东阳中学2018年寒假作业检测
高二英语
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。 1. What is the man doing?
A. Offering a suggestion. B. Starting an argument. C. Stopping a fight. 2. What does the man think of himself?
A. He deserves a free lunch. B. His salary is not high. C. He works hard. 3. When will the party be held?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday. 4. What do we know about the man?
A. He has worked with the woman for twelve years.
B. He thinks the prices in the store are too high. C. He has a slight hearing problem. 5. What will the man probably do today?
A. Have some guests over. B. Go shopping. C. Go to a post office. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或被白。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至8题。 6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a drugstore. B. In the hospital. C. On the street. 7. What will the man do next?
A. Pick up something. B. Wait for someone. C. Go back home. 8. What does the woman think of the man?
A. He is impatient. B. He is clever. C. He is helpful 听第7段材料，回答第9至11邏。 9. Who is Dan the Bear?
A. A fisherman. B. A singer. C. A dolphin trainer. 10. How will the woman inform the security officers?
A. By putting up a notice. B. By telephone. C. By radio. 11. What will the woman do before going to the bar?
A. Go to the barber’s. B. Buy some clothes. C. Perform onstage. 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。 12. Who are the speakers?
A. Students. B. Teachers. C. clerks. 13. How did the woman feel about her weekend?
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A. It was exciting. B. It was satisfying. C. It was boring. 14. What did the man do on Saturday?
A. He played sports. B. He visited someone. C. He watched movies. 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。 15. What did the woman put on the calendar? A. The picture of the community. B. The schedule of community events. C. Interesting stories. 16. What is the man worried about?
A. Neighborhood safety. B. Shopping convenience. C. Schools in the community. 17. Why will there be a party?
A. To celebrate a festival. B. To welcome some new people. C. To celebrate a birthday. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What is true about Deep Springs College? A. It’s located in a college town.
B. Its library is often crowded with students. C. Its school buildings are ancient. 19. How many books are there in the library?
A. 70000. B. 17000. C. 9000. 20. What can students at Deep Springs do in their spare time?
A. Take a walk in the mountains. B. Go to the cinema. C. Watch TV.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
“Dad,” I say one day, “Let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”
My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City. “What is our first stop?” asks my father. “What time is it?”
“Still don’t have a watch?”
Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(花岗岩), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.
“Unbelievable,” he says, “How was this done?”
A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.
We stare up and I ask myself, would I ever devote my life to anything?
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No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic. “Did you ever travel with your dad?” I ask.
“Only once,” he says. “I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other—but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”
The last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me. In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world, I can keep traveling, I realize—and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.
Weeks after our trip, I call my father.
“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says. “We have got to take another trip like that sometime.”
I tell him I’ve decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch. 21.From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author ________.
A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather B. comes to understand what parental love means C. learns how to communicate with his father D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father
22.What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?
A. The call solves their disagreements. B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer. C. They decide to learn photography together. D. They begin to change their attitudes to life 23.What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Love Nature, Love Life B. A Son Lost in Adventure C. A Journey with Dad D. The Art of Travel
B
The days of staring attentively at the computer screen pretending to be interested in an assignment even though you are bored out of your mind may soon be coming to an end. That’s because if Dr. Harry Witchel has his way, computers of the future will be able to detect （察觉）boredom and even react to it real-time.
But before you get concerned, the machine is not reading your mind. It is just keeping track of the constant involuntary movements that people exhibit when in front of a computer or even a television. These are not the bigger instrumental actions like moving a mouse or using the remote, but subtle barely noticeable movements like scratching or stretching. Witchel says the level of movement is directly relative to how absorbed the person is in what he/she is reading or watching — the higher the interest level, the lesser the movement!
To test the theory Witchel and his team invited 27 people and exposed them to a variety of digital content for three minutes at a time. The activities ranged from playing online games to reading documents like the EU banking regulations that most people would find boring. A video motion tracker monitored their movements as they powered through each assignment. Just as the
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