洛阳八中2013-2014学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题含答案模拟

河南省洛阳八中2013-2014学年高一下学期
期中模拟
英语试题
一单项填空（15题每题1分）
1. Mary looks fed up today but she won’t say____ annoys her.
A .why it is that
B that is why
C how it is that
D what it is that
2 —Look ！Michael ，our headmaster, was coming.
—_____? I didn’t do something wrong.
A. So what
B. Why
C. Why not
D. What for
3. The course normally attracts 20 students per year, _____ up to half will be from abroad.
A. of whom
B. in which
C. for whom
D. with whom
4. It is reported that a new planet has been discovered recently. It’s ____ Earth, and hopefully it can support human life.
A. almost three times the size of
B. three times the size than
C. three times more than as large as
D. almost three times as larger as
5---why didn’t you go to the concert?
---I a close game between two American football teams.
A watched
B had watched
C was watching
D have been watching
6. We should be able to do the job for you quickly, ______ you give us all the necessary information.
A. as if
B. provided that
C. in case
D. or else
7 Don’t speak ____, boys and girls. Try to ex press yourselves one by one.
A. all over
B. all at once
C. all in all
D. all that
8. John has failed the job interview, ___can be seen from his ___expression.
A. which; disappointed
B. that; disappointed
C. which; disappointing
D. as; disappointing
9. He is such a lazy man ____ nobody wants to work with _____.
A. as; him
B. that; /
C. whom; him
D. as; /
10. My energy has _____, so I feel very exhausted.
A. run out of
B. used up
C. run out
D. used up of
11. He studied hard, ______, he passed the exam.
A. in consequence
B. as a result of
C. as result
D. in consequence of
12. We _____ the problem for quite some time, but we ___ any conclusion yet.
A. had discussed; haven’t drawn
B. discussed; haven’t drawn
C. have discussed; haven’t been drawn
D. have been discussing; haven’t drawn
13 ____it is for the sky divers to jump from a plane 10,000 feet high.
A What an unusual experience
B What unusual experience
C How unusual experience
D How an unusual experience
14Are you ____to pass the coming examination?
A possible
B probable
C maybe
D likely
15—Come on ,please give me some idea about the project（工程）
—Sorry. With so much____ my mind, I almost break down.
A filled
B filling
C to fill
D being filled
二完形填空（20题每题1.5分）
Today the car is the most popular sort of transportation in all of the United States. It has completely 16 the horse as a of everyday transportation. Americans use their car for90% of all 19 business. Most Americans are able to cars. The average price of a made car was 20 050 in 1950,25 470 in 1960 and up to 30 750 1975.During this period American car
manufacturers set about their products and work efficiency. As a result, the yearly income of the family increased from 1950 to 1975 than the price of cars. For this reason a new car takes a smaller 27 o f a family’s total earnings today. In 1951 it took 8.1 months of an average family’s
to buy a new car. In 1962 a new car 30 8.3 of a family’s annual(每年的) earnings, by 1975 it only took 4.75 income. In addition, the 1975 cars were technically to models from previous years. The of automobile extends（延伸）
throughout the economy the car is so important to Americans. Americans spend more money keeping their cars than on any other item（物品）
16.A.placed B. reproduced C. replaced
17.A.means B.mean C.types D.kinds
18.A.hardly B.nearly C.certainly
19.A.personal B.personnel C.manual（手工的）
20.A.buy B.sell C.race D.own
21.A.quickly B.regularly C.rapidly
22.A.on B.in C.before
23.A.raising B.making C.reducing D.improving
24.A.unusual B.smallest C.average
25.A.slower B.equal C.faster
26.A.bringing B.winning C.finding
27.A.part B.half C.number
28.A.clearly B.proportionally C.fortunately
29.A.income B.work C.plans
ed B.spent C.cost
31.A.month’s B.year’s
32.A.famous B.superior C.fastest D.bette
33.A.running B.notice C.influence
34.A.then B.as C.so D.which
35.A.living B.running C.changing D.selling
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中选出最佳答案。

A
As children grow up, they become curious about different kinds of things. When they are babies, they are interested in the parts of their bodies and in the smiles of their mothers. Then they become interested in the physical world around them: the plants, the animals, the sky. Later, they become interested in the things that people have made: wheels, bicycles, cars. And when they are adults, their curiosity continues. Sometimes this curiosity leads to a career(生涯、职业) in science.
Scientists spend their lives trying to find out about the world. Those who work with the earth sciences study the earth, the oceans, and the skies. Other scientists who study living things work with the biological sciences. A third group of scientists study the physical sciences, e.g. physics, chemistry.
These scientists have already discovered a lot about our world. For example, they tell us why your heart beats fast when you run. They say that when you are quiet, your heart normally beats sixty five or seventy five times a minute. Your heart is a pump(泵) that pumps blood to all parts of the body. The blood carries oxygen and nutrition. When you run, your muscles work very hard and use the nutrition that the blood carries to them. The muscles need oxygen, too. So your brain sends a signal to the heart. The signal means that the muscles need more nutrition and oxygen. Then the heart beats fast and sends blood quickly to the muscles. It may beat 90 to 140 times a minute.
Of course, scientists cannot answer all of our questions. If we ask, “Why does the ocean water taste salty?” scientists will say that the salt comes from rocks. When a rock gets very hot or very cold, it cracks. Rain falls into cracks. The rain then carries the salt into the earth and into the rivers. The rivers carry the salt into the ocean. But then we ask, “What happens to the salt in the ocean? The ocean does not get saltier every year.” Scientists are not sure about the answer to this question.
We know a lot about our world, but there are still many answers that we do not have, and we are curious.
36. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. People are curious in the same way.
B. People in different countries are interested in different things.
C. Men and women are curious about different things.
D. People of different ages are interested in different things.
37. Scientists who work with the biological sciences study________ .
A. the earth, the oceans and the sky
B. man-made things
C. plants and animals
D. ocean water
38. When you run, your muscles need________ .
A. more nutrition and oxygen
B. more signals
C. more salt
D. water
39. A rock cracks ________.
A. in wet regions
B. in dry regions
C. at very high or very low temperatures
D. when salty water falls in
40. People are always curious because_________ .
A. they cannot explain many things
B. they know nothing about the world
C. they know little about the world
D. they want to be scientists
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb(麻木的).She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the
On that fourth morning of July in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so thick that she could hardly see her support boats. Sharks swam toward her lone figure, only to be driven away by rifle shots. Against the coldness of the sea, she struggled on—hour after hour—while millions watched on national
Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn’t much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to give up. She never had...until then. With only a half mile
Still thawing(使变暖和)her chilled body several hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, I’m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog.
Two months later, she tried again. This time, despite the same heavy fog, she swam with her faith intact(完整无损的)and her goal clearly pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, eclipsing(超越)the
41. Why didn’t Florence swim across the Catalina Channel for the first time?
B. Because the fog was so thick that she couldn’t see her support
C. She had never seen such a th
43. Which of the following is NOT true?
B. Florence Chadwick succeeded in swimming across the Catalina Channel in
C. People had to use guns to drive away some flesh-
D. No women but Florence Chadwick were able to swim the English Channel in both
The producer appeared behind the recording studio window and smiled and waved to me like an old friend. And after I had read out a little test piece, he said, “That’s fine, wonderful, your voice is perfect, lively, wonderful.” Then I read a longer passage in English about the delights of touring in Britain, and another about the delights of visiting London, and both were “excellent” and “just right”,
To be honest, I was fairly sure of myself though I lacked experience. Across the room in the Hamburg News Agency where we both worked, a friend named Peter Turner called to me, “I say, Mike, a man on the phone here wants someone to do a recording in English, and I’m booked up. Would you read something to him in English as a sort of test?” I did, and they said, “Perfect, lovely, wonderful,...” Would I come
It was after reading their passage in English in the studio that they noticed my vowel(元音)pronunciations were not altogether King’s English, or even Prince Philip’s, there was a larger silence than usual, then the voice said: “Fine, lovely...,but you said the word ‘castle’ with a short ‘a’. Could we have the
“It’s my northern English accent,” I said,angry, because I had to apologize
“Oh, I see...but Mike, we’ll have to get it right, I’m afraid. The recording is for teaching English to German schoolchildren, and it must be spoken in the way
I read the passage again...and again...and again. But of course you cannot change the pronunciation of a lifetime in an hour. The studio men were in the state of having lost hope and underlined the vowels which caused me to feel angry, so that I’d remember them. But because I had to concentrate(集中)on them, I made a lot of mistakes in my reading. Everyone got somewhat irritable(easily made angry), so we all went
B
C. They began to discus
B. it was different from the English taught in German scho
B. He was trying to do the recording in a
People can be addicted to different things—e.g. alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive(强迫的):they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit(以赊欠方式),charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than
There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that th ey don’t need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets(预算),but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.
It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business. They consider people’s needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and
Psychologists often use a method called “behavior thera py(疗法)” to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people
48. According to the psychologists, a compulsive spender is one who spends large amounts of money.
A. and take
B. Business people and advertisers can use the psychology of people’s spending
C. Business people understand the psychology of compulsive buying better than scientists do.
50. What is the text mainly about?
D. T
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。

What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, red? 71 . Do you prefer grays and blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You tend to be pessimist(悲观主义者). At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference, as well as the effect that colors have on human beings. 72 . If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.
73 . A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. 74 . A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the scene of more suicides than any other bridge in the area ----until it was repainted green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply. Perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in pink or baby blue.
75 . It is an established fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or grey.
A.On the other hand, black is depressing.
B.They tell us, among other facts, that we do not choose our favorite color as grow up---we are born with our preference.
C.The rooms are painted in different colors as you like.
D.If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement.
E.Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active.
F.Life is like a picture or a poem, full of different colors.
G.Colors do influence our moods---there is no doubt about it.
第三部分写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词
的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线（），并在该词下面写
出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词;
After shopping, Mother and I go to a restaurant for lunch. I noticed Mother
looking at a nearby table occupy by an elderly woman and young couple. They were
silent, and it was clearly that things were not going well. As we left, Mother stopped
on their table. “Excuse me,” she said, put her arm s around the unhappy old woman.
“You remind me so many of my mother. May I hug (拥抱) you?” The woman smiled happily
as she accepted to it. After we left, I said, “That was very nice of you, Mother.
So I didn’t think she looked like Grandma.” “Neither did me.” said Mother
cheerfully.
第二节书面表达(满分25分) 假如你是李华，进入高中后，你觉得学英语的方式和初
中有很大不同，你给自己的英语老师写了一封信，讲述自己的英语学习情况。

要包括以下内
容：
1、开始学习高中英语时，觉得英语比初中英语难得多，几乎丧失信心。

2、后来认识到英语的重要性。

3、每天努力学习英语。

4、向老师和同学请教更好的英语学习方法。

5、现在英语取得了很大进步，对英语越来越感兴趣。

6、信的开头结尾已给出。

提示：初中junior high school 高中 senior high school
词数：100-150词
Dear Mr. Li,
I am glad to tell you that
____________________________________________________________________ Yours Li Hua
高一年级英语期中模拟试卷参考答案
21.B 根据上下文这里应该是指“有规律”地生产的车，即批量生产的、普通的车。

22.B 指的是在1975，与前面的in 1950对应。

32.B 本句意为在1975出产的汽车在工艺上比前些出产的各种型号的汽车优越。

be superior to“比……优越”；be better后面要接than；famous“著名的”；fastest“最快的”。

33.C 本句意为汽车的影响涉及整个经济。

influence“影响”；affect是动词，不符合语法；running和notice不符合句意。

34.B 这里as引导原因状语从句：因为汽车对美国人来说很重要，所以汽车制造影响到整个经济。

35.B 最后一句是个总结。

说的是既然汽车制造这么重要，那美国人做得最多的事就是让汽车不要停下来，也就是使汽车制造持续发展下去。

因此B项running才是答案。

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
40.A 深层理解题。

根据文章最后一句“We know a lot about our world, but there are...”，可断定选项B和C是错的。

而选项D “人们想当科学家”并不是好奇的原因，且相反，正因为人们对某些事情的不理解，才产生了好奇心，才立下了当科学家的志向。

所以选A最为恰当。

人人都有好奇心，无论是小孩还是成人，是第二篇文章的论点。

文章还通过具体事例说明了就是因为“好奇心”，人类科学才得以发展。

45.A 细节理解题。

在测试中“我”先读了一段测试题。

然后“I read a longer passage in English about the delights of touring in Britain, and another about the delights
of visiting London，”因此这次录音是第三个文章。

46.B 细节题。

从“The recording is for teaching English to German schoolchildren,
and it must be spoken in the way it is taught in German schools”得此答案。

47.C 细节题。

从文中我们可以看出他所读的个别元音老是达不到别人的要求。

48.C 细节题。

文章一开头便把主旨介绍得很清楚:人们可能会沉溺于做各种事,以满足自己
的心理需求。

49.B 事实判断题。

由文章的第三段中“e psychology to increase business”可知。

50.A 概括大意题。

全文通过两类人的购物事例来说明人们在购物时的一些特殊心理需求。

第二节
71-75 DBGAE
改错
书面表达(满分25分) One possible version：
Dear Mr. Li,
I’m glad to tell you that I have made great progress in my English study since
I became a senior high school student.
When I started senior English in the beginning, I found it much more difficult
than what we learned in junior school and I almost lost heart. Later, I realized
the importance of English, so I got up early every morning, recited English words,
listened to English tapes and did a lot of exercises. I also asked my teachers and
classmates for better ways of learning English.
Now, I’m improving my English greatly. And I’m getting more and more interested in learning it. Thank you so much for your great help in your class.
Wish you all the best.
Yours,
Li Hua。