湖北省武汉市第二中学2016-学年高一英语上学期期末测试习题.doc

专题课件
2016—2017 学年上学期武汉二中期末考试
高一英语试卷
试卷满分： 150分

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。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. What will the man buy for the woman?
A. Notebooks. B. Paper. C. Pencils.
2. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a bookstore . B. In a library. C. In the woman’s office.
3. Why will Mr. Rogers be out of the office next week?
A. To take a holiday. B. To attend a wedding. C. To travel on business.
4. What does the man mean?
A. The woman can’t leave early.
B. He will pick up the woman’s parents.
C. Mr. Black won’t come at 4 o’clock.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. A lift worker. B. The man’s sister. C. A lift accident.
第二节（共15小题；每小题15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。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6、7题。
6. Why did Gareth Jones quit the game halfway?
A. He got hurt. B. He was too tired. C. He broke match rules.
7. What will the speakers do next Saturday?
A. Visit Gareth. B. Watch a game. C. Play a match.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题
8. What impressed the man most?
A. The plot. B. The main performers. C. The songs.
9. What do we know about the musical?
A. The man has seen it.
B. The writer won awards for it.
C. People speak highly of its plot.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What did the woman think of the house owner?
A. Kind. B. Cold. C. Serious.
11. Why did the woman leave the flat?
A. Because the rent was high.
B. Because the room was too cold.
C. Because the neighbors were noisy.
12. How did the woman’s neighbor act when they met one morning?
A. Angrily. B. Sadly. C. Dishonestly.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How high does the woman need to climb for walking?
A. 1,500 meters. B. 2,000 meters. C. 4,000 meters.
14. How did the woman prepare for the walking?
A. She slept out in the tent in winter.
B. She climbed a 4,000-meter high mountain.
C. She took long walks through the hills daily.
15. What did the woman think of the walking?
A. It was hard but enjoyable.
B. It was difficult and tiresome.
C. It was wonderful and smooth.
16. What was the most exciting moment during the walking?
A. Watching the sunset.
B. Seeing the ruined building.
C. Walking through the Sun Gate.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How long does the break in Barcelona last?
A. Two nights. B. Three nights. C. Seven nights.
18. What costs extra money for the Barcelona break?
A. Flights. B. Breakfast. C. Evening meals.
19. On what can visitors get discounts with a discount card?
A. All the city sights. B. Some restaurants. C. 5-star hotels
20. When is the deadline of the booking for the Barcelona break?
A. September 30th. B. October 5th. C. October 31st.
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给选项涂黑。
A
Your Nose Knows
If I were to ask you to shut your eyes and I gave you a piece of apple to eat, would you be able to tell me what it is just by tasting it? Of course, you could. Your tongue is covered with tiny “taste buds” which help you know what different foods taste like. Do you know that foods would taste different if you did not have a nose?
This experiment shows how important your nose is when you taste things.
What You Need:
a friend to help
small pieces of any food like carrot, orange, banana －whatever you have handy
small pieces of apple, raw potato, and (if you are brave) onion
What You Do:
There are actually three different experiments, You and your friend should take turns trying them on each other.
Experiment 1:
Have your friend close her eyes and open her mouth. Give her a piece of the food and ask her to taste it. Then, ask her what she thinks it is. She will probably guess correctly.
Experiment 2:
While your friend has her eyes closed, give her a piece of raw potato. At the same time, hold a piece of apple right under her nose. Ask her to eat the potato (but don’t call it by name) and tell you what she thinks it is. She will say it is a piece of apple! You can even do it the other way around Have her eat a piece of apple while smelling a piece of potato, and she will think she is eating a raw potato, or, perhaps, she won’t be able to name what she is eating.
Experiment 3: (for the brave)
Take a piece of raw onion. You don’t have to close your eyes this time. Squeeze your nose closed with your other hand so that no smell can get into your nose. Now take a small bite of the onion. Surprise! As long as you hold your nose, you will not be able to taste the onion,
The Science Secret
You already know the science secret. Your nose and your tongue work together to make food taste the way it does. Your tongue, however, can taste only certain flavors like salty, bitter, sour, and sweet. All of the other “tastes” are actually “smells”, and you need your nose to “taste” them.
Oh, and you might use this science secret the next time you are told to eat something you don’t like the taste of. If you hold your nose while you eat it, you won’t “taste” it at all.
21. What is this text mainly about?
A. Why some things smell better than others.
B. How smell changes the way people see.
C. How smell affects the way food tastes.
D. Why different foods can smell the same.
22. In Experiment 2, what should you do when you hold the piece of apple under your friend’s nose?
A. Ask her to close her eyes. B. Hand her a piece of onion.
C. Have her guess the food. D. Tell her to eat a piece of potato.
23. The most likely reason why Experiment 3 is called “for the brave” is that ________?
A. You keep your eyes open. B. You have to eat a raw onion.
C. You have to squeeze your nose. D. You do the experiment alone.
24. Where is the text most likely taken from?
A. A science magazine. B. A news report.
C. An advertisement. D. A menu.
B
The trunk sat in the middle of the living room. They tried to force the lid open but no matter how they pulled or pried, it stayed stubbornly shut. “There must be a way,” Mom said, “There’s no lock and no place to put a lock so the lock must be in the box itself.”
It wasn’t a particularly beautiful box. It had a slightly rounded top. The sides were roughly carved with horses. “Interesting carvings,” Gran said, “They show the level of the carver. There’s no concern for the marketplace.” “Folk art is in,” Mom replied, “Hand-crafted. It should be worth quite a lot.”
Frances ran her fingers lightly over the horses. They were wonderful. The numbers, 1873, were not, as they’d first thought, part of the lid, but each number was fixed in place with a single brass bolt. She believed there was a mystery to it, and she loved mysteries.
Frances woke up and looked at her bedside clock. Four a.m. Frances slipped out of bed and went into the living room. To her surprise, her granny was sitting there staring at the box. Frances sat down on the floor beside her. “This was my granny’s,” Fjola whispered, “I’d forgotten all about it. The last time I saw it must have been when I was your age.”
“My great-great-grandmother’s,” Frances exclaimed. “She brought it out from Iceland with her. Imagine being thirteen and putting all your goods in a box and then getting on a boat and traveling half the world to start a new life,” Granny added.
They sat there in silence. Frances was staring at the box, turning it this way and that in her mind. She leaned forward, put her hand on the first number and twisted. She felt it give a little. She turned it harder and it slightly moved to an angle. Then she did the same with the other three numbers. This time when they pulled on the lid, it came up easily.
25. Mother thought the box was worth a lot of money most probably because_______?
A. folk art was very popular. B. old trunks were priceless.
C. the box was of rare beauty. D. its carvings were hand-crafted.
26. What was the main attraction of the box to Frances?
A. Its mystery. B. Its history. C. Its beauty. D. Its value.
27. What can we infer from Fjola’s words?
A. She once lived in Iceland. B. Her granny went through a lot.
C. She was proud of her granny’s deeds. D. The box was a family treasure.
C
The days of glancing at a map or the screen of your smartphone when you’re lost will soon be over, thanks to new shoes that tell you which way to turn to. The shoes use a Bluetooth link to communicate with your mobile’s mapping system. The mobile works out which route you should be following and the shoes then produce a slight shaking in either foot telling you when and where to change direction.
The shoes will also count the number of steps you’ve taken and the calories you’ve burned, and they’ll even buzz to warn you you’ve left your phone behind, or to tell you when you’re travelling past an interesting landmark.
“They are as easy to use as a tap on the shoulder,” said Krispian Lawrence, 30, who developed the shoes with partner Anirudh Sharma, 28, in Hyderabad, India. “You can even communicate with them using hand gestures and finger snaps because the shoes have sensors that can pick up movement and sound.”
The Lechal shoes go on sale worldwide in June but Lawrence and Sharma’s company, Ducere Technologies, has already taken more than 3,000 pre-orders. Lawrence believes the shoes will also improve road safety. “If I’m on my bike or motorbike, I don’t want to stare at my phone-it’s dangerous,” he says. “I’d rather be guided by my footwear.” He believes his invention will prove invaluable for the visually impaired and has promised that every mainstream pair sold by Ducere will subsidize(资助) a cheaper pair for a visually impaired person.
Footnav technology does not impress explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, however. “What’s wrong with a good old-fashioned map?” said the 70-year-old when told of the shoes. “If you rely too heavily on technology, you’re heading for trouble. Too many people have forgotten the basics: how to read a map and a compass.”
28. Which of the following is NOT the function of smart shoes according to the passage?
A. Warning of the loss of your wallet. B. Guiding your road.
C. Counting your steps and calories. D. Reminding you of landmarks.
29. Smart shoes can be used as a map mainly because .
A. they are linked to mobiles’ mapping system
B. they can produce a slight shaking
C. they are guided by a remote control
D. they can talk to people
30. What’s the possible meaning of the underlined word “impaired”?
A. Discouraged. B. Disabled. C. Disappointed. D. Disliked .
31. What is Sir Ranulph’s attitude towards this invention?
A. Positive B. Negative C. Doubtful D. Cautious
D
A high school student has a science test on Monday but spends most of the weekend playing video games and does not start studying until late Sunday night. This kind of avoiding or delaying of work that needs to be done is called procrastination (拖沓). It has been said that up to 95% of people procrastinate at least sometimes, and about 20% of them do it too much. Although researchers do not agree on all the reasons behind procrastination, there is general agreement about some factors that can explain it.
The first factor is how pleasant or unpleasant people find a task. Research shows that people put off tasks they find unpleasant. Many high school students delay cleaning their rooms or doing their homework. Someone who loves bicycles might not delay fixing a tire, while someone who does not may put it off.
In addition to how people feel about the job at hand, the amount of confidence they have in their ability to do a task is also related to procrastination. For example, those who have low expectations of success are more likely to postpone starting a job. On the other hand, those who believe that they can perform well are more likely to take on challenging tasks rather than avoid them. However, it has been argued that too much confidence can also lead to procrastination: some people overestimate how easily they can do a particular task and start too late.
Another factor is whether or not people can use self-control. Those who have less self-control can easily be drawn away from their work. Interestingly, age is said to be associated with self-control. Research shows that the older people become, the less likely they are to delay doing their work until the last minute.
Lastly, there is a link between procrastination and how long people must wait before they see the reward for an effort. For example, studying hard in school might not give high school students any immediate rewards; what they learn might not seem useful to the present. Sometimes, it is hard to see the benefit of making an effort when the reward is too far away. This can explain why many people do not start saving money for their old age when they are young.
What are the roots of your procrastination Because the behaviors described here are common to most people, you probably do not need to completely change your habits. If procrastination is a problem, the first step to reducing it is identifying the reasons behind it. It is only by understanding the roots of your problem that you can choose the appropriate method for yourself.
32. The high school student’s case in the opening paragraph is used to ______.
A. show how common procrastination is among students
B. provide a typical example of what procrastination is
C. suggest how to avoid procrastination before a test
D. explain why students tend to procrastinate before tests
33. Compared to others, procrastinators are more likely to ______.
A. find most of their daily tasks unpleasant
B. have high expectations for their career
C. have great confidence in themselves
D. expect immediate reward from their efforts
34. According to the text, people lacking self-control ______.
A. are more likely to pick up challenging tasks
B. tend to make wrong judgments about the difficulty of their tasks
C. could find it easier to focus on their tasks as they grow older
D. often develop the habit of procrastination at an early age
35. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To explain the general causes of procrastination.
B. To suggest some solutions to the problem of procrastination.
C. To report on recent findings about procrastination.
D. To analyze the bad effects of procrastination.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短