湖北省荆州2015-2016学年高二英语上册期中试题.doc

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荆州中学2015～2016学年度上学期
期 中 考 试 卷
年级：高二 科目：英语 命题人： 审题人：
注意事项: 1.答第I卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在答题卡上。2.选出每小题答案后,用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上,否则无效。(试卷总分：150分；考试时间：120分钟)
第I卷
第一部分  听力（共两节, 满分20分）
做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。听力结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节(共5小题;每小题1分,满分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称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. How long has the man waited for the bus?
A. About 10 minutes. B. About 20 minutes. C. About 30 minutes.
2. What will the man do?
A. Buy a new shirt. B. Take off his shirt. C. Wash his shirt.
3. When does the conversation probably take place?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
4. How old was the baby when the woman left New York?
A. Two months. B. Five months. C. Seven months.
5. What are the two speakers talking about?
A. Repairing machines. B. Paying for tickets. C. Changing notes.

第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15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. How does the man feel after the second job interview?
A. Anxious. B. Confused. C. Hopeful.
7. How many people were able to go to the second interview?
A. 4. B. 12. C. 16.
请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Which subject did the woman study last night?
A. English. B. Physics. C. French.
9. What is the conversation mainly about?
A. Exams. B. Sleep. C. Dreams.
请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why doesn’t the man order first?
A. He is waiting for someone else.
B. He wants to check the price first.
C. He is unfamiliar with the restaurant.
11. Which of the following does the man order?
A. Salted fish. B. Smoked duck. C. Roast beef.
12. What does the man want to drink?
A. Beer. B. Wine. C. Coffee.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why can’t the man get through?
A. The line is busy. B. The line has not been paid.
C. The line is not in the service.
14. What do we know about the man?
A. He lost his way. B. He is stuck in a traffic jam.
C. He had a traffic accident.
15. How many people are there in the car?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
16. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Neighbors. B. Husband and wife. C. Policeman and driver.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When was the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit made a law?
A. In 1963. B. In 1973. C. In 1983.
18. What is the reason that 75% of the persons surveyed favor the law?
A. Easing the traffic pressure.
B. Protecting the environment.
C. Decreasing the highway death rate.
19. How many people favor a higher speed limit for trucks?
A. Only 23%. B. Only 55%. C. Only 75%.
20. Why do truckers want a higher speed limit for trucks?
A. Trucks do not use crucial fuel.
B. Trucks run better at higher speeds.
C. Most trucks don’t transport consumer goods.

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）
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. — The Environmental Children's Organization.
Coming here today, I am fighting for my future. I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of (代表) the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone (臭氧层). I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.
You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians— but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles— and all of you are somebody's child.
At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You teach us: not to fight with others, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share— not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?
Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for— we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. But are we even on your list of priorities? My father always says "You are what you do, not what you say."
Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.
21. What did the speaker mainly talk about?
A. politics B. environment C. economy D. war
22. Where was the speech probably given?
A. At a meeting held by school teachers.
B. At a party where many children played.
C. At a ceremony for the speaker’s achievement.
D. At a conference representatives of countries attended.
23. The speech is meant to be given to the following people EXCEPT .
A. News reporters.
B. Children from E.C.O.
C. Decision makers of the governments.
D. Business men.
24. Why did the speaker mention what she was taught at school?
A. To praise her teachers and her father.
B. To warn children of the importance of study.
C. To show her great achievements at school.
D. To prove the grown-ups’ words and actions were not consistent.
B
Americans are a strange people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn. They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as hard-hearted business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts. Yet they like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size. They show off their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven. Yet they also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, and the most liars.
When they meet, they are always telling each other, "Take it easy," then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions. They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game. They marry more, and go broke more often. They love children, animals, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy, high pace, sports, the underdog, the hero, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, classical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dress, plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week limited to forty hours or less.
They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, troop to movies and television while blaming the quality and the advertisements, go to church but don't care much for sermons (布道), and drink too much in the hope of relaxing—only to find themselves drunk into even bigger dreams.
There is of course, no typical (典型的) American. But if you added them all together and then divided by 226, 000, 000 they would look something like what this chapter has tried to describe.
25. What may be the best title of the passage?
A. The Americans. B. Life in America.
C. Strange people. D. Great America
26. What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Para.1?
A. They like listening to bad luck stories.
B. They push the interesting stories away.
C. They can easily be moved by sad stories.
D. They are informed of good luck stories often.
27. Which one of the following is probably NOT what the Americans love?
A. noise B. advertisement C. smoking D. fresh water
28. In what way did the author write this passage?
A. By comparison. B. By giving examples.
C. By experimenting. D. By telling stories.
C
What if handheld (掌控型的) tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics—intelligent handheld robots. Historically, handheld tools have been straight, unintelligent instruments that are unaware of the context they operate in, are fully directed by the user, and therefore, lack any understanding about the task they are performing.
Dr. Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and PhD student, Austin Gregg-Smith, from the University's Department of Computer Science, have been working in the design of the robot as well as in understanding how best to be with a tool that “knows and acts”.
Compared to other tools such as power tools that have a motor and perhaps some basic sensors (感应器), the handheld robots developed at Bristol are designed to have more degrees of freedom to allow greater independence from the instructions of the user, and importantly, understand the steps being carried out. This allows for a new level of co-operation between user and tool, such as the user providing directions and the tool performing the detailed task.
Handheld robots, aim to share physical similarity with users but are neither fully independent as is a humanoid robot nor are part of the user’s body. The aim with handheld robots is to develop the intuitiveness (灵性) of using traditional handheld tools while adding planted intelligence and action to allow for new abilities.
Dr. Mayol-Cuevas, Reader in Robotics Computer Vision and Mobile Systems, said, “There are three basic levels of autonomy (自主权) we are considering: no autonomy, semi-autonomous when the robot advises the user but does not act, and fully autonomous when the robot advises and acts even by correcting or refusing to perform incorrect user actions.”
29. What is the new concept in robotics?
A. Full control by the user.
B. Improvement in intelligence.
C. Larger size of the robots.
D. Help for the experienced users.
30. What is the meaning of the underlined word “unaware”?
A. updated B. educated C. organized D. uninformed
31. What is the advantage of handheld robots compared to other tools?
A. They are more dependent on the users.
B. They all have a motor and basic sensors.
C. They don’t need to follow the instructions at all.
D. They have a new level of freedom to perform the task.
32. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The handheld robots can never disobey the user’s order.
B. The autonomy is the only thing that the scientists are considering.
C. There will be more intelligence and independence in the handheld robots.
D. The aim of the handheld robots is to correct and refuse the user’s directions.
D
Getting into university is hard enough at the best of times—but when your chosen institution is a work of fiction you’re really up against. And that’s why this young joker’s Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) application to Hogwarts University was unsuccessful.
But the admissions services’ response to the young man is still funny.
The unnamed A-Level student wrote a handwritten note to UCAS asking for a place studying ‘Wandology’ at the Harry Potter school.
In the application, he was proud of his skills in “wearing a pointy hat” and “Watching Paul Daniels TV Specials”.
UCAS replied, “We regret to inform you that your application to the stated university cannot be processed at this time for the fact that it does not exist.
“After consultation with our mystic (神秘学的) advisors we have also determined that even if it did exist, the course ‘Wandology’ would be highly in demand and thus require at least two As and a B in any of the following subjects:
l Advanced Spellcrafting
l Mystimatics
l Defence Against the Dark Arts
l History of the Mysticism
l Shaft Design
“Your handwritten grade sheet claiming top marks in ‘Waving a stick about’, ‘Wearing a pointy hat’ and ‘Watching Paul Daniels TV Specials’ sadly is not suitable for admission, however, by applying through clearing you may be suitable for a selection of Liberal Arts courses.”
“Or, you may wish to resubmit next year by tying your letter to an owl (猫头鹰) and hoping for the best.
“On behalf of UCAS I wish you every success.”
33. What do we know about the underlined word “Wandology” according to the passage?
A. It is a course that is highly in demand in universities.
B. It is a course that does not exist now in real life.
C. It is a course that can be applied by anyone.
D. It is a course that is forbidden by UCAS.
34. What can be inferred in the UCAS’s reply?
A. Applying for a university is the hardest thing even in the best times.
B. The young student will probably start to raise an owl for the next year.
C. UCAS may approve the young student’s application for Liberal Arts courses.
D. In the end the young student succeeded in applying for Hogwarts University.
35. Where may this passage be found?
A. In a magic magazine. B. In a history book.
C. In a science fiction. D. In a newspaper.

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。  
Cats are the most popular pets among Americans. 36 .
Some cats like to catch small birds, like canaries (金丝雀). If someone looks very proud or satisfied with himself or herself, we say he or she looks like “the cat that ate the canary”.
37 . So if you “play cat and mouse” with someone, you change between different kinds of behavior when dealing with another person. For example, a child might offer something sweet to her little brother and then take it away when he reaches for it.
One old and funny expression describes something that is the best. Americans might say that something is “the cat’s miaow (喵)”. 38 . Sometimes people sleep for a short time during the day. This is cal