安徽省合肥一六八中学2019-2020学年高二下学期入学考试
英语试题
（考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分）
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）
B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡ 19.15. B. ￡ 9.18. C. ￡ 9.15. 答案是 C。
1.What will Mary do tonight? A. Go to the theatre. B. Prepare supper at home. C. Take care of her father.
2.What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues. B. Customer and waiter. C. Teacher and student. 3. How did the girl read the book? A. She read some parts of it. B. She read it slowly. C. She read it page by page.
4.What are the speakers talking about?
A. A painting. B. Painting classes. C. The man’s daughter. 5.What was the woman’s dream?
A. A worker. B. A footballer. C. A lawyer.
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。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.What time is it now?
A. 5:50. B. 6:00. C. 6:40. 7.Where are the speakers?
A. At the airport. B. At the station. C. At a bookstore.
听第7 段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What does the man think of the department store? A. Famous. B. Large. C. Deserted. 9.What’s close to the men’s clothing store? A. A bank. B. A food store. C .A theater. 10.Where does the post office lie?
A. Across the street. B. Next to the theatre. C. Three blocks away.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. How does the man advise going to the park? A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By bike. 12.What will the speakers do on Saturday night? A. Relax at home. B. Organize a party. C. Have dinner with friends.
13.When will they visit the museum on Sunday?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14.What is the man speaker?
A. A secretary. B. A manager. C. A roommate. 15.What happened to the woman? A. Her window was broken. B. Her house was broken into. C. Some children scolded her. 16.Why will the man come over? A. To comfort the woman. B. To know about the damage. C To seek for some clues.
.17.How did the woman feel when hearing “he can bill me directly”? A. Joyful. B. Surprised. C. Calm.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18.Why did Steve like staying on the hills? A. The views were excellent. B. It contributed to imagination. C. He could get full relaxation. 19.What stories does Steve love writing?
A. Fairy tales. B. Fantastic stories. C.Horrible stories. 20.What life is Steve living?
A. A busy life. B. A hard life. C. A quiet life.
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 ) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Reading may be fundamental, but how the brain gives meaning to letters on a page has been a mystery. Two new studies fill in some details on how the brains of efficient readers handle words. One of the studies, published in the April 30 Neuron, suggests that a visual-processing area of the brain recognizes common words as whole units. Another study, published online April 27 in PLOSONE, makes it known that the brain operates two fast parallel systems for reading, linking visual recognition of words to speech.
Maximilian Riesenhuber, a neuroscientist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., wanted to know whether the brain reads words letter by letter or recognizes words as whole objects. He and his colleagues showed sets of real words or nonsense(无意义的词语)words to volunteers undergoing fMRI scans. The words differed inonly one letter, such as “farm” and “form” or “soat” and “poat”, or were completely different, such as “farm” and “coat” or “poat” and “hime”. The researchers were particularly interested in what happens in the visual word form area, or VWFA, an area on the left side of the brain just behind the ear that is involved in recognizing words.
Riesenhuber and his colleagues found that neurons(神经元)in the VWFA respond strongly to changes in real words. Changing “farm” to “form”, for example, produced as great a change in activity as changing “farm” to” coat”, the team reports in Neuron. The area responded slowly to single-letter changes in made-up words.
The data suggests that readers grasp real words as whole objects, rather than focusing on letters or letter combinations. And as a reader’s exposure to a word increases, the brain comes to recognize the shape of the word.
Meaning is passed on after recognition in the brain, Riesenhuber says.
The researchers don’t yet know how longer and less familiar words are recognized, or if the brain can be trained to recognize nonsense words as a unit.
1. Riesenhuber’s research probably focuses on whether the brain ______ A. recognizes words as a unit or reads them letter by letter. B. operates two fast parallel systems for reading C. takes longer to read less familiar words or not D. handles nonsense words as a unit
2. Riesenhuber and his colleagues carried out their research by ______. A. giving pairs of real words totally different C. showing pairs of different words
B. arranging the words in different order D. making volunteers read some longer words
.3. Riesenhuber’s research is significant in that it shows how the brain ______. A. responds to familiar words C. recognizes the form of a word
B. relates meaning to letters D. reacts to made-up words
B
Over the past couple of days, on our local Freecycle page there have been a lot of wanted posts, all from the same person, basically asking for everything you’d need to set up a house from scratch.
One of the things they asked for was a queen-sized bed. At that time we just happened to have an extra one, so I messaged them. They immediately came in the afternoon. The people who came, two ladies and a man, are actually friends of another woman named Jenny who owned a young boy. This woman has escaped from a dangerous, violent relationship and these friends of hers are helping her and her son start over again, with everything from furniture to toothbrushes on their list of needs.
While they were here, I also gave them one of our spare bookcase and some coffee cups. I even asked them to keep in touch in case they needed anything else—I have a way of connecting people with things. I offered the woman a cupboard we had as well; her friends just needed to see if there was a place and/or a need for it in their friend’s new home.
I was so excited to meet those loving people, who were obviously willing to help their friend. It was clear how
protective they felt of this woman and her boy, how much they love her and wanted her to have a happy and safe life, and to spend even a few minutes with people like that is an experience I’ll remember for a long, long time.
A quick thank-you to all who have sent more donations over the last couple of days, as well as lovely messages of thanks and blessings. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with it all, but it’s a problem I’m happy to have. 4. What were the people who arrived at the author’s in the afternoon going to do? A. Promote some products customers needed. C. Recycle second-hand furniture.
B. Fetch the bed the author would give away. D. Help repair the author's furniture.
5. Which of the following words can best describe the author? A. Warm-hearted.
B. Mean.
C. Narrow-minded.
D. Intelligent.
6. From the last two paragraphs, we can infer that ________.
A. the author doesn't like to spend too much time with those people like Jenny's friends B. Jenny and her boy will hardly get help from the author's friends
C. the author was disappointed with those only sending messages of thanks and blessings D. Jenny and her boy will have a new start with the help of people 7. The suitable title for the text should be “_________”. A. No pains, no gains
C. Many hands make light work
B. God helps those who help themselves D. Where there is will, there is a way
C
When you start working on something but don’t finish it, thoughts of the unfinished work continue to jump into your mind even when you’ve moved on to other things. Psychologists refer to this psychological phenomenon as the Zeigarnik effect. The effect was first observed by a Russian psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik. While sitting in a busy restaurant in Vienna, she noted the waiters had better memories of unpaid orders. Once the bill was paid, however, the waiters had difficulty remembering the exact details of the orders.
In one of her studies, participants were asked to complete simple tasks such as putting together puzzles, or solving math problems. Half of the participants were interrupted halfway through these tasks. After an hour-long delay, Zeigarnik asked the participants to give an account of what they’d been working on. She discovered that those who had their work interrupted were twice as likely to remember what they had been doing as those who had actually completed the tasks.
We can use this effect to our advantage. For example, if you’re struggling to memorize something important, momentary interruptions might actually work to your advantage. Rather than simply remember the information over and over again, review it several times and then take a break. While you’re focusing on other things, you’ll find
安徽省合肥一六八中学2019-2020学年高二下学期入学考试英语试题
