江西省抚州市临川第二中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题

江西省抚州市临川第二中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分第卷 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。例：how much is the shirt?a. 19.15. b. 9.15. c. 9.18.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. how many brothers does the man have?a. one. b. two.c. three.2. why cant the man return his camera?a. it is broken. b. it was bought on sale. c. it was bought over a week ago.3. where does the conversation take place?a. at a store. b. in a classroom.c. at a bus stop.4. what does the woman mean?a. the sweater was washed wrongly.b. the water was too hot to drink.c. the toy bear is too small.5. what are the speakers talking about?a. what present to buy. b. which dress to wear. c. when to attend the party.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. where are the speakers?a. at home. b. at a restaurant.c. at a sports center.7. when does the man begin his work?a. in the morning. b. in the afternoon. c. at night.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. what will the woman do next month?a. visit the man. b. make a business trip. c. do shopping in mexico city.9. where can the woman see amazing paintings?a. at outdoor markets.b. at the palace of fine arts.c. at the museum of modern art.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. what did the woman get yesterday?a. the key to her apartment.b. a copy of the house rules.c. a parking space for her motorbike.11. where did the woman used to park her motorbike?a. at the entrance to her apartment building.b. on the street beside her apartment building.c. on the sidewalk in front of her apartment building.12. what does the man suggest the woman do?a. take a bus to work.b. attend the next house owners meeting.c. have a talk with the apartment manager.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. what was the woman doing when she met a group of guys?a. she was walking on the road.b. she was looking at the bus schedule.c. she was getting aboard a bus.14. what language did the guys speak to the woman?a. french.b. german.c. english.15. how did the woman feel when she first met the guys?a. thankful.b. strange. c. confused.16. what did the woman lose?a. her wallet.b. her airline ticket.c. her passport.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. where did the old lady stay for ten days?a. in the bedroom.b. in the kitchen. c. in the bathroom.18. who found the old lady first?a. her neighbor.b. the firefighters.c. her son.19. where did the young woman behave strangely?a. at an airport.b. at a police station.c. at a wildlife center.20. what was in the young womans large bag?a. a baby tiger. b. a baby dog.c. a baby cat.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。abeltana station stay with a difference beltana station is a fully working sheep and cattle station, and a great place for a holiday with a real difference in australia. here the animals are not just to be looked at. they are part of everyday working life at the historic beltana station. what to dosee how a station really works. join in the daily working life with station workers. shearing (剪羊毛) and camp-outs are part of beltana stations activities.farm animals to see: sheep and cattle. for the kids, depending on the season, there will be animals to feed lambs and calves.the station is a joy for painters and photographers. there is a family games room.three roads for 4-wheel-drive cars through the station take in such views as lake torrens, mount deception, relics in old beltana town and much more.where to live the historic 1860s shearers rooms two-room small houses (1860s) one small historic country housebeltana station is not a resort (度假胜地) hotel. unlike other places, you can experience real life with real people in beltana.21. what would be a proper activity for children at beltana station?a. camp-outs with station workers. b. sheep shearing.c. driving cattle. d. feeding lambs.22. what may people learn when visiting beltana station?a. skills needed for long walks in mountains.b. knowledge of australian history.c. what to do in team sports.d. how to keep pets.23. what is special about beltana station?a. it is a large wild park. b. it offers real-life work experience.c. it has seasonal family activities. d. it is a good place for weekend picnics. bwhy play games? because they are fun, and a lot more besides. following the rules, planning your next move and acting as a team member are all “game” ideas that you will come across throughout your life.think about some of the games you played as a young child, such as rope-jumping and hide-and-seek. such games are entertaining and fun. but perhaps more importantly, they translate life into exciting dramas that teach children some of the basic rules they will be expected to follow the rest of their lives, such as taking turns and cooperating . many childrens games have a practical side. children around the world play games that prepare them for work they will do as grown-ups. for instance, some saudi arabian children play a game called bones, which sharpens the hand-eye coordination（协调）needed in hunting.many sports encourage national or local pride. the most famous games of all, the olympic games, bring athletes from around the world together to take part in friendly competition. people who watch the event wave flags, knowing that a gold medal is a win for an entire country, not just the athlete who earned it. for countries experiencing natural disasters or war, an olympic win can mean so much.sports are also an event that unites people. soccer is the most popular sport in the world. people on all continents play itsome for fun and some for a living. nicolette iribarne, a californian soccer player, has discovered a way to spread hope through soccer. he created a foundation to provide poor children with not only soccer balls but also a promising future.next time you play your favorite game or sport, think about why you enjoy it, what skills are needed, and whether these skills will help you in other aspects of your life.24. what are children expected to learn through playing hide-and-seek?a. be a team leader b. obey the basic rulesc. act as a grown-up d. predict possible danger25. what does the underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably mean ? a. games can describe life in an exciting wayb. games can turn real-life experiences into a playc. games can make learning life skills more interestingd. games can change peoples views of sporting events26. according to the passage, why is winning olympic medals so encouraging?a. it inspires peoples deep love for the country.b. it proves the exceptional skills of the winners.c. it helps the country out of natural disasters.d. it earns the winners fame and fortune.27. whats iribarnes goal of forming the foundation ?a. bringing fun to poor kids.b. providing soccer balls for children.c. giving poor kids a chance for a better life.d. attracting soccer players to help poor kids.ccomputer scientists have hoped to give robots technical skills to help them recognize, process and react to humor. but these attempts have mostly failed. ai experts say that in many cases, attempts to make robots understand humor end up producing funny results, but not in the way they were supposed to.tristan miller studied more than 10,000 puns in one research project. the pun is a kind of joke that uses a word with two meanings. for example, you could say, “balloons do not like pop music.” the word “pop” can be a way of saying popular music; or can mean the sound a balloon makes when it explodes. but a robot might not get the joke. tristan miller says that is because humor is a kind of creative language that is extremely difficult for computer intelligence to understand.allison bishop is a computer scientist and she also performs stand-up comedy. she explained that machines are trained to look for patterns. comedy, on the other hand, relies on things that stay close to a pattern, but not completely within it. to be funny, humor should also not be predictable, bishop said. this is a great challenge for a machine to recognize and understand what is funny.bishop says since robots have great difficulty understanding humor, she feels like it gives her better job safety as a comedy performer. it even made her parents happy when her brother decided to become a full-time comedy writer because it meant he wouldnt be replaced by a machine, she added.despite the difficulties, darmstadt universitys miller says there are good reasons to keep trying to teach humor to robots. it could make machines more relatable（叙述的）, especially if they can learn to understand sarcasm (讽刺), he noted. humans use sarcasm to say one thing but mean another. but kiki hempelmann thinks differently. “teaching ai systems humor may make them find it where it isnt, and they may use it where its not suitable,” he said. “maybe bad ai will start killing people because it thinks something is funny,” he added.28. what does the author most probably want to show in paragraph 1?a. robots influence on the scientific development.b. robots challenges of making sense of humor.c. computer scientists devotion to technical skills.d. computer scientists concern about ais development.29.what are examples mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 3 intended to do?a. prove robots do poorly in funny workb. explain robots arent as intelligent as humansc. describe language is complex and changeabled. show language cant be taught in a set pattern30. what can we infer about teaching ai system humor from the last paragraph?a. it will make no difference.b. it may be a double-edged sword.c. it may help improve humans humor.d. it will attract more computer scientists.31. where would the passage most probably come from?a.textbook b. advertisement c. science journal d.entertainment speechdany foreigner who has tried to learn chinese can tell how hard it is to master the tones required to speak and understand. and anyone who has tried to learn to play the violin or other instruments can report similar challenges.now researchers have found that people with musical training have an easier time learning chinese. writing in the online edition of nature neuroscience，researchers from northwestern university say that both skills draw on the same parts of the brain that help people discover changes in pitch(音调)one of the studys authors，nina kraus，said the findings suggested that studying music “actually tunes our sensory system”this means that schools that want children to do well in languages should think carefully before cutting music programs，dr. kraus said. she said music training might also help children with language problems.mandarin(普通话)speakers have been shown to have a more complicated(复杂的) encoding(编码) of pitch patterns in their brains than english speakers do. this is because in mandarin and other asian languages，pitch plays a central role. a singlesyllable word can have several meanings depending on how it is intoned.for this study，the researchers looked at 20 nonchinese speaking volunteers，half with no musical background and half who have studied an instrument for at least six years.as they were shown a movie，the volunteers also heard an audio tape of the mandarin word “mi” in three of its meanings：squint(眯），bewilder（迷） and rice. the researchers recorded activities in their brain stems to see how well they were processing the sounds. those with a music background showed much more brain activities in response to the chinese sounds.the lead author of the study，patrick cm.wong，said it might work both ways. it appears that native speakers of tonal languages may do better at learning instruments.32. what will a foreigner find when learning chinese?ahe has a difficult time learning music at the same time.bhe has an easier time learning music at the same time.cit is hard to master the tones required to speak and understand.dit is easy to use the brain to help him discover changes in pitch.33. why does chinese learning have something to do with music training?abecause there is the same difficulty in learning chinese and music.bbecause skills to learn the two make use of the same parts of the brain.cbecause music training might help people with language study.dbecause people who do well in chinese study do well in music.34. which word can replace the underlined word “intoned” in the fourth paragraph?acreated bspelled cseemed dpronounced35. what would be the best title for this passage?amandarin speakers are smarter than english speakersbskilled ear for music may help language studycpitch plays a central role in chinese learningdschools need to develop music programs 第二节（共5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的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。what makes one person more intelligent than another？what makes one person a genius，like the brilliant albert einstein，and another person a fool？are people born intelligent or stupid，or is intelligence the result of where and how you live？ 36 we know，however，that just being born with a good mind is not enoughin some ways，the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle 37 _mental exercise is particularly important for young childrenmany child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about 38 _if，on the other hand，children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do，they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent 39_according to some psychologists，if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot，then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish thingsso it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children，such asthat was a very clever thing you didor 40 _ aa healthy body leads to ones intelligence bparents should also be careful with what they say to young children cwhat people want to express is like this dthe children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent eit needs exercise fyou are such a smart child gthese are very old questions and answers to them are still not clear第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 55分）第一节 完形填空（共 20小题；每小题 2分，满分 40分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的a、b、c和 d 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。when my daughter was in grade school, one day she 41 home four tiny twigs(枝条). they were trees given to the students by the school to plant. 42 of them looked very strong but with a hope for the future, i got a spade and planted them in our backyard. over the years a (an) 43 with the lawnmower(割草机) and poor soil brought a (an) 44 to three of them. all that was left was a (an) 45 evergreen.it grew bent and very 46 . it never got very tall and tilted（倾斜）to one side. in the end it looked more like a fat bush than a tree. i noticed a few years ago too that it was starting to 47 . the lower branches were becoming 48 . the needles on the branches a little further up had turned brown. only the top third of the tree was still green. last summer i did my best to save it by 49 it a lot of fertilizer but my efforts 50 .this morning i went out and looked at it again. i was 51 whether it would be better to just cut it down. it sure would make mowing the lawn easier and i would no longer have to watch it slowly go 52 . as i walked over to take a closer look at it, 53 , i noticed something moving within the needles. it was a robin（知更鸟）patiently building a nest in the topmost branches. i 54 when i looked at it and decided that maybe this old tree had some life and 55 left in it yet. it may not be healthy or pretty but it was still giving a bird (a) 56 and oxygen to this world.this tree 57 me of something too. all of our lives have purpose. all of our lives have 58 . it doesnt matter if we are young and strong or old and sickly(病弱的). until our last 59 , god has things for us to do, love for us to give, and joy for us to 60 . until our last moment here we can help to make this world a better and more beautiful place.41agot bbrought crushed dreturned42anone ball ceach dthree43afailure bincident caccident dcharacter44adamage bdeath cend dhurt45aonly bspecial cunique dsingle46aslowly bviolently cquickly dwildly47astretch bgrow cfall ddie48agreen bbare clost dpowerful49adelivering bfeeding cspreading dlaying50afailed bworked creplaced ddeserved51adreaming of bdisappointed at cdeciding on dsorry about52amad btiring cregular dbad53atherefore bthereafter chowever dbesides54acried bsmiled claughed dshouted55ausefulness benergy cbeauty dstrength56aprotection bwarm cstage dhome57aexpected bcured cchanged dreminded58ameaning bbeauty cpassion dinspiration59adoubt blife cbreath dappearance60aenjoy bshare cappreciate doffer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。over time i have been changed quite a lot. i began as a _61_