湖北省孝感市七校高一英语上学期期中试题

2016—2017学年度上学期孝感市七校教学联盟期中联合考试高一英语试卷考试时间：120分钟第一部分听力（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，你都有10秒的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. When did the man meet Linda?A. At about 5:00. B . At about 5:30 C. At about 6:30.2. How many children does Jane have?A.1B.2C.33. What will the woman do first?A. Type the letter.B. Send the letter to Mr Lee.C. Finish the report.4. What does the man mean?A. He doesn't want to go shopping.B. He will go shopping after supper.C. He is too busy to go shopping now.5. Where was Jack last week?A. In the US.B. In China.C. In Canada.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，各小题给出5秒种的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What does the woman think of the talk?A. It is helpfulB. It is interesting.C. It is boring.7. What can we know about Mr Back?A. He comes from the US.B. He lives in Shanghai now.C. He is a middle-aged man.8. When did the man attend the talk?A. Yesterday afternoonB.A few days ago.C. Several weeks ago.听第7段材料，回答第9、10题。

9. What is the man doing now?A. Working on his article.B. Reading newspaper.C. Writing a new report.10. Why does the woman come to see the man?A. She wants him to help her with her report.B. She wants to help him with his report.C. She wants to read his article.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11 . Where is the man's new house?A. On the Ring Road.B. Along the Main Road.C. Near his old house.12. What are in the back of the man's yard?A. Flowers and some fruit trees.B. Vegetables and a swimming pool.C. Vegetables and some fruit trees.13. What is the man planning to build now?A. A kitchenB. A tennis court.C. A guest bedroom.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What does the woman do?A. A television reporter.B. A newspaper reporter.C. A magazine reporter.15. What was built two years ago?A. A factoryB. A middle school.C. A hospital.16. How many doctors are working in the small hospital?A. One hundred.B. EightyC. Fifty.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where is Cape Town located?A. In the southwest of South Africa.B. In the northwest of South Africa.C. In the southeast of South Africa.18. Which of the following months is the best time for visiting Cape Town?A. July.B. August.C. September.19. What's the height of the Table Top Mountain?A. 1，000 meters.B. 2，000 meters.C. 3，000 meters.20. What do most shops in the Victoria Beach provide?A. Jewelry , books and second-hand paintings.B. Paintings, books and second-hand jewelry.C. Jewelry , paintings and second-hand books.第二部分阅读理解第一节（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（A,B,C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Ae21. What is Andrew’s dream?A. Going to a top university.B. Inventing a machine sending people from one place to another in a minute.C. Visiting Egypt.D. Inventing a language machine.22. How old will Joma be when the 2008 Olympic Games are held?A. Fourteen.B. Fifteen.C. Sixteen.D. Eighteen.23. The best title（题目）for this passage would be “______” .A. Different students from different countries .B. Five middle school students.C. I have a dream.D. Our inventions.BOn Christmas Eve，the night before Christmas Day，children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.Father Christmas is very kind and warm-hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.Of course, Father Christmas isn't real. In Jim and Kate's house, "Father Christmas" is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesn't climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn't do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who "Father Christmas" really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds.24. Christmas Eve is __________.A. the night of Christmas DayB. the evening of Christmas DayC. the night before Christmas DayD. Christmas Day25. Father Christmas often puts presents ________.A. into children's stockingsB. into children's hatsC. under children's bedsD. into children's shoes26. When the children were very young, __________.A. they knew that Father Christmas wasn't realB. they didn't know who Father Christmas wasC. they thought their father was Father ChristmasD. they knew who put the presents into their stockings27. When the children are older, they __________.A. know that Father Christmas is realB. ask their mother to fill their stockings with presentsC. know that Father Christmas is really their friendD. know that Father Christmas is really their fatherCAs we all know, there are two kinds of Olympic Games in the world—the Summer Olympic and the Winter Olympic. The Winter Olympic is also called the White Olympic. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on Janua ry 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympic. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olymp ic became a rule.During the 4th Winter Olympic a group of stamps were published in Germany in November1936. The five rings of Olympic were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the Winter Olympics.In the 1950’s , the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sports men began to take part in the Winter Olympics.Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.28. The White Olympics and the Winter Olympics_____________.A. are the same thingB. are different gamesC. are not held in winterD. are held in summer29. The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world games__________.A. after the year 1936B. after the 3rd White OlympicsC. before the 3rd White OlympicsD. before the year 193230. Which of the following is true?A. Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.B. Only the non-host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.C. All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.D. China doesn’t publish stamps to mark those Games.31. What may appear on the stamps of the White Olympics?A. BasketballB. SwimmingC. FootballD. SkatingDMost people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works of art made at different times from 1,500 B.C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world’s population is left-handed.Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person’s two hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the left hand is used tofind things or hold things. The right hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain. The right side of the brain, which makes a person’s hands and eyes work together, controls the left hand. The left-side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among artists as among people in other jobs.No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged when they are born. However, this doesn’t happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person does not receive the gene(基因) for right-handedness, he/ she may become either right-handed or left-handed according to the chance and the people they work or live with.Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today they don’t have to.32.How many people in the world are left-handed now?A. More than a half.B. Less than one sixth.C. Abo ut 40%.D. The passage doesn’ttell us.33.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “damaged” in this passage?A. knockedB. harmedC. brokeD. changed34.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. Left-handedness is cleverer than right-handedness.B. No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed.C. Today children are not made to use their right hands only.D. Scientists think there must be some reason why people become left-handed.35.The best title for this passage is _______.A. Scientists’ New InventionsB. Lef t-handed PeopleC. Which HandD. Different Brains, Different HandsEDo you know Australia? Australia is the largest island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. _36_The population of Australia is nearly as large as that of Shanghai.__37_The cities in Australia have got little air or water pollution .The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very well.Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, and went to a wild flowers' exhibition.__38_We had a wonderful time. Perth is famous for its beautiful wild flowers. In spring every year Perth has the wild flowers' exhibition.After visiting Perth, we spent the day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill. It was quiet and we enjoyed ourselves. Suddenly we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. 39_There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us down the path._40_After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep, sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep.A. Australia is big, but its population is not large.B. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world.C. What we saw made us pick up all our things and ran back to the car as quickly aswe could.D. The government has made enough laws to fight pollution.E. Australia is famous for its sheep and kangaroos.F. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before.G. The people of Australia are very hard-working.第三部分第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。