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1、望城一中2015 年下学期高二期末考试试卷 英语 第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，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 1.5 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 are the two speakers? A. In Canada. B. In the US. C. In Mexico
2、. 2. What s the relationship between the two speakers? A. Classmates. B. Friends. C. Brother and sister. 3. What are the speakers mainly discussing? A. Careers. B. Health problems. C. Types of hospitals. 4. When does the man want to go to the library? A. On Saturday. B. On Sunday. C. On Monday. 5. H
3、ow does the woman respond to the man? A. She is disappointed. B. She is impressed. C. She is indifferent. 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. What is the
4、 dogs name? A. Harry. B. Yoda. C. Luke. 7. What is the dog like? A. Young and fast. B. Old and loyal. C. Big and scary. 听第 7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。 8. What does the woman dislike? A. Parties in her house. B. Mozart. C. Coca-Cola. 9. What will the woman do tonight? A. Drink some Coca-Cola. B. Stay with her co
5、usin. C. Move to Japan. 听第 8 段材料，回答第10 至 12 题。 10. What is the first thing you should do before giving a speech? A. Greeting the audience. B. State your name. C. Share some relevant information. 11. How should you speak when giving your name? A. Clearly and loudly. B. Clearly and confidently. C. Con
6、fidently and loudly. 12. What may NOT help you decide on the sort of information you share? A. The audience. B. The subject. C. The environment. 听第 9 段材料，回答第13 至 16 题。 13. When will the man NOT buy flowers for his wife? A. On her birthday. B. On Valentine s Day.C. On April Fools Day. 14. When is the
7、 man s mother s birthday? A. The day before Valentines Day. B. On Valentine s Day. C. The day after Valentines Day. 15. What color does the man choose for his mother? A. Blue. B. Green. C. Purple. 16. Where is the man going next? A. To a bookstore. B. To a supermarket. C. To another flower store. 听第
8、 10 段材料，回答第17 至 20 题。 17. When was the White House completed? A. In 1792. B. In 1800. C. In 1902. 18. Who never lived in the White House? A. Washington. B. Clinton. C. Truman. 19. Which country damaged the White House? A. France. B. England. C. Germany. 20. What did Andrew Jackson do for the White H
9、ouse? A. Added grass. B. Installed running water. C. Added a porch. 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，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。 A When I was nine years old I lived in a small town. I found an ad for selling greeting cards in the back of a childrens magazine.
10、I thought to myself I could do this. I begged my mother to let me send for the kit ( 配件 ). Two weeks later the kit arrived. The next three hours later, I returned home with no card and a pocket full of money shouting, “Mama, all the people couldn t wait to buy my cards!” A salesperson was born. When
11、 I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Ziegler. I remember sitting in the dark hall listening to Mr. Ziegler raise everyones spirits up to ceiling. I left there feeling like I could do anything. When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said, “Dad, I want to make people feel l
12、ike that.” My father asked me what I meant. “I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr. Ziegler,” I replied. A dream was born. Recently, I began pursuing my dream of motivating (inspire) others. I realized that everything I had accomplished the graduate degree, the successful sales career, sp
13、eaking appointments, training and managing for a major fortune 100 company as a senior manager had prepared me for this moment. I told my boss who was a great leader I would leave the company though I might not reach such a height in career. He told me to proceed and he believed I would succeed. Hav
14、ing made that decision, I was immediately tested. One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job. We had recently bought a new home and needed both incomes to make the monthly mortgage (抵押 ) payment and now we were done to no income. I even planned to turn back to my former compa
15、ny, knowing they wanted me to stay but I was certain that if I went back, I would never leave. I decided I still wanted to move forward rather than end up with a mouth full of “if only”s later on. A motivational speaker was born. When I held fast to my dream, even during the tough times, the miracle
16、s（奇迹） really began to happen. In a short time period my husband found a better job. We didn t miss a mortgage payment. And I was able to book several speaking appointments with new clients (客户 ). I discovered the incredible power of dreams. I loved my old job, my workmates and the company I left, bu
17、t it was time to get on with my dream. To celebrate my success I had a local artist paint my new office as a garden. At the top of one wall she marked, “The world always makes way for the dreamer.” 21Why was the kit sent for? A. Selling greeting cards. B. Collecting greeting cards. C. Buying greetin
18、g cards. D. Sending greeting cards. 22When did the author decide to become a motivational speaker? A. After buying a new home by mortgage. B. After giving notice to leave her secure position in the company. C. After finding a job in a major fortune 100 company. D. After listening to Mr. Zieglers ins
19、piring speech. 23What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph? A. Carry on with your dreams and you will be successful. B. Risk everything you have for a dream and you will succeed. C. The world belongs to dreamers. D. Everyone will find their dreams. B London started its first major
20、 bike hire scheme ( 方案 ) on July 30th. Transport For London (TFL), the agency responsible for moving people around Englands capital, put 5,000 bicycles in 400 different places around the city. The idea is to cut traffic, reduce pollution and provide a greener way of getting around London s streets.
21、The scheme had a few small problems on its first day as people could not lock the bikes properly once they had finished riding them. As a gesture of goodwill, London Mayor Boris Johnson announced all rentals (租金 ) on the first day would be free of charge. The bikes are available for free for the fir
22、st 30 minutes but costs go up sharply since then. Renters have to pay $1.60 for the first hour and $78 for 24 hours. The bikes are clearly designed for very short trips. TFL says it sees a “cycle revolution” happening in London. It predicts there will be around 40,000 new cycle journeys every day on
23、 the rental bikes. Mr. Johnson says he wants to see a return to the turn of the 20th century, when 20 per cent of journeys in London were made by bicycle. The scheme has received a lot of positive feedback ( 反馈 ) in the first two days. Many Londoners believe it is a great alternative ( 替代品 ) to Lond
24、ons overcrowded and overpriced trains and buses. One person, Andy Clark, told the Reuters news agency, “It s a great idea. Ive seen it operating in Paris and Barcelona and thought why don t we have one?” The Londonist Blog said the bikes were very strong and were “designed to bear a beating from bot
25、h careless cyclists and drunken people”. 24. What s the main idea of the passage? A. London starts a new bike hire scheme. B. London needs better measures to cut traffic. C. London encourages people to buy bikes. D. London decides to protect the environment. 25. At the beginning of the scheme, there
26、 was some difficulty with the _. A. rental B. time C. distance D. lock 26. Which of the following is NOT the purpose of the bike rental scheme? A. To reduce traffic pressure. B. To protect nature. C. To decrease pollution. D. To make the city beautiful. 27. It can be learned from the passage that _.
27、 A. the bikes are designed for long journeys in London B. it costs nearly $80 to rent one of the bikes for a day C. London is the first city to start the bike rental scheme D. All Londoners approve of the scheme C I would like to suggest that for sixty minutes each evening, right after the early eve
28、ning news, all television broadcasting be banned by law. Let us take a serious look at what the results might be if such a suggestion were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. They might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that
29、 many of our problems everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illnessesare caused at least in part by the failure to communicate. We do not tell each other what is disturbing us. The result is emotional difficulty of one kind or another. By using
30、 the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better. On evenings when such talk is unnecessary, families could rediscover more active entertainments. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together
31、to watch the sunset. Or they might take a walk together and see the neighborhood with fresh, new eyes. With free time and no TV, children and adults might rediscover reading. There i s more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming. Educators report that the generation g
32、rowing up with television can hardly write an English sentence, even at the college level. Writing is often learned from reading. A more cultured new generation could be a product of the quiet hour. At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical (激进的 ). What will parents do without th
33、e electronic baby-sitter? How will we spend the time? But its not radical at all. It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control our free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television, spent partly with radio which at least involved the liste
34、ner s imaginationbut also with reading, learning, talking, playing games and inventing new activities. It wasnt that difficult, honest. The truth is that we had a ball. 28. The authors suggestion can help_. A. people solve emotional problems B. draw people s attention to the evening news C. college
35、students get along well with others D. develop strong neighborhood relationships 29. According to the text, good books _. A. offer as much knowledge as TV does B. are more entertaining than TV C. should be made into films D. cannot be found easily 30. In the authors opinion, life without TV_. A . is
36、 not good for childrens imagination B. will be accepted by more people C. used to be a lot of fun D. is not worth living 31. What would be the best title for the text? A. The future of television B. Turning off TV: a quiet hour C. Saying goodbye to television D. Effects of television on humans D Eng
37、land has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theater written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright(剧作家 ) with several famous plays. Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the m
38、ost famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalog(目录 ) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theaters around the w
39、orld every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Nights Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard and Henry are very famous. Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Ber
40、nard Shaw. Wildes plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more p
41、roductive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw s plays are loved so much that an entire theater company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario. Harold Pinter The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His wr
42、iting was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play, The Room, are extremely well known. 32. The writer wrote this pass
43、age to . A. advise us to spend more time enjoying plays B. explain why England has so many wonderful plays C. tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works D. tell us the differences among some British playwrights 33. What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in co
44、mmon? A. They are all Shakespeares early works. B. They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare. C. They are all Shakespeares famous comedies. D. They all belong to the history category of Shakespeares plays. 34. Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time? A.
45、 The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance. B. Richard and A Woman of No Importance. C. An Ideal Husband and Candida. D. Candida and Betrayal. 35. Who was mentioned in this passage that he had received the Nobel Prize because of his writing? A. William Shakespeare. B. Oscar Wilde. C. George Berna
46、rd Shaw. D. Harold Pinter. 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。 Bedrooms Bedrooms are very important. In fact, you spend one third of your life in yours. This means that you pro bably dont want a boring bedroom. You will not want a bedroom full of so many things that yo
47、u cant get to your bed, or that is painted in your least favorite color. 36 When you are designing a bedroom and you dont know what to do with some space in the corner, you may want to see if you can fit in a desk or a small sitting area. 37 You might want to fill this space to get some more storage
48、(储存 )space or have somewhere to have some privacy. Furniture is not the only thing to consider when you design your bedroom. 38 If you aren t sure what to do, just keep your walls and furniture white, and make sure that little things are also in the same style. 39 You can put up dry erase boards, ch
49、alk boards, and pictures to give your room some style. You may also want to put in a bedside table. Those are great ways to show others some of your favorite photos and lovely toys. Finally, try to find something that adds energy and life to your bedroom. 40 A. You also need to consider color. B. You could also put in a bookshelf to create space. C. Besides, you might have some wall space to use up. D. This means you will need to