定州中学2016一2017学年第一学期高二承智班开学考试

英语试题

第I卷（选择题）

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

第一节（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。

l.Who is the gift for?

A.John. B.John’s sister. C.The man.

2.What does the man suggest Peggy do?

A.Cancel her appointment. B.Wait until June. C.Meet Dr. Robinson this afternoon.

3.Where will the woman stop on her way?

A.At a department store. B.At a bus stop. C.At a gas station.

4.What happened to John and his wife?

A.His wife was injured in a car accident. B.John was seriously injured in a car accident.

C.They were both injured in a car accident.

5.What can we learn from the conversation?

A.The woman’s team lost 8 to 0. B.The man drove to the match.

C.The woman blames the man for his being late.

第二节（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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8三个小题。

6.What is one of the reasons for the woman to advertise in a newspaper?

A.Rich content. B.Low cost. C.Good service.

7.What is the disadvantage of advertising in a newspaper?

A.The color is too dull. B.It’s expensive. C.It can’t reach large numbers of people.

8.Where would the woman like to advertise an expensive product?

A.In a newspaper. B.In a book. C.In a magazine.

听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11三个小题。

9.How many times should the man turn left to get to 83 Wooster Street?

A.Twice. B.Three times. C.Four times.

10.What is the woman’s job?

A.A police officer. B.A fast food vendor(小摊贩)．

C.A passer-by.

11.What will the man do at 83 Wooster Street?

A.Buy some hot dogs. B.Have an interview. C.Have dinner with someone.

听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14三个小题。

12.Why is the boy in the kitchen?

A.To hide some food. B.To find food for himself.

C.To hide a kitty.

13.When and where did the boy find the kitty?

A.This afternoon by the garbage can. B.This morning in the park.

C.This afternoon by the door.

14.What does the woman require the boy to do in the end?

A.Throw the kitty away. B.Ask for his father’s permission.

C.Clean up everything the kitty messes up.

听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17三个小题。

15.What was the woman doing when meeting the man?

A.Taking a walk. B.Watching a game. C.Enjoying an exhibition.

16.What are the two speakers talking about?

A.The symbol of the Olympic Games. B.When to hold the next Olympic Games.

C.The Olympic Village.

17.What does the red ring represent?

A.Europe. B.America. C.Australia.

听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。

18.How did the Babylonians celebrate the New Year?

A.By expressing their thanks to their family and friends.

B.By forcing the king to admit the mistakes he had made.

C.By making New Year’s resolutions.

19.Which of the following is not mentioned as a resolution?

A.To lose weight. B.To be admitted into a good university.

C.To be more productive at work.

20.What does“sweat the small stuff”mean?

A.Worrying or getting angry about unimportant things.

B.Being thankful for the most important things in life.

C.Being happy now and forgetting about bad things in the past.

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）

Teenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside other traditional subjects such as math and languages. The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and they count from one to ten: someone starts, the next voice comes from the far right, a third from the other side.

The aim of the game is to listen for an opportunity to shout out the number without clashing (冲突) with another voice or leaving a pause. On the first try, most of the young Germans try to be first, while a few are too shy to join in, but by the fifth time round, they develop a rhythm (节奏).The message: give other people space but also confidently claim your own. This is a requirement for social well-being.

The Willy Hellpach School in Heidelberg is the first in the nation to develop a happiness course.

It is intended for students preparing for university entrance exams.

“The course isn’t there to make you happy,” Ernst Fritz-Schubert, the school principal, warned pupils, “but rather to help you discover the ways to become happy.”

Cooking a meal together is one of the class exercises. Improving body language under the guidance of two professional actresses is another.

The course is taught for three periods a week. Although it’s the happy subject, the pupils themselves insist it is no laughing matter.

“In the first period, we had to each say something positive about another member of the class and about ourselves. No laughing at people,” said Fanny, 17.

Research by the school shows it is not the first to start happiness classes: they also exist at some US universities, mainly based on positive thinking, using findings from studies of depression.

21．What’s the writing purpose of this passage?

A. To describe all the traditional courses.

B. To introduce the happiness course.

C. To develop the readers’ interest in happiness.

D. To help students struggle against being sad.

22．According to the passage, the happiness course is ________.

A. created by the Willy Hellpach School

B. to make all the students happy all the time

C. required to be taken by the first year students

D. to help students discover the way to happiness

23．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. the students’ self-respect can also improve happiness

B. the students just took the course as a laughing matter

C. the students can certainly become happy after the course

D. the students waste time learning something without value

Dear Anne,

I like your column very much. I met a girl four years ago at a gym. She was the one who originally approached me and we became good friends. Then one day, she made me really angry, so angry that I just left and we never saw each other again.

Looking back, I really regret ending things that way. It was a cowardly act on my part, but I had a terrible temper at that time and let the smallest thing get to me. Recently, I’ve started thinking about her again and I looked up her e-mail address. I thought about writing to say “Hi” and apologize for what I did but I’m not sure. She could still be angry with me, or maybe she has forgotten me. I feel very lonely and I want to see her again. What should I do?

Tom

Dear Tom,

She may still be angry with you, and she may have forgotten the friendship between you, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t deserve an apology. Tom, how many of us have wished for the day that someone who treated us badly saw the light and finally owned up? But we rarely get that kind of expected result. So sure, e-mail her and say “Hi”.

Tell her you have been thinking about her and just want to apologize for getting angry and being a coward by walking out on her. But you should remember if she thinks you’re apologizing just because you are lonely, she might dismiss your sincerity. Therefore, don’t mention that. If she wants to see you again, she’ll make sure that happens.

Even if she doesn’t want to be your friend, I can assure you, she’ll appreciate the gesture. And it might make you think twice next time you get angry.

Anne

24．In the letter, Anne is probably ___________.

A. Tom’s friend B. Tom’s teacher

C. a woman reporter D. a columnist

25．What is troubling Tom？

A. He can’t get in touch with his former friend.

B. He regrets letting his former friend leave him.

C. He doesn’t know whether to apologize to his former friend.

D. He is uncertain whether his former friend can forgive him.

26．Which of the following is what Anne advises Tom to do?

A. Tell her that he expects to see her again.

B. Express his sincere apology to her.

C. Tell her that he is very lonely.

D. Beg her to give him another chance.

27．Anne wants to tell Tom that ________.

A. an apology is better late than never

B. he should think twice before he gets angry

C. it’s no use crying over spilt milk

D. he should answer for his wrong doings

It was a cold night in Washington, D. C., and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me. He asked if l would give him some money so he could get something to eat. I'd read the signs "Don't give money to beggars." So I shook my head and kept walking.

I wasn't prepared for a reply, but he said, "I really am homeless and I really am hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat!" But I kept on walking.

The incident bothered me for the rest of the week. I had money in my pocket and it wouldn't have killed me to hand over a buck or two even if he had been lying. Flying back to Anchorage, I couldn't help thinking of him. I tried to rationalize (找借口)my failure to help by thinking government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him. Besides, you're not supposed to give money to beggars.

Somewhere over Seattle, I started to write my weekly garden column for The Anchorage Daily News. Out of the blue, I came up with an idea. Bean's Cafe, the soup kitchen in Anchorage, feeds hundreds of hungry Alaskans every day. Why not try to get all my readers to plant one row in their gardens dedicated to Bean's? Dedicate a row and take it down to Bean's. Clean and simple.

The idea began to take off. Readers would fax or call me when they got something in their garden. Those who only grew flowers donated them. Food for the spirit.

In 1995, the Garden Writers Association of America held their annual convention in Anchorage and after learning of Anchorage's program, Plant a Row for Bean's became Plant a Row for the Hungry. The original idea was to have every member of the Garden Writers Association of America write or talk about planting a row for the hungry sometime during the month of April.

As more and more people started working with the Plant a Row idea, new changes appeared unexpectedly. Many companies gave free seed to customers and displayed the logo, which also appeared in national gardening publications. R