浙江省瑞安中学2015-2016学年高二英语下学期期中试题

瑞安中学2015学年第二学期高二期中考试英语试卷本试卷分第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。

注意：将答案写在答题卡上。

写在本试卷上无效。

第I卷（满分95分）第一部分：听力(分两节，共20小题，每小题1.5分，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 does the conversation take place?A. At a store.B. At a hotel.C. At an airport.2. What does the man mean?A. The woman should make her decision quickly.B. The woman can buy both a pizza and a hamburger.C. He cannot watch the movie with the woman.3. Who will leave for Houston?A. Jim.B. Jim’s brother.C. The man.4. What day is it today?A. Wednesday.B. Thursday.C. Friday.5. What will the man do tomorrow night?A. Go to a folk music concert.B. Go to a jazz concert.C. Watch a film on TV.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至7题。

6. Which transportation does the woman prefer, especially for short journeys?A. The bus.B. The subway.C. The taxi.7. What do we know about the woman?A. She goes to Washington D.C. every week.B. She feels that taxis are too expensive.C. She travels quite a lot in America.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the woman most probably do?A. A teacher.B. A bookstore keeper.C. A hotel clerk.9. When did David want to meet the two speakers?A. At 2:30.B. At 2:45.C. At 3:00.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man want to know about the woman?A. What she is studying at school.B. How many friends she has made.C. How she deals with her course.11. Where is Janice from?A. America.B. South Africa.C. Mexico.12. What does the man want to do after graduation?A. Move to New York.B. Run a hotel.C. Work as a lawyer.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why did the man fall asleep in the library?A. It was too quiet there.B. He was tired of studying.C. He had no idea what he was studying.14. What did the man think of the psychology lesson?A. Confusing.B. Exciting.C. Boring.15. How many women contributing to the American Revolution was the professor askedto name?A. 6.B. 3.C. 12.16. What does the woman think her classmate should have done?A. She should have come down to earth.B. She should have given fewer lectures in class.C. She should have let Professor Rivers save face.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Why did Jerry Meehl say the warm weather was a guilty pleasure?A. People found it easy to do wrong things in warm weather.B. People felt guilty about enjoying such warm weather.C. People knew it’s not good to have such wa rm March.18. What was La Nina?A. A kind of weather pattern.B. Man-made climate change.C. A kind of fossil fuel.19. How many weather stations reported record-high temperatures at night?A. 7,570.B. 7,775.C. 7,517.20. What can we learn from the talk?A. The March temperatures were slightly higher than the records.B. The records for night-time heat were also broken.C. The unusual heat happened only in March.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2. 5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。

AThe teacher who did the most to encourage me was, as it happened, my aunt. She was Myrtle C. Manigault, the wife of my mother’s brother Bill. She taught in se cond grade at all-black Summer School in Camden, New Jersey.During my childhood and youth, Aunt Myrtle encouraged me to develop every aspect of my potential, without regard for what was considered practical or possible for black females. I liked to sing; she listened to my voice and pronounced it good. I couldn’t dance; she taught me the basic dancing steps. She took me to the theatre— not just children’s theatre but adult comedies and dramas—and her faith that I could appreciate adult plays was not disappointing.My aunt also took down books from her extensive library and shared them with me.I had books at home, but they were all serious classics. Even as a child I had a strong liking for humor, and I’ll never forget the joy of discovering Don Marquis’s Archy & Mehitabel through her.Most important, perhaps, Aunt Myrtle provided my first opportunity to write for publication. A writer herself for one of the black newspapers, she suggested my name to the editor as a “youth columnist”. My column, begun when I was fourteen, was supposed to cover teenage social activities—and it did—but it also gave me the freedom to write on many other subjects as well as the habit of gathering material, the discipline of meeting deadlines, and, after graduation from college six years later, a solid collection of published material that carried my name was my passport to a series of writing jobs.Today Aunt Myrtle is still an enthusiastic supporter of her “favourite niece”. Like a diamond, she has reflected a bright, multifaceted(多面的) image of possibilities to every pupil w ho has crossed her path.21.What does Archy and Mehitabel in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?A. A book of great fun.B. A writer of high fame.C. A serious masterpiece.D. A heartbreaking play.22.Aunt Myrtle recommended the author to a newspaper editor mainly to ______.A. develop her capabilities for writingB. give her a chance to collect materialC. involve her in teenage social activitiesD. offer her a series of writing jobs23.We can conclude from the passage that Aunt Myrtle was a teacher who ______.A. trained pupils to be diligent and well-disciplinedB. gave pupils confidence in exploiting their potentialC. emphasized what was practical or possible for pupils.D. helped pupils overcome difficulties in learningBIn New York City public schools, 176 different languages are spoken among the more than 1 million students. For 160,000 children, English is not their first language. New York's Department of Education makes learning better for these students by providing dual-language programs, in which students are taught in two languages, English and another one, like Russian or Chinese. Math, social studies, science and all other regular courses are taught in both languages. And they learn about the culture of the other country.Milady Baez, Deputy Chancellor of English Language Learners and Student Support, says these dual-language programs will help children succeed in the future. “The jobs of the future require that our students know more than one language. They are going to be traveling abroad; they are going to be communicating with people from all over the world. This will open doors for them.”Middle-schoolers might not have jobs on their minds yet. For Kequing Jaing, she likes keeping up her first language, Mandarin. “It makes me feel that I am home because I can talk in Chinese; learn in Chinese, while learning in English. So it makes me feel better and makes me understand more about the task I’m learning.”Anastasia Hudikova came to the United States when she was 2 years old. She says the Russian-English program keeps her connected to her heritage and her parents happy. “They’re really happy about the program. They are really happy t hat I can preserve my culture and my language, and that I can speak it fluently in school.”The New York schools also offer dual-language programs in seven other languages: Arabic, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, Polish and Spanish. There are plans to add even more languages in the future.While these dual-language programs are popular, some organizations in the U.S. say teaching English comes first. U.S. Studies show that children who learn English early will be more successful later.24.Dual-language progr ams in New York aim to __________.A. help the students learn betterB. rid the students of homesicknessC. attract more international studentsD.prevent the students forgetting their culture25.Who may not quite agree with dual-language programs?A. Milady BaezB. Kequing JaingC. Anastasia Hudikova’s parentsD. some organizations in the U.S26. The author writes the passage in order to_________.A. encourage us to learn more languagesB. introduce dual-language programs in New York schoolsC. advertise the dual-language programsD. inspire more students to study in New YorkCThe rise of mobile phones has been blamed for a number of social ills, but your smart phone may also be making you physically sick as well. Scientists have identified a condition called “cybersickness”, which they say is the digital version of motion sickness. The phenomenon, which affects up to 80 percent of the population who own smart phones or tablets, leads to feelings of sickness and unsteadiness. It is caused by seeing fast motion on a screen, which covers anything from a car chase in a film to scrolling through web pages on your phone.The more realistic the visual content appears to you, the higher your chances of gettin g cybersickness are. The condition was identified in a piece in the New York Times in which British and US experts said that it needed solving. Motion sickness leaves sufferers feeling ill because they feel movement in your muscles and your inner ear but do not see it. The mismatch in digital sickness is the opposite—you see movement on the screen but do not feel it. The effect is the same and the symptoms include aheadache, wanting to throw up, confusion and the need to sit down. Often cybersickness shows itself in a subtle way and sufferers put it down to stress or eyestrain.Steven Rauch, a professor of otolaryngology（耳鼻喉科学） at Harvard Medical School, said: “Your sense of balance is different from other senses in that it has lots of inputs. When those inputs don’t agree, that’s when you feel dizziness and sickness. ”Some studies that have been carried out into cybersickness found that women are more susceptible than men, the New York Times reported. Those who have Type A’ personalities—meaning they are confident and determined—are more likely to suffer from cybersickness as well. Among those who have reported experiencing the condition have been video gamers who spend hours playing fast paced games. Engineers at Oculus VR, the virtual headset manufacturer, have admitted that digital motion sickness is one of their biggest problems.27. From the text, we know that cybersickness ______.A. is completely equal to motion sicknessB. affects up to 80% of the population.C. leads to people’s feelings of sickness and unsteadinessD. is caused by seeing fast moving objects around28. What’s the difference between motion sickness and digital sickness?A. Digital sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.B. Digital sickness means sufferers feel movement but do not see it.C. Motion sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.D. Motion sickness means sufferers don’t see or fee l movement29. What does the underlined word “susceptible” in the last paragraph mean?A. likely to acceptB. likely to be affectedC. likely to suspectD. likely to be cured30. This passage is most probably ____________.A. a science fictionB. a newspaper adC. a book reviewD. a science news report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。