云南省滇池中学高一英语下学期期中试卷.doc

昆明滇池中学2014-2015 学年下学期期中考 高一英语 试卷本试卷满分共100分，考试用时120分钟。第卷注意事项：答第卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号填写在答题卡上。选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分15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在试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节（共5小题；每小题0.5分，满分2.5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称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 does the man feel about the movie?a. he only likes its story. b. he likes it very much c. he doesnt like it at all.2. what will the man do with his old computer?a. sell it to the man. b. give it to his brother. c. keep it himself.3. whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?a. mother and son. b. sister and brother. c. teacher and student.4. what does the man eat in the end?a. an apple. b. a banana. c. a pear.5. where is the mans father?a. in his study. b. in the garage. c. in his room.第二节（共15小题：610题每小题0.5分，1120每小题1分，共12.5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、7题。6. where is the library?a. beside the new playground.b. in front of the new playground.c. behind the new teaching building.7. what do we know about ann?a. she doesnt like swimming.b. she has a colorful college life.c. she works really hard in college.听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。8. how long did the man play football this afternoon?a. three hours. b. four hours. c. five hours.9. why didnt the man go for dinner with his friends?a. because he still wanted to play.b. because he was not hungry.c. because he was too tired.听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。10. how was the weather yesterday?a. hot. b. cool. c. cold.11. what did the man do yesterday?a. he visited a friend.b. he stayed at home all day.c. he went swimming with a friend.12. what do we know about the man?a. he still feels terrible now.b. he feels very hungry now.c. he hasnt taken any pills yet.听第9段材料, 回答第13至16题。13. when will the man leave for canada?a. next monday. b. this sunday. c. this saturday.14. whats the man worried about?a. how to make some friends.b. how to get along well with others.c. how to make others understand him.15. what does the woman think of the man?a. hard working. b. easy-going. c. outgoing.16. what do we know about the woman?a. she is afraid to introduce herself to others.b. she tries to remember peoples names.c. she is bad at making a conversation.听第10段材料, 回答第17至20题。17. how long have the speaker and josh been friends?a. over a year. b. about a month. c. about half a year.18. what did josh want to do that day?a. watch a movie alone.b. go back to school.c. watch her older sisters performance.19. how did the speaker feel when his mother saw him?a. excited. b. sad. c. nervous.20. what did the speaker learn in the end?a. josh was not a good friend.b. friends needed time of their own.c. josh no longer wanted to be his friend.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节（每小题1.5分） athe arts, especially music, should be part of every schools lessons at every grade level. students would be much smarter if they had some musical experience. they could improve their classroom skills, like paying attention and following directions. people develop all these skills when they learn music. making music also lets children use their imagination. it provides students with a chance to try out their own ideas. music not only makes children better students, but also gives them something positive to do. in a music program, children can be part of a band instead of joining a gang (团伙). parents can enjoy listening to their childrens music instead of seeing them glued to a computer or tv screen. in a school band, students get to be part of a team. they can get along well with old friends and make new friends through music. music builds self-confidence, too. it gives children a sense of achievement and success. making music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practice performing in front of an audience. music gives children an opportunity for self-expression, and that helps develop their self-confidence. once again, music is important because it can make children better students, give them something positive to do, and build their character. that is why music should be offered in every single grade in every school.21. according to the passage, music could make students smarter by_. aimproving their classroom skills and paying attentionbimproving their classroom skills and imaginationcimproving their attention, direction and imaginationdlearning music, making music and trying out their own ideas22. what does the underlined phrase glued to in the second paragraph mean? aunwilling to turn onbalways lookingcunwilling to leavedalways playing23. the third paragraph mainly tells us that music could _. agive children self-expression and self-confidencebbring to children achievement and successcgive children something to be proud ofddevelop childrens self-confidence24. whats the best title of this passage？ amusic is a must as a course at schoolbmusic builds childrens self-confidencecmusic makes students much smarterdlearning music and making music bwith golden sunshine and a gentle breeze (微风), autumn is the most beautiful seasons in the year. this is a great time to go outside and have fun. go to a valley to see red maple trees , go and pick fruit in an orchard or find an open field to fly your kite in. however, for many high school students, these great activities may be just a dream. with plenty of work to do, they spend all their hours indoors, struggling for a high mark in their exams. of course, study is one of the most important things for teenagers. but life is definitely much more than that. sometimes we spend so much time studying that we forget how to make life wonderful. in doing so, we lose the real purpose of life to be a valuable and happy person. to enjoy just how great it is to be alive, we have to put down our books and pens and look around us. students, take some exercise to improve your health, talk with your parents and friends for understanding and walk around outside to refresh (振作) your body and mind. going out and enjoying the beautiful countryside often helps our creativity in our work. chinese craftsman, lu ban created a saw to help woodworkers. but if he hadnt walked outside, he would not have been inspired by a kind of toothed (锯齿状的) grass. we could also suppose if newton hadnt rested under that apple tree, then he wouldnt have been hit by an apple, and his classic (经典的) theories would not have come out. going out is not only a break from hard work, but a chance to add to life experience. so come on, give your brain a good rest. step out of the books and get your bag ready for an autumn outing. we are sure you will get much more than knowledge from the exciting journey.25. in which paragraph does the writer make a summary about his opinion? aparagraph 1.bparagraph 2.cparagraph 5.dparagraph 4.26. why is going out a dream for many high school students? athey are unhappy to do so.btheir parents dont allow them to do so.cthey have too much work to do for getting high marks in the exams.dthey think study is the most important thing for them.27. which of the following isnt the reason for high school students going out? ato improve their health.bto invent a new product.cto develop their creativity.dto refresh themselves. cjerry was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. the reason the waiters followed jerry was because of his attitude. he was a natural motivator. if an employee was having a bad day, jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. seeing this style really made me curious, so one day i went up to jerry and asked him, “i dont get it! you cant be a positive person all of the time. how do you do it?” jerry replied, “each morning i wake up and say to myself, jerry, you have two choices today. you can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. i choose to be in a good mood. each time something bad happens, i can choose to be a victim or i can choose to learn from it. i choose to learn from it. every time someone comes to me complaining, i can choose to accept their complaining or i can point out the positive side of life. i choose the positive side of life. the bottom line: its your choice how you live your life.” i reflected on what jerry said. later, i left the restaurant industry to start my own business. we lost touch, but i often thought about him when i made a choice about life. several years later, i heard that jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was stopped at gun point by three armed robbers. while trying to open the safe(保险箱), he forgot the password, nervous. the robbers shot him. luckily, jerry was found rather quickly and rushed to the local hospital. after 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, jerry left hospital with fragments（碎片）of the bullets(子弹) still in his body. i saw jerry about six months after the accident. when i asked him how he was, he replied, “the first thing that went through my mind was that i should have locked the back door,” jerry replied. “then, as i lay on the floor, i remembered that i had two choices: i could choose to live, or i could choose to die. i chose to live.” “werent you frightened? did you lose consciousness(知觉)?” i asked. jerry continued, “the doctors and nurses were great. they kept telling me i was going to be fine. but when they wheeled me into the emergency room and i saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, i got really frightened. i knew i needed to take action.”“what did you do?” i asked. “well, there was a big, strong nurse shouting questions at me,” said jerry. “she asked if i was allergic (过敏的)to anything. yes, i replied. the doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. i took a deep breath and shouted, bullets! over their laughter, i told them. i am choosing to live. operate on me as if i am alive, not dead.” jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. i learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.28. the author left jerrys restaurant industry because he_. awanted to start business on his ownbwas afraid of another robbery latercwas not equal to the job any longerddidnt get along well with others29. why was jerry shot? _. abecause he left the back door openbbecause he refused to open the safecbecause he didnt open the safe in timedbecause he pretended to forget the password30. what was jerry really afraid of in the emergency room? _. athe doctors and nurses gave him up.bhe decided to take action to live again.che saw many doctors and nurses waiting there.dhe might not be saved by doctors and nurses.31. from the passage we can learn that jerry was _. ano longer positive to his life after the operationboptimistic even when things were at their worstcinfluenced by all his colleagues in many waysdbadly injured and stayed in hospital for six months da new study has found some secrets of peoples understanding of large numbers.researchers studied a group of people who were born deaf and never learned any spoken language or a formal sign language, but they have developed a gesture system to communicate with people around them. the gestures let them express approximate amounts, but not exact numbers. “up to three, theyre fine,” says elizabet spaepen, a researcher at the university of chicago and an author of the study. “but past three, they start to fall apart.” in one test, spaepen would knock her fist against a study participants fist a certain number of times and then ask them to respond with the same number of knocks. “if i were to knock four times on their fist, they might knock on my fist five times,” she says. the finding offers a clue to just how much language affects our understanding of numbers. that has been a big question since 2004, when other researchers published data on two tribes in the amazon whose members also lack words for big numbers. “what they have are words that mean one and two,” spaepen says, “and then they have a word to mean many.” members of the amazonian tribes also had trouble matching numbers larger than three or four. but some scholars felt that these earlier studies failed to prove that language was the reason. they pointed out that the tribes lived in groups that didnt use money and had no need for exact numbers. the new research appears to answer that criticism. “it proves that the kinds of problems in understanding numbers that we found in the amazonian tribes are not due to just the cultural or environmental circumstances,” says peter gordon of columbia university, one of the researchers involved in the earlier studies.32. the participants of the new study _. acannot communicate with one anotherbuse a formal sign language to express numberschave some physical disabilitydcome from a distant tribe33. according to the passage, the new study _. aignored the cultural influence on the participantsbis doubted by many peoplechas found it is harder to learn numbers than learning a sign languagedhas shown that our understanding of numbers is influenced by our mastering of language.34. the tribes involved in earlier studies _. aoften dealt with big numbers.bdidnt use money in their daily lifecdidnt have their own languagedoften made trouble for the researchers35. what can we learn from the last paragraph? apeter gordon is a researcher of the university of chicago.bpeter gordon thinks less of the new study than his earlier studies.cpeter gordon believes peoples understanding of numbers has nothing to do with cultural circumstances.dpeter gordon is in favor of the finding of the new study.第二节（每小题1.5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。m: overseas travel agency. may i help you?w: yes, my husband and i are planning a vacation to an island. _36_m: certainly. off the top of my head, i would suggest the island of bali.w: _37_m: at this time of year it rains a lot in most regions, but it is the dry season in bali. _38_and i must say that the shopping is absolutely great !w: _39_jason loves to dive and i love to shop and eat. can you tell me how much it will cost for the two of us?m: it will take me a day or two to get accurate prices, but i will call you as soon as i do.w: thank you._40_m: ill need your credit card number to make a reservation, but you wont actually have to pay for it until you get there.w: that sounds great. awhy bali?bthat sounds amazing!cyou can fly to the island.ddo you have any recommendations?e. will we have to pay for it right away?f. there are many scenic spots on the island.g. also, bali is known for its surfing and diving.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分）完型填空（每题1分，满分20分）some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. i am one of those unfortunate people who have 41sense of direction and i may have visited a place time after time but i still get 42on my way there. when i was young i was so 43that i never dared ask strangers the way and so i used to 44round in circles and hope that i would happen to get to the place i was heading for. i am 45too shy to ask people for directions, but i often 46replies that puzzle me. often people do not like to admit that they didnt know their hometown and will 47on telling you the way, even if they do not know it ; others who are 48to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long 49of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to 50between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the 51direction. if anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, i always tell them i am a 52to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong 53but even this can have embarrassing (尴尬的) results. once i was on my way to work when i was stopped by a man who asked me if i would 54him the way to the sunlight building. i gave my 55reply, but i had not walked on a few steps when i 56that he had asked for directions to my office building. however, at this point, i decided it was too late to turn back and 57him in the crowd behind me 58i was going to meet with someone at the office and i did not want to keep him waiting. imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the 59man who had asked for directions to my office and his 60when he recognized me as the person