河北省沧州市南皮一中高一英语下学期期中试题

1、2013-2014学年度高一下学期期中考试英语试卷 本试题分为第一卷和第二卷两部分，考试时间为120分钟，满分150分。 第卷（选择题,共100分） 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. How is the man trying to lose weight now? A. By eating more fruit. B. By going on

2、 a diet. C. By riding a bike. 2. Where does this conversation probably take place? furniture C. A. In the street. B. On a bus. In a store. 3. What did the man do last night? He prepared for a test. A. B. He stayed in the library. C. He went to a party. 4. What happened to the man? A. He broke his ar

3、m while swimming. B. He hurt his leg in a car accident. C. He broke his leg while skating. 5. What does the man think of his grades? A. Disappointing. B. Surprising C. Satisfying. 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，

4、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。 6. What is Dr. Jones doing at the moment? A. Having an important meeting. B. Having lunch outside. C. Performing an operation. - 1 - 7. Why does the man want to speak to Dr. Jones? A. To borrow a book from him. B. To discuss something with him. C. To ask hi

5、m to give a lecture. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。 8. What can we learn about the two swimming pools from the conversation? A. The two pools are almost the same. B. The pool in town is bigger and more modern. C. The pool in the Park Road is bigger and more modern. 9. What are the two speakers going to do on Thur

6、sday? A. To swim. B. To eat at a Chinese restaurant. C. To eat at a French restaurant. 10. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Friends. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。 11. What caused Mr. Miller to be late this morning? A. Watching a play on

7、TV last night. B. Watching a football match on TV last night. C. Watching a basketball match on TV last night. 12. How does Mr. Miller usually go to work? A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train. 13. What happened to Mr. Miller after his explanation? A. He was warned. B. He was fired. C. He was fined. 听第9

8、段材料，回答第14题。至1614. What kind of pay does the man get? C. Satisfactory pay. B. Low pay. A. Unreasonable pay. 15. How does the man spend his money? A. He spends some money on books. B. He uses all his money on trips. C. He saves all his money. 16. Which bank does the man deposit（存） his money in? A. The

9、 college bank. - 2 - B. The bank near the college. C. The bank close to his home. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What can we learn from the news? A. Over 200 people were made homeless. B. 15 houses were badly damaged. C. No villager was killed. 18. How many people were badly injured in the storm? A. Nine. B

10、.Seven. C. Ten. 19. What do we know about the farmer? A. His wife was missing. B. His house was destroyed. C. One of his children was killed. 20. What did the woman do when she saw her house shaking? A. She tried to take something out. B. She told her husband not to leave. C. She rushed out with her

11、 children. 分）阅读理解（共两节，满分40第二部分 分）分，满分30第一节（共15小题；每小题2项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂和D、B、C阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A 黑。 A eighteen and see certain movies, be sixteen to drive, seventeen to to A person has provided theyreto vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuffage limits that define what people can

12、Everywhere we look there are sixty-five. over and cant do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages. Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided getting and growing But it was dar

13、k homework. her to well might she as try finish math hard to see the paper. “I didnt have a flashlight, and I didnt want to open the car door because would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat then the whole car to have my paper light up somehow, and thats when the idea came to

14、me.”- 3 - It isnt every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but thats exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet. That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different w

15、ays of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toyslike balls and Frisbeesand wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Becks dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of pho

16、sphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the housethe bathroom. There, she experimented. “Id turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said Becky. “My parents remember me running out the room saying It works, it works! Im writing in the dark! ” She used a

17、n acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after he

18、r initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent. The New York sheet. She didnt need to. She didnt actively market her Glo-Times wrote an article about an incredible inventionpatented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in. 21. Fr

19、om Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _. A. it is illegal for one to drive under sixteen B. people enjoy privileges when over sixty-five C. one is never too old or too young to invent D. people hate the limitations that define our behavior 22. What caused Becky to invent Glo-sheet? A. She w

20、as trying to do homework when it got dark. B. She was having trouble with math problems. C. She was trying to earn some money. D. She was working on a school project. paragraph paint” in “phosphorescent of is the meaning the underlined words What 23. 5? A. paint that acts as a glue B. paint that cov

21、ers a mark D. paint that glows in the dark C. paint that becomes hard - 4 - 24. What does it mean that Beck “didnt actively market her Glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8? A. She kept the original one for her own use. B. Other people came to her for the Glo-sheet. C. Beckys father tried to sell the

22、Glo-sheet. D. She gave away patent to the government. 25. With which statement would Becky most likely agree? A. Experience is needed to be a good inventor. B. Only by inventing things can you know what people need. C. Always try to sell patent rights to large companies. D. You never know what you c

23、an do unless you try. B A recent study, published in last weeks Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver. Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teen

24、ager driving alone. By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger. The authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight. With passengers in the car, the driver was e

25、ven more likely to die in a late-night accident. Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue”,

26、he says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled task the driving is.” Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (减轻) the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting

27、a license is a multistage process. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with passenger restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges. Graduated licensing systems have reduced teen

28、age driver crashes, according to recent studies. About half of the states now have some sort of graduated licensing system in place, but only 10 of - 5 - those states have restrictions on passengers. California is the strictest, with a first novice (for the under carrying any passenger 20 初学者) drive

29、r prohibited from six months. 26. Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage? A. Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m. B. A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car. C. Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers l

30、ate at night. D. A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight. 27. According to Robert Foss, the high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to _. night at their frequent driving driving experience B. of A. their lack D. their driving with passengers C. their improper wa

31、y of driving28. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Paragraph 3? A. Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive. B. Driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn. C. Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons. driving responsibl

32、e for teenagers partly D. The licensing authorities are accidents. 29. A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers driving accidents is that _. A. driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule B. they should be prohibited from taking on passengers the licensing system should be g

33、reatly improved C. D. they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m. licensing the graduated that of situation 30. The present in about half the states is system _. B. has been put into effect A. is under discussion C. is about to be set up D. has been perfected C Many people believe the glare fr

34、om snow causes snow-blindness. Yet, dark glasses or not , they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”. The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in

35、 a snow-covered country. Rather, a mans eyes frequently find nothing to focus on - 6 - in a broad expanse of barren (少植被的) snow-covered terrain (地形). So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour,

36、 the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscles ache. Nature eases this irritation by producing more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until vision blurs (模糊), then is obscured (遮蔽), and the result is total, even thoug

37、h temporary, snow-blindness. Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightwe

38、ight, dark colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can c

39、ross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white terrain is overcome. 31. To prevent headaches, watering eyes and blindness caused by the glare from snow, dark glasses are _. A. indispensable and essential B. useful C. ineffective D. ava

40、ilable 32. When the eyes are sore tears are produced to _. A. balance the pain B. treat snow-blindness D. loosen the muscles C. clear the vision 33. Snow-blindness may be avoided by _. A. concentrating on the solid white terrain B. searching for something to look at in snow-covered terrain C. provid

41、ing the eyes with something to focus on D. covering the eyeballs with more fluid 34. The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to _. A. prevent the men behind losing their way B. beautify the landscape of the terrain C. warm themselves in the severe cold D. give the men behind something t

42、o see 35. A suitable title for this passage would be _. - 7 - A. natures cure for snow-blindness B. snow-blindness and how to overcome it C. soldiers marching in the snow D. snow vision and its effect on eyesight 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。 All over the world peo

43、ple enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer. _36_ They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when “their” player or team wins. _37_ Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all c

44、ountries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! _38_ Think how many people love to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada. Some sports or games go back to thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, f

45、or example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. _39_ Waterskiing is one of the newest in the family of sports. People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good

46、friends. _40_ One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace. A. And think of people in cold countries. B. Sports help to train a persons character. C. Not a few people like sports in the world. D. Many people like to watch others play games. E. People arent inv

47、enting new sports or games. F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. 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，掌握其大意，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。 For my daughters 19th birthday, w

48、e bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didnt really have the _41_ but we knew how much this band meant to her. - 8 - The night before she was like a _42_ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to _43_ with us, because she couldnt _44_. On the n

49、ight of the _45_ it was good to see her so _46_ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off. Needless to say when they _47_ after midnight, with Tshirts and lots of pictures of the band, _48_ her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well _49_. This will be a memory

50、 she would _50_ forget, and nor would we. they _52_ day before, the following _51_ full of excitement from the night loving the ，to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I _53_ fact that she had not _54_ that quality as she grew up. Later that day they returned, with faces full o

51、f happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a _55_ each. On each present were the words yous our thankwe the world”. When said are “Because you the _56_ mum/dad in and told her she didnt have to, we asked her _57_ she had bought us gifts. Her _58_ was simply “Just because I love yo

52、u” This wasnt something _59_ from our daughter; she had always given us a and each gift was always a welcome gift when she wanted to express her _60_， surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldnt have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it. A. money B. time C. interest D

53、. news 41A. worker B. baby C. kid D. parent 42A. dance B. learn C. walk D. sit 43A. speak B. sleep C. stand D. leave 44A. concert B. holiday C. party D. travel 45A. healthy B. happy C. pretty D. surprised 46A. stayed B. left C. returned D. turned 47A. worrying about B. caring for C. looking at D. li

54、stening to 48A. lent B. earned C. saved D. spent 49A. ever B. never C. often D. neither 50A. Still B. Only C. Just D. Also 51A. continued B. tried C. decided D. struggled 52A. refused B. cried C. shouted D. laughed 53A. kept B. lost C. realized D. discovered 54- 9 - 55A. gift B. prize C. ticket D. picture 56A. richest B. oldest C. best D. cleverest 57A. where B. how C. when D. why 58A. way B. answer C. suggestion D. idea 59A. important B. ordinary C. new D. valuable 60A. feelings B. concerns C. understandings D. opinions 第卷（共50分） 注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本