【正文】 3．參考詞匯： atmosphere n. 氣氛； tiredness n. 疲勞 Our class held a discussion about whether music should be played during a class break or not… _______________________________________________________________________________高中英語輔導(dǎo)網(wǎng) 京翰教育 __ _________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 湖北省黃岡中學(xué)秋季高二英語期中試題 聽力錄音稿及參考答案 (Text l) M: Could you please tell me if the Miami flight will be arriving on time? W: Yes, sir. It should be arriving in about ten minutes. (Text 2) M: You don’t feel very well, do you? You look pale. Have you got a cold? W: Oh, no, but my stomach aches. Maybe the seafood doesn’t agree with me. (Text 3) M: This book is $2 and the blue one is a dollar more. W: The red one is twice as much as the blue one. (Text 4) W: Can I try on another hat, please? This is the wrong size. M: Is it too big or too small? W: Too big. (Text 5) M: It’s hard to believe that Susan has already finished her homework. W: Well, she copied Jack’s homework and made a few changes. (Text 6) W: Look. Here’s one that might interest you. M: What is it? Are you sure? W: Yes, look. (6)It says they want a junior sales manager, and it looks like it’s a big international pany. M: What kind of pany is it, though? W: Um, let’s see. Yes, it’s a textile pany that seems to import from abroad. They say the salary is really good. (7)They operate a system of paying you a basic salary and then offering extra money for selling more. M: Um, do they say anything about experience? W: No, they want someone young with ambition and enthusiasm and he has to be able to get on well with other people. Oh yes, they want graduates, so that’s OK, you’ve been to university. M: Um, (8)perhaps I’ll have a closer look at that one. (Text 7) M: What’s your favorite sport, Mary? W: Football. It’s a splendid game. But, like most of us, I just watch it. (9)I watch a football match nearly every Saturday afternoon either at the local stadium or on TV. What about you, John? Do you play football? M: I’m afraid not. And I don’t watch it either. I know it’s Britain’s most popular outdoor game, but I never liked it, not even when I was at school. W: But don’t you watch the Cup finals and the great international matches between British teams and other national teams? 高中英語輔導(dǎo)網(wǎng) 京翰教育 M: Very rarely. (10)My favourite game is basketball. (11)I used to be quite a good basketball player when I was at school and I’ve kept it up ever since. (Text 8) W: Do you know the Brome sisters? M: Who are they? W: Got no idea? Then how about their famous works Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights? M: Oh, I remember the leading roles Jane and Rochester. (12)The Brontes are English writers, aren’t they? W: (12)Yes, you’re right. (14)They are English novelists in the 19th century. Charlotte is best known for her novel Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte for Wuthering Heights. M: I wonder why people all over the world love their novels? W: Well, I think it’s (13)because of the creative stories and their tragic lives. The Brontes loved to create their world of fantasies together when they were young. So they continued to invent stories after they were gown up. M: That’s why many plays or films have been adapted from their lives and works. (Text 9) M: What did you say you were going to take up as a career? W: Architecture. Actually, I’ve already started. (15)39。 有的同學(xué)認(rèn)為 其他的同學(xué)認(rèn)為 1．播放音樂能活躍氣氛； 2．能使大腦得到放松，減輕學(xué)習(xí)的疲勞 3．能給我們帶來歡樂和美的感受 1．課間時間太短，播放音樂達(dá)不到預(yù)期的效果 2．課間需要的是安靜，而不是嘈雜的聲音 注意： 1．開頭已為你寫好。 71． Doctor Wang became inspired when he thought about helping the poor children ____________ __________________________ (被置于 ) cholera. (expose) 72． Theirs is a big family, ____________________________________ (有十口人 ). (consist) 73． I’ll ______________________ (代替 Jane) today, as she can’t e to the meeting herself. (take) 74． I still can’t believe that _________________________________________ (我正接受 ) this prize that I won last year. (take) 75． Jane burst out crying _____________________ (她一進(jìn)來 ). (instant) 76． He _____________________________________ (他否認(rèn)拿了錢 ) but we were skeptical. (deny) 77． _______________________________ (盡管你很忙 ), you should set aside some time every day for exercise if you want to keep fit. (as) 78． If my plan _________________________________ (不被批 準(zhǔn) ) by the mittee, all the work will be wasted. (approve) 79． Hardly __________________________ (他一到家 ) when it began to rain heavily. (arrive) 80． If the victim is badly injured, ____________________________ (至關(guān)重要 ) to get the victim to the doctor or hospital at once. (vital) 第二節(jié)：短文寫作 (滿分 25分 ) 最近，你班同學(xué)就“課間是否播放音樂”為主題展開了討論。 their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine and an attractive man more manly than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the “manly” qualities required. This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates(候選人 ). She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attr