金山中学2015学年度第一学期高二年级英语学科期末考试卷（考试时间：90分钟满分：100分命题人：马林审核人：杨晓丽）2016.1(答案一律写在答题纸上)第I卷（共75分）Ⅰ.Listening Comprehension (20%)Section ADirections: 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. He can use her dictionary. B. The dictionary is nowhere to be found.C. He is not allowed to use the dictionary.D. She wants to help the man.2. A. $50. B. $28 C. $14 D. $153. A. To the dinning hall. B. To a shopping mall.C. To a restaurant.D. To a bookshop.4. A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By car. D. On foot.5. A. He is eager to go home. B. He enjoys the weather here.C. He doesn’t agree with the woman.D. He doesn’t miss his home.6. A. She has got over the stomachache. B. Her condition is improving.C. She ha sn’t seen a doctor yet.D. She took the medicine by mistake.7. A. In an elevator. B. On a bus. C. In a taxi. D. On a boat.8. A. Sue didn’t plan to come to the party. B. Sue was always changing her mind.C. Sue wasn’t willing to attend parties.D. Sue enjoyed being alone.9. A. He suffered from a high fever. B. He didn’t want to leave his mother.C. He didn’t like hiking with his mother.D. He got hurt when coming down.10. A. She doesn’t like having parties. B. She is ready to do anything.C. She would rather do something else.D. She isn’t willing to help others.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear one short passage, and you will be asked three questions on the passage. The passage 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. Write down every word. B. Learn everything by heart.C. Make an outline of important points.D. Keep every sentence in mind.12. A. Keep eye contact with your audience. B. Keep yourself straight while standing.C. Pause after an important point.D. Refer to your notes quite often.13. A. To emphasize one’s points. B. To relieve your nervousness.C. To hold audience’s interest.D. To make your speech vivid.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. How to improve listening ability.B. How to develop reading ability.C. How to write better English and read fast.D. How to improve spoken English.15. A. It’s better to have a dictionary at hand.B. It’s better to choose a good radio set.C. It’s better read the news in Chinese first.D. It’s better not to look up words in a dictionary.16. A. Listening is more important than reading and writing.B. Start the second book even if you don’t understand the first.C. Don’t try to run before you can walk.D. Special English is too difficult for English learners.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear one longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and vocabulary（25%）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)There was this wise teacher who took all his students for tea. They were surprised that all the cups on the table were different. They all took a cup and thought of ___(21)___ (drink) their tea, each looking at the cups of others. The teacher let them do that for a while and then said: “Do you notice your behavior? You are all looking at each other’s tea cup and I ____(22) ___ see some of you who have the chipped (有残缺的) ones are even envious of the finer cups of others. Is this not so?”The students agreed, for they ___(23)___ (amuse) by their own behavior. “I put them there on purpose, and you may probably wonder ____(24) ___ you all had different cups. You see, they are like life itself. Life is like that tea and the cups are like the physical circumstances of your life. You all got ___(25) ___ same thing in your cups — tea. And yet you cannot truly enjoy ___(26) ___ in your being envious of another’s cup. It’s quite similar to life. You forget to enjoy your own life just___(27)___ you concentrate on being envious of the circumstances of someone else’s life.So now, close your eyes, and taste your own tea. Really taste it. And tell me — did it matter ___(28) ____ which cup it came?”(B)When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people ____(29)____ meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we ____(30) ____ (know) how to be grateful for that gift. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing (荡秋千) with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the ____(31)____ (good) conversation you've ever had.It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ____(32)____ we've been missing until it arrives.Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it ____(33) ____ (grow) in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush (痴迷) on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, ___(34)____ it takes a lifetime to forget someone.Don't go for looks; they can cheat you. Don't go for wealth ; Even that disappears. Go for those people ___ (35)____ make you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the very one ___(36) ___makes your heart smile.Section B（9%）Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.As the beautiful holiday ends, a new semester comes. Most children have a difficult ___37___ making the back-to-school transition. As with any new or ___38___unsettling situation -- like starting school for the first time or entering a new grade or new school -- allow children time to adjust. Remind them that everyone feels a little ___39___ about the first day of school.Emphasize the ___40___ things about going back to school, such as hanging out with old friends, meeting new classmates, buying cool school supplies and getting involved in sports and other activities. It is also important to talk to children about what worries them and ___41___ comfort: are they afraid they won’t make new friends or get along well with their teachers? Is the thought of schoolwork ___42___ them? Are they worried about the bully from last year?Consider adjusting your own ___43___ to make the transition smoother. If possible, it is especially beneficial for parents to be home at the end of the school day for the first week. But many working parents just don’t have the f ree time. Try to arrange your evenings instead so that you can give your children as much time as they need___44___ during those first few days. If your child is starting a new school, ___45____the school the first day to arrange a visit. And ask if your child can be paired up with another student, and if you can be connected with other new parents. This will help both of you with the adjustment to new people and surroundings.III. Reading ComprehensionSection A （10%）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.When it comes to eating smart for your heart, stop thinking about short-term solutions. Just live a ___46___ life in a straightforward way that will serve you well for years to come.Smart eating is more than having a second thought about every bite of food you lift to your ___47___ “In the past we used to believe that certain amounts of individual nutrien ts（营养）were the key to___48___ health,” Professor Linda Van Horn, chair of the American Heart Association’s Nutrition Committee. “But now we have a different understanding of healthy eating and the kinds of food necessary to ___49___ not only heart attack but also common diseases,” she adds.Scientists now focus on the bigger picture of the___50 ___ diet eaten over several days or a week rather than on the low count of this or that eaten at each meal.Fruits, vegetables and whole grains, for example, provide nutrients and plant-based mixture ___51___to good health. “The more we learn, the healthier we are by the good things they ___52___,” Van Horn continues, “and how they work together with each other to keep us healthy.” You’ll automatically be on the r ight heart-healthy road if vegetables, fruits and whole grains make up three quarters of the food on your ___53___ plate. Fill in the remaining one quarter with lean meat or chicken, fish or eggs.The foods you choose to eat as well as those you choose to ___54___clearly contribute to your health. Without a doubt, each of the small decisions you make in this can ___55___ your health in the years to come.46. A. lazy B. kind C. crazy D. simple47. A. nose B. head C. mouth D. eyes48. A good B. awful C. normal D. present49. A. cure B. prevent C. damage D. grow50. A. daily B. balanced C. vegetarian D. protein51. A. similar B. adequate C. senior D. necessary52. A. attract B. contain C. produce D. lack53. A. metal B. steak C. dinner D. soup54. A. preserve B. overuse C. taste D. avoid55. A. abandon B. beat C. influence D. signalSection B（14%）Directions: Read the following two 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 just read.(A)Even before my father left us, my mother had to go back to work to support our family. Once I came out of the kitchen, complaining, “Mom, I can’t peel potatoes. I have only one hand.”Mom never looked up from sewing. “You get yourself into that kitchen and peel those potatoes,” she told me. “And don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”In the second grade, our teacher lined up my class on the playground and had each of us raceacross the monkey bars, swinging from one high steel rod to the next. When it was my turn, I shook my head. Some kids behind me laughed, and I went home crying.That night I told Mom about it. She hugged me, and I saw her “we’ll see about that” l ook. The next afternoon, she took me back to school. At the deserted playground, Mom looked carefully at the bars.“Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I struggled to lift myself with my right hand until I could hold the bar with my other elbow （肘）. Day after day we practiced, and she praised me for every rung （横档）I reached. I’ll never forget the next time, crossing the rungs, I looked down at the kids who were standing with their mouths open.One night, after a dance at my new junior high, I lay in bed sobbing. I could hear Mom come into my room. “Mom,” I said, weeping, “none of the boys would dance with me.”For a long time, I didn’t hear anything. Then she said, “Oh, honey, someday you’ll be beating those boys off with a bat.” Her voice was faint. I peeked out from my covers to see tears running down her cheeks. Then I knew how much she suffered on my behalf. She had never let me see her tears.56. Which can be used to describe Mom’s attitude when she made the child peel potato es?A. Cruel.B. Favorable.C. Strict.D. Sympathetic.57. From the passage, we know monkey bars can help a child train ______.A. the strength and skill to hang and swayB. the speed of one’s hand movementC. the skill to throw and catch thingsD. the bodily skill to rotate round a bar58. What does the sentence “I saw her ‘we’ll see about that’ look” imply?A. Mom believed every aim could be achieved if you stuck to it.B. The race across monkey bars was not difficult enough for a child to give up.C. Mom was determined to prove she herself was better than the teacher.D. What the child had said brought Mom great attraction and curiosity.59. When the author looked down at the kids, they were standing with their mouths open because_______.A. they felt sorry for what they had done beforeB. they were afraid the author might fall off and get hurtC. they wanted to see what the author would do on the barsD. they were astonished to find the author’s progress(B)Most people agree that honesty is a good thing. But does Mother Nature agree? Animals can't talk, but can they lie in other ways? Can they lie with their bodies and behavior? Animal experts may not call it lying, but they do agree that many animals, from birds to chimpanzees, behave dishonestly to fool other animals. Why? Dishonesty often helps them survive.Many kinds of birds are very successful at fooling other animals. For example, a bird called the plover sometimes pretends to be hurt in order to protect its young. When a predator（猎食动物）gets close to its nest, the plover leads the predator away from the nest. How? It pretends to have a broken wing. The predator follows the "hurt" adult, leaving the baby birds safe in the nest.Another kind of bird, the scrub jay, buries its food so it always has something to eat. Scrub jays are also thieves. They watch where others bury their food and steal it. But clever scrub jays seem to know when a thief is watching them. So they go back later, unbury the food, and bury it again somewhere else.Birds called cuckoos have found a way to have babies without doing much work. How? They don't make nests. Instead, they get into other birds' nests secretly. Then they lay their eggs and fly away. When the baby birds come out, their adoptive parents feed them.Chimpanzees, or chimps, can also be sneaky. After a fight, the losing chimp will give its hand to the other. When the winning chimp puts out its hand, too, the chimps are friendly again. But an animal expert once saw a losing chimp take the winner's hand and start fighting again.Chimps are sneaky in other ways, too. When chimps find food that they love, such as bananas, it is natural for them to cry out. Then other chimps come running. But some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find food. That way, other chimps don't hear them, and they don't need to share their food.As children, many of us learn the saying "You can't fool Mother Nature." But maybe you can't trust her, either.60. A plover protects its young from a predator by______.A. getting closer to its youngB. driving away the adult predatorC. leaving its young in another nestD. pretending to be injured61. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Some chimps lower their cry to keep food away from others.B. The losing chimp won the fight by taking the winner's hand.C. Cuckoos fool their adoptive parents by making no nests.D. Some clever scrub jays often steal their food back.62. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. Do animals lie?B. Does Mother Nature fool animals?C. How do animals learn to lie?D. How does honesty help animals survive?Section C (6%)Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.Most of the people experience the natural feeling of jealousy at some point in their lives when it comes to romance. Some people feel it more strongly than others and some even suffer from the feeling to the extent that jealousy starts consuming them. In some cases the feeling is justified and in others it is not. Frankly speaking, jealousy is a poisonous emotion, both for the person experiencing it and for their partner.For the most part, jealousy is a byproduct of one’s own problems with self-confidence and self-esteem. It is also about a deep fear of the unknown and of change, fear of being abandoned and of losing power or control in a relationship, and also the fear that the needs will not be met. Jealous people feel often very insecure and anxious about their worthiness, feeling that they might not be good enough for the other partner. They may feel threatened by good looks of other people comparing them to their own selves and worrying that the other part might leave them at any time.Whatever the reason is that caused jealous emotions, whether justified or not, the feeling can become a huge factor in disconnection between couples.Being in a relationship with someone who is very jealous, is very hard as in many cases it turns out that along with the jealousy suddenly comes control. A jealous partner wants to control everything the other part does, where they go, and who they communicate with. Sometimes extreme jealousy can also lead to physical violence. Violence will be harder to control as the relationship progresses, so if it started reaching dangerously high levels, it would be the best to break up, or if that is not manageable at that point, then there is a need to seek for help as soon as possible.So, how is it possible to prevent these ugly thoughts from appearing and from flooding one’s mind at all? The best thing to start with is to start communicating your feelings with your partner. It is important to ask them why they have chosen especially you and also tell them openly that you love them. You may want to explain also that because they are so important to you, you are feeling jealous and insecure about the relationship. There is a great chance that your partner will reassure you of the fact that he/she is in a relationship with you because of feelings for you only and not someone better to come along.63.What does the author think of jealousy?_____________________________________________________________________________64.Jealousy most probably implies a person’s lack of __________________________________65.Extreme jealousy is dangerous because __________________________________________ (Note：Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)第II卷（共25分）Ⅰ.Translation (15%)Section ADirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1.这张票能让你免费参观上海大剧院。
