达州市2015年高中一年级秋季期末检测
英 语 试 题
本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，第Ⅰ卷（选择题）部分，第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）部分，共8页，满分150分，考试时间120分钟.
注意事项：1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题卡上，将条形码贴在答题卡规定的位置上.
2. 选择题必须使用2B铅笔将答案标号填涂在答题卡上对应题目标号的位置上，非选择题用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔书写在答题卡的对应框内，超出答题区书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上的答案无效.
3. 考试结束后，将答题卡收回.
第Ⅰ卷（共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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。每段对话后有一道小题，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 was wrong with the woman?
A. She got a cold. B. She was injured. C. She got a fever.
2. What are the speakers doing?
A. Having dinner. B. Seeing a film. C. Enjoying a concert.
3. How long will the woman have to work in her new job per day？
A. 6 hours. B. 8 hours. C. 10 hours.
4. What are the speakers looking for?
A. A hotel. B. A book. C. A person.
5. What can we know about the woman?
A. She is living in New Zealand.
B. She is learning to ride a horse.
C. She has friends who have lived on farms.
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7题。
6. Why was the man absent yesterday?
A. He got up too late. B. He had a headache. C. He had a stomachache.
7. What did the man have?
A. Some bad food. B. Some medicine. C. Some hot water.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Student and teacher. B. Teacher and parent. C. Parent and student.
9. What can we know about the woman’s daughter?
A. She is smart. B. She is sad. C. She has difficulty in learning.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What would the woman like to do on the new project?
A. Help with the writing.
B. Help with the computer work.
C. Help with the research work.
11. How many people will be in a team?
A. 3. B. 13. C. 30.
12. What does the man ask for before next Monday?
A. A working plan.
B. A working schedule.
C. The woman’s basic background information.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why does the man get up early?
A. He likes walking in the morning.
B. He has to walk to work.
C. He has to walk to catch a bus to work.
14. At what time does the man usually leave home?
A. 6:20 a.m B. 6:40 a.m. C. 7:20 a.m.
15. What do the man and his wife often do in the evening?
A. Reading. B. Walking. C. Watching TV.
16. What’s the man mainly talking about?
A. His everyday work. B. His daily life. C. His special day.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What was Barbara’s upstairs neighbor playing?
A. The piano. B. The guitar. C. The drum.
18. What did the neighbor promise when she complained to him the first time?
A. To stop playing. B. To keep the sound down. C. To play outdoors.
19. What did Barbara take the third time?
A. A baseball bat. B. A tennis racket. C. A big stick.
20. What was the result of the story?
A. The neighbor played louder.
B. The neighbor played lower.
C. The neighbor stopped playing.
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)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．
A
One cold day last winter, Amy and I came home from work to a sick young daughter, and we decided to stay at home for the night. Problem was, we had two tickets to see Miranda July, the performance artist, being interviewed at the Herbst Theatre. We decided to sell them online for $50. One hour before the event, a guy named Joe called me and said he wanted to buy the ticket. Since the time was limited, I told Joe to pay me the next day. Joe seemed touched and we said goodbye.
However, a month later, Joe still didn’t pay me back. Maybe he was having a hard time, I thought. But truth was, Joe seemed to be having a pretty normal time. According to the pictures and messages on his Facebook, he had been playing golf, dancing happily with his friends, and traveling on a boat. But he just refused to answer my calls, or reply to my e-mails or messages. So I tried reaching him with Amy’s phone one night. And he didn’t pick up when I called, but texted（编辑短信） right back, playfully wondering who might be calling him. “You should go to his office.” Amy said. “He would have to give you the money if all his coworkers（同事） were watching.”
But I didn’t want to become a debt collector. My efforts to reach Joe these months had been light and I wanted to keep it that way. There was a rare niceness in that, and I still wanted to keep that balloon in the air, however disappointing it was starting to look. I wanted to believe we could still trust each other.
21. The author and Amy didn’t go to the Herbst Theatre mainly because_______.
A. they needed to care their daughter
B. it was too cold that night
C. they wanted to save some money
D. they were going to be interviewed
22. The author sold his tickets to Joe because_______.
A. it wasn’t a large amount of money
B. it was too late
C. he thought Joe was worth trusting
D. he knew Joe well
23. Why didn’t Joe pay the author back?
A. Because he didn’t want to pay.
B. Because he forgot it.
C. Because he was too busy to pay.
D. Because he was having a tough time.
24. We can infer that the author______.
A. would never trust strangers again
B. still hoped Joe would pay him back
C. might call the police for help
D. would go to Joe’s office to talk to him
B
Joseph Kern, husband and father of two made a surprise stop home from the army to celebrate his daughter’s 2nd birthday.
Sarah Woldoff, Kern’s wife, who is a doctor in Princeton, decided after much discussion to have him come home. “The army no longer has leave, so if you come home you have to pay for it out of pocket,” she told ABC News today, adding, “It was worth every dollar.”
The couple’s first stop Thursday was to surprise their daughters, 3-year-old Estelle and 2-year-old Pearl, at school. “It was great to see Estelle’s face. I think she was a little bit confused and in shock.” Woldoff said. But Pearl obviously didn’t recognize her father and walked right past him.“We were both slightly disappointed with Pearl’s response.” Woldoff said. “She’s so young that she doesn’t have as much of a memory of him as we expected.”
Woldoff had even done more to surprise her mother-in-law. She called up a restaurant and told them about the surprise. She suggested that her husband be the family’s waiter, and the restaurant was “totally on board.” “They gave him a full uniform and kept him in the back,” she said. And when he came out, “My mother-in-law didn’t even realize it was him. We had to point it out.” Woldoff said. “She was in great shock and excited.”
Woldoff said she hopes having the loving reunions（团聚） recorded on video will help her 2-year-old remember them. “I’m really glad we did it the way we did. Pearl’s too little to have the memory of it, but I think Estelle will remember,” Woldoff said. “And it’ll ease the transition（过渡期）. Everyone forgets he has to go back on Tuesday, and it’s really confusing for her on why he has to leave again.”
25. Seeing her father, Pearl_________.
A. was very surprised
B. acted as if he was a stranger
C. recognized him immediately
D. was very happy
26. Kern’s mother didn’t recognize him at first sight because___________.
A. he had changed a lot
B. she had a poor memory
C. he was in waiter’s uniform
D. she hadn’t seen him for long
27. How many persons of the family are mentioned to have been involved in the reunion ?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
28. Which of the following is true?
A. Kern’s sudden return surprised all his family.
B. Kern left the army without permission.
C. Kern was afraid of his wife.
D. Kern had an unpaid leave from the army.
C
A picture of a young boy reading to an orange cat uploaded to Reddit has gone widespread, making a “Book Buddies” program well known. The program makes it possible for children in grades 1-8 to read to homeless cats at The Animal Rescue League of Berks County (Berks ARL) in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
Once children complete five books, they receive a prize like stickers or snacks. According to the shelter’s website: “The program will help children improve their reading skills while also helping the shelter animals. Cats find the rhythmic（有节奏的） sound of a voice very soothing and feel comfortable.”
“Book Buddies” started in August 2013, inspired by a fifth grader named Sean, the 10-year-old son of the shelter’s program coordinator（协调员）Kristi Rodriguez, who was having trouble reading. As Berks ARL Marketing & Communications Director Beth Ireland tells TIME, “We took him to the cat room and said, ‘Why don’t you practice reading here? The cats aren’t going to care if you mess up.”
So far the children have been reading a lot of vampire（吸血鬼）books to the cats, and the cats can be seen showing lots of loving affection towards the children. NewsFeed has come up with some other recommendations: Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots, and the Garfield comic strips.
29. The underlined word “soothing” in Paragraph2 most probably means_______.
A. boring B. exciting C. relaxing D. exhausting
30. From the text we know________.
A. “Book Buddies” was named by Sean
B. Sean had some difficulty in reading
C. Kristi Rodriguez was the founder of “Book Buddies”
D. some famous writers support the “Book Buddies” program
31. Which of the following can be the best title of the text?
A. Cats’ Favorite Books
B. Children’s Best Friends
C. Cats Help Children Read
D. Children Read Books to Cats
D
It’s been recently reported that on average we spend over two hours each day looking at a smartphone. That doesn’t mean making calls, but using apps and browsing the Web. Spend that amount of time staring at anything.
Checking our email in a restaurant, sharing a picture of the food when it arrives, or checking a fact during a conversation only leads to reading more instead of communicating orally. It’s no secret our lives are being affected by our obsession with smartphones. However, never before has this phenomenon been displayed so vividly（生动地） as in the short YouTube film I Forgot My Phone. Though only being online for a few days, it’s already been viewed more than 10.5 million times.
Ironically（讽刺地）, YouTube’s statistics show that the site gets a billion views per day from mobile devices, so a lot of those people watched it on their phones.
The short film, written by and starring actress Charlene deGuzman, shows groups of people in various social situations, most of which are completely attracted by their phones instead of the world around them. It’s depressing（令人沮丧的） because we’ve all seen it, and sad because to a certain degree, we all do it.
32. According to the passage, staring at a smart phone too much can ________.
A. make one lazier to chat with others
B. develop one’s concentration
C. bring more attraction
D. enrich one’s life
33. The underlined part “obsession with” in paragraph 2 can best be replaced by_________.
A. disappointment of B. addiction to
C. independence from D. misunderstanding of
34. By mentioning the YouTube’s statistics, the author wants to _______.
A. warn the people who watched the You Tube film
B. think highly of the YouTube film’s popularity
C. make readers believe the reality of the YouTube film.
D. criticize the people who watched the You Tube film
35. How does the author feel about looking at a smart phone?
A. He’s puzzled. B. He’s surprised.
C. He’s relaxed. D. He’s worried.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分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。
Every college graduate wants to be successful in their first job-interview. The following tips may help.
●Control your smile
Too much smiling in a job interview shows nervousness and a lack of confidence. 36 , which will quickly be discovered by the interviewer. Instead, be thoughtful and pleasant. Smile when there’s something to smile about.
●Avoid sweating
You can lose a job by wearing an undershirt or simply a little too much clothing. Sweat(流汗)will be seen as a sign of weakness and nervousness. 37 .
●Don’t be a small-talker
Your job is to be well informed about the company for which you’re being interviewed. Chatting about last night’s TV series or your favorite blog will not get you the job. Never feel you have to fill an interview with small talk. 38 . If you are not sure what to say, it’s better to keep silent.
● 39
Studies show that employees lie frequently in the workplace. Lying won’t get you a job. Never stretch（夸大）your resume（简历）or think too highly of your achievements. 40 , and the skilled interviewer will immediately show you the door.
A. Be honest
B. Don’t make jokes
C. A smiley-face person looks false
D. One lie can end your entire interview
E. A well-mannered person is always welcome
F. The job interview is one place you definitely don’t want to be hot
G. Find ways to talk about serious subjects related to the industry or company
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）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。
When I was 15, my mother passed away. I found a box full of papers in her bedroom, inside which was a 41 , reading, “Dearest Andrew, I’m sorry to have 42 a secret for so long, but there was never a(an) 43 time to tell you.” As I read on, I 44 not only that I was adopted（收养）but that, as a newborn baby, I had been 45 on a doorstep. Along with the letter was my adoption paperwork----“Mother: unknown. Father: unknown.” It was a great shock and these 46 as well as my mother’s death were too much for me to 47 .
In my memory, my adoptive father died when I was eight. 48 , my mother made sure I could have a 49 home. And now a huge puzzle hung over me. I didn’t do anything about 50 my birth parents for 15 years. Finally, however, I was so 51 that I started to research my 52 and went on Scottish local television news, hoping that it would lead somewhere. 53 , a man called Ronnie contacted the TV station, saying I 54 him of his father, who had died two years before. We met up and arranged a DNA test.
The results were 55 ---Ronnie was my half-brother. It was a very happy moment for me, meeting a blood relation after having grown up as an only 56 . Most 57 , Ronnie 58 some of the gaps in my past. Now I don’t feel any 59, because I still don’t know 60 I was abandoned. Instead, I feel unique.
41. A. secret B. letter C. note D. message
42. A. lost B. forgotten C. kept D. known
43. A. right B. exact C. free D. extra
44. A. regretted B. cried C. remembered D. discovered
45. A. born B. abandoned C. sold D. tied
46. A. souvenirs B. belongings C. experiences D. findings
47. A. accept B. refuse C. suffer D. avoid
48. A. Similarly B. Thankfully C. Unusually D. Unfortunately
49. A. special B. new C. lonely D. loving
50. A. caring B. complaining C. seeking D. visiting
51. A. anxious B. curious C. embarrassed D. enthusiastic
52. A. history B. body C. result D. life
53. A. Strangely B. However C. Amazingly D. Unexpectedly
54. A. warned B. informed C. impressed D. reminded
55. A. positive B. terrible C. different D. disappointing
56. A. sister B. son C. brother D. daughter
57. A. probably B. frequently C. hardly D. importantly
58. A. took over B. broke up C. filled in D. fell into
59. A. sadness B. loneliness C. confidence D. happiness
60. A. when B. where C. how D. why
第Ⅱ卷（共50分）
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 A neighborhood watch is a group 61 (build)by volunteers to help prevent crime in their neighborhood. They do this by keeping an eye 62 their neighbors’ households, patrolling(巡逻)the streets and contacting the police when they see suspicious(可疑的)activities.
Neighborhood watches have 63 long history. However, they 64 (introduce) to modern American cities only after the public was frightened to hear how a woman was killed in New York, while a number of people 65 (stand) by did nothing.
66 (recent) Neighborhood watches have been the focus of strong criticism(批评)after a neighborhood watchman in Sanford shot to death a black teenager, 67 was on his way home from a local store last month. The shooting has led to a new 68 （suggest) that neighborhood watchmen should not carry guns while on patrol. Many neighborhood watch committees 69 (be) against it, saying that it will discourage volunteers from patrolling more 70 (danger) districts.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
注意：将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Sam,
How are things going? I’m writing for you for help. A few days ago my neighbor asks me to help her kid to learn English. I agreed immediately, as it’s her dream to become an English teacher. I want to do the job good to improve myself. As to the taught plan, firstly, I think it’s important to gain basic knowledge in the teaching textbooks. Next, it’s good idea to read English novels and watching English movies. It’s also helpful to speak English as many as possible. I would appreciate for it if you could give me some advices.
Yours, Li Hua
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
某英文报社向中学生发起寒假征文，请根据以下要点和你的思考完成一篇应征短文。
1. 学习、作息计划；
2. 活动安排；
3. 对玩手机及一些成人娱乐活动的认识或态度。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。
4. 参考语汇：打麻将—play mahjong
As the first semester of my senior high is coming to an end, I’m expecting a relaxing winter vacation and a happy Spring Festival.
