1、高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 平度市 2014-2015 学年度第二学期期末考试英语试题第 I 卷（共三部分，115 分）第一部分 听力部分（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 5 个小题；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，从题中所组的 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 many people will have dinner together?A. 2. B.3. C.4.2.
2、What will the man do on Sunday?A. Help the woman to accommodate. B. Eat breakfast with the woman.C. Tell the woman about his daily life.3. Who will go to Toronto?A. The woman. B. The womans brother. C. The man and Ken.4. On which day doesnt the woman like to go shopping?A. On Fridays. B. On Sundays.
3、 C. On Saturdays.5. What does the woman mean?A. She doesnt like that lecture as others do. B. She agrees with the man.C. Everyone in class likes Mr. Lis lecture.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
4、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 does Wang Ling like Mrs. Reads favorite food?A. Very nice. B. Its just so-so. C. Its nothing special.7. What are the two speakers doing?A. Talking about cooking. B. Having a meal. C. Preparing for a picnic.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What do we learn about Bill
5、?A. He just got out of trouble. B. He did something right. C. He enjoyed what he had done.9. What kind of film does the woman prefer?A. Something frightening B. Something educational. C. Something relaxing.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Where does the conversation most likely take place?A. At the recept
6、ion desk of a hotel. B. At the office of a company.C. At the counter of a restaurant.11. What promise does the woman get?A. She can keep her room till two oclock this afternoon.B. She has to leave her room before 12 noon tomorrow.C. She may stay in her room till 2 p.m. tomorrow.12. What time does th
7、e man suggest the woman start off?高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 A. At 2:00 B. At 2:30 C.At 3:00听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where was the man when the blackout happened?A. In his office. B. In the elevator. C. In the bathroom.14. How did he feel at first?A. Very scared. B. Calm. C. A little ner
8、vous.15. What did he do then?A. He slept on the floor until the next morning. B. He walked back home.C. He shouted but no one came to help.16. What did he say about that night?A. It was the most relaxing night in a long time. B. It was the most horrible night of his life.C. It was an interesting exp
9、erience.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What is the talk mainly about?A. An unusual experience. B. A special kind of animal.C. Fun activities in the Yellowstone Park.18. What did the family do first when they got to the park?A. They put up their tent. B. They went exploring. C. They had a rest.19. What
10、was Toms suggestion?A. Waiting patiently for the bear to come out. B. Putting some honey outside the tent.C. Shouting at the bear to drive him away.20. Where did they sleep that night?A. In the tent. B. In the car. C. In a hotel.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、
11、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AEvery month, Julia and her cousins would go to visit their grandparents. They would be excited because their grandfather would give them a few coins. Then they would buy toys or sweets. The grandparents commented that, behaving like this, the children would never learn
12、to manage their money. So they planned a special test, in which the children would have to show, over the course of a year, just what they could manage to get with those few coins.Some thought that they would save their money, but Ruben and Nico continued spending it all on sweets. So they give up s
13、aving.Monty decided to manage his money by exchanging it: buying and selling things, or betting (打赌) it with others. Soon he surprised the whole family. He had accumulated (积聚) lots of money. However, Monty was not very careful, and he got involved in more and more risky deals. A few months later he
14、 became penniless after a losing bet. Alex, had a will of iron. He saved the money and at the end of the year he had collected more money than anyone. Even better, with so much money, he managed to buy sweets at a reduced price, so that on the day of the competition he was presented with enough swee
15、ts for much more than a year. And even then, he still had enough left over for a toy. He was the clear winner, and other children learned the advantages of knowing how to save and how to wait.There was also Julia. Poor Julia didnt enjoy the competition, because even though she had 高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家
16、投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 had a wonderful secret plan, she had spent her money without giving her plan enough time to work. However, she was so sure that her plan was a good one, that she decided to carry on with it, and maybe change the expressions on her relatives faces, who had seemed to be saying “What
17、 a poor girl shel is. She couldnt manage to save anything”.When she was about to complete the second year of her plan, Julia surprised everyone by turning up at the grandparents house with a violin and a lot of money. She did it really well.21. Who saved nothing at the end of the first year?A. Ruben
18、, Julia and Alex B. Ruben, Nico and MontyC. Ruben, Monty and Julia D. Ruben, Nico and Alex22. Why did the grandparents plan a test on the children?A. Because they wanted the children to learn to spend money.B. Because they wanted the children to learn to save money.C. Because they wanted the childre
19、n to learn to manage money.D. Because they didnt want the children to buy toys and sweets any more.23. From Montys story, the children learned _.A. to save and to wait. B. to buy and to sell thingsC. to set a achievable goal. D. to be careful and self-disciplined24. The underlined sentence in the fo
20、urth paragraph means _. A. Julia will bring disasters to herself and her family.B. Julia is not good at managing money.C. Julia is too stupid to do anything well.D. Julia has so many secrets that nobody likes her. BAs weather cools across the United States, a growing number of Americans visit farms.
21、 They harvest fruits, enjoy hay wagon rides and walk in the fields. These people are called “agri-tourists.” They improve the economy of rural areas and help farmers increase their profits.School children are walking in a corn field maze. The corn is cut into tricky passageways that make it difficul
22、t to find a way out. The children are from Yorktown Elementary School in Bowie Maryland. They have traveled to Montpelier Farms in Prince Georges County which is also in Maryland. The farm is about 40 kilometers from The White House.Debbie Pierson is the students teacher. “We go on these kind of fie
23、ld trips so that the children will have a hands-on experience of what its like to be on a farm,” Pierson said.In Loudoun County Virginia, there are farms where grapes are grown for use in making wine. Many of the farms let people visit, and drink the wine that is made there. Bill Hatch owns the Zeph
24、aniah Farm Vineyard. He holds wine tastings in his home. “We are doubling the number of visitors to our farm every year. We have an average of 250 people on a weekend,” Hatch said.As more people visit farms, more farmers are adding activities in which visitors can take part.Malcolm Baldwin owns Weat
25、herLea Farm and Vineyard in Loudoun County. Six years ago, he began letting people be married at his farm. They can also sleep at the farm overnight. Mr. Baldwin says the money he makes from these activities let him keep his small farm operating. “But without the animals, and without the vines, the
26、wedding business wouldnt be as profitable (有利可图的), because people like to see the vines. They like to see the animals and without which I dont think this will be a popular place,” Baldwin said.25. We can infer from the first paragraph that people always go for field trips in _.A. Spring B. Summer C.
27、 Autumn D. Winter26. The underlined word “maze” in the passage is similar to “_”.高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 A. puzzle B. trip C. house D. activity27. On Malcolm Baldwins farms, visitors can _.A. taste the wine made in the USA B. raise and hunt animalsC. do wedding business D. have fun as w
28、ell as bring him moneyCIt was 8:35 am. My girls and I were rushing through the front door of the school as I yelled, “Hurry up! The bell was about to” RIIIIIIIING! The girls froze and their eyes widened. My shoulders sagged(下垂). We were too late.We were often late for school last year, and every tim
29、e we ran breathlessly into the attendance I heard myself making silly excuses to Beth, the long-suffering secretary: our alarm didnt go off; there was so much traffic; it was my husbands fault; the dogI didnt know-something about the dog!As time passed by, my lying became a habit, and it raised a re
30、d flag for me. Lying - even in the form of “harmless” excuses - means were ashamed. Shame is different from guilt. Healthy guilt is fair and helpful. But shame can be dangerous. Nothing ruins the connection between two people more quickly than shame and lies do. Anyone trying to live a healthy and h
31、onest life must avoid shame at any cost. I was trying to live a healthy and honest life, but my excuses were keeping me from reaching my goal. So I vowed（发誓）to do something different .The next time we were late, I went to the attendance office. When Beth asked me to fill in a form with the reason fo
32、r being late, I told the truth. “These days, we are very tired and disorganized,” I wrote. Beth looked down at that form, and the slowly looked up at me. She gave us a warm and big smile and her blue eyes twinkled. She started laughing. So did my kids and I.Were all imperfect human beings. We make m
33、istakes. Everyone does make mistakes. However, its OK to tell the truth about them. Its OK to forgive ourselves and promise to try again.28. By writing Paragraph1, the author wants to show that .A. her daughters were not easy to deal with B. she didnt have an organized lifestyleC. her daughters didn
34、t like going to school D. she lived a lazy life with her daughters29. What do we know about the author from Paragraph2?A. She lived an extremely busy life. B. She liked complaining about life.C. She liked making fun of other people. D. She liked making excuses for her lateness.30. We learn that as t
35、ime went by, the author .A. found that other people liked lying to herB. realized the harm of lying and wanted to changeC. found that shame had a positive effect on her lifeD. realized that she could no longer live a healthy life31. The last paragraph shows when we make a mistake we should .A. blame
36、 it on different things B. never let others know it is our faultC. never forgive ourselves for making it D. forgive ourselves and try harder next timeDWouldnt it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away? Well, you can. The forecast is written in clouds.
37、If you can read that writing, you can tell 高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 something about the atmosphere. With some practice, you can become a pretty good weather forecaster. Who knows, you might even do as well as meteorologists（气象学家）.Meteorologists use much more information than just the app
38、earance of the clouds to make their forecast. They collect data（数据） from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful, high speed computers. This does give the meteorologists an advantage, because they can track（追踪）weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country. But you hav
39、e an advantage, too. You can look at the sky and get your data directly. A meteorologist uses a computer forecast thats several hours old to make a local forecast.What are you seeing when you look at a cloud? “A picture of moisture(水汽)is doing in the atmosphere,” says meteorologist Peter Leavitt. Th
40、eres moisture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you dont see it, because its in the form of an unseeable gas called water vapor. Sometimes, the temperature of the air gets cold enough to cause the waster vapor to change to liquid water. Its called condensation(凝结), and we see it happen all
41、 the time (for example, when humid air from the shower hits the cold glasses of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses（冷凝）, droplets(小滴）come in the air. These droplets scatter(分散) light. A cloud is seen.Watching clouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a single cloud about the weathe
42、r to come. Changes in clouds show changes in the atmosphere. You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds, following each other in order, can signal an approaching storm. But dont take our word for it; see for yourself.32. According to the passage, an ordinary person might read the weather fo
43、recast as well as meteorologists _.A. with some simple practice looking up at the sky B. with the help of the high-speed computersC. through complex (复杂的) instruments D. by visiting a weather station33. Meteorologists can make their weather forecast .A. by using information of the appearance of the
44、clouds onlyB. by collecting data from parts of the worldC. by collecting and analyzing（分析）the dataD. by watching the sky34. According to the passage, your advantage in weather forecast is that .A. you have a high-speed computerB. you observe the sky and get your data directlyC. you have more instrum
45、ents at homeD. you can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country35. This passage mainly tells us about how to . A. train ourselves as meteorologists B. be an assistant to a meteorologistC. forecast the weather by ourselves D. broadcast the weather forecast第三部分：英语知识运用（共
46、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。All through high school, students dream of McDonald s for lunch instead of school lunches. 36 , they dont have that opportunity here. They have to 37 what the school has provided for them. In m
47、y opinion, they deserve to have lunches outside of the school.By 38 teens to spend lunchtime outside, the school could save a lot of money, which could 高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 be used to 39 more school programs. As we know, school lunches are subsidized（补贴）by the government. Thats why f
48、ood in school is sold 40 . If students are able to go outside at noon, the school will spend less money on the 41 program. And the school can use the money saved for 42 things, such as sports equipment or new books.If students are able to have lunch outside of the school, they will get more 43 about how the real world works. If they stand in a cafeteria line every day, they wont have the 44 to get involved in wider society. Students, 45 those who are about to graduate, need to know what to expect when theyre on their own. Eating outside makes it possible for them to 46 more of the outside wo
