高二英语上学期期中试题119.doc

辽源市普通高中2015级高二上学期期中考试英语试题 本试卷分第I卷 (选择题) 和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试用时120分钟，满分150分。 考试结束，将答题卡交回。第卷(选择题，共计90分)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答案，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 does the woman owe the man?A. 25 dollars. B. 40 dollars. C. 46 dollars.2. Where is the mans mother now? A. In the hospital. B. In the company. C. At their home.3. Which is the Xidan Sation? A. The fourth station. B. The fifth station. C. The ninth station.4. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Customer and waitress. B. Boss and secretary. C. Teacher and student.5. Who will the man meet tonight? A. Sam. B. Bob. C. John.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、7 题。6. What did the woman lose? A. A wallet and a CD player. B. A wallet and a toy. C. A CD payer and a toy.7. What does the man advise the woman to do? A. Lock the door before shopping. B. Be more careful in this shop. C. Lock her room before leaving.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What did the woman prepare for Amanda? A. Red wine. B. White wine. C. Fish.9. When will the speakers meet? A. At 6:30. B. At 6:40. C. At 7:00.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Who is Jim Wilson? A. The mans cousin. B. Lindas cousin. C. The mans friend.11. Why does the woman want to know about Jim Wilson? A. She tries to make friends with him. B. They are going to have lunch together. C. She wants to learn about her future boss.12. What will the woman wear? A. A suit. B. A shirt. C. A pair of glasses.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What does the woman do most probably? A. A journalist. B. A bookseller. C. A librarian.14. Who is the main character in the mans book? A. A murder. B. A policeman. C. A spy.15. How did the man research for his books? A. He looked into the cases. B. He talked with policemen. C. He went to the settings.16. What kind of stories is the man writing for? A. Humorous stories. B. Detective stories. C. Horror stories.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What was the weather like when Kate was on holiday? A. Rainy and cold. B. Sunny and hot. C. Windy and hot.18. Where didnt Kate go during her holiday? A. To the lakes. B. To the mountains. C. To the castles.19. Where is Kate going to work? A. In a super market. B. In a library. C. In a school.20. How long are Kates working hours? A. 4 hours. B. 5 hours. C. 6 hours.第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分30分)第1节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AMusicOpera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honorsEnjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742..Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information..Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend. /home.asp.College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCMs Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556 -4183./events/calendar.Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference). Big name shows all summer long! Phone: 232-6220. . 21. Which number should you call if you want to see an opera? A. 241-2742. B. 723-1182. C. 381-3300. D. 232-6220.22. Where can students go for free performances with their I.D. cards? A. Music Hall. B. Memorial Hall. C. Patricia Cobbett Theater. D. Riverbend Music Theater.23. How is Riverbend Music Theater different from the other places? A. It presents famous musical works. B. It gives shows all year round. C. It offers membership discounts. D. It has seats in the open air. B Ive often wondered if I might do more good as a travel agent rather than as a psychologist. It seems that I have been more dramatically affected by certain kinds of travel experiences than I ever have. My trip to Iceland is a fine example of that. The plan was to spend two days in a remote mountain hut in Iceland. I was working on a photographic book about winter in Iceland and needed to capture images of this amazing region of high mountain peaks, smoky volcanoes, and lakes with floating icebergs. The moment after we arrived, the weather turned extreme making visibility impossible. It snowed so much and the wind blew so hard that we couldnt leave the tiny hut. To stay warm, we walked around in circles much of the day inside the tiny hut. We tried to call for help but the radio did not work. Day after day, we watched our supplies of food and fuel grow dangerously short. We got acute cabin fever (幽居病) and started going for walks and ski expeditions outside. Even when the weather finally broke, nobody came to get us even though it was three days beyond our scheduled pickup. By the time the rescue team came to pull us out, we had all given up hope. From then on, the world looks different to me, as does my life. It would have taken me years of psychotherapy to get to the same point. Almost everyone has a story to tell, and interestingly, most of these experiences were not altogether pleasant at the time. In fact, it appears that the most constructive life-changing journeys were those that involved some sorts of awful and uncomfortable events that forced the person to develop new resources, increase confidence, and solve problems in new ways.24. The writer went to Iceland to _.A. enjoy the natural beautiful floating icebergsB. collect materials for psychological researchC. take photos about the region for a bookD. challenge the high mountains there25. During the trip in Iceland, those travelers faced difficulties EXCEPT that _.A. they were short of food and fuelB. they got lost in the mountainC. they couldnt see the surroundings clearlyD. they failed to get in touch with the rescue team 26. From Paragraph 3, we learn that the travelers _.A. stayed in the hut for three days altogetherB. were in despair before they were rescuedC. got sick because of going for ski outsideD. got rescued immediately the weather turned fine27. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. The writer is a travel agent who loves difficult challenges. B. In Iceland the weather is always extreme and it snows a lot.C. The travelers were so depressed that they needed psychotherapy.D. Awful journeys may become life-changing events that inspire people. CChimps(黑猩猩) will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children，who are able from a young age to gather their own food. In the laboratory, chimps dont naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull at random -he just doesnt care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish. Human children, on the other hand, are naturally cooperative. From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a series of experiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help. There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally possessed in young children. One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train their children to behave socially. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that social intelligence develops in children before their general cognitive（认知的）skills, at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted by Tomtasello, the human children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests but were considerably better at understanding the social world. The core of what childrens minds have and chimps dont is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking. But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose. They actively seek to be part of a “we”, a group that intends to work toward a shared goal.28. What can we learn from the experiment with chimps? A. Chimps seldom care about others interests. B. Chimps tend to provide food for their children. C. Chimps like to take in their neighbors food. D. Chimps naturally share food with each other.29. Michael Tomasellos tests on young children indicate that they_. A. trust adults with their hands full B. know how to offer help to adults C. know the world better than chimps D. have the instinct to help others30. The passage is mainly about_. A. the helping behaviors of young children B. ways to train childrens shared intentionality C. cooperation as a distinctive human nature D. the development of intelligence in children 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。When were little, we know nothing about the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. 31 .Thus, if we like a certain toy or if we want to eat a certain type of chocolate, we think that our parents will have to buy that for us. We dont care that they possibly have not enough money for that. If they dont carry out our wish, well begin to cry. 32 . Whenever we begin to cry, well get what we want.Still, little by little, we realize that our parents cant offer us all that we want for certain reasons. We then also understand that parents have their rights. They have the right to scold us when we do something wrong or when they find out that we have lied to them. 33 . They choose our clothes, the food we eat, the school well study at, the hours when we should go out to play and the time we have to return home. 34 .They are the ones to be blamed later if we dont receive proper education. Thats why when we beat a classmate at the kindergarten, parents are the ones to apologize for our deeds in front of the teacher and the classmates parents. And when we get ill, they are responsible for not taking good care of us and for dressing us inadequately.The moment we become teenagers, we notice that we should be responsible for our behaviors in society. Now we have the right to be independent. 35 . It is supposed that we are mature enough to solve our problems and to make people around trust us. For some of us, this is a difficult test to pass, but it is the best method to see if we are capable of taking our place in society.A. We should believe we can do them by ourselves.B. We think our parents should offer us all we need. C. This is a childs important weapon to threaten his/her parents.D. Moreover, they have the right to make choices for us when were little.E. As a matter of fact, parents have a lot of things to be concerned about.F. But at the same time they are responsible for many things that happen to us.G. However, its also time for us to give explanations when we do something wrong. 第三部分：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5, 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，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。My husband and l were enjoying wandering through the stores in a shopping center. We wentinto a shop that sold 36 items in hopes of finding a few last-minute 37 gifts. The pleasant smell of handmade soaps teased our 38 as we walked through the door. As l walked through the store, I 39 a wooden plaque(匾牌)hanging on a wall. I turned to takea 40 look and nodded my head yes at the message printed on the plaque. Moving on, I enjoyedlooking at other items some salesmen in Santa Clauses in the store carried, 41 found myself beingdrawn back to the plaque. Standing in front of the plaque, I felt a little like a child who, when 42 the sandbox, finds some 43 treasure: a shiny coin or a lost toy. Here among the other handmade items, I found a very 44 , yet heart-touching treasure hidden in a message. A message I needed. Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass, the plaque said, Its about learning to 45 inthe rain. How often in our daily lives have we put 46 on our happiness? When we get the house 47 , then we can be happy. When things 48 down with the kids, then well be able to do more together. There is so 49 joy for the here and now in the uncertainties of the whens and thens. Looking at the plaque, I found myself unknowingly live the plaques message. I 50 off my shoes and stockings in a light 51 and began walking 52 through the water. Maybe my neighbors thought that I had lost my 53 wisdom, but I dont care. For in that moment, I was alive. I wasnt worried about bills, the future or any other day-to-day cares. The plaque now hangs in my living room. I walk past many times each day and frequently pause to ask myself So, am I dancing in the rain? I think I am, I know I try to. Im 54 taking time to pause and recognize and be grateful for theblessings that are all around me. One step 55, I am learning to dance in the rain. 36A. second-handedB. net-exchangedC. hand-madeD. whole-sale37A. ChristmasB. birthdayC. New YearD. children38A. eyesB. nosesC. mindsD. mouths39A. choseB. recognizedC. noticedD. touched40A. greedyB. soulfulC. quickD. second41A. butB. andC. soD. or42A. looking throughB. digging throughC. referring toD. adjusting to43A. unbelievableB. unexpectedC. unfortunateD. unusual44A. lateB. secretC. newD. simple45A. walkB. enjoyC. danceD. relax46A. troublesB. problemsC. instructionsD. conditions47A. paid offB. given offC. taken offD. put off48A. fallB. settleC. getD. break49A. moreB. muchC. littleD. easy50A. movedB. slippedC. wornD. kept51A. rainB. sunC. windD. shadow52A. straightB. neatlyC. barefootD. shyly53A. lastB. firstC. initialD. smart54A. regularlyB. immediatelyC. sociallyD. definitely55A. back and forthB. now and thenC. little by littleD. at a time第卷（共60分）第四部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分25分）第一节： （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。Long ago, people believed that in the future we would work less, have more free time and get more relaxed. But 56 (luck), this has not happened yet. Today we work harder, work longer hours and have more stresses than ten years ago. 57 we use machines that save us time, we still have less free time than our parents and grandparents. But what is this doing to ourhealth? An American journalist says that people are sufferingfrom“hurry 58 (sick)”were trying to do more things in less time. As 59 result, our lives are stressful. He says that 60 we slow down, we wont live aslongas our parents. For most people, faster doesnt mean better. In the USA, there is a book called “OneMinute Bedtime Stories for children”. These are shorter versions of traditional stories, specially 61 (write) for “busy parents”who want to save time! Some answer phones now have “quickplayback” buttons so that we can replay peoples messages fasterwe cant waste time 62 (listen) to people speaking 63 the normal speed! Theonlything 64 is slower than before is the way we drive. Our cars are faster but the traffic is worse, so we drive more slowly. We spend more time sitting in our cars, feeling 65 (stress). Experts predict that in ten years the a