河北定州中学2017—2018学年度第一学期期末考试
高四年级 英语试卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
1. What does the man want to do? A. Take photos.
B. Buy a camera. C. Help the woman.
2. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A noisy night. B. Their life in town. C. A place of living. 3. Where is the man now?
A. On his way. B. In a restaurant. C. At home. 4. What will Celia do? A. Find a player.
B. Watch a game. C. Play basketball.
5. What day is it when the conversation takes place? A. Saturday.
B. Sunday. C. Monday.
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7两个小题。 6. What is Sara going to do?
A. Buy John a gift. B. Invite John to France. C. Give John a surprise. 7. What does the man think of Sara’s plan?
A. Funny. B. Exciting. C. Strange. 听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。 8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter? A. She has to give up her travel plan.
B. She wants to visit another city. C. She needs to put off her test. 9. What does Diana want Peter to do? A. Help her with her study.
B. Take a book to her friend. C. Teach a geography lesson.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。 10. Why does the man call the woman? A. To tell her about her new job. B. To ask about her job program C. To plan a meeting with her. 11. Who needs a new flat?
A. Alex. B. Andrea. C. Miranda. 12. Where is the woman now?
A. In Baltimore. B. In New York. C. In Avon. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至16四个小题。
13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant? A. Where the restaurant is. B. Whether the prices are low. C. How well the food is prepared.
14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine? A. After he came back to Sweden. B. Before he went to the United States. C. As soon as he got his first job in 1982. 15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant? A. Talk to people in the street. B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerks.
16. What do we know about Jan? A. He cooks for a restaurant. B. He travels a lot for his work. C. He prefers American food.
听下面一段独白，回答第17至20四个小题。 17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon?
A. It’s a new building. B. It’s a small town. C. It’s a public place. 18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon? A. Saturday nights. B. Sunday afternoons. 19. Which street is known for its food shops and markets? A. Via Del Mar Street. B. Fernando Street. 20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best? A. It has an old stone surface. B. It is named after a writer. C. It has a famous university.
二、阅读理解
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to look like. And they change their minds based on what the robot is supposed to do.
Participants were shown a series of photos portraying either robotic, human or mixed human-robot faces and were asked to select the one that they would prefer for their robot’s appearance. Most college-aged adults in the study preferred a robotic appearance. However nearly 60 percent of older adults said they would want a robot with a human face, and only 6 percent of them chose one with a mixed human-robot appearance. But the preferences in both are groups were different when participants were told the robot was assisting with personal care, chores, social interaction or for helping to make decisions.
Preferences were less strong for helping with chores, although the majority of older and younger participants chose a robot with a robotic face. But for decision-making tasks, such as getting advice for where to invest money, younger participants tended to select a mixed human-robot appearance. A robotic face was their least
C. Fridays and Saturdays.
C. Hernandes Street.
favored choice for this task. Older adults generally preferred a human face.
Personal care tasks such as bathing provoked the most divisive preferences within both age groups. Those who chose a human face did so because they associated the robot with human-like care capabilities—such as nursing and trustworthy traits（特点）. Many others didn’t want anything looking like a human to bathe them due to the private nature of the task.
In the final category, assistance with social tasks, both age groups preferred a human face.
Based on this early research, Prakash, a researcher who led the study says that if a robot is designed to help only with a specific task, its appearance should be decided by the features of the task. For instance, if the robot is designed to specifically assist the user with critical decisions, the robot should be given an intelligent look instead of a funny one. Prakash plans to expand the study to other age groups and more diverse educational backgrounds.
21．The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________. A. participants B. college-aged adults. C. older adults. D. robots.
22．While getting advice about the money from robots, the older may choose ________. A. a robotic appearance B. a human face
C. a mixed human-robot look. D. a funny appearance. 23．What can we learn from the passage?
A. The younger didn’t like a robot with a human face to bathe them. B. The older preferred to hire a nurse to bathe them instead of a robot. C. The choice of the robots’ look is mainly related to the age. D. There will be a further study on the choice of the robot’s look. 24．What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology. B. The preferences while choosing a face of a robot. C. How to select the appearance of a robot. D. The development of the robot.
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly’s adventures came about because of her work for the New York World paper. Pretending to be mad, Bly was admitted to an asylum (精神病院), which was hardly fit for humans. The articles she wrote not only changed how reporters did research, but the situation of hospitals. Her next adventure was one that made her world-famous: Bly made a trip around the world. She set out on November 14, 1889 and made it back to New York in a time of 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes. . Freya Stark
Freya Stark was one of the best loved travel writers in English, and her long life held plenty of adventure. Her traveling life began in the late 1920s. She was the first European woman to enter Luristan in Iran. In the mountains, she mapped out the area for westerners for the first time. Returning from this adventure, she wrote the first of nearly thirty books on travel that are still read today. She continued traveling until the end of her life.
Annie Smith Peck
Annie Smith Peck achieved academic success in her twenties. She was one of the first women professors in North America and the first woman to study archaeology (考古学) in Greece. However, when she was 44, Peck took up mountain climbing while in Europe, becoming the third woman to climb up the Matterhorn. The northern top of Mount Huascarán was renamed in her honor. She continued to climb into old age. Louise Boyd
Born into wealth, Louise Boyd was the \Arctic (北极) adventure was in 1926 when she spent time filming and photographing the environment of the Arctic. Her most famous adventure was taking part in the hunt for famous adventurer Roald Amundsen, who had disappeared while helping an Italian airship. She led five adventures in Greenland, and an area of Greenland was named Louise Boyd Land in her honor.
25．Nellie Bly was famous all over the world because she __________. A. was the first woman adventurer in New York B. worked for a famous newspaper C. traveled around the world D. set up a new asylum
河北省定州中学2018届高三(高补班)上学期期末考试英语试卷(含答案)
