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横峰中学2015-2016学年度下学期期中考试
高二年级 英语试题
命题人： 汪莹 考试用时：150分钟 总分：150分

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. What does the woman think of keeping pets?
A. It will bring her a lot of happiness.
B. It will mess up the house.
C. It is a waste of time.
2. What do we know about the man?
A. He will take a test next Monday.
B.He has passed his driving test.
C. He failed the road test last time.
3. What is the man doing?[来源:Z|xx|k.Com]
A. Cleaning the room. B.Having a party. C. Preparing some food.
4. What will the man do?
A. Plant some flowers. B. Visit a museum. C.Buy some plants.
5. How does the man feel now?
A. Excited. B. Sad. C. Nervous.
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至第7题。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题
6. What did the man say about the book?
A. He forgot it in New York.
B. He probably left it on a train.
C. He lent it to somebody else.[来源:学*科*网]
7. What did the man do in the past?
A. He didn’t fix the woman’s bike.
B. He damaged the woman’s bike.
C. He crashed the woman’s car.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题
8. What kind of room is available tonight?
A. A single room with a double bed.
B. A single room with a small bed.
C. A double room.
9. How long does the man plan to stay?
A. Three day. B. Two days. C. One days.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题
10. What is the feature of the apartments recommended first?
A. Cheap rent. B. Being close to downtown. C. Nice scenery.
11. Why does the woman prefer an apartment without furniture?
A. She will bring her own furniture.
B. She likes things to be simple.
C. She wants to cut down the cost.
12. Where will the woman choose to live probably?
A. Near Oriental Square. B. On Linquan Road. C. In a quiet suburb.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题
13. When did Aunt Vickie last see the man?
A. Five years ago. B. Four months ago. C. Three months ago.
14. What does the woman think of her husband?
A. He doesn’t like change.
B. He always has good ideas.
C. He has a good taste for art.
15. What color have most of the bedrooms been painted?
A. Light orange. B. Light blue. C. Light yellow.
16. Who did the painting hanging on the wall?
A. Aunt Vickie. B. The man’s sister. C. The woman’s friend.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题
17. Where do most European tourists want to go?
A.Historic battlefields. B. Sunny beaches. C. Big mountains.
18. What is the winter of London like?
A. It is warm. B. It is very cold. C. The days are very short.
19. How many people visit Spain every year?
A. 30 thousand. B. 37 million. C. 13 million.
20. What is the speaker worried about in the end?
A. The environment B. The high cost of travel. C. The bad economy..
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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Could smells affect your lifespan? Female fruit flies(果蝇) without the ability to smell food live longer than other fruit flies. The sense of smell may be connected to the cellular ageing (细胞老化) process in many other living things—even people. Such connection has recently been found in both worms and flies. For example, scientists found that removing fruit flies’ ability to smell made them live nearly 20 percent longer than flies with a sense of smell.
They confirmed that food smells were the ones most likely to affect ageing, as nutrition and lifespan are known to be connected in many living things. To test the idea that food smells affect lifespan, they removed flies’ ability to smell carbon dioxide, which is produced by some fly foods. They left the rest of the smelling system intact.
This action had no effect on male flies, but the females lived 30 percent longer than normal. Removing the ability to smell CO2 may stop flies getting information about food availability. This could mean that food is not enough, causing processes that encourage flies to survive. Scientists found that the female flies stored extra fat and that both males and females immune(免疫) to CO2 were stronger against the stress than normal flies. It is suggested that females may simply be easily influenced by the smells of CO2.
Scientists point out that people don’t know whether ageing and smell are connected in animals and humans. But they clearly experience physical changes after smelling food.
21. From the passage, we learn that what scientists found is to_____________
A. show there is the best way to make lifespan longer
B. tell us we should remove our smell ability to live long
C. show the sense of smell can affect the cellular ageing process
D. explain fruit flies without ability to smell can live longer
22. Scientists do some researches to prove_____________   
A. the immune system of flies to CO2
B. the connections between nutrition and lifespan
C. the importance of food smells to our humans
D. the connections between food smells and lifespan
23. According to scientists’ opinion, we can see that _____________     
A. male flies in general can live longer than female ones
B. flies without ability to smell is encouraged to store extra energy
C. both male and female flies can live longer without the ability to smell
D. flies without ability to smell can also get information about food availability
24. Which of the following best describes the passage as a whole?
A. CO2 has few effects on female flies.
B. The sense of smell might have an effect on living things.
C. The sense of smell is necessary to humans’ health.
D. Female fruit flies can always live longer than male flies.
B
When someone says, “Well, I guess I’ll have to go to face the music,” It doesn’t mean he is planning to go to a concert . It is something far less pleasant, like being called in by your boss to explain why you did this or that , and why you did not do this or that . Sour （刺耳）music , indeed , but it has to be faced .
The phrase “to face the music” is familiar to every American , young and old . It is at least 100 years old . Where did the expression come from ?
The first information comes from the American writer James Fenimore Cooper . He said—in 1851—that the expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings to go on stage . After they got their clue（暗示）to go on , they often said , “It’s time to go to face the music.” And that is exactly what they did —face the orchestra which was just below the stage .
An actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of the audience that might be friendly or perhaps unfriendly , especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out .[来源:Z|xx|k.Com]
So, “to face the music” came to mean : having to go through something , no matter how unpleasant the experience might be , because you knew you had no choice .
The other explanation comes from the army . Men had to face inspection（检阅）by their leader . The soldiers worried about how well they looked . Was their equipment clean—shiny enough to pass inspection ? Still , the men had to go out , and face the music of the band , as well as the inspection . What else could they do ?
25．The phrase “to face the music” was first used by .
A．American actors B．the American writer James Fenimore Cooper
C．all the Americans D．the American orchestra
26． An actor might feel frightened or nervous when going on stage .One of the reasons is
that .
A．his performance might not satisfy most of the audience
B．he might not remember what he should say on stage
C．he had to face the unfriendly audience
D．the audience might be mostly his friends
27． “To face the music” is also used to mean that soldiers were not willing .
A．to be examined about their equipment B．to be inspected by their leader
C．to show themselves by their leader D．to be found weak
28．This passage is mainly about .
A．how to go through difficulty B．how to deal with something unpleasant
C．the origin of the phrase D．the meaning of the phrase “to face the music”
C
One of my favorite things I like to watch is the bloopers (洋相) and outtakes(花絮) that are shown of mistakes made during the making of a movie. Most DVDs have a section of outtakes, and often they will set me off laughing, especially when you know what was supposed to happen.
We all make mistakes, and have many bloopers and outtakes in a lifetime. Some of them may be funny like movie bloopers, a stupid mistake and we are able to laugh at ourselves. Other outtakes in life, however, are not funny. I am referring to the tragic turns of events that happen in life that can turn our life in a moment. Accidents, disaster, the death of a loved one happen unexpectedly, and can greatly affect our lives. These are outtakes we would prefer not to happen or even replayed in our life.
Times of crisis and tragedy can not be prevented, but how you handle these outtakes will affect the rest of your life. There is always a choice in any crisis. We can choose to feel upset, but keep hopes and move forward, or choose to become stuck in the past. We cannot choose our circumstances, but we do have a choice how we respond to them. We can give in or overcome, and our choice will determine our future. When we drive a car our focus is the road ahead; if we spend all our time looking in the rearview mirror(后视镜) failure is more or less inevitable（不可避免的）! The same is true in life. We will fail, or at best remain at a standstill if we keep looking back and focusing on the events behind us, reliving the past.
29. The author mentions the outtakes of a movie in the first paragraph because .
A. he wants to direct us to his topic in a natural way
B. they are part of a movie
C. most people have the hobby of watching them
D. he just wants to tell us a story
30. The outtakes in our life are different from those of a movie because ___________.
A. they are more funny B. they can be avoided
C. not all of them are funny D. they happen more often
31. The purpose of the author is to tell us______________
A. the different kinds of outtakes in real life
B. his funny experience in watching a movie
C. what we should learn from the outtakes in real life
D. to choose the right attitude towards outtakes in life
32. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Outtakes! Give in or overcome?
B. Outtakes will destroy you.
C. There is always a choice in any crisis.
D. Keep hopes whatever happens.
D
If you like travelling, you can go to the following cities.
Marrakech, Morocco
The city is known as the “red city” for its rose-colored buildings. The city’s Medina, an old city, is a really famous place. 1000-year-old monuments(历史遗迹) can be found in Medina. Today, the place is a crowded marketplace with traditional Moroccan goods for sale. Make sure to visit an outdoor theater in the city. Storytellers and musicians perform there.
　Siem Reap, Cambodia
　Visitors can see hundreds of ancient Buddhist temples in and around the town. After a long day at the temples, tourists can enjoy one of the town’s many bars, restaurants and nightclubs. If you go there, you can pay a visit to the Phnom Kulen National Park in Siem Province. The park’s two waterfalls offer great swimming areas.
　Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey’s largest city has one foot in Europe and other in Asia. The city is a great place for history lovers. If you go there, make sure to see Istanbul’s most famous religious buildings: the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque. At night, you can try sailing on the Bosporus Strait. It divides this city into the European and Asian areas.
　Hanoi, Vietnam
　Vietnam’s capital has tree-lined streets, lakes, and some 600 temples and towers. If you go there, don’t miss the Temple of Literature. It was built in the year 1070. You can also enjoy a slow walk down the Old Quarter’s coffee street. Enjoy a cup of local coffee while being there. The peaceful Hoan Kiem Lake is also a nice place to go to. It is one of the prettiest places in central Hanoi.
33. Medina in Marrakech is most likely a nice place for those who love_______.
　 A. watching movies outdoors B. buying expensive dresses
　 C. visiting old monuments D. playing outdoor sports
34. What can you do if you go to the Phnom Kulen National Park?
　 A. Buy traditional goods. B. Swim near a waterfall.
　 C. Visit restaurants and nightclubs. D. See hundreds of ancient temples.
35. What do we know about Istanbul?
　 A. It lies between Europe and Asia. B. It is the largest European city.
　 C. It’s near the Bosporus Strait. D. It’s attractive to history lovers.
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人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
36 When a starving man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when an executive gets a new sports car, visions of country clubs and pleasure beats dance into view.
The many wants of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. 37
The first and most basic level of wants involves food. Once this want is satisfied, a second level of wants appears: clothing and some sort of shelter. By the end of World War II these wants were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. 38 It included such items as automobile sand new houses.
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of wants was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s a fourth level of wants appeared: the “life-enriching” level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction－the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation of the human body－this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called “luxury” items. Among them are vac