荆州中学2015～2016学年度上学期

期 中 考 试 卷

年级：高一 科目：英语 命题人：邹 燕 审题人：孙同艳

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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秒种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. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man has found a new seat for the woman.

B. The woman’s seat is occupied(占据).

C. The woman is in the wrong row.

2. What did the man do?

A. He forgot to return a book.

B. He lent Jack a book two months ago.

C. He helped the woman take out a book.

3. When did the man’s daughter set a new world record?

A. In 1999. B. In 2005. C. In 2009.

4. What does the man mean?

A. He moved the desk alone.

B. He had some classmates move the desk.

C. His classmates helped him move the desk.

5. What time is it now?

A. 3:10. B. 3:15. C. 4:50.

第二节(共l5小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

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. Who might the man be?

A. A waiter. B. The woman’s friend. C. The woman’s husband.

7. Where was the wallet found?

A. In the restroom. B. At the cash desk. C. On the table.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the man invite the woman to do?

A. Buy trousers. B. Buy shoes. C. Go climbing.

9. Why didn’t the man buy the shoes yesterday?

A. He didn’t like soft shoes.

B. They were too expensive.

C. He didn’t have enough money.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At a party. B. In a shop. C. In a game room.

11. How much does the woman plan to spend?

A. $50. B. $30. C. $20.

12. What does the woman choose at last?

A. A book about PC games. B. A magic car. C. A pencil-box.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why didn’t the man show up for the party?

A. He got lost on the way to the party.

B. He forgot to go to the party.

C. His car broke down on the mountain.

14. What did the man do last night?

A. He repaired his car on the mountain.

B. He stayed overnight on the mountain.

C. He stayed at his colleague’ s(同事) house.

15. What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Rent a Nissan car.

B. Get his car repaired at her garage.

C. Sell his car and buy a new one.

16. How much will the man pay in total to rent the car?

A. $220. B. $440. C. $660.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What do we know about William Shakespeare?

A. Many people think he is the greatest playwright of all time.

B. He is considered the greatest poet in the world.

C. He lived during the rule of Elizabeth II.

18. When was Shakespeare’s first poem published？

A. In 1593. B. In 1594. C. In 1598.

19. What were Shakespeare’s earlier plays?

A. Mainly histories and comedies.

B. Mainly comedies and tragedies.

C. Mainly histories and tragedies.

20. Which of the following was written in the sixteenth century?

A. Hamlet. B. King Lear. C. Romeo and Juliet.

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

A little girl was enjoying the beauty of the garden in her home. Her father had several precious plants. He grew them with great care.

The girl was amazed by a plant full of fine flowers. She went near the plant and enjoyed the beauty of its flowers. Suddenly she noticed that the plant was growing in a heap of filth (污垢). She could not stand the presence of dirt at the bottom of the plant with such beautiful flowers.

She worked out a plan to clean the plant. She pulled the plant with all her strength and uprooted it. She then carried it to the room and washed the roots in water till all traces of dirt were washed away. She then placed the plant on a clean stone and went away, thinking that she had done a great thing.

Later, her father came to the garden and saw the uprooted plant. Its flowers and leaves had withered (枯萎的) and the plant had almost died in the sun. His little daughter ran to him to show him her achievement. “I have cleaned it, Daddy,” she said happily. “It was planted in dirty soil. Now it is clean.”

The father showed her how her treatment had almost killed the plant. He told her that he had collected the filthy soil and used it to cover the plant’ s roots, as it was the best way to grow that plant. It could grow up healthily and produce fine flowers only if grown in filthy soil. So he put the plant into the dirt again. The girl was sad that the plant had suffered and withered by her cleaning.

21. How did the girl feel when she saw the dirt at the bottom of the plant?

A. Surprised and happy.

B. Sick and shocked.

C. Fortunate and satisfied.

D. Frightened and helpless.

22. How did the father respond to his daughter’s behavior?

A. He criticized and punished her.

B. He taught her how to protect plants.

C. He explained to her what she had done was wrong.

D. He told her to grow the same plant again.

23.Why did the girl feel sad?

A. She should have followed her father’s advice.

B. She shouldn’t have washed the dirty soil away.

C. She should have helped her father collect the soil.

D. She shouldn’t have been so careless.

24. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. A Girl’s Great Achievement

B. A Poor Father and His Daughter

C. A Little Girl and The Plant

D. A Dirty Plant

B

There are many useful suggestions that can help one to improve English. Here are some of them to increase one’s English language vocabulary.

Learning English vocabulary is about much more than just learning the right words. It is based on understanding important words and expressions.

Learning a word will not help very much if you quickly forget it. Researches show that it takes from 10 to 20 repetitions(重复) to really make a word part of your vocabulary. Since most words are learned from how they are used in context (上下文)，the more words one is shown, the better vocabulary one will have. Keep a piece of paper close to you. When you read, pay close attention to the word you do not know, write the word down and try to understand its meaning from the context. Then look up the word in a dictionary.

Remember that if you do not use English words that you have just learned in conversation or writing, you will forget them very quickly. So the best way to learn new words effectively is just by trying to use them in conversation and writing. Remember also that practice is the key to fluent spoken English.

Building vocabulary is a life-long task. Remember: “In the beginning was the word.” Your future could depend on how rich your vocabulary is. It will also determine the quality of your communication.

25. We can learn from the passage that learning English vocabulary .

A. is just about learning the right words

B. is about remembering more and more words

C. doesn’t require one to learn expressions

D. requires one to understand important expressions

26. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. To master a word, you need to repeat it 10-20 times.

B. If you remember a word, you are still able to forget it if you don’t use it.

C. It doesn’t take long to build one’s vocabulary.

D. Practice is very important in fluent spoken English.

27. The best way to learn new words is .

A. trying to use them while speaking and writing

B. writing them down over and over again

C. always looking them up in the dictionary

D. reading them loudly over and over again

28. What is the passage mainly about?

A. How to enrich your English vocabulary.

B. How to have a good conversation in English .

C. Why context is important in learning English.

D. How to improve the quality of communication.

C

The reason why women love to spend hours in shops while men prefer to be in and out of the high street in minutes can trace back(追溯) to their hunter-gathering past, find scientists.

While women spent their days gathering food, often with children, men were hunters who made plans about how to catch and kill their prey (猎物). These two ways of getting food in the past show how we shop in modern times, the study believes.

Women would spend hours trying to find the right things, because they had in the past spent ages trying to find the best quality and health-giving food. Men, on the other hand, decided in advance what animal they wanted to kill and then went looking for it. Once it was found and killed, they returned home.

Daniel Kruger, professor of the University of Michigan, said the study could be the answer to why there are a lot of collisions when couples go shopping together. He said it could also help couples to avoid fights in the shops if they understood the reasons why each sex had different ways of deciding on the perfect present.

“In modern times, women are much more likely than men to know when a specific type of item will go on sale. Women also spend much more time choosing the perfect color and texture.”

Professor Kruger said his study was important because if men and women understood each other’s shopping habits they could avoid arguments while shopping.

29. What has decided the different shopping habits of men and women?

A. Different ways of keeping food in the past.

B. Different ways of eating in the past.

C. Different ways of buying food in the past.

D. Different ways of gathering food in the past.

30. In comparison(比较) with men, women were less likely to .

A. catch the right animal and kill it

B. spend much time on shopping

C. choose the right color and texture

D. know when a specific item was on sale

31. What does the underlined word mean in the fourth paragraph?

A. Requests. B. Arguments.

C. Concerns. D. Differences.

32. According to Kruger, his study can help to ______________.

A. develop good shopping habits

B. avoid arguments in shopping between men and women

C. give people tips on choosing good gifts

D. make sure people buy safe food for chil