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2014年重庆一中高2015级高三上期半期考试

英 语 试 题 卷 2014.11

英语试题卷共10页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：

1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。

2.答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

3.答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。

4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，请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或转填到答题卡上。

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 does the woman mean?

A. It is too late to say that.

B. The man will never win.

C. She asked the man not to give up.



2. How does the woman feel about driving to work?

A. Tired.

B. Good.

C. Bored.



3. What is the woman doing?

A. Asking for a favor.

B. Giving advice.

C. Offering help.



4. When should the man return the book?

A. June 6th

B. June 7th

C. June 9th



5. Where is the man going?

A. To a park.

B. To a party.

C. To a school.





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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6. What festival is it the day after tomorrow?

A. Christmas. B. Halloween. C. Thanksgiving.

7. Who will the woman have dinner with on Christmas?

A. Sam. B. Paul. C. Paul’s parents

听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。

8. What did the man buy last week?

A. A bag. B. A clock. C. A watch.

9. What does the woman ask for?

A. A check.

B. An alarm

C. A receipt.



听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。

10. How long will the man probably stay in New Zealand?

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

11. What advice does the woman give to the man?

A. Booking his flight as soon as possible.

B. Going to New Zealand after Christmas.

C. Saving more money for his trip.

12. How does the woman feel in the end?

A. Annoyed.

B. Pleased.

C. Excited.



听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。

13. How long is the journey?

A. 5km.

B. 10km.

C. 15km.



14.Why doesn’t the man take exercise often?

A. He isn’t interested in it. B. He is healthy enough. C. He has no time for it.

15. What can we learn about the man’s life?

A. He eats a lot and sleeps a little.

B. He eats an unbalanced diet and sleeps late.

C. He eats junk food and sleeps early.

16. What’s the man’s attitude to the woman’s words?

A. Happy.

B. Thankful.

C. Impatient.



听下面一段对话，回答第17至第20四个小题。

17. How many ways are mentioned to help the environment?

A. Two.

B. Three.

C. Four.



18. What can we learn about some laws helping the environment?

A. Helping people to save resources

B. Being against driving the cars.

C. Helping learn information in school.

19. What can people do on their own to help the environment?

A. Control the population.

B. Work at home.

C. Refuse harmful products.



20.What new resources can we find in the future according to the speaker?

A. Mechanical energy and atomic power.

B. Atomic power and solar energy..

C. Electric energy and solar energy.

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节　单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

请从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

21. ---Don’t tell me you’ll have a dinner date again.

---______.I didn’t mean to.

A. You meant it.

B. You made it.

C. You guessed it.

D. You deserved it.



22. ______our students need in the process of their preparations for NMET is time, health

and perseverance，the teachers stress.

A. That

B. What

C. As

D. Whether



23. Nowadays ______idea is always flashing across his mind that he should fix______time

for another trip with his family.

A. the；a

B. an；/

C. /；a

D. the；/



24. EBOLA（埃博拉） is said_______ another big health challenge to our humans over the past several months .

A. becoming B. to become C.having become D. to have become

25. She is always the first staff to go to the office and the last to leave，______ I guess is why she is promoted so quickly.

A. who

B. which

C.that

D.what



26. ---Where is your report of this month？

---Oh sorry，I______ to email to you.

A. forget

B. have forgotten

C. forgot

D. was forgetting



27. Fully ______in preparing teaching assignment at school，she no longer has much time to enjoy the various activities as usual.

A. occupy

B. occupying

C. occupied

D. to occupy



28.The Bakers intend to buy a house but _____ must be within their power.

A.they

B.one

C.it

D.which



29. ---Why was it ______ you were so angry？

---Because we failed to take part in the basketball match.

A. which

B. that

C. how

D. when



30. His mind went so blank that little ______ down for the first ten minutes in the test.

A. he wrote

B. he will write



 C. did he write

D. will he write



31. ---Did you receive his call last night？I was disturbed several times.

---He ______ again. That’s his typical style.

A. should be blind drunk B. may be blind drunk

C. must have been blind drunk D. could have been blind drunk

32. ______you may have，you should gather your courage to face the challenge.

A. However a serious problem B. What a serious problem

C. However serious a problem D. What serious a problem

33. ---Look，what a mess in the kitchen！

---I ______cooking fish in a new way and I really have no time to tidy it up now.

A. tried

B. had tried

C. will try

D. have been trying



34. ---Why should you be so late today ?

---I got stuck in the heavy traffic, or I ____________here earlier.

A. had arrived B. arrived

C. would arrive D. would have arrived

35. ---Did you see “Running Man”?

--- ______. Smart man(潮人)，you know.

A. No problem

B. Why me？



 C. That’s for sure

D. Why bother？





第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面两篇短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）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。

A

About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern（实习生） at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an old couple come in with a little girl 36 a wheelchair.

As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was almost 37 on her chair. I then 38 she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and 39 body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots. As the couple 40 her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink（眨眼）. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.

All of a sudden her 41 was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just 42 me and almost instantly gave me a completely new 43 of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world:　a world of 44 , love and 45 .　

That was ten years ago. I’m a successful business person now and 46 I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable（非凡的）lesson about life that she 47 me.　

36. A. in

B. on

up

over



37. A. lain

B. remained

C. set

D. thrown



38. A. struck

B. hit

C. realized

D. understood



39. A. top

B. upper

C. bottom

D. lower



40. A. dragged

B. headed

C. wheeled

D. approached



41. A. strength

B. advantage

C. disability

D. happiness



42. A. affected

B. infected

C. melted

D. frightened



43. A. command

B. sense

C. understand

D. control



44. A. smiles

B. laughters

C. tears

D. sweat



45. A. sorrow

B. excitement

C. warmth

D. indifference



46. A. whenever

B. whatever

C. however

D. whichever



47. A.offered

B. taught

C. gained

D. drew





B

?One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault.It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is__48__.???? Once I heard a bald man said, "Whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've __49__what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will completely make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different __50__,or forget about it and __51__the tiles in your life that are not?missing.???? We all know people who have had a relatively __52__ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who?have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy.???? The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are __53__. Ungrateful people cannot be happy.The second is __54__that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are likely to experience.Finally,if you choose to find the??__55__in every situation, you will be?blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As for happiness itself, this largely depends on your decision to make.

48. A. different?

B. missing??

C. short

D. broken????



49. A. determined?

B. predicted??

C. assumed??

D. imagined??



50. A. tile

B. brick???

C. ceiling??

D.?house?????



51. A. look on

B. focus on

C. count on

D. rely on



52. A. peaceful?

B. difficult?

C. easy??

D. ordinary



53. A. wealthy

B. grateful

C. proud

D. generous



54. A. admitting

B. dividing

C. proving

D. realizing



55. A. worst

B. best??

C. positive?

D. negative





第三部分：阅读理解（每题2分，满分40分）

阅读下面五篇短文，从各题A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳答案。

A

I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years,?I was treading water,?just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull. I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.? It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not