虎林市高级中学高二学年五月份考试英语试题本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分 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. How did the man go to the airport?A. By bus.B. By taxi.C. By car.2. Who is Helena?A. The woman’s aunt.B. The woman’s sister.C. The woman’s cousin.3. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In a supermarket.C. At home.4. What is the man doing?A. Making an appointment.B. Cancelling an appointment.C. Rearranging an appointment.5. What are the speakers talking about?A. A film.B. A book.C. A man.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。

6. What is Mr. Spector?A. A publisher.B. A writer.C. A translator.7. When should Mr. Spector finish the work?A. By the end of September.B. By the end of October.C. By the end of November.听下面一段材料，回答第8、9题8. What will the speakers do at 8:30 tomorrow night?A. Watch a match.B. See a film.C. Have dinner.9. When will the speakers meet tomorrow?A. At about 6:00.B. At about 6:30.C. At about 6:45.听下面一段材料回答第10至第12题。

10. What does the woman think of her new job?A. NOT wholly satisfying.B. Quite enjoyable.C. Much challenging.11. Wh at did the woman’s company offer to her?A. An attractive car.B. A house near her office.C. A post in the public relations department.12. Where is the woman?A. In Rome.B. In London.C. In Toronto.听下面一段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What relation is Margaret to the woman?A. Her colleague.B. Her roommate.C. Her customer.14. Why does the man want to move house?A. His unit is expensive.B. His present place is small.C. He wants to have a roommate.15. How much is the man willing to pay for the rent each week?A. No more than $100.B. More or less than $200.C. Around$400.16. What will the woman do next?A. Show the man around a unit.B. Have a check on her computer.C. Record the information about the man.听下面一段材料回答第17至20题。

17. When did the speaker design her first pieces of jewelry?A. When she was at university.B. When she was at high school.C. When she was at secondary school.18. Where can people buy the speaker’s jewelry at the moment?A. From shops online.B. From shops all over the country.C. From a certain department store.19. Why did the speaker choose Arctic Jade as the name for her business?A. It’s easy to remember.B. It’s interesting.C. It’s unusual.20. How does the speaker describe her pieces of jewelry?A. They seem very complex.B. They have similarity to each other.C. They are made of uncommon materials.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，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（A、B、 C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

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A museum guide.D. A tourist brochure.CCPutting more green space around an elementary school may help students develop some mental abilities, a study suggests.Researchers tested students repeatedly over the course of a year on attentiveness and working memory, which is the ability to keep something in mind temporarily for performing a task. The study tracked more than 2,000 students in 36 primary schools in Barcelona, Spain. The pupils were in the second to fourth grade when the study began. Overall, students whose schools are surrounded by more green space improve more pupils from schools with less green space.“Policy makers should know that more green space around the school is better for cognitive (认知的) development and that they should make sure that kids can see and play in green areas,” one author, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen of the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, said in an email. “Existing urban schools should think about replacing concrete or other hard surfaces with green space, and even a few trees may help,” he suggeste d.The researchers used satellite images to group schools according to how much green space appeared on the school ground and within about 55 yards of the school’s surrounding property. 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If we think of a book we studied months or years ago, we will find it easier to remember peripheral details—the color, the book cover, the table at the library we sat while studying it—than the content on which we were concentrating. If we think of a lecture we listened to attentively, we will remember the lecturer’s appearance and behaviors, or the computer breakdown, much more easily than the ideas we went to learn. The details of the content of the lecture, however, seem to have gone forever.Lozanov therefore made indirect instruction central to his teaching system. In suggestopedia, as he called his method, consciousness is moved away from the curriculum to stress something peripheral.The suggestopedic approach to foreign language learning provides a good example.In one of his experiments, the students are listening to classical, jazz and other music when the teacher reads the text slowly or in a normal speaking voice. During the whole experiment, the students have their books closed and their attention is negative; they listen to the music but make no attempt to learn the material.Some hours later, there is a follow-up class at which the students are asked to recall the material presented. The students do not fix their attention on trying to remember the vocabulary, but on using the language to communicate (e.g. through games).The results of the experiment show that compared with conventional teaching, students can regularly learn 1,000 words of foreign language during a suggestopedic class, as well as grammar and idiom.While suggestopedia has proven its advantage, fewer teachers use it. For one thing, the students have not developed the appropriate mindset. They are often not motivated to learn through the method. They do not have enough “faith”. They do not see it as “real teaching”, especially as it does not seem to involve the “work” that they believe is essential to learning.32. What does the underlined word “peripheral” mean in the passage?A. Less important.B. Less controversial.C. Less active.D. Less harmonious.33. The author mentions reading a book and listening to a lecture in order to ________.A. share his life experienceB. introduce the text’s topicC. explain Lozanov’s theoryD. attract readers’interest34. According to suggestopedia, teachers should help students to ________.A. control their consciousnessB. appreciate different kinds of musicC. memorize the details of materialsD. become motivatedlearners35. What’s the similarity between the two classes mentioned in the third and fourth paragraphs?A. They both involve games.B. The teachers teach indirectly.C. They both need no textbooks.D. The students enjoy them greatly.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。