四川省彭州市五校联考2015-2016学年高二英语下学期期中试题

2015-2016学年度下学期半期5校联考英语试题
考试时间：120分钟总分：150分
一、听力(听力)（共20小题；共30分）
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. What does the woman want to do?
A. Walk indoors.
B. Go shopping.
C. Walk by the water.
2. Where is the man going?
A. City Hall.
B. The train station.
C. The Children' s Museum.
3. What did the woman learn?
A. She worked badly.
B. She shouldn't lie to her parents.
C. Lying doesn't usually work.
4. How does the woman feel about the man and his cat?
A. A little unhappy.
B. Extremely angry.
C. Understanding.
5. Why did the man invite the woman to the restaurant?
A. She loves to eat meat.
B. She loves to try new things.
C. The restaurant has great vegetarian food.
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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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. According to the man, how often should shoes be replaced?
A. Every 200 miles.
B. Every 300 miles.
C. Every 500 miles.
7. What is the woman most concerned about?
A. Saving money.
B. Protecting her feet.
C. Buying fashionable shoes.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How does the woman feel about the news?
A. Puzzled.
B. Excited.
C. Worried.
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son.
B. Husband and wife.
C. Brother and sister.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How does the woman feel after hiking up these stairs?
A. She feels so tired.
B. She doesn't feel very tired actually.
C. She feels refreshed.
11. What do we know about the man?
A. He was too tired.
B. He thought he was at the top of the Great Wall.
C. He frank all the water.
12. What was the weather like this morning in the city?
A. It rained.
B. The air quality was bad.
C. It was a beautiful day.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the necessary condition when the man hires a personal shopper?
A. Filling in the application.
B. Being helpful.
C. Having working experience.
14. How did the woman learn about the job?
A. From a sign in the window.
B. From a website.
C. From a newspaper ad.
15. Why does the woman want the job?
A. She likes to shop for herself.
B. She can help people shop.
C. She wants a challenge.
16. How does the woman feel about the job?
A. Confident.
B. Nervous.
C. Disappointed.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What action have the hospitals taken to prevent thieves from stealing children's toys?
A. To catch thieves.
B. To lock the doors.
C. To chain children's toys.
18. How does Mr. Fidick feel about children's toys being stolen?
A. Indifferent.
B. Annoyed.
C. Embarrassed.
19. Where did the toys originally come from?
A. The hospital.
B. The children's parents.
C. The city of Glasgow.
20. What did the hospital spokesman advise visitors and the staff to do?
A. Be careful.
B. Limit visitors.
C. Add extra security.
二、阅读理解（共15小题；共30分）
A
I went to Arizona earlier this month to see what the college of the future might look like. What I found is an exciting new era of higher education that will help more students get a great, personalized education at an affordable price. This future may not always include the lecture halls, dormitories, and other features of the traditional college experience. Instead, the colleges I visited are experimenting with ways for students to get their degrees online, allowing them to take courses any place and at any time.
These “colleges without walls,” as they are sometimes called, are at the forefront of the effort to broaden access to higher education, especially for low-income students with full-time jobs and families. During my visit, I heard
encouraging stories of students who were taking advantage of these flexible learning models to pursue degrees that could put them on paths to new careers.
One of those students was Shawn Lee. He had a compelling story: After dropping out of college decades ago, he found himself in a series of low-paying, often back-breaking jobs. He recently decided to get his degree when he had his first child and wanted to start building a better life.
Tucked away in an industrial park in Tempe, Ri o Salado didn’t look much like a traditional institute of higher education. There were no students running to class. Just a couple of glass-faced office buildings. The college had just 22 full-time faculty serving 60,000 students, with more than half of them attending classes online.
Several students I met during my visit said they liked learning online. “I’ve taken college classes in a big auditorium with herds of people. There was no personal connection,” one student said. “Now I can reach my teacher with the click of a mouse.”
After several days’ visit, I left Arizona feeling quite optimistic about what the future holds for higher education.
21. What does “colleges without walls” in the third paragraph refer to?
A. Colleges that have no walls around.
B. Colleges that students attend online .
C. Colleges that can be entered freely.
D. Colleges that give students more freedom.
22. What made Shawn Lee return to attend college again ?
A. That he has nothing to do.
B. That h e couldn’t find a job.
C. That the cost of the college is low.
D. That he wanted to find a better job.
23. How did the writer feel after the visit ?
A. Hopeful.
B. Dissatisfied.
C. Disappointed .
D. Upset.
24. What is the writer’s purpose by writing this passage?
A. To explain what “colleges without walls” are.
B. To advertise the colleges.
C. To encourage people to attend higher education .
D. To introduce a new model of education.
B
Children' s lives have changed greatly over the last 50 years. But do they have a happier childhood than you or I did?
It's difficult to look back on one's own childhood without some element of nostalgia(怀旧的). I have four brothers and sisters, and my memories are all about being with them, playing board games on the living room floor, or spending days in the street with the other neighborhood children, racing up and down on our bikes, or exploring the nearby woods. My parents scarcely appear in these memories, except as providers either of meals or of severe blame after some particularly risky adventure.
These days, in the UK at least, the nature of childhood has changed dramatically. Firstly, families are smaller, and there are far more only children. It is common for both parents to work outside the home and there is the feeling that there just isn't time to bring up a large family, or that no one could possibly afford to have more than one child. As a result, today's boys and girls spend much of their time alone. Another major change is that youngsters today tend to spend a huge amount of their free time at home, inside. More than anything this is due to the fact that parents worry far more than they used to about real or imagined dangers, so they wouldn't dream of letting their children play outside by themselves.
Finally, the kind of toys children have and the way they play is totally different. Computer and video games have replaced the board games and more interesting activities of my childhood. The irony(令人啼笑皆非的事情) is that so many ways of playing games are called “interactive”. The fact that you can play electronic games on your own further increases the sense of loneliness felt by many young people today.
Do these changes mean that children today have a less relaxing childhood than I had? I personally believe that they do, but perhaps every generation feels exactly the same.
25. What is the purpose of the direct question given in the first paragraph?
A. To show who the passage is written for.
B. To gather people's opinions on childhood.
C. To get people's attention and lead in the topic.
D. To compare the childhood lives of two generations.
26. Which is NOT a reason for the changes?
A. Families are smaller today.
B. It's too dangerous to play outside.
C. Toys can be played by children alone at home.
D. Parents worried too much about their children.
27. What has the writer focused on in the fourth paragraph?
A. Young people today shouldn't play electronic games.
B. Computer and video games have replaced the board games.
C. Some games that young people play today aren't really good.
D. Board games are much more interesting than computer games.
28. The writer's attitude towards the childhood changing is .
A. approving
B. objective
C. unconcerned
D. optimistic
C
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Applicant requirements:
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Contact hours and teaching methods:
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Assessment and examinations:
Assessment for Summer School is based upon the results of either two written examinations, or a final written examination and assessment work. Everyone is required to take the examinations and no exception can be made for any reason.
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29. During the course, .
A. students can learn about everything from culture to science
B. students can choose not to attend the lectur es they don't like
C. world-famous economists will give students lessons every day
D. all the students must take part in the exams without any excuse
30. From the text, we can learn that .
A. the program is specially designed for foreign students
B. NSE Summer School is a university-level program
C. students can change their courses whenever they want to
D. a visa is required to study at the NSE Summer School
31. The purpose of the text is to .
A. attract students to NSE Summer School
B. introduce famous economists to students
C. help students to pass the final exams
D. advertise for new staff for university
D
Can eating a chocolate bar every day really prevent age-related memory loss? No. But a new research shows that large amounts of flavones(黄酮类)substances found in cocoa, tea and some kinds of vegetables, may improve age-related memory failure. Dr. Scott Small is a professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York City. He is the lead writer of a research paper describing the effects of cocoa flavones on brain activity. His study involved 37 volunteers aged between 50 and 69. Researchers gave them a high-level flavones drink made from cocoa beans or a low-level flavones drink. For a period of three months, some subjects got 900 milligrams of flavones a day. The others got 10 milligrams of flavones each day. Brain imaging and memory tests were given to each study subject before and after the study. Dr. Small says that the subjects who had the high-level flavones drink showed much improvement on memory tests.
The researchers warn that more work is needed to be done because this study was performed only on a small group. Dr. Joann Manson is the lead researcher of a four-year study involving 18,000 adults. This study will use flavones capsules(胶囊). The study subjects will be divided into two groups and will take tw o pills per day. The capsules used will all look the same. But one group's capsules will contain flavones, while the other group will take capsules made of an inactive substance, or placebo.
Dr. Manson says it's not necessary for people to start eating more chocolate, because a person would have to eat a huge amount of chocolate to get the same level of flavones given to the lest subjects. He adds many manufacturers have planned to remove the flavones from their chocolate products. Similarly, Dr. Manson says a cocoa-based flavones extract (提取) may be developed in the future. But he says that more studies are needed to see how much flavones is good for our health.
32. What was done to the subjects after Dr. Small's study?
A. They were asked to take a high-level flavones drink.
B. They were given capsules containing flavones.
C. They were given brain imaging and memory tests.
D. They were asked to take two pills of flavones capsules per day.
33. What's the similarity of the 2 experiments?
A. Both use high-level flavones capsules.
B. The number of the subjects is the same.
C. Drinks and placebos are used in both experiments.
D. The subjects are divided into two groups in both experiments.
34. Why will Dr. Manson carry out the four-year study?
A. To prove the first experiment is wrong.
B. To carry out the experiment further.
C. To test how much flavones can improve our memory.
D. To show eating chocolate is better to improve memory.
35. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. It's not necessary for us to eat chocolate.
B. The more we eat flavones, the better our health will be.
C. In the future we can get flavones without eating chocolate.
D. It's easy for people to get the same level of flavones given to the test subjects.
三、短文7选5(5选5等)（共5小题；共10分）
You can take a selfie（自拍） with a hand-held digital camera or mobile phone and later share it on the Internet. 36 According to a recent survey, half of the interviewees admitted to taking a selfie while on holiday. Love them or hate them, selfies show no sign of stopping.
After all, the selfie is the most important way to show off on holiday. 37 How can you take the best holiday selfies? Here are some useful posing tips for you.
◆‘Food chew’style
Want to let everyone know how exciting your holiday food choices are? Hold up some food on your fork or chopsticks. 38 But don’t have food hanging out of your mouth. Remember, food always looks best before being eaten.
◆‘I’m so adventurous’ style
Rock climbing, hiking, surfing, or skiing? These adventurous holiday moments are great for a selfie. 39 One commonly used gesture is spreading out an arm
to show how thrilled you are. But remember that no one likes a sweaty selfie.
◆‘I am cultured tourist’ style
40 You can also try an optical illusion（视错觉）by making it look like you’re holding up the leaning tower of Pisa, touching the top of the Eiffel Tower,
or picking the Sphinx’s nose.
A. Some people have no idea how to take selfies.
B. Just taking a selfie against a famous cultural site makes you look great.
C. Different cultures have different characteristics of food.
D. Everyone has his own way to take the holiday selfies.
E. You can also cut off a piece to show off what’s inside.
F. So selfies have been especially popular over the years.
G. Just let the natural settings（环境）make people go “wow”.
三、完形填空（共20小题；共30分）
There are many principles and values all people live by. The 41 that
I live by is honesty. I have always been taught that lying will just get me into more trouble than I might already be 42 . Being honest is a 43 all people need to have and use to go 44 in life.
Ever since I was a little kid, my parents have 45 me to be honest 46 it is the right thing to do. As I got 47 , I realized something very important that could 48 the way people take me to be a person. If just once
you stop being honest and tell a lie it will 49 change people's opinion
of you and their whole way of acting 50 you. When you tell a lie you lose
that person's 51 forever or have to work your whole life to get it back.
It is my personal 52 to achieve great things in life and honesty
will sure h elp me get there. For me right now losing somebody's trust would be a truly 53 thing. Whatever you do for a living or 54 you live, honesty is something important for all of us.
Honesty gets you much higher in life than getting into more 55 like lying . Lying can 56 get you into trouble dealing with the government. Honesty is just as important to me as my family. Already, I know it is something
that will 57 my future and my relationship with all people. It is something about myself that I hope to never 58 no matter what happens. Most of all honesty will help me no matter whether I'm at school, home or just
59 with friends. It is something 60 I hope my children will also have and appreciate.
41. A. profession B. law C. career D. contract
42. A. in B. into C. on D. onto
43. A. character B. quality C. personality D. speciality
44. A. slowly B. down C. fast D. far
45. A. advised B. made C. taught D. ordered
46. A. in case B. so that C. although D. because
47. A. older B. elder C. stronger D. taller
48. A. accept B. ensure C. change D. exchange
49. A. possibly B. totally C. hardly D. nearly
50. A. like B. toward C. against D. forward
51. A. confidence B. hope C. interest D. trust
52. A. arrangement B. intention C. goal D. purpose
53. A. horrible B. fascinating C. unacceptable D. surprising
54. A. wherever B. whenever C. whichever D. whomever
55. A. questions B. problems C. accidents D. incidents
56. A. surely B. easily C. even D. still
57. A. break B. improve C. destroy D. strengthen
58. A. lose B. meet C. own D. miss
59. A. hanging over B. hanging on C. hanging up D. hanging out
60. A. who B. what C. which D. that
五、补全短文（共10小题；共10分）
Breakfast has been called the most important meal of the day. While every meal counts, the facts are on the table: Eating in the morning 61. (have) positive effects on health and on kids' ability 62. ( learn ). What's the nutritious breakfast? A meal consisting of foods from at least two of the five food groups is the 63. ( healthy ), but the truth is 64. a bite of nearly any food in the morning is better than none, especially when it comes to kids.
It's a good idea to get your child 65. the habit of eating
breakfast before he begins kindergarten. That's because teenagers
66. eat breakfast tend to behave better in school. Hunger makes
it harder to keep your mind 67. ( focus ) on learning, no matter
what your age. In fact, studies show breakfast skippers are often more bad-tempered
and have 68. ( short) attention.
When you forget eating in the morning, blood glucose (血糖) drops. Glucose is
the fuel your cells need to function, so brain cells become particularly lazy when
glucose concentrations(浓度) are insufficient. Without adequate 69. ( energetic ), young minds get gray, blocking concentration and memory. Without the
morning meal, kids are hard-pressed to meet daily nutrient needs, too.
You are probably pressed for time in the mornin g, and 70. are s
your children.
六、短文改错(不分行)（共10小题；共10分）
文中共有10处语言错误，请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

每处错误及其修
改均仅限一词；只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

This afternoon, we hold a class meeting to say goodbye to Zhang Qiang, who
was going to study in abroad. In the beginning, he made a briefly speech to express
his true love for the class and his wish for everlasting friendship with us. We were
all moved to tear. Then came the moment to present him with a special gift, a
heart-shaped board with some photos recorded the unforgettable days when we had spent together. Afterwards, we signed out names on his T-shirt expressing his best wishes.
At last, we had a photo taking to record this precious moment. True
friendship won't be weakening by distance. We'll surely miss him and we all wish
good luck in the future.
七、书面表达（共1小题；共25分）
假如你是李华，你的美国笔友Tom来信说，他因父亲工作变动刚转到一个新学校，很难
融入新的集体，为此感到很苦恼。

请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封信。

要点：1.帮他分析原因；
2.给他提出建议。

注意：1.字数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头与结尾已为你写好。

Dear Tom,
I’m writing in response to the trouble you have_____________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Best regards!
Yours,
Li Hua
2015-2016学年度下学期半期5校联考英语试题参考答案
一、听力
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. B 10. A
11. B 12. B 13. C 14. A 15. B
16. A 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. A
二、阅读
A篇：21. B 22. D 23. A 24. D
B篇：25. C 26. B 27. C 28. B
C篇：29. D 30. B 31. A
D篇：32. C 33. D 34. B 35. C
三、短文7选5
36. F 37. D 38. E 39. G 40. B
三、完形填空
41. B 42. A 43. B 44. D 45. C
46. D 47. A 48. C 49. B 50. B
51. D 52. C 53. A 54. A 55. B
56. C 57. B 58. A 59. D 60. D
五、补全短文
61. has 62. to learn 63. healthiest 64. that 65. into
66. who/that 67. focused 68. shorter 69. energy 70. so
六、短文改错(不分行)
71. hold改为held
72. 删掉in
73. briefly改为brief
74. tear改为tears
75. recorded改为recording
76. when改为that/which
77. his改为our
78. taking改为taken
79. weakening改为weakened
80. good前面加him
书面表达：
Dear Tom,
I’m writing in response to the trouble you have getting along with your new classmates.Don’t be in bad mood. For a newcomer, it’s really hard to start a new life. It may take you a period of time to adapt yourself to it.
However, you have to face it. It will be helpful to communicate with your classmates voluntarily and join in so me social activities. Only by doing this can you get to know more people. What’s more, it may also be a good idea to help others if possible, which can show them you are warm-hearted and friendly.
With time going on, I’m sure your classmates will know you better and like to make friends with you.
Best regards!
Yours,
Li Hua。