人教版高中英语选修六高二英语第一学期期末试卷 人教实验版

咸阳中学2008-2009学年高二英语第一学期期末试卷人教实验版

（本试题四部分，满分150分。考试时间120分钟。）

一、听力（共两节，满分35分）听力文件略

第一节：听力理解（5段共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

听下面一段对话，回答第1—3三个小题。

1. Where was the play “Pygmalion” first performed?

A. In Germany

B. In Vienna

C. In London

2. When was the play made into a successful movie?

A. In 1956

B. In 1914

C. In 1964

3. What did the writer George Bernard Shaw win for the play?

A. Oscar Awards

B. Nobel Prize for Literature

C. Both

听下面一段对话，回答第4—6三个小题。

4. What is the topic of this talk?

A. Women’s clothing

B. The Change in men’s clothing in America.

C. Dress requirements in America.

5. What are American men beginning to do?

A. Be more formal

B. Not worry about life

C. Be more informal

6. What have restaurants done?

A. They have admitted women

B. They have changed dress rules.

C. They have closed.

听下面一段对话，回答第7—9三个小题。

7. Why did men live in the caves long, long ago?

A. Men liked dry and warm caves.

B. Caves were easy to build

C. Men didn’t know how to build houses.

8. How did the cave men tell stories?

A. By writing on bamboo sticks.

B. By writing on animal skins.

C. By drawing on the stone walls.

9. What can we learn from the text?

A. All the caves have been found so far.

B. The caves men hunted wild animals for their bones.

C. We can know something about cave men through the picture stories.

听下面一段对话，回答第10—12三个小题。

10. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. The importance of money.

B. The development of money.

C. Different kinds of money.

11. When was paper money invented?

A. No one knows.

B. Around the 10th century in China.

C. Around the 9th century.

12. What does the speaker believe?

A. The Euro dollar will be used instead of the American dollar.

B. The American dollar will be used for international trade.

C. All the world will use the same money.

听下面一段对话，回答第13—15三个小题。

13. How many experiments did it take before Dolly was successfully cloned?

A. 267

B. 276

C. 277

14. What does the dodo bird look like?

A. It is very large.

B. It easily adapts to any climate.

C. It is very friendly.

15. What’s the attitude of the woman towards the cloning of the extinct animals?

A. For

B. Against

C. Not mentioned

听下面一段对话，回答第1—3三个小题。

第二节：听取信息（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

Who Action Object

Edison had made much more 16_______________

One suggestion was that the nation 17___________________ a minute or two of total

blackout

Perhaps this suggested plan made Americans fully 18______________ what Edison and his

achievements meant to them

Shutting it off for even a

short time

would have led to 19__________________

In this way they 20_________________ the man

二、语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳

选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

British scientists have done something that people thought was impossible: they

21___the first clone of an adult mammal. The 22 , named Dolly, is a seven-month-old sheep, grown from a cell of an adult female sheep. What is a clone?

A clone is a genetic 23 . Genes are the instructions for 24 . Genes 25 each individual plant or animal different and unique. 26 a clone has the same genes as the original organism. Cloning is not 27 . Plants have been cloned

for 28 . It has been much more difficult to clone animals. It may soon be 29

to clone many types of animals. Will we also be able to clone human organs, or even