兰州成功学校2013-2014学年度第二学期期中考试试卷

高 二 英 语

注意事项：

1．本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（阅读题）和第Ⅱ卷（表达题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在本试卷和答题纸相应的位置上。

2. 本试卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

3. 答题全部在答题纸上完成，试卷上答题无效。

第I卷(共70分)

第一部分 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、D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Jealousy (嫉妒) is a horrible feeling that weeds its way into your life and relationships before you know it. You might want something someone else has, or feel like they’re happier than you. It might seem like an uncontrollable emotion, but it’s truly not!

Remember your big accomplishments. If your coworker gets the promotion you wanted, it doesn’t mean you haven’t done great work. List out your accomplishments and think about how you got them and what you’ve done since then. You’ll quickly find that you’re just as worthy as the person you’re envying!

Appreciate your own good fortune. Think of where you are in your life and how you got there. Did you just buy your first car? Are you able to save one paycheck each month? Are you surrounded by loving family and amazing friends? You have a lot of good things，and you have a lot of good fortune coming your way. Stop letting jealousy eat you alive and realize that you can better spend that energy on furthering your own success and happiness.

Appreciate that others can do what you can’t. How boring would life be if everyone was the same? What if the entire population of your city was applying for your job, and they all had the same qualifications? Appreciate that everyone is different. Some people are better in powerful management positions, while maybe you’re better working with people. A friend might be an excellent artist—a quality you’re envious of, but don’t forget that you’re a great musician! Acknowledge that people need to be different, need to be better at various things.

1．Jealousy is an emotion that ________.

A. you feel others do better than you

B. can go into your soul without being noticed

C. positive enough to make yourself do better

D. makes you as worthy as the person you’re envying

2．We should appreciate that others can do what you can’t, because _______.

A. you can further your own success and happiness

B. things in the world are various

C. the entire population of your city is applying for your job

D. you’re worthless compared to anyone else

3．When will you probably be Jealous of someone?

A. When your coworker gets the promotion you wanted.

B. When you buy your first car.

C. When you are surrounded by loving family and friends.

D. When your friend become an artist.

4．What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Jealousy is a bad feeling.

B. Jealousy may influence your life and relationship.

C. What should we do when Jealousy arises?

D. Why we must keep away from Jealousy?

B

The Albinas married when Mr. Albina was 30, and they spent the early marriage in Argentina. Then they decided to move to Chile, which meant they had to cross the Andes Mountains. They and their 20s sons made the difficult two-week journey on horses. One night there was a terrible snow storm in the mountains, during which Mrs Albina gave birth to triplets (三胞胎), a boy and two girls.

Mrs Albina now has 30 more girls, including the twins who are 15 months old. The oldest Albina children are in their 30s and 40s. They are on their own now, but 18 of the kids still live with their parents in a two-room house. The house has electricity but no toilet or running water. Clearly, the Albinas don’t have enough money and food for the big family. Why, then, do they continue to have children?

The Albinas do not use birth control because it is against their religion. They can let other people take care of their kids, but Mrs Albina doesn’t allow it. “When we were babies,” she said, “our mother left us at an orphanage and never returned. Then a couple adopted my brothers, and I was left behind. I was heartbroken. I promised that when I became a mother I would never give my children away.”

So the Albina family continues to grow. They have so many kids that they run out of names and have to give some children the same name. There are three Susannas, three Miriams, two Estrellas, and two Soledades.

Will the family stop at 53 kids? Mr Albina is 77, and Mrs Albina is 59. “I am getting old,” she said with a smile, “and I would like God to think of me and consider my age. But if God sends more children to me, yes, there will be more.”

5．What is said about the children in the Albinas in the passage?

A. Some children are raised by others.

B. God sent the children to the Albinas.

C. The children are all twins or triplets.

D. Most of the children are independent now.

6． It can be inferred from the passage that______.

A. Mrs Albina experienced a hard childhood

B. the Albinas would like to use birth control

C. ten kids in the family share the same name

D. the Albina family has lived in three countries

7．How old was Mrs Albina when the Albinas got married?

A. 30. B. 25. C. 12. D. 18.

8．What is the attitude of Mrs. Albina to continuing to have babies?

A. He is very positive.

B. He doesn’t want to have more.

C. He hopes God will give them more.

D. He lets nature take its course.

C

Even while in a deep sleep, people can still learn brand new information. Sleepers soak in new associations between smells and sounds, knowledge that lingers(逗留）into the next waking day, researchers report online August 26 in Nature Neuroscience.

The new study is the first to show that entirely new information can get into the sleeping mind, says Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. "The brain is not passive while you sleep. It's quite active. You can do quite a lot of things while you are asleep."

But the results don't mean that Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand. L, Researchers have tried but largely failed to find evidence that complicated information, such as new pairs of words, can make its way into the brain during sleep.

Instead of trying to teach people something complicated like a new language, Arzi and her colleagues relied on the sense of smell and hearing. As anyone who has walked by a dumpster（垃圾车）in July knows, smells can cause a nose-jerk reaction. Catching a bad smell automatically makes people inhale(吸气)less, reducing the size of the inhale. But scent of fresh bread causes a long, deep inhale.、rzi and her team took advantage of this reaction for their experiment.

As people slept in the laboratory, the researchers delivered pleasant scent, such as shampoo. As this nice smell got into the sleepers' noses, the researchers played a particular music. Later, a disgusting smell, such as rotten fish or meat, was paired with a different music. Neither the smell nor the sound woke people up. After just four exposures to the smell-music pair during a single night, the sleepers started to automatically respond to the tones without the accompanying smells, taking in bigger breaths when the shampoo-associated tone played and smaller breaths when played the sound linked to the rotten fish smell.

This new learned association lingered into the next waking day, too. Even though the sleepers had no idea they had been exposed to smells or sounds, their behavior proved that their brain had actually learned something during sleep. As before, the shampoo sound stimulated a long, deep inhale, while the rotten fish tone caused more shallow breaths.

9．We can infer from the passage that

A. while sleeping, we can learn whatever we want to learn

B. we will increase the size of inhale if we catch a pleasant smell

C. the knowledge we learned while sleeping will be forgotten in the next waken day

D. when walking by a bakery, the fresh bread will cause a nose-jerk reaction

10．What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. One can’t acquire complicated knowledge during the sleeping hours.

B. Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand

C. Researchers have tried to find evidence that the new words can be learned during sleep.

D. Complicated information can make its way into the brain during sleep

11．How do Arzi and her team do their research? By

A. giving instructions B. analyzing human brains

C. following the guides of others D. doing experiments

12．In which part of a website may this passage most likely appear?

A. Culture. B. Science. C. History. D. Economy.

D

Many of us dream of having thousands and thousands of dollar to spend on what we desire We can buy lottery tickets, enter contests or spend hours building a business or invest in the stock market. We are sure that when we have plenty of money, we will be happy.

While having some money does have an impact on our level of happiness, having a lot of money does not. It is reported that Americans whose income goes from $20,000 a year to $50,000 a year are more likely to be happy. But beyond $50,000, happiness does not increase as salaries go up. It is because we are never satisfied. Catherine Sanderson, a psychology professor at Amherst College says, "We always think if we just had a little more money, we’d be happier. But when we get there, we are not."

Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard notes,"The more you make, the more you want. The more you have, the less it brings you joy. We incorrectly assume we’Il get more pleasure from more, and we don’t."

The things money can buy don't make you happy either. A lot of research suggests that you won't find the "good life" buying expensive "toys". You finally buy that BMW you've always wanted and it soon loses its appeal. Then, instead of wondering if a new car is what really makes you happy, you decide you just need a different new car. It is an endless cycle.

To really be happy, you need to understand what makes you happy in the first place. One secret of happiness is people. Surveys have found that people need people. Those who have five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as "very happy". Good relationships have a far greate