安徽省合肥市七中2015-2016学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷.doc

合肥七中2015—2016学年第一学期期中考试高一
英语试卷
满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. How does the woman feel?
A. Worried. B. Thirsty. C. Hungry.
2.Where are the speakers most likely?
A. On a bus. B. At a cinema. C. On a plane.
3.What do we know about the woman?
A. She likes going to birthday parties. B. She won’t go to Mary’s birthday party.
C. She doesn’t like Mary’s birthday parties.
4.When should Bonnie have got there?
A. At 2:30. B. At 3:00. C. At 3:30.
5. How will the speakers go to work?
A. On foot. B. By car. C. By subway.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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67题。
6.Why can’t the woman go to Paris?
A. Because she doesn’t feel well. B. Because she has to look after her mother.
C. Because her mother doesn’t want her to go there.
7.What will the man do?
A. Look after the woman. B. See the woman’s mother.
C. Go to Paris without the woman
听第7 段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. How long did the woman wait for the service?
A. For ten minutes. B. For twenty minutes. C. For thirty minutes.
9.What did they decide to do in the end?
A. To eat at a Chinese restaurant. B. To take a bus to another restaurant.
C. To walk home straight.
听第8 段材料，回答第10 至12 题。
10. What is the woman doing?
A. Shopping online. B. Reading some news.
C. Looking at some pictures.
11. What does the woman want to do?
A. Get a pet. B. Feed a dog. C. Sell a cat.
12. What does the man think of cats?
A. They are easy to take care of. B. They are man’s good friends.
C. They are very lazy.
听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。
13. Where will the woman travel in France?
A. In Paris. B. In the south. C. In the north.
14. What will the woman take with her?
A. Some clothes. B. A book. C. Some magazines.
15. Who will travel in France with the woman?
A. Susan. B. Some friends. C. A tour group.
16. Why won’t the man go to Sydney for his vacation?
A. Because he prefers to go to Spain. B. Because he just got back from there.
C. Because his girlfriend doesn’t want to go there.
听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。
17. What do we know about the library?
A. It has six floors in total. B. It was built 50 years ago.
C. The reading room is on the third floor.
18. What time is the library open on weekends?
A. From 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. B. From 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
C. From 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
19. How long can a student keep a book?
A. One month. B. Two weeks. C. One week.
20. What will the speaker do next?
A. Borrow some books. B. Show people around the library.
C. Take people to another building.
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,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A
Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play, catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” or remember the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned something, additional(额外的) learning trials(尝试)increase the length(长度) of time we will remember it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.
The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表)are an exception(例外) to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.
The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习)for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one’s future development.
21. What is the main idea of paragraph I?
A. People remember well what they learned in childhood.
B. Children have a better memory than grown-ups.
C. Poem reading is a good way to learn words.
D. Stories for children arc easy to remember.
22. The author explains the law of overlearning by_________.
A. presenting research findings B. setting down general rules
C. making a comparison D. using examples
23. According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_______.
A. a result of overlearning B. a special case of cramming
C. a skill to deal with math problems D. a basic step towards advanced studies
24. What does the word “they” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Commonly accepted rules. B. The multiplication tables.
C. Things easily forgotten. D. School subjects.
25. What is the author’s opinion on cramming?
A. It leads to failure in college exams. B. It’s helpful only in a limited way.
C. It’s possible to result in poor memory. D. It increases students’ learning interest.

B
Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control your behavior, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to upset people, so you never express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and you aren’t very confident.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive(不坦率的)person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You’re very stubborn(顽固的), but you aren’t very ambitious. You usually live for today not for tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up (卷曲),you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive. You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. You know your strengths and weaknesses. You’re usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.
26.According to the writer, you naturally show your secret and real personality .
A. only in a normal night B. only when you go to sleep
C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the word
D. only when you change sleeping position
27. Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph about a person’s personality?
A. He or she is always open with others.
B. He or she always likes new ideas earlier than others.
C. He or she is always easily upset.
D. He or she tends to believe in others.
28. Point out which sentence is used to show the personality of a person who is used to sleeping on his or her stomach?
A. He or she is careful not to offend others.
B. He or she doesn’t want to stick to his or her opinion.
C. He or she can’t be successful in any business.
D. He or she likes to bring others happiness.
29. Which of the following may be the reason for you not to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up?.
A. He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you.
B. He or she is rarely ready to help you.
C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out.
D. He or she wouldn’t like to get help from you.
30. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because .
A. he or she always shows sympathy for people
B. he or she is confident, but not stubborn
C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses
D. he or she often considers annoying people
C
Four million children are caught up in the war in Syria. Thirteen-year-old Rabia is one of them. Tall and thin, she sits shaking in a yellow T-shirt at the Al Marj settlement, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Home for Rabia was once a two-story house near Damascus. Now it is a tent shared with her nine family members. Rabia’s face is covered with dirt, and she is tired and cold. She has just finished work, picking up potatoes that fell from a truck. Her typical day starts at 4 a.m., and she works a double shift that lasts about 16 hours, putting potatoes into bags. The only choice for her is that she can choose the first eight hours or the second eight hours. For this, she gets paid about $8 a day.
Working means Rabia misses school. Back in her village, she was the best in her class and good at everything. Her favorite subjects were Arabic literature and math. But that was Rabia’s old life. It was the life before war, before her family moved five times to escape the bombs, before leaving behind her bedroom, her toys and her friends without packing a bag, before “half the people I know” were dead.
The old life was full of laughter with her sister, Wala. But Wala, 14, got married two days ago to an 18-year-old Lebanese. Rabia is happy for her sister. Life in the settlement is tough— the children have nowhere to play, the bathing is poor and sexual abuse is out of control. You can’t blame parents —often confused, illiterate （不识字的）and poor—who want to marry off their daughters. They fear for their safety. Increasing numbers of Rabia’s girlfriends are getting married. Once in rural Syria, a girl got married at 16. According to UNICEF, the age is now dropping to 12 or 13. It is no secret that Lebanese men want to marry Syrian refugee girls, who work hard and don’t ask for anything.
31. Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?
A. A news report. B. A book review.

C. A history book. D. A travel magazine.
32. The underlined word “shift” in Para. 2 probably refers to ________.
A. the extra task B. the low pay
C. the potato factory D. the working period
33. The writer’s purpose for writing Para. 3 is to ________.
A present the dream of Rabia
B. show the damage of the war
C. predict the future of Syrian girls
D. compare the life before war and now
34. Which of the following can NOT be used to describe the life in the settlement?
A. No place for children to play.
B. Condition of bathing is poor.
C. Sexual abuse is under control.
D. Syrian refugee girls have to work hard.
35. Why are so many young Syrian girls getting married?
A. Their parents are worried about their safety.
B. They want money from the husband family.
C. They have no good friends to play with.
D. Their parents are confused, illiterate and poor.

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。
Tips for cooking on a tight schedule（时间紧）
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability , money , and time . 36 Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make full use of the time you spend in the kitchen . Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:
Think ahead . The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there’s nothing ready to eat . So think ahead of the coming week . When will you have time to cook ? Do you have the right materials already ? 37
Make your time worth it . When you do find time to cook a meal , make full use of it and save yourself time later on . Are you making one loaf of bread ? 38 It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something . So save yourself the effort for a future meal .
39 This may surprise you , but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation（试验）. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule . The more you learn and the more you try , the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule .
hopefully that gives you a good start 40 And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live !
A. Try new things .
B. Ability is easily improved .
C. Make three or four instead .
D. Understand your food better .
E. Cooking is a burden（负担）for many people .
F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden .
G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on .

第二部分： 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was working as a consultant （顾问） in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big 41 . At the same time, my mother was in the 42 stages of cancer.
I worked during the day and 43 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was 44 and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My promise was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, 45 my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to 46 the president with my situation. 47 I felt someone at the company wanted to 48 what was going on. So I told the vice-president of Human Resources, asking him not to 49 the information with anyone.
A few days 50 , the president called me into his office. I 51 he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were 52 on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large 53 , looked me in the eye and said, “I 54 your mother is very ill.”
I was totally 55 by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my 56 subside（平息），and then he 57 said a sentence I will never forget: “ 58 you need.” That was it. His 59 and willingness both to let me be in my pain and to offer me everything were qualities of compassion（同情）that I 60 with me to this day.
41. A. honour B.