1、1福建师大附中 2017-2018 学年下学期期末考试高二（实验班）英语试卷时间： 120分钟 满分： 150分第卷 (共 79 分)第一部分：听力（共 20 题；每小题 1 分, 满分 20 分）第一节听下面 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 is the man holding?A. A tool. B. A ladder. C. A new light.2. What does the man suggest th
2、e woman do?A. Leave soon. B. Pay her gas bill. C. Get some tests done.3. What is the woman doing?A. Attending a class. B. Doing her homework. C. Helping the man with math.4. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The car is in perfect condition.B. The car can be fixed on time.C. The man cant fix
3、 the car.5. What should the man do to find the glasses store?A. Look in the parking lot.B. Turn right at the fountain.C. Walk through the pet shop.第二节听下面 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。每段对话或独白读两遍。2听第 6 段材料,回答第 6、7 题。6. W
4、hat happened to the man?A. He lost his job. B. He failed a test. C. He taught a class in college.7. Who is the man talking with?A. His boss. B. His teacher. C. His classmate.听第 7 段材料,回答第 8、9 题。8. Which city are the speakers in?A. San Francisco. B. San Diego. C. Los Angeles.9. What is the woman waiti
5、ng for?A. A train. B. Her jacket. C. A report.听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Why is the woman upset?A. The man didnt call. B. The man didnt turn up. C. The man didnt apologize. 11. Who is the man probably speaking to?A. A waitress. B. A professor. C. A doctor.12. When will the speakers meet?A. This afte
6、rnoon. B. On Thursday. C. On Tuesday. 听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What kind of meat does the man usually put in his sandwich?A. Turkey. B. Beef. C. Ham.14. What did the woman do this morning? A. She baked a cake. B. She ate some chocolate. C. She made cheeseburgers. 15. Why is the woman being very ni
7、ce today?A. She had extra time.B. She was in the mood to cook.3C. She wants the man to take her to the movies.16. How does the man feel about romance movies? A. Boring. B. Funny. C. Wonderful听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the speakers favorite Will Smith movie?A. Bad Boys. B. Men in Black. C. T
8、he Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. 18. How did the speaker first learn about Will Smith?A. As a producer. B. As a TV star. C. As a movie star.19. When did Parents Just Dont Understand come out?A. In the mid-1990s. B. In the early 1990s. C. In the late 1980s.20. What award has Will Smith won four times?A. T
9、he Golden Globes. B. Grammys. C. Oscars.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节, 满分 29 分） 第一节 （共 12 小题；每小题 2 分, 满分 24 分）AScience is finally beginning to hug animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken fac
10、es and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend
11、 die.Pigs respond meaningfully to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the Os. Then the team
12、switched 4from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable skill of reasoning.Ive been guilty of prejudiced opinions, myself. At the start of
13、 my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes out-think and out-feel other animals. Theyre other primates(灵长目动物), after all, animals from our own mammal class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultur
14、al learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to go through painful procedure in laboratories, elephants fo
15、rced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of “food animals“ bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution i
16、n terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us
17、to make changes in who we eat?1. According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_.A. interaction B. analysis C. creation D. abstraction2. The research into pigs shows that pigs_.A. learn letters quickly B. have a good eyesightC. can build up a good relationship D. can apply knowledge to new situa
18、tions3. Paragraph 4 is mainly about_.A. the similarities between mammals and humans B. the necessity of long-term studies on mammals5C. a change in peoples attitudes towards animals D. a discovery of how animals express themselves4. What might be the best title for the passage?A. The Inner Lives of
19、Food Animals. B. The Lifestyles of Food Animals.C. Science Reports on Food Animals. D. A Revolution in Food Animals.BSome of the best research on daily experience is rooted in rates of positive and negative interactions, which has proved that being blindly positive or negative can cause others to be
20、 frustrated or annoyed or even to tune out.Over the last two decades, scientists have made remarkable predictions simply by watching people interact with one another and then scoring the conversations based on the rate of positive and negative interactions. Researchers have used the findings to pred
21、ict everything from the likelihood that a couple will divorce to the chances of a work team with high customer satisfaction and productivity levels.More recent research helps explain why these brief exchanges matter so much. When you experience negative emotions as a result of criticism or rejection
22、, for example, your body produces higher levels of the stress hormone, which shuts down much of your thinking and activates conflict and defense mechanisms (机制). You suppose that situations are worse than they actually are.When you experience a positive interaction, it activates a very different res
23、ponse. Positive exchanges increase your bodys production of oxytocin(后叶催产素), a feel-good that increases your ability to communicate with, cooperate with and trust others. But the effects of a positive occurrence are less dramatic and lasting than they are for a negative one.We need at least three to
24、 five positive interactions to outweigh every one negative exchange. Bad moments simply outweigh good ones. Whether youre 6having a conversation, keep this simple short cut in mind: At least 80 percent of your conversations should be focused on whats going right.Workplaces, for example, often see th
25、is. During performance reviews, managers routinely spend 80 percent of their time on weaknesses and “areas for improvement”. They spend roughly 20 percent of the time on strengths and positive aspects. Any time you have discussions with a person or group, spend the vast majority of the time talking
26、about what is working, and use the remaining time to address weaknesses.5. The underlined phrase “tune out” in Paragraph 1 probably means .A. stop listening B. gain courage C. sing aloud D. feel stressed6. What will happen if you experience negative emotions?A. The situations are sure to become wors
27、e.B. Much of your thinking will be prevented.C. You will feel an urge to improve and become better.D. Youll be motivated to resolve conflicts with people.7. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that .A. we need a positive feeling to beat one negative feelingB. positive interactions have greater effects th
28、an negative onesC. our conversation should center on what needs improvementD. the effect of negative feelings lasts longer than that of positive ones8. What is the best title for the passage?A. Harmful Negatives. B. More Positive Interactions.C. How to Be a Productive Manager. D. Less Time on Streng
29、ths and Positive Aspects.COnly two countries in the advanced world provide no guarantee for paid leave from work to care for a newborn child. Last spring one of the two, Australia, gave up the bad reputation by setting up paid family leave starting in 2012. I wasnt surprised when this didnt make the
30、 news here in the United 7States were now the only wealthy country without such a policy. The United States does have one clear family policy, the Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993. It gives workers the right of as much as 12 weeks unpaid leave for care of a newborn or dealing with a fami
31、ly medical problem. Despite its benefit, the Committee of Enterprise and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as “government-run personnel management” and a “dangerous precedent (先例)”. In fact, every step of the way, as Democratic (民主党)leaders have tried to introduce work-family b
32、alance measures into the law, business groups have been strongly opposed. As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, defending the appropriateness of parental support depends on defining the family as the social goods that, in one sense, society must pay for. Parents are burdened in many ways in the
33、ir lives: there is “no exit” when it comes to children. Society expects and needsparents to provide their children with continuity of care. And society expectsand needsparents to continue in their roles for 18 years, or longer if needed. While most parents do this out of love, there are public punis
34、hments for not providing care. What parents do, in other words, is of deep concern to the state, for the obvious reason that caring for children is not only morally urgent but important to the future of society. To classify parenting as a personal choice for which there is no collective responsibili
35、ty is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; really, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue (累积) to the whole of society as todays children become tomorrows citizens. In fact, by some rough calculations, the value of parental investments in children, investments of ti
36、me and money, is equal to 20%30% of GDP. If these investments bring huge social benefitsas they clearly dothe benefits of providing more social support for the family should be that much clearer.9. What do we learn about paid family leave from Paragraph 1?A. It came as a surprise when Australia adop
37、ted the policy. 8B. Setting up this policy made Australia less influential. C. It has now become a hot topic in the United States. D. No such policy is applied in the United States.10. What makes it hard to take work-family balance measures in the States?A. The incompetence of the Democrats. B. The
38、severe attack from business circles. C. The lack of a precedent in American history. D. The existing Family and Medical Leave Act.11. What is Professor Anne Alstotts argument for parental support?A. Children need continuous care. B. Good parenting benefits society. C. The cost of raising children ha
39、s been growing. D. The U. S. should keep up with other developed countries.12. Why is the author against classifying parenting as a personal choice?A. Parenting is regarded as a moral duty parents should bear.B. Parenting relies largely on society for financial support. C. Parenting produces huge mo
40、ral benefits and profitable rewards.D. Parenting is basically a task that society hands over to parents.第二节 （共 5 小题, 每小题 1 分, 满分 5 分） 根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项, 选项中有两项为多余选项。The Art of Slow ReadingIf you are reading this article in print, chances are that you will only get through half of what I
41、have written. And if you are reading this online, you may not even finish a fifth. _1_ They suggest that many of us no longer have the concentration to read articles through to their conclusion.So are we getting stupider? Actually, our online habits are damaging the mental power we need to process a
42、nd understand textual information. Round-the-clock news makes us read from one article to the next without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content. Our reading is frequently stopped by 9the noise of the latest email and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook mo
43、re regularly than longer texts. _2_ But we are gradually forgetting how to sit back, think carefully, and relate all the facts to each other._3_ A desperate bunch of academics want us to take our time while reading, and re-reading. They ask us to switch off our computers every so often and rediscove
44、r both the joy of personal engagement with printed texts, and the ability to process them fully. Whats to be done then? Most slow readers realize that total rejection of the web is extremely unrealistic. They feel that getaway from technology for a while is the answer. _4_Personally, Im not sure whe
45、ther I could ever go offline for long. Even while writing this article, I am switching constantly between sites, skimming too often, absorbing too little. Internet reading has become too rooted in my daily life for me to change. I read essays and articles not in hard copy but as PDFs. I suspect that
46、 many readers are in a similar position._5_ You can download a computer application called Freedom, which allows you to read in peace by cutting off your Internet connection. Or if you want to avoid being disturbed by the Internet, you could always download offline reader Instapaper for your iPhone.
47、 If youre still reading my article, that is slow reading.A. The Internet is probably part of the problem.B. Now some campaigns are advocating slow reading.C. These are the two findings from the recent research projects.D. But if you just occasionally want to read more slowly, help is at hand.E. Some
48、 of them have suggested turning their computers off for one day a week.F. Slow reading can help connect a reader to neighborhood and become popular.G. Because of the Internet, we have become very good at collecting information.第三部分 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分） Fifteen years ago, I took a summer
49、vacation in Lecce in Italy. After climbing up a hill for a full view of the blue sea, I paused to catch my 1 10and then positioned myself to take a photo.Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind and 2 herself right in front of my 3 . Like me, she was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the scenery.4 as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would 5 take, I
