2012-2013学年高一5月联考英语试题

2013.05

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）

1. What are the two speakers doing now?

A. Taking an exam. B. Asking for a break. C. Watching a movie.

2. What does the man want to do?

A. To eat more dumplings. B. To learn how to make dumplings.

C. To have a cup of tea.

3. What is the weather like now?

A. Sunny. B. Rainy. C. Cloudy.

4. Who will pay the telephone bill?

A. The man. B. The woman. C. Mary.

5. What is the woman probably going to do tonight?

A. Revise French. B. Revise Physics. C. Watch the game.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where does this conversation take place?

A. At home. B. In a restaurant. C. In a shop.

7. Which of the following is available now?

A. Rice. B. Bread. C. Meat.

请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Which food does the woman like best?

A. Beijing food. B. Shandong food. C. Sichuan food.

9. What is Cantonese food like?

A. It’s hot. B. It’s oily. C. It’s sweet.

请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where is the post office?

A. Near the traffic lights. B. Near the Wal-mart.. C. In front of a statue.

11. How long does it take to walk to the post office?

A. About 15 minutes. B. About 10 minutes. C. About 25 minutes.

12. How will the woman go to the post office?

A. On foot. B. By bus. C. By taxi.

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What’s the relationship between the speakers?

A. Boss and employee. B. Teacher and student.

C. Mother and son.

14. When is the man supposed to come back?

A. At 8:00. B. At 8:30. C. At 10:00.

15. Why does the man come back late?

A. He met Jenny on the way. B. He and Jenny attended a party.

C. He revised his lessons.

16. How does the man think about the woman’s decision?

A. It’s interesting. B. It’s unacceptable. C. It’s reasonable.

请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. After ______silence of several minutes, he came towards her and said, “I have struggled with my feelings , but without ______success!”

A. a; the B. the; a C. 不填; a D. a; 不填

22. If water is heated, it will _______.

A. expand B. spread C. develop D. increase

23. The war made _______ impossible for the scientist to go on with his research.

A. him B. it C. this D. that

24. The office is _______ that one, so we can have our meeting there.

A. six times bigger as B. six times as big as

C. six times big as D. six times as bigger as

25. The experts suggest _______ our army _______ modern weapons.

A. to equip; with B. equipping; with

C. to equip; for D. equipping; for

26. Rather than _______ on a crowded bus, he always prefers _______ a bicycle.

A. ride; ride B. riding; ride C. ride; to ride D. to ride; riding

27. Mr. Smith, _______ of the _______ speech, started to read a novel.

A. tired; boring B. tiring; bored C. tired; bored D. tiring; boring

28. His parents are convinced _______ the fact that their son always focuses his mind _______ his study.

A. of; on B. of; at C. by; to D. on; at

29. We were astonished _______ the temple still in its original condition.

A. finding B. to find C. find D. to be found

30. Although there were so many people on the square, I ___________ my friend at first sight.

A. chose from B. picked out C. selected out D. took out

31. We have ___________ every difficulty and finished the task on time.

A. overcome B. driven C. created D. forced

32. She really felt ___________ living in that countryside alone without anyone to turn to.

A. cut in B. sent apart C. cut off D. sent away

33. The little boy ran after the ball and ___________ a man standing there.

A. bumped into B. came across C. knocked at D. knocked over

34. My sister, as well as her classmates who _______ late for class, _______ criticized by the teacher.

A. were; was B. was; were C. was; was D. were; were

35. — Some more wine?

— Thank you. ______. I have to drive home.

A. With pleasure B. I’d rather not

C. That would be nice D. Just what I needed

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I have an old normal clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me after Mom had 36.

I have 37 feelings about it. I love it because it was hers, 38 it also holds some bad memories. When my mother was dying, 39 the clock ring really angered and 40 her.

Not long ago, it stopped working. I wanted to get it 41, so I took it to a clock shop.

“I know this has no special 42, but it was my mom’s,” I said to the shop owner and described the 43.

“We got a lot of these in. The clock works(零件) should be 44 with a battery operated movement,” he told me.

“You can’t fix this?”

“No, we don’t have the 45.”

I thanked him and went home. I called a few other 46 and was told the same thing.

“How 47,” I told the last one.

It sounds so much like 48 itself. Each of us is an original, but we find it so much 49 to copy another style than to develop our own.

We 50 to see the real value in who we are, so we try to be someone else. Just like this clock, it becomes 51 not because it couldn’t be fixed. It’s just much easier to change it than to fix it. What if this happened to people? 52 someone comes into a hospital with a failing heart and the doctor said, “Sorry, we can’t fix this because we don’t have the parts.

53? Because we don’t have 54 organ donors(器官捐助者). People would rather die with their organs than 55 them to save someone’s life. More strangely, people don’t sign to become an organ donor because they don’t have the time.

36.

A. passed away

B. fell asleep

C. set out

D. became ill



37.

A. anxious

B. different

C. hard

D. good



38.

A. and

B. or

C. so

D. but



39.

A. seeing

B. hearing

C. knowing

D. feeling



40.

A. excited

B. surprised

C. frightened

D. killed



41.

A. fixed

B. sold

C. wasted

D. thrown



42.

A. value

B. price

C. appearance

D. purpose



43.

A. cost

B. problem

C. cancer

D. memory



44.

A. replaced

B. shown

C. carried

D. made



45.

A. experience

B. ability

C. parts

D. spaces



46.

A. offices

B. homes

C. friends

D. shops



47.

A. sad

B. interesting

C. angry

D. wonderful



48.

A. clock

B. work

C. study

D. life



49.

A. happier

B. easier

C. worse

D. stranger



50.

A. come

B. fail

C. realize

D. begin



51.

A. beautiful

B. common

C. useless

D. helpful



52.

A. Suggest

B. Imagine

C. Wait

D. Look



53.

A. What

B. When

C. Why

D. Where



54.

A. true

B. determined

C. healthy

D. enough



55.

A. collect

B. leave

C. force

D. keep



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，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Is the death of a small local language such a terrible thing?

The answer is maybe. Many cultures may have words for many useful things we know nothing about. If their languages die, their valuable wisdom may be lost forever.

The future of the world’s languages depends on our actions now. Will we protect endangered languages or allowed them to quietly disappear?

Time will have the last word.

56. Scientists say that within 50 years, perhaps, there will be only _____ languages in the world.

A. 4,000 B. over 3,000 C. around 3,000 D. no more than 20

57. In “The languages of the world’s main cultures are replacing the languages of the smaller cultures,” the verb “ replace ” means “_____”.

A. to put something back into a correct place

B. to use a second thing in place of the first thing

C. to find good place for something

D. to decide how important something is

58. The passage says that if all the people in the world knew a major world language, _____.

A. radio and television would all use the language

B. it would be easier for them to share their ideas

C. lessons at schools would be taught in the language

D. people would respect their own culture more

59. Also, the passage says that if nobody spoke the languages of smaller cultures, _____.

A. Many of the words for things we do not know would be lost.

B. knowledge would come from the mouths of the elders

C. people would have difficult in working together

D. there would be no smaller cultures.

60. By saying “Time will have the last word,” the writer means “ _____”.

A. let us wait and see B. we have time to do something

C. it is too late to do anything D. it is only a problem of time

B

A chameleon is a kind of lizard. There are more than eighty different species of chameleon. Most of them live in Africa, but there are some species that live in India and the Middle East and one species that lives in Mediterranean countries. The interesting thing about chameleons is that many species can change their color. Some people believe that chameleons change color so that other animals will not be able to see them and attack them, but this is not the case. They usually do so when they are angry or frightened.

Because chameleons can turn their eyes backward, they can look behind them without moving their body or head. They can even have one eye looking forward and one eye looking backward at the same time!

Chameleons are long and thin and vary in size depending on the species – usually between 4 and 60 centimeters long. They move very slowly and live in trees. They wait for insects to come by and then shoot out their long tongues, catching the passing insects on the sticky surface. Then the chameleons eat their prey. Large chameleons also eat birds. Chameleons’ tongues move so quickly that people cannot see them.

In some African countries, people are afraid of chameleons because they think they bring bad luck. Many people in Madagascar believe that anything you do to a chameleon wil