高一英语上学期期中试题57.doc

宣化四中2016-2017学年度第一学期高一期中考试英语试卷
本试卷分为卷I（选择题）和卷II（非选择题）两部分
卷I（选择题 共100分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5个小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面的5段对话。每段对话后都有一个小题，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. What does the woman want to do?
A. Borrow a phone. B. Buy a map. C. Ask the way.
2. What does the woman like collecting best?
A. Stamps. B. Coins. C. Train tickets.
3. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A study. B. A country. C. Their favorite songs.
4. What does the woman ask the boy to do after school?
A. Put away his school bag. B. Move the kitchen table. C. Hang up his coat.
5. How many tickets has the woman got?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
第二节（共15个小题，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、7题
6. How did the man plan to choose the music at first?
A. Let someone decide on it.
B. Ask people for their advice.
C. Allow everyone to bring a piece.
7. What is the woman going to do?
A. Invite Sonia to the party.
B. Send the man a message.
C. Help prepare for the party.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What will the woman do first?
A. Wash a car. B. Go shopping. C. Do her homework.
9. What day is it today?
A. Friday. B. Saturday. C. Sunday.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What does the woman plan to do?
A. Study for school.
B. Work in the shop.
C. Travel with her mother.
11. Where will the man spend his holiday?
A. At home. B. At his brother’s home. C. At the seaside.
12. What lessons does the woman want to take?
A. Piano. B. Swimming. C. English.
听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。
13. What did the woman study in college?
A. Art. B. Writing. C. Advertising.
14. When did the woman start writing children’s books?
A. When she got married.
B. When she had her own kids.
C. When she graduated from college.
15. How many books has the woman published?
A. Three. B. Eight. C. Ten.
16. Why is the man interviewing the woman?
A. For research. B. For his homework. C. For the school newspaper.
听第10段材料，回答第17至第20 题。
17. Who is the speaker?
A. A doctor. B. A fitness coach. C. A PE teacher.
18. How long has the speaker been running?
A. 18 years. B. 20 years. C. 27 years.
19. What does the speaker advise runners to do?
A. Increase the running distance gradually.
B. Avoid doing any hard exercise.
C. Try to be fast.
20. What does the speaker mainly want to tell us?
A. How to choose exercise. B. How to keep healthy. C. How to run correctly.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
A
When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
21. What did the father do after he had heard his daughter’s complaint?
A. He told her to write down all that her “enemy” had said about her and pay attention only to the things that were true.
B. He criticized (批评) her and told her to overcome her shortcomings.
C. He told her not to pay any attention to what her “enemy” had said.
D. He refused to take the list and have a look at it.
22. What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?
A. Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious.
B. She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer.
C. I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.
D. Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.
23. Why did her father listen to her quietly?
A. Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while.
B. Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true.
C. Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment.
D. Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth.
24. Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?
A. Not an Enemy, but the Best Friend
B. My Father
C. The Best Advice I’ve ever Had
D. My Childhood
B
Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank decided he did not want to be farmer. He took a short business course, and went to work as a salesman in a large city.
Woolworth realized he had a natural skill for showing goods to attract people’s interest, but he soon learned something more important. One day his boss told him to sell some odds and ends (小商品) for as much as he could get. Frank put all these things on one table with a sign which said FIVE CENTS EACH. People fought and pushed to buy the things and the table was soon cleared.
Soon afterwards, Woolworth opened his own store, selling goods at five and ten cents. But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful. That is, if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy them in large quantities directly from the factories. Once, for example, Woolworth went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The order was so large that the factory had to keep running 24 hours a day for a whole year. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half.
By 1919, Woolworth had over 1000 stores in the US and Canada, and opened his first store in London. He made many millions and his name became famous throughout the world. He always run his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was: “ THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”
25. Frank took a short business course in order to ____________.
A. earn more money for his family B. learn something from a salesman
C. get away from the farm D. get enough to eat.
26 Frank sold the odds and ends quickly because _____________.
A. He knew how to get people to buy his goods.
B. He cut down the price by half
C. He had put the goods on a table in a very nice way.
D. The sign he put on the table was well designed.
27. The price of the knives was cut down by half because ______________.
A. The factory workers worked 24 hours a day.
B. Knives were ordered in large quantities directly from the factory.
C. The knives were made in Germany, where labour (劳动力) was cheap.
D. The knives were produced in one factory.
28 “The customer is always right” suggests that _______________.
A. Whenever there is a quarrel between the customer and shop assistant, the customers are always right.
B. If you want to succeed, the rule is the only way.
C. Stores must always follow the customer’s orders if they want to make more money.
D. Stores should do their best to meet the customer’s needs if they want to be successful.
C
About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green , a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”(圆锥细胞). These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”(棒条体), but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes(蚊子) prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors.
Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible(看不见的) colors around us.
29. The passage is mainly about _____________.
A. color and its surprising effects. B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness D. color blindness
30. According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can_______________.
A. tell different shapes B. see in a weak light
C. kill mosquitoes D. tell orange from yellow
31. Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are fewer color-blind women
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.
32. We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a _____________.
A. red light B. yellow light
C. blue light D. green light
D
KFC is now hiring hard-working teens looking for restaurant jobs!
It’s hard to find teen jobs these days but now you’re in luck because KFC has plenty of jobs for those who are 17 and older.
KFC is a place where great people work in a great company and where there is fun in the workplace. KFC offers personal challenge and growth.
We provide training and generous rewards. We hope to promote(提拔) our own people and encourage career(职业) growth. We reward our top performers financially.
Team member jobs.
As a team member, you could be the smiling face that greets and serves customers. Or you could be the cook that prepares our world-famous chicken (and tell your friends you know the “secret”--- just kidding). Whatever job you do, you know what you do matters--- to your team and to your customers.
What are we looking for?
The good news is that your training will teach you everything you need to know to succeed in the job. But there are a few skills you should have from the beginning.
You’re a fun and friendly person who values customers and takes pride in everything you do.
You like talking a lot even to strangers. This is important, because you are not able to text messages to customers.
And you are at least 16 years old.
Apply now! Fill out a job application for a team member job with us today.
33. Who will most probably be offered a job in KFC?
A. Kate, 15 years old, a hard-working high student
B. John, 17 years old, a quiet boy taking pride in himself
C. Peter, 15 years old, having a good sense of responsibility
D. Sally, 16 years old, a polite girl good at communication
34. What does the underlined word “secret” probably refer to?
A. the cost of KFC chicken B. the taste of KFC chicken
C. the recipe(烹饪法) for KFC chicken D. the pleasure of working in KFC
35. In which section of a newspaper can we most probably read the text?
A. Careers B. Diets C. Business D. Education
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。
Do you know Australia? Australia is the largest island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. __36 _The population of Australia is nearly as large as that of Shanghai. __37 The cities in Australia have got little air or water pollution. The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very well.
Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, and went to a wild flowers’ exhibition. 38 We had a wonderful time. Perth is famous for its beautiful wild flowers. In spring every year Perth has the wild flowers’ exhibition.
After visiting Perth, we spent the day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill. It was quiet and we enjoyed ourselves. Suddenly we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. _ 39 __There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us down the path. _40_ After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep.
A. The government has made enough laws to fight pollution.
B. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world.
C. Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos.
D. Australia is big, but its population is not large.
E. What we saw made us pick up all our things and run back to the car as quickly as we could.
F. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before.
G. The people of Australia are very hard-working.
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、D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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