高一英语下学期期中试题18

一岗双责落实还不到位。受事务性工作影响，对分管单位一岗双责常常落实在安排部署上、口头要求上，实际督导、检查的少，指导、推进、检查还不到位。重庆市南岸区2016-2017学年高一英语下学期期中试题第一部分 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. Who likes red meat?A. The woman.B. The man. C. The mans father.2. What does the mans daughter like to see?A. Dolphins.B. Butterflies.C. Flowers3. What are the speakers talking about?A. The author of a novel.B. Two famous writers. C. Their favorite novel. 4. Where did the man often see the plants and animals under the sea?A. On the Internet. B. On TV. C. In magazines.5. What stars does the woman like?A. Singing starsB. Sports stars.C. Movie stars.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。请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. How many people are there in the mans family?A. 6B. 7C. 87. What does the mans mother do?A. She works as a taxi driver.B. She runs a small family store.C. She works at a. bread shop.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How much money does the woman need?A. Eighteen dollars.B. Thirty-six dollars.C. Fifty-four dollars.9. What will the woman do next?A. Give Bob a call.B. Buy tickets with Bob. C. do some babysitting.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Who answered Mr. Geralds phone call just now?A. Charlie.B. Mr. Black.C. Rose11.When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning.B. At noon.C. In the afternoon.12. What do we know about the woman?A. She has been preparing for a job interview.B. She has been working for five years in the company.C. She will work in the company for another five years请听第9段材料，回答第13至I6题。13. When was the woman house broken into?A, Before 12.B. After1:30 C. Between 12 and 1:30,14. Who had their name on the TV?A. The woman.B. The womans sonC. The womans husband.15. What were stolen?A. Some jewelry and the TV.B. Some jewelry and the refrigerator.C. The TV and the refrigerator.16. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The womans husband doesnt know about the robbery. B. The woman put her good jewelry in the refrigerator.C. The womans safe box has also been broken.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When is the workers busiest time?A. When they receive baby birds or rabbits.B. When they care for and raise little animals.C. When they send animals back into the wild.18. What is the main reason for the little birds coming to the wild animal center? A. Cats or dogs take them away from their nests.B. People keep them but feed them improperly.C. They themselves fall out of their nests.19. Which of the following would be against the law?A. To take away little animals from the center.B. To throw sick animals back into the wild.C. To take live animals out of their nests.20. What does the speaker tell people to do at last?A. To leave little birds on the ground alone.B. To touch little animals with their hands gently.C. To treat little birds falling out of nests properly.第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AFamily traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree.“Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪) the tree?” My eldest son, Dan, nine, and his seven-year-old brother John, asked.“I wont be cutting this year,” my husband Bob said. “Dan, you and John are old enough to measure things. Do it all by yourselves. Think you boys can handle it?”Dan and John seemed to grow six inches in their chairs at the thought of such an amazing responsibility. “We can handle it,” Dan promised. “We wont let you down.”A few days before Christmas, Dan and John rushed in after school. They gathered the tools theyd need and brought them out to the yard, where the tree waited. I was cooking when I heard the happy sounds as the boys carried the tree into the living room. Then I heard the sound that every mother knows is trouble: dead silence. I hurried out to them. The tree was cut too short. John crossed his arms tight across his chest. His eyes filled with angry tears.I felt worried. The tree was central to our holiday. I didnt want the boys to feel ashamed every time they looked at it. I couldnt lower the ceiling, and I couldnt raise the floor either. There was no way to undo the damage done. Suddenly, a thought came to my mind, which turned the problem into the solution.“We cant make the tree taller,” I said. “But we can put it on a higher position.”Dan nodded his head sideways. “We could put it on the coffee table. It just might work! Lets try it!”When Bob got home and looked at the big tree on top of the coffee table, Dan and John held their breath.“What a good idea!” he declared. “Why didnt I ever think of such a thing?”John broke into a grin. Dans chest swelled with pride.21. The underlined part “grow six inches” (Para. 4) implies the brothers felt . A. proudB. nervousC. embarrassedD. scared22. How could the short tree be turned into a perfect one? A. By making the tree taller.B. By lowering the ceiling. C. By placing it on a coffee table.D. By raising the floor.23. What Bob said in the last but one paragraph showed . A. he was a little disappointed B. he was too stupid to think of the idea C. he appreciated what the brothers had done D. he should not have given them the taskBWere one of the biggest ESL professional organizations in Shanghai, China and we have 10 primary schools, 2 middle schools, and 5 kindergartens in Shanghai and 1 in Suzhou. For these schools, we only need oral English teachers.We also own an international school whose name is Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary and Middle School. For this school, we need classroom teachers and subject teachers to teach Science, PE, and Music in English.We prefer to hire experienced teachers with TESOL or Teachers Certificate. If you want to know more about us, please visit our website at /.Dates and DurationsWe need 1 teacher for every position as below:1. Classroom Teacher Position in Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School (From 17th Feb 2009, 12 months)2. Subject Teacher Position in Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School (From 1st Sep 2009, 10 months)3. Oral English teachers in Shanghai Changning Experimental Primary School (From 3rd March 2009, 3 months)Basic requirements for the Positions1. Native English speakers for all of the above positions2. Bachelor Degree at least (Position 1 and 2) with related teaching experience3. TESOL or related certificate (Position 3)Working Conditions and Environment The schools are the top schools in Shanghai with libraries and public computer rooms. Every teacher will have the office desk, free access to the Internet. We provide teaching materials and teaching guidelines.Salary, International Travel Allowance and BonusThe salary ranges from 6,000 RMB to 10,000 RMB per month according to the position you apply for, which can ensure you have a comfortable life in Shanghai.We will offer you part or full international travel allowances depending on how long you will work for us. Generally, we will pay you a return ticket for one year contract.24. The ESL professional organization in Shanghai wants to take on . A. some language teachers to work in Shanghai B. some native English teachers to work in Suzhou C. some language teachers to work in Suzhou D. some native English teachers to work in Shanghai25. Those who are going to work for the organization will . A. prepare teaching materials themselves B. get at least $6,000 a month C. get international travel allowances D. buy their return tickets themselves26. If you want to be hired as a classroom teacher by the above organization, you should . A. speak several languages B. have Bachelor Degree C. present good teaching plans D. know how to teach middle school students27. The passage is probably taken from a . A. novelB. travel guideC. news reportD. websiteCAmong all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only these two diseases can be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span(寿命) can be prolonged. Gene technology can help people to give birth to healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial family being a good example, have hereditary(遗传的) diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientist just need to find the wrong gene and correct it and a healthy child will be born.Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe cloned babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the government must take care to control gene technology.28. What does “these two killers” in the second paragraph refer to? A. Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases. B. The two murderers who killed the cloned baby. C. The two diseases of cancer and heart disease. D. Hereditary diseases and cancer.29. Whats the main idea of the third paragraph? A. How gene technology can be applied in the field of treating hereditary diseases. B. Gene technology can be used to clone human babies. C. Gene technology can help people to give birth to a baby. D. Gene technology can help the English imperial family out.30. In what way gene technology can help to treat hereditary diseases? A. Using gene technology, people with hereditary diseases can have more living days. B. Using gene technology, the scientist finds the wrong gene and corrects it. C. Using gene technology, human babies can be cloned. D. Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of gene technology.31. What is the main purpose of writing this passage? A. Expressing the writers idea that gene technology will benefit people. B. Telling people the disadvantages of gene technology. C. Telling the readers that gene technology will not benefit people. D. Explaining that gene technology will also do harm to the humanity.DThe worlds native languages are dying out at an unprecedented(空前的) rate, taking with them irreplaceable(不能替代的) knowledge about the natural world, according to a new study.The study identified five global “hot spots” where languages are vanishing faster than anywhere else - eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, the US state of Oklahoma and the US Pacific Northwest. “Languages are suffering a global extinction crisis that greatly goes beyond the pace of species extinction,” linguistics(语言学的) professor David Harrison noted, who said half of the worlds 7,000 languages were expected to disappear before the end of the century.Native people had an intimate(详尽的) knowledge of their environment that was lost when their language disappeared, along with other certain things often unfamiliar to us, Harrison stressed. “Most of what we know about species and ecosystems is not written down anywhere, its only in peoples heads,” he said. “We are seeing in front of our eyes the loss of the human knowledge base.”Harrison was one of a team of linguists who carried out the study. The researchers traveled to Australia this year to study native languages, some of the most endangered. According to Harrison, in Australia, they were heartened to see a woman in her 80s who was one of the only three remaining speakers of the Yawuru language passing on her knowledge to schoolchildren. He said such inter-generational exchanges were the only way native languages could survive. “The children had elected to take this course, no one forced them,” he said. “When we asked them why they were learning it, they said, This is a dying language, we need to learn it.” Also, while there they found a man with knowledge of the Amurdag language, which had previously been thought extinct. The researchers said all five of the hot spots identified were areas that had been successfully colonized and where a dominant language such as Spanish or English was threatening native tongues.32. What does this text mainly talk about? A. A study on native languages endangered. B. The knowledge of native languages. C. Peoples efforts in saving native languages. D. Harrison and his study on languages.33. The underlined word “vanishing” in the second paragraph can be best replaced by . A. developingB. changingC. increasingD. disappearing34. According to Harrison, language extinction . A. causes the researchers lots of worries B. speeds up the pace of species extinction C. threatens the existing of Spanish and English D. brings about a loss of knowledge about the environment35. Which of the following can be described as good news? A. Native languages became less endangered in Australia. B. A man was found with knowledge of the Amurdag language. C. Researchers were well received by native people in Australia. D. Many schoolchildren showed interest in the Yawuru language.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。 Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end with commercials（商业广告）thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. 36 . Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. Buy Super Clean Toothpaste., Drink Good Wet Root Beer.” Fill up with Pacific Gas.” Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of You Need it ! Buy It Now! 37 , even if youve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and its fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless（鲁莽的）or daring, the ride can be as thrilling（惊心动魄的）as a suspense（悬疑）story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left hand lane? 38 .Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But youve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops. 39 . You know it will soon be over and theres a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. _40_,with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the armrests even with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at no more ways to sit.A. While taking long bus rides, you can enjoy television shows B. They happen whether you want them or not C. After a while, of course, the excitement dies down D. You can enjoy a happy ending at the end of the long bus rides E. The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning F. The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting G. By now youve sat with your legs crossed第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分55分）第一节 完形填空（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。 A man who knows how to write a personal letter has a very powerful tool. A letter can be enjoyed, read and 41 . It can set up a warm conversation between two people far apart(远离的); it can keep a 42 with very little effort.I will give a(n) 43 . A few years ago, my older brother and I were not getting 44 . We had been close as _45 but had grown apart. Our meeting were not 46 ; our conversation was filled with arguments and quarrels; and every effort to clear the air seemed to only 47 our misunderstanding. Then he 48 to a small island in the Caribbean and we 49 touch. One day he wrote me a letter. He described his island and its people, told me what he was doing, said how he felt, and encouraged me to 50 . Rereading the letter, I was 51 by its humor(幽默) and clever expressions. These were all qualities for which I had 52 respected my older brother but 53 he no longer had them. I had never known he could write so 54 . And with that one letter we became friends 55 . It might never have occurred to 56 to write me if he had not been in a place where there were no 57 . For him, writing was a necessity. It also turned out to be the best way for us to