【英语】浙江省嘉兴市第一中学2015-2016学年高一下学期期中考试

嘉兴市第一中学2015学年第二学期期中考试

高一英语

命题：郁晓丽杨跃典

2016年4月

第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）

第一节

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. How long will the speakers stay in Greenwich?

A. Two hours.

B. Two and a half hours.

C. Three and a half hours.

2. What does the man want the woman to do?

A. Return some books.

B. Talk with a professor.

C. Cancel classes.

3. Where are the speakers?

A. In a restaurant.

B. At home.

C. On a ship.

4. To whom is the woman speaking?

A. A seller.

B. A builder.

C. A guide.

5. What does the girl think of math lessons?

A. They’re not so popular.

B. They’re not very challenging.

C. They’re not simp le enough for her.

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 is the relationship between the speakers?

A. Employer and employee.

B. Husband and wife.

C. Colleagues.

7. What will the man do next?

A. Clear dirty dishes.

B. Change tablecloths.

C. Fold the paper.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. How does the man overcome his fear?

A. By walking.

B. By shouting.

C. By singing.

9. What did the woman do on the stormy night?

A. She injured her head.

B. She hid somewhere.

C. She jumped on the bed.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does the girl care about the show time?

A. She needs time to do her homework.

B. She and Shannon have fixed the time.

C. She doesn’t want to come home early.

11. Which show will the girl see?

A. The nine o’clock show.

B. The seven fifteen show.

C. The five o’clock show.

12. How will the girl go to the cinema?

A. By car.

B. By bus.

C. By bike.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the most common reason to refuse an artist’s work?

A. The style is not popular.

B. The subject matter is unsuitable.

C. The quality is not high enough.

14. What does Rachel find difficult to explain to artists?

A. Their work doesn’t se ll.

B. Their work is not accepted.

C. They don’t receive payments.

15. What does the guidebook contain?

A. An introduction to the artist.

B. Advertisements for exhibitions.

C. Good reviews of pictures.

16. What does Rachel find most enjoyable about her job?

A. Not knowing what to expect.

B. Being close to art.

C. Meeting nice people.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. At what time will the listeners begin to have their lunch break?

A. 11: 40.

B. 11:50.

C. 12:00.

18. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. A new product.

B. A recycling system.

C. An art program.

19. When will the changes take place?

A. Next Wednesday.

B. Next Thursday.

C. Next Friday.

20. What are the listeners asked to do?

A. Visit the speaker’s office.

B. Select food to order.

C. Pick up a piece of paper.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分37分）

第一节（共16个小题；每小题2分，满分32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

I arrived late one night on a business trip, so I decided to have dinner in the hotel I stayed in. As I was finishing my meal, an elderly couple came in. They were holding hands and had lovely smiles on their faces. They sat three tables from me. I was amazed at the love they showed for each other. It stuck me because it was shortly after ending a 20-year marriage and I still had pain in my heart.

My waiter was also their waiter. As I paid my bill, I asked what their bill was. He told me, and I gave him $40 to pay their bill. He asked if I knew them and I told him “No, I just wanted to repay them for the love that they were showing to each other,” and then I left.

The next day I entered the restaurant again. After I had been seated, the waiter who served me the night before told me that the strangest thing happened after I left the restaurant. When the elderly couple went to pay for their meal, they were told that it had been paid. The waiter just told them what I said. They were amazed. They looked around, asked for the bill of two young couples who were seated together, paid their bill and left.

I smiled and ordered my meal. About 45 minutes later, I finished my meal and was about to head out, but my waiter was nowhere to be found. I explained to the hostess that I needed to pay for my meal and hurry to the airport. She smiled and explained that I would not have to pay, because she felt she should pay for my bill because of the joy brought to the faces of the elderly couple and the amazement of the young couples.

When I told her that they didn’t have to do that, she said with a smile “Love creates Love.”

21. From the first paragraph we know the writer must feel __________.

A. pleased

B. worried

C. sad

D. nervous

22. The elderly couple paid the bill of the two young couples because they __________.

A. knew the two young couples

B. were happy to pass the love they got

C. were always ready to help poor people

D. wanted to invite the young people to the meal

23. The writer’s purpose of writing the passage is to __________.

A. suggest true love never dies

B. share an interesting experience

C. encourage us to help people in need

D. prove a show of love really makes a difference

B

It’s long been known that dogs and cats, with their well developed sense of smell, can be trained to identify the chemicals released by human illnesses. In some cases, researchers have even trained household pets to detect or predict epilepsy(癫痫病). But what if we could put the sense into a microchip(芯片), allowing us to create a breathalyzer(呼吸分析器) for diseases?

For Dr. Andrew Koehl, the inventor of the microchip technology at the heart of this digital nose, the technology that will allow us to do just that is already here. “We can detect down to parts per billion levels,” Koehl says. “To give you a similarity that’s equal to one drop in an Olympic size swimming pool.” The sensor(感应器) identifies each chemical’s make-up in the air. If the sensor is set to a certain level, it will set off an alarm.

Work continues to make it smaller and makes it able to enter the healthcare market. Within several years, the company hopes to develop it as a diagnostic(诊断) tool. “What’s amazing is that there really are chemicals on your breath that indicate illness. That’s been shown through a number of studies and we can detect those,” he said. “There have already been a number of research papers published s uggesting we can detect many disease.”

At the beginning, the technology had been developed for defense purposes. He said the terror caused by the events of September 11 had got him thinking about the application of this type of sensor in safety check. “Ori ginally it was aimed at detecting things like explosives, poisonous chemicals and other terrors that might occur,” said Dr Koehl.

Eventually the sensor could become a part of many everyday instruments, warning users of which foods are going bad in the fridge or even the best moment to take the roast out of the microwave oven.

You could even, one day, have a digital nose that you could carry in your pocket. “More recently we’ve been looking at user spaces so we’re talking to a number of producers of mobile p hones and mobile phone parts,” he said. “We want to develop a module small enough to put into mobile devices(装置) like phones.”

24. It can be inferred from the passage that_______.

A. This type of sensor was designed to prevent disease at first

B. The digital nose can be put into mobile phones at present

C. Users might take the mobile devices with them in near future

D. The new invention has already entered the healthcare market

25. The underlined word “ detect”（Paragraph1）is closest in meaning to_______.

A. protect

B. discover

C. settle

D. remove

26. What does the passage mainly want to tell readers?

A. Dogs and cats have a strong sense of smell.

B. A new sensor is used to identify chemicals.

C. Modern technology is developing very fast.

D. Digital noses on a microchip can smell diseases.

C

One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of human being to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads (游牧); they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.

He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate (耕作) the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to finish, like building towns, cities, and all that were in them. All the children were listening attracted by this story, until Lucy jumped

up:

“And if that was so important and improved everything so much, why are we nomads all over again, Mr. Arnold?”

Mr. Arnold didn’t know what to say. Lucy was a very clever girl. He knew that she lived with her parents in a house, so she must know that her family were not nomads; so what did she mean?

“We have all become nomads again,” continued Lucy, “The other day, outside the city, they were cutting the forest down. A while ago a fisherman told me how they fish. It’s the same with everyone: when there’s no more forest left the foresters go elsewhere, and when the fish run out the fishermen move on. That’s what the nomads did, isn’t it?

The teacher nodded, thoughtfully. Really, Lucy was right. Mankind had turned into nomads. Instead of looking after the land in a way that we could be sure it would keep supplying our needs, we kept developing it until the land was bare. And then off we would go to the next place! The class spent the rest of the afternoon talking about what they could do to show how to be more civilized (文明的).

The next day everyone attended class wearing a green T-shirt, with a message that said “I am not a nomad!”

And, from then on, they set about showing that indeed they were not. Every time they knew they needed something, they made sure that they would get it using care and control. If they needed wood or paper, they would make sure that they got the recycled kind. They ordered their fish from fish farms, making sure that the fish they received were not too young and too small. They only used animals that were well cared for, and brought up on farms.

And so, from their little town, those children managed to give up being nomads again, just as prehistoric men had done, so many thousands of years ago.

27. Why would early humans travel about in the beginning?

A. To experience different lifestyles.

B. To go sightseeing in different places.

C. To find what they could to feed themselves.

D. To do more exercise to build themselves up.

28. From Paragraph 2, we can know that _______________.

A. people got tired of living in the same place

B. people gradually got used to living in cities

C. people spent a long time in learning to keep animals

D. people tended to settle down after learning farming and keeping animals

29. The teacher thought Lucy’s argument was ______

A. reasonable

B. unbelievable

C. puzzling

D. shocking

30. Which of the following agrees with the message “I am not a nomad” (Paragraph 7)?

A. People eat young fish for its delicious taste.

B. People use recycled materials as much as possible.

C. Fishermen move elsewhere when there is no fish left.

D. Foresters leave the place where there is no wood left.

31. The writer tries to make us believe that ______.

A. mankind has been progressing mainly through traveling about

B. it’s unwise for mankind to use the land in an uncontrolled way

C. it’s quite good for students to learn more about the history of mankind

D. teachers should encourage students to voice their own opinions bravely

D

Earlier this month, blogger Lisa Henderson announced that she and her husband John had decided not to have Christmas. The family, who lives in Utah, will still put up decorations, but presents from Santa are a no-go this year.

“John and I feel like we are fighting a very hard uphill battle with our kids when it comes to their rights,” Henderson wrote on her blog. “It is one of the biggest struggles as a parent these days in middle class America. Our kids have been acting so ungrateful lately. ... John said, “We shouldn’t just celebrate Christmas. And, so that’s what we did.”

Instead, the Hendersons are putting the money they would have spent on gifts toward service projects in order to teach their three sons the “pleasure of giving.” The children will still receive gifts from grandparents and other family members, but this year, she said, their letters to Santa will be asking him to find someone who needs presents more than they do.

In an interview with ABC News, 11-year-old Caleb Henderson admitted that he and his brothers had been behaving badly. “We would hit each other. We were fighting and crying,” he

admitted, and Lisa said that when she broke the news to her sons, they cried pretty hard.

But so far, Henderson told Fox News last week, the family is having a sudden turning this into a different kind of gift. They have already held a clothing drive and sent boxes of clothes and candy to a village in the Philippines that was hit hard last year by Typhoon Haiyan.

“The children were excited and kept wanting to give more and more,” she reported on her blog.

Many readers responded positively to Henderson’s post. Some sharing their own stories of limiting Christmas in order to teach their children to be charitable(仁慈的) or grateful. “As parents you’re giving your kids something so much more special than a bunch of gifts on Christmas,” one wrote.

But Henderson received negative follow-ups as well on her blog. Responding to critics, she updated her blog with a statement that reads, in part:

I just wanted to explain a couple of things. First, my kids are in no way hurt for things.... They have reacted by making gifts for each other and packing them into each other’s stockings stealthily(偷偷地). They are learning exactly what we wanted them to learn, because they are not moving around feeling sorry for themselves. They are thinking of others.

The second thing I wanted to explain is why I wrote this post. Some people seem to think I wrote this for attention. Ummm, the attention you get from posts like this is not good and actually extremely difficult to deal with.... The reason I wrote this post is I want to empower parents to feel like it’s okay to take a stand. ... I wanted to share what we are doing, so any parents that feel they are struggling with the same issues in their home can see what others are doing and get ideas for their family. My intention is to help support other parents and to raise amazing kids.

32. The Hendersons decided not to spend Christmas because_______.

A. their kids could receive presents from their other family members

B. the struggling couple tried to save some money to buy kids gifts

C. they wanted to make their kids understand the pleasure of giving

D. the whole family would go to the disaster areas in the Philippines

33. After joining their parents in doing volunteer services, the Hendersons’ kids became_______.

A. selfish and stubborn

B. determined and devoted

C. hopeful and honest

D. grateful and generous

34. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by_______.

A. all the kids let out an excited cry when Santa sent them Christmas presents

B. when Lisa told the kids they didn’t spend Christmas, they felt extremely sad

C. the moment Lisa said the Philippines was hit by typhoon, they burst into tears

D. when their grandparents didn’t send them gifts, the kids couldn’t help crying .

35. From the last two paragraphs we can conclude that_______.

A. the writer wants to share his experiences of raising amazing kids

B. educating kids needs regular communication and great patience

C. the writer strongly called on people to care for the unfortunate

D. parents should praise children for their kindness to other people

36. Which of the following can be the best title?

A. Why These Parents Decided Not To Celebrate Christmas.

B. How Americans Spend A Traditional Christmas Nowadays.

C. A Hard Battle between Kids And Parents At Christmas.

D. What American People Do To Have A Nice Christmas.

第二节（共5个小题；每小题1分，满分5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。

请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。(温馨提示：选E答案时，请涂AB; 选F答案时，请涂CD，G请涂ABCD!!!)

Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? __37___ The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

Make a plan for reaching goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. __38__ When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self-pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks (挫折）to

affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

___39__ These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

__40__ Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously (下意识地）putting yourself in a better mood.

Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Humor is everywhere. There is irony (反语）in just about any thing a human does.

Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. ___41___

A. There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.

B. Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.

C. It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

D. These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.

E. Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood.

F. What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.

G. On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, your emotional state will also be influenced.

第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分18分）

第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A gray sweater hung on Tommy’s empty desk, a reminder of the sad boy who had just followed his classmates out of our third–grade room. Soon Tommy’s parents, who had recently ___42 would arrive for a conference on his 43 schoolwork and bad behavior. 44 parent knew that I had sent for the other.

Tommy, an only child, had always been a 45 , cooperative and excellent student. How could I 46 his parents that his recent failing grades represented a 47 child’s reaction to his admired parents’ separation and upcoming divorce?

Tommy’s mother entered and took one of the chairs I had placed near my desk. Soon the father arrived. Good! At least they were 48 enough to be present at the meeting. A look of surprise and anger passed between them, and then they purposely 49 each other.

As I gave a detailed account of Tommy’s behavior and schoolwork, I prayed fo r the 50___words to bring these two together, to help them see what they were doing to their son. 51___somehow the words wouldn’t come. Perhaps if they saw a crumpled(褶皱的) tear-stained sheet I ___52 in the back of his desk.

53 I smoothed it out and gave it to Tommy’s mother. She read it and then without a word 54 it to Tommy’s father. He frowned(皱眉). Then his face 55 . He studied the scrawled (潦草的) words for 56 seemed so long a time.

At last he folded the paper carefully, placed it in his pocket, and 57 his wife’s hand. She wiped the tears from her eyes and 58 at him. My own eyes were filled with tears, but neither seemed to notice. He helped her with her coat and they left 59 .

In his own way God had given me the words to 60 that family. He had guided me to the sheet of yellow copy paper covered with the 61 showing of a small boy’s troubled heart.

The words, “Dear Mom ... Dear Daddy ... I love you ... I love you ... I love you.”

42. A. remarried B. separated C. left D. divided

43. A. disturbing B. encouraging C. failing D. satisfying

44. A. Neither B. Each C. Every D. Either

45. A. dependent B. selfish C. upset D. happy

46. A. persuade B. allow C. suggest D. promise

47. A. cold-hearted B. broken-hearted C. warm-hearted D. kind-hearted

48. A. polite B. active C. inspired D. concerned

49. A. missed B. watched C. ignored D. fought

50. A. necessary B. grateful C. right D. respectful

51. A. Or B. But C. And D. So

52. A. wrote B. sent C. put D. found

53. A. Eagerly B. Secretly C. Silently D. Quickly

54. A. handed B. compared C. added D. devoted

55. A. puzzled B. softened C. discouraged D. surprised

56. A. it B. that C. which D. what

57. A. searched for B. got to C. held up D. reached for

58. A. smiled B. stared C. laughed D. glared

59. A. together B. alone C. behind D. apart

60. A. govern B. reunite C. support D. change

61. A. cold B. happy C. sad D. regretful

第二节：语法填空（10个小题；每小题1分，满分10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。

An Interesting Festival

The Agricultural Feast takes place after the Independence Day. It is not a worldwide celebration. Only Christians in Mexico look forward to its ___1__ (arrive) for its religious origin.

Long ago, humans’ ancestors were bad. They fooled and played tricks on each other and never kept their ___2__ (word). So God turned up and drowned all their crops. Humans starved day and night, weeping. In order to gain God’s forgiveness, a woman poet set off to see God. She admired God and kept apologizing. God ___3__ (move). With his permission, humans finally had good harvests again. So, to wipe sadness and remind themselves of the belief in God, people began the festival.

On the festival, people gather in the open air, __4___ as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have fun ___5___ each other all night long, as though they ___6__ (be) never tired. When a beauty __7___ (dress) up in lovely clothing reads poems in memory of __8___ poet, everyone holds their breath. Then, it is the custom __9___ the bone of a rooster head is given to her as an award.

Obviously, the story is not true, __10__ the festival is interesting.

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分23分）

第一节：单词拼写（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题卷上按题号写出各单词的完整的正确形式（每空限填一词）。

1. For c__________ reasons Anthony will be unable to take part in the coming meeting.

2. We had not much money, so we tried our best to d__________ the living cost.

3. They played to p__________ in the street so that they could earn some money.

4. New Year’s Concert will be b__________ live on television and radio nationwide.

5. Those women are having a discussion about how to b__________ their life and work.

6. India won its i__________ from Britain in 1947 and has developed quickly ever since.

7. Being afraid to make a speech in public is one of his w __________.

8. In his own restaurant, he would fire any employee who was rude to a c__________.

第二节：应用文写作（满分15分）

假如你是校报负责人，急需在学校内聘一位同学任英文版的编辑，请你用英文以“An English Editor Wanted”为题目写一则招聘启事。内容如下：

⑴．该工作主要包括两部分：一是从英文报刊杂志及互联网上选择适合学生的文章；二是选择与编辑(edit)同学们的来稿。

⑵．希望该同学满足下列要求：

①乐意奉献出一些业余时间为同学们服务；②英文与美术(fine arts)皆好；能熟练使用电脑。

⑶．感兴趣的同学请在本周内与学生会联系。

注意：（1）词数100--120左右，题目已为你写好；

（2）根据以上信息组成一篇通顺连贯的短文。

An English Editor Wanted

___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

Students’ Union

参考答案

第一部分: 听力（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）

1-5 BACAB 6-10 CBCBA 11-15 CACBA 16-20 ABBCC

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分37分）

第一节（共16个小题；每小题2分，满分32分）

21-23 CBD 24-26 CBD 27-31 CDABB 32-36 CDBAA

第二节（共5个小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

37-41 DGBCE

第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分18分）

第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

42-46 BCADA47-51 BDCCB52-56 DCABD57-61 DAABC

第二节：语法填空（10个小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1. arrival

2. word

3. was moved

4. such

5. with

6. were

7. dressed

8. the

9. that 10. but

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分23分）

第一节：单词拼写（共8小题；每小题1分，满分8分）

1. certain

2. decrease

3. passers-by

4. broadcast

5. balance

6. independence

7. weaknesses

8. customer

第二节：应用文写作（满分15分）

A Possible Version:

An English Editor Wanted

Our school newspaper is looking for an editor for its English edition. The job mainly includes two parts. One is to choose proper English articles from other newspapers, magazines or Internet for us students. The other is to pick out articles from those written by students in our school and edit them for use.

We hope that he/she could meet the following requirements: First, he/she is willing to devote some of his/her spare time to serving the others. Second, it’s necessary for him/her to be good at both English and fine arts. Besides, the ability to use the computer is important.

Those who are interested in the job, please get in touch with the Students’ Union this week.

Students’ Union