202001高一英语期末试卷.doc

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
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. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. In a physics lab. B. In a museum. C. In a bookstore.
2. How does the man like his job?
A. It is interesting and fun. B. Its pay is good. C. It is tiring.
3. What will the two speakers probably do now?
A. Have a sleep. B. Eat some food. C. Go on working.
4. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Salesgirl and customer. B. Waitress and customer. C. Boss and secretary.
5. What 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 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?
A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Every day.
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 of 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. C. Tomorrow evening.
10. When will Mr Strong finish the report?
A. In about three days. B. Tomorrow morning. C. This evening.
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 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. On Saturday.
13. Where will the two speakers meet?
A. At the man’s house. B. At the woman’s house. C. 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. She 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. To explain the exams.
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。
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Notices
1. Winterization （过冬准备）/ Outside Tap（水龙头） Shut Off
Please 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 October 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 tap
3) Open the water valve（阀门）and empty all the water
In addition, if you are away from your home for more than two days, you should consider leaving the heat on at a reasonable 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（保险索赔）could become the responsibility of the unit owner.
2. Yearly Fire Testing
Please be advised that Earth Wind and Fire will be available on Tuesday, October 29, 2020 to conduct the Yearly Fire Testing. Access to all units must be provided on:
Tuesday, October 29 – 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The repairman will work their way from unit #1 to unit #48. 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 in 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’re advised to do the following things EXCEPT ________.
A. disconnecting all the pipes linked to the tap and emptying all the water
B. taking the responsibility to claim insurance
C. leaving the heat on at a reasonable temperature while away for over two days
D. getting your place checked on a regular basis
22. As the owner of a flat in unit #30, if you fail to provide access during the arranged time period, you can ________.
A. ask the repairman to test your flat first
B. arrange the testing day without extra pay
C. call Earth Wind and Fire according to your schedule
D. 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. Life. D. Education.
B
In 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 didn’t stop there: every one of them was also accepted to college. The Fugees Academy recently opened a second school, in Ohio, and a third one is soon to follow. With any luck, they will all produce success stories like the girl who described herself in this life story: “I’m sad when we get days off during snowstorms and holiday breaks. My name is Harwaa from Iraq and I lived past the age of nine.”
The academy’s name comes from 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. 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 school, she kept thinking: What would I do if this were my kid?
Her answer: open a school for the students unlikely to get help elsewhere. “You want the kids who perform well in their studies, or who can’t read a word,” Mufleh says. Her method is to speak to them in the language of their sport, 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 struggling,” Mufleh says. “We’re going to help 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 chance 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. graduated B. escaped C. moved D. recovered
26. Mufleh helped the boys in the following ways EXCEPT ________.
A. helping them go back to school
B. teaching them how to play football better
C. guiding them to comparing soccer superstars
D. making them realize the importance of teamwork
27. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The students who will graduate
B. The children from dangerous countries
C. A teacher helping poor children
D. A school that saves lives with a goal
C
For many, it’s easy to tell if it’s a computer calling you on your phone. Its voice makes it obvious 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 hang up — it’s just a computer, after all.
But Google Duplex, an artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant, has shown computers are able to “conduct a natural conversation with a human over the phone and complete simple real-world tasks,” reported tech site Wired. ①
At May 8 conference, the company showed Duplex making phone calls and having 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 steps to disguise the system to sound more like a human”.
② . Duplex comes with imperfections — “umms” and “uhhs” — and uses human expressions such as “Oh, gotcha.”
As a result, “the people on the other end of the call don’t know they are chatting with AI,” said CNET.
③ — it will be able to help humans cut down on boring tasks. But for the rest, it “cross a line between being easily used and tricky,” as Wired wrote. People 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. ④ . For example, students could 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 tell the listener it’s not a real person.
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 the phone.
C. It’s well 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. ① B. ② C. ③ D. ④
30. We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. it’s no surprise that people don’t trust their ears
B. humans should limit the development of AI
C. the special computerized voice is almost perfect
D. 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 coming into daily life.

D
Ten years before Air Jordans, I learned to fly. It’s 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-dutch（双绳跳）girls, we had our own jump. Three of us and a couple of ropes. It had to be at least three girls — two to turn, one to jump. We started turning nice and slow. Before jumping in, we would rock back and forth to push ourselves forward. It wasn’t a question of whether we’d make it in; the challenge was how long we could jump.
There is a space between the ground and heaven where the air is 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 anything and be anything you want.
We’d meet at about 3:30 p.m., after we’d 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 on six o’clock when we saw the first grown-up 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 usually couldn’t jump for very long. These women had no purpose of sweating anyway.
Around this time, I would start looking out for my mother. I’d try to make my turn last long enough so she could see the jump.
“Wait, Mom, watch me jump!” I’d say.
“I’ve got to start dinner,” she’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 time with her.
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 there you are strong. I wish she’d let 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 spirit B. enjoyable exercise
C. distant space D. unlimited possibility
34. 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’ rope-jumping skills.
35. What might be the tone（语气）of the author from the last two paragraphs?
A. Regretful B. Optimistic C. Peaceful D. 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 Heights
36. From the story we can conclude that Healthcliff leads a(n) ________ life.
A. isolated B. wealthy C. happy D. mysterious
37. “He seemed to enjoy watching Hindley gradually 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 following of the love in this novel is not true?
A. Edga’s love for Isabella: brotherly and protective
B. Edgar’s love for Catherine: devoted
C. Linton’s love for Cathy: natural but forced by Heathcliff
D. Heathcliff’s love for Catherine: passionate and permanent
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
39. Which of the following is not one of the themes of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
A. physical mobility in a vast continent B. people’s beliefs of the future
C. greed for money and possessions D. people’s attachment to superstitions
40. Which of the following statements is not a reason why there’re fewer ghost stories in big towns an