loading湖北省武汉外国语学校2013-2014学年高一下学期期中考试
英语试题
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。
例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡ 19.15． B. ￡ 9.15． C. ￡ 9.18． 答案：B 1. What does the woman think of the book?
A. It’s too long. B. It’s attractive. C. It’s hard to understand. 2. What is the man trying to do?
A. To make an apology. B. To make a decision. C. To make a suggestion. 3. What does the woman suggest?
A. Leaving early for the airport.
B. Checking the flight schedule the next morning. C. Listening to the weather forecast the next morning. 4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Boss and secretary. C. Husband and wife.
5. Why is the man moving to London?
A. He has got a job there. B. He runs a company there.
C. He prefers to live in a big city.
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. How long will it take the man to ride a 10-mile distance?
A. About half an hour. B. About an hour. C. About two hours.
7. How does the woman go to work?
A. By train. B. On foot. C. By bike.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How old was probably the man when he got his PhD?
A. 18. B. 26. C. 28.
9. When did the man begin his research on the cancer drug? A. When he got a job in a medical lab. B. When he worked at a medical company.
C. When he was in the process of getting his PhD degree.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What do we know about the woman? A. She is smart.
B. She is actually very young. C. She is familiar with the young man.
14. Why does the woman refuse to give a bottle of Scotch to the man? A. She is too frightened to do so. B. She knows the man is younger than 21. C. She intends to find out more about the man. 15. What will the woman tell the police about the man? A. The man’s appearance.
B. The man’s name and address. C. The man’s drive experiences.
16. What is the possible ending of the story? A. The police arrive in no time.
B. The young man gives up robbing the woman.
C. The woman fights against the man and wins at last. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Which of the following hobbies is NOT mentioned? A. Collecting coins. A. $215.
B. Collecting stamps. C. Collecting phones. B. $250.
C. $275.
C. Model airplanes. C. Money.
18. How much is the man’s coin collection worth? 19. What does the speaker’s youngest brother collect? A. Matchboxes. A. Inspiration.
B. Stamps. B. Pleasure.
20. What do most people want to get from their hobbies? 第二部分：词汇知识运用(共两节，满分30分)
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 例：To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their _____ and weaknesses． A. strengths B. benefits C. techniques D. values 答案：A 21. In _______ Chinese culture, marriage decisions were often made by parents for their children,
which definitely doesn't work now. A. historic
B. remote
C. traditional
D. initial
22. Sorry, she went out with her friends for singing Karaoke yesterday. My daughter's fault of
being unable to ________ anything prevents her making progress. A. persist on for Europe. A. request
B. inquire
C. acquire
D. require
24. Milk is especially ________ to temperature changes, so put it on a shelf as close to the
bottom as it will fit. A. sensitive
B. positive
C. sentimental
D. sensible
25. You should have locked your gold necklace away at the hotel’s safety box. If you had read
your key card carefully, you would have realized that we _______ warned you to do so. A. especially
B. constantly
C. specially
D. extensively
26. For all the contemporary problems cars bring, no one can deny the convenience cars bring
us and ignore the ________ we make to solve these problems. A. act
B. behaviour
C. doings
D. effort
27. Why does the _______ of sheets wake us up on some nights, but we sleep through the sound
of our alarm clocks going off on others? A. rumble
B. rustle
C. splash
D. whisper
28. He started by telling her that her staff member Gabe Zimmerman died, which caused her
to ______ and cry in a wave of emotion. A. moan
B. snuffle
C. muffle
D. creak
B. insist on
C. resist on
D. stick to
23. I'll have to _______ if there's suitable container space available for shipment next month
29. People can see objects because they _____ the light that strikes them, reflecting some of
it back to the eye. A. thump done. A. in vain
B. in response
C. in relation
D. in attempt
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
More than thirty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. I met people whose lives amazed me, made me ____31____ and weep. But none touched me more than a woman I ____32____ up late one August night. was responding to a call in a quiet part of town. When I arrived at 2：30 am, the building was ____33____ except for a single light in a ground floor window. I walked to the door and ____34____.
The door opened. A small woman in her 80s ____35____ before me. By her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the ____36____， and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked ____37____ toward the cab. She kept ____38____ me for my kindness. When we got in the cab, she gave me a(n) ____39____ and asked, “Can you drive through downtown？”
For the next two hours, we drove ____40____ the city. She showed me the building where she had ____41____ worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived ____42____ they were newlyweds. She ____43____ me pull up in front of a house that had once been a ballroom where she had gone ____44____ as a girl. Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building and would sit ____45____ into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the day ____46____， we got to the address she had given me. It was a hospice (临终关怀医院). Two orderlies came out to the cab as ____47____ as we pulled up. They must have been ____48____ her. I took the small suitcase to the door.
“You gave an old woman a little moment of ____49____，”she said. “Thank you.” I squeezed her hand, then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the ____50____ of a life. I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. 31．A. cry 32．A. put
B．laugh
C．shout
C. held C. dark
D．speak
D. picked D. tall D．beat D. smiled
B. took
B. drench
C. scatter
D. gasp
30. In this post, we will take at broad look at the problem ________ to figure out what can be
33．A. bright B. light
34．A. asked B. knocked 35．A. stood B. sat 36．A. cab 37．A. slowly
B．fast B. house
C. struck C. lay C. building
D. street
D. taking D. money
C. hurriedly D. quickly C. thanking C. book
38．A. asking B. looking 39．A. address B .letter
40．A. over B. above 41．A. always B. never 42．A. then B. when
43．A. asked B. wanted 44．A. dancing B. singing 45．A. staring B. glaring 46．A. rose 47．A. long 48．A. waiting
B. raised B. far
B. expecting
C. through C. hardly
C. because C. drawing C. seeing C. broke C. well
C. looking
D. towards D. once D. although D. had D. playing D. watching D. caught D. soon D. inspecting D. sorrow D. closing
C. promised
49．A. joy B. rest C. sadness
50．A. welcoming B．opening C．beginning 第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分) 上将该项涂黑。
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阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡
Mark Eklund was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minn. He was neat in appearance, but had that happy－to－be－alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness (恶作剧) delightful. Mark liked talking. I had to remind him again and again that talking without permission was not acceptable. What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving: “Thank you for correcting me, sister！”
One day in class, I asked pupils to list the names of the other students on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that student. On Monday I gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. Several years later, after I returned from vacation, my father met me at the airport. “Mark was killed in the war，” he said.“ The funeral is tomorrow, and his parents would like it if you could attend.”
I had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin (军用棺材) before. As I stood there, Mark's father said, “We want to show you something. They found this on Mark when he was killed.” He took a wallet out of his pocket.
Opening the billfold (皮夹), he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. I knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which I had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
“Thank you so much for doing that，” Mark's mother said. “As you can see, Mark treasured it.”
That's when I finally sat down and cried. I cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.