1、湖南省永州市第二中学学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案第一部分 听力（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节 满分30分）第一节（共5小题，每小题1.5分）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项1. Who has volunteered to help?A. Kate B. Anne C. Alex2. What does the woman want to know about the typewriter?A. The brand B. The price C. The condition3. What is Maggies greatest talent?A. Employing go
2、od staff B. Leading a team C. Solving problems4. What does the man want to do next?A. Go outdoors B. Take a rest C. See a doctor5. When does the park close today?A. At 5:30 B. At 6:00 C. At 6:30第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项请听第6段材料，回答6、7题。6. Whats the relationship between the speakers?
3、A. Doctor and patient B. Teacher and student C. Mother and son7. Whats the man going t do this afternoon?A. Play football B. Stay at home C. Go to hospital请听第7段材料，回答8、9题。8. Whats instrument will the woman play in the concert?A. The piano B. The guitar C. The violin9. How is the woman feeling now?A.
4、Excited B. Nervous C. Confused请听第8段材料，回答10至12题。10. When did the woman join the club?A. One week ago B. One month ago C. Two months ago11. How often do the meetings take place?A. One a week B. Once a month C. Twice a month12. Why does the woman talk to the man?A. To ask his opinions about a book B. T
5、o borrow a book from himC. To invite him to the club请听第9段材料，回答13至16题。13. What is the woman going to do this Sunday?A. Go shopping B. Go to the zoo C. See her grandparents14. How much will the man pay for his ticket?A. $6.50 B. $7.50 C. $8.0015. What animals does the woman like best?A. Bears B. Monke
6、ys C. Lions16. How will the speakers go to the zoo?A. By car B. By bus C. By train请听第10段材料，回答17至20题。17. Which road will stay closed for over an hour?A. M16. B. M30. C. M43.18. Why is the North Street closed to all cars?A. Because of an accident B. Because of thick snow C. Because of repairs19. How c
7、an passengers get the latest information about trains?A. By visiting a website B. By sticking to the radio C. By making a call20. What is the weather going to be like this evening?A. Snowy B. Windy C. Cloudy第二部分阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节 满分40分）第一节（共15小题30分）ALong long ago, a God called Ratu lived in the s
8、ky. Ratu liked to play games and make people angry. The game he liked best was to fly down into the sea and frighten all the fishes. The fishes became very tired of his game. They asked Hemi, the God of the sea, to help them.So Hemi tried to catch Ratu the next time he flew into the sea, but he was
9、too slow. Ratu laughed at Hemi as he flew past him. This made Hemi angry and he had an idea. He asked the fishes to bring him a lot of seaweed. Hemi tied it all together and made a large net from it. Soon Ratu flew down and Hemi threw the net over him. Ratu fought and fought but could not get free.
10、He was caught.Ratu promised（保证）never to frighten fishes again if Hemi would set him free. But Hemi did not believe him. Instead, he changed Ratu into a mountain in the sea. Ratu was so angry that when he opened his mouth to shout at Hemi, fire and smoke broke out. And that is why the Island of Ratu
11、is a volcano（火山）.21. This story is a _.A. joke B. humor C. true story D. fairy tale22. The key meaning of this story is _.A. how volcanoes are bornB. how Ratu was beatenC. why some gods are good and some are badD. why the Island of Ratu is a volcano23. Ratu like to fly down into the sea because _.A.
12、 he liked to make fun of the fishes B. the fishes welcomed himC. the fishes were friendly to him D. he had too much fire in his mouth.24. The main point of the story seems to be that _.A. the person who makes trouble will be punishedB. some volcanoes in the sea are godsC. seaweed is a good material
13、for making netsD. one who makes promises is not to be always believedBDo you want to know something about the history of weather? Dont look at the sky. Dont look for old weather reports. Looking at tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can p
14、rovide an exact record of the weather even further back.It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall. It is also expected that little sunlight and rainfall would limit the growth of a tree. The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be de
15、termined by reading the pattern of rings in a tree trunk. The find the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred. If the rings are closed
16、together, then the climate was bad for the tree.Studying tree rings is important not only for the history of weather, but also for the history of man. In a region of New Mexico you can find only sand-no trees and no people. However, many centuries ago a large population lived there. They left sudden
17、ly. Why?A scientist studied patterns of dead tree rings which had grown there. He decided that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees. Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings. So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move. In this instance studying tree
18、 rings uncovers an exciting fact about the history of man.25. It is understood that in a favorable climate _.A. tree rings grow togetherB. tree rings grow far apartC. trees in New Mexico will grow big and tallD. people can cut down most of the trees in New Mexico26. The scientists are interested in
19、studying tree rings because they can tell _.A. whether in that area the climate was favorable or notB. whether a particular tree was healthy or notC. whether people took good care of the trees or notD. how old the trees were27. By studying the dead tree rings, the scientist discovered _.A. where the
20、 people had leftB. what the people used to eatC. how the people leftD. why the people had to leave28. The main idea of the passage is _.A. tree rings reflect the history of weather and the history of manB. destroying tree will do man no goodC. studying tree ring is the only way to know the history o
21、f weatherD. man shouldnt cut so many treesCAmerican magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of Londons main tourist attractions.Looking thi
22、nner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames（泰晤士河）and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process（过程）doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.A native of Brooklyn, New York, Bla
23、ine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aime
24、d at getting a lot of attention.In 1999, he was buried in a coffin（棺材）for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar（柱子）in the center of New York for 35 hour before jumping into a pile of boxes.“I think a lot of people are unable
25、to accept that theyre able to do what they can do,” he said. “They dont realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste
26、.29. It is _ for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.A. pleasant B. delicious C. dangerous D. important30. Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that _.A. he had become blind B. he had serious back painsC. he lost his sense of taste D. he
27、was in weak health31. Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?A. Serious B. Adventurous C. Mad D. Crazy32. Which of the following is NOT true of David Blaine?A. Blaine immediately went to hospital after he was taken out of his box.B. Blaine was born and brought up in England.C. In Blai
28、nes opinion, people can create a wonder.D. Blaine didnt have any food for 44 days.DBritish men are abandoning（抛弃，放弃）their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey showed. When it comes to strong emotion, the once serious British are now happy
29、to shed tears quite openly.“Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure,” said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Center which took the emotional temperature of Britain. “Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cr
30、ied,” the head of the independent research group said.Long gone is the “No Tears Were British” time when emotion was considered distinctly bad form. “In our survey of 2,000 people, very few people in their forties of fifties had seen their father cry. Now it is twice as many,” he told reporters. “Se
31、venty-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly acceptable.” Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a sad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings.From the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve（含蓄缄默）, laughing at “excitable foreigners” who show no self-control.Marsh argued the divide was still there: “We have probably not caught up with the Americans or th
