人教版高中英语选修六高二下学期期中考试英语试题 (5)

高中英语学习材料
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考试时间：2014年4月22日上午8:00—10:00 试卷满分：150分
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。

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. What does the woman mean?
A. The man should help himself
B. The man may use the phone
C. The man should sit at the table
2. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their friend Jane
B. A weekend trip
C. A radio programme
3. Where does the woman want to go on holiday?
A. Turkey
B. Canada
C. Italy
4. In which year is the man in college now?
A. The first year
B. The second year
C. The third year
5. Which musical instrument does Bob have?
A. Drums
B. A guitar
C. A violin
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、7题。

6. What does the man think is the cause of the woman’s illness?
A. Last night’s dinner
B. The hot weather
C. Bottled water
7. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife
B. Doctor and patient
C. Guest and receptionist
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Why is the woman upset?
A. The man didn’t apologize
B. The man didn’t turn up
C. The man didn’t call
9. Who is the man speaking to?
A. A waitress
B. A professor
C. A doctor
10. When will the two speakers see each other?
A. On Tuesday
B. On Thursday
C. On Friday
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where will the man most probably find out about company?
A. In the brochures
B. In the library
C. On the Internet
12. Why will the company ask the man whether he is good for the job?
A. To know how he cares about the company
B. To know what he can contribute to the company.
C. To know if he can make brochures for the company
13. When can the man ask questions about the job?
A. At the end of the interview
B. In the middle of the interview
C. At the beginning of the interview.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. Where are the two speakers?
A. In a dining hall
B. In a hospital
C. In a lecture room
15. What did the man do?
A. He saw a doctor.
B. He took some medicine
C. He had vegetables for lunch.
16. What does the woman think the man should do?
A. Have meals regularly
B. Go to Dr. Kevin’s office
C. Pay attention to his health 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield?
A. They forget about their dreams.
B. They don’t want to tell the truth.
C. They have no bad experiences.
18. Why did Davis stop having dreams?
A. He got a serious heart attack.
B. He was too sad about his brother’s death.
C. He was frightened by a terrible dream.
19. What is Dr Garfield’s opinion about dreaming?
A. It is very useful
B. It makes things worse
C. It prevents the mind from working
20. Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?
A. To sleep better
B. To recover from illness
C. To stay away from their problems.
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每题1分，满分10分）
从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。

21. When your child wakes up in the morning, he should know that his daily ____ includes going
to school, lunch and homework.
A. routine
B. destination
C. requirement
D. conservation
22. It was reported that the government official expressed the deepest ______ to the families of
those killed and injured in this attack.
A. satisfaction
B. substitute
C. symptom
D. sympathy
23. Compared with the generation of our grandparents, who grew up in an age when people were
lack of almost every kind of materials, we should be content with the ____ supply.
A. abundant
B. apparent
C. absurd
D. academic
24.The MH370 incident has cast a giant shadow over travel to Malaysia for many Chinese. Another large travel agency, China International Travel Service Head Office, has seen a ____ drop in consumers signing up for tours to Malaysia
A. shallow
B. sharp
C. suitable
D. secure
25. The central government plans to build a Taiwan community managed _____by Taiwan people
--- and it will also include the right to set their own policies on education, healthcare, social insurance and employment - in order to help them really feel at home.
A. artificially
B. autonomously
C. automatically
D. anxiously
26. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Friday again urged Japan to make serious efforts
for the improvement of the relationship between the two countries and honestly face up to and____ its history of militarist aggression.
A. look on
B. concentrate on
C. reflect on
D. hold on
27. Looking at old photographs of yourself on social websites can improve your mood, and this
finding _______ previous research, which suggested otherwise.
A. consumes
B. contradicts
C. conducts
D. congratulates
28. A charity campaign to offer care to the elderly in our city attracted many participants on
March 5 ----“Learn from Lei Feng Day”, a day _________ to honor the spirit of helping others.
A. set off
B. set about
C. set aside
D. set out
29. To our anger, many poverty-stricken counties build luxurious office buildings instead of
_______ money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.
A. declaring
B. divorcing
C. distributing
D. dragging
30.The furniture, with its modern style and bright colors, suits modern houses and their gardens,
but looks _____ in the garden of a traditional home.
A. out of question
B. out of order
C. out of sight
D. out of place
第二节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。

Night after night, she came to tuck me in (给…掖被子), even long after my childhood years. Following her long-standing custom, she’d 31 and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started 32 me----her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, 33 they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin. 34 , one night, I shouted at her, “Don’t do that anymore ----your hands are too 35 !” She didn’t say anything in reply. But never again did my mother close out my day with that 36 expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts 37 to that night. By then I missed my mother’s 38 , missed her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident 39 very close, sometimes far away. But always it existed in the back of my 40 .
Well, many years have passed, but mother’s rough hands are still doing things for me and my family. She’s been our doctor, 41 into a medicine cupboard for the medicine to 42 us children of our pain. She makes the best food in the world and always keeps our clothes clean.
Now, my own children are grown and gone. Mom no longer has Dad, and on special 43 , I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her. So it was late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand 44 ran across my face to brush the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so gently, 45 my forehead.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I 46 the night my young voice 47 , “Don't’do that anymore----your hands are too rough!”48 Mom’s hand in my hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night. I thought she’d remember, as I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten ---and 49 ---long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the 50 that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
31. A. set down B. put down C. lie down D. lean down
32. A. inspiring B. annoying C. boring D. upsetting
33. A. for B. although C. so D. while
34. A. Gradually B. Certainly C. Finally D. Absolutely
35. A. rough B. tough C. smelly D. dirty
36. A. unexpected B. strange C. familiar D. ridiculous
37. A. dashed B. returned C. wandered D. ran
38. A. kiss B. expression C. hands D. hair
39. A. happened B. turned C. felt D. seemed
40. A. mind B. world C. record D. history
41. A. sliding B. reaching C. touching D. dipping
42. A. operate B. rid C. charge D. prevent
43. A. situations B. conditions C. positions D. occasions
44. A. quickly B. unwillingly C. hesitantly D. roughly
45. A. pressed B. struck C. dropped D. touched
46. A. recalled B. regained C. repeated D. reminded
47. A. complained B. laughed C. criticized D. whispered
48. A. Conducting B. Commanding C. Controlling D. Catching
49. A. ignored B. abandoned C. forgiven D. forbidden
50. A. guilt B. shame C. pity D. sorrow
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Mrs. Goff is a math teacher at Lincoln High School. Mrs. Goff and I met my freshman year. Zach Howe and I were on our way to a baseball game when he said he needed to get his stuff from Mrs. Goff’s room. I had no idea who she was then, but he said she was great. Well, he was definitely right.
Last year, I had a college math class that required me to be in the computer lab, which was located directly behind Mrs. Goff’s room. When I struggled in the section, I would go to Mrs. Goff’s and ask for assistance. She told me that I was a little too dependent and not confident enough in my ability.
A little confidence, combined with effort, will do wonders for anyone in anything. If you go into something thinking negative thoughts, negative things will happen. Mrs. Goff taught me that it was OK to make a few mistakes. Mistakes are a part of everyone’s life. She told me that it is how you learn from them that defines your character. A person that learns from his or her mistakes is more likely to be a successful person in life.
This year, I have spent a lot of time with Mrs. Goff. She really helps me instill(逐渐灌输) confidence in myself and others around me. The encouragement that she has given me made me realize that I can do the same thing for people. Therefore, she has helped my leadership skills and increased my confidence in being outgoing.
Mrs. Goff is a great role model in my life, and I appreciate everything she has done for me. I will never forget the things that she has done for me and the things she has helped me learn and accomplish throughout high school. I hope to be as good a teacher as she and give encouragement that she has for me and all of her students.
51. What can we conclude from the passage?
A. A little confidence may help you achieve what might be impossible.
B. Mrs. Goff is the best math teacher.
C. A teacher determines the fate of a student.
D. The author became successful due to Mrs. Goff.
52. What does the author intend to say in the third paragraph?
A. You are sure to succeed with confidence and effort.
B. Take a positive attitude towards your mistakes.
C. Try to avoid making mistakes in your everyday life.
D. A successful person may make fewer mistakes.
53. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. the author now is working as an excellent teacher.
B. Mrs. Goff has a great effect on the author.
C. the author has made many mistakes at school.
D. Mrs. Goff should have helped the author more.
54. Mrs. Goff spent much time with the author______.
A. to make him realize he can help people around
B. to help him gain more and more confidence
C. to tell him how to give others encouragement
D. to share her experience with him and others.
B
While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.
Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer’s Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked -- remotely -- to prevent Internet searches , and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?
In the battle against cheating, this is the advanced technique and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid(有效的) - that students haven’t just searched the Internet to get the right answers.
Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses." Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.
Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students’ identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used.
Other programs can produce unique exam by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.
55.Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?
A．To correct her typing mistakes.
B．To find her secrets in the room.
C．To prevent her from slowing down.
D．To keep her from dishonest behaviors.
56. For Internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _____.
A．they can attract potential students B．they can defeat academic cheating
C．they offer students online help D．they offer many online courses
57.Some programs can find out possible cheaters by _____.
A．checking the question answering speed
B．producing a large number of question
C．scanning the Internet test question
D．giving difficult test question
58. Which of the following is the best title of this passage?
A．The Advantages of Online Exams
B．The High-tech Methods in Online Courses
C．The Fight against Cheating in Online Education
D．The War against the Booming of Online Education
C
Using too much water or throwing rubbish into our rivers are clear ways that humans can put our water supply in danger, but we also affect our water supply in less obvious ways. You may wonder how paving(铺砌) a road can lead to less useable fresh water. A major part of the water we use every day is groundwater. Groundwater does not come from lakes or rivers.It comes from underground. The more roads and parking lots we pave, the less water can flow into the ground to become groundwater.
Human activity is not responsible for all water shortages. Drier climates are of course more likely to have droughts than areas with more rainfall，but in any case, good management can help to make sure there is enough water to meet our basic needs.
Thinking about the way we use water every day can make a big difference, too. In the United States, a family of four can use 1.5 tons of water a day! This shows how much we depend on water to live，but there's a lot we can do to lower the number.
You can take steps to save water in your home.To start with, use the same glass for your drinking water all day. Wash it only once a day. Run your dishwasher only when it is full. Help your parents fix any leaks in your home. You can even help to keep our water supply clean by recycling batteries instead of throwing them away.
59. Which of the following is most likely to lead to less groundwater?
A. Using river water.
B. Throwing batteries away.
C. Paving parking lots.
D. Throwing rubbish into lakes.
60. What can be inferred from the text?
A. All water shortages are due to human behavior.
B. It takes a lot of effort to meet our water needs.
C. There is much we can do to reduce family size.
D. The average family in America makes proper use of water.
61. The last paragraph is intended to________.
A. show us how to fix leaks at home
B. tell us how to run a dishwasher
C. prove what drinking glass is best for us
D. suggest what we do to save water at home
62. The text is mainly about________.
A. why paving roads reduces our water
B. how much we depend on water to live
C. why droughts occur more in dry climates
D. how human activity affects our water supply
D
The English test will be removed from China’s college entrance exam by 2020, according to details of exam and admission reform revealed by the Ministry of Education. The national college exam, known as the “Gaokao”has been used to evaluate Chinese students for three decades. The Ministry of Education has worked out a plan for reforming exams and enrollment. The Ministry will solicit(征求) public opinions before its release. Instead, tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to ease study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.
The plan and suggestion for its implementation(实施) will be announced in the first half of next year. It will be piloted in selected provinces and cities and promoted nationwide from 2017.
A new exam and admission system will be established by 2020, according to the education ministry.
The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would reduce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.
“The reform shows China is learning from the West to give students more test-taking chances. But more chances might become more of a burden since Chinese students are likely to repeat the test until they get the highest score,” said Cai Jigang, a professor at Fudan University’s College of Foreign Languages and Literature and chairman of the Shanghai Advisory Committee for College English Teaching at Tertiary level.
Yu Lizhong, chancellor of New York University Shanghai, where classes are in English and
students are required to have a high standard of English, said the most important aspect of the reform lay in what to test and how to test.
“As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the college entrance exam,” Yu said. “In a way, English is even more important than before since the test would only serve as reference, while every college and university, even every major, can have different requirements of a student’s English skills under a diverse evaluation system.”
Yu said some students will have their study pressure reduced if the major they choose doesn’t need excellent English while others still need to study hard if they want to be among the best students.
The education ministry said the reform would not affect students attending the college entrance exam over the next three years.
63. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. English will become less and less important in the stage of compulsory education.
B. It has been 30 years since English became one subject of national college entrance exam.
C. China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system is unacceptable at all.
D. The system that tests are held several times does more good than once-in-a-lifetime exam
system.
64. According to the passage, Shanghai educators and parents argue that________.
A. the new exam and admission system will make no difference.
B. English shouldn’t be removed from China’s college entrance exam.
C. the reform may accomplish the very opposite.
D. Western educational system does not apply to China.
65. What does the passage try to express in the underlined sentence?
A. Students needn’t lay a good foundation during the period of high school.
B. Whether students should study English hard may depend on their major.
C. Students can constantly struggle for perfection only in their major.
D. English must be close to full mark.
66. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To advise students not to devote themselves to English.
B. To call on Education Department to remove English from “Gaokao”.
C. To support the act of Ministry of Education
D. To encourage students to do as they have planned.
E
People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behavior are formed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to
explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behavior. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”．
Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme，this theory states that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能)．
Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim t hat our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist, B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviorists' view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behavior.
Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US，for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically lower in status than whites. Behaviorists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
67. This passage is mainly concerned with ________.
A. relation between personality and behavior
B. relation between behavior and environment
C. different accounts of patterns of human behavior
D. different theories of the formation of human behavior
68. The underlined word “proponents” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A. creators
B. advisors
C. advocates
D. judges
69. In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about ________.
A. the considerable influence of the two theories
B. differences between the blacks and whites
C. racial discrimination in the United States
D. different responds to intelligence tests
70. What's the author's purpose in writing the passage?
A. To call our attention to the changes of human behavior.
B. To urge scientists to do more research in social science.
C. To give us a detailed explanation of human behavior.
D. To present an argument in the field of social science.
第四部分：书面表达(共两节，满分50分)
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. I have a very busy life with no time ___________ feeling sorry for myself. (sit)
我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜。

72. By ______________ on her face, Claire knew that her friend thought she was having an affair
with the handsome gentleman. (surprise)
从她脸上的惊奇神色来看，克莱尔知道她的朋友认为她和那个潇洒的绅士有风流韵事。

73. ___________________ that her husband would be sentenced into jail for breaking the laws.
(occur)
她从没想到过她丈夫会因违法而被判入狱。

74. Global warming has become a serious problem, __________________________ more
attention. (pay)
全球变暖已经成为一件严肃的问题，对此我们应该给予更多关注。

75. The doctor recommended that the patient ___________________________ in a clinic right
now. (operate)
医生建议马上在诊所给病人动手术。

76. Every possible means ____________________ but the medicine still doesn’t achieve the
desired effect. (try).
尝试了每一种可能的方法但这种药仍未达到预期效果。

77. My parents lent me the money. Otherwise, I _____________ the journey. (abandon)
我父母借钱给我了。

否则，我就会放弃这次旅行了。

78. Recently she __________________________ her studies that she has no time to take up the
hobby. (occupy)
最近她学习很忙，以至于她没有时间从事她的爱好。

79. Having been blamed for several times, she seems _________________________ her mistakes. (aware)
被责备了好几次，她似乎已经意识到自己的错误了。

80. In fact, it is the mental addiction rather than the physical effects ___________________ to quit smoking. (make)
事实上，让戒烟困难的不是生理上的影响而是精神上的依赖。

第二节: 短文写作(共1题；满分30分)
请根据以下提示，结合你生活中的一个事例，用英语写一篇短文。

V olunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
注意：①无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例；
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。

英语参考答案：
31-50 DBACA CBCDA BBDCD AADCA
51-70 ABBB DBAC CBDD DCBD DCAD
参考范文：
In recent years, the volunteering spirit has spread among the Chinese people, especially among youngsters.
Five years ago, several of my classmates and I once served as volunteers for the Beijing Olympic Games. In that period of time, I helped arrange for the sports courts, translate for foreign athletes and visitors, and sometimes guide them to right places. It delighted me a lot that I had made a contribution to the success of the Games and brought happiness to others.
As high school students, we should get actively involved in voluntary activities. In this way, we can learn how to work well in a team, how to improve our interpersonal skills and organizational ability. Above all, we can benefit others and gain happiness ourselves. So we should take this chance to learn and to grow.
范文(二)：
It’s true that the happiest people are those who help to bring happiness to others. In our daily life, volunteers play an important life in helping people out and inject the society with endless vigor.
Here comes a typical example. I can still vividly remember the Wenchuan earthquake. In a few seconds, the whole city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. Hearing the news, the volunteers from all over the country rushed to the disaster-hit area. They seized every minute to rescue the trapped people regardless of the danger. They also built up shelters for
survivors whose homes had been destroyed and offered medical and psychological help to those in need. With their help, the city began to breathe.
Based on the example, the point I want to say is that volunteers may be ordinary and small, but the power of volunteers is powerful. If everyone of us makes a small contribution, the world will be more beautiful.
听力材料：
(Text 1)
M: Excuse me. Would you mind if I use your phone?
W: Help yourself. It’s on the table over there.
(Text 2)
M: I heard on the radio that it will be sunny during the holiday weekend. Maybe we can take a trip to Boston.
W: That sounds great. I’ll call Jane to see if she’d like to join us.
(Text 3)
M: Are you going on a holiday with your brother again this year?
W: Yes. He is coming home from Canada tomorrow.
M: Where are you going?
W: I’ve already booked a hotel in Turkey. But my brother wanted to go to Italy. So I hope he doesn’t mind.
(Text 4)
W: Hi, are you new here?
M: Yes, I am.
W: Is this your first year in college?
M: No, I am an exchange student from Boston College. I studies for two years there.
(Text 5)
M: Does Jean still play the violin?
W: Yes, she practised it every day.
M: You should be happy then.
W: Yeah. It’s what Bob worried about. He really wants to buy drums, but he thinks we spent all that money on the guitar and he has hardly used it.
(Text 6)
M: Still feeling ill?
W: Yes. That medicine hasn’t helped. Not a good start to our vacation I am afraid.
M: Do you have any idea what caused it?
W: Well, I thought it might be last night’s dinner.
M: But I am fine. Could it be the heat? It’s enough to make anyone ill.
W: I know. But we’ve been here a week now. Anyway, I’ve been careful in the sun and I’ve been drinking bottles of water.
M: Then we’d better stay in the hotel today.
(Text 7)。