1516学年上学期高二期末考试英语试题附答案2.docx

1、1516学年上学期高二期末考试英语试题附答案2腾八中20152016学年度高二上学期期末考试英 语 试 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. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At a TV store. B. In a hotel. C. In a restaurant. 2. Wha

2、ts the most probable relationship between the speakers? A. Doctor and patient. B. Customer and waiter. C. Teacher and student. 3. What does the man say about turtles? A. They are cute and start. B. They are ugly and lazy. C. They are noisy and dirty.4. What does the woman mean? A. The man doesnt hav

3、e to move at all. B. She once lived on Victoria Street. C. The mans new apartment is near his school.5. What does the woman advise the man to do? A. Play games on his Ipad4. B. Surf the Internet together. C. Buy an iPad4 this week.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 请听下面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

4、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，每小题将给出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. Why is the woman in the United States this time? A. To visit her friends. B. To have a holiday. C. To do some business.7. Which of the following has the woman planned well? A. The hotels she will stay. B.

5、 The route of her trip. C. The date she will return.听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题.8. How long did the man work in the radio factory? A. For three months. B. For one month. C. For two months.9. Why does the man want to work in the womans company? A. It is the companys busy season. B. He can make a lot of money. C.

6、 He wants to become a skilled engineer.听第8段材料,回答第10至12 题 .10. What do we know about the man? A. He is married. B. He has a four-day vacation. C. He took a trip last summer.11. Why wont the man go to Australia by ship? A. He doesnt have enough time. B. He has booked the plane tickets. C. Going by shi

7、p isnt relaxing.12. What does the man want to visit most? A. Golden Beach. B. Wave Rock. C. The Great Ocean Road.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题.13. How long has the man been feeling ill? A. About three or four days. B. About five or six days. C. About two or three days.14. When did the man give up smoking for the

8、 first time? A. Three years ago. B. Two years ago. C. One year ago.15. What did the man do this morning? A. He took some cough medicine. B. He had some lemon juice. C. He took his temperature.16. How many capsules should the man take each day? A. 3 B. 5 C. 8听第10段材料,回答第17至20题.17.When were the three f

9、ishermen probably rescued? A. In January. B. In August. C. In June. 18. How did the three fishermen manage to survive? A. By eating animals they caught. B. By eating dried food they had brought. C. By eating fish boiled in water.19. How were the three fishermen when they were rescued? A. They were d

10、esperate about their future. B. They were in poor health but in good spirits. C. They were very frightened. 20. What can we learn from the talk? A. The boat the three fishermen took was 25 feet long. B. A Kiribati fishing boat found the three fishermen. C. The three fishermen were blown 5,000 kilome

11、ters off course.第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第一节：.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 Long, long ago, there lived a professor of medicine, who was very strict with his students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee, the students would be in fear, because he was seldom pleased with the ans

12、wers they gave. A student would be lucky enough if he or she could receive a good mark from him. At the end of the term, the students of medicine would take their exam again. Now a student entered the exam room and sat before the committee. This student was a little nervous as he knew it would not b

13、e so easy to get through the exam at all. The professor began to ask. The student was asked to describe a certain illness and his description was OK. Then the professor asked about the cure for the illness, and the student, too, answered just as right. “Good,” said the professor, “and how much will

14、you give the patient?” “A full spoon.” Answered the student. “Now you may go out and wait for what you can get,” said the professor. At the same time, the committee discussed carefully the answers the student had given. Suddenly the student noticed that there was something wrong with his last answer

15、. “A full spoon is too much,” he thought to himself. Anxiously he opened the door of the room and cried, “Mr. Professor , Ive made a mistake! A full spoon is too much for the patient. He can take only five drops. ” “Im sorry , sir,” said the professor coldly, “But its too late . Your patient has die

16、d.”21. The students were afraid of the professor because . A. their answers seldom satisfied him. B. they often angered and disappointed him. C. their answers often astonished him. D. he often misunderstood them and give them bad marks.22.The students description of the illness was . A. not correct.

17、 B. not satisfying. C. accepted. D. completely discouraging. 23. Before he left the room, the student was almost sure that . A. his last answer was satisfying. B. he had made a mistake. C. he had not done well in the exam. D. he had passed the exam, and the only thing was to wait for the mark.24. Wh

18、ich of the following is NOT true? A. The patient will be in danger if hes taken as much as a full spoon. B. Since one spoon is less than five drops, the patient will be all right soon if he takes only one full spoon at a time. C. The doctor will be in trouble if hes given the patient a full spoon. D

19、. If the patient wants to remain safe, he should take no more than five drops at a time. BMake a choice of your One-Day ToursTour ABath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge-37 until 26 March and 39 after that.Visit the city with over 2,000 years of histor

20、y and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stone-henge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.Tour BOxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Marys Church Tower and Ann Hathaways house-32 until 12March and36 after t

21、hat.Oxford: Includes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires(尖端)”from St Marys Church Tower.Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.Tour C-Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampto

22、n Court Palace-34 until 11 March and 37 after that .Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favourite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle( entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this form

23、er royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫) where it easy to get lost !Tour D Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -33 until 18 March and 37 after that.Incl

24、udes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18 century. 25.Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest University city? A. Tour B B. Tour A C. Tour C D. Tour D26. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March? A. Windsor Cas

25、tle & Hampton Court. B. Oxford & Stratford. C. Cambridge. D. Bath &Stonehenge.27. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? A. It used to be a well-known maze. B. It is the oldest palace in Britain. C. It is a world-famous castle. D. It used to be the home of royal families.C In our modern so

26、ciety as more and more people become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remembering less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how. In

27、 a recent study, Professor Betay Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know how the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save

28、 the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it. In another experiment, the researchers gave people f

29、acts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the computer. The information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹). Surprisingly , people later remembered the folder location(位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, the

30、y remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory(交互记忆).” According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is , people are learning how to organize huge quantities o

31、f information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesnt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.28. The passage begins with two questions to . A. show the authors attitude B. introduce the main topic C.

32、describe how to use the Internet D. explain how to store information29. What can we learn about the first experiment? A. The Sparrows team typed the information into a computer. B. The first group did not try to remember the information. C. The two groups remembered the information equally well. D. The second group did not understand the information.30. In trans