江西省南昌市第二中学2015-2016学年高二上学期第三次考试英语试卷 Word版含答案

南昌二中2015－2016学年度上学期第二次考试高二英语试卷第 I 卷 ( 选择题 )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. What is the man going to do tonight?A. To the airport.B. To visit Nancy.C. To a birthday party.2. Why does the girl want to buy a clock?A. She has trouble waking up.B. She wants to buy someone a gift.C. Her watch is broken.3. Where did the woman stay while she was in Alaska?A. She stayed in the local's house.B. She stayed in a hotel with her friends.C. She camped near the mountains.4. What did the man ask Justin to do?A. Borrow some magazines for him.B. Bring some magazines to him.C. Refer to some magazines to finish his design.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A book.B. A writer.C. A film.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. When did the woman get to the Friendship Hotel?A. At a quarter past 11.B. At a quarter to 11.C. At 11.7. What do we know about the conversation?A. It's the rush hour when the woman got into the taxi.B. The driver gave the woman a lift.C. The driver would get to another hotel.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do you think may be the two speakers?A. Doctors.B. Patients.C. Basketball players.9. What do you know about their leader?A. He has got bird flu.B. He missed the important match.C. He has already come to life.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What do you know about the man?A. He is a foreigner.B. He doesn't like opera so much.C. He knows much about opera.11. What will they do to enjoy Beijing Opera?A. Book the tickets.B. Go to Chang'an Grand Theatre.C. Call the theater.12. What does the woman think of White Snake?A. A traditional play.B. The best Beijing Opera.C. A moving play.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What happened to Mr Yang?A.He won the marathon.B. He lost weight.C. He became a soccer team member.14. How many hours does Mr Yang do sports each week?A. 10 hours.B. 14 hours.C. 12 hours.15. Which sport does Mr Yang think is cheap and relaxing?A. Boxing.B. Cycling.C. Swimming.16. What does Mr Yang think of soccer?A. It's interesting, exciting and fast.B. It's fun, fast and good for many things.C. It's interesting, exciting and good for breathing.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a bus stop.B. At a train station.C. At an airport.18. How old is the child?A. More than two years old.B.Two years old.C. Under two years old.19. Why does the passenger want to walk her daughter?A. To make her feel at home.B. To meet her curiosity.C. To kill time.20. What do you learn from the conversation?A. The assistant gave them convenience.B. The man is going to see her mother.C. The assistant helped them carry the luggage.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。

AHello. I’m Jan from Mrs. Lake’s class. My class wants to work together to help the public. We think we have found a great way to do this. Last month we did a class project on the highways near our town. We learned about the Adopt-a-Highway Program. This program brings people together to pick up litter along the roads. We think it would be a great idea for all students in our school to join the program and adopt a highway.Adopting a highway is not like adopting a pet. When a highway is adopted, only part of the highway is cared for by a group of people. The group agrees to work every week to keep its part of the highway clean. Each group gets its own sign that has the name of the group printed on it. The sign is put up at the side of the road. This sign lets drivers know who is keeping that area of the road clean.The Adopt-a-Highway Program is a great way for people to help their environment look nicer. Also, the government does not have to send out as many road workers. This saves money. Finally, people may try harder to keep roads clean if they see people, especially teenagers like us, cleaning them up.We will need helpers to care for our adopted highway. If you want to feel great and keep our roads clean，please come with your parents to the meeting next week. We will meet in Mrs. Lake’ room on Wednesday at 6:00 P.M. At the meeting, we will talk about which roads are the dirtiest as a result of people's unkind acts. Then we' ll try to pick an area to adopt and clean.I look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Remember to keep our roads clean!21. What is the purpose of this speech?A. To introduce the traffic system.B. To tell a story about adopting a pet.C. To show drivers how to drive safely.D. To encourage students to join the program.22. What is the Adopt-a-Highway Program about?A. Giving names to the highways.B. Picking up litter along the roads.C. Drawing pictures of highways.D. Putting up signs near the roads.23. What should the students do first if they want to join the program?A. Go to a meeting on Wednesday.B. Pick a spot to care for.C. Write a letter to their parents.D. Call Mrs. Lake next week.24. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A. Adopt-a-PetB. Ways to Protect the EnvironmentC. Adopt-a-HighwayD. Volunteers on RoadsBRussia’s security chief has blamed an act of terror for the Russian A321 airliner crash in Egypt last month which killed 224 people. Whatever happened, the tragedy raises sad memories of horrific airplane crashes that have cost thousands of lives in recent decades .Some of the worst such incidents—like four crashes in frightening succession into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001; the 1988 downing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland; and a 1977 crash involving the apparent hijacking of a Malaysian Airlines jet that left 100 dead—involved terrorist activity. But there are many others that did not, with mechanical problems, pilot error or other reasons blamed for loss of life. Below are some examples of the latter: crashes that left at least 200 people dead in each incident.March 27 , 1977 :A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 beginning its takeoff crashed into Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 then still on the runway at the Los Rodeos Airport at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. A total of 574 people, aboard both planes, died .July 11 , 1991 :The landing gear of a Nigeria Airways DC-8 catches fire shortly after takeoff Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It doesn’t make it back to the airport, crashing nose-down less than 10,000 feet short of the runway and killing all 261 people aboard. April 26 , 1994 :The pilot of a China Airlines’ Flight 140 alerts the control tower at Japan’s Nagoya Airport of his intention not to land and try another approach. But something goes wrong and, a short time later, the Airbus A300 crashes leading to 264 deaths—though a few passengers do survive.September 2 , 1998 :A Swiss air jetliner that had departed New York’s Kennedy airport on its way to Geneva, Switzerland, goes down off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada; none of the 229 people aboard Flight 111 make it. Investigators believe that the MD-11 lost all electrical power immediately before the crash.June 1 , 2009 : Air France Flight 447 is on the way from Rio de Janiero to Paris when it and its 228 passengers and crew go missing somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. It’s not until five days later that the first bodies are found about 600 miles off the northern coast of Brazil. Two years later, French authorities blame the crash on equipment breakdown.25. The first paragraph is intended to ______.A. memorize those people aboard the Russian A321 airline.B. show it is the most serious incident in history.C. direct attention to some disastrous air plane crashes.D. analyze the cause of the disaster and blame the airline company.26. Which air crash resulted from terrorist attack ?A. China Airlines’ Flight 140B. Pan Am Flight 103C. Air France Flight 447D. Swissair Jetliner Flight 11127. Which of the following statements is not true ?A. Two planes of the same type hit each other on March 27 , 1977.B. There were over 264 people aboard China Airlines’ Flight 140.C. It took five days to find some bodies of Air France Flight 447.D. Swissair Jetliner Flight 111 crashed during its landing.CThe bed should be reserved as a place for sleep, but people tend to read an iPad a lot in bed before they go to sleep.Charles Czeisler, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues got a small group of people for an experiment. For five days in a row, the subjects (实验对象) read either a paper book or an iPad for four hours before sleep. Their sleep patterns were monitored all night. Before and after each trial period, they took hourlyblood tests to paint a day-long picture of just how much melatonin (褪黑激素) was in their blood at any given time.When the subjects read on the iPad as compared to the paper books, they reported feeling less sleepy at night and less active the following morning. They also took longer to fall asleep on the iPad nights, and the blood tests showed that their melatonin secretion (分泌) was delayed by an hour and a half.The researchers conclude in today's journal article that given (考虑到)the rise of e-readers and the increasingly widespread use of e-things among children and adolescents, more research into the long-term consequences of these devices on health and safety is urgently needed. Czeisler and colleagues go on, in the research paper, to note：“Reading an iPad in bed may increase cancer risk.”However, software has been developed that can reduce some of the blue light from the screens of phones and computers according to time of day, and there are also glasses that are made to filter (过滤) short wavelengths. While they seem like a logical solution for the nighttime tech users, it needs more research.28. In Charles Czeislers experiment, all the subjects were asked to______.A. sit in a row and receive the strict testsB. have their blood tested per hour during the trialC. read a paper book and an iPad at the same timeD. have their sleep patterns observed all night29. The third paragraph tells us the iPad readers were likely to______.A. feel less sleepy and tired in the dayB. become less energetic the next morningC. have a lot more melatonin secretionD. fall asleep more easily after reading30. The special software recently developed can______.A. weaken the harm done by doing nighttime e-readingB. help prevent eyes being harmed by short wavelengthC. remove the blue light from your devices completelyD. be used in all the e-things widely and safely31. Which title is the best one for the text?A. Wrong behaviors before bedtimeB. New software for night e-readersC. No e-reading in bed before sleepD. No games on iPad in bedDYou may have heard of the American Dream, an ideal that has powered the hopes of Americans for generations.It began as a belief that the US was a land of opportunity, and that anyone could achieve success through hard work. At times, the dream has referred to home ownership, a good job, retirement security or each generation doing better than the last.Yet today, this concept seems to have greatly changed. As Time magazine pointed out, quite different from the older generation, many Millennials (the generation born after 1980) redefine(重新定义) the American Dream as “day-to-day control of your life”. They “prize job mobility, flexible schedules, any work that is more interesting than typing, and the ability to travel”, said the magazine.Home ownership, once the cornerstone of the American Dream, is becoming a smaller priority for this generation. Meanwhile, nearly 40% of them choose travel as part of their dream. And entrepreneurship(创业) is a rising favorite, as nearly 26% of Millennials consider self-employment as part of their dream.So what has led to this huge change?Many point fingers at the poor economy. “Modern young Americans seem bound to face a world stamped by ever narrowing opportunity and social stagnation(停滞),”noted The Daily Beast.“The rate of 16-to 24-year-olds out of school and out of work is unusually high at 15%. Many college graduates have taken jobs that don’t require a degree,” Timereported.The magazine worries that these difficulties may lead to a lost generation who are “unable to ever truly find their feet on the corporation’s ladder”.Dan Kadlec, a reporter of Time, sees Millennials as resetting their expectations. “This situation is different for young adults today,” he wrote. “A true Amer ican dream has to feel attainable, and many Millennias are feeling they can only attaina day-today lifestyle that suits them.”32. What’s the passage mainly about?A. Meaning of American DreamB. Redefinition of American DreamC. Value of Achieving American DreamD. History of Changing American Dream33.The underlined word “cornerstone” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “”.A. growthB. balanceC. purposeD. basis34. According to the passage, w hat has changed Millennials’ view of the American Dream?A. A lack of confidence in themselvesB. Fierce competition in the job marketC. The discouraging economy and unemploymentD. Their dissatisfaction with the government35. Dan Kadlec thinks Millennials’ new definition of the American Dream is ______.A. understandableB. beautifulC. worryingD. positive 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。