1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 2013 级高二（下）期末模拟考试英语试题总分：150 分 时间：120 分钟说明: 本试卷共两卷, 第一卷和第二卷。第一卷的答案请涂在答题卡上, 第二卷的答案请写在答题卡上的规定位置。交卷时交答题卡。试卷总分为 150 分, 考试时间为 120 分钟。第一卷（选择题，共 100 分）第一部分 听力测试（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
2、钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一现代战争小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. Where does the conversation take place?A. At the restaurant. B. At the theatre. C. At the shop.2. What is Jacks answer to the question?A. He refused to drive her.B. He is glad to drive her.C. He forgot his drivers license.3. What time is it now?A. Its 6: 30. B. Its
3、 7 : 00. C. Its 7 : 30.4. What did the womans parents think about the play?A. The mother didnt like it, but the father did.B. Neither of them liked it.C. The mother didnt like it because it wasnt in English.5. When will the woman leave?A. In about 2 days. B. She hasnt decided yet. C. In 4 weeks.第二节
4、（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听下面 5 段对话。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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，每小题将给出 5 秒钟作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 8 题。6. Where does the man want to live?A. In a big city. B. In the country. C. In the mountain.7. Why couldnt the woman sleep well
5、last night?A. She was not used to the silence.B. She was too tired to go to sleep.C. She was afraid of the noise made by the birds.8. How did the man sleep last night?A. Very badly. B. Very nice. C. Terribly.听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题。9. Where did Sue spend the nights in the country?高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网
6、版权所有 侵权必究 A. In a farm house. B. In the open air. C. At a hotel.10. What was the weather like in the country?A. It snowed a lot. B. It rained nearly every day.C. There was a lot of sunshine.11. What did Sue think of the people in the country?A. They were tall. B. They were strange. C. They were frie
7、ndly.听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。12. Where has the woman been all these days?A. She has visited her sisters.B. She has visited the Great Wall.C. She has gone to see her teacher.13. What will the weather be like tomorrow according to the weatherman?A. It will be fine. B. It will be rainy. C. It will be cl
8、oudy.14. What does the man think the weather will be like tomorrow?A. It will be fine. B. It will be rainy. C. It will be windy.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 题。15. How is Mary?A. She is Mr. Fords wife. B. She has been ill for some time.C. She is the head of the office.16. By whom were the flowers sent to Mar
9、y?A. Mr. Ford. B. Marys workmates. C. Someone Mary doesnt know.17. Who will come to see Mary tomorrow?A. Mr. Ford. B. John. C. John and Mr. Ford.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. Why did the small man come to the party?A. The owner invited him to the party.B. The owners friend asked him to have a drink.C.
10、 He came to look for someone.19. How do you think of the small man?A. He is friendly. B. He is forgetful. C. He is foolish.20. Where was the small mans wife when he came to the party?A. In their car. B. At home. C. At the party, too.第二部分 英语知识运用完形填空(共 20 小题;每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分)阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B,
11、 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。It was already half past seven and I was running late again for the dinner appointment with my wife, Eleanor. We had 21 to meet at the restaurant at seven oclock. I felt a little uneasy, but to my 22 ，I had a good excuse: A business meeting had 23 and Id wasted no
12、 time getting to the dinner.When I arrived at the 24 ，1 apologized and told Eleanor I didnt mean to be late. She screamed, “You never mean to.“ Well, I 25 tell she was angry. “Im sorry but it was not 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 26 ,“ I said. Then I told her about the business meeting. 27 , my exp
13、lanation seemed to make things worse, which started to drive 28 mad as well. Several weeks later, when I 29 the situation to my friend Ken Hardy, he smiled, “You 30 a classic mistake. Youre stuck 31 your own way of thinking. You didnt 32 to be late. But thats not the point. What is 33 in your commun
14、ication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.“ He pointed out that I focused on the intention 34 Eleanor focused on the result. Thus, 35 of us felt misunderstood and crazy.Thinking more about Kens words, I 36 recognized the root cause of such disagreement. Its the result of the action that really 3
15、7 .I should have started the conversation by expressing 38 my actions affected Eleanor and 39 the discussions about my intention for later, much later and even never.Later on, after talking to Eleanor and really 40 her experience of the results of my lateness, Ive managed to be on time a lot more fr
16、equently.21. A. started B. agreed C. continued D. managed22. A. relief B. surprise C. regret D. sorrow23. A. broken out B. closed down C. faded away D. run over24. A. house B. room C. restaurant D. supermarket25. A. could B. must C. will D. might 26. A. movable B. comfortable C. acceptable D. avoida
17、ble27. A. However B. Therefore C. Moreover D. Otherwise28. A. her B. him C. me D. them29. A. spread B. wrote C. translated D. described30. A. knew B. made C. found D. took31. A. in B. beyond C. for D. against32. A. need B. prove C. pretend D. intend33. A. funny B. important C. possible D. simple34.
18、A. while B. after C. until D. unless35. A. all B. none C. both D. neither36. A. usually B. merely C. hardly D. gradually37. A. inspires B. matters C. improves D. challenges38. A. how B. why C. when D. what39. A. compared B. reported C. finished D. saved40. A. showing B. satisfying C. understanding D
19、. destroying第三部分 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，AI travel a lot in my work, and what I dislike about my job is eating alone. It always makes me feel lonely to see others laughing and talking. So, room service for several nights was a better choice
20、for me.After having room service three nights at a hotel in Houston, however, I needed to get out of my room. Although the restaurant opened at 6:30, I arrived at 6:25. The waiter at the front desk made a comment about my “being there really early”. I explained my dislike of eating alone in 高考资源网（）
21、您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 restaurants. He then seated me at a lovely table and asked me whether I would mind if he sat down with me for a while.I was glad! He sat and talked with me about his career goals and the difficulty of being at work on nights, weekends and holidays. He said he hadnt enough time
22、 to be with his family. After 15 minutes, he saw some customers at the front desk and excused himself. I noticed that before he went to the front desk, he stopped in the kitchen for a moment.Then another waiter came out of the kitchen and had a wonderful chat with me. Before I left that night, some
23、other waiters, even the cook, had come out of the kitchen and sat with me!When I asked for my bill about one hour later, all the people who had sat down with me came over in a big group to my table, and presented me with a red rose. And I cried! What had begun as a lonely night ended as a beautiful
24、experience.41. The author asked for room service because _.A. a lot of money would be saved in this wayB. he didnt like to eat with other people around C. he didnt wanted to be recognized by the waiters D. seeing people laughing and talking made him feel bad 42. How did the waiter feel when he saw t
25、he author come in at 6:25?A. Dissatisfied. B. Pleased. C. Surprised. D. Angry.43. The author wants to tell us that _.A. people are actually all lonely in their own way B. restaurants should put the need of customers firstC. the kindness of strangers can make you less lonelyD. restaurants are full of
26、 surprises for lonely peopleBMusic lessons may improve memory and learning ability in your children by promoting different patterns of brain development, a study showsAfter a year of musical training, children aged between 4 and 6 performed better at a standard memory test than did children who were
27、 not taught musicThe findings suggest that music could be useful for building the learning capacity of your mindsEarlier studies have shown that older children given music lessons become better at IQ tests than those who are musically untrained, but this is the first to show such a benefit in childr
28、en so youngProfessor Laurek Trainor, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, also found clear differences in the ways in which childrens brains responded to sound after a year of musical trainingThis is the first study to show that brain responses in young, musically trained and untrained child
29、ren change differently over the course of a year,“ she said“These changes are likely to be related to the cognitive（ 认知的 ）benefit that is seen with musical training“Professor Trainers team looked at 12 children, 6 of whom had just started extra-curricular （课程外） music lessons and 6 of whom were not b
30、eing taught any music except that included as a standard part of their school curriculum （课程标准） During the year all 12 children had their brains examined four times using magneto-encephalography （MEG）, and each child was played two types of sound white noise and a violin toneThe MEG measurements sho
31、wed that all children responded more to violin sounds 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 than to white noise, reflecting a preferable for meaningful tones, and their response times fell over the course of the year as their brains matured44. This passage is mainly about _Awhy music lessons are good for t
32、he memoryBthe benefit from extra-curricular training for younger childrenCa study on twelve young childrens brainsDnew technology to examine childrens brains45It can be concluded from the text that _Athe study is the first one on the effect of musical training on childrens brainsBscientists got no v
33、aluable results from the earlier studies on the topicCchildren musically trained remember things better than those untrainedDolder children get more benefit from musical training than younger ones46What do we know about the twelve children tested in the study?ANone of them had been musically trained
34、 beforeBOnly 6 of them had a knowledge of music beforeCNot all of them had been taught some music in schoolDAll of them were required to learn some music in school47We know from the MEG measurements that _Athe older a child is, the more quickly he/she responds to soundsBhuman brains prefer musical s
35、ounds to white noiseCchildren of different ages respond to sounds at the same speedDall the twelve children like to learn to play the violin very muchCIn modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and
36、 prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well
37、 and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pay
38、s no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to
39、win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesnt matter because I really didnt try. “What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth
40、. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that ones self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear b
41、egins to dissolve (缓解) can we discover a new meaning in competition48What does this passage mainly talk about?A. Opinions about competition are different among people B. Competition helps to set up self-respect高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 C. Competition is harmful to personal quality developmentD.
42、 Failures are necessary experiences in competition49The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. those who try their best to winB. those who value competition most highlyC. those who rely on others most for successD. those who are against competition most strongly50What is the si
43、milar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?A. Ones success in competition needs great effortsB. Ones worth lies in his performance compared with othersC. Ones achievement is determined by his particular skillsD. Ones success is based on how hard he has tried51Which point
44、of view may the author agree to?A. Every effort should be paid backB. Competition should be encouragedC. Fear of failure should be removed in competition D. Winning should be a life-and-death matterDFor many people shopping is considered to be one of the favorite activities. For most of them it is just buying some new clothes or presents for close people. But there is another way for whom shopping is much more than just enjoyable activity, it is a real addiction that in many cases leads to a financial disaster, as well as it brings troubles to persons life and fam
