北京市八十中学08-09学年高一下学期期中(英语)

北京市第八十中学2008——2009学年度第二学期期中练习

高 一 英 语2009.04

（测试时间：100分钟）

姓名班级考号成绩

第I卷

一. 单项选择: (共25小题, 25分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

1. I think mathematics is very difficult ______.

A. to be learned

B. to be learning

C. for learning

D. to learn

2.When the New Year comes, children often ______ and get some gifts.

A. take up

B. put up

C. dress up

D. set up

3.---Must I take a bus?

---No, you ______. You can walk from here.

A. mustn’t

B. don’t have to

C. may not

D. don’t

4.Shelly ______ California for Texas in 1996 and ______ there ever since.

A. left; worked

B. left; has worked

C. has left; had worked

D. has left; worked

5.Do ______ right and respect the opinions of others.

A. what you believe is

B. that you believe is

C. which you believe is

D. which you believe

6.We ______ in the office.

A.aren’t permitted smoke

B. aren’t permitted smoking

C. don’t permit smoking

D. don’t permit to smoke

7.______ still needs to be discussed.

A. How is the plan to be carried out

B. How the plan is to be carried out

C. Why is the plan carried out

D. Why the plan carried out

8.We had only been driving for an hour when the car ______ petrol.

A. was run out of

B. was run out

C. ran out of

D. ran out

9.She made a suggestion ______ we should have a class meeting this week.

A. which

B. that

C. what

D. when

10.He’s famous ______ a singer ______ folk songs.

A. as; for

B. as; to

C. for; to

D. to; as

11. Rather than ______ the vegetables to go bad, he preferred ______ them at half price.

A. allow; sell

B. to allow; selling

C. allowing; sell

D. allow; to sell

12. Does everyone know what to do if a fire ______?

A. is broken up

B. is broken out

C. breaks up

D. breaks out

13. The actor was ______ a prize for his good performance.

A. rewarded

B. won

C. awarded

D. brought

14. On his way home, he found a wallet ______ on the ground.

A. lay

B. lie

C. laying

D. lying

15. We’ve got the tickets at a low price because they’re offering tickets at a special ______ now.

A. reason

B. order

C. discount

D. place

16. It must have rained last night, ______?

A. mustn't it

B. can't it

C. hasn't it

D. didn't it

17.---You couldn’t have chosen any gift better for me.

---______

A. I’m glad you like it so much.

B. That’s all right.

C. Thanks.

D. You’re welcome.

18. The island is about 1000 feet ______ the coast.

A. on

B. to

C. off

D. from

19.Could you please tell me where you bought the coat you ______ yesterday?

A. put on

B. had on

C. dressed in

D. wore in

20. I thought her nice and honest _____ I met her.

A. first time

B. for the first time

C. the first time

D. by the first time

21.Wait a minute. I’ll have my secretary ______ the document for you.

A. printed

B. to print

C. printing

D. print

22.Don’t interrupt while other student is speaking, ______?

A. will you

B. do you

C. won’t you

D. don’t you

23.Our meeting room is ______ theirs.

A. three times the size as

B. the size as three times

C. three times the size of

D. the size of three times

24.The old couple ______ for 50 years and never once have they quarreled with each other.

A. have married

B. have been married

C. have got married

D. had married

25. ---Would you like something to drink?

---A cup of coffee, please.

---How do you like it?

---______.

A. Very much

B. Black, please.

C. It tastes a little bitter.

D. Up to you

二. 完形填空:（共20小题，20分）

阅读下面短文, 从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

I didn’t think I had a passion （激情）. I 26 sit in front of the TV all day, thinking about nothing 27 the next 28 .

It was not long ago that I first learned how 29 having a passion is to my life. That day my mother drove me to the center of the city. Then, as my mum stopped at a red light, someone on the side of the road caught my 30 . It was a man 31 in rags. He was homeless. That didn’t 32 me, for I had seen many like him 33 . But in some way he was 34 , this man was not sitting down 35 a sad expression. He had a radio in his hand and was dancing 36 to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious （珍贵的）thing he had. “Mum, why does that man have a radio 37 he is homeless?” I asked.

“He bought it.” She replied. I was still unable to 38 .

“But if he is homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy 39 or clothes? He 40 it on something he doesn’t need.”

“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important things. We need 41 , too.” That man must 42 enough about 43 instead of food and clothes. I soon realized that happiness is the key to life. Without it , there is nothing to look forward to. Since then I’ve gone a day 44 thinking of what’s truly important. A home, a meal, clothes----these things are only part of the life. What’s often forgotten is that we all need a 45 , a light in a dark day. We all need a passion.

26.A. should B. would C. had to D. could

27.A. but B. only C. more D. less

28.A. day B. man C. show D. road

29.A. interesting B. important C. successful D. careful

30.A. arm B. eye C. hand D. foot

31.A. dressed B. put on C. wore D. had

32.A. stop B. follow C. help D. interest

33.A. ago B. before C. too D. since

34.A. different B. wonderful C. friendly D. funny

35.A. with B. in C. about D. on

36.A. happy B. happily C. sadly D. hurriedly

37.A. even though B. as though C. though D. even if

38.A. understand B. explain C. know D. guess

39.A. love B. food C. shoes D. hat

40.A. collected B. wasted C. put D. lived

41.A. happiness B. money C. jobs D. relaxation

42.A. care B. hear C. learn D. talk

43.A. money B. meal C. music D. health

44.A. without B. while C. of D. when

45.A. care B. notice C. help D. pleasure

三. 阅读理解:（共15小题, 30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项。

A

Koeler took special notice of the tall woman who was nicely dressed, but she was wearing ugly, thick-soled(厚底) shoes.

Now the woman was taken to a room for questioning. There it was found that the soles of the shoes were hollow(中空的). They were opened. Some diamonds fell out on the floor. Their total weight was 3377 carats(克拉).

The young woman broke down in tears. Then she told her story. For years she had dreamed of coming to live in America, she said. At last she had managed to get the papers she needed to come to the U.S. Then a strange man called on her. He said he would pay for her trip and give her one hundred dollars. All she had to do was to smuggle the diamonds past the U.S. Customs(海关). The man gave her the shoes and also bought her a plane ticket. Just before she got on the plane, he gave her an envelope. He said that it was the hundred dollars he had promised.

The weeping woman handed the envelope to Koeler. He tore it open. There was only eighteen dollars. She was cheated. In the end the woman was trialed and sentenced to eighteen months in

prison for her part in the smuggling.

46. Where did the story happen?

A. At an airport.

B. At a police station.

C. At a railway station.

D. In a custom office in China.

47. The underlined word “smuggling ” in this passage most probably means_____.

A. 偷税

B. 盗窃

C. 走私

D. 交换

48. The woman had agreed to smuggle the diamonds______.

A. in order to get the papers she needed

B. in hope of selling them

C. in return for some money and a free trip

D. so as to share them with the man

49. Which is the right order of the events(事件)given in the passage?

a. She wanted to live in the U.S.

b. She arrived in the U.S.

c. She was given an envelope.

d. She was given a plane ticket.

e. She was found out.

f. She was put into prison.

A. a, d, c, b, e, f

B. a, b, c, e, f, d

C. a, c, d, b, e, f

D. a, b, d, c, e, f

B

Weekend one-day out

A walk along the Wall

Beijing Hikers is organizing a hike in a village along the Great Wall in Changping District, north of downtown Beijing. The walk will take around three hours covering a distance of 10 kilometres. Time: 8:30 a.m-4:30p.m, Dec.4

Cost: 200 yuan (US $25) per adult, 150 yuan (US $18.50) for under-12s.

Meeting place: 8:30a.m. in front of Starbucks at Lido Holiday Inn, Jiangtai Lu

To sign-up (one day before the hike) and more information, contact Huijie at

or 139-1002-5516.

Skiing and hot springs

Cycle China plans a day’s skiing fun at a resort around Beijing followed by an outdoor hot spring bath for your sore body.

Cost: 350 yuan (US $43.40)

Time: 8:30 a.m-6:30p.m, Dec.4

Location: Meet at the office of Cycle China, opposite the east gate of Jingshan Park, Xicheng District.

For more information and reservation, email reserve@https://www.wendangku.net/doc/ef9704059.html, or call 139-1188-6524. Horse riding

This is a trip to a professional horse-riding club with well-trained bilingual instructors, offering lessons to people who love riding and those willing to learn more. The club is located in Hebei Province next to the Kangxi Grassland.

Time: 1:30 a.m-4:30p.m, Dec.4

Cost: 330yuan (US $40.74) including one hour’s riding, transportation, guide, lunch

To sign-up and more information, contact Lucy at 8580-5080, 130-1117-1326 or

50. This passage is written mainly for _______.

A. tourists

B. holiday-makers

C. guides

D. sportsmen

51. If Mary, who is ten years old, wants to hike along the Great Wall with her parents, they will

pay _____ dollars.

A. 400

B. 450

C. 68.50

D. 65

52. If you are interested in the knowledge about horse-riding, you’ll contact ____

A. 139-1188-6515

B. 139-1188-6524

C. 130-1117-1326

D. 139-1002-5516

53. Cycle China is ________.

A. a website which offers traveling information

B. a traveling agency

C. a trainer for skiing

D. a resort which offers hot spring bath

C

Sitting is an art that isn’t getting passed along. People these days feel as though they have to be doing something. If they are not working, they are jogging, or playing tennis or golf, or taking courses to improve their minds or bodies—or they are parked in front of the TV. Sitting in front of the TV isn’t sitting —it’ s watching.

People used to sit a whole lot. You would walk down the street or drive down the road, and there they would be, out on the doorsteps, sitting. You could go down to the store and sit on the bench out front in the summer or around the fire in the winter. There were sitting benches out in the town square. At the garage (车库), there were straight-backed chairs. There among the oilcans and tires and spare parts, you could kick back and sit.

Houses used to have sitting rooms, where the grown-ups would go after Sunday dinner. Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Aunt Ruby would sit and digest chicken and talk about Aunt Ethel's illness, and how well the minister did today. Outside, the children would play, and the afternoon would pass by in a comfortable haze ( 悠闲的氛围).

That sort of thing looks like doing nothing. A recharging battery (正充电的电池) doesn’t look as if it' s doing anything either. Sitting restores your soul. If you want to enjoy a truly full life, don’t just do something—sit there.

54. What message does the author try to get through to us？

A. People should make better use of their sitting room.

B. People should spend less time watching TV.

C. People should pass down their good habits.

D. People should take things easy for their own good.

55. We can learn from the second paragraph that ________.

A. people lived a more restful life in the past

B. towns were built to make living convenient

C. small town garages had a lot to offer

D. people enjoyed going out for a drive

56. The sitting room mentioned in the text used to be a place for_______.

A. eating food

B. watching TV

C. gathering together

D. playing with children

57. From the text we know the writer believes ________.

A. sitting has a good spiritual effect

B. sitting helps people remember the past

C. a sitting room may have different purposes

D. a sitting room is important for the old

D

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised, “Barbara, be enthusiastic(热情的)! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. ” How right they were!

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson．It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments．Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eye, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped (弯曲的)shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, ‘I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.’”

If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had trouble her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “I am tempted to call Layton a genius.”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses – finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.

58. The author holds the view that ______．

A. enthusiastic people will never get old

B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

C. enthusiasm is more important than experience

D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame

59. The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that ______．

A. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm

B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

C. enthusiasm can make people feel young

D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy

60. Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?

A. Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult times．

B. If you don’t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing．

C. Enthusiastic people seldom consider money and fame．

D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor．

第II 卷

四. 选词填空: (共10小题, 10分)

用方框中短语的恰当形式完成句子。

1.You can ask the others, but _______________ myself, I am against this plan.

2.The next meeting will_______________ on Thursday.

3.To be honest, I don’t like him very much. He is always _______________other people.

4.Jack was very rude to his teacher in class this morning. He should be called to

________________ his behaviors.

5.After she finished her story, Tomara _______________her in disbelief, shaking his head.

6.Those clouds threw shadows that _______________ some sunlight _______________.

7.Her grandmother_______________ telling jokes. She can always make us laugh.

8.I didn’t stop drinking, but at least I tried to ________________ it ________________.

9.I’m still thinking about moving to someplace that I’ve never been to. However, my parents

suggested that I _______________ and have a family.

10.Whether we will go home tomorrow or not_______________ whether it will rain or not.

五. 写作: (15分)

假设你是一名高一一班的学生李华，上周你们班组织了一次感谢恩师的活动。请根据下面图示和提示词，为学校网站写一篇英文稿件，叙述这次活动从准备到结束的完整过程及其你的感想。

注意： 1. 词数不少于60

2. 提示词要有适当形式的变化, 顺序可以改变

organize an activity , discuss, express thanks to, come up with , decide to , send gifts

do some good deeds , decorate …with , do cleaning, be moved

2 1 2

3 4

北京市第八十中学2008——2009学年度第二学期期中练习高 一 英 语 答 题 纸

姓名班级学号成绩

四. 选词填空: (注意短语的适当形式)

1.________________________

2.________________________

3.________________________

4.________________________

5.________________________

6.________________________

7.________________________ 8._________________________

9.________________________ 10. _______________________

五. 写作:

Last week our class

_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

高一英语期中考试答案

一. 单项选择(共25题, 每题1分, 共25分):

1-5 DCBBA 6-10 CBCBA 11-15 DDCDC 16-20 DACBC 21-25 DACBB

二. 完型填空(共20题, 每题1分, 共20分):

26-30 BACBB 31-35 ADBAA 36-40 BAABB 41-45 AACAD

三. 阅读理解(共15题, 每题2分, 共30分):

46-49 ACCA 50-53 BCCB 54-57 DACA 58-60 BCC

四. 选词填空(共10题, 每题1分, 共10分):

1. as for

2. take place

3. playing tricks on

4. account for

5. stared at

6. blocked out

7. has a gift for

8. cut down

9. settle down 10. depends on

五. 写作: (15分)

Possible version

Last week our class organized an activity to express thanks to our teachers. On Thursday we had a class meeting to discuss what to do , We came up with many good ideas, Then we decided to send them gifts and do some good deeds,

The next day we carried out our plan, Some of us cleaned the teachers’ office and decorated it with pots of flowers , making it more comfortable for the teachers to work in , Others helped wash the cars or bikes, And still others gave well-prepared gifts to the teachers, who were very pleased and expressed their best wishes to us .

We all felt happy about what we had done for our teachers.