晋元高级中学2015学年第一学期
高一年级英语学科期中试卷2015/11
（满分100分，答卷时间90分钟）
第I卷（共79分）
I. Listening Comprehension 17%
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on you paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. He was busy eating. B. He didn’t notice who John was talking to.
C. John was too busy to talk.
D. John was meeting the new guests
2. A. She learns English quickly B. Her English isn’t good.
C. Her English is very good .
D. She learns new sentences slowly.
3. A. 25 minutes B. 65 minutes C. 20 minutes D. 45 minutes
4. A. Once a week B. Twice a week
C. Three times a week
D. Four times a week
5. A. At a car shop B. At a garage
C. In a parking area
D. In a car showroom
6. A. He will go to Paris again B. He will stay at home
C. He will go somewhere else
D. He will have a fun trip next year.
7. A. Finding a larger room
B. Selling the old table
C. Buying another bookshelf
D. Rearranging some furniture
8. A. Stay at home with his father
B. Hunt with Carmen
C. Take some pictures
D. Hunt and take pictures
9. A. They are classmates
B. They are brothers.
C. They are twins.
D. They are colleagues.
10. A .A policewoman B. A tax payer
C. A salesman
D. A bank teller
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which
one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. She was sensitive
B. She was disabled
C. She had been ill for a long time
D. She enjoyed sitting in her garden
12. A. He ran away in his car
B. He was too scared to do anything
C. He drove off, seeking for help
D. He managed to lift the car.
13. A. The son was saved.
B. The son died in the accident.
C. The mother became stronger.
D. The mother died in the hospital
Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear tow longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
II. Grammar and vocabulary 25%
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B. C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
18. I have seen trees, ____________ open at sunrise and close at sunset.
A. which the leaves
B. of which leaves
C. whose leaves
D. its leaves
19. The foreign guests, _______________ were scientists, were warmly
welcomed at the airport.
A. most of whom
B. most of them
C. most of which
D. most of those
20. Is this the university _____________ you visited last time?
A. that one
B. which
C. the one
D. the one what
21. My father bought me several books, but __________ was interesting.
A. most of them
B. none of them
C. none of which
D. neither of which
22. She says that she’ll never forget the time ________ she’s spent
working as a secretary in our company.
A. which
B. when
C. how
D. where
23. In the office I never seem to have time until after 5:30 pm, _____
many people have gone home.
A. that
B. which
C. whose time
D. by which time
24. I can think of many cases _______ students obviously knew a lot of
English words and expr essions but couldn’t write a good essay.
A. why
B. which
C. as
D. where
25. I met the teacher in the street yesterday ________ taught me English
three years ago.
A. which
B. when
C. where
D. who
Section B
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
After graduation from university, I had been unable to secure a permanent job in my small town. So I decided to leave home for New York, (26)______I might have a better chance to find a good job. (27) ______ (earn) some money to pay the daily expenses, I started work in a local caféas a waiter. I believe that (28) ______ ______ ______ I was offered a good position, I would resign at once.
Over time, the high cost of living became a little burden on my already (29) ______ (exhaust) shoulder. On the other hand, my search for a respectable job had not met with much success. As I had studied literature at university, I found it quite difficult to secure a suitable job in big companies. Mother had just said that (30) ______ I want to have a better career advancement, I had to find work in the city. Perhaps (31) ______my mother had told me was deeply rooted in my mind. I just did as she had expected.
Soon I had lived in the city for over six months but I still did not like it. Apparently, I had difficulty (32) ______ (adapt) myself to life in the city, let alone finding a job to my delight. After nine months of frustration, I eventually decided to go back to my small town. Not until I returned (33) ______I realize that a quiet town life was the best for me.
Section C
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Rest, relaxation, and stress reduction are of vital importance to people’s well-being and health. This can be 34 through various daily activities such as exercise and meditation, but no doubt traveling is a priority for many people, and college students are no 35 . But with landmarks swamped with tourists, and transportation and accommodation costs even higher during holidays, how to travel on a 36 is a tricky question.
Earn on the trip
For some, asking their parents for travel expenses is 37 . Saving up on your own is the trend now. But what about earning money on the trip? You may offer to write an article about your trip for the school newspaper or 38 news stories with photos to local newspapers. Even if it’s just a small sum of money, it eases part of the pressure of 39 your trip.
Couch surfing or camping
Instead of paying for an expensive hotel, you can try to get free nights on someo ne’s couch. There are a number of websites to help 40 the way, and you can offer couch surfing opportunities in your dormitory as you travel and meet people on the way.
It’s free and, more importantly, you can stay with local hosts in their home, chat with them and get great advice on where to find traditional local cuisine. You are very likely to be exposed to new sights and unexpected landscapes you wouldn’t have nevertheless come across.
Low-budget holidaying with a tent is also viewed as otherwise. Just imagine what fun it is to sleep on the beach, listening to the waves and watching the sunrise.
Cycling
With train tickets not easily 41 and flights too expensive, cycling is a popular means of 42 for many budget travelers. Riding on a small and light bicycle, you can avoid traffic jams in cities and reach rural areas without noise and pollution from motor vehicles. III. Reading Comprehension 37%
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Is there a job for you after college? What does the world of work keep in store for you? That 43 in large measure on who you are.
If you’ve enjoyed your st udies in English and history, 44 , you’ll
be glad to know that in a recent survey by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York State, a majority of CEOs said that the liberal arts are essential for 45 critical thinking and problem-solving skills. If you thought college was for acquiring specific work skills, only 37 percent of the CEOs in the survey agree with you.
If you plan to start your career as a secretary, be aware that this job is undergoing tremendous 46 . In offices where secretaries have not already been eliminated, the
47 role of a clerk is now unrecognizable. Most bosses 48 their own mails and meetings and travel plans, thanks to e-mail and the Internet, so secretaries are 49 taking on higher-level tasks such as drafting contracts and handling customer service problems. Those willing to expand their 50 should do well.
If you are a woman interested in law enforcement (执法), note that some states and cities are working hard to reach 51 standards for female applicants. Although most small suburban police departments are deeply traditional, and some are 52 even to employ woman, among the nation’s largest forces abou t 15 percent of the officers are female, five times as many as a generation ago.
Degrees in sports management are also 53 . Two hundred U.S colleges and universities, 10 times as many in 1985, now 54 undergraduate courses in sports management, and some have advanced degree programs. At some school you can also combine an MBA in sports management with a law degree.
55 , if you’ve set your sights on a traditional MBA, take heart. MBA recruitment is way up, and salaries are 56 . But money isn’t al l today’s MBAs are looking for. A recent study of nearly 1,800 MBA students in the United States and Canada found that 68 percent 57 the statement, “My family will always be more important than my career.”
43. A. concentrates B. depends C. takes D. passes
44. A. by comparison B. as a result C. for instance D. in return
45. A. developing B. discouraging C. confirming D. appreciating
46. A. troubles B. pains C. tests D. changes
47. A. active B. small C. useful D. traditional
48. A. await B. handle C. transfer D. classify
49. A. increasingly B. unwillingly C. diligently D. intentionally
50. A. horizons B. activities C. organizations D. operations
51. A. medium B. high C. fair D. legal
52. A. keen B. resolved C. reluctant D. qualified
53. A. on display B. at an end C. at rest D. on the rise
54. A. cancel B. offer C. register D. drop
55. A. Contrarily B. Consequently C. Finally D. Strictly
56. A. competitive B. moderate C. fixed D. regular
57. A. give out B. agree with C. wonder about D. focus on
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour
Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour consists of three tour routes: City Tour (red route). Temple Tour(green route) and Pudong Tour (blue route). In addition, Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour also designs night routes to provide a platform for tourists to enjoy the night scenes of this vital city. Every bus is equipped with a guide system which is available in 8 languages: Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German,
1. Tourists can buy coupons of tickets for Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour at agencies of Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour.
2. Agencies of Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour will provide tourists with coupons and Big Bus brochures.
3. Tourists can exchange tickets from Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour
a. Shanghai Sightseeing Bus ticket with fixed time
b. Free tickets for scenic spots according to the different choices of tourists
Tel: 021-********
Website: www. https://www.doczj.com/doc/8a15124722.html,
58. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Tourists hoping to visit Pudong should choose the Red Route.
B. Coupons of tickets are available to tourists free of charge.
C. Tourists can exchange tickets at Shanghai Art Museum at 17:00.
D. The 24-hour package ticket can give tourists access to the Bund sightseeing tunnel.
59. To go sightseeing with Shanghai Sightseeing Bus Tour, a tourist can _________.
A. exchange tickets round the clock
B. enjoy the night scenes of the city
C. get on or off at any time
D. always expect timely arrival of the bus
60. Where will you most probably find the information?
A. In a bus schedule.
B. In a book review.
C. In a curriculum booklet.
D. In a tourist guidebook.
(B)
If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen dissolved in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the consequence can be death.
Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs. That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.
Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world’s natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen (标本) showed evidence of that sort of injury.
If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly—and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.
Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark- and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.
61. Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?
A. A twisted body.
B. A gradual decrease in blood supply.
C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.
D. A drop in blood pressure.
62. The purpose of Rothschild’s study is to see _____.
A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends
B. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression
C. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies
D. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones
63. Rothschild’s finding stated in Paragraph 4 _____.
A. confirmed his assumption
B. speeded up his research process
C. disagreed with his assumption
D. changed his research objectives
64. Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs ______.
A. failed to evolve an anti-decompression means
B. gradually developed measures against the bends
C. died out because of large sharks and crocodiles
D. evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it
(C)
Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Few would argue that there has not been significant technological progress in the field of self-driving cars in recent years. Aside from the technology question, the legislative issue gives the world a worse headache. The content of the trouble centres on the question of who is to blame in a crash. The legal field tends to have the owners take responsibility for the messes their cold lifeless machine makes, for which case an explosion of lawsuits are well expected.
Today, many of the car manufacturers and their suppliers are researching self-driving technology, but it is unclear why they would want to roll it out quickly. A consumer in America, for example, uses his or her car for approximately one hour per day. There is, therefore, a large amount of "free capacity" in the personal vehicle use market. Imagine a world where you can be driven to work, and where your car can then turn around and drive home so that your partner or anybody else can use it during the day. This shared use pattern could certainly stop the need to own a second car. Taken to its logical conclusion, it could even be the biggest reason to eliminate the need to own a car at all.
The effects on car sales volumes could be destructive.
The possible violation of privacy is also a big issue on the map. We all know that consumer data is big business. A self-driving car would easily log where you visited, the time of the day you went, and much more. Though your purchase preferences might escape secret peeping, the leakage of your whereabouts seems inevitable as it’s hard to do what you are always doing to your smartphone toward the sole tool of transportation. Power off the big steel fellow and you are stuck on the road. The now excitedly expecting publics are sure to be annoyed soon.
Much discussed, the poor application of the technology outweighs the previous factors. In car industry, new vehicle features take a long time to get to broad market mass. Features are typically launched first on high-end vehicles, and then trickle down once there is sufficient space in the market to generate the scale affordable for the volume vehicles. With a car model's life cycle being between five and seven years, it is hard to see self-driving technology being fitted as standards of the mass-market brands.
We still have a long way off from a world of completely self-driving cars.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)
65. The likelihood to take the car owners as the guilty party in traffic accidents will give rise to _________.
66. What feature of the self-driving car would mainly affect car sales?
67. How can we prevent our personal data from being monitored by the self-driving car?
68. The most serious problem facing the self-driving car is ____________.
第II卷（共21分）
I. Verb Filling 6%
1. Nearly 20 people were reported _________________(kill) in the explosion of Tianjin Port.
2.When his mother came in, the boy pretended ____________(do) his homework.
3.While you were in London last year, the London Bridge
_____________(repair).
4.I hope her health _____________(improve) greatly by the time we come back next year.
5.No sooner _________ the words ____________ (speak) than he realized that he should have remained silent.
6. For the last two years, he ____________(write) a history of the American Civil War. He will have completed it by the end of July.
II. Translation 15%
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
1.他在聚精会神地写他的博士论文。（involve）
2.他们唱了一首歌，圆满的结束了这个晚会。(round off）
3.这一次老师就放过他，只给了一个警告。（let…off）
4.他们继续开心的聊天，将等着购物的顾客们置于一边。（ignore）
5.他讲述的关于自己的冒险经历使我们听得入迷了。（fascinate）
参考答案
第I卷（共79分）
1-5 BBABB 6-10 CDDAD
11-13 CCA
14. website 15. summer 16. specific 17. Interests
18-25 C A B C A D D D
26. where 27. To earn 28. as soon as / as long as 29. exhausted
30. if 31. what 32. adapting 33. did
34-42 K J F H B E A C G
43. B 44. C 45. A 46. D 47. D
48. B 49. A 50. A 51. C 52. C
53. D 54. B 55. C 56. A 57. B
58-60 D B D
61-64 A B C A
65. An explosion of lawsuits.
66. Its shared use pattern.
67. By powering off the self-driving car.
68. the poor application of the technology.
第II卷（共21分）
I. Verb Filling 6%
1. to have been killed
2. to be doing
3. was being repaired
4.will have improved
5.had …been spoken
6. has been writing
II. Translation 15%
1.He was involved in writing his doctoral essay.
2.They rounded off the evening by singing a song.
3.The teacher let him off the hook with a warning this time.
4.They happily went on chatting, ignoring the customers who were waiting to be served.
5.His relation of his adventure fascinated us.