东北育才高中部2014-2015（下）高二第一阶段测试英语科试卷

I 听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中给出的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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. At what time is the next train to London?

A. 11:35. B. 11:45. C. 12:00.

2. Where is the Natural History Museum?

A. Next to a park. B. On the 42nd street. C. Beside the Central Bank.

3. How does the woman’s son want his steak served?

A. Medium. B. Well done. C. Slightly underdone.

4. What will the man do this weekend?

A. Help Nick move house. B. Go shopping. C. Hold a house-warming party.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. She has bought a present for Tommy.

B. She wants to buy something on sale.

C. She hasn’t decided what to buy.

第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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，各小题将给出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8题。

6. What are the speakers talking about in general?

A. How to take a vacation. B. How to cut down expenses. C. How to get to a conference.

7. How is the woman going?

A. By air. B. By train. C. By taxi.

8. Why aren’t the speakers going together?

A. They travel in different ways.

B. The man has to work overtime.

C. The woman will go on vacation first.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

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

A. Send the e-mails. B. Mail something for him. C. Pick up some packages.

10. Why does the man ask the woman for help?

A. He doesn’t have any time.

B. He doesn’t have the address list.

C. He doesn’t know how to find a messenger (邮差).

11. What will the woman probably do next? A. Call the messenger service. B. Attend a meeting. C. Have some coffee.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where has the man been to?

A. Switzerland. B. Australia. C. Thailand.

13. What impressed the man most?

A. Feeding kangaroos. B. Walking through rainforests. C. Visiting the Great Barrier Reef.

14. How did the man get the cheap air ticket?

A. From his dad. B. From his dad’s friend. C. From his cousin.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Interviewer and interviewee. B. Manager and secretary. C. Clerk and guest.16. What strong point does the woman think she has?

A. She travels a lot. B. She has good records at school. C. She is good at writing news reports.

17. How does the man most probably feel about the woman’s reply?

A. Calm. B. Surprised. C. Dissatisfied.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Where is the speaker studying now?

A. In Mongolia. B. In Brazil. C. In the United States.

19. How did the speaker spend her childhood?

A. She moved from one place to another.

B. She joined in her favourite school activities.

C. She just made friends with people from America.

20. What may make the speaker choose the major?

A. Her love for sharing her wide interests.

B. Her love for being in touch with others.

C. Her love for travelling around the world.

II. 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每题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。

A

If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year.

The dog's name is Trouble. And apparently Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on, too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks. I would live to be 110 in dog years. The dog's story is still fresh in my mind the other night when I leave a steak house after a superb meal. Then I notice a woman carrying a small bag out of the door behind me. Once outside, she walks over to where a man is holding a tiny dog and it's a baby. The dog looks like a Maltese, too, barking and annoying, with a cute haircut, And now I am treated to an absolute astonishing sight. Because now the woman reaches into the bag and begins pulling out little pieces of meat, which she puts on a plastic spoon and feeds to the dog.This is no cheap steak house. It's actually, way out of my league --I'm there only because it's a special occasion. I can tell you this: if I walked out of the place with any leftover steak, it sure wouldn't go to a dog. Not at those prices. So now the woman is Spoon-feeding the dog and the man is just standing there, holding this dog and looking as if this is the most normal thing in the world. And the dog is calmly chewing these pieces of steak as if he's a little king. And this dog is in no hurry. He's having a great time. A few minutes go by, and now the dog finishes all of his steak. At this point, I hear the woman say to the man "Think he's still hungry?" And she glances behind her at the restaurant, as if she might go back in there to get more steak for the dog. Watching all this, I'm afraid I'm going to shout, "Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? We're all going to be eating dog food if this keeps up!"?????????21. Why would the author live to be 110 in dog years????? A. Because he is always in poor health and falls ill.???? B. Because a Maltese dog lives longer than a human being.???? C. Because his grandparents left him a large sum of money.???? D. Because he thinks the dog is treated extremely well.22. What is the story mainly about????? A. An American family's happy life.???? B. A Maltese dog getting $12 million from its owner.???? C. A New Yorker spending $ 8 billion for a few banks.???? D. A pet dog being fed with expensive food.23. The underlined sentence "It's actually way out of my league. " (in Para. 6) means __???? A. the restaurant is too expensive for the author???? B. the author hates the dog being taken there???? C. the superb restaurant is about to be out of service????????????????????????? D. the dog doesn't belong to the author's group24. Seeing the dog is being treated to expensive steak, the author becomes extremely ____??? A. indifferent???????? B. annoyed??????????? C. concerned???????? D. envious

B

Some people like modern art, while others say that is rubbish. But a cleaner who works in the Tate Gallery in London isn’t able to tell the difference. The woman, whose name isn’t known, mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav Metzger for a bag of rubbish, and threw it out with other bags. The plastic bad, which contained pieces of paper and cardboard, was later recovered outside the gallery, but the artist thought that it was too damaged to be put on show again. 78-year-old Mr Metzger explained that the exhibit, which he said was a copy of a similar work he had created in 1960, was meant to show that all art is temporary and “finite”(有限的).

Embarrassed officials at the museum said that they had had to call a meeting with cleaners to explain which things should not be touched. They would not say whether Mr Metzger would be paid any compensation for the incident. However, to make absolutely sure the same thing would not happen again, they decided to cover Mr Metzger’s work every evening with a colored cloth. In this way the cleaners arriving after the gallery had closed to the general public would realize they should not touch it.

This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish. In 2001, in another London gallery, a cleaner threw away a work by the well-known British artist Damien Hirst. It was an arrangement of empty beer bottles, coffee cups, and overflowing ashtrays, which were meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist.

However, cleaners don’t always throw things away—sometimes they clean them! This was the case with a dirty asking what the bath was doing in the gallery, the cleaners simply scrubbed it clean.

25. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Cleaners mistake modern art for rubbish B. Modern art shouldn’t be cleaned

C. What makes a great work of art D. Cleaners don’t always throw things away

26. Which of the following is not true?

A. People have different opinions on modern art

B. Mr Metzger would be paid much compensation

C. A work of Damien Hirst was thrown away by a cleaner in 2001

D. Some modern work is about artists’ chaos of their life

27. The last paragraph is written to show that____________.

A. cleaners often make exhibits as clean as possible

B. cleaners can’t always differ exhibits from rubbish

C. exhibits are usually difficult to clean

D. exhibits are not always so beautiful

C

The financial crisis is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent.

The renewed desire to share shows up in a variety of examples: A car-sharing service has had a 70 percent membership increase since the crisis occurred. Some companies encouraged his employees to take vanpooling. Governments are putting bikes on the street for public use. How-to-swap Web sites are increasing quickly.

The economy reflects the way Americans have cut back, especially on daily items: Department store sales dropped 1.3 percent in June. People are not buying cars, and as a result, auto sales dropped 27.7 percent last month. They are not paying others to do what they can do themselves — Home Depot reports increased attendance at in-store do-it-yourself clinics. And although paint sales are down in general, according to Sherwin-Williams, individual consumers are still buying.

When Tom Burdett needed to cut some tiles at his home outside Annapolis, he refused to buy expensive tools. So he asked his neighbors and friends for help. Sure enough, someone had just what he needed. And when that friend needed help fixing a satel