山西大学附中2013—2014学年度第二学期

高二英语五月考试卷

第一部分 听力

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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。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。

How is the weather in the woman’s opinion?

A. Warm B. Cold C. Hot

2. What does the man mean?

A. He already has plans. B. The woman should decide C. He will make a reservation

3. Why did the man go to Beijing?

A. To visit his parents. B. To have an interview C. To receive job training

4. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. What to take up as a hobby B. How to keep fit C. How to handle pressure

5. What will the man do first?

A. Tidy his room. B. Go on a picnic. C. Wear clothes

第二节 请听下面4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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。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至7题。

6. What are the two speakers doing?

A. Seeing a movie. B. Having dinner. C. Making soup.

7. What makes the man unhappy?

A. The woman doesn’t cook very well. B. The woman seldom talks to him at dinner.

C. The woman watches too many commercials.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What is the woman going to do after dinner?

A. Watch TV. B. Give a speech. C. Listen to a speech.

9. What do we know about the woman?

A. She feels very tired. B. She enjoys the election very much.

C. She likes to shake hands with many people.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where is the woman from?

A. The UK B. America C. Russia

11. What do the kids ask for on Halloween?

A. Candy. B. Masks. C. Clothes.

12. What will the woman do?

A. Buy some candy. B. Attend a party. C. Make masks.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the man reading?

A. A textbook. B. A magazine. C. A novel.

14. Why are some people against kung fu novels?

A. They think kung fu novels are bad for teenagers.

B. They think kung fu novels are not useful today.

C. They don’t think highly of kung fu writers.

15. What are kung fu novels considered as by some people?

A. Old Chinese literature. B. Modern Chinese literature. C. Future Chinese literature.

16. What does the woman think of the new textbooks?

A. She is indifferent (无所谓) to them. B. She is in favor of them. C. She is against them.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How long has the woman been coughing?

A. Two days. B. Three days. C. Four days.

18. What is wrong with the woman?

A. She has a headache. B. She is tired. C. She has got the flu.

19. What does the man tell the woman to do?

A. Stay in bed for some time. B. Go around from time to time.

C. Come to see him tomorrow morning.

20. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In the street. B. In the man’s office C. At the woman’s

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中，选出最佳选项。

A

The day of my holiday arrived, but I wasn’t looking forward to it. I had little money and had only been able to afford to stay with my Aunt Rosa in Spain. So, I wasn’t really excited as I knew exactly what it was going to be like: lots of noisy cousins , and Aunt Rosa begging me to take her for a ride.

After I had checked in, I made my way slowly to the departure gate. As I was waiting to board the plane, I kept thinking about my ideal holiday destination: Jamaica, with its long, sandy beaches and crystal clear water.

As soon as the plane took off, I fell fast asleep and only woke to the sound of the announcement: “Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten you seat belts, as we will shortly be landing in Kingston.” I froze in my seat. Was I dreaming? Kingston? Jamaica? I had boarded the wrong plane!

Immediately after the plane landed, I explained the situation to the authorities. It seems there were also three other passengers heading for Spain. Apparently it had been the airline’s fault, since the flight numbers for Spain and Jamaica were exactly the same! Therefore, with no flight back to London for a week, the airline had no choice but to pay for our stay.

So there I was, lying on the beach, enjoying the music and the marvelous food of Jamaica! As for Aunt Rosa, I suppose she just had to live without me!

21. Why did the writer choose to spend her holiday with her aunt in Spain?

A. She missed her cousins very much. B. Her aunt begged her to go there.

C. She could hardly afford any better trip. D. Spain was her ideal destination.

22. In the story, the writer ended up _________.

A. flying to London immediately B. heading for Spain from Jamaica

C. complaining to the authorities D. enjoying a free beach holiday

23. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. A Lucky Mistake B. A Terrible Adventure

C. A Nice Dream D. A Well-Planned Trip

B

The Swiss army knife is a popular device that is recognized all over the world. In Switzerland, there is a saying that every good Swiss citizen has one in his or her pocket. But the knife had poor beginnings.

In the late nineteenth century, the Swiss army issued（发给） its soldiers a gun that required a special screwdriver（螺丝刀） to take it apart and clean it. At the same time, canned food was becoming common in the army. Swiss generals decided to issue each soldier a standard knife to serve both as a screwdriver and a can opener.

It was a lifesaver for Swiss knife makers, who were struggling to compete with cheaper German imports. In 1884, Carl Elsener, head of the Swiss knife manufacturer（maker） Victorinox, seized that opportunity with both hands, and designed a soldier's knife that the army loved. It was a simple knife with one big blade(刀片), a can opener, and a screwdriver.

A few years after the soldier's knife was issued, the "Schweizer Offizier Messer," or Swiss Officer's Knife, came on the market. Interestingly, the Officer's Knife was never given to those serving in the army. The Swiss army purchasers considered the new model with a corkscrew（瓶塞钻） for opening wine not "essential for survival," so officers had to buy this new model by themselves. But its special multi-functional design later launched(发行) the knife as a global brand. After the Second World War, a great number of American soldiers were stationed in Europe. And as they could buy the Swiss army knife at shops on army bases, they bought huge quantities of them. However, it seems that "Schweizer Offizier Messer" was too difficult for them to say, so they just called it the Swiss army knife, and that is the name it is now known by all over the world.

24. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To explain the origin of the Swiss army knife.

B. To introduce the functions of the Swiss army knife.

C. To emphasize the importance of the Swiss army knife.

D. To tell a story about the designer of the Swiss army knife.

25. What does "It" in the third paragraph refer to?

A. The Swiss army needed a knife for every soldier.

B. Every good Swiss citizen had a knife in his pocket.

C. Swiss knives were competing with imported knives.

D. Canned food was becoming popular in the Swiss army.

26. Why didn't the Swiss army purchase the Swiss Officer's Knife?

A. The design of the knife was too simple.

B. The knife was sold out to American soldiers.

C. The army had no budget to make the purchase.

D. The new design was not considered necessary for officers to own.

27. Who gave the name "the Swiss army knife" to the knife discussed in the passage?

A. Carl Elsener. B. Swiss generals.

C. American soldiers. D. German businessmen.

C

It seems hard to watch someone yawn（打哈欠） and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force.

Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids don’t develop this deeply rooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the children are developing rightly. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the ways that people communicate and connect.

"Emotional infection seems to be a born thing that connects us together," said Molly Helt, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut. "Yawning may be part of that." Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic son to clear his ears on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He never did.

"The fact that autistic kids don’t do it might mean they’re really missing out on that emotional connection with people around them," she said. "The biggest thing people try to figure out after birth is how we become humans and understand that humans have minds that are different from others’," she added. "Autistic people never seem to understand that."

Like infectious （有感染力的）laughter and crying, scientists have found that yawning is a shared experience that promotes social connection. Helt said it could fight stress after a period of being nervous and spread a feeling of calm through a group.

28. What does the new study suggest, according to the first two paragraphs?

A. Yawning is a form of communication.

B. It is easy to stop yawning when you see others yawn.

C. Children follow others in yawning just after they are born.

D. Yawning has some mysterious force which is related to God.

29. According to Molly Helt, _________.

A. humans differ from animals because they communicate with others

B. yawning is a kind of emotional connection among humans

C. emotions are infectious, but yawning is not

D. yawning helps clear ears on planes

30. Which of the following is NOT true about yawning?

A. It is natural to yawn back if people around you yawn.

B. Some kids are too young to yawn after others.

C. Yawning can be used to test children’s development.

D. Kids with autism yawn easily when others yawn.

31. The author implies in the last paragraph that ________.

A. yawn