江苏省邗江中学2018_2019学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

江苏省邗江中学20182019学年度第二学期高一英语期中考试试卷（考试时间：120分钟 总分：150分）注意事项：1、 本试卷共分两部分，第卷为选择题，第卷为非选择题。2、 所有试题的答案均填写在答题纸上，答案写在试卷上的无效。第卷（选择题；共75分）一、听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）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，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. How many students are good at basketball?A. About 15. B. About 20. C. About 40.2. What does the womans answer mean?A. She doesnt know about the restaurant.B. There is no restaurant here.C. The restaurant is too far away.3. Who is Sam Johnson probably?A. Toms boss. B. Toms doctor. C. Marys doctor.4. How can the man get to the supermarket?A. Go eastward and turn right.B. Go eastward and turn left.C. Go westward and turn left.5. What can we know from the conversation?A. The woman asks the man for a lift.B. The woman wont take the mans car to the bank.C. The bank and the mans office are in the same direction.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，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。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7题。6. What does the man speaker suggest?A. Having the womans hair done by another skilled hairdresser.B. Coming at 3:30 that afternoon. C. Coming the next day.7. How does the woman feel in the end?A. She is unhappy. B. She is pleased. C. She is worried.听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9题。8. Where will Mary be on Thursday evening?A. At the Global Theatre. B. At her flat. C. At a little restaurant.9. What will Mary probably do together with John?A. They will hand in their compositions.B. They will clean her flat.C. They will go and listen to the concert.听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12题。10. Where does the conversation take place?A. Airport. B. Street. C. Bank.11. Which city did the woman not go to in the trip?A. Beijing. B. Guangzhou. C. Shanghai.12. What can we learn about the woman?A. She is very tired and pleased.B. She is very tired.C. She doesnt think China is interesting.听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16题。13. Whats the possible relationship between the two speakers?A. Boss and employee. B. Husband and wife. C. Secretary and customer.14. What does the man want to do?A. He wants the womans boss to receive the phone. B. He wants to go to the womans office.C. He wants to have a lunch with the womans boss.15. Where is Ms. Jenkins?A. She is going home.B. She is having her lunch. C. She is in others office.16. Whats the mans office phone number?A. 665-8799.B. 635-8799.C.635-8789.听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20题。17. Why did Mrs. Smith think the notes in the old ladys handbag were hers?A. The notes in the old ladys handbag were like the ones her husband had given her.B. The notes were picked up by the old lady.C. The notes in the old ladys handbag were the ones her husband had given her.18. Why didnt Mrs. Smith call the police?A. She was afraid that the police would catch her.B. She disliked getting people into trouble.C. She disliked getting the police into trouble.19. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Mrs. Smith told the old lady what she had thought.B. Mrs. Smith took the old ladys notes and put them in her own bag.C. Mrs. Smith went home without anything.20. Where were Mrs. Smiths notes?A. The notes were lost.B. The notes were on the table.C. The notes were stolen by the old lady.二、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ANothing could stop Dad. After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family. He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.And every week he cleaned Old Man McColgins chicken house in exchange for manure. The smell really burned the inside of your nose. When we complained about the terrible smell, Dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right. For example, just one of his cantaloupes filled the entire house with its sweet smell, and the taste was even sweeter.As the vegetables started coming in, Dad threw himself into cooking. One day, armed with a basket of vegetables, he announced he was going to make stew. Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots. For about half an hour, the pressure built and the vegetables cooked. Finally, Dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam. If we thought Dads pile of chicken manure was bad, this was 10 times worse. When Dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocked us out.Dad carried the pot out and we opened doors and windows to air out the house. Just how bad was it? The neighbors came out of their houses to see if we had a gas leak!Determined, Dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around it didnt look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didnt offend the nose so much, edible, and we drankup every last drop of soup !21. What can we infer about Dads stew?A. It is popular among the neighbors. B. It contains honey and vegetables.C. It looks very wonderful.D. It tastes quite delicious.来22. What does the underlined word “offend” in the last paragraph mean?A. To attract. B. To upset. C. To air. D. To shut.23. What can we learn about Dad from the text?A. He is an experienced cook. B. He is a troublesome father.C. He has a positive attitude to life.D. He suffers a lot from his disability.BA man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is allmilk. At the same time, a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk. She buys it. But, she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husbands niece. And that is the difference between the female and male brains simply explained in a grocery store. Generally speaking, men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at one time is often called “multi-tasking,” a very popular word these days.Now scientific research supports this theory about male and female brains. A recent study has confirmed what we have known all alongmen and women think differently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain images of 949 people aged from 8 to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain, or hemisphere. In the female brain, they found more activity and connections between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of “reason”. The right hemisphere is known as the “creative” side.Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-wrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something complicated they might use different parts of the brain. But men generally use just one. As a result, men generally deal directly with a problem. There is a strong connection between the “understanding” and the “action” parts of their brains. Women, however, might include other parts of the brain, like the part connected with “reason” and the part connected with sensitivity when solving a problem. Women take a less direct path to find a solution.Thanks for your listening. Im your announcer Anna Matteo.24. From Paragraph 1, we can learn that women _. A. are more hard-working than menB. are more multi-tasking than menC. are more careful than menD. go shopping more than men25. When asked to do something complicated, men _. A. only use the “reason” side of the brainB. only use the “creative” side of the brainC. use different parts of the brainD. use one part of the brain26. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Men like doing something difficult. B. Men take a less direct path to find a solution.C. Women usually deal with a problem indirectly. D. Women brains have more connections on one side.27. The main purpose of the passage is to tell us _. A. that men and women really do think differently B. who want to go shopping more, men or womenC. why women want to do many things at one time D. that men and women all like to drink milk CPeople have different ways of dealing with a common cold. Some take over-the-counter(非处方的)medicines such as aspirin while others try popular home remedies(治疗)like herbal tea or chicken soup. Yet here is the tough truth about the common cold: nothing really cures it. So why do people sometimes believe that their remedies work? According toJames Taylor, professor at the University of Washington, colds usually go away ontheir own in about a week, improving a little each day after symptoms peak, so itseasy to believe its medicine rather than time that deserves the credit, USA Todayreported. It still seems hard to believe that we can deal with more serious diseases yet arepowerless against something so common as a cold. Recently, scientists came closer to figuring out why. To understand it, you first need to know how antiviral(抗病毒的)drugs work. They attack the virus by attaching to and changing the surfacestructures of the virus. To do that, the drug must fit and lock into the virus like the right piece of a jigsaw(拼图), which means scientists have to identify the virus and build a 3-D model to study its surface before they can design an antiviral drug that iseffective enough. The two cold viruses that scientists had long known about were rhinovirus(鼻病毒)A and B. But they didnt find out about the existence of a third virus, rhinovirusC, until 2006. All three of them contribute to the common cold, but drugs that workwell against rhinovirus A and B have little effect when used against C.“This explains most of the previous failures of drug trials against rhinovirus,”study leader Professor Ann Palmenberg at University of Wisconsin-Madison, US,told Science Daily. Now, more than 10 years after the discovery of rhinovirus C, scientists havefinally built a highly-detailed 3-D model of the virus, showing that the surface of thevirus is, as expected, different from that of other cold viruses.With the model in hand, hopefully a real cure for a common cold is on its way.Soon, we may no longer have to waste our money on medicines that dont really work.28. What does the author think of popular remedies for a common cold?A. They are quite effective.B. They are slightly helpful.C. They actually have no effect.D. They still need to be improved.29. How do antiviral drugs work? A. By breaking up cold viruses directly. B. By changing the surface structures of the cold viruses. C. By preventing colds from developing into serious diseases. D. By absorbing different kinds of cold viruses at the same time.30. What can we infer from the passage? A. The surface of cold viruses looks quite similar. B. Scientists have already found a cure for the common cold. C. Scientists were not aware of the existence of rhinovirus C until recently. D. Knowing the structure of cold viruses is the key to developing an effective cure.31. What is the best title for this passage?A. Drugs against cold virusesB. Helpful home remediesC. No current cure for common coldD. Research on cold virusesDParents do need to teach their kids financial responsibility and that money is earned. Still, many child-development experts agree that tying a childs allowance to chores can be a slippery slope. Heres why.Susie Walton, master instructor at Peace in Your Home advises to keep chores and allowances totally separate. “Allowance is one thing. When it comes to chores, life skills, responsibilitiesthats a whole different thing.” says Walton.Walton says, “When kids arent doing a chore, you dont say, well, there goes your allowance. Youre going to sit them down and ask whats going on. We are a team. We are a family. Weve got to have them done.”Besides, by paying children for chores with an allowance, youll also be sending the message that work isnt worth doing unless theyre getting paid for it.There are times when it would make sense to pay kids for chores. Most financial and child-development experts agree that its a fine idea to pay children money for extra jobs that are outside their normal set of chores, such as washing windows, washing the car or helping to clean out the garageespecially if the child is saving for a big item. This may even develop an entrepreneurial (企业家的) spirit to think outside of the box to earn money.For parents who are concerned that their children wont learn the value of a dollar if the allowance isnt tied to household chores, note that there are still plenty of money management skills to be learned from a straight allowance. Depending on the age, kids can be made responsible for paying for their own toys or snacks. Some parents even require that kids set aside a percentage of their allowance toward savings. “I really like having my own money,” says Kevin, 9. “Its up to me if I want to buy the cheap toy now, or save and get the better toy.” And thats a good lesson to learn at 9 years old. No matter which allowance route you take in parenthood, kids will feel empowered by being able to handle their own money.32.Which of the following would Susie Walton most probably agree with?A. A childs allowance shouldnt be tied to chores. B. Kids shouldnt be forced to do chores.C. Doing chores teaches kids the value of work.D. Kids should be paid for doing chores.33. According to Susie Walton, if kids dont do chores, parents should _.A. teach them the entrepreneurial spiritB. talk to them about family responsibilities.C. give them a smaller allowance than usual D. punish them by not giving them their allowances34.What is the authors attitude towards Kevins action?A. Worried. B. Doubtful. C. Approving. D. Unfavorable.35. The text is mainly about _.A. the importance of kids doing choresB. whether parents should pay kids for choresC. the advantages of kids handling their own moneyD. whether parents should give kids regular allowancesEPeople have wondered for a long time how their personalities(个性) and behaviors are formed. Its not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of question. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two different schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The argument is often conveniently referred to as nature vs. nurture(教育).Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict(争执) believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behavior is predetermined(注定) to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts(本能). Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviorists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. Behaviorists see humans as beings whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Their view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (something that helps sb./sth. to develop better and more quickly )as the basis of their behavior.The social and political connections of these two theories are significant. In the United States, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized(标准化) intelligent test. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically worse than whites. Behaviorists, in contrast, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the argument will continue for a long time is certain.36. The author is mainly concerned about solving the problem _.A. why our personalities and behaviors differB. what makes different stages of intelligenceC. how social scientists form different theoriesD. what causes the “nature/ nurture” argument37. The word “proponents” can best be replaced by _.A. approaches B. supportersC. principles D. characters38. Which of the following statements may be supported by the “nature” school?A. We are born with certain personalities and behaviors.B. Environment has nothing to do with our personalities.C. Abilities and characteristics are showed by behaviors.D. Only extreme behaviors are determined by instincts.39. What can we learn about the behaviorists?A. They believe human beings are mechanical.B. They compare our behaviors to the machines.C. They suggest that we react to the environment as the machines do.D. They agree that the mechanistic theory can be applied on us as well.40. The “nature” theorists believe