湖北省武汉市三校联合体2019-2020学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题

1、高中英语讲义2019-2020学年度第二学期武汉市三校联合体期中考试高一英语试卷考试时间：2020年4月26日14:00-16:00试卷满分：150分第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，茜分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. When was the woman born?A. In 1983.B. In 1979.C. In 1976.2. What is the probable

2、relationship between the speakers?A. Salesgirl and customer.B. Interviewer and interviewee.C. Editor and reader.3. What does the girl think of the boy 's failure?A. It is helpful for him in a sense.B. It is out of her expectation.C. It is a great pity.4. Who will have dinner at home?A. The whole

3、 family.B. The man and the children.C. The woman and the children.5. Where will the speakers meet?A. In Room 340.B. In Room 314.C. In Room 223.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

4、、7题。6. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At a bus stop.B. In the street.C. In a Post Office.7. What will the man do next?A. He will take No. 36 bus. B. He will take No. 301 bus. C. He will walk to the zoo.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What do the two speakers have in common?A. They both once wo

5、rked as office clerks.B. They both failed to realize their dreams.C. They both went through similar hardships.9. What's the woman's practical dream?A. To become a pilot.B. To become a scientist.C. To become an interpreter.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What's the probable relationship between the

6、two speakers?A. Student and teacher. B. Saleswoman and customer. C. Librarian and library user.11. Which of the following does the man remember?C. The category of the book.A. The title of the book. B. The writer of the book.好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义12. What kind of books may the man be interested in?A. Biogr

7、aphy.B. Fiction.C. Literature.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the boy want to become a scientist in the future?A. He is encouraged by his classmates.B. He likes doing scientific research.C. He wants to make a contribution to society.14. What do we know about Copernicus' theory?A. It concluded that

8、 the sun was spinning.B. It was influenced by Newton and Einstein.C. It is the basis of ideas about the universe today.15. What did people believe was the center of the universe at Copernicus time?A. The earth.B. The sun. C. God.16. Why did Copernicus publish his theory when he was dying?A. He wasn&

9、#39;t sure of his theory until then.B. He was afraid of being punished.C. His friends told him not to publish it.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does Li Hua do?A. He is a teacher. B. He is a basketballer. C. He is a freshman.18. How many people are there in Li Ming's family?A. Three.B. Four.C. Five.1

10、9. What is in the bedroom?A. A computer and a single bed.B. A double bed and a portable computer.C. A TV set and a football.20. What does the text mainly talk about?A. The family members and their interests.B. The necessities Li Ming has prepared for Shirley.C. An introduction to Li Ming's famil

11、y and Shirley's bedroom. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 35分）第一节 （共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、R C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AIf you land in India anytime in late February or March, it 's wise to check the dates of the annual Holi festival and bring a spare set of clothes. That's because for a

12、few days in spring, people crowd the streets and pelt（投掷）anyone walking by with brightly-colored powder to celebrate the arrival of spring and the end of evil. It 's hard to avoid the fun and the paint, unless you stay inside or look angry enough to discourage the custom.Watch out, madam! ”said

13、my taxi driver in Amritsar as we drove through a crowd of young people pelting each other with powder. T he colors never come out of your clothes , " head. A nd you might be having purple hair for many da ys.”I did a quick check. I was wearing black, a color rarely seen in India. It is usually

14、connected with the lowest social classes, and can be viewed as unlucky. I was happy for my clothes to be painted in colors.好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义“I ave some powder I bought for my children. You can have some gladly, to join in our customs. " he encouraged. Holding what the driver handed me as my weap

15、on of choice, I walked into the Holi smoke. At first people politely avoided foreigners. But then a girl in a sari （种印度服饰 ）ran up smiling and put paint on my face. I returned the favor with a handful of pink.好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义With its brilliant clothes, exotic flowers, trucks covered with lights and b

16、rightly painted pictures of gods, India is truly one of the most colorful places on the planet!21. Which of the following sentences about the Holi festival is correct?A. It falls on the same day each year and is celebrated for a few days.B. It is a playful cultural event to throw colored power at fr

17、iends or strangers.C. It has many purposes, celebrating the end of spring in particular.D. It is fun for local people but a little unacceptable for foreigners.22. I was happy for my black clothes to be painted in colors because .A. the festival influenced my taste in fashion.B. the taxi driver sugge

18、sted wearing something colorful.C. black was the color not liked by people in India.D. a girl invited me to join in their customs.23. We can learn from the passage that.A. the color black provides people with a sense of mystery and tradition.B. foreigners can't be too careful in the street in In

19、dia during the Holi festival.C. a sari, worn especially by Indian women, is a must for the Holi celebration.D. anyone can be attacked during Holi festival.BAs Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remembering less? If you know your computer will save i

20、nformation, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first e

21、xperiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first

22、 group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder （ 文件夹）.Surprisingly, people later

23、 remember the folder location better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called transactive memory （交互t己忆）”According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. In

24、stead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesHt mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the waywe u

25、se memory is changing.24. What can we learn about the first experiment?A. Sparrow's team typed the information into a computer.B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.C. The first group did not try to remember the formation.D. The second group did not understand the information

26、.25. In transactive memory, people.A. keep the information in mindB. change the quantity of informationC. organize information like a computerD. remember how to find the information26. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow 's research?A. We are using memory differently.B. We ar

27、e becoming more intelligent.C. We have poorer memories than before.D. We need a better way to access information.CTraveling with kids is 90 percent reminding yourself to live in the moment and 10 percent making up your mind to never again leave your house.I have an uncanny ability to forget this as

28、soon as we return home from a trip and I 've finished washing piles of dirty clothes in our luggage and cleaning all the messy caused by the kids. Extremely tired and annoyed, I would actually begin to miss the place we just left!Family travel is like childbirth, I suppose. Painful, loud, messy,

29、 sort of awful, actually, but also wonderful. And you remember only the wonderful until you' e back on a plane and your kids are fighting over who gets the aisle seat. Then you remember the bad stuff.Last weekend, my kids and I flew to Texas for a trip we would have nothing to complain about big

30、 hotel, wonderful view. And yet we found things to complain about. The pool was bigger in that other hotel! Why do you get to shower first? They call this coffee?! Luckily, I ve learned to put my metaphorical coat of armor （ 盔甲）on as soon as we land somewhere, and it forces complaints to bounce （弹起）

31、off me and land in a pile at my feet.For three days, genuine fun was had and annoying complaints were heard and ignored. Until it was time to catch a plane and fly home. Unfortunately, our flight was canceled. We spent hours finding a hotel room. We hit the hotel pool before bed and swam well into t

32、he night, my kids making up songs and laughing so hard at their silly lyrics and their crazy good luck to be swimming at 10: 30 on a school night.And that was when it hit me that family travel is all those things I said before but it 's also a lot more. It 's taking your kids to parts of the

33、 world that will open their eyes and finding that actually, yours need opening too. It's remembering that joy and memories are where you make them, not where you find them.27. The underlined word “mcanny" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to.A. unknown.B. uncertain. C. unexpected.D. unus

34、ual.28. According to the passage, family travel is like childbirth in thatA. they both cause financial trouble and pain.B. they are both hard as well as rewarding.C. childhood memories come flooding back when they travel.D. both of them need many preparations.好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义29. By saying I“ve learn

35、ed to put my metaphorical coat of armor on" in Paragraph 5, the author means that.A. she tries to deal with the complaints more wisely and properly.B. she turns those annoying complaints into a means to educate kids.C. she has improved her language skills when handling the complaints.D. she has

36、 succeeded in escaping kds' fighting thanks to the armor.30. From the author's experience in the passage, we can NOT learn that.A. family vacation benefits her kids as well as her.B. joy and memories should be created rather than discovered.C. the most unforgettable memory for her is about t

37、he complaints.D. she has to spend some time on housework after the family vacation.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。How to Discover Your TalentTalent tends to refer to that inborn skill that everyone seems to be born with. 31 . It's good to try and identify and prac

38、tice that skill.Revisit your childhood. A good way to figure out where your talents lie is to revisit your childhood. 32 . This is often the time when you had plans that weren ;t limited by what people tend to think of as reality".Consider what it is you do when you lose track of time. One of t

39、he chief things you can do is focus on what you love to do so much that you have a tendency to forget everything else for a while. 33 . You might have to research a bit deeper into the things you enjoy to discover what makes you feel satisfied.34 . Sometimes, when you' e having difficulty seeing

40、 clearly, it 's good to get an outside opinion. Your friends and family members know you well and they should be able to offer you some insights into the areas they think you ' e talented in.Try new things. Especially if you ' e not sure what your talents might be, you should get out and

41、 try new things. This way you' e more likely to hit on what it is that you ' e really good at and that really makes you happy. 35 . In your quest for your own talent you should look into the talents of other people.A. Consider what you loved to do as a childB. Ask others for better adviceC.

42、You can use your talents in the service of kindnessD. Focus on the areas that you' er less talented inE. Not all talents are going to be super obviousF. Observe and enjoy the talents of other peopleG. It's true that having a talent can help you in life第三部分语言知识运用（满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D

43、四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Alia Baker is a librarian in Iraq. Her library used to be a 36 place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge.They 37 various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was 38 that the fires of war would destroy好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义 the books, which are more

44、39 to her than mountain of gold. The books are in every language - new books, ancient books, 40_ a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.She had asked the government for 41 to move the books to a 42 place, but they refused. So Alia took matters into her own hands. 43 , she brou

45、ght books home every night, 44 her car late after work. Her friends came to 45 her when the war broke out. Anis who owned a restaurant 46 to hide some books. All through the 47 , Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, 48 them over the seven-foot wall and 49 them in

46、the restaurant. The books stayed hidden as the war 50 . Then nine days later, a fire burned the 51 to the ground.One day, the bombing stopped and the 52 left. But the war was not over yet. Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be 53 again when the city was still 54 . So she hired a

47、truck to bring all the books to the houses of friends inthe suburbs（郊区）.Now Alia waited for the war to end and55 peace anda new library.36. A. meetingB. workingC. personalD. religious37. A. raisedB. handledC. reportedD. discussed38. A. worriedB. angryC. doubtfulD. curious39. A. practicalB. preciousC

48、. reliableD. expensive40. A. thenB. stillC. evenD. rather41. A. permissionB. confirmationC. explanationD. information42. A. largeB. publicC. distantD. safe43. A. FortunatelyB. SurprisinglyC. SeriouslyD. Secretly44. A. startingB. parkingC. fillingD. testing45. A. stopB. helpC. warnD. rescue46. A. int

49、endedB. pretendedC. happenedD. agreed47. A. warB. nightC. buildingD. way48. A. putB. openedC. passedD. threw49. A. hidB.exchangedC. burntD. distributed50. A. approachedB. eruptedC. continuedD. ended51. A. restaurantB. libraryC. cityD. wall52. A. neighboursB. soldiersC. friendsD. customers53. A. sold

50、B. readC. savedD. moved54. A. occupiedB. bombedC. quietD. busy55. A. dreamed ofB. believed inC. cared aboutD. looked for第II卷第一部分语法填空（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。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。好好努力梦想终会实现高中英语讲义Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia's biggest building, and fancy

51、new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top 56 (attract).So it was a great honor to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I 57(allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their

52、UK ambassador. The title will be 58 (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back 59 my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s,60 I was the first Western TV reporter 61 (film) a special unit caring for pandas rescuedfrom starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial

53、duties will include 62 (introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research centre in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.On my recent visit, I held a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by 63 (it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few 64 (day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed, 65 other is with mum she never suspects.第二部分写作(共两节，满分40分) 第一节应用文写作(满分15分)假设你是李华，你的英国朋友 Mark希望向你了解国画的有关知识，已约定见面时间，然而你因故需要推 迟。请给Mark写一封邮件，说明情况。要点包括：1.表示歉意；2.说明原因；3.重约见面讨论的时间。提示词：国画 traditional Chinese paintings要求：1.