金山中学2016学年度第二学期高二年级英语学科期末考试卷
（考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分）
第I卷 （共110分）
I. Listening Comprehension (25分) Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. 100 dollars. B. 200 dollars. 2. A. In the hospital. 3. A. April.
C. 300 dollars. D. 600 dollars.
D. In a library.
B. At a nursery. C. At a police station.
B. May. C. June. D. July.
4. A. Go to visit the writer. B. Buy her new book. C. Ignore her new book. D. Write a book review.
5. A. Jogging. B. Basketball. C. Swimming. D. Throwing. 6. A. The lady’s room is far.
B. She has to sign up for using the lady’s room.
C. She is not able to use the lady’s room right now.
D. He will lead her to the lady’s room.
B. He will lend it to Sandy first. D. He will keep the paper until Sunday. B. There’s no air-conditioner in the room. D. She thinks he should go to see the doctor.
7. A. He will read it on Saturday. C. He will lend it to Jane first. 8. A. He probably just has got a headache. C. She thinks he is not seriously sick.
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9. A. They couldn’t change the plan. B. They should change their plan.
D. She thinks the basketball game won’
C. She doesn’t believe the weather forecast. t last.
10. A. He can come for next party. C. He can stay at home for his wife. Section B
B. He can bring his wife along to the party. D. She will change the time of the party.
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. They believed that he would realize his dream. B. They offered him help to achieve his dream. C. They didn’t believe that his dream would come true. D. They made no response to his announcement. 12. A. That he was encouraged by the teacher.
B. That he was encouraged by the local paper editor. C. That his first poem was published.
D. That he was encouraged by a professional writer. 13. A. It reminds him of his school life.
B. It reminds him that dreams will come true through efforts. C. It reminds him how poor he used to be.
D. It reminds him of the local paper.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
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14. A. Gardening. B. How to take care of birds. C. How to feed birds. D. How to get birds to the garden. 15. A. Fruit, water and insects. B. Plants, sleeping place and food. C. Variety of plants, food and water. 16. A. Change the water for them.
D. Different types of plants, seed and insects. B. Play with them. D. Play the music for them.
C. Not to approach them. Section C
Listen to a conversation between a student and a clerk in the bookstore. 17. Why can the man NOT find the book he needs? A. The bookstore is sold out of the book. B. The bookstore he is in does not carry the book. C. His professor did not order enough copies of the book.
D. The book is not being used for any course offered at the university. 18. What does the woman offer to do for the student? A. Save a copy of the book for him as soon as it comes in B. Order more copies of the book C. Call the computer store across the street D. Find a store that sells the book if he cannot find it
19. How does the man react to the information the woman gives him about where computer science books are sold?
A. He is embarrassed that he did not think of it himself. B. He suggests that the information be posted in the store. C. He apologizes for bothering the woman.
D. He is annoyed that the woman did not tell him sooner.
20. Why does the woman say this [You are not buying it in advance for next year or anything.] A. To determine how urgent the student’s need is.
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B. To figure out why the book is not listed on the computer. C. To find out what level computer science course the man is taking. D. To explain why the book might be sold out.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (30分) Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Apple Pay is simple to use and works with the card you already have on the devices (21) __________ you use every day. And because your card details are never shared when you use Apple Pay—in fact, they aren’t stored on your device at all—using Apple Pay on your i-Phone, Apple Watch, or iPad is the safer and (22) __________ (private) way to pay.
Now paying in stores happens in one natural motion—there’s no need to open an app or even
wake up your display (23) ________ ________ the innovative Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna(天线) in iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s. To pay, just hold your iPhone near the contactless reader with your finger on Touch ID. Or you (24) __________ double-click the Home button when your iPhone is locked to access Wallet and quickly make your purchases. Your card number is never stored on your device, and when you make a payment, your debit or credit card numbers won’t be sent to the merchant. Apple Pay assigns (25) __________ unique number for each purchase, so your payments stay private and secure.
Available since October 20, 2014, Apple Pay is designed to allow iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus and 6s
Plus users (26) __________(make) payments for goods and services with their iPhones in retail stores through an NFC chip (27) __________ (build) into their iPhones. With the Apple Watch, Apple Pay is also extended to the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and iPhone 5s.
To keep transactions secure, Apple uses a method known as “tokenization,” (28)
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__________ (prevent) actual credit card numbers from being sent over the air. Apple also secures payments using Touch ID on compatible iPhones and continual skin contact on the Apple Watch. Apple is aiming to replace the wallet with Apply Pay, and the one-step payment process helps people no longer dig through a purse or wallet to find credit cards. As it is built on existing NFC technology, Apple Pay will work (29) __________ NFC-based contactless payments (30) __________ (accept). Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. topic B. flourished C. arguably D. empathetic E. repeated F. events G. shares H. individual I. influenced J. appeals K. literary Poetry is a kind of writing in which the sound and meaning of groups of words express ideas or emotion in addition to the experiences or strong feelings the writer ____31____. Unlike most other forms of writing, poetry is often written in lines, rather than paragraphs. Poetry also sounds different from other forms of writing, often using rhythm and rhyme to create an interesting sound when read aloud. Poetry catches the attention of a reader because it ____32____to both emotions and senses.
Sound is ____33____ the single most important aspect of any poem. The sound that any given word makes, or the sounds that come from specific groups of words used together, are what make poetry so unique as a form of writing. A typical story or report does not focus on the sounds that each _____34____ word makes when read. But poems generally contain few words, so it is important that each word plays a role in making an impact on the reader. Rhythm is the flow of sounds created by successive words in a poem. When you read a poem you can often hear this
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