辽宁省大连市第二十高级中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题
2014～2015学年度下学期期末考试
高二英语试卷
考试时间120分钟 试题
分数 150 命题人 于波
卷I
第一部分：听力
第一节
1． Whose wallet probably is it?
A. the woman’s B. The man’s C. Gina’s
2. What is the date today?
A. May 1st B. May 2nd C. May 3rd
3. Who made the woman’s personal web page?
A. She herself B. Her friend. C. The man
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A town B. An accident C. A murder
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Relatives. B. Colleagues. D. Neighbors.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
6. What is the man doing?
A. Watching TV B. Listening to the radio. C. Reading the newspaper
7. Why are the rich and famous targets for being talked about according to the man?
A. The public are interested in them. B. The public want to laugh at them.
C. The public want to make them famous.
听第7段材料，回答第8-10题。
8. Why does the man look sad?
A. He had to stop his study. B. He failed his test again.
C. He couldn’t understand the foreigners.
9. How did the woman improve her French?
A. By reading French newspapers B. By watching French films.
C. By speaking to herself.
10. What does the woman suggest the man do?[来源:学科网ZXXK]
A. Be confident. B. Talk with foreigners C. Ask the teacher for advice.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A basketball game. B. A volleyball game. C. A football game.
12. Where did the man go to last night?
A. A club. B. A stadium . C. A meeting.
13. What 
did the audience think of the game?
A. Exciting B. Dangerous C. Unbelievable
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What does the woman think of the pink dress?
A. very cheap B. very dull C. of good quality
15. What color of the sweater does the man recommend?[来源:Zxxk.Com]
A. White . B. Purple C. Black
16. What kind of jacket does the woman want ?
A. a leather one B. a light one C. an expensive one
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。
17. What was Professor Rudd’s trouble?
A. lack of confidence B. lack of intelligence . C. absent-mindedness
18. What did the professor decided to do one hot summer day?[来源:学科网ZXXK]
A. Visit his children who live near the beach. B. Have a holiday with his children on the beach.
C. Take his children to visit his friend in a seasid
e town.
19. What happened to the professor when he arrived at the station ?
A. he couldn’t contact his friend. B. He couldn’t find his train tickets.
C. he couldn’t remember the destination.
20. Why did the professor come back home for the 2nd time?
A. he forgot his friend’s address. B. he lost the paper his wife had given him.
C. he forgot to take the train tickets with him.
第二部分：阅读理解（ 共 2 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中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Last winter, when I was heavily pregnant, I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law's house and had to park in a nearby parking lot because they didn't have accessible parking. The snow was extremely heavy and there was lots of ice on the ground --- not many people had ventured out that evening!
When I returned to my car around 11pm, I noticed that I was the only car left. Nervously, I hopped into the car and let it warm up a bit. When I finally tried to drive away, my wheels began to spin. I was stuck! I spun and spun and wondered what to do.
All of a sudden, in my rear view mirror, I saw four teen-aged boys approaching my car. They were walking side by side in a line and dressed a bit like gang members --- at least I thought that's what they looked like. My car was in a very isolated area and I began to panic. I was certain they were coming to my car to harm me. Terrified, I just froze. One of the young men tapped on my window and said "Excuse me, Ma'am, can we help you? You seem stuck." Still afraid and fearing the worst, I said "I am stuck." And the young man said "It's okay, stay in your car and we'll push you out of the snow." And they did!
When they finally got me out of the snow, they smiled and waved. I rolled down my window and thanked them, embarrassed to have judged them so poorly
21.Why did the author just freeze when the four young men walking toward her car?
A. Because she was afraid of being harmed
B. Because she sat in her car for too long a time
C. Because she was cold indeed in that freezing evening
D. Because she knew they would rob her of the car
22.The author failed to drive away because __________.
A. she was terrified at the four
young men B. her car wasn’t warm enough
C. it was icy and full of snow on the ground. D. something was wrong with the wheels.
23.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A. One of the four teenagers was a gang member
B. The kids wanted to help the author out of trouble
C. The author would have a baby in her car
D. The young men enjoyed pushing cars out of the snow
24.The best title for the text would be___________
A. Every man has his faults B. Fortune favors those who use their judgment
C. Don't judge a book by its cover D. Think twice before you do
B
As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remembering less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location (位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called "transactive memory (交互记忆)"
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.