高一英语下学期期末考试试题14.doc

2015-2016学年第二学期高一期末考试
高一英语
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
第I卷（选择题，共100分）
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 秒钟的时间来回答相应小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What has the woman decided to do this Saturday?
A. To attend exams. B. To review lessons. C. To go to the cinema.
2. What does the woman suggest the man do?
A. Find a better job. B. Spend less money. C. Earn more.
3. What may cause the man’s problems according to the woman?
A. Pressure of study. B. Pressure of work. C. Diseases.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Clothes. B. Vehicles. C. An exhibition.
5. How much should the woman pay for the computer?
A. $3,500. B. $3,600. C. $4,000.
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6-8题。
6. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Boss and secretary. C. Doctor and patient.
7. What is the woman trying to do?
A. Encourage the man. B. Cheer the man up. C. Give directions to the man.
8. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The man is probably busy. B. The man’s finger is broken. C. The man will drive as usual.
听第7段材料，回答第9-11题
9. What was Mark doing when the accident happened this time?
A. Skiing. B. Walking. C. Sailing.
10. What part of Mark’s body got hurt last time?
A. His leg. B. His arm. C. His foot.
11. What do we know about Mark?
A. He is in hospital at present.
B. He was seriously hurt this time.
C. He was injured twice within a year.
听第8段材料，回答第12--14题。
12. Where are the speakers?
A. In Britain. B. In America. C. In Germany.
13. When did the man’s own record come out?
A. Last spring. B. Last summer. C. Last autumn.
14. What does the woman remind the man of?
A. His record The Living Years.
B. His tours to other countries.
C. His record Groove Approved.
听第9段材料，回答第15-17题。
15. When will the guests enter the hall?
A. At 8:15 a.m. B. At 8:30 a.m. C. At 9 a.m.
16. What should the principal’s name be written as?
A. Mr. Leung. B. Mr. F. Leung. C. Mr. Aldebaran Leung.
17. Why won’t Miss Vinci Lok attend the ceremony?
A. She has other work to do. B. She wasn’t invited by mistake. C. She is not in good health.
听第10段材料，回答第18-20题。
18. What is the speaker’s first language?
A. Polish. B. English. C. Portuguese.
19. What was the speaker laughed at about when she was 12?
A. Her eyes. B. Her parents. C. Her nationalities.
20. Where do the speaker’s parents live now?
A. In Britain. B. In Poland. C. In Malaysia.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 (共15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。
A
What’s On?
Electric Underground
7.30pm－1.00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre
Do you know who’s playing in your area? We’re bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract(合同)? If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. He’s going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music.
Gee Whizz
8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope
Come and see Gee Whizz perform. He’s the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐).
Simon’s Workshop
5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage
This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years’ experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny.
Charlotte Stone
8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World
Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.
21. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?
A. Jules Skye. B. Gee Whizz.
C. Charlotte Stone. D. James Pickering.
22. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?
A. The Cyclops Theatre. B. Kaleidoscope.
C. Victoria Stage. D. Pizza World.
23. What do we know about Simon’s Workshop?
A. It requires membership status. B. It lasts three hours each time.
C. It is run by a comedy club. D. It is held every Wednesday.
24. When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs?
A. 5.00pm-7.30pm. B. 7.30pm-1.00am.
C. 8.00pm-11.00pm. D. 8.30pm-10.30pm.
B
Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys in front of each student, and said:”Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes today ― and 45 minutes each day for the rest of the week.”
A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see what the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.
Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect (感染) other students.
Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style of thinking. Without fail one would declare, “But I’m just not creative.”
“Do you dream at night when you’re asleep?”
“Oh, sure.”
“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “That’s pretty creative. Who does that for you?”
“Nobody. I do it.”
“Really ― at night, when you’re asleep?”
“Sure.”
“Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay?”
25. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to ________?
A. know more about the students B. make the lessons more exciting
C. raise the students’ interest in art D. teach the students about toy design
26. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to study alone.
C. He was active in class. D. He was imaginative.
27. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Mistake. B. Drawback.
C. Difficulty. D. Burden.
C
“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move,” said David Belle, the founder of parkour ( also called free running－a kind of extreme sport).
Do you love running? It is a good exercise, yet many people find it boring. But what if making your morning jog a creative one? Like jumping from walls and over gaps, and ground rolls? Just like the James Bond in the movie Casino Royale? Bond jumps down from a roof to a windowsill and then runs several blocks over obstacles on the way. It is just because of Bond’s wonderful performances that the sport has become popular worldwide.
Yes, that’s parkour, an extreme street sport aimed at moving from one point to another as quickly as possible, getting over all the obstacles in the path using only the abilities of the human body. Parkour is considered an extreme sport. As its participants dash around a city, they may jump over fences, run up walls and even move from rooftop to rooftop.
Parkour can be just as exciting and charming as it sounds, but its participants see parkour much more than that.Overcoming all the obstacles on the course and in life is part of the philosophy(理念) behind parkour. This is the same as life. You must determine your destination, go straight, jump over all the barriers as if in parkour and never fall back from them in your life, to reach the destination successfully. A parkour lover said, “I love parkour because its philosophy has become my life, my way to do everything.”
Another philosophy we’ve learnt from parkour is freedom. It can be done by anyone, at any time, anywhere in the world. It is a kind of expression of trust in yourself that you earn energy and confidence.
28．Parkour has become popular throughout the world because of .
A. the film, Casino Royale B. its founder, David Belle
C. its risks and tricks D. the varieties of participants
29．The underlined word “obstacles” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to“ ”.
A. streets B. objects C. roofs D. barriers
30．Which of the following is true of parkour?
A. It is a good but boring sport B. It challenges human abilities.
C. It needs special training. D. It is a team sport.
31．Which of the following is the philosophy of parkour?
A. Sports and extremes. B. Excitement and popularity.
C. Dreams and success. D. Determination and freedom.
D
Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhood．When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wild creature in a cage.
We lived on the edge of a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. There isn’t a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird.
I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way would have my own private musician.
I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, in its fright at being captured, the bird fluttered about the cage, but eventually it settled down in its new home. I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.
I had left the cage out on our back porch, and on the second day of the bird’s captivity my new pet’s mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.
The following morning when I went to see how my captive(被俘虏的） was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened! I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.
Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had occurred. “A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poison berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity.”
Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.
32.Why did the writer catch a mockingbird when he was a boy of 12?
A He wanted it to sing for him B．He liked its beautiful feather.
C．He had just got a new cage. D．He wanted a pet for a companion.
33.The mockingbird died because it ______.
A．was frightened to death B．ate the poisonous food its mother gave it
C．refused to eat anything D．drank the poisonous water by mistake
34.An ornithologist probably means ______.
A．a religious person B．a kind person
C．a schoolmaster D．an expert in birds
35.What is the most important lesson the writer learned from the incident?
A．Freedom is very valuable to all creatures.
B．All birds put in a cage won’t live long.
C．You should keep the birds from their mother.
D．Be careful about food you give to baby birds.

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。
A garden that’s just right for you
Have you ever visited a garden that seemed just right for you, where the atmosphere of the garden appeared to total more than the sum(总和) of its parts? 36 . But it doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.
● 37
Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color. Others are concerned about using gardening methods that require less water and fewer fertilizers(肥料). 38 . However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden. One of them comes from our earliest years.
●Recall(回忆) your childhood memories
Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood. Grandma’s rose garden and Dad’s vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that’s not what’s important. 39 ― how being in those gardens made us feel. If you’d like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth. 40 . Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden. Have fun.
A. Know why you garden
B. Find a good place for your own garden
C. It’s our experience of the garden that matters
D. It’s delightful to see so many beautiful flowers
E. Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants
F. You can produce that kind of magical quality in your own garden, too
G. For each of those gardens, write down the strongest memory you have
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I work at a company where there are lots of employees. I can’t say I know them all 41 ，but I know most of them. I think that almost 42 of them know me. It’s all based on one 43 principle: I believe every single person 44 to be acknowledged(点头或微笑致意), however small or simple the greeting.
When I was about 10 years old, I was 45 down the street with my mother. She 46 to speak to Mr. Lee, while I was aiming at the “ O” in the STOP 47 with a stone. I knew I could see Mr. Lee any time 48 the neighborhood, so I didn’t pay any 49 to him. After we passed Mr. Lee, my mother, stopped me and said something that has 50 with me from that day until now. She said, “You let that be the 51 time you ever walk by somebody and not open up your mouth to 52 , because even a dog can wag(摇) its 53 when it passes you on the street.” That phrase 54 simple, but it’s been a guidepost(路标)for me. And it feels 35 that when I speak to s