石室中学高2017届二诊模拟考试
英语试卷
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。考试用时120分钟，满分150分。
第I卷（选择题，共100分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题1分，满分20分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 1. What does the man say about the paintings? A. They are very expensive. B. They are very beautiful. C. They look like kids’art. 2. What does the man want to do? A. Look for a pet store. B. Buy something for dogs.
C. Let the woman take care of his dogs. 3. What are the speakers doing? A. Taking pictures.
B. Doing exercise.
C. Playing a video.
4. What day is it today?
A. Sunday.
B. Saturday. C. Friday.
5. Why does the woman want a later appointment? A. Her flight was delayed. B. She needs to pick up someone.
C. She has to take her mother to the hospital. 第二节
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 are posted on the wall of the cafeteria?
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A. The food prices. B. Some pictures.
C. The introduction to the cafeteria. 7. What will the man probably have? A. Chicken.
B. Fish.
C. Noodles.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. According to the woman, what was the party like this year? A. It was very relaxed. B. It was too wild and crazy. C. It ended up a failure.
9. What can we learn about the man? A. He has a secretary named Maggie. B. He had never been to an office party before. C. He wore a black suit to the party. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What is bothering the man and his wife? A. The noise.
B. The size of their room. C. The service of the elevator. 11. What will the man do? A. Check out today. B. Wait in the hotel. C. Call the police.
12. What did the woman promise to do? A. Repair the elevator. B. Cut down the price.
C. Give the man a suite tomorrow. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Why was the man so late? A. He was stuck in traffic.
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B. The bank opened late.
C. He forgot about the time in the bank. 14. Where is Henry from? A. America.
B. Germany.
C. France.
15. What did Henry give the man? A. A guidebook.
B. Some money.
C. A map of the bus system.
16. What is true of the speakers? A. They both work in a bank. B. They are traveling in Europe. C. They just came back from a holiday. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. When is the opening day? A. July 4.
B. July 7.
C. September 4.
18. What do we find out about the America’s Cup? A. It is a boat race.
B. It has been held in San Francisco before. C. The city spent one year preparing for it. 19. Which team won the race last year? A. Italy.
B. New Zealand.
C. America.
20. How many teams will be competing in the Challenger Series? A. Five.
B. Four.
C. Three.
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。
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Managers and office busybodies might be keen on a clean desk, but it seems that in terms of productivity, they could have it all wrong. “A messy desk can actually lead people towards clearer thinking,” say researchers from Germany.
The researchers found in a series of linked studies---using a messy desk and a messy shop
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front---that people actually thought more clearly when all around was chaos, as they sought to simplify the tasks at hand. That is, visual and mental clutter (杂乱) forces human beings to focus and think more clearly. For instance, famous thinkers and writers such as Albert Einstein and Roald Dahl have been notorious (臭名昭著的)for their untidy desks.
“Messy desks may not be as detrimental as they appear to be, as the problem-solving approaches they seem to promote work efficiency or enhance employees’ creativity in problem solving,” say the authors.
“Business and government managers often promote ‘clean desk’ policies to avoid disorganized offices and messy desks, for the purpose of boosting work efficiency and productivity,” writes a researcher, Jia Liu of the University of Groningen. “This practice is based on the conventional wisdom that a disorganized and messy environment can clutter one’s mind and complicate one’s judgments.”
“However, not all evidence supports this conventional link between a messy environment and a messy mind”. The scientists tested people’s response in various messy environments, including a messy shop front, a disorganized desk, and even a work environment where a language task reminded people of messiness.
The authors found in the series of six studies that people tended towards simplicity in their thinking.
“They classified products in a simpler manner, were willing to pay more for a T-shirt that has a simple-looking picture, and sought less variety in their choices”, said the researchers. 21. Why did the author take Albert Einstein and Ronald Dahl for example? A. To tell readers untidy desks can make you as famous as them. B. To convince readers that untidiness is not all that bad. C. To inform readers of one way to success—untidy desks.
D. To attract readers and show the author’s wide range of knowledge. 22. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. A messy environment will certainly lead to a messy mind. B. A clean environment will do great harm to work efficiency. C. People tend to clear up the mess before thinking clearly. D. All people are not in favor of “clean desk” in the office.
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