福建省南安一中0809高一上学期期末考试英语

1、北京中高考数学辅导 qq：710977918 霍老师福建省南安一中08-09学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题第一卷（选择题 共115分）第一部分：听力测试（共20小题，每小题15分，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每题15分，满分75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，你将有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。1from whom did the man get the ticket?ahis uncle bhis cousin chimself2what will the woma

2、n do first?ato finish maths problems bto see her headmaster cto join the discussion3how much money did the woman pay for her car?a10, 000 dollars b1,000 dollars c9,900 dollars4what is the relation between the two speakers? ahusband and wife bbabysitter and employer cmother and son5who is the woman l

3、ikely to be? atoms mother btoms teacher ctoms friend第二节（共15小题；每小题15分，满分225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、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，每小题秒钟；听完后，各个小题将给出秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6 段材料，回答6至7题。6for which day does the man book a room finally? amarch 30th bmarch 31st capril 2nd7how much wil

4、l the men for the room?a80 dollars b88 dollars c96 dollars听第7 段材料，回答8至9题。8how much does the man pay for the trip?a$ 90 b$ 70 c$ 1009how long is the trip to los angeles?aeight hours beight and half hours cnine hours听第8材料，回答10至12题。10what is the man now?aa dancer ba teacher cwe dont know11why did the m

5、an leave his position?ahe didnt like the workbhe didnt get along with his bossche wanted to get a highly paid job12how is the woman getting on with her work?ashe hasnt reached the top yetbshe isnt very successfulcshe cant bear the boss any longer听第9 段材料，回答13至16题。13where does the woman come from?aspa

6、in bcolumbia csweden14who were those two speakers?aa new student and an old studentbstudents learning spanishcstudents learning english15when is the conversation probably taking place?aduring the break between classesbon the first day of the womans arrivalcin the first class of the training class16w

7、here are they probably first going?ato room 310 bto room 290 cto room 110听第10段材料，回答17至20题17where was the speech delivered?ain a theater bin a church cin a park18what was the weather like then?arainy bfine cwindy19what did the speaker announce?athe roof would be repairedbthe roof would be replacedcth

8、e whole building would be rebuilt20who did he make an apology to?aperformers who gave us pleasurebproducers who worked behind the scenescaudience who sat in the back rows第二部分：英语基础知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）从a、b、c和d、四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 21the spring festival is _unique day for famili

9、esit is also _ day for special foods like niangaoaan, a ban, the ca, a dthe, a22why didnt you go to the party last night, susan?_, but i had a lot of homework to doaid like to go bid like to cid like to go to di would23fujian is _ the east of china, with its capital _the minjiang riverain, to bin, o

10、n cat, in d/, on24do you have anything _ for this saturday afternoon? not yetato be planned bto plan cplanning dplanned25as a student, you should do your duty and put your heart into study _aat one time bat all times cat a time dat times26quanzhou is quite a beautiful city and people from other plac

11、es often come to _ the mountains, seas, lakes and trees aclimb badmire cshare dimpress27i used to live near the peoples park _ is the centre of town athat bwhere cin which dwhat28i dont like to watch thistheres a better programme than this on cctv6please _ aturn back bturn on cswitch off dswitch ove

12、r29i think we _ be able to have holidays on the moon in about twenty years time aare going to bwill ccan dwould30six days had gone by _ they realized the picture painted by pablo picasso was missing aas bbefore csince dwhen31to tell you the truth, i dont quite like the way _ she talks to her mother

13、aby which bin that c/ don which32 hi,tomits nice seeing youheres my mobile phone numberlets _ in touch sureso long akeep bget ccome dtake33its very colddont leave the man _outside in the rain any longer ato wait bwaited cwaiting dto be waiting34shall we go boating this afternoon?it depends on the we

14、atheri will go _ it rains and the wind blows hardawhen buntil cas dunless35ive just heard a warning on the radio that a storm is _ to come this evening alikely bpossible cregular dreal第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题15分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从3655各题所给四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项。when i was in germany, one day at christma

15、s-time i went to a post office to send a letterto my 36 , i found people queuing some paces away from the 37 at the savings deposit (存款) windowwhy so? each did his business in turn but the line never 38 a step nearer i was very curious, so i walked to the window to 39 the causethere was a 40 on whic

16、h was written “ thank you for your respect for others privacy（隐私）”a polite 41 to keep people away from nosing into others affairs (money matters are regarded as privacy in western countries)i was deeply 42 by the sight and stayed a while to watch: they were 43 so calmly at a distance that they seeme

17、d quite 44 to the practicethe 45 thing happened at a public telephone boxthose waiting for their 46 always kept their distanceenough to be out of 47 its another typical example! from then on i 48 to watch their ways of doing things, manners, treatment shown towards 49 i found the germans always mind

18、ful of others privacythey 50 not to put others in an embarrassing (窘迫) situationfor instance, they never 51 about age, incomes or the place to buy such a coat, nor would they talk about the others or 52 others wore on their neckstheir laws 53 reading diaries or opening letters without 54 its obvious

19、 that it shows 55 matters are not allowed to be disturbed36ajoybanger cthought dsurprise 37aman bperson cletter ddocument38astood bbrokecmoved dskipped 39afind out bdepend on capply for dcome to40apicture bcharacter cword dnotice41avoice bofferingcwarning dsentence 42diappointed bimpressed caffected

20、 dsupported43a disappearingbwaiting cperforming dlooking 44aused bfamiliar ccomfortable dpolite 45ainterestingbstrangecsame ddifferent 46amoney barrangement cchallenge dturns47atrouble bsight ctouch dquestion 48atook care bwent on cpaid attention dcarried on 49amyself bthem cothers danother50asuppos

21、ed bordered ctold dtried51aaskedbheardcworried dlearned 52asmiles bcloth cjewelry dstockings53aappreciate bstop chate dforbid 54apermission bglasses chelp dalarm55apublicbpersonal csmall dimportant 第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中(a、b、c和d)中，选出最佳选项。 ajohn smith，an office worker，lives in

22、 washingtonhe inherited (继承) a million dollars when he was 23，but he wasnt happy at a11when his college friends were looking for their jobs，he didnt have tojack decided to living a simple life like everyone elsehe gave $l0,000 of his money to a charity (慈善机构) to help poor children live a better life

23、today he is 36he still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only，but he is very happy up to now john has helped some children from poor countries all over the world，by sending them each $200 a monththe money was used for the childrens study, food, medicine and clothingjohn receives a

24、 report each year on the childrens progressthey can write to each otherbut usually the children do not speak englishwhen john first heard about these children，he wanted to help them“it was nothing special,” he said“until i went to these countries and met the children i was helping，i didnt know anyth

25、ing about their life” once john went to meet a little girl in africahe said that the meeting was very exciting“when i met heri felt very ,very happyhe said“and i saw that the money was used for a good causeit brought me happinessi want to do everything i can to go on helping those children”56john di

26、dnt need to look for a job _ abefore he went to college bafter he went to africacbecause he got a lot of money dbefore he received a report57john has sent them each $200 a month to help some poor children _anear washington bin european countriesconly in africa dthroughout the world58john learned abo

27、ut the childrens progress by _ avisiting them each year bgetting a report every year cstaying with them dtalking to them in english59the underlined words “for a good cause ”means“_” in chinese a施舍 b行善 c优惠 d赏赐60whats the main idea of the story? ahelp others，and you will feel happybits necessary to wr

28、ite letters to poor childrenclive a simple life，and you can give others helpdits the most important to help the children in africabwhat does the word “home” mean to you? how do you say the word in english? in spanish? in your language? although people usually know what the word means it often has no

29、 exact translationits not surprising really, because the idea of home varies from country to country, and from person to persona home is more than a roof and four wallsits the cooking, eating, talking, playing and family living that go on inside, which are important as welland at home you usually fe

30、el safe and relaxedbut its not just that homes look different in different countries, they also contain different things and reveal（显示）different attitudes（态度） and needsfor example, in cold northern europe, theres a fire in the living room or kitchen and all the chairs face itin the south, where the

31、sun shines a lot and its more important to keep the heat out, there are small windows, cool stone floors and often no carpetswe asked some people about their homes how often do people move house in your country? “in my country many people dont stay in one place for a very long timethey often move ev

32、ery ten years or so” cheryl, boston, usawhat are typical features of homes in your country? “in britain, even in town theres always a garden and sometimes a basementwe have separate bedrooms and living roomsbut we dont often have balconiesthe weather isnt warm enough!” pat, exeter, england61the word

33、 “home” has no exact translation because _apeople cant find this word in the dictionarybno one really knows what a home looks likecit has different meanings in different countriesdpeople cant understand each other very well62you can _ at home according to the passageacook, talk, and play games beat,

34、 play, and teach studentscswim, eat, and make friends ddo nothing but cool yourself63why is it important to keep the heat out of the houses in southern europe?abecause they want to breathe fresh air outsidebbecause theres a fire in the living roomcbecause they wear heavy clothing all day longdbecaus

35、e the sun there shines a lot in the daytime64how often do people move home in the united states?aonce every yearbevery five years or lesscevery ten years or sodthey dont move until they die65which one is true according to the passage?apeople in britain seldom have balconies because its so hot outsid

36、eb“home” is a place where people feel safe, relaxed and comfortablecthough homes look different in places, they have the same needsdhouses in europe always have big windows and cool stone floorsccyril was a small townthe houses there were all made of wood; almost everything in the houses such as cup

37、boards, tables and chairs were made of wood, tooand all the houses faced souththe town was never peacefulfire broke out once a week on summer afternoonspeople there were puzzled who the real firebug wasone day a big fire broke outit was said that a black had jumped out of the house on fire, so the p

38、olice arrested all the blacks in the streethowever, fire never stopped to breaking out when the blacks were in prisonwatson, a physics teacher didnt believe that the blacks were the firebugs, for he really knew about those blackshe made up his mind to find out who the real firebug wasone day he was

39、invited to drink in a pub and happened to notice that many bottles and plastic plates were baked by the hot sunrayssuddenly he realized what the actual fact washe jumped with joy, saying, “ive got the answer!”watson dashed out of the pub to his friends house nearby, which also faced southhe made an

40、experiment there to prove his ideathe next saturday afternoon, watson asked some policemen and newsmen to come to the housethey were told that the real firebug would be shown thereat that time the sun was shining full into the house and it became hotter and hotter inside the roomsomeone wanted to dr

41、aw the curtains together, while another was going to use a bottle to drink water, but neither got permission from watson, who wanted to let the firebug in“now,” said watson, “this house will soon catch fire” people looked at each other in surprisewatson asked them to look at the bottles and focus on

42、 the table clothafter a while the cloth gave off a burning smell and began to catch fire!the mystery of fire was discovered, but the police wouldnt believe him and insisted that blacks had been the firebugsinstead they arrested watson and put him into prisonbut watson said he would never turn agains

43、t science66the town was never peaceful, for fire broke out ain the afternoon bin prison cat any time dat night67why did the police arrest all the blacks?aone of them had jumped out of the home on firebthey were thought to be the firebugscthe police hated all the black peopledthe blacks knew somethin

44、g about the fires68drinking in a pub, watson realized what the actual fact was aby experiment bby backing the bottlescthrough the hot sunrays dby accident69by making an experiment, they knew the real firebug was athe blacks bbottles csunrays dplastic plates70watson was put into prison, because ahe h

45、ad told a lie though a teacherbhe had fund out the real firebug che had turned against sciencedhe had made friends with the blacksdas you move around your home, take a good look at the things you haveit is likely that your living room will have a television set and a video, and your kitchen a washin

46、g machine and a microwave ovenyour bedroom drawers will be filled with almost three times as many clothes as you needyou almost certainly own a car and possibly a home computer, holiday abroad at least once a year and eat out at least once a week now, perhaps, more than ever before, people are wonde

47、ring what life is all about, and what it is forgetting material success is beginning to trouble large numbers of people around the worldthey feel that the long-hours work culture to make more money to buy more things is eating up their lives, leaving them very little time or energy for familymany ar

48、e turning to other ways of living and downshifting is one of them six percent of workers in britain took the decision to downshift last yearone couple who downshifted is donald and lizthey used to work in central londonhe was a newspaper reporter and she used to work for an international bankthey wo

49、uld go to work by train every day from their large house in the suburbs, leaving their two children with a nanny （保姆）most evenings donald wouldnt get home until eight or nine oclock, and nearly twice a month he would have to fly to new york for meetingsthey both earned a large amount of money but be

50、gan to feel that life was passing them by nowadays, they run a farm in the mountains of wales“i always wanted to have a farm here,” says donald, “and we took almost a year to make the decision to downshiftits taken some getting used to, but its been worth itwe have to think twice now about spending

51、money on car repairs and we no longer have any holidayshowever, i think its made us stronger as a family, and the children are a lot happier” liz, however, is not quite sure“i used to enjoy my job, even though it was hard work and long hoursim not really a country girl, but i suppose im gradually getting used to looking after the animalsone thing i do like, though, is being ab