北京市西城区外国语学校006—2007学年度第一学期期中考试
2 06.11
高三年级 英 语
班级 学号 姓名 成绩
第一卷 （三大题，共115分）(请将本卷答案涂在答题卡上)
第一部分：听力理解 （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）
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秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
例：What is the man going to read?
A．A newspaper. B．A magazine. C．A book.
答案是A。
1． What time is it now?
A．6:10. B．6:50. C．5:30.
2． Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A．At a hospital. B．At the airport. C．At a library.
3． What do you know about the woman in the conversation?
A．She is a film director.
B．She is an actress.
C．She was awarded Best Actress at the Oscars.
4． What are the speakers doing?
A．Having a meeting. B．Talking about wars. C．Having a history class.
5． What do we know about Mary?
A．She has some trouble with maths.
B．She doesn’t like school.
C．She does well in maths.
第二节 （共15小题；每题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面6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，每小题将给出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． What do you know about Jim’s working place?
A．Cold. B．Warm. C．Cool.
7． What did Jim think of his summer job?
A．He liked it because it’s a well-paid job.
B．He didn’t like it because it was tiring.
C．He liked it though the pay was not good.
听第7段材料，回答8至9题。
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9． What kind of game does the speaker hate to play?
A．Flying an aeroplane. B．Shooting at things. C．All noisy games.
听第8段材料，回答第10至11题。
10．From where does the Architecture Tour start?
A．The Central Park Zoo. B．The Grand Central Station. C．The Gentral Park.
11．Which of the following places is NOT included in the tour?
A．The Grand Central Station.
B．The Empire State Building
C．Noble Bookstore.
听第9段材料，回答第12至14题。
12．What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A．Husband and wife. B．House agent and customer. C．Waiter and customer.
13．What does the man like about the house?
A．Public transportation. B．The shopping center. C．The swimming pool.
14．What do you know from the conversation?
A．There is a gym just upstairs.
B．The apartment has a great ocean view.
C．The apartment has two bedrooms.
听第10段材料，回答第15至17题。
15．What time of the day is it now?
A．Morning. B．Afternoon. C．Evening.
16．What’s the man’s health insurance number?
A．555—9007 B．78524—601 C．3857A
17．Who is the woman speaking to?
A．A doctor. B．A customer. C．A patient.
听第11段材料，回答第18至20题。
18．What is the man mainly talking about?
A．Way of living. B．Healthy living. C．Importance of nutrition.
19．What does Dr. Graham say about vitamins?
A．He warns us not to take any of them.
B．Artificially produced vitamins are as good as the vitamins we get from our foods.
C．Vitamins we get from our foods are more nutritious.
20．What is the most important in keeping healthy, according to Dr. Graham?
A．Keeping a nutritious diet.
B．Taking exercise every day.
C．Keeping away from smoking and drinking.
第二部分：英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 单项填空 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
例：It is generally considered unwise to give a child _______ he or she wants.
A. however B. whatever C. whichever D. whenever
答案是B。
21. -It’s said that two Chinese engineers were kidnapped by terrorists in Pakistan yesterday.
-Yes, _____ news came as ____ great surprise.
A. the; the B. /; / C. the; a D. /; a
22. The man ran off _________ of the police officer.
A. caught sight B. at the sight C. in sight D. out of sight
23. After all it _____ great effort and much time to master any foreign language.
A. takes B. uses C. spends D. pays
24. After that, I avoided his presence, as I felt he was becoming too _____ me.
A. popular with B. similar to C. known to D. familiar with
25. -Where have you been all day?
-We ______ some lovely children and we couldn’t get away from them until it was dark.
A. met B. meet C. have met D. have been meeting
26. There was a lot of fun at yesterday’s party. You ______ have come, but why didn’t you?
A. must B. shouldn’t C. needn’t D. ought to
27. _______, Jack couldn’t get the door open. He had to dial 911.
A. As he might try
B. Try as he might
C. As might he try
D. Might as he try
28. -Have you finished your homework?
-No, I _______ my father on the farm all day yesterday.
A. was helping B. am helping
C. have helped D. helped
29. ________ the programme, they have to stay there for another two weeks.
A. Not completing B. Not completed
C. Not having completed D. Having not completed
30. What a strange man! He loves his wife, but ________ he often beats her.
A. at a time B. at one time
C. in time D. at the same time
31. I finally was admitted to Chongqing University. Never in my life ___ so happy.
A. I felt B. did I feel C. I had felt D. had I felt
32. I work in a business ______ almost everyone is waiting for a great chance.
A. how B. which C. where D. that
33. You can hardly imagine the difficulty the woman had ______ her children.
A. brought up B. to bring up
C. bringing up D. to have brought up
34. I don’t believe that Tom will give me a hand in time of trouble, ________?
A. do I B. don’t I C. will he D. won’t he
35. The house rent is expensive. I’ve got about half the space I had at home and I am paying ______ here.
A. as three times much
B. as much three time
C. much as three times
D. three times as much
第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
It’s The Thought That Counts
This past Christmas was one of the best I have ever had. This was made possible by my sister, Amy. She is eight years older and has already made it into“real world”.
My sister bought me three wonderful gifts, 36 only one would capture my heart forever. First she handed me the 37 . Because Amy is careful with her actions, I knew this was her 38 favourite. It was a bottle of perfume（香水）. I was happy with it, yet 39 as to what lay ahead. Next she handed me a box. After 40 away the wrapping paper, I found a stylish and expensive sweater. I was deeply moved that my sister was so 41 . Then she handed me the 42 gift. Judging by the familiar size and 43 , I knew it was a CD. It was the soundtrack to the movie“Rocky”, with songs inspiring to all athletes, dreamers…I 44 loved it, but not as much as I would after what my sister explained to me.
She was 45 to a knee injury that 46 me half of my soccer season. I desired to be with my team-mates and 47 each minute I sat on the bench. I tried hard, hoping my knee injury would heel soon. This was what led my sister to buying that CD.
After mentioning what was behind the 48 , Amy played the CD for me. Even though I had heard those songs a thousand times, each note struck me as if it was 49 . It played in my soul and on my emotions. I 50 breathlessly, as the words“Trying hard now. It’s so hard now”sounded through the room. It 51 me in a way beyond the happiness most gifts could bring. I couldn’t 52 crying and hugged my sister. Knowing that my sister had 53 my problem so deeply made me realize that I am the 54 little sister in the world. I had never received a gift with so much 55 behind it！ I’ll cherish it forever.
36．A．and B．but C．which D．for
37．A．smallest B．prettiest C．dearest D．largest
38．A．most B．less C．least D．more
39．A．anxious B．excited C．delighted D．curious
40．A．putting B．tearing C．carrying D．giving
41．A．helpful B．fashionable C．rich D．generous
42．A．rest B．last C．other D．favourite
43．A．color B．style C．pattern D．shape
44．A．immediately B．quickly C．suddenly D．secretly
45．A．explaining B．replying C．referring D．talking
46．A．paid B．stopped C．took D．cost
47．A．enjoyed B．valued C．suffered D．spent
48．A．gift B．story C．sweater D．Christmas
49．A．alive B．new C．strange D．familiar
50．A．listened B．danced C．laughed D．remembered
51．A．harmed B．helped C．broke D．touched
52．A．burst B．hold C．help D．prevent
53．A．found B．got C．felt D．solved
54．A．luckiest B．cleverest C．bravest D．best
55．A．hardship B．thought C．money D．experience
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40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。
A
Lillan Hanson, a college junior, expects to graduate in about two years. Mrs. Hanson, a rather unusual student, plans to go on to take more courses after she gets her degree. What makes Mrs. Hanson different from most of her classmates?
What sets Lillian Hanson apart from the college crowd is her age—73 years. She has been going to college, a few courses at a time, for 27 years.
When Mrs. Hanson graduated from high school, she went to her local bank and asked for a loan for college tuition and fees. The banker gave her no encouragement. He didn’t think that country girl should be borrowing money to go to college. He thought she should be home doing work in the house or around the farm. So Mrs. Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college. She still lives with her husband on the farm that has been in the family for five generations.
Mrs. Hanson never forgot her dream of getting a higher education. When her children were grown, she tried again.
She finds the hardest part of going back to school at her age is to be sitting in class for long periods of time, because she is not as agile as she used to be. Mrs. Hanson often gets up and walks around between classes to keep her joints from getting stiff. At the beginning of a course in using the computer, the other students all gave Mrs. Hanson a warm round of applause when she introduced herself and explained why she was there and what her goals were.
56．Mrs. Hanson has gone through college .
A．rapidly and well B．slowly but surely
C．without any help at all D．as a form of entertainment
57．A person who is agile is .
A．stiff in the joints B．poor in certain subjects
C．intelligent at schoolwork D．able to move around well
58．We can learn form the passage that Mrs. Hanson .
A．is troublesome at college because of her old age
B．often disturbs her teachers’ teaching by walking around in class
C．is popular and well-admired on campus
D．is good at all her subjects except computer studies
59．This story is mainly about .
A．a woman too old for school B．a persistent and unusual student
C．the hardship to get college degree D．how to realize one’s dream
B
A 10-year-old boy fatally shot his father Friday, striking him several times as he sat in the front seat of a SUV to pick up the boy from his mother’s home for a weekend visit.
The incident happened about 3:45 p.m. on a cul-de-sac in the 1700 block of Cedar Cove Court, said Sgt. B. E. Williams of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department.
An investigation found that Rick James Lohstroh, 41, was shot by his son, who was sitting in the back seat of the man’s Toyota 4-Runner, said Sgt. B. E. Williams of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department. The shooting took place outside the home of Lohstroh’s ex-wife, where the boy lives with his mother and a 7-year-old brother.
“We’re not certain of anything until we finish our investigation,” Williams said.“The information we have at this time is that the 10-year-old did fire the weapon.”
The mother and the 7-year-old were inside the house when the shooting occurred, said Williams.
Williams said the gun belonged to the boy’s mother. After firing shots through the back seat, the boy exited the back of the vehicle and continued to fire at the car.
The man died on the way to Memorial Herman Hospital.
Lohstroh was a doctor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
The man and woman shared custody（监护）of the children.
Williams said the mother and the boy were still in the home talking to investigators Friday night.
Neighbors described the family as being quiet and keeping to themselves.
Justin Gray, 17, was walking in the neighborhood when he heard gunshots.“We’ve had a suicide（自杀）in this neighborhood once, but never anything like this,”Gray said.
60．The best title for the news should be .
A．A Boy Shoot His Father B．Shooting Kill a Father
C．An Unbelievable Tragedy D．A Ten-Year-Old Boy’s Cruelty
61．Which of the following is TRUE according to the news?
A．The father is not responsible for the boy.
B．The family don’t like associating with their neighbours.
C．The boy lives with Rick James Lohstroh.
D．The boy has no brothers or sisters.
62．What can we infer from the report?
A．The tragedy happened because the boy had seen too many films showing violence.
B．The boy hated it that his father deserted his mother, so he killed him.
C．Such things often occurred in this neighbourhood.
D．The boy’s parents got divorced.
63．The reason why the boy shot his father .
A．is clear B．can’t be made out
C．is not known D．is quite simple
C
Bears and humans often meet in National Parks. Although campers and hikers are warned not to feed the bears, many people ignore these warnings and feed the beasts anyway. When bears are used to people’s food, problems soon arise.
Bears like to eat a large variety of things, both meat and vegetable. Without human assistance, bears live nicely on roots, twigs, leaves of trees, insects and small animals. With people around, the bears’ tastes quickly expand to include sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and anything else they can temp humans into giving up.
Bears often develop clever strategies for getting people to let go their food supplies. More often than not, an unsuspecting hiker has taken off his or her pack for a rest only to have a bear charge out of the woods, grab the pack and quickly disappear into the underbrush with it. Hanging the pack on a tree branch won’t help. Bears have been known to climb up, jump off, and catch the pack on the way down. One mother bear stretched up with her baby on her shoulders to reach a pack stored on a pole. Many bears threaten people into giving up their supplies. Although a bear is unlikely to attack a person and would probably run away if screamed at, few people are willing to do so. Most people drop the pack and run the other way. This, of course, delights the bear. In some places, the Park Service installed some metal barrels with lids to help campers keep their supplies safe from bears. Although the bears were unable to open these containers, the effort was less than successful. Most campers, unable to tell the metal drums from rubbish cans, never used them for the intended purpose.
64．Feeding bears on people’s food .
A．brings the people a lot of fun B．can cause problems
C．often causes injuries and deaths D．helps bears survive
65．If people had never fed bears, the bears .
A．might be satisfied with what they had originally
B．would have starved long before
C．wouldn’t have enough food supply
D．would have hunted for other kind of food
66．Which of the following is TRUE?
A．If fed on sandwiches and hot dogs, the bears would no longer eat roots, twigs and insects .
B．It’s likely that bears would hurt people if the people didn’t give up their food.
C．Most people would frighten away the bears that would temp their food.
D．Seeing a pack, the bear would quickly snatch it and run away with it.
67．Bear-proof containers didn’t work because .
A．bears were clever enough to get the food in them
B．they were left open in the open air
C．people were not sure of their use
D．they were once used as rubbish cans
D
Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food that we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed(暴露)to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage.
Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space, The unit of radiation is called “rem” Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage. A person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and , during the outward and return journeys, the Apollo crew accumulated(积累) a large amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.
68．In which way is the atmosphere necessary to man according to the first paragraph?
A．It screens off the falling meteors.
B．It provides sufficient light for plants to grow.
C．It supplies the heat necessary for human survival.
D．It protects him against the harmful rays from space.
69．We know from the passage that .
A．exposure to even tiny amount of radiation is fatal( 致命的)
B．the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming
C． radiation is avoidable in space exploration
D．astronauts in spacesuits needn’t worry about radiation damage
70．The underlined word “deformed” probably means .
A．badly-shaped B．weak C．naturally-grown D．ugly
71．It can be inferred from the passage that .
A．the Apollo mission was very successful
B．astronauts will have deformed children or grandchildren
C．protection from space radiation is no easy job
D．radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers
E
You may have heard some respectable elders say, “It’s not what you want in this world, but what you get.”
Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right things.
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continually making these blueprints in the general routine of everyday living. If we intend to give a dinner for friends, we plan the menu, make a shopping list, and decide which food to cook first, and such planning is essential for any type of meat to be served.
Likewise, if you want to find a job, take a sheet of paper, and write a brief account of yourself. In making a blueprint for a job, begin with yourself, for when you know exactly what you have to offer, you can intelligently plan where to sell your service.
This account of yourself is actually a description of your working life and should include education, experience and references. Such an account is valuable. It can be referred to filling out standard application blanks and it is extremely helpful in personal interviews. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you, and your abilities must be displayed on an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires, you have something exact to sell. Then you are ready to hunt for a job. Get all the possible information about your could-be job. Make your eyes and ears open, and use your own judgment. Spend a certain amount of time each day seeking in the employment you wish for, and keep in mind: Obtaining a job is your job now!
72．When the elders say “It” s not what you want in the world, but what you get”, they mean .
A．you’ll certainly get what you want
B．it’s no use dreaming but be practical
C．you should never be satisfied with what you have
D．it’s essential to be ambitious
73．A blueprint made before inviting a friend to dinner is used as .
A．a set rule for job hunters
B．an example of how to plan important things ahead
C．a suggestion on how to get a good job
D．a guideline for a job description
74．Writing an account of yourself before starting to get a job .
A．is the first step to please the employer
B．is the requirement of the employer
C．enables you to know when to sell yourself
D．makes you aware of your abilities and desires
75．In the passage, the author mainly intends to point out the importance of .
A．writing up a detailed plan for a job interview
B．drawing a description of your working life
C．keeping a blueprint of what you want to do
D．seeking the employment you went
第二卷 （共35分）(请将本卷答在答题纸上)
第四部分：书面表达 （共两节，满分35分）
第一节 句子写作 （满分20分）
I. 将下面各组中的单句合并为复合句 （10分，每句2分）
1. He took some books with him. He would not get bored during the long journey.
2. It was so cold. He went out without an overcoat.
3. They drive any of the buses. They will have to pass a special test.
4. Scientists of the nineteenth century formed the belief. The influence of the environment was behind the development of new species.
5. Australia was chosen as a new place. Prisoners and criminals were sent there.
II. 翻译 （10分，每句2分）
1. 这笔基金是为了帮助那些上不起学的孩子而设立的。(to design)
2. 除了寒冷而稀薄的空气，登山者还要防备因为缺氧而导致的高山病。(apart from)
3. 最新版的«吉尼斯世界纪录大全»连续三周成为最畅销书。(in a row)
4. 他不能用英语很好地表达自己的意思。(get across)
5. 这些不实广告报纸该受责备。（blame）
第二节 开放作文（满分15分）
请根据下面提示，写一篇短文，词数不少于50。
Look at the following picture carefully and then turn the picture upside down, look at it again and again. Write a short passage about how you understand the picture.
北京市西城区外国语学校
2006—2007学年度第一学期期中考试 06.11
高三年级 英 语
班级 学号 姓名 成绩
第二卷 （共35分）
第四部分：书面表达 （共两节，满分35分）
第三节 句子写作 （满分20分）
I. 将下面各组中的单句合并为复合句 （10分，每句2分）
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II. 翻译 （10分，每句2分）
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4. _________________________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________________________
第四节 开放作文（满分15分）
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2006—2007学年度第一学期期中考试 06.11
Key:
第一部分：听力理解（共两节，30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，共7.5分）
1．C 2．A 3．B 4．C 5．A
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共22.5分）
6．A 7．C 8．B 9．B 10．C 11．C 12．B 13．B 14．C 15．B
16．B 17．C 18．B 19．C 20．A
第二部分：英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 单项选择：
21-25 CBADA 26-30 DBACD 31-35 DCCCD
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
36．B 37．A 38．C 39．D 40．B 41．D 42．B 43．D 44．A 45．C 46．D
47．C 48．A 49．B 50．A 51．D 52．C 53．C 54．A 55．B
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分）
56．B 57．D 58．C 59．B 60．A 61．B 62．D 63．C 64．B 65．A 66．D
67．C 68．D 69．B 70．A 71．C 72．B 73．B 74．D 75．C
第四部分：书面表达 （共两节，满分35分）
第一节 句子写作 （满分20分）
I. 将下面各组中的单句合并为复合句 （10分，每句2分）
1. He took some books with him in order that ( so that )he would not get bored during the long journey.
2. Although it was so cold, he went out without an overcoat.
3. Before they drive any of the buses, they will have to pass a special test.
4. Scientists of the nineteenth century formed the belief that the influence of the environment was behind the development of new species.
5. Australia was chosen as a new place where prisoners and criminals were sent .
II. 翻译 （10分，每句2分）
1. This fund is designed to help those children who can’t afford to go to school.
2. Apart from the cold and thin air, climbers also need to be prepared for the mountain sickness.
3. The latest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records has been a best-seller for three weeks in a row.
4. He cannot get his meaning across well in English.
5. Newspapers are to blame for the untruthful ads.
第二节 开放作文（满分15分）
A possible version:
At the first glance of the picture, you can see a face of an ugly old man. But turning the picture upside down, you will surprisingly see a pretty young girl. What can we learn from it?
What I think of is the attitude that one may have when facing failure. It will be better if we think of something good. If we always think negatively, we won’t be able to see the “pretty girl”, that is, the bright side of our life. Therefore, when we are let down, it is wise to have a positive attitude.