高二英语检测卷第一部分听力(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，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. When can the woman take a vacation?A. This week.B. At the end of June.C. At the end of August.2. What is the woman trying to do?A. Comfort the man.B. Apologize to the man.C. Invite the man to a party.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The man’s hobby.B. Their childhood.C. A holiday plan.4. What is the man’s opinion on British food?A. Unhealthy.B. Excellent.C. Tasteless.5. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning.B. In the afternoon.C. In the evening.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段对话，回答第6、7题。
6. For what did Jackie call the man up?A. Party.B. A meeting.C. An apartment.7. Who will call the man back at around 5: 00?A. Simon.B. Melissa.C. Angelica.听第7段对话，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the woman doing?A. Working on a report.B. Repairing a computer.C. Preparing for a meeting.9. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Check his computer again.B. Ask someone else for help.C. Use a new software program.听第8段对话，回答第10至12题。
10. For what does the woman prefer to buy an electric car?A. Its low price.B. Its powerful engine.C. Environmental protection.11. What is the man’s attitude towards the wide use of electric cars?A. Supportive.B. Worried.C. Unconcerned.12. What does the man think this town needs to do?A. Broaden the roads.B. Limit the number of cars.C. Improve public transport.听第9段对话，回答第13至16题。
13. How does the man feel about his work?A. Interested.B. Bored.C. Stressed.14. Where did the man go in his last trip?A. To Sudan.B. To Egypt.C. To France.15. For what did the man go to the Seychelles?A. Work.B. Shopping.C. A holiday.16. Where does the man usually sleep during a trip?A. In a hotel.B. In a sleeping bag.C. In a guesthouse.听第10段对话，回答第17至20题。
17. How often do team meetings take place?A. Once a term.B. Once a week.C. Twice a year.18. What are members of staff expected to do in training sessions?A. Choose the events they’d like to attend.B. Complete a form about their experiences.C. Inform other colleagues of training requirements.19. How does the speaker describe all-college training days?A. Relaxing.B. Entertaining.C. Informative.20. Where will the “away day” most probably take place this year?A. In a hotel.B. In the Forest Park.C. In a holiday center.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30分）AHundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about new stories of their own country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since the 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print? Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?Firstly, it is important to report news stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may print completely different stories to those on TV.Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don't want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about some kind of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely; instead they print stories about plane accidents.Another factor is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.21.According to the passage, how do people learn about news stories in the world now?A. They carry news stories and tell others from place to place on foot or by horse.B. They tell each other what they have seen with their eyes.C. They watch TV or read newspapers.D. They listen to the radio every day.22. The difference between newspaper stories and TV news reports is that________.A. people can learn more about the same news story from a newspaperB. people can read the news story more quickly in a newspaperC. people can read news stories in other countriesD. people can read news stories about their own country23. According to the passage, which of the following can you mostly possibly watch on TV?A. You often play football with your friends after school.B. Your teacher has got a cold.C. A tiger in the city zoo run out and. hasn't been caught.D. The bike in front of your house is lost.BJapan has made a lot of noise in recent years about removing the traditional view that women should stay at home while men go out to work. So it was shocking when, on August 7th, Tokyo Medical University (TMU), a distinguished medical school, admitted marking down the test scores of female applicants to keep the ratio of women in each class below 30%.Their defence was that women are more likely to drop out to marry and have children. To judge female applicants to medical school purely on their academic performance would leave Japan with a shortage of doctors, they said. The admission has caused outrage.“Doctoring has long been a male field. But it is not the only one. Discrimination is common in banks and trading firms, where stamina (耐力) and loyalty, qualities somehow associated with men, are prized,” says Mari Miura, a political scientist at Sophia University. All this embarrasses a government that has promised to make women “shine”. The policy seems based on the need for more workers rather than on genuine concern for women.Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, says he wants to bring millions more women into the workforce to make up for a labour shortfall caused by its ageing and declining population. In the field of politics, the record under Mr. Abe’s premiership (首相任期) is disappointing. Just two members of his 20-strong cabinet are women, including Seiko Noda, in charge of women’s rights. Ms. Noda, who makes little secret of her ambition to beat Mr. Abe in a leadership contest next month, has just published a book called Grab the Future, her public declaration for pulling Japan into line with “global standards”. She has almost no chance of winning.24. According to the passage, what has aroused the public’s shock and rage in Japan?A. Women being more likely to drop out of school to marry and have children.B. TMU judging female applicants to medical school merely on their test score.C. TMU putting a lower grade on female applicants to keep a low percentage of women in each class.D. Japan tending to abandon the traditional view that women should stay at home while men go out to work.25. What do we know about Seiko Noda?A. She is quite likely to win the leadership contest.B. She never fails to show her ambition in public.C. She is the only female member in Abe’s cabinet.D. Her newly released book Grab the Future is a bit hit.26. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. Doctoring has long been a male field in Japan.B. Professions like banking and trading are tailored to men.C. Shinzo Abe performed poorly in dealing with labour shortfall.D. Discrimination against women in careers in Japan is a big concern.CIn June, the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED, added about 1,000 words and new definitions to its website. The changes are to help users understand a mix of terms, some dating back many centuries. The additions include words such as “brencheese” “deathshildy” and “hip-pop”.The new entries are part of the company’s update to , its searchable online dictionary for paid members. The OED makes changes to the website four times each year. But the latest print version has been in process since the year 2000, and may not be ready for 10 more years. That information comes from Katherine Connor Martin, who heads the company's dictionary operations in the United States.“Usually, the OED watches usage of a word for at least 10 years before deciding whether to add a new entry, new definition or word related to an existing entry,” she said. This general rule, however, is sometimes not followed. That is what happened with “tweet”, a word that the OED added far before the 10-year mark. Other times, the company adds words that are very old, but were not included in the dictionary in the past.“It's funny because we talk about new words, but many of the words we add are already obsolete. It’s just that they were never in the dictionary before,” Martin told the Associated Press.“That is the reality,” she said, of a historical dictionary trying to put more than 1,000 years of English into books that already have over 855000 entries. So, you get “brencheese”, a rarely used term for when bread and cheese are eaten together. The word dates back to the year 1665. The word “deathshildy” is from Old English. It means someone who is guilty of a serious crime and condemned to death.The website defines the term “hip-pop” for music that combines parts of hip-hop and popular music. The OED discovered the term “hip-hip pop” was used in a 1985 story from a Pennsylvania newspaper. It noted that the term “hip-pop” appeared in a 1991 U.S. newspaper report about the rap artist M.C. Hammer.The website has added several other terms related to modern culture. They include three popular terms: “binge-watching,” “spoiler alert” and “microaggression”.Here are a few other new entries if you long to read on.27. What has OED done recently?A. It has made changes to its words’ explanation.B. It has sorted out some words which are out of date.C. It has helped users to have more convenient use of OED.D. It has taken in more words and new meanings of some words.28. The underlined word obsolete in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “______”.A. desertedB. updatedC. changedD. explained29. What will the paragraph following the passage most probably be about?A. The influence cultures have on the words in OED.B. The difficulties OED has in choosing the words.C. The effect modern technology has on OED.D. The new vocabularies OED has included.30. What’s the best title of the text?A. OED, a Great Help for English LearnersB. A Brand New Version of OED WebsiteC. A Better Understanding of Words in OEDD. Examples of OED Choosing Words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。