福建三明市第一中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 (Word版含答案)

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（无抄写“零分”）第I卷(共90分)第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

每段对话仅读一遍。

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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. What does the man imply about Mary?A. She's already been to the exhibit.B. She had difficulty getting tickets.C. She wanted to get tickets for everybody.2. Where does the man want to go?A. London.B. Paris.C. New York.3. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. At a party.B. At a meeting.C. In a post office.4. What do the two speakers mainly talk about?A. The rain.B. The jacket.C. The climate.5. What can we learn about the woman?A. She hardly understood the lecture.B. She totally disliked the lecture.C. She helped the American students understand the lecture.第二节听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

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，每小题将给出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、7题。

6. What color is Alice's hair now?A. Black.B. Gray.C. Blond.7. How does Alice do her art now?A. By hands.B. By cameras.C. By computer.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8. What is the man going to do?A. Go shopping.B. Meet Steve.C. Write an article.9. Where will the two speakers meet?A. At the supermarket.B. At the zoo.C. At the sandwich bar.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10. Why is the woman going to the United States?A. To see her parents.B. To work there.C. To visit her grandparents.11. How long will the woman stay there?A. Fifteen weeks.B. Half a year.C. A year.12. What is the cheapest transportation in the US according to the man?A. Car.B. Train.C. Bus.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13. Which game are the two speakers going to watch?A. China against Japan.B. England against Germany.C. Thailand against Malaysia.14. Who booked the tickets?A. Mary.B. Toby.C. May.15. What do we know about English footballers?A. They will never be beaten.B. They pay more attention to famous footballers.C. They always have younger team players.16. What is still unclear?A. When the match will start.B. Which country China will play against.C. Which team the English footballers will beat.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17. Why is the school called a free school?A. The school is open every day, except weekends.B. The children don't have to go to school every day.C. The children have the freedom to choose what and how to learn.18. What might Miss Green be?A. A cook.B. A math teacher.C. A driving teacher.19. When will the students have a school meeting?A. On Monday morning.B. On Wednesday afternoon.C. On Sunday night.20. What do the children sometimes do on Friday?A. Visit the museum.B. Prepare lunch together.C. Do the washing-up.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）ACARE London to Paris Cycle ChallengeIn this challenge you’ll cycle from London to Paris in three days, enjoying the beautiful countryside along the way.You will cycle through the peace of rural (乡村的) England to Portsmouth, where you will cross the river by boat to Ouistreham. The route then winds through peaceful lands and attractive villages, where you can taste fine French food before cycling to your final destination, Paris.Why join our London to Paris Cycle Challenge?This is a great way to get fit and experience the best of rural Europe with friends, colleagues or on your own as a personal challenge. The money you raise will support CARE’s work around the world.CARE works to help poor people lift themselves out of poverty (贫穷). For example, we support volunteers like Eugenia who travels by bike to distant towns near her home in Peru to make sure pregnant (怀孕的) women and new mothers receive medical care. Before, women were often left with little support or language barriers which meant medical care assistants could not communicate effectively with them. With local volunteers’ support, women living in remote areas can benefit from health services.What is included on the London to Paris Cycle Challenge?Guides, medicine and support staffThree nights’ accommodationMeals during the challenge, including a celebration meal on the final night in ParisBoat from Portsmouth to OuistrehamReturn from Paris to LondonThe minimum amount of the money you’ll have to collect for this challenge is £1,350, which includes your registration (注册) fee. We’ll support you throughout your training and general preparation.21. CARE is probably the name of _____________.A. a constructionB. a placeC. an eventD. an organization22. CARE London to Paris Cycle Challenge is held mainly to _____________. .A. help people keep fitB. develop travel industryC. raise money for charityD. call on environmental protection23. Which part of the journey needs boat transportation?A. From Portsmouth to Ouistreham.B. From London to Ouistreham.C. From Ouistreham to Paris.D. From Paris to London.BWhen students think of learning a foreign language, the first thought is of books, exercises, and audio cassettes. Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring. Therefore, it is time for us to spice things up a bit.Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high. It's a perfect study material. You have it with you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time.You don't need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes. Let's take a look at how to add your cellphone to your study tools.Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study. Go to the menu, find settings, locate language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary. This enables you tomaster simple words and phrases with little effort. For example, each time you open up your cellphone you'll see "messages", "games" and "calls made". These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons. You'll be surprised at all the vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items. Some things you'll recognize immediately and others you can guess just by where you find them.It can keep your learning fresh and interesting. And that's important because boredom is a big problem with language learners. You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.24. Why did the author write the passage?A. To inform how to keep your learning fresh.B. To stress the importance of language learning.C. To introduce the latest ways of language learning.D. To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.25. The underlined part “spice things up” in the first paragraph means “______”.A. make things realisticB. make things interestingC. make things helpfulD. make things obvious26. By playing with a cellphone, you can ______.A. learn the words in the menuB. remember the messages sent by othersC. improve the techniques of playing gamesD. become familiar with different kinds of languages27. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a cellphone as a study material?A. We can study with it at any moment.B. It keeps our learning interest high.C. We can use it to practice freely.D. It offers the chance to practice learning.CThe Olympic Games are seen as the greatest test of an athlete’s ability and are supposed to celebrate the spirit of fair play. But in fact, sportsmen have been using drugs to cheat their way to victory since the Games first began.In the early years, athletes ate mushrooms and plant seeds to improve their performance. Nowadays, this kind of cheating has a name doping.Just last month, Britain’s top sprinter（赛跑选手）Dwain Chambers and several American athletes tested positive for the drug THG. Until a coach（教练）secretly gave a sample of THG to scientists, no one knew how to test for it.“We’re like the police chasing criminals—athletes are always adapting and looking for areas we h aven’t investigated（调查）,” said Jacquew de Ceaurriz, a French anti-doping expert.Since the first drugs test was carried out at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, many cheats have been caught out. The most famous case in history is that of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson.He broke the 100 meters world record in winning gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. But days later, he tested positive for drug use, lost his gold medal and was banned from the sport. Five years later, he returned to action—only to be found positive again and banned forever.China has also had problems with drug cheats. At the 1994 Asian Games, 11 Chinese athletes—seven of them swimmers—tested positive for banned drugs. Sports organizations promised that cheating on this scale（规模）would not happen again.Experts are also worried that doping can damage a person’s health. It is believed to increase the risk of liver and kidney diseases, and women may experience reproductive（生育）problems. As long as they can stay ahead of the scientists, it is unlikely the cheats will stop. But experts say there is a limit to what can be achieved and that athletes will not be able to change their bodies using gene technology.“For the moment, genetic doping does not exist,” said de Ceaurriz. “Even in 10 or 15 years it will not be done easily—the scientific community will not let it happen.”28. We can know from the passage that ____________.A. athletes used to eat mushrooms and plant seeds to keep healthyB. scientists knew about THG with the help of a coachC. 11 Chinese swimmers were caught doping at the 1994 Asian GamesD. genetic doping has changed the bodies of some athletes29. How many countries are mentioned in the passage in which there were athletes doping?A. Two.B. Four.C. Six.D. Eight.30. We can infer from the passage that __________.A. problems with drug cheats are still serious though they are severely testedB. scientists get a lot of information about drugs before the athletes take dopingC. taking doping will never happen again because of the serious testD. few athletes used drug cheats before the 1968 Olympics31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. The Damages Caused by DopingB. Research on Cheating by Gene TechnologyC. Fighting Against Cheating at the Olympic GamesD. Police Caught Athletes Doping at the Olympic GamesDWhat will man be like in the future—in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change to the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker a nd we have to wear glasses. But over very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to bebald.Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. All the same, in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.32. Which of the following serves as the evidence that man is changing?A. Man’s hair is getting thinner and thinner.B. Man has got stronger eyes now than he ever had.C. Man has been growing taller over the past 500 years.D. Man’s arms and legs have become lighter and weaker.33. Which of the following is TRUE about a human being in the future?A. He thinks and feels in a different way.B. He has smaller eyes and wears better glasses.C. He is hairless because hair is no longer useful.D. His fingers grow weaker because he doesn’t use them.34. The change in man’s size of forehead is probably because __________.A. he makes use of only 20 % of the brain’s capacityB. the other 80% of his brain will grow in due（预定的）timeC. his brain has grown larger over the past centuriesD. he will use his brain more and more as time goes on35. The passage mainly tells us that ________________.A. man’s life will be different in the futureB. future man will look quite different from usC. man is growing taller and uglier as time passesD. the functions of man’s organs will function as well as today第三部分英语知识运用（共二节，满分45分）第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。