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班级： 姓名：- 学号： -装-订-线-庄浪县紫荆中学2015-2016学年第二学期第一学段考试卷高二英语本试题分第i卷（选择题）和第ii卷（非选择题）两部分。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）请听下面五段对话。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 time is it now?a. 9:10 b. 9:50 c. 10:002.what does the woman think of the weather?a. its nice b. its warm c. its cold3.what will the man do?a. attend a meeting b. give a lecture c. leave his office4.what is the womans opinion about the course?a. too hard b. beneficial c. very easy5. what does the woman want the man to do ?a. speak louder. b. apologize to her. c. turn off the radio.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，个小题将给出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. how long did michael stay in china?a. five days. b. one week. c. two weeks.7. where did michael go last year?a. russia. b. norway. c. india.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8.what food does sally like?a. chicken. b. fish. c. eggs.9.what are the speakers going to do?a. cook dinner. b. go shopping. c. order dishes.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题.10.where are the speakers?a. in a hospital. b. in the office. c. at home.11.when is the report should be handed in ?a. thursday. b. friday. c. next monday.12.what does george suggest stephanie do with the report?a. improve it. b. hand it in later. c. leave it with him.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.what is the probable relationship between the speakers?a. salesperson and customer.b. homeowner and cleaner.c. husband and wife.14. how much rent should one pay for the one-bedroom apartment?a.350 b. 400 c. 41515. what kind of apartment do the speakers prefer?a. one with two bedrooms. b. one without furniture. c. one near a market.16.where is the apartment the speakers would like to see?a. on south street b. on market street c. on lake street.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. what is the speaker talking about?a. the life of tea tasters. b. afternoon tea in britain.c. the london tea trade centre.18. what percentage of the worlds tea exports go to britain?a. almost 15% b. about 30% c. over 40%19.why do tea tasters taste tea with milk? a. most british people drink tea that way. b. tea tastes much better with milk. c. tea with milk is healthy.20.who suggests a price for each tea? a. tea tasters. b. tea exporters. c. tea companies.第二部分： 阅读理解（共两节，满分45分）第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，琮每题所给的四个选项从a、b、c、d中，选出最佳选项。aone of my wonderful memories is about a christmas gift. unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装).on september 11th. 1958. mum gave birth to richard. after she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying. i promised you a gift, and here it is. what an honor! i turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. i played with it day and night. i sang to it. i told it stories. 1 told it over and over how much i loved it!one morning, however, i found its bed empty. my doll was gone! i cried for it. mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. it had a fever. for several days, i heard mum and dad whispering such words as hopeless, pitiful, and dying, which sounded ominous.christmas was coming. dont expect any presents this year. dad said, pointing at the socks i hung in the living room. if your baby brother lives, thatll be christmas enough. as he spoke, his eyes were filled with tears. id never seen him cry before.the phone rang early on christmas morning. dad jumped out of bed to answer it. from my bedroom i heard him say. what? hes all right? he hung up and shouted upstairs. the hospital said we can bring richard home! thank god. i heard mum cry.from the upstairs window, i watched my parents rush out to the car. i had never seen them so happy. and i was also full of joy. what a wonderful day! my baby doll would be home. i went downstairs. my socks still hung there flat. but i knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!21. what happened to the author on september 11 1958 ?a .he got a baby brother b. he got a christmas gift c. he became four years old d. he received a doll 22.what does the underlined word “ominous” in paragraph 3 probably mean？a. impossible. b. boring c. difficult d. fearful23. which word can best describe the feeling of the father when christmas was coming?a. excitement. b. happiness. c. sadness. d. disappointment.24. what is the passage mainly about ?a. a sad christmas day b. life with a lovely baby c. a special christmas gift. d. memories of a happy familybwelcome to the electronic village to explore new ways of language teaching and learning.electronic village program (thursday, june 18, 2015)nearpod 9:00 am to 10:00 am room 501nearpod is a software program that creates a rich context (语境) for students to learn vocabulary. the presenter will show how to use it.teo 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm room 502our students come from different backgrounds but have the same desire to learn on-line. the presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with teo.kahoot 10:30 am to 11:30 am room 601kahoot software can be used to create grammar tests which can be graded on a network. it can provide students with instant feedback (反馈), including reports about their strengths and weaknesses.prezi 3:30 pm to 4:20 pm room 602uses of prezi in listening and speaking courses draw students attention to speaking more fluently. the presenter will show how students can use prezi to confidently present on a variety of topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies.25. nearpod can be used to _.a. offer grammar tests b. teach listening on-linec. help vocabulary learning d. gain fluency in speaking26. if you want to improve your speaking skills, you can go to_.a. room 501b. room 502c. room 601d. room 60227. which of the following can assess your grammar learning?a. nearpod. b. kahoot.c. teo. d. prezi.28. a teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by _.a. 9:00 amb. 10:30 amc. 2:00 pmd. 3:30 pm cin its early history, chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. an old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy chicago street. asked if he needs help, he replies, no, thanks. ive got a good horse under me.the city planner decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasnt enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. the only two options were to lower the chicago river or raise the city.an engineer named ellis chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. this raised the level of the citys streets by as much as 12 feet.this of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in chicago. building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. but what about large, heavy structures like tremont hotel, which was a six-story brick building?thats where george pullman came in. he had developed some house-moving skills successfully. to lift a big structure like the tremont hotel, pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤顶) beneath the buildings foundation. one man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. at pullmans signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. astonishingly, the tremont hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didnt even notice anything was happening. some people like to say that every problem has a solution. but in chicagos early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. now that chicagos waste water was draining efficiently into the chicago river, the citys next step was to clean the polluted river.29. the author mentions the joke to show _.a. horses were fairly useful in chicagob. chicagos streets were extremely muddyc. chicago was very dangerous in the springd. the chicago people were particularly humorous30. the city planners were convinced by ellis chesbrough to_.a. get rid of the street dirtb. lower the chicago riverc. fight against heavy floodsd. build the pipes above ground31. what can we conclude about the moving operation of the tremont hotel?a. it went on smoothly as intended.b. it interrupted the business of the hotel.c. it involved pullman turning ten jackscrews.d. it separated the building from its foundation.dwhether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said cynthia breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company jibo. while household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. for example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. this allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.social robots are not just finding their way into the home. they have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.fellow robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. the companys “oshbot” robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the products location in the store. it can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.the more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. but oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work with other employees. “we have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us,” said breazeal.32. how are social robots different from household robots?a. they can control their emotions.b. they are more like humans.c. they do the normal housework.d. they respond to users more slowly.33. what can oshbot work as?a. a language teacher.b. a tour guide.c. a shop assistant.d. a private nurse.34. we can learn from the last paragraph that social robots will _. a. train employeesb. be our workmatesc. improve technologiesd. take the place of workers35. what does the passage mainly present?a. a new design idea of household robots. b. marketing strategies for social robots.c. information on household robots. d. an introduction to social robots.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。building trust in a relationship againtrust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences, 36 . that is a risk. but you cant be successful when theres a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake.unfortunately, weve all been victims of betrayal. whether weve been suffer from, lied to , misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of losing trust. sometimes people simply cant trust anymore, 37. its understandable, but if youre willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there.l 38 having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices because you can see what the best outcome would be for your well-being.l 39 if youve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. but theres a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. at some point in all of our lives, well have our trust tested or violated.l you didnt lose “everything”. once trust is lost, what is left? instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life. 40 instead, its a healthy way to work through the experience to allow room for positive growth and forgiveness.a. learn to really trust yourself.b. it is putting confidence in someone.c. stop regarding yourself as the victim.d. remember that you can expect the best in return.e. theyve been too badly hurt and they cant bear to let it happen again.f. this knowledge carries over in their attitude toward their future relationships. g. seeing the positive side of things doesnt mean youre ignoring what happened.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、d）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。a welcome giftdario and his mother loved their new apartment. the living room was large enough for their piano. that night, the two of them41side by side at the piano. they played jazz music to celebrate their new home. the loud42filled the room and made them feel very happy.the next morning,43, their happiness disappeared. someone had left a44under their door during the night. one of their neighbors had written to complain(抱怨) about the sound of the piano. darios mother asked the building superintendent(管理员) if he knew anything about it. but he said that they were all45people and he couldnt imagine any of them had done that. later that morning, dario suggested that they write a letter to their46and apologize for their playing.“maybe we could go and47everyone in person.” his mother said.“what if we invited them to come here for a48instead? dario asked.they both loved the49. over the next few days, they sent out invitations and prepared desserts50their guests. they decorated the apartment with streamers(彩带) and party lights.finally, the day of the party51. some guests brought presents. others brought flowers. some even brought desserts to52. one woman, mrs. gilbert,53darios mother with a book of piano music by chopin.“i heard you playing the other night,” she said. “the sounds woke me out of bed. i54that you might play like this every night. so i wrote a short note. i hope you dont think i disliked the playing.”darios mother smiled at mrs. gilbert. “i think maybe we55you an apology.” she said. “i didnt56how late it was when we were playing. maybe we should play some quieter music at night.“you play, you play!” mrs. gilbert said. “i like what you play! just not so loud at night.” she pointed to the book she had given them. “these songs are not such57music.”“these songs are beautiful music.” darios mother said. “we will be58to play them in the evening.”“and we wont play so loud or late!” dario said. he was already looking forward to59the new music. more than that, however, he was happy to see the big smile on his mothers face. it gave him a feeling of60and made him feel that they were home at last.41. a. sat b. stood c. lay d. walked42. a. voice b. ring c. music d. cry43. a. therefore b. howeverc. otherwise d. instead44. a. note b. poster c. bill d. report45. a. proud b. rich c. lucky d. nice46. a. neighbors b. friends c. relatives d. audience47. a. blame b. instruct c. question d. visit48.a.party b. concert c. show d. play49. a. experience b. idea c. performance d. action50. a. to b. with c. for d. from51. a. continued b. arrived c. passed d. finished52. a. order b. sell c. share d. advertise53. a. treated b. presented c. helped d. served54. a. promised b. admitted c. agreed d. worried55. a. give b. send c. offer d. owe56. a. realize b. remember c. understand d. accept57. a. sweet b. strange c. funny d. loud58. a. brave b. sorry c. happ