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2015-2016学年度下学期有色一中期中考试英语试卷（高二） 第卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分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. how much should the mans rent be?a. $500.b. $150. c. $125.2. what will the woman probably think of the man?a. he used to be an excellent athlete.b. he is a real sportsman.c. he is a sports fan.3. what has the man been doing?a. filling out a form. b. having an interview c. asking for information.4. what do we know about the woman?a. she is too busy to go. b. shes willing to go swimming.c. she doesnt want to wait long.5. what does the woman mean?a. its terrible to go abroad alone.b. it doesnt matter if the man is not good at english.c. the man should improve his english.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、7题。6. what is the woman going to be?a. a cook. b. a teacher. c. a doctor.7. how long will the woman work every day?a. 8 hours. b. 5 hours. c. 4 hours.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. what are the speakers talking about?a. an exam. b. an interview. c. a writing contest.9. how are they feeling at the moment?a. pretty happy. b. very sad. c. a little confused.10. which part did they both find difficult?a. the oral self-introduction.b. the essay. c. the imitation writing.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. what will diana do this afternoon?a. go to class.b. attend a lecture c. write an essay.12. what do we know about dr. rich?a. he teaches english culture.b. hes been absent three times. c. hes very strict.13. what does mike say about the business communication course?a. there is not much course work to do.b. he has already handed in three essays.c. he has a 3000-word term paper to write.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. what are the speakers talking about?a. how much money they spend on meals.b. the changes of the food service in the school.c. the changes of food in the dining hall.15. what does the man think of the changes?a. he doesnt like them.b. students will benefit from the changes.c. he cant understand them as they are too complicated.16. what plan did tom choose to buy?a. a seven-meal plan.b. a ten-meal plan.c. a fourteen-meal plan.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. where do people believe the left hand is unclean?a. in malaysia. b. in pakistan. c. in indonesia.18. when might elderly westerners be offended?a. when others try to help them without their agreement.b. when others teach them new things.c. when others ask them too many questions.19. why dont italians give handkerchiefs as gifts?a. handkerchiefs mean saying goodbye.b. handkerchiefs are used in funerals.c. handkerchiefs are connected with unhappy feelings.20. whom might the talk be addressed to?a. people who are going abroad.b. guests from all over the world.c. those who will work for an international conference.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）acleverness is a gift while kindness is a choicegifts are easytheyre given after allchoice can be hardi got the idea to start amazon 16 years agoi came across the fact that the internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per yearid never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast，and the idea of building all online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. i had just turned 30 years old，and id been married for a yeari told my wife mackenzie that i wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldnt work since most start-ups dont and i wasnt sure what to expectmackenzie told me i should go for itas a young boy，id been a garage inventorid always wanted to be all inventor，and she wanted me to follow my passion i was working at a financial firm in new york city with a bunch of very smart people and i had a brilliant boss that i much admiredi went to my boss and told him i wanted to start a company selling books on the internethe took me on a long walk in central park，listened carefully to me，and finally said，“that sounds like a really good idea，but it would be an even better idea for someone who didnt already have a good job”that 1ogic made some sense to me，and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decisionseen in that light,it really was a difficult choice，but finally，i decided i had to give it a shoti didnt think id regret trying and failingand i suspected i would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.after much consideration ，i took the less safe path to follow my passion ，and im proud of that choicefor all of us，in the end，we are our choice 21what inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore? ahis dream of being an inventor bthe support of his wifecthe greatly increasing usage of the internet dmillions of exciting titles,22which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence? ahe would be very excited if he tried it outbthe idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him che would be always having a doubt if he didnt trydthe decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him23 which of the following would be the best title for the passage? acleverness and kindness bthe starting of amazon cfollowing my passion dwe are what we choosebsix volunteers are about to find out what it would be like to live on mars without ever leaving the earth. three men and three women will spend eight months living in a special place on the side of a volcano in hawaii. they are part of an experiment that is designed to mimic(模仿)life on mars. their mission began on october 15, 2014.nasa says it could send astronauts to mars as early as the 2030s. the mission would take more than two years, so nasa needs to know how people would react to living in a small group, isolated from the rest of the world, for such a long time. some people may become depressed or bored living under those conditions. by studying people living in similar conditions here on earth, nasa hopes to learn how to choose the most suitable people for a space mission, and how to help them get along.they will live in a two-story building. the ground floor is about 86 square meters, roughly the size of a small two-bedroom apartment. it includes shared areas like kitchen, dining room, bathroom, laboratory and an exercise room. the upstairs is less than half the size of the downstairs. it contains another bathroom and six small bedrooms. the building is located in an abandoned quarry(采石场)about 2,400 meters up the side of mauna loa, the second biggest volcano in the world. it is constantly monitored for signs of volcanic activity. nasa chose the location because the appearance looks very similar to mars.to make it more like being on mars in the future, they are only able to communicate by email during the experiment. meanwhile, there will be a 20-minute delay between the time when a message is sent and that when it is received. when they go outside, they will have to suit up in full spacesuits, just as if they were on mars.the commander is martha lenio, a 34-year-old canadian. during the mission, she will run experiments on growing food. the other members have backgrounds in physics and so on. none of them are astronauts.24when will the six volunteers end their mission about mimicking life on mars? a. on june 15, 2015.b. on october 15, 2015.c. on october 15, 2030.d. on june 15, 2032.25whats the main purpose of the experiment? a. to monitor signs of volcanic activity.b. to prepare for a space mission to mars.c. to train the six people to become astronauts.d. to study the difference between men and women.26mauna loa was chosen as the experimental site because _.a. it is located near a rocket baseb. other people can hardly find the locationc .its landscape is so much like that of marsd .it is a safe place to conduct the experiment27what can be inferred from the passage? a. martha is a famous expert on agriculture.b. the six volunteers will be sent to mars in 2030.c. all the experimental activities are done in doors.d. it takes about 40 minutes to get a reply to an email.cthe days of the hunter are almost over in india. this is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive. some people say that man is naturally a hunter. i disagree with this view. surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.i believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. there are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. i can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.the greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. one of them wrote:“you must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animals own territory. you must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. this is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals. hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”i can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail. but this is very different from many tiger-shoots i have seen, in which modern weapons were used. the so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.28. there is no more hunting in india now partly because _.a. there are few animals left to huntb. hunting is already out of datec. hunters want to protect animalsd. it is dangerous to hunt there29. the author thinks modern hunters kill mainly _.a. to make the countryside safeb. to earn peoples admirationc. to gain power and influenced. to improve their health30. what do we learn about the big-game hunters? a. they hunt old animals.b. they mistreat animals.c. they hunt for food.d. they hunt for money.31. what is the authors view on the tiger-shoots he has seen? a. modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face.b. modern hunters should use more advanced weapons.c. modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers.d. modern hunters should put their safety first.d a child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. it is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, thats much better. a charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. to prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. as to fears, there are, i think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. often, however, this arises from the child who has heard the story once. familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.there are also people who are opposed to fairy stories in that they are not true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. i find such people, i must say so strange that i do not know how to argue with them. if their cases were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from new york to philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.no fairy story has ever claimed to be description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.32. the author considered that a fairy story is more effective _.a. when a story is repeated without any changeb. when we treat a story as a jokec. when the parent makes some changes about a storyd. when the story is set in the present time33. according to the passage, when can great fear take place in a child? a. when a story is in a realistic setting.b. when a story is heard for the first time.c. when a story is repeated too often.d. when a story is told in a different way.34. what is the advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children?a. encouraging them not to have strange beliefs.b. developing their power of memory.c. making them believe there is nothing to be afraid of.d. making them less fearful35. the authors mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _.a. fairy stories are still being made upb. there is some misunderstanding about fairy talesc. people try to update old fairy storiesd. there is more concern for childrens fears nowadays第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 根据短文内容，从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。annoying mobile phone userswhat really annoys me most about modern life is the way some people use their mobile phones. 36_however, there are some people out there who just dont care about other peoples feeling when they use a phone. these mobile phone users make life painful for the rest of us. lets divide these users into groups. the first group are those people who shout on the phone, especially in enclosed places like trains or lifts. 37_ it isnt necessary. 38 some ringtones are truly unpleasant- a loud, electronic version of beethoven with a hip hop beat, for example. this is especially annoying in the cinema. the third group of people who annoy me are those who have to walk around while they speak. 39. finally, the worst group are people who take a phone call while you are in a conversation with them. this is extremely rude in my opinion. i would like to end with a message to all the above mobile phone users: you think you look cool and important talking on your mobile all the time. 40_a but believe me- you dont!b next are those with annoying ringtones.c i dont know why they have to talk so loudly.d this group of people keep talking on the phone.e i have no idea where they get the noisy ringtonesf they stand in the way just when you want to get past.g the mobile phone is an important part of life for most of us.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）my emotional (感人的) experience in jaipuri came to india in february 2012 to complete a volunteer practicum(实习课) requirement with some friends. it was really an unforgettable experience!before we set off, i thought it would be a hard job, 41that i could not adapt to the poor living conditions. after arriving in jaipur, we went straight to the hotel that the center had42for us; a relief to us as we were tired from the 43. during the following days we were 44to the city and had hindi lessons with our guide ravi.on our fourth day in jaipur we were taken to the head office. there we were45for the child development program and over the course we 46two studies related to child work and child rights. we focused on the experiences of the children who were working and the 47that pushed them into work. the experience was entirely new for me and i learned so much through the 4 8. the best part of the work, however, was 49 being in the communities and interacting with the children and their parents. i was 50to a way of life completely different from my own. in spite of the poor living situations, people in jaipur were 5 1. we found that the parents communicated openly with each other and they were always 52to share their own thoughts and feelings with their children. i could 53that people in jaipur have positive relationships with their family and community members. talking with the people there and hearing their stories was something that had a strong effect on my worldview, continuing to 54how i understand everything around me now. i have been 55by the people that i met through this experience.on the weekends i spent time in jaipur, 56the city and shopping. we were57enough to be there during holi, an exciting and colorful celebration in february end or early march in india! we really 58every minute of the life in jaipur!generally, m