重庆一中学年高二下期期中考试 英语.docx

1、重庆一中学年高二下期期中考试 英语秘密启用前 2016年重庆一中高2017级高二下期半期考试英 语 试 题 卷 2016.5 英语试题卷共10页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2.答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3.答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。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

2、。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.How much rent a month was paid at first? A.$ 500. B.$ 200. C.$ 400.2.What does the man mean? A.The new teacher is sick. B.He hasnt met the new teacher yet. C.He didnt want to meet the new teacher.3.What is th

3、e probable relationship between the two speakers? A.Customer and bookseller. B.Student and librarian. C.Teacher and student.4.What does the woman mean? A.The woman should get another job. B.The woman wont have to wait much longer. C.The woman was mistaken.5.What can we conclude from this conversatio

4、n? A.The woman does not want to go to the movies. B.The man is too tired to go to the movies. C.The woman would love to go to the movies.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白，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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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8题。6.Wha

5、t is the mans name? A.Tom Smith. B.Tom White. C.Tom Addison.7.Whats the rate for one person one night? A.$ 49. B.$ 59. C.$ 69.8.When shall the man check out? A.Any time after 11 a.m. B.Any time before 11 a.m. C.Any time after lunch.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9.What does the woman want to do? A.Invite Mr. Black

6、 and his family to have dinner together on Friday. B.Invite Mr. Black to have dinner together on Friday. C.Invite Mr. Black to play chess together on Friday.10.What does Mr. Black plan to do on Friday? A.Play chess with his child. B.Have dinner with his child. C.Play chess with the woman.11.What wil

7、l Mr. Black bring to the dinner? A.Nothing. B.White wine. C.Red wine.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12.What kind of tickets is the man going to buy? A.Movie tickets. B.Concert tickets. C.Museum tickets.13.What kind of tickets is available? A.Front seat tickets. B.Back seat tickets. C.Standing tickets.14.How much

8、does the man pay for the tickets? A.8 pounds. B.16 pounds. C.60 pounds.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15.What is the man looking for? A.The police station. B.A drugstore. C.A bookstore.16.Where is the closest bookstore? A.Next door. B.Next to a drugstore. C.About four blocks away.17.What does the woman suggest th

9、at the man buy? A.A guidebook. B.A police report. C.Anything at a drugstore.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18.What is called a gap year? A.The one-year break between middle school and high school. B.The one-year break between high school and university. C.The one-year break between the third year and the fourth

10、year in university.19.Where will most gap-year students like to go? A.China. B.Austria. C.Australia.20.What is an important part of any gap year? A.To teach English to the locals. B.To do charity work in developing countries. C.To learn about the culture and society of other peoples.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分

11、40分）第一节 （共15小题，每小题2分，共30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D）中选出最佳选项。 A “Lets have a journey. Why not fly out and meet me, Dad?” I say one day.My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thoughts, and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I scre

12、amed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an

13、adventure.He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.“Whats our first stop？” asks my father.“What time is it？”“Still dont have a watch？”Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mou

14、th and eyes open slowly, like those of a little boy.“Unbelievable,” he says. “How was this done？”A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.We stare up and I ask myself, “Would I ever devote my life to a

15、nything？”No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my fathers voice. Now I hear them in my own.The next day were at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.“Did you ever travel with your dad？” I ask.“Only once,” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each

16、 other but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”That last sentence its probably the same thing Id say about my father. And what Id want my child to say about me. In Glacier National Park, my father says, “Ive never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep

17、 traveling, I realize and maybe a regular job wont be as dull as I feared.Weeks after our trip, I call my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says. “Weve got to take another trip like that sometime.”I tell him Ive decided to settle down, and Im wearing a watch.21. We can learn from

18、Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father _.A. was a very fashionable manager B. was unhappy with the authors lifestyle C. got bored with his job so he retired D. liked the authors collection of stamps22. What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore? A. He should pursue a specific aim in life. B. He shou

19、ld learn sculpture in the future. C. His father is as innocent as a little boy. D. His father is interested in sculpture.23. From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author _ A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather B. hopes to give whatever he can to his father C. learns how

20、to communicate with his father D. comes to understand what parental love means24. What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story? A. They decide to learn photography together. B. They begin to change their attitudes to life. C. The call solves their disagreements. D

21、. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer.BHave you ever considered why you begin yawning too when you see someone yawn? Or how hard it is to be among people laughing and not laugh yourself? Well, apparently its because we have mirror neurons (神经元）in our brains.Put simply, the existence of mirror neur

22、ons suggests that every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate it whether or not we actually perform the same action. This explains a great deal about how, we learn to smile, talk, walk, dance or play sports. But the idea goes further: mirror neurons not only appear to explain phy

23、sical actions, they also tell us that there is a biological basis for the way we understand other people.Mirror neurons can undoubtedly be found all over our brains, but especially in the areas which relate to our ability to use languages, and to understand how other people feel. Researchers have fo

24、und that mirror neurons relate strongly to language. A group of researchers discovered that if they gave people sentences to listen to ( for example: “The hand took hold of the ball” ) , the same mirror neurons were triggered as when the action was actually performed (in this example, actually takin

25、g hold of a ball).Any problems with mirror neurons may well result in problems with behavior. Much research suggests that people with social and behavioral problems have mirror neurons which are not fully functioning. However, it is not yet known exactly how these discoveries might help find treatme

26、nts for social disorders.Research into mirror neurons seems to provide us with even more information regarding how humans behave and interact. Indeed, it may turn out to be the equivalent (相等物）for neuroscience of what Einsteins theory of relativity was for physics. And the next time you feel the urg

27、e to cough in the cinema when someone else does well, perhaps youll understand why.25. Mirror neurons can explain _A. why we smile when we see someone else smileB. why we yawn when we see someone else stay up lateC. why we cry when we are hurtD. why we cough when we suffer from a cold26. The underli

28、ned word triggered in the third paragraph probably means “_.A. built up B. broken up C. set off D. cut off27. We can learn from the passage that mirror neurons _.A. determine our knowledge and language abilitiesB. control human physical actions and feelingsC. result in bad behavior and social disord

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