邻水县丰禾中学2015年春季期末练习（英语）

邻水县丰禾中学2015年春季期末练习（英语）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节(共15小题：每小题2分，满分30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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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，各个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第1段材料，回答第1—2题。 1. Who has got the wrong mumber?

A. Joe Monroe. B. Joe Monroe’s aunt. C. Lucia’s aunt. 2. Where do you think Lucia lives?

A. In Los Angeles. B. In New York. C. In a cinema. 听第2段材料，回答第3—6题。

3. What was the woman’s main purpose in going to New York during the vacation? A. To learn English. B. To visit an American family. C. To do business. 4. When did the woman come back from America?

A. On July 5th. B. On August 5th. C. On August 25th. 5. The woman liked staying with the Smiths because __________. A. they were her parents’ friends. B. she could speak English with them. C. she could eat western food every day.

6. What in particular did the woman like about the American classes? A. The teacher were kind. B. The students were quite free.

C. There were a lot of activities in class. 听第3段材料，回答第7—8题。

7. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In a car. B. On a bus. C. At school. 8. How long does it take the woman to get to school?

A. Twenty minutes by car. B. Twenty minutes by bus. C. Thirty minutes by bus. 听第4段材料，回答第9—11题。

9. What is the relationship between the two speakers?

A. A teacher and a student. B. Two students. C. A student and a librarian. 10. What does the man want to do? A. To read some stories.

B. To know the lives of some famous people. C. To improve his English.

11. How long can the books be kept?

A. One week. B. Two weeks. C. Three weeks. 听第5段材料，回答第12—15题。

12. What is the first thing all pupils do every morning in the free school? A. They work out their plan for the day. B. They greet and talk to the teachers. C. They make breakfast themselves.

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13. What do the children who go to the Carorome do?

A. Learn to draw. B. Learn to drive. C. Learn maths 14. What do most children enjoy doing in the school?

A. Cooking. B. Washing up. C. Doing some cleaning. 15. On which day is the school open for the lingest hours? A. Saturday. B. Friday. C. Thursday.

第二节 听取信息(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)

听下面一段对话或独白。请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入非选择题答题纸标号为16至20的空格中。你将有2分钟的作答时间。本段对话读两遍。 Opening time Place Between (16)_________ and 11:30 am from July 20th to July 30th. Nanfang Children’s Palace: (17)___________, Dongshan Street, Binhai City. ￥_________(18); before July 18th. (19)____________, Interest Groups and English World. (20)_____________________ or bjlp2008@childrenpalace.net Participants（参与者） Children aged 7-14. Fee and deadline Activities Telephone and e-mail

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑

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The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and knocked into the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. “How embarrassing! I am getting so clumsy in my old age.”

Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments. It came around to Frank who sat quietly listening to the others. Someone said, “Come on, Frank. Tell us your most embarrassing moment.”

Frank laughed and began to tell us of his childhood. “I grew up in San Pedro. My Dad was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that were still at home.”

He looked at us and said, “I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled

down over his brow. No matter how much my mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish.”

Frank’s voice dropped a bit. “When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheeze and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school, I would shrink (畏缩) down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch (喷出) a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me

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to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here, I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!”

He paused and then went on, “I remember the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, “No, Dad.” It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this

surprised look on his face. I said, “Dad, I’m too old for a goodbye kiss. I’m too old for any kind of kiss.” My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. Then he turned and looked out the windshield. “ You’re right,” he said. “ You are a big boy....a man. I won’t kiss you anymore.”

Frank got a funny look on his face, and the tears began to well up in his eyes, as he spoke. “It wasn’t long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back. It was a day when most of the fleet (船队) stayed in, but not Dad. He had a big family to feed. They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out. He must have gotten into a strong wind and was trying to save the nets and the floats.”

I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again. “Guys, you don’t know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek…to feel his rough old face… to smell the ocean on him… to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss.”

21 When his father drove him to the school, Frank would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear because ________.

A．he was ashamed of his father’s old truck

B．he thought he was old enough to go to school alone C．he didn’t want his schoolmates to see his father

D．he hated the way his schoolmates stared at his father

22 In Frank’s eyes, when his father said “You are a big boy… a man.”, he probably felt ________. A．disappointed B．hurt C．excited D．proud 23 According to the story we can conclude that Frank’s father ________. A．was quite confident in his skills in fishing B．loved his children but hardly expressed it C．seldom gave up faced with challenges D．was full of devotion to his family

24 Which of the following may be the best title for this passage A．The Smell of the Ocean B．We All Need Love C．A Goodbye Kiss D．Father’s Embarrassment

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Whether you’re eating at a fancy restaurant or dining in someone’s home. Proper table manners are likely to help you make a good impression. According to a US expert, Emily Post, “All rules of table manners are made to avoid ugliness.”

While Henry Hitchings of the Los Angeles Times admits that good manners can reduce social conflict, he points out that mostly their purpose is protective - they turn our natural warrior-like selves into more elegant ones.

So where did table manners come from

In medieval England, a writer named Petrus Alfonsi took the lead to urge people not to speak with their mouths full. And King David I of Scotland also proposed that any of his people who learned to eat more neatly be given a tax deduction (减除).

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Disappointingly, that idea never caught on . It was during the Renaissance, when there were real technical developments, opinions of correct behavior changed for good. “None of these was more significant than the introduction of the table fork,” wrote Hitchings. “Gradually, as forks became popular, they brought the new way of eating, making it possible, for instance, to consume berries without making one’s fingers dirty.” Forks were introduced to Britain in 1608 and 25 years later, the first table fork reached America. Yet while most of the essentials (基本要素) are the same on both sides of the Atlantic, there are a few clear

differences between what’s normal in the US and what holds true in the UK. For example, in the US, when food needs cutting with a knife, people generally cut a bite, then lay aside the knife and switch the fork to their right hand. Then they pick up one bite at a time. By contrast, Britons keep the fork in the left hand and don’t lay the knife down.

Though globalization has developed a new, simpler international standard of table manners, some people still stick with the American cut-and-switch method.The Los Angeles Times noted, “They are hanging on to a form of behavior that favors manners above efficiency.” 25 What does the story mainly talk about A．The importance of proper table manners .

B．The development of table manners in Western countries. C．Some unwritten rules of table manners in the US and UK. D．Differences between American and British table manners.

26 The underlined phrase “caught on” in the passage probably means ______. A．worked in practice B．became popular C．drew attention D．had a positive effect

27 Which of the following events influenced people’s table manners most according to the article A．The introduction of forks. B．The tax deduction policy. C．The rise of the Renaissance.

D．Petrus Alfonsi’s efforts in promoting table manners. 28 What can we conclude from the article

A．British and American table manners are completely different from each other. B．American people pay more attention to their table manners than British people do.

C．With globalization, the American cut-and-switch method has been abandoned in the US.

D．British people’s way of using a knife and fork may be more efficient than American people’s.

C

Chinese media and Internet users on Monday condemned(谴责) a lack of morals in society after a toddler(学步的小孩)was struck twice by two different vans and left bleeding on the road as more than a dozen bystanders did nothing to help the seriously injured girl.

The incident, captured by a surveillance camera and aired by Southern Television Guangdong (TVS), showed the two-year-old girl was knocked down and run over by a white van on a narrow market street on the afternoon of Oct. 13, in Foshan City of Guangdong Province.

The driver fled the scene of the accident, leaving the girl to bleed on the sidewalk. Over the next six

minutes, more than a dozen people walked by the girl, yet not one individual did anything to help her. The girl was then hit a second time by another van before an elderly trash collector came to her aid and brought the attention of the girl’s mother, according to the video and eyewitnesses.

Doctors said that the girl, who was put on life support after being hospitalized, remains in a deep coma. The

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