2015—2016学年高二（上）期英语期中测试卷
(满分150分，考试时间为120分钟)
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）
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. Why are bears entering the neighbourhoods?
A. They are scared. B. They are hungry. C. They are homeless.
2. What does the man often put in his pocket?
A. Keys and pens. B. Pencils and knives. C. Books and pens.
3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Chinese food. B. Speaking skills. C. Table manners.
4. What is the man worrying about the house?
A. The parking. B. The price. C. The noise.
5. What’s the man’s problem?
A. He was cheated online. B. He had a car accident. C. He lost his credit card.
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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，各个小题将给出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. Where did the woman pretend to be a middle-aged man?
A. In a play. B. On the net. C. In the street.
7. What does the woman intend to do?
A. Cheat young girls. B. Help young girls. C. Make more friends. . 听第7段材料，回答第8至第9题。
8. What’s wrong with the man’s American friend one day?
A. He caught a cold. B. He had a fever. C. He got a headache.
9. How did the man’s American friend react to his concern?
A. Thankful. B. Confused. C. Unhappy.
听第8段材料，回答第10至第12题。
10. Where would the man go if he had a plane ticket to anywhere in the world?
A. New York. B. London. C. Home.
11. What does the woman think of travelling abroad alone?
A. Rewarding. B. Encouraging. C. Challenging.
12. Why does the woman want to take a laptop computer?
A. To practise English. B. To check emails. C. To check the route.
听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。
13. Where are the speakers now?
A. In America. B. In China. C. In England.
14. What does the woman think of pandas?
A. Dangerous. B. Clever. C. Heavy.
15. What does the man suggest they do to help pandas?
A. Have them as pets.
B. Raise their newborn babies.
C. Train them in the wild.
16. What do they decide to do at last?
A. Visit a zoo. B. Go shopping. C. See a movie.
听第10段材料，回答第17至第20题。
17. How many people got injured in the fire?
A. 34. B. 29. C. 15.
18. How did the man start the fire in a Hangzhou city bus?
A. By using gasoline. B. By using cooking oil. C. By using banana oil.
19. How is the purpose of the man’s attack?
A. Certain. B. Clear. C. Unclear. 20. What will the Hangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage do?
A. Honor those fighting in the fire.
B. Help those getting seriously injured.
C. Reward those offering emergency services.
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
Japan’s youth are losing interest in science and as a result，threatening the
nation’s industrial progress.According to Japan Science and Technology Agency，young Japanese are surrounded by hightech devices(设备)，but are not interested in
how they work.
Japanese businesses have succeeded partly because they’ve a great many
engineers.A drop in interest could lead to a decline in
their numbers and quality.“In
the past，the young had a big interest in science and technology.” said Hirano，director of the agency’s policy department.
There are two main reasons for the problem.The first is known as “black box
syndrome” of modern technology.
Electronic devices depend on tiny silicon chips，which can only be made in big
factories，whose workings can’t be seen by the eyes.The devices，unlike machines
of the past driven by gears and wheels，are simply boxes.
Young Japanese，brought up on video games and at home with computers，enjoy using
modern technology，but this is a passive interest and different from the curiosity
about how things work.“You need an active interest to get interested in science.This
is declining in the young.” said Hirano.
About twothirds of Japanese in their 20s use PCs，twice the number of those in
their 50s.But only 40% of those in their 20s say they are interested in news about
science and technology，compared to 60% of the 50 to 60 year olds.
“Another reason for it is that life in modern Japan is too comfortable，”he
said，“A wealthy society reduces people’s desire to modernize and develop their country.To a degree，you can’t avoid this when the fruits of science and technology
are fully developed.” Similarly，science in Europe and the US has also suffered a
lack of interest.
21.Japanese youth’s interest in science is dropping probably because________.
A．scientists don’t make much money in Japan
B．there are too many scientists in Japan already
C．science is more difficult for young people to learn
D．they’re not curious about how hightech devices work
22．The underlined word “their” in Paragraph 2 refers to________.
A．Japanese businesses’ B．Japanese engineers’
C．Japan’s youth’s D．hightech devices’
23．Why does science meet the same problem in Japan，the US and Europe?
A．People are satisfied with the convenience hightech devices brings to them.
B．People believe they don’t need to develop their science any more.
C．People think hightech devices destroys the environment.
D．People don’t want to live the modernized life.
B
There’s nothing sadder than reading about a lost child in the newspaper or seeing
the story of a child gone missing on the news.Fortunately for us as parents there
is a way to avoid this type of tragedy through GPS tracking for children.Global
positioning system technology can make it so that we need not worry about our children
being lost as much as we used to in the past.
GPS systems for kids are small devices that can be worn like a pager (呼机)，implanted in a watch or attached to the child’s clothing or backpack.It will then
deliver information to you about the child’s location at all times providing you
with peace of mind.The GPS systems can be programmed to send information in intervals
as short as 15 seconds.
You can imagine how much more relaxed you would be when you’re able to log your
computer at any time and know within several yards exactly where your child is.Some
of the GPS kids units even have a panic button that the child can push to send an
immediate alert in case of an emergency.This notification will go both to you and
to the GPS tracking service so that authorities can be alerted.
For small children the GPS tracking device can be as small as a watch or pager
