浙江省东阳市第二高级中学高二英语上学期期中试题

2015年下期高二英语期中考试试卷

（注意：所有选择题做在答题卡上。满分150分，时间120分钟）

一、听力（共两节，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）

第一节 听下面 5 段对话。选出最佳选项，并标在答题卡的相应位置。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. How many students are there at the school this year? A. 300. B. 400. C. 700.

2. What is the man going to do? A. Buy a computer. B. Sell his camera. C. Repair

his bike.

3. What programme will be shown after the news?

A. A food programme. B. A cartoon movie. C. A football match.

4. What information does the man want? A. Flights. B. Hotels. C. Cars.

5. Where are the speakers? A. On the road B. At a stadium. C. In an office.

第二节 选出最佳选项，并标在答题卡的相应位置。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第 6 段材料，回答第 6, 7 题。

6. What should Jack do when he gets off the bus?

A. Cross the road. B. Turn left. C. Turn right.

7. Where is the man’s house? A. In front of a shop. B. Near a bookstore. C.

Behind a school.

听第 7 段材料，回答第 8, 9 题。

8. How much money should the man pay? A.￡315. B.￡350. C.￡375.

9. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The woman will deliver the printer

for the man.

B. The man will get a computer for free. C. The man will pay by check.

听第 8 段材料，回答第 10, 11, 12 题。

10. What are the speakers talking about? A. A hobby. B. A job. C. A plan.

11. What did the man think of learning to make videos? A. Difficult. B. Enjoyable.

C. Boring.

12. What does the man tell the woman in the end? A. When he will graduate.

B. Why he will stop making videos. C. What he plans to do in the future.

听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。

13. Where will the man go first? A. To a hall. B. To a classroom. C. To a

meeting room.

14. What will the Director of the Studies talk about?

A. Student dormitories. B. Different courses. C. Social activities.

15. How long will the man stay in the hall? A. One hour and fifteen minutes.

B. One and a half hours. C. One hour and forty-five minutes.

16. How does the man feel about the test? A. Glad. B. Nervous. C. Confident.

听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。

17. What do we know about the cycling holiday?

A. It starts from the north of England. B. It covers over 600 miles.

C. It lasts nearly a week.

18. What should the tourists pay for themselves to do?

A. Hire a bike. B. Book a hotel. C. Find a guide.

19. What entertainment will the tourists have on the first day?

A. A quiz. B. A party. C. A musical evening.

20. How can people get more information about the trip?

A. By visiting a website. B. By phoning the company. C. By talking to a former

tourist.

二、阅读理解 （每小题2分，满分30分）从每题所给(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

American researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special

“language protein(蛋白质)” in the brain.

The study, conducted by neuroscientists (神经学家)and psychologist from the

University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of

the Foxp2 protein. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found

that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were

males. Their findings came after it was previously claimed that ladies speak about

20,000 words a day – over 13,000 more than men. “This study is one of the first

to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in

humans or animals,” said Prof Margaret McCarthy, who led the study. In their study,

the researchers attempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than

their female friends.

They separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number

of times they cried out in the “ultrasonic range”, the frequencies higher than

humans can hear, over five minutes. While both sexes called out hundreds of cries,

the males called out twice as often, they found. But when the pups were returned

to their mother’s cage, she fussed over her sons first. Tests conducted on the parts

of the brain known to be associated with vocal calls showed the male pups have up

to twice as much Foxp2 protein as the females. The researchers then increased the

production in the brains of female pups and reduced it in males. This led to the

female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them.

In contrast, males became less “talkative”.

The researchers then tested samples from ten children, aged between three and

five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than

males, in a brain area key to language in humans.

“Based on our observations, we assume higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher

levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are associated

with the more communicative sex,” said Prof McCarthy. “Our results imply Foxp2