人教版高中英语选修八下学期高二期末考试

齐齐哈尔市实验中学2014—2015学年度下学期高二期末考试英语试卷第I 卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一部分听力（共两节，满分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 like collecting best?A. Stamps.B. Coins.C. Train tickets.2. Which country found lovely music is good for people’s hearts?A. America.B. Australia.C. Russia.3. What is the woman eager to buy?A. Ice creams.B. Candy.C. Drinks.4. Where are the two speakers?A. In the bank.B. In the classroom.C. In the supermarket.5. What prevented the woman calling the man yesterday?A. She lost her cellphone.B. Her cellphone was power off.C. Her teacher took her cellphone away.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 is the woman looking for?A. A casual dress.B. A business suit.C. An evening dress.7. What will the woman do next?A. Try on the clothes.B. Bargain with the man.C. Pay for the clothes in cash. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How old is the woman's grandfather?A. 78.B. 79.C. 80.9. What did the woman's grandfather do last winter?A. He went in the hospital.B. He went on a cycling holiday.C. He attended a skiing contest.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What are the speakers arguing about?A. Who to blame.B. Which way to go.C. What transport to take.11. Why did the policeman stop the speakers?A. They took the wrong shortcut.B. They drove beyond the speed limit.C. They went through the red light.12. What was the initial reason for what happened to the speakers?A. The woman didn’t prefer to travel by train.B. The man failed to ask the way.C. The man forgot to book tickets earlier.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the basic purpose of the IQ tests?A. To test who is brighter.B. To test language and numerical ability.C. To judge an individual talents.14. What makes so many unhappy parents in the world?A. Their children being stupid.B. Their children’s failing in the exams.C. Their children’s abilities not being developed.15. Why do some children do badly in school exams?A. They are not good with words and numbers.B. They do not study hard enough.C. They are looked down upon by others in school.16. How can a person be happy?A. Putting your skills to good use.B. Having a higher IQ.C. Doing well in the exams.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the conductor like?A. Anxious.B. Absent-minded.C. Kind-hearted.18. What should Mr. Mora do in Princeton?A. Give a lecture.B. Meet an old friend.C. Visit a university.19. Why must Mr. Mora find the ticket?A. He might be fined.B. He forgot the destination.C. He wrote something important on it.20. What kind of person is Mr. Mora?A. Forgetful.B. Careful.C. Bad-tempered.第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。

ABissel is a small village of the West Sahara. It lies next to a l.5-square-kilometer oasis(绿洲), from where three days and nights are generally required to go out of the desert. However, before Ken Levin discovered it in 1926, none of the Bissel villagers had ever walked out of the desert. Reportedly, they were not unwilling to leave this barren land. Many had previously tried but failed, always somehow finding themselves back at the oasis after several days of trying to walk out.When interviewed by Ken Levin, an expert at the British Royal College of Sciences, the villagers explained that no matter which direction they walked it always brought them back to the village.Why couldn’t the Bissel villagers walk out of the desert? Levin was very puzzled. He had, by himself, managed to walk north from the village and reach the nearest town in three and a half days. He decided to carry out an experiment to solve the mystery. He and a Bissel villager called Argutel, would walk out of the desert together. They prepared enough water for a half-a-month journey and two camels. But this time Ken Levin didn't bring his compass. Levin would follow Argutel.Ten days later, they had walked for about 500 miles but were still in the desert. On the 11th morning, an oasis came into their view. They were back at Bissel. Levin now understood why the Bissel people couldn’t escape the desert. They had no knowledge of the North Star, which had for centuries provided sailors and other travelers with a point of direction. In the desert, if a person goes forward relyingonly on their senses, they will not be able to travel in a straight line. Rather they will travel in a very large circle and eventually track back to where they began. Levin explained to Argu tel the function of the North Star and said, “As long as you rest in the daytime and walk towards the brightest star at night, you would be able to walk out of the desert.” Argutel did as he was told. Three days later, he came to the edge of the desert.Now in the West Sahara, Bissel has become a bright pearl, where tens of thousands of tourists come every year. Argutel’s bronze statue stands in the center of the town. On its base are the words: ___________.21. Villagers in Bissel had never walked beyond the desert because ________.A. they were discouraged by their failuresB. they had a fear of the outside worldC. they had no desire to leave the oasisD. they had no method to find their way out22. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.A. the use of a compass was necessary to walk out of the desertB. tourism in Bissel has been greatly developed and improvedC. Argutel became the leader of Bissel after his returnD. Ken Levin didn’t walk south because it would take more days23.W hich of the following can most probably be found at the base of Argutel’sstatue?A. Where there is a will, there is a way.B. A long journey starts with the first stepC. A new life starts from the fixed direction.D. Two heads are better than one.BThe future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into children’s writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found they were increasingly using Americanisms such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, and flashlight.The stories, written by pupils aged 7 to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often u sed for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”.Television also has a powerful influence on children’s work, with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly.But pupils are let down by basic spelling, punctuation and grammar, according to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP), which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Two’s “500 Words” competition.Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as “does” and “clothes” and often failed to use the past tense correctly, frequently writing “rised” instead of “rose” or “thinked” instead of “thought”.Researchers also found that punctuation was underused, especially semi-colons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. However, exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35,171 examples in total, with some young writers using five at a time！Popular US fiction such as the Twilight novels and films is thought to be fueling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling. Meanwhile, fears that texting was spoiling children’s written work were unfounded, they said, with youngsters only using text language when they were referring to a text message.Samantha Armstrong from OUP said: “Perhaps we are catching a gli mpse of the language of the future.” Chris Evans, whose radio show runs the competition, said the results were “fascinating”, adding: “Who’d have thought that Messi and Gaga would be some of the most used names?”24. Which of the following was NOT frequent ly found in the pupils’ stories?A. A variety of Americanisms.B. Overuse of exclamation marks.C. Names of famous TV stars.D. Text message language.25. What can we infer from the passage?A. American movies and books are increasingly popular in Britain.B. The national writing competition is organised by Oxford University Press.C. Written English is more influenced by classical literature than popular USCulture.D. Lionel Messi is now the most famous footballer in Britain.26. The underlined phrase “unfounded” in Paragraph 7 probably means _________.A. unnoticeableB. not foundC. not based on factsD. unbearable27. The passage is intended to _________.A. share the experience about how to teach written English in a correct wayB. discuss the noticeable changes and evolution of written English in BritainC. criticize the influence of popular US culture on British children’s languageuseD. show that British children have spellings and grammar abilitiesCConsumers everywhere are faced with the same dilemma: given limited resources, what sorts of purchases are most likely to produce lasting happiness and satisfaction? Recent research has confirmed that experiential purchases tend to produce greater enjoyment gains than material purchases.The reason why experiences improve with time may be that it is possible to think about experiences in a more abstract manner than possessions. For example, if you think back to a fantastic summer from your youth, you might easily remember an abstract sense of warm sunshine and youthful exuberant (生气勃勃), but you're less likely to remember exactly what you did day by day.Material possessions are harder to think about in an abstract sense. The car you bought is still a car, that great new jacket you picked up cheap is still just a jacket. It’s more likely the experience of that summer has taken on a symbolic meaning that can live longer in your memory than a possession.Material purchasing may have a negative impact on happiness because consumers often buy “joyless” material possessions, resulting in comfort but not pleasure. In general, people adapt to experiences more slowly than to material purchase. This can be seen in both negative and positive purchases: enjoyment adaptation would result in a positive experience causing more happiness but a negative experience causing less happiness than the comparable material purchase with the same initial happiness level.Experience, however, seems to be more resistant to these sorts of unfavourable comparisons. It is because of the unique nature of experience. It’s more difficult to make an unfavourable comparison when there is nothing directly comparable. After all, each of our youthful summers is different.It’s well established that social comparisons can have a huge effect on how we view what might seem like positive events. One striking example is the finding that people prefer to earn $50,000 a year while everyone else earns $25,000, instead of earning $100,000 themselves and having other people earn $200,000.A similar effect is seen for possessions. When there are so many flat-screen HD TVs to choose from, it's easy to make unfavourable comparisons between our choice and the others available.28. An abstract sense in the passage refers to awareness of something __________.A. you can’t remember wellB. you cannot understandC. you cannot see or touchD. you cannot think about29.If you make an experiential purchase before a material purchase, you may goto__________.A. an exhibition before going to a parkB. a mall before going to a grocer'sC. a market before going to a restaurantD. a theatre before going to a store30. The example of earnings is given to actually indicate__________.A. how people feel contentB. how nearsighted people areC. how people hold prejudiceD. how ridiculous people are31. 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