安徽省太和县八中2015-2016学年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷

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太和八中2015-2016第一学期高二期末英语考试试题

第一部分 听力 (共两节, 满分30分)。

1. How much did the man tip the woman?

A. $1. B. $10. C. $100.

2. How will the woman go home?

A. Walk. B. Run. C. Drive.

3. What meal will the speakers eat?

A. Breakfast. B. Lunch. C. Dinner.

4. Who was at the door?

A. The postman.

B. The man’s friend.

C. The woman’s brother.

5. When will the tomatoes be ready?

A. Right now.

B. In three weeks.

C. In two months.

第二节

6. Where are the speakers?

A. At a hotel. B. At a store. C. At a restaurant.

7. How does the woman feel in the end?

A. Excited. B. Sick. C. Scared.

8. Who left the company?

A. Lisa. B. Steve. C. Tim.

9. What has the man been trying to do?

A. Give up coffee. B. Go to bed earlier. C. Employ a new employee.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where is the man?

A. On a farm. B. In a restaurant. C. At a grocery store.

11. What does the man like to put on his biscuits?

A. Cheese. B. Peanuts. C. Honey.

12. What does the man think of the biscuits?

A. They taste bad. B. They’re too big. C. They break easily.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Who is Mr. Taylor?

A. A teacher. B. The parent of a student. C. The school headmaster.

14. Why does the woman keep the curtains closed?

A. She wants to get some sleep. B. It gets too hot in the classroom.

C. Sunlight makes the children act wild.

15. How long should the children be outside, according to the man?

A. Less than an hour. B. At least one hour. C. Half a day.

16. What are the man’s students like after they run around outside?

A. They are quiet. B. They can’t sit quietly. C. They fight with each other.

2 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where is the park located?

A. In West Africa. B. In Southeast Asia. C. In South America.

18. What is true about the park?

A. There are over 900 types of plants. B. Visitors can’t get close to the birds.

C. There’s a lot of room to walk around.

19. How high is the waterfall?

A. 30 meters. B. 50 meters. C. 100 meters.

20. When does the All Stars Bird Show start?

A. At 9:00 a.m. B. At 5:00 p.m. C. At 6:00 p.m.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

A

A great French writer has said that we should help everyone as much as possible

because we often need help ourselves. The small even can help the great. To prove the

point, he tells the following simple story.

An ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to

reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant, almost exhausted, was still

bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity the bird threw her a

blade(叶片) of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus she reached the bank

again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass she heard a man

approaching. He was walking along barefooted and carrying a gun in his hand. As

soon as he saw the dove he wished to kill her, and he would certainly have done so,

but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what

had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and

smaller than herself that had saved her life.

21. According to the French writer, we often need help from others, therefore we

should _______.

A. help others as much as we can B. help those who may be useful to us

C. get as much help as possible D. help others in order to keep alive

22. An ant fell in the stream and could not reach the bank ________.

A. because she did not try hard B. because she tried too hard

C. because she did not cry for help D. no matter how hard she tried

23. The ant finally got on the side _______.

A. when the water pushed her B. with the help of a blade of grass given

by a dove

C. with the help of a piece of wood D. when the dove reached out a leg for

her

24. According to the passage, which of the following does the author express?

A. the dove was quite brave B. the ant’s cleverness

C. how an ant saved a bird D. that even the small can help the great

B

An old woman went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he

could make her see again. “If you fail”, she said, “you will get nothing,” The doctor

agreed with her.

3 The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure

her right away. Instead, each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things.

When he had taken everything that he wanted, he cured her blindness and sent her a

large bill. Now when the old woman could see again she noticed that all her things

had gone and she refused to pay the bill. So the doctor took her before a judge.

What the doctor says is true. She said to the judge. But I say I'm not cured, because I

still can't see any of the things in my house.

The old woman won her case and the doctor went away unhappily without

getting his pay.

25. The doctor didn't cure the old woman right away because _____.

A. He didn't know how to cure her B. He wanted to get a lot of money

C. He wanted to take the woman's things D The woman refused to pay him

26. The woman was ______ .

A. clever B. greedy C. cruel D. dishonest

27．The word “case” in the last paragraph means ______.

A. a single example B. a particular situation

C. a question to be decided in a court of law D. box

28．Which sentence is right according to the passage?

A. The judge didn't believe the old woman.

B. The doctor cured the woman's blindness in a short time.

C. The woman got back all her things taken by the doctor.

D. The doctor failed to get his pay.

C

In many countries, life expectancy is getting longer, and many middle-aged

children are taking care of their elderly parents. This can be very difficult because

elderly parents often need somebody to be with them all the time. Children can feel

that they are losing their privacy. If they decide to put their parents in a nursing

home, they feel ashamed because they think it is their duty to care for them, as their

parents took care of them when they were children.

In China, elderly parents usually stay with their children. Children become

their caretakers. This is one solution, but this situation is hard because the children

already have their own families and other responsibilities. Sons are supposed to

take on the responsibility of caring for their parents, but usually it is the

daughters-in-law who take care of them. Their sons’ contribution is mainly

financial. For women, this can be a great stress because they might also need to

take care of their children and husbands.

Another solution is to pay a nurse that can take care of aging parents. Children

will share the cost of this service. Having a person that can take care of their

parents makes life easier for them. In this situation, they only have to provide

companionship for their parents for a few hours a week or whenever their parents

ask them to go to some place with them.

These two solutions are common, but nursing homes, at least in China, are unusual.

29. What problem do children often have when they take care of their aging

parents?