西安市第一中学2015-2016学年度第一学期期中
高二年级英语（必修5）试题
第一部分 听力（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分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。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 is the weather like?
A．It's raining. B．It's cloudy. C．It's sunny.
2．Who will go to China next month?
A．Lucy. B．Alice. C．Richard.
3．What are the speakers talking about?
A．The man's sister. B．A film. C．An actor.
4．Where will the speakers meet?
A．In Room 340. B．In Room 314. C．In Room 223.
5．Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A．In a restaurant. B．In an office. C．At home.
第二节 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。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至8题。
6．Why did the woman go to New York?
A．To spend some time with the baby.
B．To look after her sister.
C．To find a new job.
7．How old was the baby when the woman left New York?
A．Two months. B．Five months.
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C．Seven months.
8．What did the woman like doing most with the baby?
A．Holding him. B．Playing with him. C．Feeding him.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9．What are the speakers talking about?
A．A way to improve air quality.
B．A problem with traffic rules.
C．A suggestion for city planning.
10．What does the man suggest?
A．Limiting the use of cars.
B．Encouraging people to walk.
C．Warning drivers of air pollution.
11．What does the woman think about the man's idea?
A．It's interesting. B．It's worth trying. C．It's impractical.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12．How long will the man probably stay in New Zealand?
A．One week. B．Two weeks. C．Three weeks.
13．What advice does the woman give to the man?
A．Go to New Zealand after Christmas.
B．Book his flight as soon as possible.
C．Save more money for his trip.
14．What can we learn about flights to New Zealand at Christmas time?
A．They require early booking.
B．They can be twice as expensive.
C．They are on special offer.
听第9段材料，回答第15至l7题。
15．Why did Jane call Mike?
A．To ask him to meet her.
B．To tell him about Tom.
C．To borrow his car.
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16．Where will Jane be in about one hour?
A．At Mike's place. B．At the airport. C．At a garage.
17．What can we infer from the conversation?
A．Jane has just learned to drive.
B．Jane's car is in bad condition.
C．Mike will go to the airport.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18．What did the speaker ask the students to do the week before?
A．Write a short story.
B．Prepare for the lesson.
C．Learn more about the writer.
19.Why does the speaker ask the questions?
A．To check the students' understanding of the story.
B．To draw the students' attention to reading skills.
C．To let the students discuss father son relationships.
20．What will the students do in 10 minutes?
A．Ask more questions. B．Discuss in groups. C．Give their answers.
第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共10小题;每小题2分，满分20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 recently had dinner with someone who told me that one of his best friends had been killed in a private plane crash, and something happened at the memorial service that he’ll never forget. He shared the story with me.
At the memorial service, his friend’s wife walked to the platform to speak to the gathering. She said a friend had asked her the best memory she had of their life together. At the moment, she had been too sad to answer, but she had thought about it since and wanted to answer the question.
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They were in their late forties when he died, and she began talking about a time in their life almost twenty years earlier. She had quit her job to obtain her master’s degree, and her husband never hesitated in his support.
He held down his own job and also did the cooking, cleaning, and other housework while she studied for her degree.
One time they both stayed up all night. She was finishing her paper, and he was preparing for an important business meeting. That morning, she walked out of her study, leaned against the door by the stairs, looked at her husband downstairs and just thought about how much she loved him. She knew how important this meeting was to his future, and she was feeling guilty that she didn’t even have time to make his breakfast. He took his briefcase and hurried out. She heard the garage door open and close, but much to her surprise, she heard it open again about thirty seconds later. From above, she watched her husband dash into the house and walk over to the forgotten coffee table. Marking the surface of it with his finger through the dust with the words “I love you”, then he raced back to his car.
The new widow then looked out at her audience and said, “John and I had a wonderful life together. We have been around the world several times. We’ve had everything money can buy...but nothing comes close to that moment.” Hearing this, I was deeply moved. “Love makes life worthwhile.”
21. The service was held to ______.
A. listen to the woman’s story
B. mourn the woman’s husband
C. meet some old friends
D. share the woman’s sadness
22. Why did the woman quit her job?
A. She had to support her husband.
B. She had too much housework to do.
C. She wanted to travel around the world.
D. She needed to concentrate on her studies.
23. The woman mentioned an incident 20 years ago to show______.
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A. how busy their life was
B. how her husband loved her
C. how they improved their life
D. how hard her husband worked
(B)
Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.
AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19, Oct.) cost £ 169.15 at Booking. Com. A week later, the same room cost £ 118.15.
If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid ─ or you’re looking for a big event to pass your time ─ check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.
STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If travelling to your destination by train, you may want to find a base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.
Don’t be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge’s Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was £ 95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was £ 75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just £ 62.95.
LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self-catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O’Neill Flat on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, available for £ 420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.
GET ON A BIKE London’s ‘Boris bikes’ have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.
Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around £ 1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or £ 5 per day).
24. The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may
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_________.
A. help travellers pass time
B. attract lots of travellers to the UK
C. allow travelers to make flexible plans
D. cause travelers to pay more for accommodation
25. “Farrington” in paragraph 5 is most probably ________.
A. a hotel away from the train station B. the tube line to Covent Garden
C. an ideal holiday destination D. the name of a travel agency
26. The passage shows that the O’Neill Flat ________.
A. lies on the ground floor
B. is located in central London
C. provides cooking facilities for tourists
D. costs over £ 100 on average per day in late September
(C)
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is .
However , to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time that most people won’t put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong
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anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
27. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.
A. the reasons for success
B. the meaning of success
C. the standards of success
D. the importance of success
28. In Paragraph 2,the underlined word that refers to ______.
A. being good at something
B. setting a practical goal
C. putting in more time
D. succeeding in life
29. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. Successful people like to show their great skills.
B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.
C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.
D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.
30. What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Having a goal is vital to success.
B. Being good is different from being great.
C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.
D. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.
第二节 （共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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How to Make Notes
If you are reading a novel for school rather than just for fun, you need to get organized. Here are a few tips.
First, make notes. Pencil notes in the book, but also write separate notes in a notepad. 31 What do they do in the novel? What are their aims? Everything that we are told about a character by a novelist can be related, from their appearance to the kind of food they eat.
It is also a great help to be able to tell yourself the story after you have read it. Therefore, the order in which a series of events happened and plot are important. 32 This will help you bring the observations you make about character, setting, language and so on together.
Next, focus on themes. These are abstract ideas that the author is concerned about. Perhaps love is a major theme, or justice, peach and war. 33
Themes, though, are nothing without language. Language is what novels are made of. 34 They may use metaphors (比喻), invent symbols, or show who characters are with different speech styles for different characters.
35 Is a novel told in the third person or from the point of view of a character? There are many different kinds of point of view, and they have a great effect on the reader’s experience of a story.
A. Pay attention to characters.
B. Reading is very interesting.
C. How does the author feel about them?
D. Point of view is another very important novelistic tool.
E. As you read, make a brief note of what happens in each chapter.
F. Writers use language in a special way to make their novels work.
G. When you read, don’t forget to set down the main idea of the novel.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
You may be surprised to see "making sure children never' suffer" as a mistake.
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The fol-
Lowing 36 may help you understand how rescuing children from all suffering 37
weakness.
A little boy felt sorry for a butterfly struggling to 38 from its chrysalis（蛹）． He decided to 39 the butterfly. So he peeled（剥开）the chrysalis open for the butterfly. The
little boy was so 40 to watch the butterfly spread its wings and fly off, into the sky.
Then he was horrified 41 he watched the butterfly fall to the ground and die because it
did not have the muscle 42 to keep flying. In fact，the butterfly’s struggle to 43 the chrysalis helps the butterfly become stronger.
Like the little boy 44 too often want to protect their children from struggle in the
45 of love. They don’t realize that their children need to struggle，to experience 46，
to deal with disappointment，and to solve their own problems. Only in this way can children
47 their emotional strength，become strong-willed and develop the skills necessary for
the even bigger struggles they will meet 48 their lives. Children experiencing sufferings
can 49 the ups and downs of life.
However it isn’t helpful either in this case when parents 50 lecture（训斥），blame
and shame to what the child is experiencing. Mothers 51 to say，“Stop crying and act-
ing like a spoiled boy. You can’t always get what you want: These 52 words should be
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avoided.
Instead, parents can offer loving support. You can say，"Don’t lose 53 ．Be brave！
You will succeed if you try again.”Then comes the tough part一no 54 and no lectures.
Simply allow him to discover that he can get over his disappointment and 55 what he can do to get what he wants in the future.
36. A. story B. proverb C. saying D experiment
37. A. damages B. burns C. creates D. experiences
38. A. bear B. suffer C. date D. emerge
39. A. skill B. feed C. help D. rescue
40. A. depressed B. moved C. puzzled D. excited
41. A. since B. as C. before D. until
42. A. power B. energy C. strength D. force
43. A. come up with B. do away with C. keep up with D. break away from
44. A. teachers B. parents C. relatives D. friends
45. A. case B. charge C. name D. course
46．A. friendships B. scholarships C relationships D. hardships
47. A. build up B. come up C. hung up D. turn up
48. A. from B. throughout C. at D. on
49. A. expect B. predict C. survive D. avoid
50. A. add B. adapt C. devote D. contribute
51. A. pretend B. happen C. tend D. seem
52. A. discouraging B. inspiring C. interesting D. touching
53. A. face B. heart C. sight D. weight
54. A. parking B. smoking C. drinking D. rescuing
55. A. figure out B. carry out C. rule out D. drop out
第二节 语篇填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
John Snow was a famous doctor in London- so expert, indeed,___56___ he
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attended Queen Victoria as her personal _____57______(physics). But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people _____58_____ (expose) to cholera. This was the __59_____(die) disease of its day. ____60_____ its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face __61____ challenge and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled ___62____ its cause was found.
He _______63_________(interest) in two theories that possibly explained how cholera killed people. The first suggested that cholera ______64_____ (multiply) in the air. A cloud of dangerous gas floated around until it found its victims. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease into their bodies ____65_____ their meals. From the stomach the disease quickly attacked the body and soon the affected person died.
第四部分 写作（共两节，满分20分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Seventeen-year-old teenager, John Janson, honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night in Rivertown in giving lifesaving first aid on his neighbor after a shocked knife attack.
John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the brave of ten people who had saved the life of another.
John was studying in his room while he and his father had rushed outside, a man ran from the scene. They discovered that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed repeated with the knife. She was lying in her front garden bleed very heavily. His hands had almost been cut off.
第二节 书面表达（满分10分）
假设你是李华。你的英国笔友John写信告诉你近日他由于沉迷于电脑游戏，健康受到很大影响。他十分焦虑。请你根据以下要点提示，给他写一封回信，建议他养成良好的生活习惯。要点如下：
1．限制玩游戏的时间，把精力逐渐转移到其他事情上；2．规定起床和睡觉的时间，形成良好的作息习惯；3．每天锻炼半小时，增强体质。
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注意：1.词数100左右； 2．开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear John，
I’m sorry to hear that you’re addicted to computer games which have had a bad influence on your health.___________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Yours faithfully,
Li Hua
西安市第一中学
2015-2016学年度第一学期期中
高二年级英语（必修5）试题
参考答案
听力答案：1.B 2.A 3.C 4.A 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.C 9.A 10.A 11.C 12. C 13.B 14.B 15.C 16.A 17.B
18．B 19.A 20.C
二．阅读理解：21 -25 BDBDA 26-30 CABBC 31-35 AECFD
三．完形：（共20小题；每小题1分， 满分20分）
36-40 ACDCD 41-45 BCDBC 46-50 DABCA 51-55 CABDA
四．语法填空：Keys: that; physician; exposed; deadly; Neither; the; until; became\was interested; multiplied; with
五．改错：
Seventeen-year-old teenager, John Janson, honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night in
Was honoured
Rivertown in giving lifesaving first aid on his neighbor after a shocked knife attack.
For shocking
John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the brave of ten
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bravery
people who had saved the life of another.
John was studying in his room while he and his father had rushed outside, a man ran
When 去掉 had
from the scene. They discovered that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed
repeated with the knife. She was lying in her front garden bleed very heavily. His
repeatedly a bleeding Her
hands had almost been cut off.
阅读表达：
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