广元中学高2013级高三上期第二次段考

英语试题

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节 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。在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. How does the woman feel about the old cartoons?:]

A. They’re exciting. B. They’re her favorites. C. They’re only for very young children.

2. What are the speakers talking about?:]

A. Their house. B. Their neighbor. C. Building a fire.

3. When will the second bus probably leave?

A. At 10:10. B. At 10:20. C. At 10:30.[:]

4. When will the speakers probably meet next time?

A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Wednesday.[:]

5. Why was the woman worried?

A.The man came back late. B.The lessons didn’t go well.

C.The woman didn’t understand the lessons.

第二节 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 have to write?

A. A book about the Middle East. B. A long paper about philosophy.

C. A paper about the history of religions.

7. How many pages does the man have to write?

A. At least 40. B. At least 60. C. At most 90.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What can the man do?

A. Use the bathroom. B. Wash his clothes. C. Boil some water.

9. What does the man think of the woman’s house?

A. He likes it. B. He thinks it is too small. C. He is unsatisfied with it.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the woman complaining about?

A. People being too loud. B. People taking pictures with iPads.

C. The number of tourists at the beach.

11. What does the man say about iPhones?

A. They have great cameras. B. IPads take better videos than they do.

C. They should be used to make Hollywood movies.

12. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A. Get pleasure at the beach. B. Tell the tourists to stop. C. Turn off her phone.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What company does the man work for?

A. Apple. B. Google. C. Facebook.

14. Why does the man want to quit his job?

A. He wants to open a restaurant. B. He doesn’t make money. C. He wants to write about food.

15. How would the man make money after he quits?

A. He would sell books on his website. B. Companies would pay him for his experiences.

C. He would work for different restaurants.

16. When might the man quit his job?

A. Tomorrow. B. Next month. C. Next year.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is wrong with Taylor Swift?

A. She is sick. B. She hurts herself. C. She has a new band.

18. When will Taylor Swift’s July shows be held?

A. In May. B. In October. C. In December.

19. Which concert was canceled last weekend?

A. The one in Canada. B. The one in Texas. C. The one in Florida.

20. Who recently interviewed Taylor Swift?

A. MTV News. B. Speak Now TV. C. The official Taylor Swift website.

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

One cold morning in winter, I went alone to a hillside to do some hunting. I sat there waiting for about an hour. Suddenly, a big beautiful deer appeared less than 20 feet away from me. There was no cover near him. Surely I could shoot him.

To my surprise, he came toward me! He was curious, I suppose, or maybe he was stupid. For this was not a youngster, but a fully grown-up one. He must have known about men and their guns. But this deer came closer, and I still waited. His big eyes never moved away from my face. His wonderful head with a set of antlers (鹿角) was clear in sight.

I was getting a bit nervous as he walked closer. A big deer can do a lot of damage. Well, he walked right up to where I was sitting. Then he stopped and looked at me.

What happened next was hard to believe. But it all seemed quite natural. I held out my hands and scratched his head right between the antlers. And he liked it. The big, wild, beautiful deer bent his head.

I scratched and touched his head and body. His nose touched my shoulder. I fed him with my last sandwich. Well, he finally went his way, down the hill. Shoot him? Not me. You wouldn’t, either. Not after that. I just watched him go, a strong deer carrying a proud head.

I picked up my gun, and started walking back. Suddenly, I heard two shots, one after another. If you have hunted much, you will know what two shots mean. They mean a kill. I had forgotten that there were other hunters around. You will now understand why I gave up hunting from that day on.

21. How the deer behaved toward the writer shows that______.

A. it pretended to be friendly to the writer B. it wanted to attack the writer

C. it was too scared to run away D. it was quite friendly to the writer

22. You can infer from the passage that ______.

A. a grown-up deer usually will not get close to men with guns

B. the writer was a little nervous at first as he had been attacked by a big deer before

C. the writer felt afraid to kill the deer the moment the deer walked up to him

D. the writer had waited for more than an hour before the deer appeared

23. After reading the whole passage, we can know that the passage is written in a(n)______tone.

A. worried B. excited C. sad D. happy

B

More than 2 million US teenagers have suffered a serious bout（发作) of depression in the past year, according to a federal government survey released on Tuesday.

On average, 8.5 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 described having had a major depressive episode in the previous year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.

But there were "striking differences" by sex, with 12.7 percent of girls and 4.6 percent of boys affected.

Depression is the leading cause of suicide, which in turn is the third-leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds in the United States.

"The data Combined 2004 to 2006 data showed that rates of past year major depressive experience among youths aged 12 to 17 generally increased with increasing age," the researchers wrote.[:]

Researchers at SAMHSA and RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, prepared the report using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

More than 67,700 youths aged 12 to 17 answered questions about mood and depression. They were also asked to rate how depression affected them using the Sheehan Disability Scale(残疾量表), which measures impact on family, friends, chores at home, work and school.

Researchers?defined a major depressive episode as two weeks or longer of depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure, and at least four other symptoms such as problems with sleep, energy, concentration or self-image.

Nearly half of the teenagers who had major depression said it severely damaged their ability to function in at least one of the areas on the disability scale.

"Fortunately, depression responds very well to early intervention and treatment," SAMHSA Administrator Terry Cline said in a statement.

24. The underlined word “ episode ”in paragraph 2 probably means _________.???

A. experience B. experiment C. expression?? D. feeling

25. What can be implied, but is not stated directly?

A. depression is the third-leading cause of suicide.

B.?There were over 2 million American teens suffering depression in the past two years.

C. There were more girl students suffering depression than boys.

D. The students surveyed were aged between 12 and 17.

26. The main symptoms of a serious depressive episode include ________???? .

A. no family or friends or jobs or interests at all.

B. low spirits, lack of sleep, energy and self-image, and poor concentration.???????

C. poor health, sex discrimination, less energy and loss of interests

D. suicide, sadness, lack of confidence and depression.

27. What will the following paragraph probably talk about according to the passage ?

A. How to recover from stress???????? B. How to have a happy feeling

C.?How to prevent and treat depression D. How to live a comfortable life??

C

I was born and raised in England in a culture where privacy and “keeping yourself to yourself” were valued traditions. Speaking to strangers was not encouraged. People were most hospitable and friendly—but only once they had been introduced to new people.

However, I have been lucky enough to spend some time in both Italy and the US, where I found traditions of hospitality and politeness to be very different.

I experienced Italian hospitality first-hand on a crowded railway carriage travelling, one afternoon, from Genoa to Florence. Sinking gratefully into an empty seat, I was berated(斥责) in rapid Italian by a gentleman who was returning to this seat－it had not been “spare” after all. I apologized in English, and got up to allow him back into the seat. The gentleman obviously had no understanding of the English language, but he, too, realized my genuine mistake. He smiled and gestured for me to remain in the seat, and he himself remained standing in the corridor(走廊) for the remainder of the journey. The other passengers of the carriage smiled and nodded at me and made me feel quite welcome among them. I feel that if this had been in England, a foreigner who made a mistake would not always be so kindly treated.

Transport also featured in the differences I noticed between English and American culture. I flew to New York on a plane with mainly English passengers. We sat together in near silence. Nobody spoke to me nor, as I expected, to anyone else they did not know. They felt it was not polite to intrude on someone else's privacy. However, when I travelled across the United States, whether by plane or Greyhound bus, I was never short of conversation. Conversation was going on all around me and whoever sat next to me was happy to introduce themselves and ask me about myself. They obviously felt it would have been rude not to speak to another person, whether they were strangers or not.

28. The purpose of the author is to