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1、枣阳市白水高中20142015年第四次周考高二英语试卷命题人：丁晶晶第I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秒钟的时间来回来有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Study. B. Hometown. C. Weather.2. How does the man feel about the final exam?A

2、. It is important. B. It is difficult. C. It has only one page.3. What does the man mean?A. Hes confident hell get the job. B. His chance of getting the job is slim.C. The interview didnt go as well as he expected.4. When will the two speakers meet?A. At 8:00. B. At 7:15. C. At 5:45.5. Who is Judy p

3、robably?A. The mans former schoolmate. B. The mans former colleague.C. The mans former neighbor.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中的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；听完后你都有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6、7题。请听第6段材料，回答6、7题。6. What seems to be the womans problem?

4、A. She didnt feel well. B. She lost her wallet.C. Her car broke down.7. Where is the woman going now? A. To the hospital. B. To her home. C. To a taxi company.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How did the woman learn Japanese? A. She once went to Japan. B. She learnt it in school. C. She learnt it from her father.

5、9. How long has the woman been in China?A. For 30 years. B. For 20 years. C. For 25 years.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What is the man complaining about?A. There is too much dust. B. There is too much noise.C. There is too much traffic.11. What do we know about the road near the mans house?A. Its condition

6、 is not good. B. It has completed the construction.C. It is being constructed.12. What suggestion does the woman give to the man?A. Showing the truth to the media. B. Holding a neighborhood meeting.C. Collecting money for the construction.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What are the two speakers mainly talkin

7、g about?A. How to answer customers phone calls properly.B. How to sell the products of their company.C. How to deal with difficult callers.14. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Couple. B. Colleagues. C. Classmates.15. What kind of company Diana is?A. Food. B. Tour. C. Cloth

8、ing.16. How is the woman required to end a call?A. By offering something that sounds interesting. B. By writing down customers names.C. By promising to do something.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How much did the speaker spend on the Grand Voyager tour?A. $2,000. B. $3,000. C. $4,000.18. What was the speake

9、r doing in a waiting room?A. She was listening to some music. B. She was taking some photos.C. She was seeing a movie.19. Where did the speaker start on the one-hour flight tour?A. From Hoover Dam. B. From the great Colorado River.C. Form the south of the canyon.20. Which of the following did the sp

10、eaker have during the tour?A. Some hot drinks. B. A sandwich. C. A piece of bread.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、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AEveryone talks about the greenhouse effect and how our Earth and its climate are being affected. We can do a science experiment

11、designed by some kids to show this effect and what is happening to the Earth.First prepare the following items:2 glass containers（容器） that need to be the same size and shape 1 gallon plastic bag 4 cups of very cold water Ice cubes Fill each container with two cups of cold water. Add the same amount

12、of ice cubes to each container. Then put one of the containers in the plastic bag and close it tight. Put both containers in the sun together and keep them there for at least an hour. At the end of one hour remove the container from the plastic bag and immediately check the temperature of the water.

13、 After you record this, find out the temperature of the water that is not covered. When you place the containers in direct sunlight, the air inside the bag becomes very warm. The heat filters (渗入) in but cannot escape so it stays in the closed plastic bag and increases the temperature. What if you l

14、eave that for two, three or four hours?Think about what is happening to the Earth. There are chemicals that are creating a type of plastic bag around the Earth. It causes our air to get warmer because of the heat from the sun being kept in this closed area. Think about your car in the hot summer. Th

15、is is what happens when you leave your car outside all day. This greenhouse effect has caused your car to be so hot that you sometimes cannot even touch the steering wheel. This science project goes to show what affects our planet.21. According to the text, the greenhouse effect appears mainly becau

16、se of _.A. the hot sunlight B. human activitiesC. the plastic bag D. chemicals around the Earth22. Which of the following shows the right order of steps for the science project?a. Measure the water which is not covered.b. Make preparations for the project.c. Fill each of the two glass containers wit

17、h two cups of cold water.d. Put one container in a plastic bag and close it tight.e. Put the two containers in the sun for at least one hour.f. Measure the water which is covered with a plastic bag.A. b c e d a f B. b e d c a f C. b c d e f a D. b e c d f a23. The writer mentions a car on a hot summ

18、er day to _.A. tell us about the hot weather in summer B. prove the science project is correctC. tell us how to protect cars during summerD. show the effects of the greenhouse effectB It is obvious that television brings us not only advantages but also disadvantages . At first, television is both a

19、convenient channel of amusement, and a relatively cheap one. If we have a TV set in the family, we are not necessary to go to the cinema or theatre to enjoy programme with expensive tickets. All that they have to do is press a button with a finger, and they can watch all the programmes they like, su

20、ch as TV talk shows , movies, opera and so on. But some people think of it as a danger. When we watch TV, we dont need to do anything . We do not even have to leave our sofa because we have a remote control in our hand. We dont need to make any judgment or statement about it. We are totally passive

21、and dont use our head to think hard about some matters. As we all know, television keeps us informed about world eventsincluding all the events in society, science and politics .We can get a good idea of the most remote countries and the strangest customs in their country. Of course the radio perfor

22、ms this service this service too, but the effect of the programme is not better than on the television. Everything we enjoy on the television is much more vivid and realistic. However, in turn there is a great danger. Usually we cannot resist the television screen, because it has a great harm for us

23、. We have been so accustomed to enjoying the screen, so dependent on its pictures. But when our TV sets are out of order, we are surprised to find that we have much more time to do things. And at this time we actually begin to have a talk to each other again. It is really worth thinking. Of course t

24、he arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of television are on the go. We can not simply say television itself is good or bad. The truth is that how we use it determines its true value to our society.24. What is the main idea of the passage?A. How to make use of the television.B. The advan

25、tages and disadvantages of television.C. The benefit of the television.D.The history of the television.25. Television , as a channel of amusement , is_.A. not very convenient B. very expensiveC. quite dangerous D. relatively cheap26. Why are some people against TV?A. Because TV programs are not inte

26、resting.B. Because TV viewers are completely passive.C. Because TV prices are very high.D. Because TV has both advantages and disadvantages.27.According to the passage , whether TV is good or not depends on _ .A. its qualityB. peoples attitude towards it C. how we use it D. when we use it C Until sh

27、e was six, Oprah Winfrey lived on a farm with her grandmother. She remembers, “One day, my grandmother was boiling clothes because at that time we didnt have a washing machine. I was four years old, and I remember thinking, My life wont be like this. It will be better. ” It is better much better. Wi

28、nfrey is a billionaire, and “the Oprah Winfrey Show”, which is watched by over 20 million people every day, has won many awards. As a little girl, Winfrey was always different. She learned to read when she was three. She read the Bible in church and was famous for being the little girl who talked a

29、lot. Since then, talking has been the most important part of her life. She got her first big chance while at Tennessee State University. At age 17, she was offered a job at a radio station. Next, she hosted a talk show, “ People Are Talking” , which soon became very popular. People felt comfortable

30、telling her about their lives, and people liked her warm interviewing style. After a year, the show was renamed “ The Oprah Winfrey Show” , and she was a star. Winfreys real dream, though , was to be an actor. Finally, she achieved this when she starred in “ The Color Purpose” in 1985. Her performan

31、ce won her an Oscar nomination(提名). She now has her own production company. Harpo Productions (“Harpo” is “Oprah” spelled backward).Winfrey says her greatest lesson in her life is “ not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says”.28When did Oprah Winfrey make up her mind tha

32、t her life would be better?A. At the age of 3. B. At the age of 4.C. At the age of 6. D. At the age of 17.29. Why was Oprah Winfrey famous as a little girl?A. Because she could read the Bible and talk about it a lot.B. Because she had her own dreams.C. Because she was able to read the Bible in churc

33、h.D. Because she lived with her grandmother on a farm.30. What was Winfreys real dream according to the passage?A. To be a film star.B. To be a hostess for a talk show.C. To be a worker at a radio station.D. To be a producer of her own company.31. Why was Winfreys talk show very popular?A. Because s

34、he was a beauty. B. Because she was a billionaire.C. Because her family was very rich.D. Because her hosting was warm.DI left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I trie

35、d journalism, but I didnt think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull. I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down w

36、ish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words. It takes confidence to make a new start theres a dark period in-between where youre neither one thing nor the other. Youre out for dinner and people ask what you do, and youre too

37、 ashamed to say, “Well, Im writing a novel, but Im not quite sure if Im going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside. Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedba

38、ck. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel. The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal that p

39、ublisher turned out to be the one I once worked for. It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, theres no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher to be a published writ

40、er is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.32. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?A. I was waiting for good fortune.B. I was trying to find an admirable job.C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.33. The author decided to write a novel _

41、 .A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dreamC. to satisfy readers wish D. to earn more money34. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?A. Disturbed. B. Ashamed. C. Confident. D. Uncertain.35. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?A. It pays t

42、o stick to ones goal.B. Hard work can lead to success.C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.第二节：选项填空（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。 Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion, unless you learn how

43、to deal with it. They warn that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.  _36_ Some people express anger openly in a calm reasonable way. Others burst with anger, and scream and yell. But other people keep their anger inside. They can

44、 not or will not express it. This is called repressing anger. For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a persons health than expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain releases the same hormones (荷尔蒙). They speed the heart rate, raise blood pres

45、sure, or sugar into the blood, etc. _37_ Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who express anger violently may be more likely to develop heart disease, and they believe that those who keep anger inside may face a greater danger of high b

46、lood pressure. _38_ They say the first step is to admit that you are angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about. If it is, they say, “_39_ Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself calmly and reas

47、onably.” Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry. _40_A. In general the person feels excited and ready to actB. They said that laughter is much healthier than anger.C. Expressing anger violently is more harmful than repressing itD. Ang

48、er may cause you a cancer.E. Do not express your anger while angry.F. Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time.G. Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger.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15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

49、黑。The eyes are one of the most expressive of body language. Keith, seventeen，from Montclair, New Jersey, learned the hard way about one 41 the eyes can make. “I had a teacher who 42 heavily on classroom discussion.” Keith says“He seemed to have a strong 43 to know just when I didnt have the answer.

50、I couldnt 44 how he could be so 45 . Then it dawned on(逐渐被人明白)me. 46 I didnt know the answer，I would 47 looking at himWhen I did know what to say, I always stared straight back 48 him. From that moment on, I 49 myself to look him in the eye, 50 I knew the answer or notThat trick has 51 me a lot of t

51、rouble.”Many people， 52 some policemen，believe eye contact is a good 53 of testing honestyIf someone cant look at you directly in the eye，then he or she is not playing 54 , they insist. After many experiments， 55 , a number of experts have found out that good liars can make false eye contact Eye con

52、tact，though not a sure 56 of dishonesty，is a clear way to show interest in another person. When a person looks at you and continues to do so，you know his attention is 57 on youWhen he turns his head away，his mind is probably 58 But there is 59 A shy person may have trouble making and keeping eye con

53、tact， no matter how interested he is in the other personAnd certain nationalities，such as the British and Germans，are much 60 oriented(适应)to eyeball-to-eyeball contact than，say，the French and the Arabs41A1etter Bnotice Cmessage Dnews42A1ooked Bgraded C1ived Dtook43Aability Bbody Cmind Dway44Afigure

54、out Bspeak out Cturn out Dput out45Aslow Bsharp Cboring Dcautious46AThe first time BLast time CEach time DAt times 47Ahate Benjoy C1ike Davoid48Aon Bat Cin Dof49Aallowed Bforbade Ctaught Dpersuaded50Awhen Bwhether Cif Dunless51Asaved Bgiven Cincreased Doffered52Aexcept Badding Cbeside Dincluding53A1

55、esson Bway Cchance Dapproach54Ahonestly Beffectively Cefficiently Dconstantly55Afurthermore Bmoreover Chowever Dotherwise56AexpressionBmeans Csign Dtrick57Adiscovered B1ain Cput Dfixed58Aanywhere Bnowhere Celsewhere Deverywhere59Aexception Bexpectation Cquestion Dadaptation60Aworse B1ess Ctoo Denough第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）阅读下面语句，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词适当的形式，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。Once, there was an old scientist who 61_ (decide) to use the cloning procedure to make a clone of his bosss dog. He was