高中英語 期末質(zhì)量檢測二新人教版選修8

1、期末質(zhì)量檢測(二)(時間：120分鐘滿分：150分)第卷第一部分：聽力(共兩節(jié)，滿分30分)第一節(jié)(共5小題；每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分)聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。(text 1)m: this cake is so delicious. where did you buy it?w: i made it by myself. i got the recipe from my mother.(text 2)m: when will

2、 flight a391 leave?w: it leaves at 8：30, but you should check in half an hour ahead of time.(text 3)w: what did mr. green do with his damaged car?m: he had it repaired. look? it looks like a new one now.(text 4)m: here is the hotel, amber. do you need any help?w: no, thats quite all right. thanks a

3、lot for the offer.m: dont mention it. tomorrow is sunday. we can eat breakfast together first, and then go to my apartment.w: ok. see you tomorrow.(text 5)m: what a sunny day! would you like to go to the lakeside with me?w: i wish i could join you, but i have so much work to do this morning.m: how a

4、bout this afternoon?w: but then ill be going out with lily.1who made the cake?athe man.bthe woman.cthe womans mother.2when should the man check in?aat 8：30. bat 8：00.cat 7：30.3what happened to mr. greens damaged car?ait was sold. bit was stolen. cit was mended.4what day is it today?asaturday. bsunda

5、y. cmonday.5what is the man doing?agiving advice.basking for help.cmaking an invitation.第二節(jié)(共15小題；每小題1.5分，滿分22.5分)聽下面5段對話或獨(dú)白。每段對話或獨(dú)白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的a、b、c三個選項(xiàng)中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話或獨(dú)白前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，每小題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨(dú)白讀兩遍。聽第6段材料，回答第6、7題。 (text 6)m: you look tired. whats wrong, dear?w: oh,

6、nothing, dad. maybe i need more sleep.m: youve been working so hard these days.w: what else can i do? well be taking important exams, and everyones working hard.m: oh, honey, life is more than taking exams. you cant learn everything all at once.w: you are so kind to understand me, but i have to work

7、 harder, or ill regret it later.m: thats ok, but you must get enough sleep also. and your mom and i will take better care of you.6what is the girl worrying about?aher work. bher exams. cher health.7what does the man advise the woman to do?awork harder. bdo some exercise.chave enough sleep.聽第7段材料，回答第

8、8、9題。 (text 7)m: hi. i got two tickets to the french painting exhibition.w: you must be kidding. how did you get them?m: i went out at 3：00 in the morning and lined up. i was surprised there were already a lot of people ahead of me.w: you deserved to get the tickets.m: if you are free tomorrow, woul

9、d you like to come with me?w: wonderful! thank you very much.m: dont mention it. i know youre an art lover.8when is the mans ticket to the french painting exhibition?atoday. btomorrow.cthe day after tomorrow.9what do we know about the man?ahe is an art lover.bhe got the ticket from his friend.che in

10、vites the woman to go with him.聽第8段材料，回答第10至12題。 (text 8)w: how did it go, steven?m: we won.w: great! what was the score? im guessing 31.m: no, 30.w: your team must have played very well.m: yes. our boys ran faster and kicked harder even than their best player, gary.w: who scored the goals?m: a new

11、player named carl.w: did he score all three?m: yes. hes an excellent football player. he ran the fastest and kicked the hardest.w: why didnt you score any goals?m: i hurt my ankle in the first half. i had to leave the field and watch.10what kind of game was it?ait was a football game.bit was a baske

12、tball game.cit was a baseball game.11who ran the fastest?athe man. bgary. ccarl.12what do we know about the man?ahes not a good player.bhis ankle was hurt in the game.che watched the whole game.聽第9段材料，回答第13至16題。 (text 9)m: hello, international friends club. can i help you?w: oh, hello. i read about

13、your club in the paper today, and id like to find out a bit more about it.m: certainly. well, were a kind of social club for people from different countries. its a new club. we have about 50 members now, but we are growing all the time.w: ok. im british actually, and i came here 3 months ago. im loo

14、king for easy ways to meet people. uh, what kind of events do you organize?m: well, we have social get­togethers and sports events, and we also have language evenings.w: could you tell me something about the language evenings?m: yes. every day except thursday we have a language evening. we have

15、 different languages on different evenings: monday, spanish; tuesday, italian; wednesday, german; and friday, french. on thursday we usually have a meal in a restaurant for anyone who wants to come.w: well, that sounds great. i really need to practice my french.13how many members does the internatio

16、nal friends club have now?aabout 50. babout 30. cabout 15.14what activity does the club have on thursday evenings?aa sports event.ba language class.ca get­together meal.15what days language evening should the woman go to?afriday. bwednesday. ctuesday.16what do we know about the woman?ashe wants

17、 to find a job there.bshe has many friends there.cshe is new there.聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。 (text 10)when i tell people that i paint the golden gate bridge, they think i start at one end, paint to the other end, and then start again. but thats not true. we are always painting the bridge, but we have to go

18、 where the paint is in bad condition. its a dangerous job. you have to be careful all the time. you cant work without safety equipment. and the weather gets cold up here. sometimes its so cold that theres ice on the bridge. you have to wear warm clothes. sometimes its windy and foggy. on foggy days,

19、 you cant see anything. the view from the top is the thing that i love about the job. on a sunny day like today, you can see from the ocean to the port and all the way to the mountains.17whats the weather like today?aits foggy. bits sunny. cits windy.18what does the man do?ahe is a painter.bhe is an

20、 engineer.che is a weatherman.19what does the man think of his job?aeasy. btiring. cdangerous.20why does the man love his job?abecause he can stay in the mountains.bbecause he can enjoy the beautiful view.cbecause he can experience different weather.答案：15 bbcac610 bcbca1115 cbaca1620 cbacb第二部分：閱讀理解(

21、共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)第一節(jié)(共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的a、b、c和d四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。amemory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. if you have the wish and really make a conscious effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. but even if you are successful, there are times when y

22、our memory seems to play tricks on you.sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. one morning last week, for example, i got up and found that i had left the front door unlocked all night, yet i clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.memory “tricks” work the other way a

23、s well. once in a while you remember not doing something and then find out that you did. one day last month, for example, i was sitting in a barbershop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly i realized that i had got a haircut two days before at the barbershop across the street from my o

24、ffice.we always seem to find something funny and amusing in incidents caused by peoples forgetfulness or absent­mindedness. stories about absent­minded professors have been told for years, and we never get tired of hearing new ones. unfortunately, however, absent­mindedness is not alw

25、ays funny. there are times when “tricks” of our memory can cause us great trouble.語篇解讀：如果你想有好的記憶力，就要努力訓(xùn)練。有時我們的記憶力會捉弄我們，甚至?xí)斐纱蟮穆闊?1if you want to have a good memory, you should _.aforce yourself to remember thingsbmake a conscious effort of practice and exercisecnever stop learningdtry hard to remem

26、ber things解析：選b細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段前兩句可知記憶是練習(xí)出來的，如果你有想記住某事的愿望，并且做有意識的努力，你就會提高你的記憶力，可知選b項(xiàng)。22which of the following statements is true according to the passage?aone night the writer forgot to lock the front door.bone night the writer forgot having locked the front door.cthe writer remembered to lock the door.d

27、the writer remembered unlocking the front door.解析：選a細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中作者的舉例，上周的一個早晨他發(fā)現(xiàn)門沒有上鎖，但他清楚地記得自己頭一天晚上鎖上了門，由此可知頭一天晚上他忘了鎖門。forget to do sth.“忘記做某事”，事實(shí)就是沒做；forget doing sth.表示曾做過某事，但是忘記了；remember to do sth.“記住要去做某事”，還未做；remember doing sth.“記得曾經(jīng)做過某事”，的確做過；故根據(jù)句意可知選a項(xiàng)。23which can be inferred from the text?

28、aif you improve your memory, memory cant trick you.bthe author went to the same barbershop to get a haircut.cmemory can trick people in different ways.dabsent­mindedness surely causes us trouble.解析：選c推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二、三段的例子表明記憶捉弄人們的方式是不同的，可知c項(xiàng)正確；根據(jù)第一段最后一句可證明a項(xiàng)錯誤；第三段不能推斷出是同一家理發(fā)店；根據(jù)最后兩句可知心不在焉有時是可以帶來趣味，有

29、時卻帶來煩惱，可知d項(xiàng)錯誤。24which of the following could be the best title for this passage?athe key to a good memoryb“tricks” of memorycthe dangers of forgetfulnessdthe dangers of absent­mindedness解析：選b標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)文中記憶捉弄人的例子以及最后一句中“tricks of our memory can cause us great trouble”可知本文主要講的是“tricks” of memory。bt

30、he discovery of a dwarfed (矮個的) “human being” who lived in flores, indonesia (印度尼西亞), up to 18,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family. this “flores human” was three feet tall and her brain was smaller than that of the average chimp (黑猩猩), yet she and her relatives apparent

31、ly lived fully human lives. they seemed to have made tools, worked together to find food and cook it, and perhaps even buried the dead with ceremony.it was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member. the tools are like those formerly seen only with european fossils (化

32、石) from our own species, homo sapiens (智人), and the oldest of them were made 94,000 years ago. homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the island about 40,000 years ago, much too late to be responsible for the tools. if this_tiny_human made the tools, then the inside structure (結(jié)構(gòu)) of its brain m

33、ust have been more like our own than a chimps, despite being just a third the size of ours.this “new human” was suspected to be a dwarfed branch of homo erectus (直立人). when creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies, being big is a disadvantage, and evolution tends to shr

34、ink them, a process known as island dwarfing. could natural selection make a human smaller while keeping even improving mental ability? quite possibly, believes christopher wills of the university of california.has the “flores human” even shown the ability of language? “i find it difficult to imagin

35、e that people could make tools, use fire, and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication.” says wills. did “flores human” possess the basic components of human culture，such as the burying of the dead with ceremony? emiliano bruner of the institute points out that indonesias hot, wet en

36、vironment is bad for fossilization. it is reasonable to assume, he says, that the 18,000­year­old bones of the most complete flores woman were well preserved because she was buried with special care.25according to the passage, “flores human” _.alived a partly human lifebwas a branch of hom

37、o sapienscused tools before homo sapiens arriveddhad a brain as a common chimps解析：選c細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第二段的“it was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member. the tools . be responsible for the tools.”推出c項(xiàng)正確。26the underlined part “this tiny human” in paragraph 2 refers to _.aa ch

38、impbflores humanchomo sapiens dhomo erectus解析：選b詞語猜測題。結(jié)合第一段的“a dwarfed human being . this flores human.”可看出，this tiny human意指“flores human”。27this passage mainly talks about _.athe tools made by “flores human”bthe language used by “flores human”cthe evolution of “flores human”dthe major surprising f

39、indings about “flores human”解析：選d主旨大意題。本文主要講述了關(guān)于“flores human”的主要發(fā)現(xiàn)。a、b、c項(xiàng)均為d項(xiàng)的一個方面。28according to the passage, it is believed that “flores human” _.awas dwarfed by its enemiesbcould use languagecleft a lot of fossils in hot and wet environmentdreached flores 40,000 years ago解析：選b推理判斷題。由文章最后一段“i fin

40、d it difficult to imagine that people could make tools, use fire, and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication.”看出，沒有高級交流很難做到上述行為，說明“flores human”能夠使用語言。cit is a live celebration of the lasting power of letter writing!letters live, which started in december 2013, was held at the free

41、masons hall in london from march 10 to 15. the show invited various great performers who read remarkable letters that had been written around the world over the centuries.“bringing letters alive through outstanding performances is one of the most powerful ways in which the joy and pain and humor and

42、 tragedy of being human can be shared，” jamie byng, managing director of canongate books publishing firm, told the nowness video channel.british actor benedict cumberbatch agreed. “l(fā)etters are windows into the love, beauty, pain and humor of their creators and receivers，” he told the guardian. “l(fā)ett

43、ers live makes us stop and imagine the lives behind the letters read and where they came from. its a privilege to read this most ancient of communications live to an audience.” this year, the movie sherlock star treated the audience by playing the part of a 17­year tom hanks. he put on the youn

44、g actors voice when he read his letter to the hollywood director george roy hill, a letter that urged hill to “discover” him. the letter revealed that two­time oscar winner hanks teenage dream was not to “be a big­time hollywood superstar” but to one day own a porsche car and call his favo

45、rite us actor robert redford his nickname “bob”other famous faces at the event included carey mulligan, who played a fictional laundry worker, a female activist fighting for womens rights in the 2015 movie suffragette. the british actress once again played the role of a suffragette, when she read a

46、very enthusiastic letter demanding the vote for women. the suffragette sent a precious 1913 note to the daily telegraph newspaper.“everyone seems to agree upon the necessity of putting a stop to suffragist anger, but no one seems certain how to do so，” mulligan read out. “there are two, and only two

47、, ways in which this can be done. both will be effectual. one, kill every woman in the uk. two, give women the vote.”語篇解讀：本文是一篇新聞報道。隨著通訊科技的發(fā)展，寫信這種聯(lián)系方式已經(jīng)在人們的生活中逐漸淡去，但是信件包涵強(qiáng)大的寓意和情感。作者希望通過這次慶祝活動來激活人們對寫信的認(rèn)識。29what was cumberbatchs attitude towards jamie byngs opinion?adoubtful. bpositive.coptimistic. dc

48、autious.解析：選b推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段第一、二句及第四段內(nèi)容可推知，benedict cumberbatch對jamie byng的觀點(diǎn)持支持態(tài)度。b項(xiàng)意為“積極的”，符合題意。30which of the following was a dream of tom hanks as a child?ato become an actor.bto call himself “bob”cto win oscar awards.dto have a famous car.解析：選d細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段最后一句可知，tom hanks年少時的夢想之一是擁有一輛名車。故d項(xiàng)符合題意。31a

49、“suffragette” is a woman who _.asends a valuable note to newspaperbreads out a letter to the audiencecadvocates womens right to votedplays a famous role in a movie解析：選c推理判斷題。根據(jù)第六段第一句可推知，“suffragette”是指提倡婦女參政論的人，故c項(xiàng)符合題意。32what can be a suitable title for the text?afamous people gatheringbletters of g

50、reat performerscletters brought to lifedrights given to women解析：選c標(biāo)題歸納題。通讀全文可知，本文講述作者支持“寫信”這種聯(lián)系方式，并介紹在這次慶?；顒又泻芏嗝硕及岩郧暗男偶罱o聽眾聽。c項(xiàng)“把信件帶到生活中”適合做本文標(biāo)題。故c項(xiàng)符合題意。dscientists in argentina have created the worlds first cow with two human genes that will enable it to produce human­like milk.genetic engine

51、ering was used to introduce the “mothers milk” genes into the animal before birth, according to the national institute of agribusiness technology in buenos aires.as an adult, the cloned cow “will produce milk that is similar to that of humans”， which will prove “a development of great importance for

52、 the nutrition of infants (嬰兒)”， said the institute. “the cloned cow, named rosita isa, is the first in the world with two human genes that contain the proteins present in human milk，” said the statement.in april, scientists in china published details of research showing that they had created dairy

53、cows which produced milk containing proteins found in human breast milk. but the argentine team said the chinese only introduced one human gene, while their research involved two, meaning the milk will more_closely_resemble that of humans.“our goal was to raise the nutrition value of cows milk by ad

54、ding two human genes, which do good to the immune system of infants，” said adrian mutto, from the national university of san martin which worked with the institute.cristina kirchner, president of argentina, said the scientific institute made all argentines proud. she also said that she had rejected

55、the “honor” of having the cow named after her. “they came to tell me that the name is cristina, but what woman would like to have a cow named after her? it appeared to me to be more proper to call it rosita.”語篇解讀：阿根廷國家農(nóng)業(yè)綜合科技研究所的科學(xué)家們?nèi)涨靶?，他們已成功培育出一頭能夠產(chǎn)類似人奶的奶牛。33what is the passage mainly about?athe im

56、portance of genetic engineering.bways to improve mothers milk.ca cloned cow to produce human­like milk.dadvanced agricultural technology in argentina.解析：選c主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章第一段可知，阿根廷的科學(xué)家們已成功培育出一頭能夠產(chǎn)類似人奶的奶牛。故選c項(xiàng)。34which of the following can best replace “more closely resemble” in paragraph 4?ahave more

57、varieties thanbbe more similar tochave more nutrition thandbe more different from解析：選b詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第四段的第二句可知，阿根廷的研究組稱中國研究組僅放入了一個人類基因，而他們的研究包含了兩個，這意味著產(chǎn)出的牛奶將和人奶更相似。故選b項(xiàng)。35what can be inferred from cristina kirchners statements?ashe was quite satisfied with the research done by the institute.bshe considered it an honor to name the special cow.cshe felt it improper to be named after the cow.dshe refused to give a name to the