高2003级半期英语试题
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听力部分
一．听力理解 ： （满分15分）
第一节：听下面对话或独白，选出最佳答案。
1． Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a clothing shop B. At the woman’s home C. In the sitting room
2. Where did the conversation most probably take place?
A. In a plane B. In a coffee shop C. In a restaurant.
3. What is Miss Brown?
A. A teacher of English. B. A student of English C. A teacher of Chinese
4. What will Jack do?
A. He will play football. B. He will go swimming. C. He will ask Bill to play football.
5. Where is the man probably going to spend the holidays?
A. He hasn’t had any idea yet. B. Maybe he will go to Xi’an to visit his uncle.
C. Probably he will go sightseeing in Xi’an.
第二节：听下面对话或独白，选出最佳答案。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6． After how many stops should the man get off the fist bus?
A. Three stops. B. Four stops C. Five stops.
7. Which bus should the man change for?
A. No. 15. B. No. 25. C. No. 52
听第7段材料，回答第8-10题。
8. Why is swimming popular in summer?
A. Because students like swimming best.
B. Because swimming is the only sport in summer.
C. Because swimming in summer makes people feel cool.
9. Why did some good swimmers die in water while swimming?
A. Because they were too young.
B. Because they were not careful enough.
C. Because they didn’t swim well.
10. What does the writer of this passage want us to remember?
A. Be safe id swimming. B. Swimming will be safer. C. Swimming is a good sport.
笔试部分
四．单项填空 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。（20分）
11．When the thief reached the station, he was caught in ____ public by the police.
A. a B. the c. an D. /
12.Everyone has a comfortable chair _____.
A. to sit B. to sit on C. sat D. sit
13. Nothing can stop the experiment _____.
A. being made B. from doing C. from making D. carrying out
14. The visiting Minister expressed his satisfaction with his talks, ____ that he had enjoyed his stay here.
A. having added B. to add C. adding D. added
15. I hate ____ when people talk with their mouths full.
A. it B. that C. these D. them
16. The old woman has two daughters, _____ are college students now.
A. all of whom B. each of them C. both of them D. both of whom
17. The teaching building _____ ever since.
A. has been added B. has been added to
C. was added up D. had added up
18. Is this factory _____ some foreign friends are coming to visit next week?
A. the one B. the one what C. there D. that
19. The teacher tried to make the exam _____ for us to do .
A. easy B. easily C. difficulty D. hardly
20. _______ I haven’t heard from her yet.
A. So long B. Before long C. By then D. So far
21. “ _____ she be in her office ?”
“ No, she _____ be there. She _____ be in her room..”
A. Can; can’t; must B. Must; mustn’t; can
C. Must; can’t; can D. Can; mustn’t; must
22. It is very necessary to practise _____ in learning English.
A. listening B. listening to C. to listen D. to listen to
23. _______ of people like to take English courses over the radio.
A. Ten and thousands of B. Ten of thousand of
C. Tens of thousands of D. Ten and thousand of
24. She said she was starting for Beijing _______ instead of today.
A. the other day B. one day C. some day D. another day
25. In the reading room, we found her ____ at a desk, with her eyes ____ at a book.
A. sitting; looked B. seated; looking C. sit; looking D. sat; to look
26. It was Dr Smith who gave us a talk ____ the morning of July 18,1994.
A. in B. at C. by D. on
27. – Let’s go swimming, shall we?
- _____.
A. It’s my pleasure B. It doesn’t matter C. Yes, let’s go D. I agree Charlie
28. They found nothing wrong in ______ we wrote.
A. that B. which C. what D. how
29. _____ this with that, and it will be clear which is the better one.
A. Compared B. Compare C. Comparing D. To compare
30. It is the ____ for westerners to celebrate( 庆祝) Christmas.
A. habit B. manner C. custom D. way
五．完形填空 阅读短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能完成所给句子的正确答案。 (25分)
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
——Thomas Macaulay
Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs Nanette O’Neill gave a maths 31 to our class. When the papers were 32 she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the same mistakes throughout the test.
There is nothing really new about 33 in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs O’Neill 34 even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to 35 after class. I was one of the twelve.
Mrs O’Neill asked 36 questions, and she didn’t scold(责备) us either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the 37 words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to 38 these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.
I don’t 39 about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single 40 of my life. Thirty years after being 41 to Macaulay’s words, they 42 seem to me the best yardstick(准绳), because they give us a 43 to measure ourselves rather than others.
44 of us are asked to make 45 decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called on daily to make a great many personal decisions. 46 the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket 47 turned over to the policeman? Should the 48 change received at the store be forgotten or 49 ? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always 50 to live with someone you respect.
31 A. test B. problem C. paper C. lesson
32.A. examined B. completed C. marked C. answered
33. A. lying B. cheating C. guessing C. discussing
34. A. didn’t B. did C. would D. wouldn’t
35. A. come B. leave C. remain D. apologize
36. A. no B. certain C. many D. more
37. A. above B. common C. following D. unusual
38. A. repeat B. get C. put D. copy
39. A. worry B. know C. hear D. talk
40. A. chance B. incident C. lesson D. memory
41. A. referred B. shown C. brought D. introduced
42. A. even B. still C. always D. almost
43. A. way B. sentence C. choice D. reason
44. A. All B. Few C. Some D. None
45. A. quick B. wise C. great D. personal
46. A. Should B. Must C. Would D. Need
47. A. and B. or C. then D. but
48. A. extra B. small C. some D. necessary
49. A. paid B. remembered C. shared D. returned
50. A. easier B. more natural C. better D. more peaceful
六．阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题的正确答案。（24分）
A
As one comes to some crossroads（十字路口）, one sees a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they don’t have to stop ( unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road ); and at still others, they do not have either to stop or to go slow, because they are themselves on the main road.
Mr. Williams, who was always a very careful driver, was driving home from work one evening when he came to a crossroad. It had a “SLOW” sign, so he slowed down（减速） when he came to the main road, looked both ways to see that nothing was coming, and then drove across without stopping.
At once he heard a policeman calling, so he drove to the side of the road and stopped. A policeman walked over to him with a notebook and a pencil in his hand and said, “You didn’t stop at that crossing.”
“But the sign there doesn’t say “STOP”, answered Williams. “It just says ‘SLOW’, and I did go slow.”
The policeman looked around him, and a look of surprise came over his face. Then he put his notebook and pencil away, saying, “Well, I’m in the wrong street!”
51. Mr. Williams was driving ______ one evening.
A. to a party B. to his office C. home from work D. to work from home
52. When he was stopped by a policeman, he ______.
A. was driving at a high speed B. was driving on the main road
C. was going to stop his car D. was driving slowly
53. Mr. Williams was driving on at the crossing because ____.
A. he didn’t see any sign there B. he had to go home at once
C. he didn’t like the road rules D. he didn’t have to stop
54. Looking around him, the policeman was surprised because ____.
A. Mr. Williams dared to speak to him like that
B. he met a mad man
C. Mr. Williams wouldn’t apologize to him
D. he realized that he was mistaken
B.
We had rather a small house, with only one spare bedroom. You can imagine our surprise when Aunt Clara wrote to say that she was coming to stay with her family for the weekend, Her family, I should explain, is rather big, with four boys, all under the age of 12.
I called her at once, telling her that our house must be far too small for her family, But Aunt Clara said in her sweetest voice, “I forgot to explain in my letter that the boys will be bringing some tents with them. They like to be close to nature,”
Even so, my wife was still worried. It is true that we have a large garden, but there was the problem of feeding our growing boys. “And what if it rains?” my wife said.
But Saturday morning was bright and clear when I went to the station to meet Aunt Clara. It was a great trouble to push three of the boys, together with their things, into the back of the car. The youngest sat in the front, with Clara and me.
My wife was waiting at the gate for us. As soon as we got out of the car, my wife said to David, the eldest boy, “I didn’t see any tents.”
“The tents!” cried Aunt Clara. “My God! We left them in the house.
55. The biggest problem my wife and I thought was _____.
A. food B. time C. room D. noise
56. Aunt Clara was _____.
A. invited alone B. not invited
C. invited with her family D. invited for another weekend
57. The wife _____ when she learned about Aunt Clara’s coming with their tents.
A. was worried all the same B. was happier
C. felt less worried D. worried about nothing
58. Aunt Clara made it clear that the boys could sleep _____.
A. outside B. with her C. on the floor D. in another place
C.
Education for Japanese children is free for the first nine years and 99.9% of school-age children go to schools. School usually begins at 8 in the morning and ends at 3 in the afternoon on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays. The school year begins in April and ends in March. There is a summer holiday in August and a winter holiday during the New Year season.
After nine years of schooling, students can enter the three-year high school by passing an examination and by paying a little money each year. After high school, students can go on to study at all kinds of colleges, usually for four years.
59. The passage mainly discusses about ____.
A. colleges in Japan B. free education in Japan
C. education in Japan D. school time in Japan
60. How many days do the Japanese students have to go to school every week ?
A. Not known B. Four and a half days
C. Five days D. Five and a half days
61. What is not SAID in the passage?
A. types of colleges B. times for schooling
C. the number of children going to school D. the teachers
62. According to passage what is true?
A .Perhaps Japanese children are less busy than the children in China
B. Going to high schools Japanese children needn’t have an exam.
C. Japanese children have a summer holiday but not a winter one.
D. There are few colleges in Japan
第二卷 非选择题
六．短文改错。（10分）
Dear Bob,
Hello. I learn about you from my English teacher， 63. _____________
Miss Fang. I’d like to your pen friend, and get to 64 _____________
know more about your country.
First, let me tell you something more about myself. 65. _____________
My name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing, where is the 66. _____________
capital of China. I go to Hongqi Middle School. We 67. _____________
study quite a few subject, such as maths, Chinese, 68. _____________
English and physics. I use to play ping-pong a lot 69. _____________
In my spare time, but now I am interesting in football. 70. _____________
Do you play any ball games? What your favourite 71. _____________
sport? I look forward to hear from you soon. 72. _____________
八．书面表达 根据以下内容写一篇日记。 （ 11 分 ）
你的日记提要如下：
1、 你和同学们清早乘车去参观白帝城；
2、 后来在爬山的路上拾到一个包，内有相机、四百多元人民币、两千多美金的支票；
3、 在警察的帮助下找到失主— Mrs. Smith，一位美国女士；
4、 Mrs. Smith十分感激，并称赞你们拾金不昧。能帮助别人，你们也非常高兴。
注意：
1、 日记须包括上述全部内容,可适当增加细节,使全文连贯；
2、 词数80左右。
3、 开头已写好。
Sunday Fine
I got up very early this morning.…
附一： 听力录音材料及答案见《英语周报》第10、11期。
附二：参考答案
11-15 DBACA 16-20 DBAAD 21-25 AACDB
26-30 DCCBC （20分）
31-35 ACBAC 36-40 BADBC 41-45 DBABC
46-50 ABADC （20分）
51—62 CBDD CBAA CDDA（24分）
68. learn- learned/learnt 69. like to后加 be/become 70. more 去掉
71．where –which 72. 正确 73. subject-subjects
74. use-used 75. interesting-interested 76.What-What’s或 后加 is.
77. hear-hearing (10分)
书面表达：(11分)
Sunday Fine
I got up very early this morning because my classmates and I would go to visit the Baidi Temple. We took a bus to the foot of the hill, and then we began to climb on foot. On the way to the top, I happened to pick up a bag. When I opened it, I found in it there was a camera and over 400 yuan and a check for 2000 dollars. At once we decided to hand it to the police, and with the help of the police we found the owner, Mrs. Smith, an American woman. She felt very grateful and she praised us for doing such a good deed. We were very happy to have helped others.