湖北省宜昌金东方高级中学高一英语上学期期中试题.doc

宜昌金东方高级中学2016年秋季学期期中考试高一英语试题本试题卷共8页，四部分72小题。全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。祝考试顺利第一部分 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。1why does the man move to new york?ato make a trip. bto look after parents. cto work there.2what are the two speakers talking about?abuying a tv. btv channel. csports meet. 3why will the woman leave before eleven?ato buy something. bto make a work plan. cto go home. 4what was the man doing at the moment?ahe was listening to the radio.bhe was reading a book.che was writing something. 5what is the weather like today?aits rainy.bits sunny.cits cloudy.第二节（共15个小题；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，你将有时间来阅读各个小题，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至7题。6what is the woman most probably doing?ainforming the man of an appointment.btelling the man her advice.cbargaining with the man.7when will mr. emory and the man meet? aat 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. bat 3:00 p.m. tomorrow.cat 3:00 p.m. the day after tomorrow.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8which citys information does the woman hope to get?anew york. blas vegas.cnew orleans.9which festival is mentioned in the conversation?aeaster day. bvalentines day.cnew years day.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10what does the man do on weekends?ago climbing with his parents.bmake long trips in another city.cmake short trips with friends.11what does the woman like best?aswimming and sailing.bswimming and cycling. csailing and cycling.12what does the man like to do in his spare time?areading. bdancing. cplanting.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13when did the two speakers meet last time?aone and a half year ago.bone year ago. chalf a year ago.14what gift does the woman give the boy?aa motor car. ba racing car. ca police car.15how does the woman get here? aby plane. bby train. cby bus.16how long will it take to get home by car?aabout half an hour. ban hour. cone and a half hour.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17where did nat king cole play the piano at first?aat a bar. bin the cinema.cat the concert. 18why did the lady ask the player to sing a song?ashe had paid him for this.bshe knew him very well.cshe wanted to have a change.19what was nat king cole best known as later?apiano player. bsinger. cpainter. 20why did nat king cole succeed?athe lady helped him a lot.bhe continued to play where he first played.che caught the chance.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 ）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。acell phones are the new cigaretteswhen you get in your car, you reach for it. when youre at work, you take a break to have a moment alone with it. when you get into a lift, you play with it.cigarettes? cup of coffee? no, its the third most addictive（使人上瘾的）thing in modern life, the cell phone. and experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.with its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. it affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.dr. chris knippers, an expert at the betty ford center in southern california, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality.sounds extreme, but weve all witnessed(目睹) the fact: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? and pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?jim williams, an industrial sociologist based in massachusetts, he points to a study by duke university researchers that found one-quarter of americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, williams says studies show that we dont have as many friends as our parents. “just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances(熟人) through the internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says.if the cell phone has truly had these effects, its because it has become very widespread. in 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. today, almost 300 million americans carry them. the number of cell phones is far more than that of wired phones in the united states. 21which of the following could probably best explain the title of the passage?a. cell phone users smoke less than they used to.b. more people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes.c. cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes.d. using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes.22the underlined word “curb” in paragraph 2 means _.a. rescue b. control c. develop d. ignore 23which idea does the example of a woman talking on the phone in the car support?a. women use cell phones more often than men.b. talking on the phone while drivingis dangerous.c. cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy. d. cell phones do not necessarily bring people together.24what is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?a. how to make people get closer.b. the advantages of wired phones. c. how to use cell phones properly. d. giving an example to prove the bad effects of cell phones. bhetty robinson learnt all about money when very young. as a child, she read the financial(金融的) pages of the newspaper to her rich father. her father died when hetty was 30, and she inherited(继承) $1 million. when she herself died in 1916, she left almost $100 million to her two children. hetty made her money on the new york stock(股票) exchange. she was a financial genius. she made money so easily that people called her the witch of wall street. but although she was one of the richest women in the world, she counted every cent and spent as little as possible. she didnt own a house, because she didnt want to pay taxes. so she and her children lived in cheap hotels. she spent almost nothing on clothes, and always wore the same long black dress. she washed it herself, but to save soap she only washed the bottom of the dress, where it touched the ground. other people had their own offices, but hetty used a desk in the bank where she kept her money, because it didnt cost anything. she sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches while she bought and sold stocks and shares. if the bank complained, she just moved all her money to another bank. hettys family paid the price for her meanness. when she was 33 she married a millionaire, edward green, and they had two children. but green lost all his money, so she left him. when her son, ned, injured his knee, hetty didnt want to pay for a doctor, so she took him to a free hospital for poor people. unfortunately the doctor knew hetty was rich and he asked for money. hetty refused and took the boy away. his leg got worse and two years later doctors removed it. but eventually ned got his revenge（报应）. at the age of 81, hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. she became so angry that she had a heart attack and died. so hettys meanness finally killed her. ned inherited half his mothers fortune, and he spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery. 25what fact can be learned about hetty robinson from the passage? a. she was nice to her son. b. she worked for a bank. c. she came from a poor family. d. she died from extreme anger. 26. why was hetty robinson called the witch of wall street?a. she turned out to be the richest woman in new york.b. she liked wearing the same long black dress every day.c. she made a huge fortune easily through stocks and shares. d. she was fond of reading financial pages of the newspaper. 27. which of the following best describes hetty robinson? a. talented but not generous. b. wealthy and selfless. c. easy-going but selfish. d. curious and lucky.28. which is the best title of this passage?a. a mean genius b. a financial successc. a lifelong bad luckd. a good way to earn moneycpeople all need friends because nobody wants to be lonely and a friend can help you in good and bad times. youve made friends since childhood, but you still dont know who your true friends are. here are some signs to tell you if your friend is a true friend:always honesthonesty is important to keep a relationship alive. a true friend always tells you the truth. it may be hard sometimes but lying can destroy a friendship. it is important that your friend speaks honestly and never makes up stories. there are always periods in your life when you have problems or difficulties. a true friend will always have time to listen to your problems and give advice. it may not be able to offer a solution to your problems but the fact that your friend made time to listen is a sign he/she cares for you. your friend is not a true friend if he/she can never make time for you when you are in trouble. you also need to be reasonable and accept that your friend also has other things to do so he/she cant always listen immediately to your problems.always respectfula true friend will always respect your opinion no matter whether he/she agrees or not. your true friend may disagree but never insists that he/she is correct.always understandingit is possible that some problems will arise between you and your friend. a true friend will always be forgiving and understanding even if it isnt his /her fault. we are all different people and we all make mistakes. a true friend is always forgiving and understanding because he/she doesnt want to take the risk of losing his/her best friend.29whats the best title for the third paragraph?a. always happy for you b. always there for youc. always solve your problems d. always remember your important days30according to the passage, what will a true friend always do?a. share the same interests with you.b. offer a solution for your problems in time.c. respect your opinion even if he/she disagrees with it.d. be a good listener and listen immediately to your troubles.31whats the authors purpose in writing this passage?a. to teach us how to make true friends.b. to find out how long a friendship can last.c. to introduce his experience in making friends.d. to tell us how to find out if a friend is a true friend.dahead of so-called singles day on the 11th of this month，2013, online sales have already begun peaking.the leading e-business platform, , has promoted（促销）its fifty-percent-off discount to attract consumers. they are also trying to attract buyers through social media.vice president of wang yulei says more than 20 thousand online stores have joined the double 11 day sales. but this number has doubled. the final number of how many products going to be on sale has not been known yet. but so far, many more products planned to be put on shelves with discounts.during last years singles day, , together with , reached a record of 19.1 billion yuan in sales, which considered a milestone in the e-business history of china.singles day was first started by chinese college students in the 1990s as the opposite of valentines day, a celebration for people without romantic partners. the timing was based on the date: nov. 11or double 11for singles. single young people would treat each other to dinner or give gifts to show love to someone and end their single status.but now, the singles day has been promoted as a kind of grand craze just for the shopping season, thanks to thousands of discounted products being promoted online.t was the first big e-retail platform which used the double 11 idea to promote sales. t reached one million yuan worth of sales on that day in 2009, when they first promoted the singles day idea. in 2010, the sales increased to 936 million yuan. the figure climbed up to 5.3 billion yuan in 2011, putting huge demand on shipping services. the figure doubled in 2012.e-commerce is considered to be replacing the traditional retailing industry, but the reality is both sides are learning from each other.32how much is a dress that is usually sold at 250 yuan during singles day at ? a. 500 b. 125 c. 100 d. 200 33what can we infer from the passage?a. t reached 2.65 billion yuan in 2012. b. e-commerce is going to replace traditional business at the end.c. double 11 day was created to get the single status over for young people.d. more than 20 thousand products will be provided in the double 11 day sales.34which of the following is the main idea of the passage? a. singles day promotes online sales. b. why singles day is so popular. c. how people celebrate singles day. d. what the definition of singles day is.35where do you think is the passage taken from? a. a science textbook. b. a newspaper. c. a travel journal. d. a health report.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。at times, our worries and anxieties can defeat us. 36 . here is a brief list of techniques that you can use to help gain a better viewpoint on things during the anxious moments. 37 . a person should take a deep breath and try to find something to do for a few minutes to get their mind off the problem. a person could get some fresh air, listen to some music, or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things. remember that our fearful thoughts are made to seem worse and can make the problem worse. 38 .when unexpectedly having thoughts that make you fearful or anxious, challenge these thoughts by asking yourself positive(积极的) questions that will maintain objectivity and common sense. be smart in how you deal with fears and anxieties. do not try to deal with everything all at once. when facing a current or upcoming task that makes you anxious, break the task into small ones. 39 . remember that all the worrying in the world will not change anything. most of what you worry about never comes true. 40 .then you should leave everything else in the hands of god. it is not easy to deal with all the fears and worries. when your fears and anxieties have the best of you, try to calm down and then get the facts of the situation. the key is to take it slow. all you can do is doing your best each day, hope for the best, and when something does happen, take it easy. take it one step at a time and things will work out well at last.a. when feeling anxious, stop what you are doing and try to do something relaxing.b. this will give you the confidence(信心) to manage your anxiety.c. instead of worrying about something that probably wont happen, concentrate on(专注) what you are able to do.d. the next time you fell depressed(沮丧的), review your list and think about the good things that you have in your life.e. a good way to manage your worry is to challenge your negative thinking with positive statements and realistic thinking.f. in addition, our worries can change our understanding of what is reality and what is not.g. completing these smaller tasks once at a time will make the stress(压力) more manageable and increase your chances of success.第三部分 英语知识运用 （ 共 2 节，满分 45 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四个选项(a、b、c和d)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。terror attacked the heart of the world war i soldier，as he saw his lifelong friend falling in the battlecaught in a trench（战壕）with41 gunfire whizzing（飕飕地移动）over his head，the soldier asked his 42 if hemightgo out into the “no mans land” between the trenches to bring his 43 partner back“you can go，”said the officer，“but i dont think it will be worth ityour friend is 44 dead and you may throw your own 45 away”the officers words didnt 46 to him，and the soldier went anyway. surprisinglyhe 47 to reach his friend，lift himonto his 48 ，and bring him back to their own trenchas the two of them 49 in together to the bottom of the trench，the officer 50 the wounded soldier，and then looked kindly at his friend “i told you it wouldnt be worth it，” he said“your friend is dead，and you are terribly wounded”“it was worth it， 51 ，sir，” the soldier said“what do you mean by worth it?” 52 the officer“your friend is dead!” “yes sir，” the soldier answered“but it was worth it because when i got to him，he was still 53 ，and i had the 54 of hearing him say，jim，i knew youd come”many a timein 55，whether a thing is worth doing or not reallydepends on 56 you look at ittake up all your 57 and do something