广西柳州铁路第一中学2015-2016学年高二英语上学期期末考试试题.doc

柳州铁一中学20152016学年第一学期高二年级期考英语科试卷 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. How much are two seat tickets? A. $ 35. B. $ 50. C. $70.2. What should the man do according to the woman? A. Finish his project first. B. Go to class. C. Stay at home.3. What does the woman mean? A. Paul bought an expensive watch. B. Paul spends too much money. C. Paul watches television a lot.4. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In the street. B. Over the telephone. C. At Jacks.5. What does the man want the woman to do? A. Find a word in the dictionary. B. Tell him something. C. Teach him English.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。每段对话独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答6至7题。6. What does the woman do? A. A journalist. B. An interpreter. C. An editor.7. Why does the woman want to have that book? A. Its a new book. B. Its about English study. C. Her English listening is not good.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Why does the woman prefer a German Car? A. It is more beautiful. B. It saves energy. C. It is cheaper.9. What model of car does the woman like better? A. The latest one. B. The economic one. C. The most popular one. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where did the woman get the realistic analysis? A. From the newspaper. B. From the magazine. C. On TV.11. What are the speakers worried about? A. The rising price. B. The low wages. C. Poor working conditions.12. How is the situation going this summer according to the woman? A. Get better. B. Keep the same. C. Become worse.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When does the conversation take place? A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.14. What do the speakers plan to do tomorrow? A. Paint the walls. B. Move the cupboards. C. Wash down the kitchen walls.15. Where is Bob now? A. In a restaurant. B. In his bedroom. C. In the kitchen.16. Who advises Bob to spend more time on his study? A. The woman. B. The man. C. Georgia.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What can lead to job strain? A. Too many choices. B. Too little time. C. Too much freedom.18. In what profession is job strain rather common? A. Relaxing jobs. B. High-tech jobs. C. Lower-skilled jobs.19. Who is more likely to have a heart problem? A. Those who have an unhealthy diet. B. Those who drink lots of wine.C. Those who exercise too much.20. What is the agencies opinion? A. Stress at work is often avoidable. B. People shouldnt choose high-strain jobs. C. People under high pressure can target risks to their hearts.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。 AThat woman carried a new blanket over her arm. Wordlessly, she gave it to me.“Is it finished?” I asked.She shook her head. “No. It is ready,” she replied. I handed her the money and took the blanket.“It is beautiful, so skillfully woven(编织）,” I said to my mother. “But what did she mean when she said it was not finished? How can it be ready if it is not finished?”“I will tell you later,” my mother said, “but first I will take you to the Navajo village.”We went down to the village. A group of young men were making sand pictures. We walked through the whole village, watching the different things the people were doing. It was not until that evening that my mother finally explained the Navajo womans words. “Did you notice anything about the things the people were making?” my mother asked.“What should I have noticed?” I looked at her and asked.“Each thing the Navajo make has one small part that is not complete. The designs in their sand pictures are often not perfectly done, for example-the line of a circle may not quite close. If you look carefully at your blanket, you will probably find a stitch(一针）missing.” I took the blanket off, but it looked as perfect as any design could be. Then suddenly, I noticed that sure enough a stitch was missing! “But why do the Navajo intentionally leave some tiny part unfinished?” I asked. “They believe that when anything is completed or finished, it means the end has come-it will not be perfect until then. Then too, with a circle, they believe that they must leave a pathway for the bad spirits to run away and the good spirits to come in. So, often, they do not make the line close.”21. The blanket the author received_ . A. was poorly woven. B. made her think a lot. C. cost her a lot of money. D. was finished, but not ready.22. Why was the author shown around the village? A. To buy more things made by the Navajo. B. To make friends with some of the Navajo. C. To have a deeper understanding of the Navajo. D. To look for the woman who sold her the blanket.23. Which of the following may the Navajo believe? A. A stitch in time is very important. B. Life only becomes perfect when you die. C. He who makes no mistake is a perfect man. D. You must always try to make your life complete.24. Whats the main idea of the text? A. The Navajo are good at making things. B. The Navajo are brave and hard-working. C. A blanket tells a lot about the Navajo culture. D. Skills are needed to do business with the Navajo.BMy house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software. If you come to visit, youll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN (个人身份号码) to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When its dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest to you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings. Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console(控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you. The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console. I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that Ive put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones Ive put in today. I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, How will I live without them? 25. What does the passage mainly discuss? A. How to develop a new system. B. The function of the PIN. C. A home for the future. D. Easy life in the future. 26. What cant be done in the writers new house according to the passage? A. Turning on the lights. B. Going swimming. C. Getting a telephone call. D. Playing music. 27. The writers new house is different from ordinary ones mainly because _. A. it has your favorite music following you B. you can make a telephone call anywhere C. the writer is able to change his new idea into practice D. it has been controlled by computers 28. What is the writer most likely to be according to the passage? A. An IT expert B. A famous doctor C. An idealist D. An experienced teacherCIn the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queens apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeares novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese kings took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterwards. Poison has long been an important part in literature and history, and it seems to always be about evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison? An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until Feb. 2016, reported The New York Times. The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison frogs, for instance, arent much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans. The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented with three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it. “Poisons can be bad for some things,” Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. “Yet they can also be good for others.” This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment. The blood toxins of vampire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chemical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar of its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.29. By mentioning Snow White and Romeo at the beginning of the story, the author intends to _.A. show that poison has long been involved in literatureB. show that poison is always linked with evil and deathC. draw readers attention to the topic of the articleD. get readers to think of more examples of the use of poison in stories30. The underlined word immortal probably means? A. Live forever. B. Happy. C. Confused D. Famous31. What is the main purpose of the exhibition The Power of Poison?A. To give people more knowledge about poison.B. To teach people how to handle poisonous animals.C. To inform people about which animals are the most poisonous.D. To show how poison has been used for medical treatment.32. Which of the following statements about the exhibition is TRUE according to the article?A. The exhibition will lead visitors to a real rainforest.B. Golden poison frogs are the most poisonous animals on display.C. Those who visit the exhibition can join in some iPad-based interactive games.D. Visitors can listen to lectures on recent studies of poisonous animals. D When we heard that our friend astronaut Gregory Chamitorff was going to be on board the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, we asked him if he would answer some questions from space. He said yes! Here are our questions and Gregs answers from space.Whats the best thing about being in space?Zero-gravity（失重） is by far the best thing about being in space. It does not really mean that there is no gravity. It means that we are moving around Earth in the same way the space station is moving around Earth. So we are floating inside the space station.We travel around Earth once every 90 minutes. Thats 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. Really fast!Inside the station, we can fly around like superman. Its an amazing feeling, and I hope everyone gets a chance to fly in space someday to experience the wonder of zero-gravity.What do you do for fun in the space shuttle?There are so many things you can do in zero-gravity that are fun. Flying around is fun. Eating food that floats is fun.I like to play like Superman and see how far I can fly without touching any walls. Another fun thing is to play with water. Most of all, the most exciting thing to do is to look out the window at our beautiful planet Earth below. You never get tired of seeing it like that, the way it really is and it can never be seen that way while standing on its surface.Whats the coolest thing about being on a spacewalk? Wow! Doing a spacewalk is cool. There is nothing more wonderful than floating in space in your own space suit. Its amazing, and when you are doing a spacewalk, you are “out there” just floating in empty space, like the earth, like the moon, like the sun, like the space station. Its not science fiction. Its real.33. Why does Greg think doing a spacewalk is the coolest thing? A. He can wear his own space suit then. B. He can see the moon when doing that. C. He can see the earth by doing so. D. He thinks its great flying in empty space.34. Which of the following best shows how Greg feels? A. Frightened B. Excited C. Sad D. Surprised 35. What can we know from the text? A. Greg thinks doing a spacewalk is science fiction. B. Greg floats inside the space station without gravity. C. Everyone has the chance to experience the wonder of zero-gravity. D. In the space shuttle, Greg can see the shape of the whole earth clearly. 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。 Entering a university is an important part of a persons life. Today, many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law, medicine or education. 36 . An important one started in Egypt over one thousand years ago. The worlds oldest surviving university, AL-Azhar, is in Cario, Egypt. It was first built as a mosque for religion (宗教寺院) in A.D.972. A few years later, learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque. They read and talked about the subject of religion and law. 37 . Leaders in the city of Cario decided to create a school for higher learning and soon after that, and AL-Azhar University was founded. 38 .For these teachers at AL-Azhar, they needed to think about what courses to teach and how to teach them. The earliest courses were in law and religion. In a course, students read and studied with the teacher, but there was also free discussion. Often, students and teachers had interesting discussions, and there was no right answer. In the years that followed, the new university interested scholars from around the world. 39 .At AL-Azhar, people studied the past, but it was also a place for sharing new ideas. Over a thousand years later, AL-Azhar is still an important university in the world. 40 . Today, many of the worlds most important universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the same traditions as they do at AL-Azhar.A. A university was a new idea at that time.B. There are many reasons to study in Egypt.C. They came here to teach and do research.D. Around the year 988, a new decision was made.E. However, the university is not a modern invention.F. The cost of university education is increasing year by year.G. Its library contains many of the worlds oldest and most valuable books.第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）第一节 完型填空（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。 It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. I didnt think there would be any 41 , sighing about having to work on Christmas. Just then five bodies 42 at my desk, a pale woman and four children. “Are you all 43 ?” I asked. “Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head. But when it came to 44 of their problems, things got a little strange. They all claimed to have headaches, but the headaches werent 45 by the normal body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still. Something was wrong. Our hospital policy, 46 , was not to turn away any patient. I explained it might be a little while 47 a doctor saw her. She responded immediately, even a bit 48 “Take your time,” and then added, “Its warm in here.” Then, I checked their registration form out of curiosity. No addressthey were 49 .The waiting room was warm. I went back to the nurses station and mentioned we had a homeless 50 in the waiting room. The nurses, complaining of 51 on Christmas, turned to sympathy for a family just trying to get 52 on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when theres a 53 emergency. But this was a Christmas emergency. We were all 54 a free meal on Christmas Day, so we took back that meal and prepared a big dinner for our 55 .We needed presents. We 56 from different departments candies, fruits and other things 57 that could be presents. As seriously as we 58 the physical needs of the patients, our team worked to meet the needs of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas. 59 , as the family walked to the door t