1、高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 武汉二中 20142015 学年度下学期期末考试高一英语试卷命题学校：武汉二中 命题教师：高蓓 审题教师：宋海涛考试时间： 2015 年 7 月 3 日上午 9:0011:00 试卷满分：150 分第一部分 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 do we
2、 know about the woman?A. She is clever. B. She is busy. C. She is careless.2. Whats the matter with the womans daughter?A. She drank too much.B. She drank some ink.C. She had a fever.3. How much will the woman have to pay for the apples?A. 32 dollars. B. 38 dollars. C. 36 dollars.4. How will the man
3、 go to the post office?A. By bus. B. On foot. C. By taxi.5. Why is the woman worried?A. She cant take part in tomorrows party.B. Its too early for her to leave the party.C. She doesnt know how to get home after tomorrows party.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
4、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 秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Husband and wife.B. Doctor and patient.C. Boss and secretary.7. Why does the man have to change his diet?A. Because his blood pressu
5、re is very high.B. Because he eats too much meat every day.C. Because he has got a heart attack.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What are the two tickets for?A. A pop concert. B. A football match. C. An opera.高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 9. Why doesnt the man accept the invitation at first?A. Becaus
6、e he has attended such concerts before.B. Because he is not interested in it at all.C. Because he is busy with his work at home.10. What can we infer from the dialogue?A. They will go to the concert together.B. The man will watch the football match tonight.C. The woman will stay at home alone tonigh
7、t.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11. When did the woman get to London?A. Last spring. B. A few hours ago. C. Last month.12. Why did the woman go to London?A. Because she wanted to visit some relatives.B. Because she wanted to visit some tourist attractions.C. Because she was on an educational programme.13.
8、Whats the meaning of moonlighting?A. A second job. B. A kind of toy. C. A kind of tool for lighting.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14. What is the woman going to do?A. Attend a party. B. Take a holiday. C. Go on a business trip.15. When does the woman plan to arrive at the seaside town?A. Late Friday.B. Sat
9、urday morning. C. Saturday night.16. What is the weather probably like in the town during the day?A. Cold. B. Dry. C. Hot.17. What is the woman going to take?A. Sports shoes. B. Shorts. C. Seafood.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至第 20 小题。18. What was small compared with its modern forms?A. The radio. B. The televi
10、sion. C. The phone.19. What did people have to do when they were photographed with the early cameras?A. They had to stand close to the machine.B. They had to wear bright clothes.C. They had to stand still for a long time.20. When did the television come to ordinary homes?A. In the 1930s. B. In the 1
11、920s. C. In the 1950s.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、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall is filled with a festive mood, featuring large-scale equipment, knit works and various activities, under the th
12、eme “kiss“. “Kissing is seldom taken as the theme of artworks because in oriental (东方的) culture, people restrain themselves from expressing their emotions,“ says Jiang Shan, who is in charge of the exhibition.“Through the exhibition, we hope to encourage people to be confident and brave in expressin
13、g their love.“Inside the mall, which covers a large area from Zizhong Lu (Road) to Fuxingnan Lu (Road), dozens of colorful decorations, including balloons, lollipops and lip-shaped decorations are hung on the walls and from the ceiling.Among the decorations, a bright-colored wool artwork attracts mo
14、st eyeballs and brings about a feeling of warmth.The designer, Gu Yeli, says the art piece, Kiss Forest, was inspired by US artist Andy Warhols 1963 experimental film Kiss, which featured various couples kissing for three and a half minutes each. Gu also organizes a small workshop to teach knitting
15、(编织) to children. Artist Wang Xuejun sets up a stainless-steel mirror at the malls gate leading to Zizhong Lu. Visitors, including men, are invited to put on lipstick and kiss the mirror, thus kissing themselves.The Beast Floral Shop, a flower shop in Shanghai, contributes two walls of flowers that
16、are made into the shape of a book, named Kiss Book. Artifacts (手工艺品) of bees and butterflies are fixed among the blossoms, kissing the flowers. The work represents love and harmony in nature. Architect Ma Ke creates a Kiss Bridge with transparent (透明的) acrylic boards and ceramic（陶瓷的） fishbowls. Brid
17、ges are often spots for dating lovers in traditional Chinese folk stories and the goldfish in the bowls are witnesses of the lovers kisses.In the south plaza, an 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment encourages people to kiss. Each kiss turns a certain light on, reminding audiences o
18、f their sweet childhood memories of kisses.At the side of the tree is a counter, in which each kiss is counted and represents a donation to charity organizations. 21. What is the main idea of the article?A. It tells people how important kisses are to life.B. It introduces an exhibition under the the
19、me “kiss“.C. It describes what Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall looks like.D. It introduces various activities in Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall. 22. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?A. people encourage themselves to express their emotions.B. people teach themselves to express their
20、 emotions.C. people discourage themselves from expressing their emotions.D. people learn a lot from expressing their emotions.23. What can we learn from the article?A. Most people are interested in Jiang Shans art piece, which brings about a feeling of warmth.B. Most visitors will kiss each other in
21、 front of the stainless-steel mirror at the gate. C. All the decorations in the mall are aimed at encouraging lovers to express their love bravely. 高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 D. The 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment will be on for each kiss. 24. The article above probab
22、ly is taken from a _. A. textbook B. science and technology magazine C. travel leaflet D. news website BExpensive and new gloves allow chatterboxes (话匣子) to take the term “handsfree“ to a new levelby talking into them as they make a call. The gloves are known as “Talk to the Hand“ and cost 1,000 a p
23、air. They fixed a speaker unit into the thumb and a microphone into the little finger that can be connected to any mobile handset using Bluetooth.Artist Sean Miles designed the new gloves that double as a phone in part of his project that shows the possibilities of gadget (小玩意) recycling. He uses ou
24、tdated gloves and combines them with parts from mobile handsets recycled through O2, which took up the project. Mobile phone users will be able to keep their hands warm while they chat without taking their phones out of their pockets or handbags.Mr. Miles designed two pairs of the new gloves one in
25、pink and the other in brown and yellow. They will appear in an exhibition this July and visitors will be able to win the gloves. If demand is high, they will then be produced on a larger scale. O2 Recycle, which backed the project, estimates that there are already 70 million unused mobile handsets i
26、n the UK. The service pays up to 260 to those who recycle gadgets including phones, handheld consoles (操纵台), MP3 players and digital cameras.Designer Sean Miles hopes his work will get people thinking about recycling. The 41-year-old said, “I hope that my Talk to the Hand project will get people to
27、think again about the waste created by not recycling gadgets. If a few more people recycle their gadgets rather than send them to trash, I think this project will have fulfilled its aim.“Bill Eyres, head of O2 Recycle, urges people to recycle their phone responsibly. He said, “Theres a pressing need
28、 for all of us to look at outdated handsets, and all the gadgets that we move on from or upgrade each year. Whether they are consoles or cameras, we should think of them as a resource that we need to recycle responsibly rather than throw them away.“ 25. The underlined word “O2“ in Paragraph 2 is pro
29、bably the name of _.A. an artist B. a mobile C. a company D. an exhibition26. Consumers can buy the “Talk to the Hand“ gloves _.A. in the exhibition B. from Mr. MilesC. after they recycle the gadgets D. when they are mass-produced27. The purpose of the project is to _.A. promote the technology of IT
30、 B. enable people to talk to their handsC. raise peoples awareness of recycling D. attract visitors attention in the exhibition28. What is the passage mainly about?A. New mobiles which are fashionable. B. Outdated handsets which are upgraded.C. Outdated gadgets which can be used for recycling.D. New
31、 gloves which can be used for making phone calls.C高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 Everyone has heard of the San Andreas fault（断层）, which constantly threatens California and the West Coast with earthquakes. But how many people know about the equally serious New Madrid fault in Missouri?Between D
32、ecember of 1811 and February of 1812, three major earthquakes occurred, all centered around the town of New Madrid, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. Property damage was severe. Buildings were almost all destroyed. Whole forests fell at once, and huge cracks（裂缝） opened in the ground.The Mississipp
33、i River completely changed character, developing sudden fast-moving currents. Several times it changed its course, and once it appeared to run backwards. Few people were killed in the New Madrid earthquake, simply because few people lived in this area in 1811; but the severity of the quake is shown
34、by the fact that the shock waves rang bells in church towers in Charleston, South Carolina, on the coast. Buildings shook in New York City, and clocks were stopped in Washington, D.C.Scientists now know that Americas two major faults are different. The San Andreas fault is a horizontal (水平的) boundar
35、y between two major land masses that are slowly moving in opposite directions. California earthquakes result when the movement of these two masses suddenly leans (倾斜) forward.The New Madrid fault, on the other hand, is a vertical（垂直的） fault; at some point, millions of years ago, rock was pushed up t
36、oward the surface, probably by volcanoes under the surface. Suddenly, the volcanoes cooled and the rock collapsed, leaving huge cracks. Even now, the rock continues to settle downwards, and sudden sinking motions start earthquakes in the region. The fault itself, a large crack in this layer of rock,
37、 with dozens of other cracks that split off from it, extends from northeast Arkansas through Missouri and into southern Illinois.Scientists who have studied the New Madrid fault say there have been numerous smaller quakes in the area since 1811; these smaller quakes indicate large ones are probably
38、coming, but the scientists say they have no method of predicting when it will occur.29. The New Madrid fault is _.A. responsible for forming the Mississippi RiverB. a fault in the flat positionC. a fault caused by rocks moving directly upward D. a worse fault than the San Andreas fault30. Which of t
39、he following is NOT true about the New Madrid fault?A. Not many people were killed in the quakes in 1811.B. Bells were rung in church towers in Charleston to inform the coming quakes.C. The quakes stopped the clocks in Washington, D.C.D. The quakes were caused by sudden sinking motion.31. It can be
40、concluded from the passage that _.A. it is probably as dangerous to live in Missouri as in California.B. the New Madrid fault will eventually develop a mountain range in MissouriC. in the future California will become an islandD. California will be broken into small pieces by an eventual earthquake3
41、2. The author suggests that_.A. earthquakes occur only around fault areasB. horizontal faults are more dangerous than vertical ones 高考资源网（ ） ，您身边的高考专家投稿兼职请联系：2355394692 C. vertical faults are more dangerous than horizontal onesD. faults are cracks on the earths surface caused by past movements of th
42、e earths land masses DIn the famous fairy tale, Snow White eats the Queens apple and falls victim to a curse; in Shakespeares novel, Romeo drinks the poison and dies; some ancient Chinese emperors took pills that contained mercury, believing that it would make them immortal, but they died afterward.
43、Poison has long been an important ingredient in literature and history, and it seems to always be associated with evil, danger and death. But how much do you really know about poison?An exhibition, The Power of Poison, opened last month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, intended
44、 to give the audience a more vivid understanding of poison. The exhibition will continue until August, reported The New York Times.The museum tour starts in a rainforest setting, where you can see live examples of some of the most poisonous animals: caterpillars, frogs and spiders. Golden poison fro
45、gs, for instance, arent much bigger than a coin, but their skin is covered in a poison that can cut off the signaling power of your nerves, and a single frog has enough venom to kill 10 grown humans.The exhibition also features interactive activities. In an iPad-based game, visitors are presented wi
46、th three puzzling illnesses and asked to identify the poisons based on symptoms. In one case, for example, a pet dog is found sick in a backyard and visitors have to figure out whether it was the toad (蟾蜍), the leaky batteries in the trash or the dirty pond water that did it.Poisons can be bad for s
47、ome things, Michael Novacek, senior vice president of the museum, told NBC News. Yet they can also be good for others.This is what visitors learn from the last part of the exhibition, which displays how poisons can be used favorably by humans, including for medical treatment.The blood toxins of vamp
48、ire bats, for example, can prevent blood from clotting (凝结), which may protect against strokes. A poisonous chemical found in the yew tree is effective against cancer, which is what led to the invention of a cancer-fighting drug called Taxol. One chemical in the venom of Gila monsters can lower the blood sugar of its victims, so it has been used to treat diabetes.The benefits from natural poisons are not limited to just medicine. Believe it or not, many substances that we regularly take in chili, coffee and chocolate
