湖南省长沙市高一英语下学期期末考试试题牛津译林版.doc

湖南省长沙市田家炳实验中学2011-2012学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题满分：150分 时量：120分钟part one: listening comprehension （30 points） section a （225 points）directions: in this section, you will hear six conversations between two speakersfor each conversation, thereare several questions and each question is followed by three choices marked a, b and clisten carefully and thenchoose the best answer for each questionyou will hear each conversation twiceconversation 11. when will the man go for dinner with the woman ? a. tonight. b. tomorrow c. the day after tomorrow. 2. what is the relationship between the two speakers ? a. friends. b. brother and sister. c. husband and wife. conversation 23. where is the man going ?a. the shop. b. the travel agency. c. the bank. 4. how does the man go ?a. in the womans car. b. in his own car.c. in a taxi. conversation 35 why does the man need the books ?a. to lend them to the woman. b. to place them in his study. c. to read them later. 6. what does the woman think of the books ?a. they are good for her. b. they are of no use. c. they are not badly needed. conversation 4 7. what is the man complaining about ?a. the entrance charge for the nightclub is too high. b. he is not allowed into the nightclub free. c. he does not like sammy davis junior. 8. when does the dialogue take place ?a. in the morning. b. in the afternoon.c. in the evening. 9. what does the man finally decide to do ?a. to entertain himself.b. to go to the nightclub. c. to go out for a walk. conversation 510. what is the man ?a. a male nurse.b. a doctor.c. a chemist. 11. what is wrong with the woman ?a. she is wet all over. b. she has been infected with h1n1 flu. c. she has had a cough for three days. 12. where does this conversation most probably take place ?a. by the river. b. in the mans office.c. in the womans house. conversation 613. what are the two speakers talking about ?a. buying a second-hand car. .b. buying a brand new car. c. selling the mans old car. 14. what kind of the car is ?a. a four-door car with air conditioning. b. a two-door car with air conditioning. c. a four-door car with power brakes. 15. who is going to work overseas ?a. the man. b. the woman.c. the womans cousin. section b （75 points）directions: in this section, you will hear a short passagelisten carefully and then fill in the numbered blankswith the information you have heardfill in each blank with no more than three wordsyou will hear the short passage twice why is watching a movie at home more enjoyable than seeing one at a cinema ?at a cinema at homel usually 16. _l someone always explaining the whole movie to his / her friendl the sounds and 17. _of popcorn being chewed all around. l watch 18. _l eat and drink at any time. l with no fear of 19. _elsel with no worry at all about getting to the cinema on time. l 20. _part two: language knowledge （45 points）section a （15 points）directions: beneath each of the following sentences there are 4 choices marked a, b, c and dchoose oneanswer that best completes the sentence21 -didnt they come to the party last week ?-yes, they didnt want to come with us first, but then we _persuade him. a. would b. couldc.were able tod. had to 22 the word media basically refers to _we commonly call newspapers, magazines,radiosand televisions. a. whichb.whatc. whyd. how23 yesterday she sold her car, _she bought a month ago. a. whomb. wherec. that d. which24 -whats the matter with you, lucy ? -after the long walk, my legs _and i couldnt go any further. a. gave outb.gave offc.gave in d. gave up25_the programme, they have to stay there for another two weeks. a. not completingb. not completedc. not having completedd. having not been completed26 she doesnt like miss anderson, so she always avoids _alone with her. a.leaving b.being leftc. to be leftd. to leave27whenever we have trouble with our work, he _be the first one to come to help. a. mustb.should c. cand. will28-why did you leave that position ?-i _a better position at ibm. a. offerb.offeredc.am offeredd.was offered29. these sports were usually removed _they became less popular and had to make way for new more popular sports. a. becauseb.thoughc. untild. so that30. i finally got the job i dreamed about. never in all my life _so happy !a. did i feelb. i feltc. i had feltd. had i felt31great changes _in china since the peoples republic of china _in 1949. a. have taken place; was foundedb.has taken place; was foundedc. have been taken place; foundedd.took place; founded32 we have to be smart _ads, or we may fall _their tricks. a. for; forb. about; offc.about ; ford. of; into33your suggestion is _to us. a.of very valueb. great valuablec. of great valued. very value34can you tell me _?a. what life will be like in the futureb. what will life be like in the futurec. how life will be like in the futured. how will life be like in the future 35 the teacher together with the students _discussing reading skills that _newly published in america. a.are; wereb. is ; werec.are; wasd. is; wassection b （18 points）directions: for each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked a, b, c and dfill in each blank with the word or phrases that best fits the context once upon a time, there was a bird in a cage who sang for her merchant (商人)owner. he took delight in her 36. before he left for a business trip one day, he asked if she had a wish:i will go through the forest where you were born. what 37 should i take for the birds there ? the bird said, tell them i sit full of sorrow in a cage singing my captive (被监禁的）song and im cut off from all of lifes sweet things. i hope it wont be long before i can fly 38 _ through the trees with them again. when the merchant reached the forest, he stopped and said, dear birds! 39 to you all from my pretty bird locked in her cage. she asks for a 40 from you. she wants to join you, but i would 41 her beautiful song and cannot let her go. suddenly one bird screamed and 42 to the ground. nothing else could be more shocking. the merchant thought it was dead. he continued on to the city and 43 his goods. on returning home, the merchant said, i do not know what happened. i told them your message. then , one of them fell down dead. suddenly the bird 44 a terrible scream and fell on her head to the bottom of the cage. the merchant was terrified and wept in 45 . he opened the cage door and took her into his hands carefully. the bird suddenly flew up, then out of the window and 46 on the nearest tree. she turned to him and said gratefully, i really appreciate your delivering my message. that bird instructed me how to 47 my freedom. all i had to do was to pretend to be dead. 36. a. cryb. poemc.speechd. song37. a. reportb. conversationc. messaged. invitation38. a. carefullyb. proudlyc. luckilyd. freely39. a. thanksb. rewardsc. greetingsd. congratulations40. a.replyb. storyc. joked. letter41. a. avoidb. missc. ignored.quit42. a. flewb. ranc. felld. jumped43. a. affordedb. servedc. offeredd. traded44. a. let outb. worked outc. thought outd. found out45. a. surpriseb. interestc. hopelessnessd. curiosity46. a. hidb. startedc. hit d. landed47. a. fightb. treatc. wind. strikesection c （12 points）directions: complete the following passage by using one word that best fits the contextthe olympic games, _48_began in the year 776 bc, are held every four years. athletes _49 around the world can take part, no matter what language they speak. people all over the world are helping to realize the dream that the olympic games will make _50_possible for countries and people to live peacefully side by side. chinese athletes have made important contributions to the olympic games _51_china returned to the games 32 years ago. the whold of china must have felt proud when xu haifeng won _52_first gold medal for his country. deng yaping, who won four olympic gold medals in 1992 and 1996 and became an ioc member in 2000, _53_ perhaps the greatest female table tennis player the world has ever seen. in 2004, liu xiang excited people all over asia when he became the first asian _54_win the gold medal in the mens 110-metre hurdles. the olympians have been bringing joy to people across the world _55 _their attempts to push the limits of human achievement. we are looking forward to seeing more of them in the coming london olympic games. part three: reading comprehension （30 points）directions: read the following three passageseach passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsfor each of them there are four choices marked a, b, c and dchoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passagea last week i was sitting in the hall of a medical building when i heard an elderly woman talking on the phone about her husband. his name was ed and he dropped her off for her doctors appointment, and was going to park the car and wait for her. she was so upset because he never came back to get her. as she described her situation to the person on the phone she started to cry and i knew i needed to take action. after i introduced myself, she told me her name was helen. she was talking to a local restaurant they were going to have lunch at after her appointment. she called to see if he was there. she explained her husband ed was supposed to park the car and wait for her. then she said, my husband has alzheimers (早老性痴呆症）and he shouldnt be driving without me. numerous thoughts ran through my head. call the police, call her family, call the doctors office she had just come from ! i offered to drive to the local restaurant to see if ed was waiting for her there. after telling the nurse about the situation we exchanged cell phone numbers in case ed showed up as i jumped into action searching for him. once arriving in the parking lot of the restaurant, helen described she received a call from the nurse, who had found ed sitting on a bench in front of the hospital a few buildings down waiting for her. what a relief ! once reunited, we needed to find his car which he forgot where he parked! fortunately, he parked in the handicapped（残疾的）spot so it was easy to find!once all this was done, i followed ed and helen home to be sure they arrived safely. after i waved goodbye and wished them my best, i thought, that is the kind of love in life, simple but deep. 56. what was helens reaction when she couldnt find ed ?a. she was going to telephone the police. b. she asked the doctor and the nurse for help. c. she went to look for him everywhere. d. she was terribly worried about him. 57. what do we know about eds driving ?a. he is often fined by the police. b. he cant drive without helens help. c. he always drives very carefully.d. he nver knows where to park. 58. we learn from paragraph 3 that ed _. a. was waiting for helen near the hospital. b. was expected to wait for helen in a restaurant. c. parked the car and then couldnt find his wifed. drove to the restaurant to look for his wife. 59. who was it that told the author ed had been found ?(1) the nurse. b. the doctor.c. the police.d. helen. 60. which of the following could be the best title of the passage ?a. driving with alzheimersb. love from strangers. c. simple but deep loved. the handicapped in trouble. bonce, looking for stories on the back roads of ohio, we were suffering a week-long dry spell. a beekeeper wed been told about was away from home when we called on him. an amusement park where we thought we might find a story had shut down for the season. we began to get a little discouraged. when passing a farmhouse, we found a banner（横幅）in the front yard. the banner said in huge letters: welcome home, roger! we drove on for a mile or two. somebody said, wonder who roger is ? we turned around, went back and knocked on the door. roger was a soldier on his way home from the vietnam war. his family knew he was coming, but werent sure what day he was going to arrive. we asked if they d mind if we brought the camera into the house. rogers mother said it would be all right if we could give her a few minutes to fix her hair. we werent there more than an hour, talking to those people who were all excited about roger coming home. that afternooon i wrote a simple story letting roger represent all the soldiers coming home from war. we sent the film with the story to new york, and the anchorman（主持人）put it on the evening news. rarely has any of our stories caused such a reaction from viewers. there were dozens of calls from people moved by it, and hundreds of letters came in, some of them suggesting that the story be repeated. that hour with rogers family made it a good trip to ohio, after all. i had done a lot of careful planning for the weeks work, but in vain. then along came a banner in a farmhouse yard. back at the office, people asked , how do you find these stories ?well, i said, you do have to work at it.all you really have to do is look out of the window. 61. by saying we were suffering a week-long dry spell, the author means that _. a. they were suffering dry weather for a week. b. they were getting nowhere with their work for a week. c. they were having a hard time finding their way for a week. d. they were having trouble in spelling for a week. 62. why did they drive back ?（一） because a stranger called for them. （二） because they passed by their destination. （三） because they wanted to make friends with roger. （四） because they thought they may find a story about roger. 63. what can we learn from paragraph 6 ?a. careful planning didnt work. b. only rogers family served us. c. only roger appeared after our hard preparation. d. we didnt want to continue to look for stories. 64. what can be learned from the passage ?a. rogers family were excited at the authors coming. b. roger was a soldier who was fighting at the front. c. rogers mother was eager to share rogers story with us. d. rogers story went directly into the viewers hearts. 65. from the story the author wants to tell us _. a. to do careful planning for everything. b. to keep learning by reading stories. c. to see life with ones heartd. to work hard at everythingc every day, young people across the globe are doing their part to keep the earth healthy and green. these are just a few kid heroes for the planet. manatee (海牛) minderwhen she was in second grade, stephanie cohen read about a baby manatee hit by a boat off the coast of florida. marine（海的） biologists saved the manatee. but caring for the sea creature was costly. stephanie took up a collection and raised $ 27 in one day. now 18, stephanie still raises money to help these gentle giants. she sells manatee decorations, candles and cards on her website kmad. org. color us green!at clarendon elementary school, in secaucus, new jersey, the students know what to do with old, used and broken crayons（蜡笔）.recycle them ! they collect the crayons and send them to crazy crayons, where they are made into different shapes and sizes. in the past eight years, new jersey students have recycled nearly nine tons of crayons. goodbye, paper bags!when adrienne boukis, 15, was in sixth grade, in walnut creek, california, she noticed that many of her classmates carried paper lunch bags. to help kids cut down on waste, she invented a reusable lunch bag, which is partially made from recycled plastic bottles. she sells the bags at greengearbag. com and some of the proceeds go to charity that is in need of money. he s skiiing to save the earthparker liautaud, 15, wanted to raise awareness (意识）about the effects of climate change on the polar regions. he set out to become one of the youngest people ever to ski to the north pole. parker feels he met his goal to inspire others. all young people have the power to make a change.he said in an interview. 66. what do the kid heroes have in common ?a. they are all high school students. b. they all involve themselves in green activities. c. they all raise money for green activities. d. they are all from poor families. 67. according to the passage, grazy crayons _. a. recycles some used paperb.paints the crayons with different colorsc. gives new jersey students some crayonsd. recycles old, used and broken crayons. 68. according to the passage, _. a. provides some goods sold onlineb. was designed by adrienne boukisc. focuses on the protection of sea creaturesd. inspires kids to raise money for the manatee69. the underlined word proceeds in the passage probably means_. a. moneyb. bagsc. goodsd. gifts70. in parkers opinion, every kid _. a. should travel to the north poleb. can succeed at an ea