【全国百强校】北京大学附属中学河南分校(宇华教育集团)2015-2016学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题

宇华教育集团北大附中河南分校2015-2016（下）期末高一英语试卷考试时间90分钟满分120分注意：本试卷包含Ⅰ、Ⅱ两卷。

第Ⅰ卷为选择题，所有答案必须用2B铅笔涂在答题卡中相应的位置。

第Ⅱ卷为非选择题，所有答案必须填在答题卷的相应位置。

答案写在试卷上均无效，不予记分满分70分）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)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。

AThe sun is shining when I get on No. 151 bus. We passengers sit jammed together in heavy clothes. No one speaks. That’s one of the unwritten rules of Chicago commuting. Although we see the same faces every day, we prefer to hide behind our newspapers. The phenomenon is striking: people who sit so close together are using those thin sheets of newsprint to keep their distance.As the bus approaches the Magnificent Mile, a voice suddenly rings out: “Attention! Attention!” Papers rattle (发出细小声). Necks crane (伸长). “This is your driver speaking.”We look at the back of the driver’s head. His voice has authority.“All of you put your papers down.”The papers come down, an inch at a time. The driver waits. The papers are folded and placed on our laps.“Now, turn and face the person next to you.Go ahead.”Amazingly, we all do it. Still, no one smiles.I face an older woman, her head wrapped tightly in a red scarf. I see her nearly every day. Our eyes meet. We wait, unblinking, for the next order from the driver.“Now, repeat after me…” It is a command, delivered in the tones of a drill sergeant (操练军士). “Good morning, neighbor!”Our voices are weak and timid. For many of us, these are the first words we have spoken today. But we say them at the same time, like schoolchildren, to the strangers beside us.We smile and can’t help it. We have said it; the barrier has been broken. Good morning, neighbor. It is not so hard after all. Some of us repeat it. Others shake hands. Many laugh.The bus driver says nothing more. He doesn’t need to. Not a single newspaper goes back up. I hear laughter, a warm sound I have never heard before on bus No. 151. This day is starting off better than most.21. On hearing the sudden utterance of “Attention!”, the passengers ___________.A. stopped reading and put down their newspapers immediatelyB. looked up from the newspapers to see who was speakingC. sat still without responseD. were frightened22. The underlined word “commuting” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ___________.A. daily traveling between home and workB. long-distance rideC. communication technologyD. behavior patterns23. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. The passengers on the crowded bus were so absorbed in reading their newspapers that no one spoke.B. The passengers were physically close together but mentally they kept each other at a terrible distance.C. The passengers didn’t follow the driver’s instruction at first.D. When the bus driver said nothing more, the passengers picked up and read their newspapers again.24. What would be the best title for the text?A. The Warmth of CommunicationB. The Exchange of InformationC. The Power of ObservationD. The Attitude to LonelinessBDo you find getting up in the morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say t hat you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel the most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as John talks to himself: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation for the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Adjust your cycle to some extent by staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usu al hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (打起精神) and work better at your low point.Begin with a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a slow yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do usual work in the afternoon and spend time doing important work for your high peak hours.25. According to Dr. Kleitman if you don’t want to get up in the morning ____________.A. you must be a lazy personB. you must catch a coldC. your energy cycle must be lowD. you should stay in bed26. Which of the following may lead to family quarrels according to the passage?A. A change i n a family member’s energy cycle.B. Familiar monologues.C. Unawareness of energy cycles.D. Attempts to control the energy cycle of other family members.27. If one wants to work better at his low point in the morning, he should ____________.A. change his energy cycleB. go to bed earlierC. overcome his lazinessD. get up earlier than usual28. You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will _________________.A. help you to control your temper early in the dayB. he lp to keep your energy for the day’s workC. enable you to concentrate on your routine workD. keep your energy cycle under control all dayCAny discussion of English conversation, like any English conversation, must begin with〝The Weather〞. And in this spirit of observing traditional rule, I shall quote Dr Johnson’ s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of the weather”, and point out that this observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago.This, however, is the point at which most people either stop, or try, and fail, to come up with a convincing explanation for the English “ addiction”to the weather. They fail because their premise (前提) is mistaken: they assume that our conversations about the weather are conversations about the weather. In other words, they assume that we talk about the weather because we have a keen interest in the subject. Most of them then try to figure out what it is about the English weather that is so fascinating.Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that the English weather is not at all fascinating, and that our “addiction” to it is therefore very difficult to explain : “To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it. A1l those phenomena that elsewhere give nature an edge of excitement, unpredictability and danger—tornados, monsoons, hailstorms—are almost wholly unknown in the British I sles.”Jeremy Paxman takes offence at Bryson’ s comments and argues that the English weather is truly fascinating:Bryson misses the point . The interest is less in the phenornena themselves , but inuncertainty. . . one of the few things you can say about England with absolute certainty is that it has a lot of weather. It may not include tropical cyclones but life at the edge of an ocean and the edge of a continent means you can never be entirely sure what you’ re going to get.My research has convinced me that both Bryson and Paxman are missing the point, which is that our conversations about the weather are not really about the weather at all: English weather – speak is a form of code, developed to help us overcome our natural reserve (含蓄) and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows, for example, that “Nice day, isn’t it?”,“Ooh, isn’t it cold?”; and other variations on the theme are not requests for weather data: they are greetings or conversation -starters. In other words, English weather – speak is a form of “cleaning talk”——the human equivalent of what is known as “social cleaning” among our primate(灵长类的)cousins, where they spend hours cleaning each other’s fur, even when they are perfectly clean, as a means of social connection.29. As is stated in the passage, most people try to find out .A. why the English weather is so uniqueB. whether the English enjoy their weatherC. why the English are so interested in the topic of weatherD. whether the English really talk about weather when they do so30. Disapproving of Bill Bryson’ s opinion, Jeremy Paxman a rgues that .A. the English talk about their weather because it is unpredictableB. the English don’ t talk about weather as often as the outsiders thinkC. the English weather can be as exciting as anywhere else’sD. the English weather talk is merely a form of small talk31. According to the author, English weather –speak is similar to primates’social cleaning in that they areboth .A. ways of greetingB. means social connectionC．fascinating topics between people D. phenomena difficult to understand to outsidersDA recent survey shows that the alarming rate of child suicide in Hong Kong, raising levels of stress and anxiety among young people, increasing conflicts between children and teachers, and children’s compl aints that their parents do not understand their problems—all point to a drop in “emotional quotient” (EQ) (情商), the ability to handle relationships.EQ is defined as the ability to deal with oneself and others effectively. High EQ, psychologists say, is easy to spot. Some of the greatest humanitarian (人道主义的) leaders have high EQ, along with successful managers and inspirational and respected teachers. The problem is not how to spot high EQ but to improve on low EQ, so society as a whole can benefit.In the United States, declining EQ among young people is seen as one of the factors behind rising young people’s crime because youths fail to understand others’ feelings—one of the key components of EQ. While the situation in Hong Kong is not so bad, there are warning signs that the levels of anxiety among youth may become critical. Declining EQ among Hong Kong teenagers has been acknowledged by several studies including a key study by the education concern group, the Learning-Teacher Association, which found a high degree of anxiety among students over the future and also that young people lacked confidence in dealing with problems. Parents and teachers will also need to develop their own EQ skills in order to deal with them effectively.Daniel Goleman cites a number of basic elements of high EQ: first, awareness of your feelings as you experience them which is very important to making good decisions in life; second, feeling or awareness of what others are feeling. “90% of emotional information is expressed non-verbally and people vary in their ability to pick it up,” Dr. Goleman says in his book.Dr. Goleman argues that without high EQ even highly-educated, highly-intelligent people will not find success in life. Or those with low EQ, even though they may be brilliant, tend to lack feeling and impulse control. They fail easily, and they are easily intolerant and often aggressive in interpersonal relations. Some educational psychologists believe work on EQ may be important in Hong Kong with its high rate of suicide among school children. EQ test may be able to help predict those most at risk, and those least able to deal with their own emotions or unable to deal with others, including parents and teachers.32. According to the passage, children in Hong Kong commit suicide at an alarming rate as a result of_______.A. parents not understanding their childrenB. the rising levels of stress and anxiety among young peopleC. increasing conflict between children and teachersD. the inability of dealing with relationships33. We can infer from the passage that people with low emotional quotient _______.A. are least likely to become good leadersB. can deal with oneself and others effectivelyC. are beneficial to societyD. are more likely to be respected34. The word “its” in the last paragraph refers to ________.A. the work on EQB. EQC. Hong KongD. China35. Daniel Goleman believes that _______.A. one can be just as successful without having a high EQB. people not having high EQ may not be successful in life despite being extremely intelligentC. people with low intelligence will not get a successful lifeD. only people with both high EQ and high IQ will be successful in life第二节 (共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)For hundreds of years, people have been wondering about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep. 36 However, they have been valued as necessary to a person’s health and happiness. Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person's character. 37 He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears, which would be socially unacceptable in real life.The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung's compensation theory. Jung, a former student of Freud, said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something, but rather to communicate it to the dreamer.38 Thus, people who think too highly of themselves may dream about falling; those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes.Using more recent research, William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans. 39 Until they reach age five, they can not express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults, there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ. For instance, the characters that appear in the dreams of men are often other men, and often involve physical aggression.The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand. 40 If you dream that a loved one is going to die, do not panic. The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die.A. Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life.B. However, people should not take their dreams as reality.C. They have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys.D. It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind.E. Children do not dream as much as adults.F. They think their mind is trying to tell them something.G. First, there was Sigmund Freud’s theory.第三部分完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分)On Sunday morning, Janua ry 29, the call woke me up. It was the president of ABC News. “Lee, Bob has been __41__ in Iraq,” he said, choosing his words __42__. “He’s alive but he may have taken shrapnel (炮弹碎片) to the brain.”When I saw Bob in the hospital, nothing could have __43__ me. He was unconscious. His __44__ wasswollen to the size of a rugby ball and a piece of his skull was missing. All sorts of __45__ were coming out of his body. His left eye looked like a dead fish. I tried to __46__ myself that he didn’t look that bad, that this was the __47__ and that he’d only get better from here.There were many months of treatment __48__. Every morning I would head over to the hospital and check on Bob. In the __49__ that a mother uses with her baby I would __50__ to him. I let him know about the kids. I told him stories about us and some of our best __51__ together. I brought music and had home movies for Bob to hear.One day when I pushed open the door as usual, I __52__. Bob was sitting up in bed, a huge smile on his face. He saw me and __53__ his hands in the air. “Hey, sweetie,” he said, “where have you been?” I tried to speak but no words came out. This was so much more than I’d wanted and prayed for, __54__ I couldn’t really believe it. My husband was __55__ and he was calling me. Half of me wanted to shout in __56__ and gratitude and half of me wanted to __57__ everything, how I’d been there day after day for months. I __58__ to him.Bob was __59__. He had the best medical treatment possible and the finest doctors. But the most important thing __60__ to be the love that held us close.41. A. hidden B. caught C. wounded D. disturbed42. A. seriously B. carefully C. actively D. freely43. A. prepared B. damaged C. pleased D. choked44. A. arm B. leg C. head D. hand45. A. tools B. tubes C. weapons D. clothes46. A. convince B. accept C. suggest D. imagine47. A. worst B. best C. least D. most48. A. then B. ever C. before D. ahead49. A. name B. sound C. air D. voice50. A. point B. shout C. talk D. refer51. A. dreams B. memories C. thoughts D. secrets52. A. froze B. cried C. failed D. left53. A. held B. found C. lifted D. seized54. A. that B. but C. which D. and55. A. off B. up C. down D. back56. A. anger B. relief C. faith D. detail57. A. forget B. follow C. explain D. check58. A. waved B. walked C. moved D. ran59. A. fortunate B. patient C. generous D. powerful60. A. turned up B. turned out C. took up D. took out第II卷第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。