高一英语上学期期中卷东至县大渡口中学2015-2016学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

大渡口中学2015-2016（上）高一英语
期中测试卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题1分，满分30分）
第一节：请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. The man’s weekend activities.
B. The woman’s favourite sport.
C. The city they live in.
2. What does the man do?
A. He’s a businessman.
B. He’s a doctor.
C. He’s a student.
3. When did the speakers start talking?
A. At 2:50.
B. At 3:00.
C. At 3:10.
4. What does the woman want to do?
A. Borrow money from the man.
B. Go to the bank.
C. Start up a business.
5. What is the man’s research field?
A. Education.
B. Insects.
C. Finance.
第二节：请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

请听第6段材料，回答6、7题
6. What kind of job did the woman take after graduation?
A. Teaching。

B. Marketing.
C. Volunteering.
7. What does the woman think the man should do?
A. Take his job at once.
B. Not worry about the money.
C. Make a decision and stick to it.
请听第7段材料，回答8、9题
8. Where does the woman advise the man to apply for the job?
A. In a newspaper office.
B. In a travel agency.
C. In a car factory.
9. What does the man ask the woman about the job ?
A. The pay.
B. The experience.
C. The working conditions.
请听第8段材料，回答10至12题
10. Why didn’t the man realize his childhood dream?
A. His paren ts didn’t support him.
B. He was offered another good job.
C. He lost interest in it later.
11. What did the woman want to be when she was a little girl?
A. A pilot.
B. A sciencist.
C. A teacher.
12. What language is the woman good at?
A. English and French.
B. English and Italian.
C. French and Italian. 请听第9段材料，回答13至16题
13. Who is Jenny?
A. The man’s wife.
B. The man’s sister.
C. The woman’s workmate.
14. How long has it been since the speakers’ graduation?
A. Three years.
B. Ten years.
C. Thirteen years.
15. What do we know about the man?
A. He continued his studies after graduation.
B. He once worked at a law firm.
C. He is working in a trade company.
16. When will the speakers meet each other again?
A. This Saturday.
B. This Sunday.
C. Next Saturday.
请听第10段材料，回答17至20题
17. What is Bill Gates famous for according to the speaker?
A. His family background.
B. His position in society.
C. His educational background.
18. What did Bill Gates do in 1975?
A. He went to Harvard University.
B. He begun to develop new software.
C. He sold his inventions to MITS.
19. When did Bill Gates leave Microsoft?
A. In 2000.
B. In 2008.
C. In 2014.
20. Which of the following is true, according to the talk?
A. Bill Gates grew up in Washington.
B. Bill Gates’ mother worked as a lawyer.
C. IBM partnered with Microsoft for a short time.
第二部分: 阅读理解
第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项
A
Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him “foolish boy”.
“That’s easy,” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you become cleverer.”
“Really?”
“Of course. It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you’ll become cleverer indeed. Pay only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy p aid him three pounds and the fisherman cut off a fish head and handed it to him.
A raw fish head is not good—not even for a hungry boy to eat but the boy ate it up in two gulps.
“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman.
“Not in my head,” said t he boy.
The boy lay on the ground and thought. “One whole fish costs only two pounds. I had paid him three pounds for the fish head. Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman. “You thief! You are fooling me!” The fisherman laughed, saying, “The fish head works now, you see.”
21. The boy ate up the raw fish head only in two gulps, because he __________.
A. enjoy it
B. wanted to taste it
C. took it as a good medicine
D. was a foolish boy
22. “Not in my head” means “__________.”
A. The fish head was not in the boy’s head
B. The boy felt nothing came into his head
C. It’s difficult to give an answer right away
D. The boy didn’t feel that he was cleverer
23. The boy paid three pounds. He should have had __________.
A. a whole fish
B. a fish head and one pound back
C. a whole fish and one pound back
D. a whole fish, a fish head and one pound back
B
Recently a professor of philosophy in the United States has written a book called Money and the Meaning of Life. He has discovered that how we deal with money in our day-to-day life has more meaning than we usually think. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep a record of every penny they spend for a week. From the way they spend their money, they can see what they really value in life.
He says our relation with others often become clearly defined when money enters the picture. You might have wonderful friendship with somebody and you think that you are very good friends. But you’ll know him only when you ask to lend you some money. If he does, it brings something to the relationship that seems stranger than ever before. Or it can suddenly weaken the relationship if he doesn’t. This person may say that he ha s a certain feeling, but if it is not carried out in the money world, there is something less real about it.
Since money is important to us, we consider those who possess a lot of it to be very important. The author interviewed some millionaires in researching his book.
Question: What is the most surprising thing you have discovered about being rich, because you are a self-made man?
Answer: The most surprising thing is why people give me so much respect. I’m nothing. I don’t know much. All I am is rich.
People just have an idea of making more and more money, but what is it for? How much do I need for any given purposes in my life? In this book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society; to bring back the idea that money is an instrument rather than the end. Money plays an important role in the modern world, but expecting money to give happiness may be missing the meaning of life.
24. According to the first paragraph, people haven’t realized __________.
A. how important money is in their day-to-day life
B. how one spends money shows what is important to him
C. that money is more important than their philosophy of life
D. that their understanding of life is more important than money
25. The author seems to believe that asking your friend to lend you some money __________.
A. is a good way to test your friend
B. will do harm to your friend
C. will strengthen your friendship
D. is a good way to break off your friendship
26. What can we learn about the millionaire from his answer in the interview?
A. He doesn’t feel that he is well educated.
B. He doesn’t think he is a very important person.
C. He doesn’t think being rich deserves so much attention.
D. He doesn’t consider himself to be very successful.
C
Bolivia has a population three and a half million. About one tenth of the total population are white，one-fourth are mixed Indians and white，and more than half are full-blooded Indians. The government and the industries are under the control of the white people.
The Indians today live in much the same way as their ancestors. Most of them are farmers. Many work in the mines, for mining is the most important industry in Bolivia. Of all the mining products, tin is the most important, which makes up three-fourths of a ll Bolivia’s exports. The
eastern slopes of the Andes, since there are very few roads there, are fertile but not highly developed. The two primary means of transportation are river boats and porters. East of the hill region are the great plains where tropical plants are grown. A serious problem for Bolivia is the transport of food from the warm regions, where it is grown to the mountainous regions, where most of the people live.
Bolivia gained its independence from Spain about a hundred years ago. It has been slow in developing, but its rich resources promise a better future in it.
27．The majority of the Bolivian population are ______.
A．full-blooded Indians B．mixed Indian and white
C．white citizens D．all whites and mixed-blooded people
28．The Indian’s way of life today is ______.
A．quite different from that of their ancestors B．quite interesting
C．almost the same as their ancestors’ D．very exciting
29．The eastern slopes of the Andes is not highly developed because ______ .
A．there are thick forests there B．there are very few roads there
C．there are many fine mines there D．they are not fertile enough
30．Bolivia has been slow in developing, but it has hope for a better future because of its______.
A．mining products B．rich resources
C．independence from Spain D．two primary means of transportation
D
Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and mathematics. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or a formula. It is usually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo didn’t get anything from school. But they were all so successful.
They invented so many things for mankind.
The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
Above all, they knew how to use their brains.
31. Many people go to school for an education. But some others go to school for _______.
A. enjoying themselves
B. learning subjects
C. learning a skill
D. making a living
32. Whether he is more _______ or less, a teacher can’t teach his students everything they want to know.
A. important
B. useful
C. difficult
D. knowledgeable
33. A teacher’s job is mainly to train his students to mast er the ability of _______.
A. learning by themselves
B. making a living
C. reading and thinking
D. studying all the subjects
34. Using a formula in working out a maths problem is ______ memorizing it.
A. much easier than
B. more difficult than
C. as easy as
D. as difficult as
35. The scientists were successful because _________.
A. they read books that were not taught at school
B. they worked all their lives
C. they wasted not a single moment
D. they knew how to use their brains
第二节：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。

If you see a cold, hungry cat in front of your house, will you feed it or walk away? Most
people would walk away instead of taking the time to make sure the cat is okey.____36_ _____ They usually have so much to deal with in their daily life as to ignore（忽视）their surroundings, Now here's another question: If you see a group of kids hitting an animal, will you stop them? ___37_____ Some people do not believe that hitting animals is a big problem.
Every day animals are treated badly in their homes or on the streets. It seems as if politicians do nothing to stop this problem. Everyone is worried about education and global warming. What about animals?____38_____These are the rights that allows animals a place to stay, the right not to be treated badly and many other rights. Are we taking away animals' rights by not giving them a place to stay? Yes, we are. Since I was born, my mother, my sister and I have taken in over fifty homeless cats, fed them, cleaned them and sent them to good families.
Some people probably give views, saying, "____39_____" It's true. There are people in the world that need help but we cannot forget animals. We are all living on this earth together, why not help earth other?
____40_____You can volunteer at your local animal shelter, collect money for animal shelters, and inform your community about some bad behaviors to animals. You can easily buy a cheap box of cat food to feed the animals.
A. Again people will walk away.
B. There are many things you can do to help animals around.
C. Many people have little knowledge about animals.
D. Animals, like us human beings, have rights.
E. The problem is that people often live busy lives.
F. I'm only one person and I can't make a different.
G. There are people in the world who need more help than animals.
第二部分：语言知识运用
第一节：完形填空
The Japanese pay much attention to the luck of telephone number. The bathhouses, for example, ___41__ to use 4626, because when read in Japanese, it has the __42___ pronunciation as “Have a good bath.” __43___ the clothes shops and the butcher’s like 1429 better tha n __44___ number because this number can either be read as “good dress”___45__ “good meat.” __46___ these numbers are _47____ with something ___48__, people can remember them very
__49___. So they have ___50__ advertisements for the shops. On the other hand, there are also telephone numbers which are __51___ as forbidden by the Japanese people. 1564, for example, has the sound of “kill people” __52___ the number 4219 has _53____ of “people die”. At present there are about forty-four million ___54__ in Japan. Yet it is almost _55____ for everyone to get ___56__ telephone number. So these ___57__ have become commodities (商品) and can be __58___ as goods. The __59___ can reach as ___60__ as 222 thousands Japanese yen (日元)
41. A. like B. come C. have D. ought
42. A. English B. a strange C. different D. same
43. A. For B. Neither C. Either D. Both
44. A. any B. some C. other D. any other
45. A. but B. or C. as D. and
46. A. Since B. Although C. Even D. When
47. A. joined B. connected C. fixed D. mixed
48. A. to do B. useful C. nice D. important
49. A. hard B. slowly C. smoothly D. easily
50. A. become B. been C. turned D. made
51. A. sounded B. regarded C. pronounced D. appeared
52. A. but B. because C. as D. while
53. A. sound B. meaning C. that D. this
54. A. shops B. Japanese C. telephones D. numbers
55. A. possible B. impossible C. easy D. necessary
56. A. interesting B. nice C. lucky D. suitable
57. A. telephones B. Advertisements C. shops D. numbers
58. A. used B. made C. sold D. stored
59. A. shop B. number C. telephone D. price
60. A. valuable B. expensive C. high D. large
第二节：语法填空
In the UK, Wei Hua could get up an hour later than usual, as schools in China begins an hour_____61____(early). She had many teachers there all of ___62_ ____gave much encouragement to her, but Miss burke ____63____taught her English literature was her favourite.
Except for Maths, English and Science, she could stop studying any subject____64 ____she didn't like and choose other subjects she was fond ____65____.The homework in the UK was less than what she used to get in China but it was a ____66____(challenging)for her at first, because all the homework was in English. Luckily, she improved her English by __67______(use)it every day. Though there were many challenges and differences, Wei Hua___68_____experiences in the UK were very enjoyable was very ____69____(satisfy) when she looks back on the time____70____she stayed in the UK.
第三节：短文改错
Dear Mike,
Thank you for your e-mail. I’d like tell you something ab out the English Club of our school.
I am a member of the English Club, which is set up by the Student Union three years
before. A lot of teachers and students who are interest in English gather in every Saturday afternoon. There we usually see English movie, learn to sing English songs but debate on hot topics. Through these activities, we can learn about west cultures. What’s more, we have great fun be together. The English Club which I improve myself a lot is of great help to me in many ways.
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