湖北省武汉市第三十九中学高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

武汉市第三十九中学2015-2016学年度第一学期期末考试英 语 试 题试卷满分：150分 考试用时：120分钟第i卷（选择题 共100分）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罝。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. 19.15. b. 9.15. c. 9.18.答案：b1. whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?a. old classmates. b. travelers in england. c. tourist and guide.2. how will the man send the machines?a. by ship. b. by air. c. by truck. 3. where is the man going to plant the tree?a. by the front door. b. at the back of the garage.c. at the other end of the garden.4. what does the man advise alan to do?a. go out to work. b. listen carefully to john. c. be calm and patient.5. when is the man going home?a. in the evening. b. in the afternoon. c. at noon.第二节(共15小短: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. why does the man want to eat out?a. he wants to celebrate his birthday. b. he has won a big prize. c. he wants to have some relaxation.7. where will they have supper?a. at home. b. the place the man likes. c. the place the woman prefers.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. why is the man not certain of the job? a. his education is not enough. b. others are more suitable than him. c. he does not have enough work experience.9. according to the woman, what is important for work? a. the ability to put knowledge to practical use. b. good knowledge with work experience.c. strong will and hard work.10. what is the mans opinion about the interviewers? a. they have good experience. b. they are experts in the field. c. they are knowledgeable but proud.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. what are the speakers mainly talking about?a. buying books for their course.b. the money needed for the books.c. sharing the books with each other.12. why does dr. downs want his students to have these five books?a. these books are not expensive.b. he wants his students to read more.c. he wants to discuss them in detail.13. how does the woman plan to solve the problems about the books?a. she buys three and the man buys two.b. she pays the man fifty dollars for sharing.c. they will share the total amount for the books.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. what subjects does the woman like to apply for next year?a. economics. b. engineering. c. science.15. whats the purpose of the woman talking with the man?a. for a good record of her studies this year.b. for a recommendation of him.c. to get some advice about the recommendation.16. what do the womans parents think of her idea?a. they think it is a good idea.b. they think it is a bad idea.c. they think it has nothing to do with them.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. how many people took part in the swimming activity?a. about 300. b. about 3000. c. about 30,000.18. who organized the swimming activity?a. local authority. b. the tourism agency. c. the sports center.19. why did they organize the swimming activity?a. to make people more aware of environmental protection.b. to get ready for a swimming competition.c. to celebrate the dragon-boat festival.20. what can we know from the 62-year-old swimmer?a. the river isnt as clean as it was several years ago.b. the river was very clean when he was a child.c. he often goes swimming in the river.第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，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，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。a i was 9 years when i found out my father was ill. it was 1994, but i can remember my mothers words as if it were yesterday, “kerrel, i dont want you to take food from your father, because he has aids. be very careful when you are around him.”aids wasnt something we talked about in my country when i was growing up. from then on, i knew that this would be a family secret. my parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. for a while, he could take care of himself. but when i was 12, his condition worsened. my fathers other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him. we couldnt afford all the necessary medical care for him, and because dad was unable to work.i would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teachers words muffled as i tried to figure out how i was going to manage.i did not share my burden with anyone. i had seen how people reacted to aids. kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. and even adults could be cruel. when my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table, even though he was too weak to feed himself.i had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, i was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. sad and hopeless, i called a woman at the nonprofit national aids support. that day, she kept me on the phone for hours. i was so lucky to find someone who cared. she saved my life.i was 15 when my father died. he took his secret away with him, having never spoken about aids to anyone, even me. he didnt want to call attention to aids. i do.21. what does kerrel tell us about her father?a. he had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.b. he depended on the nurses in his final days.c. he worked hard to pay for his medication.d. he told no one about his disease.22. what can we learn from the underlined sentence?a. kerrel couldnt understand her teacher.b. kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.c. kerrel was too troubled to pay attention to the lesson.d. kerrel was too tired and angry to hear her teachers words.23. why did kerrel write the passage?a. to tell people about the sufferings of her father.b. to show how little people knew about aids.c. to draw peoples attention to aids.d. to remember her father.bthe enigma（谜）of beautythe search for beauty spans centuries and continents. paintings of egyptians dating back over 4,000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup. in 18th-century france, wealthy noblemen wore large wigs (假发) of long, white hair to make themselves attractive. today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.there is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive: beauty is power. studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are regarded as friendlier.but what exactly is beauty? its difficult to describe it clearly, and yet we know it when we see it. and our awareness of it may start at a very early age. in one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs. the faces on the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students. in the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.the idea that even babies can judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers. in studies by psychologists, men consistently showed a preference for women with larger eyes, fuller lips, and a smaller nose and chin while women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist. according to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these traitsthe full lips, clear skin, strong shouldersequal health and genetic well-being.not everyone thinks the same way, however. “our hardwiredness can be changed by all sorts of expectationsmostly cultural,” says c. loring brace, an anthropologist at the university of michigan. what is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another. look at most western fashion magazines: the women on the pages are thin. but is this “perfect” body type for women worldwide? scientists answer is no; what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world. they found native peoples in southeast peru preferred shapes regarded overweight in western cultures.for better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives. but it is extremely difficult to describe exactly what makes one person attractive to another. although there do seem to be certain physical traits considered universally appealing, it is also true that beauty does not always keep to a single, uniform standard. beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.24. peoples ideas about beauty_.a. have existed since ancient timesb. can be easily describedc. have little influence on a persons successd. are based upon strict criteria25. in paragraph 3, the babies in the study _.a. were rated for their appearanceb. were entered in a beauty contestc. were shown photos of a group of college studentsd. were able to tell attractive faces from unattractive ones26. the underlined word “traits”in paragraph 4 probably means _.a. qualitiesb. measurementsc. judgmentsd. standards27. we can learn from the passage that _.a. the ideas of beauty vary as people grow upb.the search for beauty is rooted in lack of confidencec. the standards for beauty are based on scientific researchesd. the understanding of beauty depends on cultural backgroundscwomen are friendly. but men are more competitive. why? researchers have found its all down to the hormone oxytocin (荷尔蒙催生素). although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.women tend to be social in their behavior. they often share with others. but men lend to be competitive. they are trying to improve their social status, said professor ryan.generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interactions (互动) such as falling in love or giving birth.but in a previous experiment professor ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.professor ryans recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37. half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin. the other half received placebo (安慰剂).after a week, the two groups switched with participants. they went through the same procedure with the other material.following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. the questions were about telling friendship from competition. and their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.the results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, mens ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.professor ryan thus concluded: our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise peoples abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. and the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors (因素) that are mainly hormonal.28. what causes men and women to behave differently according to the text? a. placebo. b. oxytocin. c. the gesture. d. the social status.29. what can we learn from professor ryans previous experiment?a. oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way.b. our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love.c. our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others success.d. oxytocin improves our abilities to understand peoples behavior differences.30. why did professor ryan conduct the recent experiment?a. to test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions.b. to know the differences between friendship and competition.c. to know peoples different abilities to answer questions.d. to test peoples understanding of body language.31. the author develops the text by_.a. explaining peoples behaviorsb. describing his own experiencesc. distinguishing sexual differences d. discussing research experimentsdplants are flowering faster than scientists predicted（预测）in reaction to climate change, which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems. global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say. increased carbon dioxide（co2）in the air from burning coal and oil can have an effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth. “predicting species reaction to climate change is a major challenge in ecology,” said the researches of several u.s. universities. they said plants had been the key object of study because their reaction to climate change could have an effect on food chains and ecosystem services. the study, published on the nature website, uses the findings from plant life cycle studies and experiments across four continents and 1,634 species. it found that some experiments had underestimated（低估）the speed of flowering by 8.5 times and leafing by 4 times. “across all species, the experiments under-predicted the speed of the advance for both leafing and flowering that results from temperature increases,” the study said. the design of future experiments may need to be improved to better predict how plants will react to climate change, it said. plants are necessary for life on the earth. they are the base of the food chain, using photosynthesis（光合作用）to produce sugar from carbon dioxide and water. they let out oxygen which is needed by nearly every organism on the planet. scientists believe the worlds average temperature has risen by about 0.8 since 1900, and nearly 0.2 every ten years since 1979. so far, efforts to cut emissions（排放）of planet-warming greenhouse gases are not seen as enough to prevent the earth heating up beyond 2 this century a point scientists say will bring the danger of a changeable climate in which weather extremes are common, leading to drought, floods, crop failures and rising sea levels.32. what is the key information the author wants to give in paragraph 1?a. plants reaction to weather could have damaging effects on ecosystem.b. the increasing speed of flowering is beyond scientists expectation.c. climate change leads to the change of food production patterns.d. food chains have been seriously damaged because of weather.33. we can learn from the study published on the nature website that _.a. plants flowering is 8.5 times faster than leafingb. there are 1,634 plant species on the four continentsc. scientists should improve the design of the experimentsd. the experiments failed to predict how plants react to climate change34. scientists pay special attention to the study of plants because _.a. they can prove the climate change clearlyb. they are very important in the food chainsc. they play a leading role in reducing global warmingd. they are growing and flowering much faster than before35. what can be inferred from the last two paragraphs about the worlds temperature?a. it has risen nearly 0.2 since 1979.b. its change will lead to weather extremes.c. it is 0.8 higher in 1979 than that of 1990.d. it needs to be controlled within 2 in this century.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。when you are waiting in front of a theater or at the train terminals, you will realize how important punctuality (守时)is. punctuality is really a virtue, especially in a busy city. 36 .punctuality is the main constituent(构成部分)of good character. 37 on the other hand, a person who is always late shows his selfishness and thoughtlessness and he is not worthy to be friends with.some people often say that they cannot always be punctual since traffic is so heavy these days. 38 . as everybody knows, we might meet an unexpected jam on the roads, so we should leave a bit earlier for the appointment to ensure that we would not be late.39 . when they finally arrive, they keep on saying sorry to their friends and then explain. the excuse is not always traffic jam. sometimes they complain that they have met a friend on the road or have helped a blind man to cross the road. some also like to blame their watches, the clocks at home or in the office. to such people, we cannot help but say sorry that we have come too early.yet after all, such smart fellows will soon find that gradually their friends become fewer and fewer. perhaps at that time, they would realize how important punctuality is.40 _. so when we are young, we should try to be punctual every time and never be late, for it is much more easily acquired in youth than when we are older.a. a person who is always on time for his appointment shows real consideration for others.b.it is polite to be punctual when you are invited to a party.c.i think traffic jam cannot be an excuse for being late.d.some people always have a lot of excuses for coming late.e.perhaps if everybody were punctual, there would be less suffering and sorrow.f.in western countries, punctuality is very important in social life.g.to be or not to be punctual is a habit.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；每小题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。on a cold winter morning, an old man sat awkwardly against a wall at syd