英语第二学段期末考试.docx

1、英语第二学段期末考试2014-2015学年高三第二学段期末考试高三英语第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 will the boy do next?A. Finish his math homework. B. Clean his room. C. Help his mother in the backyard.2. What does

2、the man think of himself? A. He deserves a free lunch. B. His salary is not high. C. He works hard.3. When will the party be held? A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.4. Where will the speakers meet? A. In the parking lot. B. Near the front desk. C. In the womans office.5. What will the man p

3、robably do today? A. Have some guests over. B. Go shopping. C. Go to a post office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、7题。6. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a drugstor

4、e. B. In the hospital. C. On the street.7. What will the man do next? A. Pick up something. B. Wait for someone. C. Go back home.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Who is Dan the Bear? A. A fisherman. B. A singer. C. A dolphin trainer.9. What will the woman do before going to the bar? A. Go to the barbers. B. Buy so

5、me clothes. C. Perform onstage. 听第8段材料， 回答第10至12题。10. Who are the speakers? A. Students. B. Teachers. C. Clerks.11. How did the woman feel about her weekend? A. It was exciting. B. It was satisfying. C. It was boring.12. What did the man do on Saturday? A. He played sports. B. He visited someone. C.

6、 He watched movies.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where are the speakers? A. In a supermarket. B. In the mans house. C. In the womans house.14. What did the woman put on the calendar? A. The picture of the community. B. The schedule of community events. C. Interesting stories.15. What is the man worried about

7、? A. Neighborhood safety. B. Shopping convenience. C. Schools in the community.16. Why will there be a party? A. To celebrate a festival. B. To welcome some new people. C. To celebrate a birthday.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do we know about Deep Springs College?A. Its located in a college town. B. It

8、s library is often crowded with students. C. Its school buildings are ancient.18. How many books are there in the library? A. 70000. B. 17000. C. 9000.19. What can teachers at the College expect? A. High salary. B. Peace and quiet. C. Modern facilities.20. What can students at Deep Springs do in the

9、ir spare time? A. Take a walk in the mountains. B. Go to the cinema. C. Watch TV.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, 并在题卡上将该项涂黑。AMother and I start our new life in America. In the morning we travel together to work. Rising at the crack of dawn, I love th

10、e adventure of tiptoeing around in the dark living room where we sleep, whispering to each other so as not to wake Aunt Celia and Uncle Martin in the bedroom, then leaving the house soundlessly and making our way to the subway station in semidarkness. By the time we reach Kings Highway, the rising d

11、ay throws a mysterious light on the empty and quiet avenue ordinarily crowded with human traffic, and on the shuttered(有百叶窗的) storefronts and fruit stands now cozily(舒适的) wrapped in layers of canvas(帆布). There is a sense of mystery-a sense of power-in being here before the rest of the world awakensa

12、s if witnessing the beginning of time.We love travelling together on the subway, Mother and I. Its fun to observe our fellow subway riders, exchange jokes in Hungarian, play guessing games as to their identities, their ages, and their jobs and make bets as to where theyd be getting off.In a couple o

13、f weeks Mother becomes familiar with the train route, and she no longer allows me to accompany her. “But Ill miss the fun of travelling together in the morning,” I protest.“So will I. But it comes at a sacrifice. In order to accompany me, you must rise an hour earlier, losing an hours sleep. You nee

14、d that extra hour of sleep.” Mother is firm, and I have no choice but to comply and regretfully give up on our morning fun.“I hope youll have time to teach me English. Now that I have a job and travel alone on the subway, Ill need to improve my vocabulary. I dont want to depend on you every time I n

15、eed to make a phone call in English, or want to take public transport.”“Okay, madam,” I agree in a happy, joking tone. “How about today? Lets have our first lesson this evening!”Every evening I ask Mother a lot of questions about vocabulary and grammar, and indeed in a couple of weeks she learns eno

16、ugh to do marketing on her own and travel freely by subway.21. Which detail from the text shows that the author is excited about her life in America?A. Her resistance to the growing independence of her mother.B. Her acceptance of why she can no longer accompany her mother.C. Her description of risin

17、g early to ride the subway with her mother.D. Her discipline to work on language lessons every day with her mother22. Which of the following describes the authors attitude towards her mother?A. Supportive. B. Disrespectful. C. Sympathetic. D. Angry.23. The text is most probably taken from _.A. a rev

18、iew of a book B. a book about ones life storyC. a travel magazine D. a handbook for foreigners.BWelcome to the world of multitasking-a place where the measure of a person is how many jobs they can perform at the same time. In fact, if experts are to be believed multitasking is a disastrous idea.One

19、of the opponents(反对者) of multitasking is Dr. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University. “People who multitask frequently are less able to pay attention; they are worse at managing their memory,” he said. In his opinion, the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless in some situations, f

20、or example, part of doing business in the digital world; but you cant do serious work like writing, thinking or solving an important problem this way. You do worse even as you think youre doing better. All the time the research points to a simple fact: the brain cannot cope. When you stop midway thr

21、ough composing a report to check an email, you force your brain to stop and regroup. It is like pressing the pause button during a movie, meaning the film takes longer to watch.And according to Dr. Nass, the problems extend beyond the brain. Young people who frequently multitask are not as socially

22、and emotionally healthy as those who dont. They just feel more emotionally satisfied and the feeling is so good and they are bound to desire it again. Todd Oppenheimer, a writer said, “Weve become a very short-term society and dont reward people for taking a lot of time on something.” He fears we ma

23、y end up losing the next generation of great thinkers. “Its really unfortunate because the long-term challenges of our world-environmental issues, financial issues-require people to think wisely about the long-term consequences of what they do. And its no coincidence that the kind of people who do t

24、hink long-term dont multitask. 24. According to Dr. Nass, multitasking _.A. contributes to memorizing various things B. may result in losing the next generation of great thinkersC. can be performed using digital tools D. makes the performance emotionally affected only25. From the passage, we can tel

25、l _.A. we mistakenly believe that were doing better by switching between tasksB. multitasking does harm to us in every areaC. for every task you add to your multitasking, you can finish your goal more quicklyD. the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless26. Which of the following is a multita

26、sking addict? A. You watch from start to finish without distraction when playing a DVD. B. You have your office desk covered with paperwork from various unfinished projects. C. You feel that when you try to do too much at once, the result always suffers. D. You turn your cell phone to silence when y

27、ou are out to dine with friends.27. The author mainly wants to tell us _. A. it is more efficient to do things all in a mixed way B. it takes longer for us to become a great thinker C. we shouldnt be lazy if we want to accomplish many tasks D. the less you switch, the better you doCHeres a new warni

28、ng from health experts: Sitting is deadly.Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods even if you also exercise regularly could be bad for your health. And it doesnt matter where the sitting takes place at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV just t

29、he overall number of hours it occurs. Several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die.In an editorial published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Healt

30、h Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define physical activity to highlight the dangers of sitting.While health officials have issued guidelines recommending minimum (最少的) amounts of physical activity, they havent suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated po

31、sition.“After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals,” Ekblom-Bak said. She explained that genes regulating (调节) the amount of glucose (葡萄糖) and fat in the body start to shut down.Even for people who exercise, spending long periods of time sitting at a desk is still harmful.

32、Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization, said people who exercise every day but still spend a lot of time sitting might get more benefit if that exercise were spread across the day, rather than in a single bout (一回).Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researchers found people who sat more had a higher