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1、河北省衡水市第十四中学2013-2014学年高二英语下学期期末考试试卷第 I 卷第一部分：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 does the man think of the lecture? A. Boring.B. Historic.C. Educational.2. What makes the man upset? A
2、. His kids.B. His books. C. The walls of his shop.3. What will the man probably do next?A. Confirm his booking.B. Go to the hotel.C. Book a room.4. What does the man say about the cars? A. They are clean and practical.B. They make peoples life much easier.C. They have caused some environmental probl
3、ems. 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. A family.B. A wedding.C. A dinner party.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. How much is the dress probably?A. $200.B. $600.C. $1,500.7. How d
4、oes the man feel about the woman?A. Angry.B. Excited.C. Disappointed.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. How long will the course last?A. For three weeks.B. For two years.C. For three years. 9. What is the most important thing about the course?A. It is designed for distance learners.B. It is concerned with some ana
5、lysis of British culture.C. It requires the comparison between different cultures.10. What do we know about the man?A. He is an English teacher. B. He has a master degree.C. He is learning Chinese.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What did the man do before applying for the job?A. He worked as a teacher.B. He ta
6、lked with the customers.C. He visited students parents.12. What does the woman think is useful about the man?A. His education.B. His job experience.C. His grades at school.13. What does the woman ask the man to do in the end?A. Wait for further information.B. Give his e-mail address to her.C. Come t
7、o work the next day.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What is the probable relationship between Michael and Betty?A. Classmates.B. Neighbors.C. Husband and wife.15. What did Rob and Steve do last night?A. They had a fight.B. They held parties.C. They talked on the phone.16. What do we know about Mrs Anderson?A.
8、She has hearing problems.B. She likes making noise.C. She is rude to people.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What probably is the speaker?A. A writer.B. A teacher.C. A reporter.18. How did a boy prove himself an adult in North American Indian cultures?A. By drinking alcohol.B. By wearing traditional clothes.C
9、. By spending several days in the woods alone safely.19. What do the twenty-year-olds do on January 15 in Japan?A. Listen to speeches.B. Go to churches.C. Hold parties.20. What is the legal age of adulthood in the United States?A. 16.B. 18.C. 21.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
10、的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A I went to a nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work was done by robots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing and many other jobs are performed by robots. The whole dashboard (仪表板) is put into a car by a ro
11、bot. It would have taken two men to do so in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit. It got me thinking: Is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? On the one hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They are not likely to make many mistakes. If
12、 something goes wrong with one car, an alarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing every time, but a human worker is unable to do so. On the other hand, robots reduce costs for companies. Companies dont have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (补偿) if theyre broken. If something in a robot
13、 does go wrong, it wont have to take time off work for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breaks his back or burns himself while welding. The obvious downside is that robots increase unemployment rate, which in turn increases taxes. We dont want to pay for those who are
14、out of work just because a company has replaced them with robots. 21. We can learn from the first paragraph that _.A. all the workers have been replaced by robots B. robots do most of the work in the car factory C. there are no workers with back strain now D. the authors uncle designs robots in the
15、factory22. The second paragraph is mainly about _. A. the authors experience in a car factory B. the advantages of robots over human workersC. the advantages of human workers over robots D. the management of factory workers23. The underlined word “downside” in the last paragraph means _.A. weakness B. favor C. assistance D. Advantage24. It can be inferred from the passage that_.A. companies refuse to pay for workers.B. robots have completely replac
