广东省汕头市潮南区陈店实验学校2014高一下学期期中考试英语试题.doc

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陈店实验学校2014—2015学年度下学期期中考试试题
高一年级英语学科
考试说明：本卷共三大题，满分135分，考试时间为120分钟，请在答题卡上认真作答！
第一部分 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共25小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，然后从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D选项中，选出最佳选项。
After Russia, Canada is the world’s largest country in land 1 , covering an area of nearly ten million square kilometres, nearly 40 times 2 the UK. Canada covers the largest part of the North American continent, ranging from the Atlantic Ocean in the east 3 the Pacific Ocean 4 the west. Its population is actually quite 5 when compared to its area, and is spread quite thinly through most of the country. In fact, most people live 6 the 300 kilometres above Canada’s southern border.
Many people believe that Canada’s 7 is cold all the time, but this is not true. Certainly there are many places throughout Canada 8 temperatures are well 9 0℃ through the winter. This is especially true in Nunavut where it is extremely cold. But the southwest corner of Canada 10 has a rather mild climate. Up near the Arctic Circle, the temperatures are often below 0℃ for about seven months out of the year. But during the summer months the 11 provinces of Canada are very humid and temperatures are often higher than 30℃.
Because Canada is a country 12 by people from many countries and cultures, it is 13 to different religions and beliefs. Canada was 14 by Christian cultures, and Christianity 15 to be the dominant religion. However, immigration has brought the practice of various religions to the country.
1. A. number B. size C.length D. shape
2. A. as large as B. as big as C. as much as D. as many as
3. A. and B. of C. to D. off
4. A. to B. in C. of D. on
5. A. large B. big C. small D. low
6. A. in B. between C. out of D. within
7. A. climate B. weather C. winter D. season
8. A. that B. whose C. where D. which
9. A. above B. below C. about D. over
10. A. honestly B. especially C. truly D. actually
11. A. southern B. northern C. western D. eastern
12. A. included B. consisted of C. made up D. formed
13. A. family B. hope C. home D. life
14. A. founded B. found C. made D. set
15. A. continued B. continues C. continuing D. to continue
第二节 语法填空(共10小题，每题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下列短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中所给词语的正确形式填空。
A young man, while traveling through a desert，came across a spring of clear water. 16 water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder 17 had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man 18 (present) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled 19 (warm), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home 20 a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let 21 student taste the water. He spit it out, 22 (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, “Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like 23 ?”
The teacher replied, “ You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be 24 (sweet).”
We understand this lesson best 25 we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）
A
Have you gone for a run lately? Have you maybe run for a marathon, a total of 42 km？Imagine running this 42 km every day, finally reaching a total of 5,376 km. That would be 128 days of running, more than halfway across Canada. Meet a man who has done all this — but on only one real leg! Meet Terry Fox.
Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Canada, on July 28th, 1958. He won many awards for playing sports when he was small. He went to university to be a physical education teacher. In 1977, however, something happened that was going to change him for life. One day, he came home complaining about a pain in his knee. The pain was really bad so he went to the hospital. There he found out he had cancer. To stop the spread of the cancer, doctors had to cut off his leg.
He replaced his old leg with an artificial one, and in 3 weeks he was walking again. He felt good about beating cancer. Just before his surgery he had read about Dick Traum. This man had lost a leg too, and he had run the New York City marathon. That inspired Terry Fox for the rest of his life.
Fox started training and ran his first marathon in 1979. His aim is to run all the way across Canada to raise one dollar per Canadian for cancer research. He started on April 12th in St John’s, a town on the Atlantic Coast. By July he had reached Toronto and he was welcomed by 10,000 supporters. He kept going west at the pace of 42 km per day, on his way north, just on the outskirts of Thunder Bay he had to stop. He hadn’t completely defeated the cancer, and now it had spread to his lungs. He had to quit running and fly back home for treatment.
Terry Fox inspired many people who raised more money for his cause. In January 1981 not long before Fox passed away, his dream became true. He had raised 24.1 million dollars, equalling the population of Canada.
26. Why did Terry Fox start running marathons?
A. Because he had only one leg. B. To stop the spread of the cancer.
C. To tell his family and friends that he was well. D. To help cancer research.
27. From the passage, we know that Canada is _____ wide.
A. 2,688 km B. 5,376 km C. 10,752 km D. 21,504 km
28. How old was Terry Fox when he started running marathons?
A. 21 B. 19. C. 23. D. Unknown.
29. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Terry Fox won many awards on only one leg.
B. Terry Fox ran to raise money for his treatment.
C. Terry Fox was encouraged by Dick Traum.
D. Terry Fox raised 24.1 million dollars.
30. Where do you think this passage is taken from?
A. Biography. B. Newspaper. C. Novel. D. Journal.
B
Looking for Canadian culture? Just put your eyes on the ice rink. “We love hockey,” says Marion Alexander, a Canadian English teacher in Beijing. “It really is Canada’s sport.”
There is no other sport so close to the hearts of Canadians and no other sport in which Canadians have been so successful. But how much do you know about hockey?
Hockey is played on a court of ice called a rink. Each team has six players: a goalie (goal keeper), a centre, two defensemen, and two forwards. All of them wear ice skates.
Instead of a ball, hockey uses a puck, which is a small black object that looks like a small, flat round cake made of rubber. Each team tries their best to hit the puck with their hockey sticks into the other team’s goal. The team which scores the most goals at the end of three periods is the winner.
“Hockey has a lot of rules,” says Alexander, “but once you are used to it, it seems very natural.”
In Canada, hockey is part of the national identity. Many Canadians play youth hockey when they are growing up, and many Canadian families make a tradition of watching the games
“I played goalie when I was younger,” remembers Alexander. “My family would always watch the Calgary Flames (a team in the National Hockey League) play on TV.”
Hockey doesn’t just unite families. It also brings the whole country together, especially during the Olympics. “Canada is a diverse country that doesn’t have a strong unified culture like China. That is why hockey is so important. Supporting the national team brings all of Canada together,” says Alexander.
31. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. the origin and development of hockey B. Canadians’ diverse sports culture
C. Marion Alexander’s view of hockey D. the role of hockey in Canadian culture
32. Hockey is important to Canadians for all of the following reasons except _____.
A. it is Canadians’ favourite sport B. it is an event at the Olympics
C. it is part of the national identity D. it helps unite the whole country
33. What does the underlined sentence imply?
A. Canada is more diverse than China.
B. Canadians are not as united as the Chinese.
C. There are not many things that bring all Canadian people together.
D. There are not so many sports in Canada as in China.
34. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Canada’s most beloved sport is hockey.
B. Hockey is a game made up of three periods and is contested between two teams of 12 skaters.
C. Hockey is very important to Canadians, who love it more than any other sport.
D. Hockey is not an Olympic sport, though it is the most popular sport in Canada.
35. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Hockey Brings Canadians Together B. How to Play Hockey
C. The National Identity for Canadians D. Finding Canadian Culture
C
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel. And he surely deserves additional praise: the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War. H.B.Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only the most famous example. These early stories dealt directly with slavery. With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely. He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again, in the postwar years, Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race. Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain’s novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s most widely read tale. Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave, and many occurrences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often severely criticized, never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point. The novel is strongly anti-slavery. Jim’s search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic. As J.Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual: Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more. Twain’s mystery novel Pudd’n-head Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites, especially in intelligence, Twain’s tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master’s baby and for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master’s baby by his wife. The slave’s light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class. The master’s wife’s baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss: nurture(养育),not nature, was the key to social status. The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech, for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain’s racial tone was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist? Asking the question in the 21stcentury is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln. If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error. Lincoln, who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him. And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier, and inventor of Jim, may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
36. How do Twain’s novels on slavery differ from Stowe’s?
A. Twain was more willing to deal with racism. B. Twain’s attack on racism was much less open.
C. Twain’s themes seemed to agree with plots. D. Twain was openly concerned with racism.
37. Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its　　　.
A. target readers at the bottom B. anti-slavery attitude
C. rather impolite language D. frequent use of “nigger”
38. What best proves Twain’s anti-slavery stand according to the author?
A. Jim’s search for his family was described in detail.
B. The slave’s voice was first heard in American novels.
C. Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D. Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
39. The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that　　　.
A. slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B. slaves’ babies could pick up slave-holders’ way of speaking
C. blacks’ social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D. blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
40. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A. The attacks. B. Slavery and prejudice.
C. White men. D. The shows.
D
Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing