湖北省新洲一中、黄陂一中、麻城一中2015-2016学年高二上学期期中联考英语试题 Word版含答案.doc

2017届高二11月联考英语试卷命题人：黄陂一中杜文章审题人：黄陂一中程汉华考试时间：2015年10 月17日14:30-16:30 试卷满分：150 分第一部分听力（共两节30分）第一节(共5小题：每小题1.5分，共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 time is it now ？A.7：00B..7：15C..7：452. What does the woman mean？A. she agrees with the man .B. she doesn‘t agree with the manC. she is not sure about it3. What did the woman do last night?A. she stayed at homeB. she had a date with the manC. she saw a film .4. where does the girl think her father is now ?A. At homeB. At the clubC. At his office5. What‘s Susan Gray‘s job ?A. a writerB. a studentC. a reporter第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面五段对话或独白。

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。

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、7题。

6.What does the man want to find ?A. a cheap hotelB. a cheap houseC. some travelers‘‘ cheques7. When do the banks close?A. at two o‘clock in the afternoonB. at 7 o‘clock in the eveningC. at 7:30 in the morning听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. How many days did they stay there?A.7B. 22C.69. Who caught the most fish?A. BenB. KathyC. Ben‘s father10.Why does Ben not want fish for dinner?A. Because he doesn‘t like fishB. Because he ate too much on his holiday.C. Because his mother doesn‘t want him to eat fish听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. friendsB. classmatesC. neighbors12.How long has Ben been living there?A. a couple of weeksB. three yearsC. seven years13.Why did Maria move to this neighborhood?A. Because it‘s not far from her workplaceB. Because it‘s safe and quietC. Because there is everything she likes听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14.How many hours does Xiao spend training each other?A.2B.3C. 515. How was Xiao feeling when his heart was ―beating really fast ‖inside his chest?A. anxiousB. confusedC. exhausted16. How many Olympic bronze medals has Xiao won?A. 1B.4C..517. Why does Xiao think he will make a great coach?A. He is going to retire in five years.B. He is very knowledgeable .C. He enjoys travelling.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.What is the speaker‘s job?A. a teacher B .a tour guide C. a shop assistant19.What does the bookshop sell?A. Chinese booksB. English booksC. French books20. Which shop is outside shopping center?A. Larp‘sB. Li-NingC. Splend Tea Shop第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分60 分）第一节（共15 小题；每小题 3 分，满分45 分）阅读下列短文，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。

AIt is Saturday afternoon. You and your friends are planning to go to the movies and then spend the night together. Just as you start to get ready, your dad reminds you it‘s your aunt‘s birthday and the whole family is going out to dinner to celebrate. How can this possibly end without a huge argument?One of the greatest sources of tension between teenagers and their famil ies is the struggle to balance individual desires with family expectations. As you are getting older, you are becoming more independent and more interested in being with your friends.However, at the same time, your family is trying to figure out how to de al with these changes. While you once spent most of your free time with your family, now you are often absent from home. Parents may get their feelings hurt. Or they might feel they are losing control of their family during this period. You might feel angr y that so many demands are placed on you.There are a few things you can try to make it a little easier to ease the tension.*Make your plans in advance. Ask your parents if there is anything else planned at that time.*When something with your friends interferes with a family event, try to figure out if there is any way you can do both. In other words, could you spend a little time with each group? Or could you go to the family event and ask if next time you could choose to be with your friends? Or you could try inviting a friend to also join in the family event?*Suggest something you would really like to do with your family. Sometimes parents feel better just knowing their teenager wants to spend time with them.Some of the time you won‘t be happy with th e outcome. You might either have to disappoint your parents or miss out being with your friends. However, if you show consideration for the feeling of both your family and your friends, you can solve the problem in a tender way.21. According to the writer, what brings about arguments between teenagers and theirparents?A. The fact that teenagers like to stay out all day long but don‘t want to stay athome.B. The fact that parents don‘t want their children to stay with their friends.C. Less and less communication between teenagers and their parents.D. The difficulty to strike a balance between friends and family.22. How will parents react when they find their kids don‘t want to stay with them?A．They can understand that their children have to be indepen dent.B．They may feel disappointed about their children.C．They may feel very sad about that.D．They may give their children a good beating.23. Which of the following is NOT the way the writer suggests to solve the problem?A．Ask your parents ahead of time to make sure of your schedule.B．Try to divide your time equally between your friends and family.C．Let your parents know what you like to do with them.D．Refuse your friends or your parents directly.BIdeas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open. People here change jobs and move houses quite often. As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly. So it‘s normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal.On the other hand there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long-term relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business. But when you do get toknow each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.To Americans both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first. On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it‘s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don‘t want to answer.Cross-cultural differences aren‘t just a problem for travelers, but also for the flights that carry them. All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place. This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.Some societies have ‗universalist‘ cultures. These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way.‗Particularist‘ societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the society‘s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.This difference can cause problems. A traveler from a particularist society, India, is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalist culture. The Indian traveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for his family. He expects that the check- in official will understand his problem and will change the rules for him. The check- in official explains that if he was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn‘t be fair to the other passengers. But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don‘t have his problem.24. Often moving from one place to another makes people like Americans and Australians_____.A. like traveling betterB. easy to communicate withC. difficult to make real friendsD. have a long-term relationship with their neighbors25. People like Malaysians prefer to associate with those_______.A. who will tell them everything of their ownB. who want to do business with themC. they know quite wellD. who are good at talking26. A person from a less mobile society will feel it _______ when a stranger keeps talking to himor her, and asking him or her questions.A. boringB. friendlyC. normalD. rough27. Which of the following is true about ―particularist societies‖?A. There is no rule for people to obey.B. People obey the society‘s rules completely.C. No one obeys the so ciety‘s rules though they have.D. The society‘s rules can be changed with different persons or situations.CThe term ―multitasking‖ originally referred to a computer‘s ability to carry out several tasks at one time. For many people, multitasking has become a way of life and even a key to success. In fact, some excellent mental aerobic exercises (大脑训练) involve engaging the brain in two or more challenging activities at a time. Although checking e-mail while talking on a phone and reading the newspaper may be second nature for some people, many times multitasking can make us less productive, rather than more. And studies show that too much multitasking can lead to increased stress, anxiety and memory loss.In order to multitask, the brain uses an area known as the prefrontal cortex (前额叶脑皮层). Brain scans of volunteers performing multiple tasks together show that as they shift from task to task, this front part of the brain actually takes a moment of rest between tasks. You may have experienced a prefr ontal cortex ―moment of rest‖ yourself if you‘ve ever dialed a phone number and suddenly forgotten who you dialed when the line is answered. What probably occurred is that between the dialing and the answering, your mind shifted to anther thought or task, and then took that ―moment‖ to come back. Research has also shown that for many volunteers, Job efficiency declines while multitasking as compared to when they perform only one task at a time.Multitasking is easiest when at least one of the tasks in habitual, or requires little thought. Most people don‘t find it difficult to eat and read the newspaper at the same time. However, when two or more attention–requiring tasks are attempted at one time, people sometimes make mistakes.We often don‘t remember things as well when we‘re trying to manage several details at the same time. Without mental focus, we may not pay enough attention to new information coming in,so it never makes it into our memory stores. That is one of the main reasons why we forget peopl e‘s names---even sometimes right after they have introduced themselves. Multitasking can also affect our relationships. If someone checks their e-mail while on the phone with a friend, they may come off as absent-minded or disinterested. It can also cause that person to miss or overlook key information being passed on to him.28. Why are some mental aerobic exercises designed to engage people in multitasking?A. To make them more productive.B. To reduce their stress and anxiety.C. To develop their communication skills.D. To help them perform daily tasks more easily.29. According to Paragraph 2, why may a person suddenly forget who he has called?A. He may leave his prefrontal cortex temporarily damaged.B. He is probably interrupted by another task.C. He is probably not very familiar with the person he has called.D. He may need a rest between dialing and speaking.30. People tend to make mistake when ____.A. they perform several challenging tasks at a time.B. new messages are processed one after anotherC. their relationships with others are affectedD. the tasks require little thought31. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Multitasking has become a way of life.B. Multitasking often leads to efficiency decline.C. Multitasking exercises need to be improved.D. Multitasking enables people to remember things better.DIn a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.This is the only Ezra Pound poem that many people will read in their lives. Why? One obvious reason is that it‘s just two lines long. The poem, which can be understood as ―A man sees a bunch of faces in the subway and thinks they look like flowers on a tree branch,‖ is an exercis e in shortness. Pound wrote it after having a spiritual experience in a Paris metro (subway) station.In 1916, the US poet originally thought he could best describe his vision in a painting. Unfortunately, he wasn‘t a painter. So he wrote a thirty-line poem, which he didn‘t like. He dropped the long version in the waste bin. Six months later, he wrote a shorter poem, but didn‘t like that one either. Finally, a full year after the experience, he had been reading short Japanese poems called haikus, and he figured he would try this style. The result, which was published in 1913, is one of the most famous and influential works in modern poetry.This poem is one of the monuments of the 20th-century artistic movement known as―Imagism‖. Basically, P ound and his friends thought that images (意象) weren‘t just decoration: they were the highest form of speech. By finding the right image, the poet can express the true, spiritual reality of a thing, which is more important than using a bunch of adjectives to describe its physical appearance. Thus, ―In a Station of the Metro‖ is a poem that consists of one image expressed with absolute exactness and nothing else.To the imagists, the best way to describe an experience is not to use more and more words; the best way is to find exactly the right words. Have you ever told a beloved one that ―words can‘t express‖ how much you love them? Well, Pound would say that you‘re just being lazy. In his view, words can express anything, even if it takes an entire year to find the right ones.32. In the short poem, Ezra Pound _____.A. tells us one of his painful experiencesB. compares the passengers‘ faces to flowersC. describes a man walking among the crowdD. shows a wet, black tree branch in a metro station33. According to the text, ―In a Station of the Metro‖ was _____.A. based on one of Pound‘s paintingsB. first discovered in a waste binC. influenced by haikusD. completed in 191634. Pound and his friends _____.A. stressed the importance of using adjectivesB. were good at describing abstract imagesC. decorated their poems with picturesD. used images to express their ideas35. Pound would probably think one‘s hard efforts to find a single right word was _____.A. a bit ridiculousB. very worryingC. rather surprisingD. really worthwhile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，选项中有两项为多余选项。