北京市西城区2013-2014学年下学期高一年级期末考试英语试卷

试卷满分：140分 考试时间120分钟

A卷 满分90分

第一部分

Ⅰ. 听力理解（共三节，满分22.5分）

第一节：（共4小题；每小题1.5分，满分6分）

听下面四段对话，每段对话后有一道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听两遍。

1. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a store. B. In a kitchen. C. In a lab.

2. What is the weather like today?

A. Hot B. Rainy. C. Cool.

3. What is Mr. White doing now?

A. Going to a hotel. B. Answering a call. C. Attending a meeting.

4. What did the man win in his dream?

A. A new car. B. A holiday. C. Some money.

第二节：（共6小题；每小题1.5分，满分9分）

听下面三段对话，每段对话后有两道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听两遍。

听第5段材料，回答第5至第6小题。

5. What will the woman do at the weekend?

A. Practice playing football.

B. Have dinner with her friend.

C. Go to a concert with the man.

6. When will the speakers meet outside the theater?

A. At eight this Thursday. B. At six next Saturday. C. At seven next Tuesday.

听第6段材料，回答第7至第8小题。

7. What is the possible relationship between the speakers?

A. Husband and wife. B. Teacher and parent. C. Policeman and driver.

8. What do we know about the woman?

A. She checked her car on the way.

B. She drove her car at a high speed.

C. She took six other people in her car.

听第7段材料，回答第9至第10小题。

9. What is the man’s brother?

A. A sailor. B. A teacher. C. A journalist.

10. How does the man find teaching?

A. Exciting. B. Interesting. C. Boring.

（听力理解第三节见试卷第8页）

Ⅱ. 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

11. The couple often go to the homeless center_________ they help serve meals.

A. that B. when C. where D. which

12. ―What a nice smell! What are you cooking?

― Chicken soup. Do you want to try ________?

A. much B. many C. one D. some

13. ________ their advertisement attractive, the team worked day and night.

A. Make B. To make C. Making D. Having made

14. They left for the airport early this morning _________ they would have enough time to enjoy lunch there before boarding.

A. so that B. in case C. as though D. even if

15. My mum is the person with _______I can share my ups and downs.

A. that B. which C. whom D. whose

16. ― Professor Li, you look worried.

― My assistant _________her speech in the lecture hall at the moment. You know she is not experienced.

A. presents B. has presented C. presented D. is presenting

17. People believe that doing sports can make them feel __________ anxious and sleep better.

A. less B. least C. more D. most

18. ― Mr. Miller, I feel I will perform well in the final match.

― Yes. We know how hand you ____________ for it.

A. were working B. will be working

C. have been working D. had worked

19. ― John, I saw you were talking with our manager. What happened?

― I was complaining to him because I felt I _________ fairly.

A. don’t treat B. didn’t treat

C. am not treated D. wasn’t treated

20. When she heard the bad news, a frightened look came _________ her face.

A. at B. across C. to D. for

Ⅲ. 完整填空（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Last Wednesday as my flight landed in New York, I didn’t notice that one of my earbuds was not like the other （see the photo to the right）.

I’ve never had an ear infection（感染）or even an earache in my __21__life, yet over the next few days, I felt a dull and sometimes sharp pain in my ear―especially when sleeping on my __22__side.

Over the weekend, I tried to use a Q-Tip（棉签）on my left ear, but it wouldn’t go in. It hurt a lot. __23__, I could still use these earbuds, because the left one was now noticeably __24__ than the right one.

I’m ashamed to __25__that it took me until Sunday to understand what now seems to have been obvious: The missing part of the earbud was __26__ in my ear, thus the ear ached.

I just couldn’t believe it was in my ear because I could __27__ just fine. I wasn’t in that much pain, __28__ not all the time. I asked my Facebook friends if such a thing was __29__: Could I really have a piece of rubber in my ear and not really __30__ it? Friends all suggested that I need medical attention as soon as possible. One said he was nearly deaf in one ear, due to not dealing with an ear injury __31__ enough.

With that in mind, I walked unwillingly to the clinic（诊所）on Monday night. Sure enough, the nurse found the earbud tip in my left ear. Three times, she tried to dig it out, causing much __32__. Three times, she failed, before the clinic sent me home __33__a note suggesting I see an ENT（ear, nose, and throat）specialist as soon as possible.

So I __34__an ENT clinic this morning―with no small amount of nervousness after what I’d gone through last night. However, I was in excellent hands. The doctor __35__me I had nothing to worry about.

After taking a photo of the earbud tip, he had another doctor remove it. It took only three seconds, and was totally painless. Victory at last!

21. A. future B. whole C. public D. private

22. A. left B. other C. opposite D. different

23. A. Naturally B. Obviously C. Terribly D. Strangely

24. A. lighter B. bigger C. shorter D. thicker

25. A. guess B. agree C. admit D. remind

26. A. stuck B. stopped C. placed D. saved

27. A. rest B. sleep C. play D. hear

28. A. at most B. at least C. at last D. at first

29. A. possible B. funny C. common D. special

30. A. report B. notice C. take D. move

31. A. carefully B. suddenly C. patiently D. quickly

32. A. sadness B. danger C. discomfort D. change

33. A. with B. for C. in D. on

34. A. introduced B. checked C. approached D. considered

35. A. blamed B. promised C. warned D. guided

Ⅳ.阅读理解（共11小题；每小题2分，满分22分）

阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Jumping across cities

Forget about expensive gyms, the new sport in cities is ree-running. Since it started in a Paris suburb around 1995, free-running has attracted lots of fans in cities around the world. Instead of walking normally, free-runners jump over or around anything―cars, buildings, trees, or streetlights―in their way.

One of the sport’s inventors told our reporter how free-running started.

It was boring where we lived. There was nothing for us to do after school. We had done playground games like football and basketball when we were kids but we wanted something new and exciting. We started learning how to jump and run between buildings―and we loved it. Walking is a waste of time. Free-runners have to use their imaginations. Everything―a tree, a streetlight―is part of our outdoor gym. We’re like children because we have never stopped playing in the street.

The sport’s website has lots of rules, for example, don’t break people’s windows, don’t jump on flowerbeds and don’t be rude to people who want you to stop. Safety is also very important. You must start with the easy moves―you have to do thousands of small practice jumps before you try anything difficult. If you made only one mistake, you might hurt yourself badly.

A local person said, “It’s good that young people have something to do. But when they jump off buildings like cats they sometimes frighten other people.”

Don’t try this at home the basics of free-running

Blind Jump a jump where you can’t see the landing spot.

Tic-tac run and put your foot on a small step, go forward and jump over the next thing.

Basic Jump run and jump, land on two feet while bending your knees. To finish roll into head-over-heels.

Cat Jump run towards a wall, put both hands on the top of the wall and jump through your arms.

36. Free-running started __________.

A. about twenty years ago B. with the help of schools

C. in big cities of America D. among famous sportsmen

37. Free-runners shouldn’t ____________.

A. use their imaginations B. start with the easy moves

C. jump on flowerbeds D. run between buildings

38. According to the passage, free-running is a（n）__________sport.

A. ancient B. expensive C. safe D. exciting

39. The purpose of this passage is to ___________.

A. explain the importance of outdoor activities

B. introduce some information about free-running

C. warn children not to join in dangerous sports

D. advise people to do more exercise at home first

B

The Future Body Network

Are you tired of wires that spread all over your desk and make your tea pour onto your keyboard? If so, you may consider using devices（设备）that use technologies like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Neither of them sends information through wires. It sounds perfect, doesn’t it? But this is not the end of the story.

Scientists are now trying to use the human body to do a similar job. They have come up with the idea of sending information over the small electric field on the surface of the skin. To do this, a transmitter（传送器）could be built into your pocket or a portable device like an MP3 player. This transmitter would then use your skin’s electrical field to send information to a receiving device. Since this kind of transmission can only go as far as 20cm, the receiver would have to be close to some part of your body.

By using this body network, you wouldn’t need a wire to link your MP3 player in your pocket to the headphones in your ears, or to send to your computer the pictures from a digital camera hanging around your neck. Moreover, you can exchange electronic cards or share music files with others by shaking hands, dancing cheek（脸颊）to cheek, or kissing each other.

Now, here comes a question. Why would anyone want to use their body as a network when Wi-Fi and Bluetooth already exist? The answer lies in the fact that with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, it is hard to limit the signals only to your own use. In a busy place, you can never know who might steal your information. However, body networking is safer. It is hard for other people to pick up signals sent over t