四川省德阳市第五中学高一英语下学期期中试题

德阳五中高2014级第二学期中期考试
英语试题
考生注意：（1）请把1—55；76—80小题的答案填涂在机读卡上。

（2）请把56—75小题的答案及书面表达写在答题卷上。

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)
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. Where is the woman going?
A. To the club.
B. To Chris’ house.
C. To the post office.
2. What colour suit did the man wear yesterday?
A. Grey.
B. Brown.
C. Green.
3. Why did the man catch a cold according to the woman?
A. He had a cold bath.
B. He slept in a cold room.
C. He wore fewer clothes.
4. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a prison.
B. In a hotel.
C. In a hospital.
5. What does the woman advise the man to do?
A. Call the hotel.
B. Go to the airport.
C. Take care of his ticket.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is the man doing?
A. Watching TV.
B. Surfing the Internet.
C. Listening to the radio.
7. What will the weather probably be like in Chicago next Saturday?
A. Rainy.
B. Cloudy.
C. Sunny.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A museum.
B. Old buildings.
C. The traveling route.
9. What does the man want to see?
A. The constructions of the city.
B. An ancient king’s palace.
C. Some historical sites.
10. What probably is the woman?
A. A tour guide.
B. A history teacher.
C. A mu seum worker.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What does the woman think of the painting Les Demoise de Avignon?
A. Modern.
B. Strange.
C. Beautiful.
12. What do we know about Picasso?
A. He had many girlfriends.
B. He died at the age of 91.
C. He only married once.
13. What is the relationship between Picasso and Jacqueline?
A. Father and daughter.
B. Son and mother.
C. Husband and wife.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What does the man say about the new iPhone?
A. It is expensive.
B. It is multi-functional.
C. It will come out in July.
15. How big is the first generation iPod?
A. It is about the size of a pack of gum.
B. It is about the size of a piece of gum.
C. It is about half the size of a pack of gum.
16. How much does the second generation iPod cost?
A. About $50.
B. About $100.
C. About $150.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When did Laura meet Tyler?
A. At work.
B. At university.
C. At high school.
18. How did Laura feel about Tyler’s invitation?
A. Regretful.
B. Nervous.
C. Pleased.
19. What do we know about Laura and Tyler’s first date?
A. Laura was late.
B. Tyler paid for the dinner.
C. The weather spoiled their date.
20. How old was Laura when she got married?
A. 22.
B. 24.
C. 27.
第二部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A, B, C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并
在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
A mother had two daughters. She loved them very much, but two girls would fight with each other from their earliest years. As they grew older, they became total strangers. They had no contact with each other when they were adults.
This caused the mother great pain. Then, later, she had an idea. She decided to write a letter to them. In this letter, she told them how much she loved them, and how she wanted them to love each other in this way. She also gave them news of herself and some guidance on how to live happier lives.
When the letter was ready, she wrote out one copy for each daughter, but these copies were special. Each copy contained only every second sentence of the original letter: the copy for one daughter had only the even (双数的) sentences, and the other daughter’s copy contained only the odd sentences. Neither contained the fullness of the mother’s message.
When the two daughters received their letters, they were puzzled. To understand the half-letter, they would have to put the two letters together and read them as one, which meant they must approach one another again in love and respect. But they each blamed the other for not helping them when tryin g to read the half-letter.
For a long time, the mother waited in vain. Then one day, when the mother had almost given up hope, there was a knock at the door. There they stood, together. “We’ve come home,” they said at the same time. “We’ve finally put our letters together, and we’ve come to say how much we love you, Mum.” Then she hugged them both, tears of joy streaming down her cheeks, and welcomed them back home.
21. The mother gave her daughters incomplete letters mainly to ______.
A.tell them her news
B. offer them advice
C. mend their relations
D. win their hearts
22. Upon receiving their letters, the two daughters ______.
plained about each other as usual
B. put the letters together and read them
C.blamed her mother for the half-letter
D. understood the mother’s purpose at once
23. Why did the two daughters visit their mother at last?
A. They missed home very much.
B.They felt grateful for the mother.
C. They wanted to apologize.
D. They had put the letters together.
24. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Two Special Daughters
B. A Mother’s Endless Love
C.A Sincere Apology to Mother
D. An Unusual Letter
B
TEN-YEAR-OLD Barack Obama was one of the only three black students at his school in Hawaii, US. He felt very different from most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy asked him whether his father ate people.
“I lied to them that my fath er was a Kenyan prince. But I kept asking myself who I am,” said Obama.
However, 37 years later, the boy made history. Last year Obama became the first black president in US history.
Obama was born in 1961, to an African father and a white American woman from a small town in the US. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii. This unusual background made him wonder who he was. He once turned to alcohol to help forget this question.
With help from his friends, Obama finally turned his life around at college. His hard work made him a star at Harvard. Later, he became only the third black senator (参议员) in US history. During his race to the highest post in the US, Obama talked about his background. He called for a United States of America, rather than a white America or a black America.
“Obama’s success has made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. That is: A man should not be judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character,” wrote ABC news.
25. When Obama was ten years old, he was in _______.
A. Hawaii
B. Kenya
C.Africa
D.Indonesia
26. When Obama became president of the US, he was _______.
A. 37
B.48
C. 47
D. 38
27. Why did Obama lie to his classmates that his father was a Kenyan prince?
A. Because he was uncertain about his background then.
B.Because he dreamed of becoming a Kenyan prince.
C. Because he was afraid of being laughed at by his classmates.
D.Because he was told his father was a Kenyan prince.
28. Which of the following statements is right?
A. Obama is optimistic all his life.
B. Obama was brought up in Africa.
C. .According to Luther King, a man should be judged by the content of his
D. Obama didn’t work hard at Harvard, but he finally turned president of the US.
C
When my mother was alive, she used to tell me again and again about the value of just being nice. “Never underestimate（低估）the power of a smile,” she would say. I fear she would be very disappointed looking at the world today. A lot of people don’t smile and when it comes to service today, they’re just not nice. Now don’t give me wrong, not all service workers but a good many.
I was on the phone the other day with a computer help desk. First a man, then later a woman, who couldn’t have been ruder. And this to a customer, who didn’t know his way around a PC. But no matter, I could tell they thought I was a bother, The woman, in fact, seemed to be chewing gum as she unemotionally clicked off a series of commands for me to perform.
The next day I heard from a friend of mine who got a performance review without his boss once looking up at him. Not once.
You see it everywhere. Gone are the days when people cared about you. It’s a sign of the time, I suspect. But that makes me sad — for them and for us all.
People who aren’t happy, who don’t smile, who don’t kid, who don’t joke or make light of even bad situations, make for an even worse situation.
And it spreads like a cancer. Someone’s rude to you, you’re rude to them and to the next fellow you meet, and on and on. Smiles are contagious（易感染的）but so annoyances. The boss who can’t be bothered with his workers. The celebrity who can’t be bothered with her annoying fans.
You know, my mom used to judge presidential candidates by how they smiled. I would say, “But mom, you don’t know if that smile is real.”
“Oh, yes I do,” she would tell me. “I can feel it.”
It’s in their eyes, she would say. And it’s in their smile. The rest just kind of falls into place.
29．Why did the writer mention his phone call?
A. To show many people aren’t nice.
B.To prove his mother is wrong.
C. To share his funny experience with us.
D. To tell us he knows little about computer.
30．What is the author’s attitude towards the boss of his friend?
A. Respectful.
B.Supportive.
C. Opposed.
D. Doubtful.
31．When someone is rude to you, you’re advised to ________.
A.become one just like him or her
B. be nice to the people you meet
C. be rude to the next person
D. make for a worse situation
32．What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Feel a person in his eyes
B. Don’t jud ge a person by his look
C. The effect of rudeness
D.The power of a smile
D
Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.
Recently, two researchers, Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland, demonstrated a small robotic wheelchair directed by a person's thoughts.
In the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right hand. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.
“Our brain has billions of nerve cells. These send si gnals through the spinal cord (脊髓) to the muscles to give us the ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles.” Tavella says. “Our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control de vices.
The researchers designed a special cap for the user. This head cover picks up the signals from the scalp (头皮) and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. The wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain.
Prof. Millan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. One example is this wheelchair.”
He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from. And the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time.
33. BCI is a technology that can ________.
A.help the disabled to recover
B. control a person's thoughts
C. help to update computer systems
D. link the human brain with computers
34. How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?
A.By talking to the machine.
B. By controlling his muscles.
C. By using his mind.
D. By moving his hand.
35.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries
B. BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled
C.New Findings About How the Human Brain Works
D.Switzerland, the BCI Research Center
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题；每题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town claiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered，and they all admired his heart for it was 36 . There was not a scar in it. Suddenly, an old man appeared and said, “Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as 37 .”
Th e crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s 38 . It was full of scars, it had places 39 pieces had been removed and other pieces___40 in, but they didn’t fit quite right, and there were several 41 edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gaps where whole pieces were missing.
The young man laughed. “ 42your heart with mine, I think mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars.”
“Yes,” said the old man, “Yours 43 perfect but I would never trade with you. You see, every 44 represents a person 45 I have given my love.
I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they ___46 me
a piece of their heart that fits into the __47 place in my heart. But because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we 48 .
“Sometimes I ha ve given pieces of my heart 49 , and the other person hasn’t returned a __50of his or her heart to me. These are the empty gaps—giving love is 51 a chance. Although these gaps are painful, they 52 open, reminding me of the love I have for those people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have been waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?’’
The young man walked up to the old man, 53his perfect heart, and tipped a piece out. He 54 it to the old man.
The old man placed it in his heart, then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It 55 , but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side.
36．A．ugly B．perfect C．good D．hurt
37．A．mine B．his C．theirs D．ours
38．A．coat B．appearance C．face D．heart
39．A．that B．which C．where D．whose
40．A．cut B．set C．put D．brought
41．A．smooth B．rough C．broken D．pretty
42．paring B．Compared C．Compare D．Compares
43．A．looks B．seems C．is D．fits
44．A．one B．heart C．piece D．scar
45．A．on whom B．in whom C．with whom D．to whom
46．A．take B．give C．lend D．pass
47．A．empty B．full C．original D．first
48．A．had B．gave C．shared D．owned
49．A．in B．away C．off D．up
50．A．lot B．sheet C．piece D．pile
51．A．making B．taking C．keeping D．bringing
52．A．last B．cut C．come D．stay
53．A.carried away Breached into C took out D．brought up
54．A．offered B．took C．passed D．served
55．A．fit B．hit C．beat D．set
第三部分英语知识运用
第二节（共10分；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（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

With the 56.__________ （develop）of industry, air pollution is getting more
and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses
because 57.__________ air pollution. Air pollution is caused by the following
58.__________: about half of the problem is caused by vehicles. There are more
and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off 59._________( poison)
gases. 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the
smokers. Smoking not only does harm to their health 60.__________ to others.
61.__________ these, about 10%of air pol lution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures to fight 62.__________ pollution. New fuel can be
used to take 63.__________ place of gas. We can plant more trees. If everybody
realizes the 64._________（important）of environment and does something to stop
pollution, the problem will65.__________（solve）.
第四部分：写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
文中共有10处错误，。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Ë)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

To protect the environment ,many people have found that helpful to make the switch From paper and plastic bags for reusable grocer bags But a report by Florida newspaper says that reusable grocery bags selling by some supermarkets contain high levels of lead .Lead is a metal which can be harmful to human ,especially young children . Lead in the bags is not possible to pollute food . However, as time went by , lead can come out as a result of repeating use . The bags with many pictures is found to contain more
lead than plain reusable bags without decoration. We request that the government can take some measures.
第五部分：七选五(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。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

76 . Since that time, we've provided people like you --- teachers, doctors, salespeople, full-time parents --- with a way of having a great time, challenging themselves and reconnecting with family and friends.
The non-stop routine of everyday life –answering e-mails, sitting in staff meetings ---- can have a dulling effect on people's senses. 77 . Otherworld provides just such an opportunity. It is an experience participants cherish and remember for years afterwards．
Coming to Otherworld is like stepping into the pages of an adventure novel. You'll meet a host of characters, portrayed by our staff, who'll start bringing the world to life. Mysteries will begin to unfold around you. 78 . You' ll see amazing sights and do things you never dreamed possible．
Suppose you were traveling to a foreign country. When you arrived, you might read a guidebook or visit a tourist booth to familiarize yourself with the laws and customs of the place you were visiting. 79 . Before the weekend, you'll receive a handbook, explaining Otherworld’s customs and conventions. When you arrive at the weekend itself, there'll be a short b riefing to review the handbook's contents.
Then you and your group are taken to the front door of the Inn at World's Edge. You'll see candles on each of the tables. A fire will burn in the fireplace. At many of the tables, people will sit talking, arguing, and laughing. These people are our staff volunteers. 80 . But now they are all costumed and playing roles as citizens of the village of World's Edge.
A. And at that moment, the adventure begins．
B. Otherworld Adventure Weekend starts in much the same way．
C. They are the same people who welcomed you and helped you unload bags．
D. Maybe some of the local people would talk to you, telling you about nearby attractions．．
E. Otherworld was founded in 1992 with an idea: to give people an extraordinary adventure．
F. Therefore, everybody needs a relaxing weekend - a good adventure to refresh themselves．
G. As you and your friends work together to solve them, you'll find yourselves challenged in ways that are exciting, unexpected and fun．
第四部分第二节书面表达（满分25分）
人们对于学生网上交友持不同意见，请用英语写一篇关于学生网上交友的短文，介绍人们的不同意见，并表达自己的看法。

赞成的理由是：1 广交朋友；2 可自由表达思想；3 利于外语学习。

反对的理由：1 浪费时间；2 影响学习；3 可能上当受骗
你的看法是：......
注意：
1 文章必须包括以上全部内容。

2 词数100词左右。

3 参考词汇：网络朋友 on-line friend ，上当受骗 to be cheated .
德阳五中高2014级高一英语中期考试参考答案
第一部分听力（30分）1—5 BBCCA 6—10 BCCAA 11—15 BACBA
16—20 BACCB
第四部分（一）短文改错（10分） 66 that—it 67 for—to 68 a 69 selling—sold 70 beings 71 possible—likely 72 went—goes 73 repeating—repeated 74 is—are 75 can—should (或去掉can)
第五部分七选五（10分） 76—80 EFGBC
第四部分（二）书面表达（25分）
In my opinion ,it is a good thing. We can use it to make a lot of friends on line and relax ourselves .We can use it to learn English well. However, we must limit our time for it and we must be careful not to be cheated .。