英语-陕西省西安市长安区第一中学2017-2018学年高一下期中考试试题

陕西省西安市长安区第一中学2017-2018学年高一下期中考试英语试题第Ⅰ卷（选择题共100分）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并阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What instrument is the woman learning to play?A.The guitar.B. The drums.C. The keyboard.2. Which sport will the speakers do after lunch?A.Tennis.B. Basketball.C. Swimming.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. When they will meet.B. What the film is about.C. Whether there’re advertisements.4. How much does the camera in the shop cost now?A. £150.B. £180.C. £200.5.What is the man going to do?A. Pick up the woman at midday.B. Wait for the woman’s call.C. Listen to the weather report.第二节（共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.What relation is the woman to the man?A.His secretary.B. His customer.C. His boss.7.When will the man call Miss Takemura?A.At 8:30.B. At 9:30.C. At 10:00.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.What does the man think of the journey to the lakeside house?A.Tiring.B. Enjoyable.C. Uncomfortable.9.What was the problem for the man?A.There was no time to think and read.B.The lakeside house was quite small.C.The local shop was too far away.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Where are the speakers?A.At home.B. At a post office.C. At a supermarket.11.What did the man do this morning?A. He did some cleaning.B. He did the cooking.C. He did some shopping.12.What will the woman do tomorrow?A. Buy a lot of food.B. Send her car to the garage.C. Pick up the man’s mother.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.How did Katherine do her most recent climb?A.In a group.B. On her own.C. With a guide.14.What made Katherine’s first climb of Mont Blanc difficult?A.The poor weather conditions.B. The long climbing time.C. The crowded people.15.What did Katherine do before her second climb to make it easier?A.She made a detailed plan.B.She spent a few days in Chamonix.C.She climbed smaller mountains for training.16.What special advice does Katherine offer about climbing Mont Blanc?A.Wear enough clothes.B.Have the right equipment.C.Improve the physical condition.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.How will this year’s dance classes be different from last year’s?A.They will take place every week.B. There will be two different age groups.C. A lot more children will take part.18.Why is the time of the dance classes changed?A.To make each class longer.B.To offer convenience to parents.C.To give children more spare time.19.When will the children give a public performance?A.On May 16th.B. On July 11th.C. On July 12th.20.What should people do if they want their children to join the dance class?A.Go straight to the dance club.B.Book a place in advance.C.Make a phone call to Melanie.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）AMay : Happenings from the PastMay 5 , 1884Isaac Murphy , son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.May 9 , 1754Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon , showing a snake cut in pieces , with the words "Join or Die" printed under the picture.May 11 , 1934The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought, blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington , D. C.May 19, 1994Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.May 24, 1844Samuel F. B. Morse taps out the first message, "What hath God wrought," over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D. C, to Baltimore, Md.21. We know from the text that Buchanan is _______.A. a winning horseB. Isaac's fatherC. a slave taking care of horsesD. the first racing horse in Kentucky22. What is the title of the first American political cartoon?A. Pennsylvania Gazette.B. Join or Die.C. What Hath God Wrought.D. Kentucky Derby.23. Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?A. Kentucky.B. New York City.C. Washington,D. C. D. Pennsylvania.BNovember not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison’s eagerly anticipated(期待) eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel, and so honored before her in literature are only two black men: Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel prizewinner for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.Like Song of Solomon, Love is a multigenerational story, revealing the personal and communal legacy of an outstanding black family. As Morrison scholars will tell you, Love is the third volume of a literary master’s trilogy(三部曲)investigating the many complexities of love.This trilogy began with Beloved(1988), which deals with a black mother’s love under slavery and in freedom. Jazzy(1993), the second volume, tells a story of romantic love in 1920s Harlem. This latest novel looks back from the 1970s to the 1940s and 50s.The emotional center of Love is Bill Cos ey, the former owner and host of the shabby Cosey’s Hotel and Resort in Silk, North Carolina, described in the novel as “the best and best-known vacation sport for colored folk on the East Coast.” We get to know Cosey through the memories of five women who survive and love him: his granddaughter, his widow, two former employees, and a homeless young girl.The latest novel, Love, had been described in the promotional material from her publisher as “Morrison’s most accessible work since Song of Solomon.” This comparison to her third novel, published in 1977, was an effective selling point.24. What would be the best title for the text?A. Toni Morrison’s latest novelsB. Toni Morrison and her trilogyC. Toni Morrison, the Nobel prizewinnerD. Toni Morrison and her novel Love25. What can we learn about John Steinbeck?A. He was born in America.B. He was a black writer.C. He received the Nobel Prize after Morrison.D. He was the first American novelist to win a Nobel.26. The similarity between Love and Song of Solomon is that they both _____.A. belong to the same trilogy together with BelovedB. deal with life of blacks under slaveryC. concern families of more than one generationD. investigate life in 1920s Harlem27. The novel Love mainly describes ______.A. the best-known vacation spot for blacksB. the life of an outstanding black family under slaveryC. the miserable experience of the five women in HarlemD. the memories of five women about Bill CoseyCTeaching PoetryNo poem should ever be discussed or “analyzed”, until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling “interpretation(解释)” of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than “analyzing” it, if there isn’t time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is “a criticism of life”, and “a heightening of life”. It is “an approach to the truth of feeling”, and it “can save your life”. It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature more central than it presently occupies.I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who don’t like it should not be forced to communicate this to anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.28. According to the writer, one of the purposes of teaching English is to get students .A. to enjoy poetryB. to become poetsC. to become teachersD. to understand life29. To have a better understanding of a poem, one should .A. analyze it by oneselfB. discuss it with othersC. practise reading it aloudD. copy it down in a notebook30. What does the last sentence in the third paragraph imply?A. The teaching of poetry is more important than any other subject.B. More importance should be given to the teaching of poetry.C. Poetry is the foundation of all language and literature courses.D. One cannot enjoy life fully without an understanding of poetry.31. The underlined phrase “make room” in the last paragraph could be best replaced by .A. provide equipmentB. build a schoolC. set up a houseD. leave a certain amount of timeDNASA, the U. S. space agency, believes there’s a good chance that we’re not alone in the universe. Last fall, NASA began a new project called the High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS). Its aim is to find evidence of life in one of the billions of galaxies in the universe.The search for intelligent life on other planets isn’t new. It began almost 100 years ago. That’s when scientists built a huge transmitter (发射机) to send radio waves into space. Scientists thought smart intelligent beings on other planets might pick up the signals.Scientists have also sent a message about humans and our solar system to a nearby constellation (星座). But because the constellation is 25,000 light years away, a return message wouldn’t reach the earth for 50,000 years! So don’t wait up for an answer.So far, no extraterrestrial (境外的) be ings that we know of have returned our “calls”. But according to Dr Jill Tarter, an HRMS scientist, we haven’t exactly had our ears wide open. “Now, however,” says Dr Tarter, “we’ve built the tools we need to listen well.”Last October, Dr Tarter switched on the largest radio receiver in the world. It’s an enormous metal bowl stretching 1,000 feet across a valley in Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, another NASA scientist turned on a huge radio receiver in California’s Mojave Desert. NASA hopes these big dishes and others around the world will pick up radio signals from a new world.Dr Frank Drake has been searching for life in outer space for years. He explains the HRMS project this way: To listen to your radio, you move the tuner on the dial until the channels come in loud and clear. Now imagine radio receivers that scan our galaxy “listening” to 14 million channels every second. That’s what NASA’s radio receivers in Puerto Rico and California are doing.But that’s not all. Powerful computers hooked(固定) to the receivers examine every signal carefully. The computers try to match the signals to ones that scientists already recognise, such ashuman-made signals. If they can’t, Drake and Tarter check on them. “It could prove there is radio technology elsewhere in the univ erse,” says Dr Tarter. “And that would mean we’re not alone.”32. NASA scientists started a new project in order to .A. discover life in other galaxiesB. confirm the number of galaxiesC. send human beings into spaceD. find evidence of a new galaxy33. Dr Jill Tarter compares the new large receiver to .A. the universeB. the human earC. a huge dishD. a metal bowl34. According to Dr Frank Drake, NASA’s radio receivers in Puerto Rico and California are .A. moving the tuner on the dial for clear channelsB. picking up radio signals from new worldC. scanning the universe for possible signalsD. trying to check on every channel carefully35. The best title for this passage is .A. The Invention of New Radio ReceiversB. Signals from SpaceC. NASA listens for Neighbors in SpaceD. Intelligent Life in Outer Space第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。