实验高中2015年秋高一年级期中考试英语试题

实验高中2015年秋高一年级期中考试英语试题第一部分听力（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. Who is ill?A. Steven.B. Steven‘s mother.C. Steven‘s wife.2. How will the woman go to Shanghai?A. By train.B. By car.C. By plane.3. What will the weather be like tomorrow?A. Fine.B. Cloudy.C. Rainy.4. What‘s the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Classmates.B. Strangers.C. Teacher and student.5. How did Alice go to school at last?A. By bicycle.B. On foot.C. By bus.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、8题。

6. How many people are there in the conversation?A. 3B. 4C. 27. What are the first two speakers doing?A. They are going somewhere by plane.B. They are meeting Susan at the airport.C. They are seeing Susan off.8. What can we know about Susan?A. She had an unpleasant flight.B. She carries a suitcase.C. She is tall.听第7段材料，回答第9、11题。

9. When does the conversation take place?A. In the eveningB. In the morningC. In the afternoon.10. How much did the things cost?A. 4 yuan.B. 14 yuan.C. 40 yuan.11. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In a shop.C. At a hotel.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What happened to the woman?A. She lost her job.B. Her boss allowed her to go on holiday.C. She was given a chance to study abroad.13. How did the man feel about the woman‘s boss‘ decision?A. He understood it well.B. He thought it completely wrong.C. He didn‘t understand it.14. What do we learn about the woman?A. She goes to work on time every day.B. She works very hard.C. She doesn‘t know how to use computers.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What does the man want to do?A. He wants to borrow some money from the woman.B. He wants the woman to find a job for him.C. He wants to give the woman some money.16. Why doesn‘t the man want to go back home?A. He wants to work in an employment office.B. He doesn‘t like his father.C. He doesn‘t want to work on his father‘s farm.17. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man found a job.B. The man returned home.C. The man borrowed some money from the woman.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Why is the man nervous?A. He‘s sitting a third driving test.B. He hasn‘t studied traffic rules yet.C. He has failed to pass the driving test three times.19. How did the man feel before the second test?A. Confident.B. Disappointed.C. Nervous.20. Why did the man fail in the second test?A. He broke a traffic rule again.B. He hadn‘t practiced driving long enough.C. He was unable to deal with an unexpected case.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。

AIt was another frustrating day. I came home from school, changed my clothes and got ready for work.. I worked at a local restaurant in town.I went to work feeling down-and-out. And to make matters worse, my work here was the same thing over and over again. Dealing with customers who complained about their food that was being served was too big or too small.Three elderly ladies walked in and sat by the window. They watched how I was working.When they finished their meals, I went over to clean their table. They talked to me for a while about school, how I was doing, what grade I was in and what I planned to do in the future.As they were leaving, they walked past me and one of them said to me in a confident, gentle voice, ―You are going places.‖ And that was it. They left the restaurant and I was pretty much in awe （赞叹）. I had tears in my eyes, because they gave me reasons to believe in myself. They picked my spirit up from being down –and--out and gave me a reason to keep on working hard and to give it my all.People used to tell me that I couldn‘t have a career in television until I had a degree and was out of college. I‘m no w the host of a student-produced television show. And the best thing i s that I‘m only 17 years old and I am a senior in high school.21. Why did the author think that it was another frustrating day?A. He didn‘t want to work there.B. The work was too hard for a teenager.C. It was difficult to make the customers happy.D. He had to do the same thing again and again.22. From the passage we know that the author ______.A. worked as a cookB. had a part time jobC. loved his job at firstD. did very well at school23. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?A. You‘ll be successful.B. You‘re going on a trip.C. You‘re in the right place.D. You should go to a better place.24. It can be inferred from the passage that the author now .A. is studying in a collegeB. doesn‘t have great dreamsC. has many thanks to the three ladiesD. likes his job in the restaurant very muchBSo you think you know your dog. But how well does your dog know you? She probably recognizes you when she sees you. But can a dog tell by simply looking at you whether you have a happy or an angry expression on your face? Researchers in Austria have taught pet dogs to know the difference.Dogs are very mindful of sound. When dog owners shout or speak in a strong, harsh（刺耳的）voice, dogs often act guilty and quietly move away from the area. Researchers have found that dogs can look at our faces, and tell the difference between a smile and a frown. The animals were able to recognize a look of approval from one of disapproval.Researchers performed a series of experiments. They taught dogs to recognize facial expressions. They showed the dogs two pictures of either the upper of lower half of a person‘s face. On one picture, the person looked happy. The other appeared angry. The dogs were then shown images of the eyes or mouths of people they had never seen before. They were also shown the left half of the faces used in training. Once the dogs learned to recognise which image was happy or angry, they could easily identify the same expressions in pictures of any face.Corsin Muller, who led the study, says future studies will try to show whether dogs can learn the meaning of facial expressions—for example, whether a frown shows that someone is angry. ―What we can say with our study is that they can tell these ones are different. But what we cannot be sure of at this point is what exact meaning they are associating with these different expressions.‖―Of course it seems likely that they would associate （联系）some positive meanings with the smiley face and they would associate some rather negative meanings with the angry face. But what exactly they are associating with these expressions we cannot know at this point.‖ Corsin says.25. The passage tells us mainly about .A. how dogs communicate with each otherB. What are the best ways to train our dogsC. Why it‘s necessary to know our pet dogs wellD. whether dogs can recognise our facial expressions26. We know from the second paragraph that a dog .A. pays little attention to its owner‘s looksB. has to be trained to recognise our voicesC. is very sensitive to its owner‘s voicesD. will feel guilty if their owner frowns27. According to Corsin Muller, it‘s been prove n that dogs know .A. the exact meaning of a frownB. a frown is an angry expressionC. human looks carry different meaningsD. a smiley face may have negative meanings28. In which part of a website does the text probably appear?A. Technology.B. Education.C. Language.D. Economics.CA Chinese mother has become a walking dictionary by memorizing（记忆）The English-Chinese Dictionary from cover to cover. Li Yan Zhi, 51, from Xi‘an, Sh an xi Province, is able to explain the meaning of every single world in the 2,458-page book, which consists of 220,000 entries.Ms Li, who divorced more than 20 years ago, received more translating work. This helps her support her 26-yearold son who suffers from autism（孤独症）and is not able to take care of himself.Ms Li is a lecturer in Financial English at Xian Transport University‘s Economic and Banking School. Since August 2013, she has been reading the dictionary six hours every day from 3 am. Within 19 days, she finished the task for the first time. To help her memorize, Ms Li borrowed 465 English language magazines from the university library. ―My biggest dream is to enter The Brain to improve myself,‖ said Ms Li. The Brain is a popular reality TV show in China which uses a series of games to test the contestants‘（竞争者）brainpower.Ms Li said that her son cannot look after himself. Since her divorce more than 20 years ago, she and her son have been relying on each other. As a single mother, Ms Li had to lock her son in the house whenever she went out for work. She said when she returned the house was always a complete mess. But she said she never ga ve up. ―If I can fly I will fly; if I can‘t fly I will run; if I cannot run I will walk ,‖ she said. ―No matter what you must continue.‖Apart from English, Ms Li has learned to speak more than 10 different languages, including French, Russian, German, Japanese and Polish. She hopes that by memorizing the 220,000 words from the dictionary, she can encourage students to learn English and increase their vocabulary. ―Lecturer Li really is a living English-Chinese Dictionary. And we should devote ourselves to learning.‖ Says Zhang Xingjie, one of her students.29. What made Li Yanzhi begin to memorize The English-Chinese Dictionary?A. Wanting to teach better.B. Entering The Brain.C. Encouraging students.D. Making more money.30. The underlined phrase ―the task‖ may refer to .A. teaching Financial English.B. reading The English-Chinese DictionaryC. reading six hours every dayD. borrowing English language magazines31. From the fourth paragraph we can know Ms Li is a woman full of .A. perseverance （毅力）B. ambition（雄心野心）C. wealth（富裕）D. secret32. What Zhang Xinjie said in the last paragraph means .A. students should speak several different languagesB. students should also remember 220,000wordsC. students will be surely encouraged to study hardD. students will be encouraged to clean up the roomDMost people follow others blindly mainly under the effect of peer（同龄人）pressure. Some people also feel it safe to follow a large number of people. In some rare cases it might be right to follow the crowd（群众）, but in most cases this can be one big mistake. Actually there are reasons why we shouldn‘t follow the crowd blindly.Acc ording to a study, people tend to follow the crowd when they aren‘t sure about the direction they should take. This means a large number of people could be following others without understanding what‘s right and what‘s wrong! This attracts more people to f ollow them and the result is that most people move in a certain direction even if it isn‘t right.A man who wants to be successful always hopes for others' guidance and he usually follows the same path of most people, but the question this man never asks himself is: are all of those people successful ?Of course not! If you want to follow a crowd, then follow a successful one. However,? in real life you'll only find one successful person among hundreds of people, and that's why following the crowd makes no sense at allMost people act without thinking wisely. If you always follow others because they're greater than you in number, then sooner or later you'll discover that you're making decisions you might regret later.However, should we never follow the crowd? No. I'm not trying to say you should never follow the crowd, but instead I'm just asking you to think wisely before you take a decision. lf you find others are right, there is no problem in following them, but if you have doubts about the direction they're moving in, don't follow them blindly.33. Those who follow others because they want to succeed should think about .A. whether they are in the same pathB. whether those being followed are successfulC. whether they are moving in a right directionD. whether there are more successful ones to follow34. What can we learn from paragraph 4?A. It needs some time to think wisely.B. We shouldn‘t regret what we have done.C. We should think wisely before deciding to follow others.D. Making others follow us is better than following others.35. Which of the following will the author agree with?A. It is wrong to follow other people.B. Those who follow others won‘t succeed.C. Only those foolish people will follow others.D. One should use his head before he follows others.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。