大庆实验中学2015---2016学年度上学期开学考试

高二年级英语试题

说明:本试卷满分150分（听力计入总分） 时间120分钟

第一卷（共三部分115分）

第一部分 听力题：（ 共两节20小题，每小题1分，共20分）

第一节：（共5小题，每小题1分，满分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，并标在试卷相应的位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒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 will Dorothy do on the weekend?

A. Go out with her friend.

B. Work on her paper.

C. Make some plans.

2. What was the normal price of the T-shirt?A. $30. B. $15. C. $50.

3. What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon?A. To meet a friend.B. To visit an exhibition.C. To attend a wedding.

4. When does the bank close on Saturday?A. At l: 00 pm. B. At 3:00 pm. C. At 4:00 pm.

5. Where are the speakers?A. At a hotel. B. In a classroom. C. In a store.

第二节：（ 共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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. What do we know about Nora?A. She prefers a room of her own.B. She likes to work with other girls.C. She lives near the city center.

7. What is good about the flat?A. It has a big kitchen. B. It has good furniture.C. It has a large sitting room.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Where has Barbara been? A. Rome. B. Florence. C. Milan.9. What has Barbara got in her suitcase? A. Books. B. Shoes. C. Stones.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Who is making the telephone call? A. Thomas Brothers. B. Jack Cooper. C. Mike Landon.11. What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper? A. His wife. B. His secretary. C. His boss. 12. What is the message about? A. A meeting. B. A visit to France. C. The date for a trip.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Who could the man speaker most probably be? A. A person who saw the accident. B. The driver of the lorry. C. A police officer.14. What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place? A. Standing outside a bank.  B. Getting ready to cross the road. C. Walking along Churchill Avenue.15. When did the accident happen? A. At about 8:00 a.m. B. At about l0:00 a.m. C. At about 9:00 a.m.16. How did the accident happen? A .A lorry hit a car. B. A car ran into a lorry. C. A bank clerk rushed into the street.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the talk mainly about? A. The history of the school. B. The plan for the day. C. The courses for the term.18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students? A. In the school hall. B. In the classrooms. C. In the science labs.19. What can students do in the practical areas? A. Take science courses. B. Enjoy excellent meals. C. Attend workshops.20. When are the visitors expected to ask questions? A. After the welcome speech.

B. During the lunch hour.

C. Before the tour of the labs.

第二部分：阅读理解 (共两节，40分)

第一节：（共15小题，每题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

When was the last time someone did something unexpectedly nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger? It’s happened to me a few times, but two instances really stand out.

A few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery（痛苦）. It wasn’t his company that disappointed me. I was recovering from a bad grade in my study. I could have collapsed（崩溃）in tears right there at the table.

When we picked up the check, the waitress said, “Your meal was already paid for.” My friend and I didn’t have a clue how it happened. Then I remembered a man coming in out of the corner of my eye. He was dressed in mostly white, sat down at the bar, had a glass of wine, stayed for maybe ten minutes and then left. The waitress said, “Yes, the gentleman who was in here a while ago paid for you.”

Just last year, I was running a half-marathon. With just 0.1 miles to go, I was out of gas. Runners call it “hitting the wall”; I thought I couldn’t move another muscle. Out of nowhere, a teenager jogged up next to me and said, “What’s your name sweetie? Jennifer? Okay, Jennifer, let’s go! Come on! It’s just around the corner! You can do it!”. And he ran with me until I picked up my pace. I found him at the finish line to thank him for the encouragement only to learn he wasn’t even supposed to be in the race that day. He was running in place of someone else.

I still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need. Do you have any experiences like this?

21. Why did the author say she was in misery?

A. Because she got into trouble with her friend.

B. Because she couldn’t enjoy her meal quietly.

C. Because her friend complained so much.

D. Because she was doing poorly in her study.

22. What do you think of the man who paid for the meal?

A. He was generous and warm-hearted.

B. He knew the author well and always helped her.

C. He showed his kindness to his girlfriend.

D. He liked making fun of others.

23. We can infer from the last paragraph that_________.

A. the author still can’t believe her experiences today

B. the author feels grateful for the help she received

C. the author thinks everyone is an angel

D. the author often helps those in need

24. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. The Kindness of Strangers

B. An Unpleasant Friend

C. Two Unbelievable Experiences

D. Hitting the Wall

B

At the age of 14, Hugh Evans spent a night with cockroaches（蟑螂）crawling all over him.

That experience turned out to be life-changing for Evans, now 30. Far removed from his comfortable home in Australia, he traveled to the Philippines with an aid organization that set him up with a host family. Their home was in Smokey Mountain, a teeming slum（贫民窟） in Manila.

A boy in the family, Sonny Boy, was the same age as Evans. The difference between their lives shocked him hard. “I believed that I wanted to commit my life to this,” said Evans. “I want to see an end to extreme poverty in my lifetime.”

It’s the same goal shared by global organizations and world leaders, and some great progress has been made in reducing the number of the world’s poorest. In 1981, about half the developing world lived in extreme poverty. By 2010, it had fallen to about 20 percent. The organization has set 2030 as the goal to reduce the rate even further, to 3 percent.

The gains worldwide are unbalanced. China and Southeast Asia have made huge progress in lifting their populations above that line. But the opposite is true in some areas in Africa. Even though economic growth is developing across the continent, the number of extremely poor people actually increased over the last three decades.

The organization’s campaign, “Live Below the Line”, hoped for an even greater effect by actually having people eat the way that the world’s poorest have to do every day.

This year about 15,000 people worldwide joined in the campaign such as Ben Affleck and Josh Groban, as well as other notables, such as Jill Biden and Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son. The campaign will raise up to $4,000,000 for various aid organizations working to help the world’s poorest.

25. The author mentioned Evans’ experience in his teens to _________.

A. help us know him well

B. warn us not to live a poor life

C. show how he missed his teenage time

D. show how the poor life experienced in the Philippines influenced him

26. “Live Blow the Line” aims at_________.

A. making people know the reality of living in poverty

B. making wealthy people donate all their money

C. warning wealthy people not to waste food

D. helping poor people save more money

27. We can infer from the last paragraph that _________.

A. many people support the campaign actively

B. the campaign has collected $4,000,000

C. Ben Affleck started the campaign

D. the campaign has little effect

C

The British Museum first opened in the 18th Century largely based on the collections of the scientist Sir Hans Sloane.

The current neoclassical building was founded nearly a century later and is quadrangular（四角形的）with four wings and a great classical appearance. Inside is a courtyard, the Great Court, covered with a special modern addition—a spiraling（螺旋的）glass and steel roof which was designed by Norman Foster and completed in 2000. The courtyard surrounds the round Reading Room with a copper domed（有穹顶的）ceiling the same size as the dome of St Peter’s in Rome.

The museum, one of the oldest in the world, is Britain’s largest museum, and widely considered to be one of the world’s greatest museums of human history and culture. The permanent collection is made up of over 8 million objects spanning the history of the world’s cultures from the stone tools of early man to twentieth-century prints. The collection includes controversial（有争议的）items including the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Greece, Egyptian mummies and the Rosetta Stone.

The expansion of the museum over the years has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions including the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. The British Library previously occupied the Reading Room but in 1997 moved to a new site next to St Pancras Station on Euston Road. There are frequent special exhibitions of international significance.

Opening Times: The museum is open daily from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. On Fridays it stays open until 8:30 pm. Entry to the museum is free, although a charge may be made for entry to temporary exhibitions.

Address: Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

Nearest Underground Station: Tottenham Court Road (5-minute walk), Russell Square (6-minute walk) and Holborn (7-minute walk).

Website: http://www. britishmuseum. org/.

28. When the British Museum opened originally, it mainly included _________.

A. the Rosetta Stone

B. the Elgin Marbles

C. Hans Sloane’s collections

D. Egyptian mummies

29. What’s the writer’s purpose in mentioning St Peter’s?

A. To tell us an interesting story.

B. To introduce its great history.

C. To compare it to the Reading Room.

D. To show the size of the Reading Room’s dome.

30. People would like to