四川省成都市高二英語上學(xué)期期中試題

1、成都七中 2015-2016 學(xué)年度上期半期考試高二年級英語試卷注意事項：答題前，考生在答題卡上務(wù)必用直徑 0.5 毫米黑色墨水簽字筆將自己的姓名、準(zhǔn)考證號填 寫清楚。請認(rèn)真核準(zhǔn)準(zhǔn)考證號、姓名和科目。每小題選出答案后 , 用 2B 鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目的答案標(biāo)號涂黑 , 如需改動 , 用橡皮 擦干凈后，再選涂其他答案標(biāo)號C. Get an address.C. Pick up her aunt.C. A company director.A. Quite difficult.B. Very interesting.C. Too simple.第一部分 聽力（共 20 小題; 每小題1 分,

2、滿分20 分） 第一節(jié) （ 共 5 小題；每小題 1 分 , 滿分 5 分 ）聽下面 5 段對話。每段對話后有一個小題 , 從題中所給的 A、B、C三 個選項中選出最佳 選 項 , 并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后 , 你都有 10 秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和 閱 讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。1. What does the woman want to do?Find a place.B. Buy a map.2. What will the man do for the woman?A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride.Who might Mr.

3、Peterson be?A. A new professor. B. A department head.What does the man think of the book?What are the speakers talking about?A. Weather.B. Clothes.C. News.第二節(jié) （ 共15 小題；每小題 1 分, 滿分 15 分）聽下面 5 段對話。每段對話后有幾個小題 , 從題中所給的 A, B, C 三個選項中選出 最佳 選項 , 并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話前 , 你將有時間閱讀各個小題 , 每小題 5 秒鐘； 聽完后 , 各小題給出 5 秒鐘的

4、作答時間。每段對話讀兩遍。聽第 6 段材料 , 回答第 6、 7 題。Why is Harry unwilling to join the woman?A. He has a pain in his knee.B. He wants to watch TV.C. He is too lazy.What will the woman probably do next?A. Stay at home.B. Take Harry to hospital. C. Do some exercise.聽第 7 段材料 , 回答第 8、 9 題。When will the man be home from

5、work?A. At 5:45.B. At 6:15.C. At 6:50.9. Where will the speakers go?A. The Green House Cinema. B. The New State Cinema. 聽第8 段材料, 回答第10 至12 題。C. The UME Cinema.10. How will the speakers go to New York?A. By air.B. By taxi.11. Why are the speakers making the trip?A. For business. B. For shopping.C. By

6、 bus.C. For holiday.12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Driver and passenger.B. Husband and wife.聽第9 段材料, 回答第13 至16 題。C. Fellow workers.13. Where does this conversation probably take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In an office.C. In a classroom.What does John do now?He s a tra

7、iner.B. He s a tour guide.How much can a new person earn for the first year?A. $10,500. B. $12,000.How many people will the woman hire?A. Four. B. Three. 聽第 10 段材料 , 回答第 17 至 20 題。C. He s a college student.C. $15,000.C. Two.How long has the speaker lived in a big city?A. One year.B. Ten years.C. Eig

8、hteen years.C. It s cheap.C. It s more convenient.C. Quiet.18. What is the speakers opinion on public transport?A. It s comfortable.B. It s time-saving.19. What is good about living in a small town?A. It s safer.B. It s healthier.20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?A. Busy. B. C

9、olourful.第二部分 英語知識運用完形填空（共 20 小題; 每小題1.5 分, 滿分30 分） 閱讀下面短文 , 從短文后各題所給的四個選項 （A 、B、C 和 D） 中 , 選出可以填入空白處的最 佳選項 , 并在答題卡上將該選項涂黑。My grandmother died when my mother Alice, was five years old. The year was 1925,evenand life was hard. My mother told me that her family was too 21 toafford to give her adoll.In

10、 December 1982, I had a job at a bank. One afternoon, we were 22 the tree in the hall, getting ready for the Christmas. One of my customers came in with beautiful handmade dolls.He was23 Christmas dolls. I decided to get onefor my daughter. I asked my customer if he could make me a 24 doll for my mo

11、ther one with gray hair and glasses. The doll maker felt that this idea was certainly 25 and took it on as a creative 26. He said “ Yes”.So I placed my Christmas 27 : two dolls for Christmas morning! I asked if he could 28 Santa Clause to make a visit on Christmas morning to our home. He 29 happily.

12、Christmas Day arrived and at the 30 time, so did Santa Claus. I had prepared the gifts for Santa to 31 . My daughter was surprised and 32 that Santa had come to see her.My mother was enjoying watching her granddaughter s33 to the visit fromthis special guest. As Santa asked who Alice was, my mother

13、was taken back by her name being 34 , and said that she was. Santa handed her a doll with a 35 that read:For Alice:I was cleaning out my sleigh（ 雪橇 ） before myt rip this year and 36 this package that was supposed to be sent on December 25, 1925. The present inside has 37 , but I felt that you might

14、still wish to have it. Many38 for thelateness of the gift.Love, Santa ClausMy mother was deeply 39 by the words in the card. Shecouldn t speakbut hold the doll as tears of40 ran down her cheeks. That gift made my21m. oAt.h ears hthaem headp piestB. “heclhpilledss”in the world.C. skepticalD. poor22.

15、A. plantingB. cuttingC. decoratingD. climbing23. A. sellingB. checkingC. repairingD. collecting24. A. specialB. commonC. beautifulD. strange25. A. amusingB. uniqueC. doubtfulD. satisfying26. A. decisionB. recordC. questionD. challenge27. A. serviceB. ideaC. orderD. wish28. A. tellB. playC. adviseD.

16、invite29. A. performedB. jumpedC. agreedD. sang30. A. plannedB. limitedC. givenD. written31. A. receiveB. deliverC. buyD. select32. A. awareB. convincedC. confidentD. excited33. A. contributionB. reactionC. replyD. introduction第三部分 閱讀理解（共 20 小題；每小題 2 分, 滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié)（共 15 小題；每小題 2 分 , 滿分 30 分） 閱讀下列短文

17、 , 從每題所給的四個選項 A、B、C 和 D 中, 選出最佳選項 , 并在答題卡 上 將該項涂黑。用答題卷的考生 , 請把最佳選項標(biāo)在答題卷的相應(yīng)位置。AWelcome to join us to enjoy the Golden Triangle Tour provided byJourney2India.Golden Triangle TourDay 1: Arrive in DelhiArrive in Delhi, the national capital of India. Upon arrival at airport, our company representative wi

18、ll meet and greet you and transfer（換乘 ） to the hotelfor check-in. Rest ofthe day free for your activities.Day 2: Delhi-Full day tour （Old & New Delhi tour）Have breakfast in the hotel. At 9:30 am, the tour guide will meet you at your hotel and laterproceed（ 前行 ） for a full-day guided tour in Delhi st

19、arting withold Delhi, visiting Raj Gaht, Jama Maszjid. Later visitHumayun s Tomb, IndiaOvernight at Delhi hotelDay 3: Delhi-Agra(220 kms/4.5 hours)Have breakfast in the hotel. Later drive to Agra, the city of“ Taj Mahal ” .En-route( 在途中 ) stop at Sikandra for a short photoshot. Later check in at the

20、 hotel. Afternoon, proceed for a half-day guided tour in Agra, visiting Taj Mahal & Agra Fort. Rest of the day free for shopping and your own activities.Day 4: Agra-Jaipur via Fathehpur Sikri(240 kms/5hours)After breakfast, drive to Jaipur, the capital city of Rajsthan state. Jaipur is also known as

21、“ Pink City ”. En -route visit Fatephur Sikri, known as GhostCapital. Later continue the drive to Jaipur. Upon arrival, check in at the hotel. Evening free at leisure for ownactivities.Day 5: Jaipur-Full day tourAfter breakfast, we ll proceed for a full -day guided tour in Jaipur starting with a sho

22、rt photoshot at Hawa Mahal. Later enjoy the Royal Elephant Ride to climb the Amber Fort. After visiting the Amber Fort, return to the city and visit theCity Palace and Jantar Mantar Observatory.Day 6: Jaipur-Delhi (256 kms/5 hours)After breakfast, drive back to Delhi airport. The total distance is 2

23、56 kms andyNoout ec: a* nP rciocvee Sr tairt ts iwni th5 $h o2u1r5s .w itUh:p on arrival in Delhi, board flight to onward journeyDaily breakfast and soft beverages and packaged drinking water.Government approved and experienced English-speaking local guide services.Elephant ride at the Amber Fort.Su

24、nset or sunrise visit to Taj the Mahal.All entrance fee to the monuments and train tickets.A full-day guided tour is provided on.Day 2 and Day 5.B. Day 3 and Day 4.C. Day 2 and Day 4.D. Day 3 and Day 5.Which of the following is not included in the price during the trip?Visit to Chokhi Dhani Village.

25、B. Elephant ride in Jaipur.C. Breakfasts and packaged drinking water. D. Local guide services.We can learn from the text that .the whole tour covers 512 kmsAgra is the capital city of RajasthanIndia Gate and Qutub Minar lie in New Delhitourists are to visit Taj Mahal and Agra Fort on DayThe main pur

26、pose of the text is tointroduce development of tourism in Indiainvite people to take the Golden Triangle Tourshow good services of Journey2Indiaintroduce beautiful scenery in IndiaBA woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States.The woman had visited major businesses and

27、investment companies in New York City and Chicago.“I studied English before I left home,”she said. “But I still was notsure that people were speakingEnglish. ”Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Som

28、e of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.One such saying is “get your act together ”Whent hings go wrong in a business, an employermay get angry. He may shout, “Stop ma

29、king mistakes. Get your act together.” Or,if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together. ” Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm andorderly plan of action.It is difficult to tell exac

30、tly where the saying began. But, it is probablethat it was in thetheater or movie industry. Perhaps the other day when one actorwas nervous and made a lot of mistakes, the director may have said,“Calm down,now. Get your act together. ” Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the l

31、ate 1970s. Mr. Rogers says theManchester Guardian newspaper usedit in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together. Now, this expression is heard often when officialsof a companymeet. One company even called its yearly report,“Getting Our ActToge

32、ther. ”The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is “cut to the chase ”. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long and boring report, and finally, the president of the compan

33、y interrupted and said, “Cut to the chase. ” Cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant materials. Hurry and get to the point. And naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Next time, if your employer tellsyou to cut to the chase, be sure to ge

34、t to the main point of your story quickly.After the woman visited the United States she might feel thatAher English was poorer than she had expectedBit was great fun to learn English and itsculture C American employers weresometimes rude D it was difficult to dobusiness with AmericansIn which situat

35、ion could the words “get your acttogether ” be used? A Youve won a job opportunity ina law firm.B Players perform badly in a match and seem to lose.C Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip tosomeplace. D Audience is satisfied with the actorsperformance in a movie.What do the sayings“get your a

36、ct together” and “cut to the chase”have in common? A Their use.B Their meaning.C Their origin.D Their popularity.The text is most likely to be found in a book about .life attitudeB. travel and cultureC. language and cultureD. business managementCHeres a new warning from health experts: Sitting is de

37、adly.Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for long periods even ifyou also exercise regularly could be bad for your health. And it doesnt matter where the sitting takes place at the office, at school, in the car or beforea computer or TV just the overall number of hours it occurs. Severa

38、l studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die.In an editorial published this week in the British Journalof SportsMedicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport andHealth Sciences suggestedthat authorities rethinkhow

39、 they define physicalactivity to highlight the dangers of sitting. While health officials have issued guidelines recommending minimum （最少的 ） amounts ofphysicalactivity, they haven t suggested people try to limit how much time they spend ina seated position. “After four hours of sitting, the body sta

40、rtsto send harmful signals,Ekblom-Bak調(diào)節(jié) ) the amount of glucose (葡萄糖 )said. She explained that genes regulating ( and fat in thebody start to shut down. Even for people who exercise, spending long periods of time sitting at a desk is still harmful. Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the Wo

41、rld Health Organization,said people who exercise every day but stillspend a lot of time sitting might get more benefit if that exercisewas spread across the day, rather than just doing once.Still, in a study published last year that tracked more than 17,000 Canadians for about a dozen years, researc

42、hers found people who sat more had a higher deathrisk, whether or not they exercised.We dont have enough evidence yet to sayhow much sittingis bad,said Peter Katzmarzykof thePennington BiomedicalResearch Center in Baton Rouge, who led the Canadian study. ”Butit seems theinterrupt this sedentary ( 坐著

43、more you can getup and的) behavior,the better.Figuresfrom a U.S. survey in 2003-2004found Americansspend more than half their time sitting, from working at their desks to sitting in carsExperts said more research is needed to figure out just how much sitting is dangerous, and what might be possible t

44、o offset those effects.“People shouldkeep exercising because that has alot of be nefits, ” Ekblom-Bak said. “But whenthey re in the office, they should try to interruptsitting as often as possibletoo, ” she said.What is the best title for the text?Sitting Too Much Could Be DeadlyHow to Avoid Sitting

45、 Too MuchNot Sitting Too Much While WorkingMore and More People Sit Too MuchAccording to the research, .the more time you spend in exercising at a time, the healthier you will bethose who often sit too much are sure to grow fat or suffer from a heart attackyou had better not sit for more than four h

46、ours at a time in case you getfatD. regular exercise is effective to get rid of the side effect of sitting too much51. The underlined word“ offset ”in paragraph 9 probablymeans .A. improveB. achieveC. ignoreD. avoid52. In the opinion ofEkblom- Bak,youd better havea rest in the office byA. having a w

47、alk around your officereading a magazine or newspaperchatting online or playing computer gameslistening to music with your head on the desk DPhilo Farnsworth was a man who made it possible for one of the most important communication devices television to be created. Philo was born on August 19th, 19

48、06, nearIndian Creek in the western state of Utah. He attended a very small school near his family s farm. He did very well in school. He asked his teacher for specialhelp in science. The teacher began young students could understand.helping Philo learn a great deal more than mostOne night, Philo re

49、ad a magazine story about the idea of sending pictures and sound through the air. Anyone with a device that could receive this electronic information could watch thepictures and hear the sound. The magazine story saidsome of the world s best scientists were using special machines to try to make a ki

50、nd of device to send pictures.14-year-old Philo decidedthese famous scientists were wrong and thatmechanical devices would never work. He decided that such a device would have tobe electronic. Philo knew electrons(電子 ) could be made to move extremely fast.All he would have to do was to find awayto m

51、ake electrons do the work. Very quickly Philo had an idea for such a receiver.It would trap light in a container and send the light on a line of electrons.Philo called it“ light in a bottle ” . Several dayslater, Philo told his teacherabout a device that could capture(捕獲 ) pictures. He drewa plan fo

52、r it, which he gave his teacher.Philo s drawing seemed very simple, butit clearlyshowed the informationneeded to build a television. In fact, alltelevision equipment today still usesPhilo s early idea. Philo Farnsworth wasonly 14 years old then. He knew no one would listen to a child. Experts say th

53、at probably only ten scientists in the world at that time could have understood his idea.On September 7th, 1927, Philo turned on a device that was the first working television receiver. In another room was the first television camera. Philo had invented the special camera tube earlier that year. The

54、 image produced on the receiver was not very clear, but the deviceworked. In 1930, the United States government gave Philo patent documents（專利 ）.These wouldprotect his invention from being copied by others.Before he was 14 years old,.A. Philo had had a very strong interest in sciencePhilo had learne

55、d a great deal in science from his fatherPhilo had helped his parents on theirfamily s farmPhilo had formed the idea of sending pictures and sound through the airThe underlined word“ it ” in the fourth paragraph refersto .A. a container sending pictures and sound through the aira receiver that held

56、light and sent it on a line of electronsa light box with a line of electrons in a bottlea way to make electrons send picturesWe can infer from the text that Philo s idea.A. was not recognized at firstwas only understood by his teacherwas turned into a television receiver immediatelywas widely used i

57、n all television equipment in 1927第二節(jié) 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容 , 從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項 , 選項中有兩項 為多余選項。請將答案寫在答題卷上。 （每小題2 分, 滿分10 分）We often close ourselves off when painful events happen in our life. Insteadof letting the world soften us, we let it drive us deeper into ourselves. 56The item listed below are four tips

58、you can open your heart more fully andcompletely.Breathe into painWhenever a painful situation arises in your life, try to face it instead of running away. 57 When the sadness strikes, take a deep breath and accept it. By using our breath, we soften our experiences and allow more newness.58We re oft

59、en confused at the next step to take. Actually, we can try a new decision making process. To start the process, we may ask, “ Heart, what decisionshould I make here? Whataction feels the most right?” See what comes up, thenput it into practice and evaluate the outcome.Spend time aloneFor most of our

60、 life we re surrounded by people: our friends, family membersand strangers. 59When you spend time in solitude(孤獨 ), you re free fromthe influence of other people. Itmight be painful at first, but eventuallyyou ll add a whole new layer of depthand understanding into life.Get out of yourself60 But in