孝感高中2015—2016学年度高二下学期期末考试
英语试题
命题人：吕孝梅 考试时间：120分钟 分值：150分
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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．What’s the man probably?
A．A repairman． B．A fireman． C．A policeman．
2．What’s the possible relationship between the two speakers?
A．Mother and son．
B．Customer and shopkeeper．
C．Husband and wife．
3．What’s Tom going to do after class?
A．Do some sports． B．Go to the library． C．Go to the bookstore．
4．What’s wrong with the speakers?
A．They lose their way．
B．They took the wrong bus．
C．They can’t find their map．
5．What was the woman most probably doing last night?
A．Watching TV at home． B．Expecting a phone call． C．Talking to her friends．
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 are they most probably talking about?
A．The weather of London． B．Traveling in England． C．The traffic of London．
7．What does the woman think of the London bus?
A．Rather slow． B．Very dirty． C．Too expensive．
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8．What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A．Host and guest． B．Customer and waitress． C．Husband and wife．
9．What does the woman ask the man to do?
A．Have some soup． B．Have more rice． C．Have more fish．
10．Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A．At a restaurant． B．At the man’s． C．At the woman’s．
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11．Why does the woman want to move out of her present flat?
A．It costs her too much．
B．It’s too far from the school．
C．It’s shared by too many roommates．
12．What kind of flat is the woman looking for?
A．One with furniture in it．
B．One having enough space．
C．One where she can live alone．
13．How is the man going to help the woman?
A．He’ll share his flat with her．
B．He’ll seek a flat in the school．
C．He’ll visit a block of flats．
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14．Who did Rocky go to the concert with last night?
A．His friends． B．His children． C．His parents．
15．What was the concert held for?
A．To collect money for the quake-hit areas．
B．To show the singers’ love for children．
C．To celebrate a festival in Sichuan．
16．What is Rocky’s opinion?
A．By loving others, we can make the world happier．
B．Everyone should donate money to those poor people．
C．There will no longer be disasters in the world．
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．What’s the program the woman is hosting?
A．Pop World of ABC International.
B．The History of Pop.
C．The Road of Music.
18．Which program introduces the background of the pop songs?
A．Pop Words. B．About the Hits. C．The History of Pop.
19．What can be expected in the program about the Big Hits?
A．Letters from the audience will be read in the program.
B．Interviews with the singers or songwriters can be heard.
C．Listeners can interview the singers and songwriters.
20．What does a native English speaker think of English pop songs?
A．Difficult to understand． B．Surprising. C．Understandable．
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。
A
Unless you bring your own thermos, paper cups are the real option for on-the-go coffee. But as we all know, producing these simple items cuts down forests of trees and contributes to mountains of waste. In fact, Starbucks alone uses 4 billion paper cups a year globally and most of these plastic-lined cups are never recycled.
But a project from Reduce. Reuse. Grow. is handling the coffee industry’s paper cup problem by giving these single-use coffee holders a further purpose: reforestation.
A company in California has developed the world’s first plantable coffee cup, which has seeds in the paper-based material. That means after you’re done with the cup, you can tear it, leave it in water for a few minutes, bury it and let nature take over.
To prevent the spread of invasive plants, the bottom of the cup details the seed variety and also includes instructions on how to plant it either in the northern or central coast of California. For those who don’t want to get their hands dirty, the cup can be put into a Reduce. Reuse. Grow bin where it will eventually be taken to a reforestation location. The cup can biodegrade(生物降解) within 180 days and offer nutrition to plants.
The company is trying to put the cup into commercial production and persuade coffee shops to buy the cups.
21. Starbucks is mentioned in Paragraph 1 _____.
A. because Starbucks provides recyclable cups
B. because Starbucks uses pretty plastic-lined cups
C. to show Starbucks is famous for its on-the-go coffee
D. to prove the coffee industry causes the paper cup problem
22. The plantable coffee cup _____.
A. can be used many times
B. contains seeds in its material
C. can be used as a flowerpot
D. is made of waterproof material
23. The seed variety is shown on the cup mainly to _____.
A. interest cup users
B. spread knowledge of plants
C. make sure it is planted properly
D. help users choose certain cups
24. What is a Reduce. Reuse. Grow. bin used for?
A. Selling plantable coffee cups. [来源:Zxxk.Com]
B. Making plantable coffee cups.
C. Collecting plantable coffee cups.
D. Recycling plantable coffee cups.
B
Our education system was invented. There were no public systems of education before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the most useful subjects for work are at the top and you were probably driven away from what you did as a kid at school--things you liked--because you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don’t do music. You’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art. You’re not going to be an artist. In addition, the whole system of public education around the world is a process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re
not because the thing they were good at wasn’t valued at school.
I think we can’t afford to go on that way. In the next 30 years, more people worldwide will be graduating through education than since the beginning of the history. Suddenly, degrees aren’t worth anything. When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. But now you need a Master’s degree where the previous job required a Bachelor, and now you need a Ph.D. for the other. It’s a process of academic inflation (膨胀), and it indicates the whole structure of education needs changing.
All the great teachers I’ve ever met and worked with are people who can inspire interest and curiosity and light up people’s imaginations with the interests they themselves have for a particular field of work. I mean, teaching is not only a process of giving people direct instructions and information they have to memorize, it is much more than that.
I believe our only hope for the future is to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children. And our task is to educate their whole being so they can face the future. By the way, we may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it.
25. Things little kids like to do are not taught at school because they _____.
A. are not useful for making a living
B. are not challenging enough for students
C. don't meet the expectation of parents
D. don't fit in classroom teaching
26. The author develops the second paragraph mainly _____.
A. by classification B. by process
C. by example D. by comparison
27. In the author’s view, a good teacher should _____.
A. be imaginative
B. be knowledgeable
C. create their own ways of teaching
D. encourage people to develop their interests
C
"Please read this," my three-year-old Claire said one day, pointing to a page with an old children's song: "Do you know how to plant cabbages". In blue ink, someone had crossed out cabbages and written "Watermelons!"
"Daddy! Did you do that?" Claire asked, looking up with an expression of shock. We had only recently asked her not to write in books, and suddenly here was proof that her parents weren't practicing what they asked. I told her it was written by my grandfather and sat down to tell the story.
I grew up on Granddad’s farm in Nebraska, America. One afternoon, I decided to plant some watermelons.
"Hmm, there's a crop I haven't tried!" Granddad smiled. "Let's do it now!"
With Granddad’s help I planted the seeds.
The next morning, I found a big watermelon there. I knew it was Granddad that put a watermelon there and I thought he had played a joke on me.
Later that month, Granddad gave me a book. "For school," he said seriously. I opened it to
where he'd written "Watermelons!" and laughed at another of his jokes.
Claire listened quietly to the story and asked to plant seeds too, so I took her to buy some seeds. On the walk home, I realized for the first time that Granddad could have met my childish enthusiasm with some disappointing facts such as that watermelons don't grow well in Nebraska or that it was too late to plant them anyway. But instead of doing that, he had stolen back into town that afternoon and bought the biggest melon on the market. That night, after I was asleep, he had awkwardly unloaded it and, with a painful bend, placed it exactly above my seeds. He made sure I experienced the "wow."
I had always thought the midnight miracle（奇迹）was just one of Granddad’s jokes. Now I realized he had planted hope that day. As Claire planted the seeds happily, I watched my grandfather's joy take fresh root in her life. And that was the biggest miracle of all.
28. Claire was shocked at the mark on the page because_____.
A. her great-grandfather did something her parents forbad
B. someone preferred watermelons to cabbages
C. she thought her parents didn't act as they said
D. there should be a mistake in the book
29. Why did Granddad put a watermelon where the author planted seeds?
A. Because he didn't want to waste the watermelon.
B. Because he didn't want to disappoint the author.
C. Because he wanted to make fun of the author.
D. Because he wanted the author to be a farmer.
30. Which of the following best describes Granddad?
A. Talented and reliable. B. Generous and patient.
C. Determined and happy. D. Caring and humorous.
31. What's the best title for the text?
A. Grandfather's great love B. Set children a good example
C. The day we planted hope D. Happy memories of childhood
D
Hippos（河马）have always attracted people's interest. Modern hippos in Walt Disney movies can dance lightly. A stone hippo in a 13th-century church in France has wings. And in ancient Egyptian fairy tales, the hippo was a goddess that guided the dead to the afterworld.
Despite their popular appeal, hippos, as well as other animals, have difficulty when their needs conflict with those of humans. The early Egyptians liked to hunt hippos for their teeth and because they were dangerous animals. Amulets（护身符）to protect babies from demons（恶魔）were made from hippo bones.
About 4,000 years ago, there were so many hippos in Egypt that they caused serious crop damage. Egyptian farmers killed them routinely, and by the beginning of the 19th century, all the hippos in Africa had been killed.
People used to see hippos fight in the arenas（角斗场）of ancient Rome. After the fall of the Roman Empire, hippos weren't seen in Europe again until a few zoos began to exhibit them in the mid 1800s.
All the various uses and abuses of hippos through the centuries have made their population fall greatly. Where they do occur, mostly in national parks, they live in such high density that they make the grasslands bare. This causes other grass-eating animals to go farther for food, and hippos,
which can't live far from water, destroy their own feeding grounds.
32. In Africa, hippos became extinct _____.
A. around the 1850s B. in the 13th century
C. about 4,000 years ago D. in the early 19th century
33. Apart from protecting crops, what's the main reason for people to kill hippos?
A. To save other animals.
B. To satisfy personal demands.
C. To look for guidance after death.
D. To follow the routine established by the Egyptians.
34. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by _____?
A. concentration B. altitude C. level D. temperature
35. What problems do hippos lead to?
A. They eat up the grass in their habitats.
B. They always destroy other animals' food.
C. They stop other animals from drinking water.
D. They grow too quickly for the land to support.
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，选项中有两项为多余选项。
Award-winning novelist Jamaica Kincaid is talking with Time about her new book See Now Then.
Your new book, See Now Then, features a Caribbean writer whose husband is a composer and who lives in the Northeast with two kids. Sounds like you. How autobiographical（自传的）is it?
36 But I wasn't thinking of myself. My own self, my own everyday life, is sort of very untidy and smelly and kind of annoying under close observation.
What do you mean, untidy and smelly?
I like to be in my pajamas（睡衣）all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. 37 I'm not fun to be with.
There's less in this book about slavery and race than in some of your previous work. 38
Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Slavery interests me because it's against humanity and has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that.
So it's not interesting to you that the most powerful man in America is black ?
Not really. As I say, race is not important to me. The first time I saw Barack Obama, he gave a wonderful speech. But what made me really like him is that his wife came out and she was darker than he is. 39
You went to the U.S. to be a maid. What do you think today when you see maids from the West Indies?
That they probably are not as lucky as I was. I've been extremely lucky my entire life. And I've never said no to any kindness. 40
A. I like to eat in bed.
B. I've always taken it and said thank you.
C. Are you still interested in those topics?
D. A lot of events in the book would seem to parallel my own life.
E. Has your husband read this seemingly autobiographical novel?
F. When you find someone you hate a lot, you should really look at it.
G. It's so rare to see a black man married to a woman who is darker than he is.
第三部分：语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：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、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
When I was about twelve I used to visit this elderly gentleman who was a volunteer counselor（辅导员）for the Boy Scouts（童子军）. He would give us 41 until he thought we were skilled in a given subject. I did not know him long, but I 42 him for giving so much to the neighborhood, 43 when he was in poor health.
One day I made an appointment with him, but I 44 about it until some three hours later. I jumped on my bike and rode 45 to his home, all the while 46 about how poorly he must think of me. His wife 47 the door and I made a(n) 48 immediately, but I could tell that something was 49 . She paused and then told me her 50 had just died. Then she apologized for not having had time to 51 me. I left her home wondering if somehow my 52 to keep the appointment had 53 him so much that he died.
Some thirty years later I told this 54 to a friend. I said that though I had long since realized that my 55 had nothing to do with his 56 , I could not help wondering if I could have made a 57 had I shown up on time. My friend said that my not being there was probably meant to be, 58 the situation would have been too painful for me. Hearing her say that was like a huge wave hitting me and lifting this heavy weight I'd been 59 for years. Now whenever I think of that kind old gentleman, I think too of the 60 words of my friend.
41. A. shows B. tasks C. reports D. promises
42. A. believed B. followed C. admired D. missed
43. A. just B. still C. also D. even
44. A. talked B. learned C. cared D. forgot
45. A. carefully B. happily C. quickly D. safely
46. A. complaining B. knowing C. worrying D. hearing
47. A. locked B. closed C. held D. answered
48. A. apology B. excuse C. offer D. suggestion
49. A. special B. wrong C. strange D. funny
50. A. husband B. master C. boy D. friend
51. A. warn B. persuade C. encourage D. inform
52. A. stopping B. failing C. expecting D. deciding
53. A. bored B. surprised C. puzzled D. disappointed
54. A. secret B. history C. story D. lesson
55. A. change B. problem C. slowness D. lateness
56. A. death B. health C. life D. experience
57. A. difference B. deal C. choice D. plan
58. A. unless B. since C. if D. so
59. A. carrying B. supporting C. reducing D. losing
60. A. long B. big C. kind D. clear
第Ⅱ卷
第三部分：语言知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
If you travel or go abroad, it’s necessary to mix with the locals. This allows you 61. _____ (put) your language skills to the test and find out more about the local culture. 62. _____ (live) abroad for a long time, I’ve put together 63. _____ list of tips to help you make friends in a foreign country.
Firstly, say yes to everything (within reason). Obviously, if you don’t feel 64. _____ease, you can choose not to do something. However, don’t put off trying something new. The group of students from your class who invite you out for a coffee might end up 65. _____ (be) your friends for life!
Secondly, find a hobby or try something 66. _____ (entire) new. Join a dance class, a walking club, or learn to cook the local food--the possibilities are endless![来源:学科网ZXXK]
Thirdly, get out of the house! Hours 67. _____ (spend) in front of a computer with family and friends back home surely make you even more homesick. Make the most of the new and exciting place you live in.
Lastly, don’t be a wallflower. When surrounded by people speaking an unfamiliar language, you may feel it difficult to be 68. _____ (confidence) and involve 69. _____ (you) in conversations. Even so try to make your voice heard. It’s very likely 70. _____you will find everyone wants to know everything about you.[来源:学科网]
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。[来源:Zxxk.Com]
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last summer holiday, I went to a summer camp, there I had some friends already. I did many interested things with these friends, having funs. One day, I saw a boy, one I had previous known from one of my basketball teams. Stood by himself, he said, "I'm all alone." I happened to be a few feet from him and heard what he had said, but I went up to him and tapped him on shoulder. "We are not alone; I'm your friend," I said. Unfortunately, the boy didn't recognize me at first. It took him a while to figure out of that I was his teammate. Since then, though, we had hung out and become good friends.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。正在你校就读的美国交换生汤姆在校园网上发帖，想找一个人作为假期游览北京的导游。请你用英语给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1. 表明意愿；
2. 说明理由。
注意： 1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
I learned from your post that you are looking for a guide for your trip to Beijing during the vacation.
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Yours,
Li Hua
[来源:学科网ZXXK]
孝感高中2015—2016学年度高二下学期期末考试
英语答案
听力
1~5 BBCAB 6~10 CAACC
11~15 BACCA 16~20 AACBA
阅读
21~24 DBCC 25~27 ADD 28~31 CBDC
32~35 DBAA 36~40 DACGB
完形
41~45 BCDDC 46~50 CDABA 51~55 DBDCD
56~60 AABAC
语法填空
61．to put 62．Having lived 63．a 64．at 65．being
66．entirely 67．spent 68．confident 69．yourself 70．that
改错
the
have
You
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Standing
previously
fun
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where
Last summer holiday, I went to a summer camp, there I had some friends already. I did many interested things with these friends, having funs. One day, I saw a boy, one I had previous known from one of my basketball teams. Stood by himself, he said, "I'm all alone." I happened to be a few feet from him and heard what he had said, but I went up to him and tapped him on shoulder. "We are not alone; I'm your friend," I said. Unfortunately, the boy didn't recognize me at first. It took him a while to figure out of that I was his teammate. Since then, though, we had hung out and become good friends.
参考范文
Dear Tom，
I learned from your post that you are looking for a guide for your trip to Beijing during the vacation. I’m willing to guide you around the city.
I have been living in Beijing since I was born, so I know this city very well, including its public transportation, tourist attractions and local snacks. As I am very interested in the history and culture of Beijing, I have been to many famous tourist sports several times and I know them well, so I’m confident that I can give you a good introduction to them. In addition, I have a good command of English and am always ready enough to help you.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours
Li Hua
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