2015-2016学年福建省福州格致中学高二上学期半期考试英语试题

2015-2016学年福建省福州格致中学高二上学期半期考试英语试题注意事项：1、答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号码填写清楚。

2、请将准考证条码粘贴在右侧的[条码粘贴处]的方框内3、选择题必须使用2B铅笔填涂；非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔填写，字体工整4、请按题号顺序在各题的答题区内作答，超出范围的答案无效，在草纸、试卷上作答无效。

第一部分：听力测试（共两节，共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）第一节（共5小题）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 does this conversation take place?A. In a park.B. At a station.C. On the street.2. How much sleep does the man need at least every night?A. 7 hours.B. 8 hours.C. 9 hours.3. What did Steve say yesterday?A. He liked the apartment.B. He wanted to sign a contract.C. He would call the man soon.4. What do the speakers actually want to get?A. Jobs.B. Smart phones.C. Smart robots.5. Why does the woman apologize to the man?A. She can’t have a discussion with him right now.B. She has to put off their appointment.C. She won’t have lunch with him today.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从每题所给的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至7题。

6. When is Professor Smith coming to the school?A. On Oct.11.B. On Oct.13.C. On Oct.30.7. What does the man ask the woman to do next week?A. To give a speech at the school library.B. To review the paper about public communication.C. To interview Professor Smith and write an article.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the man want to be washed by hand?A. His silk shirt.B. His sweaters.C. His trousers.9. When is the earliest that the man can get his clothes back?A. This evening.B. Tomorrow morning.C. Tomorrowafternoon.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the Cornell Notes system known for helping students do?A. Sorting notes.B. Taking notes quickly.C. Organizingnotes.11. Which of the following should be avoided according to the woman?A. Main ideas of the text or speech.B. Long ideas and sentences.C. Questions related to review.12. Why won’t the man try the Cornell Notes method until nextsemester?A. He must prepare for his final exams now.B. He can’t understand the topic so quickly.C. He will have to write a summary in a day.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What does the man think is the best known service or product Googleoffers?A. Search engine.B. Various software.C. Onlineadvertising technologies.14. How long did Google take to start selling their shares?A. One year.B. Five years.C. Six years.15. What is the main thing that makes the man want to work for Google?A. Google’s service in communications hardware.B. Google’s business throughout the world.C. Google’s treatment of its employees.16. What has the man already done?A. He has had an interview.B. He has sent his resume to Google.C. He has visited the company and met someone.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How does Anna treat Jack according to the talk?A. Bathing him and paying his health bills and taxes.B. Buying his clothes and paying his phone bills and taxes.C. Buying his food and paying his health bills and taxes.18. What is life like for people in Sweden?A. Busy.B. Orderly.C. Easy.19. What is the money paid in dog taxes used for?A. Buying insurance for dog owners.B. Paying for damage done by dogs.C. Providing medical care for dogs.20. Providing medical care for dogs.What can we learn from the talk?A. People in Sweden pay a lot of taxes.B. Owning dogs means asking for trouble.C. Many car accidents are caused by dogs.第二部分 阅读理解第一节： 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）ADo you remember the man who contributed a lot to the understanding of British and American English? Noah Webster, born on October 16, 1758, is known for The American Dictionary of the English Language. He has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education”. His “Blue-Backed Speller” books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children. But how much do you know about him beyond that?At the age of 16, Noah Webster began attending Yale College. Unfortunately, he spent his four years at Yale during the American Revolutionary War, and, because of food shortages, many of his college classes were held in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Later, he served in the army.Having graduated from Yale in 1778, Webster wanted to continue his education in order to earn his law degree. He had to teach school in order to pay for his education. He set up many small schools that didn't survive, but he was a good teacher because instead of forcing his students to learn, like most teachers did, he rewarded them.He earned his law degree in 1781, but did not practice law until 1789. Once he started he found the law was not to his liking. Webster did not havemuch money.In 1793, Alexander Hamilton lent him $1500 to move to New York City to edit a newspaper. In December, he founded New York 's first daily newspaper, American Minerva, and edited it for four years. For decades, he published textbooks, political essays, a report on some diseases, and newspaper articles for his party, He wrote so much that a modern list of his published works required 655 pages .Noah Webster died on May 28, 1843 and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery.21. What's the main idea of Paragraph l?A. Webster's college education.B. Webster's famous dictionary.C. Webster's daily routines.D. Webster's main achievements.22. Which of the following best describes Webster's life at Yale?A. Tiring.B. Tough.C. Smooth.D. Normal.23. What did Noah want to be after graduation from Yale?A. A scholar.B. A teacher.C. A lawyer.D. A headmaster.24. Why was Webster a good teacher?A. Because he often rewarded his students.B. Because he set up many small schools.C. Because he graduated from Yale College.D. Because he forced his students to learn.BTourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman empire. When the empire broke down, this kind of tourism stopped.In the early 17th century, the idea of the "Grand Tour" was born. Richyoung English people sailed across the English Channel. They visited the most beautiful and important European cities of the time, including Paris in France, and Rome and Venice in Italy. Their tours lasted for two to four years, and the tourists stayed a few weeks or months in each city. The "Grand Tour" was an important part of young people's education-but only for the rich.In the 18th century, tourism began to change. For example, people in the UK started to visit some towns, such as Bath to "take the waters". They believed that the water there was good for their health. So large and expensive hotels were built in these towns.In the 19th century, travel became much more popular and faster. When the first railways were built in the 1820s, it was easier for people to travel between towns, so they started to go for holidays at the seaside. Some started to have holidays in the countryside as cities became larger, noisier and dirtier.Traveling by sea also became faster and safer when the first steamships were built. People began to travel more to faraway countries.The 20th century saw cars become more and more popular among ordinary people. Planes were made larger, so ticket prices dropped and more people used them.Thus tourism grew. In 1949, Russian journalist Vladimir Raitz started a company called Horizon Holidays. The company organizes everything-plane tickets, hotel rooms, even food-and tourists pay for it all before they leave home. The package tour (包办旅行) and modern tourism industry was born. The first travel agency in China was set up as early as 1949. But tourism did not take off until 1978. In 2002, the industry was worth 500 billion yuan and became an important part of China's social development.25. In the early times, the travelers _______ .A. all came from ChinaB. were very young and strongC. had lots of moneyD. traveled by boat26. _______ played the most important role in the tourism development.A. EducationB. MoneyC. TransportationD. People's ideas27. According to the passage , which of the following is right ?A. Money played the most important role in the tourism development .B. In the 20 th century, people preferred traveling by sea to traveling by air.C. China’s tourism did not take off until 1949.D. In 2002 , the tourism industry became an important part of China’s social development.28. Modern tourism industry was born _______A. in 1949B. in Roman timesC. in the early 17th centuryD. in the 19th century29.The underlined phrase "take off" means _______ .A. rise into the airB. develop very fastC. remove hats and clothesD. bring down the pricesCTrees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him wood and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood.Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees, so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil---make therain in ---and also bind（凝固） the soil, thus stopping it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.30.The most important points of trees to man is ________.A. they help him to make moneyB. they give him coolC. they give him wood and other thingsD. they help him to stop drought and floods31.In many places forests slowly disappear because ________ .A. many trees have been cut down by manB. new trees are not well looked afterC. man has not paid enough attention to planting treesD. all the abovend becomes desert after all trees are cut down because ________ .A. roots of trees break up the soilB. there are too many rainfallsC. strong winds bring a lot of sandD. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil.DDConflict is on the menu tonight at the café La Chope. This evening, as on every Thursday night, psychologist Maud Lehanne is leading two of France’s favorite pastimes, coffee drinking and the “talking cure”. Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings. It isn’t always easy. They customers-some thirty Parisians who pay just under $2 (plus drinks) per session-care quick to intellectualize (高谈阔论)，slow to open up and connect. “You are forbidden to say ‘one feels,’ or ‘people think’,”Lehane toldthem. “Say ‘I think,’ ‘Think me’.”A café society where no intellectualizing is allowed? It couldn’t seem more un-French. But Lehanne’s psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It’s trying to help the city’s troubled neighborhood cafes. Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation’s desire to spend more time at home. Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation. Cafes focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.33.What are people encouraged to do at the cafe La Chope?A. Learn a new subjectB. Keep in touch with friends.C. Show off their knowledge.D. Express their true feelings.34. How are cafes affected by French lifestyle changes?A. They are less frequently visited.B. They stay open for longer hours.C. They have bigger night crowds.D. They start to serve fast food.35. What are theme cafes expected to do?A. Create more jobs.B. Supply better drinks.C. Save the cafe business.D. Serve the neighborhood.第二节：阅读短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。