【英语】浙江省绍兴一中2015学年第一学期期中考试

绍兴一中2015学年第一学期期中考试高二英语注意:本试卷全部答案均需答在答题纸上，答题前请先将答题纸上的信息填写完整，选择题用2B铅笔填涂，主观题用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔在规定的区域作答。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分10分）第一节：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 is the man going to do?A. Buy a ticket.B. Do the packing.C. Make a journey.2. Where does the man want to go?A. To a movie.B. Out to dinner.C. To a birthday party.3. How is the air where the speakers are?A. Wetter than Florida .B. Hotter than Florida.C. Drier than Florida.4. Why did the woman have a party last night?A. The woman’s sister got married.B. The woman’s sister will be having a baby.C. The man’s sister will be born soon.5. What does the man mean?A. His teacher didn’t offer him help.B. He didn’t have any chance of winning.C. He didn’t take his teacher’s advice.第二节：听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有2至4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。

听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What does the man want to make?A. An app for a phone.B. A new alcoholic drink.C. A tool that tests the driver’s alcohol level.7. What does the woman think of the man’s idea?A. It’s a great idea.B. It might work.C. It’s quite silly.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Where does the man really want to go?A. To Panama.B. To Mexico.C. To Brazil.9. What does the man always like while he’s travelling?A. A free place to stay.B. Exploring nature.C. Knowing someone in the place he’s going.10. What does the woman suggest?A. Driving a car.B. Taking a plane.C. Renting a motorcycle.第二部分：阅读理解（共30分）AVolunteers WantedEcuadorA village in Ecuador has recently developed an ecotourism (生态旅游) project that needs volunteers with a background in tourism. This is an unpaid, challenging job that might last one year. You must be enthusiastic and speak good level of Spanish. You will need to cover your food and lodging on your own.To find out more information, e-mail volunteer@ .BaliWould you like to teach English or computer skills to our local school children in a lovely village in the mountains of Bali? There are also western children homeschooling here, some of whom need help with their daily programs. For volunteers of homeschooling, you are required to have baby-sitter experience. Please contact me for more information at Bali@. DominicaExperience nature and adventure in Dominica, the island of the Caribbean. Be part of a happyteam, doing things from gardening, to building tree houses, to maintaining hydro systems.For more information please e-mail info@.11. A college graduate who speaks good Spanish and is interested in ecotourism had better work in ______.A. an island of DominicaB. a village in EcuadorC. the mountains of BaliD. a house in Caribbean12. One who wants to teach small children English will contact ______.A. volunteer@orgB. info@C. volunteer@ D. Bali@13. Which is NOT a required task for a volunteer at the island of Dominica?A. Gardening.B. Building tree houses.C. Swimming in the pool.D. Maintaining hydro systems.BThe baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert (警觉) . Twenty centimeters from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards change from one to the other, her gaze (凝视) starts to lose its focus — until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?Or do newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three spots shown before two, shows the same return of interest when the number of spots changes. Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves. Could it be the pattern that two things make, as opposed to (而非) three? No again. Babies paid more attention to squares moving randomly on a screen when their number changed from two to three, or three to two. The effect even crosses between senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they heard just two; likewise (同样地) when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.14. Babies are sensitive to the change in______.A. the size of cardsB. the colour of picturesC. the shape of patternsD. the number of objects15. Why did the researchers test the babies with drumbeats?A. To reduce the difficulty of the experiment.B. To see how babies recognize sounds.C. To carry their experiment further.D. To keep the babies’ interest.16. Where does this text probably come from?A. Science fiction.B. Children’s literature.C. An advertisement.D. A science report.CLife can be so wonderful, full of adventure and joy. It can also be full of challenges, setbacks(挫折) and heartbreaks. Whatever our circumstances, we generally still have dreams, hopes and desires—that little something more we want for ourselves and our loved ones. Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls(陷阱) that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.This worry between what we feel we can have and what we’re seemingly able to have is the tiring suffering, the anxiety we feel. This is where we usually think it’s easier to just give up. But we’re never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more. The intelligence behind that knowing is us—the real us. It’s the part that believes in life and its possibilities. If you drop that, you begin to feel a little "d ead" inside because you’re dropping "you".So, if we have this ability but somehow life seems to keep us stuck, how do we break these patterns?Decide on a new course and make one decision at a time. This is good advice for a new adventure or just getti ng through today’s challenges.While, deep down, we know we can do it, our mind—or the minds of those close to us—usually says we can’t.That isn’t a reason to stop, it’s just the mind, that little man or woman on your shoulder, tryingto talk you out of something again. It has done it many times before. It’s all about starting simple and doing it now.Decide and act before overthinking. When you do this you may feel a little, or large, setting free from the jail of your mind and you’ll be on your way.17. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that we should___________.A. slow down and live a simple lifeB. be careful when we choose to changeC. stick to our dreams under any circumstancesD. be content with what we already have18. What is the key to breaking the old patterns?A. To focus on every detail.B. To decide and take immediate action.C. To listen to those close to us.D. To think twice before we act.19. Which of the following best explains the underlined part in the last paragraph?A. Escape from your punishmentB. Realization of your dreams.C. Freedom from your worry.D. Reduction of your expectations.20. What does the author intend to tell us?A. It’s easier than we think to get what we want.B. It’s important to learn to accept sufferings in life.C. It’s impractical to change our way of thinking.D. It’s harder than we expect to follow a new course.D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。