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1、安徽省阜阳市第三中学上学期竞培中心二年级期末模拟考试英语试题本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1.考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2.选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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
2、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。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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ABillboards are everywhere. Indoors, advertising is in magazines and newspapers, on television, and even popping up on computer screens. Outdoors, advertising means billboards. Theyr
3、e in train stations and on the sides of buildings. Theyre along highways in the countryside. Billboards were once large painted signs that urged consumers to buy anything from fried chicken to dish soap. Nowadays, billboards are high-tech devices that advertise the products of the modern world, from
4、 cellular phone service to perfume.Billboards have changed along with technology. Originally painted directly onto wooden boards or the sides of buildings, billboards were first improved by attaching large printed strips to a structure to form an advertisers message. Later, mechanical billboards wer
5、e developed which could display three different images. As one image changed to the next, the movement caught the eye of anyone passing by. More recently, electronic technology has produced back-lit billboards, which shine a light through an image printed on a sheet of plastic, and digital billboard
6、s that can display huge images similar to those on a television screen.The latest trend in billboards is interactivity. In Belgium, a billboard that looked like a pinball machine had people on the street using text messaging to answer a question the billboard sent to their cell phones. If they answe
7、red correctly, they had a chance to win a new car. In Japan, some billboards feature QR (“Quick Response”) codes, a newer version of bar codes, which can be read by specially programmed camera cell phones. When a person takes a picture of a billboard with a QR code, the advertisers website appears o
8、n their phone. A billboard in New Yorks Times Square allows people on the street to play a video game using their cell phones, and a huge digital sign in Londons Piccadilly Circus responds when someone waves at it and displays different images depending on the weather.21. Whats the writing purpose o
9、f paragraph 1? A. To introduce the main topic.B. To list the benefits of billboards.C. To show the authors attitude.D. To describe the functions of billboards.22. Its possible for people without cell phones to interact with the billboard in _.A. BelgiumB. JapanC. New YorkD. London23. What can we lea
10、rn about billboards from the passage?A. Billboards are the products of modern technology. B. Billboards advance with the development of technology.C. The latest billboards are not primarily designed for advertising.D. The more advanced the billboards, the more images they can display. BOne of the mo
11、st firmly established idea of manliness is that a real man doesnt cry. Although he might shed a tear at a funeral, he is expected to quickly regain control. Sobbing openly is for girls. One study found that women cry significantly more than men dofive times as often, on average, and almost twice as
12、long per period. Historically, however, men routinely wept, and no one saw it as shameful. For example, in the Middle Ages, knights cried purely because they missed their girlfriends. In The Knight of the Cart, no less a hero than Lancelot weeps at a brief separation from Guinevere. Theres no mentio
13、n of the men in these stories trying to restrain or hide their tears. They cry in a crowded hall with their heads held high. Nor do their companions make fun of this public crying; its universally regarded as an admirable expression of feeling. So where did all the male tears go? The most obvious po
14、ssibility is that this shift is the result of changes as we moved from an agricultural society to one that was urban and industrial. In the Middle Ages, most people spent their lives among those they had known since birth. If men cried, they did so with people who would sympathize. But from the 18th
15、 to 20th centuries, the population became increasingly urbanize, and people were living in the midst of thousands of strangers. Furthermore, changes in the economy required men to work together in factories and offices where emotional expressions and even private conversations were discouraged as ti
16、me wasting.Yet human beings werent designed to swallow their emotions, and theres reason to believe that restraining tears can be harmful to your well-being. Research from the 1980s has suggested a relationship between stress-related illnesses and inadequate crying. Weeping is also, somewhat related with happiness and wealth. Countries where people cry the most tend to be richer and
