厦门市第一中学高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

第一部分 听力 （共两节， 满分30分）

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. Who is the man looking for?

A. His brother. B. His teacher. C. His classmate.

2. What is difficult for the speakers?

A. Finding the professor’s office.

B. Asking the professor for help.

C. Solving the problem on their own.

3. Why can’t Henry go to the game with the woman?

A. He is sick.

B. He is going out with someone else.

C. He has to finish a paper.

4. What will the speakers do next?

A. Keep waiting for the bus. B. Take Bus No.10. C. Take a taxi.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. She will definitely come to the barbecue.

B. She will have to miss the barbecue.

C. She thinks the man is joking.

第二节

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 is the woman making the purchase?

A. For an interview. B. For a wedding. C. For a conference.

7. What does the woman think of the suit?

A. It’s a real bargain. B. It makes her look young. C. The price is still high.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What will the woman do first on Saturday?

A. Attend a presentation. B. Go to a basketball game. C. Have a lunch meeting.

9. Who is Larry?

A. The woman’s son. B. A client from Malaysia. C. The woman’s co-worker.

10. How does the man sound in the end?

A. Annoyed. B.Satisfied. C. Surprised.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. How will the woman travel to New York?

A. By train. B. By car. C. By bus.

12. What do Laura and the woman both like?

A. Traveling. B. Music. C. Sports.

13. What do we know about Laura?

A. She will go camping this Saturday.

B. She was the woman’s classmate.

C. She has just moved to a new place.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What does the woman do for a living?

A. She owns a hotel. B. She is a travel agent. C. She works for a website.

15. What is the disadvantage of beach resorts hotels?

A. They don’t offer good food.

B. The price is too high.

C. They’re hard to find.

16. Why did the woman make a complaint about the room in Canada?

A. The bed was a mess.

B. The kitchen was very dirty.

C. The bathroom was too small.

17. When did the hotel in Canada give the woman her money back?

A. After she stayed there for one night.

B. Right when she asked for it.

C. After she called the police.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What do we know about Golden Gate Park?

A. It is one and a half miles wide.

B. It is far from the ocean.

C. It is open during winter.

19. What can be found on the eastern side of the park?

A. A parking lot. B. A museum. C. A tea garden.

20. What does the speaker suggest doing in the Botanical Gardens?

A. Taking a nap. B. Riding a bike. C. Having a picnic.

第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）

（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。

A

It’s happened to everyone. You run up to someone, thinking it’s your friend, only to realize that the person is a stranger.

But there’s something about the curve of their nose or the shape of their eyes that looks strangely familiar. It’s as if your friend had a twin.

The Germans invented a word for this phenomenon, “doppelganger”. Literally, it means “double walker”, and it’s come to mean anyone who looks very similar to another person. Doppelgangers pop up in literature and movies, and even in celebrity culture. There are countless Web pages about how celebrities such as US actress Zooey Deschanel and singer Katy Perry look alike.

But can you really find a person who looks the same as you? That’s an ongoing debate in the scientific community.

After all, humans have a limited number of genes that control how our faces and bodies look. “There is only so much genetic diversity to go around,” the US’ Cornell University professor Michael Sheehan told Live Science. He compared genes to cards in a deck. If the deck gets shuffled enough times, some cards will appear again and again.

But forensic scientist Daniele Podini from George Washington University, US is not convinced true doppelgangers exist. Nothing is impossible, Podini admits, but he told the website ScienceLine that most doppelgangers are the result of perception, the way each individual sees the world. We all see faces differently. You might see two people as doppelgangers, but for someone else, small differences between the two faces might be much more obvious. Each of us has a different ability to remember faces and their details. There’s even a small group of people who cannot tell between faces at all. They suffer from prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. They cannot even recognize the faces of their own parents or friends.

For the people who are very sensitive to differences between faces, the differences can seem never-ending. A single study found 4,000 pieces of DNA that shape our faces, and more have yet to be discovered.

Your lifestyle choices can also change your looks. Those choices can be as simple as a haircut, or as serious as bad eating habits. Even identical twins can start to look different, depending on how they live their lives. In other words, your doppelganger may be somewhere in the world, but it’s far more likely that your genes and your decisions have made you one of a kind.

21. Which of the following statements would Michael Sheehan agree with?

A. People’s perception is similar to each other.

B. Genetic diversity is limited, resulting in similar faces.

C. Genes are like cards in the way that you never know what you will get.

D. It is not possible that there is another person who looks similar to us.

22. What does the underlined sentence imply?

A. Identical twins are likely to lead different life styles.

B. The lifestyle we choose has little to do with our looks.

C. Identical twins may not look alike due to different genes.

D. Our appearance is in some way related to the way we live.

23. The passage is likely to appear in _______ .

A. a finance report B. a newspaper advertisement

C. a biological experiment D. a science magazine

B

Job sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one full-time job. The two people willingly act as part-time workers, enough hours between them to fulfill the duties of a full-time worker. If they each work half the job, for example, they each receive 50 per cent of the job's wages, its holidays and its other benefits.

Job sharing differs from conventional (常规的) part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment.

Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities.

As would be expected, most job sharers are women. A survey carried out in 1988 by Britain's Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 percent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status. Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence.

The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs. However, to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals.

24. In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?

A. Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs.

B. Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary.

C. Work sharing requires more working hours.

D. Work sharing depends on the employer's decision.

25. According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sharing to conventional part-time work mainly because _____.

A. they had to take care of both work and family

B. they had difficulty finding full-time jobs

C. they were over ideal working ages

D. they sought higher social status

26. In job sharing the partners should _____.

A. enjoy equal social status B. know each other very well

C. keep in touch with each other D. have similar work experience

27. The main purpose of the passage is to _____.

A. recommend job sharing to women B. discuss how to provide more jobs

C. describe job sharing in general D. compare job sharing with work sharing

C

You're in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:

"I can't believe it-----a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isn't it beautiful? And it's a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome."

They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. It's nice and the price is right. You've never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.

Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person lo