高二上学期期中试题.doc

鸡西市第一中学2015-2016学年度第一学期期中考试英语试题
第I卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，每题1分，满分20分）
第一节
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 will the woman do tomorrow?
A. See a movie. B. Visit a friend. C. Work on her report.
2. When is the woman leaving for the airport?
A. At around 8:30. B. At around 9:00. C. At around 11:00.
3. What type of books does the woman like reading now?
A. Science fiction. B. Detective stories. C. Love stories.
4. Who is the man most probably?
A. The woman’s husband. B. A repairman. C. A salesman.
5. What are the speakers discussing?
A. A sport. B. The man’s brother. C. A competition.

第二节
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、7 题。
6. What will the woman do in 15 minutes?
A. Watch a game. B. Drive to the stadium. C. Attend a meeting.
7. What is the man’s job?
A. A police officer. B. A taxi driver. C. A baseball player.
听第7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。
8. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the man’s house. B. In a coffee shop. C. In the man’s office.
9. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Run the new office. B. Open a new office. C. Take over his position.
听第8 段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the man doing?
A. Researching on office supplies.
B. Placing some orders.
C. Listing needed things.
11. What colour envelopes would the man like?
A. White. B. Blue. C. Green.
12. How many kinds of things does the man need?
A. 3. B. 4. C. 5.
听第9 段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers doing?
A. Having a debate on manners.
B. Discussing the change of manners.
C. Making a complaint about manners.
14. What do the speakers agree on?
A. Children should have a light sleep in the afternoon.
B. Parents should be more responsible.
C. Children should have a place of their own.
15. Why doesn’t the woman like having parties?
A. She never knows who to invite.
B. She can’t be bothered to organise them.
C. She’s not sure who may come until the last minute.
16. What does the man dislike doing?
A. Keeping his kids in the house.
B. Driving away without saying goodbye.
C. Bringing unexpected visitors to a party.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the man doing?
A. Giving a lecture.
B. Hosting a TV talk show.
C. Introducing a course of interviews.
18. What advice does the man offer about “how to speak”?
A. Speak loudly.
B. Don’t speak too fast.
C. Keep your voice slower than usual.
19. What does the man say about body language?
A. Keeping eye contact shows one’s openness and honesty.
B. Proper sitting manners makes one appear relaxed.
C. Smiling makes one look pretty.
20. What helps to impress the interviewer in the first place?
A. The way one is dressed. B. Appropriate body language. C. Your beautiful voice.

第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15题，每题2分，共30分）
A
Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France on December 27, 1822. His family was poor, and during his early education Pasteur was an ordinary student who enjoyed art and singing. However, when Pasteur was exposed to science as a teenager, he knew he had found his career.
In 1838, Pasteur went to college to become a science teacher. He then became a chemistry professor at the University of Strasbourg. He got married in 1849 and had five children. However, three died young from typhoid fever (伤寒症). It was the deaths of his children that drove Pasteur to investigate the infectious disease in order to find a cure.
During Pasteur’s time, people believed that bacteria (细菌) appeared due to “spontaneous generation (自然发生)”. They thought that the bacteria just appeared out of nowhere. Pasteur carried out experiments to see if this was true. Through his experiments he proved that germs were living things that came from other living things. They didn’t just spontaneously appear. This was a major discovery in the study of biology and earned Pasteur the title of Father of Germ Theory.
As Pasteur learned more about bacteria, he began to think they may be the cause of diseases in humans. When the French silk market was threatened by a disease to silkworms (蝉), Pasteur decided to investigate. He discovered that this disease was caused by germs. By killing them from the silkworm farms, he was able to cease the disease and save the French silk business.
Today Louis Pasteur is known as one of the most important scientists in history. His discoveries led to an understanding of bacteria and diseases that has helped save millions and millions of lives.
21. After his children’s deaths, Louis Pasteur _______.
A. became afraid of infectious diseases
B. was frustrated and wanted to do nothing
C. decided to find out how to treat the disease
D. didn’t know it was typhoid fever that caused their deaths
22. What is implied about Louis Pasteur’s discovery in Paragraph 3?
A. It supported what most people thought at that time.
B. It revealed that bacteria often appeared out of nowhere.
C. It attracted the attention of the Father of Germ Theory.
D. It was a very important discovery in the history of biology.
23. What does the underlined word “cease” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. End. B. Find. C. Develop. D. Spread.
24. What is the text mainly about?
A. A disease that killed children easily in history.
B. A great scientist in the field of biology in history.
C. Some of the most important scientists in history.
D. Some of the most important discoveries in history.
B
Gift Idea
The other day I was shopping for Grandma I realized I had no gift ideas at all.
It was not a birthday gift or anything like that. It was simply sort of a hello gift. That is how we do things in my family. We don’t really give gifts for special occasions. Instead, we occasionally just give presents to each other people that we are thinking about them.
That was why I wanted a gift for Grandma. But it was like my imagination had dried up. I have gone through all of the gift ideas in previous years, fruits, wines, cheeses, little handmade ends, and anything else that you can give to a grandmother. I had even given her gift watches, and CDs. What else was there?
I have always found gift ideas for men a little bit easier than for women, because for men, you can always get the usual things, such as video games, power tools and things like that.
With a woman’s gift idea, however, you have to know more about her. You cannot just get someone a book or a CD. You have to know all about her taste in movies, music, and literature.
My grandmother likes to read a lot, but what she likes is always pretty popular, I didn’t want to get her a book that she might not like, but I was running out of time. I needed an idea for this weekend and went to visit her. After all, I hadn’t seen her for a long time. I wanted to give her a gift so she would not feel ignored.
Finally, I came up with the perfect gift idea. I made a collection of all the stories I had written in the past year. It wasn’t a typical gift idea like a bunch of flowers, but it really worked in the situation. You see, I am a writer and my grandma has always been my fan. Anyway, I had been learning about book binding recently, and had pretty much mastered the art, I figured that I would add a little bit of handmade artwork to the stories, bind it altogether, and give it to her. It took hours to complete, but she absolutely loved it.
25. The writer chose a gift for Grandma to___________.
A. celebrate a special family occasion B. congratulate her on her birthday  
C. please her during a weekend visit D. beg her pardon for ignoring her
26. What gift did the writer finally decide to give his grandma?
A. Gift watches. B. Stories written by himself.
C. Artwork made by hand. D. A bunch of flowers.
27. How does the writer feel about giving gifts to women?
A. Interesting.          B. Popular. C. Time-wasting. D. Challenging.

C
If you had been watching the FIFA World Cup last year, you might have seen a free kick where the referee took out a can and drew a line on the grass in front of the players.
No, it’s not shaving cream. It’s vanishing spray (消散式喷雾剂), something that provides a temporary visual aid to ensure that, during a free kick, the defenders and the kicker don’t gradually go beyond the 9.1-meter separation ruled by game regulations.
The foaming (发出泡沫的) spray, which vanishes after about a minute, has been used for several years in the professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, but is being used for the first time at the 2014 World Cup.
The tendency for the wall of defenders to move forward during a free kick is a common cause of argument in the beloved ballgame. Referees carry the spray with them, but are not required to use it. However, players must obey the 10-yard regulation with or without the spray.
“We find it to be extremely useful and very effective in making sure the defenders are 10 yards from the ball,” said Paul Rejer, training and development manager for the Professional Referees Organization.
The vanishing spray contains a mixture of gases, a foaming agent (泡沫剂), water and other chemicals. When it leaves the can, the gas reduces its pressure and expands, creating small, water-covered droplets on the field. The mixture later disappears, only leaving some water and surfactant remains (表面活性剂残留物) behind.
The use of the spray at the World Cup caused quite a hot discussion on Twitter. “Please tell me I’m not the only one with a strange interest in the magical spray paint used before free kicks,” tweeted @EmmaBlahh.
The foaming spray is one of several new ideas at the World Cup. Other new technology includes a robot that was used at the opening ceremony, new goal-line technology and perhaps the most advanced soccer ball ever developed.
28. What do we know about the “vanishing spray”?
A. It is a mixture of water and gas.
B. It disappears within a few seconds.
C. It is an environment-friendly product.
D. It was newly invented for the World Cup.
29. During a free kick, defenders will _______.
A. form a wall about 9.1 meters long
B. argue with the kicker about the game
C. keep the kick at a distance of 10 meters
D. be likely to try hard to get close to the ball
30. The sixth paragraph is mainly about _______.
A. how the vanishing spray works
B. who developed the vanishing spray
C. why the vanishing spray was created
D. what advantages the vanishing spray has
31. The author mentioned the comment on Twitter to prove _______.
A. the popularity of free kicks
B. the fair play of the World Cup
C. the successful use of the vanishing spray
D. the wonderful performances of the players
D
Cooking Kills Four Million People a Year
Polluted airborne particles（大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.
That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factories---or even the jammed roadways of modern cities---are not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO.
What’s causing the air inside people’s homes to be so poisonous that it kills around 11,000 people a day? Stoves. “Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.” says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.
Not all stoves cause this kind of harm. The ones Smith’s talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas. The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes. Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers
acceptable.
Breathing this air day in day out eventually causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease. And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.
Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fire---usually women and young children. In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease.
32. According to Kirk Smith’s research, ______.
A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays
B. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous
C. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should
D. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful
33. What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?
A. Solid fuels. B. Cooking smoke. C. Poor gas. D. Coal stoves.
34. The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means ______.
A. airing B. cooking C. burning D. cooling
35. The author intends to tell people ______.
A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes
B. to stop cooking in the household kitchen
C. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household
D. to guard against household pollution from cooking
第二节 （共5题，每题2分，共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。
As children grow, so does their desire to become independent. 36 As parents, our job is to find the right balance between kids’ desire for independence and the need to keep kids safe.
Kids need to be allowed, in fact encouraged; they like to be given certain risks.37 The right risk level for your child will depend on their age, developmental level, and character. It will change over time, and there are few hard and fast rules that apply to every child.
38 Every time you put your kids in the car you are putting them at risk. It is a fact of life.
So what is a parent to do ? We must encourage them to explore their world while setting clear limits where safety is an issue. 39 We must let them run, but be prepared to catch them when they fall. We can’t take their steps for them; we can only point out the path.
It’s hard to imagine when they are small, but someday very soon they will be walking ,riding a bike, even driving ! 40
A. Children do not often want to become independent.
B. It is impossible for any of us to live completely risk-free.
C. The goal for parents is to determine how much risk is appropriate.
D. Often they will become more willing to take risks and try new things.
E. Sometimes it is really tough for parents to encourage their children to be independent.
F. Someday they must face the world without us, and part of our job is to prepare them for that.
G If we are overprotective, they