科英语下期半期考试试题18届高一文.pdf

1 成都七中成都七中20152015- -20162016学年度下期半期考试学年度下期半期考试 高一年级英语试卷高一年级英语试卷 考试时间：120分钟 总 分：150分 命 题 人：任天府、唐兴、华溪 审题人：王春玲 第第卷卷 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，听力（共两节， 满分满分30分）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（共第一节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 7.5 分）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。 1What does the woman want the man to do? ACome back soon. BPick up her friends. CReturn with information about the buses. 2Why was the woman late? AShe missed the bus. BThe traffic was really bad . CHer car broke down. 3What does the man care about most? AThe cars color. BThe cars style. CThe cars function 4How did the woman learn about her new job? AFrom a friend. BFrom the paper. CFrom the TV. 5What is true about the man? AHe doesnt work anywhere now. BHe will work for Toms company. CHe was fired by his boss. 第二节（共第二节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分分，满分 22.5 分）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。 6What can the woman see around her? AMany cars. BAn old cinema. CA large field. 7What will the woman do next? AStay where she is. BFind more street signs. CGo to the gas station for help. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8What is the womans attitude toward the man? AForgiving. BWorried. CImpatient. 2 9How can the man tell if the fruit is ripe, according to the woman? AHave a taste of it. BPress it with fingers. CJudge by its color and smell. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10How will the speakers go home? ABy taxi. BBy bus. CBy car. 11How long did the woman wait to get her bags? AFive minutes. BTen minutes. CAn hour. 12What does the woman say about her father? AHe doesnt follow his doctors advice. BHe has been smoking for 14 years now. CHe is worried about his lifestyle. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13What is the woman doing? AInterviewing the man. BTalking with a business partner. CChecking on the result of a project. 14What did the man study in college? ABiology. BHistory. CArt. 15What is the man proud of himself? AHe is honest. BHe is patient. CHe is hard-working. 16What does the man need to improve? AThe ability to focus. BThe ability to communicate. CThe ability to deal with challenges. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17Where would this talk be heard? AOn a radio show. BOn a TV program. CIn a doctors office. 18How do most people deal with headaches? ABy taking medicine. BBy drinking water. CBy sleeping. 19When should a doctor be called according to the speaker? AIf you get headaches regularly. BIf your headache is caused by certain smell. CIf you get a headache after hurting your head. 20What is the talk mainly about? AThe natural way to treat headaches. BNatural causes of headaches. CDifferent kinds of headaches. 3 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节阅读理解（共两节 满分满分40分）分） 第一节第一节（共（共15小题；每小题小题；每小题2分，满分分，满分30分）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，并在答读卡上将该 项涂黑。 A My 18-month-old son, Adam, called from the front door. “Look, Mama! Doggie!” I dropped what I was doing and stuck my head out of the door. Brandy, our next-door neighbors 11-year-old dog, was over again. “Go away!” I shouted. Brandys owner had died about a month earlier. The womans family had emptied the house and stuck a “For Sale” sign in the front yard, but the family had left old Brandy behind. For weeks, shed been wandering around the neighborhood. It wasnt that I disliked dogs or anything like that. I just didnt think about them very much. I never had a dog growing up and had never thought to get one. Brandy went away and I stayed outside with Adam. Then the phone rang. I went inside to take the call. When I came back, Adam was gone. I searched the yard, front and back, then the basketball court and public pool. No trace of him. I was so nervous that I ran home and called the police, then my husband. Police searched the neighborhood. Suddenly I heard another sound: a dog barking. “Its coming from the woods,” one of my neighbors said. We followed the barking to a wooded cliff (悬崖). There we found my son, and he was just inches away from the edges of the cliff, fast asleep. Brandy was beside him, leaning (倚靠) against him to keep him away from the edge. When I picked Adam up, Brandy sank down on her side, breathing quickly. She must have been holding Adam there for hours! I thanked the police and brought Adam and Brandy back to our house. She hesitated a moment on our doorstep, no doubt remembering the time Id driven her away. “Come on, girl.” I said. “This is your home now.” Brandy stepped in, and once she saw she was really welcome, she relaxed and lay down on the floor just inside the door. Shed done a great thing, and I wondered if she knew it. Shed certainly touched me in a way that no animal ever had. What a pity a dog like Brandy had been left behind! 21. What is the correct order for the events in the story about Brandy? a. She was left behind by her owners family. b. She stepped into the womans house. c. She appeared at the womans front door. d. She stayed beside the womans son for hours. A. d, a, b, c B. a, c, b, d C. c, d, b, a D. a, c, d, b 22. What did the woman do when she first saw Brandy? A. She gave her some food. B. She drove her away. C. She took her home. D. She said thank you to her. 4 23. How were they able to be aware that the womans son was near the cliff? A. By searching the neighborhood. B. By hearing a dog barking. C. By following a dogs footsteps. D. By hearing her sons crying. B Dibea Smart Vacuum Cleaner(真空吸尘器) X500 Product Operating Battery storage and charging 1. Place the charging home base Note: Put the charging home base against the wall and remove obstacles around it. 2. Charge the robot in either way as shown below: A. Plug into an outlet(插座); B. Press the HOME button on the main body or on the remote control to make the robot return to the charging home base to charge itself. Note: A. Turn on the power switch at the bottom side before charging the robot. B. When the robot is charging, the display panel(仪表板) will show 1111, and repeat from the right to the left. C. When charging is finished, the display panel will show FULL. D. When the robot is charging, do not make the robot start working. 3. Auto charging The robot will automatically return to the charging home base when cleaning is done or the battery is low. Note: Please keep the charging home base plugged in. If not, the robot is unable to auto charge. Starting up/Pause/Sleeping 1. Starting up A. Make sure the power switch is on; B. Press the CLEAN button on the main body or on the remote control to start cleaning. Note: If the robot is in the sleeping mode, press the CLEAN button to wake the robot up from the sleeping mode. Then press CLEAN for a second time, the robot starts cleaning automatically. 2. Pause To turn the robot from the cleaning mode to a selected mode: A. Press either button among PLAN, SPOT, CLEAN and HOME buttons on the main body; B. Press the CLEAN button on the remote control. Note: When the robot is paused, press CLEAN to make the robot restart cleaning. 3. Sleeping To turn the robot from a selected mode to the sleeping mode: A. If no command is received, the robot will turn to sleep automatically after 20 seconds; B. Keep pressing CLEAN on the main body for 3 seconds. Note: If not using the robot for a long time, please turn the power switch off. 5 Scheduling You can schedule to let the robot start cleaning from a certain time. For example, if you set 6:30 on the robot, the robot will start cleaning after 6 hours and 30 minutes every day until the power switch is turned off. Note: A. Once the power switch is turned off, all the scheduling will be canceled. B. Once certain time is scheduled, the robot will always work according to the setting. Virtual(虚拟的虚拟的) wall use The virtual wall is used to prevent the robot from entering off-limit areas. For best results, place the virtual wall on outside of the doorway you want to block. The virtual wall can create a bunch of light, with largest range reaching 4 meters. 1. After the batteries are installed, turn on the power switch. 2. Put the virtual wall where you want it to work. Note: Turn the power off when not using the virtual wall. 24. Which of the following steps can be left out if you want the robot to charge itself automatically? A. Press the HOME button on the remote control. B. Clear up the place around the charging home base. C. Turn on the power switch at the bottom of the robot. D. Put the charging home base against the wall and plug it in. 25. If its 9:45PM now and you want the robot to start cleaning at 8:00AM tomorrow, you should set _ on the robot. A. 13:45 B. 10:15 C. 8:00 D. 1:45 26. If you want the robot to start cleaning right now, you can _. A. keep pressing the CLEAN button on the main body for 3 seconds B. press either of PLAN, SPOT, CLEAN and HOME buttons on the main body C. turn on the power switch and press the CLEAN button on the remote control once D. press the CLEAN button on the main body once when the robot is in the sleeping mode 27. The virtual wall is designed to _. A. limit the robot to a certain area B. prevent the robot from bumping into walls C. stop the robot from reaching 4 meters D. create a bunch of light outside the doorway C American researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special “language protein(蛋白质)” in the brain. The study, conducted by neuroscientists (神经学家) and psychologist from the University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the Foxp2 protein. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were males. Their findings came after it was previously claimed(声称) that ladies speak about 20,000 words a day over 13,000 more than men. “This study is one of the first to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals,” said Prof. Margaret McCarthy, who led the study. In their study, the researchers attempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than their female friends. 6 They separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number of times they cried out in the “ultrasonic （超声波的） range”, the frequencies higher than humans can hear, over five minutes. While both sexes called out hundreds of cries, the males called out twice as often, they found. But when the baby rats were returned to their mothers cage, she fussed over her sons first. Tests conducted on the parts of the brain known to be connected with vocal(声音的) calls showed the male baby rats have up to twice as much Foxp2 protein as the females. The researchers then increased the production in the brains of female baby rats and reduced it in males. This led to the female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them. In contrast, males became less “talkative”. The researchers then tested samples from ten children, aged between three and five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than males, in a brain area key to language in humans. “Based on our observations, we assume higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are connected with the more communicative sex,” said Prof McCarthy. “Our results imply Foxp2 as a component (成分) of the neurobiological basis of sex differences in vocal communication in mammals(哺乳动物).” 28. From the second paragraph, we can learn that _. A. female rats have higher levels of Foxp2 than male rats B. men and male rats have low levels of language protein C. women and male rats have similar levels of Foxp2 D. McCarthy isnt the first to find females more talkative 29. The underlined phrase “fussed over” in the third paragraph probably means_. A. paid attention to B. related to C. put pressure on D. depended on 30. The researchers carried out the experiments on rats in order to _. A. test which part of the brain is key to language in rats and humans B. prove the levels of Foxp2 protein in humans and rats are different C. determine the reason why female rats are more talkative than male rats D. discover the association between Foxp2 protein and vocal communication 31. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. Tests on Humans and Rats B. Why Women Are the Talkative Sex C. Sex Differences in Foxp2 Protein D. Foxp2 Protein Determines Oral Ability D For most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the enthusiasm or interest that Americans afford trains, jets, and even bicycles. Dr Christopher Wilk is a member of a small group of elevator experts who consider this a misunderstanding. Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings, and city life as we know it would be impossible. In that sense, they argue, the elevators role in American history has been no less 7 significant than that of cars. In fact, according to Wilk, the car and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally (水平地), and elevators pushing them towards life in close groups of towering vertical (垂直的) columns. If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators, it might be because riding in them tends to be such a brief, boring, and even awkward experienceone that can involve unexpectedly meeting people with whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant awareness of the fact that were hanging from a cable in a long passage. In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard directed all his attention to this experience, studying the origins of elevator and its relationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a totally comfortable experience. “After 150 years, we are still not used to it,” Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learnt to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure.” That mixture, according to Bernard, sets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situation we find ourselves in as we go about our lives. Today, as the worlds urban population explodes, and cities become more crowded, taller, and more crowded, Americas total number of elevators 900,000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazines “2012 Vertical Transportation Industry” are a force thats becoming more important than ever. And for the people who really, really love them, it seems like high time that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are. 32. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refer to? A. The general view of elevators. B. The particular interests of experts. C. The desire for a remarkable machine. D. The enthusiasm for transport vehicles. 33. The authors purpose in mentioning cars is _. A. to contrast their functions with elevators B. to emphasize the importance of elevators C. to reveal their secret war against elevators D. to explain peoples preference for elevators 34. According to Prof Bernard, what has made the elevator ride different from other life experiences? A. Vertical direction. B. Lack of excitement. C. Little physical space. D. Uncomfortable conditions. 35. The author urges readers to consider _. A. the exact number of elevator lovers B. the serious future situation of elevators C. the role of elevators in city development D. the relationship between cars and elevators 第二节（共第二节（共5小题；每小题小题；每小题2分，满分分，满分10 分）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。 All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer. 36 They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins. 37 Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all 8 countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 38 Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada. Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese Wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. 39 Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports. People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 40 One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace. A. And think of people in cold countries. B. Sports help to train a persons character. C. Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves. D. Many people like to watch others play games. E. People arent inventing new sports or games. F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them. G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. 第三部分第三部分 英语知识运用（共三节，满英语知识运用（共三节，满分分 45 分）分） 第一节第一节 完形填空完形填空（共共20小题小题；每小题每小题1.5分分；满分满分30分分） 阅读下面短文，从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题并在答题 卡上相应番号处将该项涂黑卡上相应番号处将该项涂黑。 My son was badly hurt in a fire. After he 41 from a series of treatments, the doctors told him they would not do any operation for six months 42 it took long for the skin to stop shrinking （收缩）. So, he had to return to college with a visible 10-inch 43 on his face. I said to my son, “Keaton, 44 will pay any more attention to