202001高一英语期末试卷

1、扬州市2019-2020学年度第一学期期末检测试题高一英语本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟第一部分：听力理解（共两节，满分 30分）第一节A、B、C三个选项中选出最 10秒钟的时间来回答有关小C. In a bookstore.C. It is tiring.C. Go on working.听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题。从题中所给的 佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. Where does the conversation most probably take place?A. In a physics lab.B.

2、In a museum.2. How does the man like his job?A. It is interesting and fun.B. Its pay is good.3. What will the two speakers probably do now?A. Have a sleep.B. Eat some food.4. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Salesgirl and customer.B. Waitress and customer. C. Boss and secretary.5. Wh

3、at can we say about the woman?A. She gets bored with driving.B. She wants to take some exercise.C. She lives close to her company.第二节听下面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 sports does the man like

4、to play after work?A. Swimming, running and golf.B. Tennis, swimming and golf.C. Tennis, running and golf.7. How often does the woman play golf?C. Every day.A. Once a week.B. Twice a week.高一英语第1页共12页听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why is the woman making the call?A. To ask where the man is.B. To inform the man o

5、f a meeting.C. To tell the man to call the headmaster.9. When will the man be back from London?A. This morning.B. Tomorrow morning.10. When will Mr Strong finish the report?A. In about three days.B. Tomorrow morning.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. Why can ' t the man go to the movies on Wednesday?A. He has

6、 to practise football.B. He will have a physics exam.C. He needs to review his lessons.12. When will the two speakers go to the movies?A. On Thursday.B. On Friday.C. Tomorrow evening.C. This evening.C. On Saturday.13. Where will the two speakers meet?A. At the man ' s house.B. At the woman '

7、 s houseC. In front of the cinema.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What are the speakers talking about?A. Renting a car.B. Buying a car.C. Selling a car.15. How much does the woman want to spend?A. At most $2,000.B. At most $3,000.C. About $4,300.16. Why did the old woman give up her driver' s license?A. Sh

8、e was ill.B. She was old.C. Her eyesight was bad.17. What did the old woman do each winter in the past?A. She visited her children.B. She made a snowman.C. She drove to New York.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What is the purpose of this speech?A. To talk about the coming plans.B. To introduce a professor.C.

9、To explain the exams.高一英语第5页共12页19. Who will take care of the class next week?A. The headmaster.B. Professor Lee.C. Professor Brown.20. What will the students do next Thursday?A. Have classes as usual.B. Have mid-term exam. C. Review lessons.第二部分 阅读理解（共三节，满分 50分）第一节 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分；满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题

10、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。ANotices1. Winterization （过冬准备）/ Outside Tap （水龙头）Shut OffPlease be advised that outside water taps are easily affected by freezing which can cause the pipes and taps to break.If you have an outside water tap at your unit, please make arrangements before Octob

11、er 31 to:1） Turn off the water to the outside tap from inside your unit （if you have any）2） Disconnect all pipes linked to the tap3） Open the water valve （阀） and empty all the waterIn addition, if you are away from your home for more than two days, you should consider leaving the heat on at a reason

12、able temperature to prevent your pipes from freezing.As usual, arrangements should be made to have your place examined regularly to reduce any possible damage.Failure to winterize your outside taps may result in taps and pipes breaking and insurance claims （保险索贝音）could become the responsibility of t

13、he unit owner.2. Yearly Fire TestingPlease be advised that Earth Wind and Fire will be available on Tuesday, October 29, 2020to conduct the Yearly Fire Testing. Access to all units must be provided on:Tuesday, October 29 -5:00 PM to 8:00 PMThe repairman will work their way from unit #1 to unit #48.

14、If you are unable to provide access, please leave a key with a neighbor and a note on your door.Please note that Korecki Real Estate Services won 't offer service beyond their work time, nor the company performing the fire testing.Failure to provide access during the scheduled time will result i

15、n additional fire testing days being scheduled, with any cost being charged back to the missed flats.Earth Wind and Fire - 604-649-5665.21. If you are to prevent your outside tap from breaking in winter, you ' radvised to do the following things EXCEPT.A. disconnecting all the pipes linked to th

16、e tap and emptying all the waterB. taking the responsibility to claim insuranceC. leaving the heat on at a reasonable temperature while away for over two daysD. getting your place checked on a regular basis22. As the owner of a flat in unit #30, if you fail to provide access during the arranged time

17、 period, you can.A. ask the repairman to test your flat firstB. arrange the testing day without extra payC. call Earth Wind and Fire according to your scheduleD. leave the repairman a note and turn to your neighbor 23. In which page of the newspaper might we read this article?A. Sports.B. Business.C

18、. Life.D. Education.BIn 2019 every graduating student at the private school was the first in his or her family to make it past middle school, and these high achievers didneve ry bstopfltlheem wasalso accepted to college. The Fugees Academy recently opened a second school, in Ohio, and a third one is

19、 soon to follow. With any luck, they will all produce success stories like the girl who described herself in this life story: " I ' smd when we get days off during snowstorms and holiday breaks. My name is Harwaa from Iraq and I lived past th e age of nine. ”The academy' name comes from

20、 the word refugees （难民）.All 90 graduates escaped dangerous countries: Liberia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran. Their lives in the United States were often hard too. Psychological hurts can make concentrating hard. Many reached middle school reading English, their second language, at a kindergarten level.

21、Yet they grow up healthily and happily because of one woman, Luma Mufleh, and one game: soccer.About 15 years ago, Mufleh, a coach （教练）who emigrated from Jordan and ended up in Georgia, America, came across some boys playing street soccer. As she got to know them and their struggles, especially in s

22、chool, she kept thinking: What would I do if this were my kid?Her answer: open a school for the students unlikely to get h elp elsewhere. " You want the kids who perform well in their studies, or who can' t read a word, " Mufleh says. Her mspeak to them in the language of their sport,

23、which is filled into everything. They read about it and write papers comparing superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The biggest tool: teamwork. Report cards are read aloud, and if a grade is dropping, the whole class decide how to fix it.“We want them to see that there' s no shame in s

24、truggling, " Mufleh says. "Whelp no matter what. ”24. What do the students who graduated from the Fugees Academy have in common?A. They succeeded in graduating from the same public middle school.B. They all came to America from their dangerous motherlands.C. Not every one of them had the c

25、hance to go to college.D. They grow up healthily and happily with their families.25. What does the underlined word emigrated "in paragraph three mean?A. graduatedB. escapedC. moved D. recovered26. Mufleh helped the boys in the following ways EXCEPT.A. helping them go back to schoolB. teaching t

26、hem how to play football betterC. guiding them to comparing soccer superstarsD. making them realize the importance of teamwork27. What s' the best title of the passage?A. The students who will graduateB. The children from dangerous countriesC. A teacher helping poor childrenD. A school that save

27、s lives with a goalCFor many, it ' s easy to tell if it' s a computer calling you onsyvoicphnoakes itobvious before it has the chance to finish telling you that you can get a free loan (贷款) or that you are invited for a customer survey. It' s also easy to hangstip computer, after all.But

28、 Google Duplex, an artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant, has shown computers are able to “ conducts natural conversation with a human over the phone and complete simple real-world tasks, " reported tech site Wired.At May 8 conference, the company showed Duplex making phone calls and hav

29、ing full conversations. It called a hair salon, before calling a restaurant to make a reservation.As CNET noted, Google has changed the special computerized voice and taken“ extra stepsto disguise the system to sound more like a human".Duplex comes with imperfections “ umms and " uhhs &quo

30、t;- and useshuman expressions such as " Oh, gotcha. ”As a result,p eopee on the other end of the call dont know they are chatting with AI,said CNET. it will be able to help humans cut down on boring tasks. But for the rest, it“crossa line between being easily used and tricky,“ as Wired wrote. P

31、eople have difficulty knowing whether news is real or fake, or what photos are to be trusted. And now, we may not be able to trust our own ears.Google also mentioned that soon, Duplex will be able to copy the owner ' s voice. While this is a great step forward in AI, it also raises many worries.

32、 .For example, studentscould use it to call their school and lie that they ' re sick by using their parent' s voice.Since people are shocked by the fact that a machine can copy a human so well, Google has promised that in the future the voice will tel l the listener it' s not a real pers

33、on.According to Alexander Rudnicky, a researcher of human-computer speech interaction （互 动）,technology like this is something people are only going to become more aware of.28. What is special about Google Duplex?A. It' s the most advanced AI voice assistant.B. It can misunderstand the person on

34、the phone.C. It wesl received upon appearing.D. It has the ability to copy human voice.29. Where can the sentence “ Some see Duplex as quite an amazing advance" be placed in the passage?A.BYC.D.30. We can infer from the passage that.A. it ' s no surprise that people don' t trust their e

35、arsB. humans should limit the development of AIC. the special computerized voice is almost perfectD. AI is going to make teachers cheated by parents 31. What's the article mainly about?A. AI brings about many worries.B. AI is taking the place of humans.C. AI takes big step forward.D. AI is comin

36、g into daily life.DTen years before Air Jordans, I learned to fly. It 'like the way some kids walk to a basketball hoop （篮筐） with a ball and throw a few shots, hitting each one easily.As double-dutchi （双ZtB） girls, we had our own jump. Three of us and a couple of ropes. It高一英语第6页共12页had to be at

37、 least three girls - two to turn, one to jump. We started turning nice and slow.Before jump ing in, we would rock back and forth to push ourselves forward. It wasn'of whether we ' d make ithin;challenge was how long we could jump.There is a space between the ground and heaven where the air i

38、s sweeter and your heart beats faster. You drop down and then you jump up again and you do it over and over until the rope catches on your foot or your mother calls you home. Your legs feel powerful and heavy as they beat the ground. In the rope, if you ' re good enough, you can do anythibe anyt

39、hing you want.We' dneet at about 3:30 p.m., after we' (changed from our school clothes into our play clothes. Then we ' d jump until the parents started coming home. Most of our parents worked nine to five in Manhattan, and it took them about an hour to get home. We knew it was coming up

40、 on six o ' clock when we saw the first grownup in business clothes walking down the hill from the bus stop.Sometimes a grown-up woman, dressed in the stockings and sneakers that all our mothers wore for the long way home, would jump in - handbag and all just to show us what she could do. She us

41、ually couldn' t jump for very long. These women had no purpose of sweatinganyway.Around this time, I would start looking out for my mother. I' d try 0ngnake my turn lenough so she could see the jump.“Wait, Mom, watch me jump! " I ' d say."I ' ve got to start dinner," s

42、he ' d say, closing the gate behind her.There ' s so much I can do. So much she doesn' t know. But it ' s always some other tilher.Here is what I wish she knew: There is nothing better than the space between the two ropes. The feeling of happiness encircles you and protects you and t

43、here you are strong. I wish she me show her.32. Why does the author mention Air Jordans in Paragraph 1?A. To introduce the topic.B. To make comparison.C. To give an example.D. To sell shoes.33. According to the underlined sentence, jumping rope best shows for the author.A. group spiritB. enjoyable e

44、xerciseC. distant spaceD. unlimited possibility34. What can we learn about the parents from Paragraph 4?A. Their have a fixed schedule.B. They came from different background.C. Their jobs were surely splendid.D. They liked the girls-jumi pinopekills.35. What might be the tone （语气）of the author from

45、the last two paragraphs?A. RegretfulB. OptimisticC. PeacefulD. Scared第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）根据黑布林文本阅读，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。Wuthering Heights36. From the story we can conclude that Healthcliff leads a（n）life.A. isolatedB. wealthyC. happyD. mysterious37. He seemed to enjoy watching Hindley gradually

46、 sinking. " The underlined word has the similar meaning to.A. Far off to the west the sun was sinking .B. He said nothing and sank into the chair.C. As we all know, a fresh egg will sink and an old egg will float in water.D. Stealing from friends? How could you sink so low?38. Which of the foll

47、owing of the love in this novel is not true?A. Edga's love for Isabella: brotherly and protectiveB. Edgar s love for Catherine: devotedC. Linton s love for Cathy: natural but forced by HeathcliffD. Heathcliff s love for Catherine: passionate and permanentThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow39. Which of t

48、he following is not one of the themes of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?A. physical mobility in a vast continentB. people's beliefs of the futureC. greed for money and possessionsD. people's attachment to superstitions40. Which of the following statements is not a reason why thereghost sto riee

49、 fewertowns and villages?A. There is no encouragement for ghosts in big towns and villages.B. Big-town people travel more often and ghost stories don't travel with them.C. People in “ sheltered placeshave a more vivid imagination.D. Fewer people stay long enough to get to know the ghost stories

50、in big towns and villages.第三节 七选五（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。高一英语第8页共12页ELIZABETH FRYWhen the Quaker Elizabeth married Joseph Fry, it seemed as if her life would be comfortable and peaceful. 41 She saw many poor people living near her and she wanted to help them.42 At

51、 first the prison officers did not want to let her visit the women prisoners because they feared the prisoners would attack her, but Elizabeth was not afraid. 43 They had no beds, clean clothes, food or heating. Any child born in prison had to stay there and had no chance of an education. This meant

52、 they would probably have to beg or steal when they grew up and then would return to prison. So the first thing Elizabeth did was to provide food, clean clothes and straw for beds. Later she began a prison school for the children and taught the women to sew （缝纫）,knit （编织）and make goods to sell. In t

53、his way they were able to make a little money for themselves and gain some self-respect. 44 Later Elizabeth was asked to go to the leaders of Britain to discuss how to the conditions for prisoners.Of course she did not do all the work on her own. Other Quaker women helped her and went around the cou

54、ntry raising money for her work. 45 They said that she should spend more time with her family. Other people said she enjoyed being famous too much. However, her husband, Joseph, supported and encouraged her, so she continued working to help improve the lives of poor prisoners till she died. Her idea

55、s did not disappear after her death and her work was remembered in 1947 when the Quakers were given the Nobel Peace Prize.A. She realized that prisoners behaved badly because they were being treated like animals.B. However, Elizabeth was not satisfied with her easy life and her growing family.C. Her

56、 kindness helped her gain the friendship of the prisoners and they began to try to improve their conditions for themselves.D. She planned to experience the prison life on her own.E. Some people did not like her ideas and quarreled with her.F. Elizabeth did whatever she could to help the poor. G. One

57、 day she was asked to visit a prison.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 50分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题,每小题1.5分；，茜分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（ A, B, C, D）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。Walden was reporting breaking news for the Orlando Sentinel.“When talking of Orlando, you 46 Disney, " Walden told me. "I h47 no how much

58、 violence there would be. ”高一英语第9页共12页Her friend, Johnson, was making films at an independent production company.Both 48 of Northwestern University decided to move to Chicago in 2015 to 49 the stories of their community.“We wanted to tell the stories that donappea r irt always newsroom settings 51there aren ' t many people like us, " Johnson said.They 52 with web developer David and started The Triibe, which puts together journalism, 53 writing and pho