宁阳二中 2015—2016学年度上学期第二次月考
英语试题
考试时间150分钟 试题分数150分
本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第 I 卷（共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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 does the man probably do?
A. A shop assistant. B. A policeman. C. A postman. 2. How old is the man’s daughter?
A. Six months old. B. One year old. C. Two years old. 3. When did the woman plan to go to Spain?
A. In spring. B. In summer. C. In autumn. 4. Where will the speakers go first?
A. A restaurant. B. A cinema. C. A hospital. 5. What does the man think of the lecture? A. It was interesting.
B. It was far beyond his understanding. C. It was long but easy to understand.
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，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。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What does the man usually do at home?
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A. Do the washing-up. B. Wash clothes. C. Clean the car.
7. What does the man promise to do at last? A. Do all the housework from next weekend. B. Clean the kitchen after cooking. C. Prepare meals every day.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How long will the man most probably rent the bike? A. From 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. B. From 9:00 am to 7:00 pm. C. From 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
9. What will happen if the man brings the bike back after 7:00 pm? A. He has to pay for the helmet. B. He can't get the 50 dollars back.
C. He has to pay 50 dollars' extra money. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why is the woman a bit nervous? A. She is afraid of getting up late. B. She is a newcomer to the school. C. She isn’t ready for the coming exam.
11. What must the students do before morning reading? A. Hand in homework. B. Do morning exercises. C. Go to the teacher’s office.
12. What can the students do if they feel hungry? A. Ask the teacher for some food. B. Have something to eat in class. C. Eat something during the break. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Where is the woman going first? A. Bergner’s. B. Penny’s. C. Lisa’s. 14. When should the woman have called Helen? A. At 3:45. B. At 4:15. C. At 4:45. 15. What’s the man’s telephone number? A. 61199621. B. 61299621. C. 61299622.
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16. What’s the relationship between the man and the woman? A. Husband and wife. B. Boss and employee. C. Friends. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What kind of English lessons does the speaker recommend?
A. Examination skills. B. Listening and speaking. C. Reading and writing. 18. How can a learner take the lessons when he is not online? A. By using the downloaded sound files. B. By making conversations with others. C. By reviewing words, phrases and idioms.
19. What is mentioned as an advantage of the speaker’s online course? A. It helps learners to make friends.
B. It improves learners’ listening and speaking skills quickly. C. It offers learners better study methods.
20. What is the speaker’s idea about learning English? A. Being confident in learning. B. Having clear learning goals. C. Learning English little by little.
第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题;每小题2分，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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How to train your dragon by British author Cressida Cowell is one of the best pieces of children’s literature. A child can make a whole alternative universe with a vivid imagination and Toothless, the hero’s hunting dragon, thus turning a rainy day into an adventure of lifetime. However, if you have never read the book but instead choose to see the film version, you might think you were seeing a new-age war movie meant for adults rather than children.
Let’ look at Where the Wild Things Are for further discussion. The story centers around a lovely eight-year-old boy named Max, who sails away to an island. Creatures living there declare Max their king. What an amazing piece of children’s literature! A treasure for every child’s library. Yet, children were crying in the movie theatre. Owls were falling from the sky, chicken’s arms were being
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torn off, and a child was running around a dark abandoned world fighting evil as the only human. It was almost as if Hollywood could not imagine children enjoying a movie for its basic literature content. Hollywood might be right. But more and more its audiences are complaining that there is an increased amount of violence in children’s stories today than in the past.
While there appears to be a trend in our society to make more violence, more accessible to younger children, books and literature are generally an exception. I truly believe that children’s literature has become more vivid and colorful. This is a great treasure for the children, and is certainly not violent. What has changed the children’s stories of today is not the writers, but the film industry. In some way, children’s literature is just being strangely twisted. I wonder how much influence the author has over this.
21. It can be inferred that the film Where the Wild Things Are is__________. A. moving B. frightening C. interesting D. amazing
22. According to the text, the author thinks that__________.
A. the film industry’s treatment of children’s literature is wrong B. writers should provide more colorful works for children C. there is an increase in violence in children’s literature D. children should read books rather than see films 23. How does the text mainly develop?
A. By inferring B. By giving explanations. C. By providing examples. D. By making comparisons.
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Bunny Yeager, a model and photographer, died at 85, her agent, Ed Christin said.
Yeager’s greatest achievement is her cultural impact on making bikinis popular. “Anyone in Miami in the 1950s who wanted a bikini would come to her, and she’d make one,” he said.
Yeager became famous for making women feel comfortable enough to take off clothes. Her photos of Bettie Page in a bathing suit standing next to a real cheetah(猎豹) are still well-known today.
“They all wanted to model for me because they knew that I wouldn’t take advantage of them,” Yeager told The Associated Press during a 2013 interview.
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In the 1940s, Yeager became one of the most photographed models in Miami during her early career. She later turned the camera on herself, in bathing suits she made for her 5-foot-9 frame by hand. Her self-portraits(自拍照) were turned into a book, How I Photograph Myself, in 1946.
She began taking photos of Page in 1954 as she began her job behind the camera.
She published about a dozen books. And her works have been displayed in art galleries across the world.
Yeager said she had a few requests when several magazines began to struggle or went out of business over the last decade, but her career returned to the public in 2010 when the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh held an exhibition of her works, followed by another exhibition in Miami in 2013.
In her studio, Yeager kept some photos no one had ever seen in galleries. They will be included in a new book Yeager was finishing, scheduled for publication in September, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Yeager’s first photo shoots with Page, Christin said.
“I’m still feeling like a little child and excited about everything new that comes along in my life,” Yeager said in 2013. “I don’t know where it will lead to yet, but it sounds good to me.”
24. Bunny Yeager was probably born in _______.
A. 1950 B. 1925 C. 1929 D. 1940 25. Bunny Yeager’s photo of Bettie Page were________.
A. considered controversial B. never displayed at all C. not in How I photograph myself D. photographed with a cheetah 26. What is the right order of what Yeager did in her life? ① starting to take photos of Page ② publishing her self-portrait book
③ becoming a most photographed model
A. ①--﹥②--﹥③ B. ①--﹥③--﹥② C. ③--﹥①--﹥② D. ③--﹥②--﹥①
27. According to the passage, Bunny Yeager was________.
A. devoted and productive B. serious and interesting C. popular but unhappy D. honest and punctual
C
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