临泉一中2015-2016学年高二下学期开学考试
英语试题
Ⅰ. 听力 (共两节。满分30分)
第一节 听力理解 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话,每段对话有一个小题,请选出最佳选项,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个小题. 1. What is the man most probably doing?
C. A singer.
12. How does the man feel in the end? A. Interested. B. Happy. C. Surprised.
听第9段材料，回答13至16题。 13. What happened to Anna? A. She rolled down the stairs. B. She fell over on the ground. A. Reviewing a job interview. B. Searching for a job. C. Doing math exercise. 2. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A. A TV program. B. Their favorite TV channels. C. Some news they watched. 3. Why does the man learn so many languages?
A. He’s interested in doing so.
B. He wants to be a language teacher. C. He wants to find work more easily. 4. What wasn’t in the suitcase?
A. An iphone. B. A credit card. C. An ID card. 5. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a kindergarten. B. At a store. C. At home. 第二节 听取信息 (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.每段对话或独白后又几个小题,请选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置.每段对话或独白前你有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题;听完后,各小题给出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. How does the man look now?
A. Indifferent. B. Thrilled. C. Upset. 7. What do we know about the man?
A. He is overweight. B. He doesn’t eat much. C. He is very popular. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. Why will the woman do?
A. Look for another job. B. Go back to collage. C. Join in her friend’s business. 9. Who are Max and Caroline? A. Two roles in a TV series. B. The woman’s friends. C. Two stars.
听第8段材料。回答第10至12题。
10. What does the man find hard to believe?
A. The woman doesn’t read detective stories. B. The woman doesn’t know Conan Doyle. C. The woman has read so many stories. 11. What is Robert Downey Junior? A. An actor. B. A writer.
C. She got injured in a car accident. 14. What did the teacher do? A. She dealt with the injury. B. She took Anna to hospital. C. She called for an ambulance.
15. When will the woman’s movie began?
A. At 4:30pm. B. At 5:00pm. C. At 5:30pm. 16. Where will the man most probably go next? A. The cinema. B. The library. C. The bookstore.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Who is speaking? A. A teacher. B. A student.
C. The headmaster.
18. What’s the announcement about? A. Reducing students’ costs.
B. Encouraging harmless products. C. Encouraging students to recycle. 19. When will the event end?
A. At 10:00am. B. At 10:30am. C. At 11:00am. 20. Why should the students bring some cans? A. To carry recycled things.
B. To give them to poor students. C. To throw them into arranged bins. Ⅱ. 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节（共15小题，满分30分）
A
NEW DELHI-Just a few years ago. Mala was a typical middle-class Indian housewife. She cooked, cleaned and looked after her two small children.
Last year, her life took a tragic turn. Her husband died of AIDS; she was found out HIV-positive(爱滋病病毒检验呈阳性反应) and her mother-in-law took her children away from her, saying they would get the disease. “When friends dropped for a visit, she would introduce me, saying, ‘She is my son’s
widow. She has AIDS,’”said Mala. AIDS is now described as “explosive(炸药)“ around the world. A study of a hospital in the port city of Durban in South Africa, where the world’s biggest and Africa’s first AIDS conference opened last Sunday, found that almost half the beds in medical wards(病房) were occupied by AIDS patients.
South Africa has one of the world’s fastest growing HIV infections, with 1,700 people infected daily, adding to the 4.3 million, or 10 percent of its population, living with HIV. Until now, Asia has been more successful in holding the AIDS virus than Africa, where the disease has killed about 12 million people. AIDS is now threatening to surround many of Asia’s poverty-stricken countries. Countries in Asia, such as Cambodia, and Thailand, have HIV infection speeds over 1 percent. But the low speeds hide huge numbers of affected people, because of the population base.
In India, for example, 3.7 million are infected, more than in any other country except South Africa. In China, an estimated 500,000 people, mainly drug users, live with HIV/AIDS. Gordon Alexander, a senio advisor for UN AIDS in India, estimates that the number hit by AIDS in Asia will climb about eight million over the next five years from about six million.
In many Asian countries, the battle against HIV is a social and cultural one against public discussion of sexual health put a nationwide media campaign into action to limit the speed of HIV through unsafe sex. Brenton Wong, an official for Singapore’s Action for AIDS, says the actual HIV incidence in the city state of 3.9 million people is at least eight times higher than official data.”Shame and deny is still very, very common so people are afraid to get tested and many times won’t even tell their families if they test positive,” said Wong.
21.__________is the second largest country which has more HIV infection all over the world.
A. China B. South Africa C. India D. Thailand 22. It is judged that there are _____ people hit by AIDS in Asia or so.
A. 4.3 million B. 6 million C. 8 million D. 3.7 million
23. According to the passage, the main reasons that AIDS spread in Asia is through_______.
A. blood B. unsafe sex C. love D. drugs
records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-----with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.
24. The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell_______. A. readers how to be popular in the word
B. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves C. parents how to control and guide their children D. people how to understand and respect each other
25. According to the writer, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them______.
A. have much difficulty in understanding each other B. are not sure of themselves C. dare not do things
D. are very much afraid of getting lost
26. Which of the following is NOT true according to passage? A. There is no popularity that really counts.
B. What many parents ate doing is actually keeping their children from finding their own paths. C. It is not necessarily had for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.
D. Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are doing the same. 27. During the teenage years, one should learn to_____.
A. become different from others in as many ways as possible B. get into the right reason and become popular C. find one’s real self D. rebel against parents
C
Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software program that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packing material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version of e-mail. While working at a laboratory in Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee wrote a program , which let him store these messages .This gave him another idea: write a program that will let academics(学术界人士) from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(服务程序所用的协议) and HTML(超文本链接标示语言) programs which form the basis of the World Wide Web .
The next year his programs were placed on to the Internet. Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could. Programmers used these codes to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers(浏览器) and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.
In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web consortium(协会), or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. ‘ The Web can help people to understand the way that others live and love and are human. It helps us understand the humanity of people.” He says.
B
I hear many parents saying that their teenage children are rebellion(反叛的). I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they degree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.
They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon(蚕茧) -----into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be. And many of today’s parents have come to award(奖励) high narks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting
28． The main idea of this passage is ______. A. when the Internet came into begins. B. how Tim Berners-Lee formed W3C. C. why computers develop so rapidly. D. how the World Wide Web started.
29. Scientists began to communicate using e-mail _____.
A. in 1980 B. after the 1980s C. before 1990 D. in the 1960s
30. He made up his mind to write a program that would let people from across the world share information on a single place when ______.
A. he was a child B. he studied in Oxford University
C. he formed W3C D. he worked at a lab in Switzerland 31. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s. B. Tim’s programs were placed on to the Internet in 1990.
C. The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development. D. Tim Berners-Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.
D
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books --- especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small hand carts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.
32. “Londoners are great readers” means that __________. A. Londoners are great because they read a lot. B. There are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books D. Londoners read a lot
33. According to this passage, Charring Cross Road __________.
A. is in the suburbs of London B. is famous for its bookshops C. contains various kinds of shops D. is the busiest street in London
34. In this passage, what does the underlined part “venture off the beaten track” mean? __________. A. buy books in a most busy street B. move away from a busy street C. waste time looking for books D. take a risk of losing one’s life 35. On Farringdon Road, _________.
A. you can find fine bookshops for the latest books B. there are only small bookshops for the second-hand books C. you can see book sellers selling books on hand-carts
D. the same books as the ones in the bookshops of Charring Cross Road are sold 第二节（共5小题，满分10分）
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项. Some people believe that international sports create goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: that international competitions encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments. ____36____ Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused mainly by minor national competitions.
One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation (愤慨) after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the loser's objection to the final decisions. ____37____ Their manager was very angry and he said, \International Hockey Federation are finished.\The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension (停赛) of the team for at least three years.
____38____ The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. ____39____ The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.
____40____ The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympic there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism (爱国主义).
A. It is believed that athletes come to the Olympic Games to compete for their countries.
B. Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game.
C. An appeal jury discussed the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand.
D. They were sure that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents' victory was unfair.
E. So judges were probably the result of the conflicts between the teams from different countries in Olympic ball games.
F. But in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood.
G. The American basketball team announced that they would not give up first place of Russia, after a disputable end to their competition.
Ⅲ. 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.