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宜昌市葛洲坝中学2015—2016学年第一学期
高二年级期中考试试卷 英语试题
考试时间：2015年11月
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秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why doesn’t the man open the door?
A. He hasn’t got the key. B. The key doesn’t work. C. He has got a wrong key.
2. What relation is the woman to Tom?
A. His manager. B. His girlfriend. C. His colleague.
3. What are the speakers mainly doing?
A. Having a party. B. Cooking. C. Shopping.
4. What does the woman advise the man to do in the end?
A. Take a walk alone. B. Wait for her in a park. C. Wait until she finishes a letter.
5. What is the woman going to do?
A. See a doctor. B. Go to a party. C. Look after her children.
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至7题。
6. What is the woman thinking about?
A. The exams. B. The English class. C. The coming holiday.
7. What makes the man change his mind?
A. He thinks hiking is tiring.
B. He wants to be with the woman.
C. He wants to keep away from the cold weather.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Workmates. B. Classmates. C. Club members.
9. Why didn’t the woman receive the man’s e-mail?
A. He sent it to someone else by mistake.
B. There was a computer problem.
C. She changed her e-mail address.
10. What did the woman do last Saturday?
A. She attended a party. B. She took part in a meeting. C. She went on a bike trip.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. When does the conversation take place?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
12. What did Peter think of poems?
A. They are fun to read but difficult to write.
B. They are boring to read and hard to write.
C. They are fun to read and easy to write.
13. What did the woman do when Peter was little?
A. She asked him to recite poems.
B. She read nursery rhymes to him.
C. She taught him how to read poems.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What does the man think of the Science Club?
A. It is funny. B. It is attractive C. It is not enjoyable.
15. Why do so many students like joining the Drama Club?
A. To be outstanding on campus.
B. To perform another person.
C. To develop their talent in drama.
16. What do we know about the man?
A. He hates drama. B. He is a drama star. C. He is tall and smart.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where do children play games after school?
A. On the street corner. B. At home. C. At school
18. What do old people do after breakfast?
A. Read newspapers. B. Go to car races. C. Watch TV at home.
19. How do young people go on outings at the weekends?
A. By bike. B. By car. C. By train.
20. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. Different ways of enjoyment for Australians.
B. Australians live a busy life.
C. Living in Australia.
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 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项。
A
Flowers only bloom(开花) when they are planted in the right soil. That is also true for me. I first moved to Foxboro, Massachusetts, as a single mother with my baby daughter, Darcy. I was drawn to its New England beauty, friendly people and rich history. It happened that there were a lot of forsythia(连翘) bushes around the house in which I lived just like my childhood home. I joined St. Mark’ s Episcopal Church where I taught the Sunday school. At church, I met my second husband, Dean. For more than 25 years, I bloomed in Foxboro, and I had another two children.
Then, when Darcy was a few years out of college, she moved to Alameda, California, to be near friends. I missed her badly. A year later my beloved husband Dean had deadly cancer. He only made it eight months. My heart was broken. Later I moved to Alameda with my children. It was a beautiful Victorian island, and I was grateful to spend more time with Darcy. I even attended a church and made a few friends there. Still, I couldn’t help but miss Foxboro. It had everything and everyone I loved.
One spring day, when I was walking by a school, something yellow caught my eyes. Forsythia bushes! They made me homesick and I kept back my tears. “I miss you, Foxboro,” I whispered. Then I went into a shop and looked at some ceramic(陶瓷的) pots lined up on a shelf. A large white one seemed to catch my attention. “That’ll be perfect in my living room,” I thought.
I turned it over to look at the price. Instead I found these words: “New England Pottery, Foxboro, Massachusetts.” A piece of artwork, from my second hometown, was right here. It was able to spread across the country and so were forsythia bushes. I took it as a sign that I can bloom, right where I am.
21. From the text we learn that the author .
A. gave birth to three children in Foxboro B. planted forsythia bushes around her house
C. got to know her second husband at church D. worked as a middle school teacher in Foxboro
22. When the author saw forsythia bushes at a school she .
A. wanted to buy a ceramic pot to put them in B. thought of her life in Foxboro
C. felt they would look great in her living room D. believed they were real art work
23. Why does the author compare herself to flowers?
A. Because she wanted to show she likes flowers.
B. Because girls are like flowers that are blooming.
C. Because she moved across the country just like flowers.
D. Because she can live in any place that is right like flowers.
B
OK, I admit it: emoticons (表情符号) are popular. Some people even think they are fun. Many seem unable to send an e-mail or Instant Message chat sentence without using one. Some feel that they add feeling and character to otherwise cold digital communications.
Some, however, such as editor and Hollywood scriptwriter John Blumenthal, see the use of emoticons as “childish (幼稚的) just like the people who use them”. He believes that words themselves should be enough. “If you’re being funny, happy or sad, that should be obvious from the words that go before the emoticon,” he argues. In the eyes of Blumenthal, the use of emoticons is a gender (性别) issue. “Men don’t use emoticons very much. Maybe not at all,” he said. “Teenage girls and women seem to use them a lot.”
It’s an interesting opinion, but it is not shared by all.
In an interview with The New York Times, Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, said that emoticons are popular because our brains are programmed “to seek out representations of humanity”. He believes that they appeal (吸引人) not because they are shortcuts for the lazy, but because they tap into (融入) something beyond language. They reach to our need to be with and communicate with people.
All of these arguments may be somehow real. Each one of us will choose to communicate in our own way. I do not have much time for emoticons. I tried to use one once and felt like I was stealing in on a primary school class that I had no place being in. I’d rather let my words do the talking.
Friends, however, send me messages and e-mails full of emoticons. I have no problem with this. I don’t regard any of my friends as lazy or immature (不成熟的). It’s just a question of individuality. :)
24. According to the article, emoticons are popular because ______.
A. most of them look funny
B. they are easy for lazy people to use
C. they add feeling and character to a communication
D. a reader cannot understand a message without them
25. Which of the following views would John Blumenthal agree with?
A. Instant Message chatters are childish.
B. It’s enough to use language in digital communication.
C. Men never use emoticons.
D. There is an emoticon gene in everybody.
26. From the text, we can conclude that the author ______.
A. feels he has no difficulty using emoticons B. thinks emoticons don’t suit him
C. encourage his friends to use emoticons D. believes that emoticons are suitable for everyone
27. What is the main point of the article?
A. Advice on language used over the Internet. B. The history of emoticons.
C. Arguments over the use of emoticons. D. Reasons for the popularity of emoticons.
C
Don’t be surprised if you see a group of people dancing or shouting on the square. They are a flash mob. Confused by their name? Actually, a flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other digital communications networks, is a group of people who gather suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as exchanging books, coming together to look at the sky, waving their hands and shouting something at the top of their lungs for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive.
Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May 2003 and the first successful flash mob gathered on June 3, 2003 at Macy’s department store involving 100 people gathering on Macy’s Department Store. Following this, about 200 people flooded the lobby of the Hyatt hotel, applauding in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next participants pretending to be tourists on a trip invaded a shoe shop in Soho. A later mob saw hundreds of people in Central Park making bird noises.
Wasik claimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters （赶时髦的人）, and call attention to the cultural atmosphere．
Many web logs, chat rooms and Web groups are devoted to the craze. Though flash mobs were originally regarded as useless, the concept has already developed for the benefit of political and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the efficiency of communicating information on Websites and by email, and protesters can similarly use the “on and off” concept to be involved in political events. Such flash mob gatherings can sometimes shock or frighten people who are not aware of what is taking place. They also have enormous economic potential, such as using flash mobs to advertise a product.
The flash mob is now becoming more and more popular. People use it to do many things. For example, in 2009, hundreds of Michael Jackson’s fans took part in a flash mob to remember him, gathering outside the railway station in Liverpool, singing and dancing Michael's famous song Beat It together. In another example, some people took part in a flash mob to warn people against negative words. Flash mobs give people from all walks of life an opportunity to come together to create a memory.
28. The writer indicates that the flash mob _____.
A. may perform some positive functions
B. is always a headache for the police
C. is now a social experiment to criticize fashion followers
D. helps to improve the efficiency of communication
29. A flash mob is most likely to ______.
A. give out leaflets of a brand bicycle to the passers-by
B. gather in public places performing and leave quickly
C. plan to go mountaineering on the first day of Horse Year
D. sit for days in front of the city hall for higher wages
30. According to the passage, what contribute(s) most to the popularity of the flash mob?
A. Harper’s Magazine B. the government
C. political events D. digital networks
31. The purpose of the writing is ______.
A. to amuse and interest B. to argue and advise
C. to describe and introduce D. to question and comment
D
High-quality customer service is preached (宣扬) by many, but actually keeping customers happy is easier said than done.
Shoppers seldom complain to the manager or owner of a retail（零售） store, but instead will alert their friends, relatives, co-workers, strangers—and anyone who will listen.
Store managers are often the last to hear complaints, and often find out only when their regular customers decide to frequent their competitors, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde Group and Wharton School.
“Storytelling hurts retailers and entertains consumers,” said Paula Courtney, President of the Verde Group. “The store loses the customer, but the shopper must also find a replacement.”
On average, every unhappy customer will complain to at least four others, and will no longer visit the specific store. For every dissatisfied customer, a store will lose up to three more due to negative review. The resulting “snowball effect” can be disastrous to retailers.
According to the research, shoppers who purchased clothing encountered the most problems. Ranked second and third were grocery and electronics customers.
The most common complaints include filled parking lots, cluttered (塞满了的) shelves, overloaded racks, out-of-stock items, long check-out lines, and rude salespeople.
During peak shopping hours, some retailers solved parking problems by getting moonlighting (业余兼职的) local police to work as parking attendants. Some hired flag wavers to direct customers to empty parking spaces. This guidance eliminated（消除）the need for customers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space.
Retailers can relieve the headaches by redesigning store layouts, pre-stocking sales items, hiring speedy and experienced cashiers, and having sales representatives on hand to answer questions.
Most importantly, salespeople should be diplomatic and polite with angry customers.
“Retailers who’re responsive and friendly are more likely to smooth over issues than those who aren’t so friendly,” said Professor Stephen Hoch. “Maybe something as simple as a greeter at the store entrance would help.”
Customers can also improve future shopping experiences by filing complaints to the retailer, instead of complaining to the rest of the world. Retailers are hard-pressed to improve when they have no idea what is wrong.
32. Why are store managers often the last to hear