2.湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学高一第一学期期末考试

第一节

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。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。

Text 1

M:What are you drinking,Elaine?

W:This is water with lemon.I know it’s strange to drink hot water without tea or sugar,but I’ve found that there are many health benefits to this drink.

Text 2

M:Can you give me a ride to the restaurant tonight?

W:Sorry,my car is in the repair shop.I’ll be taking the bus.You can catch it with me if you like.

Text 3

W:Let’s get something to drink and then go to see the elephants.

M:But the dolphin show starts in two minutes.I really want to see that.We can get a cup of tea afterwards.

W:Good idea.

Text 4

W:Are you busy tonight? You don’t work on Friday nights,right?

M:No,I don’t.But I’ll be babysitting my niece until six.Why?

W:Well.I’d love to go dancing.Do you want to join me?

Text 5

W:I can’t solve this difficult problem! I’ve been working on it for three hours.

M:Maybe it’s time for you to take a break and go back to it later.

W:I think you are right.

第二节

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。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、7题。

Text 6

W:Hello,can you fix my bicycle?

M:Hi! I think so.What’s wrong with it?

W:I don’t know,but one of the wheels is broken.

M:Did you fall off your bicycle?

W:Yes,I did.But I wasn’t going very fast.

M:I hope you weren’t hurt!

W:No,I am fine.I just hope my bicycle still works.

M:Let me see.Yes,it’s OK.The front wheel is just out of shape.I can fix that for you.Just wait there.

W:Thank you very much.

听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。

Text 7

W:Dad,what will we have for supper?

M:I don’t know.Maybe fried eggs,chicken soup and…

W:Oh,no.We’ve had the same thing ever since Mom left.I am really tired of it.

M:I’m sorry.But that’s the only thing I can cook.What do you want to have then?

W:I do wish Mom was back.Why don’t we eat out for a change?

M:Oh,that’s a good idea.I like Kentucky Fried Chicken very much.

W:Dad,you always talk about fried chicken.Let’s have something different.Let’s go to McDonald’s this time.

M:OK,then you’ll drive,won’t you?

W:No.I’m a bit tired today.You drive,please.

M:OK.I hope your Mom will be back soon.Ah,here we are.

W:Dad,what would you like to have? I’d like a hamburger.

M:I want one,too.And some fries?

W:Yeah.And a Coke,an ice-cream,and an apple pie.

M:OK.You go and find the seats.

听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。

Text 8

W:The trouble with education,I think,lies with the teachers.I think they’re serious in teaching knowledge but pay less attention to develop students’ abilities to create.

M:That’s partly true.There is too much teaching but little time left for students to cultivate their imagination.As a result,the students are so busy studying for exams that they have no time to learn how to live in the society.

W:What do you mean by saying “partly true”?

M:Mm,after thinking this matter twice,I find it’s not the teachers who are willing to do so.

W:Really?

M:As a matter of fact,the teachers want to develop the students’ abilities to create but the content of the examination does not include this kind of ability.

W:Explain your point,please.

M:The students with creative abilities are not sure to get high marks in the examinations while students without creative abilities can get high marks by reciting the contents to be checked in the examination.

W:I see.You mean it is the exam system that is to blame,not the teachers.

M:Yes.That’s the point.

听第9段材料,回答第14至17题。

Text 9

M:How did you find Cambridge when you first arrived?

W:Well.I like it.I think the city is very beautiful.

M:What about your guest house? Was that OK?

W:Yes,OK.At first I stayed with a family for three months.They were very kind to me but they had three young children and I found it difficult to study.

M:Right,I see.

W:So after three months I moved out and now I live with two other students in a student house.It’s much cheaper and we like living there.

M:Good,and what about your studies? What are you studying?

W:I’m doing computing.

M:Computing? I see.Um,apart from the language difficulties,how have you found the course?

W:Well.The main difficulty for me is getting time on the computers in the computer room.It’s always busy and this makes it very hard to do my practical work.

M:Can you reserve time in the computer room?

W:No,but it would certainly help if we could reserve computer time.

M:Yes.I’ll look into that and see if something can be done to improve things over there.

听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。

Text 10

George Stephenson is well-known as the builder of the first public railway in the world and he is called the “Father of Railways”.But few people know something about his private life.George was born in 1781 and he was the second child of Robert and Mabel.They were very poor and the parents couldn’t read or write.Robert worked hard,but he could not support his family.How could he get the money to send George to school? As a result,George had to work when he was a small child.George Stephenson was diligent and he liked to learn useful knowledge because he knew education could make a difference.Later George paid to study at a night school to learn reading,writing and arithmetic.He worked and studied very hard.At 17,George became an engineman at a local coal mine.After that George made good use of every chance to learn knowledge about enginery and further more about how to build machinery.After a few years’ hard work George became an expert in steam-driven machinery and later became the “Father of Railways”.