湖北省宜昌市2016_2017学年高二英语11月月考试题

本试题卷共8页，四部分72小题。全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。

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第一卷（选择题，满分100分）

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. Who is the man? A. The owner.

B. A customer.

C. A waiter.

2. What can we learn about the woman? A. She is attractive.

B. She praised a man.

C. She doesn’t like her work.

3. What will the speakers probably do next? A. Have a rest.

B. See a doctor.

C. Move the bed.

4. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Feed the dog.

B. Call Franklin for help.

C. Show a toy to Charlie.

5. What does the woman want to do? A. Read a magazine.

第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

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、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，将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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 the speakers mainly talking about? A. A painting.

B. A photograph.

C. A basket.

B. Watch a TV show.

C. Read a book.

7. Where did the man find the thing? A. In an art gallery. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What will the man do with the tomatoes? A. Put them in a salad.

B. At a hospital. C. On the street.

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B. Give some to his neighbors. C. Use them to grow his own.

9. According to the woman, what is the first step when growing tomatoes? A. To prepare good soil.

B. To give them lots of light. C. To grow them close together. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where is the woman’s husband from?

A. Italy.

B. America.

C. China.

11. What do the speakers have in common?

A. They speak Chinese.

B. They come from China. C. They like Chinese food.

12. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a restaurant.

B. In a store.

C. At a farmer’s market.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How do the speakers know each other?

A. They were high school classmates.

B. They studied their master’s degree together. C. They worked in Hollywood years ago.

14. Who is Steve Rodgers?

A. The man.

B. The man’s son.

C. The woman’s husband.

15. Where did the woman live in 2006?

A. In Iceland.

B. In Los Angeles.

C. In Berkeley.

16. How many daughters does the man have?

A. None.

B. One.

C. Three.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How many emergency exits are there on this plane?

A. Five.

B. Six.

C. Sixteen.

18. According to the announcement, where might the closest exit be?

A. Behind the passengers.

B. At the front of the plane. C. At the back of the plane.

19. What should passengers do with their luggage?

A. Give it to the air hostess. B. Store it safely during the flight. C. Take it away during an emergency.

20. When can this announcement be heard?

A. Before the plane takes off. B. Just before landing. C. At the

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airport security.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

When was the last time you lost something? What was it?

According to a recent survey, we spend about ten minutes a day looking for lost things. Over an average lifetime, this adds up to an incredible 3,680 hours (or 153 days). Is there anything we can do about it?

The study of 3,000 adults was carried out by home insurance company Esure. They found that mobile phones and car keys were the most frequently lost items. Other things on the list included: house keys, bills, sunglasses, wallets, bank cards, watches, jewellery (particularly rings and earrings).

So, what’s going on? “Most blame it on a busy lifestyle,” says Nikki Sellers, the head of Esure. Others say it’s the fault of spouses (配偶) or children for not putting things back where they belong. A few admitted to untidiness, absent-mindedness and a poor memory, with some wishing they were more organized.

What’s the solution? “You need to choose a particular place for something and always put it back there,” said Nikki Sellers. “And you need to make sure everyone else in the house knows where to put it back too. You also need to keep your house tidy, label boxes clearly and find a place near the front door for all the items that you need in the morning. A good idea would be to have a shelf there with a bowl for your keys, purse, wallet and anything else.” she added.

If you are still having trouble finding things, don’t worry — things could be a lot worse: fourteen people in the survey said they spent over an hour every day looking for lost items. Surely you can’t be as bad as that!

21. According to the survey, which do people lose most frequently? A. House keys.

B. Cell phones.

C. Bank cards.

D. Sunglasses.

22. The majority of people surveyed think that they lose something because of _______. A. the fault of their family members C. lack of organization

23. From the text we learn that ________.

A. many people in the survey spend over an hour looking for the lost items B. a shelf near the front door is a must if you are to avoid losing money C. the author is quite worried about those who have trouble finding things

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B. their bad memory

D. their busy life

D. Nikki Sellers suggests always putting things back where they were

B

A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago.

“I studied English before I left home,” she said. “But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”

Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.

One such saying is “get your act together”. When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, “Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.” Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together.” Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.

It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps the other day when one actor was nervous and made a lot of mistakes, the director may have said, “Calm down, now. Get your act together.” Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. Mr. Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British

government get its act together. Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, “Getting Our Act Together.”

The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is “cut to the chase”. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long and boring report, and finally, the president of the company interrupted and said, “Cut to the chase.” Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant materials. Hurry and get to the point. And naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Next time, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly. 24. After the woman visited the United States she might feel that .

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A. her English was poorer than she had expected B. it was great fun to learn English and its culture C. American employers were sometimes rude D. it was difficult to do business with Americans

25. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used? A. You’ve won a job opportunity in a law firm. B. Players perform badly in a match and seem to lose. C. Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace. D. Audience is satisfied with the actor’s performance in a movie.

26. What do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in common? A. Their use.

B. Their meaning. C. Their origin.

D. Their popularity.

27. The text is most likely to be found in a book about _______. A. life attitude

B. travel and culture

C. language and culture

D. business management

C

Human beings have used tools for a very long time. In some parts of the world you can still find tools that people used more than two million years ago. They made these tools by hitting one stone against another. In this way, they broke off pieces from one of the stones. These chips of stone were usually sharp on one side. People used them for cutting meat and skin from dead animals, and also for making other tools out of wood. Human beings needed to use tools because they did not have sharp teeth like other meat eating animals, such as lions and tigers. Tools helped people to get food more easily.

Working with tools also helped to develop human intelligence. The human brain grew bigger, and human beings began to invent more and more tools and machines. The stone chip was one of the first tools that people used, and perhaps it is the most important. Some scientists say that it was the key to success of mankind.

Since 1960 a new kind of tool has appeared. This is the silicon chip -- a little chip of silicon crystal. It is smaller than a finger nail, but it can store more than a million “bits” of information. It is an electronic brain. Every year these chips get cleverer, but their size gets smaller, and their cost gets less. They are used in watches, calculators and intelligent machines that we can use in many ways. In the future we will not need to work with tools in the old way.

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Machines will do everything for us. They will even talk and play games with us. People will have plenty of spare time. But what will they do with it?

Human beings used stone chips for more than two million years, but human life changed very little in that time. We have used silicon chips for only a few years, but life is changing faster every day. What will life be like twenty years from now? What will the world be like two million years from now?

28. From paragraph 1, we can know __________.

A. why early human beings cut skin from dead animals B. how early human beings discovered the tools C. what early human beings used the tools for D. what food early human beings stored

29. The stone chip is thought to be the most important tool because it ______. A. was very important to the development of mankind B. led to the invention of machines in the early time C. developed cooking abilities of mankind D. was one of the first tools of mankind

30. The silicon chip is mentioned in the passage to A. show the changes of tools

B. introduce a new kind of tool

C. give an example of using tools D. compare the effects of two kinds of tools 31. At the end of the passage the author seems to suggest that life in future is _________. A. Out of order full of meanings

D

A new study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family claims that all the time you spend parenting just doesn’t matter. But it’s a claim that, despite the enthusiastic and widespread coverage by the media, does not hold water.

The research suggests that child outcomes (including behavior problems, emotional problems, and academic performance) are barely (几乎没有) connected with the time that parents spend with their children. The researchers examined the time diaries of 1,600 children, looking at parenting

B. hard to predict

C. Less colorful D.

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time and outcomes when the kids were aged 3 to 11 in 1997, and again in 2002, when they were between 8 and 16. (A time diary is a detailed report of all activities you carry out in a day.)

This research largely reflects the failure of the authors to correctly measure parental input (投入). It just looked at time diaries from two particular days — one a weekday and the other a weekend day.

Trying to get a sense of the time you spend parenting from a single day’s diary is a bit like trying to measure your income from a single day. If yesterday was payday, you looked rich, but if it’s not, you would be reported as poor. You get a clearer picture only by looking at your income — or your parenting time — over a more meaningful period.

What you did yesterday should not be taken as representative of what you did last year. This is why most high-quality studies of parenting time focus instead on how often parents read to their children, play with them or help them with homework over a period of month or longer — long enough to represent their different approaches to parenting.

As an exhausted parent who doesn’t get enough time to work out, and who hasn’t seen a movie for months, I understand why so many of us might seize on studies suggesting that we should take more time for ourselves. Perhaps we should. But I agree with Ariel Kalil, a development psychologist, on the suggestion “that when parents spend high-quality time with their children, their children are more likely to succeed.”

32. The underlined words “hold water” in the first paragraph probably mean ________. A. to be surprising B. to be reasonable usual

33. The study was conducted to explore the link between _______.

A. parenting time and child outcomes B. time diaries and child development C. children’s habits and parents’ influence children’s problems

34. How is Paragraph 4 mainly developed? A. By giving descriptions C. By making a comparison

B. By analyzing the cause D.

daily

activities

and

C. to be confusing D. to be

D. By offering research findings

35. The author may agree that high-quality studies of parenting time should _______. A. be completed in one month

B. adopt some different approaches

D. be based on data of a longer

C. concentrate mainly on learning time time period

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第二节 （共5小题：每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How To Break 5 Bad Financial Habits

Everyone has a bad financial habit. We live in a country that spends billions on advertising to make us want to make purchases; 36 . Remember: even though the habits are hard to break and require great effort, there is payoff.

1. Pay bills when you receive them. Think of all the stress and anxiety that you experience when you put off paying your bills. When you receive the email notice or open the bill in the mail, take care of it. It will only take five minutes, and you won't be flooded with bills at the last minute.

2. 37 . You must have had a hard time controlling the amount of purchases you are making. Minimize this urge by using your ATM card once a week to withdraw the amount of money for the week. Keep your cards at home, and even put your credit cards in a hard to reach place in your closet to keep you from using them.

3. Buy only what you really need. Most of us take shopping trips to buy items we really don't really need. Some claim shopping eases their tension, gets their mind off other things, or gives them much happiness. 38 . Try to replace shopping with some hobbies like riding your bike or taking a walk with friends.

4. Track your expenses. Sometimes restaurants and businesses will charge you the wrong amount, but you won't have the receipt to back up your claim. Other times, you might have inadequate funds for the check you just wrote. Keep your receipts, and spend a few minutes every night to double check your charges, and know the current balance of your bank account. 39 .

5. Check your credit score annually. 40 . If you do notice something wrong, you can send in correction letters, so your applications for credit cards, car loans, or a mortgage(房屋贷款) are approved.

A. Take the time to figure out what makes you buy unnecessary items. B. Change how you spend your money.

C. It beats getting overcharged or having to pay an overdraft(透支) fee.

D. So if you’re the reason your money never seems to stick around, here are some strategies to help break five bad financial habits.

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E. Use cash and not your card.

F. Get in the habit of checking your credit score to make sure there are no errors or inaccuracies. G. However, if you are looking to make change and break your bad financial habits, use these tips.

第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Some people allow bad past experiences to keep them in fear. A personal example of this happened when I was in middle school. We each were asked to give an oral 41 in front of the whole class. When my turn came, I became 42 and I started swinging my legs back and forth. I did this during the entire presentation (介绍). I was a 43 student and I did not realize I was doing it.

After I completed my presentation, I 44

did or even wanted to give another oral

45 I got older, I realized I wanted to

presentation for the rest of my years in school.

improve my personality and build 46 over my fear. I began listening to motivational speeches (励志演讲). I would go to 47 seminars (研讨会) and found I was feeling better and better about myself. This 48

me to want to reach out and help others in need.

After listening to one particular speaker many times, I decided to write to him for49 . He had advised in his speeches that if there was something you wanted to be persistent(坚持不懈的). So I became very persistent.

I wrote to his office many times and they 51 called me back. They offered me help by instructing me to 52 a local Toastmasters and see what it was all about. Toastmasters is a great organization for people who are interested in improving their 53 skills

in

50 , you should

preparation and presentation in front of a(n) 54 . I certainly needed to do this. I located the nearest Toastmasters and 55 a meeting.

At first, I sat in the background and was too overcome by my

56 . I did not even want

58

to introduce myself. But by 57 this was just the false evidence appearing real, I

my fear and within a short period of time I was President of that Toastmasters.

Don’t get 59 in fears from unpleasant past experiences. Fears are 60 but false evidence appearing real, which are made broken.

41. A. presentation 42. A. upset

B. test

C. announcement

C. curious

D. promise

D. excited

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B. nervous

43. A. careful 44. A. always 45. A. Until

B. lazy B. often

C. young

D. top

D. never

C. sometimes C. As

B. Before D. Once D. strength

D. satisfying

46. A. health 47. A. disturbed

B. confidence B. surprised

C. business C. inspiring C. confused

48. A. frightened 49 A. practice 50. A. achieve 51. A. probably 52. A. manage 53. A. speaking 54. A. mirror 55. A. arranged

B. encouraged D. prevented

B. experience B. challenge B. hardly B. contact B. listening

C. pleasure C. devote

D. advice

D. succeed

C. immediately

D. eventually

C. organize

D. control

D. writing D. teacher D. hosted D. fear

D. regretting

D. questioned

C. reading C. audience C. attended C. position C. realizing

B. company

B. suggested

56. A. appearance 57. A. forgetting 58. A. faced

B. behavior B. doubting B. loved B. hurt

C. understood

59. A. interested 60. A. something

C. changed D. drowned

B. nothing C. everything D. anything

第二节 （共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Tom: Have you ever thought 61._________ life would be like without innovative（富有革新精神

的）people who are continually coming up with highly practical inventions？ Mary: It’s hard to imagine that.

Tom: Yes. Imagine 62._________ (climb) up to the 80th floor of your office building without an

elevator. I’m pretty sure, before you reached the 30th floor, your entire body would be wet with sweat.

Mary: You will be 63._________(amaze) to find almost every aspect in our life is connected with

inventions.

Tom: Now, what about having no computers, mobile phones, cars and cameras?

Mary: Life ._________(will) surely be difficult for most people if we had no such inventions.

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Tom: Yes. One example is the medical industry. Doctors, nurses and other members of the

healthcare team now rely greatly 65._________so many technological devices that can help patients survive.

Mary: There is no doubt that these devices 66._________ (provide) by companies help hospitals

strengthen 67.________ (they) commitment to patients.

Tom: Besides, professionals 68.__________ work abroad can now communicate with their families

back home with the use of mobile phones or computers.

Mary: You are 69.___________(complete) right. It is these practical inventions 70._________

improve the quality of everybody’s life every day.

第四部分 写作（共两节， 满分35分）

第二节 短文改错 （共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I have been reading a book about Henry Ford. He was eldest son of a farmer in Michigan. His father hoped he would help him on the farm, and Henry was not interested in farm work at all. He did everything he could do to keeping away from it. However, Henry was not a lazy boy. She liked to do mechanical work. Later, he took a job as a mechanic, showing greatly interest in steam engines. In 1908, he had built the famous “Model T”. Such popular was this car that it was unchanging for 20 years. Five years after that he started the Ford Motor Company, that made the US a nation on wheel and helped the US become what it is now.

第二节 书面表达 (满分25分）

假如你是学生李华，你的英国网友Jim计划在寒假期间到宜昌三峡来生活一段时间，想知道初到宜昌可能会遇到的困难。请你用英语给他写一封回信，信的内容包括：

1. 可能遇到的困难：语言方面的障碍，饮食的不习惯，...；2. 中西方文化的差异，天气的寒冷和多变；3. 愿意尽力地帮助他。

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注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已写好。 Dear Jim,

I’m glad to hear from you. You asked me about the difficulties you may meet with when you get here in Yichang. Yours, Li Hua

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宜昌市部分重点高中2016-2017学年度上学期二年级第一次联考英语试卷

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听力： 1-5 BABCB 6-10 ABAAC 11-15 CBACA 16-20 CBABA 阅读理解：21-23 BDD 24-27 ABCC 28-31 CADB 32-35 BACD 36-40 GEACF 完形填空：41-45 ABCDC 46-50 BCBDA 51-55 DBACC 56-60 DCADB

语法填空：61. what 62.climbing 63. amazed . would 65. on 66. provided 67.their 68. who/that 69. completely 70. that

短文改错：1. eldest前加the; 2. and→but; 3. keeping→keep; 4. She→He; 5. greatly→great;

6. had built (had删除); 7. such →so; 8. unchanging→unchanged 9. that→which 10. wheel→wheels

书面表达： Dear Jim,

I’m glad to hear from you. You asked me about the difficulties you may meet with when you get here in Yichang. Now, I’d like to tell you something about it.

For one thing, you may have some trouble with the application problem you are well prepared for. You may find it difficult to communicate with the local people, because many of them have a strong accent. For another, you may not get used to the Chinese food here. What’s more, you may feel lonely and miss your family and friends, especially in the very beginning. On the other hand, you are expected to pay more attention to the difference between the Western and Chinese cultures and adapt to the cold and changeable weather.

However, you needn’t worry about it. Whenever you are in trouble, don’t hesitate to ask me for help.

Best wishes!

Yours, Li Hua

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英语听力录音稿

Text 1

M: Hello. I’d like to order a hamburger. W: All right...

M: Oh, and a small cola and French fries, too.

W: Your total is five dollars. Please wait at your table. We will bring your order to you. Text 2

W: I was at work today, and a man praised me! He said I looked pretty good. M: Really? But he’s right. He has a point. Text 3

M: My arm hurts. W: Still?

M: Ever since I fell out of bed the other day, I haven’t been able to move it much. W: That’s it. We are going to see the doctor right now. I’m tired of hearing you complain of this. Text 4

W: Charlie, where are you going, sweetie? Hey, I’m talking to you! Come back here!

M: Susan, Charlie loves this little toy, even though it belongs to his dog Franklin. He will probably come back and play with you if you show it to him. Text 5

W: Do you want to watch TV?

M: No. I’d rather read my magazine.

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W: But Game of Thrones is on!

M: So what? I’ve already read the books... Text 6

W: What a funny-looking painting! M: What’s so funny about it? W: Well, everything is upside down.

M: Let me ask you something: how much would you pay for something like that if you saw it in an art gallery? W: I don’t know.

M: Do you know how much I paid for it? W: No...probably too much, though.

M: Nothing! I found it in the wastepaper basket at the hospital and brought it home. It was free! W: Oh...what a strange thing to do, Boris! Text 7

M: Hey, thanks for the tomatoes! They look amazing. Are they from your garden? W: Yeah. I thought you’d like to have some to put in your salad tonight. M: Yes, I sure appreciate that! How do you get them to grow so large, anyway? W: Actually, I have a lot of gardening tips. Do you want to hear them? M: Sure.

W: Well, the first step is to make sure that they are planted in very healthy soil. So first you must prepare that. Also, you need to plant them somewhere that they have access to full sun. you also need to give them lots of space to grow. M: That would be easy in my yard. Text 8

W: Hey, welcome! Did you find everything you needed today?

M: Well, mostly yes. But there were a few items that I could not find, I needed those items to cook Chinese food.

W: Please tell me about those items. I’m the store manager, and perhaps I can ask our buyers to order them for you.

M: OK, well, I am America, not Chinese. So, I am not an expert, but I want to cook some of my wife’s favorite Chinese foods, like the ones she used to have while growing up in Beijing.

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W: Your wife is Chinese? What a small world! My husband is Chinese. M: Oh, yeah? Does your husband like to cook Chinese food, too? W: Not really. He prefers Italian food. But I love Chinese food. M: Me, too! Text 9

M: Sally? Sally Higgins? We went to high school together. Remember me? I’m Derrick Matheson. W: Derrick! Of course I remember you. We had chemistry class together junior and senior year, right?

M: Yes, I suppose so! I can’t believe I ran into you. I haven’t seen since high school. W: Well, I married a man named Steve Rodgers. I met Steve when I was working in Iceland. M: Iceland? What were you doing there?

W: I was studying for my master’s degree there. Let me see...that was from 2004 to 2007. M: Time flies, doesn’t it? Well, I just got back from Los Angeles. My wife and I moved there in 2009 to work in Hollywood. Now, we are back in Berkeley. Love being back home. W: Me, too. This is a great city.

M: Well, do you have any children? We just had our third daughter. W: We still haven’t made that plan yet. Text 10

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