高一英语下学期开学考试试题普通班.doc

高一普通班开学考试英语试题
第I卷 （满分 100分）
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分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．Where did the woman go?
A．To downtown Berkeley． B．To the man’s house． C．To Amherst．
2．When will the man leave for home?
A．On Thursday． B．On Friday． C．On Sunday．
3．What does the man mean?
A．The diamond is not beautiful．B．The design is not fashionable．
C．The price is too high for them now．
4．What will the woman do?
A．Go to the movies． B．Do some shopping． C．Attend a party．
5．Who is the man most probably?
A．The woman’s colleague． B．The woman’s brother． C．The woman’s husband．
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至7题。
6．When did the man have his first class of Civil Engineering?
A．Last Monday． B．Last Tuesday． C．Last Friday．
7．What is the woman’s advice?
A．Sharing the cost of the textbook and using it together．
B．Thinking about Prof．Qian’s course more seriously．
C．Sitting together in class from now on．
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8．Where does the man ask the woman to hand in her research report at first?
A．At his meeting room． B．At his office． C．At his house．
9．What will the man be doing at 5：00 this afternoon?
A．Having a meeting． B．Having a class． C．Talking to his secretary．
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10．Who wants to go to Egypt?
A．The man and his wife． B．The man’s wife and son．C．The man and his son
11．Why does the woman advise the man to go to Egypt by ship?
A．He can have a safe and happy journey．
B．He can have a better rest during the voyage．
C．He can save a lot and enjoy the ocean scenery．
12．What does the woman think of the man?
A．Hesitant． B．Mean． C．Careless．
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13．When will the woman leave her home?
A．At 6：30． B．At 7：30． C．At 8：30．
14．What does the woman plan to take with her?
A．One large bag and two small bags． B．Two large bags and one small bag．
C．One large bag and a handbag．
15．Where will the man say goodbye to the woman?
A．In the waiting room． B．Outside the train． C．At the entrance．
16．What does the man ask the woman to do?
A．Wait for him at the airport．B．Come back a week later．C．Give him a call．
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17．When was Greenpeace founded?
A．Twenty years ago． B．Fifty years ago． C．Seventy years ago．
18．What role does the man play in the organization?
A．He is the action organizer． B．He is a leading nuclear scientist．
C．He is one of the plan makers．
19．What has the man been involved in recently?
A．Protesting the use of nuclear weapons．B．Protecting animals and plants．
C．Environmental campaign．
20．How did people react to the man’s appeal last week?
A．They showed little interest in it．B．They were against the demonstration．
C．They expressed their support in different ways．

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）
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。
A
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what "keeping up with the Joneses" is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
　 The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
　　It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They had to move back to an apartment in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses” because "Jones" is a very common name in the United States. "Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand's series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
　　People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are "Joneses" in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
21. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.
　　A. want to be as rich as their neighbors
　　B. want others to know or to think that they are rich
　　C. don't want others to know they are rich
　　D. want to be happy
22. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ________.
　　A. live outside New York City B. live in New York City
　　C. live in apartments D. live with many neighbors
23. What's the author's attitude to keeping up with the Joneses?
　　A. Negative. B. Positive. 　　C. Supportive. D. Objective.

B
Moral science is taught as a subject in most schools but with little effect. Perhaps part of the problem lies in the fact that morality is not a science strictly speaking. It is too much of a social phenomenon, and also has too much of the personal and subjective things mixed within. Besides, morality itself changes with generations. So it is impossible to be defined in a textbook.
I remember sitting through forty minutes of moral lessons, which told stories about little children who never told lies and were rewarded for their goodness. It had little effect and left no impression on me, though.
If moral science has to be taught as a subject in schools, it needs a participatory(参与其中的) approach. When you tell a child about morals, you also have to deal with social norms（规范）and cultural differences. You have to explain that morality can be subjective, and be able to co-exist in society. You will probably have to refer to the morals of the present time.
The best way to tell a child how to live is to show him what is valued. If a child likes his friend, you have to make the child think about why. Once the child notices and recognizes goodness in others, he or she is likely to develop it as well.
In fact, children learn most of their morals by watching people around them. They absorb behavior patterns from teachers and older students. They watch to see what is rewarded and who is punished. They learn on the sports field and through social work. Moral science lessons should simply consist of letting them live and interact, and watch you support correct values and reward good behavior.
24. Which is NOT the reason that moral science is taught in schools but with little effect?
A. Morality doesn’t strictly belong to a science
B. Morality is more like a social phenomenon.
C. Morality can’t be written down in textbooks.
D. Different generations have different moral ideas.
25. The author describes his own experience of having moral lessons in order to _____.
A. explain telling lies is not moral for little children
B. advise people should be rewarded for their goodness
C. show he has no opinions about moral science
D. prove moral lessons in schools have little effect
26. When you tell a child about morals, you should________.
A. teach him to share personal moral ideas with others
B. tell him about social norms and cultural differences
C. explain that nobody can influence his moral ideas
D. say that the present morals are likely to be changed
27. What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. The influence of people’s behavior on morals.
B. The value of teachers’ setting a good example
C. The best way of teaching children about morals.
D. The importance of rewarding good behavior.

C
The North and South poles are remote and freezing places that receive lots of animal visitors but few human tourists.
But 2007 marked the beginning of the International Polar Year (IPY), a two-year-old activity of science projects that aimed to show how important the poles are to the health of our planet. During the IPY, which lasted until March 2009, thousands of researchers from more than 60 countries conducted more than 200 projects and expeditions to both the top and bottom of the world.
In recent years, the polar regions have begun to change severely as a result of global warming. Temperatures there are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth. As a result, the ice and snow in these regions are melting at record-setting rates. One result is that sea levels are rising around the world, putting animals and people at risk.
Only by studying the poles, say IPY researchers, can we find ways to protect them and ourselves.
Both the Arctic and the Antarctic are cold and remote, but the two regions have important differences. For one thing, the Arctic is an ice-covered ocean surrounded by land. The Antarctic, on the other hand, is a continent of ice-covered land surrounded by water.
Most polar studies have focused on the Arctic, and that is where scientists have observed the most remarkable changes in the ice. During a typical year, Arctic ice expands in the winter and shrinks in the summer. But recently, the amount of ice covering the ocean has been steadily dropping in both seasons.
28．The goal of the International Polar Year is __________.
A．to make it clear that the poles have much to do with a healthy earth
B．to provide practical theory to further develop this distant area
C．to call on as many scientists as possible to do research on the poles
D．to discover more mysteries unknown to man
29．What is the main factor that has caused the changes of the poles?
A．The increasing number of animals.
B．The development of the poles.
C．The melting of the poles.
D．The rising temperature.
30．What unusual phenomenon worries the scientists?
A．In summer the ice of the Arctic loses faster.
B．The ice covering the Arctic decreases even in winter.
C．The ice of the Arctic increases less than in the past.
D．The changes in the Arctic are more serious.
31．Which of the following might be the best tile of the passage?
A．Earth’s Poles Interest Scientists B．The Animals of Earth’s Poles
C．Earth’s Poles in Danger D．The Discoveries in Earth’s Poles
D
Feeling tired? Under too much stress? Well, you may want to try Yoga(瑜珈). It’s what more and more people have been turning to to release the trouble of modern life. Practically unheard of in the West until 50 years ago, Yoga has become one of the most popular health trends around the world, including China. If you search for Yoga on line in Chinese, lots of pages are there to see, most of which are main pages of Yoga clubs. In order to keep fit and lose weight, many girls spend more than 1000 yuan taking part in Yoga classes every month.
However, are you really ready for it? There are several things you need to know before you really take it.
First, do not force your body too much. Yoga has many difficult poses. They are beautiful and worth boasting if you could finish them. But if you force yourself to do as exactly as an experienced Yoga teacher does, you may hurt your body, instead of strengthening it. Do you remember you original purpose for playing Yoga? It is self -building, not competing.
Second, do some research about the Yoga class that you are to register. Yoga is new in China and there are not so many certificated well-trained Yoga teachers. Some not well organized clubs just find someone learn a little Yoga and certificate them. But be aware, a non-eligible teacher might wrongly guide you and you could not benefit from the classes much except that they force you to exercise your body a bit. Considering about the large amount of money you invest in it, it’s worth and reasonable to make sure the teachers in the club are qualified before you join.
Third, it would be better to learn something about nutrition when you practice Yoga. In the very beginning, Yoga was part of the Vedas, bible of the traditional Indian philosophy. So it could be regarded as a kind of lifestyle. When you have decided to care for your body, why not feed it properly? In fact, good clubs have their own nutritionists.
Anyhow, make sure you are ready before you act. The fashion may change quickly. But what benefits is still good for us.
32．The author’s main purpose in writing the passage is to .
A．tell people how to relax themselves
B．let people know more about Yoga
C．give people some advice on taking part in Yoga classes
D．tell peoples Yoga has gained its popularity in China
33．The underlined word “eligible” in the fourth paragraph most probably means .
A．experienced B．qualified C．honored D．hi-technical
34．Which of the following is NOT the author’s advice?
A．Join one of the noblest Yoga clubs.
B．Don’t easily follow the fashion about Yoga.
C．Know some knowledge about nutrition.
D．Find out a real teacher.
35．From the advice offered by the author, we can conclude that .
A．Yoga has nothing to do with culture
B．Yoga is somehow easy to exercise
C．many people learn Yoga in order to compete
D．not all the Yoga clubs have standard teachers
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。（注意：如果所用的答题卡没有提供E、F、G选项，请按以下方法填涂：选E请涂A、B，选F请涂A、C，选G请涂A、D。）
When your children become teenagers, it’s time to start considering an after-school job.
36 , so why shouldn’t our children? When your child has a job, he/she is responsible for getting to work on time and doing his/her job correctly. An after-school job is a good way to teach your teenager about responsibility.
By allowing your teenagers to have an after-school job you allow them to learn about money management. 37 , they will have to manage how much money they can spend. They will realize that they can’t spend every dollar they make if they want to reach their goal.
You are probably saying, “Teens will get into trouble whether they have a job or not.”
38 . Depending on the distance from work to home, you could allow your children some extra time to get home after work. This will ensure that they don’t feel rushed but can still get home on time.
It’s a good idea to show your teenagers that hard work is what it takes to finish everything in their lives. 39 . What will they expect when they are out on their