广西省桂林市第十八中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 Word版含答案

桂林市第十八中学13级高二下学期期中考试卷英语命题人：蒋芳审题人：张书萍注意：1、本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150 分。

考试时间：120分钟。

答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考号填写或填涂在答题卷指定的位置，将条形码张贴在指定位置。

2、选择题答案用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试题卷上。

3、主观题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在答题卷上作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目指定区域内的相应位置上，超出指定区域的答案无效；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案。

第I卷（共95分）第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一小题，从题中所给的ABC三个选项中选出最佳选项，并在试卷的相应位置。

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 has the woman packed today?A. Trousers.B. Sports shoes.C. A coat.2. What colour is the woman’s new skirt?A. Green.B. Red.C. Blue.3. When will the speakers meet?A. At 2:50.B. At 3:00.C. At 4:00.4. What does the woman think of her computer desk?A. Practical.B. Solid.C. Modern.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. The man’s brother.B. An old house.C. A photo.第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)听第六段材料，回答第6, 7题。

6. What does the man advise the woman to do ?A. Do some exercise.B. Drink more water.C. Take an hour’s break every day.7. What caused the woman’s problem?A. Swimming.B. Playing the violin.C. Using the computer.听第7段材料，回答第8，9题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a hotel.B. In a laundry.C. In a store.9. What will be sent to the man later?A. A suit.B. A newspaper.C. His bill.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man want to buy?A. A camera.B. A computer.C. A mobile phone.11. Why does the woman recommend Scott’s Electronics?A. The prices are reasonable.B. The products are of high quality.C. The shop assistants know much about their products.12. What has the man forgotten?A. The position of a store.B. The starting time of a movie.C. The phone number of a shop assistant.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where is Donny now?A. At home.B. On his way.C. In a cinema.14. Why didn’t Donny answer the phone at 8:00?A. His phone wasn’t on.B. He didn’t hear it.C. He was busy.15. What was Donny doing at 9:00?A. He was buying a ticket.B. He was drinking coffee.C. He was watching a film.16. Why did Donny talk to the manager?A. To make a complaint.B. To apply for a job.C. To get his money back.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How often does the speaker paint now?A. Three days a week.B. Five days a week.C. Every evening.18. What can the speaker buy with the money from selling her pictures?A. A new car.B. Painting materials.C. A modern flat.19. What did the speaker do when she was at primary school?A. She went on painting holiday.B. She learnt to use chalk.C. She drew in pencil.20. What will the listeners do after watching a video?A. Enjoy the beautiful sunrise.B. Look around an art exhibition.C. Have a coffee break.第二部分阅读理解（共20小题，第一节15小题，第二节5小题，每小题2分，满分40分）第一节阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AGood afternoon, and welcome to England. We hope that your visit here will be a pleasant one. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a few of our laws.The first one is about drinking. Now, you may not buy alcohol in this country if you are under 18 years old, nor may your friends buy it for you.Secondly, noise. Enjoy yourselves by all means, but please don’t make unnec essary noise, particularly at night. We ask you to respect other people who may wish to be quiet.Thirdly, crossing the road. Be careful. The traffic moves on the left side of the road in this country. Use pedestrian crossing and do not take any chances when crossing the road.My next point is about litter. It is an offence to drop litter in the street. When you have something to throw away, please put it in your pocket and take it home, or put it in a litter bin.Finally, as regards smoking, it is against the law to buy cigarettes or tobacco if you are under 16 years old.I’d like to finish by saying that if you require any sort of help or assistance, you should contact your local police station, who will be pleased to help you.21. The main purpose of this speech would be to ______.A. give advice to travelers to the countryB. declare the laws of different kindsC. prepare people for international travelD. inform people of the punishment forbreaking laws22. How many laws are there discussed in the speech?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.D. Six.23. From the speech we learn that _______.A. if you are under 18 years old, you may not buy alcohol, but your friend can buy it for youB. you may not buy cigarettes or tobacco unless you are above 16 years oldC. because the traffic moves on the left, you must use pedestrian crossing when crossing the roadD. you can’t make noise except at nightBWhen 24-year-old Hannah Brencher moved to New York after college, she was hit by depression and loneliness. One day she felt so lonely that she wanted to reach out to someone. So she put pen to paper and started writing letters—letters to complete strangers.But these weren’t sad letters about how she was feeling. They were happy letters, all about other people, not her. She would write messages for people to have a “bright day” and tell strangers how outstanding they were, even if they thought no one else had noticed. Brencher began dropping the notes all over New York, in cafes, in library books, in parks and on the subway. It made her feel better, knowing that she might be making somebody’s day through just a few short, sweet words. It gave her something to focus on. And so, the website The World Needs More Love Letters was born.The World Needs More Love Letters is all about writing letters—not emails, but proper, handwritten letters. Not traditional love letters, written to a real beloved, but surprise letters for strangers. The y don’t necessarily say “I love you”, but they are full of kindness—telling people they are remarkable and special and all-around amazing.Brencher’s initiative has now exploded. She has personally written hundreds of letters. Last year, she did a TED talk, in which she talked about a woman whose husband, a soldier, came back after Afghanistan and they struggled to reconnect: “So she leaves love letters all over the house as a way to say ‘Come back to me. Find me when you can.’ ”and then came another story of a man threatening to kill himself on his Facebook page, only to now be in the land of the living, with many love letters under his pillow.The World Needs More Love Letters works on the idea that “A love letter a day keeps the doctor away”. It’s about s haring positive energy, restoring confidence and happiness. There are now more than 10, 000 people from all over the world joining in to write letters to the lonely and depressed, to basically tell them that everything will be okay.24. When feeling lonely, Brencher wrote letters to _____.A. share her sad feeling with strangersB. brighten strangers’ day with kind wordsC. express her wish to have a bright dayD. tell strangers how outstanding she was25. What can we know from Paragraph 3?A. We are in a world that needs more love.B. What the website is about and how it works.C. How the letters work for the needed.D. Everyone needs a surprise letter.26. What can be inferred from Brencher’s TED talk?A. The man asked his wife to look for himB. The man’s wife joined The World Needs More Love Letters.C. The life of the man in the second story has been saved by the love letters.D. The man in the second story has written many love letters.27. In the last paragraph, the underlined sentence means _____.A. love letters can keep you seeing a doctorB. love letters can make a doctor out of workC. love letters can help you become a doctorD. love letters can help you cheer up in spiritsCLONDON—Dozens of British music stars have come together to record a new version of the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” to raise money for the fight against Ebola(埃博拉病毒).Thirty years ago, British musician Bob Geldof brought together dozens of stars under the name Band Aid 30. Their song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” raised $ 11 million for victims of the Ethiopian famine(饥荒).Now he’s done it again. A new generati on of musicians plus a few old faces have recorded a reworked version of the same song to raise money for the fight against Ebola. Geldof says the international community has not given enough to fight Ebola. “They need 20 times that,” he said.The song has topped the charts in Britain. But the Band Aid 30 release has not been universally welcomed in Africa.Several African stars including Salif Keita and Mory Kante have come together under the group name “3D Family” to record an alternative fundraising song titled “Africa stop Ebola ”. All proceeds（筹款）go to the charity Doctors Without Borders.Sung in French and local languages, it urges people to go to a doctor if they are ill—and warns them to avoid touching dead bodies.Among the artists on the track is Senegalese Didier Awadi—who also criticized the Band Aid 30. “we have a problem in Africa, so I come to help the Africans”, said Awadi.Medical experts say the disease has spread so quickly in West Africa because people lack information about how to fight the disease. “Music might change that.” Says Guinean singer Mory Kante, who also appears on “Africa stop Ebola”.“I think that art and culture is the shortest route to communicate with these villagers so that they understand the importance of being able to avoid it.” Said Kante.28. Who set up the Band Aid 30?A. Didier Awadi.B. Mory Kante.C. Salif Keita.D. Bob Geldof29. Geldof recorded a re-worked version of the same song because _____.A. he wants to collect enough money to fight EbolaB. the song has topped the charts in BritainC. he wants to be the angel coming to help AfricansD. the disease has spread so quickly in West Africa30. Which of the following can best replace the underlined phrase in Paragraph 7?A. on the way.B. on the trainC. keep track ofD. singing the song31. What does “it” in the last sentence refer to?A. The Band Aid 30.B. The Ethiopian famine.C. The disease Ebola.D. The song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”DBoys’ schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music. Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity (阳刚), the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop withoutpressure of following that tradition, a US study says.Boys at single-sex schools are said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that help develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they have to follow the “boy code” of hiding their emotions to be a “real man”.The findings of the study are so against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warns that boys are being faded by the British education system because it has become too focused on girls. He criticizes teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.The research argues that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female schoolmates do better earlier in speaking and reading skills. But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys’ learning style, letting them move around the clas sroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, writes the study’s author, Abigail James, from the University of Virginia.Teachers can encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with “boy-focused” approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them. Because boys generally have sharper vision to learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given “hands-on” lessons where they are allowed to walk around. “Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine (女性的) and prefer what centers on violence and sexism, ” James writes.Single-sex education also makes it less likely that boys would feel they have to follow the tradition that men should be “masterful and in charge” in relationships. “In mixed schools boys find themselves pushed to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means,” the study reports.32. The author believes that a single-sex school will _________.A. force boys to hide their emotions to be “real men”B. help to develop masculine aggressiveness in boysC. naturally make boys accept the traditional image of a manD. encourage boys to express their emotions more freely33. It is commonly believed that in a mixed school, boys _________.A. perform relatively betterB. grow up more healthilyC. behave more responsiblyD. receive a better education34. What does Tony Little say about the British education system?A. It fails more boys than girls academically.B. It focuses more on mixed school education.C. It fails to give boys the attention they need.D. It places more pressure on boys than on girls.35. According to Abigail James, one of the advantages of single-sex schools is _________.A. teaching can be tailored to suit the characteristics of boysB. boys can focus on their lessons without being absent-mindedC. boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested inD. teaching can be designed to promote boys’ team spirit第二节根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。