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120192019 学年下学期期末考试学年下学期期末考试高二（平行班）英语试卷高二（平行班）英语试卷时间：120分钟满分：150分第第卷卷 ( (共共 7979 分分) )第一部分：听力第一部分：听力（共 20 题；每小题 1 分, 满分 20 分）第一节听下面 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. What is the man holding?A. A tool. B. A ladder. C. A new light.2. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Leave soon.B. Pay her gas bill. C. Get some tests done.3. What is the woman doing?A. Attending a class. B. Doing her homework. C. Helping the man with math.4. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The car is in perfect condition.B. The car can be fixed on time.C. The man can't fix the car.5. What should the man do to find the glasses store?A. Look in the parking lot.B. Turn right at the fountain.C. Walk through the pet shop.第二节听下面 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。2听第 6 段材料,回答第 6、7 题。6. What happened to the man?A. He lost his job.B. He failed a test.C. He taught a class in college.7. Who is the man talking with?A. His boss. B. His teacher. C. His classmate.听第 7 段材料,回答第 8、9 题。8. Which city are the speakers in?A. San Francisco. B. San Diego. C. Los Angeles.9. What is the woman waiting for?A. A train. B. Her jacket. C. A report.听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Why is the woman upset?A. The man didn't call. B. The man didnt turn up. C. The man didnt apologize. 11. Who is the man probably speaking to?A. A waitress. B. A professor. C. A doctor.12. When will the speakers meet?A. This afternoon. B. On Thursday. C. On Tuesday. 听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What kind of meat does the man usually put in his sandwich?A. Turkey. B. Beef. C. Ham.14. What did the woman do this morning? A. She baked a cake. B. She ate some chocolate. C. She made cheeseburgers. 15. Why is the woman being very nice today?A. She had extra time.B. She was in the mood to cook.C. She wants the man to take her to the movies.316. How does the man feel about romance movies? A. Boring. B. Funny. C. Wonderful听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the speaker's favorite Will Smith movie?A. Bad Boys. B. Men in Black.C. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 18. How did the speaker first learn about Will Smith?A. As a producer.B. As a TV star.C. As a movie star.19. When did Parents Just Don't Understand come out?A. In the mid-1990s. B. In the early 1990s. C. In the late 1980s.20. What award has Will Smith won four times?A. The Golden Globes.B. Grammys.C. Oscars.第二部分第二部分 阅读理解阅读理解（共两节, 满分 29 分） 第一节第一节 （共 12 小题；每小题 2 分, 满分 24 分） AThrift stores are a refuge (避难所) for countless items from landing in garbage piles. Value Village, for example, saves more than 650 million pounds of clothing from landfills (垃圾填埋场) each year, making it one of the largest recyclers of used garments in the world. Their stores give a second life to 1.8 million pounds of clothes every day, which is equal to 600 mid­sized cars. Almost 100 percent of clothing and textiles(纺织品) are recyclable，yet 85 percent of them end up in landfills. It's estimated that the average person throws away 70 pounds of clothing a year.Lindsay Coulter is the so­called “Queen of Green” with the David Suzuki Foundation, educating people on how to live a greener life by making changes around the house. She says that donating or shopping at thrift stores is an excellent way to exercise all three of the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. She says, “Whether it's a purse or a pair of shoes，its really worth 4considering going to thrift stores as another point of contact to help reduce your consumption.” Coulter points out that since landfills are airtight, textiles take longer to break down. “Id imagine things like an old towel, a rag or an old T­shirt will last a really long time,” she says. The beauty of thrift shopping is that the supply is never­ending, so if you don't find what you're looking for one day, it's likely to show up in no time.One person who knows this quite well is Jodi Jacyk, costume specialist in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. She says the majority of items for the universitys productions are purchased second­hand. Because of her shrinking budget, items like clothing and shoes are thrifted from Value Village. “We are constantly thrifting and we reuse costumes for many years. Thrift shopping is a much easier, cheaper way to do things,” she says.The next time you need to lighten your closet, take the opportunity to go thrift shopping to lighten both your carbon footprint and your financial burden at the same time.1. What is a “thrift store” according to the text?A. It deals with daily garbage.B. It sells second­hand items.C. It exchanges new clothes.D. It donates used items.2. Why did Lindsay Coulter advise shopping at thrift stores?A. To be friendly to the environment.B. To make a change of lifestyle.C. To reduce the cost of the family.D. To collect money for the Foundation.3. What do we know about Jodi Jacyk?A. She doesn't budget carefully.B. She complains a lot about her job.C. She is a fan of thrift shopping.D. She is known as “Queen of Green”. 4. What is the author's attitude toward thrift shopping?5A. Conservative. B. Cautious.C. Doubtful.D. Supportive.BScience is finally beginning to hug animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.Pigs respond meaningfully to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O's. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable skill of reasoning.Ive been guilty of prejudiced opinions, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes out-think and out-feel other animals. They're other primates(灵长目动物), after all, animals from our own mammal class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint change in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to go through painful procedure in laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will 6the new science of “food animals“ bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?5. According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_.A. interaction B. analysis C. creation D. abstraction6. The research into pigs shows that pigs_.A. learn letters quickly B. have a good eyesightC. can build up a good relationship D. can apply knowledge to new situations7. Paragraph 4 is mainly about_.A. the similarities between mammals and humans B. the necessity of long-term studies on mammalsC. a change in people's attitudes towards animals D. a discovery of how animals express themselves8. What might be the best title for the passage?A. The Inner Lives of Food Animals B. The Lifestyles of Food AnimalsC. Science Reports on Food Animals D. A Revolution in Food AnimalsCSome of the best research on daily experience is rooted in rates of positive and negative interactions, which has proved that being blindly positive or negative can cause others to be frustrated or annoyed or even to tune out.Over the last two decades, scientists have made remarkable predictions simply by watching people interact with one another and then scoring the conversations based on the rate of positive and negative interactions. 7Researchers have used the findings to predict everything from the likelihood that a couple will divorce to the chances of a work team with high customer satisfaction and productivity levels.More recent research helps explain why these brief exchanges matter so much. When you experience negative emotions as a result of criticism or rejection, for example, your body produces higher levels of the stress hormone, which shuts down much of your thinking and activates conflict and defense mechanisms (机制). You assume that situations are worse than they actually are.When you experience a positive interaction, it activates a very different response. Positive exchanges increase your bodys production of oxytocin(后叶催产素), a feel-good that increases your ability to communicate with, cooperate with and trust others. But the effects of a positive occurrence are less dramatic and lasting than they are for a negative one.We need at least three to five positive interactions to outweigh every one negative exchange. Bad moments simply outweigh good ones. Whether youre having a conversation, keep this simple short cut in mind: At least 80 percent of your conversations should be focused on whats going right.Workplaces, for example, often see this. During performance reviews, managers routinely spend 80 percent of their time on weaknesses and “areas for improvement”. They spend roughly 20 percent of the time on strengths and positive aspects. Any time you have discussions with a person or group, spend the vast majority of the time talking about what is working, and use the remaining time to address weaknesses.9. The underlined phrase “tune out” in Paragraph 1 probably means .A. stop listening B. gain courage C. sing aloud D. feel stressed10. What will happen if you experience negative emotions?A. The situations are sure to become worse.B. Much of your thinking will be prevented.C. You will feel an urge to improve and become better.8D. Youll be motivated to resolve conflicts with people.11. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that .A. we need a positive feeling to beat one negative feelingB. positive interactions have greater effects than negative onesC. our conversation should center on what needs improvementD. the effect of negative feelings lasts longer than that of positive ones12. What is the best title for the passage?A. Harmful NegativesB. More Positive InteractionsC. How to Be a Productive ManagerD. Less Time on Strengths and Positive Aspects第二节第二节 （共 5 小题, 每小题 1 分, 满分 5 分） 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。TheThe ArtArt ofof SlowSlow ReadingReadingIf you are reading this article in print, chances are that you will only get through half of what I have written. And if you are reading this online, you may not even finish a fifth. _1_ They suggest that many of us no longer have the concentration to read articles through to their conclusion.So are we getting stupider? Actually, our online habits are damaging the mental power we need to process and understand textual information. Round-the-clock news makes us read from one article to the next without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content. Our reading is frequently stopped by the noise of the latest email and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts. _2_ But we are gradually forgetting how to sit back, think carefully, and relate all the facts to each other._3_ A desperate bunch of academics want us to take our time while reading, and re-reading. They ask us to switch off our computers every so often and rediscover both the joy of personal engagement with printed texts, and the ability to process them fully. Whats to be done then? Most slow readers 9realize that total rejection of the web is extremely unrealistic. They feel that getaway from technology for a while is the answer. _4_Personally, Im not sure whether I could ever go offline for long. Even while writing this article, I am switching constantly between sites, skimming too often, absorbing too little. Internet reading has become too rooted in my daily life for me to change. I read essays and articles not in hard copy but as PDFs. I suspect that many readers are in a similar position._5_ You can download a computer application called Freedom, which allows you to read in peace by cutting off your Internet connection. Or if you want to avoid being disturbed by the Internet, you could always download offline reader Instapaper for your iPhone. If youre still reading my article, that is slow reading.A. The Internet is probably part of the problem.B. Now some campaigns are advocating slow reading.C. These are the two findings from the recent research projects.D. But if you just occasionally want to read more slowly, help is at hand.E. Some of them have suggested turning their computers off for one day a week.F. Slow reading can help connect a reader to neighborhood and become popular.G. Because of the Internet, we have become very good at collecting information.第三部分第三部分 完形填空完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分） Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in Italy. After climbing up a hill for a full view of the blue sea, I paused to catch my 1 and then positioned myself to take a photo.Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind and 2 herself right in front of my 3 . Like me, she was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the scenery.4 as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would 5 take, I was upset. Should I ask her to 6 so that I could take just one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something 7 me doing so. She seemed so 8 in her observation. I didnt want to mess with that.10Another 15 minutes passed and I grew more 9 . The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo 10 . And now when I look at it, I think her 11 in the photo is what makes the image 12 . The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes 13 this woman is engaging with it. This photo, with the 14 beauty t