北京156中学高三第一学期英语期中试题
第一部分 听力（略）
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）
21. He left Beijing for Shanghai______ getting a better paid job.
A. in praise of B. in honor of C. in hope of D. in spite of
22. _____we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision work.
A. Now that B. Ever since C. By now D For
23. _____the profit up by 50%, the computer company has had another excellent year.
A. As B. For C. Because D. With
24. Would you _____my massage to your mother that I appreciate her help?
A. deliver B. take C. tell D. say
25. ----Why are you ______your bag?
--- My keys are missing and I am _____it.
A. searching; searching B. searching for; searching for
C. searching; searching for D. searching for; searching
26. As she is a quiet girl, she seldom speaks to others _____ a few words of greeting.
A. instead of B. besides C. apart from D. except for
27. The meeting lasted two hours, and each stuck to their own opinion. So nothing has been __________.
A. concluded B. made C. included D. discussed
28. The medical team is _____five doctors and ten nurses. That is to say, five doctors and ten nurses______ the medical team.
A. made up of; made up B. made up of; make up of
C. made up by; make up D. made up by; make up of
29. As far as pollution is concerned, people’s behavior _______environment itself is to blame.
A. rather than B. or else C. otherwise D. instead
30. ----Did you remember to give Mary the money you owned her?
-----Yes, I gave it to her _____I saw her.
A. while B. the moment C. suddenly D. once
31. It is almost five years _____ we saw her each other last time..
A. before B. since C. after D. when
32. We have no idea if it ______tomorrow. If it ______, we ‘ll go there some other day.
A. rains; rains B. rains; will rain
C. will rain; will rain D. will rain, rains
33. The news came as no surprise to me. I ______ for some time that the factory was going to shut down.
A. had known B. knew C. have known D. know
34. Helen had to shout to make herself ____ above the sound of music.
A. hear B. heard C. hearing D. to be heard
35. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see _____ the next year..
A. carried out B. carrying out
C. to carry out D. being carried out
第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor-living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was ___36____and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still ___37____ a dream.
My dream was __38____. By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and ___39____anything that moved on the football field. I was also __40___: My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me ___41___ to believe in myself. He __42___.me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular __43___with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket--- money for a new bike, new clothes and the ___44___ of saving for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to __45___ up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was __46____ as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said “Your __47__days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head __48___, trying to think of the __49___ that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his __50__ in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked.”3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.
“Well,” He asked, “ is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made ___51___ for me the difference between ___52___ something right now and having a ___53___. I decided myself to play sports that summer and ___54___ the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was __55__a $20000 contact (agreement). In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream!
36. A. happy B. polite C. shy D. honest
37 .A. live B .afford C. make D. need
38. A. athletics B. music C. business D. money
39. A .kick B. play C. pass D. hit
40. A. right B. popular C. lucky D. confident
41. A. how B. why C .when D. whether
42. A. gave B. taught C. brought D. asked
43. A. accident B. matter C. problem D. experience
44. A. aim B. idea C. start D. purpose
45. A. keep B. end C. give D. pick
46. A. mad B. mournful C. frightened D. shameful
47. A. living B. playing C. working D. learning
48. A. moving B. nodding C. shaking D. hanging
49. A. answers B .excuse C. words D. ways
50. A. sadness B. regret C. hopelessness D. disappointment
51. A. direct B. clear C. straight D. bare
52. A. wanting B. changing C. dreaming D. enjoying
53. A. wish B. goal C. score D. desire
54. A. by B. for C. over D. with
55. A . paid B. got C. offered D. presented
第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
Sure, it’s good to get along with your teacher because it makes the time you spend in the classroom more pleasant.
And yes, it’s good to get along with your teacher because, in general, it’s smart to learn how to relate to the different types of people you’ll meet throughout your life.
But really, there’s one super-important reason why you should get along with your teacher. When you do, “learning bursts right open,” says Evelyn Vuko, a longtime teacher who writes an education column called “Teacher Says” for the Washington Post newspaper.
In fact, kids who get along with their teachers not only learn more, but they’re more comfortable asking questions and getting extra help. This makes it easier to understand new material and do your best on tests. When you have this kind of relationship with a teacher, he or she can be someone to turn to with problems, such as problems with learning or school issues, such as bullying（欺凌弱小者）.
As a kid in a primary or middle school, you’re at a wonderful stage in your life. You’ re like a sponge（海绵）, able to soak up lots of new and exciting information. On top of that, you’re able to think about all this information in new ways. Your teacher knows that, and in most cases, is very excited to be the person who’s giving you all that material and helping you put it together. Remember, teachers are people, too, and they feel great if you’re open to what they’re teaching you. That’s why they wanted to be teachers in the first place – to teach!
Some kids may be able to learn in any situation, whether they like the teacher or not. But most kids are sensitive（敏感的）to the way they get along with the teacher, and if things aren’t going well, they won’t learn as well and won’ t enjoy being in class.
56．In the passage, the author mainly talks about .
A．how to get a long well with teachers
B．the importance of a good relation with teachers
C．how much the students are expected of to get along with teachers
D．how to make the time in the classroom more pleasant
57．“Learning bursts right open”in the third paragraph really means .
A．learning becomes easier for you at once
B．you find an opening to learning
C．there’ll be more problems with learning
D．there’ll be no problems with learning
58．According to the passage, which of the following offers the best reasoning?
A. You are getting on well with your teachers, so you have more questions than others.
B. You find it comfortable to ask questions, so you can build a good relationship with teachers.
C. You have a good relationship with your teacher, so you can turn to him/her when in trouble.
D. You are in trouble, so you can build a good relationship with teachers.
59．Which of the comments is FALSE on teachers and their work according to the passage?
A．Teachers are excited even if you wouldn’t like to accept their teaching.
B．Teachers sometimes have the same feelings as students do.
C．Though few there are still some students who can learn even if they don’t like the teacher.
D．Having a bad relationship with your teachers does more or less harm to your studies.
B
Frank Lloyd Wright probably is the greatest architect that the United States has ever produced. He was very gifted and had a natural ability to design buildings. His buildings were not only beautiful, but they were also practical and useful. They fit their purposes very well. Wright’s churches, for example, make people feel like thinking and praying. His office buildings make people enjoy working, and his houses make people feel comfortable, at home. However, Frank Lloyd Wright’s beautiful, practical and useful buildings are not the only reason that he is famous. There is another reason.
Frank Lloyd Wright is called the greatest American architect because he started an American style in architecture. Most of the architecture in the United States before Wright was really European, not American. Wright’s buildings do not look like old European buildings. They have their own style. Wright’s ideas about style are still used in the United States and in other parts of the world.
The most important idea in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Style of Architecture is that a building must fit its purpose and the land around it. His houses are often called “grass-land houses” because their lines are similar to the lines on the grassland. Both the lines of the grassland and the lines of Wright’ s house are parallel to the horizon(与地平线平行), the place where earth and sky seem to meet. They are horizontal lines. Most European style houses, in contrast, have many vertical lines that form 90°angles with the horizon.
60．Frank Lloyd Wright’s style in architecture was ________.
A．learned from some European countries
B．not only limited to the U.S
C．no longer popular
D．somewhat similar to the European style
61．Which of the following best describes the character of the houses that Wright designed?
A．They were very large and beautiful.
B．They were very comfortable.
C．They could be used as churches.
D．They were beautiful in design but not practical in use.
62．What is the most important idea in Wright’s style?
A. Architectural design should match natural surroundings.
B. A building must have grassland around it.
C. American style in architecture should be different from European’s.
D. Design should be more important than use.
63．Which of the following is NOT true about Wright’s “grass-land houses”?
A. The lines of “grass-land houses” are similar to lines on the grassland.
B. The lines of “grass-land houses” are horizontal.
C. The color of the lines of “grass-land houses” is green.
D. They are different from European style houses.
C
Language as a System of Symbols
Of all systems of symbols (符号), language is the most highly developed. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual (相互的)dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous systems. We call that system of agreements language.
There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for. Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in.
However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections. For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature: foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names? This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough. Like the little boy who is reported to have said: “Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,” they feel that the symbol is inherently (内在地) connected in some way with the things symbolized.
64. Language is a highly developed system of symbols because human beings _________.
A. have made use of language for centuries
B. use our nervous systems to support language
C. have made various noises stand for any events
D. can make anything stand for anything by agreement
65. What can we conclude from Paragraph 2?
A. Different noises may mean different things.
B. Our culture determines what a symbol stands for.
C. The language we use symbolizes our social positions.
D. Our social positions determine the way we are dressed.
66. In Paragraph 3, “take special pains” probably means “_________”.
A. try very hard B. take our time
C. are very unhappy D.
feel especially painful
67. The example of the little boy is used to show that _________.
A. adults often learn from their young
B. “pig” is a dirty word because pigs are dirty
C. words are not connected with the things they stand for
D. people sometimes have wrong ideas about how language works
D
The other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party. The time printed on the invitation was 7:30pm. Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food, and song.
By 9:45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared. Jane and David were restless. Other guests began whispering that they, too, were starving. But no one wanted to leave, just in case some food was about to appear. By 11:00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads. Jane and David left hungry and angry.
Their experience suggests that the words on the printed invitations need to be made clearer. Everyone reads and understands the invitations differently. Most of us would agree that 6:30 --8:30pm means drinks only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8:00pm or 8:30pm means possible dinner, but 9:30pm and any time thereafter means no food, or at beforehand, roll up late.
But this is not always the case. If asked to a students' party at 6:30pm, it is normal for guests not to appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares. Being the first to arrive - looking eager - is social death. When my mother is asked to a party for 6:30, she likes to be on time, if not on time, then no later than seven. My age group (late thirties) falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think we're young, we're probably closer to student-time than grown-up time.
The accepted custom at present is confusing (混乱的), sometimes annoying, and it often means you may go home hungry, but it does give every party that precious element (成分) of surprise.
68. The underlined words "off their heads" probably mean______.
A. tired B. crazy C. curious D. hopeless
69. Jane and David' s story is used to show that______ .
A. party-goers usually get hungry at parties
B. party invitations can be confusing
C. people should ask for food at parties
D. birthday parties for middle-aged people are dull
70. For some young people, arriving on time for a students' party will probably be considered_______.
A. very difficult B. particularly thoughtful
C. friendly and polite D. socially unacceptable
71. According to the writer, people in their late thirties_______.
A. are likely to arrive late for a party
B. care little about the party time
C. haven' t really grown up yet
D. like surprises at parties
72. What is the general idea of the text?
A. It' s safe to arrive late just when food is served.
B. It' s wise to eat something before going to a party.
C. It' s important to follow social rules of party-going.
D. It' s necessary to read invitations carefully.
E
① Brain-injured boy set for ₤1.75m payout
A YOUNGSTER who was knocked off his tricycle by a taxi and left with a serious brain injury is set to be awarded ₤1.75 million.
Fourteen-year-old George Currie, from Dalkeith, was living in County Durham with his parents Allister and Paula at the time of the accident in September 1993.
George, who was then three years old, was riding his small tricycle along the pavement when he lost control and swerved on to the road into the path of an on-coming taxi.
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pavement: 人行道 swerve: 突然转向 insurance: 保险
73. What does Passage①tell us about the boy?
A. He was injured in the head when he was 14.
B. He has waited for the payout for a long time.
C. He has lived in the same place since the accident.
D. He was run over by a taxi when riding on the
pavement.
74. What can we learn about Lee and Collier counties from Passage②?
A. They both became safe places.
B. They won the same place in a race.
C. They had the same number of accidents.
D. They joined hands in reducing accidents.
75. Which passage would give more information on the prevention of road
accidents?
A. ① B. ② C. ③ D. ④
第三部分：写作部分
（2006年四月西城区第一次模拟练习写作部分）
Key
单项填空
21-25 CADAC 26-30 CAAAB 31-35 BDABA
完形填空
36-40 ABADC 41-45 ABDCC
46-50 ABDCD 51-55 BABDC
阅读理解
56-60 BACAB 61-65 BACDB
66-70 ADBBD 71-75 ACBCD
书面表达
（A）As volunteers in the neighborhood, my classmates and I visit a nearby drop-in centre every other Saturday afternoon. We usually get there at 2：00pm and leave two hours later.
At the drop-in center we visit those who have to stay there for some reason. Some of us chat with the old or read newspaper for them to help relief their loneliness. Some play games with the children to make them happy and forget their troubles. A few of us help to do some cleaning and collect waste there to make everything tidy.
During our stay there, each of us does his best to let them know they are taken good care of by society, and we hope they will return home happily as soon as possible.
（B） Li Ming is diligent/hard-working student.
It is Saturday. He is busy working on his lessons in the afternoon at home. At break, he relaxes by the window, expecting to enjoy the sunshine. Yet the busy pouring traffic seems to remind him of something. As a senior 3 student, facing NMET, time is more or less limited for him. He thinks he must plan everything carefully in order to solve the remaining problems with his lessons and prepare well for the coming examination. Meanwhile, he has to take good care of himself. For example, he should have a balanced diet and do some exercise every day. Li Ming is determined to do his best so that he will meet with success.