河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高四开学考试英语试题

第Ⅰ卷　(共100分)

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

第一节 （共5小题；每题1分，满分5分）

听下面五段对话，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。

例：How much is the shirt?

A.￡19.15. B.￡9.18. C.￡9.15

答案是C

1. What is the man going to do tonight？

A. To a birthday party. B. To visit Nancy. C. To the airport.

2. Why does the girl want to buy a clock?

A. She has trouble waking up.

B. She wants to buy someone a gift.

C. Her watch is broken.

3. Where did the woman stay while she was in Alaska?

A.She stayed in the local's house.

B. She stayed in a hotel with her friends.

C. She camped near the mountains.

4. What did the man ask Justin to do?

A. Borrow some magazines for him.

B. Bring some magazines to him.

C. Refer to some magazines to finish his design.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about？

A. A book. B. A film. C. A writer.

第二节 （共15小题；每题1分，满分15分）

听下面五段对话或独白，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. When did the woman get to the Friendship Hotel?

A. At a quarter past 11. B. At 11. C. At a quarter to 11.

7. What do we know about the conversation?

A. It's the rush hour when the woman got into the taxi.

B. The driver would get to another hotel.

C. The driver gave the woman a lift.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do you think may be the two speakers?

A. Doctors. B. Patients. C. Basketball players.

9. What do you know about their leader?

A. He has got bird flu.

B. He missed the important match.

C. He has already come to life.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What do you know about the man?

A. He is a foreigner.

B. He doesn't like opera so much.

C. He knows much about opera.

11. What will they do to enjoy Beijing Opera?

A. Book the tickets.

B. Call the theater.

C. Go to Chang'an Grand Theater.

12. What does the woman think of White Snake?

A. A traditional play. B. A moving play. C. The best Beijing Opera.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What happened to Mr Yang?

A.He won the marathon.

B. He lost weight.

C. He became a soccer team member.

14. How many hours does Mr Yang do sports each week?

A. 10 hours. B. 12 hours. C. 14 hours.

15. Which sport does Mr Yang think is cheap and relaxing?

A. Boxing. B. Swimming. C. Cycling.

16. What does Mr Yang think of soccer?

A. It's interesting, exciting and fast.

B. It's fun, fast and good for many things.

C. It's interesting, exciting and good for breathing.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At a bus stop. B. At a train station. C. At an airport.

18. How old is the child?

A. More than two years old. B. Two years old. C. Under two years old.

19. Why does the passenger want to walk her daughter?

A. To meet her curiosity.

B. To make her feel at home.

C. To kill time.

20. What do you learn from the conversation?

A. The man is going to see her mother.

B. The assistant gave them convenience.

C. The assistant helped them carry the luggage.

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。

Sharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years. There are now about 360 species of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.

Sharks range in size from the 0.1 meter long dwarf-dog shark to the 18-metre long whale shark — the world’s biggest fish. The whale shark, like two other large shark species — the basking shark and the megamouth shark — are harmless to people because they feed on plants and small aquatic animals.

Sharks have extremely sensitive sense organs. Some sharks can detect the scent(气味) of decaying fish or blood even when it is diluted(稀释) to only one part per million parts of seawater. They can probably hear underwater sounds that originate as far as 3 kilometers away and can tell the direction from which underwater sounds are coming.

Sharks are key predators(肉食动物) in the world’s oceans, helping control the numbers of many other ocean predators. Without sharks, the oceans would be overcrowded with dead and dying fish.

Every year, we catch and kill over 100 million sharks, mostly for food and for their fins. Dried shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, which makes a profit for the sellers. Other sharks are killed for sport and out of fear. Sharks are vulnerable to overfishing because it takes most species 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing and they produce only a few offspring.

Influenced by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the truth. Every year, a few types of sharks injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most attacks are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea lions and other marine mammals. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their normal prey, especially if they are wearing black wet suits.

If you are a typical ocean-goer, your chances of being killed by an unprovoked (无缘无故的) attack by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more likely to be killed by a pig than by a shark.

Sharks help save human lives. In addition to providing people with food, they are helping us learn how to fight cancer, bacteria and viruses. Sharks are very healthy and have aging processes similar to ours. Their highly effective immune system allows wounds to heal quickly without becoming infected, and their blood is being studied in connection with AIDS research.

Sharks are among the few animals in the world that almost never get cancer and eye cataracts. Understanding why can help us improve human health. Chemicals extracted from shark cartilage(软骨) have killed cancerous tumors in laboratory animals, and these chemicals may someday help prolong our life.

Sharks are needed in the world’s ocean ecosystems. Although they don’t need us, we need them. We are much more dangerous to sharks than they are to us. For every shark that bites a person, we kill one million sharks.

21．Which statement best expresses the main idea of the article?

A. There are many different species of sharks, but only a few of them are dangerous to humans.

B. Sharks are important to the ocean ecosystem and they are a valuable resource for humans.

C. Although some sharks are dangerous to humans, they can help save human lives.

D. Sharks always eat small fishes and they are an essential part of the world’s oceans.

22．Which question is NOT answered in the article?

A. How long does a shark live?

B. How many people are killed by sharks each year?

C. Why are sharks important in medical research?

D. What do humans kill sharks for?

23．It can be inferred from the passage that ______________.

A. Movies have given people the wrong impression of sharks.

B. Most sharks are dangerous to humans.

C. Sharks will attack anyone who is wearing black.

D. It is very likely that ocean-goers will be killed by a shark.

As an old-fashioned explorer, Paul Salopek sets out on foot to circle around the world. He is also a modern-day explorer. On top of a few clothes, a small first-aid kit and notebooks, he is carrying a recorder, a video camera, a small computer and a satellite phone — a telephone that connects to a satellite and can be used in many places where cell-phones don’t work.

The journey is long: 21,000 miles! It will take seven years to complete it.

Salopek was born in California and spent his childhood in Mexico. He says he has always liked to travel and doesn’t like to rush. At the age of fourteen, he climbed Mount Whitney in California and crossed the state’s Sierra Nevada Mountains alone. When he was fifteen years old, he walked the length of Death Valley. He once rode a mule 2,000 miles through mountains in Mexico.

As a longtime reporter, Salopek has reported from Africa, Asia and Mexico. Now 51 years old, he plans to keep writing. As he travels around the world, he is writing stories about the people he meets and the way they live. He looks for how people find local solutions to big problems such as lack of food and water. He also records the sounds he hears and takes photos of the sky and the Earth’s surface.

The long walk started in the Rife Valley in Ethiopia in East Africa. Many consider East Africa to be home to the first humans, who lived 160,000 years ago.

Salopek is retracing the paths our ancestors took as they left Africa and settled in parts of the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas. As Salopek is walking, he is learning more about himself and all of humankind.

24．The underlined phrase “on top of” in the first paragraph can be replaced by ______________.

A. at the top of B. in contrast to

C. in addition to D. on the basis of

25． The author develops the third paragraph mainly by ______________.

A. providing examples

B. making comparisons

C. making a careful analysis

D. following the order of time

26． According to the passage, Paul Salopek is a ______________.

A. doctor who likes carrying the small first-aid kit

B. journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying

C. writer who likes traveling, exploring and studying

D. photographer who is good at using satellite communication equipment

27．What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Paul Salopek: Following Man’s First Footsteps

B. Paul Salopek: Reflecting People’s Real Lives

C. Paul Salopek: Going for a Seven-year Study

D. Paul Salopek: Looking back upon the Childhood

Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world.We go fishing, sit in the garden, have a picnic, live in the suburbs or go to the seaside.The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk.When joggers jog, they don't run the streets.Every one of them tend to go to the park or the river.

But despite this, our children are growing up naturedeprived(剥夺)．I spent my boy