上海重点中学2011-2012学年高二下学期期末考试 英语试题 缺答案
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上海重点中学2011-2012学年度第二学期
高二英语期末试卷
(满分150分,130分钟完成.答案一律写在答题卡、答题纸上)
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A Short Conversations
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A． At a car shop． B． At a garage． C． In a parking area． D． In a car showroom．
2. A．The meeting started earlier． B． His car was broken．
C． He met with a traffic jam． D． He lost his way．
3 A． Change his address． B． Mail some letters．
C． Deliver some telegrams． D． Call the post office．
4． A． He wrote it last semester． B． He’ll finish it in a few minutes．
C． He never does assignment early． D． He isn’t going to write it．
5． A． Boss and secretary． B． Coach and athlete．
C． Doctor and patient． D． Teacher and student．
6． A． 10:00． B．10:10． C. 10:20． D. 10:30．
7． A． It’s better than it used to be． B． It’s not as good as it was．
C． It’ s better than people say． D． It’s even worse than people say．
8． A． Because she has walked a long distance． B． Because she is tired out．
C． Because she is all wet． D． Because she is careless．
9． A． Rewrite the paper． B． Ask the woman to do some typing．
C． Read the newspaper again． D． Check the paper for mistakes．
10．A． A rent increase． B．A bargain． C． A salary cut． D．A vacation trip．
Section B Passages
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Two inches. B. Fifteen inches. C. Twenty-four inches. D. One foot.
12. A. Near Denver. B. In Florida C. In the desert southeast. D. Along the Gulf coast.
13. A. Hot. B. Cool. C. Warm. D. Cold.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Eighty years B. Forty years C. thirty-five years D. fifty-three years
15. A. she lost her record B. she didn’t stop at a red light.
C. she saw a red light D. she stopped at a red light.
16. A. Because she was too old. B. Because she didn’t look at the traffic light.
C. Because she wanted to break her record. D. Because her eyes had become too weak to see the red light.
Section C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you will be required to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
The purpose of the man’s telephoning Nancy Because Nancy’s application form is __17___.
One of the skills Nancy has ___18_____
Nancy’s strong points A pleasant ___19____ and good interpersonal skills.
The date when Nancy can begin to work __20___ 10 July.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
What’s the woman’s job A ____21_______ of the sales manager.
Where does she work In a ____22___.
What qualifications has she got A degree in ____23______.
What does she enjoy though she can have only two weeks a year for holidays ___24______ with her boss.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (33%)
Section A (24%)
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
17. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly _____.
A. noticed B. being noticed C. to notice D. to be noticed
18. _____ for the breakdown of the school computer network, Alice was in low spirits.
A. blaming B. Blamed C. To blame D. To be blamed
19. They were surprised at ________ in the traffic accident.
A. he narrowly escaped to be hit B. he narrowly escaped being hit
C. his narrowly escaping being hit D. his narrowly escaping hitting
20. The scientist _________to _______the secret of nature deserves to win the respect of the world.
A. devoted, expose . B. devoted, exposing
C. devoting, exposing D. was devoted, exposing
21. The villagers will never forget the trouble the soldiers took _____ the victims in the earthquake.
A. rescued B. in rescuing C. rescue D. to rescue
22. The pilot felt something ________ wrong with the engine soon after the plane took off.
A. go B. going C. went D. to go
23. At the critical moment my advisor mentioned ________ the scientist who used DNA test to solve the centuries- old mystery.
A. contacting with B. to contact C. contacting D. to contact with
24. ________ wishing to be successful in his work should learn how to cooperate with others.
A. Those who B. Anyone C. Whoever D. No matter who
25. He________ to leave for New York yesterday, but the heavy snow made him change his mind.
A. hoped B. was hoping C. had hoped D. would have hoped
26. She asks that she ________an opportunity to explain why she's refused to go there.
A. is given B. must give C. should give D. be given
27. Between the two rows of trees ________the Buddha scenic spot.
A. stand B. stands C. standing D. are standing
28. The lady was knocked down on the campus, dead. She _____ but for her unselfishness.
A. might have lived B. must have been saved
C. could have been killed D. should have avoided it
29. --- Where ___ the book I can’t see it anywhere.
---I put it right here. But now it’s gone.
A. did you put B. have you put C. had you put D. were you putting
30. ---I took a photo of you just now.
---Really I _______ with attention.
A. didn’t look B. wasn’t looking C. am not looking D. haven’t looked
31. _______ the production up by 60%, the company has had another excellent year.
A. For B. As C. Because D. With
32. The lazy boy is expecting a way ______ he can get through the exams without hard work.
A. that B. in that C. which D. where
33. _______ we saw in the previous chapter, grammar is just a structural system of a language.
A. as B. so C. whatever D. while
34. Cheer up, Maria! You can also enjoy _____ you have been dreaming of, if you don’t lose heart.
A．as a convenient life as B．as convenient a life as
C．as a life convenient as D．convenient as a life as
35. He puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in a (n) ______ to explain why we seem to have become so much ruder in recent years.
A. Way B. intention C. attempt D. trial
36. Good news issued by the government has _____ businessmen on Wall Street to buy stocks.
A. indicated B. threatened C. told D. convinced
37. Do remind me tomorrow because I’m ___ to forget what they asked me to do.
A. possible B. likely C. capable D. worried
38. For the first time in history, the Chinese scientists reached the Arctic region and ___it.
A. explored B. reviewed C. exposed D. searched
39. The teacher you want to speak isn’t ___to take your call. Please leave a message.
A. acceptable B. comfortable C. available D. reasonable
40. We were _______ that everything possible was being done.
A. insured B. ensured C. assured D. believed
Section B (9%)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. considered B. overlooked C. particular D. languages E. primary AE. survival AD. preserving AC. extremely AB. frequently BC. disappearing
“True creativity often starts where language ends.”---Arthur Koestler
The net plays another, more active, role on the linguistic（语言学的）front, a role that is 41 overlooked by many people who believe English victory is on the go. Since the advent (来临) of World Wide Web, many minority 42 ，those spoken by single nations or ethnic groups, have enjoyed a dramatic upsurge(急剧上升)in vitality. Many such tongues were 43 endangered just a decade ago. Late-century mobility and economic currents were taking more and more speakers out of their communities and away from fellow speakers. Languages were 44 at an alarming rate.
Like biological extinction, linguistic extinction is a serious loss for all of humankind. Languages are some of the 45 ways people maintain their culture and are crucial to understanding other cultures. When fewer and fewer people share a 46 language, it may die, and when it does, part of our collective human culture dies with it．
Surprisingly, though, the Internet has become a valuable tool for 47 endangered languages. Speakers of these languages not only have been particularly active in putting up web pages in their various languages, but also in mounting (配置) 48 effective, large-scale dictionary and language-learning projects online. There is no reason why minority languages cannot live together with a common social language like English. Indeed, the Internet offers more hope for their 49 than they have ever known before, especially as translation tools become more effective.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A (20%)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 50 in World War Ⅱ and the people they liberated, the GI was the 51 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 52 all the burdens of battles, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 53 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 54 an average guy up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies in centuries.
His name isn’t 55 . GI. is just a military abbreviation 56 Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 57 to soldiers. And Joe A common name for a guy who never 58 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka, Joe Magrac…a working class name. The United States has 59 had a president or vice- president or secretary of state Joe.
GI. Joe had a 60 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character or a 61 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 62 portrayed(描写) themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 63 side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 64 or what towns were captured or 65 . His reports paralleled (相似) the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 66 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the fragments of civilization that the soldiers 67 with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 68 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, GI. Joe was American soldiers, 69 the most important person in their lives.
50. A. performed B. served C. rebelled D. betrayed
51. A. actual B. common C. special D. normal
52. A. bore B. caused C. removed D. loaded
53. A. necessities B. facilities C. commodities D. properties
54. A. and B. nor C. but D. hence
55. A. common B. much C. popular D. made-up
56. A. intending B. implying C. symbolizing D. claiming
57. A. handed out B. turned over C. brought back D. passed down
58. A. pushed B. got C. made D. managed
59. A. ever B. never C. either D. neither
60. A. dismissed B. disturbed C. disputed D. distinguished
61. A. company B. collection C. community D. colony
62. A. employed B. appointed C. interviewed D. questioned
63. A. ethical B. military C. political D. human
64. A. ruined B. walked C. left D. covered
65. A. liberated B. occupied C. dumped D. deserted
66. A. neglected B. avoided C. emphasized D. admired
67. A. destroyed B. shared C. envied D. longed
68. A. With B. To C. Among D. Beyond
69. A. on the contrary B. by this means C. from the beginning D. at that point
Section B (42%)
Directions: Read the following five passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
( A )
About twenty of us had been fortunate enough to receive invitations to a film-studio to take part in a crowd-scene. Although our “act” would last only for a short time, we could see quite a number of interesting things.
We all stood at the far end of the studio as workmen prepared the scene, setting up trees at the edge of a winding path. Very soon, bright lights were turned on and the big movie-camera was wheeled into position. The director shouted something to the camera operator and then went to speak to the two famous actors nearby. Since it was hot in the studio, it came as a surprise to us to see one of the actors put on a heavy overcoat and start walking along the path. A big fan began blowing tiny white feathers down on him, and soon the trees were covered in “snow”. Two more fans were turned on, and a “strong wind” blew through the trees. The picture looked so real that it made us feel cold.
The next scene was a complete contrast. The way it was filmed was quite unusual. Pictures in front taken on an island in the Pacific were shown on a glass screen. An actor and actress stood of the scene so that they looked trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, as if they were at the water’s edge on an island. By a simple trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, and blue, clear skies had been brought into the studio!
Since it was our turn next, we were left wondering what scene would be prepared for us. For a full three minutes in our lives we would be experiencing the excitement of being film “stars”!
70. Who is the author
A. A cameraman. B. A film director.
C. A crowd-scene actor. D. A workman for scene setting.
71. What made the author feel cold
A. The heavy snowfall. B. The man-made scene.
C. The low temperature. D. The film being shown.
72. What would happen in the “three minutes” mentioned in the last paragraph
A. A new scene would be filmed. B. More stars would act in the film.
C. The author would leave the studio. D. The next scene would be prepared.
( B )
Human wants seem endless. When a starving man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when an executive gets a new sports car, visions of country clubs and pleasure boats dance into view.
The many wants of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of wants, another level appears.
The first and most basic level of wants involves food. Once this want is satisfied, a second level of wants appears, clothing and some sorts of shelter. By the end of World War II these wants were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of wants was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s a fourth level of wants appeared: the “life-enriching” level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation of the human body, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called "luxury" items. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and entertainment. Also included here are fancy foods and the latest styles in clothing.
On the fourth level, a greater percentage of consumer spending goes to services, while on the first three levels, more is spent on goods. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of wants as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level
A fifth level probably would involve wants that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime and prejudice. After filling stomachs, our clothes, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, ,safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.
73. According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when ________.
A. he has saved up enough money
B. he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter
C. he has satisfied his hunger for food
D. he has learned to build house
74. It can be inferred from the passage that at the end of World War II most Americans ________.
A. were very rich B. live in poverty
C. had the good things on the first three levels D. did not own automobiles
75. What is the main concern of man on the fourth level
A. The more goods the better B. The more mental satisfaction the better
C. The more "luxury" items the better D. The more earnings the better
76. The author is inclined to think that a fifth level ________
A. would be little better than the fourth level
B. may be a lot more desirable than the first four
C. can be the last and most satisfying level
D. will become attainable provided the government takes action
( C )
In the more and more competitive service industry, it is no longer enough to promise customer satisfaction. Today, customer “delight” is what companies are trying to achieve in order to keep and increase market share.
It is accepted in the marketing industry, and confirmed by a number of researchers, that customers receiving good service will promote business by telling up to 12 other people; those treated badly tell tales of woe to up to 20 people. Interestingly, 80 percent of people who feel their complaints are handled fairly will stay loyal.
New challenges for customer care have come when people can obtain goods and services through telephone call centers and the Internet. For example, many companies now have to invest a lot of money in information technology and staff training in order to cope with the “phone rage”---- caused by delays in answering calls, being cut off in mid-conversation or left waiting for long periods.
“Many people do not like talking to machines,” says Dr, Storey, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at City University Business School. “Banks, for example, encourage staff at call centers to use customer data to establish instant and good relationship with them. The aim is to make the customer feel they know you and that you can trust them – the sort of comfortable feelings people have during face-to-face chats with their local branch manager.”
Recommended ways of creating customer delight include: under-promising and over-delivering ( saying that a repair will be carried out within five hours, but getting it done within two) replacing a faulty product immediately; throwing in a gift voucher (购物礼券)as an unexpected “thank you” to regular customers; and always returning calls, even when they are complaints.
Aiming for customer delight is all very well, but if services do not reach the high level promised, disappointment or worse will be the result. This can be eased by offering an apology and an explanation of why the service did not meet usual standards with empathy (for example, “I know how you must feel”), and possible solutions (replacement, compensation or whatever fairness suggests best meets the case).
Airlines face some of the toughest challenges over customer care. Fierce competition has convinced them that delighting passengers is an important marketing tool, while there is great potential for customer anger over delays caused by weather, unclaimed luggage and technical problems.
For British Airways staff, a winning telephone style is considered vital in handling the large volume of calls about bookings and flight times. They are trained to answer quickly, with their names, job title and a “we are here to help” attitude. The company has invested heavily in information technology to make sure that information is available instantly on screen.
British Airways also says its customer care policies are applied within the company and staff are taught to regard each other as customers requiring the highest standards of service.
Customer care is obviously here to stay and it would be a foolish company that used slogans such as “we do as we please”. On the other hand, the more customers are promised, the greater the risk of disappointment.
77. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that _______.
A. complaining customers are hard to satisfy
B. unsatisfied customers receive better service
C .satisfied customers catch more attention
D. well-treated customers promote business
78. The writer mentions “phone rage” (Paragraph 3) to show that ________.
A. customers often use phones to express their anger
B. people still prefer to buy goods online
C. customer care becomes more demanding
D. customers rely on their phones to obtain services
79. If a manager should show his empathy (Paragraph 6), what would he probably say
A. “I know how upset you must be.” B. “I appreciate your understanding.”
C. “I’m sorry for the delay.” D. “I know it’s our fault.”
80. Which of the following is conveyed in this article
A. Face-to-face service creates comfortable feelings among customers.
B. Companies that promise more will naturally attract more customers.
C. A company should promise less but do more in a competitive market.
D. Customer delight is more important for air lines than for banks.
( D )
Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned(蔑视). School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates (强制) that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.
This rule is meant to solve the difficulty that students from poor or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.
District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.
At the same time, the policy solves none of the truly thorny(棘手的) questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely(相反地), if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.
The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.
81. It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework____.
A. is receiving more criticism B. is no longer an educational ritual
C. is not required for advanced courses D. is gaining more preferences
82. L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____.
A. tend to have moderate expectations for their education
B. have asked for a different educational standard
C. may have problems finishing their homework
D. have voiced their complaints about homework
83. According to Paragraph 3 one problem with the policy is that it may____.
A. discourage students from doing homework
B. result in students’ indifference to their report cards
C. undermine the authority of state tests
D. restrict teachers’ power in education
84. As mentioned in Paragraph 4 a thorny question unanswered about homework is_____.
A. it should be eliminated B. it counts much in schooling
C. it places extra burdens on teachers D. it is important for grades
85. A suitable title for this text could be____.
A .Wrong Interpretations of an Educational Policy
B. A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
C. Thorny Questions about Homework
D. A Faulty Approach to Homework
( E )
The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “So much important attached to intellectual pursuits”. According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan(清教徒的) tradition in American intellectual life.
To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect. But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances. The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity(精湛技艺).
The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston. There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.
We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons(布道) explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.
Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion. “Our main end was to catch fish.”
86. The author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England___________.
A. Puritan tradition dominated political life.
B. intellectual interests were encouraged.
C .politics benefited much from intellectual efforts.
D .intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.
87. It is suggested in paragraph 2 that New Englanders__________.
A. experienced a comparatively peaceful early history.
B. brought with them the culture of the Old World
C. paid little attention to southern intellectual life
D. were obsessed with religious innovations
88. The early ministers and political leaders in Massachusetts Bay__________.
A. were famous in the New World for their writings
B. gained increasing importance in religious affairs
C. abandoned high positions before coming to the New World
D. created a new intellectual atmosphere in New England
89. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often __________.
A. influenced by superstitions
B. troubled with religious beliefs
C. puzzled by church sermons
D. frustrated with family earnings
90. The text suggests that early settlers in New England__________.
A. were mostly engaged in political activities
B. were motivated by an illusory prospect
C. came from different backgrounds.
D. left few formal records for later reference
Section C (5%)
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. Independence leading to family breakup B. Women’s easy and convenient life in USA C. No marriage for many people nowadays D. Average American families getting small E. Full freedom for young women AE. Divorce--- a social problem in USA
91. _________
Marriage, like other social instructions, is showing the strains of modern life. While more Americans are getting married today than ever before, the divorce rate is also disturbingly on the rise ( one divorce for every three marriages last year). Why should this be so, and what, if anything, can we do to reverse this trend
92.__________
For most people, life is easier and more comfortable than ever before. Convenience foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking. Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have made housework much easier to do. Released from these household chores, many wives have found jobs outside the home. Women are achieving economic independence.
93 ._______
Families, too, are simpler today. In American, it is not customary for parents to live with their married children. With our greater mobility, relatives have scattered, the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people, after they marry, going wherever their jobs or their interests take them.
94.________
Young adult women have new freedom, too. While attending college, they often live away from home, sometimes far from their parents or their relatives. After college, they move to the city, find a job, and set up “bachelor” apartment. This is the era of women’s liberation.
95. ________
But all this freedom and affluence have had an unforeseen and in some respects a devastating effect on marriage. Men and women, no longer dependent on each other for food and maintenance, find it harder to accept the responsibilities and restraints or endurance the misunderstandings of married life. When happiness becomes misery, many couples decide to terminate their marriage through divorce. On the other hand, there is a growing trend today for couples in trouble to try to save their marriage by consulting a professional counselor. He listens patiently while they talk, knowing that only through self-understanding can they solve their problems.
Ⅳ. Translation (20%)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
96. 大多数的商人都从电子商务中得到好处. (benefit) 3分
97. 他突然想起钥匙落在办公室了. (occur) 4分
98. 为满足顾客的需求, 便利商店为顾客提供了各式各样的商品. (a variety of) 4分
99. 尽管在保证食品安全方面我们已经采取了许多措施，但还有很多问题需要解决。(measure) 4分
100. 当别的孩子在玩耍的时候, 很难想象一个学生集中精力在课本上. (while) 5 分
高二英语期末试卷
(满分150分,130分钟完成.答案一律写在答题卡、答题纸上)
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A Short Conversations
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A． At a car shop． B． At a garage． C． In a parking area． D． In a car showroom．
2. A．The meeting started earlier． B． His car was broken．
C． He met with a traffic jam． D． He lost his way．
3 A． Change his address． B． Mail some letters．
C． Deliver some telegrams． D． Call the post office．
4． A． He wrote it last semester． B． He’ll finish it in a few minutes．
C． He never does assignment early． D． He isn’t going to write it．
5． A． Boss and secretary． B． Coach and athlete．
C． Doctor and patient． D． Teacher and student．
6． A． 10:00． B．10:10． C. 10:20． D. 10:30．
7． A． It’s better than it used to be． B． It’s not as good as it was．
C． It’ s better than people say． D． It’s even worse than people say．
8． A． Because she has walked a long distance． B． Because she is tired out．
C． Because she is all wet． D． Because she is careless．
9． A． Rewrite the paper． B． Ask the woman to do some typing．
C． Read the newspaper again． D． Check the paper for mistakes．
10．A． A rent increase． B．A bargain． C． A salary cut． D．A vacation trip．
Section B Passages
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Two inches. B. Fifteen inches. C. Twenty-four inches. D. One foot.
12. A. Near Denver. B. In Florida C. In the desert southeast. D. Along the Gulf coast.
13. A. Hot. B. Cool. C. Warm. D. Cold.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Eighty years B. Forty years C. thirty-five years D. fifty-three years
15. A. she lost her record B. she didn’t stop at a red light.
C. she saw a red light D. she stopped at a red light.
16. A. Because she was too old. B. Because she didn’t look at the traffic light.
C. Because she wanted to break her record. D. Because her eyes had become too weak to see the red light.
Section C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you will be required to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
The purpose of the man’s telephoning Nancy Because Nancy’s application form is __17___.
One of the skills Nancy has ___18_____
Nancy’s strong points A pleasant ___19____ and good interpersonal skills.
The date when Nancy can begin to work __20___ 10 July.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
What’s the woman’s job A ____21_______ of the sales manager.
Where does she work In a ____22___.
What qualifications has she got A degree in ____23______.
What does she enjoy though she can have only two weeks a year for holidays ___24______ with her boss.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (33%)
Section A (24%)
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
17. The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly _____.
A. noticed B. being noticed C. to notice D. to be noticed
18. _____ for the breakdown of the school computer network, Alice was in low spirits.
A. blaming B. Blamed C. To blame D. To be blamed
19. They were surprised at ________ in the traffic accident.
A. he narrowly escaped to be hit B. he narrowly escaped being hit
C. his narrowly escaping being hit D. his narrowly escaping hitting
20. The scientist _________to _______the secret of nature deserves to win the respect of the world.
A. devoted, expose . B. devoted, exposing
C. devoting, exposing D. was devoted, exposing
21. The villagers will never forget the trouble the soldiers took _____ the victims in the earthquake.
A. rescued B. in rescuing C. rescue D. to rescue
22. The pilot felt something ________ wrong with the engine soon after the plane took off.
A. go B. going C. went D. to go
23. At the critical moment my advisor mentioned ________ the scientist who used DNA test to solve the centuries- old mystery.
A. contacting with B. to contact C. contacting D. to contact with
24. ________ wishing to be successful in his work should learn how to cooperate with others.
A. Those who B. Anyone C. Whoever D. No matter who
25. He________ to leave for New York yesterday, but the heavy snow made him change his mind.
A. hoped B. was hoping C. had hoped D. would have hoped
26. She asks that she ________an opportunity to explain why she's refused to go there.
A. is given B. must give C. should give D. be given
27. Between the two rows of trees ________the Buddha scenic spot.
A. stand B. stands C. standing D. are standing
28. The lady was knocked down on the campus, dead. She _____ but for her unselfishness.
A. might have lived B. must have been saved
C. could have been killed D. should have avoided it
29. --- Where ___ the book I can’t see it anywhere.
---I put it right here. But now it’s gone.
A. did you put B. have you put C. had you put D. were you putting
30. ---I took a photo of you just now.
---Really I _______ with attention.
A. didn’t look B. wasn’t looking C. am not looking D. haven’t looked
31. _______ the production up by 60%, the company has had another excellent year.
A. For B. As C. Because D. With
32. The lazy boy is expecting a way ______ he can get through the exams without hard work.
A. that B. in that C. which D. where
33. _______ we saw in the previous chapter, grammar is just a structural system of a language.
A. as B. so C. whatever D. while
34. Cheer up, Maria! You can also enjoy _____ you have been dreaming of, if you don’t lose heart.
A．as a convenient life as B．as convenient a life as
C．as a life convenient as D．convenient as a life as
35. He puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in a (n) ______ to explain why we seem to have become so much ruder in recent years.
A. Way B. intention C. attempt D. trial
36. Good news issued by the government has _____ businessmen on Wall Street to buy stocks.
A. indicated B. threatened C. told D. convinced
37. Do remind me tomorrow because I’m ___ to forget what they asked me to do.
A. possible B. likely C. capable D. worried
38. For the first time in history, the Chinese scientists reached the Arctic region and ___it.
A. explored B. reviewed C. exposed D. searched
39. The teacher you want to speak isn’t ___to take your call. Please leave a message.
A. acceptable B. comfortable C. available D. reasonable
40. We were _______ that everything possible was being done.
A. insured B. ensured C. assured D. believed
Section B (9%)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. considered B. overlooked C. particular D. languages E. primary AE. survival AD. preserving AC. extremely AB. frequently BC. disappearing
“True creativity often starts where language ends.”---Arthur Koestler
The net plays another, more active, role on the linguistic（语言学的）front, a role that is 41 overlooked by many people who believe English victory is on the go. Since the advent (来临) of World Wide Web, many minority 42 ，those spoken by single nations or ethnic groups, have enjoyed a dramatic upsurge(急剧上升)in vitality. Many such tongues were 43 endangered just a decade ago. Late-century mobility and economic currents were taking more and more speakers out of their communities and away from fellow speakers. Languages were 44 at an alarming rate.
Like biological extinction, linguistic extinction is a serious loss for all of humankind. Languages are some of the 45 ways people maintain their culture and are crucial to understanding other cultures. When fewer and fewer people share a 46 language, it may die, and when it does, part of our collective human culture dies with it．
Surprisingly, though, the Internet has become a valuable tool for 47 endangered languages. Speakers of these languages not only have been particularly active in putting up web pages in their various languages, but also in mounting (配置) 48 effective, large-scale dictionary and language-learning projects online. There is no reason why minority languages cannot live together with a common social language like English. Indeed, the Internet offers more hope for their 49 than they have ever known before, especially as translation tools become more effective.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A (20%)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 50 in World War Ⅱ and the people they liberated, the GI was the 51 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 52 all the burdens of battles, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 53 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 54 an average guy up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies in centuries.
His name isn’t 55 . GI. is just a military abbreviation 56 Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 57 to soldiers. And Joe A common name for a guy who never 58 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka, Joe Magrac…a working class name. The United States has 59 had a president or vice- president or secretary of state Joe.
GI. Joe had a 60 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character or a 61 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 62 portrayed(描写) themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 63 side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 64 or what towns were captured or 65 . His reports paralleled (相似) the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 66 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the fragments of civilization that the soldiers 67 with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 68 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, GI. Joe was American soldiers, 69 the most important person in their lives.
50. A. performed B. served C. rebelled D. betrayed
51. A. actual B. common C. special D. normal
52. A. bore B. caused C. removed D. loaded
53. A. necessities B. facilities C. commodities D. properties
54. A. and B. nor C. but D. hence
55. A. common B. much C. popular D. made-up
56. A. intending B. implying C. symbolizing D. claiming
57. A. handed out B. turned over C. brought back D. passed down
58. A. pushed B. got C. made D. managed
59. A. ever B. never C. either D. neither
60. A. dismissed B. disturbed C. disputed D. distinguished
61. A. company B. collection C. community D. colony
62. A. employed B. appointed C. interviewed D. questioned
63. A. ethical B. military C. political D. human
64. A. ruined B. walked C. left D. covered
65. A. liberated B. occupied C. dumped D. deserted
66. A. neglected B. avoided C. emphasized D. admired
67. A. destroyed B. shared C. envied D. longed
68. A. With B. To C. Among D. Beyond
69. A. on the contrary B. by this means C. from the beginning D. at that point
Section B (42%)
Directions: Read the following five passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
( A )
About twenty of us had been fortunate enough to receive invitations to a film-studio to take part in a crowd-scene. Although our “act” would last only for a short time, we could see quite a number of interesting things.
We all stood at the far end of the studio as workmen prepared the scene, setting up trees at the edge of a winding path. Very soon, bright lights were turned on and the big movie-camera was wheeled into position. The director shouted something to the camera operator and then went to speak to the two famous actors nearby. Since it was hot in the studio, it came as a surprise to us to see one of the actors put on a heavy overcoat and start walking along the path. A big fan began blowing tiny white feathers down on him, and soon the trees were covered in “snow”. Two more fans were turned on, and a “strong wind” blew through the trees. The picture looked so real that it made us feel cold.
The next scene was a complete contrast. The way it was filmed was quite unusual. Pictures in front taken on an island in the Pacific were shown on a glass screen. An actor and actress stood of the scene so that they looked trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, as if they were at the water’s edge on an island. By a simple trick like this, palm trees, sandy beaches, and blue, clear skies had been brought into the studio!
Since it was our turn next, we were left wondering what scene would be prepared for us. For a full three minutes in our lives we would be experiencing the excitement of being film “stars”!
70. Who is the author
A. A cameraman. B. A film director.
C. A crowd-scene actor. D. A workman for scene setting.
71. What made the author feel cold
A. The heavy snowfall. B. The man-made scene.
C. The low temperature. D. The film being shown.
72. What would happen in the “three minutes” mentioned in the last paragraph
A. A new scene would be filmed. B. More stars would act in the film.
C. The author would leave the studio. D. The next scene would be prepared.
( B )
Human wants seem endless. When a starving man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when an executive gets a new sports car, visions of country clubs and pleasure boats dance into view.
The many wants of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of wants, another level appears.
The first and most basic level of wants involves food. Once this want is satisfied, a second level of wants appears, clothing and some sorts of shelter. By the end of World War II these wants were satisfied for a great majority of Americans. Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of wants was fairly well satisfied. Then, in the late 1950s a fourth level of wants appeared: the “life-enriching” level. While the other levels involve physical satisfaction, the feeding, comfort, safety, and transportation of the human body, this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement, and happiness. It includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called "luxury" items. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical and dental care, and entertainment. Also included here are fancy foods and the latest styles in clothing.
On the fourth level, a greater percentage of consumer spending goes to services, while on the first three levels, more is spent on goods. Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of wants as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level
A fifth level probably would involve wants that can be achieved best by community action. Consumers may be spending more on taxes to pay for government action against disease, ignorance, crime and prejudice. After filling stomachs, our clothes, our garages, our teeth, and our minds, we now may seek to ensure the health, ,safety, and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.
73. According to the passage, man will begin to think about such needs as housing and clothing only when ________.
A. he has saved up enough money
B. he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter
C. he has satisfied his hunger for food
D. he has learned to build house
74. It can be inferred from the passage that at the end of World War II most Americans ________.
A. were very rich B. live in poverty
C. had the good things on the first three levels D. did not own automobiles
75. What is the main concern of man on the fourth level
A. The more goods the better B. The more mental satisfaction the better
C. The more "luxury" items the better D. The more earnings the better
76. The author is inclined to think that a fifth level ________
A. would be little better than the fourth level
B. may be a lot more desirable than the first four
C. can be the last and most satisfying level
D. will become attainable provided the government takes action
( C )
In the more and more competitive service industry, it is no longer enough to promise customer satisfaction. Today, customer “delight” is what companies are trying to achieve in order to keep and increase market share.
It is accepted in the marketing industry, and confirmed by a number of researchers, that customers receiving good service will promote business by telling up to 12 other people; those treated badly tell tales of woe to up to 20 people. Interestingly, 80 percent of people who feel their complaints are handled fairly will stay loyal.
New challenges for customer care have come when people can obtain goods and services through telephone call centers and the Internet. For example, many companies now have to invest a lot of money in information technology and staff training in order to cope with the “phone rage”---- caused by delays in answering calls, being cut off in mid-conversation or left waiting for long periods.
“Many people do not like talking to machines,” says Dr, Storey, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at City University Business School. “Banks, for example, encourage staff at call centers to use customer data to establish instant and good relationship with them. The aim is to make the customer feel they know you and that you can trust them – the sort of comfortable feelings people have during face-to-face chats with their local branch manager.”
Recommended ways of creating customer delight include: under-promising and over-delivering ( saying that a repair will be carried out within five hours, but getting it done within two) replacing a faulty product immediately; throwing in a gift voucher (购物礼券)as an unexpected “thank you” to regular customers; and always returning calls, even when they are complaints.
Aiming for customer delight is all very well, but if services do not reach the high level promised, disappointment or worse will be the result. This can be eased by offering an apology and an explanation of why the service did not meet usual standards with empathy (for example, “I know how you must feel”), and possible solutions (replacement, compensation or whatever fairness suggests best meets the case).
Airlines face some of the toughest challenges over customer care. Fierce competition has convinced them that delighting passengers is an important marketing tool, while there is great potential for customer anger over delays caused by weather, unclaimed luggage and technical problems.
For British Airways staff, a winning telephone style is considered vital in handling the large volume of calls about bookings and flight times. They are trained to answer quickly, with their names, job title and a “we are here to help” attitude. The company has invested heavily in information technology to make sure that information is available instantly on screen.
British Airways also says its customer care policies are applied within the company and staff are taught to regard each other as customers requiring the highest standards of service.
Customer care is obviously here to stay and it would be a foolish company that used slogans such as “we do as we please”. On the other hand, the more customers are promised, the greater the risk of disappointment.
77. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that _______.
A. complaining customers are hard to satisfy
B. unsatisfied customers receive better service
C .satisfied customers catch more attention
D. well-treated customers promote business
78. The writer mentions “phone rage” (Paragraph 3) to show that ________.
A. customers often use phones to express their anger
B. people still prefer to buy goods online
C. customer care becomes more demanding
D. customers rely on their phones to obtain services
79. If a manager should show his empathy (Paragraph 6), what would he probably say
A. “I know how upset you must be.” B. “I appreciate your understanding.”
C. “I’m sorry for the delay.” D. “I know it’s our fault.”
80. Which of the following is conveyed in this article
A. Face-to-face service creates comfortable feelings among customers.
B. Companies that promise more will naturally attract more customers.
C. A company should promise less but do more in a competitive market.
D. Customer delight is more important for air lines than for banks.
( D )
Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned(蔑视). School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates (强制) that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.
This rule is meant to solve the difficulty that students from poor or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete on their own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.
District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.
At the same time, the policy solves none of the truly thorny(棘手的) questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely(相反地), if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful or appropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.
The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.
81. It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework____.
A. is receiving more criticism B. is no longer an educational ritual
C. is not required for advanced courses D. is gaining more preferences
82. L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____.
A. tend to have moderate expectations for their education
B. have asked for a different educational standard
C. may have problems finishing their homework
D. have voiced their complaints about homework
83. According to Paragraph 3 one problem with the policy is that it may____.
A. discourage students from doing homework
B. result in students’ indifference to their report cards
C. undermine the authority of state tests
D. restrict teachers’ power in education
84. As mentioned in Paragraph 4 a thorny question unanswered about homework is_____.
A. it should be eliminated B. it counts much in schooling
C. it places extra burdens on teachers D. it is important for grades
85. A suitable title for this text could be____.
A .Wrong Interpretations of an Educational Policy
B. A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
C. Thorny Questions about Homework
D. A Faulty Approach to Homework
( E )
The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “So much important attached to intellectual pursuits”. According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan(清教徒的) tradition in American intellectual life.
To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect. But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances. The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity(精湛技艺).
The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston. There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.
We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated. While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing , and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons(布道) explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churches.
Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion. “Our main end was to catch fish.”
86. The author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England___________.
A. Puritan tradition dominated political life.
B. intellectual interests were encouraged.
C .politics benefited much from intellectual efforts.
D .intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.
87. It is suggested in paragraph 2 that New Englanders__________.
A. experienced a comparatively peaceful early history.
B. brought with them the culture of the Old World
C. paid little attention to southern intellectual life
D. were obsessed with religious innovations
88. The early ministers and political leaders in Massachusetts Bay__________.
A. were famous in the New World for their writings
B. gained increasing importance in religious affairs
C. abandoned high positions before coming to the New World
D. created a new intellectual atmosphere in New England
89. The story of John Dane shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often __________.
A. influenced by superstitions
B. troubled with religious beliefs
C. puzzled by church sermons
D. frustrated with family earnings
90. The text suggests that early settlers in New England__________.
A. were mostly engaged in political activities
B. were motivated by an illusory prospect
C. came from different backgrounds.
D. left few formal records for later reference
Section C (5%)
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A. Independence leading to family breakup B. Women’s easy and convenient life in USA C. No marriage for many people nowadays D. Average American families getting small E. Full freedom for young women AE. Divorce--- a social problem in USA
91. _________
Marriage, like other social instructions, is showing the strains of modern life. While more Americans are getting married today than ever before, the divorce rate is also disturbingly on the rise ( one divorce for every three marriages last year). Why should this be so, and what, if anything, can we do to reverse this trend
92.__________
For most people, life is easier and more comfortable than ever before. Convenience foods from the supermarket simplify shopping and cooking. Household appliances like the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine have made housework much easier to do. Released from these household chores, many wives have found jobs outside the home. Women are achieving economic independence.
93 ._______
Families, too, are simpler today. In American, it is not customary for parents to live with their married children. With our greater mobility, relatives have scattered, the parents retiring to Florida or Arizona and the young people, after they marry, going wherever their jobs or their interests take them.
94.________
Young adult women have new freedom, too. While attending college, they often live away from home, sometimes far from their parents or their relatives. After college, they move to the city, find a job, and set up “bachelor” apartment. This is the era of women’s liberation.
95. ________
But all this freedom and affluence have had an unforeseen and in some respects a devastating effect on marriage. Men and women, no longer dependent on each other for food and maintenance, find it harder to accept the responsibilities and restraints or endurance the misunderstandings of married life. When happiness becomes misery, many couples decide to terminate their marriage through divorce. On the other hand, there is a growing trend today for couples in trouble to try to save their marriage by consulting a professional counselor. He listens patiently while they talk, knowing that only through self-understanding can they solve their problems.
Ⅳ. Translation (20%)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
96. 大多数的商人都从电子商务中得到好处. (benefit) 3分
97. 他突然想起钥匙落在办公室了. (occur) 4分
98. 为满足顾客的需求, 便利商店为顾客提供了各式各样的商品. (a variety of) 4分
99. 尽管在保证食品安全方面我们已经采取了许多措施，但还有很多问题需要解决。(measure) 4分
100. 当别的孩子在玩耍的时候, 很难想象一个学生集中精力在课本上. (while) 5 分
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