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宜昌金东方高级中学2015年秋季学期期中考试
高二英语试题
考试用时：120分钟 满分：150分
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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）
1. What season is it?
A. Winter. B. Spring. C. Autumn.
2. What does Kim look like?
A. She is tall and fat. B. She has long curly hair. C. She is dressed in red.
3. How did the woman get pocket money as a child?
A. By doing housework. B. By behaving well. C. By getting high scores in exams.
4. What will the man do tomorrow?
A. Go to see a doctor. B. Work on the computer all day.
C. Go to a yoga class with the woman.
5. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a police station. B. In a bag store. C. In a restaurant.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Where are the speakers?
A. At a hotel. B. At an airport. C. At the woman’s home.
7. Where are the woman’s suitcases?
A. On the right. B. In the middle. C. On the left.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Laying off staff. B. Working at home. C. Computerizing in companies.
9. What does the woman like doing?
A. Contacting her workmates by e-mail. B. Doing housework at home.
C. Watching TV.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What was the man’s favorite book as a child?
A. Runaway Bunny. B. Goodnight, Moon. C. Green Eggs and Ham.
11. What does the woman think of Stephen King novels?
A. They’re wonderful. B. They’re unusual. C. They’re hard to understand.
12. What will the woman do?
A. Read a Stephen King novel. B. Lend some novels to the man.
C. Spare some time to tell a story.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why will the woman work in a restaurant?
A. To help her father. B. To make money for college. C. To save money for travelling.
14. Where will the woman go most weekends?
A. To a library. B. To a cinema. C. To a friend’s house.
15. What does the woman plan to do in Italy?
A. Visit a friend. B. Go sightseeing. C. Look after her cousin.
16. What will the woman do in the last week of the summer vocation?
A. Visit her cousin. B. Move to the school dorm. C. Prepare for school.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What subject does the speaker dislike most?
A. History. B. Russian. C. Literature.
18. How long does the speaker have to stay at school on weekdays?
A. 5 hours. B. 6 hours. C. 8 hours.
19. What is the speaker going to do when she finishes school?
A. Further her study. B. Become a singer. C. Help her father do business.
20. What does the speaker say about her teachers?
A. They are unkind. B. They are quite strict. C. They are difficult to get on with.
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）
A
When I was nine years old I lived in a small town. I found an ad for selling greeting cards in the back of a children’s magazine. I thought to myself I could do this. I begged my mother to let me send for the kit (配件). Two weeks later the kit arrived. The next three hours later, I returned home with no card and a pocket full of money shouting, “Mama, all the people couldn’t wait to buy my cards!” A salesperson was born.
When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Ziegler. I remember sitting in the dark hall listening to Mr. Ziegler raise everyone’s spirits up to ceiling. I left there feeling like I could do anything. When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said, “Dad, I want to make people feel like that.” My father asked me what I meant. “I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr. Ziegler,” I replied. A dream was born.
Recently, I began pursuing my dream of motivating(inspire) others. I realized that everything I had accomplished — the graduate degree, the successful sales career, speaking appointments, training and managing for a major fortune 100 company as a senior manager— had prepared me for this moment. I told my boss who was a great leader I would leave the company though I might not reach such a height in career. He told me to proceed and he believed I would succeed.
Having made that decision, I was immediately tested. One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job. We had recently bought a new home and needed both incomes to make the monthly mortgage (抵押) payment and now we were done to no income. I even planned to turn back to my former company, knowing they wanted me to stay but I was certain that if I went back, I would never leave. I decided I still wanted to move forward rather than end up with a mouth full of “if onlys” later on. A motivational speaker was born.
When I held fast to my dream, even during the tough times, the miracles（奇迹）really began to happen. In a short time period my husband found a better job. We didn’t miss a mortgage payment. And I was able to book several speaking appointments with new clients (客户). I discovered the incredible power of dreams. I loved my old job, my workmates and the company I left, but it was time to get on with my dream. To celebrate my success I had a local artist paint my new office as a garden. At the top of one wall she marked, “The world always makes way for the dreamer.”
21．Why was the kit sent for?
A. Selling greeting cards. B. Collecting greeting cards.
C. Buying greeting cards. D. Sending greeting cards.
22．When did the author decide to become a motivational speaker?
A. After buying a new home by mortgage.
B. After giving notice to leave her secure position in the company.
C. After finding a job in a major fortune 100 company.
D. After listening to Mr. Ziegler’s inspiring speech.
23．What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?
A. Carry on with your dreams and you will be successful.
B. Risk everything you have for a dream and you will succeed.
C. The world belongs to dreamers. D. Everyone will find their dreams.
B
London started its first major bike hire scheme (方案) on July 30th. Transport For London (TFL), the agency responsible for moving people around England’s capital, put 5,000 bicycles in 400 different places around the city.
The idea is to cut traffic, reduce pollution and provide a greener way of getting around London’s streets. The scheme had a few small problems on its first day as people could not lock the bikes properly once they had finished riding them. As a gesture of goodwill, London Mayor Boris Johnson announced all rentals (租金) on the first day would be free of charge. The bikes are available for free for the first 30 minutes but costs go up sharply since then. Renters have to pay $1.60 for the first hour and $78 for 24 hours. The bikes are clearly designed for very short trips.
TFL says it sees a “cycle revolution” happening in London. It predicts there will be around 40,000 new cycle journeys every day on the rental bikes. Mr. Johnson says he wants to see a return to the turn of the 20th century, when 20 per cent of journeys in London were made by bicycle. The scheme has received a lot of positive feedback (反馈) in the first two days.
Many Londoners believe it is a great alternative (替代品) to London’s overcrowded and overpriced trains and buses. One person, Andy Clark, told the Reuters news agency, “It’s a great idea. I’ve seen it operating in Paris and Barcelona and thought why don’t we have one?” The Londonist Blog said the bikes were very strong and were “designed to bear a beating from both careless cyclists and drunken people”.
24. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. London starts a new bike hire scheme. B. London needs better measures to cut traffic.
C. London encourages people to buy bikes. D. London decides to protect the environment.
25. At the beginning of the scheme, there was some difficulty with the ____.
A. rental B. time C. distance D. lock
26. Which of the following is NOT the purpose of the bike rental scheme?
A. To reduce traffic pressure. B. To protect nature.
C. To decrease pollution. D. To make the city beautiful.
27. It can be learned from the passage that ____.
A. the bikes are designed for long journeys in London
B. it costs nearly $80 to rent one of the bikes for a day
C. London is the first city to start the bike rental scheme
D. All Londoners approve of the scheme
C
I would like to suggest that for sixty minutes each evening, right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting be banned by law.
Let us take a serious look at what the results might be if such a suggestion were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. They might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our problems－everything, in fact, from the generation gap(代沟) to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illnesses－are caused at least in part by the failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what is disturbing us. The result is emotional difficulty of one kind or another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.
On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active entertainments. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset. Or they might take a walk together and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes.
With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming. Educators report that the generation growing up with television can hardly write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more cultured new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.
At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical (激进的). What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But it's not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control our free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television, spent partly with radio－which at least involved the listener’s imagination－but also with reading, learning, talking, playing games and inventing new activities. It wasn't that difficult, honest. The truth is that we had a ball.
28. The author’s suggestion can help________________.
A. people solve emotional problems
B. draw people’s attention to the evening news
C. college students get along well with others
D. develop strong neighborhood relationships
29. According to the text, good books ___________.
A. offer as much knowledge as TV does B. are more entertaining than TV
C. should be made into films D. cannot be found easily
30. In the author’s opinion, life without TV__________.
A. is not good for children’s imagination B. will be accepted by more people
C. used to be a lot of fun D. is not worth living
31. What would be the best title for the text?
A. The future of television B. Turning off TV: a quiet hour
C. Saying goodbye to television D. Effects of television on humans
D
England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theater written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright(剧作家) with several famous plays.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalog(目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and Henry Ⅴ are very famous.
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde’s plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw’s plays are loved so much that an entire theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.
Harold Pinter
The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.
32. The writer wrote this passage to .
A. advise us to spend more time enjoying plays
B. explain why England has so many wonderful plays
C. tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works
D. tell us the differences among some British playwrights
33. What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common?
A. They are all Shakespeare’s early works. B. They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.
C. They are all Shakespeare’s famous comedies.
D. They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare’s plays.
34. Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time?
A. The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance.
B. Richard Ⅲ and A Woman of No Importance.
C. An Ideal Husband and Candida. D. Candida and Betrayal.
35. Who was mentioned in this passage that he had received the Nobel Prize because of his writing?
A. William Shakespeare. B. Oscar Wilde.
C. George Bernard Shaw. D. Harold Pinter.
第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满