四川省大竹中学2016--2017学年度上学期期中考试
高2015级 英语试题卷
命题人：李琴审题人：钟道斌
本试题分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1．答题前，考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、考号用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔填写在答题卡上，并检查条形码粘贴是否正确。
2．选择题（1—60）使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上，非选择题用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔书写在答题卡的对应题框内，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。
3．考试结束以后，将答题卡收回。
第Ⅰ卷
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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。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。
1. What is the woman doing?
A. Eating cheese.B. Taking a picture.C. Showing visitors around.
2. What birthday gift does Ann give to the woman?
A. A hat.B. A dog. C. A cat.
3. What is Harry’s nationality?
A. American. B. French. C. Italian.
4. What’s the weather like now?
A. Hot. B. Cool.C. Warm.
5. When will the speakers go to the concert?
A. On Wednesday.B. On Tuesday. C. On Saturday.
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，并标在答题卷的相应位置。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秒钟的作答时问。每段对话或独白读两遍。
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听第6段材料, 回答第6、7题。
6. What did the man have for his picnic?
A. Sandwiches. B. Hamburgers. C. Bread.
7. Where did the man eat his lunch?
A. At the campsite. B. In the woods. C. Beside a waterfall.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What date is today?
A. August 13. B. August 20.C. August 27.
9. What does the man ask the woman to help him with?
A. Looking after his mother. B. Looking after his children.
C.Teaching French for a while.
10. What does the woman decide to do in the end?
A. Ask Mike to help the man. B. Carry out her plan as scheduled.
C.Rearrange her holiday with Mike.
听第8段材料，回答第11至12题。
11. What does the man think of his former job?
A. Boring but low-paid. B. Interesting but low-paid.
C.Boring but highly-paid.
12. Why does the man want to work in a bookstore?
A. The pay is higher. B. He can read books there.
C.His cousin has asked him for help.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is the first tip given by the woman?
A. Ask people to drive less. B. Use public transportation.
C. Use more energy-efficient bulbs.
14. What kind of people should pay attention to the woman’s fourth tip?
A. People who don’t recycle their waste.
B. People who always litter up.
C. People who like shopping.
15. How much carbon dioxide does the woman say a tree can absorb over its lifetime?
A. Half a ton.B. One ton. C. Two tons.
16. What is the woman’s last piece of advice?
A. Spread the word. B. Live a green life every day.
C. Call on people to plant trees.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Why didn’t Mrs. Green’s son celebrate her birthday with her?
A. He was dead. B. He had to work.
C. He was in another city.
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A. 3. B. 4. C. 5
19. What did the people do in Mrs. Green’s house?
A. They acted as her family. B. They bought dinner to her.
C. They watched a movie with her.
20. How did Mrs. Green feel when the people left?
A. She felt happy. B. She felt cheated. C. She felt surprised.
第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分60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
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21. According to the survey, people left alone on a desert island would most want their______.
A. MP3 player B. dog C. celebrity D. spouse/partner
22. Which of the following is true about George Clooney?
A. He may not be able to help you survive.
B. He has been trained in wilderness survival.
C. He does not think Roseane is beautiful.
D. He is the choice of most South African women.
23. The survey results are analyzed in terms of the respondents’ _________.
A. race, nationality and sex B. sex, age and nationality
C. marriage, age and race D. age, sex and marriage
B
When 7-year-old Warren Buffett said,“I will be the richest man one day,” his friends made fun of his “daydreaming”. But ever since then the little boy has set about learning how to make money by selling drinks, delivering newspaper and buying stocks. The American had already earned $9,000 (equal to $90,000 today) by the time he graduated from high school.
And this month the 78-year-old man, who earned his fortune by making a lot of sound investment in the stock market, took the place of Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, as the world’s richest man. Gates’ worth declined $1.5 billion to $55.5 billion in 33 days after the recent financial storm, according to Forbes Magazine.
Buffett, the only son of a stockbroker, was ready to think outside the box to develop his business from a very early age. At 8, he went to golf courses collecting and selling the used balls. At 11 when he sold soda pop door-to-door with a friend, the pair collected lids on streets to judge which flavor was the most popular.
As a paper boy during high school, Buffett delivered two competitor papers, so that even when customers canceled one of the subscriptions, he could still make a profit from the other. With his paper delivery savings, Buffett bought 162,000 square meters of farmland and collected rent. Young Buffett stepped into the stock market at 11 but earned only $5. The experience taught him one of the virtues in investing, patience.
After graduating from university, Buffett started his venture with stocks with his childhood earnings and money from friends. He researched the stocks and just bought those of solid companies that were undervalued and inexpensive at the time. By sticking to companies such as 大竹中学高2015级期中英语试题 共10页 第 4
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American Express and Coca-Cola, Buffett has become rich.
“Learning is important to Buffett’s success. He is a learning machine who can spend his entire day reading. He keeps learning from books, street smarts and investigation, from both success and failure. In this way, he over-achieved his aptitude (能力).” said Charlie Munger, his longtime business partner. 24. The passage is mainly about ___________.
A．why Buffett took the place of Bill Gates as the world’s richest man
B．what effect Buffett’s childhood experiences had on his success
C．what Buffett dreamt about when he was a child D．how Buffett earned his fortune and achieved his aptitude
25. How did Buffett behave at the stock market?
A．He will buy the stock whose price is lower than its value.
B．He often prefers some inexpensive stocks.
C．He always borrows money from his friends to buy stocks.
D．He will sell the stock if its price doesn’t go up.
26. Which is the main factor that determines Buffett’s success?
A．His education. B．His family background.
C．His desire to learn. D．His cooperation with his partner.
27. What can we infer from the passage?
A．Buffett is an immediate success in the stock market.
B．Buffett and Gates are business partners.
C．Buffett has a good sense of business.
D．His father helped him a lot in his business.
C
As students and teachers returned to school on Monday after the publication of performance ratings(等级) for 18,000 teachers, many parents said they were giving the reports serious thought. Yet there was an equal measure of skepticism among parents that test scores have any relationship with teachers’ competence.
Some said they already knew how good a teacher was by walking into the classroom or by monitoring their children’s progress. "I’m the kind of person who likes to see for themselves," a father in Queens said.
Others worried about how their fellow parents, perhaps might respond. Will they demand a new teacher? Move their children to a new school?
Elizabeth Sane, the mother of a fourth grader at the Ella Baker School, a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school on the Upper East Side, said that her daughter was switched to a different teacher’s class over the summer, and that it was "like adding salt to the wound" when she saw the high ratings for her daughter’s previous teacher. Her daughter’s teacher this year did not receive a rating because he previously taught high school.
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Ms. Sane said that the rating was not the only factor that influenced how she assessed a teacher’s performance, but that the data used for teacher evaluations mattered.
But other parents dropping their children off at the Ella Baker School said they did not trust teacher ratings based on test scores any more than they wanted their children’s learning measured only by the state exams.
"Some people take it as the final word, but it doesn’t change who they are as teachers. The ratings aren’t accurate, and the whole student testing thing needs to be thrown out," said Lydia Delgado, whose child is in the second grade.
28. What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?
A. About half of the parents doubted the ratings to be reliable.
B. All the teachers will receive a rating at the end of each semester.
C. All the teachers received a rating given by the students.
D Most parents took the teachers’ ratings seriously.
29.What does the underlined part "with sharper elbows" mean?
A. With a good relationship with the school.
B. With the ability to change the situation.
C. With a strong will to succeed.
D. With strong elbows physically.
30. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Ms. Sane evaluated a teacher’s performance only by the rating.
B. Lydia Delgado didn’t think the students" scores should be kept.
C. The teacher ratings were decided by the test scores of the students.
D. To give ratings to teachers will come to an end in the near future.
31.The attitude of the author towards the way to assess teachers’
A. supportive B. critical C. indifferent D. objective
D
As the global warming is becoming worse and worse, experts from nearly 200 countries have spent the past two weeks in Warsaw, Poland. More than 9, 000 representatives gathered for a United Nations conference on climate change. Organizers called the meeting to work toward a treaty(条约)to fight rising temperatures on our planet. The treaty would be signed in 2015 and take effect after 2020.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is leading government efforts to fight climate change. The agency just ended a series of public hearings across the country. The EPA was seeking comments as it considers tightening clean air rules for coal burning power plants.
David Doniger is a climate policy expert. He says it is the duty of the EPA to control carbon as a pollutant. He wants the agency to establish new rules that would move the United States toward a cleaner energy environment.
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"No one is coming up with standards that would knock out all those power plants. We're talking about a shift from the dirtier ones to the cleaner ones, and from all those fossil fuel- powered ones towards renewable and even nuclear sources of energy. "
He says the government is responsible for protecting clean air ,not protecting old and dirty power stations. He says, "That's the only way that we can continue to have the way of life we want without running into the wall on climate change impacts, which in turn will destroy the quality of life we have. "
The EPA is now considering comments from the nationwide hearings. The agency plans to announce proposed rule changes in June.
32. The United Nations conference was held to ______.
A. call for protection of wildlife
B. make plans for nearly 200 countries
C. deal with the warming climate
D. gather opinions from the representatives
33. What action will the EPA take to fight climate change?
A. Make more strict rules to limit coal power plants.
B. Accept the opinions of the Americans.
C. Develop more nuclear sources of energy.
D. Close those power plants which pollute the air most.
34. Who is responsible for the protection of the clean air in David Doniger's opinion?
A. The public. B. The government. C. The EPA. D. The United Nations.
35. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the EPA _____'
A. ignores the public comments
B. will cancel the former laws
C. will announce the list of dirty plants
D. values public opinions greatly
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中 有两项为多余选项。 art. Others define it as beliefs, ways of behaving and the ideas of a particular group. Another broader definition says that it is all the knowledge and values of a society. There are as many definitions of culture as there are different societies.
One useful starting point is the idea of two types of culture: culture with a capital C and culture with a small c.
Culture with a capital C refers to music, literature and art. It also includes facts and statistics about a national group or society. A person is cultured if they know a lot about culture with a capital C. Many English-speaking countries now have citizenship tests for new 大竹中学高2015级期中英语试题 共10页 第 7 页
immigrants. might include Who wrote Hamlet? or Where does the Prime Minister of Canada live?
Culture with a small c refers to beliefs, values, traditions and the everyday life of a particular
community. c can be different from one part of a country to another. Travelers and people who do business with people from different places are often more interested in culture with a small c. Example questions could include What time do Americans finish work? or Do Germans shake hands or kiss when they meet each other? Culture gives a person a special identity. Culture gives a community or a country a
different character. Whatever the definition, culture plays an important part in everybody’s life.
A. How many definitions of culture exist?
B. Everyone knows what it is, but explains it in different ways.
C. These tests contain many questions about the country’s “culture”.
D. It is harder to say exactly what these are as they are often changing.
E. People think this kind of information is very valuable and important.
F. One thing we can all agree on is that culture is about being unique and different.
G. The United States and Britain today are multicultural; they have lots of different cultures.
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出 可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once upon a time, there was great poverty in a land far away, and only the rich could manage四 轮载重马车) and shared 45 out among the villagers. He wished them all the best of luck, and he left. lacked sympathy(同情心 大竹中学高2015级期中英语试题 共10页 第 8 页
41. A. problems 42. A. standing 43. A. faraway 44. A. unless 45. A. those 46. A. worrying 47. A. the rest 48. A. should 49. A. interest 50. A. returned 51. A. remain 52. A. turned back 53. A. village54. A. whether55. A. certain 56. A. welcomed 57. A. still 58. A. except 59. A. loading 60. A. seeds
B. expectations B. walking B. ancient B. because B. anything B. curious B. his servants B. might B. concernB. received B. last B. speeded B. land B. where B. good
B. persuaded B. already B. instead of B. treasuring B. jewelsC. loss C. travelling C. different C. so C. nothing C. dangerous C. the others C. could C. use C. offered C. supply C. showed off C. fieldC. howC. true C. accepted C. always
C. apart from C. earning C. money D. success D. running D. poor D. if D. them D. puzzling D. the villagers D. must
D. attraction D. won D. shareD. set out D. road D. when D. strange D. met D. indeed D. along with D. carrying D. food
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分） 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
. Nowadays, many cities in China are faced with a serious health-killer---haze. Every morning,
citizens wake up, only 61 __________ (find) that the whole city is covered with thick fog and haze again. This is not a problem coming about 62 _____ accident but one involving lots of reasons. To begin with, many people love driving their own cars to work to save time, 63________ (cause) severe air pollution. Besides, to make greater profit, factories are built near the cities and as 64 _____result, heavy harmful smoke 65_________(see) everywhere in the sky over the cities. What’s worse, although people have realized how 66__________ (frighten) the situation is, they don’t change their lifestyles. However, 67_________ they think they should do is to wear masks in such weather. From my point of view, to solve the problem, the government should take 68_________ (effect) measures to improve public transportation and prevent the factories 69___________ (pollute) the air, and at the same time, people should live a much healthier and greener life as well, so as not to say to the future generation“If only we 70____________ (attach) more importance to protecting our environment”.
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第四部分写作（共两节；满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下 作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增 加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(?)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My name is Tom. I come from Canada last summer. Now I’m studying in a middle school in
Beijing. Every morning I get up at 6:30 and have breakfast at 7:00. Before breakfast I leave for school at 7:30. I often go to school by bike or by foot, because I think walking or riding is good for my health. And I get to school ten minutes before first class begins. I have lunch with my classmate at school. I didn’t like the school food at first but I have been gotten used to it. School finishes at 4:30, but I often stay at school for one another hour, play football and basketball. They keep myself fit. In the evening, I always watch TV, which help me learn Chinese.
笫二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假如你叫李华，你的美国网友Mike 来信请你向他介绍有关故宫的情况。请
根据下面的信息用英语给他写一封词数100左右的回信。开头与结尾已给出。
1. 故宫，又名紫禁城，始建于1406年，20万人用了14年建成；
2. 占地72万平方米，房间总共有9999间半,世界五大皇宫之一；
3. 每周二对中国学生免费开放；
4. 评价及结语。
参考词汇：紫禁城：the Forbidden City 皇宫： imperial palace
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