宁夏银川一中2013-2014学年高二下学期期末试卷

英语

Ⅰ、听力（两小节， 共30分， 每题1.5分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分）

请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

1. What is the man doing?

A. Repairing a bike. B. Buying a bike. C. Lending a bike .

2. What is wrong with the man?

A. He has a headache. B. He has a stomachache. C. He has a toothache.

How will the speakers go to Spain?

A. By ship. B. By air. C. By train.

Which is the woman’s room?

A. Room 2613. B. Room 2316. C. Room 2136.

What does the man mean?

A. He is a little nervous. B. He is terrified of the speech.

C. He is confident about the speech.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分）

请听第6段材料，回答第6，7题。

What can we learn from the new student?

A. He is from Britain. B. He fits in quite well.

C. He has been living in the man’s area.

How does the woman help new students?

A. By spending all day with them. B. By helping them after class.

C. By giving them encouragement.

请听第7段材料，回答第8, 9题。

Where does the conversation take place?

At a clothes store.

B. At the customs.

C. At a hotel.

How long is the man staying in Trinidad?

A. Two or three days. B.Less than two days. C. More than three days.

请听第8段材料，回答10至12题。

What does the woman want?

A. A cheap sweater. B. A large sweater. C. A pure wool sweater.

What is the discount on the pure wool sweater?

A. 30%. B. 40%. C. 50%.

How much does the woman pay for her sweater?

A. US＄25. B.US＄21.99. C.US＄20.99.

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

Which university did the man apply to?

A. Michigan University.

B. New York University.

C. Columbia University.

What strengths does the woman have?

A. Great performance at interviews.

B. A good knowledge of medicine.

C. Great grades and a good personality.

Who wants the man to study medicine?

A. His grandmother. B. His mother. C. His father.

What does the man want to study?

A. Medicine. B. Journalism. C. Law.

请听第10段材料，回答17至20题。

17. Why did they receive awards from Vital Voices?

A. They found ways to improve the economic situation.

B. They played important roles in women’s rights.

C. They all had beautiful voices.

Who was honored because she provided women with legal aid?

A. Wang Xingjuan B. Gao Yaojie. C.Guo Jianmei.

Why was Muhammad Yunus honored?

A. He helped women to fight poverty.

B. He helped start the “Silence Revolution”.

C. He created a telephone hotline.

How many Chinese women were honored?

A. 3. B. 4. C.5.

第二部分. 阅读理解（共三节，满分45分）

第一节.单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. When I got off the crowded bus, I found my pocket _____ and the disk in it with the important documents gone.

A. stolen B. missing C. lost D. picked

22. Film has a much shorter history, especially when ____ such art forms as music and painting.

A. comparing to B. compared to

C. having compared to D. compare to

23. Accustomed to _____ the steep mountains, she had no difficulty reaching top.

A. having?been?climbed B. climb C. climbing D. climbed

24. ____ in the queue for an hour, Lucy suddenly realized that she had left her purse at home.

A. To wait B. To have waited C. Having waited D. Wait

25. I wonder what difficulty he had ______ the project.

A. carrying out B. to carry out

C. carried out D. to be carried out

26. The audience applauded warmly, who seemed _____ the concert given by the little genius.

A. enjoy B.to have enjoyed C.enjoyed D. have enjoyed

27. ______ the honor to speak on the graduation day is a great thrill for me.

A. Being given B. Giving C. To give D. Give

28. As a result of the serious flood, two thirds of the buildings in the area ______.

A. needs to repair B. need to repair

C. need repaired D. need to be repaired

29. Please keep silent! A beautiful song ____ and I want to listen.

A. has been broadcast B. had been broadcast

C. is being broadcast D. is broadcast

30. --English has a large vocabulary, hasn’t it?

--Yes, ______ more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate.

A. To know B. Knowing C. Known D. Know

31. The president was among the first to ______ the scientist on his new discovery.

A. congratulate B. conduct C. accompany D.alarm

32. Until much later was she _______ the necessity of keeping an English journal.

A. favor of B. bound to C. aware of D. anxious about

33. Nowadays, children can have free _____ education in some poor rural areas.

A. approval of B. access to C. desire for D. talent for

34. To improve your English, you’d better ______ a certain hour every day for revision.

A. set out B. set up C. set about D. set aside

35.In other words, all of us have the unlimited ______ to become passionate creators.

A. absence B. potential C. sympathy D. dignity

第二节 阅读理解（共10小题， 每题2分，共20分）

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-45各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

A

When we were kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods,” with a tone (语气) of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk”. For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.

We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring. Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound(古坟).

Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly --- tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence（青春期). In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we were really rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

36. The author and his friends were often out in the woods to ______.

A. avoid doing their homework

B. spend their free time

C. play golf and other sports

D. keep away from their parents

37. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. The activities in the woods were well planned.

B. Human history is not the result of exploration.

C. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

D. Exploration should be a systematic activity.

38. The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. serious B. calm C. doubtful D. optimistic

B

Recently, a case of lifeboat ethics(伦理) occurred. On Aug.4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while boating off the coast of South Africa, hit a rock. As the boat threatened to sink, the husband got off, but his wife was trapped in the boat. Instead of freeing his wife and getting her to shore, Graham grabbed Rosie, their pet dog. With Rosie safe and sound, Graham returned for Sheryl. All are doing fine.

It’s a great story, but it doesn’t strike me as especially newsworthy. News is supposed to be about something fairly unique, and recent research suggests that, in the right circumstances, lots of people also would have grabbed their Rosie first.

We have strange relationships with our pets. We look after our pets with great love and better health care than billions of people receive. We speak to pets with the same high-pitched voices that we use for babies. As an extreme example of our feelings about pets, the Nazis had strict laws that guaranteed the kind treatment of the pets of Jews being shipped to death camps.

A recent paper by George Regents University demonstrates this human involvement with pets to an astonishing extent. Participants in the study were told a situation in which a bus is out of control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? With responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended what kind of human and what kind of dog.

Everyone would save a brother, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog VS people less connected with them --- a distant cousin or a hometown stranger --- votes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40% of respondents, including 46% women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist.

What does a finding like this mean? First, that your odds(胜算) aren’t so good if you find yourself in another country with a bus bearing down on you and a cute dog. But it also points to something deeper: our unprecedented(史无前例的) attitude towards animals, which got its start with the birth of kind-hearted societies in the 19th century.

We prison people who abuse animals, put ourselves in harm’s way in boats between whales and whalers and show sympathy to Bambi and his mother. We ca