福建省福州市第八中学2014高一下学期期中考试英语试题.doc

福州八中2014—2015学年第二学期期中考试
高一英语 必修3
考试时间:120分钟 试卷满分:150分
2015.4.16
第一卷 （满分100分）
第一部分:听力（每小题1.5分，满30分）
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. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A . In the bookstore. B. At the post office. C. On the airplane.
2. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Waitress and customer. B. Husband and wife. C. Friends.
3. Where is Mary’s husband now?
A. Outside having lunch. B. At the working place. C. At home.
4. When can the woman attend the conference?
A. Wednesday & Thursday.
B. Thursday & Friday.
C. Wednesday & Friday.
5. What does the man mean?
A. He doesn’t like shopping.
B. He doesn’t want to talk about his job.
C. He doesn’t enjoy talking with the woman.[]
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。
听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。
6. What’s the name of Paul’s new book?
A. The Adventures of the Martians.
B. Travel to Mars.
C. Martian Culture.
7. How many people traveled to Mars?
A. 5. B. 6. C. 9.

8. How long did the travel to Mars take?
A. One year. B. Three years. C. Five years.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. Who is the woman talking to?
A. A teacher. B. A classmate. C. An assistant.
10. What kind of room does the woman want?
A. A flat of her own.
B. A room in a house.
C. A room shared with a family.
11. What does the woman probably do in the end?
A. Live in a hotel.
B. Get what she really wants.
C. Live together with the man.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. What does the woman NOT have on her bread for breakfast?
A. Cream cheese. B. Jam. C. Steak.
13. What kind of fruit does the woman like?
A. Oranges. B. Peaches. C. Bananas
14. When does the woman have her main meal of the day?
A. In the morning, for breakfast.
B. At noon for lunch.
C. In the evening, for dinner.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. Which of the following should the woman do first?
A. Send a list of names to the man.
B. Find a teacher for the classes.
C. Give books to her people.
16. What was their problem last time?
A. They didn’t have the books on time.
B. They didn’t know where to have the books.
C. They didn’t know who would pay for the books.
17. How many people did the man plan to have for the classes?
A. 24. B. 32. C. Not decided.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What was Mary Kingsley famous for?
A. Natural history. B. Study of fishes. C. Traveling and writing.
19. How did Mary Kingsley get education?
A. She studied in college.
B. She read at home.
C. She learnt from her brothers.
20. How many foreign languages did Mary Kingsley speak?
A. One. B. Two. C Three.
第二部分:单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
21. It was almost midnight when a big fire _____ in the neighborhood.
A. blocked out B. turned out C. broke out D. died out
22. —I met your uncle on my way to school this morning.
—Ah? You _____ be joking. He flew to Germany yesterday evening!
A. might B. should C. could D. must
23. The company is deep in _____, so you’d better avoid dealing with it.
A. benefit B. thought C. debt D. strength
24. Later, the naughty boys _____ to the English teacher for having played a trick on her the other day.
A. apologized B. introduced C. reminded D. stared
25. _____ life exists on any other planet in the solar system still remains a question.
A. Why B. Whether C. How D. Where
26. Samuel was _____ why few of his friends attended his birthday party.
A. spotted B. crashed C. puzzled D. limited
27. Zhang Heng, one of _____ best-known Chinese astronomers, showed a strong interest in _____ astronomy as a child.
A. the; the B. the; 不填 C. 不填; the D. 不填; 不填
28. I _____ along the pavement yesterday when some stranger came up and asked me the way to the nearest hospital.
A. am wandering B. was wandering C. has wandered D. had wandered
29. The new headmaster _____ at our party and sang us a song, which greatly added to our joy.
A. put off B. set off C. turned up D. broke up
30. After I graduated from Fuzhou University, my parents encouraged me to be _____ and make a living on my own.
A. independent B. energetic C.reliable D. religious
31. The main reason for the great success of the film is _____ it brings back the happy memories of our childhood.
A. that B. whether C. where D. why
32. To satisfy your _____, you’d better telephone Jackson to ask why he was absent from school.
A. weakness B. curiosity C. taste D. hunger
33. My deskmate didn’t attend the class meeting last Tuesday, _______ he doesn’t know our plan for the coming football match.
A. that’s why B. which is why C. that’s because D. which is because
34. — Didn’t you find the film exciting?
—_____, I nearly fell asleep half-way through it!
A. As a result B. In other words C. After all D. On the contrary
35. Great changes _____ in my hometown in the last 30 years and local people are living a happy life today.
A. took place B. were taken place
C. have taken place D. have been taken place
第三部分:阅读理解 (共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)
A
He slept in my arms last night, with his little head on my shoulder. I stayed awake listening to his breathing. He smiled in his sleep, and I wondered what could be funny to a one-year-old baby. I could sense the safety he felt.
However, my home life is completely different from the scene that greets me each morning at work. As a lawyer at Eastlake Juvenile Court (少年法庭), I always see kids that society has labeled the worst of the worst, the “thief”, the “robber”, the list goes on. But they are still children. As I sit across from them, I have a chance to talk to them about their lives, homes, and dreams. I sit through tears, anger, but mostly hurt. I see their parents, most of whom sit in the hallways day after day wanting to take their kids home. I also see parents that come to the court ready to walk away from their children forever. Each day I see hope destroyed.
I have come to realize that these children are our future, even if we don’t want to admit it. They also want to sleep on a mother’s shoulder at night, they also had dreams
and smiled in their sleep when they were babies. But then something terrible happened, which robbed (剥夺) them of that youth, that hope, and that joy. I hope one day we can find how to put back the destroyed childhoods and ruined lives.
Every day when I go home, I hold my children tightly in my arms and say “I love you” over and over again. And as I am filled with hope, I cannot forget those children I leave behind. I live in two worlds, one of promise, one of tragedy(悲剧). No matter what they are accused (指控) of, what crimes (罪行) they have carried out and what society thinks of them, they are children, they are our children and our future.
36. The author mentions her son in Paragraph 1 mainly to tell readers _____.
A. her son is lovely B. it’s hard to raise a child
C. what leads children to break laws D. children should be taken good care of
37. The underlined word “labeled” in Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by _____.
A. praised B. chosen C. designed D. described
38. What’s the author’s attitude towards the children who break laws?
A. Doubtful. B. Hopeful. C. Angry. D. Relaxed.
39. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To accuse those parents who ruin their children’s life.
B. To show the difficulty of her work as a lawyer.
C. To win support for problem children.
D. To show her deep love for her child.
B
Imagination and fantasy(幻想) can play an important role in achieving the things we fear. Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone, knew this very well. Fred Epstein, in his book If I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of friends about Tom. He came through several operations and a lot of pain by mastering his imagination.
Tom loved to pretend, and he particularly loved to play superheroes. Dr. Epstein explained that it was actually a wonderful way for his young mind to manage the terrifying and painful life he led.
The day before his third trip to the operating room, Tom was terribly afraid. “Maybe I could go as Superman,” he said to his mom. Hearing this, the mother hesitated (犹豫) for a while. She had avoided buying the expensive costume (戏装), but finally she agreed.
The next day Tom appeared as the powerful Superman, showing off through the hospital halls and coolly waving his hand to the people greeting him along the way. And Tom, with the strength of his fantasy, successfully made it through the operation.
The power of imagination need not be reserved for children only. we all have the power to use our fantasies to attempt things we never thought possible, to go through those things that seem impossible, and to achieve what we never believed we could. Just as Dr. Epstein puts it, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
It doesn’t mean that you should dress as a superhero for your next job interview. But, next time you are tested in a way that seems impossible, imagine what it would take to overcome it. Become the person you need to become to win over your challenge and do it in your mind first. So, let your imagination run wild, and dare to dream.
40. What do we know about Tom?
A. He was seriously ill B. He was a dishonest boy.
C. He was crazy about magic. D. He was Dr. Epstein’s patient.
41. What can be inferred about Tom’s mother?
A. She was a rich lady. B. She refused Tom’s request.
C. She wanted Tom to be a superhero. D. She wanted to get Tom through the pain.
42. When Tom went for the third operation, he ______.
A. pretended to be painful B. acted like a superhero
C. appeared in poor spirits D. argued with his mother
43. In the last paragraph, you are advised ______.
A. to go through some difficult tests
B. to wake up from your wild dreams
C. to become a powerful person in your mind
D. to wear expensive clothes for job interviews
44. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To tell us an interesting story.
B. To help us make right decisions.
C. To advise us to care about children.
D. To encourage us to use our imagination.
C
How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough
Journalist Tough spent five years reporting his previous (先前的) book, Whatever It Takes, a description of education activist Geoffrey Canada and the families influenced by his organization, the Harlem Children’s Zone. In this 2012 follow-up, Tough sets out to answer the difficult questions raised by Whatever It Takes: Why do some kids — particularly poor ones — succeed while others fail? And how can parents and educators help guide more children towards success?
The Death and Life of the Great American School System, by Diane Ravitch
Ravitch, a professor in New York University, takes a hard look at how public education has changed over the past twenty years, offering a reasoned explanation of popular policies, such as the emphasis (强调) on testing, and a solution (解决方法) to how to improve America’s schools.
Saving the School, by Michael Brick
When Anabel Garza became headteacher of Reagan High in Austin, Tex, she was faced with a large number of seemingly very difficult problems: A high dropout rate (辍学率) and low test scores. But as Brick writes Saving the School, a first-hand account of a year in the life of Reagan High, Garza, along with other teachers, was determined to turn things around for her school and her students.
The Flat World and Education, by Linda Darling -Hammond
While scores on the tests required by “No Child Left Behind” have steadily (平稳地) risen, America’s students are always falling behind on international testing measures. Why? According to Stanford education professor Darling-Hammond, it’s because U.S. schools, “designed at the turn of the last century,” are in need of a complete change. In this book, she describes the latest education models used by schools all over the world, which she argues could offer a long-term road map to changing the American public school system.
45. Which book answers questions from another book?
A. Saving the School.
B. How Children Succeed.
C. The Flat World and Education.
D. The Death and Life of the Great American School System.
46. Who writes about a particular high school?
A. Diane Ravitch. B. Michael Brick.
C. Paul Tough. D. Linda Darling-Hammond.
47. Both Diane and Linda are offering measures to _____.
A. cut down the dropout rate B. help students get high scores
C. improve schools in America D. guide more children to success
D
The biggest threat to the future of Oxfordshire’s economy is transport.
That is the key finding of a major new report which interviewed more than 120 county companies. The results show 76 percent of the company owners and directors believe traffic jams and the quality of transport are affecting their business.
More than 30 percent say this is costing them dearly in the form of extra fuel(燃料) costs, while some say the situation of being stuck in jams on key roads such as the A34 and A40 every day is making it harder to employ workers.
But lack of safer cycling plans is encouraging 72 percent of people to continue to go to work by car.
The report has led the government to try to work out a solution to the situation on the county’s crowded roads.
Nicola Blackwood, an official of Oxfordshire, recently brought transport minister Stephen Hammond to the county and said he became stuck in a traffic jam on the A34.
As a result, he has promised that he will aim to look at entire roads, rather than individual projects such as improving junctions (交叉路口).
Ms Blackwood said: “If we are able to achieve anything like our economic growth, we need to solve the problems that not only affect the new companies but also the growth of existing local businesses. What I want to see most of all is the quick production of a plan to solve the problem of the A34.”
John Cardy, co-founder of Garden Games, said he had considered moving his business from a farm in Garford to Witney but traffic fears had made him reconsider. He added: “Most of our employees were not prepared to use the A40 which is always crowded.”
48. According to the report, _____.
A. the A34 and A40 are the most crowded roads
B. more and more workers are losing their jobs
C. companies spend more on fuel than before
D. there is a serious lack of fuel
49. What do we know about the report mentioned in the text?
A. It aims to develop safer cycling plans.
B. It focuses on the unemployment problem.
C. It has attracted the government’