2014--2015学年第二学期期末联考
高二英语试卷
总分： 150 时间：120分钟
第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分) 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,选出最佳选项。 1. What is the woman going to do?
A. Buy a cupboard. B. See a film. C. Go skating.
2. What’s the matter with the man?
A. He hurt his finger.
B. He took the wrong medicine. C. He lost his driving license. 3. Who will go to get the soccer ball?
A. Mr. Sawyer. B. Julie. C. Ken.
4. What does the woman mean?
A. Sophia may accept a vase as a gift. B. Sophia likes drinking flower tea. C. Sophia likes chocolates the most. 5. Where is the nearest post office?
A. Next to a supermarket. B. Beside a bank. C. Behind a bank.
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，选出最佳选项。 请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. Why did the woman come back?
A. To look after her father. B. To help repair the roof. C. To attend a meeting. 7. What was the woman’s job?
A. A businesswoman. B. A saleswoman. C. A manager.
请听第7段材料，回答8至10题。 8. When will the plane take off?
A. At 5:15 pm.
B. At 6:15 pm. C. At 8:00 pm. 9. Why is the plane put off?
A. Because of airport control. B. Because of bad weather.
C. Because of a problem with the plane. 10. Where will the woman have dinner?
A. At home. B. At the airport. C. At a café.
请听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. How does the woman feel about the man’s suggestion?
A. It’s really a good change. B. It’s too hot to go boating. C. It’s the last thing she would do.
12. What do the two speakers decide to do in the end?
A. Go to a museum. B. Go to a concert. C. Go for a picnic.
13. What does the man promise to do?
A. Book two tickets. B. Pick the woman up. C. Wait for the woman at home. 请听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What color table did the two speakers see in the last shop?
A. White. B. Brown. C. Red.
15. Why does the man decide to get the expensive table?
A. He knows the shop owner well. B. He has got a pay increase.
C. He will get some money from his parents. 16. What does the woman want to buy besides the table?
A. A bookshelf. B. An armchair. C. A sofa.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What do we know about the hospital?
A. It announces its rules at 4 pm. B. It can hold 800 patients.
C. It has 8 beds at most in each room.
18. What does the speaker say about the visiting hours?
A. Only two people are allowed to visit one patient at the same time. B. The visiting hours are in the morning and afternoon. C. People can stay with the patients for two hours each time.
19. When do patients have breakfast?
A. At 6:00 am. B. At 7:00 am. C. At 8:00 am.
20. What will the patients probably do after this announcement?
A. Go out for a walk. B. Go to have some tea. C. Enjoy a music program.
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。
A
One and a half years ago, my friend and I separately received an invitation to our best friend’s wedding. Then we both decided to go to the nearby town to attend the wedding and come back together. After the reception was over, we were waiting for a public transport bus to go back home. It was nine o’clock at night, and although many buses passed, none stopped.
We waited for an hour and were getting desperate. We wouldn’t be able to stay overnight because it was weekday, and we both needed to work the next day. It was almost 10pm when a family who had attended the same wedding passed by in their car. Probably sensing that we were waiting for some means of transport, they stopped and gave us a lift.
I was so touched by their kindness, and I expressed my gratitude to them.
When we reached my hometown, the family dropped us at the nearest point from where we could catch a shared taxi to get back to the spot where we had parked our bike. On the way, a laborer stopped the taxi. The driver saw his clothes and asked him whether he had money to pay the fare.
The laborer shook his head and said, “No”. On hearing this, the driver refused to take him.
I remembered my own trouble a few minutes earlier, and I told the driver to allow him to sit with us, as I would pay his fare. What an immediate opportunity to pass on the family’s act of kindness! That night, I felt lightness in my heart, and I went to sleep happily and filled with joy about what I had gotten to do. How I wish this chain of kindness could continue all over the world with your help! That is why today I especially share my story with you!
21. How did the author and his friend get to their hometown?
A. By taking a taxi B. By walking
C. With the help of a laborer D. With the help of a family
22. The reason why the driver permitted the laborer to get in at last is that .
A. the driver showed mercy on the laborer B. the laborer finally agreed to pay his own fare C. the author promised to pay the laborer’s fare D. the driver dislikes to take another passenger 23. The author writes the passage mainly in order to . A. make such act of kindness spread in the world B. make people remember a moving story forever C. tell what shall people pay attention to in the wedding D. tell how people should deal with the strangers on the way
B
If you are like most middle schoolers, you probably don’t know what you’re doing this weekend, let alone（更不用说） where you might attend college in three or four years.
But Haley Berg, 15, can tell you exactly where she plans to be in the fall of 2017: starting her first year at the university of Texas on a full soccer scholarship(奖学金). For Haley, now a ninth-grader in Celina, Texas, the offers from college coaches started pouring in when she was in middle school. Haley is a really good soccer player who’s been playing the sport since she was four years old.
“The recruiting(招募) process started for me in the eighth grade,” she told The New York Times. “The college coaches were always there, watching our games.”
College are recruiting more younger players than ever before, and many of the student athletes are offered full scholarships before they’ve even set foot in high school.
This situation is especially evident in women’s sports. It may be a result of Title IX, a 1972 law that requires equal funding for men’s and women’s school sports. To comply with the law, some colleges have increased the number of women’s sports teams and scholarships they offer. That’s led to a growing number of college coaches who need more women athletes.
Some parents want their middle schoolers to win scholarships by going to college at an early age. But many people worry about the stress this puts on kids to make such big decisions. Even some college coaches have concerns about recruiting young players. Angela Kelly, Haley’s future coach at Texas, says she feels she has no choice; if she does’t recruit the young athletes, other schools will take the best players.
“It’s bad for the whole development of the sport, and to the girls,” Kelly said.
