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莆田四中2015-2016学年下学期期中高二年段英语科（选修七）考试卷（A） 2016年4月22日第卷第一部分 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. Where is the conversation probably taking place?A. In a restaurant. B. In a gym. C. In a bookstore.2. What did the man think of the movie?A. He liked it very much.B. He didnt think it was very good.C. He preferred the movie to music.3. When are the speakers going to meet?A. On Tuesday morning. B. On Tuesday afternoon. C. On Thursday afternoon.4. How was the mans exam?A. He failed the exam. B. He doesnt know the result. C. He passed the exam.5. How much did the man spend in total?A. 50 cents. B. 70 cents. C. 90 cents.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7题。6. What is the mans profession?A. He is a policeman. B. He is an engineer. C. He is a salesman.7. What is the womans passport number?A. 387079424553. B. 4679065. C. 387907424553.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Whats the relationship between the speakers?A. Uncle and niece. B. Saleswoman and customer.C. Waitress and customer.9. Whats the womans first recommendation?A. A Barbie doll. B. A skirt. C. Some books.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What did the man do during the winter vacation?A. He paid a visit to the National Museum of China.B. He worked as a volunteer guide at the National Museum of China.C. He learned English at the National Museum of China.11. How often did the man work there?A. Every day. B. Every two days. C. Once a week.12. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man went to the National Museum and signed up there.B. The man took a five-day training course at the National Museum.C. The woman would love to do something similar.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Boss and clerk.14. Why didnt Bill hand in his homework?A. He made a mistake about the deadline.B. He forgot to bring it to school.C. He didnt finish it.15. What can we infer from the conversation?A. Bills English homework was the first thing he did after school.B. Bill told a lie to the English teacher at first.C. Bill found it easy to do his English homework.16. How does Bill feel about what the woman says?A. He realizes his mistake and decides to make a change.B. He falls in love with English learning as a result.C. He feels discouraged about catching up with others.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does the woman talk about?A. How to protect eyesight.B. When to have an eyesight exam.C. How to wear contact lenses (隐形眼镜).18. How many suggestions are mentioned?A. Four. B. Five. C. Six.19. When is the right time for an eyesight exam, according to experts?A. Before a baby is even one year old.B. From the age of 2.C. From the age of 6.20. What can we learn about our eyesight?A. We only have to wear sunglasses to protect against UV rays (紫外线) during summer.B. One-third of Americans spend seven hours a day using digital products.C. Vitamins C and E are helpful for eye health.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 The Disney theme park, its first on the Chinese mainland and the second in Greater China,after Hong Kong Disneyland, will open in Shanghai on June 16,a Thursday Tickets on sale willbegin on March 28, 2016. A standard single day ticket for the Shanghai Disney Resort costs 370 yuan ($56 2),while 8peak-day ticket for festival and holiday periods will be sold for 499 yuan , the resort announcedon February 3rd. Children between l and l.4 meters tall and seniors aged over 65 years old can enjoy a 25%discount on the ticket price. A two-day ticket will be available at a 5 percent discount. Tickets can be booked on the official website or throughthe hotline 400-180-0000. In comparison with the other five Disney parks around the world, a one-day ticket for theHong Kong Disney costs 539 Hong Kong dollars ($69.2) for adults aged 16 t0 64 years old,while that for the theme park in Tokyo is being sold at 6,900 yen ($58). Disney says the park will also reflect Chinese culture. The combination of Disney andChinese cultures will be seen in many classic Chinese designs, such as a teahouse-WanderingMoon. Celebrations of seasonal festivals and stage shows will also include Chinese language,performers, theatrics and acrobatics (杂技) . The resort is expected to bring 5 million new passengers annually to the PudongInternational Airport after it opens. It is also expected to attract 10 million visits a year.21. How much will a couple pay if they visit the park with a l.3-meter tall kid on National Day? A. About 830 yuan. B. About 1020 yuan. C. About 1120 yuan. D. About 1370 yuan.22. According to the text, what makes the Shanghai Disney Resort special? A. Its ticket system. B. Its Chinese characteristics. C. The size of the park. D. The entertaining equipment.23. Which is TRUE about the Shanghai Disney Resort? A. 10 million visits are expected a year. B. Its single day admission is the highest. C. Tickets are available only on the website. D. It is the first theme park on the Chinese mainland.BNuclear powers danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation. Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It cant be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we cant detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we cant sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things. At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being immediately by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no levels of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hit anything important, the damage may not be serious. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed immediately. Your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they reproduce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in a deformed way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated(辐射)and feel fine, then die for cancer five, ten, or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents. Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth.24. How can nuclear radiation kill an animal?A. By damaging its heart. B. By killing a few cells.C. By hitting any place in its body. D. By killing many cells in important organs.25. The word “deformed” in paragraph 3 has the similar meaning to _ .A. unnatural B. normal C. usual D. proper26. What can we infer from the passage?A. We cant detect radioactivity even with modern equipment.B. Only radiation at very high levels can kill an animal or human being.C. If a few cells are only damaged, healthy cells will take the place of dead ones.D. Radiation is harmful no matter what level it is.27. Whats the authors main purpose in writing this passage?A. Discussing the cause of cancer.B. Solving the mystery about radiation.C. Emphasizing the importance of protection of radiation.D. Introducing the nuclear power. CWhat do you do when you need to look something up? Go to the library? Open an encyclopedia(百科全书)? Click onto the Internet? These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. But how reliable is it?Theres no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visitors every month, and the site is available in more than 270 different languages. Its one of the most comprehensive resources available, which includes almost all details, facts and information that may be concerned. Its got much more information than an ordinary encyclopedia. The site is updated on a daily basis by thousands of people around the world. Anyone with an Internet connection can log on and edit the contents or add a new page. And you dont need any formal training.Of course, there are some controls. Wikipedia has a team of more than 1,500 administrators who check for false information. And main targets for harmful comments(such as politicians) are off-limits to public editing. But with more than 16 million articles to keep an eye on, it isnt easy. So, while Wikipedia benefits from being constantly updated with information from all over the world, its also open to “vandals”（恣意破坏公共财物者）.Some of the damage is easy to notice. One person drew devil horns and a moustache on Microsoft chairman Bill Gates photo, while another edited Greek philosopher Platos biography to say he was a “Hawaiian weather man who is widely believed to have been a student of Barney the purple Dinosaur.But other things are harder to spot. The most common form of vandalism (恣意破坏公共财物罪)involves adding tiny items of false information into the biography of a famous person. Unbelievably, some of this misinformation has appeared in newspapers, with The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent all having fallen victim to the dirty tricks. For example, in an article about British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom, one newspaper claimed that he co-wrote Dame Vera Lynns wartime hit Therell be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover. He did no such thing. And in other article, it was reported that TV Theme tune composer Ronnie Hazlehurst had written the S Club 7s hit Reach again, not true.So, if youre going to use any information from Wikipedia, make sure you double-check it first.28. We can learn from the passage that _.A. because of its popularity, 78 million people from 270 countries visit Wikipedia monthly.B. updated by people around the world, the site is more likely to be damaged by hackers.C. anyone who has access to the Internet can edit any contents of Wikipedia as they like.D. the primary job of the administrators is to make sure true information is conveyed.29. Whats the writers attitude to Wikipedia?A. Critical. B. Doubtful.C. Objective. D. Positive.30. Paragraph 5 mainly tells us _.A. it is really difficult to find out tiny items of false information.B. no matter how famous the papers are, they can also be cheated.C. you can never be careful enough while searching for information.D. it was Sir Norman Wisdom who wrote the S Club 7s hit Reach.31. Whats the best title for the text? A. How to look something up in Wikipedia? B. Wikipedia has advantages and disadvantages C. Why Wikipedia is so popular? D. Wikipedia is reliable to useDIn 1800, only three percent of the worlds population lived in cities. Only one city Beijing-had a population of over a million. Most people lived in rural areas, and never saw a city in their lives. In 1900, just a hundred years later, roughly 150 million people lived in cities, and the worlds ten largest cities all had populations exceeding one million. By 2000, the number of city dwellers(居民) exceeded three billion; and in 2008, the worlds population crossed a tipping point more than half of the people on Earth lived in cities. By 2050, that could increase to over two-thirds. Clearly, humans have become an urban species.In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many people viewed cities negatively crowded, dirty environments full of disease and crime. They feared that as cities got bigger, living conditions would worsen. In recent decades, however, attitudes have changed. Many experts now think urbanization (城市化) is good news, offering solutions to the problems of Earths growing population.Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, author of The Victory of the Cir, is one such person. Glaeser argues that cities are very productive because “the absence of space between people” reduces the cost of transporting goods, people, and ideas. While the flow of goods has always been important to cities, what is most important today is the flow of ideas. Successful cities enable people to learn from each other easily, and attract and reward smart people with higher wages.Another urbanization supporter is environmentalist Stewart Brand. Brand believes cities help the environment because they allow half of the worlds population to live on about four percent of the land. This leaves more space for open country, such as farmland. City dwellers also have less impact per person on the environment than people in the countryside. Their roads, sewers, and power lines need fewer resources to build and operate. City apartments require less energy to heat, cool, and light. Most importantly, people in cities drive less so they produce fewer greenhouse gases per person.So its a mistake to see urbanization as evil; its a natural part of development. The challenge is how to manage the growth.32. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?A. The history of modern cities.B. Changes taking place within cities.C. How cities have grown over time.D. Why modern cities are changing.33. How have experts attitudes towards cities changed in recent decades?A. They now view the weaknesses as strengths.B. They no longer see city-rising as attractive.C. They accept city life in spite of its problems.D. They think city-rising provides more benefits.34. Which of the following would Edward Glaeser agree with?A. Cities provide more economic opportunities.B. City people get along better with each other.C. Over-crowded cities result in problems.D. Cities limit the flow of ideas.35. According to Paragraph 4, what would be the result of moving people out of cities?A. Economic production would be reduced.B. There would be less farmland available.C. People would travel less frequently.D. House values would fall greatly. 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。Get a Thorough Understanding of OneselfIn all ones life time it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. 36 When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate(高估) yourself. It seems that everything you seek for is within your reach. 37 Its likely that you think it wise for yourself to stay away from the outer world. Actually, to get a thorough understanding of oneself, you may as well keep the following tips in mind.Gain a correct view of oneself. You may look forward hopefully to the future but be sure not to expect too much, for dreams can never be fully realized. You may be courageous to meet challenges but it should be clear to you where to direct your efforts. 38 Self-appreciate. Whether you compare yourself to a towering tree or a blade of grass, a high mountain or a small stone, you represent a state of nature. 39 If you earnestly(诚挚地) admire yourself youll have a real sense of self-appreciation. 40 In time of anger, do yourself a favor by releasing(释放) it in a quiet place so that you wont be hurt by its flames; in time of sadness, do yourself a favor by sharing it with your friends so as to change a bad mood into a cheerful one; in time of tiredness, do yourself a favor by getting a good sleep. Get a full control of ones life. Then one will find ones life full of color and flavor.A. It has its own value.B. Do oneself a favor when its needed.C. Do yourself a favor when you resist the attack of illness.D. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of.E. Especially if it is well within your reach, you are just too blind to see it.F. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself for your own incompetence.G. So long as you have a perfect knowledge of yourself, there wont be difficulties you cant overcome.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。Do you lose your temper and wonder why? Are there days when you feel like you just wake up angry?Some of it may be the changes your bodys 41 : All those hormones(荷尔蒙) you hear so much about can cause mood 42 and confused emotion(情绪). Some of it may be 43 : People who are under a lot of pressure tend to get 44 more easily. Part of it may be your 45 : You may be someone who tends to lose 46 easily. No matter what 47 your buttons, one thing is certainyoure 48 to get angry sometimes. Everyone does. Anger is a 49 emotion, and theres nothing wrong with feeling mad. What 50 is how we handle it. Deciding to get control of your anger 51 letting it control you. For most people who have trouble controlling a 52 temper, reacting like this is not what they want. They feel ashamed by their 53 . And they dont think it reflects the real them, their best selves. E