上海交通大学附属中学2015-2016学年度第二学期
高二英语期中试卷
（满分150分，120分钟完成，答案一律写在答题纸上）
第I卷（共97分）
I. Listening Comprehension（24%）
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. In a restaurant. B. In a hair salon.
C. At a tailor’s shop. D. At the cinema.
2. A. Reading for relaxation. B. Going to a tea house.
C. Going skiing. D. Flying kites.
3. A. Doctor and patient. B. Librarian and reader.
C. Actor and actress. D. Waitress and customer.
4. A. At 2:00. B. At 3:00. C. At 4:45. D. At 5:15.
5. A. He’s capable of handling anything. B. He is a professional photographer.
C. Cool weather makes perfect photos. D. The camera is easy to use.
6. A. He has gone to visit his mother. B. He has asked for a sick leave.
C. He has found a new job in Europe. D. He has done something wrong.
7. A. They lived in the same neighborhood.
B. They went to the same college.
C. He’s known Margie for a long time.
D. It’s the first time he has met Margie.
8. A. The nearest post office is next to the police station.
B. The man is working in the office building.
C. The man ought to get off at the next bus stop.
D. The post office is two blocks away from the police station.
9. A. He agrees on setting the bed.
B. He wants to look for a place to live.
C. He’d like to invite two friends to visit.
D. He will change his phone number immediately.
10. A. Both of them are sports fans.
B. The man wants to buy a fan to cool down.
C. There is a fan exhibition now.
D. They’ll play a tennis game together.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Fewer than five minutes. B. Five to ten minutes.
C. As long as possible. D. More than ten minutes.
12. A. Fire your imagination.
B. Get more economic profits.
C. Show respect to the oldest family members.
D. Recognize more family members.
13. A. Make a welcome address. B. Create awards.
C. Keep a family event memo. D. Print a Family Book.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. A student in Deep Spring College. B. An editor of a magazine.
C. A politician. D. A professor.
15. A. Developing farming in desert.
B. Carrying out a long-term project.
C. Getting youths ready to serve people.
D. Helping students make $50,000 per year.
16. A. To attend a teaching show.
B. To interview the Student Body members.
C. To bring new energy to the college.
D. To apply for teacher vacancies in the college.
Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Applicant information
Destination country:
Purpose of stay:
Time of return flight:
Accommodation information:
To 17
Visiting her 18 and studying language
19 30th
Living in the 20
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Loss-reporting Note
What did the woman do after she lost her wallet?
She 21 .
What was exactly in the woman’s wallet?
Money, visa, photos and her 22 .
Where did the woman probably lose the wallet?
In the 23 .
What did the man suggest?
Posting 24 in the local newspaper.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A（16%）
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(A)
You are what you eat, and you definitely are whom you associate with. The people closest to you make all the difference--in a good or a bad way. A good friend supports you, helps you and inspires you, while a bad friend holds you back. If you have people like these in your inner circle, we suggest you _____25______ (remove) them.
Roadblock predictors
Roadblock predictors have the annoying ability _____26______ (foresee) a long list of potential barriers and problems. In reality, however, these barriers and problems will not appear and sometimes even cannot appear.
Granted, none of us want to make a mistake we _____27______ have avoided. If someone approaches every fresh idea with a never-ending list of reasons that it won't work, he or she needs to go, ______28______unreasonable doubt is the enemy of achievement.
If my idea truly won't work, tell me why and what might work instead. Otherwise, we should just go our separate ways.
Devoted fans
At the other end of the spectrum is the person who thinks ____29_______ you do and say is amazing and incredible.
Unconditional praise is fun but rarely helpful. None of us are that smart or that talented. Often we do get it wrong. Often we do make mistakes. But often we don't realize it until someone ______30_____ (tell) us. It's easy to tell you that you are great. It's much harder--it takes a real friend to tell you that you can do better.
Excessive praise is the enemy of improvement. Be nice to your devoted fans, but don't pay much attention to their praise.
The walking dead
Some people are just like zombies. They wander aimlessly from task to task, from day to day and from year to year _____31______ a plan or a purpose. They won't kill you, but they'll definitely kill your motivation and enthusiasm.
Instead, surround yourself with people who have ambitious plans, meaningful purposes and big goals. _____32______ _____32______ their goals are different from yours, they'll help feed
off your energy.
(B)
Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars ____33_______ (recognize) him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was in prison. At the age of 20, he ____34_____ (draw) to the theatre and landed an acting audition at Covent Garden, where the manager George Bartley and the actor Charles Kemble ____35_____(see) him. Unfortunately, he missed the audition because of a cold. Before another opportunity arose, he had set out on his career as a writer. ______36_____his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles.
Dickens often modified his plot and character development based on readers' feedback. For example, when his wife told him that David Copperfield behaved _____37______ _____37_____he were coward, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator"—are often popular. ____38____ (Compare) orphans to stocks and shares is another typical example of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy.
His novels remain popular and continue to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. For example, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations ___39______ (adapt) frequently, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, __40_____ (set) in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers for its realism, comedy, unique characterizations, and social criticism. The term Dickensian is used to describe something in memory of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters.
Section B（ 10%）
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. portraits B. resistance C. mixed D. forgotten E. concerns F. drafts
G. explores H. alternatives I. criticizes J. regarding K. inspired
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily _____41_____ the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his crazy passion and obsession for the beautiful former lover Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great
Gatsby_____42_____ themes of decadence, idealism, _____43_____ to change and social upheaval, creating_____44_____ of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties described as a cautionary tale _____45_____ the American Dream.
Fitzgerald—_____46_____ by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore—began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his _____47_____ following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald repeatedly hesitated about the book's title and he considered a variety of _____48_____, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue.
First published in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received _____49_____ reviews and sold 20,000 copies in its first year. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work _____50_____. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a competitor for the title "Great American Novel". In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A (15%)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Thinner isn't always better. A number of studies have ___51___ that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases than those who are overweight. And there are health conditions for which being overweight is actually ___52___. For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women. Likewise, among the elderly, being somewhat overweight is often an ___53___ of good health.
Of even greater ___54___ is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define. It is often defined ___55___ body mass index, or BMI. BMI ___56__ body mass divided by the square of height. An adult with a BMI of 18 to 25 is often considered to be normal weight. Between 25 and 30 is overweight. And over 30 is considered obese. Obesity, ___57___,can be divided into moderately obese, severely obese, and very severely obese.
While such numerical standards seem ___58___ , they are not. Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat. Some people with a high BMI are in fact extremely fit, while others with a low BMI may be in poor___59___.For example, many professional football players___60___as obese, though their percentage body fat is low. Conversely, someone with a small frame may have high body fat but a ___61___ BMI.
Today we have a(an) ___62___ to label obesity as a disgrace. The overweight are sometimes___63___in the media with their faces covered. Stereotypes ___64___ with obesity include laziness, lack of will power, and lower prospects for success. Teachers, employers, and health professionals have been shown to have biases against the obese. Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.
Negative attitudes toward obesity, grounded in health concerns, have stimulated a number of anti-obesity policies .My own hospital system has banned sugary drinks from its facilities. Many employers have instituted weight loss and fitness initiatives. Michelle Obama launched a high-visibility campaign ___65___ childhood obesity, even claiming that it represents our greatest national security threat.
51.A denied B concluded C doubled D ensured
52. A protective B dangerous C sufficient D troublesome
53. A indicator B objective C origin D example
54. A impact B relevance C assistance D concern
55. A in terms of B in case of C in favor of D in sake of
56. A measures B determines C equals D modifies
57. A in essence B in contrast C in turn D in part
58. A complicated B conservative C variable D straightforward
59. A shape B spirit C balance D taste
60. A start B qualify C retire D stay
61.A strange B changeable C normal D constant
62. A option B reason C opportunity D tendency
63. A employed B pictured C imitated D monitored
64. A related B combined C settled D associated
65.A for B against C with D without
Section B (32%)
Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.
(A)
LOVE it or hate it, there is no escape from Internet slang.
This is especially true among young people in some English-speaking countries such as Australia, the UK and the US. These days, if they haven’t caught up with the latest popular Internet slang, chances are that they often feel out of the loop on social media.
Take these posts by The Washington Post for example: “David Bowie dying is totes tradge” and “When Cookie hugged Jamal it made me totes emosh.”
What on earth do these mean? Well, “totes” is a short form of the adverb “totally”. Likewise, “tradge” means “tragic” and “emosh” means “emotional”.
It seems that, for millennials (those born between the early 1980s and late 1990s), typing in this abbreviated form is not only time-saving but also hip.
Many millennial slang words are formed by what linguists call the practice of “totesing” – the systematic abbreviation of words, according to a recent article in The Washington Post.
Some people think that millennial slang affects the English language negatively. However, Melbourne University linguist Rosey Billington doesn't agree.
“When you are able to use language in a creative way, you show you are linguistically knowledgeable because you know the language rules well enough to use words in a different way,” Billington told News.com.au.
Her view is backed up by two linguists, Lauren Spradlin and Taylor Jones, from the City University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania respectively. The two believe that totes-speak is a highly-organized system that can only be used by speakers who have mastered English pronunciation.
The ability to break apart syllables and mix different sounds together is key. “Totesing is about sounds, and it follows the sometimes-complicated sound system of English,” Jones told The Washington Post. “Totesing is not random. On the contrary, it has strict rules to follow. You need to be very fluent in the English language to be able to understand totes-speak.”
66. The underlined phrase “out of the loop” in the second paragraph probably means _________.
A. accepted easily
B. bored and annoyed
C. comfortable and relaxed
D. unaware of certain information
67. How does the author explain the phenomenon of totesing?
A. With comparisons.
B. Through examples.
C. By giving descriptions.
D. By analyzing causes and effects.
68. What is Lauren Spradlin’s attitude toward the practice of totesing?
A. Worried. B. Cautious.
C. Positive. D. Critical.
69. Which of the following might Taylor Jones agree with?
A. Internet slang is mostly created by professional linguists.
B. Totesing is mainly about making words easier to pronounce.
C. Totesing should be promoted since it is cool, creative and time-saving.
D. Totesing requires speakers to master the language’s rules very well.
(B)
Public speaking fills most people with dread. Humiliation is the greatest fear; self-exposure and failing to appeal to the audience come a close second. Women hate it most, since girls are pressurized from an early age to be concerned with appearances of all kinds. Most people have plenty of insecurities, and this seems like a situation that will bring them out. If you were under pressure to be perfect, you are terrified of falling in the most public of ways.
While extroverts will feel less fear before the ordeal, it does not mean they will necessarily do it better. Some very shy people manage to shine. When I met the British comedian Julian Clary, he was shy and cautious, yet his TV performances are perfect. In fact, personality is not the best predictor of who does it well. Regardless of what you are like in real life, the key seems to be to act yourself.
Actual acting, as in performing the scripted lines of a character other than yourself, does not do the job. While politicians may limit damage by having carefully rehearsed, written scripts to speak
from, there is always a hidden awareness among the audience that the words might not be true. Likewise, the incredibly perfect speeches of many American academics are far from natural. You may end up buying their book on the way out, but soon afterwards, it is much like fast food, and you get a nameless sense that you've been cheated.
Although, as Earl Spencer proved at his sister Princess Diana's funeral, it is possible both to prepare every word and to act naturally. A script rarely works and it is used to help most speakers. But, being yourself doesn't work either. If you spoke as if you were in your own kitchen, it would be too authentic, too unaware of the need to communicate with an audience.
The best psychological place from which to speak is an unselfconscious self-consciousness, providing the illusion of being natural. Studies suggest that this state of "flow", as psychologists call it, is very satisfying.
70. Women hate public speaking most mainly because of _____.
A. their upbringing very early on.
B. their inability to appeal to the audience.
C. their sense of greater public pressure.
D. their sense of greater humiliation.
71. "this" in Paragraph One refers to
A. insecurity.
B. sense of failure.
C. public speaking.
D. pressure.
72. What is the author's view on personality?
A. Personality is the key to success in public speaking.
B. Extroverts are better public speakers.
C. Introverts have to learn harder to be good speakers.
D. Factors other than personality ensure better performance.
73. Which of the following is NOT the author's viewpoint?
A. Acting like performers spoils the message in a speech.
B. Perfection of scripts is necessary in making good impressions.
C. Acting naturally means less dependence on the prepared script.
D. There should be a balance between actual acting and acting naturally.
(C)
Come on-Everybody's doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. It usually leads to no good-drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.
Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of examples of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool. In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.
The idea seems promising，and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer. Her criticism of the weakness of many pubic-health campaigns is correct: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a mistaken understanding of psychology." Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!" pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.
But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive. Join the Club is filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological factors that make peer pressure so powerful. The most obvious flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long. Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut. Evidence that the LoveLife program produces lasting changes is limited and mixed.
There's no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication. This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups and steer their activities in moral directions. It's like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates. The strategy never really works. And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.
74. According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as________________.
A. a supplement to the social cure
B. a stimulus to group dynamics
C. an obstacle to school progress
D. a cause of undesirable behaviors
75. Rosenberg holds that public-health advocates should_________________.
A. recruit professional advertisers
B. learn from advertisers' experience
C. stay away from commercial advertisers
D. recognize the limitations of advertisements
76. In the author's view, Rosenberg's book fails to__________________.
A. adequately explore social and biological factors
B. effectively evade the flaws of the social cure
C. illustrate the functions of state funding
D. produce a long-lasting social effect
77. The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is______________.
A. harmful
B. desirable
C. profound
D. questionable
(D)
Franz Kafka wrote that “A book must be the ax(斧子)for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.”
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kidswith imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel's terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate.
For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan's upper classes—into a less competitive school. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.D.’s.
Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it's about being a man, it’s about manliness.”I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's speech read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.
78.The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to______________.
A．realize our dreams
B．give support to our life
C．smooth away difficulties
D．awaken our emotions
79.Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?
A．Because they were bred in a violent society.
B．Because they had read the novel many times.
C．Because they got the explanation from the teacher..
D．Because they had similar life experiences.
80.The girl left the selective high school possibly because______________.
A．she was a literary-minded girl
B．her parents were immigrants
C．she couldn't fit in with her class
D．her father was then in prison
81.The author writes the passage mainly to ______________.
A．suggest reading classic works of literature creatively
B．advocate teaching literature to touch the heart
C．argue for equality among high school students
D．criticize the current education system bitterly
第 II 卷 ( 53分)
I. Recitation (8%)
1. 和蔼可亲且真诚地关心他人
2. 用微笑回应她的好意
3. 把谈话的压力推到对方身上
4. 同性的两个人
5. 同样适用于西方人
6. 完全有理由否认犯过罪
7. 毫不犹豫地把整片土地化为废墟
8. 施展魔力召唤风暴
II. Translation (20% 3+4+4+4+5)
Directions: Translate the following sentence into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1. 交友的秘诀包括用微笑传递自信，学会倾听于交谈，以及赞美你身边的人。(involve)
2. 淘金者一来到加州就往山里走，探寻尽可能多的金矿。(Hardly, head)
3. 他的迷人之处在于他是那种让人倍感轻松自在，而又总能看到别人身上优良品质的人。(What)
4. 当对着许多观众演讲时，老练的演讲者往往会着重使用大幅度的手势，并确保这些手势富有意义和表现力。(value n.)
5. 他们本该被指控施行巫术而判死刑，但究竟是什么让国王相信他们是无辜的，饶恕了他们的性命，甚至对他们的一切要求全都满足呢？(it, deny)
III. Writing ( 25%)
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions.
许多经典小说被翻拍成电影，其中不乏深受观众喜爱的作品，如：The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter... 但也有人认为翻拍作品不可能超越原著，与其看电影，不如读小说。你会如何选择，看电影还是读小说？请谈谈你的看法并叙述理由。
参考答案
第I卷
1-10 BCBDD ACABD 11-16 BDC ACD
17. Germany 18. cousin(s) 19. August 20. dormitory/dorm
21. called the police 22. identity card / ID card
23.Star Theatre/Star Theater 24. a public notice
25. (should) remove 26. to foresee 27. could
28. because/as/for/since 29. whatever 30. tells
31. without 32. Even if/Even though 33.had recognized
34. was drawn 35. were to see/were going to see/would see
36. Despite 37. as if/as though 38.Comparing
39. are adapted 40. set
41-50 E G B A J K F H C D
51-55 BAADA 56-60CCDAB 61-65 CDBDB
66-69 DBCD
70-73 CCDB
74-77 DBAD
78-81 DDCB
第II卷
I．扣分可以灵活机动，基本错一处扣0.5分
1. be approachable/ accessible/ amiable and genuinely care about others
2. respond to her kindness with a smile/smiles
3. put the burden of the conversation on the other (person)
4. two people of the same sex
5. (the same) hold(s) true for (the) westerners
/(the same) applies to (the)westerners
6. have every reason to deny committing a crime
7. lay the whole land in ruins without hesitation/ do not hesitate to...
8. exert the magic power and/ to bring about/ call/ summon a storm
II.划线部分错误扣一分
1. The secrets of making friends involve smiling to convey confidence, learning to listen and talk, and adding value to / giving a compliment to/ complimenting those around you. (3')
2. Hardly had the gold diggers arrived in California when they headed for the mountain 【and explored/searched for/looked for as many gold mines as possible.】=in search of as many gold mines as possible. (4')
3. What is fascinating about him/ What makes him fascinating is that he is the kind of the person who makes others feel at ease and always sees positive qualities in them/others.(4')
4. When addressing a large audience/ making(giving, delivering)a speech to a large audience/ speaking in front of a large audience, an experienced speaker tends to /will put value on expansive gestures, and make sure they are meaningful and expressive.(4')
5. They should have been accused of practicing witchcraft and sentenced to death, but what was it that made the king believe (that) they were innocent and spare their lives, and even deny them nothing?(5’)
听力文字稿
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A Short conversations
1. W: Good morning, Sir. Take a seat, please.
M: Thank you. I want a haircut and a shave, please.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
2. M: Did you have a good time going skiing in the park with your friends yesterday?
W: Yes. We felt exhausted. In the afternoon we went to a tea house for relaxation.
Q: What did the woman do yesterday morning?
3. W: The book you want is checked out. It is in high demand at the moment.
M: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Can you keep it for me when it gets returned?
Q: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?
4. M: I feel very nervous about our presentation tonight.
W: Everybody is. It’s 2:00. We have three hours and a quarter to go. Let’s practice.
Q: When will the presentation start?
5. W: Look at this cool camera! It seems quite professional, doesn’t it?
M: It’s easy-to-handle. And it is one of my favourite types of photographic equipment.
Q: What does the man mean?
6. M: What’s happened to Jerry? He hasn’t been around for at least 3 weeks.
W: He took a leave to see his mother in Europe.
Q: What can we learn about Jerry from the conversation?
7. W: Let me introduce Margie to you?
M: Are you kidding? We were deskmates in primary school.
Q: What can we learn about the man and Margie?
8. M: Excuse me, I am a stranger here and I’m looking for the nearest post office.
W: No problem. Please continue two blocks and it’s beside the police station.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
9. W: Here’s an ad for an apartment with two bedrooms which is not too small.
M: What’s the phone number? I’ll find out if it’s available for immediate use.
Q: What can we learn about the man?
10. M: You are a tennis player. I’m a big fan of it, too. How about a game sometime?
W: Sure thing! That’s an excellent idea. Why not now?
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
Section B Passages
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Here are some ideas that can add something special to your family reunion.
Whether your reunion is large or small, it’s nice to have a “Welcoming Address” to start with. It doesn’t have to be long — five to ten minutes, unless you have a really good speaker in the family. A few things you might put in a welcoming address, such as welcome everyone to the reunion, and thank them for coming, give a general outline of the activities, thank the people who lent a hand.
Next, Create Awards to be passed out to family members. Use your imagination and try to think up as many categories as possible, so that you can recognize the largest amount of family members that you can. Possible categories include The oldest and youngest family members, Who traveled the least and greatest distances to attend.
Last, Print a Family Book. Print a book of your family by asking family members for a picture to scan in and include in the book. Have a marker available for corrections and updates to the book for next year’s reunion, you know, babies and all.
Questions:
11. What is the appropriate time length of a welcome address?
12. What is one of the benefits of creating awards?
13. Which of the following is not included in the family reunion ideas in the passage?
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
Hello! My name is Will, and I am a first year at Deep Springs College. Hopefully you will enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing these posts.
Deep Springs is a college located on a farm in California’s High Desert. L.L. Nunn founded the school in 1917 in order to help young men prepare themselves for lives of service to humanity. The school has 26 students, along with its staff, form a close community engaged in this intense project.
Each student attends for two years and receives a full scholarship valued at over $50,000 per year. Afterwards, most students complete their degrees at the world’s most famous four-year universities.
Things are pretty sweet here. For me, at least. I’m taking three courses this semester: politics, a musical theory and composition course with the wonderful Dick Dawson, who visits each Thursday.
And there are many more guests in the desert — we’ve had a number of professors visit the College in the last couple weeks to interview for the position of some courses. While they were here, they offered sample classes, gave presentations of their research, and were interviewed by the Student Body. All of them brought new energy that is so important to a Deep Springs education.
Questions:
14. What is the speaker Will?
15. What’s L.L. Nunn’s purpose of founding Deep Spring College?
16. Why did a number of professors visit the college?
Section C Longer conversations
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer
M: Passport and boarding card, please… Thank you. Why do you come to Germany?
W: I come here to visit my cousins first, Officer. Then I am going to take some Intensive German language course in Berlin during the summer session.
M: And how long do you plan on staying?
W: Approximately two months. My return flight is estimated on the 30th of August because I will be back to Shanghai and finish my studying in the University.
M: Ok. And do you plan on working while you’re here?
W: No, definitely not. I am only here for study traveling.
M: Where will you be staying while you are here?
W: Actually, my cousin has helped me to make a reservation in the dormitory. I am sure that I will stay there for the whole summer.
M: Ok, well, welcome to Germany. Enjoy your stay.
Blacks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
M: Hi! Liza. Are you sure you’re alright. You look a bit worried today? Is anything wrong?
W: Well. Last night I found I lost my wallet.
M: Oh dear. That’s terrible. What was in your wallet?
W: Well, some money of course, a visa, my identity card and some photos.
M: Well. If I were you, I would make a phone call to the police right away.
W: Yes, I have already done that and they already looked for it. I’ll leave soon and I need my visa and identity card badly.
M: Oh dear. What a pity. Then where did you lose your wallet?
W: I last saw my wallet when I left the theatre last night.
M: I think you should put out a public notice in the local newspaper. Tell people the things and where you lost them.
W: But that takes too long. And Star Theater is not popular in the neighbourhood.
M: Wait a minute. Such a coincidence! My uncle lives very close to the theatre. I could ask him to go to theatre to look for it.
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