衡水中学2013-2014学年度第二学期二调考试

高二年级英语试卷

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分，共150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

3．二卷试题用黑色中性笔作答。

◇◇◇ 祝同学们取得好成绩！

第一卷（选择题 共105分）

第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20分)第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. Where does the man want to go?

A. A bank. B. A park. C. A bus stop.

2. When is Paul’s birthday party?

A. July 11. B. July 12. C. July 13.

3. Where is the man going to spend his Christmas?

A. In his brother’s. B. In his mother’s. C. In his sister’s.

4. How are the woman’s parents?

A. They’re ill now. B. They’re seldom ill. C. They’re very healthy.

5. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Classmates. B. A couple. C. Colleagues.

第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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，各小题给出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至7题。

6. What does David like to do when he is online?

A. To communicate with his friends.

B. To look for something interesting.

C. To look up some useful information.

7. What does the woman do?

A. She is a worker. B. She is a researcher. C. She is a teacher.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Why does the woman turn to the man?

A. Because she is not interested in English.

B. Because she is not good at learning English.

C. Because she has no time to do English exercises.

9. How does the woman usually learn English?

A. By doing lots of exercises.

B. By reading English novels.

C. By remembering basic knowledge.

10. What does the man advise the woman to do?

A. To change her learning method.

B. To spend more time on English.

C. To recite each text in her textbook.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In a bar. B. In a store. C. In a restaurant.

12. Who does the man buy the fruit juice for?

A. His wife. B. His son. C. His daughter.

13. How much is a kilo of apples?

A. 4 yuan. B. 8 yuan. C. 16 yuan.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Doctor and patient. B. Employer and employee. C. Husband and wife.

15. What’s the woman’s attitude towards the man’s idea?

A. Positive. B. Indifferent. C. Negative.

16. Why does the man think he should join the football team?

A. Because he was a professional player.

B. Because it is organized by his company.

C. Because he used to play football very well.

17. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Insist on his diet. B. Do more exercise. C. Join the football team.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. When was Emperor Nero in power?

A. Before 37 AD. B. After 68 AD. C. During the first century.

19. Around 1600, who owned most of the coffee shops in Paris?

A. Italians. B. Americans. C. Frenchmen.

20. Who invented the hand-turned ice-cream freezer?

A. Francesco. B. Nancy Johnson. C. Jacob Flusell.

第二部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分35分)

单项填空(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)

21. Dolly’s illnesses were more appropriate to ________ much older animal. Altogether Dolly lived six and a half years, half the length of the life of ________ original sheep.

A. a; an B. the; an C. a; the D. the; the

22. People tend to be more progressive when they're young and more ________ as they get older.

A. conservative B. controversial C. conservation D. controversy

23. I’m not trying to criticize you; I’m _______ trying to find out how the accident happened.

A. altogether B. merely C. properly D. abruptly

24. ________ by winds and deep snow, Andy made a hole in the snow and crawled into a survival bag.

A. Having trapped B. To be trapped C. Trapped D. Trapping

25. We hope that you will not ________ to make us aware of any shortcomings which you may find in this plan.

A. classify B. arrange C. hesitate D. object

26. The research is so designed that once ________ nothing can be done to change it.

A. begins B. having begun C. begun D. beginning

27. Sarah hopes to become a friend of _______ shares her interests.

A. anyone B. whomever C. whoever D. no matter who

28. It’s ten years since the scientist _______ on his life’s work of discovering the valuable chemical.

A. set about B. set out C. kept up D. marked out

29. If you _______ yourself to the job in hand, you’ll soon finish it.

A. claim B. obtain C. apply D. reform

30. Some died or returned home, but most remained in California to make a life for themselves _______ great hardship.

A. through B. despite C. with D. in

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

A family owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan U.S. They kept a bull ____31____ an old elm tree. The bull walked around the tree, ____32____ a heavy iron chain with him, which cut a trench (沟痕) on the surface of the tree about three feet off ground. The trench ____33____ over the years, though for whatever ____34____, it didn’t kill the tree. Later, the family sold the ____35____ and took their bull to their new home in another state. They cut the chain, ____36____ the iron ring behind around the tree. Over the years, bark(树皮) ____37____ covered the rusting (生锈的) chain.

Then one year, an agricultural disaster ____38____ Michigan. All of the elms lining the road leading to the farm became ____39____ with the disease and died. Everyone figured that the old, badly wounded elm could hardly ____40____. The farm’s owners even considered cutting down the tree ____41____ it died. But they simply ____42____ to do so. It was as if the old tree had become a family friend. So they decided to leave it as it was.

____43____, the tree didn’t die! Year after year it ____44____. Nobody could understand why it was the only elm still standing there. ____45____experts came over to study the tree. They observed the trench left by the iron chain, now almost completely covered by bark and badly corroded (侵蚀). The experts ____46____ that it was the rusting chain that saved the elm’s life. They ____47____ that the tree must have absorbed so much iron from the rusting chain that it became ____48____ to the disease.

It is said that what doesn’t kill you will make you ____49____. Or, as Ernest Hemingway put it, “Life ____50____ us all, but afterwards, many of us are strongest at the broken places.”

31. A. covered with B. exposed to C. chained to D. marked with

32. A. dragging B. pushing C. snatching D. holding

33. A. widened B. strengthened C. brightened D. deepened

34. A. reason B. cost C. weather D. background

35. A. tree B. bull C. car D. farm

36. A. falling B. hiding C. leaving D. showing

37. A. slowly B. luckily C. quickly D. frequently

38. A. happened B. beat C. struck D. occurred

39. A. supplied B. infected C. equipped D. filled

40. A. survive B. restore C. boom D. shape

41. A. after B. until C. before D. unless

42. A. preferred B. resisted C. tended D. hated

43. A. Excitedly B. Unfortunately C. Amusingly D. Amazingly

44. A. expanded rapidly B. died instantly C. fell ill D. grew well

45. A. Health B. Plant C. Food D. Animal

46. A. decided B. argued C. realized D. understood

47. A. agreed B. reasoned C. responded D. replied

48. A. accustomed B. attached C. immune D. defenseless

49. A. stronger B. kinder C. weaker D. Gentler

50. A. breaks B. makes C. takes D. wakes

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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

A Samoan airline says that it is the world’s first carrier to charge passengers by their weight. Samoa Air, which opened in 2012, asks passengers to give their personal weight during booking, which is then charged according to the length of a flight. The customers will also be weighed just before they board the plane.

"It is believed that all people throughout the world are the same size," Samoa Air CEO Chris Langton said. "Airplanes always run on weight, not seats."

"There is no doubt in my mind that this is the concept of the future. This is the fairest way of your travelling with your family or yourself."

Though the airline introduced the plan last November, it caught people's attention last week when the carrier began international flights to neighboring American Samoa.

Almost at the same time, a Norwegian economist, Bharat Bhatta, published a report suggesting that airlines should charge obese（过度肥胖的）passengers more.

The Pacific Islands contain some of the world’s most common countries for obesity, many ranking in the top 10, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Samoa is ranked number four, with 59.6 percent of the population considered obese, said the most recent WHO report.

According to Samoa Air's latest schedule, the airline charges up to $0.57 per kg for flights in Samoa and $1.03 per kg for its only international flight to American Samoa, around 250 miles.

Children under 12 are charged 75 percent of the adult rate, with fares also based on weight. Any overweight baggage is calculated at the same rate as the passenger's personal weight.

The plan could actually prove cheaper in some cases, such as for families travelling with small children, and Langton said customer reaction has mainly been "amazingly positive".

The idea of charging passengers by weight has been hotly discussed before, and in the US some ai