南京市板桥中学2012～2013学年度第二学期

高一英语期中试题

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，满分100分，考试时间100分钟。第I卷请将正确的选项填涂在答题卡的相应位置上，第II卷做在答题纸上。

第I卷 选择题（共65分）

第一部分 听力 （共两节10小题，满分10分）

第一节（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面5段对话，回答1-5题

What does the woman mean?

She would like to have some ice cream

She won’t choose any ice cream

She doesn’t know how to lose weight

Where is the man going after class

A. Home B. To the bookstore C. To the library

3. What did the man major in college?

A. Art B. Computer C. Medicine

4. Who is the woman?

A. The man’s sister B. the man’s secretary C. Jim’s wife

5. What will the woman do next?

A. Put up a sigh at the corner. B. Give the man a traffic ticket.

C. Help the man park the car.

第二节（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

请听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In a hospital. B. On the phone. C. In a shop

7. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The man’s son is six years old.

B. The man coughs up some blood

C. The man’s son has a high fever.

请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8.Where does the woman think makes it hard for the man to find a job?

A. The bad economy B. His high requirements C. His poor education.

9. why did the man quit his job?

A. He got tired of his work.

B. He was fired by his company.

C. He made a wrong decision at work.

10. Where did the woman use to work probably?

A. In a hospital. B. In the government. C. At a school.

第二部分 英语知识运用 (共三节, 满分55分)

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

11．Due to _____ help from his teachers and classmates, he has made _______ rapid progress in his studies.

A. 不填；a B. the; 不填 C. the; a D. a; the

12. Choosing the right dictionary depends on _______ you want to use it for.

A. how B. why C. what D. whether

13. — Have the peace talks broken down?

— Yes. Conflict is _______ to break out between the two countries.

A. likely B. possibly C. probably D. gradually

14. He received a set of china yesterday from his parents _______ sixty pieces.

A. consisted of B. consisting of C. consist of D. to consist of

15. Was it from Libya ______ wars suddenly broke out _____ we managed to rescue(营救) the Chinese working staff?

A. that; where B. which; that C. where; that D. where; which

16. The hours of hard work _______ when he became the champion of the game.

A. paid for B. paid off C. paid back D. paid up

17. I am really very sorry, sir. I have read the material for a long time but it doesn’t make any ________ to me.

A. sense B. importance C. meaning D. benefit

18. _________ students in our school __________ from the countryside; the number _______ growing these years.

A. Large numbers of; is; has been B. Large numbers of; are; has been

C. A large number of; is; have been D. A large number of; are; have been

19. ________ in the regulations(规定) that you should not tell other people the password of your e-mail account.

A. What is required B. What requires C. it requires D. It is required

20. All that he knew was that his father ________ him and his mother when he was only three.

A. dropped B. ignored C. avoided D. deserted

21. . There’s something wrong with your back. You’d better have it further ______.

A. examined B. to examine C. examining D. examine

22. You said boys were cleverer than girls. That is _______ I disagree.A. what B. where C. which D. why

23. This time tomorrow I _______ to Guangzhou.

A. will fly B. am fly C. shall be flying D. fly

24. — This song was once popular.

— When was _______?

— ________ was in the 1980s when I was at college.

that; It B. this; This C. this; It D. that; This

25. — We’d appreciate it if you could come to our English evening party tonight.

— _________! I’ve another appointment. Thanks anyway.

Good luck B. Have fun C. What a pity D. Come on

第二节 完型填空（共20题，每题1分，满分20分）

Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach(教练) said that I had lots of potential(潜力), and I became captain of my ___26___. That was before all the fun was taken out of ___27___.

At first, everyone on the team got ___28___ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the ___29___ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have ___30___one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our ___31___. The coach was replaced.

The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game. All we did during practice was ___32___. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the __33___. Of course, all teams run drills; they are ___34___. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble __35___. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises ___36___ for 18-year-olds.

I was very thin ___37___ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too ___38___ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual ___39___.

Is all this pressure necessary? I ___40___ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s ___41___, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they ___42___ from the coach or their parents.

I continued playing football at school and ___43___ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing ___44___ him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I ___45___ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.

26. A. class B. club C. team D. board

27. A. playing B. living C. learning D. working

28. A. great B. equal C. right D. extra

29. A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure

30. A. free B. private C. good D. basic

31. A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs

32. A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot

33. A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training

34. A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical

35. A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing

36. A. used B. intended C. made D. described

37. A. till B. since C. before D. because

38. A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big

39. A. size B. share C. space D. state

40. A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked

41. A. sad B. shameful C. silly D. serious

42. A. received B. suffered C. brought D. felt

43. A. reconsidered B. rediscovered C. reformed D. replaced

44. A. at B. by C. for D. around

45. A. fell B. stepped C. slowed D. calmed

第三节 阅读理解 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

A

Even plant can run a fever, especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease. But unlike human, plants can have their temperature taken from 3, 000 feet away straight up. A decade ago, adopting the infrared（红外线）scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide （杀虫剂）spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don’t have pest （害虫）problems.

Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3, 000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing where plants were running“fevers”. Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long - term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. “This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States, ”says George Oerther of Texas A & M. Ray Jackson , who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only ff Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

46． Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are______________.

A. sprayed with pesticides　　 B. facing an infrared scanner

C. in poor physical condition　　 D. exposed to excessive sun rays

47．In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to____________.

A. estimate the damage to the crops　　 B. measure the size of the affected area

C. draw a color-coded map　　 D. locate the problem area

48．Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by______________.

A. resorting to spot-spraying　　 B. consulting infrared scanning experts

C. transforming poisoned rain　　 D. detecting crop problems at an early stage

49．The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties

______.

A. the lack of official support　　 B. its high cost

C. the lack of financial support　 D. its failure to help increase production50．Infrared scanning technology may be brought back into operation because of_____________.

　　A. the desire of farmers to improve the quality of their produce

　　B. growing concern about the excessive use of pesticides on crops

　　C. the forceful promotion by the Department of Agriculture

D. full support from agricultural experts

B

In the past ten years, America’s National Basketball Association (NBA) has grown increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to supply players.

When Michael Jordan and Larry Bird won gold in Barcelona in 1992, the Americans were praised for teaching the world how to play basketball. This season, however, 20 percent of NBA r