2018-2019学年高一英语下学期期中段考试题.doc

2018-2019学年高一英语下学期期中段考试题注意事项：本试卷共8页，答题卡2页。考试时间120分钟,满分150分； 正式开考前，请务必将自己的姓名、考号用黑色水性笔填写清楚并张贴条形码； 请将所有答案填涂或填写在答题卡相应位置，直接在试卷上做答不得分。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题; 每小题1分，满分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. How does the man feel about his job? A. He doesnt care much about it. B. He enjoys it very much. C. He hates working overtime.2. What is the woman going to do? A. Ask Tom to send an invitation. B. Get the Johnsons address. C. Invite Tom to the party.3. What does the woman mean? A. Jane is looking for a summer job. B. Jane is packing for the summer vacation. C. Jane is eager to go home for the summer.4. Why is the woman excited? A. She has got a drivers license. B. She has sold a lot of tickets. C. She is going to a foreign country.5. What does the man think of Picasso? A. He thinks that he is the greatest Spanish painter. B. He doesnt consider him the best Spanish painter. C. He is sure that he can bee famous.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题给出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至7 题。6. For which day does the man book a room finally? A. March 20th. B. March 12th. C. March 22nd.7. How much a day will the man pay for the room he booked? A. 80 dollars. B. 88 dollars. C. 96 dollars.听第7 段材料，回答第8至9 题。8. Which of the following things does the envelope contain? A. Some money. B. A check. C. A book. 9. What will the man do next? A. Write his address on the envelope. B. Take the photos from the envelope. C. Go to the next window.听第8 段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What reason does the woman give for needing a cellphone? A. She can use it to check her emails. B. She can call family in case of an emergency. C. She can make cheaper long-distance calls.11. How much is the monthly service? A. $20.99. B. $99. C. Nearly $30. 12. What is the term of service for this plan? A. 3 months. B. 6 months. C. 9 months.听第9 段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where is the man going to stay this evening? A. At the school. B. At home. C. At the office.14. What exam will the man take? A. The entrance exam. B. The midterm exam. C. The final exam.15. What does the man think of the ing exam? A. Easy. B. Harder than the last one. C. Too difficult to pass.16. What does the man think of the present job? A. It is not the best one. B. Its a badly-paid job. C. Its the worst one in the world.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the talk mainly about? A. The good points of the federal system. B. The importance of the central government. C. How power is divided under the federal system.18. Which is the following is NOT the power of the central government? A. Printing money. B. Limiting state taxes. C. Passing laws.19. What can we know from the talk? A. Most of the states have respective powers. B. The central government and the states share the same powers. C. The Constitution states clearly the powers of the central government.20. According to the talk, what is a good point about the federal system? A. The central government cannot be too powerful. B. Bigger states have more powers than smaller ones. C. The laws of the central government favor smaller states.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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A(Q = Question; A = Answer)Situation I Q:If someone sits right next to me in an empty movie theater, is it rude to move? A:Maybe, but nobody will fault you for it. Chances are that close sitter doesnt realize he disturbs you, so he may miss your annoyance. You undoubtedly arent the first person hes met who needs enough room. Forgive his bad judgment, move quietly and enjoy the show.Situation II Q:If I use the bathroom at a store, do I need to buy something? A:Consider frequency and urgency. Is this a one-time or an emergency? If so, you dont have to buy anything, but it would be kind if you did. However, if you regularly use the bathroom at this place, then you are a customer, and you should act like one.Situation III Q:If someone is talking loudly on the bus, is there a nice way to ask him to keep it down? A:No. Try other means.1) Stare at him until he gets aware of it and quiets down. 2) Lift your finger in a silence motion(动作) and smile. 3) Put on earphones and ignore him.Situation IV Q:If I remember my friends birthday a day late, should I apologize or just wish her a happy birthday like nothing happened? A:This is the reason why the wordbelatedwas invented. “Happy belated birthday!” is short for: “Well, I know I forgot, but then I remembered. Forgive me and happy birthday.”Situation V Q:Can I lie about seeing a text because I was too busy or lazy to respond(回复) to it? A:Dont lie. Receiving a text does not mean you need to respond to it. Why waste a perfectly good lie when the truth will serve? “Yes,” you can say if ever asked, “I saw it.” No explanation is needed as to why you dont respond.21. You will get annoyed in a theater when_.A. a person is too active B. a person is too rude to you C. a person talks too loudly D. a person sits too close to you22. How will you quiet someone down in a public place?A. By making fun of him continuously. B. By talking to him directly. C. By pointing angrily at him. D. By looking purposefully at him.23. What is the passage mainly about?A. Proper manners to offer help to others. B. Good manners to talk to people.C. Modern ways to mind your manners. D. Different ways to change others manners.BFear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies, pared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr. Garfinkel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we dont seeand guide whether we see fear.”To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a persons feeling of fear. “We have found an importantmechanismby which the heart and brain speak to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear,” Dr. Garfinkel said.“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”24. What is the finding of the study?A. Ones heart affects how he feels fear. B. Fear is a result of ones relaxed heartbeat.C. Fear has something to do with ones health. D. Ones fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.25. The study was carried out by analyzing _.A. volunteers heartbeats when they saw terrible picturesB. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditionsC. volunteers reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scansD. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain munication26. Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?A. Order. B. Treatment. C. System. D. Machine. 27. This study may contribute to _. A. finding the key to the heart-brain munication B. treating anxiety and stress better C. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads D. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety CAs a child, Marta was surprisingly creative in painting pictures before she had any formal training. At the age of 8, she informed me she planned to bee a filmmaker and stuck to her ideas. Then at 17, she and I decided that instead of taking a course in film, she should work as an apprentice(学徒) of the brilliant sound editor, Bruce Nyznik. Martas love of trains led to the creation of her first film, Train of Thought, in 1991. After that transition(过渡；转变) from sound to film, she continued to direct and produce, as well as edit. Her works include Shattered Dreams, The Saviour of Ceylon and Being 80 with Jean Vanier.Marta was diagnosed with cancer nine years before her death. She regarded it as something grateful because it concentrated her attention on lasting spiritual realities, rather than the temporary passions and enthusiasms that define most of our lives, most of the time.Marta had worked as an editor and director on more than 30 films with Jean Vanier, the founder of L Arche, an international organization that helps the development of the handicapped. So she came to her great trial with some hope that her physical pain could promote spiritual growth. She had had little contact with formal religious practice, so what changed her was having to find meaning in the cancer that threatened her life.In her final year, she began to write about her experience with cancer. Her interest was not an intellectual(智力的) one, but meant to give purpose to her life by helping others. Above all, she wanted her friends and family to share the help she was able to give.In a conversation shortly before Martas death, I expressed some discouragement with my life, and she advised me to concentrate on something for which I was grateful.28. What did Marta do in order to achieve her goal?A. She decided to pay a visit to Bruce Nyznik. B. She planned to take a related course. C. She wanted to learn from a famous sound editor. D. She hoped to make friends with Jean Vanier. 29. After Marta was diagnosed with cancer, _.A. she had to turn her attention to her condition. B. she only produced films with Jean Vanier.C. she took a positive attitude toward life D. she didnt understand what defined most of her life.30. Marta wrote about her experience with cancer _.A. to share it with other cancer victims B. to remind her family of her serious illnessC. to provide information for cancer research. D. to do her best to provide help to others31. What do you think of Marta in the passage?A. Modest. B. Humorous. C. Inspiring. D. hardworking.D I want to talk about the economy. Not “the economy” we hear about endlessly in the news each day and in politicians speeches. I want to talk about the real economy, the one we live in day by day. Most people arent particularly interested in “the economy”. “Share prices are flying high; interest rates are soaring(猛增的); the Dow Jones Index closed sixty-three points down on 8472.35.” We hear this and subconsciously switch off. Notice that “the economy” is not the same as the economy, “The economy” is what men in suits play with to make vast personal wealth. The economy is where the rest of us live on a daily basis, earning our living, paying our taxes, and purchasing the necessities of life. We are supposed to be benefiting from all the advantages of a well-off society. So why do we feel tired and stressed? We have no time for anything other than work, which is ridiculous given the number of labor-saving devices in our lives. Our towns bee more and more crowded. We poison our air and seas, and our food is full of chemicals. Theres something wrong here. If times were truly good, then you may think wed all feel optimistic about the future. Yet the majority of us are deeply worried. More than 90 percent of us think we are too concerned about ourselves and not concerned enough about future generations. The term “economic expansion” suggests something desirable, but expansion simply means spending more money. More spending doesnt mean that life is getting better. We all know it often means the oppositegreed, crime, poverty, pollution. More spending merely feeds our whole economic system, which is based on production and consumption. Unless money keeps circulating, the economy breaks down. If we dont keep consuming, the whole system goes into stalemate(僵局). How do we break the cycle and make some changes? We need to bee far more aware of the results of our actions. We buy clothes that are made in sweat shops by virtual slaves in poor parts of the world. We create mountains of waste. We demand cheap food, mindless of the fact that it totally lacks taste and is produced using chemicals that poison the land. The consumption culture makes us unaware of the effect of our own behavior. Our main problem is not that we dont know what to do about it. It is gathering the desire to do it.32. According to the author, which one belongs to the real economy? A. The Dow Jones Index. B. Increases in interest rates. C. Shopping in a supermarket. D. Skyrocketing share prices.33. It can be concluded from Paragraph 4 that_. A. people are benefiting from a well-off societyB. the future generation is a big concern for most people C. the majority of people are optimistic about the future D. people still feel much pressure despite labor-saving devices34. What is true about economic expansion? A. It guarantees a better life for us. B. It may lead to some social problems. C. It will stop the circulation of money. D. It has only brought desirable effects.35. The author writes the passage mainly to_. A. call on us to change our behavior B. suggest a solution for over-consumption C. make a distinction between two economies D. inform us of the effects of economic expansion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。 Most of the energy that we use for electricity es from fossil fuels, like coal, oil, and natural gas. Unfortunately, the enormous amount of energy we consume every day has depleted these nonrenewable natural resources.But now, there is a possible new source of energy that is similar to the monly-used coal, oil, and natural gasflammable ice(可燃冰). 36 but how?Flammable ice consists of natural gas trapped inside water molecules. When set to flame, the gas in the ice will catch fire, giving it the name “fire ice” or “flammable ice”. Scientists in China have discovered a way to extract gas out of flammable ice. 37 As the worlds largest energy consumer, China plans to use flammable ice as another source of energy. China has a large reserve of flammable ice in the South China Sea. 38 Now with this recent discovery, tons of natural gas can be extracted from this flammable ice for future energy demands. For countries that are not major producers of oil and natural gas, flammable ice is certainly an option of energy that they can use. 39 Fire ice is still a fossil fuel and emits greenhouse gases, like natural gas. Also, it is very difficult and quite expensive to extract methane hydrate from the ocean floorcareful attention is needed to prevent leakage of methane into atmosphere. 40 As a result, the more methane is released, the more heat is added to our problems of global warming.As long as most care is taken to control the use of fire ice, flammable ice could play a huge part in how we consume energy in the future.A. It was discovered back in xx.B. Researchers are looking for new energy.C. Some energy has their own disadvantages. D. Similar to carbon dioxide, methane also traps heat. E. Unfortunately, fire ice also has its own disadvantages.F. Flammable ice looks like ice and burns like a fossil fuel.G. It is a breakthrough that could impact the global energy problems. 第三部分：语言知识运用（共三节，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，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 41 . Now she was Portia, a strong-willed 42 in Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people.She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing 43 from her. 44 , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选