上海同济中学2015-2016学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题-Word版含答案.doc

。同济中学2015学年度第二学期高一期中测试英语试卷（2016.4）（时间100分钟，满分100分）I. Listening: 24%Part A Short ConversationsDirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. A professorB. A researcherC. A secretaryD. A teaching assistant2. A. The womans weekend plan.B. Spending time at the beach.C. A new place to live in.D. Running away to the beach.3. A. He will wait here for a few minutes.B. He can give the woman a lift.C. His car is much faster than a bus.D. He can take a bus with the woman.4. A. To write a letter.B. To look for the pen.C. To help her.D. To paint the bookshelf.5. A. In a department store.B. At a tourist information center.C. At a bank.D. At a hotel.6. A. The woman is unlucky to lose her bank card and cellphone.B. The woman had better go home and make the call first.C. He can lend the woman his cellphone to make the lost call.D. Pray to the God and he can help the woman find things back.7. A. Down the street.B. At the second crossing.C. Opposite a market.D. Beside a stereo shop.8. A. For 3 days.B. For 4 days.C. For 5 days.D. For 6 days.9. A. The game was not at all wonderful.B. The guest team was not strong.C. Their team was actually very bad.D. No.5 missed the basket too often.10. A. His classmates have already read his letters from Canada.B. He has agreed to save the stamps for his classmates.C. His classmates have the same hobby as the womans sister.D. The womans sister can get some stamps from his classmates.Part B PassagesDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. A gold pocket.B. A gold chain.C. A gold watch.D. A fine waistcoat.12. A. They went to London to visit me.B. They went to the park on a Sunday morning.C. They went to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.D. They went to Trafalgar Square to take a walk.13. A. Because he went back home too early for tea.B. Because he lost the gold pocket watch.C. Because my youngest son didnt like feeding pigeons.D. Because he wanted to change his will.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. A high school graduation ceremony.B. All the special traditions of graduation celebration.C. A tradition to mark graduation in Ilion High School.D. The disturbance “Paint Night” causes to the local town.15. A. Selecting the right color and quantity of their own choices.B. Selecting the biggest paint brush for their paintings.C. Painting their names on the sidewalk blocks in front of their parents homes.D. Leaving the town the marks of themselves to celebrate graduation.16. A. The parents will guide them through selecting their won colors.B. The students practice painting in order to grow up to be Picassos.C. The students in love have to leave their vows of devotion.D. The students now are not allowed to paint on the sidewalks.Part C Longer ConversationsDirections: In Section C, you will hear a longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are asked to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you hear. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Confirmation Guest Name: John 17 Booking Detail: 18 nights, 1 room. Room Type: Single with bathroom. Check-in: 19 , 11th June. Check-out: Sunday, 15th June. Meal Plan: No 20 .Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.Mrs. Bishops Interview Notes Pauls Daily Life 8 a.m. Get up. 9 a.m. Start classes. Noon to 1 p.m. Work at 21 . 3 p.m. 4p.m. Have 22 . 5 p.m. 8p.m. 23 at the supermarket. 9 p.m. 11 p.m. 11 p.m. 1 a.m. Watch TV. Do homework. Advice: Paul should pay more attention to his schoolwork. He should 24 better.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A 8%Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, politics, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill (25) _ _ they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet, no one can learn (26) _ from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teachers job is (27) _ (show) his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.It is always (28)_ (important) to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula. It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in (29)_ (work) out a math problem. Great scientists before us (30) _ (not get) everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison did not even finish primary school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things (31) _ mankind. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books (32) _ were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did thousands of experiments. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. Above all, they knew how to use their brain.Section B 10 %Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. approaches B. slightly C. exposed D. rarely AB. include AC. collectAD. movement BC. accessible BD. expect CD. survey ABC. increasesRecently, a student organization at Cornell University introduced their Big Red Bikes program. Like many bike share programs across America, the project aims to make biking _33_ and convenient for every student on the campus. As the cold winter _34_, the bikes are being moved into storage, but that has not stopped the organization from continuing to _35_ money in the hope of expanding the program in the coming years.Big Red Bikes put 20 bikes on the campus for the students to use in May 2011. Six months later, 20 more were added. The hope is to finally expand the program to _36_ 100 bikes and more parking station.As the need for the program _37_, Big Red Bikes is working in a highly democratic manner to determine how to expand the program. The organization sent out a campus-wide _38_ to decide where to put future parking stations and get advice on bike models. For example, the second 20-bike addition has a _39_ different model and includes a basket.Though it is only a campus-wide program at present, it could contribute to a larger national _40_. Boris Suchkov, the finance director of Big Red Bikes, explained, “When graduates go to live somewhere else, they have this expectation that biking should be a part of life.” He added, “We believe that students who are _41_ to an environmentally sustainable transport system during their college years will be more likely to _42_ and need sustainable systems of all kinds in the future.”. Reading ComprehensionSection A 15%Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Although eye contact is a great thing and a vital tool for_43_ the quality of all your face-to-face interactions with others, it doesnt mean that more eye contact is always better or that all eye contact is created equal. You have to do it_44_at the right time and in the right way. You might be _45_to make eye contact with people because you dont think they want to make eye contact with you. And sure enough, when you look at them the first time, they _46_. But the reason why theyre probably looking away is that theyre thinking the same thing you did-that you dont really want to make eye contact with them! _47_ you made the first move, theyre still worried about _48_. But most people are just waiting for permission to get into a mutual(互相的) gaze. Studies have shown that once one person in a conversing pair starts greater eye contact, the other person will follow suit and _49_ his or her own level of eye contact as well.In order for eye contact to be _50_, it needs to be welcome and appropriate. When eye contact is _51_, it goes from gazing to staring, and being stared at makes people uncomfortable. Eye contact _52_ physiologic (生理上的) arousalit increases brain activity and activates(激活) the sympathetic nervous system, _53_ a persons heart rate and breathing. And this happens not only when youre directly _54_ someones eyes, but also when you simply feel that someone is staring at you. This arousal can be a good thingif you and a lovely lady are looking into each others eyes, it can _55_a more intense connection. But when someone fixes their gaze on you in a terrible way, it can feel as if a predator (捕猎者)is chasing you in the wild.Therefore, good eye contact is based on mutuality. As Michael Ellsberg, author of The Power of Eye Contact, puts it: “In order for eye contact to feel good, one person cannot_56_ his visual will on another; it is a _57_ experience.”43. A. improvingB. affectingC. keepingD. making44. A. availablyB. accessiblyC. properlyD. exactly45. A. eager B. braveC. unwillingD. anxious46. A. look backB. look awayC. look downD. look up47. A. IfB. Even if C. As long asD. As if48. A. refusalB. attentionC. conversationD. interaction49. A. decreaseB. keepC. riseD. increase50. A. effectiveB. efficientC. availableD. approachable51. A. wantedB. welcomeC. unwantedD. refused52. A. results inB. brings outC. results fromD. turns out53. A. slowing downB. speeding upC. interfering withD. dealing with54. A. looking intoB. looking downC. looking afterD. looking for55. A. createB. preventC. arouseD. determine56. A. putB. forceC. carryD. burden57. A. successfulB. determinedC. sharedD. basedSection B 10%Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A) Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat. Either way, it could be the perfect crime, because the criminals are birdshorning pigeons! The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay up then, the car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off.There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay-at-home car thief, however, may in fact be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mindone that avoid not only collecting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has pulled a double trick: he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car-owner to place an advertisement in the newspaper asking for help.The theory is supported by the fact that, so far, none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded under 3,000 Taiwanese dollarsseems too little for a car worth many times more.Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal. “We have more important things to do,” he said.58. After the car owner received a phone call. He _.Awent to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried Bgave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park Csent some money to the thief by mailDtold the press about it 59. The “lazier and more inventive” criminal refers to _.Athe car thief who stays at home Bone of those who put the ads in the paper Cone of the policemen in Changwa D the owner of the pigeons 60. The writer mentions the fact that “none of the stolen cars have been returned” to show_.Ahow easily people get fooled by criminals Bwhat Chen thinks might be correct C the thief is extremely clever Dthe money paid is too little 61. The underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refers to _.A criminals Bpigeons Cthe stolen carsDdemands for money 62.We may infer from the text that the criminal knows how to reach the car owners because _.Ahe reads the ads in the newspaper Bhe lives in the same neighborhood Che has seen the car owners in the parkDhe has trained the pigeons to follow them (B)Social anxiety disorder (社交焦虑症) prevents some 15 million Americans from leading normal social and romantic lives, a new survey finds.The disorder leaves many isolated, ashamed and often mis-diagnosed (误诊断). Thirty-six percent of those with social anxiety disorder have symptoms for 10 years or more before seeking help, the Anxiety Disorder Association of America reports.Social anxiety disorder is when somebody has a strong, persistent and unreasonable fear of social or performance situations. The condition causes people to avoid common, everyday situations and even other people for fear of being judged or criticized or losing face in front of others.Social anxiety disorder can have a negative impact on daily routines (例行公事) and job performance. It also makes it very difficult for people to develop friends and romantic partnerships.People with this disorder recognize their fear is excessive (过度的) and unreasonable, but they feel powerless to do anything about it.Social anxiety disorder can start in the early teens. This is a disorder that starts affecting people early in their life. Many individuals report a history of anxiety dating back to earlier childhood.The disorder also has physical symptoms, including heart trouble, feeling that their throat will close up, sweating, faintness and trembling.Among people with the disorder, 75percent said the condition affected their ability to do normal activities. In addition, 69 percent said they didnt want people to think they were crazy, and 58 percent said they were ashamed of their condition.However, when the condition is diagnosed and treated, many reported improvement in their lives. In fact, 59 percent who were receiving treatment said treatment had a positive effect on their ability to have a romantic relationship. In addition, 39 percent who had received treatment said knowing that treatment can be successful aided their decision to get help.63.A person with social anxiety disorder is likely to _.A. suffer sudden loss of memoryB. avoid making public speechesC. have rich imaginationsD. stick to his own ideas64. _ of social anxiety disorder is (are) not mentioned in the passage.A. The definitionB. The symptomsC. The impactD. The causes65. People with social anxiety disorder think that their fear _.A. is beneficial to healthB. is a normal part of lifeC. is beyond their controlD. can be controlled if necessary66. It can be seen from the last paragraph that treatment of the disorder _.A. can lead to improvement of life quality B. has no positive effect at allC. is not available to most sufferersD. is still at the experimental stage 67. Which of the following is TRUE about social anxiety disorder?A. Some sufferers would rather suffer than face their problem.B. The sufferers throats are closed up as a result of the disorder.C. Most sufferers can lead a normal life despite the disorder.D. The sufferers are in the habit of judging or criticizing others.Section C 8%Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.Have you ever stood up for a pregnant (怀孕)woman? The reason why people dont stand up for pregnant ladies on the b