1、期末素养评估期末素养评估(二二) (120 分钟150 分) 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，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。 1What does the man mean? A He was relaxed during his speech.B He often speaks in public. CHe gave a good talk. 2W
2、hat are the speakers talking about? AAperson.BAstore. CA handbag. 3How did the man go to work today? AOn foot.BBy car. CBy bike. 4Which sport does the woman like playing? ATennis.BBasketball. CBaseball. 5Where does the mans father plan to go this year? AThe seaside.BThe forest. CThe mountains. 第二节(共
3、 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。 6What has the woman forgotten to write on the list? AOnions.BPotatoes. CCarrots. 7What does the man need to decide at the
4、market? AWhether to buy cheese.BHow much cheese to buy. CWhat kind of cheese to buy. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8When did gold medals enter the Olympics? AIn 1896.BIn 1902. CIn 1928. 9What was allowed to be put on the Olympic Games medals in 2000? AThe name of the event.BThe athletes name. CA Greek goddess
5、. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10What is Les wearing? AAyellow hat.BAred shirt. CA blue jacket. 11What does the woman think of Debbies shoes? ADangerous.BAmazing. CFunny. 12Who is wearing a big coat? AAmy.BTony. CDavid. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13What is the womans attitude towards joining the photography
6、 club? AUninterested.BExcited. CDisappointed. 14What does the woman like doing? ARunning.BWalking. CCycling. 15What does the man say about the swimming club? AIt is expensive to join.BIt is popular with kids. CIt is hard to keep going. 16Which club does the woman choose in the end? AThe swimming clu
7、b.BThe film club. CThe dance club. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17How old is the speaker now? A18B20. C22. 18What did the speaker enjoy most in the Games? A Helping others communicate.B Serving in the ceremony. CTreating the athletes. 19Wherewillthespeaker work nextyear probably? AIn a museum.BIn a libr
8、ary. CIn a school. 20What is the speaker doing? AIntroducing a game.BSharing an experience. CLooking for volunteers. 第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分 50 分) 第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最 佳选项。 A PhillipsAcademy Founded in 1778, Phillips Academy, also known as Andover, is an independen
9、t, coeducational private high school that best prepares the students in grades 912 for college. It is a place of great tradition. Because of its size, Andover offers the great depth and width of activity while still feeling like a personal place. With over 300 courses, the possibility for growth is
10、limitless. Application Application fee: $40 for American students; $70 for international students Application deadline (最后期限): February 1,2020 Interview required: Yes Required tests： SSAT or ISEE for applicants to grades 9 and 10 SSAT, ISEE, PSAT，SAT orACT for applicants to grade 11 PSAT，SAT orACT f
11、or applicants to grade 12 TOEFL or IELTS for all applicants for whom English is not the native language and who do not attend a school where English is the teaching language (in addition to the above required tests) Tuition(学费) The yearly tuition is $43, 300, which is for the highest grade and may h
12、ave changed for the current school year. If housing is included, the total fee is $55,800 yearly. For more information, please contact the school. Students The total number of students: 1,150 Student types: White 54%; Asian 26%; African American 6% , others 14 % Teachers Studentteacher rate: 51 92%
13、of students and parents agree that the teachers can well lead and control the classroom, 85% of students and parents agree that the teachers really care about the students. Address 180 Main Street,Andover, Massachusetts, the United States Contact information Telephone: (978) 7494000； Website: www. a
14、ndover. edu 21For whom is the text mainly written? A Students who like personal space.B Students who like different activities. C Students who are excellent in college.D Students who want to go to college. 22 What should students know when applying to PhillipsAcademy? AStudents can attend an intervi
15、ew after February 1,2020. BStudents must take SSAT if applying to grade 11. CChinese students should take TOEFL or IELTS. DInternational students should pay $110. 23What can we learn from the text? A There are 230 teachers in school.B The housing fee is $55,800 yearly. CThe tuition for all is $43,30
16、0 yearly.DMost students are AfricanAmerican. B In the far future, robots live on Earth as humans but the population of humans is smaller than a thousand. This is a story of a repair robot R62. One day, a car came to the repair factory and a human stepped out of the car. “Wow, a human! I have never s
17、een a real one，” said R62. “Humans are quite clever. Theyre able to do any action they want to. Theyre even able to harm other human beings or organise wars, which they have been doing a lot in the history. Also they dont even have to follow orders if they dont want to，” said another robot T59 quiet
18、ly to R62. “How terrible it is ! And almost all robots seem afraid of him and dont look at him directly，” said R62. The human then sat down and asked if there had been any problems in the last 10 years and he only got a quick answer，“No, sir.” Then suddenly, R62 said loudly, “I have one question for
19、 you.” The human said，“Yes”， a bit unhappy for not getting “sir” “Why do humans create so many robots？” asked R62. Silence followed the question and he then said, “I dont need to answer questions from robots！” He then went into his car and drove away quickly. “I really dont understand why humans rep
20、laced themselves with robots, ”asked R62. “Because they thought that robots were more advanced than humans. They created us to support themselves，” answered T59. “But there are so few humans on the Earth. What they should do is take away the robots or at least make them stop doing the work which hum
21、ans are supposed to do，” said R62. “I agree. But we can do nothing about it. And now we have to finish repairing this car，” said T59. “All right, lets continue.” 24In T59s opinion, humans are _. AstupidBpolite CdangerousDsmart 25According to the text, R62 _. Adared not look at the human directlyBdec
22、ided to give up its job Cwas not friendly to the humanDhope to live on Earth 26What can we learn from the story? AR62 doesnt know what human beings look like. BT59 knows a lot about human beings. CT59 doesnt want to support human beings. DR62 and T59 are brothers and do different jobs. 27Whats R62s
23、attitude towards humans creating robots? ADoubtful.BExcited. CFrightened.DSupportive. C Have you ever found yourself in this situation：You hear a song you used to sing when you were a childa bit of nostalgia (怀旧) or “blast from the past”，as we say. But it is not a distant childhood memory. The words
24、 come back to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years ago. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult langua
25、ges. Researchers took 60 adults and randomly divided them into three groups of 20. Then they gave the groups three different types of “listenandrepeat” learning conditions. Researchers had one group simply speak the words. They had the second group speak the words to a rhythm, or beat.And they asked
26、 the third group to sing the words. All three groups studied words from the Hungarian language for 15 minutes. Then they took part in a series of language tests to see what they remembered. Why Hungarian, you ask? Researchers said they chose Hungarian because not many people know the language. It do
27、es not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. After the tests were over, the singers came out on top. The people who learnt these new Hungarian words by singing them showed a higher overall performance. They did the best in four out of five of the tests. They
28、 also performed two times better than those who simply learnt the words by speaking them. Dr. Katie Overy said singing could lead to new ways to learn a foreign language. The brain likes to remember things when they are contained in a catchy 3, or memorable 4, tune 5. Dr. Ludke said the findings cou
29、ld help those who struggle to learn foreign languages. On the University of Edinburghs website Dr. Ludke writes ， “This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listenandrepeatsingingmethodcansupportforeignlanguage learning.” 28Whats the authors purpose by mentioning the“song” in the fi
30、rst paragraph? ATo recall the past.BTo attract the readers. CTo introduce the topic.DTo compare the childhood with the present. 29Which language doesnt share the same root with Germanic or Romance languages? AHungarian.BSpanish. CItalian.DEnglish. 30What can we conclude from the last two paragraphs?
31、 ASinging is the best way to learn a language. B The brain probably works best when the foreign language learners sing the words. CA listenandrepeat method is very effective for any language learner. DDr Katie Overy and Dr Ludke disagree with each other. 31In which situation can the finding of the r
32、esearch be applied? AAmother is going to teach her baby how to speak. BA child is going to have his first music lesson. CA student is going to learn a new English song. DAnAmerican is going to learn some Chinese. D People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distingu
33、ishing facial expressionsand a new report published online in Current Biology explains why. Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes. “We show that Easterners and Westerners
34、look at different face features to read facial expressions，” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth. ” According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more c
35、omplex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in crosscultural situations. The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movemen
36、ts of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement
37、 strategies. It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions，” Jack said. “Our data suggest
38、that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.” In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help ou
39、r understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation. 32The discovery shows that Westerners _. Apay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth Bconsider facial expressions universally r
40、eliable Cobserve the eyes and the mouth in different ways Dhave more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions 33What were the people asked to do in the study? ATo make a face at each other.BTo get their faces impressive. CTo classify some face pictures.DTo observe the researchers faces. 34What d
41、oes the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refer to? AThe participants in the study.BThe researchers of the study. CThe errors made during the study.DThe data collected from the study. 35What can be the best title for the passage? AThe Eye is the Window to the SoulBCultural Differences in Reading
42、 Emotions C Effective Methods to Develop Social SkillsD How to Increase Crosscultural Understanding 第二节(共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分) 阅读下面短文， 从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选 项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Gaining Control in Your Life 1. Get the sleep you need. One of the greatest threats to health in modern society is lack of
43、sleep. We are so busy with technology or just trying to keep up with our lives that few of us get the deep，restful sleep we need in order for our bodies to work at full capacity (能力). _36_ We also need to get rid of “sleep stealers” like alcohol, caffeine，or nicotine before bedtime. We need to respe
44、ct the bodys rhythms and find ways to shut down for a day. 2_37_ Every day we are faced with moral and ethical choices, big and small, but we have a choice. We can use our life energy or life force to keep secrets or we can use it to stay healthy. Maintaining immunity (保持 免疫) from acts which we know
45、 are wrong helps protect us against illness and disease. If we think something is wrong， its almost always best not to do it. 3. Take a hike ! _38_ Our ancestors did not sit in their houses for 8 to 10 hours a day. They were running, chasing, farming, hunting, playing and dancingall the things that
46、we have somehow left behind. 4. Step into the sunshine. _39_ Moderate (适度的) sunshine is essential for good health， and vitamin D is best absorbed naturally. Unless its very hot and sunny where you are，its important to get out and be in the sun for at least 20 to 30 minutes a day if you can manage it
47、. _40_ AFind a spiritual path. BChoose to do the right thing. CThe human body was born to move. DWe pass through the gateway of our soul to experience inner peace. E Our parents were right when they told us to go outside and play in the sun. F If its not possible to get outdoors， do yourself a favou
48、r and take a supplement (补品) GSo getting enough rest on any given nights is absolute necessity for all of us. 第三部分语言运用(共两节，满分 30 分) 第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可 以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story _41_ their children
49、. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a _42_ childrens book. Either the author has aimed too _43_， so that children cant follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story, _44_ the story seems to be talking to the readers. The best childrens books are _45_ very difficult nor ve
50、ry simple, and satisfy the _46_ who hears the story and the adult who _47_ it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, _48_ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not _49_ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as _50_ of childrens literature were in fact writt
