江西省丰城市第九中学高二英语下学期期末考试试题.doc

丰城九中2015-2016学年下学期高二英语期末考试卷英 语 第一部分 听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，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。 例：how much is the shirt? a. l9. 15. b. 9. 15. c. 9. 18. 答案是b。1. what did the woman do today?a. she did nothing.b. she wrote letters.c. she practiced the piano. 2. what does the man say about delta restaurant?a. the service was better. b. the food was delicious. c. the menu was attractive. 3. what vehicle will the woman probably take tomorrow? a. a bus. b. a taxi. c. the subway. 4. how much will the woman pay?a. $3. b. $6. c. $9. 5. what are the speakers mainly talking about?a. a book. b. a teacher. c. an exam. 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。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. what is the woman probably? a. a hotel clerk. b. a house agent. c. a shop assistant. 7. what is the pillow filled with? a. cotton. b. dried flowers. c. a special material. 听第7段材料，回答第8至l0题。8. what is the probable relationship between the man and donna? a. brother and sister. b. classmates. c. colleagues. 9. what will the man do after graduation? a. work in china. b. find a job in town. c. start his own business. 10. what will the man do next? a. leave the party. b. talk to dan. c. go to find donna. 听第8段材料，回答第11至l3题。11. what is the man? a. a player. b. a reporter. c. a tourist. 12. what is the woman doing? a. queuing up for a tennis match. b. watching a tennis match. c. waiting for a tennis star. 13. where does the woman come from? a. london. b. berlin. c. wimbledon. 听第9段材料。回答第l4至17题。14. what is the mans first advice? a. write to people on recycled paper. b. buy some drinks machines. c. allow staff to wear jogging suits at work. 15. why doesnt the woman agree on using china cups?a. they are expensive.b. they are easily broken. c. theres nowhere to wash them. 16. what does the woman agree to do in the end? a. ban smoking at work.b. buy some work clothes.c. encourage staff to cycle to work. 17. what is the speakers business? a. health care. b. personal image. c. rubbish recycling. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. what is the aim of the school trip? a. to enjoy a film. b. to see a theatre. c. to visit a museum. 19. where can the listeners parents pick them up?a. in the car park. b. at the school gate. c. behind the school library. 20. what should the listeners bring with them? a. some food. b. a notebook. c. some money. 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 it feels like every time my mother and i start to have a conversation, it turns into an argument. we talk about something as simple as dinner plans and suddenly, my mother will push the conversation into world war 3. shell talk about my lack of bright future because i dont plan to be a doctor. and much to her disappointment, i dont want to do any job related to science, either. in fact, when i was pushed to say that i planned to major(主修) in english and communications, she nearly had a heart attack. “why cant you be like my co-workers son?” she bemoans (哀叹) all the time. her coworkers son received a four-year scholarship and is now earning 70,000 dollars a year as an engineer. i dont know what to answer except that i simply cant be like mr. perfect as ive called the unnamed co-workers son. i cant be like him. i am the type of the person who loved to help out in the community, write until the sun goes down, and most of all, wants to achieve a career because i love it, not because of a fame or salary. i understand why my mother is worried about my future major. ive seen my mother struggle to raise me on her small salary and work long hours. she leaves the house around 6:30 am and usually comes home around 5 pm or even 6pm. however, i want her to know that by becoming a doctor, it doesnt mean ill be successful. id rather follow my dreams and create my own future. 21. which of the following topics do the writer and his mother often talk about? a. the writers studies b. the writers future job c. dinner plans d. wars around the world22. we can infer from paragraph 1 that the writers mother _. a. doesnt want the writer to major english b. doesnt think the writer should be a doctor c. gets along very well with the writer d. doesnt think working in the scientific field is a good idea23. which of the following statements is probably true about the writer? a. he wants to be like his mothers co-workers son. b. he wants to find a job in his community in the future. c. he doesnt think his mothers co-workers son is perfect. d. he wants to do something he really likes in the future.b patricia was worried. she had a job interview, and she wanted to look good. she decided to get some new clothes. the store owner, pallas hansen, helped patricia find a suit. but when she left the store, she didnt pay for the suit! how could patricia do this? she was in a special store called career closet in san jose, california. pallas hansen and charlotte krumwiede started this nonprofit store to help women. they knew that many women dont find jobs because they dont have the right clothes for a job interview. women who dont have a lot of money have to use their money to buy food and clothes for their children. they cant buy clothes for themselves. pallas and charlotte started the store in 1992 after they heard about a store like this in chicago. volunteers work in the store. working women donate most of the clothes to the store. this makes it possible for the customers at career closet to get clothes for free. career closet has helped 2,500 san jose women, but clothes arent the only things women get at the store. they also get confidence. patricia is 36 years old. her husband was hurt in an accident, and patricia needed a job to support her seven children. she went to career closet and got a jacket, a skirt, and a blouse. “the whole day made me feel special,” she said. patricia was a success at her interview, and she got the job. one reason why she got it was that she was wearing the right clothes for the workplace. pallas says, “i love this job. sixty percent of the women get jobs. its like being a fairy god-mother.”24. what do the women get besides clothes at career closet? a. money b. shoes c. confidence d. chances 25. where do the clothes at career closet come from?a. volunteers working in the store b. patriciac. pallas hansen and charlotte krumwiede d. working women26. we can know from the passage that _. a. women need to wear fashionable dress for work. b. dressing properly in working place is important. c. women are trained for the interview in pallass shop. d. women get the job training in pallass shop.27. the best title for the passage might be _. a. getting clothes free of charge b. fashion c. success of women d. job interview cxinhua news-the beijing government has set out to recruit thousands of university graduates to work as junior officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the citys employment problems. the government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to work as assistants to village heads or party secretaries in suburban areas. people interested in jobs in beijings rural villages and towns can send applications to beijing municipal bureau of personnel or log on to from february 1 through march 15.“we hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and to start their careers,” sun zhenyu, the deputy director of beijing personnel bureau, told xinhua news agency. the government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan in the first year, 2,500 yuan the second year and 3,000 the third year, provided their performance is up to the required standards, sun said. wang lina, who graduated from beijing union university last year, was one of the first graduates to find work in the citys countryside. after majoring in industial and commercial administration, wang served as the assistant to the village head of ertiaojie village in suburban beijings pinggu district. for one project, wang contacted people at beijing academy of agricultural and forestry sciences and arranged for the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting. her efforts paid off. the village had a plentiful harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year. nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according to the figures provided by the ministry of education.the ministry predicts that 4.95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this year, 820,000 more than last year. about 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate. in beijing, a record of 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year. less than half of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to beijing personel bureau.28. from the story of wang lina we can learn that _. a. wang had great difficulty in helping villagers plant organic strawberries b. local farmers can get big harvests if they work together with her c. the sooner you go to the countryside, the sooner you will be successful d. university graduate can realize their value no matter where they work29. the underlined word “recruit” in the first paragraph probably means _. a. force b. employ c. encourage d. train30. the last two paragraphs seem to tell us that _. a. it is not easy for graduates to find jobs nowadays b. more and more graduates will work as junior officials c. the universities should not enroll so many students d. there are more and more jobs provided by the ministry of education31. which of the following can be the best title for this passage? a. the governments help for university graduates b. a good choice for university graduates c. job hunting for university graduates d. what is the best career?dthe enigma (谜）of beauty the 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 traits the full lips, clear skin, strong shoulders equal health and genetic well-being. not everyone thinks the same way, however. “our hardwiredness can be changed by all sorts of expectations mostly 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. 32. peoples ideas about beauty _. a. have existed since ancient times b. can be easily describedc. have little influence on a persons successd. are based upon strict standard33. 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 ones34. the underlined word “traits” in paragraph 4 probably means _. a. qualitiesb. measurementsc. judgmentsd. standards35. 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 backgrounds第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。how can we all get more laughter into our lives? here is what the experts suggest: 36 nancy alguire, a teacher in clifton park, n.y. was once painfully shy and she seldom laughed. then she married a circus clown (小丑). “i became interested in the clowns,” she recalls, “one day i put on a costume and paint my face. that afternoon my whole life changed. i learned to laugh and enjoy life in a way i had never done before.” 37 to this day, she still makes it a rule to be with people who enjoy life and laughing. 38 it doesnt take you too much time and can be easy. collect favorite cartoons and jokes. also, keep a paper for writing down humor you find in everyday life. “good ideas come and go fast, you have to capture them quickly or they are gone,” says virginia tooper. laugh when you need it most.“ 39 ” says comedian bill cosby. “and once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it,” he insists. gray alan, a sociology professor at the university of minnesota, claims that laughter is a skill we can all gainbecause it comes naturally. 40 just remember: we are just here for a period, so get a few laughs. a. you can soften the worst blows through humor.b. mix with people who laugh.c. practise the art of laughing.d. keep a laughter file.e. he who laughs last laughs best.f. but its also something that has to be developed.g. peoples joy can affect those around them.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，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(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。 all of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. its the age when we have to deal with the most 41 in our life. this transition (过渡) from childhood to adulthood is 42 for some, but rough for others. the most important thing about being a teenager is 43 . when we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do. its all not so 44 about being a teenager though. we dont have to have our 45 take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldnt go before. we can have 46 with friends or even alone, which we couldnt have because we were too 47 to know what pleasure is! its a very enjoyable time of life. during this age, we are old enough to 48 what is good for us, and make decisions without 49 others. but like the saying goes, “all good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue 50 .” during this period, we are having much 51 for our studies. if we dont pass, we wont get jobs, and things will take a turn for the 52 . with the present world economy in 53 , we have to do really reall