上海市行知中学高一英语上学期期末考试试卷(宝山区统考)

上海市行知中学

2014-2015

学年高一英 语上学期期末考试试卷（宝山

区统考）

第

I

卷

(

共

75

分

)

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A (10%)

Directions: 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 on your paper, and decide

which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. Allen is still in bed. B. Allen fell ill last week.

C. The woman is Allen’s sister. D. The man is Allen’s brother.

2. A. He is a writer.

C. He is a worker.

B. He is a student.

D. He is a tour guide.

3. A. The woman doesn’t know the man.

B. The woman and the man are friends.

C. The man is very familiar with the women.

D. The man often talks with women.

4. A. The woman bought too many shirts.

B. The woman bought all the shirts in the store.

C. He wanted to see what the woman bought.

D. He didn

’

t like the style of the shirts.

5. A. In Chicago.

B. In Boston. C. In Washington. D. In Manchester.

6. A. He is very shy.

B. He is open-minded.

C. He is brave.

D. He is modest.

7. A. No news is good news. B. The man

’

s family has forgotten him.

C.

The

woman

works

in

the

post

office. D.

The

man

expects

to

hear

from

his

family.

8. A. He wants to play tennis outdoors. B. He feels tired and sick.

C. He doesn’t want to play tennis.

D. He wants to play basketball instead.

9. A. Kim should study up late for the exam.

B. Kim should be well rested for the exam.

C. Kim will get some fresh air in the morning.

D. Kim will be the top student in the exam.

10. A. The woman will rent the house.

B. The woman likes the house very much.

C. The woman is not satisfied with the house.

D. The woman will buy the house.

Section B(6%)

Directions:

In

Section

B,

you

will

hear

one

short

passage,

and

you

will

be

asked

three

questions on the passages. The passage 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. The second Monday of every month.

B. The Monday when the sky is blue.

C. The day when people have to stop weekend to work.

D. The day that most of the people feel blue.

12. A. Jobs make people get money and social identity.

B. Jobs can only offer people a lot of money.

C. Jobs make people be busy every day.

D. Jobs let people know many other new friends.

13. A. How American workers are doing today.

current economic situation.

people say about the government.

D. The history of work in U.S.

Section C (4%)

Directions:

In

Section

C,

you

will

hear

a

longer

conversation.

The

conversation

will

be

read

twice.

After

you

hear

the

conversation,

you

are

required

to

fill

in

the

numbered

blanks with the

information you have heard.

Write your answers on your

answer sheet.

Blanks 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.

Relieve Pressure

How is John

The reason caused stress

Present situation

Solution

He looks pale and __14__.

The manager assigned two __15__ to him.

The deadlines are __16__.

Need someone to __17__to.

Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (15%)

Directions:

After

reading

the

passages

below,

fill

in

the

blanks

to

make

the

passages

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.

A

What’s the frightening situation you can think of? For many people, it’s being

shut somewhere they (18)____ not get out of.

That’s

exactly

(19)

____happened

to

an

American

tourist

who

said,

“it

feels

good

to be free” after he

was locked inside a London bookstore for two hours.

David

Willis

had

been

using

the

Internet

inside

the

Waterstones

store

in

Trafalgar

Square, London, UK

（

< br>20

）

____ he found that he had been shut inside, according to

Sky News.

He tried

（

21

）

____(get) out but failed, and it was only after posting messages

on Twitter, a social network, that he < /p>

（

22

）

___ _( release).

After he had

spoken to the police but still not been released, he posted: “Hi

Waterstones, < /p>

I

（

23

）

____(lock)

inside

of

your

Trafalgar

Square

bookstore

for

two

hours

now. Please let me out.”

It got the attention of thousands of Internet users. The police arrived at

（< /p>

24

）

____ store, and they finally let him out just after 11 pm on Thursday.

After

he

was

released,

he

posted

another,

（< /p>

25

）

____(simple)message:

“I’m

free.”

B

Google

has

begun

testing

the

electric

car

in

Mountain

View,

California.

The

car

does

not

have

all

the

normal

car

controls.

Instead,

it

has

a

smartphone

app

that

calls

it

and

tells

（

26

）

_____the

destination,

and a STOP button between the two seats in case the

passengers need to override the computer.

The company’s co

-founder, Sergey Brin, says that they want to change the world

for people (27)_____ do not find it easy to travel around. The cars have been built

specially by a companyin Detroit. Google will now test the cars, (28)______ are not

yet for sale.

There need to be detailed scans of the roads before the cars can drive on them,

(29)______ theycannot collect and process enough information in real time.

Chris Urmson, director of the driverless carproject at Google, said: “The

cars

will be very they will take you (30)______ you want to go atthe push of

a button. And, that’s an importantstep towards

(31)______(improve) road safety and

helpingmillions of people travel around more easily.”

So far, the driverless carshave driven 700,000 miles without an accidentcaused

by

the

computer.

The

company

says

thatthousands

of

people

die

each

year

on

the

roadsand

that about 80% of crashes are caused (32)______ human mistakes.

Section B (9%)

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. ally

F. struggling

G.

ence

Governments in Europe dream of finding a magicsolution to rising unemployment.

But, in the

poorest parts of the EU, __33__ continuesto rise.

Now, in Sardinia, Italy, a mayor thinks he hasfound an answer to his town’s

unemployment

__34__

. Valter Piscedda, the mayor of Elmas,a small town near Sardinia’s capital,

Cagliari,

wants to pay residents to __35__. The town will payfor ten unemployed local people

to

take

Englishlessons,

get

on

a

cheap

flight

and

look

for

jobs

inother

parts

of

Europe.

“This

__36__

comes from common sense andexperience,” he told the Guardian. “In

the pastyear and a half

–

__37__ in the past fewmonths

–

I have seen young people,

almostevery day, who have lost hope that they will findwork. Some ask for help in

__38__ work

have

tried everything and, now, theywant to

go

and gain work

experience __39__; lifeexperience

, too.”

So he __40__ to help people who want to gainexperience abroad.

Sardinia,

and

also

much

of

southern

and

centralItaly,

is

__41__

with

high

unemployment.

Unemployment

was

at

17.7%

in

the

secondquarter

of

2014,

according

to

Italy’s

NationalInstitute of Statistics. More than 54% of peopleunder 25 are out of work.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (10%)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.

There are about 50,000 mystery shopping trips every month in the UK. Mystery

shopperspretend to be a customer in a store but they are really__42__ information

on the store and how good or bad its service is. The __43__ for mystery shoppers is

growing because online shopping is becoming more popular.

“Retailers

(

零售店

) are becoming increasingly __44__ that shoppers who visit a

physical

store want

a service and an experience

they

can’t get

__45__

,” says Simon

Boydell, spokesman for Marketforce, which has more than 300,000 mystery shoppers.

“Our

customers

want

to

know

how

well

their

__46__

are

delivering

on

that

experience.”

“We assign different store

locations to each shopper and take turns so that they

C. abroad

unemployment

m

g

H.

never __47__ to the same shop w

ithin three months,” says Jill Spencer of mystery

shopping company ABa. “Each day, they spend up to eight hours

__48__ five to ten

stores,

plus

another

hour

or

two

writingdetailed

__49__

on

every

part

of

their

visit.”

For that, the mystery shoppers can ear

n up to ?155 a day. Their expenses are also

paid. Mystery shoppers who film their visits with a __50__ camera can earn even more

–

around ?300 a day.

Mystery

shoppers

are

usually

repaid

any

money

they

spend

in

the

stores

and

may

also

beallowed to __51__ the products they buy.

“I’m always given a specific task, such

as

buying

something

from

a

specific

department

or

a

new

product

range,

but

I

can

often

buy whatever I want

–

and keep it.”says mystery shopper Laura.

42. A. collecting

43. A. foundation

44. A. popular

imaginative

45. A. home

46. A. stores

47.

A. round off

48.

A. staring

49.

A. bills

50.

A. hidden

51.

A. release

B. checking

B. satisfaction

B. aware

C. deleting

C. decision

C. detective

D. downloading

D. demand

D.

B. office

B. customers

B. pass on

B. simplifying

B. reports

B. amused

B. benefit

C. online

D. paid

C. headquarters

D. access

C. get over

D. go back

C. visiting

D. predicting

C. articles

D. diaries

C. renewed

D. displayed

C. keep

D. expand

Section B (15%)

Directions: Read the following three 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

At the end of every British summer I find myself praying for a proper winter,

one that will allow a bit of fun: sledging, snowballing, snowman-

building. I’m not

very

demanding;

I

don’t

need

amazing

downhill

skiing

and

the

Cresta

Run.

What

I

want

is a few days out with the kids. And, much as I like blue skies and sun in summer,

I’d

swap it every time for frozen ponds, a hillside covered in fresh snow and

ice

hanging off the houses. Maddy, 11, wants the same and so, instead of waiting

and hoping, we are going to make sure. We are going to Sweden.

Winter fun in Sweden is a bit more advanced than in most of the UK. They do

snowshoeing,

ice-fishing,

snow

house-building

and

so

on.

They

also

do

lots

of

Father

Christmas

matter,

whi

ch

Maddy

didn’t

want:

“I’m

too

old

for

that

kind

of

nonsense,

Dad.” Above all, what Maddy wanted was

dogs

with puppies. She’s not too old for

that.

We flew to Lulea, a city at the top of the finger of Baltic Sea that reaches out

to the north between Sweden and Finland, almost touching the Arctic Circle, then

transferred, with some other winter-hungry families, to woodland houses by the sea.

There was plenty of snowand ice,

but

the

guides

were

keeping

a

nervous

eye

on

the

instrument

for

measuring

temperature, which was dangerously close to zero.

“Normally, we are 10C below,” said Roger, our guide, who was also handing out

our equipment for the days ahead: snowshoes, boots, gloves and so on. A holiday that

provides all the necessary outfits will save you a fortune.

52.

“I find myself praying for a

proper

winter” because

_________.

A. winter is much more fun than summer

B. I like playing exciting sports in winter

C. I want a few days out with the kids

D. the activities in winter are more demanding

53. What does the

word “swap” mean in paragraph 1?

A. offer B. exchange C. wait D. reject

54. Which best describes our trip to the city Lulea?

A. We did not see any other people except the guides

B. The guides were nervous because of the low temperature

C. We had everything prepared so that we could have a good journey

D. The guides gave us the equipment in order to transfer quickly

B

BRANDON Carter- Chan has the world at his feet.

The

Dannemora

resident

danced

his

way to

victory in

a

number

of individual

performance

groups

at

the

Tauranga Festival of Performing

Arts

last

month.

It’s

one

of the major tap-dancing awards in New Zealand and offers $$1000 in prize money to

the winner.

“I entered because the competition offers a lot of prize money, but also becau

se

it attracts a lot of really good dancers from around the country,” Brandon told the

Times

.

“I really like competing.

-dancing contest, I want to beat good dancers so I can

learn and get better.”

Brandon,

16,

trains

under

tutor

Simon

Watts

at

the

Carter- Chan

Dance

Performance

Centre in East Tamaki, run by his mother Brigid.

Mrs Carter-

Chan says her talented son wasn’t as prepared for the contest in

Tauranga as they would have liked.

“It was a real struggle in a way,” she says.

“Bran

don had worked so hard on his school studies all year and was also quite

sick.

“One of the dances he was doing, a tango, he had to make up the week of the

competition.

“It was a different style to what he’s used to and that put pressure on him

for the senior tap award.

“He was totally out of his comfort zone.”

Brandon is having a highly successful 2014. Brandon has only been competing in

tap-dancing

for

two

years

and

is

also

a

highly

skilled

singer.

He

earned

the

people’s

choice award, voted on by the viewing audience, at the

Xtreme Talent Quest

stage

performance competition for teenagers in Howick in 2012.

The rising star regularly performs in public as a singer and dancer, including

as

a

cast

member

of

the

annual

Coca-Cola

Christmas

in

the

Park

entertainment

showcase.

55. What is Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts probably?

A.

A competition held for tap-dancing lovers or dancers.

B.

A contest where dancers can get a lot of prize money as long as they join in.

C.

The dance centre owned by Brandon’s mom.

D.

A dancing game which only good dancers can sign up for.

56.

Which is probably Brandon’s Mom’s job?

A.

A manager B. A designer C. A judge D. A school teacher.

57. Which does not describe Brandon having the world under his feet?

A.

He was the winner at the Tauranga Festival of Performing Arts.

B.

He earned the people’s choice award.

C.

He

performs

the

annual

Coca-Cola

Christmas

in

the

Park

entertainment

showcase.

D.

He regularly performs in public as a singer and dancer.

C

The Earth’s moon used to have a stronger magnet

ic field(

磁场

). During samples

collected

from

the

Apollo

task,

researchers

claimed

that

the

moon

featured

a

magnetic

field

as

strong

as

70

microteslas(

单位：微特斯拉).

That’s

compared

to

50

microteslas

here on Earth. At present, the moon does not have a global magnetic field.

Benjamin Weiss, the co-

author of the new study, says, “Earth’s magnetic field

is

currently

50

microteslas

in

strength.

The

early

moon

may

have

had

a

magnetic

field

that was bigger, maybe up to more than 70 microteslas.”

Weiss

and

Sonia

Tikoo,

who

had

their

study

published

in

Journal

Sciences,

suggest

that the magnetic field of the moon can be the result of the molten liquid core that

our

satellite

had

taken

for

research.

They

believe

that

planets

and

other

bodies

move

electrically conducting fluids around themselves, thus producing magnetic fields

through a process which they compared to a dynamo(

发电机

). They note that earlier

scientists did not understand whether the moon produced the magnetic field itself

or if it was due to the outside forces.

The group of researchers spent the last six years using new and advanced search

methods in order to find strong signals that the moon might have had a magnetic core

of its own. They believe that if the moon had a similar inner dynamo, it would allow

them to better understand its inside structure and solve a problem scientists have

grappled with for years.

After

several

conducting

studies,

they

could

not

say

why

the

moon

actually

stopped

producing

the

magnetic

field.

Researchers

are

also

still

confused

at

how

such

a

small