1、北京四中 2005-2006 学年高一第二学期期末英语试卷及答案 总分 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟 第一卷(共 115 分) 第一部分：听力能力测试（30 分，略） 第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分 45 分) 第一节 单项填空(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分) 从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的正确答案，并在答题纸上将该项 涂黑。 21. Where can I tie the horse? Oh, you can tie it to _ of the trees. A. both B. every C. each D. either 22. L
2、ets _ to clean the house. Its too dirty. A. set about B. set out C. set off D. set down 23. _ is mentioned above, the number of the students in senior high school is increasing. A. As B. It C. That D. What 24. _ this text can be used for listening has not been decided yet. A. Which B. If C. Whether
3、D. As 25. Thank you for your help. _. Good luck. A. With pleasure B. Yes C. My pleasure D. No 26. Your shoes are _. A. where they were B. the place you put C. in the corner that you put D. there where they are 27. I like _ of the two films, for this is _ than that one. A. both； not more interesting
4、B. either； no more interesting C. neither； no more interesting D. either, not more interesting 28. _ turn color and fall to the ground is a sign of winter. A. That leaf B. That leaves C. Those leaf D. Those leaves 29. It was fine yesterday. _. And a very nice day for fishing, isnt it? A. So it was B
5、. It is so C. So it is D. So is it 30. Mrs. White found her husband surrounded by letters and papers and _ very worried. A. look B. looks C. looking D. to look 31. Workers in this factory are paid _ the day. A. on B. in C. by D. with 32. He will be late _ he can catch the 10:30 train. A. if B. as if
6、 C. if not D. even if 33. The dictionary still _ where I _ it a moment ago. A. lies； laid B. lied； lay C. laid； laid D. lies； lay 34. I like the book _ by Tom. A. written B. be written C. writing D. to write 35. Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone _ to the system,
7、so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out. A. adding B. to have added C. to add D. added 第二节 完形填空(共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 30 分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可 以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。 Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on television. The new
8、s was about a 36 for scientific discoveries. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, 37 something that caught my 38 . “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the age of twenty-five and thirty.” Being a little over thirty myself, I wanted to 39 with him. Nobody wants to think
9、 that he is past the age of making any 40 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 41 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was right. First I looked at some of the 42 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 43 that bodies of dif
10、ferent weight 44 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 45 his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, 46 of that. Yet I wondered if those “best years” were true in other 47 . Then
11、how about 48 ? Surely it needed the wisdom of 49 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 50 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 51 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age?
12、 Twenty-six. But why dont best years come after thirty? After thirty, I 52 most people do not want to take risks or try new ways in their lives. Then I thought of those famous people 53 Shakespeare and Picasso. The former one was writing wonderful 54 at the late age of fifty, 55 the latter was still
13、 trying new ways of painting when he was ninety! 36. A. program B. prize C. conference D. report 37. A. said B. announced C. explained D. studied 38. A. mind B. care C. attention D. surprise 39. A. disagree B. talk C. meet D. advise 40. A. chance B. discovery C. research D. fortune 41. A. happened B
14、. wanted C. succeeded D. managed 42. A. last B. scientific C. oldest D. modern 43. A. found B. proved C. doubted D. showed 44. A. disappear B. move C. meet D. fall 45. A. invented B. developed C. published D made 46. A. plenty B. enough C. much D. all 47. A. fields B. science C. course D. ages 48. A
15、. election B. politics C. leaders D. society 49. A. age B. brain C. living D. leadership 50. A. finished B. won C. started D. defeated 51. A. led B. devoted C. began D. gave up 52. A. guess B. know C. believe D. agree 53. A. as B. to be C. like D. about 54. A. paintings B. idioms C. poems D. works 5
16、5. A. when B. while C. who D. after 第三部分：阅读理解(共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题 纸上将该项涂黑。 A A special laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have discovered
17、that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, although in ordinary life a person may remember none or only one of his dreams. While the subjectsusually studentssleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. S
18、urprisingly, all subjects sleep soundly. Observers report that a person usually fidgets(烦躁不安) before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine shows that the dream is over, a buzzer wakens th
19、e sleeper. He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleepperhaps to dream some more. Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have d
20、isappeared. 56. According to the passage, researchers at the University of Chicago are studying _. A. contents of dreams B. dreamers while they dream C. the meaning of dreams D. the progress of sleeping 57. Their finding has discovered that _. A. everyone dreams every night B. dreams are easily reme
21、mbered C. dreams are likely to be frightening D. one person dreams only one dream a night 58. The machines being used in the experiment record _. A. the depth of sleep B. the subjects brain waves and eye movements C. how many dreams a person has D. what a sleeper dreams during his sleep 59. A person
22、 would be most likely to remember the dream that _. A. was of most interest to him B. occurred immediately after he went to sleep C. occurred just before he woke up D. was the longest one to him B Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public pl
23、aces that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants(居民) of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become angry and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the countrys economy. It is important to think about the p
24、eople of a destination(目的地) country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance health and happiness of local inhabitants. Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave
25、 other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the countrys economy can suffer. On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, first-class roads, and
26、 other support facilities(设 施) needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourist hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money. Building a hotel is just a beginning. There m
27、ust be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers(阴沟) to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost. 60. Which of the following has most probab
28、ly been discussed in the paragraph that goes before the passage? A. It is not important to develop tourism. B. Building roads and hotels is important. C. Support facilities are highly necessary. D. Planning is of great importance to tourism. 61. Too much tourism can cause all these problems except _
29、. A. a bad effect on other industries B. a change of the customs of the country C. air and water pollution D. pressure on traffic 62. Not enough tourism can lead to _. A. the fact that some people may be out of work B. an increase in tourist attractions C. the higher cost of support facilities D. a
30、rise in price and a fall in pay 63. The word “handle” in the last paragraph most probably means _. A. carry away B. pick up C. get in D. take down C It is only during the last few years that man has generally realized that in the world of nature a balance exists between all forms of life. No living
31、thing can exist by itself. It is part of a system in which all forms of life are joined together. If we change one part of the nature order, this will almost certainly bring about changes in some other part. The cutting of forests reduced the supply of oxygen. The killing of weeds and insects by che
32、micals led to the wide-spread poisoning of animals and birds. The throwing of waste products into the ocean hurt life in the sea, while waste gases changed the chemical balance of the atmosphere and shut out some of the suns necessary life-giving rays. And so we could go on adding more examples unti
33、l in despair(绝望) we might feel like giving up the struggle to control these harmful human activities. Man is very clever at changing the world around him to satisfy his immediate needs, but he is not so clever at looking far ahead, or at thinking about what the future results of his action might be.
34、 Man may well destroy himself because of his silly action. 64. The first paragraph tells us that _. A. all living things in nature depend on each other B. everything in nature cant exist without the help of man C. man has known the importance of the balance of nature for a long time D. no living thi
35、ng can live naturally 65. In the second paragraph the examples given are used to prove that _. A. all forms of life belong to a system in which all the parts can be changed for one another B. it is only during the last few years that man has generally known the balance of nature C. there are some li
36、ving things which can exist by themselves without change D. we cant change one form of life without destroying the balance of nature 66. The last paragraph suggests that in order to get his immediate benefits(利益) _. A. man is always anxious to control his activities within limits B. man is always to
37、o eager in planning for distant future C. man often fails to think about their future results of his action D. man often feels that he will have to give up in despair 67. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Cutting down woods does little harm to human beings. B. Man has to pa
38、y much more attention to the future results of his present action. C. Oxygen comes from forests. D. The passage tells us to try our best to get as much as possible immediately. D Scientists used to explore on the surface of the ocean. Now they are exploring below the surface, too. They want to know
39、about ocean water and the plant and animal life deep in the ocean. In 1934 the scientist William Beebe dived 3,000 feet below the surface in a hollow steel ball. In 1935 August Piccard dived 10, 330 feet. In 1960 his son Jean dived to a depth of 35,800 feet. All these early dives were deep. But the
40、divers could not stay down for very long. They had to come back up to the surface after a few seconds. Scientists needed to stay down longer to study life below the surface. Gradually they succeeded. Cousteau, a Frenchman, was able to keep men down to a depth of 36 feet for one month and to a depth
41、of 90 feet for a week. Now scientists are developing even better equipment. With this new equipment, men can stay below the surface for days or even weeks. In 1962 Cousteau set up a research station 35 feet below the surface. Then in 1964 he set up another station on the ocean floor of the Red Sea.
42、This was the first undersea station to operate without help from the surface. Many countries are now studying undersea living things. The former Soviet Union had an undersea laboratory in the Crimean Sea. The United States has a laboratory 50 feet down on the ocean floor off the Virgin Islands. In 1
43、970 five men lived there for two weeks. Then a team of five women scientists stayed in the laboratory. Next came other teams of men. All were there to explore the ocean depths and to make plans for the use of its resources. Scientists hope to find enough mineral, vegetable, and animal wealth there t
44、o provide food for the entire world. 68. In order to _, scientists are exploring below the surface of the ocean. A. know about the ocean water deep in the ocean B. know about the plant and animal life deep in the ocean C. stay down longer to study life of the plant and animal below the surface D. bo
45、th A and B 69. Who made the deepest dive? A. August Piccard B. Cousteau C. Jean Piccard D. William Beebe 70. Who set up the first undersea station? A. A Frenchman B. An American C. A Russian D. The passage made no mention 71. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Nobody can sta
46、y below the surface of the ocean. B. The early divers could not stay below the surface of the ocean for very long. C. The purpose of setting up the undersea laboratories is to make plans for the use of the resources in the ocean. D. Up to now only five women scientists have stayed in the undersea la
47、boratory. E I gave my housekeeper an old pair of trousers to wash and went into the reading room to read. My housekeeper usually examined my pockets before she washed anything, but for some reason she failed to do so this time. As I was reading I suddenly remembered that there was a ten-pound note i
48、n the back pocket of the t rousers I had given her to wash. I dropped my book right away and rushed to the bathroom. But it was too late. My housekeeper told me that my trousers had been in the washing machine for ten minutes! I had the machine stopped working at once and pulled my trousers as quickly as I could. I nearly burnt my fingers when I tried to unbutton(解开钮扣) my back pocket. To my great disappointment, I discovered that it had already become a piece of white paper. I stood there, glaring at my housekeeper in silence until she began to cry, begging me to pardon her
