山东省临沂市蒙阴县第一中学2014-2015学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案

蒙阴一中2014—2015学年度下学期高二期中模块考试英语试题第I卷第一部分听力（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ABC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 will Dorothy do on the weekend?A. Work on her paper.B. Go out with her friend.C. Make some plans.2. What was the normal price of the T-shirt?A. $30.B. $15.C. $50.3. What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon?A. To meet a friend.B. To attend a wedding.C. To visit an exhibition.4. When does the bank close on Saturday?A. At 1:00 pm.B. At 4:00 pm.C. At 3:00 pm.5. Where are the speakers?A. In a classroom.B. In a hotel.C. In a store.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 do we know about Nora?A. She likes to work with other girls.B. She lives near the city center.C. She prefers a room of her own.7. What is good about the flat?A. It has a big kitchen.B. It has a large sitting room.C. It has good furniture.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where has Barbara been?A. Florence.B. Rome.C. Milan.9. What has Barbara got in her suitcase?A. Books.B. Stones.C. Shoes.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Who is making the telephone call?A. Mike Landon.B. Thomas Brothers.C. Jack Cooper.11. What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper?A. His boss.B. His secretary.C. His wife.12. What is the message about?A. The date for a trip.B. A visit to France.C. A meeting.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Who could the man speaker most probably be?A. A police officer.B. A person who saw the accident.C. The driver of the lorry.14. What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place?A. Walking along Churchill Avenue.B. Standing outside a bank.C. Getting ready to cross the road.15. When did the accident happen?A. At about 8:00 am.B. At about 10:00 am.C. At about 9:00 am.16. How did the accident happen?A. A car ran into a lorry.B. A lorry hit a car.C. A bank clerk rushed into the street.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the talk mainly about?A. The courses for the term.B. The plan for the day.C. The history of the school.18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students?A. In the school hall.B. In the classrooms.C. In the science labs.19. What can students do in the practical areas?A. Attend workshops.B. Enjoy excellent meals.C. Take science courses.20. When are the visitors expected to ask questions?A. After the welcome speech.B. During the lunch hour.C. Before the tour of the labs.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）请阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

AIf Confucius（孔子）were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. He’d need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out.While many people in China will remember Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing thought. It’s nothing personal. Most Americans don’t even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes.But this doesn’t mean that Americans don’t care about Confucius. In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities. More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture. The main courses of Chinese culture usually include Chinese art, history and philosophy(哲学). Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the drawbacks of Western philosophy. Students in the United States, at the same time, are racing to learn Chinese. So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal powerwith the United States. Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading books about Confucius to understand their Chinese customers.So the old thinker’s ideas are still alive and well.Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is.21. The opening paragraph is mainly intended to________.A. attract the readers’ interest in the subjectB. provide some key facts about ConfuciusC. show great respect for the ancient thinkerD. prove the popularity of modern birthday celebrations22. We can learn from Paragraph 4 that American students________.A. take an active part in Chinese competitionsB. have a great interest in studying ChineseC. try to get high scores in Chinese examsD. fight for a chance to learn Chinese23. What is the best title for the passage?A. Huge Fans of the Chinese LanguageB. Chinese Culture for WesternersC. Old Thinker with a Big FutureD. Forgotten Wisdom in AmericaBEating too much fatty food, exercising too little and smoking can raise your future risk of heart disease. But there is another factor that can cause your heart problems more immediately: the air you breathe.Previous studies have linked high exposure (暴露）to environmental pollution to an increased risk of heart problem, but two analyses now show that poor air quality can lead to heart attack or stroke (中风）within as little as a few hours after exposure. In one review of the research, scientists found that people exposed to high levels of pollutants (污染物）were up to 5% more likely to suffer a heart attack within days of exposure than those with lower exposure. A separate study ofstroke patients showed that even air that the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers to be of “moderate” (良好）quality and relatively safe for our health can raise the risk of stroke as much as 34% within 12 to 14 hours of exposure.The authors of both studies stress that these risks are relatively (相对地) small for healthy people and certainly modest compared with other risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. However, it is important to be aware of these dangers because everyone is exposed to air pollution regardless of lifestyle choices. So stricter regulation by the EPA of pollutants may not only improve environmental air quality but could also become necessary to protect public health.24. The text mainly discusses the relationship between_________ .A. heart problems and exercisingB. heart problems and air qualityC. heart problems and smokingD. heart problems and fatty food25. The underlined word “modest” in Paragraph 3 most probably means________.A. extremely lowB. relatively lowC. relatively highD. extremely high26. What can we learn from the text?A. Eating fatty food has immediate effects on your heart.B. The EPA conducted many studies on air quality.C. Stricter regulations on pollutants should be made.D. Moderate air quality is more harmful than smoking,27. The author’s purpose of writing the text is most likely to ________A. persuadeB. informC. describeD. entertainCThere is no better way to enjoy Scottish traditions than going fishing and tasting a little bit of whisky(威士忌)at a quiet place like the Inverlochy Castle. When Queen Victoria visited the castle in 1873 she wrote in her diary, “I never saw a lovelier spot ,” And she didn’t even go fishing.Scotland is not easily defined (下定义). In certain moments, this quiet land of lakes and grasses and mountains changes before your very eyes. When evening gently sweeps the hillside into orange light ,the rivers, teeming with fish, can turn into streams of gold . As you settle down with just a fishing pole and a basket on the bank of River Orchy, near the Inverlochy castle , any frustration（烦恼）will float away as gently as the circling water. It’s just you and purple,pink ,white flowers, seeking a perfect harmony . If you are a new comer to fishing, learning the basics fr om a fishing guide may leave you with a lifetime’s fun. For many, fishi ng is more than a sport; it is an art.Scotland offers interesting place where you can rest after a long day’s fishing. Set against a wild mountain and hidden behind woodland , the beautiful Inverlochy Castle Hotel below the Nevis is a perfect place to se e the beauty of Scotland’s mountains . Ben Nevis is the highest of all British mountains , and reaching its 1342-metre top is a challenge . But it’s not just what goes up that matters; what comes down is unique. More than 900 metres high, on the mountain’s north face, lies an all-important source of pure water. Its name comes form the Gaelic language “usquebaugh”or “water of life”; And it is the single most important ingredient(原料) in Scotland’s best known drink：whisky.28.The story of Queen Victoria is to show that _____.A. the Queen is rich in tour experienceB. tasting whisky is better than going fishingC. the Castle is a good place to go in ScotlandD. 1873 is a special year for the Queen29. How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?A. By following time order.B. By giving descriptions.C. By analyzing causes.D. By making comparisons.30.What is Ben Nevis special for?A. The water from the mountain.B. The beauty of its surroundings.C. The Inverlochy Castle Hotel.D. The challenge up to its top.31.What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To show the attractions of Scotland to readers.B. To introduce Scottish traditions to tourists.C. To explore geographical characteristics of Scotland.D. To describe the pleasures of life in ScotlandDTo take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians（基督教徒）have ever made up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden (伊甸园) is evil（邪恶的）.So whenColumbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion . Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell （地狱）.What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit--or is it a vegetable?” As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an “evil fruit”.But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820,people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead.” What are you afraid of?” he shouted. ”I’ll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato. So me people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.32. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.A. it made Christians evilB. it came from a forbidden landC. it was religiously unacceptableD. it was the apple of Eden33. What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3 ?A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down .B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato .C. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato .D. The tomato was still refused in most western countries .34. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly ?A. To persuade people to buy products from his factory .B. To make himself a hero.C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato .D. To remove people’s fear of the tomato.35. What is the main purpose of the passage ?A. To challenge people’s fixed concepts of the tomato.B. To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato.C. To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato.D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence .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。