高二英语上学期摸底考试试题.doc

安徽省黄山市屯溪第一中学2016-2017学年高二英语上学期摸底考试试题
注意事项：
1.开学摸底统测英语试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名﹑班级﹑考号填写在答题卡相应的位置。
3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答案写在本试卷上无效。
4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）（略）
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。
例： How much is the shirt?
A. £ 19.15 B.£ 9.18 C.£ 9.15
答案是C。
第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
请听下面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 woman advise the man to do?[来源:学科网]
A. Go to the shop to replace the camera.
B. Choose a good angle when taking pictures.
C. Keep the camera clean when taking pictures.
2. What is the man probably?
A. A student. B. A teacher. C. An engineer.
3. How might Mary's university life be before last September?
A. Exciting. B. Terrible. C. Ordinary.[来源:学科网Z-X-X-K]
4. When did the woman probably order her noodles?
A. At 1:40 pm. B. At 1:30 pm. C. At 1:10 pm.
5. What did the man do for Sandy last year?
A. He drove her to the museum.
B. He took her to school by bus.
C. He helped her with a class project.
第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
请听下面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，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What did the woman's parents ask her to do?
A. Go out to a play with them.
B. Look after her younger sister.
C. Do her homework at home.
7. Where did the man go last night?
A. A boxing club. B. His cousin's house. C. A movie theater.
请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Who taught the man to read cartoons?
A. A waiter. B. A guide. C. An artist.
9. What did the man do on the last day of his trip?
A. He bought many postcards.
B. He visited some great museums.
C. He wrote something in Italian.
请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where will the party be held?
A. At Gerald's place. B. At Tony's place. C. At Johnny's place.
11. Why did Gerald never ask the woman out?
A. He knew that she was always busy. B. He was afraid of being refused by her.
C. He didn't have a good impression of her.
12. What do we know about the woman?
A. She isn't interested in the disguise party. B. She will help with the decoration.
C. She plans to buy Gerald a gift.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What happened to Bill a few months ago?
A. He lost his bike. B. He had a car accident. C. He broke his left leg.
14. How often does Mrs. White go to the French class?
A. Twice a week. B. Five times a week. C. Seven times a week.
15. Where will the woman fly?
A. Miami. B. Sydney. C. Chicago.
16. What will the man do next?
A. Board another plane. B. Pick up his wife. C. Meet his wife at Gate 5.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What kind of help can the speaker provide?
A. She can show others around the library. B. She can find papers for others' research.
C. She can prepare books for others' training.
18. What does the speaker think of the library?
A. It's bigger than any other libraries in the world.
B. It has the best Yale publications in the world.
C. It has many collections that cannot be found somewhere else.
19. Who is the speaker probably speaking to?[来源:学.科.网Z.X.X.K]
A. Teachers. B. Historians. C. Students.
20. Which of the following is TRUE about the speaker?
A. She has worked for two years. B. She doesn't have fixed office hours.
C. She doesn't have meals in the college.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将[来源:学*科*网]该项涂黑。
A
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21. TV Ears helps you ______.
A. improve your sleeping quality B. listen to TV without disturbing others
C. change TV channels without difficulty D. become interested in ballgame programs
22. What makes TV Ears different from other headsets?
A. It can easily set TV on mute B. It has a new noise reduction ear tip
C. Its headset volume is adjustable D. It applies special wireless technology
23.This advertisement is made more believable by ______.
A. using recommendations B. offering reasons for this invention
C. providing statistics D. showing the results of experiments

B
Advice to interns（实习学生）: work hard and you’ll make your mark. And if you can discover a new planet while you’re at it, you could also be pushing the boundaries of our knowledge.
Believe it or not, a 15-year-old boy did just that, according to Keele University in England, UK. While having work experience at the university, Tom Wagg noticed a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet passed it. The university said it has since taken two years to verify his findings.
“I’m hugely excited to have found a new planet and I’m very impressed that we can find it so far away,” Tom said, according to a statement from the university. He apparently spotted the planet by handling the data collected by Keele University’s WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, which scans millions of stars in the night sky and searches for tiny dips caused by the passing of planets.
After the discovery, astronomers（天文学家）at Keele University and the University of Geneva and Liege confirmed that it was identified as a planet. The new planet has been labeled with the catalog number WASP-142b, for it’s the 142nd discovery by the WASP project.
Invisible to the naked eye（肉眼）and 1,000 light years away, the planet is the same size as Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
A star student at a nearby school and a science enthusiast, Tom had requested the work experience after learning that Keele University had a research group studying extrasolar planets, or exoplanets – planets that exist around stars other than the sun.
According to NASA, the first exoplanet was spotted in 1995 and 5,000 have been discovered ever since. The space agency says on its website that such findings provide hope for finding another Earth.
24. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “verify” in Paragraph 2?
A. research B. report C. prove D. approve
25. What can we infer about Tom?
A. He is a student studying in Keele University.
B. He may found the new planet by chance.
C. He named the new planet eventually.
D. He is a member of WASP project.
26. According to the passage, which of the following is True?
A. WASP project made its first discovery in 1995.
B. WASP-142b is the largest planet in space.
C. The new-found planet orbits the sun.
D. WASP project devotes to discovering new planets.
27. What can we learn from Tom’s experience?
A. Where there is a will, there is a way.
B. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
C. There is no sweet without sweat.
D. Many hands make light work.
C[来源:学科网Z-X-X-K]
Scientists study it. An increasing number of self-help books tell us the way to find it. In fact, the pursuit of happiness has been called the ultimate (最终的) goal in life by countless talks, TV shows and newspaper and magazine columns. However, happiness, as it was before, is still hard to find.
    US psychologist Ed Diener, author of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, may have the answer: “a combination of life satisfaction and having more positive than negative emotions”. This may sound straightforward enough, but it still doesn’t explain what determines people’s happiness. And as The Washington Post argued in an article last month, creating a definition of happiness that is true for people around the world can seem as difficult as being happy.
   For example, who is happier: someone who has enough money to buy a new mobile phone or someone [来源:学.科.网Z.X.X.K]who has a family dinner after years away from home?
   Nevertheless, as many surveys suggest, one of the most important parts of happiness is wealth. The UN’s World Happiness Report 2015 shows that countries with the highest levels of happiness are developed ones, with Switzerland, Iceland and Denmark making up the top three. But on the other hand, Bhutan, one of the poorest countries in the world, was named the happiest country in Asia and the eighth happiest in the world in research by Business Week in 2012.
   Perhaps the biggest problem is how the idea of “happiness” varies in different cultures and languages.
   As The Washington Post noted, the word “happy” can refer to different things in English. It might mean a brief mood you feel when someone surprises you with a gift or you think of friends and family. Or it could refer to satisfaction with your life. But not all languages refer to happiness the same way. In Danish, for example, happiness is often translated as “lykke”, a term that can describe everyday well-being that might come from a nice cup of coffee or a slice of bread with cheese.
    In Chinese, the word for happiness is xingfu, which is used to describe a good life or a circumstance (境遇) that makes people feel free from worry. For a good mood, however, kuaile is used more often.
   Another difference in the view of happiness, as The Washington Post put it, is that Western countries tend to have quite an “individualistic view of human life”. In China and many other Asian countries, social relationships, with family in particular, are one of the most important factors in a person’s well-being.
    So, are you happy? And what makes you happy?
28. What is the main purpose of the article?
A. To explore why it is harder to find happiness than ever.
B. To point out factors that bring people happiness.
C. To promote US psychologist Ed Diener’s book on happiness.[来源:Z-x-x-k.Com]
D. To explain why it’s hard to give a universal definition of happiness across the world.
29. What does the translation of “happiness” in Danish mean according to the article?
A. Being wealthy.    B. Being successful.   C. Everyday well-being.  D. A life with meaning.
30. How do Chinese people and people from Western countries view happiness differently?
A. Wealth is regarded as the most important source of happiness in Western countries.
B. Family bonds are believed to be closely connected to a person’s well-being in China.
C. Social interaction plays a more important role in a person’s well-being in Western countries than in China.[来源:学*科*网]
D. Chinese people get more happiness from their personal achievements than people from Western countries do.
31. How is the article mainly developed?
A. Through examples.                          B. Through cause and effect analysis.
C. By following the order of time.                  D. By presenting research findings. 
D
The hated mobile phone roaming（漫游）charges that greatly affect tourists’ trips around Europe are set to be ended, but you’ll have to wait until 2017 for it to happen.
The agreement announced on June 30 will end the frustration（懊恼）of European Union citizens on holiday or abroad for business who face too many charges for using their phones for calls and Internet browsing when in the EU but outside their home country.
“Coming into force on June 15, 2017, the deal means you can use your mobile phone when traveling in the EU and pay the same prices as at home,” the European Commission said in a statement. “If you pay for a monthly volume（月套餐）of minutes, SMS and data in your country, any voice call , SMS and data session you make while traveling abroad in the EU will be removed from that as if you were at home, with no extra charges,” it added.
The deal was reached following discussions dating from 2013, but still needs formal approval by the European Parliament and 28 governments.
“This is the end of a long process and we’re delighted we manage to produce a result that will mean specific improvement for citizens in the single market,” European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said.[来源:学科网Z-X-X-K]
Commenting on the agreement, Gautam Srivastava, a mobile phone expert at MoneySuperMarket said, “The end of roaming charges in the EU is a great win for customers both in the UK and in Europe.”
“From June 2017 on, you’ll be able to use your mobile phone in the EU --- so no more worrying about data limits or making and receiving calls when you’re on your holidays,” added Gautam Srivastava.
32.The text is most probably ___________.
A. a travel guide B. a newspaper ad C. a news report D. a cultural research
33. What do we know about the agreement?
A. It has been put into effect since 2013.
B. It allows EU citizens to pay less abroad than at home.[来源:Z-x-x-k.Com]
C. One has to pay first for a monthly volume to benefit from it.
D. It hasn’t been officially approved so far.
34. What is expert Gautam Srivastava’s attitude towards the agreement?
A. Negative B. Positive C. Uncertain D. Unconcerned
35. What does the text mainly tell us?
A. People will not pay mobile