高二英语试题

命题人：华 烨 李秀梅

试题说明：1. 本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。

2．满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

第I卷（三部分，共115分）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分,每小题1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．What did the woman’s sister use to be? A．A teacher． B．A doctor ． C．A nurse. 2．How did the man come here? A．By bus． B．By taxi． C．By car．

3．Whom does the dictionary belong to? A．Marry. B．Jack． C．Jane．4．When will the train leave? A．At 9:00. B．At 10:00. C．At 10:30．5．What is the man doing?

A．Watching TV．

B．Answering the phone．

C．Repairing the TV．

第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6．What do the speakers decide to do at last? A．Have a rest． B．Play basketball． C．Visit Lucy． 7．Who has just given birth to a baby? A. Lisa． B. Lucy． C. The woman．听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。 8．When did the woman show Mr. brown around the company? A．Yesterday morning． B．Yesterday afternoon．C．Yesterday evening.9．Where did the quality manager go yesterday? A．To the restaurant． B. To the factory． C．To the hospital.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．How much does the woman want to spend on a gift? A．About $20． B．About $30． C．About $40．11．What gift does the woman decide to buy at last?

A．A cartoon book．

B．A pen and a pencil box.

C．A book on how to play games．12．What do we know about the woman’s son?

A．He is ten years old．

B．He likes to write books．

C．He plays PC games very well．

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．What does the woman think of her shopping trip? A．Surprising． B．Exciting． C．Unpleasant．

14．Why was Jane late?

A．Her watch was slow．

B．Her car broke down．

C．She met a friend in the street．

15．Where did the woman and Jane actually meet?  A．At the woman’s clothing department．

B．At the east entrance of the department．

C．At the main entrance of the department．

16．What did the woman buy?  A．A sweater． B．A dress． C．A T-shirt．听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．What is the woman?

A．A photographer．

B．A musician．

C．An explorer．

18．What did the woman like doing in Africa?

A．Meeting many interesting people．

B．Seeing animals run freely in the wild．

C．Enjoying the beautiful natural scenery．

19．Which country has the woman visited?

A．Spain． B. Ireland． C．New Zealand．

20．What does the woman complain about?

A．The high cost of traveling．

B．The long distance of traveling．

C．The impolite tourists of some places．

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5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

That year, in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids, Mario, was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something extremely dumb(愚蠢的). Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners.

Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of Mario’s nonsense, and they would have to correct his mistakes. They all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff: sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes…

It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid. However, little Lewis, one of Mario’s classmates, was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him…

It was the new teacher! The new teacher gave him a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear them talking about math. And that stupid new kid knew everything about it, much more than anyone in the class.

21. At first, it seemed that Mario ________.

A. knew nothing about math

B. always made fun of other kids

C. loved the new teacher very much

D. was the smartest boy in his class

22. The new teacher’s math lessons were interesting because ________.

A. the kid were encouraged to give different answers

B. he made the children listen to him carefully

C. he taught better than other teachers

D. Mario always gave foolish answers

23. The kid used everything they could find to _________.

A. teach Mario about numbers

B. have fun in math lessons

C. make Mario happy

D. get Mario to give them a chance

24. Lewis found that _________.

A. Mario was sad after class

B. the teacher was teaching Mario alone

C. Mario had been pretending to be foolish

D. the teacher was angry about what Mario had done

25. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Mario would fall behind others.

B. The teacher used a special teaching method.

C. The teacher taught too much in his class.

D. The kids should be quiet while having classes.

B

Believe it or not but it is true. There are people who lose the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage. But they become extremely good at something else. They become experts at spotting liars. The condition in which people lose their power to understand or use words due to brain damage are called aphasia(失语症). A study conducted in Massachusetts, U.S., has clearly proved that aphasics make good lie detectors(测谎仪).

In the last 100 years, many doctors studying the brain have mentioned examples of this amazing power of patients suffering from aphasia. Recently, scientists conducted tests to see if all that was said about aphasics was true. They studied the powers of a mixed group of people. Some were normal; others were aphasic. And it was proved clearly that the normal volunteers still got fooled by words. The aphasics were far ahead of them in recognizing false speech. The results of the study were reported in them magazine Nature.

`Fourteen years ago, famous American doctor, Dr. Oliver Sacks, wrote about his experiences with aphasic patients in a book. He remembered a particular incident in a hospital. Patients from the aphasia room were watching TV. Their president, Ronald Reagan, was giving a speech. He was trying to put feelings into each and every word of his speech. But his speech had an opposite effect on the patients. They were not impressed. On the contrary, the whole room shook with their laughter. The aphasics knew that he did not mean a word of what he was saying.

Dr. Sacks saw aphasics as more gifted than normal people. Normal people “get carried away” by words. An aphasic cannot understand words. But he or she can still understand what is being said. He said most of the aphasics had this superior understanding. So, while normal people think of aphasic patients as brain damaged, they actually seem to understand human expressions better.

26. We can know from the first paragraph __________.

A. how aphasics get their special ability

B. that aphasics can tell if you are lying

C. that aphasics are good at telling lies

D. why aphasics are experts at spotting liars

27. The phrase “get carried away” in the last paragraph means ___________.

A. get fooled B. get excited

C. get misunderstood D. get discouraged

28. Dr. Oliver Sacks thinks that aphasics __________.

A. are unlucky

B. can not understand others

C. are specially gifted in a way

D. should be treated in a special way

29. Which would be the best title of the passage?

A. A great discovery

B. The great lie detectors

C. Why aphasics can’t talk

D. A special way of understanding

C

“You can be anything you want to be, if you just try hard enough.” Like most people, I liked this maxim(格言) at a young age. Along with thousands of other kids, I spent a good part of my childhood trying to be the next Michael Jordan. Every day, I practiced shooting hoops(投篮) for three to four hours. I went to basketball camps each summer and tried in every way possible to be a great player. No matter how hard I worked at it, though, becoming an NBA star simply wasn’t in the cards for me. After giving 100% of my effort for more than five years, I couldn’t even make the college team.

Similar things happen in our lives every day.

A star salesperson thought she could be a great sales manager with enough effort. She interviewed other managers to gain insight(见识), read every book on management she could find, and stayed late every night trying get the job done—at the expense of her family and even her health. Then, a few years into the job, she realized that she didn’t have the natural talent to develop other people. It was a waste of her time. Besides, she could have increased her contribution even more if she had stayed in the sales role—a role in which she is naturally good at.

In every culture we have studied, the majority of parents(77% in the United States) think a student’s lowest grades deserve the most time and attention. Parents and teachers reward excellence with apathy instead of investing more time in the areas where a child has the most potential for greatness.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant. Even the legendary Michael Jordan, who has a great talent for playing basketball, could not become, well, the “Michael Jordan” of golf or baseball, no matter how hard he tries.

30. The author didn’t achieve success in playing basketball because ________.

A. he didn’t practice hard enough

B. he didn’t have good basketball coaches

C. he was not fond of playing basketball

D. he lacked the talent for basketball

31. The underlined word “apathy” in paragraph 4 proba