英语广东省广州市实验中学学年高二上学期期中考试.docx

1、英语广东省广州市实验中学学年高二上学期期中考试广东实验中学20152016学年（上）高二级模块五测试英 语 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共10页。本试卷满分150分；考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1. 答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名、考号等相关信息填写在答题卡指定区域内。2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需 改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不

2、按以上要求作答的答案无效。4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡和答题卷一并交上。第I卷（满分80分，其中答题卡75分，答题卷5分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节 听力理解（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）每段播放两遍。各段后有几个小题，各段播放前每小题有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题，在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。听第一段对话，回答第1-3题。1. Where does Bobs father describe sports events?A. In a newspaper column. B. O

3、n television. C. On the radio.2. What would the woman like to study at the university?A. English. B. International relations. C. She hasnt decided. 3. Why does the woman speak English well?A. Because its easy for her. B. Because shes worked hard.C. Because shes almost a native.听第二段对话，回答第4-7题。4. Who

4、is the speaker probably speaking to?A. New students. B. Foreign students. C. Resident students.5. Which type of housing has no more rooms for students?A. The international houses. B. The student dorms. C. The Spanish house.6. What do you learn about the student dorms from the passage?A. All the room

5、s have two beds, two closets and two desks.B. Students cannot cook in the dorms.C. There is a cafeteria on the first floor.7. What will the audience probably do next?A. Fill out application forms. B. Go to the cafeteria.C. Move into the house.听第三段对话，回答第8-9题。8. When will the visitors come?A. In March

6、. B. In April. C. In May.9. What will the visitors do on the final day?A. Attend a lecture. B. Visit schools. C. Go to the coast.听第四段对话，回答第10-12题。10. Why does the man like The Times?A. It has 20 pages every day. B. It carries a lot of sports news. C. It has no baseball results.11. In what way is the

7、 jobs section on The Times useful to the local people?A. It carries job ads from the local business.B. It is the place where local businesses hire people.C. It provides much information about local economy.12. What does the woman think will happen to job ads if The Times closes down?A. The other two

8、 newspapers will open a local jobs newspaper.B. The local economy will be much affected but not destroyed. C. The job ads will be carried in either of the other two newspapers.听第五段对话，回答第13-15题。13. Which factor can most seriously endanger airplanes according to this passage?A. Crowded air traffic.B.

9、The large size of airplanes.C. Mistakes made by air traffic controllers.14. What happened to the two large jets?A. They bumped into each other over a swimming pool.B. They avoided each by turning in different directions.C. They narrowly escaped crashing into each other.15. Why were the two large jet

10、s specially mentioned?A. To show the key role played by air traffic controllers.B. To show the great responsibility shouldered by the pilots.C. To give an example of air disasters.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，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，填入答题卡标号为1620的空格中。听录音前，你将有20秒钟的阅题时间，录音读两遍。你将有60秒钟的作答时间。THE JOB

11、OFFEREDReasons to leave present jobTo work in a larger company that offers (16)_ for growth.Working hoursFrom (17)_ with a one-hour lunch break at noon.Salary$ (18)_ a year.VacationTen days off per year for the first two years; (19)_ per year after that.Sick leaveOne day of sick leave per month.Comp

12、any benefitsExcellent benefits, including (20)_, a retirement program and a savings plan.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第一节 篇章阅读（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20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，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。AAlbert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. He was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to t

13、alk and had difficulty learning to read. When Albert was five years old, his father gave him a compass. The child was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same direction to the north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move.Albe

14、rt did not like school. The German schools of that time were not pleasant. Students could not ask questions. Albert said he felt as if he were in prison.In 1905, Albert Einstein published some important papers in a German scientific magazine. They included one of the most important scientific docume

15、nts in history. It explained what came to be called his “Special Theory of Relativity”. Ten years later, he expanded it to a “General Theory of Relativity”.In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. It was given to him not for his theories of relativity, but for his discovery of the law of the phot

16、oelectric effect.Albert Einstein left Germany when Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933. He moved to the United States to continue his research. Einstein became a citizen of the United States in 1940.Einstein was a famous man, but you would not have known that by looking at him. His white hair was lo

17、ng and wild. He wore old clothes. He showed an inner joy when he was playing his violin or talking about his work. Students and friends said he had a way of explaining difficult ideas using images that were easy to understand.Einstein spent the last twenty-five years of his life working on what he c

18、alled a “unified field theory”. He hoped to find a common mathematical statement that could tie together all the different parts of physics. He did not succeed.Albert Einstein died in 1955 at the age of seventy-six.21. What can we learn about Albert Einstein in his childhood according to the passage

19、? A. He was quite clever and smart. B. He was curious about new things. C. He hated talking with others. D. He was good at inventing things.22. Whats the right order of the following events about Albert Einstein? a. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics. b. He became a citizen of the United States.c. He

20、 left Germany for the United States.d. He put forward his “General Theory of Relativity”.e. He worked on a “unified field theory”.A. d, e, a, c, b B. a, b, d, e, c C. d, c, b, a, e D. d, a, c, b, e23. Whats the best title of the passage? A. The discoveries of Albert Einstein. B. Albert Einstein and

21、his theories. C. The life story of Albert Einstein. D. How Albert Einstein won success.BIn its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like th

22、is: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, “No, thanks. Ive got a good horse under me.”The city planners decided to build an underground drainage system, but there simply wasnt enough difference between the height of the ground level and the wat

23、er level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the citys streets by as much as 12 feet.This of cou

24、rse created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street

25、level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?Thats where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Ho

26、tel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews beneath the buildings foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullmans signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly,

27、the Tremont Hotel stayed open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didnt even notice anything was happening.Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicagos early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicagos waste wate

28、r was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the citys next step was to clean the polluted river.24. The author mentions the joke to show _.A. horses were fairly useful in Chicago B. the Chicago people were very humorousC. Chicago was very dangerous in the spring D. Chicagos streets were extre

29、mely muddy25. The underlined word “hoist” in Paragraph 4 means “_”.A. lift B. change C. repair D. decorate26. What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?A. It interrupted the business of the hotel. B. It separated the building from its foundation. C. It went on smoothly as

30、intended. D. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews. 27. The passage is mainly about early Chicagos _.A. successful engineers and their achievements B. engineering problems and their solutions C. environmental disasters and their causes D. popular lifestyles and their influences C Oh, batteries.

31、 Cant live with them, cant live with them. It sounds like a power ballad, but its the story of our lives around here. Weve been dealing with lofty(崇高的) promises and batteries that kick the bucket far too early, for years now. And the fact that were still dealing with lead-acid batteries is sort of a

32、 puzzling thing to wrap ones mind around. But all of that just might be changing. We wont get our hopes too high until fuel cells become the viable(可行的) alternative that we have been told that they are, but we strangely have more faith in a vegetable than a science lab to revolutionize the battery. A vegetab