1、- 1 -2015 年春季安溪八中高二年期中质量检测英语试卷 第一卷选择题第 I 卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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 称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. How much did the woman pay for the cap?A. $ 10. B. $ 40. C
2、. $ 50.2. Where is the man going to plant the tree?A. By the front door. B. At the back of the garage. C. At the other end of the garden.3. What does the man mean?A. The lecture was more than one hour long.B. He enjoyed the lecture the whole time.C. He quite agreed with the woman.4. What does the ma
3、n really want to do?A. To read the advertisement. B. To make a phone call. C. To take the job.5. What time is it now? A. At about 8:00. B. At about 8:30. C. At about 9:00. 第二节（共 15 小题，每题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 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。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答 6 至 7 题。6.
4、Whats the conversation mainly about？A. To invite a guest. B. To make a reservation. C. To sell a table.7. What can we learn from the conversation?A. All tables will be taken at 8:00. B. The man will have dinner with the woman. C. The restaurant will be closed at 9:00.听第 7 段材料，回答 8 至 9 题。8. Where is
5、Mr. Brown?- 2 -A. He is in the Sales Department. B. He is having a meeting. C. He is out.9. What do we know about Mr. Peterson?A. Hes busy. B. He works for the Sales Department.C. Hes waiting for a back call.听第 8 段材料，回答 10 至 12 题。10. What did the speaker do?A. He ran a bicycle business. B. He was an
6、 athlete. C. He was a painter.11. What does the speaker like doing most now?A. Play golf. B. Paint pictures. C. Make glasses. 12. What do we know about the speaker?A. He gives golf lessons. B. He takes a part time job. C. Hes energetic.听第 9 段材料，回答 13 至 16 题。13. Where does the man want to go?A. Tokyo
7、 subway station. B. Tokyo Art Museum. C. Tokyo Tower.14. What should the man do first?A. Go to platform 4. B. Buy a ticket. C. Check the luggage.15. How often does the train come?A. About every five minutes.B. About every six minutes.C. About every seven minutes.16. What can we NOT learn from the co
8、nversation?A. The sign of the station is in English. B. The man will get on the train at Platform 4. C. The man will take four stops.听第 10 段材料，回答 17 至 20 题。17. How long will the class last?A. An hour.B. Two hours.C. An hour and thirty-five minutes. 18. How often will the class meet in the research l
9、ab?A. Once a month. B. Twice a month. C. Three times a month. - 3 -19. Where will the students get the Beyond Language?A. From the library.B. From the bookshop. C. From the speakers office20. Which item is NOT mentioned to determine a students final grade in the class? A. The final test. B. A resear
10、ch project. C. Homework. 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 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。 AA boy won the grand prize at the 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest high school science competition in the world. The Maryland teenager Jack
11、Andraka is the youngest winner of the $75,000 prize. He was chosen from among l,500 students in 70 countries.Jack invented a test for pancreatic cancer(胰腺癌 ). He started to learn it after losing a close family friend to the disease. “I went on the Internet and I found that 85 percent of all pancreat
12、ic cancers are found late, when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival he says. “and I was thinking, Thats not right and we should be able to do something.“ He found that early discovery is important to increase the chances of suryiving the disease. .Jack asked to work in a laboratory at John
13、s Hopkins University in Baltimore and was allowed. There he developed a simple paper test. which can recognize the disease in a single drop of blood. His test has proven correct 90% of the time. It also is 100 times more sensitive than other tests. “ It costs 3 cents per test, and then it takes only
14、 5 minutes to run,“ he said.Jacks success wouldnt have been possible without Anirban Maitra . a professor at Johns Hopkins, who was the only person among the 200 researchers Jack wrote to and who showed interest in his project “I was very surprised that it was a 15-year-old who was writing this. I w
15、anted to meet this clever young man and see what he wanted to talked about. so I called for him over for an interview,“ Maitra said.Jack worked in Professor Maitras laboratory completing his project in 7 months. The government bas given the Maryland teenager patent rights to the pancreatic cancer te
16、st. He is now talking with companies about developing the test into a simple product.- 4 -Whatever happens, the professor believes that Jack Andrakas name is one we will be hearing again over the next 10 to 20 years.21. What made Jack Andraka research pancreatic cancer? _. A. A high school task. B.
17、A professors encouragementC. The loss of a friend. D. Doubts about the present test.22. Jack Andrakas research on pancreatic cancer_ _. .A. proved to be very successful B. was 100 times cheaper than other testsC. gave patients a 90% chance of survival D. was finished at the high school in Maryland23
18、. The underlined sentence suggests that Jack Andraka will_.A. become rich B. make product s to treat cancerC. get a good job D. make contributions continually24. We can infer from the text that Jack Andraka_. A. was not afraid of failure B. was thought highly of by companiesC. impressed deeply on th
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26、owing more about menus D. Working well with others . CMove Earthits no science fictionLONDONScientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet from overheating: move it to a cooler spot. All you have to do is send a few comets（彗星）in the direction of Earth, and its orbit will be changed. Our
27、world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.- 6 -This idea for improving our climate comes from a group of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration（NASA） engineers and American astronomers. They say their plan could add another six billion years to the usef
28、ul lifetime of our planeteffectively doubling its working life.The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams is designed to carefully direct a comet or asteroid（小行星） so that it passes close by our planet and sends some of its gravitational energy to Earth.“Ear
29、ths orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,” Laughlin said.Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn. The comet would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back
30、 to Earth, and the process would be repeated.In the short term, the plan provides an ideal way to global warming, although the team was actually concerned with a much greater danger. The sun is certain to heat up in about a billion years and so “seriously compromise” our biosphere（生物圈）by cooking us.
31、 Thats why the group decided to try to save Earth.The plan has one or two worrying aspects, however. For a start, space engineers would have to be very careful about how they directed their asteroid or comet towards Earth. The smallest miscalculation（误算）in orbit could fire it straight at Earthwith d
32、eadly consequences.There is also the question of the Moon. As the current issue of Scientific American magazine points out, if Earth was pushed out of its current position, it is “most likely the Moon would be stripped(剥去) away from Earth,” it states. This would greatly change our planets climate.28
33、. What makes the scientists plan to move Earth?A. A few comets are moving to the direction of Earth.B. Earths working life is coming to an end soon.C. Earth will become too hot for mankind to keep alive.D. The moon is moving farther and farther away from Earth.29. If the plan is successful, Earth wi
34、ll have a working life of _ years.A.12 billion B.6 billion C.18 billion D.24 billion30. What serious problems might the plan cause according to the passage?A. The comet might hit Earth and man might lose the moon.B. Earth might be moved too far away and man might be frozen to death.C. The comet migh
35、t hit Jupiter or Saturn and never return to Earth.- 7 -D. Earths working life might be greatly shortened.31. What does the underlined word “compromise” mean?A. provide B. benefit C. share D. EndangerDYou might not know it, but there is something wonderful at your fingertips. You can make people happ
36、ier, healthier and more hard-working just by touching their arms or holding their hands. Doctors say that body contact is a kind of medicine that can work wonders. When people are touched, the quantity of hemoglobin (血红蛋白)a type of matter that produces the red color in blood increases greatly. This
37、results in more oxygen reaching every part of the body and the whole body benefits. In experiments, bottle-fed baby monkeys were separated from their mothers for the first ten days of life. They became sad and negative. Studies showed the monkeys were more probable to become ill than other babies th
38、at were allowed to stay with their mothers.Human babies react in much the same way. Some years ago, a scientist noticed that some well-fed babies in a clean nursery became weak. Yet babies in another nursery were growing healthily, even though they ate less well and were not kept as clean. The reaso
39、n, he concluded, was that they often had touches from nurses. Experiments show that most people like being touched. And nearly all doctors believe touch helps to reduce patients fear of treatment. Of course there is time when a touch is not welcome. But even if we dont like being touched, a smile ca
40、n make us feel better. Smiling increases blood flow and starts the production of “happy brain“ chemicals. So lets have a big smile and dont forget to keep in touch.32. Which of the following is NOT true?A. People may work harder because of body contact. B. Everyone knows that body contact can make p
41、eople happier. C. Your fingertips can do something. D. People may not understand the importance of touching. 33. According to the passage _.A. human brains need oxygen and blood supply now and thenB. touches from doctors and nurses have nothing to do with treatment- 8 -C. not all the people like bei
42、ng touchedD. new-born baby monkeys should stay away from their mothers34. The word “benefits“ in the second paragraph probably means _. A. to be useful or helpful B. to be illC. to get something useful or helpful D. to be hurt35. The best title for the passage might be _.A. Why People Touch B. Smile
43、 and TouchC. Touch or Not D. Wonders of Touch 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 When was the last time you had great fun with your family? 36 So stand up and plan to have fun with your familyGoing to the zoo is definitely a number-one pick for family activitiesOth
44、er than visiting animals, most zoos nowadays have rides that you can enjoy with your familyMeals are served in the zoo 37 To add some fun, ask to be the photographer for the day and you might be surprised by how creative you can be38 Even though you might not be really keen on outdoor activities, yo
45、u can still enjoy your time by playing together after having your lunchVisiting the nations capital would be your choice if you want to go on a trip with your family Learn more about the history by visiting historical sites 39 A treasure hunt is a popular activity, so going hunting with your family
46、is a nice choiceYou can train yourself by asking to be the person in charge who can hold the treasure map and make decisions- 9 -Create a video clip with your familyMake your family the characters in the clipYou may talk about your family life in the clip, about your interests or even create a drama
47、40 Plant flowers and mow（修剪） the lawnAfter a day of hard work, you can all sit back and enjoy a barbecue at your beautifully cleaned backyardAHistory creates topics for you and your familyBFamily is always the most valuable thing in life CAt bedtime read to your young kids and read with your elder k
48、idsDBring your own snacks if you want to save some moneyEHere are two examplesFHaving a picnic at the park is also a good activity for your familyGDoing some yard work together can also be a fun quality time for your family第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Lifes challenges are somewhat like an egg in a way. If it break
