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长阳一中20152016学年度期末考试英语试卷第i卷第一部分 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l0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. where will the woman go? a. a store.b. the school. c. the stadium.2. what field does the woman recommend for the man? a. communications. b. sales. c. law.3. when is the bank open? a. from monday through saturday. b. from tuesday through saturday. c. from tuesday through sunday.4. what are the speakers talking about? a. making new friends.b. seeing old friends.c. getting a new job.5. how does the woman feel about her mother? a. she is proud of her mother. b. she doesnt like her mothers job. c. she is disappointed in her mother.第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独自。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. where are the speakers? a. in a car.b. at a concert.c. in a crowded store.7. why does the woman want to leave? a. shes too hot.b. the music is too loud.c. shes bored.听第7段材料。回答第8至10题。8. what are the speakers looking at? a. pictures of dinosaurs.b. people on the street.c. the clouds.9. what is the man like? a. imaginative. b. evil. c. boring.10. what is the probable relationship between the speakers? a. husband and wife.b. father and daughter.c. brother and sister.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. what happened to the womans car last time? a. the seats were covered with food. b. a bear went into it. c. a bag of garbage was left in it.12. how does the woman feel about the car in the beginning? a. happy. b. uncertain. c. sorry.13. where will the man drive first? a. to a dance class.b. to a movie theater.c. to an ice cream shop.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. when is the man going on vacation? a. next month. b. next week. c. in two days.15. where is the man planning to go? a. rome. b. venice. c. milan.16. what does the woman say about trains in italy? a. they are very convenient. b. there can be delays in service. c. they are a waste of time.17. what does the man imply at the end of the conversation? a. hes glad the woman told him her story. b. the woman had really bad luck. c. he wouldnt mind that outcome.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. what is an advantage of a volunteering vacation? a. its really fun.b. you can learn a lot.c. its very relaxing.19. what did the canadian study find? a. many peoples communication skills got better. b. 60% of people met their best friend. c. most people volunteered again.20. according to the speaker, where could you go to help children? a. to mexico. b. to thailand. c. to india.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 阅读理解（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“ why id like to visit texas ”essay competitionwe extend a special invitation to enter our competition: “why id like to visit texas.” well have one high school winner from each state across the country.if you win, you will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for two to the great state of texas! you will tour the state, stopping in six cities to visit overnight and to see landmarks. the prize includes hotel rooms, meals, round-trip transportation to and from texas, and all your transportation within the state.carefully read the details below, start planning and writing, and send us your entry. wed love to see you here in the lone star state!essay rules:you must meet each standard for your essay to be considered. you may only write about one of the texas landmarks or texas symbols listed under “topics.” your essay must be entitled “why id like to visit texas.” we encourage you to research many resources as you plan your essay. we are looking for dynamic essays that will capture attention and provide fascinating detail.your essay must be at least 1,000 words, but no longer than 1,500 words. all entries that do not meet this length requirement will be automatically disqualified. be certain that your essay is rich with historical facts. while we prefer typed entries, handwritten entries are allowed, but we must be able to read your handwriting.do not write your name on the essay. instead, staple(装订) a cover sheet and the entry form to your essay. include your name, address, and telephone number. include a confirmation from your high school attendance office to show that you are registered at the high school. after we receive the entries, we will assign each one a number.*topics:landmarks: the alamo, sam rayburn house, spanish governors palace, perrys point, casas amarillas, rainbow cliffsstate symbols: state flag, state bird (mockingbird), state flower (bluebonnet), state tree (pecan), state song (“texas, our texas”)submit your entry to the following address:why id like to visit texasp.o. box 44521san antonio, tx 7820921. putting the benefits of winning before rules, the author aims _.a. to emphasize the importance of the contestb. to show the benefits matter more than rulesc. to convince the competitors of great rewardsd. to arouse immediate interest and attention22. the number of the topics that can be chosen is _.a. 5b. 6 c. 11 d. 1523. the underlined “one” in the sixth paragraph refers to _.a. an entry form b. a received entry c. a competitor d. a confirmationbthinking about thinkingas a public school superintendent (督导), i believe the best way to prepare students for colleges and careers is to focus on providing instructional programs and opportunities that help them become good thinkers. to do this, teachers and actually everyone else in a community, should play a role as a “cognitive coach” to students, helping develop good thinkers among your youth.the best way for you to become a cognitive coach is to seek out and engage school children and adolescents in meaningful conversations. the objective here is to get kids talking about what they think, how they feel, and what they believe whenever and wherever you may find them. it may be in a classroom. it may be at the grocery store. it may be at a basketball game. it doesnt matter where as long as you engage students in a topical conversation and, hopefully even a debate. mainly, you want to encourage students to voice their opinion about things. get them to take a position on “this thing, or that thing” and ask them to support their position with evidence. curiously enough, the simple process of engaging students in real life conversations and debates will serve to strengthen what they have learned in the classroom, and help them create their own knowledge about a subject or a topic.learning indicates that a student has been exposed to material, understands the material, and can recall the information. knowledge, on the other hand, goes beyond recall and includes information processing, application to other situations, consideration of meaning, and contrasting with other concepts. naturally, the topic of conversation you engage in with one of your learners will differ from student to student, and in the level of complexity based on childs age and developmental level. even a kindergartener has an opinion about things that are going on in his or her life. engaging in conversation with any members of your learning community in ways that get at what they have learned and what they know will help them develop higher order reasoning skills.a students synthetic thinking (综合思维) process occurs when a respected adult asks a question, particularly a question that requires reflection. i think all adults in a community have a responsibility to help children with this process, with the goal of producing independent thinkers.24. according to the writer, what most helps develop students thinking? a. enlarging ones knowledge.b. learning from respected adults. c. attending instructional programs.d. making evidence-based arguments.25. which is the best question raised by a cognitive coach? a. what have you learnt recently? b. will you pay by the credit card? c. where are you going this weekend? d. how do you like this basketball team?26. the writer mentions a kindergartener in paragraph 3 in order to _. a. emphasize the importance of being a good thinker b. suggest that education should start at an early age c. prove that even children have their own ways of thinking d. explain the necessity of choosing proper conversation topics.27. what is the main purpose of the passage? a. to state an education idea.b. to assess a teaching strategy. c. to introduce a learning method.d. to compare different education methods. ccopycat elephants you may have seen a talking parrot on a tv show, in a movie, or even in someones home. the parrot has learned to copy sounds that people make. birds are not the only animals that can copy the noises they hear. dolphins, bats, and some apes also copy sounds. now we can add elephants to this list of copycats. dr. joyce poole is a zoologist. she studies the sounds of elephants. while she was in kenya, she would hear strange noises made by mlaika after sunset. mlaika was a 10-year-old african elephant. mlaika lived near a highway. dr. poole says, i could not tell the difference between mlaikas call and the distant truck noise. she and other scientists studied mlaikas sounds. it turned out that mlaika was copying the sounds of the trucks driving by. why would mlaika copy trucks that she heard going by on the highway? animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy practicing new sounds. when they are kept outside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds. that may be why an elephant would copy the sound of a truck. mlaika was not the only copycat elephant, dr. poole says. calimero is a 23-year-old male african elephant. he spent 18 years with two female asian elephants. asian elephants make chirping sounds (sounds made by birds) to talk with one another. african elephants usually do not make chirping sounds. but calimero now does. he is copying his asian elephant friends. dr. poole says that elephants need to form bonds with their family and friends. she says, they make sounds to communicate with each other. when they are separated, they use sounds to keep in contact. parrots, dolphins, humans, and elephants show that being a copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.28. according to the passage, what does mlaika copy? a. the sound of people. b. the sound of trucks. c. the sound of calimero. d. the sound of birds.29. why is calimero mentioned in the passage? a. to clarify the meaning of copycat elephants. b. to show the cleverness of african elephants. c. to add another example of copycat elephants. d. to introduce a special life skill of asian elephants.30. from paragraph 4, we can know_. a. how long it takes for an elephant to learn a new sound b. why the african elephant can make chirping sounds c. why the asian elephants make noises after sunset d. how asian and african elephants are alike31. according to the passage, why do some animals like to be copycats? a. to keep in touch with nature. b. to please people and other animals. c. to make new friends and keep old ones. d. to avoid the danger from the outside world.d texting patients to remind them to take drugs could prevent the deaths of thousands of people from stroke or heart attack and save millions of pounds each year, a new study suggests. currently 500 million is wasted each year because patients stop taking drugs. however a new study by queen mary university of london showed that sending a text reminder improved patients taking pills by 64%. not only would it stop the national heath service wasting millions on drugs, it would also stop thousands of people dying needlessly because they fail to take medicine that lowers their cholesterol or blood pressure. professor david wald, consultant cardiologist and lead author, queen mary university of london, said, an important and overlooked problem in medicine is the failure to take prescribed medication(处方药). the results of this trial show that text message reminders help prevent this in a simple and effective way. more than just a reminder, the texts provided the link to identify patients who needed help. around a third of people do not take their treatment as prescribed(按照要求). some patients forget to take their tablets and others stop because of uncertainty over the benefits or harms of treatment. researchers asked 303 people over a six month period to take part in a study to find out if texting would be beneficial. the text message group received texts every day for two weeks, alternate days for two weeks and then weekly for 6 months, asking if they had taken their medication that day. patients who had not, or did not reply, were telephoned and offered help. in the no text group, 25 percent of patients stopped their medication completely or took less than four fifths of their prescribed treatment, compared with only 9 percent in the text message group. david taylor, emeritus professor of pharmaceutical and public health policy at ucl, added, the implications of these results are considerable from both an economic and a health gain perspective. the method is not limited to cardiovascular disease prevention and could be used for patients on treatment for other diseases. 32. why is a large amount of medical fee wasted every year? a. patients take too much medicine. b. patients dont go to hospital in time. c. patients forget the doctors instructions. d. patients dont take medicine as instructed.33. the percentage of people who dont act on the doctors directions is about . a. 9% b. 25% c. 33.3% d. 64%34. what did researchers do with patients who didnt reply to their text messages? a. they just left them alone. b. they reminded them by telephone. c. they contacted them on the internet. d. they visited them in their apartment.35. what do we know from what david taylor said?a. texting patients is beneficial. b. all patients need reminding by texting.c. the benefits of texting are not obvious.d. the method should be adopted by all hospitals. .第二节 七选五（共5小题，每小题2分，共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。 im 30 years old, and there are several things that life has taught me that i want to share with youhere are the 4 lessons that life has taught me in the past 30 years1.take care of your bodylife is “unfairly” biased（偏向的） towards people who “look good,” like it or notso its important that you do all that is in your power to look your best 36 you will live longer, and you will live happier, if you take care of your body; you may even get promoted faster on your jobremember that your health is really your greatest wealth 2. 37 no one taught me to save when i was growing up; no one told me the importance of savingfortunately i was able to learn the value of saving through reading great books like “the millionaire next door”what i want to teach others is to save at least twenty percent of your incomeif you are to be wealthy, you must not just earn a lot, you must save a lot 3.think in the long term. in high school i was thinking about college, in college i was thinking about life after collegeim designing my life and im making decisions today that will enable me to live the life i desire when im in my 40s, 50s and 60s. you have to think in the long term; you have to see the “big picture” 38 4.realize the power of focus focus, focus, focus 39 if you fail in this lifetime, you will fail because of broken focusif you focus on the goals that are most important to you, you will achieve themthe problem is that there are so many distractions 40 winners decide to major on majors, and they even let important things slip, because they just focus on achieving what is critical to their goalsathe importance of saving.bif you plan your future properly, you will live into your plans.csave your money.dnothing is more critical than focusewhat separates the winners from the losers is that the winners learn to focus on their goalsfi mean dressing nicely, working out and eating rightgits critical that you pursue relationships with individuals who are good first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。the lady with the white fence taught me to leave the gate to life open.when my husband died of a brain disease, i became very angry. life was not 41 . i hated being alone. one day, as i was 42 down a busy street in town, i suddenly noticed a new fence, which was being set up 43 a house. i 44 to the side to really admire the fence. the carpenter had done such a good job that my eyes almost 45 up with tears. i could not 46 myself away. i stopped the engine, went over and touched the fence. it still