青海省青海师范大学附属第二中学高一英语下学期期中试题无答案

师大二附中2014-2015学年第二学期期中考试测试卷

高一年级英语

第I卷（共115分）

第一部分：语法和词汇知识（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

1.— Don't forget to feed the cat while I'm away.

— No, I ______.

A. don't

B. won't

C. can't

D. didn't

2. With a ______ expression on her face, she is ______ about what to do next.

A. puzzled; puzzling

B. puzzling; puzzled

D. puzzling; puzzling

C. puzzled; puzzled

3. Seeing the tiger walking ______ them, the small animals ran ______ all directions.

A. near; to

B. to; towards

C. by; in

D. towards; in

4. His plan is excellent in ______, but I don't think it will work in practice.

A. theory

B. exercise

C. theme

D. paper

5. It was a pity ______ John wouldn't be able to spend his vacation with me.

A. that

B. when

C. why

D. whether

6. The Chinese government has done what it can to prevent the A H1N1 flu ______.

A. to spread

B. from spreading

C. to be spread

D. from being

spread

7. A civil war ______ if the three parties cannot reach an agreement.

B. will be broken out A. will take place

D. broke out

C. took place

8. Nothing more was heard from him ______ we began to wonder if he was dead.

A. now that

B. so that

C. as if

D. as long as

9. She walked around the room with her nose in the air, pretending I didn't ______.

A. live

B. exist

C. survive

D. breathe

10. Bruce lost the game. To ______, I told him a lot of jokes.

A. cheer him up

B. pick him up

C. cheer up him

D. pick up him

11. Though he is 10 years old, he doesn't know that 2 ______ by 4 makes 8.

A. multiplying

B. is multiplying

C. multiplied

D. is

multiplied

12. Now the number of the students in our school is ______ that of five years ago.

B. twice as larger as

A. as twice much as

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C. as twice large as

D. twice as large as

13. They ______ to finish the project before Sunday, but they didn't make it because of the heavy snow.

A. succeeded

B. tried

C. managed

D. thought

14. I comforted myself with the belief ______ my friend was right so I didn't need to worry.

A. what

B. which

C. that

D. if

15. The building ______ by trees and flowers is where the girls practice dancing.

A. surrounding

B. is surrounding

C. surrounded

D. is surrounded

16. ______ in Chinese tea culture, Lewis came to China to study it.

A. Encouraged

B. Impressed

C. Pleased

D. Interested

17. The teacher always waits until all the children ______ before he starts the lesson.

A. get down

B. set down

C. put down

D. settle down

18. ______ I know, he isn't coming to the party.

A. As soon as

B. As long as

C. As well as

D. As far as

19. We need to make all the preparations ______ two days, because they have brought forward the date of the competition.

A. before

B. at

C. among

D. within

20. Billy decided to complete his journey around the world ______ give up, although he was injured in an accident.

A. rather than

B. other than

C. more than

D. better than

第二部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer in a hospital. I spent most

of the time there with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any 21 and nobody seemed

to care about his living 22 .

I spent many days holding his hand, talking to him and 23 anything that

needed to be done. He became my close friend, 24 he only responded with an occasional squeeze (捏偶尔的() ) of my 25 .

I left for a week to visit my parents. And when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was

26 . I didn't have the 27 to ask the nurses where he was. I was afraid that

they might 28 me that he had died.

Several 29 later, I became a college student. One day, I noticed a familiar

face at a gas station. When I 30 who it was, my eyes were filled with tears.

He was 231 . He was Mr. Gillespie. With an uncertain look 32 his face,

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he replied “yes”. I 33 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking

with him in the hospital. His eyes were full of tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever 34 .

unconsciously(无意识地He began to tell me that 35 he lay there ), he

could hear me talking to him and could 36 me holding his hand all the time.

angel (天使He thought it was an), not a person, who was there with him.

Mr. Gillespie 37 believed that it was my voice and 38 that had kept

him alive.

Although I haven't 39 him after that, it fills my heart with 40

every day. I know that I made a difference between life and death and more importantly,

he made me an angel.

21. A. visitors B. relatives C. patients D. doctors

C. conditions B. requests

D. opinions

22. A. interests

B. looking after

C. pointing out

D. 23. A. talking about helping

with

D. as if

24. A. so that B. even though C. soon after

. arm

25. A. hand B. head DC. nose

D. changed

. gone 26. A. killed

B. lost C27. A. energy B. chance

C. courage

D. time

28. A. cheat B. tell C. remind D. warn

B. weeks 29. A. days

C. months

D. years

B. wondered

C. heard

D. asked

30. A. recognized

31. A. well B. alive C. silent D. alone

32. A. at B. on C. behind D. in

33. A. apologized B. remembered C. explained D. admitted

B. seen

C. wanted

D. received

34. A. dreamed

35. A. because B. if C. unless D. although

36. A. notice B. feel C. imagine D. watch

37. A. hardly

B. quickly

C. firmly

D. nearly

C. touch

D. success

38. A. humor B. duty

39. A. forgotten C. missed D. seen B. called

40. A. joy

B. regret

C. respect

D. sorrow

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。

A

It was 8:30am and the doorbell rang. I answered the door and there was Mr. Jones,

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who was from a bike-racing company. Mr. Jones said, “Congratulations! You are one of our finalists for this year's US Bike Tour Challenge. If you can ride your bike

from here to Miami, Florida and finish it first, you will win $50,000. You can only take ten stops on this race and this doesn't include overnight stays at hotels.

Will you accept this challenge, Mr. Wozniak?” I agreed, and so did my parents. Mr. Jones explained to me the rules. The race began the next day. The first day was very smooth for me. But unluckily the next four days, I bumped into some rain, which didn't stop until I reached North Carolina. And I had used six stops because of the bad weather. It would take five days to get to Florida, so I would travel one day without making a stop. And I did it. On the sixth day, I succeeded in making it all the way to Savannah Georgia without a stop. Four days later, I arrived in downtown Miami and I was informed that I was in the 4th place. So I thought to myself

I could win. At 6:15pm, I found myself head to head with another racer. We both switched gears to head for the finish line.

When the officials announced, “The Ohio competitor, Evan Wozniak, is the

winner!”

I was so excited that I fell off my bike. Happily I got the $50,000 for winning this race. And I did it in ten days.

41. Evan Wozniak is a competitor from ______.

A. Ohio

B. North Carolina

C. Savannah Georgia

D. Florida

42. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

A. Mr. Jones was one of the finalists for this year's US Bike Tour Challenge. objection (反对

B. Evan Wozniak gave up the challenge for his parents' ).

C. Riding from North Carolina to Florida needs at least 5 days.

D. Evan Wozniak successfully finished his race without any trouble.

43. The underlined word “informed” is closest in meaning to ______.

A. called

B. told

C. reminded

D. ordered

44. The correct route of this year's US Bike Tour Challenge is ______.

A. Miami, Florida→North Carolina→Savannah Georgia→Ohio

B. Ohio→Savannah Georgia→North Carolina→Miami, Florida

C. Miami, Florida→Savannah Georgia→North Carolina→Ohio

D. Ohio→North Carolina→Savannah Georgia→Miami, Florida

B

Hilton Universal City

Outdoor swimming pool; rooms with two double beds (sleep 4); mini-fridges

in rooms; on-site restaurants and 24-hour room service with children's menu

and snack cafe; fee car parking; the hotel is walking distance to Universal

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Studios and City Walk with lots of restaurants.

Holiday Inn Universal Studios Hollywood

Rooms with two queen beds (sleep 4), a mini-fridge, a microwave and a game

table; on-site restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with

family-friendly food; outdoor swimming pool; fee car parking.

Holiday Inn Express Universal City

Indoor swimming pool; rooms with two queen beds (sleep 4); breakfast is

included in the room rate; free car parking; coin-operated laundry.

Magic Castle Hotel

Breakfast is included in the room rate; snacks (such as cookies and ice cream);

one or two bedroom suites (sleep 4); suites have fully-equipped kitchen, living

and dining areas; restaurants in the neighborhood; fee car parking; outdoor swimming pool.

45. Children will love to stay in Hilton Universal City because ______.

A. it has mini-fridges in rooms

B. they love to swim

C. it serves children's food

D. they can sleep well

46. At Magic Castle Hotel, you needn't pay extra money for ______.

A. breakfast

B. snacks

C. swimming

D. washing

47. At which website can you find the advertisements?

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www.teens'https://www.360docs.net/doc/9815957118.html,. D. C.

C

telescope (望远镜), called Gaia, is A being designed by astronomers in Europe,

and it couldn't be more different from Pan-STARRS, which is another telescope being asteroids (小行星) and will be looking for comets headed designed. While Pan-STARRS galaxy (银河系for Earth, Gaia will be looking at our entire).

Gaia is designed to draw a map of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Just as a map

of your town gives you a picture of where things are located, Gaia's map of the galaxy observe (will tell astronomers where the stars are. Over five years, Gaia will 观察) about a billion stars and other objects in our galaxy. Each object will be observed about 70 times.

Gaia will be sent into space connected to a rocket. It contains two telescopes, angle (角度). These two telescopes act like Gaia's each focused at a different “eyes”. The reason why humans can see things in 3D is that we have two eyes focused on the same object, at slightly different angles. By using two telescopes like eyes, Gaia can produce the first 3D map of the positions of the stars it views.

Gaia, which is to be sent into space in 2011, will be a powerful telescope. If

you were to use it on Earth, for example, you could stand 600 miles away from your best friends and still get a clear picture of their hair.

Gaia is one of more than a dozen telescopes being designed by scientists right now. The next generation of telescopes will reveal new parts of our universe that

will seem surprising. The universe, with all its planets, stars and other strange

objects, is a puzzle with pieces that we can see by using powerful telescopes.

48. How many different angles can Gaia focus at each time?

A. 2.

B. 3.

C. 4.

D. 5.

49. The map to be drawn by Gaia ______.

A. can show every building on Earth

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B. can show you where your town is

C. will just show the stars around Earth

D. will show where the stars are in our home galaxy

50. What's Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A. What Gaia will do in space.

B. When Gaia will start to work.

C. How powerful Gaia will be.

D. What Gaia will do to Earth.

51. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests that the next generation of telescopes _______.

A. seem very surprising to scientists

B. will not be put into use in a short time

C. will just look at new things in universe

D. will be more powerful than the old generations

D

Clean water is not only important for food production, but necessary for our

life. However, large numbers of people in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are going without. The World Health Organization reports that almost 4,000 children die each lack (缺少day for dirty water or ) of water.

Agriculture is the primary user of water at 70–85% of fresh water in the world. Industrial uses of water don't often come to mind, but you may be surprised to know that industry uses 59% of the water supply in developed countries.

Home use takes up only 8% in the world. But as cities grow, the local government privatization (私有化) of has to cut down on water use. Many cities are turning to water as a method of controlling use. The poor are paying as much as a quarter of income (收入their monthly ) for water in some developing countries.

In 60% of large European cities, groundwater is being used at a faster rate. People are saving water by simply using less and being careful with what they do use. Sometimes it's as simple as not throwing out water that they could use elsewhere.

In Australia overuse of water has always been a problem. The Australian

government has encouraged households and industries to collect rainwater and reuse water from showers. Tech-nology is helping householders for shower and bath water for reuse in toilets or gardens.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a water saving program

designed to encourage families and businesses to examine their water use and save more water. Good water management has been considered by scientists and the UN as the key to solving the water problem. We can all work together to protect our valuable