河北定州中学高二英语期中考试试卷
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）
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 colour does the man prefer?
A. Brown. B. Black. C. Blue. 2. What is the woman going to do? A. See the doctor. 3. What is the man doing? A. Visiting a company.
B. Having a job interview. C. Making a telephone call. B. Put on clothes.
C. Go to bed.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The money.
B. The football.
C. The birthday.
5. What do we know about the woman? A. She is supportive.
B. She is confident.
C. She is active.
第二节（共15题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。 6. Where’s the man going? A. The street.
B. The yard. C. The cinema.
7. Which turning should he take?
A. The first on the left. B. The first on the right. C. The second on the left. 8. How will the man get there?
A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By bike. 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。 9. Where did Sara paint the pictures ? A. At home. B. In the kitchen. 10. What colour are the trees in Sara’s picture ? A. Red.
B. Blue.
C. Green.
C. At school.
11. What are in the sky in Sara’s pictures? A. Trees.
B. Planes.
C. Sara’s father and trees.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。 12. What happened to the man ?
A. He was given a prize. B. He lost his job. C. His boss gave him two weeks’ leave. 13. How did the man feel about his boss’s decision? A. He understood it very well. B. He thought it completely wrong. C. He didn’t understand it. 14. What was the man unable to do? A. Use a computer.
B. Use a typewriter. C. Use a printer.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. What is going to be in Liberty Park next week ? A. An art festival.
B. A concert.
C. A picnic.
16. How many artists will show their paintings?
A. Two traditional painters. B. Two modern artists. 17. What information do we know about the art exhibitions ? A. They start at the same place and time. B. They start at different places and time.
C. They will show paintings from five foreign countries . 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What did the speaker use to do for a living ? A. He ran a village shop. B. He worked on a farm.
C. Three best local artists.
C. He worked at an advertising company.
19. What do we know about the speaker’s life in the past ? A. It was stressful.
B. It was peaceful.
C. It was boring.
20. What made the speaker change his lifestyle? A. The trouble with his family life. B. His desire to start his own business. C. His dream of living in a countryside.
二、阅读理解
Studies show that you may be lied to every day anywhere from 10 to 200 times. We say, “Nice song.” “Honey, you don’t look fat in that, no.” But another study showed that strangers lied three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other. We lie more to strangers than we lie to coworkers. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do about other people. Women lie more to protect other people. If you’re married, you’re going to lie to your wife/ husband in one out of every 10 communications. If you’re unmarried, that number drops to three. But look, if at some point you got lied to, it’s because you agreed to get lied to. Truth about lying: lying’s a cooperative act. Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we’re willing to get lied to for social dignity(尊严), maybe to keep a private secret.
Lying is complex. It exists in our daily and business lives. We’re deeply disturbed by the truth. We explain it, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we don’t understand the gaps between ideals and realities in our lives. We’re against lying, but secretly we’re for it in ways that our society has practiced for centuries and centuries. It’s as old as breathing. It’s part of our culture and history. Think the stories from Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, News of the World. Lying has great value to the evolution of human beings. Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the more likely it is to lie. We humans like to become leaders. It starts really early. How early? Well, babies will pretend to cry, pause, wait to see who’s coming and then go right back to crying. One-year-olds learn hiding truth. Five-year-olds lie outright and try to control through flattery (奉承). Nine-year-olds, masters of covering up.
So what do we do about lies? Well, there are steps we can take to guide our way through the
bushes. Trained lie spotters (检测员) get to the truth 90% of the time. The rest of us, we’re only 54% right. There are clever liars and stupid liars, but there’re no real creative liars. While lying, we all make the same mistakes, and we all use the same techniques.
21．The passage tells us in the first paragraph that lying is very __________. A. harmful B. easy C. interesting D. common
22．Lying is complex because __________.
A. people are for it as well as against it B. it is the whole part of great culture C. ancient stories are full of lies D. it is practiced by clever ones 23．According to the passage, a lie works when __________.
A. the liar’s words are sweet enough B. someone gives the liar cooperation C. we are willing to lie for good reasons D. it is given to a complete stranger 24．What might the writer talk about in the following passage? A. How to become clever liars. B. How to avoid stupid lies. C. How to tell truth from lies. D. How to get through the bushes.
If you want to slow aging, you might want to eat less. This finding is good news---if you were a mouse. The researchers studied mice, not people.
John Price and other researchers studied two groups of mice. One group was able to eat as much as it wanted. The researchers limited what the mice in the other group ate. Their diet had 35 percent fewer calories than the first group of mice.
Price says the mice with the diet restrictions were “more energetic and suffered fewer disease.” They were not just living longer but seemed to stay younger for a longer period of time.
The researchers found that fewer calories slow down a natural mechanism in cells called ribosomes. Price explains that ribosomes are responsible for making important proteins in the cells. But with fewer calories, they slow down. This gives the cells more time to repair themselves.
The researchers say ribosomes use from 10 to 20 percent of the cell’s energy to make those proteins. Price wrote that “because of this, it is impractical to destroy an entire ribosome” when it starts to break down. However, “repairing individual parts of the ribosome on a regular basis
