高二年级阶段性素质检测---英语

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第一部分 听力(共两节,满分30分)

第一节(共5小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分)

1.What caused the train to arrive late?

A. The traffic jam. B. The bad weather. C. An accident.

2.Where are the two speakers?

A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In a department store.

3.How much should the woman pay?

A. 16 yuan. B. 20 yuan. C. 32 yuan.

4.What’s the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A. Colleagues. B. Teacher and student. C. Boss and secretary.

5.What does the woman mean?

A.She wants to borrow Sam’s car.

B. She hasn’t bought a car of her own.

C. She has lent her car to Sam’s brother.

第二节(共15小题; 每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分)

听第6段材料,回答第6至7题

6.What does the man want to make an appointment with the doctor for?

A. A treatment. B. An interview. C. A checkup.

7.When can the man see the doctor?

A.In the middle of next month.

B.On the fifteenth this month.

C. On the ninth of next month.

听第7段材料,回答第8至9题

8.What does the woman want the man to do?

A.To invite people to her birthday party.

B.To go to her birthday party.

C.To pick her up at the airport.

9.What is the man going to do?

A.To host a birthday party.

B. To have dinner with Aileen.

C.To take his cousin to the airport.

听第8段材料,回答第10至12题

10.What is the weather forecast for tomorrow?

A.Sunny. B. Rainy. C. Windy.

11.What does the boy plan to do tomorrow?

A.Play computer games. B. Go on a picnic. C. See an interesting film.

12.What can we learn from the conversation?

A.The boy likes playing computer games most.

B.The weatherman has made mistakes before.

C.The woman will go to see a film too.

听第9段材料,回答第13至16题

13.What course is the woman going to study at the college?

A. Computer operation. B. Basic Programming. C. Advanced Programming.

14.How many students and teachers are there in the Student Center?

A. 500. B. 550. C. 600.

15.Who is unwilling to play table tennis?

A. Cindy. B. John. C. Melina.

16.Which club will the woman probably join?

A.The Tennis Club. B. The Table Tennis Club. C. The Cinema Club.

听第10段材料,回答第17至20题

17.What does the speaker do?

A.A union leader. B. A hotel manager. C. A tourist guide.

18.What can we infer from this announcement?

A.They are far away from any town and city.

B.Local food is both cheaper and delicious.

C.The weather is changeable.

19.Which activity is included in the holiday arrangement?

A. Running. B. Swimming. C. Sun-bathing.

20.How is the weather in the valleys?

A. Wet B. Cold C. Windy

第二部分 阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，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中，选出最佳选项。

A

Are you having a problem going to sleep? Try drinking a glass of warm milk. Still no luck? Try thinking about sheep jumping over a fence. Count them to yourself. “One, two, three, four...” It is late at night and you are still awake. Should you take a sleeping pill? People who take pills often come to depend on the drugs. So you lie awake knowing that the new work day will soon arrive.

A new study has found that you might fall asleep quicker and stay asleep longer if you try “cerebral

hypothermia”. No, cerebral hypothermia is not a complex medical process. It just means cooling down your brain. Eric Nofzinger and Daniel Buysse of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School led the study. They examined twelve people who had insomnia. Twelve others had no sleep problems. Each of them wore a soft plastic cap at bed time, which had tubes inside filled with water.

The first two nights of testing, the patients wore no water caps. During the next two nights, the caps were wom, but the water was not cooled. Then the researchers cooled the water a little for two nights. On the final two nights of the study, the temperature of the water was made much cooler.

The researchers found that the water caps did not help the insomnia patients until the temperature was about 14 'C. Most of the patients fell asleep faster and slept better when the coolest water was moving around their heads.

Dr Nofzinger and Dr Buysee noted that this is only the beginning of the brain temperature study. But they believe they have discovered something important that needs more research. They presented their test results in June at a meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

21.The author writes the first paragraph to_______ .

A. make a comparison B.introduce a topic C. describe a problem D. offer an argument

What do we know about the study?

A. The study lasted six nights. B. The caps were made from cloth.

C. The researchers wore the cap every night. D. Half of the peoplestudied had trouble in sleeping.

23.The underlined word “insomnia” in the second paragraph probably means_______.

A. loneliness B.tiredness C. Carelessness D.sleeplessness

24. Dr Nofzinger and Dr Buysee agreed that

A. the results of the study had been published B.the researchers finished the study in June

C. the researchers will go on with the study D. the water caps worked if the water was frozen

25.What is the main idea of the text?

A. Many people can’t sleep well at night. B.Taking sleeping pills is not good for health.

C. Water helps people to get up easily. D. Cooling the brain may help people sleep.

B

Everybody knows the saying “Two steps forward and three steps back”. That described my life pretty well as a single mom. I was raising two teenagers on a teacher’s aide’s salary. It wasn’t nearly enough to cover the bills, so I moonlighted as a waitress. Every time I thought that I had found a solution to my money worries, something would fall through and I would end up feeling worse off than before.

The next evening at the restaurant I tied on my apron , wishing I could be home with my kids. I walked up to my first table. Around it was a cheerful older couple. The woman gave me a smile that warmed me. I couldn’t help but notice her unusual glass ring. “What a beautiful ring,” I said. We chatted for a minute then I took their order and left. When I came back with their drinks, the woman held out her ring. “I would like to give this to you,” she said.

“Oh, no, I couldn’t,” I said, embarrassed.

She gently placed the ring in my hand and closed my fingers around it. “It’s yours,” she said. “Please accept it and your things are going to be okay.” Right there at their table in the middle of the restaurant I broke down in tears. “Thank you for giving me hope,” I said.

Long after that night, that sense of peace stayed with me. I knew the right job would come in time. Nine months later it did. I got a better position at another school and I started waitressing at a restaurant where I was allowed to spend more time with my kids.

Now in these tough times, I have money worries again, but they don’t get me down. I know things will turn ou okay. And when I wear that unusual glass ring, I’m reminded I’m not alone.

26.From the saying “Two steps forward and three steps back”, it means the writer .

A.liked stepping forward and backward

B.had difficulty raising her family

C.couldn’t walk regular like other people

D.wanted to look for a better job

27.The writer worked as a waitress in the restaurant in order to .

A. live with her children B. serve the older couple

C. search for a glass ring D. make more money

28. Hearing the woman’s words, the writer felt .

A． moved B. embarrassed C.puzzled D.successful

29. From the fifth paragraph we can know the writer believed that .

A. her children loved her very much

B.she could find a better restaurant

C.the glass ring would bring her good luck

D.it was easy to get a right job

30.Now the writer’s attitude toward her life is_________.

A. positive B. disappointed C. proud D.worried

C

Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.

The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.

The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their feelings. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.

The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

31.According to the survey of the Gallup Organization people are most likely to become happier__________.

A. when they are between the ages of 18 and 85 B. when they come to their old age

when they are in their twenties D. when they are eighteen years old

32.You may have the highest level of stress when you are at the