河北省唐山一中高一英语下学期期中试题.doc

唐山一中20152016学年度第二学期期中考试高一年级 英语试卷说明：1.考试时间120分钟，满分150分。2.将卷答案用2b铅笔涂在答题卡上,将卷答案答在答题纸上。3.卷答题纸卷头和答题卡均填涂本次考试的考号，不要误填学号，答题卡占后位。卷(选择题 共100分) 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秒钟时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：how much is the shirt?a. 19.15 b. 9.15 c. 9.18答案是b。1. what is the weather like? a. its raining. b. its cloudy.c. its sunny.2. who will go to china next month? a. lucy. b. alice. c. richard.3. what are the speakers talking about? a. the mans sister. b. a film. c. an actor.4. where will the speakers meet? a. in room 340. b. in room 314. c. in room 223.5. where does the conversation most probably take place？ a. in a restaurant. b. in an office. c. at home.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，每段对话或独白后面有几个小题，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8题。6. why did the woman go to new york? a. to spend some time with the baby.b. to look after her sister.c. to find a new job.7. how old was the baby when the woman left new york? a. two months. b. five months. c. seven months.8. what did the woman like doing most with the baby? a. holding him. b. playing with him. c. feeding him.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. what are the speakers talking about? a. a way to improve air quality. b. a problem with traffic rules. c. a suggestion for city planning.10. what does the man suggest? a. limiting the use of cars. b. encouraging people to walk.c. warning drivers of air pollution.11. what does the woman think about the mans idea? a. its interesting. b. its worth trying. c. its impractical.听第8段材料，回答第12至14小题。12. how long will the man probably stay in new zealand? a. one week. b. two weeks. c. three weeks.13. what advice does the woman give to the man? a. go to new zealand after christmas. b. book his flight as soon as possible.c. save more money for his trip.14. what can we learn about flights to new zealand at christmas time? a. they require early booking.b. they can be twice as expensive.c. they are on special offer.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. why did jane call mike? a. to ask him to meet her. b. to tell him about tom. c. to borrow his car.16. where will jane be in about one hour? a. at mikes place. b. at the airport. c. at a garage.17. what can we infer from the conversation? a. jane has just learned to drive. b. janes car is in bad condition. c. mike will go to the airport.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. what did the speaker ask the students to do the week before? a. write a short story. b. prepare for the lesson. c. learn more about the writer.19. why does the speaker ask the questions? a. to check the students understanding of the story.b. to draw the students attention to reading skills.c. to let the students discuss father-son relationships.20. what will the students do in 10 minutes? a. ask more questions. b. discuss in groups. c. present their answers.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。adear alcohol, youve been around forever. i can remember all the pain youve caused for me.do you remember the night you almost took my fathers life? i do. he loves you. sometimes i think he loves you more than he loves me. hes addicted(上瘾) to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. you just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. he wasnt the only one hurt by you that night. do you remember the night of my first high school party? you were there. my friends were intrigued by you. they treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. i spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. two 15-year-old girls slept in hospital beds that night thanks to you. do you remember the night when you took advantage of my 17-year-old neighbor who had to drive to pick up his sister from her dance lessons? do you know how we all felt when he hit another car and killed the two people in the other car? he died the next morning too. his sister walked home from her dance lesson, and passed police cars and a crowd of people gathering on the sidewalk just two blocks away from the dance studio. she didnt realize her brother was in the middle of it all. she never saw him again. and its all your fault.i wish youd walk out of my life forever. i dont want anything to do with you. look at all the pain youve caused. sure, youve made people happy too from time to time. but the damage youve caused in the lives of millions is inexcusable. stop luring (引诱) in the people i love. stop hurting me, please. sincerely, anonymous21. what is authors purpose in writing to alcohol? a. to introduce mr. alcohol to the readers b. to describe the harm alcohol did to his family. c. to show how much alcohol can hurt people. d. to show the great fun that alcohol can bring to peoples life.22. what did alcohol do to the authors father? a. it made him crash into two other cars and took his life. b. it made him drink too much and he had to get his stomach pumped. c. it made him kill two other people when driving. d. it made him get into a car accident and badly injure himself.23. the underlined phrase were intrigued by is closest in meaning to _. a. were familiar with b. were interested in c. were disappointed with d. were satisfied with24. what is the tone of the article? a. critical. b. doubtful. c. unconcerned. d. humorous.bproverbs are quite common in spoken english. we dont normally put them in a composition or a letter. sometimes it is helpful if you know what common proverbs mean. here are a few examples.1)“once bitten, twice shy.” if a dog bites me, i shall be twice as careful in future when i see it. this proverb is also used to apply to many things and not only to dogs. if you have been cheated at a shop, you will not go to the same shop again.2) “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” if i am a hunter, trying to catch birds, it is better to catch one than to see two birds in a bush but not able to catch them. thus this means that what you have already got is better than the chance of being able to get something bigger in future.3) “too many cooks spoil the broth (soup)”. when too many people do something, they get in each others way and do a bad job.4) “to pour oil on troubled waters” is to try to calm things down. oil is lighter than water. if a ship is in trouble at sea, another ship may come to help it. the second ship can send small boats to rescue people. however, it may first pour oil on the sea to make the sea less rough.5) “dont be a dog in a manger(槽)”means“ dont be selfish.” in a stable (马房), the manger is the place where the horses food is put. sometimes a dog will sleep in the manger and bark when a horse comes to get its food. the dog does not want to eat the hay in the manger but it will not let the horse eat it.6) “he is sitting on the fence” means that somebody will not say whether he is in favor of a plan or against it. he is sitting on a fence between two opposing sides, perhaps waiting to see which side will win.7) “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” a piper is a musician. the man who employs or pays a musician can say what tunes the musician will play. thus this means that if a man provides the money for a plan, he can say how it will be carried out.8) “you cant get blood out of a stone” means that you cannot get something from a person who has not got any of the things you want. e. g. you cannot get a million dollars from a poor man. 25. peter has a bicycle which is much too small for him but he does not want to let his younger brother ride on it. his mother is angry and says to him: _. a. you cant get blood out of a stone b. dont be a dog in a manger c. once bitten, twice shy. d. to pour oil on troubled waters26. mr. wang paid for a new school. some people didnt like the design of the school but they didnt argue with mr. wang because _. a. he was sitting on the fence b. once bitten, twice shyc. he who pays the piper calls the tune d. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush27. mrs. lin wanted to buy a new dress. her husband suggested that she buy it from a shop near their home. mrs. lin disagreed because she had been cheated by that shop. so she said: “i wont go there again because _.”a. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush b. i am sitting on the fencec. once bitten, twice shy d. too many cooks spoil the broth28. mr. brown had quite a good job in hong kong but he thought that if he went to singapore, he might get a much better job with more money and a larger house. his wife didnt want him to leave his job in hong kong and she reminded him that _. a. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush b. too many cooks spoil the broth c. you cannot get blood out of a stone d. he who pays the piper calls the tune c on a clear night, the sky is a wonderful thing. is there life out there somewhere? is there another place like earth where life might exist? if so, where is it? and how far away is it? recently, the american kepler spacecraft found 22b, a planet about six hundred light years away. it is the first planet in a “habitable zone” outside the solar system. that means the planet orbits a star like our sun, but it is not too close to it, nor too far away. because of this position, scientists say kepler22b might have water, one of the main things needed for life. the newly-discovered planet is about two and a half times larger than the earth. it is closer to its star than we are to the sun, but 22bs sun is smaller than ours, and doesnt produce as much heat. scientific instruments show the new planet could be made of gases, rocks or some kinds of liquids. the kepler spacecraft was named in honor of johannes kepler, the seventeenth century german astronomer. it was designed to examine a small part of the milky way galaxy and search for places like the earth. it was made to inspect over 150,000 stars and measure how bright they are. if a planet passes between kepler and the star, it blocks out part of the light. that is what suggested to scientists that there is at least one planet orbiting the star. the instruments on kepler show the new planet as a small, black dot moving across its sun. an important part of the kepler experiment is on the earth. after the spacecraft gathers information, scientists use the space telescopes on the ground. scientists have found over 2,300 new planets since kepler was launched. about 200 of these are about the size of the earth. most are much larger, but it is the new planets length from its star that is important. for life to possibly exist there, the planets temperature must not be too hot or too cold.29. what can we learn about kepler-22b? a. water must have existed on it.b. it takes humans about 600 years to get there.c. it is made of gases, rocks and many kinds of liquids.d. it is the first planet outside the solar system where life may survive.30. the kepler spacecraft was sent into space to _.a. show honor to johannes keplerb. look for earth-like planets in the skyc. observe the changes of a stars brightnessd. measure the brightest star among 150,000 stars31. in paragraph 5 the author mainly tells us_.a. how the kepler system worksb. if the kepler system sees a new planetc. how the kepler system uses the space telescopesd. why an important part of the kepler system remains on the earth32. what can we infer from the passage?a. life may exist on the new planet in another form.b. it is colder on the new planet because its sun is smaller.c. life cant exist on planets which are much larger than the earth.d. the new planets length from its star decides on the possibility of life existence.dwhen i was about twelve, i headed to a restaurant for dinner with my family. it was winter, and on that particular night, the wind was really blowing. as my mom and i headed towards the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother came up to us. they asked if we had any spare change. my mom immediately asked where they kept their things. they pointed to an old car in a parking across the street. the girl said there were six of them living in that car, which was the same size as my own family. my mom said she had something to do after handing the people a few dollars. she sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my three siblings(兄弟姐妹). but she didnt come.later, i found out she had gone home and practically emptied our cupboards into a few bags. then, she brought that food over to the car and handed the bags to the family. i wasnt there when that part happened, but i can only imagine the joy it brought to their faces.a few days later, when i actually found out about what she had done, i asked her why she helped those people. she told me that they were not lucky. i remember the face of that girl who had asked us for change; she was the same age as me, yet we looked so different.here i stood, dressed in almost new clothes, headed to dine in a restaurant and then back home to the bedroom i shared with my younger sister. i remember thinking that the girl didnt have any food to eat and that she was heading back to a cold car shared with five other people. after painting this picture in my mind, i understood why my mom had done what she did. i will never forget what she did that night, and how she taught me one of the best lessons i ever learned.33. which of the following is true according to the first paragraph?a. the girls family lived a hard life. b. the author was happy to go to a restaurant.c. the girls family lived in an old house.d. there were more members in the authors family than in the girls.34. how did the author feel when she knew what her mother had done?a. she should value what she had.b. her mother shouldnt help the strangers.c. she must work hard to reward her mother.d. she was unlucky to have such living conditions.35. what is the best title of the passage?a. how to support the poor family b. a friend in need is a friend in deedc. the hard life of a little girls family d. a lesson in kindness from my mum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。（如果所用的答题卡没有e、f、g选项，则选e涂a、b，选f涂a、c，选g涂a、d。） clara barton, founder of the american red cross, gained worldwide honor for her devotion to easing human suffering and earned the nickname “angel of the battlefield. ” barton was born into a liberal freethinking family in 1821. her elder brothers and sisters happily taught her in math and reading, so when she entered school at three years old, she could read and spell simple words. 36 concerned about bartons difficulty in making friends, her parents sent her to a boarding school, hoping it would make her more comfortable with her peers. 37 barton lost her appetite and cried constantly. after only one term, she had to be brought home. then, barton stayed out of school to nurse her older brother through a serious injury and also volunteered to care for poor families during a smallpox(天花）outbreak. in 1861,the civil war broke out. the sight of wounded soldiers touched barton deeply. she began to collect and distribute food, bandages, medicines, and other supplies for the union army. 38 there, with little concern for her own safety, she cooked meals, assisted surgeons, and comforted wounded soldiers. eventually, because of working too hard, barton collapsed, ill with typhoid fever. 39 it was there that she learned of an organization based in switzerland一called the international red cross, whose work mirrored her own. shortly after barton arrived back home in 1873, her sister died. 40 when recuperating(休养）at a health facility in new york，she began planning for the establishment of an american wing of the international red cross. although at first the authorities resisted, her efforts finally paid off. the american red cross was officially organized on may 21, 1881. her influence lives on today in the work of the organization she founded.a. barton fell into a deep depression.b. unfortunately, it had the opposite effect.c. many people felt sorry for the loss of her sister and her own health.d. barton risked her life to transport wagonloads of supplies to the front lines.e. when she recovered, her doctors prescribed (开处方) a long, restful trip to europe.f. barton spent the following several months learning basics about swiss cross.g. she easily kept up with the older children academically but did not fit in socially.第三部分 英语知识运用完形填空（共20小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ted spent seven years as a prisoner of war. there he discovered the power of 41 . for more than half of that 42 he was in isolation (隔绝). he lived for ten months in total 43 . those ten months was the longest of his life. when they 44 with wooden boards the