高一英语期中测试

1、高一英语期中测试本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面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. Who is the woman?A. An Italian engineer.B. A student.C. A teacher.2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Animals.B. Fears.C. Childhood

2、.3. What did tile girl find out this morning?A. There was an exam this afternoon.B. There was no exam today.C. The exam was postponed to next weekend.4. Who had a good time in the exhibition?A. The woman.B. The man.C. The mans wife.5. What does the man mean?A. He agrees with the woman.B. It will be

3、cold and rainy this autumn.C. Not every autumn is beautiful.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至8题。6. Where isAlice?A. InEngland.B. In theUS.C. InItaly.7. Which isAlices favorite subject?A. Math.B. Music

4、.C. P.E.8. Why cant Jane write toAlicenow?A. Alices computer isnt working.B. She cannot spare the time.C. She doesnt want to disturbAlices study.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. When did Jim begin to cough?A. Last night.B. Yesterday morning.C. The day before yesterday.10. What did Jim have for breakfast this morn

5、ing?A. A little milk and an egg.B. A little coffee and some bread.C. A little tea and an apple.11. What did the man ask Jim to do?A. Take some medicine.B. Have an injection.C. Have a rest.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. Why was the man late for work?A. He got up late.B. He didnt catch the bus.C. The traffic wa

6、s heavy.13. What do we know about the carpool?A. It refers to a group of people riding to work together in one car.B. It refers to a place used for parking cars.C. It refers to a name of a company.14. How can one join in a carpool?A. By calling a special number.B. By logging on a special website.C.

7、By calling an agent.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. What do most English pubs offer?A. Drinks and meals.B. Only drinks.C. Drinks and fruits.16. At what time do most pubs close at night?A. 11:00 p.m.B. 12:00p.m.C. l:00 a.m.17. What do many pubs provide for children?A. A special drink.B. A special room.C. Specia

8、l music.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What was Hawkings major atOxfordUniversity?A. Math.B. Physics.C. Chemistry.19. How many children does Hawking have?A. Three.B. Two.C. One.20. According to Hawking, what does his story show us?A. Nobody should lose hope.B. Life is not fair.C. Love is precious.第二部分 阅读理解（共

9、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，并写在答题卡上。A We offer five kinds of courses. Each course has been designed to help students according to their needs.Course 1: General English General English is designed to develop students basic communication skills in speaking and pro

10、nunciation, reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Tuesday to Friday: 9:00 am to 11:00 am, $ 288 per week.Course 2: Academic English Academic English is for students who want to take the IELTS exam or for those who need to use English in a professional area. Monday to Friday: 4:00 pm t

11、o 5:00 pm, $ 320 per week.Course 3: High School ESL Why not make the most of your time studying in Australia with the help from TIES? We have High School ESL classes each week specifically designed for international students. Tuesday to Friday: 8:00 am to 11:00 am, $ 25 per hour.Course 4: Night Clas

12、ses Do you want to improve your English and get the best possible results in your GRE test? We have two night classes each week designed to meet your needs. Tuesday and Thursday evenings: 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm, $ 60 per day.Course 5: One on One If you are interested in some One on One lessons with TIE

13、S teachers, we can design a course to meet your needs. One on One lessons can improve your English language skills more quickly and help students who want to take TOEFL. Tuesday to Friday: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, $ 80 per hour.21.If you are an English beginner, youd better choose . A.General English B.H

14、igh School ESL C.Night Classes D.Academic English22.Which course would be helpful for students who want to take the IELTS exam? A.Course 1. B.Course 2. C.Course 3. D.Course 4.23.How much will you pay if you spend two weeks taking the High School ESL course? A.$ 200. B.$ 300. C.$ 500. D.$ 600.24.What

15、 can we learn from One on One according to the passage? A.Its lessons are given in the morning. B.Its especially designed for English beginners. C.Its more expensive than the other courses. D.Its lessons are designed to only improve writing skills. B Australias koalas could die out within 30 years u

16、nless immediate action is taken to stop the losing in population, according to researchers. They say development, climate change and bush-fires have all combined to reduce the number of wild koalas sharply. The Australian Koala Foundation said a recent survey showed the population could have dropped

17、 by more than half in the past six years. The number of koalas was once estimated to be more than 100,000, but now is as few as 43,000. The foundation collected field data from 1,800 sites and 80,000 trees to calculate the numbers. In one area in northern Queensland estimated to have 20,000 koalas a

18、 decade ago, a team of eight people could not find a single animal in four days of searching. The foundation said besides problems caused by cutting down forests, hotter and drier conditions because of global warming had reduced the nutritional value of their main food, eucalyptus (桉树) leaves, leadi

19、ng to poor nutrition for them. Koalas, which live in the forests in Australias east and south, are very picky about what types of the leaves they eat. Foundation chief Deborah Tabart said: “The koalas are missing everywhere we look. Its really no tree, no me. If you keep cutting down trees you dont

20、have any koalas.” She is hoping the new figures will persuade the governments Threatened Species Steering Committee (TSSC) to list the koala as threatened. But committee chairman Bob Beeton said a decision was not likely recently and the koalas status as one of the countrys favorite animals would no

21、t be a factor. “Theres a number of species which are attractive and people have special feelings towards them. We dont consider that,” Mr Beeton said.25. The writer gives the example of the area in northern Queensland in Paragraph 3 to show that_.A. the forests are being damaged heavily B. the numbe

22、r of koalas is dropping quickly C. koalas usually live in wild mountainous areas D. the environment is being polluted seriously26. Global warming is an important cause of koalas reduction because _.A. koalas can hardly stand the hot weather B. koalas cannot get enough water to drink C. the leaves ko

23、alas eat are losing nutritional value D. the leaves koalas eat cannot grow in hot weather27. According to Bob Beeton, _.A. koalas are his favorite animals B. a decision will be made to protect koalasC. koalas neednt be protected at all D. they neednt pay special attention to koalas C After several d

24、ays of using the new Apple Watch, many reviewers called it the best smart watch, but others wondered if the watch is for everyone. David Pogue is a technology writer at Yahoo Tech and a long-time fan of Apple products. Mr. Pogue wrote, The Apple Watch is light-years better than any of the efforts th

25、at have come before it. The screen is nicer, the software is perfect and bug-free and the body is real jewelry. But he ended the review with, You dont need one. Nobody needs a smart watch. After all, its something else to buy, care for and charge every night. Its another cable to pack and track. You

26、r phone already serves most of its purposes. With the battery-life situation as it is, technology is just barely in place to make such a device usable at all. Many Apple products are known for being easy to use. But technology experts say it will take some time for users to learn the new wearable de

27、vice. Scott Stein of CNET magazine said he felt lost when using the watch. He wrote, There are so many ways to interact: swiping, touching, and pressing harder into the display, a button and a clickable digital crown-wheel. Plus, theres Siri. Do I swipe, or click, or force touch or speak? Sometimes

28、I didnt know where an app menu was. Or, Id find getting back to an app I just opened would require an annoying series of crown clicks, swiping through apps, then opening the app again. Like many first-generation products, the reviewers are disappointed with some features of the watch, like poor qual

29、ity speaker on the watch and limited capability of third-party apps. And users need to have one of the latest iPhones to be able to use the watch. Despite the negative reviews, many of the smart-watch reviewers agreed that Apple will still sell many watches to Apple fans. Joshua Toplsky of Bloom-ber

30、g Business wrote, Apple will sell millions of these devices, and many people will love and obsess over them,28. The passage is developed mainly by . A. giving examples of different people B. comparing opinions in different fields C. analyzing the reasons for the phenomenon D. presenting comments fro

31、m different people29. David Pogue may agree with all the following statements EXCEPT that . A. the watch works well with its software B. the battery of the watch only lasts a short period C. the watch is much lighter than any other product D. a mobile phone covers lots of the watchs functions30. Som

32、e reviewers are not really happy partly because A. the watch is the first-generation product B. the watch made of jewelry is too expensive C. using the watch sometimes makes people confused D. you must buy a new smart phone to use the watch31. According to the passage, the authors attitude to Apple

33、Watch probably is . A. neutral B. indifferent C. subjective . D. doubtfulD What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of victory by showing were better than someone else i

34、n a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers，all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of personsthat is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone elses expense. Sh

35、owing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us e

36、xpress those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes，especially those involving cruelty，are so popular with certain people. Besides，all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because its d

37、ifferent from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant，depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool，we dont laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls

38、 in，the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh.32. The underlined word “inferiority” (in Paragraph 1) means _.A. something that

39、is not as good as something else B. something that is better than something elseC. someone that is not as good as someone else D. someone that is better than someone else33. According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on _. A. showing inferiority in another person or group B. resulting in a sens

40、e of success C. having a good opinion of other people D. making people laugh unexpectedly34. Whats the main idea of Paragraph 2? A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.B. When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes.C. People who like jokes are usuall

41、y cruel. D.To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.35. What will a good joke-teller always try to do? A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one. B. Make different things happen at the same time. C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expecte

42、d situation. D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place. 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。 Good health is the most valuable thing in the world. When youve got it, you never think about it. When you havent got it 36 . Our biggest enemies are not terrible

43、 diseases and so on. We are our own biggest enemies because we sometimes destroy our own good health. Some of us eat too much, drink too much and smoke too much. And though our reason tells us we should control ourselves, 37 . The fact is that most human beings need stimulation (刺激). Who doesnt enjo

44、y a drink after a busy day? Only a smoker knows the pleasure of a cigarette with a cup of coffee. Some innocent(无知的) simple pleasures come run our lives and destroy our health. 38 , when you can only keep yourself going by taking frequent (频繁的) drinks or by smoking one cigarette after another, then

45、its time to stop and think what you might be doing to yourself. when we dont control ourselves, 39 .All right, 40 . Youre probably saying, “Its easy to say, but I cant help myself. I need that extra bit of food, that extra drink, that extra cigarette. Life has so many pleasures that I cant do withou

46、t them.” But Im saying you can help yourself. Not only that, you must help yourself. Because if you dont help yourself, no one else can. So be your own best friend. A. we find it difficultB. you think about it all the timeC. heath is based on good dietsD. I know what youre thinkingE. heath comes spo

47、rtsF. When you find yourself eating between meals or eating too much rich foodG. simple pleasures are no longer simple pleasures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。 Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know

48、41 you think you are a 42 person or a coward (懦 夫). But you will never really know the answer to this question 43 you are tested in real life. Some people 44 they are brave but when they come face to face with real 45 , they act like cowards. Others think of themselves as cowards, but when they meet

49、 danger, they act like 46 . Lenny had always thought of himself as a 47 person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy. 48 , on January 15th, 2002, a plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to t

50、he river to see what was happening. He saw a woman in the 49 water. Lenny did not feel afraid. He kept very 50 and did a very dangerous thing. He jumped into the Potomac, 51 to the woman, and kept her head 52 the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thanks to Lenny, it was not 53 . When you ar

51、e in a very 54 situation and feel afraid, the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood. The chemical is called adrenalin. 55 adrenalin in the blood system, you actually feel stronger and stronger and are 56 to fight or run away. However, when you are absolutely terrified, the body can pro

52、duce too much adrenalin. When this 57 , the muscles become very hard and you find you 58 at all. You are then paralyzed (使无能为力) with fear. This is 59 when we are very frightened, we sometimes say were “petrified”. This word comes from the Greek word “petros”, which means “stone”. We are 60 frightene

53、d that we become stonelike.41. A. how B. neither C. whether D. either42. A. brave B. real C. hard D. certain43. A. when B. until C. after D. once44. A. realize B. find C. think D. agree45. A. life B. question C. mouse D. danger46. A. soldiers B. mice C. heroes D. cowards47. A. useful B. brave C. nervous D. terrible48. A. So B. Therefore C. Then D. Actually49. A. fresh B. poisonous C. warm D. ice-cold50. A. nervous B. calm C. frightened D. excited51. A. went B. helped C. spoke D. swam52. A. in B. under C. above D. from53. A. an accident B. a mistake C. seventy-eight D. seventy-nine54. A. dange