2005—2006 学年度第二学期
如皋市六校联考高一年级英语学科期中试题
时间：120分钟      分值：150分
       第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
      第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21．_______!There is a dog in the yard;it might hurt you.
    A.Look up     B.Watch out     C.Look around    D.Be careful
22．I was surfing the Internet ________ there was a knock on the door.
    A.while       B.however       C.when           D.and
23．I feel like ________ for a walk. Would you like ________ with me?
    A.to go, to go   B.going, going   C.going, to go   D.to go, going
24．Betty didn’t attend the important conference,and that’s _________
    She hadn’t been got informed of it.
    A.why         B.the reason       C.because      D.for
25．He had mastered five foreign languages ________ forty.
    A.at the age of    B.at      C.by the age of     D.when
26．Last term there were 2000 students in our school, but this term the number has reduced ________ 1800,which means it has reduced ________ 10%.
A.by, by     B.to , to    C.to , by      D.by ,  to
27．_______ is well known ________ Hong Kong returned to China on July 1st,1997.
    A.It, that    B.As, /     C.As,   as     D.It, which
28．It is clever ________ the boy to make such an important experiment.
    A.with      B.for        C.of        D.to
29．---Miss Janet taught wonderfully yesterday.
    ---Sorry, I was ill so didn’t ________ her class.
    A.attend       B.join        C.join in      D.listen
30．The number of people invited ________ fifty, but a number of them ________    absent for different reasons.
    A.were, was     B.was, was     C.was, were     D.were , were
31．Someone is ringing the doorbell. Go and see ________.
    A.who is he    B.who he is    C.who is it     D.who it is
32．The weather is not fine today. I think he is _________ to turn up , though.
    A.likely     B.possible     C.probable       D.maybe
33．You can never imagine what great difficulty I have ________your house.
    A.found        B.finding      C.to find      D.for finding
34．Our school is quite different from ________ before.
    A.what it was     B.that it was  
 C.which it was      D.what was it
35．Can you find the differences ________ the two pictures?
    A.on     B.from       C.between      D.in
  第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
  阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后所给各题的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.
One morning, he got up very  36  because he had forgotten to  37  up his alarm clock(闹钟). He  38  to shave(刮脸) quickly and cut himself. When he got  39  , he got blood all over his 40  , so he had to find another one. The 41  other shirt that was 42  needed ironing(熨). While he was 43  it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to 44
the metre. He showed him where the meter was. After he paid the gas  45  and showed the man out, he found the iron had  46  a hole in his shirt. So he had to  47  the one with the blood on it  48 . By this time it was very late, so he  49  he couldn’t go to work by bus. He 50  for a taxi to take him to work, the taxi arrived and Harry 51  in.
    In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a  52   . When Harry’s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman  53 to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry’s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was  54  till 3 o’clock p.m.before the police was sure that he was not the man they   55 .When he finally arrived at the office at about 4 p.m., his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job.   
36．A．fast         B.late          C.worriedly         D.early
37．A．set          B.send          C.hang              D.wind
38．A．tried        B.hoped         C.meant             D.wished
39．A．worn         B.tired         C.dressed           D.paid
40．A．coat         B.shirt         C.sweater           D.jacket
41．A．very         B.similar       C.different         D.only
42．A．white        B.pretty        C.blue              D.clean
43．A．washing      B.cleaning      C.brushing          D.ironing
44．A．read         B.mend          C.examine           D.test
45．A．money        B.fee           C.bill              D.charge
46．A．burnt        B.made          C.lighted           D.fired
47．A．put          B.wear          C.change            D.choose
48．A．at all       B.after all     C.first of all      D.above all
49．A．thought      B.wondered      C.believed          D.decided
50．A．looked       B.wished        C.asked             D.telephoned
51．A．got          B.sat           C.stepped           D.seated 
52．A．car          B.hurry         C.taxi              D.fear
53．A．seemed       B.happened      C.surprised         D.introduced
54．A．held         B.caught        C.kept              D.left
55．A．met          B.needed        C.wrote             D.wanted
     第三部分：  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
                             A
Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.People use money to buy food, furniture,books,bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.
Shells were not the only things used as money. In China , cloth and knives were used. In the Phillipine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks,monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in  the centre.People strung(串联)them together and carried them from place to place.
Different countries have used different metals  and designs for their money. The first coins in England were made of tin(锡).Sweden and Russia used copper(铜)to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.
But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.
56.The main use of money is that _________.
   A.people use it to buy things to eat
   B.people accept money only in exchange for clothes
   C.people accept money in exchange for goods and service
   D.people will accept money for giving our goods to others
57.What did the first Chinese metal coins look like?
   A.They had square hole in the centre.
   B.They were just like shells.
   C.They were round like the moon.
   D.They were round with a square hole in the centre.
58.Who thought of a way to use paper money first?
   A.The Chinese    B.The Russian  
  C.The Sweden     D.The English men
59.The best title of this passage should be ________.
   A.The Chinese money          B.The history of money
   C.Some things about money    D.What is money
                             B
Why you may wonder, should spiders(蜘蛛)be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects(昆虫)，and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour(吞食)all our crops and kill our animals, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We should thank the birds and insect-eating animals.We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects , but all of them put together kill an only small part of the number destroyed by spiders. Unlike some of the other insect eaters spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think , nor even nearly related to them.One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an insect has never more than six.
How many spiders engaged in the work on our behalf? One authority on spiders made a research of the spiders and found that there were more than 2,25000 in one acre;that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on one football field. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in that country.
60.Spiders should be our friends , because __________.
   A.they only eat harmful insects
   B.they are great insect-eating animals
   C.they destroy large numbers of insects which do harm to the human race
   D.their harmfulness is the least
61.The difference between spiders and insects is that ____________.
   A.insects have only six legs
   B.insects only eat plants
   C.spiders eat insects
   D.spiders have more legs than insects
62.One authority on spiders estimated ________.
   A.that there were more than 2,250,000 insects in a grass field in the south of England
   B.that every football field in England had 6,000,000 spiders
   C.that the number of different spiders in England was very big
   D.that there were 6,000,000 kinds of spiders on a football field
63.Which one of the following statements is the main idea?
   A.Spiders , the greatest insect-eating animals , protect us from being destroyed by harmful insects and they should be our friends.
   B.Spiders are not insects but in fact animals.
   C.There are great numbers of spiders engaged in destroying harmful insects on behalf of the human race.
   D.The weight of the insects eaten by spiders in one year is greater than the weight of all people in England.      
                             C
Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.
One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop(肉店)during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目). In the hospital , on the other hand, he was , of course , allowed to do the simpliest jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shop and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes.
One evening at the hospital, Tom had to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation.The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he came to get her, but when she saw Tom, that finished her.
“No!No!” she cried. “Not my butcher! I won’t be operated on by my butcher!” and fainted away(昏厥).
64.Tom made enough money by ________.
   A.studying in the university      B.working in a butcher’s shop
   C.doing two jobs                  D.cutting meat well
65.Tom was a student, but at the same time he was__________.
   A.a butcher and a doctor          B.a manager and a doctor
   C.an assistant                    D.a manager
66.The woman patient recognized Tom because ____________.
   A.he was wearing white clothes    B.he had sold meat to her
   C.he was now working in the hospital  
D.he was going to operate on her
67.When she saw Tom, that finished her, the sight of Tom _________.
   A.plunged her into deep sorrow  
 B.made her decide not to have an operation
   C.broke her heart                
D.took all her strength and courage away
                            
D
In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, a meeting, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian university. The two-hour class was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and end at 12. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom. Many students came after 10 a.m. Several arrived after 10:30 a.m. Two students came after 11 a.m. Although all the students greeted the professor as they arrived, few apologized for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students’ behavior.
The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation:at a lunch with a friend and in university calls, respecitively. He gave them an example and asked them how they would react. If they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student showed clearly lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. On the other hand, the average Brazilian student left the friend late after 33 minutes.
In an American university , students are expected to arrive at the appointed hour. In contrast , in Brazil, neither the teacher nor the students always arrive at the appointed hour. Classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at 12:00; many remained past 12:30 to discuss the class and ask more questions.Arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.
68.Why did the professor study the Brazilian students’behavior?
   A.He felt puzzled at the students’ being late.
   B.He felt angry at the students’ rudeness.
   C.He wanted to make the students come to time later.
   D.He wanted to collect date for one of his studies.
69.It can be inferred from the professor’s study of lateness in the informal situation that________.
   A.American students will become impatient if their friend is five minutes late
   B.neither Brazilian nor American students like being late in social gatherings
   C.being late in one culture may not be considered so in another culture
   D.Brazilian students will not come in thirty-three minutes
70.From the last paragraph we know that in Brazil ______________.
   A.it is important to arrive at the appointed time
   B.it is rude to keep the professor staying after calls
   C.it is normal for students to leave during lectures
   D.it is acceptable for profrssors to be late for class
71.What is the main idea of this passage?
   A.It is important to be on time for class in the United States.
   B.The importance of being on time differs among cultures.
   C.People learn the importance of time from the culture they are in .
   D.Students being late for class should explain the reason to their teacher.
                             E
In the southern part of America, when somebody has a birthday, often family or friends ,or both, will arrange a party. The party could be elaborate(精心准备的)and include a meal or may be simple with a birthday cake and drinks. One does not plan, nor give, one’s own birthday as is the custom in some cultures. At a party there is usually a decorated cake, often with the words “Happy Birthday” and with the name of the person written on the top of the cake.Sometimes there is also one candle for each year of the person celebrating the birthday before the cake is cut. While blowing out the candles, the person makes a wish for something pleasant.
Usually those invited to a birthday party will bring a gift for the person honored. Gifts given by friends do not have to be expensive , but the family of the birthday person will spend whatever they can afford on a gift.
Christmas parties also are very popular in the South. Often this is the only time during the year that some people see acquaintances(熟人). These parties can be elaborate or simple, ranging from a buffet(自助餐)to a reception called “open house (家庭招待会)”. If you are invited to one of these, you don’t need to take a Christmas gift, as it is not customary to take the hostess a gift every time you are invited to a party or a meal.However, if you wish to take a gift , it should only be something useful and inexpensive and should be given to the hostess at the door as you enter the party. Usually gifts of Christmas food treats are the most appreciated.
72.This passage mainly tells us about __________.
   A.two kinds of parties in the southern United States
   B.how to arrange a birthday party
   C.how to arrange a Christmas party
   D.who will arrange a party
73.In southern America , birthday parties are often arranged by _________.
   A.friends     B.oneself      C.family        D.Both A and C
74.Which of the following is true?
   A.For a birthday party, the cake is often cut before candles are blown out.
   B.For a birthday party, neither friends nor the family will buy expensive presents.
   C.It’s customary to take the hostess a gift when you are invited to a party.
   D.If you take a gift to a Christmas party, you’d better take something useful and inexpensive.
75.What kind of gift is the best if someone is invited to a Christmas party?
   A.Expensive things     B.Candles      C.Food      D.Money
 第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
  第一节：根据首字母或中文提示完成单词(满分10分)
76．He has a good s___________ of smell.
77．The UK c__________ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
78．The People’s Republic of China was f__________ in 1949.
79．Ten students will go to the party , i____________ Tom and Mary.
80．Everyone wants to be w____________ , healthy and happy.
81．The ________________(发展)of this industry will take several years.
82．In which ______________(方向) are you going ,north or south?
83．Snow is _____________(常见) in cold country.
84．Many men were ____________(埋葬) underground when there was an accident at the mine.
85．There is no ______________ (通道) to the street through that door.
 第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是李华，你的英国网友Jason询问有关姚明的情况。请你根据在国内网站上所收集的有关信息给他回复一封电子邮件（e-mail），谈谈有关姚明的情况：
出生日期：1980．9．12
出生地：上海
身高：2．26
体重：134公斤
最喜欢的食品：肉
最喜欢的颜色：蓝色
座右铭（motto）：相信自己
1997：进上海篮球队
1998：入选国家队
2000：入选亚洲全明星队
2002：加盟休斯敦火箭队（Houston Rockets）
注意：1．邮件的开头已为你写好，但不计入总词数。
      2．词数：100左右。
Hi, Jason,
    You asked me about Yao Ming. Here is something I got when I searched the websites at home.

高一年级英语学科试题答题纸
76.__________                       77.__________    
78.__________                       79.__________
80.__________                       81.__________     
82.__________                       83.__________
84.__________                       85.__________
 书面表达
Hi, Jason,
    You asked me about Yao Ming. Here is something I got when I searched the websites at home.

 高一年级英语学科试题答案
听力材料：
Text 1:W: What size do you wear?
       M: Twelve.
       W: Oh, you’re lucky. I have just the right size in store. Here it is. Why don’t you try it on?
Text 2:W: I bought a TV set last week. It was really expensive.
       M: How much was it? 
       W: ＄650
       M: You are right.That’s expensive.
Text 3:M: Do you want to go to town with me if it doesn’t rain tomorrow?
W: No, I don’t think so. It will be too hot outside.
Text 4:W: How can I get to the shopping center from here?
       M: You can take a bus or a taxi , but it isn’t too far. Maybe you’d like to walk.
Text 5:W: When does the next train leave?
       M: You have just missed one by 5 minutes. Trains leave every fifty minutes, so you’ll have to wait for a while.
Text 6:W: What do you think? Am I OK?
       M: Well, I want to do some tests.
       W: How soon will I get the results?
       M: Oh, you’ll have the results before you leave the office, and here is some medicine that I believe will help you.
Text 7:M: Welcome back! I didn’t see you in physics class last Thursday.
       W: I wasn’t here that day. I went on a trip to New York. I just came back last night.
       M: New York! What a city! I am sure you had lots of fun there.
       W: No, not really. I was too busy doing business. It’s very hot there, too.
       M: Well, did you enjoy the trip?
       W: Yeah, it was OK. I went to see the Statue of Liberty and that made the trip interesting.
       M: I have never been to New York. I would like to go there someday.
       W: Try to go during the spring or autumn when the weather is very nice.
Text 8:W: I need to make some money so that I can take a trip to the north in February. Do you know any ways of making money?
       M: How about carrying papers?
       W: I already thought of that, but I don’t have a bike.
       M: How about walking dogs?
       W: What? Walking dogs?
       M: Yeah, you know, there are lots of people around here with little dogs. The dogs have to be walked every day. That’s good for their health.
       W: I don’t know. How much can I take?
       M: More than carrying papers.
       W: Well, I do like animals. How do you go about finding dogs to walk?
       M: Put an advertisement in the Sunday newspaper.
       W: And how much is an ad?
       M: An ad is under ten dollars, I’m sure. You can try for two dollars for half an hour---that would be ten dollars for five times a week. You can walk three or four dogs every day after school, you can get rich.
Text 9:W: Excuse me, but could you tell me the way to the cinema,please?
       M: No, I’m sorry I can’t. I’m a stranger in these parts. But why don’t you ask that man with a beard? He’ll be able to tell you, I’m sure.
       W: Which one do you mean?
       M: Look, the one over there, by the lamp-post.
       W: Ah, yes. I can see him now. Thank you very much.
       M: Not at all.
Text10:
          People used to say: “Behind every successful man there’s a woman.”
       Some women still like making their husbands and sons successful. But some women want more for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work, they want to be paid equally as men.
          Today the best jobs are still given to men. Even when women do the same work, they are often paid less than men. Women want these things changed.
          The women’s liberation movement was started by women who didn’t want to stand behind successful men. They wanted to stand beside men, with the same chance for success. The movement is quite new, and many American women do not agree with its purpose . But it has already made several changes in women’s lives, and in men’s lives, too.
        1— 5   ABBBC   6 —10   CABCA   11—15   ACBBA    16 —20    BBCCC
       21—25   BCCCC  26 —30   CACAC   31—35   DABAC    36 —40    BDACB
       41—45   DDDAC  46 —50   ABBAD   51—55   ACBCD    56 —60    CDABC
       61—65   DCACC  66 —70   BDACD   71—75   BADDC                     
       76.sense       77.consists   78.founded    79.including     80.wealthy 
       81.development 82.direction  83.common     84.buried        85.access
      书面表达   (One possible version):
      Hi, Jason,
          You asked me about Yao Ming. Here is something I got when I searched the website at home.
          Yao Ming, who is now 2.26 meters tall and 134 kg in weight, was born in Shanghai on September 12, 1980. It is said that he likes meat best and that his favourite colour is blue. His motto is : One must believe in oneself.
          He joined Shanghai basketball team in 1997 and became a member of China national team in 1998. Two years later he was chosen as a member of Asian All-star basketball team. In 2002, he was selected into the Houston Rockets in the NBA draft.
          He is a top player both in China and all over the world.
                                                                  Yours,
                                                  Li Hua

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