高一英语第一学期期中考试3
英 语
I：听力（30’）
第一节,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，每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What’s John’s address?
A. 1434 King Street. B. 1344 Queen Street. C. 1343 King Street.
2. Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
A. By the window. B. On the steps. C. At a post office.
3. How much should the skirt have cost?
A. $24. B. $12. C. $6.
4. When is the man’s birthday?
A. April 1st. B. April 2nd. C. April 3rd.
5. How will the woman get to New York?
A. By car. B. By train. C. By plane.
第二节,听下面3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，每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6 –8 题
6. What does the man want to do?
A. To have his shoes mended.
B. To buy a pair of new shoes.
C. To go shopping in a supermarket.
7. How far is the supermarket?
A. Two blocks away. B. Five blocks away. C. Six blocks away.
8. How will the man go to the place?
A. By bus. B. On foot. C. In his car.
听第7段材料，回答第9 –11 题
9. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Secretary and boss. B. Teacher and student. C. Doctor and patient.
10. Why was she late?
A. Her aunt called her to get up late.
B. She missed the bus.
C. She got a telephone call.
11. What can we know about the teacher?
A. He is strict with his students.
B. He is cold to his students.
C. He gets angry easily.
听第8段材料，回答第12--14 题
12. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a company. B. In a factory. C. In a hospital.
13. Why can’t the woman sleep well?
A. Because she has been working too hard.
B. Because she has a family problem.
C. Because she has a high fever.
14. What does the doctor suggest that the woman should do?
A. She should take some medicine.
B. She should take a holiday.
C. She should change a job.
听第9段材料，回答第15--17 题
15. Where is the plant being built?
A. Far away from the town.
B. Not far away from the town.
C. North of the town.
16. What is the plant built for?
A. Producing trucks.
B. Dealing with waste paper.
C. Dealing with rubbish.
17. What can you conclude according to the dialogue?
A. How to deal with rubbish is a big problem in their town.
B. They hope that another rubbish plant will be set up in their town.
C. The plant can at least deal with 3,000 tons of rubbish every day.
听第10段材料，回答第18--20题
18. Where exactly is Brighton?
A. 15 miles from London.
B 50 miles from London.
C. 50 miles from Paris.
19. What’s the population of Brighton?
A. 30,000. B. 130,000. C. 300,000.
20. Why are there a lot of hotels in Brighton?
A. Because there are a lot of workers.
B. Because there are a lot of students.
C. Because there are a lot of travelers.
II.单项选择(15’)
21. ------I don’t think John will be here, will he?
-------______.
A. Yes, he won’t B. No , he won’t
C. No, he will D. Yes, he is
22. Which one of the following sentence is right?
Do you think __________?
A. possible to learn English well with no teacher
B. it was possible to learn English well without a teacher
C. is it possible to learn English well without a teacher
D. it possible to learn English well without a teacher
23. She could never forget the evening, ___was spent in the hole of a hill.
A. which B. that C. on which D. in which
24. Wei Bin took out some peanuts and it was ___to see the monkey___ from his hand.
A. interest; jump B. happiness; lie
C. surprise; sit D. fun; eat
25. Meeting my uncle after all these years was an unforgettable moment, I will always treasure.
A. that B. one C. it D. what
26. He shouted loudly, and in the end he ___ to make himself ______.
A. managed; hear B. managed; heard
C. succeeded; heard D. tried; be heard.
27. He is well—known ___ everyone ___ a great writer ___ his wonderful writings.
A. with; as; for B. to; or; as
C. to; as; for D. by; for; as
28. ----- Do you remember ___ he came?
----- Yes, I do. He came by car.
A. when B. that C. where D. how
29. E-mail as well as telephones ____ an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing B. is being played
C. are playing D. have played
30. I ___ table tennis quite well, but I haven’t had time to play since the New Year.
A. will play B. have played C. played D. play
31. All ___ is needed is a supply of oil.
A. the thing B. that C. what D. which.
32. One of the reasons is ___ his father ill.
A. why B. for C. which D. that
33. My hometown ___ so much that it is not ___ it was before.
A. has been changed; such one as
B. has been changed; the one as
C. has changed; the same one as
D. has changed; what as
34. The garden ____was once___ beautiful was completely destroyed, _____away by the wild water.
A. where; such; swept B. which; very; sweeping
C .that; so; swept D. in which; quite; sweeps
35. Allen had to call a taxi because the box was ___ to carry all the way home.
A. heavy too much B. too much heavy
C. much too heavy D. too heavy much.
III完形填空（30’）
阅读下面短文,从短文后给所给的四个选项A.B.C.D中选出最佳的答案.
Learning behind bars
Bobby Leonard was serving a 104-year prison sentence when he learned to read. And his illiteracy (文盲), he now believes, was a big part of his 36 .
Now 42, Leonard grew up in rural Louisiana and attended 37 when he wasn’t working on the family farm. Moving to Washington, D. C., at age 12, he 38 refused to go to school any more. He completed the seventh grade with the skill 39 of a third-grader.
But Leonard learned to make 40 nonetheless. “I was good in 41 because of the money I was making,” he said. “I was a 42 burglar (夜贼).”
Fairly good, but not good enough to avoid 43 and confronted (使面临) with a shut off from the 44 . It was because he needed to keep contact with people outside the 45 that he sought out a tutor (辅导教师) that he hoped would write letters for him. The tutor 46 , on the condition that Leonard learn to write for himself.
“It was just a real 47 for me learning, but the guy recognized that I had some potential (潜能) I didn’t recognize 48 ,” he said.
Once Leonard even hit the tutor for suggesting he had 49 .
“I didn’t understand the word he was using,” Leonard said. “When you can’t read, your vocabulary is very 50 . That’s part of the problem.”
Leonard 51 learn to read, however, and earned a college degree in psychology (心理学) in the dozen years 52 he was set free. In the years 53 , he has worked with youth and anti -death penalty (死刑) programmes and is now a volunteer with Literacy Volunteers of America.
“There is truly a message of 54 ,” said Leonard, a salesman at Lincoln Cemetery who still drives by the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary (联邦监狱) each day to 55 himself of his past. “I don’t think anybody as bad off as I was when I started.”
36. A. life B. question C. problem D. sentence
37. A. a meeting B. school C. a party D. markets
38. A. simply B. happily C. exactly D. only
39. A. match B. ability C. knowledge D. level
40. A. progress B. friends C. money D. living
41. A. sports B. maths C. language D. physics
42. A. good enough B. pretty good C. rather bad D.fairly good
43. A. being caught B. getting through C. setting free D. being seen
44. A. outside world B. family farm C. Washington, D.C. D. local school
45. A. farm B. walls C. school D. club
46. A. came B. refused C. agreed D. laughed
47. A. game B. pleasure C. competition D. struggle
48. A. it B. myself C. that D. one
49. A. potential B. money C. trouble D. hope
50. A. large B. limited C. good D. few
51. A. did B. could C. would D. should
52. A. after B. before C. since D. upon
53. A. later B. further C. before D. since
54. A. hope B. failure C. wish D. agreement
55. A. tell B. remind C. escape D. forget
IV，阅读理解（40’）
A
All of us like to eat bananas. Bananas are good food for man. The fruit has a thick, soft skin. The flesh is fragrant(芳香的) . That’s why we call it (香蕉) in Chinese. Banana plants grow in our southern provinces. The banana plant is called a tree, but it is not like our common trees. It is a tree-like herb (草本植物) . Each tree bears one bunch of bananas. The fruit grows in clusters. Each cluster is called a ‘hand’ in English, and the fruit is called the finger. Some bunches have ten hands or more. The banana flowers are as large as a man’s fist. It is bright colored and very beautiful. The new plants grow from the roots of the old plants. The banana plants bear no seeds. Bananas go bad quickly. They must be cut from the trees when they are green. They ripen on the way. It is possible to keep them fresh .
56. Why do we call banana 香蕉 in Chinese? Because___
A. everyone enjoys eating them.
B. they smell fragrant
C. they’re good food for us
D. they have a thick, soft skin
57. In fact the banana plant is a kind of ___
A. tree B. wood C. grass D. flower
58. Banana plants grow best in ___
A. cool places B. hot places where it hardly rains
C. in dry places D. in warm places where it rains often
59. Which of the following is not true?
A .Banana plants have flowers every year
B. Banana plants have beautiful flowers
C. Banana plants have no seeds and never flowers at all
D. The new shoots(芽)come up from the roots of the old ones every year
B
Dear Lucy,
I have read the article you wrote about the new computer in MODERN ENGLICH and I’d like to give my opinion.
I also think the new computer is really a wonderful step forward in the field of technology. But I don’t like the idea of learning English from a computer, in fact, I think that by studying English or any other language from a human teacher, we can learn something else. A teacher is a person who likes us, who knows us, who can help us. How can a computer do these things? It is possible to take the place of the “teacher”, but how can it take the place of a “person”? Besides this, I think your way of studying and practicing sentences in front of a screen is not interesting enough.
Yours
Harbor
60. We can guess that Harbor has read Lucy’s article ___
A. in a magazine B. in a letter
C. in Lucy’s diary D. in the teachers’ office
61. From the letter we may know ___ .
A. Lucy’s opinion is the same as Harbor’s
B. Lucy’s opinion is similar to Harbor’s
C. there is something different between Lucy’s and Harbor’s opinions
D. Lucy’s and Harbor’s opinions are completely different
62. Among the following ideas, which do you think Harbor would agree to ?
A. The students can learn more from a computer than from a “person”
B. A human teachers is always important in teaching English
C. A computer can take the place of a human teacher.
D. Practising sentences in a computer will make students excited
63. The new compute can Not ___.
A. help the students learn English
B. show sentences to the students
C. teach the students English
D. love the students and understand their thoughts.
C
Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on(依靠) it.
The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most unusual of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature. No living thing was ever born with wheels. How then, did man come to invent the wheel?
Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the dead body of a heavy animal through the forest on logs (圆木) more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.
It must have taken a great prehistoric(史前) thinker a long time to imagine two thin pieces log connected at their centers by a strong stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle (轴) came into being, and with them the first carts were made.
64. The wheel was probably invented by ___.
A. a group of early hunters
B. the first men on earth
C. great prehistoric thinkers
D. the man who made the first cart
65. This passage says that the first wheel may have been a ___.
A. a round piece of stone B. a piece of heavy log
C. a piece of metal D. a tree
66. The idea of wheels may have come from ___.
A. running after an animal in order to kill it
B. rolling a dead animal on logs
C. watching running animals
D. watching a rolling stone
D
Every country has many good people who help to take care of others. Some high school students and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in a hospital , orphanage (孤儿院 ) or home for the aged . They read books to the people who are in these places, or they just visit them and play games or listen to their problems. Other young people volunteer to collect food or money, or they work in the homes of people who are sick or old. There are a group of volunteers to meet every need. For boys who no longer have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other man take these boys to ball games or on fishing trips and help then to know about things that boys learn from their fathers.
Every city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or to learn skills. Most of the clubs use high school and college students because they still remember the problems of younger boys and girls. An organization called Future Farmer of America will help young people living on farms to learn more about raising food and animals.
Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
67. In this passage 'volunteers’ are people ____.
A. who are taken care of in hospitals
B. who offer free service to help others
C. who serve in orphanages D. who organize clubs
68. Clubs for boys and girls like to use high school or college students because ____.
A. they understand the boys and girls better B. they are young and strong
C. they can play various games D. they are good at teaching
69. The most important things that the "Big Brothers “ teach fatherless boys are ____.
A. fishing B. playing ballgame
C. things usually learned from fathers
D. how to help and bring happiness to others
70. "Home for the aged " means ___
A. a home which has old people
B. a home without children
C. a place that supplies care and service for the old
D. a place where the old like to go
E
Every object has weight. But the center of its weight is not always in the middle of the object. If the top of an object is heavier than its bottom, it will fall over easily. We say that its center of gravity is high. But if the bottom is heavier, it won’t fall easily. Then we say that its center of gravity is low.
Look at the first picture. This empty box must fall over, because its center of gravity（C）is not above the line of its bottom（AB）
Now look at the second picture. There is some heavy iron in the bottom of this box. It will not fall, because its center of gravity is above its bottom.
71. If the bottom of an object is ______ its top, it will fall over easily.
A. lighter than B. heavier than C. not lighter than D. as heavy as
72. Please point out which box will not fall.
A
B
C
D
73. The reason why the Leaning Tower of Pisa does not fall is that _____ .
A. the top of the tower is heavier than its bottom
B. the bottom of the tower is not heavier than its top
C. its center of gravity is still above the line of its bottom
D. its center of gravity is not above the line of its bottom
74. If an object has a low center of gravity, _____ .
A. it won’t fall B. it won’t fall easily
C. it is sure to fall over D. its top must be heavier
75. The main idea of the passage is _______ .
A. why things fall over B. a low center of gravity
C. a high center of gravity D. that everything has weight
V短文改错（10’）
An old woman walked in a shop, she asked the 76._____
salesgirl let her have a look at a new dress, but the 77._____
girl stood behind the counter took no notice of the 78._____
woman. She spoke to the girl again, rising her 79._____
voice a little, and still got no answer. She said 80._____
to herself,” I’m very old to see well. I can’t even 81._____
tell a plastic model from a girl”. Listening this, 82._____
the girl shouted. “ What did you call me a plastic 83._____
model?” The old woman was surprise and said 84._____
“Dear, then it must be a new kind of robot” 85._____
VI书面表达(25’)
假如你是一名中学生，现在以My new school 为题写一篇短文，介绍你校一些情况:你校为一所重点中学(a key school),已有100年历史.现在全校有28个教学班,2100名学生,拥有教工一百多人.学校大而美丽,拥有二座教学楼,一座实验楼,一座图书馆.三座教师宿舍楼（dormitory building 及三座学生宿舍楼.学校老师优秀,教学设备齐全,学校的大操场在校内.可供学生们游戏和锻炼身体.