- 1 -铜陵一中高一年级五月阶段考试铜陵一中高一年级五月阶段考试 英英 语语考试时间：考试时间：9090 分钟分钟 满分：满分：100100 分分 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 3030 分）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。1. Whats the time now?A. 10:10 B. 10:00 C. 9:502. What lesson do many Swiss students take after school?A. Badminton lessons. B. Tennis lessons. C. Music lessons.3. What is Elizabeth like?A. Considerate. B. Generous. C. Honest.4. Why does the mans aunt come to his city?A. To attend a meeting. B. To deliver a speech. C. To visit the library.5. What is the woman going to do?A. Get her car repaired. B. Take a driving test. C. Apply for a driving course.第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 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、7 题。6. What does Jenny usually have for breakfast in China?A. Pancakes. B. Dessert. C. Bread.7. Where is Jenny probably from?- 2 -A. China. B. Canada. C. America.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What happened to the man?A. He suffered from sunburn. B. He had a food allergy. C. He had a high fever.9. What did the mans family do at the weekend?A. They did some sunbathing. B. They had a picnic. C. They went camping.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。10. What happened to the man?A. He was involved in a traffic accident. B. He lost his new bicycle.C.He failed in the midterm exam.11. What is the man worried about?A. His broken arm. B. The coming exam. C. The heavy traffic.12. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a classroom. B. In the street. C. In a hospital.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. How does the man find the womans name?A. Ambiguous. B. Strange. C. Interesting.14. Why does the woman use the name George?A. To be easily remembered. B. To simplify her lifestyle. C. To be treated equally.15. What does the woman do?A. A scholar. B. A journalist. C. A manager. 16. Which aspect will the man avoid when judging people?A. Sex. B. Income. C. Appearance. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。- 3 -17. When is the festival?A. 4 November. B. 5 November. C. 15 November.18. What did Guy Fawkes and his companions want to do?A. Take charge of the country. B. Set political prisoners free. C. Destroy the Houses of Parliament.19. What happened to Guy Fawkes and his companions finally?A. They were put in prison. B. They were killed. C. They escaped from the UK.20. How do children traditionally deal with the models called “guys” ?A. Burn them. B. Decorate them. C. Throw them away.第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分 4040 分）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。A“Your forehead is bleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on my forehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned away from my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.“I washed the blood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of them again. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldnt wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayer mark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.As a teen, I refused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPod in case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired of having to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as I outwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday that excited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, the prettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I - 4 -often found myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I was two-faced.But with age came the intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outer identities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I was exposed to books like Jhumpa Lahirs The Namesake. I began to realize that a persons culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of the world could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. With this understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity was something to be proud of.Now looking in the mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where the tilak belongs. “Its not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“Its a prayer mark, a tilak.”21. What did the author do after hearing the