湖北省宜昌市夷陵中学2016_2017学年高一英语上学期期末考试试题

宜昌市夷陵中学2016—2017学年度第一学期期末考试

高一英语试卷

命题教师：苏红艳审题教师：董芳

试卷满分：150分

第I卷

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）

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 colour will the woman paint her room?

A. Green.

B. Yellow.

C. Orange.

2. What is the woman’s plan?

A. To pick up the man at 6:30.

B. To meet the man at the concert.

C. To go to the concert another day.

3. How did the man get the tickets?

A. From the Internet.

B. From the woman.

C. From the cinema.

4. Why doesn’t the man like the new clothes shop?

A. It is crowded on Saturday.

B. It sells expensive clothes.

C. It has few changing rooms.

5. What does the man think of Dr. Allen’s course?

A. B oring.

B. Enjoyable.

C. Difficult.

第二节听下面 5 段对话，每段对话读两遍。

听第 6 段材料，回答第6、7 题。

6. What are the speakers probably going to do?

A. Visit a player.

B. Watch a match.

C. Meet Eric.

7. What did Eric do in the sports museum last year?

A. He played basketball.

B. He took a photo of a player.

C. He bought a DV

D.

听第7 段材料，回答第8、9 题。

8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Teacher and student.

B. Boss and employee.

C. Classmates.

9. What advice does the man give about the woman’s article?

A. Correct the mistakes.

B. Add some information.

C. Delete unnecessary information. 听第8 段材料，回答第10 至12 题。

10. What will the man do tomorrow morning?

A. Write a report.

B. Have a meeting.

C. Meet Mr. Black.

11. Who will the man meet on Wednesday?

A. A general manager.

B. A marketing manager.

C. A bank manager.

12. When will the man leave for Hong Kong?

A. On Wednesday afternoon.

B. On Thursday morning.

C. On Friday afternoon.

听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。

13. What are the speakers talking about in general?

A. A comfortable car.

B. A strange friend.

C. A travel experience.

14. How did the man feel when he was picked up by the driver?

A. Confused.

B. Happy.

C. Tired.

15. Why did the driver pick up the man?

A. To have someone to talk to.

B. To ask him to watch the road.

C. To look for a guide to Holland.

16. What was Michael doing when the man found him?

A. Lying on the road.

B. Sleeping.

C. Laughing.

听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。

17. What do we know about Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud?

A. They both came first.

B.They came from New York.

C.They didn’t break the record.

18. Why were the fans disappointed?

A. They didn’t see the race

B. Fiennes suffered a heart attack.

C. The winners didn’t tur n up at the celebration.

19. What will Fiennes do next week?

A. Have his body examined.

B. Take an operation.

C. Return to work.

20. What program will be broadcast next?

A. A news report.

B. A football game.

C. A weather forecast.

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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Wouldn’t you want to travel more often without breaking the bank? If you are interested, read on to find out how you can do simple things to save money next time you go on vacation. Airfares

Plan in advance and visit discount websites to see if there are better deals. If you are planning to stay in two countries and an airline makes you change planes on those countries anyway, you might be in luck. Check pricing on the flights to see if you can stay a few days at the country of the flight change instead of changing planes right away since airlines often let you do that for the same price.

Accommodations

Sometimes the smaller towns close to where you are going have hotels that are much less expensive. If you don’t mind the 15-minute ride, you might just save a large amount of money. Home exchanges are pretty cool and popular especially in Europe. If you are of the adventure type, this could be exciting and refreshing. Sometimes smaller hotel chains are willing to give you free upgrades or even free nights. If you are staying at a destination for at least a few days, consider a vacation home instead of hotels. They are often more comfortable and your cost will probably be cheaper.

Eating

Figure out where you will be and eat before you actually go out. Avoid breakfast from the hotels because chances are good that the breakfast from the hotel is expensive and isn’t great. It probably pays to walk out the front door in the morning and find a local cafe. You might just

discover the local favorite unexpectedly. Want a breakfast that costs nothing? Ask for some bread to-go at the restaurant the night before. In addition, fancy lunches are often much less expensive than dinners. If you eat a big lunch and a light dinner, it’s also healthier.

21. What kind of travelers will choose a vocation home?

A. Those who dislike small hotel chains.

B. Those who want an adventure trip.

C. Those who plan to live longer in one place.

D. Those who don’t mind long-distance trips.

22. What does “that” refer to in Paragraph 2?.

A. pricing on the flight.

B. staying a few days at the country of the flight change.

C. staying in two countries.

D. changing planes right away.

23. The text is mainly about ______.

A. trips in different countries

B. tips on economical travel

C. tips for a package holiday

D. dos and don’ts during a trip

B

Fourth-grader Jaden Darnell has an Xbox 360 and a PlayStation 3. Like many other kids, he also plays games on his phone. At times, he says, it can be hard to tear himself away from a device (设备), especially when he’s playing NBA General Manager.

What makes some video games so attractive? Raph Koster, an expert on game design, says game makers employ a great deal of knowledge about what keeps people playing. He says that whether they know it or not, players like getting feedback (反馈) that they can see or hear. The game Peggle, for example, plays the song “Ode to Joy” every time you succeed at beating a level. “It gives you this amazing amount of celebration,” says Koster.

Game makers also know that once players have put in the time and effort to achieve a goal, they don’t like to give up. So some games are easy at first and become more challenging (挑战性的). At that point, the players may be offered a resource (资源) that makes winning easier. “The game creates a problem that it offers to solve for you in exchange for cash,” explains Ian Bogost, a professor who studies video games at the Georgia Institute of Technology. When players are connected to the Internet, developers can observe what they do. By recording players’ choices, game companies can find out what keeps people interested in and what makes them most likely to buy things.

Besides game developers, scientists are also paying attention to the power of games. Adam Gazzaley, a scientist at the University of California, has developed games that improve attention and memory in older adults. Now Gazzaley and his team are designing brain-building games for kids. “We think that how video games really pull you in and demand your attention can be used to help improve how the brain process (处理) information,” he says. To test the games’ effects on the mind, Gazzaley records brain activity while people play. He says that one day doctors might advise patients to play video games to improve their intelligence.

24．It’s difficult for Jaden Darnell to ______.

A．play NBA General Manager B．play with other kids

C．turn his attention to new games D．stop playing games

25．Why do game makers create games that are easy at first and then become more challenging?

A．To attract more players.

B．To make more money.

C．To offer a resource that makes winning easier.

D．To challenge players.

26．What’s Adam Gazzaley’s attitude towards the future of video games?

A．Worried. B．Doubtful. C．Promising. D．Uninterested. 27．What would be the best title for the text?

A．More than a game? B．The future of video games

C．It is game time! D．Say no to video games

C

I LOVE FOOTBALL. I started playing when I was nine years old, and football got me through. It helped make me who I am today. And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing(追逐) that dream, and not realizing it.

My romance with football started when my dad dragged me, kicking and screaming, to join a league. I had no desire to be there. I was naturally weak and the smallest kid by far. Fear turned to awe(敬畏) when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a huge, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy. And he is really strict and old-school.

Coach Graham used to ride me hard. I remember one practice in particular. “You’re doing it all wrong, Pausch. Go ba ck! Do it again!” I tried to do what he wanted. It wasn’t enough. “You owe me, Pausch! You’re doing push-ups after practice.”

When I was finally dismissed(解散), one of the assistant coaches came up to me. “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he s aid.

“Yeah.”

“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re doing bad and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”

That conversation has stuck with me my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s willing to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics(批评者) are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

There’s a lot of talk these days abou t giving children self-esteem(自尊). It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can’t do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

When Coach Graham first got hold of me, I was this weak kid with no skills and no physical strength. But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I ca n’t do today. Even now, having just turned forty-seven, I can give you a three-point stance that any NFL lineman would be proud of. I really felt grateful to Coach Graham for what he had done to me, though it surely did feel good at that time to do so many push-ups after practice.

28. Which words can best describe Coach Graham?

A. Strict and mean.

B. Big and proud.

C. Strict and wise.

D. Careful and strong.

29. The author believes that those who criticize you actually ______.

A. make fun of you

B. give you up

C. think ill of you

D. encourage you to do better

30. The author was grateful to Graham because the coach ______.

A. made him a member of NFL

B. made him do lots of push-ups

C. taught him the value of hard work

D. taught him the importance of playing football

31. What lesson can we learn from this passage?

A. No pains, no gains.

B. Never offer to teach fish to swim.

C. Behind bad luck comes good luck.

D. Action speaks louder than words.

D

A new study says people who feel they lack social power find it harder to perform physical work. The researchers say their study is the first to show that people who believe they lack influence in society feel the weight of the world.

Eun Hee Lee, a researcher in the group, says the people in the study were not suffering from the continuing deep sadness known as clinical depression. Instead, Ms. Lee said, the study was based on how the participants saw themselves. They rated themselves on what level they thought they held in the social order. They compared themselves with people they thought of as powerful and in control. She described what the study team meant by “powerful.”

“We defined being powerful as the one who has control over their own and others’ resources; whereas being powerless as being the ones who don’t have their control over theirs and others’ resources, and also have to be dependent to gain the resources that they need.” She said powerless people continually feel unsure.

Researchers in the study examined participants to learn their feelings about their status or level in society. They presented them with a statement such as, “I can get people to listen to what I say.“The participants were asked to lift a number o f boxes and guess their weight. The more powerless the people, the higher they estimated the weight of the containers.

In a second test the researchers asked participants to sit in ways that seemed powerful. In one example they sat with one elbow on the arm of a chair. That position is dominating, or commanding. Or, they sat with their hands under their thighs（大腿）, a restrictive position. People in the restrictive positions thought the boxes weighed more than they really did. Those who sat in the more power ful way made better estimates of the boxes’ weight.

Finally, a number of participants were asked to remember a time in which they felt powerful or powerless. Those who thought of a powerful time gave the best answers for the weight of several boxes. Those who remembered moments of powerlessness repeatedly said the boxes were heavier than they were.

Ms. Lee believes feelings of lack of power in humans might have developed from prehistoric times. She says it might have been a way to keep early man from using up limited resources. But she says that today, these feelings might not be good for people at work.

32. From the first two paragraphs we can learn that this study _____ .

A. chooses patients with mental problems to do the test

B. divides the participants into several groups

C. is aimed at proving a popular theory wrong

D. is based on the way people think about themselves

33. Which of the following can describe a person as “being powerful” according to the researchers?

A. He feels stronger than he actually is.

B. He can get others to listen to what he says.

C. He thinks the boxes heavier than they really are.

D. He often compares himself with the people in power.

34. In the latter two tests, participants thought things heavier when they _____ .

A. sit in a relaxed way

B. sit in a powerless way

C. remember a time of their being happy

D. remember a time of their being powerful

35. According to the last paragraph, Ms. Lee may agree that _____ .

A. we were born to feel lack of power, so we can do nothing about it

B. we can perform very well at work even if we don’t feel powerful

C. we may fail to put every effort into our work for feeling powerless

D. we are sure to do everything well only if we seem to be powerful

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。

It is hard to know what babies want. They can’t talk, walk, or even point at what they’re thinking about. 36 And, compared to adults, they develop these skills quickly. People have a hard time learning new languages as they grow older, but infants have the ability to learn any language easily.

For a long time, scientists have tried to explain how such young children can learn complicated(复杂的) grammatical rules and sounds of a language. 37 This new information might eventually help kids with learning problems as well as adults who want to learn new languages. It might even help scientists who are trying to design computers that can communicate like people do.

Most babies go “goo goo” and “ma ma” by 6 months of age. 38 For decades, scientists have wondered how the brains of young children figure out how to communicate using language. With the help from new technologies and research strategies, scientists are now finding that babies begin life with the ability to learn any language.

They get into contact with other people, listen to what they say and watch their movements very closely. 39 Studies show that, up to about 6 months of age, babies can recognize all the sounds that make up all the languages in the world.

There are about 6,000 sounds that are spoken in languages around the globe, but not every language uses every sound. For example, while the Swedish language has 16 vowel sounds, English uses 8 vowel sounds, and Japanese uses just 5. Adults can hear only the sounds used in the languages they speak fluently. To a native Japanese speaker, for example, the letters R and L sound the same. 40

A. Children don’t respond to this kind of sound.

B. Most children speak in full sentences by age 3.

C. A baby’s brain focuses on the most common sounds.

D. That is why they quickly master the languages they hear often.

E. So a Japanese speaker cannot tell “row” from “low”, or “rake” from “lake”.

F. Yet newborns begin to develop language skills long before they begin speaking

G. Now, researchers are knowing about what’s happening in the brains of the youngest language learners.

第II卷

第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分)

第一节完形填空（共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分）

One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise

following:

the professor began to explain:

"I'm not going to grade (打分)this. I 50 wanted to give you something to think about. No one

that pollute our minds. "

41. A. handed out B. turned up C. referred to D. pointed at

42. A. Since B. Until C. If D. After

43. A. fold B. turn C. open D. use

44. A. exercises B. choices C. questions D. scores

45. A. remember B. imagine C. study D. see

46. A. surprised B. confused C. curious D. displeased

47. A. collected B. finished C. marked D. selected

48. A. excuse B. doubt C. exception D. explanation

49. A. said B. answered C. returned D. read

50. A. also B. just C. even D. finally

51. A. big B. black C. beautiful D. white

52. A. lives B. classrooms C. colleges D. studies

53. A. send B. keep C. enjoy D. show

54. A. burden B. gift C. pressure D. lesson

55. A. reasons B. time C. freedom D. festivals

56. A. threatens B. ruins C. provides D. changes

57. A. However B. Therefore C. Besides D. Moreover

58. A. close B. complicated C. special D. strong

59. A. stay B. contact C. satisfaction D. disappointment

60. A. dark B. round C. small D. dirty

第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式（不多于3个单词）。

Everyone seems 61 (have) his or her own holiday. Dad has Father’s Day. Children have Children’s Day. Lovers have Valentine’s Day. 62 is there a special day for older people?

Of course. The Chongyang Festival is the holiday 63 Chinese people show love for their elders. 64 (celebrate) on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month,, the festival is also known as the Double Ninth Festival. Nine is the 65 (high) digit(数字), so it 66 (regard) that the two together mean a long life.

The festival comes during 67 golden time of autumn. The clear weather and the joy of harvest make for a happy atmosphere. On the day, people 68 (tradition) climb a mountain and carry dogwood. People in ancient times held the69 (believe) that the plant could drive away evil 70 (spirit) and prevent people against cold in winter.

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文，文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。

修改：在错词下面划—横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限—词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Fred Smith, Cindy’s father, is a businessman working for large company.

Her mother, Mary Smith, is a housewife for many years, but has now return to work as a secretary. Cindy has a brother, Jimmy, who is sixteen. He is in the twelve grade of the local high school. Cindy’s family often go to church on Sundays, but at college, Cindy does not attend to church every Sunday. Politically, Cindy’s parents regard himself as “middle-of-the-road”. And among all the problem facing the United States today, they are most concerning about pollution and the overuse of non-renewable resources so as oil. The whole family often spend evenings together watch television.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

假定你校正在开展“创建绿色校园”活动。请你以此为题用英语写一篇演讲稿，内容包括

1.创建绿色校园的意义；

2. 列举一些校园浪费的现象；

3. 发出倡议。

注意：1. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯；

2. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear friends,

As is known to all, our school has launched a program in order to build a green campus.

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____________________________________________________________________________ That’s all, thank you!