湖北省宜昌市葛洲坝中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期中试题

湖北省宜昌市葛洲坝中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期中试题考试时间：2019年11月第卷第一部分 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. what present does the woman send the man? a. a little cat.b. a toy car.c. a nice cake.2. what kind of person is stan? a. he is selfish.b. he is cold.c. he is helpful.3. who will arrive today? a. mary.b. susan.c. bob.4. where does the conversation probably take place? a. at a station. b. at a restaurant.c. in a library.5. why does the man hold a party? a. to celebrate the birth of a child. b. to celebrate his buying an old house. c. to celebrate his moving into a new house.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. what are the speakers talking about? a. magazines.b. paintings.c. scenery.7. which one is painted by george anderson? a. the summer flowers.b. the swiss mountains.c. the lovely windows.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. why is today a big day for the man? a. he will get paid. b. he will attend a party. c. he will have a meeting.9. which tie does the man decide to wear? a. the red one.b. the blue one. c. the white one.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. where did the woman move when she was young? a. to america.b. to mexico.c. to japan.11. what will the woman probably do after graduation? a. join a company. b. become a lawyer.c. run her own hotel.12. who is studying management? a. jim.b. daisy.c. zoe.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. what are the speakers talking about? a. how to laugh. b. how to tell jokes. c. how to make people surprised.14. what makes the woman feel embarrassed (尴尬的)? a. her jokes are not appreciated. b. her friends often laugh at her. c. her parents dont understand her.15. what does the man suggest to the woman? a. laughing loudly while telling jokes. b. telling jokes to the right person. c. not using body language.16. what can we learn from the conversation? a. the woman doesnt understand her friends at all. b. when the man tells jokes, his friends seldom laugh. c. the man is better at telling jokes than the woman.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. when does the speaker help with cooking? a. in the morning.b. in the afternoon.c. in the evening.18. what does the speaker like best? a. fishing. b. telling stories.c. riding a horse.19. why are the other kids often laughing at the speaker? a. she dropped the hot dogs in the fire. b. she couldnt ride a horse. c. she got lost in the forest.20. how does the speaker find the summer camp? a. surprising.b. interesting.c. disappointing.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。ayou may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgotten experiences or give you some great inspiration(灵感).michael dell, university of texas at austinand now youve accomplished something great and important here, and its time for you to move on to whats next. and you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. you must also commit to the adventure. just have faith in the skills and the knowledge youve been blessed（赐予）with and go.j.k. rowling, harvard universityhalf my lifetime ago, i was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectation from my parents who were not richbut what i feared most of myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. the fact that you are graduating from harvard suggests that you know little about failure, you might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.steve jobs, stanford universitysometimes lifes going to hit you in the head with a brick. dont lose faithyour work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. if you havent found it yet, keep looking and dont settle.bill gates, harvard universitywe need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced technology to lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. they are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the worlds inequities（不公平）like hunger, poverty, and so on.21what michael dell said is to encourage us to _.alisten to our heart brun after our dreamscfollow others example dlearn from our mistakes22what did j.k. rowling fear most when she was studying in university?afailure. bhunger.cpoverty. dappearance.23what does bill gates suggest people do?amaster as much advanced technology as possible.bmake contributions to the environment.cwork together to solve some global problems.dtake responsibility for their own behavior.beverybody, at some point in their lives, has experienced failure. it could be something as simple as not getting the job you wanted, or getting fewer marks even after hard work. but what makes you is not your failure, but how you get back up after being hit.once, a young school boy was caught in a fire accident in his school and was assumed that he would not live. his mother was told that he was sure to die, for the terrible fire had destroyed the lower half of his body. even if he were to survive, he would be lame throughout his life.but the brave boy did not want to die nor did he want to be lame. much to the amazement of the doctor, he did survive. but unfortunately from his waist down, he had no motor ability. his thin legs just hung there, lifeless. eventually he left the hospital. but his determination to walk was unshakable. at home, when he was not in bed, he had to stay in a wheelchair. one day, he threw himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. he reached the fence, raised himself up and then began dragging himself along the fence, firmly determined. he did this every day, with faith in himself that he would be able to walk unaided. with his iron determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk on and off, then to walk by himself and then to run.he began to walk to school, and then run to school, to run for the joy of running. later in college he was on the track team.in february 1934, in new york citys madison square garden, this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run - this determined young man, dr. glenn cunningham, ran the worlds fastest mile.a good example of the power of positive(积极的) thinking and faith in oneself, glenn cunningham continues to be an inspiration for many, and his story, a brilliant evidence to how one can bounce back even when all difficulties are piled against one, to the degree that death seemed the preferable choice.24what was the doctors opinion about glenn?athere was a little chance that glenn could survive.bgreat determination could make a difference to glenn.cglenn was able to walk with his own great effortdglenn could live a normal life with the upper half of his body.25. the underlined word “unaided” means _. a. for himselfb. without help c. with disabilityd. without hesitation26what do we know about glenn?aglenn took recovery exercise in hospital.bglenn inspired people with his moving story.cglenn won the first place in marathon.dglenn organized a track team in college.27what can be a suitable title for the text?astand up after failurebstrengthen determinationcgo after dreams dface difficulty bravelyci came to rio, brazil to work one year ago. so what have i found here?you need to learn portuguesei started studying portuguese about two years ago. i didnt end up improving my portuguese as much as id hoped before i came here. while spanish and portuguese are structurally quite similar, there are huge differences between the two. you cant just magically understand brazilians if you speak spanish.i didnt need to bring heelsgoing out in cities like buenos aires is a big deal. you get dressed up, you do your hair, and you definitely wear heels- at least if youre going out to dance. i had no idea how wrong i was. yes, rio is a city, but its a city on the beach. of course, there are fancy clubs that probably expect everyone to show up in dress shoes(时装鞋), but most of the places ive been to are fine with sneakers, even for dancing.learning about pop music is a mustwhenever i go out and a pop song comes on, every single other person there sings along to all the words. i still havent understood if there are only 25 songs that get played in public or if people really do just have a fantastic memory for lyrics, but either way, i wish id spent a bit more time practicing brazilian pop music so i wouldnt look like such a lost foreigner.airplanes are a surprisingly sensitive subjectin brazil, the credit for modern flight goes to alberto santos dumont. brazilians say the wright brothers use of a catapult(飞机弹射器) was technically cheating and point to their man as the real pioneer of the plane. therefore, be careful before bringing up the subject of planes in brazil unless youre ready for a lecture.28. what can we infer about brazilians?athey are fond of dancing.bthey understand spanish.cthey have a good memory.dthey are informally dressed.29how did the author react when the others were singing?ashe felt like an outsider .bshe felt ashamed.cshe sang along. dshe pretended to be lost.30what topic should you avoid in rio?apop music.bdressing styles.c. the history of planes. dspanish.31whats the authors purpose in writing the text?ato tell us something about brazil.bto give foreigners in rio some suggestions.cto share her life in rio as a foreigner.dto encourage us to learn a foreign language.dsome people state they never forget a face. but what does that saying mean? is there really no limit to the number of faces a person can remember?a new study has found that, on average, people can remember as many as 5,000 faces. that number comes from a group of researchers at the university of york in england, there have been many studies recently on facial recognition. but the authors of this study say theirs is the first time that scientists have been able to put a number to the abilities of humans to recognize faces.during the study, people spent one hour writing down as many faces from their personal lives as possible, then, they wrote down famous faces they know, such as actors, politicians and other public people. the results showed that the participants knew between 1,000 and 10,000 faces, which is very shocking to the researchers. rob jenkins, coauthor of the study, said one explanation about it may be that some people have a natural ability for remembering faces. he also said it could be because of different social environments. some people may have grown up in more populated places. so they may have had more social contact throughout their lives.the ability to tell individual people apart is “clearly important.” in todays modern world of big cities, televisions and social media, we meet thousands of people. our facial recognition abilities help us to deal with the many different faces we see on the screens, as well as those we know.the people in the study included 25 men and women. they are between 18 and 61 years old. “it would be interesting to see whether there is a peak age for the number of faces we know”, jenkins said it is possible that we gather more faces throughout our lifetime. but, he added, there also may be an age at which we start to find it harder to remember all of those faces.32how is the study different from the previous ones?ait is the first study on facial recognition.bit lists the number of faces people can recognize.cthe study includes participants of all ages.dparticipants could only recognize faces from personal lives.33what does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 refer to?athe difference of social environments. bpeoples natural ability to learn.cthe wide range of the numbers. dthe necessity of facial recognition.34what will the researchers probably focus on after this study?awhy older people remember more faces. bhow our ability to remember faces vary at different ages.cwhether peoples ability to remember faces is necessary.dwhen people can remember the most faces.35what can be a suitable title for the text? ahuman beings never forget a face bface recognition benefits humanscthe brain remembers thousands of faces dthe key to remembering more faces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。 universities are doing everything they can to become a green campus. but there are also items students can do to make your campus more eco-friendly.1. recycle everything, especially paper!there is a large amount of paper a college student goes through every term. 36 we know that these things cant be avoided, but the way you handle the use of all the paper can really help create a better green campus.2. buy green.37 paper, cleaning products and water are products that can be bought as recycled goods. theyre slightly more expensive than the normal products, but its worth it to make a green campus.3. walk and bike to school.most campuses, especially those that are trying to become a more eco-friendly campus, have pretty good public transportation. 38 walking or biking will help make your campus a green university.4. 39 a water bottle can be refilled at any water fountain and can easily be drunk in class or while riding a bike. this will save the environment by decreasing the amount of plastic waste on your campus.5. buy used clothing.it is usually thought of as something to do to save money. 40 recycling clothes minimizes the use of resources to make clothing and puts a dent in the problem of worldwide sweatshops.a. carry a water bottle.b. buy recycled goods as much as possible.c. it is also good for the environment!d. paper made of this kind of wood is much stronger.e. it includes class notes, term papers, student newspapers and so on.f. on top of that, almost all universities are pedestrian (步行者) friendly.g. universities call on all the students to learn to recycle all the waste paper.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，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。wehiredtwocabsandvisitedabu.we fixedourluggage ontopofthe 41 and startedout.duringthejourneyback,westoppedfor atea.thats wheninoticed42 thattheropewithwhichthe luggagewas 43 inoneofthecarriershad comelooseandoneofthe 44 wasmissing.itmust have 45 somewherealongtheway.althoughit didntcontainany 46 things justclothes and somefood,wedecidedtoretrace (折返)oursteps, drivingback fourkilometres, 47 thebag.butluck wasntourfriend:wecouldnot 48 itandreturned toahmedabadunhappy.afterabouta(n) 49, one day,whileinmy office,igotacallfrommyassistantthata50 mr shahwantedtoseeme.icalledhimintomy 51 and asked him:“howcanwehelp you?”towhichhe said, “no,sir.ihavenotcomeforanyofficialhelp. itisa(n)_52 matter. did youloseyourbag?”itold himaboutthelostbagfrommountabuamonthago then shah said his side of the 53 :“i was driving back to ahmedabad when i 54 a bag lying by the side of the road. i picked it up and 55 there for an hour or so. since no one turned up to claim (索要) it, i went to a nearby gas station and gave my 56 to the manager with a request that if someone asked him for the bag my details may be 57 . about a month passed. since i did not hear from anyone, i 58 open the lock and found your visiting card, with your 59 and address, inside. so, here i am. i was surprised and quite 60 ，too. i could not find the right words to express myself. i somehow managed to speak a few sentences, but nearly not enough to express my feelings on his act of kindness.41. a. bicyclesb. cabsc. trucks d. trains42. a. suddenly b. slowlyc. carefully d. finally43. a. foundb. soldc. tiedd. made44. a. bagsb. walletsc. bottlesd. boxes45. a. taken offb. fallen outc. taken ond. fallen off46. a. necessaryb. privatec. valuabled. interesting47.a.lookingforb.runningintoc.gettingoverd.handingout48.a.passb.locatec.changed. buy49.a.hourb.weekc.monthd.year50.a.strangeb.certainc.newd.dear51.a.homeb.schoolc.companyd.office52.a.basicb.importantc.personald.formal53.a.backgroundb.taskc.tripd.story54.a.noticedb.leftc.metd.followed55.a.landedb.waitedc.sleptd.worked56.a.addressb.signsc.thanksd.guidance57.a.receivedb.collectedc.checkedd.shared58.a.droppedb.brokec.burnedd.blew59.a.faceb.ideac.named.date60.a.worriedb.confusedc.helplessd.speechless第卷第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。joanna cole, born on august 11,1944 in newark, new jersey, has been credited to be one of th