宜春中学、丰城中学、樟树中学、高安二中四校2016届高二上学期期末联考英语试题

时量：120分钟 分值：150分 命题人：付玉珍

第 I 卷

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)

?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. Why is the man going to Florida?

A. To buy a cat. B. To take yoga classes. C. To attend a business meeting.

2. How does the man probably feel now?

A. Excited. B. Depressed. C. Surprised.

3. What do the speakers probably do?

A. They are actors. B. They are teachers. C. They are movie producers.

4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A jacket. B. A tie. C. An interview.

5. Where are the speakers?

A. In a restaurant. B. In a bank. C. In a supermarket.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）????

请听下面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6～7题

6. What does the man think of the tennis racket(网球拍)?

A. It’s just what he wants to buy. B. It’s a little expensive. C. Craig may not like it.

7. Who is Craig?

A. The man’s brother. B. The woman’s son. C. The man’s son.

听第7段材料，回答第8～10题

8. What does the woman want to get?

A. Candy. B. A drink. C. Popcorn.

9. How many friends are with the speakers?

A. One. B. Two C. Three.

10. Where are the speakers?

A. At a movie theater. B. At a grocery. C. In a restaurant.

听第8段材料，回答第11～13题

11. What happened to the woman in the Zurich Airport?

A. She missed her flight. B. She lost part of her luggage. C. She got lost in the airport.

12. What was in the woman’s checked luggage?

A. Her passport and cards. B. Her down coat and sweaters.

C. The man’s clothes and other daily necessities (必需品).

13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Friends. B. Husband and wife. C. Passenger and airport clerk.

听第9段材料，回答第14～16题

14. Why was the man upset last week?

A. He was fired. B. The woman lied to him. C. He was asked to work overtime.

15. What does the man say about Mr. Ainsworth?

A. He is a fair manager. B. He always misses his work. C. He always listens to Tammy.

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

A. Explain to Tammy. B. Look for another job. C. Talk to Mr. Ainsworth again.

听第10段材料，回答第17～20题.

17. What is true about Margie’s hit single(单曲) Hold My Heart?

A. It has sold five billion copies. B. Margie wrote it at the age of six.

C. It was released this month.

18. What kind of music did young Margie like?

A. Rock. B. Country. C. Jazz.

19. What was Margie’s high school life like?

A. She focused on her music. B. She had an active social life.

C. She did poorly in her schoolwork.

20. What does the speaker think of Margie?

A. She has a bright future. B. She is too young to be famous. C. She should work harder.

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

A store that sells husbands has just opened in Ottawa where a woman may go to choose a husband from many men.

The store is comprised of 6 floors and the men increase in positive attributes（品质，特点）as the shopper goes up the flights. There is, however, a catch（陷阱）. As you open the door to any floor you may choose a man from that floor, but if you go up a floor, you cannot go back down except to exit the building.

So a woman goes to the shopping center to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1—These men have jobs. The woman reads the sign and says to herself, “Well, that’s better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder what’s further up?”

So up she goes. The second floor sign reads: Floor 2—These men have jobs and love kids. The woman remarks to herself, “That’s great, but I wonder what’s further up?”

And up she goes again. The third floor sign reads: Floor 3—These men have jobs, love kids and are extremely good-looking. “Hmm, better.”

The fourth floor sign reads: Floor 4—These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good-looking and help with the housework. “Wow!” exclaims the woman, “Very tempting. But, there must be more, further up!”

And again she heads up another flight. The fifth floor sign reads: Floor 5—These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good-looking, help with the housework and have a strong romantic character. “Oh, mercy me! But just think…what must be awaiting me further on?”

So up to the sixth floor she goes. The sixth floor sign reads: Floor 6 –You are visitor 3, 456, 789,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. Thank you for shopping Husband Mart and have a nice day.

21. Women tend to go up the floor until they reach the top floor because _____.

A. they think even better husbands may be upstairs

B. they know the catch very well

C. they think the husbands downstairs are not suitable

D. they are sure that the best husbands are on the top floor

22. The writer intends us to believe that _____.

A. women think they are better than men B. husbands are hard to shop

C. women can’t be too careful when choosing husbands D. women are hard to please

23. We can infer from the passage that _____.

A. women are romantic B. women are not good at shopping husbands

C. more women will leave the shop alone D. women are more kind than men

B

They will be here in a minute, surely. I’ll just stare at my shoes a little while longer to pass the time. Wish I’d brought a book. Hang on, though, what if I’ve got the wrong day? The wrong place? Have the clocks gone back? No, damn it, I’m off home. Whoever I’m waiting for clearly lives in a different time zone from me.

I am always 10 minutes early, so if you’re 10 minutes late, I’ve been foot-tapping for 20 minutes. I know it’s not fair to hold the first 10 against you, but I just can’t help myself. I never wait more than 20 minutes beyond the meeting time we decided upon, not for anyone, ever.

OK, that’s not strictly true. I have, on occasion, hung around anxiously and heartbrokenly for up to an hour, but the bitter anger that follows is never a pretty sight. If you’ve made me wait that long, you will wish you hadn’t bothered turning up at all.

How come some people are always late and some are always on time? If I can manage to be punctual(准时的), why can’t you? Because I left a hot cup of coffee at home while you sat down to roll another cigarette. Because I spilled jam on my pants and quickly wiped it off whereas you took time to change your whole outfit. Because I switched off midway through a TV series, but you had to ride out the end, didn’t you? And don’t even think about blaming the traffic. How do you think I got here? By flying carpet? Only carelessness or arrogance (傲慢)can explain a habit of lateness.

Some people are always late because they can’t make realistic calculations about how long it takes to do things. There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Just deal with it. Painful as it may be, you have to accept that, as you’ve agreed to meet at eight and it’s now a quarter to, you don’t have time to phone your girlfriend.

Much worse, though, are those with big egos(自我). Being late is just rude. Being late on purpose really means that you hate the person you are meeting.

Of course, there are some perfectly lovely latecomers out there. I just never wait long enough to find out.

24. Which of the following words best describes how the author feels in the first paragraph?

A. Thankful. B. Curious. C. Anxious. D. Joyful.

25. What does the author think contributes to people always being late?

a. Their big egos.

b. Traffic jams.

c. Their carelessness.

d. Being picky when choosing clothes.

e. Their realistic calculations of how long it takes to do things.

A. a, c B. b, d, e C. c, d, e D. a, b

26. We can infer from the article that the author ___________.

A. has missed lots of meetings B. has a strong preference for good timekeeping

C. has trouble getting along with others D. is tolerant of people being late

27. According to the author, people should ____________.

A. be patient when waiting for a latecomer

B. keep in mind that being late is rude and selfish

C. always arrive 10 minutes early for an appointment

D. ask people around them to remind them on an appointment

C

A scientist turns out to be able to see the future by offering each of four-year-olds a piece of candy and watching how he or she deals with it. Some children reach eagerly for the treat they see. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait until the last moment.

By the time the children reach high school, something remarkable has happened. A survey found that those who as four-year-olds had enough self-control to hold out generally grew up to be more popular, adventurous, confident and dependable. The children who gave in to temptation(诱惑) early were more likely to be lonely, easily frustrated and inflexible（固守己见的）.

Actually, the ability to delay reward is a sign of emotional intelligence which doesn’t show up on an IQ test.

The hardware of the brain and the software of the mind have long been scientists’ concerns. But brain theory can’t explain what we wonder about most, like the question why some people remain upbeat in the face of troubles that would sink a less resistant soul.

Here comes the theory of Daniel Goleman, writer of Emotional Intelligence: when it comes to predicting people’s success, brain ability as measured by IQ may actually matter less than the qualities of mind once thought of as “character”.

EQ is not the opposite of IQ. What r