东北育才学校2014-2015学年高一上学期第一次阶段考试

英语试题

1. What does the man want to drink?

A. Coffee. B. Tea. C. Juice.

2. When can they leave that afternoon according to the woman?

A. Before 5:00. B. After 5:00. C. At 5:00.

3. Where are the two speakers most probably talking?

A. In a cotton field. B. On a farm. C. On a train.

4. How many children does the woman have?

A. Four. B. Three. C. Five.

5. How did the woman read the book?

A. She chose some chapters to read.

B. She read it slowly.

C. She went over the book chapter by chapter.

第二节（共15小题；每小题l分，满分15分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每个小题;听完后,每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白听两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What would the woman do during her vacation if she had plenty of money?

A. Enjoy the fresh air at the seaside.

B. Go to visit the Great Wall.

C. Travel around the world.

7. Where would the man like to go for his vacation?

A. Stonehenge. B. The Great Wall. C. The Statue of Liberty.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a shop. B. In a post office. C. In a bank.

9. What does the man plan to do?

A. Post something. B. Send an e-mail. C. Buy a suit.

10. How much does the man pay at last?

A. $ 3.08. B. $ 18.25. C. $ 11.12.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What’s the woman doing?

A. Going to school. B. Attending a class. C. Asking for information.

12. Which bus will the woman take?

A. The first one. B. The second one. C. The last one.

13. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Strangers. B. A Couple. C. Friends.

听第9段材料，回答14至16题。

14. On what day does this conversation take place?

A. Tuesday. B. Thursday. C. Saturday.

15. What does the man want to do?

A. Update his file. B. Pay with a check. C. Have a check-up.

16. What does the woman change in the man's file?

A. The name. B. The address. C. The phone number.

听第10段材料，回答17至20题。

17. What is the average temperature of Haikou annually?

A. It is 17.2°C. B. It is 29°C. C. It is 23.8°C.

18. When is the rainy season in Haikou?

A. From April to October. B. From May to October. C. From May to August.

19. How is the climate in Haikou?

A. It is poor in rain. B. It is very windy. C. It is rich in sunlight.

20. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Haikou is the second largest island in China.

B. There is a clear change in different seasons.

C. The city’s name means “Mouth of the River”.

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）

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

American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robot-readers-computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade.

Mark Shermis ,professor of the College of Education at the University of Akron ,is helping to hold a contest, set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ( WFHF) ,that promises $ 100,000 in prize money to programmers who write the best automated grading software. "If you're a high school teacher and you give a writing task , you're walking home with 150 essays, " Shermis said. "You're going to need some help. "

Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s,but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field. Today,computers are used to grade essays on South Dakota's student writing assessments and a handful of other exams ,including the TOEFL test of English fluency, taken by foreign students.

The Hewlett contest aims to show that computers can grade as well as English teachers- only much more quickly and without all that depressing red ink. Automated essay scoring is "objective," Shermis said. " And it can be done immediately. If students finish an essay at l0 pm, they get a result at 10 :0l pm . "

Take , for instance, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a web-based tool marketed by Pearson Education ,Inc. Within seconds it can analyze an essay for spelling, grammar, organization, and help students to make revisions. The program scans for key words and analyzes semantic (语义的) patterns , and Pearson claims that it can understand the meaning of text much the same as a human reader.

21. The text is written to introduce________.

A. robot-readers B. education reform in America

C. Hewlett contest D. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

22. What does the underlined phrase "spit out "in Paragraph I probably mean?

A. Give. B. Organize. C. Analyze. D. Check.

23. From Paragraph 3, we know that in the 1960s _______.

A. computers were not easy to get

B. automated grading software was popular

C. people refused automated essay grading

D. computers couldn't grade essays automatically

24. What does Paragraph 4 focus on?

A. The prize of Hewlett contest.

B. The advantages of automated essay scoring.

C. The application of automated essay scoring.

D. Teachers' opinions about Hewlett contest.

B

One volunteer would walk beside this youngster on the right and help hold him on the horse, one would control the horse and another would walk on his left to steady him and be his instructor for the day.

One week, he was in very good spirits. He smiled. He seemed alert and willing.

Together with other volunteers, I was waiting for another rider to be helped when my young student reached out and touched my hair. My hand was on his leg, so I knew he was steady, even though my eyes weren’t on him. I looked around and knew he was trying to tell me something.

“What?” I asked. It was unusual for him to reach out and touch. He reached out again and touched my hair, as he sometimes did to the horse’s mane(鬃毛) on good days.

I realized that my waist-length hair was back in a ponytail(马尾辫), and that he wanted it to hang down. So I did. He looked at me, managed to touch his hands together a couple of times in what he used as clapping, and he smiled at me.

I didn’t know as his attendant carried him back to the car that it would be the last time I saw him. But instead of feeling sad, I thought of him in heaven, running out to his favorite horse, not having to wait until Thursday or for his attendants to help him. He and his horse would run across clouds, with him laughing and the horse’s tail streaming freely behind as the wind sang through their hair.

25. We can learn from the passage that the writer must be _______.

A. a doctor B. a caretaker

C. an attendant D. a volunteer

26. Why did the boy touch the writer’s hair?

A. He felt uncomfortable then.

B. He intended to attract her attention.

C. He thought it was the horse’s mane.

D. He wanted her hair to stream freely.

27. What can be the best title for the passage?

A. A Boy’s Life B. A Special Rider

C. Helpful Volunteers D. Riding Treatment Programs

C

Boys’ English grades are up to a tenth worse when high numbers of girls are in the class with them, though girls’ grades are unaffected. Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, presented his new finding on the Royal Economic Society’s conference.

There are slightly more boys than girls in schools, but most classes in mixed schools are almost equally divided between the genders(性别). Proud looked at these and schools that were exceptional in their high or low quantity of girls.

Proud tracked boys’ and girls’ test results at the ages of 7, 11, 14 and 16 in 16,000 schools in England between 2002 and 2004 for his PhD. He analyzed the test scores to see whether the quantity of girls in a year group made a difference to the results of both genders in maths, science and English.

He found, different from the widely held belief that girls are always a good influence on boys in school, boys do best with “as few girls as possible” in English lessons at primary and secondary school. But when it comes to maths and science, both boys and girls at primary school achieve up to a tenth of a grade more when there is a high quantity of girls in the class.

He said: “The results imply that boys would benefit at all ages from being taught English with as small a quantity of girls as possible. In maths and science, the results tend to imply that both boys and girls benefit from having more girls in the classroom. A mix of the genders in both science and maths is best.”

Proud said boys may do worse in English when there is a high quantity of girls in their class because they realize that the girls are better than them. It could also be that teachers use teaching styles more suitable for girls when there are more girls than boys in the class. Both genders perform better in maths and science at primary school when there are more girls in the class because boys tend to interrupt the class more, he said.

Speaking of the interesting findings, Professor Alan Smithers said girls started school with slightly better verbal(语言的) skills, while boys started with a slightly greater ability for maths.

28. What is the purpose of the research Proud carried out in the passage?

A. To learn the situation in primary school.

B. To accomplish his PhD paper.

C. To prove his view on pupils’ learning skills.

D. To figure out why girls performed better in primary school.

29. Which of the following is true according to paragraph 4?

A. Girls constantly perform worse when they study English.

B. It is believed that boys should perform better than girls.

C. Boys are unaffected by the number of girls in their English classes.

D. People usually think girls have a good effect on boys in school.

30. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The more girls there are in an English class, the worse boys perform.

B. Boys at the primary school are going to be taught English in single-sex classes.

C. The number of