天水一中2014级2015-2016学年度第一学期第二学段考试
英语试题
（满分：120分 时间：100分钟）
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填涂在答题卡相应的位置。
3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
第I卷（选择题）
第一部分 阅读部分(共2节，满分40分)
第一节 阅读理解(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A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Chocolate is good for your heart, skin and brain. Usually, people think that chocolate is bad for their health. They describe chocolate as “something to die for” or say “death by chocolate”. Now they should bite their tongues! Evidence is showing that some kinds of chocolate are actually good for you in the following ways:
A happier heart
Scientists at Harvard University recently examined 136 studies on cocoa— the main ingredient in chocolate— and found that it does seem to strengthen the heart. Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow. These benefits are the result of cocoa’s chemicals, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation(炎症)。
Better blood pressure
If yours is high, chocolate may help. Jeffrey Blumberg from Tufts University recently found that people with high blood pressure who ate 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks saw their blood pressure drop quickly.
Muscle magic
Chocolate milk may help you recover after a hard workout(锻炼). In a small study at Indiana University, people who drank chocolate milk between workouts did better on a tiredness test than those who had some sports drinks.
Better for your skin
German researchers gave 24 women a half-cup of special cocoa every day. After three months, the women’s skin was moister and smoother. The research shows that chocolate helps protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its appearance.
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Brain gains.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but research suggests that chocolate may improve your memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain.
1.What’s the meaning of “bite their tongues” in the first paragraph?
A. Stop talking. B. Speak up. C. Think of it. D. Listen to it.
2.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?
A. Sports drinks are better than chocolate milk.
B. sports drinks can make people easy to be tired.
C. Drinking milk can keep you energetic at work.
D. we should drink chocolate milk between times when we work hard.
3.What’s the best title for this passage?
A. Chocolate, a Healthy Food B. More Chocolate, Less Health
C. Chocolate and Blood Pressure D. Advice on Eating Chocolate
B
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits（成就）. Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.
Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy." John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,' " Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter（遭遇）with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.
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4. The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____
A. he started to play ball games
B. he ran his first marathon at age 18
C. he got a mountain bike at age 15
D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training
5. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.
A. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic
B. built up his body together with Saunders
C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience
D. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy
6. What do we know about Saunders?
A. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.
B. He once worked at a school in Scotland.
C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.
D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.
7.The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.
A. Excited B. Fascinated C. Delighted D. Convinced
8. It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.
A. was accompanied by his old playmates
B. made him well-known in the 1960s
C. was supported by other Arctic explorers
D. set a record in the North Pole expedition
C
There is no doubt that for a long time college education has been accepted. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere(妨碍；干扰) with each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the fierce competition so as to get admitted into graduate schools. Others find no stimulation (激励) in their studies, and consequently have to drop out, which is often encouraged by college administrators.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves--they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that’s a condemnation(指责) of the students as a whole, and doesn’t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can’t absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But
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disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds,either.
9. What’s the main idea of the first paragraph, ___________________.
A. people have great expectations for college education.
B. people still have a low opinion of college education.
C. the author thinks youngsters should all go to college.
D. people now no longer challenge college education.
10.The reason why more young people drop out of college is that _________.
A. they can start selling shoes and driving taxis.
B. they are no longer motivated in their studies.
C. they compete for admission to graduate schools.
D. college administrators force them to do so.
11.Who contributes to campus unhappiness?
A. young students who are all spoiled and expecting too much.
B. our society that can’t offer enough jobs to college graduates.
C. young people as well as our society are to blame for all this.
D. our society that has not enough jobs for high school graduates.
D
Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.
Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2012 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2015 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so
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it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
12. According to the text, an increasing number of American _____.
A. are suffering from mental disorders
B. like to play deadly games with doctors
C. turn to Internet pharmacies for help
D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites
13. Some Americans stay away from doctors because they _____.
A. are afraid to face the truth of their health
B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors
C. find medical devices easy to operate
D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance
14. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ______.
A. more than 6 million Americans distrust doctors
B. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality
C. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit
D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts
15. Which of the following is the author’s main argument?
A. It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.
B. It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.
C. It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.
D. It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.
第二节 阅读填空（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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Having a happier life is something we all always struggle for. One of the key foundations of that is to be consistent in doing things that bring happiness. 16
Consider these 4 habits:
1. Laugh in the middle of a busy day.
It’s 3 pm on a Sunday afternoon and you’re desperate to leave for school. On top of the homework, you’re running close to super important deadline. 17 Just take a moment to laugh. You should laugh more often, especially on a busy day.
2. Do not compare yourself to others.
Measure your own successes based on your progress and only yours. 18 No one is better than any one else.
3. Find time to work out regularly and eat well.
Exercise can produce tons of feel-good hormones（荷尔蒙）. 19 Feeding your body with whole and nutritious foods, on the other hand, can positively affect your body in both short and long term. Find time to schedule in a workout even if it’s only thirty
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minutes and do something you love. Eat well because foods can help you stay focused and more energized, and happier as a whole.
4. End each day with gratitude.
20 It might be something as small as a child’s laugh or something as huge as a praise from the headmaster. Whatever it is, be grateful for that day because it will never come again.
A. All of our lives are unique.
B. Surround you with people who matter.
C. Don’t blame everything not going your way.
D. Try to think you are better than anyone else.
E. Develop right habits to ensure we live a happy life.
F. These hormones can help avoid stress and depression.
G. Just before you go to bed, write down at least one wonderful thing that happened.
第二部分 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old. My brother and his friends were all 21 of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday. When they 22 that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought 23 for the performance. However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn't go, so my brother 24 me the ticket. I was really 25 !
I remember the buzz (嘈杂声) of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our 26 .After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became 27 .I could barely make out the stage in the 28 .We waited. Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band 29 the stage. My brother leaned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn't 30 what he was saying. The first song was already starting and the music was as 31 as a jet engine. I could 32 the drum beats and the bass notes(低音符) in my stomach.
I can't recall any of the songs that the band played. I just 33 that I really enjoyed the show and didn't want it to 34 .But in the end, after three encores (加演), the show finished. We left the 35 and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement. I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just 36 from a long sleep. My ears were still 37 with the beat of the last song.
After the 38 , I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music. Once in a while, 39 , I listen to one of their songs and 40 I'm back at that first show.
( )21.A.members
( )22.A.
B. fans
B. thought
C. friends
C. discovered
D. volunteers
D.
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guessed
( )23.A. flowers
( )24.A. offered
( )25.A. relaxed
( )26.A. entrance
( )27.A. quiet
( )28.A. silence
( )29.A. fell upon
( )30.A. forget
( )31.A. hard
( ) 32.A. feel
( )33.A. realize
( )34A. continue
( )35A. party
( )36A. escaped
( )37A. aching
( )38A. competition
( )39 A. besides
( )40A. decide
B. drinks
B. booked
B. embarrassed
B. seats
B. comfortable
B. noise
B. got through
B. repeat
B. loud
B. touch
B. understand
B. delay
B. theatre
B. traveled
B. burning
B. celebration
B. otherwise
B. imagine
C. tickets
C. returned
C. encouraged
C. spots
C. serious
C. smoke
C. stepped onto
C. hear
C. sweet
C. enjoy
C. believe
C. finish
C. opera
C. benefited
C. ringing
C. interview
C. instead
C. conclude
predicted
D. clothes
D. found
D. excited
D. space
D. nervous
D. darkness
D. broke into
D. bear
D. fast
D. digest
D. remember
D. change
D. stage
D. woken
D. rolling
D. performance
D. though
D. regret
第II卷（非选择题）
注意事项：
用0.5毫米黑色笔迹的签字笔将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
第三部分 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读下面短文，根据上下文在空白处填上恰当的词，或使用括号中的词的正确形式填空。
It is very common to see actors and 41 (act) smoking casually in films. Some people worry that this may encourage young people 42 (try) smoking. A study in the 43 (late) British medical journal magazine says that the more teenagers watch actors smoking in films, the more 44 (like) they are to take up the habit themselves. The survey 45 (carry) out among 5000 US children 46 regularly watch films, about a third had tried cigarettes. “ 47 is time for the film industry to take effective steps to stop actors 48 (smoke) in films,” Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the university of California said. He added that film stars must understand that their actions have a real influence 49 Children’s lives. Glantz also said that some of the children’s favourite actors are being paid to smoke. “Any film that receives money from the tobacco industry should be required to keep the audience well 50 (inform) of the danger of smoking.” he said.
第四部分 课文填空,有些单词首字母已给出（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
It was an 51 fantastic sight, the 52 itself is really exciting to watch and
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I shall never forget my first of one, 53 hard all day, I went to bed early. I was fast asleep when 54 my bed began shaking and I heard a strange sound, like a railway train 55 my window.
The attitudes of scientists towards this rise are different, and any 56 which increase the temperature would lead to a catastrophe. A scientist, George Hambley, 57 that any warming will be mild with few bad environmental 58 . He 59 that more carbon dioxide will make plants grow quicker, crops will produce more, It will encourage a greater 60 of animal, all of 61 will make life for human beings better.
You may become physically addicted to nicotine, then you may develop the habit of smoking and finally become 62 addicted to it, smoking may have all kinds of 63 on the health of the smokers, it not only affects your physical fitness, but also does 64 to your heart and lungs and causes a range of diseases. So it is important for one to 65 smoking and live a healthier life.
第五部分 写作（共2节；满分25分）
第一节 短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
文中共有10处语言错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(﹨)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Sally，
Now I’d like to tell you something about my part-time job this summer vacation, of which I worked like a guide in a travel agency. The work was interesting but tired. I think it was helpful to work this holiday. It was the first time that I have earned money on my own. I’ve come to understand how hard my parents work to support for the family. I used to keep on ask them for money, but now I’ll never waste money and learn to share worry to my parents. I’ve learnt how to get along well with others. What’s worse, I’ve gained some working and social experience and I have learnt something can’t be learnt from textbooks. All these will be good for my future. In the word, I had a wonderful and valuable summer vacation.
第二节 书面表达（满分15分）
2013年以来，雾霾多次袭击华北的一些城市，引起人们对空气质量的广泛关注。
假如你是李华，是校学生会主席。你打算倡议全校学生积极行动起来，自觉抵制空气污染。请根据下面的写作要点，写一篇英语倡议书。
1． 陈述空气污染的现状；
2． 分析空气污染的原因；
3． 提出几点倡议。
注意：1.词数120左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数；
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2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.参考词汇：fossil fuel 化石燃料 carbon dioxide 二氧化碳
Dear fellow students，
The foggy weather these days has caused widespread concern about air pollution.
Let us take immediate action to fight against air pollution.
Li Hua
英语期末考试试题答案
阅读理解
A篇：ADA B篇：CABBD C篇：ABC D篇：CABB
阅读填空 ECAFG
完形填空 21---25.BCCAD 26---30.BADCC 31---35.BADCB 36---40.DCDDB
语法填空
41.actresses 42. to try 43.latest 44.likely 45. was carried
46.who 47.It 48.smoking 49. on 50. informed
课文填空
51. Absolutely 52. Eruption 53. having worked 54. suddenly
55. Passing 56. trend 57.predicts 58.consequences 59. states
60.range 61.which 62.mentally 63.effects 64.damage/harm 65.quit
短文改错
1.of which----→in which 2.like---→as 3.tired---→tiring 4.have earned---→had earned 5.去掉support 后的for 6.ask---→asking 7. worry 后的to 改为with
8.worse---→more 9. something 后加that 10. in the word---→in a word
书面表达
Dear fellow students,
The foggy weather these days has caused widespread concern about air pollution. There are more traffic accidents and more people are suffering from breathing problems because of the pollution.
There are some reasons for air pollution in China. First of all, too many cars give off waste gas in the street. Second, a lot of fossil fuel like coal, petrol and natural gas is consumed in factories, which produces too much carbon dioxide. Besides, China has many smokers, who are making air pollution even worse.
It is time for us to fight against air pollution. We had better walk or ride to school to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel.We should plant more trees to absorb poisonous
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gas in the air. Besides, it can help improve the air quality to persuade people around us to give up smoking.
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