2015-2016学年福建省四地六校高二上学期第二次联考（11月）英语

（考试时间：120分钟 总分：150分）

命题人：华安一中 审题人：

第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共92分 答题卡计82分）

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.Who is Mr. White?

A. A salesman. B. A repairman. C. A professor.

2.Where does the woman work?

A. At a hotel B. At a restaurant. C. At a department store.

3.What time does the man think they will leave?

A. At 7:15. B. At 7:35. C. At 7:25.

4.What does the man mean？

A. He liked the work very much.

B. He didn’t like the work because it wasn’t interesting.

C. He didn’t like the work so much because it kept him working long hours.

5.What was the mark the woman got in her exam?

A. 95 B. 90 C. 98

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，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。听每段材料前，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。每段材料读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6.What caused Mr. Miller to be late this morning?

A. Watching a play on TV last night.

B. Watching a basketball match on TV last night.

C. Watching a football match on TV last night.

7.How did Mr. Miller go to work?

A. By bus B. By train. C. By cab.

8.What happened to Mr. Miller after his explanation?

A. He was warned of following the rules for work

B. He was fired at once.

C. He was fired as soon as possible.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11小题。

9.When did the conversation take place?

A. Before the maths exam.

B. After the science exam.

C. Before the science exam.

10.What is the most probable relationship between the man and woman?

A. They are classmates.

B. They are friends.

C. They are teacher and student.

11.Why is the science exam difficult?

A. The teacher is too young and less experienced.

B. The teacher likes to give hard exams.

C. We don’t know.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14小题。

12.What’s the reason for the woman to buy the nylon one instead of the yellow one?

A. The nylon one is cheap and it is nice, too.

B. The yellow one is too expensive.

C. Both A and B.

13.How much does the woman pay at last?

A. 15.88 dollars. B. 28.88 dollars. C.13 dollars.

14.How many things does the woman buy in all?

A. One. B.Two. C. Some.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17小题。

15.How often does the woman watch a football match?

A. Nearly once a month. B. Nearly once a week. C. Nearly every Sunday.

16.Why does the man say he loves cricket very much?

A. He used to be a good player and he has fallen into a habit of playing it from that time.

B. He used to be a good player though he never plays it now.

C. He used to play it well and now he often watches cricket matches instead.

17.Which one of the following is true according to the conversation?

A. Neither the man nor the woman watches any cricket match.

B. Not only the man but also the woman watches cricket matches.

C. Either the man or the woman watches soccer matches.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20小题。

18.What was done to find people’s ideas about the women’s movement?

A.A question was asked of husbands.

B. A survey was made to both men and women.

C. A group was set up to interview people.

19.Who help most at home?

A. Italian husbands.

B. British husbands.

C. Danish husbands.

20.What can we learn from what the speaker said?

A. Housework should be shared between men and women.

B. Danish men are more afraid of their wives.

C. More than 50% of Danish men help in the house.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分32分）

第一节 （共 11 小题；每小题 2分，满分 22 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

The American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin. Benjamin's older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's Courant, few believe that newspapers in their present printed form will remain alive for long Newspaper complies are losing advertisers（广告商）, readers, market value and in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago .The chief editor（主编）of the times said recently, “At places where they gather, editors ask one another, 'How are you?', as if they have just come out of the hospital or a lost law came.”An article about the newspaper appeared on the website of the Guardian, under the headline “NOT DEAD YET”.

Perhaps not, but the rise of the Internet which has made the daily newspaper look slow and out of step with the world, has brought about a real sense of death. Some American newspapers have lost 42% of their market value in the past three years. The New York Times Company has seen its stock（股票） drop by 54% since the end of 2004, with much of the loss coming in the past year. A manager at Deutsche Bank suggested that stock-holders sell off their Times stock .The Washington Post Comply has prevented the trouble only by changing part of its business to education, and its testing and test-preparation service now brings in at least half the company's income.

21. What can we learn about the New England Courant?

A. It is mainly about the stock market.

B. It marks the beginning of the American newspaper.

C. It remains a successful newspaper in America.

D. It comes articles by political leaders.

22. What can we infer about the newspaper editors?

A. They often accept readers' suggestions.

B. They care a lot about each other's health.

C. They stop doing business with advertisers.

D. They face great difficulties in their business.

23. Which of the following found a new way for its development?

A. The Washington Post B. The Guardian

C. The New York Times. D. New England Courant

24. How does the author seem to feel about the future of newspapers?

A. Satisfied B. Hopeful C. Worried D. Surprised

B

Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eyes and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

25. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality?

A. It will not be found in future works of art.

B. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

26. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A. They express people's curiosity about the past.

B. They make people interested in everyday experience.

C. They are considered important for variety in form.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

27. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A. History of the arts. B. Basic questions of the arts.

C. New developments in the arts. D. Use of modern technology in the arts.

C

Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱).

Mr. Johnson’s car had finished up in a ditch(沟渠)at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding(打滑)on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly, ”Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and I dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in. ”

Mr. Johnson, a sweet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.

Later he said, “It was really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came. ”

It took ten minutes to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳手)and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up. ”

His hands an