成都七中 高2014级高二(下)半期考试

英 语

本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第一卷 （共 110分）

第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分)

第一节 (共5小题；每小题l. 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l0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。

例：How much is the shirt?

A￡19.15. B￡9.15. C￡9.18.

答案是B。

1. What will Dorothy do on the weekend?

A. Go out with her friend. B. Work on her paper. C. Make some plans.

2. What was the normal price of the T-shirt?

A. $15. B. $30. C. $50.

3. What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon?

A. To attend a wedding. B. To visit an exhibition. C. To meet a friend.

4. When does the bank close on Saturday?

A. At l:00 pm. B. At 3:00 pm. C. At 4:00 pm.

5. Where are the speakers?

A. In a store. B. In a classroom. C. At a hotel.

第二节 (共15小题; 每小题1. 5分，满分22 .5分)

听下面5段对话或独自。每段对话或独自后有几个小题，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，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独自读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What do we know about Nora?

A. She prefers a room of her own.

B. She likes to work with other girls.

C. She lives near the city center.

7. What is good about the flat?

A. It has a large sitting room. B. It hasgood furniture. C. It has a bigkitchen.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where has Barbara been?

A. Milan. B. Florence. C. Rome.

9. What has Barbara got in her suitcase?

A. Shoes. B. Stones. C. Books.

听第8段材料，回答第10至l2题。

l0. Who is making the telephone call?

A. Thomas Brothers. B. Mike Landon. C. Jack Cooper.

11. What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper?

A. His wife. B. His boss. C. His secretary.

12. What is the message about?

A. A meeting. B. A visit to France. C. The date for a trip.

听第9段材料，回答第13至l6题。

13. Who could the man speaker most probably be?

A. A person who saw the accident. B. The driver of the lorry. C. A police officer.

14. What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place?

A. Walking along Churchill Avenue.

B. Getting ready to cross the road.

C. Standing outside a bank.

15. When did the accident happen?

A. At about 8:00 a.m. B. At about 9:00 a.m. C. At about l0:00 a.m.

16. How did the accident happen?

A. A lorry hit a car. B. A car ran into a lorry. C. A bank clerk rushed into the street.

听第l0段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the talk mainly about?

A. The history of the school. B. The courses for the term. C. The plan for the day.

18. Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students?

A. In the school hall. B. In the science labs. C. In the classrooms.

19. What can students do in the practical areas?

A. Take science courses. B. Enjoy excellent meals. C. Attend workshops.

20. When are the visitors expected to ask questions?

A. During the lunch hour. B. After the welcome speech. C. Before the tour of the labs.

第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节, 满分40分)

第一节 单项填空 (共10小题；每小题l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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. Lisa, _______ for months to prepare for an admission interview given by Peking University, finally, however, received an offer from Hong Kong University.

A. struggling B. struggled C. having struggled D. to struggle

22. Mr. Liu have hurried. After driving at top speed, he arrived school half an hour earlier.

A. needn’t B. wouldn’t C. mustn’t D. couldn’t

23. The lady walked around the shops, an eye out for bargains.

A. keep B. kept C. keeping D. to keep

24. --We’ve spent too much money recently.

--Well, it isn’t surprising. Our friends and relatives ______ around all the time.

A. are coming B. had come C. were coming D. have been coming

25. Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a _____ of exercise.

A. limit B. lack C. need D. short

26. Small cars are economical of fuel, so they have more _________ for consumers.

A. attract B. apply C. charming D. appeal

27. Surely it doesn’t matter where the student associations get their money from; what _____is what they do with it.

A. functions B. applies C. stresses D. counts

28. Teachers give us time, space and love they can spare, and ______, we give them respect and love.

A in turn B. in fact C. in return D. in all

29. Going for a jog after the third period every morning is good and the same is true________ doing eye exercises after the first period every afternoon.

A. of B. in C. with D. to

30. I would like to have a pen pal, ______ I can write to in order to learn English.

A. which B. one whom C. what D. something

第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would?? 31? down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead. ?I don’t remember when it first started? 32? me－her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work-worn and rough? 33 my young skin. Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that any more－your hands are too rough!” she made no? 34 and left quietly. But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her? 35 . With the years passing, my?? 36? returned to that night time after time. By then I?? 37 ? my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very? 38? , sometimes far away, but always it was? 39? in the back of my mind. The years have passed, and I’m not a little girl any more. Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once? 40? to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family. Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives? 41? . One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself? 42 to her house to spend the night with her. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly (犹豫地) ran across my face to? 43? the hair from my forehead. Then a?? 44? , ever so gently, touched my forehead. I burst into tears. In my memory, thousands of times, I?? 45 ? the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how? 46 ?I was for that night. I thought she’d remember? 47? I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had already forgotten and?? 48 ?long ago. That night, I fell asleep with a new? 49 ?for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was?? 50? to be found.

31．A．lie? B．bend? C．look? D．fall32．A．annoying? B．astonishing? C．delighting? D．disappointing33．A．along? B．above? C．against? D．aside34．A．reply? B．promise C．request? D．agreement35．A．pity? B．sadness? C．apology? D．love36．A．feelings? B．opinions? C．spirits? D．thoughts37．A．missed? B．forgot? C．held? D．shook38．A．strange? B．close? C．serious? D．common39．A．stressed? B．existed? C．hidden? D．appeared40．A．expected? B．thought? C．reminded? D．complained41．A．yet? B．away? C．alone? D．long42．A．drawn? B．carried? C．moved? D．stayed43．A．cut? B．wash? C．push? D．take44．A．tear? B．kiss? C．press? D．hand45．A．returned? B．reminded? C．realized? D．recalled46．A．sorry? B．happy? C．angry? D．nervous47．A．when? B．how? C．why? D．as48．A．disappeared? B．forgiven? C．apologized? D．abandoned49．A．imagination? B．inspiration? C．decoration? D．appreciation50．A．still? B．soon? C．nowhere? D．anyhow

第三部分 阅读理解（每题2分，共20题，满分40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

The weather symbol shown for each day in the five day forecast represents the main weather expected on the day in question. The maximum temperature is the highest temperature forecast between dawn and dusk, whereas the minimum temperature is the lowest temperature expected from dusk on the day to dawn the following day. The wind speed and direction are the expected conditions at midday.

London, United Kingdom

28,11, 2012 (Mon.)



Day

Summary

Max day;

Min night (℃)

Wind

(mph)

Visibility

Pressure

Pollution



Mon.

Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 15:59



9-10



very poor

1030

low



Tue.

Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:00



3-8



good

1023

low



Wed.

Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:01



-1-5



good

1023

low



Thur.

Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:02



0-2



good

999

low



Fri.

Sunrise 08:06 Sunset 16:03



0-2



good

1012

low





51. If you want to have a picnic with your friends, you’d better go on ________.

A. Friday B. Tuesday C. Thursday D. Wednesday

52. On average, London has ____ hours’ daylight.

A. 16 B. 15 C. 12 D. 8

53. From Monday to Friday, the weather in London will be _______.

A. snowy B. cloudy C. rainy D. windy

54. Which of the following is true?

The pollution in London will be more serious on Saturday.

We cannot see things clearly on Monday because of rain.

On both Wednesday and Thursday we will have east wind.

From Monday to Friday the pressure will be lower and lower.

B

Solid passes sound very well. Try holding a wooden stick against part of a machine, and place your ears against the stick. The movement of the ball-bearings(滚珠轴承) can be clearly heard. This is a good way of finding the exact source of trouble in a motorcar engine which sounds as if it is wrong and yet gives no information of where the trouble is. 　　It is probably a good thing that sound cannot travel through a vacuum(真空), for we are thus limited to earth-made sounds. The violent disturbances which are seen sometimes in the sun, for example, may affect our magnetism(磁力) and our radio. They do not affect our ears, which is a very good thing for our peace of mind. 　　If we have used our eyes and ears, we may have realized that sound takes time to travel through the air. The sound of thunder nearly always follows the lightning flash although they happen at exactly the same time. And the appearance of white cloud above a distant ship or train tells us, before anything is heard, t