高二英语-南京三中2015-2016学年第一学期阶段测试高二英语12月月考

南京三中2015-2016学年第一学期阶段测试高二英语试题

2015.12

第I卷（三部分共65分）

第一部分：听力 (共两节，满分15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. What does the man want to do?

A. To talk to the operator.

B. To phone someone.

C. To check his number.

2. What will the man have?

A. A blood test.

B. A physical examination.

C. A job interview.

3. When will the two speakers probably meet?

A. Early tomorrow.

B. This afternoon.

C. This morning.

4. Why can’t the man give the woman a hand?

A. It is too heavy for him.

B. He doesn’t know how to help her.

C. He is too busy to help her.

5. What was the woman doing before she left the office?

A. Reviewing a report.

B. Rewriting a report.

C. Typing a report.

第二节（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7小题。

6. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. A photo of a street.

B. A TV program about a street.

C. A piece of news about a street.

7. What impressed the man most about the street?

A. History and people.

B. History and restaurants.

C. History and fashion.

听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9小题。

8. Who is visiting the woman for the weekend?

A. Her teacher.

B. Her student.

C. Her brother.

9. How does the woman know Ann?

A. She has just been introduced to her.

B. She has taken piano lessons from her.

C. They have met at a party before.

听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12小题。

10. What is the conversation mainly about?

A. Jobs are wanted in the library.

B. The woman wants to find a job.

C. Foreign students employment.

11. Where does the woman study?

A. In China.

B. In Australia.

C. In America.

12. How will the woman probably find a part-time job?

A. The man’s friends will help her.

B. She will try it herself.

C. The library will offer to help.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至第15小题。

13. Why does the man want to take a bus?

A. The bus trip is more comfortable than the train trip.

B. The bus tickets are cheaper than the train tickets.

C. He wants to experience another way of traveling.

14. Why are the bus tickets much cheaper than the train tickets?

A. The bus trip takes longer time.

B. The bus stops at several cities.

C. Few people enjoy the bus trip.

15. What do we know about the man?

A. He can’t make the decision now.

B. He went the wrong way.

C. His aunt and uncle have a different opinion.

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节, 满分30分)

第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15分）

16. To ensure that children from poor areas can receive fair education, the government has planned

to _______ more money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.

A. announce

B. allocate

C. advocate

D. accumulate

17. There will be a bow and arrow competition _________ to retell ________ the Plains Indians

used to hunt for food.

A. designed; what

B. designing; how

C. designing; what

D. designed; how

18. his knowledge of the mountainous village, John was appointed as our guide.

A. In spite of

B. Regardless of

C. On account of

D. In terms of

19. They dislike when people do not look at the cards, so remember not to just put them

in your pocket without looking.

A. that

B. them

C. it

D. you

20.David is the current holder of the 5 000-meter race world record, but there is no ________ that

he will win in the Olympic Games.

A. guarantee

B. denying

C. saying

D. alternative

21. Much disappointed as he is _______ in the job interview, he still keeps his confidence.

A. to have failed

B. failed

C. having failed

D. failing

22. In order to succeed, it is very important that you ______ be optimistic and learn from failures.

A. would

B. should

C. have to

D. might

23. —Tom, your foreign teacher speaks Chinese fluently!

—Oh, she has lived in China for six years, otherwise she _______ such good Chinese.

A. didn’t speak

B. would not have spoken

C. would not speak

D. hadn’t spoken

24. In modern education, I think, students should be involved in various activities, especially those

________ they can gain experience for growth.

A. who

B. where

C. which

D. whom

25. All flights _______ because of the air traffic control, the passengers had to wait in the hall.

A. were put off

B. having put off

C. have been put off

D. having been put

off

26. I am too busy these days. I would rather all of you ________ next week for a dinner.

A. come

B. came

C. would come

D. have come

27. In society where social roles are determined, boys usually copy the behavior of their fathers,

and girls _______ of their mothers.

A. that

B. those

C. one

D. the ones

28. But for my teacher’s help when I was in the senior high school, I ________ in Fudan University now.

A. would not have studied

B. hadn’t studied

C. would not be studying

D. was not studying

29. —Was he nervous when facing the interviewers?

—He is ________, and he even made some jokes.

A. down in the dumps

B. flying off the handle

C. over the moon

D. as cool as a cucumber

30.________ an important decision more on emotion than on reason, and you’ll regret it sooner or

later.

A. Base

B. Based

C. Basing

D. To base

第二节完形填空（共15 小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

He came on stage and bent to the audience before he began his performance. If you have ever been to his concert, you know that getting on stage is no small 31 for him. He was 32 with a serious disease as a child, and so he walks with the aid of two walking-sticks.

The audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few pieces, one of the strings on his violin 33 . We thought that he would have to stop the concert. But he didn’t.34 , he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then 35 the conductor to begin again.

The orchestra（管弦乐团）began and he played with such passion and such power as they had never heard before. Of course, anyone knows that it is 36 to play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night the violinist 37 to know that.

When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of 38 from every corner of the auditorium.

He smiled, and then said in a quie t tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to39 how much music you can 40 make with what you have left.”

This powerful 41 has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. Perhaps that is the 42 of life — not just for artists but for all of us.

He had 43 all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but 44 , in the middle of a concert, he found himself with only three strings; so he made music with three strings, and the music he made that night was more beautiful, and more memorable.

So, perhaps our 45 on the stage of life is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

31. A. shame B. pleasure C. privilege D. achievement

32. A. stricken B. suffered C. survived D. impacted

33. A. lost B. bent C. broke D. stretched

34. A. Instead B. However C. Therefore D. Moreover

35. A. ordered B. signaled C. prevented D. promised

36. A. strange B. probable C. important D. impossible

37. A. seemed B. refused C. pretended D. attempted

38. A. anger B. laughter C. scream D. applause

39. A. find out B. show off C. get through D. turn out

40. A. just B. even C. still D. yet

41. A. note B. figure C. impression D. line

42. A. routine B. definition C. adventure D. incident

43. A. prepared B. devoted C. scheduled D. accustomed

44. A. naturally B. generally C. suddenly D. hopelessly

45. A. way B. state C. task D. program

第三部分：阅读理解（每小题2分，共10题，计20分）

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Exhausted（精疲力竭）, covered in mud and extremely hungry, a team of Swedish athletes sat down for a meal as they prepared to take on a dangerous 20-mile race through the rainforest. As they opened their canned meat, Lindord noticed a worn, miserable dog staring at him out of the corner of his eye. Feeling sorry for him, Lindord fed him a meatball and thought nothing of it, but as the team stood up to continue their race, the animal started to follow them —and he didn’t stop. As the group navigated the final two stages of the 430-mile Adventure Racing World Championship, the dog befriended them and was eventually given the name Arthur.

Every exhausting task the team faced, Arthur did the same. He swam alongside them while they kayaked（划单人艇）down rivers, dragged himself up hills during hikes and pulled through knee-deep mud during races. When he was tired, they stopped for a break and when he got stuck in the mud, they pulled him out.

Before one section of the race —a 36-mile kayak around the coast —organizers warned the team that taking Arthur along posed a risk to his and their safety. They tried to set off without him, but as they left, he jumped into the water beside them and started paddling（趟水）in desperation. Lindord, heartbroken by the sight of Arthur struggling in the water, picked him up, put him in the kayak and let him stay for the rest of the journey.

After six days, they finished the race successfully. “I came to win the world champion. But, I got a new friend at last.” said Lindord on his way back to Sweden together with Arthur.

46. Lindord gave Arthur a meatball because __________.

A. Arthur had helped him a lot alongside

B. Arthur looked tired and sorrowful

C. he planned to set off without Arthur

D. he wanted Arthur to follow them

47. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. Adventure – exhausting but successful

B. Arthur –Lindord’s four-legged friend

C. Gratitude – keep you company

D. Growing Pains – how a dog was trained

B

Exercise may help to safeguard the mind against depression（沮丧）through previously unknown effects on working muscles, according to a new study involving mice.

Mental health experts have long been aware that even mild, repeated stress can contribute to the development of depression and other mood disorders in animals and people. Scientists have also known that exercise seems to cushion against depression. But precisely how exercise, a physical activity can reduce someone’s risk for depression, a mood state, has been mysterious. So for the new study, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied the brains and behavior of mice in a complicated and novel fashion.

We can’t ask mice if they are feeling cheerful or in low spirits. Instead, researchers have pictured certain behaviors that indicate depression in mice. If animals lose weight, stop seeking out a sugar solution when it’s available — because, probably, they no longer experience normal pleasures — or give up trying to escape from the cold-water zone just freeze in place, they are categorized as depressed. And in the new experiment, after five weeks of frequent but low-level stress, such as being lightly shocked, mice displayed exactly those behaviors. They became depressed.

The scientists could then have tested whether exercise blunts (延缓) the risk of developing depression after stress by having mice run first. But, frankly, from earlier research, they wanted to

know how, so they bred pre-exercised mice. A wealth of earlier research by these scientists and others had shown that aerobic exercise, in both mice and people, increases the production within muscles of an

enzyme (酶) called PGC-1alpha. The Karolinska scientists suspected（怀疑）that this enzyme somehow creates conditions within the body that protect the brain against depression. Then, the scientists exposed the animals, which without exercising, were in high levels of PGC-1alpha to five weeks of mild stress. The mice responded with slight symptoms of worry. But they did not develop depression. They continued to seek out sugar and fought to get out of the cold-water zone. Their high levels of PGC-1alpha appeared to make them depression-resistant（抵抗的）. Finally, to ensure that these findings are relevant to people, the researchers had a group of adult volunteers complete three weeks of frequent endurance training, consisting of 40 to 50 minutes of moderate cycling or jogging. The scientists conducted muscle biopsies (活体检查) before and after the program and found that by the end of the three weeks, the volunteers’ muscle cells contained substantially more PGC-1alpha than at the study’s start.

The finding of these results, in the simplest terms, is that “you reduce the risk of getting depression when you exercise,” said Maria Lindskog, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute. 48. The researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conducted the new study hoping to

know______.

A. if exercise cushions against depression

B. what can lead to depression in animals and people

C. if stress can contribute to the development of depression

D. how exercise contributes to reducing someone’s risk for depression

49. We can infer from the new experiment conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute

that mice are depressed except when ______.

A. they stand still in place

B. they stop searching for the sugar water

C. they attempt to escape from the cold-water zone

D. they can’t experie nce normal pleasures any longer

50. Researchers asked a group of adult volunteers to complete three weeks of frequent endurance

training in order to ______.

A. know if exercise can help to safeguard the mind against depression

B. know if they can endure 40 to 50 minutes of moderate cycling or jogging

C. confirm the findings above are also relevant to people

D. ensure they can lose weight after moderate cycling or jogging

51. It can be concluded from the passage that______.

A. the enzyme called PGC-1alpha helps to reduce depression

B. athletes are more likely to develop depression than ordinary people

C. the mice with high levels of PGC-1alpha are easier to develop depression

D. in the past mental health specialists di dn’t know exercise could help reduce depression

C

It was time to break free．

I needed to run away and the Bloomsburg Fair was the best place to go．

I don’t know if you can call it running away when it was only an hour away from my home．But once I entered the fair grounds, I crossed over into another world．The loudspeaker offered background music over the sounds of people talking, bargaining and food sellers yelling for your attention

．

I belonged here．I didn’t know if I had it in my blood or not, but I always wanted to have a small food stand and travel in my off season from fair to fair selling goodies．Perhaps one day．It certainly wasn’t a priority(优先考虑的事)in my life , Perhaps it should be．

After I was there a while, I needed to get away to a quiet spot．Most of the time, I could find that anywhere the farm animals were kept．They needed the quiet．So I went there to find peace with the cows, goats, horses, pigs and yes, the turkeys．You'd think being this close to "Thanksgiving", they'd be a little scared, but they were not．

It was in the dairy barn（仓库）where I found peace this time．I so admired the young folks who tended to farm animals．I thought they had a greater appreciation for life．They participated in it firsthand．I once watched a young farmer help bring a baby cow into the world．My favorite scene was to come across a young cowboy lying in the hay asleep among the cows that had settled down for a rest．There, with his heads in a small soft spot alongside his favorite cow, I had seen him in a much deserved sleep．Perhaps better at rest there than in his own bed．

I had the pleasure of speaking with a young teenage farm girl that day．

"You look so comfortable," I said to her．

"Oh I am," she said．"Life makes it comfortable for me．"

“You mean being a farm girl?"

"No, Life! That's the name of my cow," she said, smiling as she gently patted the cow's side．"I thought they called cows Betsy and Elsie．Why did you call her Life?"

“I discovered life again here．It was the only meaningful name that came to mind．I had been raised in the big city and really hated it．Then we moved to the country, running away from it．I think my parents called it a mid-life crisis, " she said, laughing．

"Oh, I can understand that．I've been in one since birth," I said．

"It was on the farm that I learned to love life again．I was there when Life was born．It was so exciting．My whole outlook on the world changed．So I named her Life．Now, I can say I really love 'Life'," she said．

"How amazing! I write stories and J am always trying to get people to enjoy life, to wake up each day expecting the best from it．But they all too often go to bed with so much bad stuff in their soul, and on their mind, that they wake up feeling bad and expect it to only get worse from there．All too often it does, just because that's all they choose to see in that otherwise perfectly beautiful day," I told her．

"That's too bad．They need to see a cow born, a chicken hatch．I guess they need to wake up early and hug Life!" she said, laughing．

"When was the last time you hugged Life" she asked me．

"I am sorry to say even I have had trouble doing that lately," I said．

"Come here!" she said．

Then standing up and stepping aside, she said, "Go ahead…hug Life!"

I paused for a moment and dropping all thoughts of looking silly, I did．I hugged a cow．52．The writer went to the Bloomsburg Fair probably in order to ．

A．have fun B．get ideas for writing

C．do shopping D．escape something he disliked

53．What can we learn from Paragraphs 5, 6 and 7?

A．The writer tended to farm animals firsthand．

B．The cowboy was lazy and fell asleep among the cows．

C．The writer found peace where farm animals were kept．

D．The turkeys got into panic with "Thanksgiving" approaching

54．The underlined word "it" refers to ．

A．the city B．the country C．the barn D．the fair

55. What can be the best title for the passage ?

A. Farm Life and Happiness

B. Hugging Life

C. A Farm Girl and Her Cow

D. Enjoying Freedom

第II卷（三部分共35分）

第四部分：任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)

请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

Goals are the guides all through our life. We all have goals that we are moving towards and making a great effort to achieve. This is a good thing. Or can it be bad? How many of us never reach our goals and yet we have tried so hard and really thought about nothing else? I believe the mistake most of us make is that we do not focus on our present situation.

Let me explain. Most of us see our present situation as a stepping stone that we use simply as a means of reaching our final destination. We don’t take time to truly appreciate where we are today and all the great things we already have in our lives. We should focus our attention on the journey and not on the destination, or we will miss the beautiful scenery along the way.

Let’s use our job as an example. Now most of us want a promotion. We have plans to become the manager or general manager in our companies. Unfortunately, most of us will never reach the goal, but will watch others achieve our goal instead.

What we should be doing is focusing on the job we are currently in now. Forget where we want to get to and just focus on the present. You see, what we can control is our performance in our current job. We can decide to be the best we possibly can in our current job. Now this may mean further education to have the skills we currently do not have. It may mean working harder to produce better results than our colleagues. It could simply be a change of attitude, such as stopping complaining and becoming a more devoted and supportive employee. By doing our current job to the best of our abilities, we in fact give ourselves the best chance of promotion.

So the best thing for all of us to do to achieve our goals is to just focus on what we have and where we are now. Do the best and be the best we possibly can in our current situations, and we will give ourselves the very best chance of reaching our goals in the future. We have heard the old sayings and they are true: “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”, “Patience is a virtue”, and so on.

Have patience, have appreciation of what we already have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can. Do these things and we will all reach our goals, but more importantly,

第五部分：短文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章的空格里填入一个．．

最恰当的单词，使其通顺完整。

注意：请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填．．．．．．1．个单词．．．

。

第六部分 书面表达（满分15分）

校园举行艺术节，但学生却没有表现出极大的兴趣和热情，因而有人提出艺术节还要不

要举办的问题，这引起了同学们的讨论。请按下列要点，写一英语短文。

2、不要逐字翻译，要点可适当发挥。

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南京第三高级中学高二英语试题答卷纸

第四部分：任务型阅读(每小题1分，满分10分)

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第五部分短文填空（共10空格，每空1分,共10分）

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72.__________________ 73.________________

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第六部分书面表达（满分15分）

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南京三中2015-2016学年第一学期阶段测试高二英语试题

2015.12

参考答案

听力 1 —15 BBACC ABCBB CACA A

单项选择16—30 BDCCA ABCBD BACDA

完形填空31—45 DACAB DBDAC DBACC

阅读理解46—47 BC 48—51 DCCA 52—55 BCAB

任务型阅读

56. achieve/ reach/meet 57. mistakes 58. appreciating 59. Example 60. Forget / Ignore 61. perform 62. colleagues/ others 63. devote 64. patient 65. succeed

短文填空

66. whose 67.without 68. crying 69. needed 70.

difference

71. an 72. told 73.colo(u)rful/beautiful 74.them

75.shortly/soon

书面表达

One possible version:

Some students believe that campus art festival can offer a wonderful stage for students to show their talents. Apart from helping students promote their interest in study, a series of activities also enrich the campus culture and make campus atmosphere more active.

Some students, however, hold different views, emphasizing that they have been kept busy with their study and have no time to spare for the activities of the campus art festival. They also state that they cannot benefit much from some activities, which, in their opinion, have little to do with their study.

From my point of view, holding the campus art festival is a must. On the one hand, more students will be motivated to develop their potential abilities which will make them qualified for their future positions. On the other hand, students will find it a good chance to relax themselves as well as gain much knowledge that can’t be found in the book.

听力原文

Text 1

M: Operator, I’ve been trying to make phone call for nearly 10 minutes and I just can’t get through.

W: Just tell me the number and I’ll try it for you.

Text 2

W: Don’t be nerv ous. They will simply measure your height and weight and then take your blood pressure. M: That doesn’t sound too bad.I think I’m ready for it.

Text 3

W: Can I have a talk with you sometime today?

M: Well, I’ll be terribly busy this morning. And a meetin g in the afternoon till 4:00 o’clock, but any other time is OK. W: Then let’s try early tomorrow.

Text 4

W: There are still so many things to organize before the party. M: I’d like to help.But I’m afraid I’ve got too much to do.W: Never mind, we’ll be re ady one day, I suppose.

Text 5

M: Did you finish typing that report?

W: Yes, I did. But I worked late.

M: It must be a long report, I guess.

W: Exactly. Twelve pages. I spent three hours on it. And I left the office at about 9:00 o’clock. Text 6

W: An a ttractive street, isn’t it?

M: Yes, I photographed it myself.

W: Is it in Guangzhou or Sanya?

M: Neither.

W: Where is it?

M: A street in Hong Kong.

W: What impressed you most in Hong Kong?

M: Just this old street. It is very quiet and peaceful.

W: What is its name? M: Gough Street. G-O-U-G-H, it sounds strange, right?

W: Its features?

M: Its modern history and fashionable restaurants.

W: You must try all kinds of delicious foods there.

M: Yes. It is said that they are cheap but delicious.

Text 7

W: Hello, glad to see you. Come in, please.

M: Thanks. It looks like the party is exciting and all are in high spirits.

W: Yeah. And they’re enjoying all kinds of French food here.Well, I’d like you to meet my brother, Tom. He is visiting me for the weekend.

M: Where is he?

W: He is sitting in the corner over there, and beside the young woman.

M: And who is the young woman? Uh, the woman wearing a red coat.

W: Oh, that’s Ann, my piano teacher.

M: Piano teacher! I never knew you were practicing the piano.

Text 8

W: I don’t know what I’m going to do. I need to find a job. If I don’t, I won’t be able to stay here next semester.

M: Have you tried university part-time jobs?

W: What do you mean?

M: I mean in the library, in the information center.

W: Yes, I know. I tried that but they don’t have anything now. So what can I do?

M: Well, since you are a foreign student, it’s hard. That’s because it’s actually illegal for you to work in America.

W: I know that. That’s my problem. I know I have the right to work for the university. That’s legal. But they don’t have a job for me.And it’s illegal for me to get a job elsewhere.

M: Anyway, there must be some solutions. I have an idea.

W: What?

M: Since you’re Chinese, maybe you can find part-time work in Chinatown.

W: I already had that idea.

M: Well, why don’t you go and look down there?

W: But I don’t know what I would do.

M: I will ask my friends for you. Maybe someone knows a company that needs part-time people. W: Thank you very much.

Text 9

W: Good morning. Can I help you?

M: Yes, please. I want to find out about the bus service between here and my home in Detroit. I came here last week by train, but I think I want to return by bus. I like to try different ways of traveling.

W: I’ll try to hel p you. Here is our timetable. It shows that we have eight buses a day that leave Cleveland for Detroit. I think you’ll find that service is cheaper than the train’s.

M: Yes, it looks as though the tickets are quite a bit cheaper than the train tickets. Why is that? W: The bus trips take a little longer than the train trips, and we don’t have a dining car or a waiting room. We do have a rest room, however, the bus is air-conditioned. The trip should be comfortable.

M: How long is the trip?

W: We have an express bus that takes a little more than three hours, and we have a bus that stops at several cities along the way. It’s of course cheaper, but it takes a little more than four hours. If you don’t mind the extra traveling time, it’s our best bargain.

M: Can I use my return ticket from the train to pay for my bus ticket?

W: No, you’ll have to take that ticket back to the train station.That’s a different company.They’ll give your money back, and then you can buy a ticket from me here for the bus.

M: Thank you, Madam. I want to talk this over with my aunt and uncle before I make the final decision. Thanks for your help. (用时12:02)

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