济宁市育才中学2014—2015学年度高三第一学期期中考试英语试题

说明：试卷满分为150分，试题分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分：听力（共20小题, 每题1.5分，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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。

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秒钟的时间来回来有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

Where will the woman go first?

To the beach B. To the bank C. To the bathroom.

What does the woman mean?

The man forgot to do his hair. B. The man forgot to put on a tie. C. The man is wearing clothes that don’t match.

How does the man probably feel?

Annoyed B. Hungry C. Excited

Why didn’t the man answer the phone?

He lost it. B. He didn’t hear it. C. His phone ran out of power.

Who did the woman want to call?

James B. Drake C. Daniel.

第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给出的A、B、C三个选项种选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，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。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答6、7题。

What does the man order?

Hot dogs and fries B. Burgers and fries C. Sandwiches and sodas.

How much does the man give the woman as a tip?

Three dollars B. Two dollars C. One dollar

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

Where are the speakers?

In a car B. On a boat C. On a motorcycle

What is the woman doing?

Looking at a paper map.

Trying to find a website.

Using a phone to give directions.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

What does the man like about YouTube?

Watching funny home videos.

Learning about the special TV channels.

Putting his own videos on the website.

What kind of meals do the guys make in Epic Meal Time(《超级开饭时间》)?

Low fat meals B. Unhealthy meals C. Vegetarian meals.

What happens to the meals in the end?

They are tested by the audience.

They are given to the homeless.

They are eaten by the cooks and their friends.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

What are the speakers mainly talking about?

Their vets B. Money spent on pets C. Ways to buy dogs’ medicines.

What is the man’s dog name?

Brett B. Fargo C. Ferguson

What doesn’t the woman like about her vet?

The limited services B. The prices her vet charged C. The difficulty of getting an appointment.

What isn’t one of the man’s suggestions?

Going to his vet B. Looking online C.Going to a special pet store.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

When will the fire arrive close to Lakewood?

By six o’clock in the evening.

By five o’clock in the evening.

By six o’clock in the morning.

Where shouldn’t residents go to escape the fire?

Springfield B. Western Hill C. Point Cabina Station

How long will it take residents to reach the safe zone?

Less than ten minutes B. Less than twenty minutes C. Less than thirty minutes

What are residents advised to do before they leave?

Leave all pets behind B. Stay calm and do not panic

C. Tell the state police where they are going.

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

You may never think a documentary film could have aroused so much public enthusiasm in Chinese history. Nowadays everybody is talking about a new 7-part documentary called A Bite of China which was recently broadcast late at night on CCTV I. The documentary describes various gourmet items across the vast Chinese culinary (烹饪) landscape.

According to Taobao, China’s biggest online retail website, just five days after the series began to air, nearly 6 million people went to the site in search of various local specialties, particularly those mentioned in the documentary. More than 7.2 million deals were concluded. A ham producer from Yunnan Province saw his sales grow 17-fold in five days.

However, one can’t help but believe that the documentary’s popularity is probably linked to the endless stream of terrible food security issues that have emerged in recent years. In one well-received article, a netizen wrote, “I wonder how many felt so empty-hearted and sighed after watching the film. Blue-vitriol watered chive, formaldehyde(甲醛) sprayed cabbage, Sudan Red colored salty eggs, restaurants using gutter oil. The list is long…”

A varied and ancient food culture that is famous world-wide and which should have made the Chinese proud ends like this: one can only sigh. Food is the most vital thing in people’s lives. Yet China’s food industry is a typical description of “bad money driving out the good”.The market is huge while the cost of faking and cheating is so low for immoral businessmen; and the punishment is too light. Take the milk industry as an example. Although Sanlu, the company that sold the melamine-adulterated milk powder, was punished, thousands of other dairies didn’t work hard to improve the quality. In order to allow national brands to survive, Chinese authorities are happy to loosen their regulations.

As the documentary shows, people are attracted not to gourmet items like matsutake, a species of rare mushroom grown naturally in remote forests, but to common Chinese dishes like barley, lotus root or tofu. They are what meet our basic needs. This explains why people are so excited about A Bite of China---it is a reminder that there is still a world out there where food is excellent and people have dignity.

21. The underlined word “gourmet items” probably means_______.

A. delicious food B. latest technology

C. beautiful clothes D. great inventions

22. The second paragraph mainly talks about______.

A. the content of the documentary B. the producer of the documentary

C. The popularity of the documentary D. the history of Chinese gourmet

23. We can infer from what a netizen wrote in one well –received article that _____.

A. the price of food is too high for many common people

B. the documentary was made by a world-famous Chinese director

C. there is a huge contrast between the ancient food culture and the reality

D. none of the television viewers have a knowledge of the Chinese food culture

24. According to the passage, China’s food industry is full of faking and cheating because_____.

A. there are still so many poor people at the present time

B. the punishment for unscrupulous businessmen isn’t serious enough

C. the Chinese government encourages it to do so

D. the food technology is not so advanced as in developed countries

B

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As the saying goes, man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. Water runs downhill from mountaintops to streams to rivers to oceans. But downhill isn’t the only way that water moves .A new study measures how water travels from country to country for human consumption. This flow isn’t the type we usually think about .These scientists looked at the water used to grow and make the products which get shipped from nation to nation as imports or exports. They call this a flow of “virtual water（虚拟水）”.

We typically think about water as the liquid that flows from a tap. However,92％of the water used by people goes into growing crops，according to water researcher Arjen Hoekstra. He recently studied the hidden travels of virtual water used in products made from things like crops and meats .These products are shipped around the world.

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