玉山一中2015-2016学年度第二学期高一第一次考试
英语试卷
本试卷分Ⅰ卷（选择题）和Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两大部分，共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第Ⅰ卷（115分）
第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分) 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. How is the weather now probably?
A. Sunny. B. Rainy. C. Windy. 2. Which is the right gate for the man’s flight?
A. Gate 16. B. Gate 22. C. Gate 25. 3.What does the woman mean?
A. The little child is very naughty. B. The man is wrong blaming the child. C. The little child often makes her angry. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A company. B. The income. C. A position. 5. What does the man think of the film star?
A. He is very popular with young people. B. He acts well. C. He isn’t handsome. 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、7题。
6. What are the speakers talking about?
A. When to have their holiday. B. Whether to go on a holiday. C. Where to spend their holiday.
7. Where do the speakers live probably?
A. In England. B. In France. C. In Spain. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What does the woman think of her job?
A. Dissatisfying. B. Challenging. C. Exciting. 9. What’s the woman’s major?
A. Market research. B. Marketing and sales. C. Management. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What was Nadine asked to do in Chile?
A. Wear a uniform in school. B. Visit a Chilean family. C. Spend 6 days studying a week.
11. How did Nadine feel about the life in San Pedro at first?
A. Interested. B. Scared. C. Surprised. 12. What does Nadine say about the experience of being an exchange student? A. It was stressful. B. It cost her too much. C. It changed her entertaining habit. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
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13. Who will pick up the woman at the airport?
A. Her parents. B. Her brother. C. Her husband. 14. What is the man here for?
A. A conference. B. A further study. C. A tour. 15. What city has the woman visited?
A. Guangzhou. B. Shanghai. C. Shenzhen. 16. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The woman takes two boxes with her. B. The woman goes traveling every year. C. The man comes to China every other year. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What’s the speaker probably?
A. A manager. B. A coach. C. A designer. 18. What is the aim of the short training programme?
A. To keep the trainees in shape. B. To improve public relations. C. To develop leadership skills.
19. What will the trainees do during the programme?
A. Attend lectures on management. B. Prepare reports for the company. C. Write down their experiences.
20. What should people do if they want to join the programme?
A. Take a pre-test. B. Pay for the programme. C. Sign on a piece of paper.
第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。
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When Julio Diaz stepped off the subway after work one night, he was simply planning to go to his favorite local diner for a meal. But when a teenage boy approached him with a knife, Diaz knew the evening was about to take a more dramatic(巨大而突然的) turn.
The young man demanded Diaz’s wallet, and Diaz passed it over without objection(异议). But just as he turned to walk away, Diaz called, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something.” The young man turned around, surprised.
“If you’re going to rob people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep warm.” The teenager looked at Diaz in disbelief, and asked why he would do such a thing. Diaz replied, “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, I guess you must really need the money.”He said he was heading out for dinner, and that he would be happy to take someone with him.
The young man decided to take Diaz up on his offer. As they were sitting at the table, the manager, dishwashers and waiters all stopped over to say hello to Diaz, and the young man was amazed at his popularity.
“Haven’t you been taught that you should be nice to everybody?”Diaz asked him. “Yeah, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teenager replied. Thanks to Diaz, he was beginning to see that kindness wasn’t so strange, after all.
When the bill came, Diaz told the teen that he’d have to get the check. After all, he still had Diaz’s wallet.
But the teenager put the wallet on the table without a moment’s thought, and Diaz treated him to dinner. Diaz also gave the would-be robber a $20 bill — in exchange for his knife. “I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right,” Diaz said.
21. The young man felt surprised when Diaz ________.
A. called him to wait for a moment B. passed the wallet over without objection
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C. stepped off the subway platform D. invited him to have dinner together 22. The underlined part “take Diaz up on” can be replaced by “________”.
A. follow B. understand C. accept D. check 23. The teenager gave the wallet back to Diaz maybe because _________.
A. Diaz was so popular with people in the restaurant B. he had been given a $20 bill to take with him C. Diaz had to pay for the meal they had together
D. he began to realize people should be nice to others 24. Diaz possibly felt _________ during the whole night.
A. worried and helpless B. relaxed and happy
C. angry and scared D. surprised and anxious
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Eco City Farms(生态城市农场) are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the United states.
Eco City Farms in Edmonton, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community(社区). People do not have very much money. And they have limited access (获得)to fresh food in markets.
Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable.“I like coming out here,” he says,“ You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more.”
Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. “Growing food in a community brings people together,” she continues, “Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration(示范) to show people everything about how to have an eco-friendly community.” she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost(肥料)made from food waste.
Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the green house use a geothermal(地热)system.
Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.
“I like eating the vegetables ”says five-year-old Owen Moss. 28. What is mainly talked about in the passage? A. Eco City Farms save a lot of energy.
B. Eco City Farms helps the working-class live better. C. Eco City Farms are influencing community life. D. Eco City Farms are gaining popularity.
29. According to the passage, Eco City Farms are close to the following places EXCEPT______. A. shopping centers B. car repair shops C. fast-food restaurants D. working-class community 30. What is the author’s attitude toward Eco City Farms?
A. Doubtful. B. Disappointed. C. Surprised. D. Enthusiastic(热心的). 31. Eco City Farm gets its power from
A. local electricity networks B. the sun with solar panels C. the green house D. a geothermal system
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Country-dwellers(农村居民) often say the constant noise, heavy traffic and crowds of the city would drive them mad. Well, they might be right, according to the latest research. City residents are more likely to develop mental illnesses than those who live in villages, a study has found.
Researchers from Cardiff university examined the lifestyles of more than 200,000 people in Sweden and found that those who lived in urban areas were more at risk from mental illnesses than people who lived in villages.
The experts don’t know exactly why this is but they suggest that town and city residents are more likely to be ostracized(排挤) by those around them. They are more likely to experience discrimination(歧视) if they do not fit in, which can lead to them feeling anxious and even developing mental illnesses.
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Dr Stanley Zammit, who led the research said that people living in towns and cities are more likely to develop other mental illnesses that result in personality changes — a condition known as non-affective psychosis(非情感性精神病).
Earlier this year an official report found that village-dwellers live an average of two years longer than those living in towns and cities. According to figures from the Office of National Statistics in the UK, men who live in villages are likely to live for between 78 and 79 years, while those in towns and cities can expect to survive to an age of 76. Women on average
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survive to their 81 birthday in towns and cities, but live to between 82 and 83 in villages. The small marked town of Wimborne Minster in rural Dorset was named the healthiest place to live in.
32. What is the passage mainly about?
A. City-dwellers are more likely to develop mental illnesses. B. City-dwellers live longer than country-dwellers.
C. Country-dwellers are more likely to develop mental illnesses. D. Country-dwellers live longer than city-dwellers. 33. It can be inferred that ___________.
A. people like living in towns and cities
B. city-dwellers enjoy their peaceful city life
C. village-dwellers get along better with their neighbors than city-dwellers D. village-dwellers are more likely to be looked down upon by others
34. Non-affective psychosis is a kind of mental illnesses that is linked to ________
A. energy weakening B. temperature rise C. pressure increase D. character change 35. We can learn from the last paragraph that generally ________ .
A. men living in villages live the longest B. women living in cities live the longest
C. women living in villages live the longest D. men living in cities live the longest. 第二节：（共5小题；每题2分，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。
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ---Lao Tzu
If you are in a city where everyone rushes, realize that you don’t have to be like everyone else. You can be different. You can walk instead of driving in rush hour traffic. You can be on your iPhone or Blackberry less, and disconnected sometimes. Your environment doesn’t control your life---you do. I’m not going to tell you how to give you a step-by-step guide to moving slower. 36 1. Do less.
Cut back on your projects, on your task list, on how much you try to do each day. Focus not on quantity but on quality. 37 Save smaller, routine tasks for later in the day, but give yourself time to focus. 2. Have fewer meetings.
38 And they eat into your day, forcing you to squeeze the things you really need to do into small windows, and making you rush. 3. 39
When you do the important things with focus, without rush, there will be things that get pushed back, and that don’t get done. And you need to ask yourself: how necessary are these things? What would happen if I stopped doing them? 4. Practice mindfulness.
Simply learn to live in the present, rather than things so much about future or the past. When you eat, fully appreciate your food. When you are with someone, be with them fully. When
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