[中学联盟]甘肃省武威第五中学2015-2016学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题.docVIP

2015-2016 学年第一学期武威五中高一年级英语试卷 命题人： 刘 伟 本试题分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分。第Ⅰ卷为选择题，第Ⅱ卷为非选择题。全卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。 第 Ⅰ 卷 第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2，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 Miss Gorgers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?” Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That’s very good,” Miss Gorgers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gorgers said. “Yes, Kate.” “I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it’s 11 o’clock here it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.” 1. Miss Gorgers was teaching her class_________. A. how to telephone　 B. about electricity C. about sound 　　 D. about time zone (时区)2. Miss Gorgers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.  A. her students had grasped her lesson B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away 　C. sound waves were slower than electricity D. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles 3. Tom thought that electricity was _________. A. faster than sound waves B. slower than sound waves C. not so fast as sound waves D. as fast as sound waves 4. Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______. A. electricity was slower than sound waves B. clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York C. Tom was not good at physics at all D. Tom’s answer had nothing to do with sound waves B Life in an American high school is an interesting and exciting learning experience. High school in America is not just a place for studying some subjects. It is also an i