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山西省长治二中2018-2019学年高二上学期
期末考试
【本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟】 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分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. How will the woman probably get to Yale University? A. By car. B. By bus. C. By subway. 2. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a library. B. At a book store. C. In a classroom. 3. What does the woman say about the man? A. He is foolish.
B. He has no hope of promotion. C. He behaved well at the office party.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A trip. B. A date. C. Tickets. 5. What does the man want? A. Water. B. Juice. C. Orange soda. 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 does the man like best? A. Action movies. B. Comedies. C. Dramas. 7. Which movie does the woman like? A. Home Alone. B. Spider-Man. C. Enter the Dragon. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Tell her how to write a recommendation. B. Write a recommendation for her. C. Correct a recommendation for her. 9. Who will send the recommendation? A. The man. B. The woman. C. The woman’s friend. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why can’t the man use the bathroom on the first floor? A. It is under repair. B. It only has cold water. C. It is for the woman’s family. 11. Where is the man’s bedroom? A. On the first floor. B. On the second floor. C. On the third floor.
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12. What can the man do with the phone in the living room? A. Dial up the Internet. B. Make calls out. C. Take calls. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the boy want to celebrate?
A. His 18th birthday. B. His 19th birthday. C. His 20th birthday. 14. Where does the boy want to celebrate his birthday? A. In a bar. B. At his home. C. In a restaurant. 15. What does the woman suggest doing? A. Making a salad. B. Buying some flowers. C. Buying some drinks. 16. When will the boy order a birthday cake? A. On Saturday morning. B. On Saturday afternoon. C. On Sunday morning.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where is the speaker’s mother coming from? A. Osaka. B. New York. C. San Francisco. 18. Why will the speaker clean his apartment? A. It is too dirty.
B. His girlfriend will visit him. C. His mother will stay with him.
19. What is the speaker going to do on Saturday? A. Have a party.
B. Have dinner with his friends. C. Show his mother around the city.
20. Who will the speaker and his mother meet on Saturday? A. His friends. B. His girlfriend. C. His girlfriend’s parents. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 (共15小题，每小题2.5分，满分37.5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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Professional development courses in London ●Business writing
Delivery method: Online, Video Price: ￡49
About the course: Many people get blocked when forced to put their thoughts into words at work. This course gives you the tools and techniques to improve your writing, whether it's a two-line email or a two-hundred-page report.
●Travel writing courses
Delivery method: Classroom, Seminar Price: ￡115 ( full day); ￡125 (evening classes)
About the course: Do you want to be a travel writer? Then come along to a one-day travel writing workshop or a four-week travel writing evening class. The courses help participants to write travel features and publish them in newspapers, magazines or on websites.
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●Pre-sessional programmes in EAP Delivery method: Classroom, Seminar Price: Starting from ￡1,250
About the course: Our five pre-sessional programmes in English for academic purposes are intended for international students who plan to study at Aston University. These programmes aim to equip you with the language and academic skills necessary for success in your future chosen subject area.
●Masterclass
Delivery method: Classroom, Seminar Price: Starting from ￡335
About the course: Whether you write fundraising letters, or for your website(s), this course will help you gain the ideas, knowledge and skills you need to write fundraising copy that produces more impressive and profitable results.
21. How is the business writing course different from the others? A. It is delivered online. B. It offers evening classes. C. It focuses on report writing. D. It is hosted by Aston University. 22. What can pre-sessional programmes in EAP help students do?
A. Choose a suitable college subject. B. Prepare themselves for university. C. Go to world-class universities. D. Only improve their academic skills.
23. Which course fits John if he hopes to write inspiring words for fundraising activities? A. Pre-sessional programmes in EAP. B. Travel writing courses. C. Business writing. D. Masterclass.
B
My first impression of Miss Vicki was a highly authoritative(权威的) person towering over me. She spoke in a loud voice and the earth shook whenever she marched. That was in the first year of high school. She was a knowledgeable literature teacher then. However, during my first year in school, she struck terror into my heart(使我胆战心惊). And everyone else’s of course. Just the mention of her name made the most unruly classes silent.
Nevertheless, the two years of junior high passed by rather quickly. Soon, I went to senior high class. I had worked hard and gotten the subject combination that I wished for. Together with a group of old friends, I soon settled down in class comfortably.
To everyone’s surprise, she was fortunate enough to be my teacher that year. I was shocked when I heard the news. This time round, however, I decided not to hide in terror whenever she was near. I decided to face the fact that we were going to meet each other for the next 365 days. Instead of trying too hard to lick her boots, I tried my best to my natural self in front of her. Still, I could not shake off the ice-cold impression that she put in my heart. True, her jokes sometimes sent me into fits of laughter, yet at other times these jokes simply fell flat the moment she told them. My lovely class, however, was already ready to laugh at the right time of her amusing stories. After all, we would not want to run the risk of provoking(激怒) her.
Unluckily, life was not to remain boring. One day we received news that Miss Vicki was to leave Singapore for the Philippines where she would take part in a voluntary teaching program for the poor. We did not know what to say actually. All of us cried at the airport.
24. During the first year in school, the author thought Miss Vicki was . A. proud but patient B. beautiful but strict
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C. scholarly but serious D. humorous but single-minded
25. What does the underlined phrase “lick her boots” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Win her favor. B. Embarrass her. C. Argue with her. D. Follow her closely. 26. What can we learn from Paragraph 4 ? A. Miss Vicki was a good joke teller.
B. Miss Vicki’s jokes were always boring.
C. Students liked Miss Vicki’s class very much. D. Students pretended to laugh to please Miss Vicki.
27. What can we infer about Miss Vicki from the last paragraph? A. She was fired by the school.
B. She was not accepted by the students. C. She was unwilling to leave her students.
D. She had a strong sense of social responsibility.
C
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found a clear link between the color of a taxi and its accident rate. An analysis of 36 months of detailed taxi, driver and accident data from two fleets (车队) of yellow and blue taxis in Singapore suggested that yellow taxis have fewer accidents than blue taxis. The higher visibility (可见性) of yellow makes it easier for drivers to avoid getting into accidents with yellow taxis, leading to a lower accident rate.
The study was led by Prof. Ho. To test whether there was a causal relationship between the color of a taxi and the number of accidents the taxi had, the research team analysed data collected by the largest taxi company in Singapore. The researchers found that yellow taxis have about 6.1 fewer accidents per 1, 000 taxis per month.
The researchers also studied the economic effect of changing the color of the entire fleet of taxis to yellow. The Singapore taxi company involved in the study owns about 16,700 taxis in a ratio (比率) of one yellow taxi to three blue taxis. If a commercial decision is made to switch from blue to yellow taxis, 76.6 fewer accidents would occur per month or 917 fewer accidents per year. Assuming an average repair cost of $1,000 per car and a downtime of six days, switching the color of all taxis to yellow could produce an annual saving of $2 million.
\证实) the findings of our study by looking at the use of yellow in other types of public transport, such as school buses. For instance, we hope to compare the accident rates of yellow school buses against other colors to find out if yellow is indeed a safer color for school buses. Besides, we are also interested to look at private hire vehicles and do a comparison of the accident rates of vehicles that are of different colors.\
28. Why do yellow taxis result in fewer accidents? A. Because yellow can be seen more easily. B. Because yellow signals a warning of danger.
C. Because drivers tend to be more careful in yellow taxis. D. Because people act more quickly in yellow surroundings. 29. What's Prof. Ho's study based on?
A. Physical risks taxi passengers experience. B. The economic effect of changing taxi color.
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C. Data from Singapore's largest taxi company. D. Personal reports from taxi drivers worldwide.
30. What do Prof Ho's words in the last paragraph suggest? A. School buses should be painted yellow. B. Their findings are worth popularizing.
C. Yellow should be widely used in public transport. D. Their study will be furthered.
31. What can be the best title for the text? A. Caution: yellow taxis ahead B. Safer to ride in yellow taxis C. Why are yellow taxis preferred? D. How can colors help prevent accidents?
D
Steven Spielberg's 2002 science-fiction thriller Minority Report produced a world where computers could read minds and predict the future. It seemed fanciful at the time, but fantasy is edging closer to fact.
On Jan 31, a team of scientists at UC Berkeley, led by Robert Knight programmed computers to decode (破译) brain waves and replay them as words. Five months earlier, another group of Berkeley scientists showed their colleagues short movies and used computers to play back in color what people saw.
These experiments are a big advance from 2006, when a French scientist first replayed images from a human mind, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. The possibilities are great: a disabled person could\rewatch your dreams on an iPad. There are, of course, equally dark side, such as the involuntary take out of information from the brain.
In spite of these breakthroughs, Jack Gallant, the neuroscientist who led the first Berkeley team, says current technology for decoding brain activity is still \held back by its poor machinery, in particular the FMRI.
\Such an advance into the human mind, he says, might take 30 years.
Still, the recent advances at Berkeley offer small answers, which scientists can use to begin unlocking the secrets of memory and consciousness.
32. What is the best title for the passage? A. New technology can read your mind B. Fantasy is edging closer to fact C. A new discovery in human brain D. The intelligent computers in the future 33. What did scientists at UC Berkeley do? A. They produced a fanciful world.
B. They made computers jump forward like a human. C. They managed to translate brain waves into language. D. They used computers to make short movies.
34. What plays a most important role in the development of the technology? A. A computer. B. An iPad. C. A decoding machine. D. A hat. 35. It can be inferred from the passage that . A. scientists got the inspiration from a movie
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[英语]山西省长治二中2018-2019学年高二上学期期末考试
