2016年文昌中学高一英语下学期期末试题含答案解析

2015—2016学年度第二学期高一年级英语科期考试题
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分
满分：150分   考试时间：120分钟
第Ⅰ卷  选择题
第一部分  听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）
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。
(A)
There is something very wrong with the system of values in a society that has only unkind terms (措辞) like nerds and geeks for the intellectually curious and academically serious people.
We all know what a nerd is: someone who wears thick glasses and ugly clothes; someone who knows all the answers to the chemistry or math homework but can never get a date on a Saturday night. And a geek, according to Webster’s New Word Dictionary, is a street performer who shocks the public by biting off heads of live chickens. It is an obvious fact about our language and our culture that someone who is devoted to pursuit (追求) of knowledge is compared to such a strange person.
Even at a famous educational institution like Harvard, anti-intellectualism (反智主义) is widespread: Many students are ashamed to admit, even to their friends, how much they study. The same thing happens in U.S. primary and high schools. [Z-x-x-k.Com]
Enough is enough. The anti-intellectual values that have spread throughout American society must be fought. There are very few countries in the world where anti-intellectualism runs as high in popular culture as it does in the US. In the most industrialized nations, especially in East Asia, a kid who studies hard is praised. But in America, average professional ballplayers are much more respected and better paid than professors of the best universities.[Z-x-x-k.Com]
How can a country where typical parents are ashamed of their children studying mathematics instead of going dancing be expected to compete in the technology race with Japan? How long can America remain a world-class power if we constantly put social skills and physical strength over academic achievement and intellectual ability?
Do we really expect to stay afloat largely by bringing in our scientists and intellectuals from abroad, as we have done for a major part of this country without making an effort to also develop a pro-intellectual (有利于知识分子的) culture at home?
Not until the words “nerd” and “geek” become terms of praise rather than insults
(侮辱) do we have a promising future.
21. What is the meaning of the words “nerd” and “geek” in this passage?
A. They are used in the U.S. to describe students from other countries.
B. They are insulting terms which are used to describe smart students.
C. A nerd is a good student and a geek is a poor student.
D. Nerds and geeks are proper descriptions of strange students.
22. What can be learnt from Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4?
  A. The US government doesn’t mean to spend much money on education.
  B. Few students work hard for their grade in famous universities like Harvard.
  C. Anti-intellectualism is not popular in industrialized countries in East Asia.  
  D. Professors earn more than professional basketball players on average in the US.
23. What is probably the author’s attitude towards the present society’s anti-intellectualism?
  A. Proud        B. Supportive       C. Unconcerned       D. Anxious
24. What can be a suitable title for the text?
  A. What is anti-intellectualism?          B. Why does society avoid nerds?
  C. Don’t laugh at nerds.              D. America needs its nerds.  

(B)
Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s roof-tops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most citizens, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, papers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of which was spent in doors, I thought that before long I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains, and perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
25. The writer felt sorry for himself because ________.
  A. he usually failed to see the fullest moon      
B. there was too much pollution
  C. he didn’t get used to modern inventions
D. there were too many accidents on the road
26. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment.             B. The nice moon.
  C. The high mountains.              D. Complete silence.
27. Modern things (in Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to ________.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
28. The author wrote the passage to ________.
A. show the love for the moonlight
B. express the feeling of returning to nature
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to show his longing (渴望) for modern life

(C)
Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting (绕…轨道而行) a red giant star larger than the sun and located some 290 million light years from the Earth.
Soto, a 25-year-old doctoral student in sciences at the University of Chile, worked for eight months using two telescopes at the La Silla observatory, about 370 miles north of Santiago, she told EFE on Wednesday. Last November, she discovered the planet now with the name of HD110014b and her work has now been published in a journal of the London Royal Astronomical Society. The discovery of planets orbiting red giant stars is “rare,” with only five such planets located around stars of that magnitude to date, she told EFE.
HD110014b orbits its star (恒星) at a distance about six-tenths the distance from the Sun to the Earth – or about the distance between Venus and the sun. “It's like imagining a planet three times bigger than Jupiter (木星) with the orbit of Venus around the Sun,” she said, adding that the red giant star is about twice the size of the Earth's sun.
Another planet had already been discovered orbiting the star, and now Soto's work has added a second planet to that solar system. To find the planet, she used the so-called radial velocity (径向速度) method, which consists of measuring the slight jiggling (晃动) movement of a star as a planet orbits around it, considering that the planets themselves send only a very weak signal and are quite difficult to detect (探测) on their own.
“The planets are very weak compared to the stars and you have to use indirect methods to detect them. I analyzed the data that had been gathered over years to confirm the first planet and I discovered the second one orbiting the star,” she said.
29. What can we know about HD 110014b from the passage?
  A. It is the first planet discovered in that solar system.
  B. It’s about three times the size of Jupiter.
  C. Its star is about 290 million light years from the Earth.
  D. It orbits its star at the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
30. Why are planets not easy to discover?
  A. It takes years to gather data.      B. They’re far away from the Earth.
  C. Their signal is too weak to catch.    D. The existing technology is not good enough.
31. What is the purpose of the passage?
  A. To inform readers of a new discovery of a planet.
  B. To describe how to discover a planet.
  C. To tell an inspiring story of Maritza Soto.
  D. To strengthen the importance of discovering a planet.
32. Which section (版) of a newspaper is the passage most likely to come from?
  A. Science       B. Geography       C. Business       D. Environment
(D)
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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。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。（请将答案写在答题卡的相应位置）
Unless you think you’re the smartest, who doesn’t want to be smarter? Of course I want to be smarter too, so I try to find out who’s the real smart guy that maybe I can learn from.   36  . Here are the signs of smart people:
They don't talk as much as you, because they know they got smart by listening.
They probably do social media. Not always, but probably.   37   They also use this to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise won’t have come across.
  38   They never bother their head about the problem of “work-life balance” and somehow manage to seem 100% employed in what they’re doing, even though you know they’re taking proper steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are well balanced.
They know they are the smartest person in the room, but they don’t spend their time talking about that.   39   That is, they challenge themselves to see if they can make everyone else the smartest person in the room, too.
They never, ever, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even though it would be easy to do so. They’ve learned through bitter experience that the only thing that happens when you make someone look bad is that you look bad yourself.
If they are managers, they will make every effort to get their people smarter, more connected and more popular than them in their teams. They’re not threatened because they know that smartness is synergistic (相互促进的).   40
A. It is not only another chance to listen.
B. Instead, they take it as a personal challenge.
C. They know it is an advantage to them.
D. Now I have got an answer about whether someone’s smart or not.
E. They’ll be smiling even when things go very badly wrong.
F. They deal with home, work and personal interests perfectly.
G. They will also make sure their smart people look smarter than them for the same reason.

第三部分  语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节  完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项
There are many kinds of friends. Some are always   41   you, but don’t understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but understand you. Many people will step in your life, but only   42   friends leave footprints.
I shall always recall the autumn and the girl with the   43  . She will always bring back the friendship between us. I know she will always be my best friend.
It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves   44   in the cool
 45  . In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves,   46   to the sound of them.
Autumn is a   47   season but life is uninteresting. The free days always get me
 48  . But one day, the sound of a violin   49   into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was   50   in playing her violin.
   I had   51   seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn’t know that I had been   52   there for so long but my existence did not seem to disturb her.
   Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building   53   I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became   54  .   55   we didn’t know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believed she also loved me.
Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly   56  . To my astonishment, the girl came over to me.
“You must like the violin,” she said.
   “Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.
   Suddenly, a   57    expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.
   “I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that   58   me. ” she said.
   “In fact, it was your playing   59   gave me a meaningful autumn,” I answered, “Let’s be friends.” The girl smiled, and so did I.
    I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure of the girl. She was like a   60   —so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light that it made the autumn beautiful.
41. A.for  B. with C. against D. to
42. A. online B. new C. true D. old
43. A. violin  B. song C. play D. sound
44. A. shaking B. hanging C. floating D. flying
45. A. snow B. rain C. air D. wind
46. A. watching B. seeing C. listening D. hearing
47. A. lively B. harvest C. lovely D. lonely
48. A. up B. off C. over D. down
49. A. flowed B. grew C. entered D. ran
50. A. active B. lost C. busy D. interested
51. A. once B. usually C. often D. never
52. A. waiting B. stopping C. standing D. hearing
53. A. because B. so C. when D. but
54. A. interesting B. moving C. encouraging D. exciting
55. A. But B. Because  C. Though D. Even
56. A. changed B. began C. gone D. stopped
57. A. sad B. happy C. strange D. surprised
58. A. surprised B. encouraged C. excited D. interested
59. A. that B. which C. it D. who
60. A. song B. fire C. sister  D. dream

第Ⅱ卷  非选择题
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
We can always hear voices comparing the education systems in China and the US. It’s true that   61   exist a lot of differences, but this cannot be an excuse    62  
having a passive attitude toward studying in China.
When I came back from the US last year and continued my senior middle school education in China, I sensed many great differences. I thought that school in China was too hard for   63   (we) students, and that we didn’t get to do enough fun exercise except running around playgrounds together. My mom had a long talk with me. After that, I realized that though high school life in China is harder, it can give us   64  (much). The pressure helps us learn the true meaning of competition   65   we step into society. It gives us a strong heart and   66   (teach) us to step forward no matter what the   67   (real) is. It’s like climbing a mountain. You might feel dizzy and nervous, but the top is always there waiting for you as long as you are strong enough
 68   (take) one more step.
We complain   69   (main) because we can’t see the whole picture.   70   we
all need to understand is that success takes efforts and tears.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节  短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，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限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Once, when l was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy ticket for the circus. Finally, there was only one family among us and the ticket counter. This family made deep impression on me. There were eight children, both probably under the age of twelve. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes was not expensive, and they were clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, held hands. They were excitedly talking about the clowns, elephants and other performances what they would see that night. Everyone could sense that they have never been to the circus ago.
                                                                               
笫二节  书面表达（满分25分）
  假如你是锐航中学的李华，准备申请美国的一所大学，请根据以下提示写一封自荐信。内容包括：
1. 在校表现；
2. 获奖经历；
3. 性格特点。
注意： 1. 词数100左右：
      2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
      3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,
   I am Li Hua from Ruihang High School. I want to apply for the offer of your university.
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