安徽省黄山市屯溪第一中学2018_2019学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

2018-2019学年度高一下学期期中考试英 语（考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分）注意事项：1、答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2、回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3、考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上, 录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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. What will the man do this afternoon?AVisit a museum. BLearn the guitar CSee a friend.2. Which language does the man want to learn?AFrench.B. Italian.CMandarin.3. How much should the woman pay for the apartment each month?A$300.B$600.C$1,200.4How is the weather probably now?ACloudy.BRainy.CSunny.5What are the speakers talking about?AA lab.BAn experiment. CA professor.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 is Sophie doing?AListening to music.BEating an apple. CReading a history book.7. Who is talking on the phone?ADanny.BJane.CBen.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. When will the man come back home from the holiday?AOn the 24th. BOn the 25th. COn the 26th.9.Where will the man go for his holiday?ATo Turkey.BTo Greece.CTo Italy.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.How many planets in the solar system have no moons?A1.B2. C3.11.Which planet has two tiny moons?AJupiter.BVenus.CMars.12.What will the woman probably do next?ALay the table.BRead the article. CGo for supper.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13What does the man probably do now?AA teacher. BA guide. CA journalist.14What will the man do on Friday afternoon?AAttend a meeting.BDo his paperwork. CLook after Kate.15Who is Liz probably?AThe womans daughter. BThe mans wife. CThe mans kid.16When will the speakers meet?AAt about 6:30.BAt about 7:30. CAt about 8:00.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17What can tourists do at stop A?AVisit a wonderful garden. BTry a new restaurant. CVisit an old playground.18At which stop can tourists visit the Roman baths?AStop B. BStop C. CStop D.19How often do the boat tours in the Roman Boat Company leave?AEvery 30 minutes. BEvery 60 minutes. CEvery two hours.20Where do the boat tours in the Best Boating Company leave?AFrom Palace Gardens.BFrom Pulteney Bridge.CFrom Queen Square.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AIf you were an exchanged student in New York City, one day your math teacher gave you following questions as your homework, please write down your answers.A company sold a product for dollars in 1990. The price of the product would increase by 2.5% every year. 21. Which of the following expressions could be used to calculate the price of the product in the year 2000?A. (25)10 B. (0.25)10 C. (1.25) 10 D. (1.025)10.A man needs to make 3 curtains. The cloth which is used to make curtains sells for $8.00 per meter and can be purchased only by the full（完整的） meter. The length of cloth required for each curtain is 1.6 meters.22. What is the total cost of the cloth that needs to be bought for the 3 curtains?A.$40.00 B.$24.00 C.$38.40 D.$48.00.A pet store sells only dogs and cats. In March, the store sold twice as many dogs as cats. In April, the store sold twice the number of dogs that it sold in March, and three times the number of cats that it sold in March. 23. If the total number of pets the store sold in March and April combined was 500, how many dogs did the store sell in March?A. 80 B.100 C.120 D.160BLanguages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit(联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech, independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialization, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalization and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have fewer languages spoken by many people while hot, wet zones have more, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 Languages: the Americas about 1,000, Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.Now over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction(消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. None of these seems to have chances of survival.24What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?AThey developed very fast. BThey were large in number.CThey had similar patterns. DThey were closely connected25Which of the following best explains dominant underlined in paragraph 2？AConfusing. BDifficult. CPowerful. DModern.26How many languages are spoken by less than 6, 000 people at present?AAbout 6,800 . BAbout 3,400 CAbout 2,400 DAbout 1,200.27What is the main idea of the text?ANew languages will be created. BPeoples lifestyles are reflected in languages.CHuman development results in fewer languages. DGeography determines language evolution.COn one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner. They settled in at a comfortable East Side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.“Hey, arent you from Mississippi?” the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by a stranger. “Im from Mississippi too.”Without a second thought, the woman joined the Weltys table. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair.“They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty said. “I didnt know what my New York friends were thinking.”Taxis on a rainy New York night are rarer than sunshine. By the time the group got up to leave, it was pouring outside. Weltys new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab. Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their Big Apple dinner into a Mississippi.“My friends said: Now we believe your stories,” Welty added. “And I said: Now you know. These are the people that make me write them.Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Weltys people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets beside her house, from conversations overheard on a bus. It annoys Welty that, at 78, her left ear has now given out. However, she continues to walk into life and notes the vivid life. Sometimes, sitting on a bus or a train, she hears onlya fragment(片段) of a particularly interesting story, yet she quickly takes out a notebook and write something fantastic under her point of pen.28.What happened when Welty was with her friends at the cafe?A. Strangers joined her. B. Her childhood friends came in. C. A heavy rain ruined the dinner. D. Some people held a party there.29.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refers to Weltys.A. readers B. parties C. friends D. stories30.What can we learn about the characters in Weltys fiction? A. They live in big cities. B. They are mostly women. C. They come from real life. D. They are pleasure seekers.31. Which one do you think is the best title?A. A rainy day party B. Inspiration of life C. How to write fiction D. One of the best female writersDThe Bermuda Triangle is an area in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, near Florida in the USA, where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared mysteriously.The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950 article. Two years later, published “Sea Mystery at Our Back Door”, covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, “We are entering white water. Nothing seems right. We dont know where we are.” In the February 1964, the article “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle” argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were just part of strange events in the area.Triangle writers have used a number of supernatural ideas to explain the events. One explanation refers to leftover technology from the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis. Some of the Triangle writers related the events to UFOs. This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which the lost Flight 19 aircrews were taken by aliens.But there are also some explanation relating to nature. For example, laboratory experiments carried out in Australia have proven that bubbles containing natural gas can sink a large ship by decreasing the density(密度) of the water. Because it has been assumed that the eruption of volcanoes(火山)may produce much natural gas, making large areas of bubbles under sea so that water is no longer able to provide enough supporting power for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without any warning.Violent weather is likely to be another reason. Powerful storms forming in tropical(热带的)waters have caused thousands of deaths and caused billions of dollars in damage. These storms have in the past caused a number of incidents related to the Triangle.32. According to the passage, the loss of Flight 19 was first covered .A. in 1950 B. in 1952 C. in 1962 D. in 196433. The sentence “Persons accepting the Bermuda Triangle as a Death Triangle have offered a number of ways to explain it.” should be put in .A. B. C. D. 34. According to paragraph 4, which one is NOT the reason for the disappearance of ships?A. the natural gas B. large areas of bubbles C. the eruption of volcanoes D. the increase of water density35. What is the passage mainly about?A. The truth behind the disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle.B. The puzzle of the Bermuda Triangle and its explanations.C. Strange accidents that happened in the Bermuda Triangle.D. The exploration of the Bermuda Triangle in history.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab mice are not allowed to sleep, they die within a month.36_ One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories.37_We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear. Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons(神经元) in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.38_ Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right.39_The synapses(突触) in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 per cent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping. If Tononis theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a nights, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information-our brains may have smaller room for new experiences. Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size.40_“You keep what matters,” Tononi says.A. We should also try to sleep well the night before.B. Its as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.C. Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.D. The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.E. Thats why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.F. “Sleep is the price we pay for learning,” says Giulio Tononi, who developed the idea.G. Tononis team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.第三部分：语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 My 9-year-old daughter and I were flying from Chicago to spend a week with my husband in Florida. We were 41 about the trip because we hadnt seen him for five months, and my daughter 42 her Dad terribly.As usual , the plane was totally 43 . Because we did not get our boarding passes until we 44 at the gate, Kallie and I could not get seats together and were 45 by the aisle (过道). I asked two passengers in my row if they would switch places with Kallie and me, 46 we could be together. They 47 , saying they thought they should stay in their assigned seats. Meanwhile, a mother and her three children were in a 48 several rows ahead of us. There had been a mistake in their boarding passes, and 49 the whole family had been split up. The passengers in her row 50 refused to move elsewhere. She was very 51 about the younger boy sitting with strangers. She was in tears, yet nobody 52 to help her. There were a troop of Boy Scouts(童子军) on 53 . Suddenly the Scout leader stood up and said, “Maam, I think we can help you.” He then 54 five minutes rearranging his group so that enough space was 55 for the family. The boys followed his directions cheerfully and without 56 , and the mothers relief was obvious.Seeing that, Kallie began to panic at the 57 of not being next to me. I told her that there was nothing I could do. 58 , the man sitting next to the Scoutmaster, 59 to me and asked, “Would you and your daughter like our seats?” 60 to his and the Scoutmasters. We traded seats and continued our trip, very much relieved to be together and watch the scenery from Kallies window sea.After that, I have been calling my kids to join Boy Scouts because I believe it is the sharing and love that matters.41AcuriousBanxiousCenthusiasticDextraordinary42AlovedBconsideredCimaginedDmissed43Afull BbrilliantCemptyDoverweight44AreachedBarrivedClandedDknocked45AdisturbedBblockedCseparatedDconnected46Ain caseBeven if Cas if Dso that47Aprevented Brefused Cagreed Dpromised48Apanic Bhurry Crush Dseat49Ahowever Botherwise Ctherefore Dinstead50Atoo Balso Cever Deven51Aworried Bconfused Crelaxed Dconvinced52Asuggested Boffered Cprovided Dsupplied53Aduty Bwatch Cboard Dspot54Atook Bcost Cpaid Dspent55Asuitable Bavailable Cprobable Dcomfortable56Apermission Bexcuse Capology Dcomplaint57Athought Bend Cfeeling Dsense58ASuddenly BInterestingly CClearly DAmazingly59Aturned up Bturned around Cturned out Dturned away60Asticking Bkeeping Cfeeling Dpointing第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。A computer program has beaten a human player at the ancient Chinese board game Go（围棋）. It marked an important advance for the 61_ (develop) of artificial intelligence. The program, 62_ (call) Alpha Go, had taught itself how to win. It beat the European player in all five games of a match in October. The developers say 63_ (it) learning ability may someday let computers help solve real world problems. Those could include making medical diagnoses and 64_ (explore) scientific research.Previous computers have beaten humans in other games. But among classic games, Go has long been viewed as the most challenging game for artificial intelligence to master. Therefore, many people find it 65_(accep