高二英语期末试题-上海市黄浦区2014-2015学年度高二第一学期期终调研测试英语试题及答案

黄浦区

2014

学年 度第一学期高二年级期终调研测试

英

语

试

卷

第

I

卷

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions:

In Section A, you will hear five short conversations between two speakers. At the end

of

each

conversation,

a

question

will

be

asked

about

what

was

said.

The

conversations

and

the

questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read

the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question

you have heard.

1.

A. 1.

B. 2.

C. 3.

D. 4.

2.

A. Wild animals.

B. TV programs.

3.

A. Watch a movie at home.

C. Dine out with the woman.

4.

A. A fruit shop.

C. News reports.

D. Today

’

s newspaper.

B. Go to the cinema.

D. Stay at home alone.

C. A restaurant.

D. A specialty store.

B. A music room.

5.

A. Any fashionable clothes are suitable.

B. The animals at the zoo are too frightening.

C. The woman is too nervous to go to the zoo.

D. The woman takes the appearance too seriously.

Section B

Directions:

In Section B, you will hear one short passage, and you will be asked three questions

on the passage. The passage will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When

you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be

the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 6 through 8 are based on the following passage.

6.

A. How to eat chocolate without gaining weight.

B. The harmful effects of eating milk chocolate.

C. The effects of eating chocolate on emotions.

D. The health benefits of eating chocolate.

7.

A. Eating a small amount of chocolate led to positive emotions.

B. Higher blood pressure resulted from having no chocolate at all.

C. Milk chocolate had less fat, sugar and fewer calories than black chocolate.

D. A balanced diet, exercise and chocolate was a guarantee of a healthy life.

8.

A. People who want to change their diet.

C. People who eat chocolate often.

Section C

Directions

:

In

section

C,

you

will

hear

one

longer

conversation.

The

conversation

will

be

read

twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the

information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 9 through 12 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form.

Write

NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

for each answer.

B. People who exercise regularly.

D. People who want to lose weight.

II. Grammar

Directions:

Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.

Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

13. Electronic technology has been introduced _____ traditional Chinese medicine.

A. from

B. into

C. to

D. with

14. Some children think it is their parents

’

business to earn money and _____ to spend it.

A. they

B. them

C. theirs

D. their

15. The children at the Medical Care Centre were so friendly that it was _____ to interact with

them than we had expected.

A. easy

B. much easier

C. less easier

D. the easiest

16. Mary’s eyes became weak with old age _____ she did simply not see the red light.

A. as long as

B. even though

C. in case

D. so that

17. _____ in thought while looking at the picture, she didn

’

t hear the knock at the door.

A. Losing

B. Lost

C. To lose

D. To be lost

18.

Most

women

identified

at

least

one

trusted

friends

_____

they

could

turn

in

a

troubled

moment.

A. off which

B. on which

C. to whom

D. up whom

19. About 800,000 employees were forced to stay at home without _____ during the government

shutdown.

B. paid

C. paying

D. to be paid

A. being paid

20. Sometimes you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems _____ if you turn your head

in its direction.

A. disappeared

B. disappearing

C. to be disappear

D. to disappear

21. When I succeeded in becoming an employee of IBM China, many friends asked me _____ I

survived the interview.

A. how

B. that

C. when

D. why

22. _____ in the sun for such a long time, the photo turned yellow.

A. Being exposed

C. Exposing

B. Having exposed

D. Having been exposed

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions:

For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,

C and D. Filling in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Large

companies

need

a

way

to

reach

the

savings

of

the

public

at

large.

The

same

problem faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs.

There can be

23

possibility of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we

know;

and

while

banks

may

agree

to

provide

short-term

finance,

they

are

generally

24

to

provide

money

on

a

permanent

basis

for

long- term

projects.

So

companies

turn

to

the

25

,

inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in

26

for a share in future

profits. They do this by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By

doing so, they can put the savings of

27

into circulation, both at home and overseas.

When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he

originally placed it.

28

, he sells his shares through a

stockbrok er

(

股票经纪人

) to some other

saver who is seeking to

29

his money.

Many

of

the

services

needed

both

by

industry

and

by

each

of

us

are

provided

by

the

government or by local authorities. Hospitals, roads and new development require more money

than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries

therefore

30

need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come

to the Stock Exchange.

There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does

not

31

the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development.

In

one

way

or

another,

this

new

money

must

come

from

the

savings

of

the

country.

The

Stock

Exchange

exists

to

provide

a

channel

through

which

these

savings

can

reach

those

who

need

32

.

23.

A. endless

24.

A. eager

B. further

B. cruel

B. market

C. little

C. likely

C. press

C. payment

D. obvious

D. unwilling

D. public

D. stock

D. relatives

D. Therefore

D. donate

D. unnecessarily

D. keep on

25.

A. business

26.

A. exchange

27.

A. countries

28.

A. Also

29.

A. borrow

B. existence

B. groups

C. individuals

C. Instead

C. save

C. simply

B. However

B. invest

B. hardly

B. call on

30.

A. frequently

31.

A. act on

C. depend on

32.

A. finance

B. profession

C. stocks

D. shares

Section B

Directions:

Read the following two passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or

unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the

one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Exhausted, 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.

33. Lindord gave Arthur a meatball because __________.

A. Arthur had helped him a lot alongside

C. he planned to set off without Arthur

B. Arthur looked tired and sorrowful

D. he wanted Arthur to follow them

34. Which of the following best describes Arthur’s performance in the race?

A. He survived all the hardship the team experienced.

B. He overcame all the difficulty alone but successfully.

C. He posed all the risk to the team and broke their hearts.

D. He struggled in desperation, yet his efforts didn’t pay off.

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

A. Adventure

–

exhausting but successful

C. Gratitude

–

keep you company

(B)

Mountain regions are not just playgrounds for the richer citizens on the planet, however. The

disappearing

snows

of

Mount

Kilimanjaro

are

a

worrying

sign

that

nowhere

is

safe

from

the

adverse

effects of human actions. The United Nations has identified three main areas that need to

be

addressed

to

ensure

the

futur

e

safety

of

the

world’s

mountains.

These

are:

the

protection

of

mountain

ecosystems,

the

encouragement

of

peace

and

stability

in

mountain

regions,

and

assistance for mountain people to maintain their ways of life.

From

the

busy

cities

of

India

to

the

farml

ands

of

California,

more

than

half

the

world’s

population is dependent on mountains for their fresh water supply. Global warming, deforestation,

mining and heavy farming seriously damage breakable mountain ecosystems and put vital fresh

water sources at risk.

Mountain

regions

host

a

large

proportion

of

the

world’s

wars.

From

Afghanistan

to

the

Balkans and the Andes to many parts of Africa,

territorial

（领土的）

and drug related conflicts

have damaging effects on the local environment and the lives of the local people. Fighting makes

essential

tasks

such

as

farming

impossible.

Land

mines

make

large

areas

of

potential

farming

ground unusable. Also schools, roads, bridges and other important

infrastruct ure

（基础设施）

are

left in ruins.

Mountain people are among the poorest, least represented groups on the earth. They face many

hardships and each day can be, “a test of survival”. Damage to mountain ecosys

tems worsens their

situation and leaves them even more unprotected to disease and ‘natural’ disasters such as floods

and

landslides.

It’s

been

recommended

that

forest

profit

should

be

reinvested

in

mountain

communities and the people living there should be given a stronger political voice. Their fate is in

many ways directly connected with that of people living at sea level.

B. Arthur

–

Lindord’s four

-legged friend

D. Growing Pains

–

how a dog was trained

There is an old motto for visitors to the countryside which advises them to leave nothing but

footprints. It

is still as relevant today as it always was.

Unfortunately, the size of our footprints

seems to be getting larger.

36. What the writer discussed in the previous sections is most probably about

.

A. mountain ecosystems

C. mountain people

B. mountain regions

D. mountain sports

37

. The word “

adverse

” (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to “__________”.

A. direct

B. harmful

C. positive

D. powerful

38. Wars have directly brought the following effects

EXCEPT

__________.

A. inadequate supply of fresh water

B. impossible farming

C. mountain people’s poor living condition

D. ruined infrastructure

39. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. Mountain people have enough political voice to protect themselves.

B. More money should be raised to establish mountain communities.

C. Worsened ecosystems put mountain people

’

s lives under threat.

D. Visitors to mountains have left nothing but large footprints.

Section C

Directions

：

Read the following leaflet and complete the sentences that follow. Write one word /

number or more in each space.