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1、巴中市巴州区2015年秋高2015级半期考试英 语 试 题（总分150分 时间120分钟）本试卷分第1卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分。注意事项：1答第I卷前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2选出每小题答案前，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号框，不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第I卷（共计100分）第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)请听下面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秒钟的时间

2、来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1How much is the coat today?A90B72 C182When did Mike set a new world record?AIn 2004 BIn 2006 CIn 20153What does the man want his daughter to be?AA teacher BA lawyerCA doctor4How does the woman find the man?AQuite frank(坦诚的)BToo careful CVery careless5What does the woman feel

3、 difficult in learning English?AWritingBListeningCPronunciation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。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6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. How many American writers have they mentioned?A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.

4、7. What is the man mainly talking about?A. Jack Londons life. B. Jack Londons books. C. American culture.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What is the man going to do?A. He wants to visit the theater.B. He wants to see Shakespeares play.C. He wants to take a long walk with the woman.9. Where do the two speakers pr

5、obably come from?A. One is from England and the other is from France.B. Both of them are from France.C. They both come from England.10. What will the man probably do in the end? A. Go to a talk about Shakespeare by taxi. B. Go for a walk with the woman. C. Go to see the play on foot.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题

6、。11. How many times has the woman been camping before?A. Never. B. Once. C. Twice.12. How will the woman pay for her trip?A. By cheque. B. With cash. C. By credit card.13. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man is planning a trip for the woman.B. The woman is going to climb mountains.C.

7、The woman will pay the man 380 pounds.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Why did the woman ask the man for help? A. She was too ill to go the hospital. B. She wanted to buy something for the doctor. C. She wanted to find where the hospital was.15. What did the man suggest the woman should do? A. Turn to the polic

8、e for help. B. Go to a small shop for help. C. Find a telephone in a shop nearby.16. Why did the man feel sorry? A. Because he didnt know the way to the hospital, either. B. Because he was too busy to tell her the way. C. Because he himself lost his way to the hospital.听第10段独白，回答第17至20题。17. Whats th

9、e weather like in Scotland in the morning? A. Cold but clear.B. Rainy and windy.C. Sunny and cloudy.18. Where may people see ice on the roads? A. In northern England.B. In Wales. C. In Scotland.19. Whats the weather like tomorrow? A. It will be changeable from morning to evening. B. It will be snowy

10、 in the north and west in the afternoon. C. It will be fine in the southwest in the morning.20. Which period of time is the weather report for? A. The next 12 hours. B. The next 24 hours.C. The next 48 hours.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。Pet

11、er, a high school student, was pretty busy with school, and he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peters father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasnt jus

12、t about to hand over lots of money for Peter to use to have fun. So, he had to get a job. During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay(干草) farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked (剁起) it in the hot barn. It

13、 was a hot, low-paying job. He once worked a few nights a week at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying, and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didnt pay much. He took some time off when soccer got serious, but the followi

14、ng summer he tried working at a lumber (木材)yard. It was hot outside, but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didnt pay well. From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, b

15、ut that was piecemeal. His first real job came the last year at school, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didnt pay well. What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better paying job! The only way to get

16、 that was to get trained or educated. He could go to school and get a 2 year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4 year college or joining the army. He wasnt sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money

17、was hard to earn, but he liked staying busy and being able to buy things. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education.21. How many jobs had Peter taken?A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.22. All the jobs Peter had taken had one thing in common: . A. They didnt pay well B. They were d

18、ull and tiresome C. They needed hard labour D. They were done during his vacation23. was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job. A. ConfidenceB. EducationC. OpportunityD. Wisdom24. We can learn from the text that . A. Peter knew what to do with his future B. Peters father didnt care ab

19、out him C. it was very hard for Peter to make his choices D. Peter was determined to do whatever he likedBBrown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms (蚕) do produce pink silk, a team of scientists has discovered. To see if they could produce pre-dyed silksilk that comes color

20、ed, straight from the sourcethe team fed ordinary silkworms mulberry (桑树) leaves that had been sprayed(喷洒) with fabric (织物) dyes(染色剂). Out of seven tested dyes, only one worked, producing a thread that reminded me of pink-dyed hair. And yes, the worms themselves take on some color before they produc

21、e silk. Their colorful diets did not affect their growth. The team, which included engineers and biologists from the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory in India, reports in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. (The researchers didnt look too deeply into how the dyes affected the silkw

22、orms health. After all, silkworms die when people harvest their silk. ) The team made dyeing silk this way because coloring fabric normally uses large amounts of fresh water. The water gets polluted with dangerous chemicals in the process, requiring costly treatment before factories can send it back

23、 into waterways. Dyeing silk directly by feeding silkworms would avoid those water washing steps. Scientists are just starting to study this idea. However, it remains to be seen if its commercially successful. In this experiment, the Indian team tested seven dyes, which are cheap and popular in the

24、industry. The scientists, found different dyes moved through silkworms bodies differently. Some never made it into the worms silk at all. Others colored the worms and their silk, but the color disappears before the silk is turned into fabric. Only one dye, named “direct acid fast red”, showed up in

25、the final, washed silk threads. By the time it made it there, it was a pleasant, light pink.25. The text is most probably a(n) . A. science reportB. tourist guide C. animal experimentD. fashion advertisement26. Silkworms can produce pink silk because . A. they are born pinkB. they are dyed pink C. t

26、hey grow in pink waterD. they are fed dyed food27. Where is the experiment carried out? A. In America.B. In India. C. In Israel.D. In China.28. How many dyes have been proved successful in the experiment? A. One.B. Three.C. Five.D. Seven.CThis is VOA Special English Program about American expression

27、s. Im Rich Kleinfeldt with some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock(股票)market. Our first expression is “in the red”. It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a lo

28、ss. A profit by a business is written in black numbers. So a company that is in the black is making money. An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was back in the black with its first profit in three years. Another financial expression is “run o

29、n the bank” (银行挤兑). That is what happens when many people try to withdraw all their money from a bank. A “run on the hank” usually happens when people believe there is danger, a bank may fail or close. “Day trading” (交易日) is a new expression about a system that lets investors(投资人) trade directly on

30、an electronic market system. Day trading companies provide a desk and a computer system to an investor who wants to trade. Individuals must provide fifty thousand dollars or more to the trading company, to pay for the stocks they buy. Thousands of other investors do day trading from computers in the

31、ir homes. A day trader watches stock prices carefully. When he sees a stock rise in price, he uses the computer to buy shares of the stock. If the stock continues to rise in price in the next few minutes, the day trader sells the shares quickly to make a small profit. Then he looks for another stock

32、 to buy. If a stock goes down instead of up, he sells it and accepts the loss.29. What do black numbers in a business suggest？ A. The business is getting worse. B. The business is getting better. C. The business is getting endangered. D. The business is getting closed.30. What does a “run on the ban

33、k” mean to a bank? A. Profits. B. Disasters. C. Shares. D. Stocks.31. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. One buys shares of a stock may make money or lose it. B. One buys shares of a stock will probably lose money. C. One buys shares of a stock should sell them quickly.D. One buys shares

34、of a stock can hardly make profits.DHow long you live has a lot to do with your environment and lifestyle, but exceptional(例外的) long life may have even more to do with your genes(基因). For the first time, researchers have discovered a genetic recipe that accurately predicts(预测) who may live to 100 an

35、d beyond. Analysis shows that 90% of the participants who lived to 100 had at least one of the signature genetic clusters (标志基因组). Dr. Thomas Perls at the Boston University School of Medicine said, “We realize this is a complex genetic puzzle. There is a long way for us to go to understand how the i

36、ntegration (融合) of these genesnot just with themselves but with environmental factorsis playing a role in this long life puzzle.” Perls has studied many factors that contribute to long life, and he is the first to acknowledge that living longer isnt likely to be simply a matter of genes. His previou

37、s work has shown, for example, that among most elderly people who live into their 70s and 80s, about 70% can owe their long life to environmental factors, such as not smoking, eating a healthy, low fat, low-calorie diet, and remaining socially engaged and mentally active throughout life. It seems cl

38、ear that those who live extremely long are benefiting from a special DNA. In fact, Perls believes that the older a person gets, the more likely it is that his or her genes are contributing to those extended years.32. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 2? A. Most long-lived people

39、have special long-life-related genes. B. Ninety percent of the participants lived to 100. C. All the long lived people have only one signature genetic cluster. D. Scientists know how the integration of the genes helps people live long.33. Perls may agree that . A. all people living extremely long be

40、nefit from not smoking B. living longer just depends on certain genetic recipes C. environmental factors play an important role in living a long life D. being mentally active has nothing to do with living to an old age34. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. A healthy diet and

41、a good habit.B. A good sleep and kindness to others. C. Environment and lifestyle of longevity.D. Perls study of many factors related to long life.35. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Lifestyle and GenesB. Good Habits Promote(促进) Longevity C. The Long lived PeopleD. Genes May Predict

42、 Who Lives to 100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。Are you preparing any gifts for your friends now? 36 , but choosing a proper gift can be a big headache, because it takes a lot of time and effort to think of the right gift for someone. Before you finish your list, keep

43、these dos and donts in mind: Do put thought into your gift. If you like something, that doesnt mean that your friend is going to like it. too. 37 . Dont get him/her an ordinary gift, and reflect back on your previous conversations to see if he/she talked about a certain gift he/she had been wanting

44、to get. 38 . Make sure the gift youre buying is appropriate(恰当的) for the person. For example, if you re buying a friend a gift, remember not to overspend or personalize it too much. Take a moment to think about how your relationship is with the person before getting him/her something. Do get a gift

45、receipt (收据). If you re purchasing something for your friend, make sure you ask the salesperson to include a gift receipt. Its just a polite gesture, and you know your money wont go to waste. 39 . Dont leave the price tag (标签) on. Make sure you dont leave the price tag on the gift and that youre giv

46、ing a gift receipt and not the original bill. 40 , and its not important for him/her to know anyway.A. Dont buy an inappropriate giftB. Dont be afraid of spending moneyC. Giving gifts has forever been so pleasantD. Take some time to really think about what he/she likesE. If your friend doesnt like the gift, he/she can just exchange itF. Giving someone you care about a ver