杭州二中2016学年第二学期高一年级期中考英语试卷

杭州二中2016学年第二学期高一年级期中考英语试卷

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题），共100分，考试时间90分钟。

命题、校对：李陈珠、张绮审核：何玲

第I卷

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分15分）

第一节（共5小题，每小题1分，满分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. What does the man promise to do at the weekend?

A. Play football with Matthew

B. Watch a game with the woman.

C. Wash the car for the woman

2. Where is the shopping center?

A. Opposite a parking lot.

B. On the left of a drugstore.

C. Next to a sports center.

3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. An ancient book

B. A valuable library

C. A piece of research

4. How long has the woman been working in the company?

A. 4 years

B. 5 years.

C. 6 years.

5. What animal did the woman fail to see?

A. Lions

B. Monkeys

C. Elephants.

第二节（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

听下面3段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后面有几个小题，从题中所组的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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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8题。

6. Why didn’t the woman attend the party?

A. She looked after her grandfather.

B. She went to see a doctor

C. She had a headache

7. How long did the party last?

A.About 3 hours

B. About 3.5 hours

C. About 4.5 hours

8. What impressed the man most in the party?

A. The atmosphere

B. The food.

C. The music

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What did the man do?

A. He attended a wedding.

B. He met Jason.

C. He went shopping

10. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a shop

B. At home

C. In Jason’s house

11. What will the man decide tomorrow?

A. Whether to send the trousers back

B. Whether to wash his jeans

C. Whether to buy a jacket

听第8段材料，回答第12至15题。

12.Where are the speakers?

A. At a pet store.

B. At a city zoo

C. At a TV station

13. What was Helena interested in when she was young?

A. Keeping cats

B.Looking at insects

C. Taking care of dogs.

14. What did Helena major in at university?

A. Zoology

B. Animal science

C. Biology

15. What does Helena dislike about her work?

A. Looking after rare animals

B. Working outside on rainy days

C. Working quite long hours.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，第一节11小题，第二节4小题；每小题2分，满分30分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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A head track coach, Bill Bowerman, designed a lighter shoe with better support and greater strength and sent the design to leading sporting-goods companies. They all turned him down.

The refusal brought Bowerman face to face with his own philosophy of “competit ive response”. He had taught his sportsmen value competition not so much for its prizes as for its intellectual and spiritual demands. This was true of his determination to make the shoes himself.

He made his first pair of track shoes graceful and light. And his runners won in his handmade shoes. But who would like to manufacture(制造)such shoes himself.

He made his first pair of track shoes graceful and light. And his runners won in his hand made shoes. But who would like to manufacture（制造）such shoes?

In 1962 Knight, one of Bowerman’s sportsmen, offered to travel to Japan and called on one of Japan’s best manufacturers of sports shoes. The manufacturer promised to produce shoes of his design and Knight’s company would be their only dis tributor（经销商）in the U.S. Just over a year later, a shipment of 200 Bowerman shoes arrived in Oregon.

At first , Knight and Bowerman worked with small team and went selling out of cars at track meets. But slowly, the secret of their product grew in the running world.

Then in 1972 the Japanese company cut off all supplies to their company and had