陕西省城固县第一中学2015-2016学年高二英语上册期中考试题.doc

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2015~2016学年城固一中高二上学期期中考试 英语试卷
( 时间：120分钟， 总分：150分)
第一节（共5个小题：每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the woman think of the lecture?
A. It was interesting but difficult.
B. It was easy but boring.
C. It was long but easy.
2. Where do the speakers usually have meals probably?
A. At home.
B. At the restaurant.
C. At the student cafeteria.
3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. The man’s boss.
B. An invitation.
C. Gifts.
4. What can the man eat according to the doctor?
A. Fish
B. Sweet.
C. Meat.
5. What did the girl forget to buy?
A. Paints.
B. Pencils.
C. Paintbrushes.
第二节（共15小题：每小题1. 5分，满分22. 5分）
听下面5段对话或对白，每段对话或对白后有几个小题，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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6断材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Historic places.
B. Some friends’ living places.
C. Some friends’ jobs.
7. What do we know about Ben?
A. He is a student.
B. He works at a studio.
C. He lives in a new flat.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题
8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Guide and tourist.
B. Boss and secretary.
C. Interviewee and interviewer.
9. What should the woman do first?
A. Pick up the tour groups from their hotel.
B.Pick up the tour groups from the airport.
C.Answer the questions about the sights.
10. What does the woman need to be able to do in case of an emergency?
A. Comfort tourists.
B. Drive the tour bus.
C. Answer tourists’ questions.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
11. Why does the woman usually take a hat when going on a trip?
A. To keep warm.
B. To keep her hairstyle.
C. To protect her against the changing weather.
12. What does the man suggest taking?
A. A raincoat.
B. A blanket.
C. A pair of sunglasses.
13. Where are the speakers going?
A. To the countryside.
B. To the beach.
C. To the mountains.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
14. What does the man’s mother ask him to do a few times a week？
A. Cook.
B. Wash up.
C. Clean his room.
15. What does the woman think is fun?
A. The whole family takes a trip at the weekend.
B. The whole family prepares big dinners at the weekend.
C. The whole family watches TV in the living room.
16. Who is good at fixing things?
A. The man.
B. The woman’s father.
C. The man’s father.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What are sharks famous for?
A. Their large bodies.
B. Their high intelligence.
C. Their attacks on sea creatures.
18. How long can the biggest whale shark be?
A. Twenty meters.
B. Ten meters.
C. Two meters.
19. What do sharks’ good senses help them do?
A. Escape from danger. B. Find their food. C. Kill their enemies.
20. Where do moat sharks live?
A. In warm waters of oceans.. B. In cold areas of oceans. C. In warm lakes.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，每小题2分，共20小题，满分40分）
第一节 A
Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.
“I’ll be the first millionaire in Coleford!” Richard used to boast（吹嘘）.
“And you’ll be sorry you knew me,” George would reply “because I’ll be the best lawyer in the town!”
George never did become a lawyer and Richard never made any money. Instead both men opened bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street. It was hard to make money from books, which made the competition between them worse.
Then Richard married a mysterious girl. The couple spent their honeymoon on the coast—but Richard never came back. The police found his wallet on a deserted beach but the body was never found. He must have drowned.
Now with only one bookshop in town, business was better for George. But sometimes he sat in his narrow, old kitchen and gazed out of the dirty window, thinking about his formal rival(竞争对手). Perhaps he missed him?
George was very interested in old dictionaries. He’d recently found a collector in Australia who was selling a rare first edition. When the parcel arrived, the book was in perfect condition and George was delighted. But while he was having lunch, George glanced at the photo in the newspaper that the book had been wrapped in. He was astonished—the smiling face was older than he remembered but unmistakable! Trembling, George started reading.
“Bookends have bought ten bookstores from their rivals Dylans. The company, owned by multi-millionaire Richard Pike, is now the largest bookseller in Australia.”
21. George and Richard were ______ at school.
A. competitors
B. good friends
C.roommates
D. booksellers
22. George got information about Richard from ______.
A. a dictionary collector in Australia
B. Richard’s wife
C. a rare first edition of a dictionary
D. the wrapping paper of a book
23. How did George feel about Richard after his disappearance?
A. He envied Richard’s marriage. B. He thought of Richard from time to time.
C. He felt lucky with no rival in town. D. He was guilty of Richard’s death.
24. What happened to George and Richard in the end?
A. Both George and Richard became millionaires.
B. Both of them realized their original ambitions.
C. Richard became a millionaire while George had no great success.
D. George established a successful business while Richard was missing.
B
The kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts(小屋） made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet（字母表）, and some can make words.
The key to their success: 20 tablet computers(平板电脑) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child.
The goal is to find out whether kids using today’s new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers exist. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say they’re already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,” said Matt Keller, who runs the Ethiopia program.
The fastest learner—and the first to turn on one of the tablets—is 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The device’s camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of accomplishment in Ethiopia.
With his tablet, Kelbasa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didn’t know any English. That’s unbelievable,” said Keller.
The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading,” where they can read to learn. It won’t be in Amharic, Ethiopia’s first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs.
25. What can we infer from Keller’s words in Paragraph 3?
A. They need more time to analyze data.
B. More children are needed for the research.
C. He is confident about the future of the project.
D. The research should be carried out in kindergartens.
26. How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village?
A. It trains teachers for them. B. It contributes to their self-study.
C. It helps raise their living standards. D. It provides funds for building schools.
27. What is the aim of the project?
A. To offer Ethiopians higher paying jobs.
B. To make Amharic widely used in the world.
C. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English.
D. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language.
28. It amazed Keller that with the tablet Kelbesa could _______.
A. learn English words quickly. B. draw pictures of animals.
C. write letters to researchers. D. make phone calls to his friends.
C Low-Cost Gifts for Mother's Day
Gift No. I
Offer to be your mother's health friend. Promise to be there for any and all doctor's visits whether a disease or a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say "no need," another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor's visit. The best part ? This one is free.
Gift No. 2
Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. "Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother's life," Dr. Marie Savard said.
Gift No. 3
Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. "Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep," Savard said. "We know that good sleep is very important to our health."
Gift No. 4
Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother's Day by picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构) Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things -many of which are "green" - and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift, she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity.
29. What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor's visits?
A. Take notes. B. Be with her. C. Buy medicine. D. Give her gifts.
30. Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother’s sleep?
A. In Gift No. 1. B. In Gift No. 2. C. In Gift No. 3. D. In Gift No. 4.
31. Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to
A. get extra support B. enjoy good sleep C. be well-organized D. give others help
D Multitasking
What is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The products displayed (展示) at the entrance? Or the soft background music?
But have you ever notice the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no. But while a shop’s scent may not be outstanding compared with sights and sounds, it is certainly there. And it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to purchase.
A brand store has become famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers’ intention to purchase increased by 80 percent.
When it comes to the best shopping streets in Pairs, scent is just as important to a brand’s success as the quality of its window displays and goods on sales. That is mainly because shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be.
Some years ago, the focus for brand name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants’ disproving attitude and don’t-touch-what-you-can’t-afford displays. Now the rise of electronic commerce (e-commerce电子商务) has opened up famous brands to a wider audience. But while e-shops can use sights and sounds, only bricks-and-mortar stores (实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave. Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destination. And scent is just one way to achieve this.
Now a famous store uses complex man-made smell to make sure that the soft scent of baby powder floats through the kid department, and coconut (椰子) scent in the swimsuit section. A department store has even opened a new lab, inviting customers on a journey into the store’s windows to smell books, pots and drawers, in search of their perfect scent.
32. E-shops are mentioned in the passage to _______ .
A. introduce the rise of e-commerce B. urge shop assistants to change their attitude
C. push stores to use sights and sounds D. show the advantages of brick-and-mortar stores
33. The underlined word “destination” in Paragraph 5 means _______ .
A. a platform that exhibits goods B. a spot where travelers like to stay
C. a place where customers love to go D. a target that a store expects to meet
34. The main purpose of the passage is to ______ .
A. compare and evaluate B. inform and explain
C. examine and assess D. argue and discuss
35. According to the passage, what is an increasingly powerful tool in the success of some brand store?
A. Unique scents. B.Friendly assistant.
C. Soft background music D. attractive window display.
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。
How to Be Confident
We are all human and have weaknesses. Even if your physical appearance or social skills aren’t what you wish they were, that doesn’t have to stop you from being confident. (36)_____
*Make a list of special talents you have, or things you do that are good—morally（道德上） or otherwise. It doesn’t have to be a specific skill；it can be an approach or an attitude that you hold through life. (37)_____ Are you very patient with people? Do you always see the humorous side of things? Are you always there for your friends?
*(38)_____ When you feel strongly about something, speak loudly and clearly and make eye contact with people. People will judge you all the time, and usually they’ll misjudge you anyway, so why bother trying to live up to their opinions at all?
*Take care of yourself. Eat a healthy diet and get enough exercise. Don’t abuse your body, don’t overload it, and don’t deny it any of the things it needs. At the same time, don’t obsess(沉迷). (39)_____ Those things are only band-aids(权宜之计） and make-up. Confidence comes from within. In order to be confident, you must value yourself and understand that your well-being is important.
*Improve your posture. (40)_____ Don’t drop your shoulders. Make sure that your back is straight, your shoulders are square, and your chest sticks out slightly (but stay loose, otherwise you’ll appear stubborn （固执的）and nervous). Good posture also h