河北省沧州市南皮一中高一英语下学期期中试题.doc

2013-2014学年度高一下学期期中考试英语试卷本试题分为第一卷和第二卷两部分，考试时间为120分钟，满分150分。第卷（选择题,共100分）第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节 (共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5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。1. how is the man trying to lose weight now? a.by eating more fruit.b. by going on a diet.c. by riding a bike.2. where does this conversation probably take place? a. in the street.b. on a bus. c. in a furniture store.3. what did the man do last night? a.he prepared for a test.b. he stayed in the library.c. he went to a party.4. what happened to the man?a. he broke his arm while swimming.b. he hurt his leg in a car accident.c. he broke his leg while skating.5. what does the man think of his grades? a.disappointing. b. surprisingc. satisfying.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至7题。6. what is dr. jones doing at the moment? a.having an important meeting.b. having lunch outside.c. performing an operation.7. why does the man want to speak to dr. jones?a. to borrow a book from him.b. to discuss something with him.c. to ask him to give a lecture.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. what can we learn about the two swimming pools from the conversation?a. the two pools are almost the same.b. the pool in town is bigger and more modern.c. the pool in the park road is bigger and more modern.9. what are the two speakers going to do on thursday?a. to swim.b. to eat at a chinese restaurant.c. to eat at a french restaurant.10. what is the probable relationship between the two speakers?a. friends. b. teacher and student. c. husband and wife.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. what caused mr. miller to be late this morning?a. watching a play on tv last night.b. watching a football match on tv last night.c. watching a basketball match on tv last night.12. how does mr. miller usually go to work?a. by car. b. by bus. c. by train.13. what happened to mr. miller after his explanation?a. he was warned. b. he was fired. c. he was fined.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. what kind of pay does the man get?a. unreasonable pay. b. low pay. c. satisfactory pay.15. how does the man spend his money?a. he spends some money on books.b. he uses all his money on trips.c. he saves all his money.16. which bank does the man deposit（存） his money in?a. the college bank.b. the bank near the college.c. the bank close to his home.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. what can we learn from the news?a. over 200 people were made homeless.b. 15 houses were badly damaged. c. no villager was killed.18. how many people were badly injured in the storm?a. nine.b.seven.c. ten.19. what do we know about the farmer?a. his wife was missing.b. his house was destroyed.c. one of his children was killed.20. what did the woman do when she saw her house shaking?a. she tried to take something out.b. she told her husband not to leave.c. she rushed out with her children.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（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a、b、c和d项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 aa person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. people can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuffprovided theyre over sixty-five. everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and cant do. but creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. anyone can invent. and they do. inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. but it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.“i didnt have a flashlight, and i didnt want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled becky. “so i thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and thats when the idea came to me.”it isnt every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but thats exactly what becky schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. her invention? the glo-sheet. that night becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. she remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toyslike balls and frisbeesand wondered how they were made. she was determined to find a solution. so they very next day, becks dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. they returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. she took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the housethe bathroom. there, she experimented.“id turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said becky. “my parents remember me running out the room saying it works, it works! im writing in the dark! ”she used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. she took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. when the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. the glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, becky became the youngest female ever to receive a u.s. patent.she didnt actively market her glo-sheet. she didnt need to. the new york times wrote an article about an incredible inventionpatented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.21. from paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _.a. it is illegal for one to drive under sixteenb. people enjoy privileges when over sixty-fivec. one is never too old or too young to inventd. people hate the limitations that define our behavior22. what caused becky to invent glo-sheet?a. she was trying to do homework when it got dark.b. she was having trouble with math problems.c. she was trying to earn some money.d. she was working on a school project.23. what is the meaning of the underlined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?a. paint that acts as a glueb. paint that covers a markc. paint that becomes hardd. paint that glows in the dark24. what does it mean that beck “didnt actively market her glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8?a. she kept the original one for her own use. b. other people came to her for the glo-sheet.c. beckys father tried to sell the glo-sheet.d. she gave away patent to the government.25. with which statement would becky most likely agree?a. experience is needed to be a good inventor.b. only by inventing things can you know what people need. c. always try to sell patent rights to large companies.d. you never know what you can do unless you try.ba recent study, published in last weeks journal of the american medical association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver. indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone. by contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger. the authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight. with passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident. robert foss, a scientist at the university of north carolina highway safety research center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “the basic issue”, he says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled task the driving is.” both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (减轻) the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting a license is a multistage process. a graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with passenger restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges.graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes, according to recent studies. about half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place, but only 10 ofthose states have restrictions on passengers. california is the strictest, with a novice (初学者) driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20 for the first six months. 26. which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage? a. adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m. b. a teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car. c. adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night. d. a teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight. 27. according to robert foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to _. a. their lack of driving experience b. their frequent driving at nightc. their improper way of driving d. their driving with passengers 28. which of the following statements is true according to paragraph 3? a. teenagers should spend more time learning to drive. b. driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn. c. restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons. d. the licensing authorities are partly responsible for teenagers driving accidents. 29. a suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers driving accidents is that _. a. driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule b. they should be prohibited from taking on passengers c.the licensing system should be greatly improved d. they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m. 30. the present situation in about half of the states is that the graduated licensing system _. a. is under discussion b. has been put into effect c. is about to be set up d. has been perfected cmany people believe the glare from snow causes snow-blindness. yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”. the united states army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in a snow-covered country. rather, a mans eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad expanse of barren (少植被的) snow-covered terrain (地形). so his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. nature eases this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. the fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs (模糊), then is obscured (遮蔽), and the result is total, even though temporary, snow-blindness. experiments led the army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. the men following can then see something. their gaze is arrested. their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. by focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. in this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome.31. to prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, darkglasses are _.a. indispensable and essential b. usefulc. ineffective d. available32. when the eyes are sore tears are produced to _.a. balance the pain b. treat snow-blindnessc. clear the vision d. loosen the muscles33. snow-blindness may be avoided by _.a. concentrating on the solid white terrainb. searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrainc. providing the eyes with something to focus ond. covering the eyeballs with more fluid34. the scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _.a. prevent the men behind losing their way b. beautify the landscape of the terrainc. warm themselves in the severe cold d. give the men behind something to see 35. a suitable title for this passage would be _.a. natures cure for snow-blindness b. snow-blindness and how to overcome itc. soldiers marching in the snow d. snow vision and its effect on eyesight第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10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, happy and help them 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 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 people love to skate or ski in japan, norway or canada.some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. but basketball and volleyball are rather new. neither one is a hundred years old yet. _39_ waterskiing 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 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 like sports in the world.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 go in for them.g. people are inventing new sports or games all the time.第三部分: 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节 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，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。for my daughters 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see linkin park, as they were playing in our city. we didnt really have the _41_ but we knew how much this band meant to her.the night before she was like a _42_ at christmas. every so often she got up and came to _43_ with us, because she couldnt _44_. on the night of the _45_ it was good to see her so _46_ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.needless to say when they _47_ after midnight, with tshirts and lots of pictures of the band, _48_ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well _49_. this will be a memory she would _50_ forget, and nor would we._51_ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they _52_ to go shopping on the other side of the city. my husband and i _53_， loving the fact that she had not _54_ that quality as she grew up.later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. they presented my husband and me with a _55_ each. on each present were the words “because you are the _56_ mum/dad in the world”. when we said our thankyous and told her she didnt have to, we asked her _57_ she had bought us gifts. her _58_ was simply “just because i love you”this wasnt something _59_ from our daughter; she had always given us a gift when she wanted to express her _60_， and each gift was always a welcome surprise. it could have been anything, it wouldnt have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.41a. money b. time c. interest d. news42a. worker b. baby c. kid d. parent43a. dance b. learn c. walk d. sit44a. speak b. sleep c. stand d. leave45a. concert b. holiday c. party d. travel46a. healthy b. happy c. pretty d. surprised47a. stayed b. left c. returned d. turned48a. worrying about b. caring for c. looking at d. listening to49a. lent b. earned c. saved d. spent50a. ever b. never c. often d. neither51a. still b. only c. just d. also52a. continued b. tried c. decided d. struggled53a. refused b. cried c. shouted d. laughed54a. kept b. lost c. realized d. discovered55a. gift b. prize c. ticket d. picture56a. richest b. oldest c. best d. cleverest57a. where b. how c. when d. why58a. way b. answer c. suggestion d. idea59a. important b. ordinary c. new d. valuable60a. feelings b. concerns c. understandings d. opinions第卷（共50分）注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第二节 语法填空：（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照每小题括号内的具体要求完成语法填空和词形变化。among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, _61_ biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. sometimes it is a hot topic _62_ (discuss) by people.the greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. every year, millions of people are murdered by these two _63_