2006-2007学年度朝天中学高一上学期期末考试[上学期]

2006-2007学年度朝天中学高一上学期期末考试
英语科试卷
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第一卷（三部分，共115分）
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，你将有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. How did the man come here?
By bus. B. By taxi C. By car.
2. Why isn’t Helen present?
A. She forgot to come. B. She changed her decision. C. She wasn’t invited.
3. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Mother and son. C. Doctor and patient.
4. What’s the man’s job?
A. A shop assistant. B. A tailor. C. A salesman.
5. What does the man mean?
A. He can’t go to the cinema.
B. He can go to the cinema on Saturday morning.
C. He can go to the cinema on Saturday evening.
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6段材料，回答第6—7题。
6. When will the man go on holiday?
A. In spring. B. In summer. C. In winter.
7. Where is the man going?
A. Switzerland. B. Italy. C. Austria.
听第7段材料，回答第8—10题..
8. What is the man?
A businessman. B. A salesman. C. A scientist.
9. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A. On a train. B. On a bus. C. On a plane
10. Why is the woman traveling?
A. She is traveling on holiday.
B. She is traveling on business.
C. She is traveling to give some lectures.
听第8段材料，回答第11—13题。
11. Why is the woman calling?
A. To buy a table. B. To book a table. C. To serve lunch.
12. When does this restaurant stop serving lunch?
1 p.m. B. 2 p.m. C. 3 p.m.
13. How many people will come with the woman for lunch?
One. B. Two. C. Four.
听第9段材料，回答第14—17题。
14. What is the man?
A nurse. B. A doctor. C. A chemist.
15. What is wrong with the woman?
She is wet all over..
She has a bad headache.
She has had a cough for three days.
16. What does the man tell the woman to do?
Stay in bed for some time and take some medicine.
Go around from time to time.
Come to see him tomorrow morning.
17. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
In a garden. B. In the man’s office. C. In the woman’s house.
听第10段材料 ，回答第18—20题。
18. What is the main topic of the passage?
The Barcelona Olympic Games.
TV programs on Chinese television.
Effects of television on our lives.
19. Where was the survey of 300 youngsters made?
In Shanghai. B. In Wuhan. C. In Beijing.
20. According to the passage, what is quickly taking the place of printed material as the major source of news for most Chinese?
Internet. B. TV. C. Radio.
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最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. –I’d like to invite you to dinner this Saturday, Mr. White.
--_______.
A. Oh, no. Let’s not. B. I’d rather stay at home.
C. I’m sorry, but I have other plans. D. Oh, no. That’ll be too much trouble.
22. The house must have been ____ for many years, because there’s much dust on the desks and chairs.
A. lonely B. deserted C. alone D. empty
23. ____ has been announced, we shall have our exam next week.
A. It B. As C. That D. What
24.The population problem ____ the attention of the whole world.
A. calls at B. calls on C. calls for D. calls in
25. Last month, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from ____ effects the people are still suffering.
A. that B. whose C. those D. what
26. Everyone fails now and then. It is how you react that makes a _____.
A. idea B. point C. progress D. difference
27. You can never imagine what great difficulty I had _____ the solution to this problem.
A. found B. finding C. to find D. for finding
28. In only fifty years, English has developed into ____ language the most widely ____ in the world .
A. a; speak B. the; spoken C. a; speaking D. the; speaking
29. He is such a lazy man ____ nobody wants to work with______.
A. as; him B. that; / C. as;/ D. whom; him
30. The British people and the American people not only speak the same language but _____ a lot of special customs as well.
A. share B. spare C. hold D. carry
31. Although he is young, David has gained ____ rich experience in ____ society.
A. the; the B. a;/ C./; / D. /; the
32. There was an oil painting in the corner. It there for several days.
A．laying; had laid B．lain; had laid C．lying; had lain D．laid; had been lain
33. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look _____ long at the closed door ____ we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
A. so; that B. so; as C. as; as D. such; that
34. --- What is “Super Girl”?
---It is a ______ broadcast singing contest _____ by the Hunan TV Station.
A. live; running B. living; run C. live; run D. living; running
35. _____ the production up by 60%, the company will have another excellent year.
A. As B. With C. Because D. Since
第二节：完型填空（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和D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
“Dear Sir, I probably would have written ages ago, only I was not aware (意识到) that you were still alive,” writes a South African schoolgirl called Tyfanny in 1946. “I must have been mixing you up with Sir Isaac Newton.”
Tyfanny, who goes on to ask Albert Einstein about the nature of space, received a(n) 36 reply from the great man six weeks later. “Dear Tyfanny,” he writes. “I have to apologize to you that I am still among the37 . This will not always be the case, however.”
Tyfanny is one of 60 children whose 38 to one of the greatest scientists of all time are 39 in the book Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s Letters To and From Children.
The letters are printed 40 as they were written, spelling 41 and all, with some printed in their original handwritten form.
While many letters seek answers to 42 questions, such as “what 43 the sun and planets in space?” or “I want to know what is beyond the sky and my mother said you can tell me,” others are more personal. “I would like to ask if you 44 make any mistakes.” 45 one child. While the children’s letters are certainly entertaining, 46 is Einstein’s replies that attract the most interest.
47 , he could not reply to every letter, but the letters he did 48 the time to answer showed the human side of the great scientist. Although he 49 his days looking into mathematics and 50 , he was always very fond of children and their boundless curiosity (好奇心).
For example, it was in a letter to a 12-year-old girl from New York that he made his now well-known remark: “Do not worry about your 51 in mathematics; I promise you that 52 are still greater.”
“This is a beautiful and touching 53 . It is amazing how intelligent some of the children’s 54 are,” said a reader from Georgia, US. “But it is more interesting to get to know the other 55 of Einstein.”
36. A. personal B. important C. public D. difficult
37. A. great B. living C. useful D. experiences
38. A. problems B. letters C. hobbies D. ideas
39. A. encouraged B. completed C. collected D. read
40. A. hardly B. wonderfully C. suddenly D. exactly
41. A. forms B. habits C. mistakes D. manners
42. A. small B. big C. easy D. lovely
43. A. carries B. expects C. prevents D. holds
44. A. ever B. no more C. no longer D. never
45. A. reads B. writes C. repeats D. points
46. A. which B. who C. one D. it
47. A. Clearly B. Unhappily C. Luckily D. Surprisingly
48. A. invent B. find C. search D. make
49. A. took B. paid C. spent D. cost
50. A. biology B. chemistry C. geography D. physics
51. A. difficulties B. opinions C. sadness D. future
52. A. you B. mine C. they D. yours
53. A. story B. memory C. book D. letter
54. A. questions B. thoughts C. methods D. curiosity
55. A. hand B. shape C. pleasure D. side
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，并在答题上将该项涂黑。
A
Some people were eating and drinking in a coffee house. A young woman was sitting alone at a table. She was wearing a beautiful diamond necklace. There was an ugly man at a table not far from her. He was looking at her necklace all the time.
Suddenly the lights went out. The coffee house was in darkness. The woman started to shout. She was very frightened. A few minutes later the lights came on again. The woman was crying. Her necklace was missing.
The manager quickly closed all the doors. He telephoned the police. No one could get out of the coffee house. The policemen soon came. The police inspector told his men to search everyone. The necklace was not on anyone. They then searched the whole coffee house. The necklace couldn’t be found.
The police inspector then looked at the faces of all the people in the coffee house. He saw the ugly man and looked at the man carefully. He went up to the man and picked up the bowl of soup that was on his table. He then poured the soup into a glass. The necklace fell out. The policemen caught hold of the man and took him away. The young woman was happy to get back her necklace.
56. A young woman lost her necklace in _____ .
A. a hospital B. a shop C. a coffee house D. a restaurant
57. The manager closed all the doors and _____ .
A. searched everyone in the coffee house
B. searched the whole coffee house
C. telephoned the police
D. looked at all the people in the coffee house
58. The police inspector found the necklace in _____ .
A. a cup of coffee B. a bowl of rice C. a glass of milk D. a bowl of soup
59. The necklace was stolen by _____ .
A. a beautiful girl B. an old woman C. a young student D. an ugly man
B
Washington D. C. is the capital of the United States. It's the center of the national government. It’s a busy, working city with a large population. But what is more, Washington is also a city of history and culture.
Washington was created in 1790, when Congress (the highest law-making body of the U. S. A.) decided to place the nation’ new capital in the east of the country. It was built halfway between the northern and the southern states of the America. And of course it was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States.
There are many tourist sights in Washington. One of them is the White House. This is the home and office of the President of the United States. Most visitors are, however, surprised by how small the White House actually is.
Washington is also a great culture city. The Library of Congress contains (包括) one of the largest library collections in the world. The Smithsonian Museum holds the nation's largest collection of cultural materials. And me John F. Kennedy Center is a famous center of art and culture. It. has many great musical and theatre performances throughout the year.
60. The writer mainly talks about ___
A. Washington B. the history of Washington
C. buildings and sights-in Washington D. the history and culture of Washington
61. From the passage we know that Washington is situated(位于) in ________ .
A. the east of the U. S. A.
B. the center of the U. S. A;
C. the east, on the middle point from north to south, of the country
D. the east and half-way away from the north
62. The White House impresses(给人印象) the people most for _____ .
A. its white color B. its size
C. its history D. it is the home and office of the president
63. The writer introduces Washington in the order of_____ . .
A. general introduction, history, sights and culture
B. population, history and culture
C. general introduction, history, sights, buildings and culture
D. history and culture
C
Sea farming is one of the brightest hopes for finding an answer to the world food problem. Although it may be years before sea farming produces large quantities of food, it is already successful. One of its success is the growing of oysters (牡蛎), which are very good to eat.
Oyster farming is a big new business on Cape Cod, where large crops of oysters have been harvested. The waters there were famous for oysters until the supply gave out about fifteen years ago. “There's a whole age group of people who have never eaten oysters”, said Kari Touraine, manager of a company that grows oysters on nylon strings (尼龙线) hanging from metal frames (框架).
“For about twenty years the oyster has been in short supply, and our aim is to turn around this by using new, modem growing techniques (技术),” he explained.
“Wareham, on Cape Cod, is the first place in the US where oysters are being grown on frames just off the bottom of the sea”, said Mr. Touraine. “It’s been done successfully in Norway and Australia and, in the last few years, in Spain. The Japanese have used this form of sea farming for years, and they're the most successful, with a yearly crop of more than forty-six thousand pounds of oysters an acre.”
Mr. Touraine’s group grows on strings, away from the bottom so that the oyster’s natural enemies cannot reach them. “When an oyster can be kept away from enemies and live in unpolluted water with plenty to eat, he’ll grow fat”, Kari noted happily.
64. The off-bottom method _____ .
A. is used in at least 5 countries B. was used in Wareham fifteen years ago
C. is used to make oysters fat D. was introduced from Japan
65. The word “acre” in the fourth paragraph means _____.
A. measure of length B. measure of land
C. unit(单位) of weight D. unit of height
66. The best title for the text is .
A. Oyster Supply B. Food on Strings
C. New Hope for Food D. Modem Growing Technique
D
There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels(新闻短片).
The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars fashions (服装), sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details (细节) of the subject. There may also be interviews (采访) with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas(引号).
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
67. The easiest way to get today's news is _____ .
A. to go to the cinema B. to watch a color TV
C. to read today's newspaper D. to listen to the music over radio
68. Newspapers sell well mainly because ___ .
A. they cost very little
B. they are easy to get
C. they have got pictures to go with the news
D. they provide all sorts of news in them
69. If you want to get enough information about yesterday's traffic accident within a very short time, you'd better _____ .
A. read the first paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
B. start from the second paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
C. look through the whole news report in today’s newspaper
D. talk with people who have seen the accident
70. To interest more people, a news reporter _____ .
A. usually produces amusing news
B. always writes very short news reports
C. often prints pictures to go with the news
D. sometimes provides long and important news
71. This passage mainly talks about ___.
A. different types of reports
B. news reports
C. happenings to people and their surroundings
D. the length of a news report
E
When someone says, “Well, I guess I'll have to go to face the music,” it doesn’t mean he is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you did not do this or that. Terrible music, indeed, but it has to be faced. At some time or another, every one of us has had to “face the music”, especially as children. We can remember father’s angry voice: “I want to talk to you!” And only because we did not obey him. What an unpleasant business it was!
The phrase “face the music” is known to every American, old and young. It is at least one hundred years old. Where did the expression come from?
The first explanation came from the American novelist James Fenimore Cooper. He said, in 1851, that expression was first used by actors while waiting in the wings (舞台的两侧) to go on stage. After they got their clue(暗示) to go on , they often said, “It’s time to go to face the music.” And that is exactly what they did face the orchestra (乐队) which was just below the stage.
An actor might be frightened or nervous as he moved on to the stage in front of the audience(观众) that might be friendly, or perhaps unfriendly, especially if he forgot his lines. But he had to go out. If he did not, there would be no play. So “face the music” came to mean: having to go through something, no matter how unpleasant the experience might be, because you knew you had no choice.
72. The expression “face the music” means ______.
A. plan to go to a concert
B. get one’s clue to do something
C. have to go through something far less pleasant
D. disobey what one's father says
73. The passage tells us that the expression was first used by _____ .
A. children B. novelists C. actors D. audience
74. In the last paragraph the Chinese meaning of the word “line” is _______.
A. 老板 B. 同事 C. 角色 D. 台词
75. Which of the following is not true?
A. The expression came from James Fenimore Cooper, an American novelist
B. The expression has a history of 100 years.
C. If someone doesn’t obey his boss, he will have to face the music.
D. Almost everyone has an unpleasant experience that he has had to face the music.
第II卷
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
此题要求改正所给短文的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个（√）如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
该行缺一个词：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉，在该行的右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个司：在缺字处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行的右边横线上写出改正后的词。
原行无错的不要改，答对号。
Dear Peter,
I’m writing to ask you some advice. Babara 76. ______
and me are getting very worried about Tom. He 77. ______
has been staying out very late at night or is 77. ______
always so tired to do well in school. He wouldn't 78. ______
listen anything we say. We have tried not to 80 ______
give him pocket money, and it doesn’t do any good. 81. ______
I’m afraid he is sure of that we are just trying 82. ______
to make him to do what we want to prove(证明) 83. ______
we are strong, but the fact is that we were worried 84. ______
about his future. I know you and Kate can help me. 85. ______
Any advice would be very welcome.
Yours,
Mike
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
学校广播室请你用英文写一篇报道，介绍在英语竞赛中取得第一名的李华同学学习英语的情况，内容如下：
1．李华是二班的一名学生，学习英语已五年。
2．起初，在英语学习中遇到了许多困难（如记不住生词，听不懂教师讲课等），几乎失去了信心（b比他m）。
3．在老师的帮助下，经过刻苦努力，取得了进步，赶上了其他同学。
4．李华决心更加努力地学习英语，争取更大的进步。
注意：1．内容要完整，叙述要连贯；
2．词数90左右。
参考答案
1-5 ABCBC 6-10 ABBCC 11-15 BCABC 16-20 ACCAB
21—25 CBBCB 26—30 DBBCA 31—35 CCACB 36—40 ABBCD
41—45 CBDAB 46—50 DABCD 51—55 ABCAD
56—60 CCDDD 61—65 CBCAB 66—70 CCDAC 71—75 BCCDB
76. some后加for 77. me →I 77. or →and 78. so → too 80. listen 后加to 81.and→but 82. 去掉of 83. 去掉第二个 to 84. were→are 85. √
One possible version:
Wan Fei is a student of Class Two. He has been learning English for about five years. At first, he had some difficulty in remembering the new words and understanding what the English teacher said in class. And for that reason, he almost lost heart and gave it up. But with the help of the English teacher and by working hard at it, he made so much progress in English that he was finally able to catch up with the other students in his class. He did very well in the competition, and won the first place. Now, he has made up his mind to work still harder and make even greater progress.