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邢台一中2015—2016学年上学期第二次月考
高二年级英语试题
第I卷（共90 分）
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. Which hotel might Pearl stay at according to the man?
A. Plaza. B. Cambridge. C. Grand Regency.
2. Where will the two speakers go next?
A. To an office. B. To their home. C. To a restaurant.
3. What is the man concerned about?
A. The price. B. The memory space. C. The function.
4. How does the woman pay the bill?
A. In cash. B. By cheque. C. By credit card.
5. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man’s house is not far from the library.
B. The man always borrows books these days.
C. The man goes to the library twice a month.
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。每段对话或独自读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What are the speakers talking about in general?
A. A band. B. A cell phone. C. Music.
7. Why does the woman listen to Barndoor Boys’ songs?
A. They can calm her down.　 B. They can cheer her up. C. They can make her relax.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Who is the woman?
A. A dancer. B. An actress. C. A player.
9. How often does the woman practise recently?
A. Twice a week. B. Four days a week. C. Four times a month.
10. What does the woman ask the man to do?
A. See her performance.
B. Take exercise together with her.
C. Help her lose weight.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Interviewer and interviewee. B. Doctor and patient. C. Fellow workers.
12. What is the man’s health problem?
A. He suffers high blood pressure.
B. He has been putting on weight.
C. It’s difficult for him to go to sleep at night.
13. According to the man, what is the cause of his problem?
A. Lack of exercise.
B. Too many pizzas and burgers.
C. No ice cream before going to bed.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Who could the man most probably be?
A. A passer-by. B. A taxi driver. C. A policeman.
15. How long will it take the woman to get to the National Museum of Art?
A. Less than 12 minutes. B. No more than 18 minutes. C. More than 20 minutes.
16. How will the woman probably go to the Mexican restaurant?
A. By taxi. B. By subway. C. By bus.
听第10段材料，回答第 17至 20题。
17. Where is the speaker probably?
A. At a TV station. B. On a beach. C. At a shopping mall.
18. How many people does the speaker mention?
A. 3. B. 4. C. 5.
19. What does the speaker say about the guy with short pants?
A. He needs fashion lessons.
B. He wears a fashionable shirt.
C. He will go to a barbecue party.
20. Who is in fashion?
A. The girl with holey jeans.B. The girl with a white blouse. C. The guy with a Hawaiian shirt.
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

Less than 60 percent of students now entering four­year American colleges are likely to graduate.The completion rate is lower than that of almost any other wealthy country.
On last Tuesday President Obama gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.He spoke on the first day of classes at a high school in Virginia.He talked about personal responsibility，and used himself as an example of someone who overcame difficulties.
“My father left my family when I was two years old，and I was raised by a single mother who had to work and struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.There were times when I missed having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in，”said President Obama.
But he told students that problems in their own lives should not stop them from learning. “There's no excuse for talking back to your teacher，or cutting class or dropping out of school. There's no excuse for not trying.”
This was not the first presidential speech to students.Ronald Reagan spoke from the White House in 1988.And George H．W.Bush spoke from a school in Washington in 1991.
But many conservatives(保守者) criticized plans for the speech.Some called it“socialized education”or federal interference(干预) in local schools.Others feared it would be too political. Some schools decided not to show the speech.But the White House released (发布)the text on Monday，and that calmed a lot of critics.
On Sunday，on the CBS program“Face the Nation”，Untied States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said 30 percent of students do not graduate from high school.He called the dropout rate“staggering(令人吃惊的)”．It represents more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade but did not complete 12th grade.
21.President Obama gave a nationally broadcast speech on Tuesday to________.
A．criticize the students who talked back to their parents
B．tell the students how he struggled to go to school in his childhood
C．encourage students to drop out
D．persuade the students to go on with their studies even if they have problems
22.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage？
A．Some people considered Obama's speech to be too political.
B．George H．W.Bush spoke to students from the White House in 1990.
C．Obama's mother left him when he was two years old.
D．The White House decided not to release the text on Monday.
23.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A．40 percent of American high school students drop out
B．the dropout rate of American schools is amazing
C．only one million students can finish 12th grade each year
D．not all the people support the president's speech
24.Which of the following could be the best title of the passage？
A．Obama's Hard Childhood
B．Obama Encourages Students to Carry on Studies
C．Obama's Speech Met Criticism
D．Amazing Dropout Rate of the US
B．

Humans：it's time to abandon Earth or race extinction.
It could be the plot of a summer blockbuster(大片)，but this prediction isn't science fiction.It's a glimpse of the future，according to famous British scientist Stephen Hawking.
“I see great dangers for the human race，”he said in an interview with global forum Big Think.“There have been a number of times in the past days when its survival has been a question of touch and go( 危险的处境; 一触即发的形势 ).”
“I believe that the long­term future of the human race must be in space，”he said.“It will be difficult enough to avoid disasters on planet Earth in the next hundred years，let alone the next thousand，or million.”
Hawking，who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year，has recently voiced many concerns about the future of life on Earth.
“If aliens visited us，the outcome would be as much as when Columbus landed in America，which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans，”he said.“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads (游牧民)，looking to conquer ( 征服 ) and colonize ( 殖民）whatever planets they can reach.”
But Hawking says he's still hopeful for the future of humanity.He told Big Think，“We've made remarkable progress in the last hundred years.But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years，our future is in space.”
Getting to another planet will prove a challenge，not to mention colonizing it for humanity. Katherine Freese from University of Michigan told Big Think，“The nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri (比邻星)which is 4.2 light years away.That means，if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time，it would take 4.2 years to get there－or about 50,000 years using current rocket science.”
25. Humans are advised to abandon Earth mainly because________.
A．aliens will take up our home planet soon
B．it was discussed in the forum Big Think
C．many scientists like Hawking are concerned about it
D．many disasters will happen on earth
26.Thinking about the future of humans，Hawking feels that________.
A．humans can't live on Earth any longer
B．Earth will not be habitable for humans
C．other planets are ready for humans to reach
D．aliens are the biggest future threat to humans
27.What is the writer's key point in the last paragraph？
A．It is impossible to get to another planet in space.
B．It is urgent for Hawking to develop the space science.
C．The near future can't see human's move to another planet.
D．The planet Proxima Centauri is far away from Earth.
28.This passage is most probably taken from________.
A．a conference interview B．a science fiction C．a history book D．a forum report

C.
The recent capsizing(倾覆）of Eastern Star，with 454 people on board, will not affect cruise(乘船游览）ship tourism in China in the long term，but may have an immediate fallout (附带后果)，an analyst says.
On June 1，the ship sank in the Yangtze River in Central China’s Hubei province, in the face of a fierce storm, killing all but 12 people aboard. According to Zhang Lingyun, the deputy dean of tourism college at Beijing Union University, the ship capsized owing “mainly to rare weather conditions”. “But the public needs time to put the tragedy behind, so there might be a short-term fallout from it. ”
Ctrip, a major Chinese online travel agency, has received some requests from customers seeking to cancel their bookings on cruise ships after the incident. More than 50 tourists canceled their planned cruises, says Huang He, general manager of Xiyanghong Travel Agency in Suzhou in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. His company expects more people to withdraw (撤销）from such trips in the coming days. The Nanjing branch of Shanghai Xiehe Travel Agency, which organized the river excursion (游览）of the capsized Eastern Star, canceled its next cruise, which was to start on June 15. The private company said another trip, set for June 17，might also be canceled.
The cruise business in China is developing very fast as more Chinese take to this mode of luxury travel. Last year, more than 220 cruise ships set sail from Shanghai alone, with approximately 1. 2 million passengers, according to the annual report on China’s cruise industry, prepared by Shanghai Center for International Cruise Economic Research, an industry body.
Most river cruise routes are between Hubei province’s Yichang to Chongqing on the Yangtze River, says Chen Caiyin，public affairs manager of Ctrip's Beijing office. “We still have guests signing up for the cruise trip at the moment,” Chen says, adding that Ctrip has a procedure to refund money if their customers wish to cancel their cruise trip. Many travel agencies still offer tourism products on the Yangtze River. A five-day cruise on the river costs around 2，000 yuan ($ 322) at present—the usual price has not been changed after the tragedy, Chen says.
29.What can be the main idea of the news report?
A.Cruise ship tourism in China is increasing rapidly.
B.Long-term cruise business unlikely upset by Eastern Star tragedy.
C.Tourism products offered by travel agencies on the Yangtze River.
D.Eastern Star sank in the Yangtze River in Central China’s Hubei province.
30.Which of the following phrases can replace the underlined word “refund ” in Para. 5?
A. Put out. B. Take on. C. Turn over. D. Give back.
31.The passage tells us that .
A. Ctrip is a major Chinese shipping company
B. there were 466 people on board when the ship capsized
C. Most river cruise routes are between Wuhan to Chongqing
D. A travel agency in Nanjing organized the cruise of the Eastern Star

D
If you`re secretly worried about your smartphone addiction, then the new NoPhone might be just the thing you need. It’s the perfect smartphone placebo(宽慰剂)—it looks and feels exactly like a smartphone, but it does nothing. It’s just a piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.
NoPhone is currently a prototype(原型)that will cost merely $12 once it hits the market. Its makers are trying to raise $ 30,000 on Kickstarter in order to cover production and marketing costs. They describe the device （设备）as a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact that allows you to stay connected with the real world.
Dutch designer Ingmar Larsen, who helped create the NoPhone, said that he expected the idea as a joke along with his friends Van Gould and Ben Langveld. To their great surprise, the idea received a lot of attention online and people from all over the world started placing requests for NoPhones of their own. So that was when the three friends decided to turn to Kickstarter to fund mass production.
The NoPhone is 5. 5 inches high, 2. 6 inches wide and 0. 29 inches thick, bringing it quite close to the latest smartphones on the market. The Kickstarter`s slogan（口号）is quite amusing to read—under features, they’ve mentioned things like “battery free，，no upgrades necessary，，and “waterproof”. Their FAQs address the most important question, “Is this a joke?”, to which their answer is, “No. ”
“Phone addiction is real,” they insist. “And it’s everywhere. It’s ruining your dates. It`s distracting you at concerts. It `s disrupting(干扰) you in movie theaters. Now, there is a real solution. ”
“With a thin, light and completely wireless design, the NoPhone acts as a substitution to any smart mobile device, enabling you to always have a rectangle(长方形 ）of smooth, cold plastic to hold without giving up any potential engagement with your direct environment. Never again experience the unsettling feeling when closing your hand. ”
If you’re interested in NoPhone, but concerned about not being able to take selfies(自 拍)anymore, don’t worry. The makers do have an upgrade at no extra charge—the mirror sticker. That way, they say, you can enjoy “real-time” s