湖南省衡阳八中、永州四中高一英语下学期第一次联考试题（理科实验班）.docVIP

衡阳八中永州四中2016年上期高一年级理科实验班第一次联考英语（试题卷）注意事项：1.本卷共72题，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。2.考生领取到试卷后，应检查试卷是否有缺页漏页，重影模糊等妨碍答题现象，如有请立即向监考老师通报。第一部分 听力（每题1.5分，共30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.whats the woman crazy about? a. the bad traffic in the morning. b. the early working time in her office.c. the construction in front of the building.2.what is the woman doing? a. recommending some places to the man.b. asking for advice from the man.c. leaving on her trip to asia.3.what is the man going to do? a. talk to more soldiers. b. organize the information. c. collect more information. 4.what will the speakers do tonight? a. prepare for an exam. b. go to a celebration. c. go to a hospital.5.where does the conversation most probably take place? a. at a clinic. b. at a furniture store. c. in a gym.第二节 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6.what class will the man have this afternoon?a. politics. b. history. c. biology. 7.what does the woman say about the cafeteria? a. she likes the variety of food there.b. she doesnt think the food there is too bad.c. she thinks it is too crowded there.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8.where does the conversation take place? a. at the airport. b. at the lost and found. c. at a railway station. 9.how many pieces of luggage does the woman have?a. two. b. three. c. four.10.what color is the large suitcase? a. brown. b. gray. c. blue.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11.what does the woman ask the information for? a. for some surveys. b. for a meeting. c. for a class project.12.what sport is the 36-to-45 age groups second choice? a. jogging. b. tennis. c. skiing.13.in which age group are men a bit more active than women? a. the 18-to-26 age group. b. the 27-to-35 age group. c. the 46-to-55 age group.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14.how does the man know the shop? a. from a friend. b. from the newspaper. c. from the internet.15.who does the man like most?a. jimi hendrix. b. jimmy page. c. fender.16.why is the jimmy pages guitar so expensive? a. his signature is on it. b. it was played at his 1970 show. c. it is the only fender in the store.17.what does the man plan to buy? a. a fender used by jimmy page. b. a latest model of classic guitar. c. a small guitar for a beginner.听第10段材料，回答18至20题。18.what should international students do when they get to college in america? a. take out a medical insurance policy. b. ask the college to recommend a doctor. c. get a check-up.19.according to the man, what is the standard form of medical care in america? a. public clinics. b. college clinics. c. private doctors.20.what should international students bring when they go to america? a. their health records. b. the contact information of their doctors. c. medicine.第二部分 阅读理解（每题2分，共40分）a the first memory i have of him-of anything, really-is his strength. it was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. the unfinished wood floor had large, terrifying holes whose big and opening darkness i knew led to nowhere good. his powerful hands, then age 33, wrapped all the way around my tiny arms, then age 4, and easily swung me up to his shoulders to command all i surveyed. the relationship between a son and his father changes over time. it may grow and flourish in mutual maturity. it may sour in hated dependence or independence. with many children living in single-parent homes today, it may not even exist. but to a little boy right after world war ii, a father seemed a god with strange strengths and strange powers enabling him to do and know things that no mortal could do or know. amazing things, like putting a bicycle chain back on, just like that, or building a hamster cage, or guiding a jigsaw(拼版玩具)so it forms the letter f; i learned the alphabet that way in those pre-television days. there were, of course, rules to learn. first came the handshake, a good firm squeeze accompanied by an equally strong gaze into the others eyes. the first thing anyone knows about you is your handshake,” he would say. and wed practice it each night on his return from work, the serious toddler(学步儿童)in the old cleveland indians cap running up to the giant father to shake hands again and again until it was firm enough. one day, i realize now, there was a change. i wasnt trying to please him so much as i was trying to impress him. i never asked him to come to my football games. he had a high-pressure career, and it meant driving through most of friday night. but for all the big games, when i looked over at the sideline, there was that familiar fedora(软呢帽). and by god, did the opposing team captain ever get a firm handshake and a gaze he would remember then, a school fact contradicted something he said. impossible that he could be wrong, but there it was in the book. these accumulated over time, along with personal experiences, to strengthen my own developing sense of values. and i could tell we had each taken our own, perfectly normal paths. i began to see, too, his blind spots, his prejudices and his weaknesses. i never threw these up at him. he hadnt to me, and, anyway, he seemed to need protection. i stopped asking his advice; the experiences he drew from no longer seemed relevant to the decisions i had to make.he volunteered advice for a while. but then, in more recent years, politics and issues gave way to talk of empty errands and, always, to illness. after much thought and practice “ you can do whatever you have to do.”, one night last winter, i sat down by his bed and remembered for an instant those terrifying dark holes in another house 35 years before. i told my father how much i loved him. i described all the things people were doing for him. but, i said, he kept eating poorly, hiding in his room and violating the doctors orders. no amount of love could make someone else care about life, i said; it was a two-way street. he wasnt doing his best. the decision was his. he said he knew how hard my words had been to say and how proud he was of me. “i had the best teacher,” i said. “you can do whatever you have to do.” he smiled a little. and we shook hands, firmly, for the last time. several days later, at about 4 a.m., my mother heard dad shuffling about their dark room. “ i have some things i have to do,” he said. he paid a bundle of bills. he composed for my mother a long list of legal and financial what-to-dos “ in case of emergency.” and he wrote me a note. then he walked back to his bed and laid himself down. he went to sleep, naturally. and he did not wake up.21. the underlined word “it” in para 2 may refer to _.a. a single-parent home b. the relationship between a son and his fatherc. the mutual maturity d. the dependence or independence22. from the passage we can infer that _.a. there was no television when the writer was learning the alphabetb. the writers father was a god who could do many things with strengthc. the writers father lived a poor life and couldnt support his familyd. they practiced shaking hands until the writer grew up23. what does the underlined sentence “ and it meant driving through most of friday night.” probably imply？a. the writers father had to drive a long way on friday night to watch his son play football.b. because of a high-pressure career, the writers father had to drive from monday to friday night.c. the writers father was deeply impressed by his son in spite of a high-pressure career.d. the writers father was forced to work to an excessive (过量的) extent.24 the sixth paragraph is mainly about _.a. the writers change of attitude to his fatherb. the writers distrust of his fatherc. the contradiction (矛盾) between the writer and his fatherd. the change of relationship between the writer and his fatherb which is safer-staying at home, traveling to work on public transport, or working in the office? surprisingly, each of these carries the same risk, which is very low.however, what about flying pared to working in the chemical industry? unfortunately, the former is 65 times riskier than the latter! in fact, the accident rate of workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity, and almost as safe as staying at home. the trouble with the chemical industry is that when things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby.it is this that makes chemical accidents so newsworthy.fortunately, they are extremely rare.the most famous ones happened at texas city (1947),flixborough (1974), seveso (1976), pemex (1984) and bhopal (1984). some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small.no one died at seveso, and only 28 workers at flixborough.the worst accident of all was bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed.the texas city explosion of fertilizer killed 552.the pemex fire at a storage（储藏） plant for natural gas in the suburbs of mexico city took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at bhopal. some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger.thus the texas city explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate（硝酸铵）,which is safe unless stored in great quantity.the flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs.the seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep.when the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action.the pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb.the fire set off a chain reactions exploding storage tanks.yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode.had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died.25.which of the following statements is true?a.working at the office is safer than staying at home.b.traverlling to work on public transport is safer than working at the office.c.staying at home is safer than working in the chemical industry.d.working in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air.26.chemical accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because _.a.they are very rare b.they often cause loss of lifec.they always occur in big cities d.they arouse the interest of all the readers27.from the discussion among some experts we may conclude that _.a.to avoid any accidents we should not repair the facilities in chemical industryb.the local authorities should not be concerned with the production of the chemical industryc.all these accidents could have been avoided or controlled if effective measure had been takend.natural gas stored in very large tanks is always safec you hear the comment all the time: the u.s. economy looks good by figures, but it doesnt feel good. why doesnt ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? it is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of the wealthy society by john kenneth galbraith, who died recently at 97. the wealthy society is a modern classic because it helped describe a new moment in the human condition. for most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, galbraith wrote. “poverty (贫穷) was found everywhere in that world. obviously it is not of ours.” after world war ii, the fear of another great depression gave way to an economic growth. in the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent. to galbraith, materialism (物质主义) had gone mad and would cause discontent. through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didnt really want or need. because so much spending was artificial, it would be unsatisfying. meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people wrongly considered government only as “a necessary bad.” its often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or falling behind. well, there are many undeserving rich overpaid chief managers, for instance. but over any meaningful period, most peoples incomes are increasing. from 1995 to 2004, people feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often dont satisfy their rising wants for bigger homes, more health care, more education, and faster internet connections. the other great disappointment is that it has not got rid of insecurity. people regard job stability as part of their standard of living. as company unemployment increased, that part has gradually become weaker. more workers fear theyve become “the disposable american,” as louis uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.because so much previous suffering and social conflict resulted from poverty, the arrival of widespread wealth suggested utopian (乌托邦式的) possibilities. up to a point, wealth succeeds. there is much less physical suffering than before. people are better off. unfortunately, wealth also creates new complaints. advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. but the search for growth cause new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. wealth sets free the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-accomplishment. but the promise is so unreasonable that it leads to many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown. figures indicate that happiness has not risen with incomes. should we be surprised? not really. weve simply confirmed an old truth: the seeking of wealth does not always end with happiness.28. the wealthy society is a book _. a. about poverty in the pastb. written by louis uchitellec. indicating that people are becoming worse offd. about why happiness does not rise with wealth29. according to galbraith, people feel discontented because _. a. materialism has run wild in modern societyb. they are in fear of another great depressionc. public spending hasnt been cut down as expectedd. the government has proved to be necessary but ugly30. why do people feel“squeezed”when their average income rises considerably? a. they think there are too many overpaid rich.b. there is more unemployment in modern society.c. their material demands go faster than their earnings.d. health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control.31. what does louis uchitelle mean by “the disposable american” ? a. people with a stable job.b. workers who no longer have secure jobs.c. those who see job stability as part of their living standard.d. people who have a sense of security because of their rising incomes.d once upon a time, science fiction was just a style among other styles. there were crime stories, there were horror stories, there was literary fictionand there was science fiction. but today science themes dominate these other styles. its difficult to think of much modern crime, horror or “serious” fiction that doesnt involve science. and its not just books. with every second movie and computer game having a sci-fi element, science fiction seems to have controlled our entire entertainment culture. its clear that if we want to define science fiction we should relate it to the role that science plays in our lives. perhaps the place to start is by noting when it began. although some experts have claimed to be able to trace sci-fi back to ancient times, it is more plausible to find it in initial form in the 19th century, when industrial societies arose. one of the features that set industrial societies apart from other kinds was the increasing part that science played in everyday life. factories with vast machines turned out huge quantities of goods, which were transported by trains, motor vehicles and ships all over the world. cities were built on the back of technology, with electricity in homes and hospitals helping everyone to lead healthier, more convenient lives. all of these changes had great effects not only on peoples real lives, but on their imaginative ones. writers began to articulate these changing physical and mental landscapes, eventually giving science fiction a large and devoted fan base of especially young readers, who found that it spoke to their curiosity about the future that science would create. but sci-fi reflected fears about science more than it did hopes. these typical early science fiction novel might be a uk novel like h.g. wells the war of the worlds (1897). with great skill, wells played upon the fears of technology by imagining earth under threat by a civilization that of men from mars. the science fiction of today expresses the impact of the computing revolution, robotics and our environmental challenges, while it is less concerned with “little green men from mars” and other themes of past sci-fi. given that science, technology and politics are always intertwined (交织), contemporary science fiction often has a great deal to say about power. many recent novels like american cory doctorows little brother (2008) are concerned with government and security service “conspiracies (阴谋)” against the people, particularly as the revelations of whistleblowers like edward