西安市第一中学

2015-2016学年度第一学期期中

高二年级英语（必修5）试题

第一部分 听力（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

第一节　(共5小题；每小题1分，满分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。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．What?is?the?weather?like? A．It's?raining.? B．It's?cloudy.? C．It's?sunny.2．Who?will?go?to?China?next?month? A．Lucy. ?B．Alice.? C．Richard.3．What?are?the?speakers?talking?about? A．The?man's?sister.? B．A?film.? C．An?actor.4．Where?will?the?speakers?meet? A．In?Room?340.? B．In?Room?314.? C．In?Room?223.5．Where?does?the?conversation?most?probably?take?place? A．In?a?restaurant.? B．In?an?office.? C．At?home.第二节　(共15小题；每小题1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个小题，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8题。6．Why?did?the?woman?go?to?New?York? A．To?spend?some?time?with?the?baby. B．To?look?after?her?sister. C．To?find?a?new?job.7．How?old?was?the?baby?when?the?woman?left?New?York? A．Two?months.? B．Five?months.? C．Seven?months.8．What?did?the?woman?like?doing?most?with?the?baby? A．Holding?him. B．Playing?with?him. C．Feeding?him.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9．What?are?the?speakers?talking?about? A．A?way?to?improve?air?quality. B．A?problem?with?traffic?rules. C．A?suggestion?for?city?planning.10．What?does?the?man?suggest? A．Limiting?the?use?of?cars. B．Encouraging?people?to?walk. C．Warning?drivers?of?air?pollution.11．What?does?the?woman?think?about?the?man's?idea? A．It's?interesting. B．It's?worth?trying. C．It's?impractical.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12．How?long?will?the?man?probably?stay?in?New?Zealand? A．One?week.? B．Two?weeks.? C．Three?weeks.13．What?advice?does?the?woman?give?to?the?man? A．Go?to?New?Zealand?after?Christmas. B．Book?his?flight?as?soon?as?possible.? C．Save?more?money?for?his?trip.14．What?can?we?learn?about?flights?to?New?Zealand?at?Christmas?time? A．They?require?early?booking. B．They?can?be?twice?as?expensive. C．They?are?on?special?offer.听第9段材料，回答第15至l7题。15．Why?did?Jane?call?Mike? A．To?ask?him?to?meet?her.

B．To?tell?him?about?Tom.C．To?borrow?his?car.

16．Where?will?Jane?be?in?about?one?hour?A．At?Mike's?place. B．At?the?airport. C．At?a?garage.?

17．What?can?we?infer?from?the?conversation?A．Jane?has?just?learned?to?drive.?B．Jane's?car?is?in?bad?condition.C．Mike?will?go?to?the?airport.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18．What?did?the?speaker?ask?the?students?to?do?the?week?before?A．Write?a?short?story.B．Prepare?for?the?lesson.C．Learn?more?about?the?writer.

19.Why?does?the?speaker?ask?the?questions?

A．To?check?the?students'?understanding?of?the?story.

B．To?draw?the?students'?attention?to?reading?skills.

C．To?let?the?students?discuss?fatherson?relationships.

20．What?will?the?students?do?in?10?minutes?A．Ask?more?questions. B．Discuss?in?groups. C．Give?their?answers.

第二部分 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）

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 )

I recently had dinner with someone who told me that one of his best friends had been killed in a private plane crash, and something happened at the memorial service that he’ll never forget. He shared the story with me.

At the memorial service, his friend’s wife walked to the platform to speak to the gathering. She said a friend had asked her the best memory she had of their life together. At the moment, she had been too sad to answer, but she had thought about it since and wanted to answer the question.

They were in their late forties when he died, and she began talking about a time in their life almost twenty years earlier. She had quit her job to obtain her master’s degree, and her husband never hesitated in his support.

He held down his own job and also did the cooking, cleaning, and other housework while she studied for her degree.

One time they both stayed up all night. She was finishing her paper, and he was preparing for an important business meeting. That morning, she walked out of her study, leaned against the door by the stairs, looked at her husband downstairs and just thought about how much she loved him. She knew how important this meeting was to his future, and she was feeling guilty that she didn’t even have time to make his breakfast. He took his briefcase and hurried out. She heard the garage door open and close, but much to her surprise, she heard it open again about thirty seconds later. From above, she watched her husband dash into the house and walk over to the forgotten coffee table. Marking the surface of it with his finger through the dust with the words “I love you”, then he raced back to his car.

The new widow then looked out at her audience and said, “John and I had a wonderful life together. We have been around the world several times. We’ve had everything money can buy...but nothing comes close to that moment.” Hearing this, I was deeply moved. “Love makes life worthwhile.”

21. The service was held to ______.

A. listen to the woman’s story

B. mourn the woman’s husband

C. meet some old friends

D. share the woman’s sadness

22. Why did the woman quit her job?

A. She had to support her husband.

B. She had too much housework to do.

C. She wanted to travel around the world.

D. She needed to concentrate on her studies.

23. The woman mentioned an incident 20 years ago to show______.

A. how busy their life was

B. how her husband loved her

C. how they improved their life

D. how hard her husband worked

(B)

Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.

AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19, Oct.) cost ￡ 169.15 at Booking. Com. A week later, the same room cost ￡ 118.15.

If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid ─ or you’re looking for a big event to pass your time ─ check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.

STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If travelling to your destination by train, you may want to find a base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.

Don’t be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge’s Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was ￡ 95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was ￡ 75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just ￡ 62.95.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self-catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O’Neill Flat on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, available for ￡ 420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.

GET ON A BIKE London’s ‘Boris bikes’ have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.

Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around ￡ 1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or ￡ 5 per day).

24. The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may _________.

A. help travellers pass time

B. attract lots of travellers to the UK

C. allow travelers to make flexible plans

D. cause travelers to pay more for accommodation

25. “Farrington” in paragraph 5 is most probably ________.

A. a hotel away from the train station B. the tube line to Covent Garden

C. an ideal holiday destination D. the name of a travel agency

26. The passage shows that the O’Neill Flat ________.

A. lies on the ground floor

B. is located in central London

C. provides cooking facilities for tourists

D. costs over ￡ 100 on average per day in late September

(C)

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is .

However , to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

27. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.

A. the reasons for succe