湖北省老河口市第二中学高二英语下学期期末试题（含解析）.doc

湖北省老河口市第二中学2014-2015学年度高二下学期期末考试英语试题注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第i卷（选择题） 评卷人得分一、听力第一部分（题型注释）第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)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。1where does the conversation probably take place?ain a bookshop. bin a library. cin a classroom.2what can we learn from the conversation?athe girl cant go out this weekend.bthe man wants the girl to do her homework first.cthe man doesnt like the girls friends.3where are the speakers probably going? ato a zoo. bto the beach. cto a theater.4what probably is the man?aa chef（厨师）. ba waiter. ca salesman.5when will the next party be held?ain april. bin may. cin august.评卷人得分二、听力第二部分（题型注释）第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面五段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，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。听每段材料前，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。每段材料读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6what part of the mans body was hurt?ahis back. bhis neck. chis leg.7what does the woman advise the man to do?asee a doctor. bhave a good rest. ctake a hot bath.听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。8what is the probable relationship between the speakers?ahusband and wife. bemployer and employee. cwaiter and customer.9what does the man plan to do this weekend?atake a long vacation. bwork in the company.clook for a new job.10what does the man think of the womans request?ait is unbelievable. bit is unreasonable. cit is acceptable.听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。11how will they pick up these people for conference?aby taxi. bby minibus. cby car.12where does nancy jordan come from?aboston. bnew york. cchicago13who has brown hair?abob price. bnancy jordan. csteve maglieri.听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。14where was the woman yesterday?aat home. bat school. cin a hospital.15when will the speakers have a quiz ?atomorrow. bon friday. cnext friday.16what did the teacher ask the students to do?areview chapter6. bimprove their reading skills. cread the chapter about the spanish war.听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。17what happened to the speaker and the couple during the play?athey fought. bthey quarreled. cthey became friends.18why didnt the speaker enjoy the play?ait wasnt interesting. bhe couldnt hear it. che didnt have a good seat.19what did the manager do?ahe apologized for the speaker. bhe returned the speakers money.che apologized for the couple.20how does the speaker feel now?aangry. bcalm. chappy.评卷人得分三、阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分） japanese high school students either walk or ride bicycles if the distance is not too great. in other cases, students must take public buses and trains. after junior high school, students attend schools based on their high school entrance examination scores. so some students travel a great distance to attend the school. *_ the school day begins at 8:30. then students assemble in their homeroom classes for the days studies. each homeroom has an average of 40-45 students. students stay in their homeroom classrooms for most of the school day. only for physical education, laboratory classes, or other subjects requiring special facilities do students move to different parts of the school. between classes and at lunchtime, classrooms can be noisy, lively places. some schools may have a cafeteria, but most do not. in most schools, students bring a box lunch from home, prepared by the mother in the early morning hours. japanese students spend 240 days a year at school, 60 days more than american students. students in high schools take three years each of the following subjects mathematics, social studies, japanese, science, and english. other subjects include physical education, music, art, and moral studies. all the students in one grade level study the same subjects. given the number of required subjects, electives(选修科目) are few.* afterschool activities club activities take place after school every day. students can join only one club, and they rarely change clubs from year to year, so the clubs are relatively stable. clubs are made up of sports clubs (baseball, soccer, judo, kendo, etc.) and culture clubs (english, broadcasting, science, etc.). new students usually are encouraged to select a club shortly after the school year begins in april. clubs meet for two hours after school each day and many clubs continue to meet during school vacations.1most japanese high school students often have their lunch_.a. in restaurants b. in school cafeteriasc. at home d. in homeroom classrooms2students in the usa go to school _ days a year.a. 180 b. 200 c. 240 d. 3003from the passage we know that_.a. there are less than 40 students in each class in japanese high schoolsb. students must stay in homeroom classrooms for physical educationc. there are few subjects for students to choose except the required onesd. there will not be any club activities during school vacations4the best subtitle for the second and third paragraphs may be _. a. at school b. in class c. subjects d. homerooms youre in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. youlisten to their conversation:i cant believe ita lorenzo bertolla! they are almost impossible to find. isnt it beautiful? and its a lotcheaper than the one sara bought in rome.they leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. its nice and the price is right. youve neverheard of lorenzo bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. they must know. so, you buy it. you neverrealize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. they are actually paid to go fromstore to store, talking loudly about lorenzo bertolla clothes.every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. if the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. this is the secret of undercover marketing. companies from ford to nike are starting touse it.undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay attention to traditionaladvertising. this is particularly true of the mtv generationconsumers between the age of 18 and 34. it isa golden group. they have a lot of money to spend, but they dont trust ads.so advertising agencies hire young actors to perform in bars and other places where young adults go.some people might call this practice deceptive (骗人的), but marketing manager jonathan ressler calls itcreative. look at traditional advertising. its effectiveness is decreasing.however, one might ask what exactly is real about of young women pretending to be enthusiasticabout a sweater? advertising managers would say its no less real than an ad. the difference is that youknow an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. you don t know when a conversation you overhearis just a performance.5the two attractive young women were talking so that they could _.a. get the sweater at a lower priceb. be heard by people aroundc. be admired by other shoppersd. decide on buying the sweater6lorenzo bertolla is _.a. the name of a popular singerb. an advertising agencyc. a clothing company in romed. the brand name of a sweater7which of the following would be the best title for the text?a. two attractive shoppers b. lorenzo bertolla sweatersc. ways of advertising d. undercover marketing more and more english-educated chinese singaporean parents are realizing the importance for their children to be not only good at the all-important english language, but also at chinese. china has become a great political and economic superpower and they want their children to become bilingual. it is common knowledge that, to master any language, especially ones mother tongue, one must begin from childhood. but there are challenges and barriers for children of english-speak ing homes to succeed in their journey towards bilingualism. take my family as an example. while my wife and i are products of english education, we had some foundation (基础) in chinese which we kept up in our working life. but the language of communication in our home is mainly english. we are glad that our three children had between 8 and 11 yearschinese schooling before switching over to english schools. their foundation in chinese has become an advantage in their adult life. they can hold their own in the spoken language, but would find it hard to write a business letter in chinese for lack of usage. we have a grandson who will be two years old shortly. his parents have given my wife and i the unenviable task of making him bilingual. it is a very tough assignment, as we are with him only a couple of hours on most days. for the rest of the time, he is being surrounded by english sounds by his busy parents. fortunately, our perseverance is paying off. after eight months, he has been used to hearing chinese sounds, and even he can now quite comfortably identify common everyday objects in chinese. 8 why is it becoming necessary for some chinese singaporean children to learn chinese? a. because most of the singaporeans come from china. b. because their parents are missing their motherland. c. because china has become a great political and economic superpower. d. because chinese is the official language in the un. 9 the underlined word “bilingual”in paragraph 1 probably means _ . a. a person who knows englishb. a person who knows chinese c. a person who knows only one languaged. a person who knows two languages10 what do we know about the author and his children?a. he lives in china now.b. his children hate learning english.c. he usually speaks engliah at home.d. his three children master chinese very much.11 the author uses the example of teaching his grandson mainly to prove that _ . a. there are challenges for children of english-speaking homes to learn chineseb. his foundation in chinese is a big advantage in teaching his grandsonc. he is quite good at teaching small children chinesed. learning chinese is very popular in singapore12 we learn from the passage that _ . a. all the children in singapore need to learn chineseb. understanding chinese is becoming an advantage in singaporec. the authors children know nothing about cshinesed. the author feels it easy to teach others chinese the u.s. governments push to decrease the nations output of greenhouse gases by increasing the fuel efficiency of the cars americans drive is arousing again an emotional argument does driving a small, fuel-efficient car make you more likely to die on the road?engineers and statistical analysts can point to data that suggest more-efficient cars dont necessarily put motorists at greater overall risk. but most of us care less about the “overall” risk than we do about ourselves. driving a big chevrolet tahoe suv makes many of us believe we are safer than we would be in a smaller car even if statistical measures across a large population of vehicles and all kinds of car accidents suggest the advantage of safety isnt quite as wide as suv owners believe.the obama government has put the fuel-efficiency and safety question back on the front burner by calling for new-vehicle fuel economy to rise to an average of 35 miles per gallon （加仑） by 2020 from about 25 mpg today. that goal could move higher if the government decides to adopt californias requirement to cut vehicle greenhouse-gas giving off, which would result in stricter mileage standards.those moves, and the effects of last summers gas-price shock, are driving auto makers to offer cars such as the toyota yaris, honda fit and daimler ags smart for two which get the kind of mileage today that law says should be the average in a decade. beyond that, auto makers will launch a wide range of new compact （紧凑的） vehicles, and decrease production of large, body-on-frame suvs.thats leading to new concerns about “green safety”, a term for managing the balance between reducing vehicle size for efficiency and adding safety and protection features that tend to make vehicles heavier and less efficient. undoubtedly, further work has to be done before americans make the choice.13the u.s. government requires to improve the fuel efficiency in order to _.apush americans to drive smaller carsbreduce the output of greenhouse gasescdrive auto makers to produce fewer suvsdcause americans to make an argument14according to paragraph 2, engineers and analysts idea _.afails to relieve people of their worry about safetybpersuades people to purchase smaller cars instead of suvscis based on research and therefore persuasive enoughdmakes people think of their safety as well as others15about the obama governments new moves, the auto makers are _ and average americans are _.auncertain; positive bdoubtful; uncertaincsupportive; positive dpositive; uncertain16the best title for the text should be _.anew law reduces greenhouse gases outputbcan small cars overcome accident fears?cnew compact cars gets popular in the u.s.ddo we have to follow the government? we chat with our colleagues all the time when we have lunch, gossip in the tearoom, or leave work together. sharing your personal life brings you closer to your coworkers and builds trust within your team. but revealing too much about yourself to colleagues, managers or human resources staff can cause difficulties and even endanger your work.its important to keep the right balance between getting along with colleagues and maintaining your privacy. “communication in the office is tricky and complicated. you can neither spread chatter, nor be too silent and shut yourself off from others，” said yang yudan, deputy hr director at p&g.according to her, there are several safe topics to talk about with colleagues during the break, such as the weather or movies. women like to talk about makeup and clothing, while men are fond of sports and online games. but discussing your private life, such as relationship, habits or health conditions, is a potential minefield.liang kun, 26, had to resign from his job at a trading company in guangzhou last week after discussing his income with colleagues during a lunch break. “i didnt realize it was such a serious issue until a senior member of staff went to find the boss, asking why i got a higher salary than her，” said liang. “then our hr told me that according to the employee handbook it is forbidden to talk about salary in the office.” hr expert yang also reminds us that paychecks are your own business. it is unwise to share this information with others, no matter how close you are.to summarize, yang advises office workers to be more aware of the image they project when talking to colleagues, “when you share your personal life, it will be recorded on your invisible resume and may slow down your career progressing.”17the author quoted yang yudan in the text to _.ashow his admiration for herbmake an argument with hercsupport his own viewpointdbuild up his fame18what can be inferred from the fact that liang kun had to resign his job according to the text?ait was unwise for him to share information with others.bhe broke the rules made by the company.che was such an honest person that he told the truth.dhe treated his colleagues as family members.19what is the authors purpose in writing the text?ato draw peoples attention to their behaviors in public.bto advise office workers to be aware of the image they project.cto make you believe that communication in the office is complicated.dto warn you to be careful of invisible trouble while talking about your privacy to colleagues.20which would be the best title for the text?aat work, keep it to yourselfbkeep the right balancecshare your personal life with othersdsafe topics to talk about评卷人得分四、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分 30分） obamas celebrate kings birthday at worship servicepresident obama and his family celebrated martin luther king jr.s birthday at a sunday worship service. the legacy(遗产) of the civil _ leader was remembered at events _ the country.obama, his wife, michelle, and daughters natasha and malia sat in the second row of washingtons zion baptist church as the church _ kings 83rd birthday, which is _ observed today.a program for the service bore a photo of _ on the steps of the lincoln memorial and the _ i have a dream. a church deacon welcomed the _ family and read a passage from kings letter from a birmingham jail.the sermon(布道), _ by the rev. keithbyrd, drew from chapter 5 of the gospel of matthew, which _ to the salt of the earth. byrd urged the people at the _ to preserve our morals, preserve our values like salt among political, social,and _ turmoi1(混乱).in new york, occupy wall street demonstrators _ artists, celebrities, and others at a candlelight vigil(守夜) last night. the vigil was at riverside church, which hosted a program _ included performances by patti smith and other artists, and speeches by yoko ono and russell simmons.members of local 100 0f the transport workers union _ outside a midtown manhattan hotel for a separate candlelight respect to king. king, a baptist minister and nobel peace prize