高二下英语期末联考试题(含答案)

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）听下面五段对话。

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。

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. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a library.B. At home.C. In a cinema.2. What are the two speakers talking about?A. Paying for tickets.B. Repairing machines.C. Changing notes.3. Why does the woman refuse the man’s invitation?A. She doesn’t like going out with the man.B. She will have dinner with Jack.C. She has to prepare for a plane trip.4. How long has the man been learning French?A. For 5 years.B. For four and a half years.C. For more than five years.5. What can we learn from this conversation?A. The woman is wearing her friend’s dress.B. The woman wore the dress yesterday.C. The speakers are in the same class.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至7题。

6. What is the man’s feeling after his job interview?A. Anxious.B. Hopeful.C. Desperate.7. How many candidates were able to go to the second interview?A. Four.B. Twelve.C. Sixteen听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What will the woman do if the telephone rings?A. Answer the phone.B. Call the man back in.C. Go to the neighbor’s.9. Who will probably phone the man according to the dialogue?A. His friend.B. His father.C. His company. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.When did the woman leave school?A. In 1994.B. In 1995.C. In 1996.11.Why did the woman start running?A. To keep fit.B. To make money.C. To become famous.12.What does the woman plan to do next year?A. Earn more money for a good school.B. Visit Europe with her family.C. Take part in the race in Europe.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.What does the man want to be?A. A pop singer.B. A movie star.C. A great musician.14.How does the man feel about his future?A. Uncertain.B. Light-hearted.C. Very confident.15.When will the man go to find a manager?A. After he moves to London.B. After he takes his last exam.C. After he knows his exam results.16.What will the man probably do at first in London?A. Do part-time jobs.B. Publish his record.C. Earnlots of money.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Why doesn’t the speaker want to go to the mountains this year?A. Because it is not beautiful enough.B. Because he went there last year.C. Because it is a little cold this time and too far away.18. What does the speaker like about the seashore?A. Bathing in the sunshine.B. Swimming in the sea.C. Taking a walk on the sands.19. How can the speaker probably go to the seashore?A. On foot.B. By car.C. By bike.20. What is the speaker probably talking about?A. His plan for the holiday.B. His friend’s hometown.C. The weather in the mountains.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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AOn a cold winter Sunday, the little man came up to me as I was about to enter the telephone box and asked me whether I had a match.“I'm sorry,”I said.“I don't smoke, so I haven't any. You'd better ask someone else.”He looked rather disappointed, hesitated, and then turned away. I watched him walk slowly down the street before I picked up the telephone directory to look up the number I meant to dial. I'm not used to a public call box, so, at my first attempt to get through, the warning pips( 嘟嘟声) had stopped before I realized I had to inserta coin. When I was at last able to speak, I was told that the person whom I urgently wanted to give a message to had just gone out. Swearing slightly under my breath, I got out of the box and came face to face with the little man. As he raised his hat again, I could see he was quite bald, and a thin line, resembling a dueling( 决斗) scar, crossed one cheek.“Excuse my troubling you again.”he said nervously.“May I walk along with you a little way? I must tell you the truth. I need help desperately. ”He had an unusually deep voice which suggested a strange combination of shyness and self-confidence. I was conscious of a fairly strong foreign accent and I wondered what country he had actually come from. I said that I had to catch a train in twenty minutes’time, but that he might accompany me to the station.“I'm going to shock you，”he said suddenly, after a moment's silence.“Can you lend me five pounds? I have no money at all.”I have come across many strange characters during my life and plenty of people have tried to borrow money from me. I have generally managed to avoid lending them any. But, perhaps because of the very directness of his appeal, I somehow had the impression that his need might be desperately urgent.“I'm sorry,”I replied,“I'm afraid I can't lend you anything, as I'm notin the habit of carrying much money about with me. Don't you think the police might be the best people to ask for help?”He hesitated,“I dare not go to the police,”he said quietly. “If I do go, they will have to send me home. That's what I'm afraid of. I don't know what to do. ”He shook his head rather sadly, raised his hat and left me. I caught my train and soon forgot the incident.It was three weeks later that I happened to glance at an old evening paper and caught sight of a small paragraph at the bottom of the front page: “The unidentified body of a short bald man, with a deep scar across one cheek, was recovered from the River Thames yesterday. The police believed he had committed suicide.”I then noticed the date: just two and a half weeks before.It was I who might have been the final cause of his terrible tragedy. For days afterwards the cruelty of my refusal made me suffer continual shame and regret. I swore that I would never again refuse any appeal for help.21. At the beginning of the story, the little man approached the author to _______.A. invite him to watch a football match togetherB. ask him to show the direction to railway stationC. inquire where there was a department storeD. request to see if he might use his lighter22. The author failed to get through in the phone box at his first attempt because_______.A. he didn't have any change with himB. he didn't realize it was a pay phoneC. the number he had dialed was wrongD. the person he wanted to speak to was out23. The main reason why the author hadn't lent the little man any money was that _______.A. he never lent others any moneyB. he happened not to carry any moneyC. he did not trust the little manD. he was afraid he mightn't get it back24. What's the best title for the passage?A. Pity for a stranger.B. Never trust a stranger.C. Life is but a dream.D. The death of a beggar.BPeople have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them tocatch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表).The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip (连环漫画) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet.The Romans copied the idea, and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can makea story much more interesting.25. Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on walls of caves probably because ______.A. they loved animalsB. they enjoyed seeing picturesC. they preferred painting pictures to telling storiesD. they thought pictures helpful26. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______.A. the former was easy to writeB. there were fewer signs in the formerC. the former was easy to pronounceD. each sign stood for only one sound27. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.A. should be made easy to understandB. are of much usein our lifeC. should be made interestingD. are disappearing from our life28. The possible title of this article may be ______.A. Pictures and WritingB. The Best Way of WritingC. Home of the Comic-Strip StoriesD. The Earliest Language in the WorldCEverywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted”was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time tocatch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.I see people trapped in a pathological (病态的) relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.”But it’s time to discover that it does not work for technology.Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.”To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today’s overused technology.29. The underlined word “allure”in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.A. advantageB. attractionC. adaptionD. attempt30. From the passage, technology companies aim to ______.A. attract people to buy their productsB. provide the latest informationC. improve people’s quality of lifeD. deal with cultural diseases31. It can be inferred from this passage that people ______.A. consider too much technology wonderfulB. have realized the harm of high-tech devicesC. can regain freedom without high-tech devicesD. may enjoy life better without overused technology32. What’s the author’s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?A. Neutral.B. Skeptical.C. Disapproving.D. Sympathetic.DSure, it’s good to get along with your teacher because it makes the time you spend in the classroom more pleasant.And yes, it’s good to get along with your teacher because, in general, it’s smart to learn how to understand the different types ofpeople you’ll meet throughout your life.“But really, there’s one super-important reason why you should get along with your teacher. When you do, learning bursts right open,”says Evelyn Vu ko, a longtime teacher who writes an education column called “Teacher Says”for the Washington Post newspaper. In fact, kids who get along with their teachers not only learn more, but they’re more comfortable asking questions and getting extra help. This makes it easier to understand new material and do your best on tests. When you have this kind of relationship with a teacher, he or she can be someone to turn to with problems, such as problems with learning or school life, such as bullying.As a kid in a primary or middle school, you’re at a wonderful stage in your life. You’re like a sponge (海绵), able to absorb lots of new and exciting information. On top of that, you’re able to think about all this information in new ways. Your teacher knows that, in most cases, is very excited to be the person who’s giving you all that material and helping you make it. Remember, teachers are people, too, and they feel great if you’re open to what they’re teaching yo u. That’s why they wanted to be teachers in the first place—to teach! Some kids may be able to learn in any situation, whether they like the teacher or not. But most kids are sensitive to the way they get along with the teacher, and if things aren’t going well, they won’tlearn as well and won’t enjoy being in class.33. In the passage, the author mainly talks about _______.A. how to get along well with othersB. how much the students are expected of to get along with teachersC. the importance of a good relation with teachersD. how to make the time in the classroom more pleasant34. “Learning bursts right open”in the third paragraph really means _______.A. there will be more problems with learningB. you find an opening to learningC. learning becomes easier for you at onceD. there will be no problems at all with learning35. Which of the comments is FALSE on teachers and their work according to the passage?A. Teachers sometimes have the same feelings as students do.B. Teachers are excited even if you wouldn’t like to accept their teaching.C. Though few, there are still some students who can learn even if they don’t like the teacher.D. Having a bad relationship with your teachers does more or less harm to your studies.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。