高一第二学期期末英语试卷.doc

北京四中2005-2006学年高一第二学期期末英语试卷及答案 总分150分，考试时间120分钟 第一卷(共115分)第一部分：听力能力测试（30分，略）第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节 单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的正确答案，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。21. Where can I tie the horse?Oh, you can tie it to _ of the trees.A. both B. every C. each D. either22. Lets _ to clean the house. Its too dirty.A. set about B. set out C. set off D. set down23. _ is mentioned above, the number of the students in senior high school is increasing.A. As B. It C. That D. What24. _ this text can be used for listening has not been decided yet.A. Which B. If C. Whether D. As25. Thank you for your help._. Good luck.A. With pleasure B. Yes C. My pleasure D. No26. Your shoes are _.A. where they were B. the place you putC. in the corner that you put D. there where they are27. I like _ of the two films, for this is _ than that one.A. both； not more interesting B. either； no more interestingC. neither； no more interesting D. either, not more interesting28. _ turn color and fall to the ground is a sign of winter.A. That leaf B. That leaves C. Those leaf D. Those leaves29. It was fine yesterday. _. And a very nice day for fishing, isnt it?A. So it was B. It is so C. So it is D. So is it30. Mrs. White found her husband surrounded by letters and papers and _ very worried.A. look B. looks C. looking D. to look31. Workers in this factory are paid _ the day.A. on B. in C. byD. with32. He will be late _ he can catch the 10:30 train.A. if B. as if C. if notD. even if33. The dictionary still _ where I _ it a moment ago.A. lies； laid B. lied； lay C. laid； laid D. lies； lay34. I like the book _ by Tom.A. writtenB. be written C. writingD. to write35. Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone _ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.A. addingB. to have added C. to addD. added第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a36for scientific discoveries. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, 37something that caught my 38. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the age of twenty-five and thirty.” Being a little over thirty myself, I wanted to 39with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any 40. The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 41to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right.First I looked at some of the 42discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that43that bodies of different weight 44at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 45his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 46of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other 47.Then how about 48? Surely it needed the wisdom of 49to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 50their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 51the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.But why dont best years come after thirty? After thirty, I 52most people do not want to take risks or try new ways in their lives. Then I thought of those famous people53Shakespeare and Picasso. The former one was writing wonderful 54at the late age of fifty, 55the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was ninety!36. A. program B. prize C. conference D. report37. A. said B. announced C. explained D. studied38. A. mind B. care C. attention D. surprise39. A. disagree B. talk C. meet D. advise40. A. chance B. discovery C. research D. fortune41. A. happened B. wanted C. succeeded D. managed42. A. last B. scientific C. oldest D. modern43. A. found B. proved C. doubted D. showed44. A. disappear B. move C. meet D. fall45. A. invented B. developed C. published D made46. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. all47. A. fields B. science C. course D. ages48. A. election B. politics C. leaders D. society49. A. age B. brain C. living D. leadership50. A. finished B. won C. started D. defeated51. A. led B. devoted C. began D. gave up52. A. guess B. know C. believe D. agree53. A. as B. to be C. like D. about54. A. paintings B. idioms C. poems D. works55. A. when B. while C. who D. after 第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 AA special laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have discovered that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, although in ordinary life a person may remember none or only one of his dreams.While the subjectsusually studentssleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep soundly.Observers report that a person usually fidgets(烦躁不安) before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine shows that the dream is over, a buzzer wakens the sleeper. He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleepperhaps to dream some more.Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have disappeared.56. According to the passage, researchers at the University of Chicago are studying _.A. contents of dreamsB. dreamers while they dreamC. the meaning of dreamsD. the progress of sleeping57. Their finding has discovered that _.A. everyone dreams every nightB. dreams are easily rememberedC. dreams are likely to be frighteningD. one person dreams only one dream a night58. The machines being used in the experiment record _.A. the depth of sleepB. the subjects brain waves and eye movementsC. how many dreams a person hasD. what a sleeper dreams during his sleep59. A person would be most likely to remember the dream that _.A. was of most interest to himB. occurred immediately after he went to sleepC. occurred just before he woke upD. was the longest one to him BWithout proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants(居民) of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become angry and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the countrys economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination(目的地) country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance health and happiness of local inhabitants.Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the countrys economy can suffer.On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, first-class roads, and other support facilities(设施) needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourist hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers(阴沟) to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.60. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before the passage?A. It is not important to develop tourism.B. Building roads and hotels is important.C. Support facilities are highly necessary.D. Planning is of great importance to tourism.61. Too much tourism can cause all these problems except _.A. a bad effect on other industriesB. a change of the customs of the countryC. air and water pollutionD. pressure on traffic62. Not enough tourism can lead to _.A. the fact that some people may be out of workB. an increase in tourist attractionsC. the higher cost of support facilitiesD. a rise in price and a fall in pay63. The word “handle” in the last paragraph most probably means _.A. carry away B. pick up C. get in D. take down CIt is only during the last few years that man has generally realized that in the world of nature a balance exists between all forms of life. No living thing can exist by itself. It is part of a system in which all forms of life are joined together. If we change one part of the nature order, this will almost certainly bring about changes in some other part.The cutting of forests reduced the supply of oxygen. The killing of weeds and insects by chemicals led to the wide-spread poisoning of animals and birds. The throwing of waste products into the ocean hurt life in the sea, while waste gases changed the chemical balance of the atmosphere and shut out some of the suns necessary life-giving rays.And so we could go on adding more examples until in despair(绝望) we might feel like giving up the struggle to control these harmful human activities. Man is very clever at changing the world around him to satisfy his immediate needs, but he is not so clever at looking far ahead, or at thinking about what the future results of his action might be. Man may well destroy himself because of his silly action.64. The first paragraph tells us that _.A. all living things in nature depend on each otherB. everything in nature cant exist without the help of manC. man has known the importance of the balance of nature for a long timeD. no living thing can live naturally65. In the second paragraph the examples given are used to prove that _.A. all forms of life belong to a system in which all the parts can be changed for one anotherB. it is only during the last few years that man has generally known the balance of natureC. there are some living things which can exist by themselves without changeD. we cant change one form of life without destroying the balance of nature66. The last paragraph suggests that in order to get his immediate benefits(利益) _.A. man is always anxious to control his activities within limitsB. man is always too eager in planning for distant futureC. man often fails to think about their future results of his actionD. man often feels that he will have to give up in despair67. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Cutting down woods does little harm to human beings.B. Man has to pay much more attention to the future results of his present action.C. Oxygen comes from forests.D. The passage tells us to try our best to get as much as possible immediately.DScientists used to explore on the surface of the ocean. Now they are exploring below the surface, too. They want to know about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean.In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3,000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935 August Piccard dived 10, 330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35,800 feet.All these early dives were deep. But the divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below the surface. Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau, a Frenchman, was able to keep men down to a depth of 36 feet for one month and to a depth of 90 feet for a week.Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment, men can stay below the surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then in 1964 he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea. This was the first undersea station to operate without help from the surface.Many countries are now studying undersea living things. The former Soviet Union had an undersea laboratory in the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In 1970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral, vegetable, and animal wealth there to provide food for the entire world.68. In order to _, scientists are exploring below the surface of the ocean.A. know about the ocean water deep in the oceanB. know about the plant and animal life deep in the oceanC. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surfaceD. both A and B69. Who made the deepest dive?A. August Piccard B. Cousteau C. Jean Piccard D. William Beebe70. Who set up the first undersea station?A. A Frenchman B. An American C. A Russian D. The passage made no mention71. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Nobody can stay below the surface of the ocean.B. The early divers could not stay below the surface of the ocean for very long.C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use of the resources in the ocean.D. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea laboratory.EI gave my housekeeper an old pair of trousers to wash and went into the reading room to read. My housekeeper usually examined my pockets before she washed anything, but for some reason she failed to do so this time. As I was reading I suddenly remembered that there was a ten-pound note in the back pocket of the t rousers I had given her to wash. I dropped my book right away and rushed to the bathroom. But it was too late. My housekeeper told me that my trousers had been in the washing machine for ten minutes! I had the machine stopped working at once and pulled my trousers as quickly as I could. I nearly burnt my fingers when I tried to unbutton(解开钮扣) my back pocket. To my great disappointment, I discovered that it had already become a piece of white paper. I stood there, glaring at my housekeeper in silence until she began to cry, begging me to pardon her and not to drive her off.72. The writer of this passage usually _.A. did the housework for himselfB. had the housework done by his housekeeperC. had the housework done by a family robot(机器人)D. had to do the housework like a housewife73. While reading, the writer suddenly remembered _ a ten-pound note in a pocket of the trousers.A. to leaveB. that he would leaveC. have leftD. that he had left74. After unbuttoning the back pocket, the writer found that _.A. the ten-pound note had become pieces of paperB. the ten-pound note had turned into a piece of white paperC. nothing had happened to the ten-po