太原五中2014-2015学年度第一学期期中高一英语

一．听力理解 (每小题0.5分, 满分10分)

第一节(共5小题；每小题0.5分，满分2.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的三个选项ABC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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What is the woman eating?

A. Some fruit. B. Some chocolate. C. Some cookies.

2. Who is looking for Bob?

A. The manager. B. Mary. C. The woman.

3. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At a clinic. B. In a gym. C. In a hotel.

4. Who will hold the birthday party?

A. The man’s mother. B. The woman’s sister. C. The man’s brother.

5. Why did the woman get the book so late?

A. The man forgot it. B. The man’s boss forgot it. C. The woman wasn’t at home.

第二节(共15小题；每小题0.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的三个选项ABC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。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where does Gregory come from?

A. Switzerland. B. America. C. Spain.

7. What will probably the woman do this weekend?

A. Visit Gregory. B. Go to the man’s house. C. Do some cooking.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the man think of the product?

A. It looks good. B. It is a well-known brand. C. It is of poor quality.

9. How much will the man probably pay?

A. ＄90. B. ＄95. C. ＄100.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How many girls are there in the band?

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

11. Who wants to go to Hollywood?

A. Victoria. B. Geri. C. Celia.

12. What will Emma do next month?

A. Get married. B. Leave the band. C. Play soccer in England.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What will the man do later?

A. Cook dinner. B. See somebody off. C. Go to a cocktail party.

14. When does the cocktail party start?

A. At 5:30 pm. B. At 6 pm. C. At 7:30 pm.

15. What is the purpose of their cocktail party according to the man?

A. To celebrate Christmas.

B. To follow the American custom.

C. To welcome newcomers.

16. What does the French phrase “faux pas” mean?

A. Friend. B. Social manner. C. Mistake.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When was Shirley Temple born?

A. In 1928. B. In 1918. C. In 1908.

18. What was Shirley Temple’s father?

A. A film star. B. A dance teacher. C. A bank teller.

19. When did Shirley Temple first appear in film?

A. At her three years old.

B. At her three and a half years old.

C. At her four years old.

20. What was the money from her films used for at the height of her popularity?

A. Building more film studios.

B. Making Fox a major film studio.

C. Helping poor people during the Great Depression.

二. 阅读理解 (共两节，满分30分)

第一节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

A

Quality after-school programs are designed to improve academic performance, decrease youth crimes and other high-risk behaviors, and help young people grow into healthy, successful adults.

The effect of quality after-school programs on academic performance is clear. Studies show that students who take part in such programs show better work habits, higher rates of homework completion, improved grades, and higher scores on achievement tests. They also have fewer absences and are less likely to blame. After-school programs also influence high-risk teen behavior. Various studies show decreased rates of crime and drug-taking among youth who join in well-run after-school programs when compared to similar youth who do not. Finally, after-school programs play an important role in supporting different kinds of fields of development: physical development, mental development and social development. Thus, one can safely say that after-school programming is an effective method to help young people become contributing members of society.

Although there is enough proof from both small and large assessments that after-school programs can make a positive difference, it is important to note that not all programs are equal. First, dosage matters -- young people who attend the most hours over the most years benefit more than members who attend less often or over a shorter period of time. Next, after-school programs make a bigger difference for those students who need help most and have the fewest choices. Finally, program qualities matter. After-school programs work best when they create unique opportunities for youth. They should provide opportunities, meaningful involvement, expression, suggestion, service, and work. Staff characteristics make an important difference in the quality of a program. The adults should treat youth as partners, create safe and fair environment, encourage personalized involvement, and actively create learning opportunities. In short, although after-school programs have a promising future, how they are designed and run matters.

21. The effects of quality after-school programs are the following except ________.

improved academic performance

decreased high-risk teen behaviors

safe and fair environment

supporting different kinds of fields of development

22. Which kind of students can benefit more from the after-school programs?

Those who attend occasionally

Those who attend a short period of time

Those who need help most

Those who like to play often

23. The passage is probably intended for _______.

A. students B. teachers C. workers D. government officials

B

For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.

Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest（征服）of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured(忍受). The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow windows of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.

Then there is the time spent “processed (被加工)” at a modern airport. People are conveyed (输送) like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure (离开) and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.

Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot turn his back on the airline. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday-maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and the limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. Speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing ---- or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding freely across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.

24.What does the writer try to express in Paragraph 1 ?

A. Travel by plane has sped up the growth of villages.

B. The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams.

C. The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short.

D. Man has been fond of traveling rather than staying in one place.

25. According to Paragraph 3, passengers are turning back to modern high-speed trains because______．

A. they pay less for the tickets

B. they don’t have to waste time being “processed”

C. they can enjoy higher speed of travel

D. they feel safer during the travel

26. What does the last sentence of the passage mean?

A. They could enjoy free and relaxing travel.

B. They needed the clock to tell the time.

C. They preferred travelling on horseback.

D. They could travel with their master.

27. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Air travel benefits people and industries.

B. Train travel has some advantages over air travel.

C. The high speed of air travel is gained at a cost.

D. Great changes have taken place in modern travel.

C

In many countries, when cows are killed for meat, the heads are put in the waste. That is because many people do not believe meat from a cow head should be eaten. But in South Africa, some people have a strong desire for cow head meat. Many people are selling and eating it in Johannesburg. VOA recently visited a cow-head processing factory in the city.

In South Africa, the meat is called “skop.” The men who eat it say it is less costly than other meats and more tasty.

Some meat sellers in Johannesburg recently learned how to prepare cow heads for their customers. They remove the skin from the head. Then they use an axe to separate the meat from the bones.

William Mahlangu works at a cow head processing factory. Up to 150 cow heads are processed there each day.

“This meat is delicious, it’ s tender and it’s very, very nice meat for men. Even in, even in the old days, like our grandfathers, if they slaughter a cow, the cow head was only for men.”

Much of the skop meat is sold to sellers who sell food on the street. But at the factory, they also cook the meat for customers. Then they put the meat on a large table, not on plates. They put hot sauce on it, and a starch called “uPhuthu.”

Kenneth Ayudo is a Nigerian food shop owner living in Johannesburg. He says in Niger