黑龙江省哈师大附中2013-2014学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题及答案

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6. How did the man travel around the world?

A. By car.

B. By motorbike.

C. By train.

7. Why didn

‘

t the man choose cycling?

A. It was boring.

B. It was not adventurous.

C. It was unpractical sometimes.

听第七段材料，回答

8-9

小题。

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8. Why is the woman worried?

A. She has to run ten kilometers.

B. She has no previous experience.

C. She is afraid of her legs.

9. What will the woman do on Saturday?

A. Relax her body,

B. Practise on the track.

C. Make preparations in a gym.

听第八段材料，回答

10-12

题。

10. Why does the man give up the tickets in the lower balcony?

A. The tickets have been sold out.

B. He prefers the seats in the centre.

C. There are no four seats together.

11. How will the man get the tickets?

A. He will collect them himself.

B. The woman will mail them to him.

C. He will ask his friends to pick them up.

12. When will the man get to the theatre on Thursday night?

A. By 6:00.

B. By 7:00.

C. By 8:00.

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听第九段材料，回答

13-16

小题。

13. Where does the man come from?

A. India.

B. Thailand.

C. Britain.

14. What does the man often do?

A. He visits friends.

B. He goes swimming.

C. He does gardening.

15. Where does the man often go?

A. To the cinema.

B. To the theatre.

C. To the bar.

16. How does the man usually spend his holiday?

A. By staying at home.

B. By visiting relatives.

C. By traveling around.

听第十段 材料，回答

17-20

小题。

17. What made the woman decide to go to Africa?

A. Her curiosity about the real world.

B. The equipment of her work.

C. Her desire to be a volunteer.

18. What was the woman expected to do in Africa?

A. Train farmers.

B. Teach students.

C. Nurse patients.

19. What did the woman like doing after she came back from Africa?

A. Staying in a flat.

B. Living in peace.

C. Shopping in the market.

20. What is the conversation mainly about?

A. A job interview

B. A working experience.

C. A volunteer organization.

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、

B

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C

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D

）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Oscar the cat seems to have an unnatural ability for predicting when nursing home patients

are going to die, by curling up (

蜷伏

) next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed

in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means

the patient has

less than four hours to live. ―

Many family

members

take some comfort from it.

They appreciate the companionship that the cat provi

des for their dying loved one,‖

said Dosa, a

doctor and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.

The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia (

痴呆

) unit

at

the

Steere

House

Nursing

and

Rehabilitation

Center,

where

the

facility

treats

people

with

Alzheimer‘s,

Parkinson‘

s

disease

and

other

illnesses.

After

about

six

months,

the

staff

noticed

Oscar

would

make

his

own

rounds,

just

like

the

doctors

and

nurses.

He‘

d

smell

and

observe

patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to

take his work seriously.

―

Oscar is better at predicting death

than the people who work here,‖

said Dr. Joan Teno of

Brown

University,

who

treats

patients

at

the

nursing

home

and

is

an

expert

on

care

for

the

terminally

ill.

She

was

convinced

of

O

scar‘

s

talent

when

he

made

his

13th

correct

call.

While

observing

one

patient,

Teno

said

she

noticed

the

woman

wasn‘

t

eating,

was

breathing

with

difficulty and that her legs had a bluish color, signs that often m

ean death is near. Oscar wouldn‘

t

stay

inside

the

room,

though,

so

Teno

thought his

streak

was

broken. Instead,

it

turned

out

the

doctor‘

s

prediction

was

roughly

10

hours

too

early.

Sure

enough,

during

the

patient‘

s

final

two

hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.

Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray- and-white cat are

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so ill that they probably don‘t know he‘s there, so

patients aren‘t aware he‘

s a predictor of death.

Most families are grateful for the advance warning.

No

one‘s

certain

if

Oscar‘

s

behavior

is

scientifically

significant

or

points

to

a

cause.

Teno

wonders if the cat senses mysterious scents or reads something from the behavior of the nurses

who raised him.

21. What makes Oscar the cat so special?

A. He observes the cases of dying patients.

B. He curls up next to the patients.

C. He calls family members to the hospital.

D. He senses when patients are to die.

22. The underlined words

―

his streak wa

s broken‖

probably mean ______.

A. his bones were severely injured

B. his magic power stopped working

C. his devotion to work got changed

D. his friendship with patients ended

23. The best

title for this passage is ―

______

‖

.

A. Cats Can Be Used for Looking After Patients

B. Oscar, the Sweet-Faced, Gray-and-White Cat

C. As Death Comes Calling, So Does Oscar the Cat

D. Oscar the Cat, the Best Helper of the Hospital

B

There are probably no people on Earth who like to gossip as much as the British. If prying

into

（

打探）

other

‘

s lives were an Olympic sport, then Team GB would surely take the gold medal.

And

when

the

British

can

‘

t

watch

the

lives

of

real

people,

they

have

another

source

of

entertainment

to

fall

back

on

—

the

soap opera.

British

soap

operas

are

very

different

to

US TV

dramas. For one, they are normally longer running. The two most popular,

Coronation Street

and

East-enders

, have been running for 48 and 24 years respectively. Both are broadcast several times

a week, so remarkably there have been more than 7,000 episodes of

Coronation Street

.

The most obvious difference is that, unlike US dramas, the British soap operas focus on the

real world. There is little glamour (

魅力

), the stars are rarely rich, and they normally have boring

jobs. Perhaps the appeal is that the lives of the characters often mirror the lives of the audience

—

but with some drama added. This means the viewer can relate to the characters and feel the pain

and happiness they go through on the show.

Because these soap operas last for decades, the cast is ever changing. The shows rarely focus

on one or two main characters. Like the real world, people come and go all the time, However,

there are exceptions.

Coronation Street

‘

s William Roach, 76, has played the role of Ken Barlow

since the very first episode of the show in 1960, and he is still a regular.

The choice of which soap opera you follow is often cultural: People from the north of British

tend to watch

Coronation Street

as it is set in Manchester. People from the south generally prefer

East-enders

, which is set in the east of London. The show is generally considered grittier and is

aimed at a younger audience.

24. What is the main different between American dramas and British soap operas?

A. American dramas are longer.

B. British soap operas are longer.

C. American dramas deals with dangerous things.

D. British soap operas deal with real people.

25. Why do British people like to watch such operas?

A. They can find their own life from the operas.

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B. They can enjoy the operas in their free time.

C. They can watch the operas for many years.

D. They care about the fate of the characters in the operas.

26. The underlined world

―

episodes

‖

in the 2

nd

paragraph probably means ______.

A. plays

B. pages

C. issues

D. parts

27. One characteristic of British operas is that ______.

A. the characters play the same role for a long time.

B. the characters in the play often change

C. people don

‘

t know what will happen next

D. there is only one or two characters in them

C

Baby girls make their way directly for dolls as soon as they can crawl, while boys will head

for

the

toy

cars,

a

study

has

shown.

The

findings,

the

first

to

show

differences

in

very

young

babies, suggest there is a biological basis to their preferences.

Psychologists

Dr.

Brenda

Todd

from

City

University

London

carried

out

an

experiment

involving

90

infants

aged

nine

months

to

36

months.

The

babies

were

allowed

to

choose

from

seven toys. Some were

typically boys‘

toys: a car, a digger, a ball and a blue teddy. The rest were

girls‘ toys: a pink teddy, a d

oll and a cooking set. They were placed a meter away from the toys,

and could pick whichever toy they liked. Their choice and the amount of time they spent playing

with each toy were recorded.

Of the youngest children (nine to 14 months), girls spent significantly longer playing with the

doll than boys, and boys spent much more time with the car and ball than the girls did. Among the

two-and three- year-olds, girls spent 50 percent of the time playing with the doll while only two

boys briefly touched it. The boys spent almost 90 percent of their time playing with cars, which

the girls barely touched. There was no link between the parents‘ view on which toys were more

suitable for boys or girls, and the children‘s choice.

Dr. Brenda Todd said: ―Children of thi

s age are already exposed to much socialization. Boys

may

be

given

?toys

that

go‘

while

girls

get

toys

they

can

care

for,

which

may

help

shape

their

preference. But these findings agree with the former idea that children show natural interests in

particular

kinds

of

toys.

There

could

be

a

biological

basis

for

their

choices.

Males

through

evolution have been adapted to prefer moving objects, probably through hunting instincts (

本能

),

while girls prefer warmer colors such as pink, the color of a newborn baby.‖

28. Baby boys and girls have different toy preferences probably because

.

A. baby boys are much more active

B. baby girls like bright colors more

C. there is a natural difference between them

D. their parents treat them differently

29. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. Nine- month-

old baby boys don‘t play with dolls at all.

B. Two-year-old baby girls sometimes play with cars and balls.

C. Parents should teach

their babies to share each other‘s toys.

D. The older the babies are, the more obvious their preference is.

30. Both baby boys and baby girls like to play with ______ according to the study.

A. a teddy

B. a car

C. a doll

D. a ball

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