2014-2015学年度下学期高一年级第一次阶段性考试英语科 试卷

命题人：高一英语组 校对人：高一英语组

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节

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. When will they probably go to play badminton?

A. On Saturday. B. On Thursday. C. On Monday.

2. What do we know about Charlene?

A. She made an excuse.

B. She had a good reason.

C. She was willing to take the woman’s advice.

3. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?

A. Boss and employee. B. Teacher and student. C. Father and son

4. Who do you think the woman is talking to?

A. A bus conductor. B. A clerk at the airport. C. A taxi driver.

5. How long will the man spend his holiday in Hong Kong?

A. Three weeks. B. One month. C. Two weeks.

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至7题。

6. Where does the Dr. Green stay?

A. At the Blackboot Hotel.

B. At t he Blackwood Hotel.

C. At the Blacksmith Hotel.

7. What is the information telephone number?

A. 114. B. 141. C. 411.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. When will the radio station start operating?

A. In September. B. Today. C. This week.

9. Which program does the man care about most?

A. Teaching. B. Music. C. Sports.

10. What can we learn about the radio station?

A. Only music will be broadcast.

B. Only teaching programs will be broadcast.

C. It will be on for 24 hours every day.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What is the man?

A. A manager. B. A teacher. C. A student.

12. What is the kids’ attitude towards the boy from Brazil?

A. They excuse him. B. They hate him. C. They welcome him.

13. What is rewarding according to the woman?

A. Her students’ praises for her.

B. The progress her students have made.

C. The efforts her students have made to catch up.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. If a B is not a bad grade, why is the man so upset?

A. It took him weeks to finish the project.

B. The woman doesn’t understand his problem.

C. Ames got an A with less work.

15 .What does the woman suggest the man do?

A. Get his grade changed.

B. Speak to the teacher.

C. Forget about the whole thing.

16. What does the woman think of the man’s grade?

A. It is not a bad grade.

B. It is unfair to the man.

C. She has no opinion.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What can we learn about the school?

A. It was being built．

B. It was near a construction site．

C. It was beside a famous hospital．

18. Where did the students buy their breakfast?

A. From a soy bean milk shop.

B. From their school cafeteria．

C. From a grocery near the construction site．

19. What did the girl eat on her way to school?

A. A glass of milk. B. A cup of soy bean milk. C. Two rice cakes．

20. Who are looking into the case now?

A. The school. B. The police. C. The hospital．

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

Maybe you don’t think animals have certain mental powers which human beings do not have. But the truth is that some of them have instincts, and besides this, I am sure they can feel certain things we humans cannot. A personal experience showed me this.

Some years ago, I had a dog named Howard. From the time when he was a puppy, he was timid, so we named him Howard, sounding like “coward”! He was especially afraid of thunderstorms. At the first flash of lightning or crash of thunder, he would run whining into his house and hide under a table.

I often went for a walk with Howard. Once, as we were walking along a road, it began to rain. I quickly ran to a bus stop for shelter. The bus stop had a roof supported by metal poles. Soon after I had got there, Howard caught my trousers in his teeth and tried to pull me away. At first I was puzzled and a little angry at his behavior. But I decided to humor him and walked away from the shelter into the rain and started to go home. When I was about two hundred metres from the shelter, there came a flash of lightning and soon after, there was thunder which nearly deafened me. Howard stopped walking and began whining. Thinking he was afraid, I bent to pick him up. As I straightened up, I glanced at the bus shelter we had just left. I was shocked to see that two of the poles were bent and the roof was lying on the ground, broken. The shelter had been struck by the bolt of lightning!

21. The author named his dog Howard mainly because of_______.

A. his timid characteristic B. one of the author’s friends Howard

C. his loud sound D. his strange behaviors

22. The reason why the author was puzzled and angry with the dog was that .

A. Howard had a strange behavior

B. Howard should be afraid of the metal poles

C. Howard should know the approaching of the terrible lightning

D. Howard bit his trousers in his teeth

23. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Dogs are cleverer and better than men.

B. Dogs are usually afraid of thunderstorms.

C. Some animals can feel certain things humans cannot.

D. Dogs are naturally born heroes.

24. What can be inferred about the bus shelter from the passage?

A. It was about 200 meters from the author’s home.

B. It was destroyed in a rainy day.

C. Its roof was supported by wood poles.

D. It could produce blinding flash of lightning.

B

With a large part of the world's population living close to the oceans, rising sea levels bring the potential for destructive (破坏性的)results. But scientists are still unable to make predictions exact enough for people to plan to handle the loss of land and the threat to coastal communities expected over this century.

“We know sea level is going to rise, but how much, and how fast, and where, we really still don’t know," said Josh Willis, a climate scientist.

The ocean isn't like water in a bathtub. It doesn’t rise all the same as more water pours in. As global warming raises sea levels, some places are expected to see higher-than-average increases, and a few places, may even see decreases.

It’s reported that over the course of this century, sea levels will rise between 8 inches and 6.6 feet around the planet. Scientists know this increase will be driven by the expansion of water as it warms—warmer water takes up more space—and the melting of ice. But the effects of warming water and melting ice on sea-level rise are expected to vary from area to area. And the melting of ice of the Antarctic and Greenland presents the largest uncertainty for the future, but air, land and water also play roles in changes to sea level. For example, sea level near the ice getting melt actually decreases, because the ground under the melting ice rises as the heavy ice disappears.

Climate change is expected to change ocean currents and the winds that help drive ocean currents. These changes will affect the distribution of heat within the oceans, and, as a result, affect changes in sea level.

Nowadays, scientists use two types of models to make predictions about the future of sea levels, but the two don’t agree. If scientists can't accurately predict sea-level increase for the coming years, the least we can do is measure what happening today with the help of the satellite, Jason-2, but it’s reaching the end of its operational life.

25. The first paragraph implies that_______ .

A. the rising sea levels mainly happens near the coast

B. people living in coastal communities have to move

C. scientists have ways to handle the rising sea levels

D. coastal cities are easily affected by the rising sea levels

26. What does the writer mean by saying "The ocean isn’t like water in a bathtub" in the third paragraph?

A. The rising sea level is hard to tell.

B. The ocean can be easily controlled.

C The ocean isn’t equal to a bathtub in size.

D. There is too much water for us to control.

27. According to the text, which of the following shows the right cause and effect?

①climate change; ②ocean currents; ③the winds; ④changes in sea level; ⑤the distribution of heat

A. ①→⑤→③→④→② B. ①→③→②→⑤→④

C. ③→④→⑤→②→① D. ①→⑤→③→②→④

28. What problems will scientists meet with in predicting future climate changes?

A. It's too difficult to measure what's happening.

B. Types of models for prediction are difficult to set up.

C. There will probably be no satellites to help the scientists.

D. There aren’t enough scientists studying the changes of sea levels.

C

When Major Mary Jennings Hegar was serving as a captain in Afghanistan, her aircraft was shot down by enemy fire while she and her crew were taking back injured soldiers. Though injured, she completed the rescue mission (任务) while under fire on the ground and received the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross for “outstanding heroism and selfless devotion to duty.”

However, Hegar did not get prizes for serving in combat (战斗), for it is illegal for women to be in official combat(作战) positions and to get the benefits that come with them. Hegar and three other service women filed a lawsuit(诉讼) in federal court in San Fransico on Nov. 27 in a long-overdue challenge to the Pentagon's (五角大楼) ban.

Many military women who constitute 14% of the 1.4 million active members of the military object to the policy because it stops them from applying for some 238,000 jobs and excludes (排除) them from certain promotions. It is particularly unfair because it doesn't protect women in service. Fully 85% of women, who have served since Sept.11, report having served in a combat zone or an area where they were faced with combat or immediate danger according to the lawsuit, and half reported being involved in combat operations. At least 860 female troops have been wounded and 144 killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The ban does another bad thing: drive talented women out of service. Hegar says she is asked to leave the Air National Guard for a Reserve Liaison position because she is excluded(不包括，排除) from jobs she would like to apply for. Another woman who