定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高三第二次考试英语试题

一、听力

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.When is Bob’s birthday?

A.January 14.

B.January 5.

C.January 23.



Why doesn’t the man eat his cake？

A.He wants to save it.

B.He has a toothache.

C.He has trouble opening his mouth.

What does the man mean?

A.He agrees to give a talk on any subject.

B.He agrees to give a talk on England.

C.He refuses to give a talk.

What do we learn from the conversation?

A.They are talking about nice children.

B.The man has a house for sale.

C.The man has a three-bedroom house for the children.

Who spoke to Helen?

A.Her teacher.

B.Her husband.

C.Her Boss.



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，各个小题将给出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。

Which of the following is the bad result of using computers?

A.More people will lose their jobs.

B.More people will write articles for newspapers and magazines at their homes.

C.People will become much lazier than before.

What does the man think we should do in order not to fall behind?

A.He thinks we should make more money.

B.He thinks we should run faster.

C.He thinks we should learn more.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

Where is the manager now?

A.He is in the shop serving the woman.

B.He has gone to have lunch.

C.He is on the way home.

When did the woman bring the watch in?

A.3 days ago.

B.A moment ago.

C.One week ago.



Why was the receipt still there when the woman came back?

A.She thought she didn’t need it.

B.The manager didn’t give it to her.

C.She dropped it when she left.

听第8段材料，回答第11至14题。

What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A.Brother and sister.

B.Friends.

C.Teacher and student.

Where is the Chinese restaurant?

A.In King Street.

B.In Queen Street.

C.In Green Street.



Who didn’t know where the restaurant was?

A.David.

B.Lucy.

C.David and Lucy.



What time were they to meet at the restaurant?

A.At 8:30.

B.At 7:30.

C.At 6:30.



听第9段材料，回答第15至16题。

Where did the conversation take place？

A.In Italy.

B.At the couple’s home..

C.At the airport.



What was the best part of his trip?

A.Meeting with his relatives in Italy.

B.Speaking Italian with his relatives.

C.Being with his grandmother.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

When was the football game shown on TV?

A.Last Sunday.

B.Last Saturday.

C.Last Friday.



Who played in the football game?

A.Austrian team and Spanish team.

B.Spanish team and Australian team.

C.German team and Austrian team.

Why was the man’s wife cheering?

A.Because she was excited by the game.

B.Because her team won the game.

C.Because the game would come to an end very soon.

What can we learn from the story?

A.Both the man and his wife were football fans.

B.Neither the man nor his wife liked the game.

C.The man’s wife didn’t like any football games.

二、阅读理解

A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all-milk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband’s niece. Then she gets coffee for breakfast, ice cream for dessert and remembers stamps to mail the bills. And don’t forget soap for the bathroom.

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Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men, she adds, generally use just one side of the brain. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the “understanding” and the “action” parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

21．The author mentioned the shopping in Paragraph 1 to___________.

A. show women’s carefulness

B. prove men’s quick action

C. object to an opinion

D. bring up the topic to be discussed

22．The main idea of Paragraph 4 is that ___________.

A. women have two same brains on both sides

B. men have more complicated brains than women

C. different kinds of brain images have been studied

D. men’s structure of brain is different from women’s

23．What causes the difference between men’s and women’s behavior?

A. Watching things from different sides.

B. Having different attitudes towards life.

C. Using different parts of the brain to think.

D. Reacting at different speed to problems.

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When the 5th century arrived, there were just two punctuation marks: spaces and points. The spaces separated words while the points showed pauses in reading. Then in the 13th century, a printer named Aldus Manutius tried to standardize punctuation. He always used a period for a complete stop at the end of a sentence. He used a slash (/) to indicate a short pause. Over time, that slash was shortened and curled, and it became the modern comma (逗号).

Since that time, other marks have enlarged the punctuation family. The exclamation mark (感叹号) comes from the Latin word io. It means “exclamation of joy.” The question mark originally started out as the Latin word questio, meaning question. Eventually, scholars put it at the end of a sentence to show a question.

Punctuation even keeps changing nowadays. New marks are coming into existence, and old punctuation marks are used in new ways. Take for example the “interrobang”. This 1962 invention combines the question mark and exclamation mark for times whe