抚顺市六校联合体2013-2014学年高二下学期期末考试

英语试题

注意事项：

1．答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

第一部分：听力部分：（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）

第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5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秒钟的时间来回来有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is the shirt?A. ￡19.15.???????????????? B. ￡9.15.?????????? C. ￡9.18.答案是B。1. What does the man like about the play?A. The story.????????????????? B. The ending.??? C. The? actor.2. Which place are the speakers trying to find?A. A hotel.???????????????????? B. A bank.?????? C. A restaurant.3. At what time will the two speakers meet?A. 5:20.????? B. 5:10.???? C.4:40.4. What will the man do ?A. Change the plan.??? B. Wait for a phone call.? C. Sort things out.5. What does the woman want to do ?A. See a film with the man.? B. Offer the man some help C. Listen to some great music.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给出的A、B、C三个选项种选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答6、7题。6.Where is Ben？A. In the kitchen.????? B. At school.??????? C. In the park.7.What will the children in the afternoon?A. Help set the table.?? B. Have a party.??? C. Do their homework.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. What are the two speakers talking about?A. A Family holiday.? B. A business trip.???? C. A travel plan.9. Where did Rachel go?A. Spain.????? B. Italy.???????? C. China.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?A. From young smokers.? B. From a newspaper article. C. From some smoking parents.11. Why does the man say that he should keep away from babies?A. He has just become a father. B. He wears dirty clothes. C. He is a smoker.12. What does the woman suggest smoking parents should do ?A．Stop smoking altogether.??? B. Smoke only outside their houses.C. Reduce dangerous matter in cigarettes.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where does Michelle Ray come from?A. A middle-sized city.?? B. A small town.???? C. A big city.14. Which place would Michelle Ray take her visitors to for shopping?A. The Zen Garden??????? B. The Highlands.???? C. The Red River area.15. What does Michelle Ray do for complete quiet?A. Go camping.??????????? B. Study in a library.??? C. Read at home.16.What are the speakers talking about in general?A. Late-night shopping.? B. Asian food.??????????? C. Louisville.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield ?A. They forget about their dreams.??? B. They don't want to tell the truth.C. They have no bad experiences.18. Why did Davis stop having dreams?A. He got a serious heart attack.?? B. He was too sad about his brother's deathC. He was frightened by a terrible dream.19. What is Dr Garfield s opinion about dreaming?A. It is very useful.??????? B. It makes things worse.C. It prevents the mind from working.20. Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?A. To sleep better.??? B. To recover from illnesses.?C. To stay away from their problems.

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

Advertising gives useful information about which products to buy. But modern advertising does more than gives news about products and services. Today’s advertisements, or ads, try to get consumers to buy certain brands. Writers of advertising are so skillful that they can, sometimes persuade a consumer to wear a certain kind of clothing, eat a special kind of cereal, or see a movie. Consumers might never even want a product if they did not see or hear advertisements for it.　　For example, you probab1y do not need the newest cereal in the supermarket. There are probably many cereal brands on your kitchen shelves. You may not have space on a shelf for another. But if you see ads about a new cereal that is your extra-tasty and has a free prize in the box, you may want it. Advertising must get attention. To be effective, it must be exciting, entertaining, or provide some pleasure. The secret of writing good advertising copy is to offer a good idea as well as a product. The idea is what the ad is really selling. One example is an ad that says eating a certain cereal will make a person do well in sports. That cereal brand may sell better if consumers think it offers strength and energy.

21. What is discussed in this passage?　 A. The content of modern advertising.　　

B. The skills of modern advertising.　 C. The results of modern advertising.　　

D. The writing of modern advertising.

22. According to the passage, a good advertisement should???? ____________.　　A. be both persuasive and effective　

B. give people useful information　　C. show people a product　　

D. show people a new idea of a product?

23. From the passage, we know that?___________________ . 　　A. modern advertising has less effect on customers 　　

B. once customers see ads about a new cerea1, they are sure to buy it　　C. cereal can make people strong　　D. cereal is a kind of food which is popular among people?

24. What can we infer from the passage?　　A. Customers can easily be persuaded by advertisements.　　B. Customers should be persuaded by advertisements.　　C. It’s impossible for customers to buy a product without advertisements.　 D. Customers buy products according to their demands rather than the advertisements.

B

A dog-lover has invented a high-tech way of feeding his pet by Twitter（推特，流行社交网络）. Computer expert Nat Morris, 30, has designed a system to give his pet a “tweet treat” by sending him a Twitter message.

His dog Toby gets some delicious dog biscuits from a computer-controlled food machine whenever Nat sends a message to “@feedtoby”.

Nat often works away from home and isn’t always able to feed Toby by hand. But his new invention allows Nat to feed his dog from anywhere in the world.

Nat said, “Toby absolutely loves it. At first he didn’t know what was going on. Now he sits underneath the machine, wagging his tail and waiting for the treats to drop.”

Nat fills the food machine with small pieces of dog biscuits, but not too many in case four-year-old Toby gets too many messages. And Nat has even equipped his house with an online camera so he can see Toby enjoying the food at his home.

But one problem is that friends and family have been so amazed with the “Tweet treat” machine that. they have starting to send tweets to Toby too. So Nat has had to restrict feeding time to make sure Toby doesn’t turn into Tubby。

“People have been sending him food at all hours of the day, so I had to limit it to between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.. I’m thinking of doing an updated one which measures his weight before he is fed, just to make sure he’s not putting on too much puppy fat,” explained Nat.

How Nat’s Twitter Feeder Works:

When a message is sent to @feedtoby it is received by a mini-computer that is linked to the food machine.

When the mini-computer receives the message, a bell rings and Toby comes running over and sits in front of the feeding machine. Next the machine’s motor pulls open a trap door which releases a serving of food.

The doggy biscuits then drops into Toby's food bowl. Finally a digital camera takes a photo of him and sends it back to Nat on Twitter - so he knows Toby has been fed.

25. Nat has invented a high-tech way to feed his dog because he __________.

A. wants his friends to feed Tody

B. has very strong computing skills

C. is often too busy to feed his dog

D. doesn’t like to feed Tody by hand

26. Why has Nat decided to limit the feeding machine’s opening time?

A. He doesn’t want Toby to get too fat.

B. He fears the machine will run out of food.

C. He wants hid friends to stop feeding Toby.

D. He doesn’t want Toby to be woken up at night.

27. It can be learned from the passage that Toby _______.

A. sits beneath his feeder all day long

B. is now used to being fed by machine

C. doesn’t know what happens to the feeder

D. no longer receives tweets from Nat’s friends

28. Which of the following shows the correct order of how the Twitter Feeder works?

a. The bell goes off.

b. A message is sent to @feedtoby.

c. The mini-computer gets the message.

d. The digital camera takes a photo of Toby and sends it to Nat.

e. The motor starts to work and opens the door to release dog food.

A. a, b, c, e, d B. b, c, e, a, d C. b, c, a, e, d D. c, b, a, d, e

29. In which section of the newspaper would you most probably find this passage?

A. Technology B. Health C. Environment D. Style

C

As the summer time approaches, more and more commercials and advertisements can be seen on the mass media encouraging students to join English study tours abroad. The purpose of these tours is to provide students with an opportunity to learn English in a native speaking environment and use English in real situations. Parents always believe that their children will automatically speak good English after attending these study tours. However, for me, as an English major and former participant of many English study tours, I find these summer tours ineffective.

Parents who send their children abroad for a summer to study English usually believe that the native speaking environment, including the courses, teachers, and host families, can help their children to learn English better. This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment. But the fact is that, most of the time, the tour part is more important than the study part. Although these tours take place in foreign countries, students are rarely exposed in an all-English environment. You will find that, in the morning classes, Taiwanese students would like to stick together and speak Chinese with each other, even though there are some students from other countries. In the afternoon, the students go on a sightseeing excursion with their companions from Taiwan; they speak Chinese of course. In the evening, when students ret