第一学期
高一英语上学期期中试卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20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答案，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 does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Buy some CDs. B. Borrow some CDs. C. Enjoy the old ones.
2. Who will pay for the tickets according to the conversation?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. Another guy.
3. Where does the man come from?
A. China. B. The USA. C. Japan.
4. When did the woman go home this time according to the conversation?
A. At midnight. B. Before 11:30. C. Before 11:00.
5. What are the two speakers doing?
A. They are talking about the transportation in the office.
B. They are writing a letter to the paper.
C. They are waiting for buses.
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8题。
6. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Teacher and student. B. Classmates. C. Mother and son.
7. How long did John and his dad have to work each day?
A. A whole dawn. B. Day and night. C. From morning till evening.
8. Why does the woman want to go with John to the country next summer?
A. Because she would like to do some work.
B. Because she would like to attend the Saturday Party.
C. Because she would like to help with the harvest.
听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. When did the woman drive there through the valley?
A. In the morning. B. At noon. C. In the afternoon.
10. Why did the woman get to the park in less than an hour?
A. Because the park is nor far away.
B. Because there is a highway near the park.
C. Because there was little traffic on the way to park.
11. What did the woman enjoy best during her trip?
A. Spending the whole morning under the tall trees.
B. Having her picnic under the tall trees.
C. Taking pictures at the big waterfall.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14小题。
12. How did the man and the woman go to the Summer Palace?
A. By taxi. B. By bus. C. By underground.
13. What did the beautiful park use to be?
A. A place of interest. B. A garden for emperors. C.A travel palace for emperors.
14. What will the man and woman do?
A. Swim in the lake. B. Row a boat in the lake C. Clime up the hill.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. Why is Ron in hospital?
A. Because he has got a serious fever.
B. Because he has broken his leg.
C. Because he had an accident.
16. How did Ron get the disease?
A. He ate some dirty food. B. He lived in a dirty house. C. He returned from India
17. What does the doctor think of Ron’s illness?
A. He should wait to die. B. He needs no treatment. C. He is getting better.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What do the farmers in India still use in the farming?
A. Oxen. B. Horses. C. Camels.
19. How do the teachers help the farmers?
A. They help the farmers to plow with tractors.
B. They help the farmers to use new tools.
C. They help the farmers to test the rice seeds.
20. What can we learn from the passage?
A. All seeds now come from Japan.
B. Farming in India is changing.
C. The villages are becoming cities.
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
21. There came ____ word that two space heroes will come to our school to give us a report, which is ____ really great encouragement.
A. a; a B. the; the C. the; a D. /; a
22. He lives next door, but ___________ I rarely see him.
A. strangely enough B. enough strangely
C. strange enough D. enough strange
23. Whenever I met her, ______ was fairly often, I liked her sweet and hopeful smile.
A. what B. which C. when D. that
24. I don’t think anyone will be willing to do it, _________?
A. do I B. don’t I C. will they D. won’t they
25. I shall never forget those days _____ I lived in the city with the workers, ______ has a great effect on my life.
A. which, that B. that, which C. when, which D. when, who
26. My son didn’t feel like ____________ today. So I suggested him _______ some days in the countryside.
A. working; spending B. to work; to spend
C. working; to spend D. to work; spending
27. I can’t forget the terrible scenes in the film Jaws _________ people are attacked and eaten by the sharks.
A. in which B. by which C. which D. that
28. Mary and I ________ friends for ten years. We first got to know each other at Tom’s birthday party. But we ________ each other a couple of times before that.
A. had been; have seen B. have been; have seen
C. had been; had seen D. have been; had seen
29. Make sure that you keep your boss ________ the fresh developments by e-mail.
A. inform of B. informed of C. informing of D. to inform of
30. The manager is going on business next week and the company will be left ______Mike.
A. in charge of B. in the charge of
C. taking charge of D. taking the charge of
31. He’s got himself into a dangerous situation ________ he is likely to lose control over the plane.
A. where B. which C. while D why
32. We have ____ in your bill the cost of the glass you broke in the room.
A. included B. contained C. displayed D. suggested
33. _________ we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision work.
A. For B. Now that C. Ever since D. By now
34. The teacher as well as his students ____ pleased with the results of the competition.
A. was B. are C. is being D. did
35. ---Could you lend me a hand and take these exercise books to the classroom?
--- __________.
A. For pleasure. B. I could. C. My pleasure. D. With pleasure.
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题中所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中选出最佳选项。
The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor—living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was 36 and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still 37 a dream.
My dream was 38 . By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and 39 anything that moved on the football field. I was also 40 : My high school coach(教练) was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me 41 to believe in myself. He 42 me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular 43 with Coach John changed my life forever.
A friend recommended (suggested) me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike, new clothes and the 44 of savings for a house for my mother then I realized I would have to 45 up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.
When I told John, he was 46 as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your 47 days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head 48 , trying to think of the 49 that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his 50 in me.
“How much are you going to make at this job, son？” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour.” I replied.
“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”
That simple question made 51 for me the difference between 52 something right now and having a 53 . I decided myself to play sports that summer and 54 the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Porates to play baseball, and was 55 a $20,000 contract (agreement). In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream.
| 36 | A. happy | B. polite | C. shy | D. honest |
| 37 | A. live | B. afford | C. make | D. need |
| 38 | A. athletics | B. music | C. business | D. money |
| 39 | A. kick | B. play | C. pass | D. hit |
| 40 | A. fight | B. popular | C. lucky | D. confident |
| 41 | A. how | B. why | C. when | D. whether |
| 42 | A. gave | B. taught | C. brought | D. asked |
| 43 | A. accident | B. matter | C. problem | D. experience |
| 44 | A. aim | B. idea | C. start | D. purpose |
| 45 | A. keep | B. end | C. give | D. pick |
| 46 | A. mad | B. mournful | C. frightened | D. shameful |
| 47 | A. living | B. playing | C. working | D. learning |
| 48 | A. moving | B. nodding | C. shaking | D. hanging |
| 49 | A. answers | B. excuses | C. words | D. ways |
| 50 | A. sadness | B. regret | C. hopelessness | D. disappointment |
| 51 | A. direct | B. clear | C. straight | D. bare |
| 52 | A. wanting | B. changing | C. dreaming | D. enjoying |
| 53 | A. wish | B. goal | C. score | D. desire |
| 54 | A. by | B. for | C. over | D. with |
| 55 | A. paid | B. got | C. offered | D. presented |
第三部分：阅读理解（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
Are you worried by the rising crime rate? If you are, you probably know that your house, possessions and person are increasingly in danger of suffering from great rise in the cases of burglary and attack.
Figures show an ever-increasing crime rate, but it is only too easy to imagine "It will never happen to me". Unfortunately, statistics show that it really can happen to you and, if you live in a large city, you run twice the risk of being a victim.
Fortunately, there is something definite which you can do. Protect Alarms can help to protect your house with a burglar alarm system which is effective, simple to operate and easily affordable.
You must remember that owning a burglar alarm is no indication that your house is packed with valuable possessions. It quite simply indicates to unwelcome visitors that yours is one house they will not break into easily, so they carry on to an unprotected house where their job is made a lot easier.
Send now for our free leaflet telling you how we can Protect Alarm your house quickly, easily and cheaply. Complete and tear off the slip below and post it to us. Postage is free. Also, telephone us on 327 6721 where we have a round-the-clock answering service. It costs nothing to find out about Protect Alarm.
56. Anyone who takes an interest in the crime rate will, according to the text, be aware that___________.
A. more burglars are being caught than ever before
B. people have more possessions to worry about nowadays
C. burglars are more at risk than they used to be
D. homes are more likely to be broken into nowadays
57. It seems that people who live in cities are ____________
A. more often victims than those living in other areas
B. of the opinion that statistics are wrong
C. twice as well as people living in other areas
D. of the opinion that burglars only rob unprotected homes
58. The article claims that possessing an alarm system will _________.
A. show burglars that you have something worth stealing
B. persuade burglars not to break into your house
C. make the burglars' job less complicated
D. persuade burglars to try again another time
59. In order to find out more information about this alarm system one can _______.
A. buy a leaflet B. write enclosing a stamped, addressed envelope
C. sign a contract D. phone at any time of day or night
B
Ambassador Hotel：
Welcome to the Ambassador Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities to the full.
Dining Room
Breakfast is served in the dining mom from 8 a. m. to 9: 30 a.m. Alternatively, the room staff will bring a breakfast tray to your room at any time after 7 a.m. In this case, please fill out a card and hang it outside your door when you go to bed.
Lunch: 12:00a.m. to2:30p.m.
Dinner: 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Room Service
This operates 24 hours a day; phone the Reception Desk, and your message will be passed on to the room staff.
Telephones
To make a phone call, dial 0 for Reception and ask to be connected. We apologize for delays in putting calls through when the staffs are very busy. There are also public telephone booths near the Reception Desk. Early calls should be booked with Reception.
Laundry
We have a laundry in the hotel, and will wash iron and return your clothes within 24 hours. Ask the room staff to collect them.
Bar
The hotel bar is open from 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
60. You would see this notice _________ .
A. in a hotel bar
B. in a hotel dining room
C. in a bedroom of a large international hotel
D. in the entrance of a small family hotel
61. What should you do if you have arrived to stay at the hotel at 2 a.m. and want something to eat?
A. Go to the hotel shop. B. Go to the hotel bar.
C. Hang a message outside your door. D. Phone the Reception Desk.
62. What should you do when you come back to the hotel to make an important call and see a lot of people around the Reception desk?
A. Go to your room and phone from there.
B. Ask at the Reception Desk.
C. Use one of the telephones in the entrance hall.
D. Go out again and look for a public phone box
63. What do you think a room staff’s last job is before he goes off duty at 6 p.m.?
A. Lay the tables in the dining room.
B. Check the bedroom doors.
C. Start preparing the breakfast.
D. Wake any of the guests who have asked for early calls.
C
Women enjoy free time less than men, a new study finds. And it’s getting worse. When men have free time, they feel less rushed than women when their schedules are packed. Women relieved of (减轻负担)work do not feel less rushed, however.
The results suggest that mothers in particular feel the pressures of children and housework even when they have time to relax, said Liana Sayer, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University.
“ The meanings of free time for men and women are quite different,” Sayer said, “especially for wives and mother, it appears that free time is still combined with other activities or responsibilities.”
The study was based on two national surveys in the USA: one in the mid-1970s involving 708 people and another in the late 1990s with 1,151 participants.
Workload increased for women between 1975 and 1998, especially in comparison with men, the comparison showed.
In 1975, women and men had similar amounts of free time, but by 1998 a 30-minute per day gender (性别)gap had opened, with women having less leisure time than men.
“Women worked more hours in paid employment in 1998 than they did in 1975,” Sayer said. “The amount of time they spent on household labor declined during that period, but not enough to offset(抵消) the increase in paid work hours.”
The odds (几率) of feeling rushed were more than twice as high for married women with children as they were for single, childless women. But men who were married and had children didn’t feel more rushed than single, childless men.
64. The purpose in writing this article is _____________.
A. to encourage women to enjoy more free time.
B. to introduce a new piece of research.
C. to describe the differences between men and women.
D. to explain the reasons for women’s pressures.
65. Which of the following statement is true according to the article?
A. women won’t think about their children or housework even if they have free time.
B. When men have free time, they will still feel as rushed as when they are busy.
C. Men spend more time on workload than before, but they feel less rushed.
D. After marriage, a woman will feel more rushed than before.
66. The underlined word “declined” in the last but one paragraph means _________.
A. decreased B. refused C. grew D. changed
. D
On June 5, 1981 the Centers for Diseases control in Atlanta, U.S. announced the presence of a rare, infectious(传染性的) disease in five American homosexuals(同性恋). Soon doctors were finding similar cases all over the country and the world. The AIDS epidemic（流行病） had officially begun. By 1983 it was clear that AIDS had spread around the world. More than twenty years later, AIDS has left twenty-six million dead and another forty million infected. AIDS has become the worst medical disaster ever experienced by mankind.
Hundreds of people between the ages of 20 and 45 died each week during the early years of the U.S. More than 600,000 cases of AIDS have been reported since 1981 in the United States, and it is estimated that there may be as many as 900,000 Americans infected with HIV.
Though the rate of HIV infections continues to increase in the United States, the number of AIDS cases has fallen sharply since 1996, when antiretroviral(抗爱滋病毒的) drugs came onto the market. Unfortunately, the AIDS epidemic continues today in Africa and much of Asia, where antiretroviral treatment is not available(可得到的) and health care is far from enough. AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, and the No. 1 cause due to infectious disease.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was first separated in 1983 by a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. That discovery made it possible to develop a test for AIDS and trace back to victims who may have died before doctors were aware of the disease.
However, scientists still don’t know exactly how and where AIDS started. Finding the source of AIDS could be important in developing a vaccine(疫苗) and be important in mapping the future course of the epidemic.
67. It can be inferred from the passage that_____________.
A. antiretroviral drugs will be obtained easily all over the world.
B. the best way to stop AIDS is to develop a vaccine.
C. scientists will soon find a way to cure AIDS cases in the world in the future.
D. there will be fewer AIDS cases in the world in the future.
68. Which areas are now the most worrying places where AIDS spreads quickly?
A. Africa B. Asia C. The United States D. France
69. The number of AIDS cases has greatly decreased in the United States due to the fact__________.
A. a team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris succeeded in separating HIV.
B. some effective medicine has been invented.
C. scientists understand AIDS better and better.
D. the rate of HIV infections continues to rise in the United States.
70. What’s the importance of the discovery of the source of AIDS?
A. It can be used to develop a test for AIDS.
B. It can stop HIV forming AIDS.
C. It can reduce the rate of death caused by AIDS
D. It can help develop a drug to prevent AIDS.
高一英语期中试卷答卷
第Ⅱ卷 共三节（共35分）
第一节 对话填空题（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。
| Mary: So John, what are you going to do after college? John: I think I’ll go into teaching. Mary: Wow, that sounds interesting. (1) W________ teaching? John: Well, for one thing, you get long (2) h________. You can take the summer off. Mary: Sure, but teachers make much (3) l________ money (4) t________ office workers. John: Well, I think things are (5) i________ . Most people recognize how important teachers are to the country.(6) O________ time I think the pay will be getting better. Mary: That’s a good point, I (7) g________. But don’t you think you’d get (8) b________ doing the same thing year after year, teaching the same materials? John: To me teaching is a thrilling job. The children are so excited and energetic. It (9) m________ me feel like a kid again. (10) Plus, if you’re a good teacher you can have a positive e______ on your students’ life. | (1) ________ (2) ________ (3)_________ (4)_________ (5) _________ (6) _________ (7) _________ (8) _________ (9) _________ (10)_________ |
第二节 单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. I have just read your articles about your___________（经历）in the UK.
2. He often _______(放松) himself by listening to music.
3. How many _______________ (宿舍)are there in this living building?
4. He thought it better to begin our work _______________.(立即)
5. I can’t fully understand her. She’s always finding _____(过错) with the way I do my hair.
6. She keeps her jewellery and other v_______ in a safe.
7. He never really r__________ from the shock of his wife dying.
8. I can't c__________ on my work with all that noise.
9. It is beyond a_______ that smoking can cause much damage to our body.
10 Beijing is making p____________ for the 2008 Olympics.
请将以上各题答案以完整的单词形式按顺序写在下面的横线上。
1. __________________ 2. _______________ 3. _____________
4. __________________ 5. _______________ 6. _____________
7. _________________ 8. _______________ 9. _____________
10. ________________
第三节 书面表达（满分15分）
近期，中学聘请外教之风愈演愈烈，请你结合下表对其利弊发表自己的观点。
| 好处 | 1. 提高学校的知名度。 2. 提高学习英语的兴趣，口语表达能力增强。 3. 更好地了解外国文化。 |
| 弊端 | 1. 花费高。 2. 一些外国人难以适应我国的生活方式，甚至担心自己的安全。 3. 外国人不了解中国学生的特点。 |
| 自己的观点 | 一切需要靠自己 |
注意：1. 词数：100左右 2. 短文应包括表中所有要点
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯 4. 开头已给出
Several years ago, when a foreigner appeared in China, many people would gather around and stared at him or her as if they were watching a rare animal.
However, it’s not uncommon to meet some foreigners even in middle schools now.
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