人教版高中英语必修一高一上学期期中考试英语(中澳班)试题(无答案).docx

I Listen the story and write the summary （1*18=18）II Write down the words according to the explains (2*6=12) (1) adj. .belonging to one particular person or group and not to be shared by others. (2) noun.a talk between two or more people. (3) noun. .a building where you go to see plays,shows,etc. (4) noun. a card that you write a message on and send to sb. Postcards have a picture on one side and area usually sent without an envelope. (5) noun. a building where collections of valuable and interesting objects are kept and shown to the public. (6) noun. a choice or judgment that you make after thinking about various possibilities.IIIComplete the following texts.(1*10=10) The plane was late and 1 were waiting at the airport all morning. They were expecting a 2 parcel of diamonds from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield. Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the Customs House. While two detectives were keeping guard at the door, two others opened the parcel. To their 3 , the precious parcel was full of stones and sand! Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. Nearly everybody for The Nicest Garden Competition each year, but Joe wins every time. Bill Friths garden is 4 than Joes. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joes garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge 5 a pool. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work. Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town! I had an 6 experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of France, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for a lift. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same 7 . Apart from a few words, I do not know any French at all. Neither of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly, Do you speak English? As I soon learnt, he was English himself! Fishing is my favourite sport. I often fish for hours without 8 anything. But this does not worry me. Some fishermen are unlucky. Instead of 9 fish, they catch old boots and rubbish. I am even less lucky. I never catch anything - not even old boots. After 10 spent whole mornings on the river, I always go home with an empty bag. You must give up fishing! my friends say. Its a waste of time. But they dont realize one important thing. Im not really interested in fishing. I am only interested in sitting in a boat and doing nothing at all! IV Translation. (1*5=5)1. 许多人总在抱怨，但很少有人做点实际的事情。（always; anything practical）2. 我从网上下载了一些好听的音乐。（have sth. done）3. 听到那个消息后，他们立刻动身去北京。(Doing,)4. 在你把一个单词重复七遍后，你才能把它记住。(before)5 读书除了需要用眼睛以外，还要用脑。（as well as）V Write down some words about collars ，translate ，and explain them in English or Chinese(2*4=8)Example white-collar workers 白领工人： of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workersVI Reading and answer the questions (2*5=10)Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since. One night, however, our vicar work up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one oclock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. Whatever are you doing up here Bill? asked the vicar in surprise. Im trying to repair the bell, answered Bill. Ive been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise. You certainly did give me a surprise! said the vicar. Youve probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, Im glad the bell is working again. Thats the trouble, vicar, answered Bill. Its working all right, but Im afraid that at one oclock it will strike thirteen times and theres nothing I can do about it. Well get used to that, Bill, said the vicar. Thirteen is not as good as one, but its better than nothing. Now lets go downstairs and have a cup of tea. (1) Why did the vicar go up into the clock tower?(2)How did the vicar go up into the clock tower? _(3)Who did he find there? (4)How long had he been trying to do this?(5)What did Bill want to do? VII Comprehension 16*2=32ADuring the fall months at high school guidance counseling programs, juniors run to the stage to participate in an exercise to help them understand that it is not “where you go” that matters. They hold posters with the names and faces of famous people while their peers (同龄人) and parents shout out with confidence the names of elite (精英) colleges they assume the celebrities attended. The “oohs” and “aahs” follow when they learn that Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out of college, that Oprah Winfrey is a graduate of Tennessee State and that Ken Burns graduated from Hampshire College. If even a few stressed students and their anxious parents benefit from this information, it is a worthwhile exercise.Even better is giving the students a task to identify the happy, successful people in their own circle of family, friends, co-workers and neighbors and challenging them to go and ask “if or where they went to college” as a means of broadening the conversation in their search for a life after high school.The key to success in college and beyond has more to do with what students do with their time during college than where they choose to attend. A long-term study of 6,335 college graduates published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that graduating from a college where entering students have higher SAT scores - one marker of elite colleges - didnt pay off in higher post-graduation income. Researchers found that students who applied to several elite schools but didnt attend them - either because of rejection or by their own choice - are more likely to earn high incomes later than students who actually attended elite schools. In a summary of the findings, the bureau says that “evidently, students motivation, ambition and desire to learn have a much stronger effect on their future success than average academic ability of their classmates.” The late author Loren Pope, who wrote Looking Beyond the Ivy League and Colleges That Change Lives, noted that the greater the opportunity for engagement and critical, creative and cooperative learning with staff, peers and community, the more likely the chance for future success. 21. The purpose of the guidance counseling programs is to help students _.A. apply for suitable colleges B. learn about college lifeC. choose the most famous colleges D. know about famous graduates22. Ken Burns example shows that the successful people _. A. dont need support from their friends B. have their own circle of family C. dont necessarily graduate from a famous college D. graduate from a famous college 23. What contributes most to students success in college and after graduation is _.A. whether they enter the elite college or not B. whether they have spared no effort in college or notC. whether they possess a higher SAT scores or not D. whether they have famous schoolmates or not24. According to Loren Pope, future success depends more on _.A. staff, peers and community B. motivation, ambition and desire to succeedC. average academic ability of the classmates D. creation, cooperation and opportunityBResearch has long backed the therapeutic (治疗的) value of diary-keeping for teenage girls and boys. But according to a new study, when teenagers detail their sadness onto a blog, the therapeutic value is even greater. Blogging, it seems, can be good for you. The study, published in the journal Psychological Services and conducted by Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak, psychology professors at the University of Haifa, Israel, found the contact with an online community through a blog made it more effective in relieving (解除) the writers social anxiety than a private diary would be. To track teenagers experiences with blogging, the researchers randomly surveyed high school students in Israel and selected 161 of them who exhibited some level of social anxiety or stress. The teenagers, who averaged 15 years old, said they had difficulty making new friends or relating to their existing friends.The teenagers were divided into six groups. The first two groups were asked to blog about their social difficulties, with one group asked to open their posts to comments. The second two groups were asked to blog about whatever struck their adolescent fancy; again, with one group allowing comments. All four groups were told to write in their blogs at least twice a week. As a control, two more groups were told to keep either an old-fashioned print diary or to do nothing at all. All of their blog records were then read through by four psychologists to determine the authors relative social and emotional state. In all the groups, the greatest improvement in mood occurred among those bloggers who wrote about their problems and allowed commenters to respond.Interestingly, the commenters on the blogs were quite supportive. “The only kind of surprise we had was that almost all comments made by readers were very positive and constructive in trying to offer support for anxious bloggers,” Dr. Barak wrote in an e-mail. 25. Compared with the traditional diary, the main advantage of blogging is that you can _.A. write almost anything in a blog B. make complaints in a blogC. keep in touch with others through your blog D. improve your emotional state through your blog26. The researchers surveyed the students in Israel in order to _.A. make us believe that blogging is a must for teenagersB. prove blogging is more effective in solving teens emotional problemsC. find out their social and emotional state and help them outD. check if blogging can help improve teens emotional state27. In the most improved group, the bloggers _.A. wrote at most twice a week B. told others whatever they wanted about themselvesC. communicated with readers about their troubles D. made their social difficulties known to researchers only28. The main idea of the last paragraph is that bloggers can _.A. support anything they likeB. make new friends with anyoneC. turn to the psychology experts for helpD. receive beneficial messages from readersDTalking plants might sound like characters in a fairy tale. But recent scientific studies have shown that plants communicate with each other and with other living things in a surprising number of ways. To understand them, scientists say, we just have to learn their language. Farmers are especially interested in what plants have to say.“Plants are able to communicate with all sorts of organisms (有机体). They can communicate with giant bacteria, with other plants and with insects.They do this chemically,” said Cahill, an Ecology Professor of the University of Alberta in Canada. Plant scientists are just beginning to understand this chemical “ language”. Cahill says studies have shown, for example, that plants can evaluate conditions in their immediate environment and take appropriate actions.Plants have an ability, for example, to signal pain or discomfort caused by anything from temperature extremes to an insect attack.Jack Schultz, a professor of chemical ecology at the University of Missouri, says when a plant senses that its being eaten, it cannot walk away from trouble; on the contrary, it will release a chemical vapor that alerts other plants nearby. “Their language is a chemical language, and it involves chemicals that move through the air that are easy to be changeable, and most of all are smells that we are familiar with,” Schultz explained. “All plants responded to the attack by changing their chemistry to defend themselves,” Schultz recalled.“But we were quite surprised to find that nearby plants also changed their chemistry to defend themselves, even though they were not part of the experiment.” Studies have also shown that plants under attack release pleasant chemicals.Those chemicals attract friendly insects that attack the pests eating the plant.In the end, plants ability to communicate their needs-and our ability to understand them- could help farmers reduce the use of poisonous chemicals, cut operating costs and limit damage to the environment.29. The recent scientific studies have shown that plants can _. A. communicate with other living things in a chemical way B. hardly react to any sudden change in temperature C. use a very special chemical language which is familiar to usD. respond to the attack by giving off poisonous chemicals30.When being eaten by an insect, the plant will _.A. walk away from trouble B. change its chemistry to kill the insectC. release a chemical vapor to “ask” other plants for helpD. give off nice chemicals to attract friendly insects killing the pest31.The underlined word “alert” most probably means “_”. A. warn B. protect C. threaten D. allow32. Which would be the best title for the passage?A. Communication between Plants B. A Chemical “Language” C. Plants Can Talk D. How Plants Protect ThemselvesECompetition. Its a simple word, yet a very complex word that covers many angles when it comes to how gasoline prices are determined. It seems so easy to explain, but dont let that trick youits incredibly difficult to explain and adequately understand.Say youre on a Sunday afternoon drive, and notice a gas station near you charging $3.50. Down the road a few miles, that price could easily be 10 or more cents higher or lower. The question is “how” or “why” is that? Think of it this way. Are you more likely to get a better deal on a car if there are two similar car dealers next to each other? Perhaps, because the dealers are too close. Say there is a third similar car dealer miles away. Is he going to be at the same level of competition and sell his cars for the same price as the two dealers next to each other? Likely not. He may charge more or less. Maybe people dont know there are two other dealers down the road. Maybe the dealer is almost outside of the city and the land value isnt as high, so his taxes arent as high.These situations do take place at gas stations. And more factors can impact what a station will charge. Timing can greatly impact what price a station charges as well! Many motorists fail to realize that the price a station pays for gasoline changes daily. If one station gets lucky and buys gas on Monday and the cost goes up Tuesday, the