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衡水市第二中学3.30 周测题第一部分：听力 （共两节，满分20分）第1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。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. When will the man meet Dr. Jones?A. At 3:30 p.m. B. At 3:00 p.m. C. At 11:00 a.m.2. Whose name is Betsy?A. Carlas pet. B. Carlas car. C. Carlas grandma.3. What are the speakers doing?A. Painting a house.B. Cleaning walls. C. Drawing a picture.4. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a shop. B. In a library. C. On a bus.5. What does the man mean?A The Larsens were not in.B. The Larsens didnt hear the door.C. The Larsens dont like the woman.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 is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Strangers B. Classmates. C. Colleagues.7. What are the speakers mainly discussing?A. What to say to Karen Jenkins.B. Whether to hire an employee.C. How to advertise a product.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What did the woman use to be like? A. Sporty B. Artistic. C. Sociable.9. What has the woman taken up recently? A. Basketball. B. Yoga. C. Painting.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Why did the man go downtown yesterday?A. To send a package. B. To buy clothes. C. To visit a friend.11. What is the womans attitude toward Martins closing?A. Supportive. B. Surprised. C. Sorry.12. What did the woman like about Martins?A. Huge selection. B. Good service. C. Low prices.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How often will the man be available to work?A. No more than two evenings a week.B. At least three evenings a week.C. Up to three evenings a week.14. Why does the man apply for a part-time job?A. To earn money. B. To gain work experience.C. To improve his social skills.15. What is the man good at?A. Solving problems. B. Working in a group. C. Communicating with people.16. What will the man do on September 10th?A. Have a lesson. B. Meet the woman. C. Work for the community.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does the speaker probably do?A. Hes a chairman. B. Hes a teacher. C. Hes a host.18. Why is the meeting held?A. To elect a new chairman for students.B. To discuss the plans after graduation.C. To prepare for the graduation ceremony.19. What do the students present at the meeting have in common? A. They are hard-working in study. B. They are well-received in school.C. They are experienced in work. 20. What should these students do before the next meeting?A. Get some good ideas.B. Break up into groups.C. Start to work on everything.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 ABarbican Art GalleryA world-class arts and learning center, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theater and many visual arts from Egypt.Tickets:Adult: 10 online/12 at the door13-17 years old: 6 online/8 at the doorChildren aged 12 and under: FreeOpening Times:Sat.Wed.: 10 a.m.6 p.m.; Thu.一Fri.: 10 a.m.一9 p.m.Review by Laura Miller: I have just watched To Kill a Mockingbird here. The play and actors were fantastic. Nice and clean ladies toilets with hot water. During the interval, they were selling the usual ice cream and drinks. Not all staff were friendly, but most were. I would come again to watch another show or even the same one.The British MuseumA museum of the world, for the world. Discover over two million years of human history and culture. Some of the world-famous objects include the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and Egyptian mummies.Admission and opening times:Free, open daily 10 a.m.17:30 p.m.The Museum is closed on Jan. 1, Good Friday (April 10, 2020) and Dec. 24, 25 & 26, but open every other day of the year.Review by Robert James: I arrived at the main entrance line at 10:45 a.m., waited patiently as it rolled forward for a few minutes. Now 11:30 a.m. with two thirds of the line to go, another 30 minutes to wait and with knowledge that I had to go downtown shopping by 1 p.m., I turned on my heels and left.21How much will a couple with kids of 11 and 14 pay for online tickets of the Art Gallery?A20. B26. C32.D36.22What did Miller like best about Barbican Art Gallery?ADance. BFilm. CMusic.DTheater.23What do the gallery and the museum have in common?ABoth offer free admission.BEgyptian exhibits are on display.CTheyre open all year round. DTheyre located downtownBWhat is the most meaningless thing every Texan will do at the same time this weekend?You guessed it. We will “fall back” when our clocks are set backward one hour in observance of daylight saving time. This strange practice has an interesting history. In 1784, Benjamin Franklin published a critical essay in a French newspaper suggesting that Parisians could save $200 million through “the economy of using sunshine instead of candles”. Therefore, many people owe the origin of the idea of daylight saving time to our Founding Fathers writings. In the United States, the clock-changing practice began just over 100 years ago, in 1918, when Congress decided to control time by passing the Standard Time Act to save energy and create time zones. Back then, coal was our top energy source and ensuring that Americans had more daylight working hours made sense. In 2008, the U. S. Department of Energy assessed the effect of observing daylight saving time on national energy consumption. It found that resetting our clocks amounts to a reduction in our total energy consumption of 0.02%. The study also determined that sticking with one time could actually save about 0.5% of electricity per day nationwide. Apart from this, the risk of heart attack increases 10% in the days following springing forward, most likely caused by the interruption of biological rhythms. Studies also indicate we are more likely to get sick, we are less productive, and frankly we are just exhausted directly following the time change.It is hard to explain why we still change our clocks. Perhaps it is due to special interests. Congress passed the Energy Act of 2005, which extended the length of daylight saving time an extra week in the fall, in large part due to an effort by candy producers to allow for an additional daylight hour on the night of Halloween for trick -or - treating. This May, we sought to end this ancient practice. It would have allowed Texans to vote whether to stay on standard time year-round or daylight saving time year-round. Our proposal passed the House 133-9. Sadly, once the bill reached the Senate,it was never referred to a committee. The proposal died in the Senate without even a word spoken about it on the floor.Im moving forward with plans to file the legislation again in 2021.I urge you to contact your state legislators to move this legislation forward so that this weekend will be one of the last times we have to “fall back.”24. The possible origin of the idea of daylight saving time is .A. the ancient legal act B. the influence of other countriesC. the need for time zones D. the advice from a famous politician25. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?A. The reasons for health problems. B. The downsides of setting clocks back.C. The changes in energy consumption. D. The solutions to electricity shortages.26.It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that.A.daylight saving time will last for another two yearsB.the author will continue what he has been doingC.Texans voted for standard time year-roundD.state legislators are for the proposal27.The passage aims to_ .A.analyze the practice of daylight saving timeB.explain the consequences of daylight saving timeC.convince people of the necessity of daylight saving timeD.persuade people to make efforts to stop daylight saving timeCOne day in 1995, a large, heavy middleaged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didnt wear a mask and he smiled at surveillance cameras before walking out of each bank. Later that night, police arrested a surprised McArthur Wheeler. When they showed him the surveillance tapes, Wheeler stared in disbelief.“But I wore the juice，” he mumbled. Apparently, Wheeler thought that rubbing lemon juice on his skin would make him invisible to videotape cameras. After all, lemon juice is used as invisible ink so, as long as he didnt come near a heat source, he should have been completely invisible.The case caught the eye of the psychologist David Dunning at Cornell University, who enlisted his graduate student, Justin Kruger, to see what was going on. They reasoned that, while almost everyone holds favourable views of their abilities in various social and intellectual fields, some people mistakenly assess their abilities as being much higher than they actually are. This “illusion of confidence” is now called the“DunningKruger effect”，and describes the cognitive bias to inflate selfassessment.To investigate this phenomenon in the lab, Dunning and Kruger designed some clever experiments. In one study, they asked undergraduate students a series of questions about grammar, logic and jokes, and then asked each student to estimate his or her score overall, as well as their relative rankings compared to the other students. Interestingly, students who scored the lowest in these cognitive tasks always overestimated how well they did by a lot. Students who scored in the bottom estimated that they had performed better than twothirds of the other students! Sure, its typical for people to overestimate their abilities. The problem is that when people are incompetent, not only do they reach wrong conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but also they are robbed of the ability to realize their mistakes. In a semesterlong study of college students, good students could better predict their performance on future exams given feedback about their scores and rankings. However, the poorest performers showed no recognition, despite clear and repeated feedback that they were doing badly. Instead of being confused or thoughtful about their incorrect ways, incompetent people insist that their ways are correct. As Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man (1871): “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”Interestingly, really smart people also fail to accurately selfassess their abilities. As much as D and Fgrade students overestimate their abilities, Agrade students underestimate theirs. The difference is that competent people can and do adjust their selfassessment given appropriate feedback, while incompetent individuals cannot.28. Which of the following statements about the DunningKruger effect is true?AThe effect is true for everyone in daily life.BIt suggests that most people lack cognitive abilities.CSome people are overconfident about their abilities.DThe conclusion is drawn based on a series of bank robberies.29. What do the college students behaviors mentioned in the experiments prove?AFeedback plays a significant role in estimating ones ability. BIncompetent people have a rigid attitude towards their choice. CGood students can predict their future performance accurately. DPeople cant rely on their previous behavior to make adjustments.30. The underlined word“begets”can be replaced by _. Agives rise to Btakes advantage of Cmakes up for Dbreaks away from31. What can we infer from the passage?AReal knowledge is knowing the extent of ones ignorance. BIt is difficult for people to evaluate their real competence. CIllusion of confidence is the major source of peoples failure. DThose with great abilities often have a low opinion of themselves. DAn introduction to this book is as superfluous as a candle in front of a powerful searchlight. But a convention of publishing seems to require that the candle should be there, and I am proud to be the one to hold it. About ten years ago I picked up from the pile of new books on my desk a copy of Sons and Lovers by a man of whom I had never heard, and I started to race through it with the immoral speed of the professional reviewer. But after a page or two I found myself reading, really reading. Here was here is a masterpiece in which every sentence counts, a book packed with significant thought and beautiful, arresting phrases, the work of a remarkable genius whose gifts are more richly various than those of any other young English novelist.To appreciate the rich variety of Mr Lawrence we must read his later novels and his volumes of poetry. But Sons and Lovers reveals the range of his typical power. Here are combined and blended (混合的) sort of “realism” and almost lyric (抒情的) imagery and rhythm. The speech of the people is that of daily life and the things that happen to them are normal adventures and accidents; they fall in love, marry, work, fail, succeed, and die. But of their deeper emotions and of the relations of these little human beings to the earth and to the stars, Mr Lawrence makes something near to poetry and prose (散文) without violating its proper “other harmony”Take the marvellous paragraph on next to the last page of Sons and Lovers (Mr Lawrence depends so little on plot in the ordinary sense of the word that it is perfectly fair to read the end of his book first)：Where was he? One tiny upright speck of flesh, less than an ear of wheat lost in the field. He could not bear it. On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a spark, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun, stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in the darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted (气馁). So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.Such glorious writing lifts the book far above a novel which is merely a story. I beg the reader to attend to every line of it and not to miss a single one of the many sentences that await and surprise you. Some are enthusiastic and impressive, like the paragraph above; others are keen, “realistic” observations of things and people. In one of his books Mr Lawrence makes a character say, or think, that life is“mixed”. That indicates his philosophy and his method. He blends the accurately literal and trivial (琐碎的) with the extremely poetic.To find a similar blending of tiny daily detail and wide imaginative vision, we must go back to two older novelists, Hardy and Meredith. I do not mean that Mr Lawrence derives (源于) directly from them or, indeed, that he is clearly the disciple (弟子) of any master. I do feel simply that he is of the elder stature (名望) of Hardy and Meredith, and I know of no other young novelist who is quite worthy of their company. When I first tried to express this comparison, this connection, I was contradicted by a fellow critic, who pointed out that Meredith and Hardy are entirely unlike each other and that therefore Mr Lawrence cannot resemble both. To be sure, nothing is more hateful than forced comparisons, nothing more boring than to discover parallels between one work of art and another. An artists mastery consists in his difference from other masters. But to refer a young man of genius to an older one, at the same time pronouncing his independence and originality, is a fair, if not very superior, method of praising him.32.The underlined word “superfluous” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.meaningful Bunnecessary Cfundamental DFashionable33. What is typical of Lawrences works?AThey equally reveal his genius power. BThey contain lots of great lyric poetry.CThey present some real living situations. DThey focus on relations between humans.34.What does the author want to illustrate by including one paragraph from Sons and Lovers?AThe plot of the novel has little to do with daily life.BIt is wise to read Lawrences books from the end. CLawrence is not capable of telling good stories.DThe language in Lawrences books is elegant.35.What is the authors purpose in writing the passage?ATo introduce Lawrences novel Sons and Lovers.BTo show his experiences of reading classics.CTo analyze Lawrences writing characteristics.DTo compare the styles of different novelists.第二节：(共5个小题；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 Develop and Increase Your Self-ControlSelf-control is the ability to control impulses and reactions, and is another name for self-discipline.It is not some kind of negative and limiting behavior, as some people might think. When self-control is used wisely and with common sense, it becomes one of the most important tools for self-improvement and for achieving success. _36_It helps you abstain from harmful extremes of behavior and actions, avoid eating unhealthy food, and stop doing anything that might be harmful for you and for others.Self-control is vital for overcoming obsessions, fears, addictions, and any kind of unsuitable behavior. _37_It improves your relationships, develops patience and tolerance, and is an important tool for attaining success and happiness._38_How can you increase it? First you need to identify in what areas of your life you need to gain more self-control. And then try identifying the emotions that lack control, such as anger, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, resentment or fear. Next