安徽省蚌埠二中2015-2016学年高一第二学期期中考试英语试题

蚌埠二中2015-2016学年高一第二学期期中考试英语试题命题人：刘雪梅注意事项：1. 本试卷分第卷和第II卷两部分。2. 试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。3. 所有选择题的答案必须用2B铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置，否则，该大项不予计分。第卷第一部分 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，从试题所给的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. What does the man want to drink?A. Coffee B. Coke C. Water2. What does the man plan to do tonight?A. Work over time B. Take a walk C. Go to the park3. How is the weather now?A. Rainy B. Cloudy C. Sunny4. What does the man mean?A. An iPad isnt necessary for the girl B. He needs to think about the girls idea.C. He is really concerned about the girls study.5. What are the two speakers mainly talking about? A. The mans parents. B. The mans new car. C. The mans health.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、7题。6. Which is the womans favorite TV channel? A. ESPN. B. Movie Channel. C. Discovery Channel.7. What does the man hardly do? A. Watch movies. B. Play sports. C. Read books.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. Why is the woman sad?A. Because of losing her bag. B. Because of losing her cell phone. C.Because of something Jenny said.9. Who is the woman speaking to? A. A policeman. B. Someone she knows. C. A taxi driver.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题.10. When did the woman first feel a headache? A. Three days ago. B. About two days ago. C. One day ago.11. What has the woman done ? A. She has taken some medicine. B. She has seen a doctor. C. She has asked for sick leave.12. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. At home. B. In the office. C. In a classroom.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. How much does a single room cost? A. From 160 to 220 dollars. B. From 220 to 250 dollars. C. From 250 to 310 dollars.14. What rooms does the man reserve ? A. Two single rooms. B. Two double rooms. C. A single room and a double room.15. How long will the man stay at the hotel? A. For five days B. For six days C. For a week16. What can the man get? A. Free lunch B. Free service charge C. a 10 percent discount听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When did the woman try to find a summer job? A. In high school B. In the first year in college C. In the second year in college18. How was the business after her store opened? A. It was very disappointing. B. It wasnt very good. C. It was successful19. How many products has the woman sold? A. Over 1,100. B. Over 11,000. C. Over 40,000.20. What does the woman think of making jewelry? A. Tiring. B. Boring . C. Relaxing.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。 AWhen a child is overweight, turning away from sugary snack foods and spending more time in the gym may be good ways to drop a few kilos. But new research shows that theres another effective weight loss method that youve probably never considered: reading a book.True, turning a page doesnt burn a ton of calories-but reading can have surprising results on body image, as long as you pick the right book. In a new study from Duke Childrens Hospital, a group of obese girls aged from 9 to 13 took part in the hospitals Healthy Lifestyles Program and were asked to read a book called Lake Rescue, which features an overweight character who eventually loses weight. Another group of girls in the same program read a book featuring a thin heroine, while a third group didnt read a book at all.After six months, all of the girls whod read books lost weightbut the girls whod read Lake Rescue lost more weight than the others, reducing their body fat by 71 percent, as compared to 33percent for the girls whod read the other book. The girls who hadnt read a book during that time actually gained weight, raising their weight by an average of half a kilo.The program director of Healthy Lifestyles, Dr. Sarah Armstrong, believes that books like Lake Rescue can be valued for teaching children about healthy eating habits and lifestyles. Dr. Armstrong tells Time Magazine, “The character in the book learns that she can become healthier, and the I can do it feeling resonates（产生共鸣）with the girls who read it.So, if youve got a child on the verge(边缘) of being fat, healthy eating and exercise are still the best ways to lose the pounds-but it looks like a trip to the library cant hurt, either.21 Whether or not a book can help children lose weight mainly depends on _.A. the books plot B. the books title C. the books author. D. the books price.22. According to this text, which of the following groups of children are more likely to lose weight?A. Children who like sugary snack foods.B. Children who often play sports.C. Children who study very hard.D. Children who often read.23. What does the underlined word “ obese” in the second paragraph mean?A. Extremely fat. B. Mentally healthy. C. Especially clever. D. Physically sound.24. Which statement is TRUE according to the text?A. The author doesnt think reading is the best way to lose weight.B. Reading a love story is an effective way for girls to lose weight.C. Reading is considered as the best way to lose weight by a certain group of girls.D. Only reading books on health helps to lose weight.25. Which of the following would be the best title for this text? A. Childrens Healthy Balanced Diet Program B. Book-reading Can Help Children Lose WeightC. Healthy Eating Habits and LifestylesD. Public Health and Health ProblemsB In our daily life, it is common to run into a careless cell phone user on the street. Perhaps they were busy talking, texting or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new “species” of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name phubbers（低头族）. Recently, a cartoon created by students from China Central Academy of Fine Arts put this group of people under the spotlight. In the short film, phubbers with various social identities bury themselves in their phones. A doctor plays with his cell phone while letting his patient die, a pretty woman takes selfie（自拍） in front of a car accident site, and a father loses his child without knowing about it while using his mobile phone. A chain of similar events eventually leads to the destruction of the world. Although the ending sounds overstated the damage phubbing can bring is real. Your health is the first to bear the effect and result of it. “Constantly bending your head to check your cell phone could damage your neck,” Guangming Daily quoted doctors as saying. “the neck is like a rope that breaks after long-term stretching.” Also, staring at cell phones for long periods of time will damage your eyesight gradually, according to the report. But thats not all. Being a phubber could also damage your social skills and drive you away from your friends and family. At reunions with family or friends, many people tend to stick to their cell phones while others are chatting happily with each other and this creates a strange atmosphere, Qilu Evening News reported. It can also cost you your life. There have been lots of reports on phubbers who fell to their death, suffered accidents, and were robbed of their cell phones in broad daylight.26. For what purpose does the author give the example of a cartoon in Paragragh2?A. To advertise the cartoon made by students.B. To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing.C. To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers.D. To warn doctors against using cell phones while treating patients.27. Which of the following is NOT a risk a phubber may have?A. His social skills could be affected.B. His neck and eyesight will be gradually harmed.C. He will cause the destruction of the world.D. He might get separated from his friends and family.28. Which of the following may be the authors attitude towards phubbing?A. Supportive. B. Opposed. C. Optimistic. D. Objective.29. What may the passage talk about next?A. Advice on how to use a cell phone.B. People addicted to phubbing.C. Consequences of phubbing.D. Measures to reduce the risks of phubbing.CA great many astronomers are always exploring our planet. And recent data from NASAs Curiosity rover（探测器） indicate Mars Crater once held a big lake. This discovery suggests that the red planet may have been much wetter than scientists thought and raises the possibility that the planet was once habitable.“The size of the lake and the length of time and series that water was showing up implies that there may have been enough time for life to develop.” NASAs Mars Exploration Program scientist Dr. Michael Meyer said.Curiosity collected the new data on its five-mile drive to Mount Sharp, the prime destination on its mission to study Mars climate and geography. The rover landed in Gale Crater in August 2012. After reaching Mount Sharp in September, the rover spent two months studying rocks at the base of the three-mile-high mountain, discovering fine layers of mudstone-which tend to collect at the bottom of lakes. This shows how a mountain inside a Mars Gale Crater might have formed.If our assumption for Mount Sharp holds up, it challenges the idea that warm and wet conditions were passing, local, or only underground on Mars,” Dr. Ashwin Vasavada said in a written statement. “A more radical explanation is that Mars ancient, thicker atmosphere raised temperatures above freezing globally, but so far we dont know how the atmosphere did that.Vasavada said Curiosity will continue to study changes in the rock formation as it climbs Mount Sharp in the next few months, which should test the teams assumption.Well also look at the chemistry of the rocks to see if the water that was once present wouldve been of the kind that could support microbial life(微生物), if it ever was present, he said in a video released by NASA. With only 30 vertical feet of the mountain behind us, were sure theres a lot more to discover.30. What does this text mainly talk about?A. How scientists explored Mars. B. The ways Curiosity used to explore Mount Sharp.C. Some data about Gale Crater. D. The discovery of Curiosity rover on Mars.31. The discovery of the lake proves that _.A. life once existed on Mars B. the climate on early Mars was hot C. early Mars was ripe and ready for life D. humans can live on Mars32. Where does this text probably come from?A. A science report. B. A science fiction.C. A news report on solar system. D. An official announcement.DAs the Internet becomes more and more popular, many network buzzwords (网络流行语) have appeared in our life. Here are some of them in no particular order. 1. Meng Meng Da (cute/adorable)Meng Meng Da developes from the sounds of kissing both cheeks. The characters “么么哒” are often used in text messaging to symbolize kisses, much like “XOXO” in English. The kissing sounds were eventually replaced with “meng”, which means “cute” or “adorable.”2. It is to be cherished(珍惜).On March 31, 2014, Ma Yili responded to Wen Zhangs cheating on Sina Weibo. It reads as follows: Being in love is easy, being married is not. It is to be cherished. Soon many Internet users began to make sentences with this pattern. For example, “Copying is easy, creating is not. It is to be cherished.”3. So the question is“So the question is” is taken from the advertising ofLanxiang Vocational School in Shandong Province: “So the question is: Which school offers the best excavator(挖掘机) skills? Go to Shandong and find Lanxiang.” Netizens add the phrase “now here comes the question” before the question “which school has the best excavator skills?”, which can also be followed with other questions”.4. Rich and Bitch（任性）The buzzword originates from a real event: A while back, a Mr. Liu spent 1760 yuan online buying a health care product. In the following four months, Mr. Liu remitted (汇款) more than half a million yuan to the swindler. When reporters interviewed him, he said that he had already found himself cheated after spending only 70,000 yuan. “I just wanted to see how much they could take from me!” Sometimes it is translated as, “You can just be stubborn if youre rich.”. Another way to understand it is “I can do what I want Im rich.”33. How much was Mr. Liu cheated out of altogether?A. 1760 yuan. B. 540,000 yuan. C. 70,000 yuan. D. A million yuan.34. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?A. Network buzzwords may come from real events.B. “So the question is ” comes from a TV series.C. “It is to be cherished” was first said by Ma Yili.D. “Rich and Bitch” is often used to describe the rich.35. Where can we use “It is to be cherished”?A. Love me, love my dog. B. Where there is a will, there is a way. C. Eating is easy, losing weight is not. D. The older, the wiser. 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。 On your way to work, you find a grandma lying on the sidewalk._36_In a study of by-standers, it is found that some people just look away and keep on walking rather than stop and get involved. There is a tendency to decide that no action is needed. says a psychologist. The first thoughts that come into your mind often keep you from offering help. _37_ Here are some common thoughts that might prevent you from helping. _38_ Im probably not the most competent (有能力的) person in this crowd. You might think someone older or with more medical knowledge should offer assistance. _39_ The fear of embarrassment is powerful; no one wants to risk looking foolish in front of others. No one else looks concerned-this must not be a problem. We can follow the people around us, but most people tend to hold back their emotions in public. If you spot trouble and find yourself explaining inaction, force yourself to stop and evaluate the situation instead of walking on, says the psychologist. Then retry to involve other people; you dont have to take on the entire responsibility of being helpful. Sometimes its just a matter of turning to the person next to you and saying, It looks like we should do something. Or asking someone if an ambulance has been called and, if not, to call for one. _40_A. Do you stop to help?B. Why should I be the one?C. What if he doesnt really need my help?D. It looks like we should do something.E. In order to take action, you have to work against them.F. Once you take action, most people will follow you.G. We should stop and evaluate the situation and try to make other people follow.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，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Thousands of years ago, it was common to see many stars in the sky. 41 this changed with the invention of 42 . Cities have gone brighter, using more lights. And that means most people in urban areas will never see beautiful groups of stars. They will never see a _43_ night sky and never be inspired by it. Today, people are 44_ by light - even at night time. Much of this light _45_ where it shouldnt be-it creates light 46_ . For example, a person can put a light outside to shine on his own house. But the light could be so strong that it may 47_ shine on his neighbors house. The _48_ light shining on the neighbors house is one kind of light pollution. But is all this light really a big _49_ ? People need light to see, work and drive safely at night, and for many other things! But scientists say that this extra light has proven _50_ on living creatures-animals and humans. One kind of animal _51_ by light pollution is the bird. Many birds travel to a different area of the world to lay eggs, 52_ at night. But lights from tall buildings can _53_ the birds off their natural path. They may also crash into brightly lighted buildings, in danger of losing their _54_. Human beings experience problems _55_ light pollution too. Light affects some chemicals in peoples bodies. And people who are continually _56_ to light at night have higher rates of health problems. People and animals need light, _57_ they also need darkness. Experts say that people must use light _58_ . Only use the amount of light that you _59_. Dont think that more light is better light. People also can greatly _60_ light pollution by using well-designed lights, which only shine light where it should be. Using less light and better lighting decisions reduces the energy people use.41. A. Therefore B. Besides C. However D. Meanwhile42. A. cars B. computers C. television D. electricity43. A. special B. n