高二下学期期中考(1)

第一部分听力理解（共三节节,15分）第一节（共4小题；每小题1分,满分4分）听下面4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. What does the woman want to try?A. Ballet.B. Folk dance.C. Ballroom dance.2. How will the woman go to the park?A. By bus.B. By taxi.C. By bike.3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. At a hotel.B. At a store.C. At a clinic.4. What time is it now?A. 5:00pm.B. 6:00pm.C. 7:00pm.第二节（共7小题；每小题17分,共7分）听下面3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。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第5段材料,回答第5至6题。

5. What's the woman doing?A. She is working on her essay.B. She is cooking Chinese food.C. She is searching for tour information.6. Who may have lunch with the two speakers?A. Sunny.B. Cherry.C. Vicky.听第6段村料,回答第7至8题。

7. Why does the man want to pick French?A. It is popular.B. It sounds beautiful.C. It's not difficult.8. Which course will the woman probably take?A. Cooking.B. Painting.C. Fashion design.听第7段材料,回答第9至11题。

9. What is Professor Henderson's main area of research?A. Climate.B. Policy.C. Economics.10. According to Professor Henderson, how can we deal with climate change?A. By taking action from a scientific view.B. By applying low carbon energy systems.C. By having meetings between Russia and USA.11. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. Teacher and student.B. Interviewer and interviewee.C. Manager and secretary.第三节(共5小题;每小题2分,共10分)听下面一段对话, 根据题目要求在相应题号后的横线上写下关键信息,每空只填一词。

这段对话你将听两遍。

Accommodation Application FormName Anu 12Date of birth 30th13 ,1999Nationality 14Interests 15 and sportsTel. number 783-7549第二部分：阅读理解（共两节,35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，共20分）阅读下面短文,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。

APlanning a cruise on a budget often involves searching for the best cruise deals and specials. While it's true that one of the best ways to save on cruises is to choose major lines' seasonal promotional offers, there are other ways to significantly reduce the cost of your trip. You might even be able to enjoy a cruise on as little as $100 a day.We consulted with Colleen McDaniel, senior executive editor of Cruise Critic, to get even more money-saving tips. Read on to discover how you can enjoy cruises for cheap.Purchase an all-inclusive packageAn easy way to rack up(增加) a high cruise bill is by taking advantage of every extra that a cruise line has to offer without knowing which extras are included in the package you've purchased. If you're worried about spending too much on activities, beverages, food and accommodations, book an all-inclusive package, which could help you save money in the long run.Seek unadvertised discountsThough they don't always advertise them, many cruise lines offer special prices for certain groups. Royal Caribbean, for example, extends special pricing on all cruises to airline employees.Call the cruise line to find out if it offers discounts for any groups, employers or organizations you are affiliated with, and you could save up to S100 or more a day on your booking.Use an app to track pricesIf you can be flexible with your travel dates, you might be able to get a great deal on a cruise by using an app like Cruise Critic. The app lets you monitor prices of upcoming cruises and informs you of any major changes on prices as the days go by. If the price on your cruise drops after you've booked, you can contact the cruise line to negotiate the difference. The cruise line might refund you in the form of an onboard credit that you can use for cruise activities and other amenities during your trip.Look for local dealsMany cruise-goers extend their vacations by booking stays and planning activities in port cities before and after the cruise. If this is your plan, save money on dining and adventures by looking for local deals ahead of time.16. According to the passage, who might get unadvertised discounts of Royal Carribbean?A. Senior editors.B. Royal members.C. Airline employees.D. Local cruise-goers.17. The main purpose of the passage is to____.A. advertise a cruise appB. present the advantages of a cruiseC. inform people of what to do on a cruiseD. offer tips on saving money for a cruise trip18. The passage is most probably taken from a ______.A. sailing blogB. science journalC. travel brochureD. finance magazineBThe Power of a NameMy full name is Lily Myunghi M. When my parents gave me this name, they created an important part of my identity that will be part of me forever.My first name, Lily, was inspired by a story my mom heard a long time ago. Some people wanted to get rid of their tiger lilies, so they dug a deep, deep hole and threw the tiger lily plants in. For years, they felt they had succeeded in killing the lilies. But one spring, strong, green stocks rose to the surface. My mom named me Lily because she hoped for a beautiful daughter, who would also be strong and resilient, just like those orange blossomed lily plants.My middle name is Myunghi. My mom, who is of Korean heritage, wanted to honor our Asian roots. The middle name means "clear-eyed girl" in Korean. My parents chose it because they believe life is difficult, and they hoped being "clear-eyed" would help me find my way in the world.However, in English, Myunghi loses its beautiful meaning. It becomes the hesitation on people's faces as they stumble over its mere two syllables(音节). It becomes the surprised expressions of classmates who have never heard a name anything like it before It becomes a blushing(脸红的)little girl, embarrassed by her own name, a name that her parents put so much thought into.When I was younger, I hid my middle name, pre tending it didn't exist. Looking back, I pity the girl who was too ashamed to reveal her full name to anyone.My grandparents were raised in Korea, where parents take great care choosing a name with a meaning that will help their child through life. My grandparents were born into the Japanese Occupation of Korea and assigned Japanese names, which stripped(剥夺) away their cultural identities bit by bit.I've grown to love and appreciate my name. I no longer hide my name, but instead, proudly announce it, since my grandparents could not. I accept this special part of my identity that was chosen especially for me.My full name is Lily Myunghi M. It paints a magnificent picture of unconditional love, hope, and heritage coming together to form a girl. And that girl, is me.19. We can know from the story that tiger liliesA. are strong plantsB. are green stocksC. have white blossomsD. grow in deep holes20. Why did the author try to hide her middle name when she was younger?A. She was ashamed of her Asian roots.B. She felt awkward about her unusual name.C. She felt it difficult to pronounce the name.D She was too shy to fit in with her classmates.21. What does the author intend to tell us?A. A good name brings a bright future.B. Her name helps to keep her identity.C. She appreciates the love from her parents.D. Parents often pick an unusual name for the child.CWhat defines who we are? Our habits? Our tastes? Our memories? I would say it must be my deep-seated sense of right and wrong.And yet, like many other people who speak more than one language, I often have the sense that I'm a slightly different person in each of my languages-more confident in English, more relaxed in French. Is it possible that my moral compass also points in somewhat different directions depending on the language I'm using?Several recent psychological studies suggest that when people are faced with moral dilemmas, they do respond differently when considering them in their native and foreign tongue.In a 2014 paper led by Albert Costa, volunteers were presented with a moral dilemma known as the "trolley problem": imagine that a runaway trolley is dashing toward a group of five people standing on the tracks, unable to move. You are next to a switch that can shift the trolley to a different set of tracks, thereby sparing the five people, but resulting in the death of one who is standing on the side tracks. Do you pull the switch?Most people agree that they would. But what if the only way to stop the trolley is by pushing a large stranger off a footbridge into its path? People tend to be very reluctant(不情愿的) to say they would do this. But Costa and his colleagues found that posing the dilemma in a language that volunteers had learned as a foreign tongue dramatically increased their willingness, from fewer than 20%o of respondents working in their native language to about 50% of those using the foreign one.Why does it matter whether we judge morality in our native language or a foreign one? According to one explanation, such judgments involve two separate and competing modes of thinking—one of these, a quick, gut-level "feeling," and the other, careful deliberation about the greatest good for the greatest number. When we use a foreign language, we unconsciously sink into the more deliberate mode simply because the effort of operating in our non-native language cues our cognitive (认知) system to prepare for strenuous(费力的)activity. An alternative explanation is because our childhood languages change with greater emotional intensity than do those learned in more academicsettings. As a result, moral judgments made in a foreign language are less burdened with the emotional reactions.What then, s a multilingual(多语言的) person' s true" moral self? Is it my moral memories? Or is it the reasoning i'm able to apply when free of such unconscious restrictions? Or perhaps, as the research implies, regardless of how many languages we speak: that our moral compass is a combination of the earliest forces that have shaped us and the ways in which we escape them.22. In the author's opinion, it is your_____that defines who you are.A. habitB. tasteC. memoryD. morality23. In the "trolley problem" study,_______.A. most volunteers agree to pull the switchB. most volunteers attempt to push a stranger off a footbridgeC. 20% of the volunteers choose to shift the tracks of the trolleyD. 50% of the volunteers are reluctant to kill the five people on the tracks24. Researchers find that when faced with a moral dilemma, people______.A. make decisions unconsciously in a foreign languageB. take more time to make decisions in a foreign languageC. learn a lot about academic settings in their native languageD. are more likely to be influenced by emotions in their native language25. Which of the following would he the best title for the passage?A. What is Our True Moral SelfB. How Languages Shape People's PersonalityC. What is the Key Factor in Decision MakingD. How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,共15分)Read the following passage and men answer ne questons.For a More Creative Brain, TravelThere are plenty of things to be gained from going abroad: new friends, new experiences, new stories. But living in another country may come with a less noticeable benefit, too: Some scientists say it can also make you more creative.6 Writers and thinkers have long felt the creative benefits of international travel. Ernest Hemingway, for example, drew inspiration for much of his work from his time in Spain and France. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, moved from the U. K. to the U.S. in his 40s to branch out into screenwriting. Mark Twain, who sailed around the coast of the Mediterranean in 1869, wrote in his travelogue Innocents broad that travel is "fatal to prejudice and narrow-mindedness."In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have begun examining the potential traveling abroad has to affect mental change. In general, creativity is related to how the brain is wired. Neural pathways are influenced byenvironment and habit, meaning they're also sensitive to change: New sounds,smells, languages, tastes, sensations, and sights spark different synapses(突触)in the brain and may have the potential to refresh the mind."Foreign experiences increase cognitive flexibility," says Adam Galinsky, an author of numerous studies on the connection between creativity and international travel. Cognitive flexibility is the mind's ability to jump between different ideas, a key component of creativity. But it's not just about being abroad, Galinsky says: "The key, critical process is multicultural engagement (参与), immersion, and adaptation. Someone who lives abroad and doesn't engage with the local culture will likely get less of a creative boost (促进)than someone who travels abroad and really engages in the local environment.The researchers also found that the more countries CEOS had lived in, the more creative the products tended to be--but only up to a point. Those who had lived and worked in more than three countries, the study found, still tended to show higher levels of creativity than those who hadn't worked abroad at all. but less creativity than their peers who had worked in a smaller number of foreign countries. The authors assumed that those who had lived in too many countries hadn't been able to properly immerse themselves culturally; they were bouncing around too much. "It gets back to this idea of a deeper level of learning that's necessary for these effects to occur," Galinsky says.Cultural distance, or how different a foreign culture is from ones own, may also play a role: Surprisingly, Galinsky and his colleagues found that living someplace with a larger cultural distance was often associated with lower creativity than living in a more familiar culture. The reason for that, they hypothesized, was that an especially different culture might come with a bigger intimidation factor, which may discourage people from immersing themselves in it—and no immersion, they explained, could mean none of the cognitive changes associated with living in another country.Of course, although a new country is an easy way to leave a "social comfort zone," the cultural engagement associated with cognitive change doesn't have to happen abroad. If a plane ticket isn't an option, maybe try taking the subway to a new neighborhood. Sometimes, the research suggests, all that's needed for a creative boost is a fresh cultural scene.Questions 26 to 30.Judge if the following statements agree with the information given in the passage. Choose A for TRUE if the statements agree with it, choose B for FALSE if the statements don't agree with it, choose C for NOT GIVEN if the information the statements carry is not mentioned anywhere in the passage.26. New environment may influence people's mind.27. The more foreign experiences one has. the more flexible one's mind will be.28. People who have lived and worked in two countries show the highest level of creativity.29. A place of completely different culture contributes more to one's creativity than a familiar one.30. A neighborhood of fresh culture is not necessarily a bad choice to boost creativity.Questions 31 to 34.Match the following words with their meanings in the passage. Note that there are four choices more than you need.66. branch67. fatal68. wired69. immersingA. importantB. connectedC. putting into liquidD. extendE. telegraphedF. growG. destructiveH. involving oneself inQuestion 35. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.35. What is the purpose of the passage?A. To show the advantages of traveling.B. To share research findings on traveling.C. To advocate traveling benefits for creativity.D. To suggest an alternative to traveling abroad.第三部分:知识运用(共三节，35分)第一节单项填空(共10小题;每小题1分,共10分)从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。