江苏省无锡市第一中学2020-2021学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题(无答案)

无锡市第一中学2020—2021学年度第二学期期中试卷
高一英语
2021.4
命题：高一备课组审核：高一备课组
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。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟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. What did the man buy for his father?
A. A hat.
B. A card.
C. A shirt.
2. How will Tom know if the school is canceled?
A. By asking his mother.
B. By watching the snow.
C. By checking the TV news.
3. Where was the man born?
A. In America.
B. In England.
C. In Canada.
4. What does the man mean?
A. Anna may not have time.
B. Anna is at her brother’s house.
C. Anna should invite him to dinner.
5. What does the man think of the music festival this year?
A. It’s too far away.
B. It’s too expensive.
C. It’s too crowded.
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。

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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

6. How many fifties did Fred start with?
A. Two.
B. Five.
C. Ten.
7. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a bank.
B. In a math class.
C. In a grocery store.
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。

8. Who invited the woman to the party?
A. Michael.
B. Michael’s sister.
C. Michael’s brother.
9. What is the man going to get for Michael?
A. A new CD player.
B. Some records.
C. Several baseball cards.
10. Why can’t the woman decide what to get for Michael?
A. She forgets what he likes.
B. She only has a little money.
C. She doesn’t know him well.
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。

11. What will Judy do this afternoon?
A. Send Peter a brochure.
B. Design some models.
C. Attend a meeting.
12. Why does Peter make the phone call?
A. To order some machines
B. To ask for colored pictures.
C. To change the delivery time.
13. When will the speakers sign the agreement?
A. This evening.
B. Tomorrow morning.
C. At noon tomorrow.
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。

14. Who is the woman?
A. The man’s wife.
B. The man’s doctor.
C. The man’s personal trainer.
15.What does the man want to do?
A. Join a basketball team.
B. Organize a sports team.
C. Teach high school sports.
16. What does the woman advise the mar. to do first?
A. Stop eating ice cream.
B. Have a medical examination.
C. Eat more fruit and vegetables.
17. Why does the woman suggest the man exercise more?
A. To lose weight.
B. To prevent a heart attack.
C. To strengthen his muscles.
听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20三个小题。

18. How did the old woman’s cookies become famous?
A. She started a good cookie business.
B. She gave them to children for free.
C. She baked them in a special kitchen.
19. Why did the children help the old woman at first?
A. The old woman was too busy.
B. Their parents wanted them to do so.
C. They wanted to get some experience.
20. What did the children do when the old woman got sick?
A. They cooked food for her.
B. They took turns looking after her.
C. They sold cookies to pay the doctor.
第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A
Hiking Trails(路线) for Families on Long Island
Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, Oyster Bay
INFO: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily; $8 per carload on weekends only
“Nearly half the 409 acres of the former estate of the W. R. Coe family and current state park arboretum (植物园) property is woodland that includes nature walks and a greenhouse,” confirmed by Brian Nearing, an officer at New York State Parks. Expect to see lots of wildlife, from foxes and squirrels to birds of prey, such as red-tailed hawks and great horned owls, a delight for kids.
Connetquot River State Park Preserve, Oakdale
INFO: 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. $ 8 parking fee daily., 631-581-1005, .
Casey, vice president of the Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference, recommends this park for families because they can hike any part of the 50 miles. Along the way, hikers at Connetquot River State Park Preserve might see deer, waterfowl and ospreys (鱼腐).
Southampton trails
INFO: Park in museum parking lot at 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Tpke, Bridgehampton. No parking fee.
The Southampton Trail Preservation Society runs many guided trails in the Hamptons, some suitable for even small children. Behind the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton is a small field that surrounds around it and usually has butterflies and birds flying about.
Blydenburgh County Park, Hauppauge
INFO: Dawn to dusk. Northern entrance is at the end of New Mill Road. No parking fee.
The east side is flat, making the walk very kid friendly. The west side is a bit more hilly, but both have spectacular water views of the pond. On the east side is also the rowboat license that opens on Memorial Day and benches, as well as picnic tables When you’re at Blyden-burgh County Park, go in the north entrance off New Mill Road near Route 347, where the main office of the Greenbelt Trail Conference is situated. The office can provide information and maps. The start of the trails also is here.
21. Which trail charges for parking every day?
A. Southampton trails.
B. Blydenburgh County Park.
C. Connetquot River State Park Preserve.
D. Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.
22. What are Southampton trails special about?
A. There are rare birds along the way.
B. They’re specially designed for small kids.
C. They cover the longest hiking route.
D. They include a lot of guided trails.
23. What can we learn about Blydenburgh County Park?
A. Many hills lie on the east side.
B. Maps are offered at the office near the north entrance.
C. A picnic table can be available on the west side.
D. The trails usually start at the east entrance.
Moving around Bogota can be a bit of a Jekyll-or-Hyde experience. On the one hand, the city is infamous（声名狼藉的）for having the world’s worst traffic. Yet, on the other, its cycling infrastructure is considered a good model of sustainable urban mobility, according to the Copenhagenize Index, which ranks bike-friendly cities. The Colombian capital generated a now-international movement in the 1970s called Ciclovia, which sees 1.5 million people cycle across 128km of car-free streets each Sunday morning:
So, when the pandemic reached its shores in mid-March, Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez, an avid cyclist herself, introduced one of the world’s first plans to encourage bike travel, using traffic cones to create 76 km of temporary lanes.
“Everyone started using a bicycle, and they already knew how to get around on one because we have this bike culture thanks to the Ciclovia,” says Carlos Pardo, a local cycling advocate and senior advisor at the New Urban Mobility Alliance. Pardo got involved at the beginning of the pandemic by partnering with a local bikeshare company to provide 400 free e-bikes to health workers Now, he’s busy persuading the public that the government’s new bike lanes should become permanent fixture（固定设施）.
“Some drivers say, ‘you took away our lane’, but we’re saying, we took one car lane and made a two-lane bidirectional bike lane,” he explains. “So, you’re duplicating the effectiveness of the space, and moving more people per hour, per direction.”
Biking has enjoyed a renaissance（复兴）around the world as urban citizens avoid public transport for the relative safety of a two-wheeled commute. Now, many advocates like Pardo are working with local governments in the hope of turning these pandemic-response measures into lasting changes—ones that are more plausible now than ever after lockdowns provided an unprecedented（空前的）opportunities to fast-track infrastructure trials. The results of these urban planning experiments could not only radically shape the way we commute across global cities, but also make them more adaptable to future shocks.
24. What can best illustrate the underlined sentence?
A. Much knowledge that is of help in learning about a new place.
B. A mixed feeling that is too confusing to express themselves.
C. An understanding that everything has both advantages and disadvantages.
D. An idea that human beings are born somewhere between good and evil.
25. What was NOT the cause of the popularity of cycling in Bogota?
A. The outbreak of the pandemic in mid-March.
B. The worldwide bike culture dating back to the 1970s.
C. The government’s support for the temporary bike lanes.
D. The local bike company’s contribution to health workers.
26. What factor is likely to stop the change of bike-friendly, slow streets?
A. The increasing number of cyclists.
B. Duplicated effectiveness of road use.
C. A well-rounded city expansion plan.
D. The growth of car ownership.
27. Which section of the newspaper includes articles of this sort?
A. Urban life.
B. Politics.
C. Sports
D. Advice column.
Given how valuable intelligence and automation（自动化）are, we will continue to improve our technology if we are at all able to. At a certain point, we will build machines that are smarter than we are. Once we have machines that are smarter than we are, they will begin to improve themselves. And then we risk what the mathematician IJ Good called an “intelligence explosion”. The process could get out of control.
The concern is really that we will build machines that are much more competent than we are. And the slightest divergence（分歧）between their goals and our own could destroy us.
Just think about how we relate to ants. We don’t hate them. We don’t go out of our way to harm them. In fact, sometimes we take pains not to harm them. We step over them on the sidewalk. But whenever their presence seriously conflicts with one of our goals, we will kill them without hesitation. The concern is that we will one day build machines that, whether they’re conscious or not, could treat us with similar disregard.
The bare fact is that we will continue to improve our intelligent machines. We have problems that we desperately need to solve. So we will do this, if we can. The train is already out of the station, and there’s no brake to pull. If we build machines that are more intelligent than we are, they will very likely develop in ways that we can’t imagine, and exceed us in ways that we can’t imagine.
So imagine we hit upon a design of superintelligent AI that has no safety concerns. This machine would be the perfect labor-saving device. It can design the machine that can build the machine which can do any physical work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. So we’re talking about the end of human labour. We’re also talking about the end of most intellectual work. So what would apes like ourselves do in this circumstance?
What would some nations do if they heard that some company in Silicon Valley was about to deploy a superintelligent AI? This machine would be capable of starting war, whether terrestrial or cyber, with unbelievable power.
Given that the companies and governments building superintelligent AI are likely to perceive themselves as being in a race against all others, and that to win this race is to win the world, it seems likely that whatever is easier to do will get done first unless it is destroyed in the next moment.
But the moment ‘we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, we have to admit that we are in the process of building some sort of god. Now would be a good time to make sure it’s a god we can live with.
28. What message does Paragraph 3 convey?
A. Intelligence and automation are very valuable.
B. The improved machines will get away from us.
C. The presence of machines does conflict with our goals.
D. Future intelligent machines could treat us without mercy.
29.Which of the following sayings shares the meaning with the underlined sentence in Para.4?
A. Time and tide wait for no man.
B. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
C. Tomorrow is another day.
D. Shot arrows will not come back.
30. How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By making comparisons.
B. By giving assumptions.
C. By showing valid evidence.
D. By analyzing statistics.
31. Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s viewpoint towards AI?
A. Human beings will no doubt be destroyed by AI in the future.
B. Superintelligent AI will put an end to human labour eventually.
C. We should keep the development of AI within humans’ control.
D. Human beings should stop the development of superintelligent AI.
D
After more than a year of pandemic, after months of an aggressive vaccination campaign, the United States should finally be better prepared to protect itself against the coronavirus. Nearly all of our long-term-care residents are vaccinated. Tens of millions of other people have been vaccinated, and tens of millions more have some level of immunity from previous infection. With more people protected, a new surge could behave differently, but early signals from the states with rising case numbers suggest that this will not universally be the case.
Just look at Michigan, the leading edge of this new surge. Cases are going up quickly, and hospital admissions are moving in lockstep（步伐一致）—just as they have in past surges. This is a bit of a surprise. The United States is entering a new phase of the pandemic. Although we’ve previously described the most devastating（毁灭性的）periods as “waves” and “surges,” the more proper metaphor now is a tornado: Some communities won’t see the storm, others will be well fortified against disaster, and the most at-risk places will be crushed. The virus has never hit all places equally, but the remarkable protection of the vaccines, combined with the new attributes of the variants. has created a situation where the pandemic will disappear, but only in some places. The pandemic is or will soon be over for a lot of people in well-resourced（实力雄厚的）, heavily vaccinated communities. In places where vaccination rates are low and risk remains high, more people will join the 550,000 who have already died.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky spent her weekly press conference on Monday pleading with the American people, noting “the recurring feeling I have of coming doom（厄运）.” She asked the country to “work together to prevent a fourth surge.” Three distinct factors are now shaping this country’s pandemic experience.
First, the United States did a terrible job preventing transmission（传染）of the disease. The country’s level of excess death has been high, signaling that the pandemic’s true toll has been even steeper than the officially released COVID-19 deaths. Most other countries did not experience the same levels of consistent transmission. Most estimates place the number closer to 100 million, and possibly tens of millions more.
Second, the U.S. is vaccinating people quite efficiently. It has given out the largest absolute number of doses（药的一剂）in the world. Almost three-quarters of the U.S. population over 65 has received at least one dose of the vaccine, with nearly half now fully vaccinated. On a percentage basis, the U.S. has immunized nearly three times the number of people that Germany, Italy, and France have, and in two months, the U.S. will almost certainly have a very large percentage of vaccinated adults.
Third, the virus has had staggeringly unequal effects on the American population. For a person of a given age, the risk for certain racial and ethnic groups is several times that of a white person. Native American, Latino, Pacific Islander, and Black communities have suffered large and deadly outbreaks across the country. Racialized economic hierarchy（等级制度）as well as, perhaps, distrust of the medical establishment-are holding down vaccination rates in poorer places with less access to care. So some communities have both higher risk and fewer fully protected people.
This all makes for an extremely messy and volatile（不稳定的）current situation. The first two factors mean
that some places, such as California, will see the pandemic’s worst pressures fade. But where the virus is already spreading quickly, the danger is still high, and the days are running out to slow transmission via vaccination. So far，the fatality（死亡）numbers have not turned upward. Now we can only wait to see if deaths will follow hospital admissions at the pace of past surges—or if something has changed.
32. It can be inferred from the case of Michigan that _________.
A. Michigan has an edge in bringing the pandemic under control
B. more patients are receiving proper medical treatment in hospitals
C. a new surge in cases and hospital admissions is unexpected and scary
D. a growing number of residents have been immune to the infection
33. The new phase of the pandemic is described as a tornado because _________.
A. the tornado that strikes during the pandemic makes people suffer more
B. the measures to fight the coronavirus produce uneven results in different areas
C. some poor communities are protected while some areas most at-risk are crushed
D. the crushing effects of the pandemic will last as long as the tornado effects do
34. What factors are shaping American’s pandemic experience?
①less access to medical care
②inaccurate estimates of death tolls
③distrust of governmental policies
④disadvantaged socio-economic status of ethnic groups
⑤a larger percentage of vaccinated adults
⑥efficient prevention of the transmission
A. ①②③④⑤
B. ①②③④
C. ①②④⑤
D. ①②③④⑥
35. Wat’s the author’s attitude towards the present situation of the pandemic?
A. Frustrated.
B. Optimistic.
C. Indifferent.
D. Desperate.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Three Ways to Protect Y ourself from Today’s Unreal News
Nowadays with so much news available, many people consume media in an automatic, unconscious state---similar to knowing you drove home but not being able to recall the trip. 36 These strategies can help you become wiser news consumers in three simple steps.
Seek out your own news
Like most people, you probably get a fair amount of your news from social media. You should change that. Their goal is to maximize the time you spend on their sites and apps, getting advertising income. That means instead of presenting you with the most important news of the day, social media feed you what will hold your attention. 37 These organizations actually produce news, usually in the spirit of serving the public interest:
Use basic mathematics
Untrustworthy news often uses some data to make unreal claims. 38 . For example, a widely spread rumor （谣言）falsely claimed 10,150 Americans were killed by illegal immigrants in 2019. On the surface, it’s hard to
know whether it is true, but one way to start is to think about finding out how many total murders there were in the US in 2019.
39
Humans are biased（倾向性的）to believe what’s in front of their eyes. Video content is considered more trustworthy—even though some videos can be very misleading. 40 Seeing and hearing should not necessarily be believing. Treat video content with just as much doubt as news text, checking any facts with news from a trusted source.
A. Watch out for biases
B. Believe video content
C. You’ll see a more complete range of information
D. Think carefully about how you determine something is true
E. Instead, regularly visit trusted news apps and news websites directly
F. Simple mathematical calculations can help you better spot false data
G. However, you can develop habits to control your news intake more consciously
第三部分语言运用（共四节，满分50分）
第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to discourage me from becoming a brewer（酿酒师）. He’d spent his life in local breweries, 41 making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.
So I did as he asked. I went to business school and got a highly paid job at a business- consulting firm.
42 , after working there for five years, I was haunted by 43 . Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?
I remembered that some time before, my dad had been cleaning out the attic and 44 some old bees
45 . “Today’s beer is 46 water that can hold a head,” he’d told me.
I agreed. Americans pay good money for inferior beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?
I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get
47 about continuing tradition. Instead, he said, “Jim, that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!”
As much as Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first 48 , coughing up（支付）$40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and 49 .All my safety nets were gone.
Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest 50 yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was 51 and elegant, so I named my beer 52 Samuel Adams, a brewer and patriot（爱国者）who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.
The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and hit every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to work out this way—whatever does? —but in the end I was 53 to be a brewer.
My advice to all young entrepreneurs is simple: Life is very short, so don’t 54 to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you 55 .
41. A. barely B. easily C. sufficiently D. adequately
42. A. Though B. Otherwise C. Still D. Anyhow
43. A. fear B. doubt C. regret D. desire
44. A. came across B. picked out C. put down D. bring about
45. A. menus B. cans C. recipes D. labels
46. A. exactly B. particularly C. roughly D. basically
47. A. miserable B. amused C. excited D. concerned
48. A. employer B. customer C. investor D. salesman
49. A. inspiring B. relaxing C. pushing D. frightening
50. A. opportunity B. decision C. obstacle D. defeat
51. A. respectable B. honorable C. recognizable D. understandable
52. A. after B. by C. as D. for
53. A. appointed B. born C. considered D. intended
54. A. hesitate B. need C. wait D. rush
55. A. delay B. dream C. plan D. prepare
第二节单句填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. Quite a few aboriginal tribes became ________ (extinction) as a result of this endless pandemic.
2. The Suez Canal is ________ (strategy) important because it provides the shortest maritime route connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
3. The hospital is searching far and wide for a heart ________ (donate for )he 8-year-old.
4. That superpower’s bans made us aware and ________ (appreciate) of the importance of self-reliance.
5. For the same reason its policy is as narrow as always so that it will hardly produce any result ________ (benefit) to the world at large.
6. Those responsible NGOs ________ (take) various measures to deal with the increasingly serious pollution.
7. ________ as Artemisinin（青蒿素）continues to serve as the foundation of anti-malarial treatment, numerous challenges have arisen in the further application and development of this family of drug.
8. The escalator in the shopping mall won’t be put to use before ________ (repair).
9. With many eyes ________ (glue) to their smartphones, people neglect their real-life activities on a daily basis.
10. It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress that is the fruit of freedom of thought, ________ (teach) how doubt is not to be feared but to be welcomed and discussed.
第二节完成句子（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
1. 只有当学生能获取所需的学习资料时，他们才能取得进步。

（Only句首；access）
2. 沉溺于互联网会对青少年的身心健康产生不好的影响。

（addicted；impact）
3. 不要理所当然地认为无论何时你想摆脱坏习惯你就能摆脱。

（take；rid）
4. 我们突然想到应该提高人们保护濒危物种的意识。

（occur；awareness）
5. 毕业后用光了所有钱，他不得不向这家公司申请一份工作。

（v. -ing；apply）
第四节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
Nezha is the subject of the latest cartoon film, which (1) ________ (official) opened in cinemas in China on July
26. Nezha has got wonderful reviews and is rated higher than Monkey King: Hero is Back. Since July 26.the film (2) ________ (earn) more than 140 million yuan at the box office, and the film has a score of 8.8 (3) ________ (point) (out of 10) on China’s largest filming rating site, Douban.
Yang Yu, (4) ________ is the director of it, made up his mind (5) ________ (produce)a film on the theme of breaking old rules and changing fate. Yang chose Nezha as his character, the (6) ________ (combine) of the rebellious （叛逆的）and straight youth. The film is loosely based on the Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods. In the novel, Nezha is born during the Shang Dynasty and is famous (7) ________ fighting against the Dragon King.
It took Yang Yu two years to polish the script, and the film was in production for three years. It is (8) ________ most complex cartoon production ever (9) ________ (make) in China. It has more than 1, 300 special effects shots, and it took over 20 Chinese special effects studios, (10) ________ (employ) more than 1, 600 people, to realize the film’s fairy tale setting, the mysterious Dragon King’s palace. One spectacular scene alone took two months to complete.
第四部分写作（满分20分）
假如你是李华，你的美国朋友Tom向你发来e-mail，询问#我支持新疆棉花#。

请你给他回信，内容包括：1. 民众对于知名运动品牌（sportswear brands）禁用新疆棉（a ban on Xinjiang cotton）的不同看法并陈述理由；
2. 你对于民众中抵制（boycott）知名运动品牌的看法并陈述理由。

注意：
1. 词数100词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,
How are you doing?
I’m glad to share with you ___________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________ I’m looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li hua。