大庆实验中学2015—2016学年度上学期
高一年级英语期末考试试题
说明：1. 本套试题答题时间120分钟，总分为150分。
2. 本套试题共分四部分：听力、阅读理解、语言知识运用、写作。 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20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 woman think is more difficult? A. Chess.
B. Football.
C. Volleyball.
2. What does the woman do now? A. A painter.
B. A teacher.
C. An actress.
3. How is the man going home? A. By train.
B. By bus.
C. By taxi.
4. What can we learn from the conversation? A. It is 9:30 now.
B. The last plane left five minutes ago. C. The man will leave Chicago in half an hour. 5. Why isn’t the man cheerful? A. The questions are too hard.
B. He hasn’t finished the questions. C. The questions have little to do with the book. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分 15 分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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. Who is making the telephone call? A. Mary.
B. Steve.
C. Tina.
7. When does the play start?
A. At 7:00. B. At 8:00. 听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. Why doesn’t the woman work for the former company? A. The salary is low.
B. Her office is far from home. C. The company is small.
9. How much money does the woman want for a year? A. About ￡ 12,000.
B. About ￡ 20,000.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where are the speakers? A. At the airport.
B. At the man’s home.
11. How many people are there in the man’s family? A. Three.
B. Four.
12. What do we know about Jamie? A. He has been married.
B. He is a college student.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How did the woman get to know about the club? A. From a newspaper ad.
B. From her mother.
14. What activity is the woman interested in? A. Culture.
B. Sports.
15. When will the club members practice German? A. On Monday evening. B. On Wednesday evening. 16. What will the woman do next? A. Send a form.
B. Write down her name.
C. Give her personal information to the man. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What is the woman’s major (专业)? A. Painting.
B. English.
18. When did the woman last see Lily? A. Three days ago.
B. One week ago.
C. At 9:00.
C. About ￡ 200,000.
C. At a café.
C. Five.
C. He is younger than Julian. C. From her friends.
C. Language.
C. On Friday evening.
C. Japanese.
C. Three years ago.
19. What is Lily’s problem?
A. She has little chance to speak Chinese. B. She finds it difficult to write Chinese words. C. She doesn’t know how to remember Chinese words. 20. Where does the woman plan to further her study? A. In China.
B. In Italy.
C. In England.
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）
A
My wife and I have always been friendly with the clerks at the local store. I don’t think many people appreciate what a difficult job these clerks have. They work for a little money and I often wonder how they make ends meet.
One of the clerks, Charlie, was always wearing his glasses but he didn’t one day. I asked him about it and he said they’d been out of order and that he couldn’t afford a new pair. His family needed money. It was clear that he was having a difficult time.
We wanted to help him, so we turned to our own eye doctor for help with a plan. We had his secretary contact him, asking him to come in for an eye exam for free. We told the doctor to let him order whatever glasses he wanted and that we would pay for them. Although Charlie questioned what was going on, the doctor just told him that someone had offered the money for his new glasses. When we went in to pay the bill, the doctor told us he was touched by our idea so that he waived the exam fee and only charged us for half the price of the glasses!
It was so wonderful to see Charlie in his new glasses and he enjoyed telling all the regular customers how the gift came about. I’m sure that upon hearing his story, ideas of kindness may have come in the minds of many people.
21. Why didn’t the clerk Charlie wear glasses one day? A. It was very warm and fine. B. His glasses were missing. C. His old glasses were broken. D. He forgot to wear his glasses.
22. From the passage, we can infer that ______. A. Charlie was a young man with skills
B. Charlie knew who paid the money for the new glasses C. Charlie completely accepted the money for the new glasses D. Charlie couldn’t support his family with enough money
23. The underlined word “waived” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______. A. took up
B. gave up D. put off
C. cut down
24. Which of the following could be the best title for the passage? A. Customers’ Gift to an Employee B. A Friendly Clerk — Charlie
C. The Wonderful Feeling of Helping others D. An Expensive Pair of Glasses
B
The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. In winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains.
As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We
suffered through months of school and experienced bad weather for those short ten weeks of freedom.
On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a bird in a cage. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was at work. It was those days that I would watch whatever was on television or read any books that I could find lying around. I’d pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day.
As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day,
summer is not as exciting. Everything seems uninteresting. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I hate how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which makes me comfortable. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful — and quite cooler — weather tomorrow. 25. When the author was a child, he ______. A. liked staying indoors
B. hated rainy days D. preferred cooler weather
C. dreamed on summer days
26. We can learn from the passage that the author ______. A. could enjoy the brilliant sun in winter C. had no brothers or sisters
B. preferred reading to playing outside D. was often left alone at home
27. As an adult, the author views summer rain differently because ______. A. rain makes the weather cooler B. his summer holiday is very short C. he knows it won’t last long
D. he can better deal with his spare time
C
Great white sharks! Just hearing that name makes many people’s hair stand on end. In reality, these big fish have more to fear from us than we do from them. For many years, people killed countless great white sharks in the waters around the United States.
But thanks to conservation (保护) efforts, great whites are making a comeback in the U.S. Two recent studies show that the population of these sharks is rising along the east and west coast.
Why is the growing population of a killer fish something to celebrate? “When you fish too many of them, you start to lose balance in the environment,” says shark researcher Tobey Curtis. As the biggest killer, sharks help keep the populations of fish, seals, and other creatures they eat from growing too large.
In spite of their importance, great white sharks had long been hunted for their meat and their fins (鳍). Then, in 1997, the U.S. government passed a law that didn’t allow the hunting of great whites. Afterwards, the numbers of these sharks in the U.S. waters started to increase.
The law wasn’t the only thing that has helped great whites. Conservationists have also played a part in the sharks’ comeback. The research group OCEARCH is using a method called tagging (加标签) to help change people’s attitudes about great white. They let the public follow each shark as it travels the world’s oceans. OCEARCH also gives each tagged shark a name to help people form a closer connection with the big fish.
The group’s most well-known shark is named Katharine. She was tagged last year near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, thousands of people have tracked Katharine’s movements on Twitter and the OCEARCH website.
This helps people see sharks in a new way. Chris Fischer, the founder of OCEARCH believes learning to appreciate great whites will encourage people to do more to protect them.
28. The underlined part “makes many people’s hair stand on end” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced