2016～2017学年度第二学期高一年级期末考试英语试题考试时间：2016年7月15日满分：150分考试时长：150分钟第I卷注意事项：1. 答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
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第一部分：阅读理解题（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。
AAre you interested in making a film? In fact making a film t akes a long time and is very hard work. Writing the story for th e film may take many weeks. Shooting the film often takes at l east six months. Actors and cameramen work from very earlyin the morning until late at night. Each scene has to be acted and re-acted, filmed and re-filmed, until it is just right. Sometimes the same scene has to be acted many times.The film studio is like a large factory, and the indoor stage s are very big indeed. Scenery of all kinds is made in the studi o. Churches, houses, and forests are all built of wood and car dboard. Several hundred people work together to make one fil m. Some of these people are the actors and actresses. The di rector of the film, however, is the most important person in a fi lm studio. He decides how the scenes should be filmed and h ow the actors should act.Most people go to see a film because they know the film s tars are in it. Sometimes the film may be very poor. It is best t o choose a film made by a good director. Some famous direct ors make their films very real; people feel that they themselve s are among the people in the films.1. Making a film is________.A. quite interestingB. very easyC. quite funnyD. very difficult2. The underlined word “shooting” in the first paragraph mean s _____.A. killingB. watchingC. developingD. making3. The most important person in a film studio is the .A. actorB. directorC. actressD. writer4. Which would be the best title for the passage? .A. Actors and actressesB. Making a filmC. A directorD. Writing the storyBDo you have a best friend? In America, when people say “man’s best friend”,they don’t mean another person. Instead, they are talking abo ut a lovely animal-dog! These words show the friendship between people and a nimals. Dogs and other pets can give happiness to people’s li ves. Some people think of their pets as their children. A few e ven leave all their money to their pets when they die!Animals can help people, too. Dogs can be taught to be th e “eyes” for a blind person or “ears” for a deaf person. Scienti sts have found that pets help people live longer! They make p eople happier, too. Because of that, animals are brought into hospitals for “visits”.Americans hold “Be Kind to Animals Week”in the first we ek of May. Pet shows are held during the week. Even if you d on’t live in America, you can do this, too. How? First, think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delici ous food. Also, be sure to keep your pet from those unwanted babies. If you don’t have a pet, be kind to animals around yo u. For example, if you see a dog on the street, don’t kick it or t hrow things at it. Instead, just leave it alone, or better yet, mak e friends with it. If others around you do bad things to an anim al, try to stop them. As people, we must protect animals who c an’t speak for themselves.5. Why are dogs brought into hospitals? ________.A. Because they can make the patients happier.B. Because they can find out the problems of the patients.C. Because they are ill and need to see doctors.D. Because doctors can do experiments on them.6. What is the most popular activity on the “Be Kind to Animal s Week”? ________.A. Playing with pets the whole week.B. Making friends with ot her people's pets.C. Cooking delicious food for pets.D. Holding pet shows in the week.7. What is the passage mainly about? ________.A. Pets are lovely and need care and protection.B. We have done a lot of things for pets.C. Dogs can help people do many things.D. A lot of people ar e interested in dogs.CThe time may soon come when we say goodbye to most of th e world’s languages. Today humansexpress themselves in over 6,000 different languages. But tha t is quickly changing. Many scientists say that over half of the se languages will disappear within the next 50 years. After 10 0 years, the languagesused in the world will not be more than 20.Why? It is because people from different cultures live and work together much more often than before. This brings chan ges. The languages of the world’s main cultures are replacing the languages of the smaller cultures. Most international trad e takes place in world languages such as English. People res pect their own cultures and traditions, but when it comes to ge tting a job, knowing a world language is often necessary. It m ay mean the difference between success and failure.People in different cultures think it good for them to share a popular language. They can quickly share ideas and work to gether. Knowing the same language means easier communic ation and is a basis for trust.Is the death of a small local language such a terrible thing? The answer is maybe. Many cultures may have words for ma ny useful things we know nothing about. If their languages die , their valuable wisdom may be lost forever. The future of the world’s language depends on our actions now. Will we protect endangered languages or allow them to quietly disappear? Time will have the last word.Scientists say that within 50 years, perhaps, there will be only _______languages in the world.A. 6,000B. over 3,000C. around 3,000D. less than209. In “the languages of the world’s main cultures are replacing the languages of the smaller cultures.”the underlined word “replace” means “_______”.A. to put something back into a correct placeB. to take the pla ce of somethingC. to find the good place for something D. to decide how important s omething is10. The passage says that if all the people in the world knewa popular world language, _______.A. people would respect their own culture moreB. people would have no trouble in learning languageC. lessons at schools would be taught in the languageD. it would be easier for them to share their ideas11. According to the passage, if nobody spoke the languages of smaller cultures, _______.A. there would be no smaller culturesB. knowledge would come from the mouths of the eldersC. people would have difficulty in working togetherD. many of the words for things we do not know would be lostDHave you wondered why different animals or pests have t heir particular colours? Colours in them seem to be used mai nly to protect themselves.Birds, especially seagulls are very fond of locusts (蝗虫), but birds can’t easily catch locusts because locusts chang e their colours together with the change of the colour of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops ar e ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown colour as crop s have. Some other pests with different colours from plants ar e usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they ha ve to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at nig ht.If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you willfind the main use of colouring is to protect them. Bears, wolve s and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usu ally invisible(can’t be seen) to the eyes of hunters, because they have the colour much like the bark（树皮）of trees.An even more strange act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid whe n it faces danger. While the liquid is over, its enemies cannot f ind it, and it quickly swims away. Thus, it has existed up to no w though it is not powerful at all.12. This passage mainly talks about _______.A. the change of colour in locustsB. animals or pests dye（染色）themselves different coloursC. the protective colour of animals and pestsD. how a certain sea fish protects itselfLocusts are pests but they aren’t easily wiped out by their ene mies because _______.A. they fly very fastB. they are dangerous to their enemiesC. they change colors with the cropsD.they are powerful enough14. The pests that have different colours from plants usually a ppear at night because _______.A. their enemies can easily find them and eat themB. they have the habit of coming out in darknessC. it’s easy for them to destroy plants in darknessD. birds take their rests when night comes15. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of ye ar because _______.A. it is the most powerful in the seaB. no other fishes can swim as fast as it canC. the liquid it sends out can kill its enemiesD. the liquid it sends out makes its enemies unable to find it 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。
