北京市東城區(qū)2015-2016學(xué)年高二上學(xué)期期末考試英語(yǔ)試卷Word版含答案.doc(20211202020313)

1、北京市東城區(qū)2015-2016 學(xué)年上學(xué)期高二年級(jí)期末考試英語(yǔ)試卷本試卷共100 分，考試時(shí)長(zhǎng)120 分鐘。第一部分（選擇題共 67 分）一、聽力理解（共14 小題，每小題1 分，共 14 分）第一節(jié)：聽下面8 段對(duì)話。每段對(duì)話后有一道或幾道小題，從每題所給的a、b、c 三個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。聽完每段對(duì)話后，你將有10 秒鐘的時(shí)間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對(duì)話你將聽兩遍。聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第1 題。1. how are the speakers going to the airport? a. by bus. b. by subway. c. by taxi. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答

2、第2 題。2. what is the boy looking for? a. his wallet. b. his jacket. c. the school bus. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第3 題。3. what is the man doing? a. giving advice. b. making plans. c. asking the way. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第4 題。4. what will the speakers probably do on holiday? a. go camping. b. climb mountains. c. go to the seasid

3、e. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第5 至第 6 題。5. what does the boy want to be? a. an engineer. b. a doctor. c. a teacher. 6. what does the boy do best in? a. maths. b. medicine. c. science. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第7 至第 8 題。7. when does the plane take off? a. at 12:00. b. at 2:00 pm. c. at 3:50 pm. 8. why do the speakers want to leave

4、early? a. to meet other passengers. b. to have the baggage checked. c. to have lunch. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第9 至第 11 題。9. who is the american musician? a. helen. b. bob. c. charlie. 10. what is the main character in the book gifted at? a. playing the piano. b. singing songs. c. dancing. 11. when will the man sp

5、eaker probably read the book? a. after class. b. this friday. c. in a week. 聽下面一段對(duì)話，回答第12 題至第 14 題。12. what has the woman been doing recently? a. preparing for a house warming party. b. moving into a new house. c. practising cycling. 13. where does the woman live now? a. close to the man s. b. near

6、the center of the city. c. in the fitgers building. 14. how long does it take the woman to go to work by bike? a. 5 minutes. b. 10 minutes. c. 30 minutes. 二、單項(xiàng)填空（共10 小題，每小題1 分，共 10 分）從各題 a、b、c、d 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳答案。15. although it was hard at first, jane came to enjoy _ as a fashion designer. a. wo

7、rk b. working c. to work d. worked 16. it is well known that _ air and water are harmful to people s health.a. pollute b. polluting c. to pollute d. polluted 17. when i opened the door, i found the ground _ by fallen leaves. a. having covered b. to cover c. covered d. cover 18. only when i reached t

8、he caf, _ it was the same place i had been in last year. a. did i realize b. i realized c. i did realize d. realized i 19. _ tired, i closed my eyes and imagined lying on a beach in the sunshine. a. feel b. to feel c. feeling d. felt 20. it s necessary to be prepared for a job interview. _ the answe

9、rs ready will be of great help. a. having b. had c. have d. have had 21. mr. reed made up his mind to devote all his savings to _ some schools for poor areas. a. set up b. having set up c. have set up d. setting up 22. i had never expected to get the job. i was really amazed when i _ it. a. offered

10、b. was offering c. was offered d. had offered 23. the news that helen won the first prize _ her family and friends. a. challenged b. supported c. defeated d. delighted 24. the teacher along with her students _ the palace museum when we came across her. a. were visiting b. was visiting c. has visited

11、 d. have visited 三、完形填空（共15 小題，每小題1 分，共 15 分）閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從各題a、b、c、d 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳答案。in the animal kingdom, weakness can bring about attack in other animals. this sometimes happens with 25 also. but i have found that my weakness brings out the 26 in people. i see it every day when people hold d

12、oors for me, pour cream into my coffee, or 27 me to put on my coat. and i have 28 that it makes them happy. from my wheelchair experience, i see the best 29 people. last month, when i was driving home on a busy highway, i began to feel unwell and 30 more slowly than usual. people behind me began to

13、get 31 , with some speeding up alongside me, horning( 按喇叭 ) or even shouting at me. at the moment i 32 to do something i had never done in twenty-four years of driving. i put on the car flashlights and drove on at a really 33 speed. no more angry shouts and no more horns! when i turned on my flashli

14、ghts, i was saying to other drivers, “ i have a(n) 34 here. i am weak and doing the best i can. ” and everyone 35 . several times, i saw drivers who wanted to pass. they couldn t get around me because of the 36 of passing traffic. but instead of getting impatient and angry, they 37 , knowing the dri

15、ver in front of them was in some way weak. sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even 38 we don t feel that way. but those seldom happen. more of ten, it would be better if we don t pretend we feel strong when we feel 39 , which can bring out the best in humans. 25. a. humans b. p

16、lants c. animals d. insects 26. a. coldness b. respect c. cruelty d. kindness 27. a. ask b. help c. order d. allow 28. a. argued b. promised c. doubted d. discovered 29. a. in b. for c. to d. from 30. a. cycled b. rode c. drove d. followed 31. a. energetic b. careful c. unfair d. impatient 32. a. pl

17、anned b. decided c. agreed d. forgot 33. a. low b. different c. variable d. top 34. a. chance b. accident c. problem d. danger 35. a. removed b. stopped c. regretted d. understood 36. a. direction b. stream c. light d. size 37. a. waited b. struggled c. cornered d. raced 38. a. although b. because c

18、. when d. since 39. a. healthy b. weak c. confident d. mistaken 四、閱讀理解（共14 小題，每小題2 分，共 28 分）第一節(jié)：閱讀下面短文，從各題a、b、c、d 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳答案。a have you dreamed of building your own machine? do you wish you could invent something new? here we look at a few british inventions of recent times. adaptable glasses do yo

19、u wear glasses? if so, can you imagine life without them? in 1985, joshua silver, a professor at oxford university, asked himself, “ can i invent a pair of glasses that could be changed by the wearer?” he designed two plastic lenses( 透鏡 ) that are filled with a special liquid. the liquid can be chan

20、ged between the lenses until you can see clearly. the glasses are not beautiful but they are easy to use and cheap to make. the wind-up radio when you switch your tv on tonight, think about all those people without electricity. thinking about this, trevor baylis came up with the idea of designing a

21、radio that could be powered by hand. in common with joshua silver he wanted his invention to be cheap and easy to use. the radio has a generator ( 發(fā)電機(jī) ) which is powered by turning a handle. in 1996 it won a bbc design award for best protect and best design. the dyson cleaner in many homes around th

22、e world you can see a cleaner that looks like a spaceship. this is the dyson vacuum ( 真空 ) cleaner which uses something called “ cyclonic separation ” to separate the dirt. you do not need a bag for your cleaner and it does not get blocked so it is very practical. the idea came to sir james dyson af

23、ter he kept having problems with his vacuum cleaner. he decided he could design a better one and in 1993 he opened his own factory. the dyson is now one of the best-selling cleaners in the uk and dyson is believed to have earned over a billion pounds. the zapata fly-board ever dreamed of rising thro

24、ugh the water and jumping high in the air like a dolphin? now you can try a fly-board, built by water sports fan frank zapata. with it you can dive back in the water and out again. it s possible to jump to unbelievable heights out of the waterover 30 feet. the basic fly-board model comes in at 4,200

25、. so keep dreaming and inventing. one day you might get it right. 40. who invented adaptable glasses? a. joshua silver. b. trevor baylis. c. james dyson. d. frank zapata. 41. which invention won an award? a. adaptable glasses. b. the wind-up radio. c. the dyson cleaner. d. the zapata fly-board. 42.

26、who might be interested in the invention of the dyson cleaner? a. those who need radios. b. those who have eye problems. c. those who are fond of diving. d. those who want to use cleaners more easily. 43. what might be the best title for the passage? a. kind inventors. b. cheap inventions. c. creati

27、ve minds. d. future dreams. b when i was a kid, i was just like every other kid. as usual, i liked being with friends and having fun. but i didn t like school much. i didn t like the rule of learning, studying, memorizing, etc. too much work. as i got into high school, things changed for me. i start

28、ed reading a lot of books. books taught me about life and helped me learn about the world. i read around 30 books during each senior year. i learned to love reading then. little did i know at that time that i would write books by myself. i ve written 7 books since then. one book i wrote, powerful at

29、titudes, was a huge success within a network marketing company in the usa. when i was 17 years old, i took about a dozen guitar lessons. i fell in love with guitar music no matter if it is blues, rock, flamenco or classical. i ve attended concerts and have heard some great guitarists through the yea

30、rs. recently, i bought myself a piano and began to learn to play it. i ve made great progress. my knowledge of music and playing guitar has helped me a lot in learning the piano. last week, i employed a chinese teacher to teach me chinese. i ve learned about 200 words in my first week. i m inspired

31、and motivated to learn. in fact, i feel a bit obsessed, thinking of learning chinese. it s like a mountain i want to climb and conquer. i m 56 years old and my love to learn it runs deep in my heart, mind and soul. what i certainly learned while growing up is to love learning. i never want to stop l

32、earning. i never want to stop studying people, life, processes and new things. i think the openness of admitting what you don t know, makes you a good learner. you never lie to yourself or to others about your knowledge and experience. i have the attitude that if i don t know something, i will learn

33、 to know it. 44. what can we learn about the author from the passage? a. he fell in love with reading when he was a child. b. one of his books enjoyed a lot of success. c. he began to love music recently. d. he is good at chinese. 45. what does the underlined word “ obsessed ” mean? a. absorbed. b.

34、satisfied. c. concerned. d. difficult. 46. what is the main idea of the passage? a. learning skills. b. learning methods. c. learning attitudes. d. learning experience. c david cameron mistakenly left his eight-year-old daughter in a pub by herself when he drove off without her, as was reported last

35、 night. the prime minister( 首相 )-who had been enjoying sunday drinks with his family near chequers-only realized his eldest daughter was missing when he arrived back at his official country house. the camerons had been drinking at the plough inn, in cadsden, buckinghamshire, with their three childre

36、n and two other families. as they were to leave, nancy went off to the toilet without telling them. the prime minister was driven back to chequers, which is two miles from the pub, with protection officers in one car. mr cameron thought that nancy was in the car with his wife, while she thought that

37、 their daughter had jumped in with the prime minister. a spokesman for the prime minister last night said he was worried when he realized what had happened. they later confirmed that mr cameron returned to the pub to pick up nancy. “ thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well,”

38、the spokesman said. “ the prime minister went down straight away to get her.”when mr cameron arrived back at the pub, he found his daughter happily helping the owner of the pub. it is understood she had been left by herself for 15 minutes. the spokesman refused to discuss whether mr cameron had drun

39、k alcohol. “ he had gone with friends at lunchtime, with a number of families with children, and they left in various different vehicles. as you know, the prime minister is a very busy man but he always tries to live as normal a life as possible with his family.” he said.last night a pub “ insider”

40、said: “ you d have thought that someone would have done aheadcount or something.”it s not like you can look up david cameron in the phonebook and then r ing to say you ve left your daughter behind. it s frightening that the prime minister of britain can forget something so important as his own daugh

41、ter. 47. what can we learn about the camerons? a. mr cameron drove home alone. b. nancy was left at the pub by chance. c. mrs cameron drove to see her friends. d. the children went to the pub for a party. 48. what can we infer from the last paragraph? a. the british can telephone the camerons easily

42、. b. the prime minister has the design to live a normal life. c. the prime minister s drunk driving annoyed the public.d. the british were shocked at the news about the camerons. 49. where is the passage probably taken from? a. a story book. b. a biography. c. a magazine. d. a newspaper. d the beagl

43、e brigade when returning to the united states from a trip abroad, passengers will have their baggage inspected at u.s. airports by the u.s. department of agriculture s beagle brigade, a team of beagles and their human partners. working with their human partners, the beagles search for agricultural p

44、roducts carrying diseases and pests which are likely to infect american agriculture. an orange or apple, for example, might harbor a mediterranean fruit fly. ham could carry a disease such as cholera. these and other pests could do harm to farmers crops. “ once we introduce something that is not par

45、t of the environment, there may not be any controls for it in the environment,” notes usda s lisa davis at the national dog detector training center in orlando, florida. “ the best thing for us to do is to prevent it from coming across the border and spreading.”when a beagle smells food smells, it s

46、ignals its partner by sitting there. the human partners then investigate. when the dog is right-which happens 90 percent of the timeit gets something to eat. “ the dog is not out there working,” explains davis. “ it s out there playing. it s a game to the dog. ” the partners give the beagles plenty

47、of food and loving. they make sure they get first-class medical attention, too. when the dogs finally retire after 9 to 11 years, the usda finds caring homes for them. it s a dog s life indeed!their people partners work and study somewhat harder. as specialized quarantine(檢疫 ) officers, most hold de

48、grees in the biological sciences or related sciences. how well does the beagle brigade do its job? “ on the average,” notes davis, “ each year our 54 teams prevent around 75,000, restricted(限制的 ) items.” since even one infected item could cause widespread destruction, that s a great result for ameri

49、cas agricultural environment. 50. the beagles at the airport in the usa are used to _. a. conduct the check on foreign passengers baggageb. stop the local products from being taken abroad c. help inspect the baggage brought from abroad d. keep their people partners safe 51. what will the beagle do w

50、hen it finds a possible food product? a. signal by sitting next to it. b. bark and run around it. c. draw it to its partner. d. play a game. 52. how is the last paragraph mainly developed? a. by listing the restricted food. b. by analyzing the result. c. by providing the facts. d. by using examples.

51、 53. what is the author s attitude towards the use of beagles?a. curious. b. uninterested. c. doubtful. d. positive. 第二部分（非選擇題共 33 分）一、聽力理解（共4 小題，每小題1 分，共 4 分）第二節(jié)：聽下面一段對(duì)話，根據(jù)題目要求在相應(yīng)題號(hào)后的橫線上寫下關(guān)鍵信息。你將有15秒鐘的時(shí)間閱讀試題，聽完后你將有60 秒鐘的作答時(shí)間。這段對(duì)話你將聽兩遍，并將答案寫在相應(yīng)位置。restaurant reservation name richard 1 phone no. 2 tab

52、le requested a table for ten people by the 3 arrival time at 6:30 on new year s evefood requested 4 buffet( 自助餐 ) 二、框詞填空（共7 小題，每小題1 分，共 7 分）請(qǐng)根據(jù)句意， 選擇方框中的單詞，用其正確的形式填入下面的句子的空白處，并將答案寫在相應(yīng)位置。absorb, intend, accuse, approach, amuse, conclude, thorough 1. this dictionary is _ for senior high students. 2. i

53、t s too cold for children to play outside today, so they have to _ themselves indoors. 3. tony _ julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on the cheek! 4. once my neighbour next door _ me of playing the piano too loudly in my room. 5. having been _ cleaned, the garden looked more beautiful than ev

54、er before. 6. it seems reasonable to _ that people s behaviour is influenced by what they see on tv. 7. he was so _ in reading a novel that he didn t notice his teacher coming up to him.三、完成句子 (共 7 小題，每小題1 分，共 7 分 ) 根據(jù)中文補(bǔ)全句子，并將答案寫在相應(yīng)位置。1. 我不僅聽說過那位女藝術(shù)家，我還親自采訪過她。not only _ the young woman artist, but

55、i also interviewed her in person. 2. 尋找答案，請(qǐng)查閱書的最后一頁(yè)。please _ the last page of the book for answers. 3. 她對(duì)自己過去一年所做的一切非常滿意。she _ what she has done in the past year. 4. 雖然計(jì)算機(jī)有很多優(yōu)勢(shì)，但替代不了人。computers _ people though they have many advantages. 5. 吉姆將在春節(jié)期間來中國(guó)，為的是更多地了解中國(guó)的傳統(tǒng)文化。jim will come to china during th

56、e spring festival _ chinese traditional culture. 6. 多虧有你們的幫忙，那位受傷的司機(jī)被及時(shí)送到醫(yī)院。_, the injured driver was able to be sent to hospital and treated in time. 7. 別在太陽(yáng)下曬太久，你會(huì)被曬傷。_ for too long. youll get burnt. 四、閱讀理解 (共 5 小題，每小題1 分，共 5 分 ) 第二節(jié)：閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題，并將答案寫在相應(yīng)位置。tricks to finding the cheapest flight

57、s travel can be a lifesaver. the right vacation at the right time can refresh your body and mind. but ticket prices are sharply on the rise, many have written off travel as too expensive. however, with a few tricks and a little research, there are still lots of great deals to be had on airline ticke

58、ts. early bird gets the deal. travel experts say that there are certain times of day when more deals are available. airfares can change three times a day as airlines adjust their prices to fill up flights. early morning is when the fares tend to be lowest, but it is a good idea to check every five h

59、ours to track prices as they change throughout the day. also, it s a good idea to check again at 5 pm when the airlines are trying hardest to fill empty seats. what wouldn t a business traveler do? most business travelers fly on mondays and fridays, so tuesday and wednesday are the best days. airlin

60、es will usually lower their prices on these days to aggressively try and fill empty seats. avoid the crowds. fly to popular places at unpopular times. the slowest time of the year for travel is in the fall between labor day and thanksgiving. again, to try and fill more empty seats, the airlines will