2014—2015学年度第一学期第二学段学情检测高二英语试题 2015.01

考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 2015-1

第I卷（选择题，共100分）

第一部分 听力（30分）

第一节：

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。

第一节

1. What does the man want to do?

A. Take photos. B. Buy a camera. C. Help the woman.

2. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A noisy night. B. Their life in town. C. A place of living.

3. Where is the man now?

A. On his way. B. In a restaurant. C. At home

4. What will Celia do?

A. Find a player. B. Watch a game. C. Play basketball.

5. What day is it when the conversation takes place?

A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.

第二节

听第6段材料，回答6、7题。

6. What is Sara going to do?

A. Buy John a gift. B. Give John a surprise. C. Invite John to France.

7. What does the man think of Sara’s plan?

A. Funny. B. Exciting. C. Strange.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does Diana say sorry to peter?

A. She has to give up her travel pan. B. She wants to visit another city.

C. She needs to put off her test.

9. What does Diana want Peter to do?

A. Help her with her study. B. Take a book to her friend.

C.T eacha geography lesson.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the man call the woman?

A. To tell her about her new job. B. To ask about her job program.

C. To plan a meeting with her.

11. Who needs a new flat?

A. Alex. B. Andrea. C. Miranda.

12. Where is the woman now?

A. In Baltimore. B. In New York. C. In Avon.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?

A. Where the restaurant is. B. Whether the prices are low.

C. How well the food is prepared.

14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?

A. After he came back to Sweden.

B. Before he went to the United States.

C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982.

15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?

A. Talk to people in the street. B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerks.

16. What do we know about Jan?

A. He cooks for a restaurant. B. He travels a lot of his work.

C. He prefers American food.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题

17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?

A. it’s new building. B. it’s a small town. C. it’s public place.

18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?

A. Saturday nights. B. Sunday afternoons. C. Fridays and Saturdays.

19. Which street is known for its food shops and markets?

A. Via del Mar Street. B. Fernando Street. C. Hernandes Street.

20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?

A. It has an old stone surface. B. it is named after a writer.

C. It is a famous university.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

My house is made out of wood, glass and stone. It is also made out of software.

If you come to visit, you'll probably be surprised when you come in. Someone will give you an electronic PIN (电子身份证) to wear. This PIN tells the house who and where you are. The house uses this information to give you what you need. When it's dark outside, the PIN turns on the lights nearest you, and then turns them off as you walk away from them. Music moves with you too. If the house knows your favorite music, it plays it. The music seems to be everywhere, but in fact other people in the house hear different music or no music. If you get a telephone call, only the nearest telephone rings.

Of course, you are also able to tell the house if you want something. There is a home control console (控制台), a small machine that turns things on and off around you.

The PIN and the console are new ideas, but they are in fact like many things we have today. If you want to go to a movie, you need a ticket. If I give you my car keys, you can use my car. The car works for you because you have the keys. My house works for you because you wear the PIN or hold the console.

I believe that ten years from now, most new homes will have the systems that I've put in my house. The systems will probably be even bigger and better than the ones I've put in today.

I like to try new ideas. I know that some of my ideas will work better than others. But I hope that one day I will stop thinking of these systems as new, and ask myself instead, "How will I live without them?"

21. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Ways to develop a new system. B. The function of the PIN.

C. A home for the future. D. Easy life in the future.

22. The purpose of the fourth paragraph is to .

A. let readers know why his ideas are new

B. explain the functions of the PIN and the console

C. explain the importance of the PIN and the console

D. let readers know how special his house is

23. What is the author most likely to be according to the passage?

A. An IT expert. B. A famous doctor.

C. An idealist. D. An experienced teacher.

B

THE BRONTE FAMILY

Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels(小说) of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters'.

Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.

Charlotte was born in 1816, Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely selfeducated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.

As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher (出版商), but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book (It was not published until 1859). However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.

Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered as one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of her book, and Anne died in 1849.

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis(肺结核) as her sisters had.

24. What did the Bronte sisters do for Branwell Bronte?

A. They helped him Write stories. B. They helped him get trained in art.

C. They taught him how to draw well. D. They taught him how to educate himself.

25. Which was published after the death of its writer?

A. Shirley. B. Villette. C. Agnes Grey. D. The Professor,

26. The underlined words "the other two" in the 5th paragraph refer to

A. Shirley and Villette B. The Professor and Agnes Grey

C. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights D. The Professor and Wuthering Heights

27. What do we know about the Bronte sisters?

A. Their novels interested few publishers.

B. None of them lived longer than 40 years old.

C. None of them had more than two books published.

D. Emily was the least successful of the three.

C

Ever wonder why some people are apple-shaped while others pear-shaped? Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have identified a protein, known as HBetaHSD1, which determines how and where fat is stored in the body around the hips and belly .

The study shows that levels of HBetaHSD1 tend to be higher in people having unhealthy body fat around the hips and belly. This is typical of overweight people whose " apple-shaped" bodies put them at greater risk of heart disease and diabetes (糖尿病), the Daily Mail reports. On the contrary , lower level of the protein was linked to healthier fat, which tends to be found around the hips--typically in pear-shaped people.

An apple shape refers to people, especially women, who have full breasts and whose fat is generally stored in the midsection of the bodies. On the other hand, pear shaped people have a hip size that is a little larger than their breast size. The fat tends to be stored around the hips.

Researchers observed the effects of the protein in mice. They were fed on a high fat diet for four weeks. The mice with the protein in their bodies were more likely to have unhealthy fat tissue on a high fat diet compared to the mice without the protein.

Scientists are already looking at ways to make medicines that decrease the amount of this protein, which can contribute to over-weight. Nik Morton, of the University of Edinburgh said to the Daily Mail that this study opens up new avenues for research, and gives us a much better idea of "why some fat in the body becomes unhealthy while other fat is safely stored for energy".

"Inflammation (发炎)of the unhealthy fat leads to reactions that can cause harm locally to tissues and affect the whole organism (机体), promoting diabetes," said Morton. "Limiting the presence of this protein could help combat (抗击) this. "

As well as being more likely to be stored around the most important organs in the middle part of the body, fat with higher levels of HBetaHSD1 is considered to be unhealthy. This is connected with an overreaction in the immune system, he added. Cells normally become inflamed in order to kill off an infection, but as there is no