武汉二中2015-2016 学年度上学期期中考试

高二英语试卷

命题教师： 王菊香 审题教师： 杨 芳

考试时间:2015年11月13日上午14：00—16：00 试卷满分：150分

第一卷（选择题 满分100分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答案卡上。

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. What is the woman going to buy?

A. A book on ships. B. A book on planes. C. Pictures of ships.

2. What does the man think the weather will probably be like tomorrow?

A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Fine.

3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At a store. B. In a kitchen. C. In a garden.

4. What does the man mean?

A. He wants to have more sleep.

B. He needs more sleep than the woman.

C. He doesn’t need as much sleep as the woman.

5. What does the man imply?

A. The woman is careless with money.

B. The woman has had enough suits.

C. He’ll buy the suit for the woman.

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、7题。

6. Why will the man go to Philadelphia?

A. To be in a play.

B. To watch a performance.

C. To visit the statue of Abraham Lincoln.

7. When will the man leave?

A. On Friday morning. B. On Friday night. C. On Saturday morning.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the woman come to the man?

A. To have an interview.

B. To go on a sightseeing trip.

C. To attend a business conference.

9. How long has the woman been working after graduation?

A. For six months. B. For two years. C. For more than three years.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why did the man fail to see the woman at lunchtime?

A. She ended her biology class late.

B. She was busy preparing for the exam.

C. She had a lot of questions to ask after class.

11. What is the man’s weak subject?

A. Biology. B. English. C. Maths.

12. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man hasn’t prepared for the exams.

B. The final exams will come in one month.

C. The woman is too busy to have lunch recently.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why will the speakers invite the couple next door to the party?

A. The man thinks it polite to do so.

B. The couple will bring something to drink.

C. The couple will complain about the noise they make.

14. What do the speakers usually do for a party?

A. They prepare different sorts of salads.

B. They invite the couple next door.

C. They provide the food.

15. When will the party end?

A. 6:00 p.m. B. 9:00 p.m. C. 12:00 a.m.

16. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. Some unusual food will be provided.

B. The guests have had salads enough.

C. More people will attend the party.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. According to the speaker, what happened?

A. Her house was broken into. B. Some guests had arrived. C. Her house was on fire.

18. Why was the speaker afraid to get into the living room?

A. It was too dark there.

B. There might be burglars.

C. The police hadn’t arrived yet.

19. What did the police find out?

A. The speaker forgot to turn off the TV set.

B. Two men were trying to steal the TV set.

C. Someone had opened the door with a special key.

20. How did the woman feel in the end?

A. Relieved. B. Frightened. C. Embarrassed.

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

I always experienced guilt when?I?passed by without giving a coin or two to a beggar.

My conscience was pricked again on a tour of?Venice?in 2010. I had taken refuge?from the crowds in a quiet canal-side café. Outside the café was an old woman kneeling on the ancient cobbled stones, begging. Steady streams of tourists were walking past her. A lone young back-packer stood away from the crowds drinking something, but I noticed he was also observing the woman.

A tourist group glanced at the woman and walked on. Another group of tourists arrived and, again, walked past her. The backpacker watched. Then, as I prepared to leave, I stopped at the sight of the backpacker stepping forward and placing some money in the woman’s cup. He did this rather ostentatiously（炫耀地）, just before the arrival of another tourist group. I watched as the leader of the group stopped and put some money in the cup. Having been shown the way, other tourists followed suit and added more coins to the woman’s cup.

The young backpacker repeated this process in front of the next tour party going past. Once again, the subtle peer?（同伴）pressure worked on the tourists, who all added coins to the cup. His work done, the young man walked over to the old beggar?woman, patted her shoulder and said, “I hope that helps a bit.”

I don’t know if the woman understood his English or realized what had just happened, but I did. I placed some money in the woman’s cup and continued my travels, light-hearted after witnessing such an act of caring.

21. The backpacker placed some money in the woman’s cup rather ostentatiously because______.

A. he wanted to stop the tourists by doing this

B. he wanted people to know that he was rich and kind

C. he wanted to?help?the woman by himself

D. he wanted the tourist group to follow him

22. The author went to a quiet canal-side?cafe to_______ .

A. avoid meeting the beggar B. get away from the crowds?

C. take a rest? D. watch the woman beggar

23. We can infer from the passage that?________ .

A. tourists can be cheated by beggars

B. people usually have pity on an old beggar

C. tourists are willing to help beggars

D. people can do kind acts due to peer pressure

24. Before the backpacker dropped some money in the woman’s cup, the tourists?______ .

A. all showed pity for the woman? B. didn’t notice the woman?

C. walked by without giving any money D. gave a little money to the woman

B

Technology is making life easier for some dairy farmers. They use robotic systems to milk their cows. Cows are trained to follow a series of paths that lead to milking stations. Only one cow at a time can enter a station.

Once inside，the cow is rewarded with food. As the cow eats，a robotic arm cleans and connects the animal to the milking machine. A few minutes later，milking is complete. The gate is opened，the cow is released and the next cow enters.

The robotic systems are designed to operate 24 hours a day. The cows get to decide when they want to be milked. Cows are milked an average of about three times a day. Some are milked four to six times a day.

The cows wear collars around their necks that identify them to the system. A computer keeps records on their eating and milking. A cow is released from the station if the computer decides it should not be milked.

The automated system also measures the temperature and color of freshly produced milk. Milk is thrown away if it does not pass the tests.

Professor Plaut believes the systems will appeal especially to the next generation of farmers. She means young people who are more interested in technology and less interested in working all the time on the farm. Still，she says the price of robotic milking systems will continue to limit their use.

Doug and Tina Suhr have more than 100 cows on their family farm. Last year it became the fourth farm in southeast Minnesota to get a robotic milking system. A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot costs 175,000 dollars. The second costs 150,000 dollars.

Doug told AgriNews that wages that would have been paid for one employee in five years will pay for one robot. He says the increase in milk production reaches a high of more than six kilograms per cow per day.

25. According to Doug，what is the wage of an employee per year?

A．$150,000～$175,000. B．$150,000～$30,000.

C．$30,000～$35,000. D．over $75,000.

26. Besides milking cows，the robotic system also can ________.

A．judge the quality of fresh milk

B．keep fresh milk for two weeks

C．adjust the temperature of milking stations

D．improve the appetite of cows

27. Why is the robotic system not popular now?

A．Because it usually causes the waste of milk.

B．Because it is difficult to learn how to use it.

C．Because young people have no interest in it.

D．Because people can't afford to buy it.

28. From the first paragraph，we can infer ________.

A．cows can be raised by robots in the future

B．robots direct cows into milking stations

C．the robotic system is designed to reduce labor

D．cows are kept clean by robots on some farms

C

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