1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 高 2014 级高一下期期末模拟考试英语试题时间：120 分钟 满分：150 分第 I 卷 (满分 110 分)第一部分 听力第一节(共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 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。1. What is the time now?A. 9: 10. B. 10: 00. C. 9: 45.2: What does the woman th
2、ink of her roommate?A. She is polite. B. She is noisy. C. She is shy.3. To whom does the book belong?A. The woman. B. The library. C. Anne.4. What does the woman want to be?A. A university student. B. A university teacher. C. A business woman.5. Where does the conversation take place?A. At the airpo
3、rt. B. In a cafe. C. In the woman s home.第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 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 does the woman support herself through school?A. She has a scholarship.B. She do
4、es a part-time job.C. Her parents help her.7. What does the man do as a part-time job?A. He is a waiter. B. He is a cook. C. He is a manager.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What is the weather like in winter in the city where the woman is studying?A. It s warm. B. It s not too cold. C. Its snowy.9. Why is the
5、 woman going to France?A. She is going there to study.B. She is going there on a trip.C. She is going there for business.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. Why doesn t the woman like her current apartment?A. It s too expensive.高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 B. The neighborhood is noisy.C. It s too far from
6、school.11. How much rent can the woman afford?A. No more than $200.B. No more than $300.C. No more than $400.12. What does the woman need?A. Some furniture. B. A car. C. A parking space,听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In an apartment. B. In a restaurant.
7、 C. In a hotel.14. What is the problem with the TV in the man s room?A. It doesnt work at all.B. It doesn t have many channels.C. It doesnt have any sound.15. Why does the man complain about the cooks?A. Because his glass was dirty.B. Because they were very noisy.C. Because the food was bad.16. What
8、 will the woman probably do next?A. Go to the kitchen.B. Get some slippers for the man.C. Find someone to check the TV.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17. What can students do in online schools? ,A. Share their ideas through voice chat.B. Play with other classmates.C. Shop online.18. How can students commun
9、icate with each other?A. Use cellphones. B. Use Internet tools. C.Face to face.19. What is the advantage of online schools?A. Easy to get a degree. B. It is very cheap. C. It is very flexible.20. What is Mr. Wang?A. He is a teacher at an online school.B. He is a student at an online school.C. He is
10、the founder of an online school.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节 阅读 （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，APennsylvaniaWhen Connie Beck and her husband awoke to strange noises last weekend, they thought high winds were rattling (使发出响声) their home.高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 What
11、they found was even more unexpected: A deer was taking a bubble (泡沫) bath in their bathtub.“I wasnt exactly dressed for company,” Mrs. Beck said. “We were just waking up.”The deer burst through the front door early on Saturday, ran past the couples bedroom and into the bathroom.Somehow he managed to
12、 turn on the water in the bathtub and knock over a bottle of bubble bath into the bathtub. He then got himself into the bubbly water.“You could hear the water running over the kicking,” Beck said.The Becks called State Game Commission officials, who arrived with tranquilizers (镇静剂) and a lot of laug
13、hter.“A guy said, Theres nothing wrong hes just in there taking a bubble bath,” Mrs. Beck said.The animal was soon brought under control, removed from the house and released.“He was unharmed except for a little cut above the eye,” said Mrs. Beck. “We were also fortunate. There wasnt much damage, exc
14、ept for the front door, some marks on the tub, and a few hoof (蹄) prints on the floor.”21. When did the story take place?A. On the night of Friday. B. On the late night of Saturday.C. On the early morning of Saturday. D. On Sunday evening.22. When Mrs. Beck said, “I wasnt exactly dressed for company
15、,” (in paragraph 3) she _.A. was joking about the incident B. meant she never liked people to visit C. explained she was about to go to work D. wished she could have new clothes23. After the animal burst through the door and entered the bathroom, he _.A. managed to cover himself with bubbles B. kick
16、ed over the tubC. began to swim in the tub D. happened to turn on the bath taps24. When he was removed from the house, _.A. the deer was set free B. the deer destroyed the tub and the floorC. the officials made fun of the coupleD. the officials discovered the deer was badly injured in the eyeBWe oft
17、en hear the phrase: “Youve a greater chance of being struck by lightning.“ It is used to describe something that hasnt got much chance of happening. However, the common saying undermines (掩盖) the very real dangers of lightning. Last Friday, at least 5 people were killed by lightning in Nepal. Lightn
18、ing strikes are the second most common cause of deaths during natural disasters in the US. The first is floods. Around 400 people nationwide are struck by lightning each 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 year, and of those 73 people die. That means more people are killed by lightning than by tornadoes
19、and hurricanes. Because lightning kills only one or two people at a time, its danger does not receive as much attention as other disasters.So to raise awareness, the US has made June 22 to 28 National Lightning Safety Week. It aims to warn the public of the dangers of lightning and provide safety ti
20、ps during thunderstorms. “If you hear thunder, you are in danger from lightning,“ said Rocky Lopes, a disaster educator at the American Red Cross. “Thunder means that lightning is close enough to hit you at any minute, so you should move indoors immediately and stay there until after the storm has e
21、nded. The single most important thing to remember is to seek hiding place,“ Lopes said.Summer is the high time for lightning storms, so when lightning strikes across the sky, remember these safety tips:Stop working, fishing, swimming or playing in open fields.If you can count less than ten seconds b
22、etween a thunder and a lightning flash, take cover inside the nearest building.Do not stand under a tree.Get off bicycles or motorcycles.Crouch down (蹲下) if there is no hiding place.Avoid open spaces, wire fences, metal objects and electrical objects such as hair driers.25. Whats the popular opinion
23、 about being struck by lightning?A. It is impossible for people to be killed by lightning.B. It is the most dangerous among all file natural disasters.C. The chance for a person to be struck by lightning is very small.D. There is a greater chance for being killed by lightning than any other natural
24、disaster.26. The average death rate of being struck by lightning in the US is aboutA. 18% B. 50% C 30% D. 73%27. Whats the safety tip when you hear thunder outside?A. Take away the hair drier.B. Quickly find a place to go inside.C. Just stand by your bicycles and motorcycles.D. Count ten seconds bet
25、ween a thunder and a lightning.28. Which of the following statements is true?A. There are on average 5 persons killed by lightening in Nepal each day.B. The National Lightning Safety Week is made to warn the public of lightning.C. The death rate of being struck by lightning is much higher than by ot
26、her natural disasters.D. There are more people killed by tornadoes and hurricanes than by lightning in the US each year.CPsychologist George Spilich and workmates at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究
27、helps them to “think and concentrate“. Spilich put young non-smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剥夺) of cigarettes through many tests.In the first test, each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a group of 96 letters.
28、 In this simple test, active smokers, deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well.The next test was more complex, requiring all to look quickly at orders of 20 same letters and respond to the immediate one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but unde
29、r the encouragement of nicotine, active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.In the third test of short-term memory, non-smokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers.The fourth test required people to read a passage, and then answer questions a
30、bout it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers were not only likely to have poorer memories but also had trouble picking important information from
31、 unimportant details (细节).“As our tests became more complex,“ Spilich concludes, “non-smokers performed greatly better than smokers.“ He predicts, “Smokers might perform well enough at many jobs until they got complex. A smoking airline pilot could fly well enough if no problems appeared, but if som
32、ething went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity (容量).“29. Whats the purpose of George Spilicbs experiment?A. To show how smoking damages peoples mental capacity.B. To prove that smoking affects peoples regular performance.C. To find out whether smoking helps peoples short-term memory.D.
33、To test whether smoking has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers.30. George Spilichs experiment was conducted in such a way as toA. check the effectiveness of nicotine on smokersB. register the immediate responses of the subjectsC. put the subjects through increasingly complex testsD.
34、 force the subjects to pick major information from details31. The underlined word “bested“ in Paragraph 5 most probably means“A. lost B. beat C. hated D. caught32. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_.A. no airline pilots smoke during flightsB. smoking in urgent cases causes mental illne
35、ssC. smokers should not expect to become airline pilotsD. smokers may prove unable to deal with urgent casesD高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 Beijing West Railway Station is the biggest railway station I have ever seen. I once joked, “You will never know how many people there are in China unless you g
36、o to Beijing West Railway Station.“I usually bought hard-berth (硬卧) tickets when I traveled by train in China. The first thing I noticed was that Chinese berths were much smaller than those in other countries. Though I had to crouch (蜷缩) on the berth, I could still manage to sleep on it, as Im not t
37、hat tall.Chinas trains are operated efficiently. The work is done well among the attendants (乘务员) and trains leave on time. The friendly nature of the Chinese passengers turns a trip on the train into a big family gathering, and they often share their food with other passengers. Foreigners, on the o
38、ther hand, will say “hi“ to each other, but rarely go further than that. On Chinese trains, I often saw such a funny thing: old couples would argue about where they should put their luggage; young people would begin to play with their mobile phones as soon as they settled in their seats.I like trave
39、ling by train in China because it is cheap, safe and comfortable. In India and Spain, people are always knocking off the metal parts of the train to sell them for money. Bit by bit, the train is destroyed. Thats why there are signs on the train, warning “Stop stealing the train!“ There are signs on
40、Dutch and French trains which read “No Sticking“ to stop people from sticking pictures on the trains. On the other hand, on Chinese trains you can find signs like this: “Welcome to take our train.“33. What did Beijing West Railway Station remind the writer of?A. The large population of China.B. The
41、biggest railway station in the world.C. The good management of Chinese trains.D. The smaller hard-berths compared with other countries.34. Which of the following statements is true according to the writers opinion?A. Its a pity that trains in India are often stolen.B. Young people pay more attention
42、 to their luggage.C. Chinese passengers are friendlier than foreigners.D. Dutch and French trains are more special with pictures stuck on them.35 Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?A. Experiencing China by Traveling on Trains.B. A Foreigners View on Chinese Trains.C. Diff
43、erent Train Systems in the World.D. A Foreigners Impression on Traveling in China第二节 （共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文中的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案，选项中有两项是多余选项。For people who live in places where hurricanes often visit，preparation is a very important aspect to be seriously considered. So，how should we prepare
44、 for it if a hurricane comes to your town?_36_The things include：important files such as birth and marriage 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家高考资源网版权所有 侵权必究 certificates， passports，all your family photographs and other things with sentimental value._37_So，be sure that some of your vital(重要的) papers and photos are collected and stored in a box which you can take without difficulty.It is also important to have a disaster plan for your house to be safe in times of hurricanes. This plan should be shared with all the famil
