高二英语上学期第三次双周练试题

湖北省沙市中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期第三次双周练试题考试时间：2016年10月21日第I卷（选择题共100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罝。

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 did the boy finally get?A. A colorful bike.B. A blue bike.C. A white bike.2. How long does the woman plan to stay?A. About seven days.B. About five days.C. About twelve days.3. What do we know about the man?A. He is making coffee.B. He has a pain in his hands.C. He is busy painting.4. What did the woman do last night?A. She saw a movie.B. She went to her sister’s.C. She watched a football game.5. What time will Cathy go to the party?A. Before seven.B. Around six thirty.C. After seven.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 kind of dress does the lady get?A. A cotton dress Size 9.B. A special dress Size 8.C. A silk dress Size 7.7. How much is the change?A. $10.B. $6.C. $16.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What did the man do during these weeks?A. He rode to the country several times.B. He spent his holidays away from the city.C. He managed to visit the tower.9. How does the man feel about what he’s done?A. He feels regretful.B. He feels content.C. He feels disappointed.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Who is the woman most probably speaking to?A. A passenger.B. A railway man.C. A conductor.11. What do we know about the train?A. It takes half an hour to Sevenoaks.B. It is for long journey travelers.C. It is a slow train.12. What is the woman going to do then?A. To change to another train.B. To give up the journey.C. To buy a ticket for this train.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Husband and wife.B. Son and mother.C. Father and daughter.14. What does the woman tell the man about?A. The big storm.B. The power station.C. The sharp cry in the dark.15. What is the first thing the man is going to do?A. To buy some candles.B. To make a phone call.C. To go back home.16. Which of the following can best describe the woman’s feeling?A. Fearless.B. Helpless.C. Hopeless.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. According to the speaker, how will students feel about the university life at its beginning?A. Excited and fearful.B. Excited and tired.C. Excited and worried.18. What will help the students to become clear about their own goals?A. Walking around the university.B. Understanding the university requirements.C. Getting used to university life.19. Why does the speaker advise the students not to give up learning?A. Because learning can help them understand their own value.B. Because learning can help them improve their life.C. Because learning can help them get university degrees.20. According to the speaker, what is the most important for the new students?A. Fields of learning.B. Results of learning.C. Ways of learning.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，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。

并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

AI am in my father’s house in Connecticut, sitting at a crowded table with my brother, my two sisters and all our partners, talking about a tree.“He doesn’t want it cut down.” My sister says when my father has gone to bed and none of us speaks of the tree in his presence. “He says he used to climb it when he was a boy.”When I was last here, a year and a half ago, for my father’s 90th birthday, Hurricane Irene drove seawater into the roads. The large tree that hangs over the houses swayed (摇摆)alarmingly, but it stayed up.Last October, Hurricane Sandy caused a great deal of damage. Six months on, many of the surrounding houses are on sale, but the tree that hangs over the house still stands.“That tree,” my brother says, “has survived the two worst storms of the last 100 years.”Though my brother thinks highly of the amazing staying power of the tree, my sister says that the tree should never have been planted: it stops light from reaching the house. My other sister’s partner says that all trees fall down eventually. There is plenty of evidence for what he says: throughout the neighborhood, the remains of similarly sized trees lie on their sides, with their roots in the air. During this discussion, I offer to pay a quarter of whatever is required to remove the tree.“A guy I talked to,” my brother says, “told me it could cost us$10,000.”As night wears on, the discussion becomes increasingly meaningless. There is no point in reaching a ny kind of agreement, since the decision is not for us to make. It’s my father’s tree, and he has refused to cut down the only thing in the neighborhood older than him.21. When does the discussion take place?A. After lunchB. After supperC. At the weekendD. Before their father’s 90th birthday22. What can we learn about the two storms that the tree has survived?A. The first storm happened a year ago.B. The second storm lasted for six months.C. The first storm damaged the tree more than the second one.D. They were the two worst storms of the last 100 years.23. What is the author’s opinion about the tree?A. He admires its amazing staying powerB. He thinks it should never have been plantedC. He would like to have it removedD. He wants to sell it for some money24. According to the text, the tree_________A. is more than 90 years oldB. has survived two storms in its lifeC. will fall down after the au thor’s father’s deathD. is the only large tree in the neighborhoodBWith only about 1,000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone the animal and save the endangered species.That's a move similar to what a Texas A&M University res earchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah's Ark”.Noah's Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos(胚胎)，semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen（氮）. If certain species should become extinct, Dr.Duane Kraemar, a professor in Texas A&M University Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.It is estimated that as many as 2,000 species of mammals, birds reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.“The nuclear transfer(核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available(capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem，”Kraemer believes. “They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and it’s difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are cer tainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort,” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A & M, the first–ever attempt at cloning a dog.“They are trying to do something that’s never been done, and this is ver y similar to our work in Noah’s Ark. We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It’s a research that is very much needed.”25. The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to________.A. make efforts to clone the endangered pandasB. save endangered animals from dying outC. collect DNA of endangered animals to studyD. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another26. The underlined word groundbreaking can be interpreted as __________.A. especially newB. pioneeringC. damagingD. trouble- making27. The best title for the passage may be ______.A. China’s Success in Panda CloningB. The First Cloned Panda in the WorldC. Exploring the Possibility to Clone PandasD. China---the Native Place of Pandas Forever28. From t he passage we know that _______.A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dogB. scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a rabbitC. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researchesD. about two thousand species will probably die out in a centuryCMONTREAL (Reuters) ----Crossing the US-Canada border to go church on a Sunday cost a US citizen $10,000 for breaking Washington’s s trict new security (安全) rules.The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and US----which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs station in this area is closed on Sunday, so he just drove around the locked gate, as he had don e every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later, Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally.Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but hehas not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.29. We learn from the text that Richard Albert is _______.A. an American living in a Township 15.B. a Canadian living in a Quebec village.C. a Canadian working in a customs station.D. an American working in a Canadian church.30. Albert was fined because he ______.A. failed to obey traffic rules.B. broke the American security rules.C. worked in St. Pamphile without a pass.D. damaged the gate of the customs office.31. The underlined work “detour” in paragraph4 means ______.A. a drive through the towsB. a race across the fieldsC. a roundabout way of travelingD. a journey in the mountain area32. What would be the best title for the text?A.A Cross-country TripB.A Special Border PassC. An Unguarded BorderD. An Expensive Church VisitDHumans may be a bad influence on their best friends---at least when it comes to problem-solving. In a task that wasn’t very tough, wolves perform ed much better than dogs. All the animals had to do was pull the lid off a food container, containing a sausage treat.Monique U dell studies animal behavior at Oregon State University in Corvallis. She tested 10 pet dogs and another 10 dogs from an animal shelter. In one set of tests, a person was nearby but did not encourage or discourage the dogs. Those dogs typically spent 10 to 15 percent of their time gazing at the person. They spent a mere 5 percent of their time or less touching the container.U dell offered the same challenge to wolves. These animals had been raised and fed by people but still lived outdoors. Here, the wolves didn’t look at the nearby person. Instead, they devoted about 90 percent of the time to struggling with the box holding a treat.When someone walked around the dogs and actively encouraged them to keep trying to open the box, the dogs did spend more time handling the problem. A few more even managed to open the box. But their success rate still did not match the wolves. The dogs and wolves were also tested when no one was present. B ut even then, the dogs didn’t paw or teat the box much more than they did when a human was present.33. According to paragraph 2, how did the dogs perform in the experiment?A. They showed reduced intelligenceB. They found the treat in the box less attractiveC. They found the wolves were dangerousD. They spent more time waiting for help34. What was the effect of encouragement on the dogs?A. It made their success rate improve a lotB. It made them seek less guidanceC. It made them a little more devoted to the taskD. It made them able to compete with the wolves35. What is the main idea of the text?A. How wolves and dogs differ from each otherB. The reason why wolves are dangerousC. Dogs are more relaxed when no one is aroundD. Wolves beat dogs in problem-solving tests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。