1、2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 1福建省厦门第一中学 2015-2016 学年度第一学期期中考试高二年英语试卷第 I卷命题教师 洪丽慧 卢婉丽 审核教师 康美华 2015.11第一部分 听力 （共两节， 满分 30 分）第一节听下面 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. Who is the man looking for?A. His brother. B. His teacher. C. His classmate.2.
2、What is difficult for the speakers?A. Finding the professors office.B. Asking the professor for help.C. Solving the problem on their own.3. Why cant Henry go to the game with the woman? A. He is sick. B.He is going out with someone else.C. He has to finish a paper.4. What will the speakers do next?
3、A. Keep waiting for the bus. B. Take Bus No.10. C. Take a taxi.5. What does the woman mean? A. She will definitely come to the barbecue.B. She will have to miss the barbecue.C. She thinks the man is joking.第二节听下面 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
4、 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. Why is the woman making the purchase? A. For an interview. B. For a wedding. C. For a conference.2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 27. What does the woman think of the suit? A. Its a real bargain. B. It makes her look young. C. The price is still high.听第 7
5、段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What will the woman do first on Saturday? A. Attend a presentation. B. Go to a basketball game. C. Have a lunch meeting.9. Who is Larry? A. The womans son. B. A client from Malaysia. C. The womans co-worker.10. How does the man sound in the end? A. Annoyed. B.Satisfied. C. Surpri
6、sed.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. How will the woman travel to New York?A. By train. B. By car. C. By bus.12. What do Laura and the woman both like?A. Traveling. B. Music. C. Sports.13. What do we know about Laura? A. She will go camping this Saturday.B. She was the womans classmate.C. She has just mov
7、ed to a new place.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What does the woman do for a living? A. She owns a hotel. B. She is a travel agent. C. She works for a website.15. What is the disadvantage of beach resorts hotels? A. They dont offer good food.B. The price is too high.C. Theyre hard to find.16. Why did t
8、he woman make a complaint about the room in Canada? A. The bed was a mess.B. The kitchen was very dirty.C. The bathroom was too small.17. When did the hotel in Canada give the woman her money back? A. After she stayed there for one night.B. Right when she asked for it.C. After she called the police.
9、听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 318. What do we know about Golden Gate Park? A. It is one and a half miles wide.B. It is far from the ocean.C. It is open during winter.19. What can be found on the eastern side of the park? A. A parking lot. B. A museum. C. A tea garden.20. What does the s
10、peaker suggest doing in the Botanical Gardens? A. Taking a nap. B. Riding a bike. C. Having a picnic.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。AIts happened to everyone. You run up to someone, thinking its your friend, only to realize that the person i
11、s a stranger.But theres something about the curve of their nose or the shape of their eyes that looks strangely familiar. Its as if your friend had a twin.The Germans invented a word for this phenomenon, “doppelganger”. Literally, it means “double walker”, and its come to mean anyone who looks very
12、similar to another person. Doppelgangers pop up in literature and movies, and even in celebrity culture. There are countless Web pages about how celebrities such as US actress Zooey Deschanel and singer Katy Perry look alike.But can you really find a person who looks the same as you? Thats an ongoin
13、g debate in the scientific community.After all, humans have a limited number of genes that control how our faces and bodies look. “There is only so much genetic diversity to go around,” the US Cornell University professor Michael Sheehan told Live Science. He compared genes to cards in a deck. If th
14、e deck gets shuffled enough times, some cards will appear again and again.But forensic scientist Daniele Podini from George Washington University, US is not convinced true doppelgangers exist. Nothing is impossible, Podini admits, but he told the website ScienceLine that most doppelgangers are the r
15、esult of perception, the way each individual sees the world. We all see faces differently. You might see two people as doppelgangers, but for someone else, small differences between the two faces might be much more obvious. Each of us has a different ability to remember faces and their details. Ther
16、es even a small group of people who cannot tell between faces at all. They suffer from prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. They cannot even recognize the faces of their own parents or friends.For the people who are very sensitive to differences between faces, the differences can 2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 4
17、seem never-ending. A single study found 4,000 pieces of DNA that shape our faces, and more have yet to be discovered.Your lifestyle choices can also change your looks. Those choices can be as simple as a haircut, or as serious as bad eating habits. Even identical twins can start to look different, d
18、epending on how they live their lives. In other words, your doppelganger may be somewhere in the world, but its far more likely that your genes and your decisions have made you one of a kind.21. Which of the following statements would Michael Sheehan agree with?A. Peoples perception is similar to ea
19、ch other. B. Genetic diversity is limited, resulting in similar faces.C. Genes are like cards in the way that you never know what you will get. D. It is not possible that there is another person who looks similar to us.22. What does the underlined sentence imply?A. Identical twins are likely to lead
20、 different life styles.B. The lifestyle we choose has little to do with our looks.C. Identical twins may not look alike due to different genes.D. Our appearance is in some way related to the way we live.23. The passage is likely to appear in _ .A. a finance report B. a newspaper advertisement C. a b
21、iological experiment D. a science magazineBJob sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one full-time job. The two people willingly act as part-time workers, enough hours between them to fulfill the duties of a full-time worker. If they each work half the job,
22、 for example, they each receive 50 per cent of the jobs wages, its holidays and its other benefits. Job sharing differs from conventional (常规的) part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commit
23、ment. Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemp
24、loyment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities. As would be expected, most job sharers are women. A survey carried out in 1988 by Britains Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 percent of sh
25、arers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status. Job sh
26、aring 2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 5also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence. The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs. However, to ensure a greater chance that the
27、partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals mu
28、st be well matched and must treat each other as equals.24. In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?A. Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs.B. Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary.C. Work sharing requires more working hours.D. Work sharing depends on the employers de
29、cision.25. According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sharing to conventional part-time work mainly because _.A. they had to take care of both work and familyB. they had difficulty finding full-time jobs C. they were over ideal working agesD. they sought higher social status26. In job sha
30、ring the partners should _.A. enjoy equal social status B. know each other very wellC. keep in touch with each other D. have similar work experience27. The main purpose of the passage is to _.A. recommend job sharing to women B. discuss how to provide more jobs C. describe job sharing in general D.
31、compare job sharing with work sharingCYoure in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation: “I cant believe it-a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isnt it beautiful? And its a lot cheaper than the one Sa
32、ra bought in Rome.“ They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. Its nice and the price is right. Youve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agenc
33、y. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes. Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are star
34、ting to use it. 2015-2016 高二上英语半期考 6Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation - consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but t
35、hey dont trust ads. So advertising agencies hire young actors to “perform“ in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice deceptive (骗人的), but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. “Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasi
36、ng.“ However, one might ask what exactly is “real“ of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Advertising executives would say its no less real than an ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don t know when a conversation you over
37、hear is just a performance.28. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could _.A. get the sweater at a lower price B. decide on buying the sweaterC. be admired by other shoppers D. be heard by people around29. Lorenzo Bertolla is _.A. a very popular male singer B. an advertising age
38、ncy C. the brand name of a sweater D. a clothing company in Rome30. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?A. Traditional advertising will soon disappear in the market.B. The MTV generation tend to be more easily influenced by ads. C. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon
39、by the government. D. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because its too direct.31. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Two Attractive Shoppers B. Lorenzo Bertolla SweatersC. Undercover Marketing D. Ways of AdvertisingDWeve all seen them: perfectly toned fa
40、mous people on late-night television telling us that we too can develop rock-hard abdominal (腹部的) muscles. Its easy! Just pay $149.99 for the Torso Track or $149.75 for the Ad-Doer and watch those unwanted inches leave your waist. Americans spend tens of millions of dollars on various products to fi
41、rm up their fat around the waist. And did they work? Not necessarily. Independent studies have concluded that most of these products - no matter who approved them or how expensive they are - shape your midsection no better than old-fashioned stomach crunches(仰卧起坐). Some can even cause injury - like
42、the $518.99 Body Shaper- Q8SP, which left electrical burns on some researchers at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Others, like the popular Ab-Doer, typically burn less energy than a gentle walk, according to a study to be published in September by the American Council on Exercise.2015-2016 高
43、二上英语半期考 7The fact is that many Americans dont have the biological makeup to develop an obvious abdominal muscles. They are either unable to get the necessary muscle mass or they cant lose enough fat to make a difference. Even if the underlying muscles are well developed, all it takes to hide it is o
44、ne-sixteenth of an inch of fat. Thats enough to exclude most healthy women as well as plenty of guys who do crunches every day. So what works best? In its new study, the exercise experts researched on the results of the popular Ab-Doer. A lengthy TV advertisement promises that just 10 minutes a day
45、performing such movements as “Body Boogies“ and “Good Mornings“ will “help form those muscles the fun and easy way without diets.“ Steven Loy, professor at California State University, Northridge, tested the promise by measuring the electrical activity produced by the abdominal muscles during three
46、Ab-Doer movements. He and his colleagues then compared the results with those produced during traditional exercises. They determined that the muscles were no more active, and in some cases less so, when exercisers were using the Ab-Doer.Taking a broader approach, researchers at San Diego State Unive
47、rsity compared 13 abdominal exercises for their ability to develop the central abdominal muscles. They concluded, in a report published in May, that the most effective exercises kept turning the body and worked the muscles the entire time. Among the winners: the bicycle movements - so called because
48、 it looks as if you are riding a bike while lying flat on the floor - and exercises performed on the “Captains Chair“, a product typically found in gyms that helps hold the body in the air while you raise your legs up toward your chest. Researchers suggested that a varied routine of the different exercises could deliver the best results. 32. Which of the following is the most effective in building abdominal muscles?ATorso Track. BCaptains Chair. C Ab-Doer. DBody Shaper-Q8SP.33. According to the author, its di
