1、1湖南省益阳市箴言中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语下学期 4 月月考试题时间：120 分钟 总分：150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。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. Where does this conversation take place?A. At home. B. In a hospital. C. At a hotel.2. What does t
2、he man think of Mr. Stones lessons?A. Meaningless. B. Helpful. C. Unnecessary.3. What does the woman think of the play?A. Enjoyable B. Terrific. C. Too modern.4. When will the man check out?A. September 7. B. September 10. C. October 10.5. What is the mans opinion of the exam?A. The exam questions w
3、ere too difficult.B. The questions had little connection with the course.C. He found the questions confusing. 第二节(共 15 小题；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。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。听第 6 段材料, 回答第 6 至 7 题。6. How long do
4、es the school day last?A. About 8 hours. B. About 6 hours. C. About 7 hours.7. How does Jack usually go to school?A. By bus B. On foot. C. By car.听第 7 段材料, 回答第 8 至 9 题。8. What does Jim do?A. A professor. B. A park employee. C. A student. 9. What did the woman suggest Jim do in order to make travelin
5、g cheaper?A. Stay in a cheap hotel. B. Rent camping equipment. C. Stay in his brothers house.听第 8 段材料, 回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What is the woman doing?A. Checking some information about a job.B. Reading a piece of job advertisement. C. Having an interview.11. What does an office assistant have to do?A. Do
6、 the typing. B. Answer telephones. C. Arrange meetings.12. What do we know about the woman?A. She doesnt know English well,B. She doesnt have a school certificate.C. She doesnt want to apply for the job.听第 9 段材料, 回答第 13 至 16 题。13. What is the relationship between the two speakers?2A. Customer and wa
7、itress. B. Boss and employee. C. Husband and wife.14. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Go back to bed. B. Hunt for a job. C. Write a book.15. What does the woman need to buy?A. A new car. B. New clothes. C. A new computer.16. What do we know about the man?A. He is a successful writer. B. He
8、 doesnt have a real job.C. He has a lot of work to do.听第 10 段材料, 回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What are people like nowadays according to the speaker?A. They are too lazy to cook. B. They prefer fast food.C. They are in a hurry every day. 18. What do most people want to do?A. Enjoy home-made dishes with familie
9、s. B. Eat out more with friends.C. Start food businesses on the Internet.19. What does the speaker suggest people do?A. Find a good restaurant in their neighborhood.B. Cook healthy meals at home.C. Order food online.20. What kind of talk is the speaker giving?A. A lecture on food and health.B. An ad
10、vertisement for a food website.C. The development of cooking.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分） 阅读下列短文，从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWelcome to Princeton Princeton University is a vibrant university. It is the fourtholdest college in the United States and is an independent institution that provides underg
11、raduate and graduate instruction in the arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. As a wellknown research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels in the discovery and spread of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive am
12、ong research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.AcademicsFaculty, including full time, part time and visiting: 1,238 (spring 2018)Undergraduate studenttofaculty rate: 5：1Departments: 36Schools within the University: School of Architecture, School of Engineering and Applied Scie
13、nce, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.LibraryPrinceton University Library consists of the Firestone Library and nine buildings across campus. The librarys collections include more than 8 million 3books and impressive rare books, prints and other materials that require specia
14、l handling. The librarys extensive electronic resources include databases and journals, images and digital maps. Exhibitions from the librarys rich collections are free and open to the general public.Campus LifeA vast range of cultural, educational, athletic and social activities are available to Pr
15、inceton students. Getting involved in campus life is the quickest way to become a part of the University community, and to create ones own Princeton experience. Campus life activities are built around the concepts of encouraging each community member to display his or her talents and to learn to res
16、pect all members of our community.Aid ProgramOur aid program is designed to encourage all qualified studentsregardless of financial circumstancesto consider applying for admission to Princeton. Any family, who feels they may need help to pay for a Princeton education is welcome to apply for aid.For
17、more information, please visit: http：/www.princeton.edu.21. What makes Princeton University outstanding among research universities?A. Its long history. B. Its wide range of courses.C. Its ambition to be the best. D. Its undergraduate teaching.22. What can you enjoy as a Princeton University student
18、?A. Free undergraduate education. B. Access to rare books and databases.C. Free membership of sports clubs. D. Material benefits of the University community.23. The aid program of Princeton University is intended for_A. poor families B. qualified applicants unable to afford to pay for PrincetonC. st
19、udents admitted into university D. top students with money problemBLoneliness has been linked to depression(抑郁) and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. And a friend of that frien
20、d was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same.Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity(肥胖) and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups. The findings all come from a major health study in the American town of Framingham, Massachusetts.The study b
21、egan in 1948 to investigate the causes of heart disease. Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression.4The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The researchers examined friendship histo
22、ries and reports of loneliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends.For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together. The study also f
23、ound that loneliness spreads more easily among women than men.The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year. The study found that having a lonely friend can add about seventeen days. But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by two and a half
24、 days.Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friendsand more likely that society will reject(排斥) them.John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. He says it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. He say
25、s people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their social networks.24. As an average person, if you make 2 more common friends, how many days a year might you suffer from loneliness?A. .48 days B. 43 days C. 65 days D. 17 days 25. What can we infer from the pas
26、sage about lonely people?A. They can overcome loneliness themselvesB. They will decrease loneliness day by day.C. They need help to get back to normal social lifeD. They can help others to repair their social networks26. Whats the best way to help lonely people according to this passage?A. Bring the
27、m together. B. Make friends with them.C. Help them stop smoking. D. Help them lose weight27. Which of the following would be the topic of the passage?A. Loneliness and social network B. Social Networks and friendship C. Loneliness and diet. D. Help A Lonely PersonCWhy can some people sleep through n
28、oises like a honking car or flushing toilet, while others are awakened by the lightest sound? To find the answer, sleep researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an unusual study of 12 self-described deep sleepers. After tests confirmed that the healthy volunteers were solid sleepers,
29、they took part in a three-night study in the universitys sleep laboratory. The participants spent the night in a big and comfortable room. But the room also included four speakers positioned near the top of the bed.During the night, the deep sleepers were subjected to 14 different recorded sounds, l
30、ike street traffic, toilets flushing, and an airplane flying 5overhead. Next door, the researchers monitored their sleep patterns and brain waves.As expected, all of the participants slept relatively well, but there were differences in how they responded to the noisy interruptions. Some of the sleep
31、ers didnt wake up even when a sound was blasted at 70 decibels（分贝） ；others were awakened by sounds at 40 or 50 decibels.The researchers discovered that the difference in a sleepers reaction to noise could be predicted by the level of brain activity called “sleep spindles（纺锤体） ”. A sleep spindle is a
32、 burst of high-frequency brain activity coming from deep inside the brain during sleep. The source of the spindles is the thalamus（丘脑）, a part of the brain that sends sensory information to the rest of the cortex（皮层）.Before the study, the Massachusetts researchers theorized that the spindles are the
33、 brains way of preventing sensory information from passing through the thalamus and waking the rest of the brain during sleep. They found that sleepers who experienced the most sleep spindles during the night were also the soundest sleepers and were least likely to be awakened by noise.Scientists al
34、ready know that most people become lighter sleepers with age, most likely because older people experience less “slow wave sleep”, which is the deepest stage of sleep. People also produce fewer sleep spindles as they age. But even when controlling for the stage of sleep a person was in, the number of
35、 sleep spindles still predicted their risk for awakening because of noise.More research is needed, but the findings suggest that a better understanding of sleep spindles could lead to new behavioral or drug therapies for people with sleep disorders. For example, future studies may try to determine w
36、hether diet, exercise or other behaviors may influence the number of sleep spindles a person produces during the night.28. Some participants can sleep well through loud noises mainly because _.A. their brains dont respond to outside noises B. their brains react differently to noises C. they adapt to
37、o the environment quickly D. they dont pay attention to the monitors29. Scientists believe that the key to affecting deep sleep _.A. sleep spindles B. stages of sleep C. sleep disorders D. sensory information30. It can be learned from the passage that_.A. The older a deep sleeper becomes, the lighte
38、r his sleep must beB. The more “slow wave sleep” one experiences, the deeper sleep one hasC. The more frequently a sleepers brain works, the less information it sendsD. The deeper sleep people have, the more likely they will be awakened by noise31. From the passage we can predict_ .A. more factors i
39、n influencing sleep spindles may be discoveredB. more solid sleepers will take part in relative experiments6C. sleep spindles will be applied to change ones behaviorsD. deep sleepers will probably enjoy a more healthy lifeDA new study has shown how computers and robots powered by artificial intellig
40、ence can read human eye movements to “read“ human personalities.The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. And if that is true, computers and robots powered by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms(算法)may soon have the ability to peer into your soul. That is the result of a new stud
41、y on the connection between eye movements and personality, conducted by neuroscience researchers based at the University of South Australia and Published in the scientific Journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.“Eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality,“ wrote the research
42、ers, led by University of South Australia neuroscientist Tobias Loetscher, whose team follows 42 study subjects around the university campus recording their eye movements, then determines their personality traits(特点)with “well-established questionnaires“ for determining personality type, according t
43、o a summary of the study published by the site Science Daily.The researchers fed the data into their Al algorithms and found that computers running the algorithms were able to record human eye movements and immediately determine a persons major personality traits, such as “neuroticism, extraversion(
44、外向)，agreeableness, conscientiousness, as well as perceptual curiosity“, the scientists wrote.“The new findings could improve the way human beings interact with their computers and other high-tech devices, even robots, allowing for more natural and realistic social interactions with machines,“ Loetsc
45、her said.“People are always looking for improved, personalized services. Todays robots and computers are not socially aware so they cannot adapt to non-verbal information,“ Loetscher said in a statement quoted by Indian Express. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so
46、 that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.“The study revealed previously undiscovered relations between specific personality characteristics and specific eye movement tendencies, according to a summary in Britains Daily Mail newspaper.32. What do the underli
47、ned words “peer into“ in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. understand B. stare at C. search for D. concern about33. How did the researchers conduct the research?A. It was carried out in a lab.B. 42 subjects eye movements were recorded.C. The students daily movements were tracked.D. Its subjects personali
48、ties were determined by computer.34. According to Tobias Loetscher, what can we know?A. Robots and computers are socially conscious.B. People care less about improved, personalized services.7C. Todays robots and computers can accustom to non-verbal information.D. The discovery will improve the inter
49、action between human beings and machines.35. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Human Personality Traits B. What Human Eye Movements AreC. Tell Personalities by Eye Movements. D. How Humans and Machines Interact第二节 （共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 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。Forget expensive gym memberships - you dont need to spend a fortune to exercise From the best free classes and apps to outdoor gyms， here is h
