江苏省扬州中学2018_2019学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

江苏省扬州中学2018-2019学年第二学期期中试卷 高一英语试题 2019.04本试卷分第卷(选择题)和第卷(非选择题)两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30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. Which place does the woman want to visit?A. A bank. B. Wall Street. C. A shopping mall.2. Whats the weather like now? A. Cloudy. B. Sunny. C. Windy.3. According to the woman, what does the man need urgently now?A. A good rest in hospital. B. Relaxing travel by air. C. Further medical treatment.4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Lifeguard and swimmer. B. Brother and sister. C. Friends.5. How will the man pay probably? A. With a card. B. By check. C. In cash.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. How old is the girl? A. Shes in college. B. Shes in high school. C. Shes in kindergarten.7. When will the girl go to the dance? A. At this weekend. B. At the end of the month. C. At the end of the summer.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Who might the man be? A. A writer. B. A book shop worker. C. A radio broadcast host.9. According to the woman，what is the most dangerous room? A. The bathroom. B. The kitchen. C. The bedroom.10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Child safety at home. B. A new book. C. Hospital treatment in Britain.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What does the man like to do?A. Go jogging. B. Read stories. C. Create art projects.12. Which class is the woman taking now?A. A digital photography class. B. A black-and-white photography class.C. A painting class at the YMCA.13. Where will the man get a camera? A. From the website. B. From his brother. C. From his mother.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Which city does the man want to go to? A. New York. B. Toronto. C. London.15. How does the woman suggest the man get to his final destination? A. By taxi. B. By subway. C. By airport shuttle.16. How long will it take the man to collect his luggage?A. Less than an hour. B. About an hour and thirty minutes. C. At least two hours.17. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At an airport information center B. On the telephone. C. At an ticket office.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. At what time did the power go out?A. 5:30 p.m. B. 5:45 p.m. C. 6:07 p.m.19. Which building still has electricity? A. The cafeteria. B. The McKinley dorm. C. The gym.20. What do you know about the classes in the affected buildings?A. Theyll continue in two weeks. B. They will take place outside.C. Theyve been canceled.第二部分 阅读理解 (共两小节，满分40分)第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）请认真阅读下列短文，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。ASuppose youre in a rush, feeling tired, not paying attention to your screen, and you send an email that could get you in trouble.Realization will probably set in seconds after youve clicked “send”. You freeze in horrors and burn with shame.What to do? Here are four common email accidents, and how to recover.Clicking “send” too soonDont waste your time trying to find out if the receivers have read it yet. Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.Writing the wrong nameThe sooner you notice, the better. Respond quickly and briefly, apologizing for your mistake. Keep the tone measured: dont handle it too lightly, as people can be offended, especially if your error suggests a misunderstanding of their culture. Clicking “reply all” unintentionallyYou accidentally reveal to entire company what menu choices you would prefer at the staff Christmas dinner, or what holiday youd like to take. In this instance, the best solution is to send a quick, light-hearted apology to explain your awkwardness. But it can quickly rise to something worse, when everyone starts hitting “reply all” to join in a long and unpleasant conversation. In this instance, step away from your keyboard to allow everyone to calm down.Sending an offensive message to its subjectThe most awkward email mistake is usually committed in anger. You write an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person youre discussing. In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry. Explain your frustrations calmly and sensiblysee it as an opportunity to hear up any difficulties you may have with this person.21. After realizing an email accident, you are likely to feel _.A. curious B. tired C. awful D. funny 22. If you have written the wrong name in an email, it is best to _.A. apologies in a serious mannerB. tell the receiver to ignore the errorC. learn to write the name correctlyD. send a short notice to everyone23. What is the passage mainly about?A. Defining email errors.B. Handling email accidents.C. Reducing email mistakes.D. Improving email writing.BResearchers at Birmingham found about one in five teenagers now have some degree of hearing damage. The researchers did not say why hearing loss has risen, but other experts have strong suspicions. One likely criminal, they say, is MP3 players.An MP3 player can be dangerous to hearing when its decibel (分贝) level is turned up too high. High-decibel sounds can damage nerve endings, called hair cells. If a sound is loud enough, the damage can be permanent. A loud sound can shake the membrane (薄膜) on which the hair cells sit “like an earthquake”. That shake can break or even uproot hair cells. When that happens, the hair cells are finished. Human ears cannot regrow hair cells. Therefore, when listening to an MP3 player, set a volume limit and avoid exposure to loud sounds.On the other hand, the loudness of todays music may not be totally under your control. Music companies have been purposely turning up the volume. Its a trend called the fight for loudness.Play a CD from the 1990s. Then play a newly released tune. Dont touch the volume control. Youll probably notice that the new CD sounds louder than the old one. Why? Sound engineers who create CDs are using dynamic range compression, a technology that makes the quiet parts of a song louder and the loud parts quieter. The overall effect of compression is a louder recording.Many musicians and sound engineers arent pleased. They say that compression is driving down the quality of todays music, making it sound flat and blaring. Gray Hobish, a sound engineer, explains that music should be a combination of loudness and softness. But music companies want to make music louder so it will stand out. Thats important in the competition among recording companies.What about listeners? Many teenagers listen to music on the go in noisy places and through headphones, all of which reduce sound quality. So young listeners may not notice the poorer quality of modern recordings. “To their ears,” says Hobish, “the music sounds fine. And they are not aware of the hidden threat of the music they are enjoying.” 24. The phrase “like an earthquake” in Para. 2 aims to explain .A. that volume can strongly affect parts of the earB. how our body is unable to regrow hair cellsC. how much damage the ear can avoidD. that hair cells are easily damaged25. What can we learn about todays music business?A. New technology improves the quality of music. B. Young listeners today prefer louder sound.C. Music companies sacrifice quality for loudness. D. Sound engineers face tough competition.26. What is probably the best title for the passage?A. The Loudness WarB. Are You a Good Listener?C. The Damaged EarsD. Your Hearing Is Going!COne of the most practical parts of my college education (and my entire education) was my student teaching. For six months, I gradually took over until I was completely teaching the class. It wasnt quite the same as a real teaching job. However, it was definitely a good way to get some real world experience. School should prepare students for the job market. Therefore, are our kids receiving enough practical education so they can be successful in the real world?When teaching kids, its important to be able to have a purpose for everything we teach. As parents and teachers, we should ask ourselves: what can this be used for when kids enter the job market? I can think about a college class I took where we had to analyze various movies. I honestly cant think of how analyzing “Rambo” benefited me. Perhaps, I would have been better off taking an auto shop class or a carpentry class. After all, I cant change a tire and Im completely incapable when it comes to using power tools.Perhaps, learning how to think is not enough. Rather than focusing on standardized tests so much, schools need to give students more practical application. Cooking is actually helpful when teaching children about fractions, measuring and multiplication. Students can learn how to double a recipe and see the relationship between 1/4 and 1/3 cup. As kids get into the upper grades, money management should be a focus. Making a budget and learning about interest rates are good ideas. I used to give my students real restaurant menus and a budget. They had to come up with what they could buy, including the tip with a set amount of money.It appears that some high schools are doing a better job of preparing students for the real world. For instance, according to NBC News, in Michigan, “the Utica Center for Science and Industry uses technology to prepare students for automotive and military industry jobs.” The program aims to combine students skills with employers needs. Students take optional courses in areas such as “multimedia, engineering or mechatronics” and also take part in activities where there isnt one right answer. For me, giving kids the opportunity to create is the key point. So far, the program is showing success.According to a Gallup poll, fifty-seven percent of American workers say “the type of work they do generally” does not require “a bachelors or a more advanced degree”. Therefore, if a college degree isnt helping the majority of Americans at their job, then what is required? Many jobs require a skill. Electricians and contractors have specific skills that allow them to complete their jobs. Whether students go to a four-year school or not, I think its important for everyone to have a skill. After all, a Forbes article states that half of college graduates are working at jobs that dont require a degree. Clearly, being smart and qualified isnt always enough to make it in the real world.Im going to encourage my kids to go to college and earn a degree. Im also going to encourage them to think outside of the box and give them a practical education too. After all, you never know where life will take you.27. The author mentions his student teaching in order to _.A. show his experiences in teachingB. tell us the importance of experiencesC. introduce the topic of the text D. advise us to learn well at school28. What does the underlined word “Rambo” in the second paragraph refer to?A. Name of a film.B. A film producer. C. A kind of plants.D. Name of a subject.29. What does the Gallup poll show us?A. More and more Americans hate to go to school.B. American schools dont prepare their students for their jobs.C. Most of the rich Americans dont graduate from colleges.D. Most of American jobs do not require high degrees.30. Whats the topic of this passage?A. No one is too sure about his or her own life.B. More practical education should be given to students.C. college degree is more important than anything else.D. Half of college graduates dont live on their degree.DThe fence was long and high. He put the brush into the whitewash and moved it along the top of the fence. He repeated the operation. He felt he could not continue and sat down.He knew that his friends would arrive soon with all kinds of interesting plans for the day.They would walk past him and laugh. They would make jokes about his having to work on a beautiful summer Saturday. The thought burned him like fire.He put his hand into his pockets and took out all that he owned. Perhaps he could find some way to pay someone to do the whitewashing for him. But there was nothing of value in his pocketsnothing that could buy even half an hour of freedom. So he put the bits of toys back into his pockets and gave up the idea.At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea came to him. It filled his mind with a great, bright light. Calmly he picked up the brush and started again to whitewash.While Tom was working, Ben Rogers appeared. Ben was eating an apple as he walked along the street. As he walked along it, he was making noises like the sound of a riverboat. First he shouted loudly, like a boat captain. Then he said “Ding-Dong-Dong”,“Ding-Dong-Dong” again and again, like the bell of a riverboat. And he made other strange noises. When he came close to Tom, he stopped.Tom went on whitewashing. He did not look at Ben. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hello! Im going swimming, but you cant go, can you?”No answer. Tom moved his brush carefully along the fence and looked at the result with the eye of an artist. Ben came nearer. Toms mouth watered for the apple, but he kept on working.Ben said,“Hello, old fellow, youve got to work, hey？”Tom turned suddenly and said, “Why, its you, Ben! I wasnt noticing.”“SayIm going swimming. Dont you wish you could? But of course youd rather workwouldnt you? Of course you would.”Tom looked at the boy a bit, and said, “What do you call work？”“Why, isnt that work？”Tom went back to his whitewashing, and answered carelessly.“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isnt. All I know is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”“Oh come, now, you dont mean to say that you like it？”The brush continued to move.“Like it? Well, I dont see why I shouldnt like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day？”Ben stopped eating his apple. Tom moved his brush back and forth, stepped back to look at the result, added a touch here and there, and stepped back again. Ben watched every move and got more and more interested. Soon he said, “Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”Tom thought for a moment, and was about to agree, but he changed his mind.“Nonoit wont do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. It has got to be done very carefully. I dont think there is one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it well enough.”“Nois that so? Oh come, nowlet me just try. Only just a little.”“Ben, Id like to, but if it isnt done right, Im afraid Aunt Polly ”“Oh, Ill be careful. Now let me try. SayIll give you the core of my apple.”“Well, hereNo, Ben, now dont. Im afraid ”“Ill give you all of it.”Tom gave up the brush with unwillingness on his face, but joy in his heart. And while Ben worked at the fence in the hot sun, Tom sat under a tree, eating the apple, and planning how to get more help. There were enough boys. Each one came to laugh, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was tired, Tom sold the next chance to Billy for a kite; and when Billy was tired, Johnny bought it for a dead ratand so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, Tom had won many treasures.And he had not worked. He had had a nice idle time all the time, with plenty of company, and the fence had been whitewashed three times. If he hadnt run out of whitewash, Tom would have owned everything belonging to his friends.He had discovered a great law of human action, namely, in order to make a man or a boy want a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to get.31. How many characters are mentioned in this story?A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 732. Why did Tom take all his bits of toys out of his pockets?A. Because he was tired and wanted to play with his toys.B. Because he wanted to give his toys to his friends.C. Because he wanted to throw his toys away.D. Because he wanted to know if he could buy help with his toys.33. Tom was about to agree to let Ben whitewash when he changed his mind because _.A. Tom wanted to do the whitewashing by himselfB. Tom planned to make Ben give up his apple firstC. Tom was unwilling to let Ben do the whitewashingD. Tom was afraid Ben would do the whitewashing better34. We can learn from the passage that _.A. Tom was interested in whitewashing the fenceB. Tom had a lot of friends who are ready to help othersC. Tom was unwilling to whitewash the fence, but he managed to let other boys do it for himD. Tom was good at whitewashing the fence, so he looked at the result of work with the eye of an artist35. What made Ben Rogers eagerly give up his apple and offer to brush the fence for Tom?A. His curiosity about Toms brushing job. B. His warm heart and kindness to friends.C. Toms threat. D. Aunt Pollys idea.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。选项中有两项多余。Anger seems simple when we are feeling it, but the causes of anger are various. Knowing these causes can make us examine our behavior, and correct bad habits. The main reasons we get angry are triggering events, personality traits (特征), and our assessment of situations. 36 Triggering events for anger are so many that to describe them all would take hundreds of pag