2013—2017学年上学期高一年级
第四次双周练英语试卷
日期：2013年11月02日
【说明】本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分, 满分为150, 考试时间为120分钟, 请将第Ⅰ卷答案写在答题栏中, 第Ⅱ卷答题直接在卷上作答。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题,
共100分）
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）
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,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。
1. What do we know about the car?
A. It is a new car
B. It was bought five years ago
C. It doesn’t work now
2. How did Charles travel through South China?
A. By car
B. By bus
C. By train.
3. What does the woman want to drink at the moment?
A. Hot coffee
B. Some water
C. Something cool
4. What is Mr. Black doing now?
A. He is working
B. He is having lunch
C. He is taking a message
5. What do we know about Tom?
A. Tom worked hard last term
B. Tom hasn’t made great progress in his studies
C. Tom is one of the best students
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分,满分22.5分）
6. Why did the woman want to talk to the man?
A. She wanted to quit her job
B. She wanted to ask for a pay rise
C. She asked for some suggestions
7. What is the possible relationship between the speakers?
A. Colleagues
B. Host and babysitter
C. Teacher and student
听第7段材料,回答第8至9题。
8. What is Scott busy doing now?
A. Writing a paper
B. Looking for a book
C. Reading a book
9. What will the woman do next?
A. Go to a bookshop to buy the book she needs
B. Get a book from the man’s shelf
C. Borrow the book she needs from a library
听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。
10. What does Mike do now?
A. He is a gardener
B. He is a teacher
C. He is a doctor
11. What does Mike think of teaching?
A. It has a good salary
B. It is very dull
C. It needs a lot of preparation
12. What does the woman advise Mike to do?
A. Breathe fresh air in gardens
B. Give up his teaching job
C. Think seriously about his future
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
13. When is Mr. White’s birthday?
A. On September 21st
B. On Wednesday
C. On September 22nd
14. How did the woman know Mr. White’s birthday?
A. Her headmaster told her
B. She heard it by accident
C. Mr. White told her
15. What does the woman think of flowers and chocolates?
A. Only ladies like them
B. They are good birthday gifts C. They are very expensive
16. What will the speakers buy for Mr. White?
A. A football ticket
B. A football
C. A box of chocolates
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What should a commercial website be like?
A. It should use complicated paragraphs
B. It should be clear and simple
C. It should use long sentences
18. What can we learn about a personal website’s Internet address?
A. It ends with ‘. com’
B. It has two main endings
C. It ends with ‘. edu’
19. What does an educational website focus on?
A. The amount of pages
B. High quality content
C. The look of the site
20. What is the purpose of a non-profit organization website?
A. To help people with similar interests communicate
B. To improve visitors’ learning experience
C. To increase companies’ sales
第二部分 词汇知识运用（共两节,
满分30分）
第一节 多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分）
21. The
news made all of them
to death
A. frightening
frightened
B. frightened
frightening
C. frightened
frightened
D. frightening
frightening
22. Tom and Mike are good friends. They often
each other from being punished by the teacher
A. stop
B. shelter
C. prevent
D. keep
23. --Are you familiar with Mr Smith?
--Not really. We often communicate with each other by email but we have never
met.
A. actually
B. usually
C. directly
D. nearly
24. Mike didn’t play football yesterday because he had
his leg .
A. damaged
B. hurt
C. hit
D. struck
25. More TV programs, according to government officials, will be produced
people’s concern over food safety.
A. to raise
B. to rise
C. to have raised
D. to have risen
26. I must warn you that our food is almost
. We can’t survive if there is no one to help us.
A. at the end
B. at an end
C. by the end
D. in the end
27. As soon as we heard the boy shouting for help, we rushed to his
and pulled him out of the river.
A. shelter
B. rescue
C. disaster
D. outline
28. In order to
the differences with her father, she decided to have a face-to-face talk with him.
A. tell
B. solve
C. settle
D. swap
29. I called her several times but the phone didn’t
.
A. go through
B. get through
C. get down
D. get up
30. Don’t mention that at the beginning of the story, or it may
the shocking ending.
A. give away
B. give in
C. give out
D. give up
第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分,满分20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,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our new house. I was looking out of the window and saw my
31
moving around mysteriously on the
32
lawn(草坪). “What are you doing out there??I called him.
l“I’m making you a
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.” He looked up, smiling. Busy with our new life, I finally
34
about his surprise.
35 one day the following March when I looked out of the window, I saw
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different across the yard. What was that? I decided to
37
outside for a closer look.
They were crocuses(番红花), spreading throughout the front lawn, all my favorite colors.
Dad, I smiled, remembering the young plants he had
38 grown last autumn, He knew that the winter always got me down. How
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I was, not only for the
40
but also for him.
Then another
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came with only half the usual blooms（花）. The next spring there were none. But my life was
42
than ever, and I had never been much of a gardener. I should have asked Dad to come over and
43
new ones. But I
44
did.
He died suddenly one October day. I
45
him terribly. On a dark spring afternoon I found myself
46
. It was Dad’s birthday and I couldn’t help 47 , 揌ow is he now ? Is there really a heaven??Suddenly I
48
the lawn. There bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus! Tears filled my eyes as I
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its importance.
The pink crocus bloomed for only a day, but it built my
50
for a lifet
ime.
31. A. neighbour
B. husband
C. father
D. daughter
32. A. flat
B. green
C. back
D. front
33. A. surprise
B. garden
C. word
D. promise
34. A. heard
B. forgot
C. lost
D. remembered
35. A. Before
B. While
C. After
D. Until
36. A. anything
B. nothing
C. something
D. everything
37. A. head
B. wait
C. stay
D. keep
38. A. eagerly
B. secretly
C. bravely
D. happily
39. A. patient
B. puzzled
C. curious
D. thankful
40. A. flowers
B. life
C. love
D. work
41. A. summer
B. winter
C. spring
D. autumn
42. A. harder
B. busier
C. wealthier
D. easier
43. A. bring
B. buy
C. offer
D. plant
44. A. seldom
B. often
C. never
D. always
45. A. impressed
B. missed
C. ignored
D. called
46. A. worried
B. crazy
C. surprised
D. upset
47. A. complaining
B. answering
C. shouting
D. wondering
48. A. looked at
B. looked for
C. looked up
D. looked out
49. A. found
B. felt
C. realized
D. saw
50. A. house
B. confidence
C. business
D. power
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,从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time. Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easier to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my younger daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps, and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.
With e-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think who might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way to stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use e-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
51. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
A. explain how to use the Internet
B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C. tell the merits and usefulness of the Internet
D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
52. The use of e-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
A. spend less time working
B. have more free time with his child
C. work at home on weekends
D. work at a speed comfortable to him
53. According to the writer, e-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the former helps one ________.
A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible
C. pass on much more information than the latter
D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the latter.
54. The best title for this passage is _________.
A. Computer: new technological advances
B. Internet: new tool to maintain good friendship
C. Computer have made life easier
D. Internet: a convenient tool for communication
B
In small towns all across West Texas, one group of workers has earned the love and admiration of the town’s people; and that’s the firefighters (消防员) who work around the clock to save their homes. While there is much sadness and destruction for many families, there is also great joy. In all, some 300 families have lost all that they own, but hundreds more homes are still standing because of the brave men and women in the fire service who risk their own lives to save the homes of strangers.
In Mineral Wells, Texas, local people gather outside the American Red Cross shelter each night to cheer their heroes as they return from the field.
“The guys send us a text message to let us know they’re on their way home,” said Tina Draper, the American Red Cross Shelter manager. “That’s when the community begins to gather. When the guys pull up in their trucks, they’re very tired, but they perk (昂首挺胸) right up when they see all the people lined up to cheer them on.”
Inside the shelter, drawings of support from school children line the walls and the smell of good southern home cooking wafts (漂浮) through the air.
“We just want to do all we can to help these firefighters through this difficult time,” said Draper. “The Red Cross, all the local churches, the schools and everyone have been working side-by-side to make sure that every family and every firefighter is cared for”.
55. What do the underlined words, “work around the clock”, mean in the first paragraph?
A. Work with a clock.
B. Work day and night.
C. Work very quickly.
D. Work very slowly.
56. How d the firefighters tell people that they are returning?
A. They make a phone call.
B. They send a text message.
C. They let Tina Draper tell people.
D. They send an email.
57. We can infer from the text that people
.
A. are very grateful to the firefighters
B. feel sorry for the firefighters
C. help firefighters to put out the fire
D. are admired by the firefighters
58. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. Heroes in West Texas
B. The Red Cross’s Contribution
C. A Hero’s Welcome
D. How to Save Houses on Fire
C
The volcano is one of the most surprising frightening forces of nature. Maybe you have seen pictures of these “fireworks” of nature. Sometimes when a volcano erupts , a very large wall of melted rock moves down the side of a mountain. It looks like a “river of fire.” Sometimes volcanoes explode, throwing the melted rock and ashes(灰)high into the air. But where does this melted rock come from? The earth is made up of many layers(层). The top layer that we see is called the crust. Under the crust are many layers of hard rock. But far, far beneath the crust whose rock is so hot, it is soft. In some places it even melts. The melted rock is called magma. Sometimes the magma breaks out to the surface through cracks in the crust(地壳). These cracks are volcanoes.
Most people think of mountains when they think of volcanoes. But not every mountain is a volcano. A volcano is simply the opening in the earth from which the magma escapes. The hot magma, or lava as it is called, cools and builds up on the surface of the earth. Over thousands of years, this pile of cooled lava can grow to be very, very big. For example, the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro, is a volcano. It towers more than 16,000 feet above the ground around it.
59. The underlined word “erupts” (Para. 1) means
.
A. moves down
B. breaks away
C. builds up
D. suddenly throws out lava
60. Which words in the passage have the same meaning as “melted rock”?
A. “Volcano” and “ explode”
B. “Crust” and “hard rock”
C. “Magma” and “lava”
D. “Volcano” and “magma”
61. Which is the correct order of the layers of the earth (beginning with the top layer)?
A. Crust ?hard rock ?magma ?soft rock
B. Crust ?hard rock ?soft rock ?magma
C. Magma ?soft rock ?hard rock ?crust
D. Volcano ?cracks ?magmabove the gr — crust
62. The best title（标题）of the passage should be
A. The volcano
B. Kilimanjaro volcano
C. The mountains
D. The melted rock
D
In the United States, many low income（低收入）parents cannot afford to buy enough food for their children. A program called Kids Cafe is helping some of these children by providing free nutritious (有营养的)snacks and meals during after-school programs.
At a community(社区) center in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C., children make a snack as part of their after-school program. “The snack is very healthy for your body, but the main thing is that it tastes really, really good,” Keith Clements tells them. He runs the Kids Cafe program
The children are between the ages of 5 and 11 and are from several local schools. About half have parents from Ethiopia. Many of the children eat their traditional food at home. Kids Cafe, with food offered free by a food bank, gives them an opportunity to try different types of food.
“It’s good,” says one girl. But Rebecca Nance, whose parents are from the US, is not so sure. “The taste is weird.” Her mother, Daffany Nance has two children in the program. She’s glad her kids are getting nutritious food. “Even in my house we don’t have much junk food,” she says, “so it’s very important that it’s healthy and continues to help them grow better.”
The charity(慈善机构), Feeding America, started the national Kids Cafe program in 1993, The charity says more than 16 million children in the United States do not have enough healthy food to eat.
Kids Cafe became part of the after-school program at this community center five years ago. Lori McFail heads the after-school program. She says some children do not eat good evening meals because their parents work late or cannot afford healthy food. She hopes the children will make full use of what they’ve learned about nutrition in their lives.
63. What is the purpose of starting Kids Café?
A. To provide poor children with nutritious food
B. To raise money for some poor children
C. To develop the after-school program
D. To help poor children learn new skills
64. The underlined word “weird” is the closest in meaning to
.
A. delicious
B. unusual
C. sweet
D. strong
65. Who leads the after-school program?
A. Lori McFail B. Keith Clements C. Feeding America D. A community center in Virginia
66. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Children Learn to Make Traditional Food
B. Low Income Parents Made a program
C. Feeding America Started Kids Cafe
D. Kids Café Fights Childhood Hunger
E
In the second half of each year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Of these, only about half a dozen produce the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that give them hurricane status, and several usually make their way to the coast .There they cause millions of dollars of damage ,and bring death to large numbers of people.
The great storms that hit the coast start as innocent circling disturbances（扰乱）hundreds or thousands of miles out to sea .As they travel aimlessly over water warmed by the summer sun ,they are carried westward by the trade winds（信风）.When conditions are just right ,warm, moist air flows in at the bottom of such a disturbance, moves upward through it and comes out at the top .In the process, the moisture in this warm air produces rain ,and with it the heat is changed into energy in the form of strong winds .As the heat increases ,the young hurricane begins to swirl（旋动）in a counterclockwise（逆时针方向）motion.
The average life of a hurricane is only about nine days, but it contains almost more power than we can imagine .The energy in the heat released by a hurricane’s rainfall in a single day would satisfy the entire electrical needs of the United States for more than six months. Water, rather than wind, is the main source of death and destruction in a hurricane. A typical hurricane brings 6 to 12-inch downpours resulting in sudden floods .Worst of all is the powerful movement of the sea—the mountains of water moving toward the low—pressure hurricane center, The water level rises as much as 15 feet above normal as it moves toward shore.
67. When does an ordinary tropical storm turn into a hurricane?
A. When it begins in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea
B. When it hits the coastline
C. When it is more than 75 miles per hour.
D. When its wind reaches 75 miles per hour.
68. What is the worst thing about the hurricane?
A. The destructive effect of water.
B. The heat it releases.
C. It lasts about nine days.
D. Strong winds.
69. The counterclockwise swirling of the hurricane is brought about by
.
A. the low pressure center of the storm
B. the force of waves of water
C. the trade winds
D. the increasing heat
70. Which of the following about the hurricane is TRUE?
A. It often occurs around June
B. It is not so powerful as that of storm born in the Caribbean Sea
C. It usually lasts about nine days
D. It can be easily detected and prevented
第II卷（非选择题,
共50分）
’ve make e
the same mistakes.
74. You should make an o
before trying to write a composition.
75. With the help of his English teacher, his interest in English g_______ grows.
根据括号内的汉语提示写出单词
76. We met a group of
(骑自行车的人).
77. Pollution
(涉及) everyone’s health, so it is important to prevent it before it is too late.
78. The
(苦难) of the people was extreme.
79. Water, food ,and
(电) were hard to get.
80. Your speech was heard by a group of five
(评委), all of whom agreed that it was the best one this year.
第二节 完成句子(每小题2分)
81.
in a magazine , he didn’t notice me enter the room. (bury)
埋头阅读杂志，他没有注意到我进入房间。
82. As far as I know,
smoke.
据我所知，他们俩不都抽烟。
83. She treats him
. (as)
她待他如同陌生人。
84. He was a big hit
. (everywhere) 他所到之处都大受欢迎。
85. I was about to go shopping
. (begin)
我正要去买东西，这时下起了雨。
86.
he got the first place in this mid-term examination. (expect)
正如所预料的一样，他在期中考试中又得了第一名。
87. A number of children
in the quake were sent to live with families in other cities. (kill)
许多其父母在地震中死亡的孩子被送往其它城市的家庭与其一起生活。
88. I wonder if
you walk the dog. (it)
我想知道你是否是在黄昏时分遛狗。
89. She attended interviews in two companies,
she got a job as an office lady. (latter)
她参加了两个公司的面试，从后面那个公司得到了一份办公室议员的工作。
90. She
the whole town from the top of the mountain. (view)
从山顶她可以很好欣赏整个小镇的风光。
第二节：短文写作（共1题；满分25分）
假设你是汶川地震的幸存者，请写一篇英语短文，描述地震发生时的情形和得到救助的情况。
要求：1. 分三段表达；
2. 充分利用第四单元所学词汇；
3. 字数在120字左右。
参考答案
参考范文：
A horrible earthquake happened in Japan on March 11，2011，which made lots of houses fall down and many people lose their homes.
In the northwest of the country，then came the enormous sea waves of up to thirty meters，causing
more than 20,000 people dead or missing. And what’s more，what makes the people more painful is nuclear power station explosion. Now though a lot of countries including China have sent rescue teams to help the Japanese, the Japanese are still in misery, for there ate many people killed in the earthquake.
And I believe, with the help of the people all over the world and the leadership of the Japanese government, the people in the country will surely pull themselves together so that they can rebuild their homes.