1、秘密启用前2015 年重庆一中高 2017 级高一下期半期考试英 语 试 题 卷 2015.5英语试题卷共 10 页。满分 150 分。考 试时间 120 分钟。注意事项：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2.答选择题时，必须使用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3.答非选择题时，必须使用 0.5 毫米黑色签字笔，将答案 书 写在答题卡规定的位置上。4.所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在 试题卷上答题无效。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）听下
2、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 does the man ask the woman to do?A. Go upstairs to study. B. Turn down the TV. C. Stop studying.2. What date is it today?A. July 5th. B. July 8th. C. July 10th.3. What will the woman do durin
3、g the summer vacation?A. Go camping with the man. B. Look after her grandparents.C. Spend her vacation with her grandma.4. What will the woman do tomorrow morning?A. Go to school. B. Pick up her mother. C. Go to Mrs Blacks home for her study.5. What do we know about the man?A. He has been to Japan b
4、efore. B. He doesnt want to have a hair cut.C. He seldom goes out for his work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，各小题给出 5 秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或独白读两遍。请听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 7 题。6. What is John doing now?A. Seeing a movie
5、. B. Answering the telephone. C. Playing basketball.7. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. To tell John to give her a call. B. To tell John to help her look after her grandma. C. To tell John she will go out with him next week.请听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. Where is the man now?A. At home. B. In a h
6、ospital. C. On the way to a hospital.9. Whats wrong with the man?A. He has got a cold. B. He feels weak. C. He has got a cough.10. What can we know from the conversation?A. The man has been working hard recently. B. The man wants to find a new job. C. The man doesnt do his job well.请听第 8 段材料，回答第 11
7、至 13 题。11. What does the woman think of the picnic?A. Great. B. Just so-so. C. Disappointing.12. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. To ask Lily to go out with them. B. To work hard at her studies. C. To have a picnic with him.13. What do we know about Lily?A. She is a cook. B. She cooks well.
8、C. She hates picnics.请听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What happened to Jacks parents last night?A. They had a big quarrel. B. They got divorced. C. They found out something terrible.15. Why does Jacks father like that young man?A. Because the young man is from a rich family.B. Because the young man is ve
9、ry smart. C. Because the young man has a gift for music.16. What do we know about Jacks mother?A. She doesnt like music. B. She is a full-time housewife. C. She doesnt think money is important.17. Why does the woman know the story so well?A. Because Jack told her the whole story. B. Because she live
10、s with Jacks family.C. Because she lives next door.请听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18. When should the students get to the sound lab if they have classes there?A. 10 minutes earlier. B. 5 minutes earlier. C. 3 minutes earlier.19. How should the students take their seat in the sound lab?A. According to thei
11、r height.B. According to their arrival time.C. According to their number.20. What should the students do in the sound lab?A. Make some noises. B. Change their seats.C. Follow the teachers instructions.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，共 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A, B, C, D ）中选出最佳选项。 AI saw Sup
12、erman Returns in a shop on sale for 4, and I thought it was really cheap at that time. I was so excited to finally be able to watch it. It was said that this was really a great movie, so I just had to watch it.However, after I watched it, I regretted wasting that 4. Firstly, the film was surprisingl
13、y boring. I just wanted to skip forward to get to a good point in the film. But I knew that if I did that, I would miss something that would make me completely puzzled (困惑), and then I would have to watch it all over again! I hated the fact that we had to watch Lex Luther plan his scheme (诡计) throug
14、hout the movie. In a film like this, I like to be given the chance to try to guess what his scheme is going to be, as it adds to the excitement of the film. In this film, you could guess almost everything that was going to happen. I admit that the acting from Routh was good, but I didnt really belie
15、ve the relationship between Superman and Lois Lane. I wanted more secret passion towards the end. And I dont mean to be rude about the young man who played her son, but I found his performance a bit wooden. I was really disappointed.To conclude, Superman Returns is basically a waste of 4, but the sp
16、ecial effects are wonderful, and the idea behind it is really good. I just wish they had done it differently.21. Why did the writer watch Superman Returns?A. Because he thought it would be a very good movie.B. Because he liked the movie very much.C. Because his friends said it was very good.D. Becau
17、se he had to make remarks on the film.22. What does the writer think of the film after he watched it?A. Good. B. Exciting. C. Excellent. D. Disappointed.23. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. The writer skipped forward to get to a good point in the film.B. The writer watched
18、the film without missing any part of it.C. Routh is the director of the film.D. The writer thinks the film is worth watching.24. Which of the following does the writer think is a good point of the film?A. The beginning of the film is really exciting.B. The end of the film is really moving.C. The per
19、formance of the young actor who played her son is wonderful.D. The special effects are really great.B (原创)Some people like modern art, while others say that it is rubbish. But a cleaner who works in the Tate Britain Gallery in London isnt able to tell the difference. The woman, whose name isnt known
20、, mistook a work of art by the German painter Gustav Metzger for a bag of rubbish, and threw it out with other bags. The plastic bag, which contained pieces of paper and cardboard, was later recovered outside the gallery, but the artist thought that it was too badly damaged to be put on show again,
21、and so he found another bag. 78-year-old Mr Metzger explained that the exhibit, which he said was a copy of a similar work he had created in 1960, was meant to show that all art is temporary (暂时的) and “finite”.Embarrassed officials at the museum said that they had had to call a meeting with cleaners
22、 to explain which things should not be touched. They would not say whether Mr Metzger would be paid any compensation (赔偿) for the incident. However, to make absolutely sure the same thing would not happen again, they decided to cover Mr Metzgers work every evening with a coloured cloth. In this way
23、cleaners arriving after the gallery had closed to the general public would realise that they should not touch it.This is not the first time that museum cleaners have had trouble distinguishing exhibits from rubbish. In 2001, in another London gallery, a cleaner threw away a work by the well-known Br
24、itish artist Damien Hirst. It was an arrangement of empty beer bottles, coffee cups, and overflowing ashtrays (烟灰缸), which were meant to indicate the chaos in the life of an artist.However, cleaners dont always throw things awaysometimes they clean them! This was the case with a dirty bath, which wa
25、s on show in a gallery in Germany. Without asking what the ban was doing in the gallery, the cleaner simply scrubbed it clean.25. The woman cleaner threw away the plastic bag because_.A. the plastic bag was badly damagedB. She didnt recognize it was a work of artC. she didnt like modern art at all a
26、nd thought it was rubbishD. Mr Metzger had found another bag to replace the exhibit on show26. The underlined word “distinguishing” in the third paragraph probably means “_”.A. imitating B. exchanging C. replacing D. telling27. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE accoridng to the passage?A
27、. Whether Mr Metzger would be paid any money for the incident was unknown.B. Officials closed the Tate British Gallery to avoid the same thing happening again.C. An arrangement of empty beer bottles, coffee cups, and overflowing ashtrays was once designed as a symbol of the life of an artist.D. More
28、 than one cleaner threw away works of art in galleries.28. What might be the best title for the passage?A. Damaged Modern Art WorksB. Good Cleaners Make MistakesC. Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is RubbishD. Dangerous Galleries And CleanersCThe issue(期) of L.A.Youth aimed at marking 25 years of the newsp
29、aper produced for teens by teens will also be the end of its run. The newspaper was printed six times a year and distributed (分发) in schools across Los Angeles County. It was centered on first-person stories of young people. They wrote about themselves, their culture and their neighbourhood. But L.A
30、.Youth has been troubled by money problems in recent years. In a letter in the Janurary-February issue, founder and Executive Director Donna Myrow wrote about their difficult situation. “ The situation has increased our budget (预算) and placed a huge amount of pressure on the L.A.Youth family,” she w
31、rote. The letter is being printed this week. L.A.Youths board of directors chose Thursday to stop publishing and close by the end of February. “ Its over,” Myrow said in an interview. “ We couldnt raise any more money.”L.A.Youth operated on a budget of $500,000 a year. It had a circulation (发行量) of
32、about 70,000, according to Myrow. The newspaper was distributed to the classrooms of more than 1,200 teachers.“ We put stress on personal journalism, meaning lots of stories starting with the word I,” Myrow wrote in the letter. “ We filled our pages with pieces that were heartbreaking or encouraging
33、 or funny, but always painfully honest. Our writers were encouraged to express their feelings; we wanted their voices to shine through.”The anniversary (周年纪念) issuenow, its lastincludes articles from readers discussing the great effect of having such a special way to express their feelings. Myrow sa
34、id the end of L.A.Youth will leave a large emptiness for students.“ No ones going to be carrying on the work we did,” she said. “ We are unique. You look at that paper. No one else is publishing this.”29. L.A. Youth is a newspaper mainly aimed at _.A. youth workers B. young adults C. teenage student
35、s D. college teachers30. The letter mentioned in Paragraph 3 explains _.A. why L.A.Youth will be closed downB. why L.A.Youth has so many readersC. how L.A.Youth is successfully managed D. how L.A.Youth deals with their difficulties31. From Myrows words in Paragraph 6, we learn about _.A. the talent
36、of the writers B. the style of the newspaperC. the influence of the newspaper D. the encouragement from readersDIn the second half of each year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Of these, only about half a dozen produce the strong, rotating winds of 75 miles
37、per hour or more that give them hurricane status (身份), and several usually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars of damage, and bring death to large numbers of people.The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent rotating disturbances (扰乱) hundreds or thousands of
38、 miles out to sea. As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun, they are carried westward by the trade winds (信风 ). When conditions are just right, warm, moist (潮湿的 ) air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top. In the process,
39、the moisture in this warm air produces rain, and with it the heat is changed into energy in the form of strong winds. As the heat increases, the young hurricane begins to swirl (旋动) in a counter-clockwise (逆时针方向) motion.The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost
40、more power than we can imagine. The energy in the heat released (释放) by a hurricanes rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months. Water, rather than wind is the main source of death and destruction in a hurricane. A typical hurrica
41、ne brings 6 to 12-inch downpours resulting in sudden floods. Worst of all is the powerful movement of the seathe mountains of water moving toward the low pressure hurricane center. The water level rises as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.32. When does an ordinary tropical storm
42、 turn into a hurricane?A. When it begins in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. B. When it hits the coastline.C. When it travels aimlessly over water. D. When its wind reaches a speed of 75 miles per hour.33. What is the worst thing about the hurricane?A. The destructive effect of water. B. The heat it
43、releases.C. It lasts about nine days. D. Strong winds.34. The counter-clockwise swirling of the hurricane is brought about by _.A. the low pressure center of the storm B. the force of waves of water C. the trade winds D. the increasing heat35. Which of the following about the hurricane is TRUE?A. It
44、 often occurs around June.B. It is not so powerful as that of storm born in the Caribbean Sea.C. It usually lasts about nine days.D. It can be easily forecast and prevented.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。(特别提示：请将答案填在答题纸上)Horses can talk to one another. 36. _ The
45、y communicate with one another and with us through gestures and expressions. Expressive EarsWhen a horse turns its ears to the side or halfway back, the horse is listening. It can listen with both ears. 37. _ If the sound is on the left, the horse moves its left ear. When a horse moves both ears bac
46、k and forth, its paying attention to the activity around it.Meaningful LooksA horse that is relaxed and happy will have “soft” eyes, which look kind and round in shape. A horse that is unhappy will have “hard” eyes, which look angry. 38. _ When white shows around a horses eyes, it is frightened or a
47、nxious.Kicking (踢腿)Do horses kick only when they are angry? Not always. A horse sometimes kicks to get flies off its stomach or legs. 39. _ Horses in a field may also kick while they are playing. Tails (尾巴) Tell TalesA horse also talks with its tail. 40. _ If there are flies around, it will swish(挥动
48、 ) its tail in a relaxed manner to chase the flies away. A horse that is playing in a field may hold its tail high, almost over its back. This shows that the horse is feeling good. If a horse swishes its tail when there are no flies, the horse is bored or impatient. A horse will swish its tail hard when its angry. A. The happy and relaxed horse usually holds its tail still. B. Horses are one of the most ex
