高中英语真题-高一年级2015-2016学年度上学期期中考试英语试题

高一年级2015-2016学年度上学期期中考试英
语试题
时间：100分钟分值120分
第Ⅰ卷选择题（共两部分，满分70分）
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
It was my birthday last Thursday. I decided to it by inviti ng a few friends out to supper. I chose a restaurant in a part of town. It is one of my favorite restaurants because the f ood is good and the waiters are friendly. It is ever crow ded, because not many people know about it, so it is not usua lly to book a table. In any case, Thursday is not a busy evening .
When we entered the restaurant, we were surprised to find it completely . I looked around but not a single table was . One of the waiters recognized me. He came over and the situation. "A party of tourists came in about half an hou r ago.” he said. " Suddenly the place was full! We can hardly manage. "
The waiter then pointed to a table in the corner. "The people t here are about to "he said, "Just and you'll find a pl ace there." He was right. Fifteen minutes later,he people at th e corner table paid their , got up and left. I led my friend s and we all sat down.
Unluckily our table was almost out of . We tried to c all the attention of the waiter sent us there, but he, like all the other waiters, was with the party of tourism. They ordered lots of food. At last, an hour later, the tourists were le aving and looking very with life. The waiter now very tired , appeared at our table. I my friends about the best dish es and finally the waiter went off with our order.
A few moments later he returned to our table. We could tell fr om his face that he had for us. Looking a little , he told us that there was no meat fish left. "All we can offe r you" he said, "is an omelet(煎蛋卷) !"
1．A. remember B. celebrate C. memorize D. con gratulate
2．A. quiet B. calm C. busy D. silent 3．A. hard B. often C. hardly D. always 4．A. necessary B. possible C. important D. cert ain
5．A. as before B. as a matter of fact C. as usual D. as is known to all
6．A. empty B. full C. noisy D. quiet 7．A. busy B. crowded C. free D. double 8．A. changed B. improved C. faced D. explained 9．A. start B. finish C. end D. pay 10．A. never mind B. come on C. hold on D. no problem
11．A. menu B. bill C. order D. note 12．A. over B. across C. beyond D. between 13．A. sight B. place C. reach D. control 14．A. whom B. which C. he D. who 15．A. satisfied B. busy C. happy D. strict 16．A. exciting B. tired C. pleased D. disa ppointing
17．A. calmed B. advised C. ignored D. warn ed
18．A. bad news B. good dishes C. useful tips D. nic e presents
19．A. friendly B. surprised C. sorry D. tiring 20．A. and B. but C. so D. or
第二节阅读理解（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Ne ver fear: An inventor is on the case. An electric toothbrush se nses （感
觉） how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track （跟踪） your performance on your phone.
The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Co nsumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It senses h ow it is moved and can send the information to an Android ph one or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless （无线
的） connection.
The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t f orget the insides of the teeth!) and make sure you’re brushing long enough. “It’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch your brushing on a day-to-
day basis,” says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.
The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications （设备）
on your phone, so developers could, for example, create a ga me controlled by your toothbrush. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart and fun,” Serval says.
Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kids if they had bru shed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their to othbrush heads dry. He deci
ded he needed a brush that really told him how well his childr en brushed.
The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, fr om $99 to $199, and the U.S. is the first target market. ( 目标市场)
21．All of the following statements are wrong except _______ _____.
A. It can sense how users brush their teeth.
B. It can track users’ school performance.
C. It can check users’ fear of seeing a dentist.
D. It can help users find their phones.
22．What can we learn from Serval’s words in Paragraph 3?
A. You will find it enjoyable to see a dentist.
B. You should see your dentist on a day-to –day basis.
C. You can brush with the Kolibree as if guided by a dentist.
D. You’d like a dentist to watch you brush your teeth every da y.
23．What can we infer about Serval’s children?
A. They were unwilling to brush their teeth
B. They often failed to clean their toothbrushes.
C. They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head.
D. They liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home.
What makes a gift special? Is it the price you see on the gift r eceipt? Or is it the look on the recipient's face when they recei ve it that determines the true value? What gift is worth the mo st?
This Christmas was debating what to give my father. My dad i s a hard person to buy for because he never wants anything. I pulled out my phone to read a text message from my mom sa ying that we were leaving for Christmas shopping for him whe n I came across a message on my phone that I had locked. T he message was from my father. My eyes fell on a photo of a flower taken in Wyoming, and underneath a poem by William Blake. The flower, a lone dandelion standing against the brigh t blue sky, inspired me. My dad had been reciting those words
to me since I was a kid. That may even be the reason why I l ove writing. I decided that those words would be my gift to my father.
I called back. I told my mom to go without me and that I alrea dy created my gift. I sent the photo of the cream-
coloured flower to my computer and typed the poem on top of it. As I was arranging the details another poem came to mind. The poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe; my dad recited it as much as he did the other. I typed that out as well and sear ched online for a background to the words of it. The poem wa s focused around dreaming, and after searching I found the pr efer picture. The image was painted with blues and greens an d purples, twisting together to create the theme and wonder of a dream. As I watched both poems passing through the print er, the white paper colouring with words that shaded my child hood, I felt that this was a gift that shaped my childhood; I felt that this was a gift that my father would truly appreciate. Christmas soon arrived. The minute I saw the look on my dad' s face as he unwrapped those swirling black letters carefully p laced in a cheap frame, I knew I had given the perfect gift. 24．The idea for a special gift began to form when the author was _____.
doing shopping
having a debate
reading a message
leaving for Wyoming
25．The author’s inspiration for the gift came from _____.
a photo of a flower
a story about a kid
a call from the mother
a text about Christmas
26．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to a poem by _____.
the father
the author
William Blake
Edgar Allan Poe
27．The author made the gift by _____.
searching for the poems online
drawing the background by hand
painting the letters in three colours
matching the words with pictures
28．What is the main purpose of the passage?
To show how to design images for gifts.
To suggest making gifts from one’s heart.
To explain how computers help create gifts.
To describe the gifts the author has received.
After an absence of thirty years, I decided to visit my old scho ol again．I had expected to find changes, but not a completel y different building．As I walked up the school drive, I wonder ed for a moment if I had come to the right address．The dirty red brick houses had been swept away．In its place stood a b right, modern block．A huge expanse of glass extended (延展) across the face of the building, and in front, there was a w ell-kept lawn (草
坪) where previously there had been “an untidy gravel (沙石) yard”.
I was pleased to find that it was bread time and that the childr en were all in the playground．This would enable me to meet some members of staff(职
员)．On entering the building, I was surprised to hear loud lau ghter coming from what appeared to be the masters’ common room．I could not help remembering the teachers in my time, all dressed in black gowns (长袍) and high collars (领子)．And above all, I recalled Mr Garston whom we had nickn
amed “Mr Ghastly”, the headmaster who had iron discipline(纪
律) on staff and pupils alike．I knocked at the common room door and was welcomed by a smiling young man who introdu ced himself to me as the headmaster．He was dressed casu ally in a sports jacket, and his cheerful manner, quickly dispell ed (驱
散) the image of Mr Ghastly．After I had explained who I was, the headmaster presented me to the teachers all of whom we re a little younger than himself, and said he would take me ro und the school.
Here the biggest surprise of all was in store for (在等
待)me．Gone were the heavy desks of old with their deeply c arved names; gone too, were the dark classrooms with their i nk stained, dark brown walls, and their raised platforms for th e teachers．The rooms now were painted in bright colors, an d the children, far from sitting straight in their places, seemed almost free to do as they liked．I looked with envy(嫉
妒) as I remembered how, as a child, I had looked at the black board hardly daring to whisper to my neighbor.
29．“Mr Ghastly” must be ______.
A．the writer’s teacher
B．a serious old man
C．the strict headmaster
D．a naughty boy
30．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．He had expected that the school had completely changed. B．In the writer’s time, all the teachers were dressed in black gowns and high collars.
C．There was a well-
kept lawn in their school when he visited it.
D．An untidy gravel yard had disappeared.
31．From what is said in the passage, it seems clear that the writer ______.
A．disapproved of all the changes that had taken place B．felt sorry for the children in the school
C．was glad that the school was still the same
D．felt that conditions at the school had improved a lot
For most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machin e that inspires none of the enthusiasm or interest that Americ ans afford trains, jets，
and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a member of a sma ll group of elevator experts who consider this a misunderstand
ing. Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no do wntown skyscrapers or tall buildings, and city life as we know it would be impossible. In that sense, they argue，
the elevator’s role in American history has been no less signifi cant than that of cars. In fact, according to Wilk? the car and t he
elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally (水平地)，and elevators pus
hing them toward life in close groups of towering vertical (垂直的)columns.
If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators, it might be b ecause riding in them tends to be such a brief, boring, and ev en awkward experience^one that can involve unexpectedly m eeting people with whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant awareness of the fact that we’re hanging from a c able in a long passage.
In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies p rofessor Andreas Bernard directed all his attention to this exp erience, studying the origins of elevator and its relationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never be en a totally comfortable experience. “
After 150 years, we are still not used to it”， Bernard said. “W
e still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture o
f clos eness and displeasure.” That mixture, accordin
g to Bernard, s ets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situatio n we find ourselves in as we go about our lives.
Today，as the world’s urban population explodes，
and cities become more crowded, taller, and more crowded, A merica’s total number of elevators—
900,000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazine’s “2012 Vertical Transportation Industry”一
are a force that’s becoming more important than ever. And for the people who really, really love them, it seems like high tim e that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are. 32．What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refe r to?
A. The general view of elevators.
B. The particular interests of experts.
C. The desire for a remarkable machine.
D. The enthusiasm for transport vehicles.
33．The author’s purpose in mentioning cars is .
A. to contrast their functions with elevators,
B. to emphasize the importance of elevators
C. to reveal their secret war against elevators
D. to explain people’s preference for elevators 34．According to Prof. Bernard, what has made the elevator r ide different from other life experiences?
A. Vertical direction.
B. Lack of excitement.
C.Little physical space.
D. Uncomfortable conditions.
35．The author urges readers to consider .
A. the exact number of elevator lovers
B. the serious future situation of elevators
C. the role of elevators in city development
D. the relationship between cars and elevators
高一年级2015-2016学年度上学期期中考试英
语试题
时间：100分钟分值120分
第Ⅰ卷选择题（共两部分，满分70分）
第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
It was my birthday last Thursday. I decided to it by inviting a few friends out to supper. I chose a restaurant in a part of town. It is one of my favorite restaurants because the fo od is good and the waiters are friendly. It is ever crowded, because not many people k now about it, so it is not usually to book a table. In any case, Thursday is not a busy ev ening .
When we entered the restaurant, we were surprised to find it completely . I looked arou nd but not a single table was . One of the waiters recognized me. He came over and the situation. "A party of tourists came in about half an hour ago.” he said. " Suddenly the pl ace was full! We can hardly manage. "
The waiter then pointed to a table in the corner. "The people there are about to "he said, "Just and you'll find a place there." He was right. Fifteen minutes later,he people at the corner table paid their , got up and left. I led my friends and we all sat down.
Unluckily our table was almost out of . We tried to call the attention of the waiter sent us there, but he, like all the other waiters, was with the party of tourism. They o rdered lots of food. At last, an hour later, the tourists were leaving and looking very with li fe. The waiter now very tired, appeared at our table. I my friends about the best dishes and finally the waiter went off with our order.
A few moments later he returned to our table. We could tell from his face that he had f or us. Looking a little , he told us that there was no meat fish left. "All we can offe r you" he said, "is an omelet(煎蛋卷) !"
1．A. remember B. celebrate C. memorize D. congratulate
2．A. quiet B. calm C. busy D. silent
3．A. hard B. often C. hardly D. always
4．A. necessary B. possible C. important D. certain
5．A. as before B. as a matter of fact C. as usual D. as is known to all
6．A. empty B. full C. noisy D. quiet
7．A. busy B. crowded C. free D. double
8．A. changed B. improved C. faced D. explained
9．A. start B. finish C. end D. pay
10．A. never mind B. come on C. hold on D. no problem
11．A. menu B. bill C. order D. note
12．A. over B. across C. beyond D. between
13．A. sight B. place C. reach D. control
14．A. whom B. which C. he D. who
15．A. satisfied B. busy C. happy D. strict
16．A. exciting B. tired C. pleased D. disappointing
17．A. calmed B. advised C. ignored D. warned
18．A. bad news B. good dishes C. useful tips D. nice presents
19．A. friendly B. surprised C. sorry D. tiring
20．A. and B. but C. so D. or
第二节阅读理解（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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Never fear: An inventor is on the c ase. An electric toothbrush senses （感
觉） how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track（跟
踪） your performance on your phone.
The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Consumer Electronics Show in La s Vegas this week. It senses how it is moved and can send the information to an Android pho ne or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless （无线的） connection.
The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t forget the insides of the teeth!) a nd make sure you’re brushing long enough. “It’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch y our brushing on a day-to-day basis,” says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.
The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications （设备）
on your phone, so developers could, for example, create a game controlled by your toothbrus h. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart a nd fun,” Serval says.
Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work a nd ask his kids if they had brushed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their too thbrush heads dry. He deci
ded he needed a brush that really told him how well his children brushed.
The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, from $99 to $199, and the U.S. i s the first target market. ( 目标市场)
21．All of the following statements are wrong except ____________.
A. It can sense how users brush their teeth.
B. It can track users’ school performance.
C. It can check users’ fear of seeing a dentist.
D. It can help users find their phones.
22．What can we learn from Serval’s words in Paragraph 3?
A. You will find it enjoyable to see a dentist.
B. You should see your dentist on a day-to –day basis.
C. You can brush with the Kolibree as if guided by a dentist.
D. You’d like a dentist to watch you brush your teeth every day.
23．What can we infer about Serval’s children?
A. They were unwilling to brush their teeth
B. They often failed to clean their toothbrushes.
C. They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head.
D. They liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home.
What makes a gift special? Is it the price you see on the gift receipt? Or is it the look on the r ecipient's face when they receive it that determines the true value? What gift is worth the mo st?
This Christmas was debating what to give my father. My dad is a hard person to buy for beca use he never wants anything. I pulled out my phone to read a text message from my mom sa ying that we were leaving for Christmas shopping for him when I came across a message on my phone that I had locked. The message was from my father. My eyes fell on a photo of a fl ower taken in Wyoming, and underneath a poem by William Blake. The flower, a lone dandeli on standing against the bright blue sky, inspired me. My dad had been reciting those words t o me since I was a kid. That may even be the reason why I love writing. I decided that those words would be my gift to my father.
I called back. I told my mom to go without me and that I already created my gift. I sent the ph oto of the cream-
coloured flower to my computer and typed the poem on top of it. As I was arranging the detail s another poem came to mind. The poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe; my dad recited it a s much as he did the other. I typed that out as well and searched online for a background to t he words of it. The poem was focused around dreaming, and after searching I found the pref er picture. The image was painted with blues and greens and purples, twisting together to cre ate the theme and wonder of a dream. As I watched both poems passing through the printer, the white paper colouring with words that shaded my childhood, I felt that this was a gift that shaped my childhood; I felt that this was a gift that my father would truly appreciate. Christmas soon arrived. The minute I saw the look on my dad's face as he unwrapped those swirling black letters carefully placed in a cheap frame, I knew I had given the perfect gift. 24．The idea for a special gift began to form when the author was _____.
doing shopping
having a debate
reading a message
leaving for Wyoming
25．The author’s inspiration for the gift came from _____.
a photo of a flower
a story about a kid
a call from the mother
a text about Christmas
26．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to a poem by _____.
the father
the author
William Blake
Edgar Allan Poe
27．The author made the gift by _____.
searching for the poems online
drawing the background by hand
painting the letters in three colours
matching the words with pictures
28．What is the main purpose of the passage?
To show how to design images for gifts.
To suggest making gifts from one’s heart.
To explain how computers help create gifts.
To describe the gifts the author has received.
After an absence of thirty years, I decided to visit my old school again．I had expected to fin d changes, but not a completely different building．As I walked up the school drive, I wonder ed for a moment if I had come to the right address．The dirty red brick houses had been swe pt away．In its place stood a bright, modern block．A huge expanse of glass extended (延展) across the face of the building, and in front, there was a well-kept lawn (草
坪) where previously there had been “an untidy gravel (沙石) yard”.
I was pleased to find that it was bread time and that the children were all in the playground．This would enable me to meet some members of staff(职
员)．On entering the building, I was surprised to hear loud laughter coming from what appea red to be the masters’ common room．I could not help remembering the teachers in my time, all dressed in black gowns (长袍) and high collars (领
子)．And above all, I recalled Mr Garston whom we had nicknamed “Mr Ghastly”, the headm aster who had iron discipline(纪
律) on staff and pupils alike．I knocked at the common room door and was welcomed by a s miling young man who introduced himself to me as the headmaster．He was dressed casual ly in a sports jacket, and his cheerful manner, quickly dispelled (驱
散) the image of Mr Ghastly．After I had explained who I was, the headmaster presented me to the teachers all of whom were a little younger than himself, and said he would take me ro und the school.
Here the biggest surprise of all was in store for (在等
待)me．Gone were the heavy desks of old with their deeply carved names; gone too, were th e dark classrooms with their ink stained, dark brown walls, and their raised platforms for the t eachers．The rooms now were painted in bright colors, and the children, far from sitting strai ght in their places, seemed almost free to do as they liked．I looked with envy(嫉
妒) as I remembered how, as a child, I had looked at the blackboard hardly daring to whisper to my neighbor.
29．“Mr Ghastly” must be ______.
A．the writer’s teacher
B．a serious old man
C．the strict headmaster
D．a naughty boy
30．Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．He had expected that the school had completely changed.
B．In the writer’s time, all the teachers were dressed in black gowns and high collars. C．There was a well-kept lawn in their school when he visited it.
D．An untidy gravel yard had disappeared.
31．From what is said in the passage, it seems clear that the writer ______. A．disapproved of all the changes that had taken place
B．felt sorry for the children in the school
C．was glad that the school was still the same
D．felt that conditions at the school had improved a lot
For most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the enth usiasm or interest that Americans afford trains, jets，
and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a member of a small group of elevator experts wh o consider this a misunderstanding. Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no do wntown skyscrapers or tall buildings, and city life as we know it would be impossible. In that s ense, they argue，
the elevator’s role in American history has been no less significant than that of cars. In fact, a ccording to Wilk? the car and the
elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible fo r people to spread horizontally (水平地)，and elevators pus
hing them toward life in close groups of towering vertical (垂直的)columns.
If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators, it might be because riding in them tends to be such a brief, boring, and even awkward experience^one that can involve unexpectedly me eting people with whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant awareness of the fa ct that we’re hanging from a cable in a long passage.
In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard dire
cted all his attention to this experience, studying the origins of elevator and its relationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a totally comfortable experie nce. “
After 150 years, we are still not used to it”， Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learned t o cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure.” That mixture, according to Bernard, s ets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situation we find ourselves in as we go about our lives.
Today，as the world’s urban population explodes，
and cities become more crowded, taller, and more crowded, America’s total number of elevat ors—
900,000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazine’s“2012 Vertical Transportation I ndustry”一
are a force that’s becoming more important than ever. And for the people who really, really lo ve them, it seems like high time that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are. 32．What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The general view of elevators.
B. The particular interests of experts.
C. The desire for a remarkable machine.
D. The enthusiasm for transport vehicles.
33．The author’s purpose in mentioning cars is .
A. to contrast their functions with elevators,
B. to emphasize the importance of elevators
C. to reveal their secret war against elevators
D. to explain people’s preference for elevators
34．According to Prof. Bernard, what has made the elevator ride different from other life exp eriences?
A. Vertical direction.
B. Lack of excitement.
C.Little physical space.
D. Uncomfortable conditions.
35．The author urges readers to consider .
A. the exact number of elevator lovers
B. the serious future situation of elevators
C. the role of elevators in city development
D. the relationship between cars and elevators。