福建省漳州市芗城中学2014-2015学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

1.How much does one ticket cost?

A. $ 1.40

B. $ 6.40

C. $ 4.30

2.What will the woman do at Christmas?

A. Go to the man’s Christmas party.

B. Stay away from the man’s party

C. Have a talk with David.

3.What will the two speakers do with the bike?

A. They will sell it.

B. They will throw it away

C. They will leave it in the office.

4.What is Jane doing now?

A. Watching TV

B. Doing her homework

C. Listening to the radio.

What was the result of the accident?

A. Tom survived the accident.

B. Tom was killed in the accident.

C. Someone saved Tom’s life.

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。听完每段对话或独白前，你都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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

请听第6段对话，回答第6至8题。

5.What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A party

B. Weekend plans

C. An are gallery.

6.What does Tina want to do after the dinner?

A. Dance

B. Go cycling

C. See a movie

7.When does the woman want to see new paintings?

A. On Saturday night

B. On Sunday afternoon

C. On Sunday evening

听第7段材料，回答9至11题。

8.How many gold medals are mentioned here?

A. One

B. Two

C. Three

9.When is Wang Xin’s birthday?

10. A. August 10 B. August 11 C. August 12

A.Wang Xin and Chen Ruolin won the gold medal in the women’s 3m

synchronized platform event.

B.Briony Cole and Melissa Wu of Australia earned the Silver Medal on August

12.

C.Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia won the women’s 10m synchronized

springboard event on August 10.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12.What season is it now?

A. Spring

B. Summer

C. Winter

13.Why should the man have bought an air conditioner earlier?

A. The price is going up now.

B. It is hard to buy one now.

C. It isn’t hot any mor e.

14.What has the press been talking about?

A. E1 Nino

B. Air conditioners.

C. The temperature 听第9段材料，回答15至17题。

15.Where will Conie go now?

A. To her home

B. To the shop

C. To her office

16.Who is waiting for Mike?

A. His brother

B. His boss

C. His neighbor

Why will Conie be late home tonight?

A. She will have a meeting.

B. She will go shopping

C. She won’t finish her work.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

17.When did the man leave New York for Washington?

A. October 1

B. October 6

C. October 4

18.Where did the man stay while in Los Angeles?

A. In a hotel

B. In his mother’s house

C. In his brother’s home

19.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A.The man was deeply impressed by the cities he visited.

B.The man stayed 10 days with his parents while in the States.

C. The man enjoyed his holiday in the States with his wife.

第二部分英语知识运用(共两节, 满分45分)

第一节语法和词汇知识(共15小题, 满分15分)

21.I waved to Nancy, but she was _______ in her thought, and made no response.

A. involved

B. stuck

C. absorbed

D. interested

22.They have ______ a plan for reducing the budget deficit(财政赤字)，which is quite practical.

A. put off

B. put away

C. put down

D. put forward

23. It is ________ that Arthur gave back the money he found.

A. greatly to one’s credit

B. for his great credit

C. greatly to his credit

D. for one’s great credit

strange disease.

A. enjoyed

B. puzzled

C. charged

D. promised

25.The machine is so advanced that it will start ______ you press the button.

A. constantly

B. cautiously

C. instantly

D. severely

26. If you ______ Mary, ask her to come and see me.

A. lose sight of

B. catch sight of

C. are in the sight of

D. are at the sight of

27. After the former manager returned from abroad, our company _______ and the production doubled.

A. came to life

B. came back life

C. recovered to life

D. returned to life

28. As you know, the castle was ______ the famous castle in London.

A. modelled after

B. modelled by

C. named by

D. found after

29.The man was to make some reply ______ his friend when he entered the room again.

A. for defence of

B. in defence of

C. with defence of

D. at defence of

30.He was afraid of failure because he didn’t want to _______ his colleagues.

A. lose face with

B. lose face

C. pull a long face

D. save face

31. You cannot accept an opinion ________ to you unless it is based on facts.

A. offering

B. to offer

C. offered

D. having offered

32. I did very ______ the first time I took my entrance exam.

A. poorly

B. poor

C. poverty

D. poorness

33. He got up late and hurried to his office, _______ the breakfast untouched.

A. left

B. to leave

C. leaving

D. having left

34. On AIDS Day, the minister of Health Department demanded that the problems ______ paid special attention to.

A. referred to being

B. referred to be

C. refer to being

D. refer to be

35.She just cannot make herself ________ though she tries hard.

A. understand

B. understanding

C. understood

D. to understand

第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1. 5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his__36__important inventions was the train. He _37__his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the

__38__engine on the train, he met with __39__from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would __40__ cows, horses and sheep, that the _41__ would burst or that

the hot coals from it would __42_ their houses. At that time,__43__people believed what they said.

George Stephenson __44__the people that the train could go on small _45_, could pull carriages __46_goods and passengers and there was __47__to them. It was a very __48__ matter for him to __49__hem believe. However, after _50_, he was able to do it; and the first train that __51__by Stephenson himself __52_ what he had said.

The first day _53_the people along the way _54_the noises of the train __55__ and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.

36. A. very B. a lot C. much D. most

37. A. bought B. made C. introduced D. did

38. A. electrical B. atomic C. oil D. steam

39. A. troubles B. success C. people D. pleasure

40. A. buy B. kill C. interest D. take away

41. A. smoke B. noise C. engine D. driver

42. A. pull down B. blow away C. pass D. set fire to

43. A. few B. most C. only a few D. the rich

44. A. said B. spoke C. warned D. told

45. A. roads B. rivers C. rails D. steam

46. A. full of B. short of C. empty of D. without

47. A. dangerous B. no great danger C. a lot of danger D. few danger

48. A. difficult B. easy C. pleasant D. light

49. A. get B. cause C. force D. make

50. A. some time B. sometime C. a few times D. sometimes

51. A. was driven B. was sold C. was pulled D. helped

52. A. believed B. seemed C. proved D. sensed

53. A. when B. of C. while D. for

54. A. caught sight of B. listened to C. thought D. heard

55. A. in the distance B. nearby C. on the far D. from the distance

第三部分阅读理解（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。

A

Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But

must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

56.What is mainly discussed in this passage?

A. The use of sunglasses.

B. The history of sunglasses.

C. Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.

D. The sunglasses wearing

57.Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?

A. She wanted to follow a movie star.

B. She was a movie star.

C. Wearing sunglasses was good to her eyes.

D. It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

58.Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.

A. they wore sunglasses

B. they went out in the sun too much

C. their scripts were written in very small writing

D. the lights on movie sets were too bright

59.We may know from this passage that ______.

A. Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker

B. Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star

C. Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986

D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses

60.Now people wear sunglasses ______.

A. for fashion and to protect their eyes

B. just to protect their eyes

C. because of bright lights

D. because movie stars wear them

B

When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.

Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.

At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family

and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.

In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.

At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.

Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.

In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.

61.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?

A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.

B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

C. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the

White House.

D. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.

62.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.

A. got on very well at the universities

B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football

C. was a very successful politician like his father

D. did everything as his father had done

63.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?

A. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also

attended.

B. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.

C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.

D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.

C

In 1752, three years after two Scotsmen, Alexander Wilson and Thomas Melville, fastened thermometers to kites to record the temperature of clouds, Benjamin Franklin made his famous experiment with a kite, a string, and a key. Franklin hoped to show that nature's tremendous displays of electricity in lightning were the same thing as the feeble electric sparks scientists of the day were producing in their laboratories. He

string(麻线), and near the base of the string he tied a large brass key. The kite rose into a dark thundercloud, where the iron wire picked up electrical charges. Franklin noticed that the strands of the string(绳串) were beginning to stand up with electricity. As rain wet the string, it conducted more electricity. Standing in the shelter of a shed, Franklin cautiously reached out his finger to touch the brass key. A series of sparks jumped from the key to his finger. He thus proved that lightning and electricity are the same. We now know that this experiment was a dangerous one, for Franklin might have been killed by a bolt of lighting.

64. The best title for this passage is ________.

A. The Discover of Electricity

B. The kite and Science

C. Franklin, a Great Scientist

D. Franklin's Experiment with Lightning

65. According to the passage, Benjamin Franklin ________.

A. recorded the temperature of clouds

B. was killed by a bolt of lightning

C. proved that lightning and electricity have the same essential nature

D. proved that lightning can be controlled by man

66. Two Scotsmen experimented with kites in ________.

A. 1752

B. 1746

C. 1749

D. 1755

67. Franklin did not use a ________.

A. string

B. wire

C. thermometer

D. key

68. The fact that Franklin was not injured was apparently due to ________.

A. wisdom

B. luck

C. the materials

D. the shed's protection

D

Every living cell contains genes. They are too small to be seen in a microscope, but they are very important. Each set of genes in the body contains all the instructions needed to make a human being. Some genes determine hair color. Some determine the shape of a nose. Some genes help determine your height and even your weight.

Genes are made of a chemical called DNA-the letters stand for deoxyribonucleic acid(脱氧核糖核酸). In the early 1950's, two scientists, Francis Crick and James Watson, figured out how the parts of DNA fit together. Once scientists understood this structure, it became possible to take pieces of DNA apart and put them together in new ways. New kinds of genes could be made in this manner.

Scientists have studied the genes of many plants and animals. They have worked out which genes affect the color of a tomato and the thickness of its skin. Working out which genes determine which features is called genetic mapping, scientists have begun the Human Genome Project, an ambitious effort to map all the genes in the human body.

Some genes may be defective(有缺陷的). For example, something might be wrong with the gene that makes blood clot(凝聚). A baby born with this defective gene could suffer serious hemorrhages(出血) or even bleed to death because his or

they can determine whether or not an unborn child has any defective genes. They might even discover how to treat these genes before the child is born.

69. What was the achievement of Francis Crick and James Watson?

A. They discovered why people have different hair colors.

B. They learned that some people bleed for long periods of time.

C. They looked at human cells under the microscope.

D. They worked out the structure of DNA.

70. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Defective genes can never be repaired.

B. Genes are too small to be seen through a microscope.

C. Genes help scientists understand how living things develop their characteristics.

D. The Human Genome Project may explain the role of every gene in the body.

芗城中学14—15学年上学期高二年英语科期中考答题卷

第II卷第四部分: 知识运用(共三节45分)

第一节：单词填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

根据中文提示，填入适当的单词使句子的意思正确完整。

1.Impressed by the luxurious ______________(环境), he didn’t want to leave.

2.His first speech as president made a strong i____________ on his audience.

3.She looked beautiful on her w_________ day.

4.You will be informed when the book becomes a__________.

5.We c__________ 5000 yuan to the earthquake fund.

6.She has determination while her brother ________(缺乏).

7.He is a c________ boy who is always asking questions.

8.Your comments indicate a serious _____________ (误解) of the situation.

9.As we know, it is very rough to learn __________ (高等) maths well.

10.One of the car’s main _________ (吸引力) is its low price.

第二节：短文填词（共10题，每小题1分。）

My name is Li Dear Bob,

Hello, I learnt about you from my English teacher,

Miss Fang. I’d like to _______(成为) your pen friend, and 1.__________

get to k________ more about your country. 2.___________ First, let me tell you something about ________ .My 3.___________ name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing., _____ is the 4.___________

_______(首都)of China. I go to Hongqi Middle School. 5.___________

It’s a large and beautiful school, and I like it very much.

We study quite a few s_______, such as Maths, Chinese, 6.___________ English and physics. I used to ______ table tennis a lot 7.___________

in my spare time, but now I am i_______ in football. 8.___________ Do you play any ball games? What is your ______(最9.___________

喜欢的）sports? I look forward to h_____ from you soon. 10._________

第三节：书面表达（满分25分）你堂兄建华在国外学习，你们经常用英文通信。他即将完成学业，不久前来信就是否回国工作征求你的意见。请根据下列提示回信：

1．建议他回国；2．你的理由是：学有所用，就业容易；照顾父母。

注意；1．词数100左右。

2．行文应连贯，内容应完整。

3．开头语与落款已为你写好。

8th

Dear Jianhua,

I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks ago.___________________ _________

______________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________ Best wishes, Minghua

Answers of 14-15高二年上学期英语课期中考

三、36. 选D。most为形容词，意为“最”。

37. 选B。make意为“制造”。

38. 选D。”steam engine”意为“蒸汽式发动机”。

39. 选A。根据下文可知，他遇到了麻烦。

40. 选B。这句话的意思是“噪音和烟会杀死奶牛、马和羊。”

48. 选A。在当时的情况下，人们很难相信他说的话。

49. 选D。make sb. do sth.为一固定结构，意思为“使某人做某事”。

50. 选A。some time意思为“一段时间”；sometime意思为“某时”；a few times意思为“几次”；sometimes意思为“有时候”。

四、56. 选D。通读全文可知，文章的中心是sunglasses。该题很容易错选C。明星喜欢戴太

阳镜的原因在第二段中提及，只是文章的一个部分而已。

60. 选A。文章最后一段提到带眼睛不仅仅是为了赶时髦，也是为了保护眼睛。

61. 选C。George W. Bush是继John Quiney Adams之后第一个跟随父亲入主白宫的人。本文的中心是Bush。所以选D而不选C。

65. 选C。根据文章倒数第二句话“e thus proved that lightning and electricity are the same.”可知，他证明了闪电和点是一回事。

66. 选C。根据文章第一句话可知，应该选D。

67. 选C。在实验中，Franklin用的是细绳、金属线、风筝和钥匙，而没有温度计。

68. 选B。根据文章最后一句话可知，这个实验很危险，Franklin本可能被电触死。

69. 选D。第二段第二句即本题答案出处。

70. 选C。第一段即说明了本文的主旨大意,基因有助于科学家们理解生物的特征是怎样发展的。第二卷

第一节

第三节

June 8th

Dear Jianhua,

I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about the question you asked me. In my opinion, you should come back after you finish your studies abroad. For one reason, what you are studying is badly needed nowadays in China. It will be quite easy for you to find a good job. In fact, I know a few big companies in our city are hoping to hire people like you. For another reason, I think it will be much more convenient for you to look after your parents as they are getting old. Therefore, I think it’s a good idea for you to return. So what are you waiting for?

Best wishes,

Minghua