江西省丰城中学2014-2015学年高二英语下学期期中试题(课改实验班).doc

丰城中学2014-2015学年下学期高二期中考试试卷 英语（课改实验班）本试卷总分值为150分考试时间为120分钟第卷 （选择题100分）第一部分 听力部分（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，你将有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 does the woman need to do this weekend?A. To get her car fixed. B. To do her homework. C. To meet a friend. 2. What will the woman buy for the man？A. Oranges and bananas. B. Apples and oranges. C. Grapes and oranges.3. What does the man mean?A. The exam seems to be easier than it first appeared.B. He thinks they made the exam difficult on purpose.C. The exam is more difficult than he thought.4. What is the woman?A. A waitress. B. A doctor. C. A teacher.5. What will the woman take?A. A taxi. B. A bus. C. The underground.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，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至第8题。6. What is the main topic of the conversation?A. City life. B. Life abroad. C. The climate in California. 7. What does the man think of the people in the city?A. Friendly. B. Hardworking. C. Humorous.8. Where does the man come from?A. Japan. B. Canada. C. Britain.听第7段材料，回答第9至第11题。9. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Workmates. B. Boss and secretary. C. Manager and job hunter.10. Why did the woman fail to get the job according to the man?A. She is a woman. B. She is improperly dressed. C. She is not fit for the position.11. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Carl White is a good manager. B. The man thinks the woman is too proud. C. The woman thinks ability is the only important thing.听第8段材料，回答第12至第14题。 12. When will the man graduate from college?A. Next June. B. Next July. C. This June.13. What can we know about the man?A. He has some experience in the job. B. He can speak several languages. C. He is good at his lessons at college.14. How much will the company pay the man for the first year?A. $10,500. B. $12,500. C. $15,000.听第9段材料，回答第15至第17题。15. When did Tom write to his mother last time?A. Last month. B. Last week. C. Yesterday.16. Who is Mr. Rogers?A. Toms friend. B. Toms boss. C. Toms teacher.17. What did Tom tell his mother in his last letter?A. He had made some money. B. He had lost his part-time job. C. He had just bought a car.听第10段材料，回答第18至第20题.18. Which coaches were derailed (脱轨) from the train D3115 in the incident?A. 1 and 4. B. 4 and 15. C. 15 and 16.19. Which statement isnt the cause of this bullet train crash?A. Big problems in emergency and safety management.B. D3115 caught fire after being struck by lightning.C. Due to the signal error.20. Which statement is incorrect about effects of the incident?A. Visitors enthusiasm to the bullet train travel routes decreased.B. The number of people who buy travel insurance is gradually reducing.C. The incident has caused a national outrage(愤怒).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。AAn elderly couple lived far away from their children. They noticed that they were beginning to forget many little things around the house. They were afraid that this could be perilous, as one of them might forget to turn off the stove（火炉）and thus cause a fire.They were so worried that they decided to see their doctor to get some help. Their doctor told them that it was unnecessary to take medicine and that many people of their age found it useful to write themselves little notes as reminders. The elderly couple thought this wonderful, and left the doctors office very pleased with the advice.When they got home, the wife said, “Dear, will you please go to the kitchen and get me a dish of ice cream? And why dont you write that down so you wont forget?”“Dont be silly,” said the husband. “I can remember a dish of ice cream!”“Well,” said the wife, “Id also like some strawberries on it. You should write that down, because I know youll forget.”“Come now, my memorys not that bad,” replied the husband. “A dish of ice cream and some strawberries. I can remember that!”And with that, the husband shut the kitchen door behind him. The wife could hear him getting out pots and pans, and making some noise, preparing the dish. He came out of the kitchen about 15 minutes later.Walking over to his wife, he presented her with a plate of fried eggs.The wife took a look at the plate, glanced up at her husband and said, “Hey, wheres the toast？”21. The underlined word “perilous” in the first paragraph can be replaced by “_”.A. infectious B. dangerous C. exciting D. amazing22. The couple was worried about_.A. their bad health B. their lonely lifeC. their dangerous stove D. their poor memory23. What was the doctors advice to the couple?A. Writing things down. B. Taking some medicine.C. Reminding each other. D. Asking other elderly people for help.24. What do we know from the wifes words in the last paragraph?A. The husband did a good job in fact.B. The husband forgot to prepare the toast.C. The wife forgot what she wanted to eat.D. The wife had a better memory than the husband.BSeveral hundred strangers received“love letters”from a young man on the street. The letter was written and given out by Yang Yang，a student majoring in human resources at Chongqing University of Science and Technology, who hoped to show his disappointment with job hunting.Yangs story has caught media attention perhaps because it is similar to those of millions of recent graduates seeking jobs and struggling for survival in the countrys wealthiest cities. They have diplomas, rather than professional skills, and come to big cities in hopes of better lives, only to find lowpaying jobs and poor living conditions.They are Chinas “ant tribe (蚁族)”，a term coined by sociologist Lian Si from Peking University in his 2009 book, Ant Tribe.“Theyre so similar to ants. They share small and narrow living areas. Theyre intelligent and hardworking, yet nameless and underpaid.”The term also speaks to their helplessness in a world governed by the law of the jungleonly the strongest survive.A survey in Lians another book published this year, Ant Tribe ， found nearly 30 percent of“ants”are graduates of famous universitiesalmost three times last years percentage. Most had degrees in popular majors. In addition, 7.2 percent of “ants”have at least a masters degree compared to 1.6 percent in 2009.An “ants”average monthly salary is 1,904 yuan, with about 64 percent of them earning less than 2,000 yuan a month.Another survey in the 2010 Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Talent found more than 1 million“ants”live in big cities.“Most ants are from rural families or small towns, and their experiences in universities didnt arm them well enough to fight with competitors in big cities employment markets.”Professor Zhang Ming at Renmin University of China said.The “ant tribes” embarrassing living situations have become a serious social problem, and the government should develop smaller cities to attract more graduates from big cities, Zhang believed.However, “ants”expect more study and training opportunities in big cities, which keeps them positive despite their situations.25Yangs story is introduced in order to _.Aanalyze graduates difficulties in finding jobsBlead to the topic of the article“ant tribe”Ctell readers a story about those big citiesDshow a clever way of dealing with pressure26“Ant tribe”members are similar to ants in the following aspects EXCEPT that _.Athey live in narrow and small places in groupsBthey work hard but earn little for survivalCthey are in a world judged by the jungle lawDthey are pleased with being nameless and underpaid27By writing this article, the author mainly intends to show _.Adespite better education，“ants” are still strugglingBdespite difficulties，“ants” have a promising futureCbetter education, better job opportunitiesDAnt Tribe is a good book to help understand todays ChinaCScientists have proved that sleeping and learning go hand in hand. Even a short nap can boost our memory and sharpen our thinking. But the relationship goes deeper than that.“The brain is not passive while you sleep,” scientist Anat Arzi said. “Its quite active. You can do many things while you are asleep.”Arzi and her coworkers didnt try to teach the sleeping volunteers any complex information, like new words or facts. Instead, the scientists taught volunteers to make new connections between smells and sounds. When we smell something good, like a flower, we take deep breaths. When we smell something bad, we take short breaths. Arzi and her co-workers based their experiment on these reactions. Once the volunteers fell asleep in the lab, the scientists went to work. They gave them a whiff of something pleasant and meanwhile played a particular musical note. They didnt wake up, but they heardand sniffed(吸气) deeply. Then the scientists gave the volunteers a whiff of something terrible and played a different musical note. Again, the volunteers heard and smelleda short snort this timebut didnt wake up. The researchers repeated the experiment. After just four repetitions, volunteers made a connection between the musical notes and their paired smells. When the scientists played the musical tone that went with good smells, the sleepers breathed deeply. And when the scientists played the musical tone that went with bad smells, the sleepers breathed brieflydespite there being no bad smell. The next day, the volunteers woke up with the sound-smell connection. They breathed deeply when hearing one tone and cut their breaths short when hearing the other, which must have been unusual for them. Imagine walking down the street and taking a deep breath upon hearing a particular sound!28. In the study, the volunteers were taught _.A. to become active during sleep B. to tell the difference between smellsC. to learn new words and scientific facts D. to make sound-smell connections 29. How did the volunteers react when smelling something nice and hearing musical notes? A. They took a deep breath. B. They had a wonderful dream. C. They woke up at once. D. They took a short breath.30. When the volunteers woke up the next day, they_. A. learned how to play to musical tones B. forgot what happened during their sleep C. continued with the sound-smell connection D. changed their reaction when hearing the sound31. The passage mainly tells us _. A. special smells and sounds can improve our memory B. our brain can actually learn something new during sleep C. the volunteers will always hear similar sounds on the streetD. our brain can tell the difference between smells during sleepDGoogle Works Miracles Google(www.G) is a daily miracle to millions of people. If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references. If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.Yahoo Becomes GiantYahoo() was the first wonder of the web, and in many respects, it still is. It started in January 1994 when two California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling a database of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo had grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo now offers almost everything you could want: emails, instant messages, chats, clubs, photo albums and a lot more.eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and SelleBay(),which deals with online trading and shopping services, is the most impressive large Internet company where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. It has, for instance, opened up a global marketplace in which people from Beijing, San Francisco, or Moscow can bid against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The companys online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse through listed items that is available online seven days a week.Amazon Makes Buying a New ExperienceAmazon()started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s, Amazon had more than four million titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games, It continued to add new lines of business including toys, computer software, electronics, like MP3 players, power tools, home improvement products and online sales. For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between wanting and buying.32. What is Google used mainly for? A. Commanding the gateway. B. Searching for information. C. Storing reference books. D. Providing extra space.33. How long did it take for Yahoo to be recognized? A. One year. B. A month. C. Several years. D. Overnight.34. What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business? A. Power tools. B. Mp3 players. C. Different books. D. Videos and games.35. Which of the following is true? A. Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon. B. If you feed in something unclear, Google will refuse to do the searching. C. Yahoo owns more market shares than any other companies on the web. D. eBay Companys online service is always there for its users.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。How to show respect to your co-workersIf you want to reduce the stress in your work environment, one of the best things you can do is to respect your co-workers. Showing respect will earn you respect._36_ Respect is the first building block for the success of a relationship.Use your manners. Greet your co-workers as you enter and exit your work place. Always use “please”, ”thank you” and “pardon me “.If you do ,all of your requests will be seen as just that, and not orders._37_ It means everything from covering your mouth when you sneeze or yarn ,to holding a door open or an elevator open when you see a co-worker coming.Make a pleasant small talk, but dont go too far with this concept. You dont have to talk for hours or know everything about your co-workers .Generally, people feel more comfortable in working environments where they know each other.Lend a helping hand. This doesnt mean that you have to be a martyr(受苦者). Dont always take the “thats not my job.” attitude. If you are having a particularly light day ,or you see one of your co-workers drowning in work, offer to help._38_ It will probably make you feel good too.Apologize if you are wrong and be humble. No one likes a show off. You can talk about the good characteristics, traits, and relationships in your life without making people feel like you are better than them. _39 Co-workers will take notice._40_Being positive not only lifts your spirits, but also lifts the spirits of those around you .No one wants too be around someone who is constantly negative or always complaining.A. Manners can be actions as well.B. Speak encouraging words to others.C. Actually some co-workers dont need our respect.D. Your co-workers will appreciate your generous efforts.E. Avoid standing , sitting or talking too close to someone.F. It also allows you to get to know and befriend your co-workers.G. No one is perfect, but what makes up your character is how you handle your mistakes.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，从短文后各题所给出的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Loving Todays Challenge! My 13-year old son and I had quite the adventure this morning! We frequently walk by a 41 landscaped（美化的）yard with a nice little flower garden. I wanted to 42 my thanks for the time and effort put in by the 43 , but Ive never seen him or her, so we went to a local nursery and bought a gift card that l will leave with a 44 and a smile card the next time that I pass by. We also ran to Walmart and 45 a few $10 gift cards along with some note cards and our other 46 . While we were putting our things away in the car, my son 47 that a lady that had just parked next to us looked a little 48 . As soon as she entered the 49 , we grabbed（夺取）a note card, made a note 50 , and added a gift card for her to find when she got back to her 51 , hoping to comfort her feelings. After that, we went for a（n）52 breakfast. The restaurant was pretty 53 and the people working in the kitchen seemed to be busy forever. A young couple 54 across the dining room from us was having some trouble with their 55 , who looked to be about four or five. He grew 56 and impatient with the wait and they had their hands 57 keeping him from making troubles. I remember being in their 58 , so I stopped their 59 and had their breakfast added to