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嘉兴市第一中学2015学年第二学期期中考试
高一英语 试题卷
命题：郁晓丽 杨跃典
满分分 ，时间分钟 2016年4月
第一部分: 听力（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分） 第一节
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. How long will the speakers stay in Greenwich? A. Two hours.
B. Two and a half hours.
C. Three and a half hours.
2. What does the man want the woman to do? A. Return some books. 3. Where are the speakers? A. In a restaurant.
B. At home.
C. On a ship.
B. Talk with a professor. C. Cancel classes.
4. To whom is the woman speaking? A. A seller.
B. A builder.
C. A guide.
5. What does the girl think of math lessons? A. They’re not so popular.
B. They’re not very challenging.
C. They’re not simple enough for her. 第二节
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 is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Employer and employee. B. Husband and wife. 7. What will the man do next?
C. Colleagues.
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A. Clear dirty dishes.
B. Change tablecloths.
C. Fold the paper.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. How does the man overcome his fear? A. By walking.
B. By shouting.
C. By singing.
9. What did the woman do on the stormy night? A. She injured her head.
B. She hid somewhere.
C. She jumped on the bed.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why does the girl care about the show time? A. She needs time to do her homework. C. She doesn’t want to come home early. 11. Which show will the girl see?
A. The nine o’clock show. B. The seven fifteen show. C. The five o’clock show. 12. How will the girl go to the cinema? A. By car.
B. By bus.
C. By bike.
B. She and Shannon have fixed the time.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the most common reason to refuse an artist’s work? A. The style is not popular.
B. The subject matter is unsuitable.
C. The quality is not high enough.
14. What does Rachel find difficult to explain to artists? A. Their work doesn’t sell.
B. Their work is not accepted.
C. They don’t receive payments. 15. What does the guidebook contain? A. An introduction to the artist. C. Good reviews of pictures.
16. What does Rachel find most enjoyable about her job? A. Not knowing what to expect. C. Meeting nice people.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. At what time will the listeners begin to have their lunch break? A. 11: 40.
B. 11:50.
C. 12:00.
B. Being close to art.
B. Advertisements for exhibitions.
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18. What is the speaker mainly talking about? A. A new product.
B. A recycling system.
C. An art program.
19. When will the changes take place? A. Next Wednesday.
B. Next Thursday.
C. Next Friday.
20. What are the listeners asked to do? A. Visit the speaker’s office.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分37分） 第一节（共16个小题；每小题2分，满分32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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I arrived late one night on a business trip, so I decided to have dinner in the hotel I stayed in. As I was finishing my meal, an elderly couple came in. They were holding hands and had lovely smiles on their faces. They sat three tables from me. I was amazed at the love they showed for each other. It stuck me because it was shortly after ending a 20-year marriage and I still had pain in my heart.
My waiter was also their waiter. As I paid my bill, I asked what their bill was. He told me, and I gave him $40 to pay their bill. He asked if I knew them and I told him “No, I just wanted to repay them for the love that they were showing to each other,” and then I left.
The next day I entered the restaurant again. After I had been seated, the waiter who served me the night before told me that the strangest thing happened after I left the restaurant. When the elderly couple went to pay for their meal, they were told that it had been paid. The waiter just told them what I said. They were amazed. They looked around, asked for the bill of two young couples who were seated together, paid their bill and left.
I smiled and ordered my meal. About 45 minutes later, I finished my meal and was about to head out, but my waiter was nowhere to be found. I explained to the hostess that I needed to pay for my meal and hurry to the airport. She smiled and explained that I would not have to pay, because she felt she should pay for my bill because of the joy brought to the faces of the elderly couple and the amazement of the young couples.
When I told her that they didn’t have to do that, she said with a smile “Love creates Love.” 第 - 3 - 页
B. Select food to order.
C. Pick up a piece of paper.
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21. From the first paragraph we know the writer must feel __________.
A. pleased
B. worried
C. sad
D. nervous
22. The elderly couple paid the bill of the two young couples because they __________.
A. knew the two young couples B. were happy to pass the love they got C. were always ready to help poor people D. wanted to invite the young people to the meal
23. The writer’s purpose of writing the passage is to __________.
A. suggest true love never dies B. share an interesting experience C. encourage us to help people in need
D. prove a show of love really makes a difference
B
It’s long been known that dogs and cats, with their well developed sense of smell, can be trained to identify the chemicals released by human illnesses. In some cases, researchers have even trained household pets to detect or predict epilepsy(癫痫病). But what if we could put the sense into a microchip(芯片), allowing us to create a breathalyzer(呼吸分析器) for diseases?
For Dr. Andrew Koehl, the inventor of the microchip technology at the heart of this digital nose, the technology that will allow us to do just that is already here. “We can detect down to parts per billion levels,” Koehl says. “To give you a similarity that’s equal to one drop in an Olympic size swimming pool.” The sensor(感应器) identifies each chemical’s make-up in the air. If the sensor is set to a certain level, it will set off an alarm.
Work continues to make it smaller and makes it able to enter the healthcare market. Within several years, the company hopes to develop it as a diagnostic(诊断) tool. “What’s amazing is that there really are chemicals on your breath that indicate illness. That’s been shown through a number of studies and we can detect those,” he said. “There have already been a number of research papers published suggesting we can detect many disease.”
At the beginning, the technology had been developed for defense purposes. He said the terror caused by the events of September 11 had got him thinking about the application of this type of sensor in safety check. “Originally it was aimed at detecting things like explosives, poisonous 第 - 4 - 页
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chemicals and other terrors that might occur,” said Dr Koehl.
Eventually the sensor could become a part of many everyday instruments, warning users of which foods are going bad in the fridge or even the best moment to take the roast out of the microwave oven.
You could even, one day, have a digital nose that you could carry in your pocket. “More recently we’ve been looking at user spaces so we’re talking to a number of producers of mobile phones and mobile phone parts,” he said. “We want to develop a module small enough to put into mobile devices(装置) like phones.”
24. It can be inferred from the passage that_______.
A. This type of sensor was designed to prevent disease at first B. The digital nose can be put into mobile phones at present C. Users might take the mobile devices with them in near future D. The new invention has already entered the healthcare market
25. The underlined word “ detect”（Paragraph1）is closest in meaning to_______. A. protect
B. discover
C. settle
D. remove
26. What does the passage mainly want to tell readers? A. Dogs and cats have a strong sense of smell. B. A new sensor is used to identify chemicals. C. Modern technology is developing very fast. D. Digital noses on a microchip can smell diseases.
C
One day, Mr. Arnold was teaching a lesson, and things were going as normally as ever. He was explaining the story of human being to his pupils. He told them that, in the beginning, men were nomads (游牧); they never stayed in the same place for very long. Instead, they would travel about, here and there, in search of food, wherever it was to be found. And when the food ran out, they would move off somewhere else.
He taught them about the invention of farming and keeping animals. This was an important discovery, because by learning to cultivate (耕作) the land, and care for animals, mankind would always have food steadily. It also meant that people could remain living in one place, and this made it easier to set about tasks that would take a long while to finish, like building towns, cities, and all 第 - 5 - 页