can adapt those strategies to prevent cancer in people,” says co-senior author Joshua Schiffman, M.D., pediatric oncologist (肿瘤学家) at Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, and Primary Childrens Hospital. According to Schiffman, elephants have long been considered a walking problem. Because they have 100 times as many cells as people, they should be 100 times more likely to have a cell slip into a cancerous state and cause the disease over their long life span of 50 to 70 years. And yet its believed that elephants get cancer less often, a theory confirmed in this study. Analysis of a large database of elephant deaths estimates a cancer death rate of less than 5 percent compared to 11 to 25 percent in people. 32. Why do humans often get cancer compared to elephants according to the passage? A. Elephants are bigger than humans.B. Elephants have more p53 than humans. C. Elephants are not as clever as humans.D. Elephants eat more than humans. 33. Which of the following is right according to the passage? A. Some damaged cells may be dangerous.B. Some damaged cells are not dangerous. C. Some damaged cells cant be cancerous.D. Some damaged cells in elephants bodies are more dangerous than those in humans bodies. 34. What can we know from the last paragraph? A. Elephants have more cells than people. B. Elephants can get cancer easily. C. Elephants seldom die from cancer. D. Elephants often die from cancer. 35. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. Elephants help usB. Learn from NatureC. How to deal with cancerD. Nature helps us prevent cancer第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Everyone has worries, but what do you do with your worries? Whether your worries are big or small, you can take three steps to deal with them. Try to find out the causes. 36._ Sometimes you know it, but sometimes you might not. If you cant make sure what your worries are, you will have more and more new problems in your life. So remember that you must try to find out the causes before you start to deal with them even though it might not be so easy. 37._There is always something you can do to help you feel less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it wont solve your problem. 38._ If youre worried about grades, ask yourself these questions:How do I get ready for class? Do I review my notes even when there isnt a test? Do I have a good place to do my homework? 39._If your worry is about a fight you had with a friend, you might write down all the things you could do write a note to him or her, invite him or her to a basketball game, say sorry to him or her etc. Once you have a list of things you could do, you can choose the one that gets your friend back. Ask for help. When you are worried, you need to find someone to communicate with. 40._ They will help you analyze (分析) your problems carefully and solve them easily. A. Think of the ways to make it better. B. You can ask your parents, friends, or teachers for help. C. Think of the ways to improve grades. D. Grades at school are often a top worry for students. E. How can I improve my grades? F. Have I tried different ways of studying? G. The first step is to find out what youre worried about. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1. 5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。It was a cold evening and my daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I didnt notice a man sitting inside a cardboard box. But Nora did. She wasnt even four, but she 41 at my coat and said, “That mans cold. Daddy, 42 we take him home?”I dont remember my reply. But I do remember a sudden 43 feeling inside me. I had always been delighted at how much my daughter noticed in her 44 , whether it was 45 in flight or children playing. But now she was noticing 46 and beggary.A few days later, I saw an article in the newspaper about volunteers who picked up a food package from a nearby school on a Sunday morning and 47 it to an elderly person. It was quick and easy. I 48 us up. Nora was 49 about it. She could understand the importance of food, so she could easily see how 50 our job was. When Sunday came, she was ready, but I had to 51 myself to leave the house. On the way to the school, I fought an urge (冲动) to turn 52 . The Sunday paper and coffee were waiting at home. Why do this? 53 , we phoned the elderly person wed been appointed (约定). She 54 us right over.Nora ran inside. I unwillingly followed. 55 inside, I saw that the department belonged to someone poor. Our hostess showed us some photos. Nora played and when it came time to say goodbye, we three hugged. I walked home in 56 .Experts call such a visit “a volunteer opportunity”. They are opportunities. Ive come to see. Where else but as volunteers do you have opportunity to do something 57 thats good for others as well as for yourself? Nora and I regularly serve to needy people and 58 clothes for the homeless. Yet, as Ive 59 her grow over these past four years, I still wonder which of us has 60 more?41. A. pulled B. stared C. waved D. aimed42. A. would B. can C. need D. must43. A. general B. true C. heavy D. curious44. A. area B. part C. mind D. world45. A. insects B. dogs C. animals D. birds46. A. coldness B. illness C. suffering D. respect47. A. delivered B. returned C. devoted D. posted48. A. signed B. hurried C.held D. lined49. A. casual B. sorry C. worried D. excited50. A. creative B. valuable C. hard D. simple51. A. warn B. stop C. allow D. push52. A. back B. away C. up D. out53. A. Again B. Thus C. Still D. Also54. A. called B. promised C. invited D. helped55. A. As B. Once C. Because D. Though56. A. peace B. tears C. shock D. doubt57. A. fair B. famous C. unexpected D. enjoyable58. A. collect B. mend C. order D. wear59. A. let B. made C. watched D. noticed60. A. tried B. benefited C. earned D. missed第二节 （共10分；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）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。When thinking of the typical high school experience, I believe home