湖北省黄冈市黄冈中学2013年高一下学期期中考试

英语试题

本试卷共四部分, 满分150分。考试时间120分钟。

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）

做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节

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 will the speakers have for dinner tonight?

A. Italian food. B. Chinese food. C. American food.

2. What will the woman do?

A. Take a walk around the lake.

B. Have lunch with the man.

C. Go swimming with Ray.

3. What does the man worry about?

A. He can’t go to the exhibition.

B. Some famous paintings would be destroyed.

C. He can’t understand the guides’ language.

4. When will the woman pick up the man?

A. At 10:45. B. At 11:00. C. At 11:15.

5. Who might the man be?

A. A waiter. B. A doctor. C. A teacher.

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. What does the man want to do?

A. See a horse race. B. Rent an apartment. C. Buy a house.

7. When will the woman’s friends come to Oxford?

A. In a month. B. In about 10 months. C. At least one year from now.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the man speak English so well?

A. He studied abroad.

B. He is American.

C. He often speaks English with Westerners.

9. What is the man’s job?

A. He is a translator. B. He is a teacher. C. He is a businessman.

听第8段材料，回答第10至13题。

10. When did the play start?

A. At 8:15. B. At 8:45. C. At 9:15.

11. Who performed in the play?

A. The man’s wife. B. The man’s daughter. C. The man’s sister.

12. What is the main reason that the man missed the play?

A. He gave someone a ride home.

B. He forgot all about it.

C. He was stuck in traffic.

13. Where are the speakers?

A. At a school. B. In the car. C. At home.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Which country is the woman in probably?

A. Canada. B. America. C. China.

15. Where was the credit card before it was stolen?

A. On the counter of a store.

B. In the fitting room.

C. In the pocket of a dress.

16. What does the man need to know?

A. The card number. B. The woman’s job.

C. The amount of money on the card.

17. How does the woman feel in the end?

A. Angry. B. Relaxed. C. Upset.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Where is the Italian restaurant?

A. On Hook Street. B. On Webber Street. C. On Willow Street.

19. Who will play basketball at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday?

A. The Grade 1 girls team.

B. The Grade 2 girls team.

C. The Grade 2 boys team.

20. What do we know about the school?

A. There was a fire in the cafeteria on Monday.

B. It will host two basketball games on Tuesday.

C. It needs one week to repair its kitchen equipment.

第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. Some plants are very _________ to light. They prefer the shade.

A. sensible B. sensitive C. suitable D. acceptable

22. He was in a hurry, so he told me that I had to do _________.

A. in detail B. in brief C. in short D. in peace

23. Since you are an adult, you should be _________ of your parents’ help.

A. energetic B. obvious C. independent D. religious

24. One day before Tomb Sweeping Day, people from all over this region came here to ________ the cherry blossoms.

A. envy B. admire C. appreciate D. enjoy

25. He ________ on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet.

A. put down B. cut down C. put up D. cut up

26. He had his opponent (对手) _________ for evidence in a case.

A. reacted on B. relied on C. depended on D. spied on

27. If you stand on the top of the mountain, you can get a better __________ of the city.

A. view B. sigh C. sight D. scene

28. Every time our teacher began his lesson, my mind would begin to ________, not intentionally but habitually.

A. wander B. decrease C. wonder D. respond

29. The talk between the two countries has started in a friendly _________ and hopefully an agreement will be reached.

A. environment B. situation C. chance D. atmosphere

30. It’s believed that the strike (罢工) was ________ to British train service, because many people have refused to take a train ever since.

A. beneficial B. necessary C. fundamental D. harmful

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

When I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s 31 filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so 32 that I decided to write an article about her.

I 33 Salome Bey, telling her that I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career. She 34 and told me to come to her studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of my mind. I 35 I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a shopping list.

I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there 36 , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…” I soon realized that 37 Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The 38 was almost unbearable. I 39 for days with draft (草稿) after draft. Finally I put my manuscript (手稿) into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.

It didn’t take long. My manuscript 40 . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I 41 in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t 42 the rejection (拒绝) letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a desk.

Five years later, I was moving to California. While 43 my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in 44 ：

Dear Ms Profit,

Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need 45 relevant materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to 46 your story soon.

Shocked, it took me a long time to 47 . Fear of rejection cost me dearly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and having my article published in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of 48 writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this 49 , I learned a very important lesson：You can’t 50 to doubt yourself.

31. A. joy B. happiness C. speech D. voice

32. A. proud B. moved C. satisfied D. active

33. A. phoned B. emailed C. visited D. interviewed

34. A. hesitated B. refused C. agreed D. paused

35. A. discovered B. knew C. explained D. wondered

36. A. seriously B. nervously C. patiently D. silently

37. A. blaming B. inviting C. fooling D. asking

38. A. hardship B. failure C. pressure D. comment

39. A. struggled B. settled C. spotted D. spied

40. A. disappeared B. spread C. returned D. improved

41. A. compete B. solve C. survive D. compare

42. A. ignore B. deliver C. receive D. face

43. A. decorating B. repairing C. cleaning D. leaving

44. A. disbelief B. anxiety C. horror D. pain

45. A. some B. little C. few D. none

46. A. broadcast B. publish C. create D. judge

47. A. recover B. prepare C. escape D. focus

48. A. boring B. endless C. typical D. enjoyable

49. A. success B. experience C. benefit D. accident

50. A. attempt B. expect C. afford D. pretend

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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

I was sleeping in my room when my bed started shaking and a loud noise was heard. I woke up and my mom was screaming my name. Next moment I was running along with my younger sister, mom and dad. Before I ran out of the door, I realized my elder sister hadn’t come out yet. So I screamed her name at the top of my voice. My mom said she had gone to her class. Then the four of us, along with many others, were running on the staircase. We lived on the seventh floor, so I thought we would not be able to make it and the building would fall before we managed to reach even the fourth floor. My dad’s head was injured by something falling down. I did try to put my hand over his head. When we reached the sixth floor, the building split into two. We had no way to get down.

The next thing I remember is silence. There were around 30 people on the stairs and none could react. Five minutes later, someone opened the door of the sixth-floor flat. We all went in. We were wondering how we would get down. From the balcony (阳台) of the sixth-floor flat, I saw people standing on the ground floor. All eyes were stuck on us. I could see my elder sister crying.

Our first hope of surviving came when a worker climbed a rope to where we were. That was the first time we thought maybe we could get down. Half an hour passed and we were still trapped. Finally RSS people arrived with ropes. They got people down one by one. My biggest worry was how my dad would get down. Finally after two and a half hours, we all got down.

That day we saw the power of nature. It has taken more than two years to build the flats and it took just one and a half minutes to destroy the structure.

51. What is this passage mainly about?

A. Ways to survive an earthquake.

B. Reasons why earthquakes happen.

C. The writer’s experience in an earthquake.

D. The love of pare