北京市汇文中学高一下学期期中考试英语试题

2016-2017学年度第二学期北京汇文中学期中考试高一年级英语
第二部分：知识运用（共两节，35分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题：每小题1分，共15分）
21. A new cinema ______ here. They hope to finish it next month.
A. will be built
B. is built
C. has been built
D. is being built
22. You’d better write down her phone number before you ______ it.
A. forget
B. are forgetting
C. forgot
D. will forget
23. It is said that the hospital ______ the university.
A. belonging to
B. is belonged to
C. is attached to
D. attached to
24. The reports went missing in 2012 and nobody ______ them since.
A. sees
B. saw
C. has seen
D. had seen
25. He was educated at a local grammar school, ______ he went on to Cambridge.
A. from which
B. after that
C. after which
D. in which
26. Look out! Don’t get too close to the house ______ roof is under repair.
A. of which
B. which
C. whose
D. from which
27. We went to Canada to travel and our cousin ______ as our guide.
A. played
B. pretended
C. acted
D. performed
28. Max is hardworking, cheerful and ______ honest?
A. at all
B. all in all
C. after all
D. above all
29. —Kayla, we ______ a boat trip to Hawaii tomorrow. Would you like to go with us?
—That sounds exciting. I’d like to, but I am too busy recently.
A. take
B. are taking
C. have taken
D. will have taken
30. He wrote a letter ______ he explained what had happened in the accident.
A. what
B. which
C. where
D. how
31. —Good morning. I’ve got an appointment with Miss Smith in the Personnel Department. ——Ah, good morning. You ______ be Mrs. Peters.
A. might
B. must
C. would
D. can
32. He apologized ______ late.
A. to his teacher to arrive
B. to his teacher for arriving
C. at his teacher to arrive
D. at his teacher for arriving
33. It was on the National Day ______ she met her long-lost friends.
A. that
B. when
C. which
D. where
34. Take the mask with you ______ the air is bad.
A. so that
B. as if
C. in case
D. even though
35. Only when class began ______ that he had left his book at home.
A. will he realize
B. he did realize
C. did he realize
D. had he realized
第二节完形填空（共30小题；每小题1分，共20分）
All the World Asks
On my first day in a college classroom, I felt like an overgrown child returning to civilization（文明世界）after having been lost in the forest for thirty years. There I sat, 36 enough to be a father to most of the students in the room, 37 unconfident enough to be their baby brother. We were crowded elbow（肘部）to elbow, listening to a 38 who looked even younger than the students. I felt uncomfortable and out of place as the professor carefully
39 what she expected us to learn. As I listened, I couldn’t help but40 of my own
oldest daughter who was now beginning her first year in 41 , just like me. I remembered how hard I had tried to help build self-confidence in her and my other children. So why did I suddenly feel like a scared 42 myself? When I walked out of that classroom, I had serious 43 about my ability to make it 44 college. Not until late that night did my thinking 45 . It was a long-distance 46 from my daughter, my fellow college freshman（新生）, that did the trick. She spoke on the phone about the doubts, worries and anxieties she was
47 . She was certain that she'd never 48 at college. How 49 her worries sounded. In my most confident parental 50 , I said, “Doing your best it all the 51 .”The next day in class, those words still repeated in my head. When the professor raised a 52 for the class, nobody, including me, 53 to answer. When I looked around at the 54 and uncertainty on the young faces in that room, I knew 55 what I had to do: my best. That’s all the world asks. So raised my hand, and the professor called my name. I spoke.
36. A. big B. tall C. old D. strong
37. A. and B. so C. or D. yet
38. A. professor B. teacher C. lecturer D. instructor
39. A. showed B. explained C. designed D. offered
40. A. think B. speak C. talk D. hear
41. A. school B. office C. classroom D. college
42. A. father B. parent C. child D. son
43. A. fears B. doubts C. opinions D. ideas
44. A. over B. on C. with D. through
45. A. stop B. turn C. change D. continue
46. A. call B. talk C. report D. discussion
47. A. obtaining B. gaining C. experiencing D. feeling
48. A. fail B. succeed C. win D. pass
49. A. common B. ordinary C. regular D. familiar
50. A. sound B. whisper C. word D. voice
51. A. hopes B. asks C. wants D. expects
52. A. request B. problem C. question D. demand
53. A. dared B. preferred C. tried D. prepared
54. A. sorrow B. joy C. fear D. anger
55. A. exactly B. roughly C. gradually D. certainly
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，30分）
第一节：（共15小题：每小题1.5分，共22.5分）
A
My doorbell rings. On the step,I find an elderly Chinese lady, She is small and thin, holding the hand of a little boy. In her other hand, she holds a paper carrier bag.
I know this lady. It is her first visit. She is the boy’s grandmother, and her daughter bought the house next door last October.
Her daughter，Nicole, speak fluent English. But she is now in Shanghai, and her parents are here with the little boy. Nicole has obviously told her mother that I am having heart surgery soon, so her mother has decided I need more nutrients.
I know what is inside the bag—a thermos（暖瓶）with hot soup and a stainless-steel container with rice, vegetables and either chicken, meat or shrimp, sometimes with a kind of pancake. This
has become an almost-daily practice.
Communication between us is somewhat affected by the fact that she doesn’t speak English and all me is somewhat handicapped by the fact that she doesn't speak English and all I can say in Chinese is “hello”. Once, she brought an iPad as well as the food. She pointed to the screen, which displayed a message from her daughter telling me that her mother wanted to know if the food was all right and whether it was too salty. I am not used to iPad, so she indicated I should go with her to her house. Then, she handed the iPad to her husband and almost immediately I found myself looking at Nicole in Shanghai and discussing her mother’s cooking and salt intake. Instantly, tears welled in my eyes.
“Your mother just can’t be bringing me meals like this all the time,” I insisted. “I can hardly do dishes in return.”
“Oh, no, Lucy. ” Nicole said. “Mum doesn’t like western food. Don’t worry about it; she has to cook for the three of them anyway, and she wants to do it.”
The doorbell keeps ringing and there is the familiar brown paper carrier bag, handed smilingly to me.
I am working on some more Chinese words—it’s the least I can do after such a display of kindness.
“Thank you” is, of course, the first one, which somehow seems inadequate.
56. The elderly Chinese lady visits Lucy regularly because ______. .
A. Lucy pays here to deliver food
B. Lucy likes cooking Chinese food
C. she cares about Lucy’s state of health
D. she wants to make friends with Lucy
57. Nicole’s mum took an iPad to Lucy’s home for ______. .
A. displaying
B. communicating
C. cooking
D. chatting
58. In this passage Lucy mainly expresses her ______. .
A. preference for the Chinese food
B. gratitude to the Chinese family
C. love of the advanced technology
D. affection for the Chinese language
B
As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, do people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder （文件夹）. Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory（交互记忆）”.
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
59. The passage begins with two questions to ______.
A. introduce the main topic
B. show the aut hor’s altitude
C. describe how to use the Interne
D. explain how to store information
60. What can we learn about the first experiment?
A. Sparrow’s team typed the information into a computer.
B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.
C. The first group did not try to remember the information.
D. The second group did not understand the information.
61. In transactive memory, people ______.
A. keep the information in mind
B. change the quantity of information
C. organize information like a computer
D. remember how to find the information
62. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow’s research?
A. We are using memory differently.
B. We are becoming more intelligent.
C. We have poorer memories than before.
D. We need a better way to access information.
C
Britain is facing a sharp rise in its rat population as growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street, an environment group warned. Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents(啮齿动物) were stopping their traditional hunts underground and were roaming (wandering) the streets , tempted by discarded burgers ,pizzas and crisps. “The rat population is on the rise and soon it’ll be as common to see a rodent on our street as it is to see a dog or a cat,” said group Director, Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street rather than in the trash-with young men the worst offenders-was behind the rise.
According to the National Rodent Survey in 2005, Britain’s rat population has grown by nearly one quarter since 2000 and is now estimated at 60 million, two million more than the human population. On average a rat can give birth every 24-28 days and just a single pair of rats can produce a colony of 2,000 a year. Around 200 people a year get Weil’s Disease-an infection which can lead to liver or kidney(肝肾) failure and eventually death and which is arrived in rat’s waste. To highlight the issue, Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema ad entitled “How close do you want them to get?” The ad gave a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rats- echoing the nightmare scene from James Herbert’s cla ssic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on(捕食)humans.
63. Where did the rodents use to search for food?
A. In the Street.
B. Under the ground.
C. From the trash cans.
D. In burger shops.
64. What is the human population now according to the writer?
A. 60 million.
B. 58 million.
C. 35 million.
D. 2 million.
65. We may infer from the passage that ______.
A. Well’s Di sease will finally end the world
B. pizzas and crisps will become poisonous
C. rats will endanger human beings’ life
D. young people are to blame for the rat population
66. By writing the passage, the author tries to ______.
A. close some of the burger and pizza restaurants
B. draw the public attention to the problem of rats
C. prevent the rats from growing up
D. make advertisement for the classic horror film The Rats
D
I watch documentaries, not movies. I read history books, not fiction. I use every free moment to accomplish one of the tasks on my never-ending checklist, and I am completely filled with thoughts of productivity. An hour sleeping is an hour wasted. And like the rest of 21st century American, I like it. But this fixation on productivity is increasingly destroying character and transforming men into robots.
New York Times columnist David Brooks warned American University students of this cultural decline in a speech. “We cut off all things spiritual and emotional in a competitive urge to stand out”, he said, “The pressure to succeed professionally, to acquire skills, to do the things you need to do to succeed in an information age economy really became the overwhelming (难以应付的) pressures, and it sort of eclipses the thinking about character and morality.”
Many students happily go to college, viewing it as a next step on their rise to professional achievement. Forcing as many success-building activities into their schedules as they can, they enjoy keeping busy with little sleep. “Today’s outstandin g kids are likely to spend their afternoons and weekends shuttling from one skill-improving activity to the next,” Brooks wrote in an article, “We fear failure more than we desire success.”
A century ago, college was about character building. Today, our characters are in decline. We are experts on economics, material things and professional skills. We fail to discuss and understand relationships, emotions and all things spiritual.
Philosophers Karl Popper divided the world into two categories: Clocks and Clouds. Clock problems are those that can be taken apart, examined and solved through deductive reasoning (演绎推理). Clouds cannot be taken apart. Cloud problems represent whole systems that need to be understood in a different way.
“When we have a Cloud proble m, we try to turn into a Clock problem,” Brooks said. And in
a reason-centered culture, adding titles to one’s resume becomes a trend. At American University,
85 percent of seniors (and 89 percent of business majors) graduate with at least one practical
ex perience which is often helpful to a student’s future career, but can sometimes draw focus away from academics.
To prevent the death of man’s character, Brooks urges rediscovering our human natures through falling in love. And by love he means love for a task, job, or another person.
“S ynchronicity is key to happiness,” he said. Rather than crazily increasing our long lists of accomplishments, we need to lose ourselves in what we do, and success will come on its own.
67. From Paragraph 1, we can learn that people ______.
A. are controlled by time
B. are keen on reading books
C. are changing their characters
D. are eager to achieve more
68. In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “eclipses” means ______.
A. deletes
B. weakens
C. worsens
D. emphasizes
69. The last paragraph mainly tells us that ______.
A. love is more important than focus
B. the focus on human natures counts
C. more work contributes to happiness
D. success comes from devotion to work.
70. The purpose of this passage is to ______.
A. bring awareness to character building
B. stress the importance of productivity
C. warn about the pressure to seek success
D. criticize students’ desire for achievements
第二节：七选五（共5小题；每小题1.5分，共7.5分）
Network With Ease
Networking is very important in our daily lives. Often the best jobs and opportunities are not advertised but filled by word of mouth. With this in mind, a good idea is to go and find them yourself. How is this done? By the simple process of networking.
A number of people feel networking is a waste of time and it has no effect on personal relationships or being successful in your business. 71 Relationships and business have been built via the networking process for hundreds of years.
Networking is not about meeting hundreds of people, communicating with them and then never meeting them again. It’s about getting to know each other and finding out if you are able to make the relationship beneficial for both of you. If you aren’t able to – then see if you can introduce them to someone more well-matched to their business.
72 . One day she decided to donate one of her articles to the local newspaper so it could be published and people around the world could have the chance to read it. The article focused on an event, which was coming up and was hosted by a woman’s publishing group. The group not only liked the article, but also appreciated what she had done, so they recommended her to a national magazine. 73 This example shows how networking can be done easily, if well thought out. Touching base with a few people can in fact lead to reaching many.
74 I heard a story of someone recommending a friend for a teaching position with a nonprofit organization. Interestingly enough after getting the position, he returned the favor by referring his friend into a job he had heard about. How funny things work out!
When looking for a new job, it may be worth joining a networking group focusing on the sector of business you are interested in. It’s a great way to meet people, do research into companies by asking questions of those people who work there. 75 .
The examples above show that in order to network effectively and in an efficient manner, you do not need to be outgoing or know a lot of people. All it requires is being creative, listening well, asking relevant questions and developing a good reputation with others. You would be amazed at how many doors will open for you.
A. This concept is completely incorrect.
B. Family and friends are the easiest and best way to increase your network.
C. Often the opportunity may just be within that particular networking group.
D. So now, not only does she get to write regular articles, she also gets paid for it.
E. Getting in touch with your friends and your colleagues often helps you build a larger network.
F. A simple example of how easy networking can be is the example of a woman who used to love writing articles.
G. By referring your friends or relatives whom you think are well suited for a job is another way to network.
第Ⅱ卷主观试题
英语知识运用（共3节，25分）
第一节：根据句意和中文提示填单词的正确形式。

（非课本词汇不给分）
（共10道小题：每题0.5分，共5分）
1. As a matter of fact, every country wants the opportunity to be chosen to host the Olympics. It’s
a great ______ (责任) but also a great honor.
2. Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted as c _____.
3. Since the 1970s many new a _____ have been found for me. I have become very important in communication, finance and trade.
4. Daisy woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. “Where do you want to go?” it asked. Daisy _____ (回答) immediately.
5. The elephant used to be an endangered species and farmers hunted them without m_____.
6. Sometimes they may play to _____ (路人) in the street or subway so they can earn some extra money for themselves or to pay for their instruments.
7. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid in cash, Of course they hope to make record in a _____ (工作室) and sell millions of copies to become millionaires!
8. To be honest, a lot of people _____ (认为….重要) great importance to becoming rich and famous.
9. For the Japanese festival Obon people should go to clean graves and light incense _____ (为了纪念) their ancestors back to earth. (词组)
10. India has a national festival on Oct.2 to honor Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain
1. My mother and I wear size medium and large shirts ______.
2. Jamie ______ her little sister and is always trying to play with her.
3. When someone gives you a gift, it’s ______ to write them a thank-you note.
4. A piano and violin ______ the singers.
5. Deborah ______ great skill at learning language and she has won many awards in competitions.
6. This restaurant serves a wide ______ of dishes.
7. Giving your children gifts is not ______ for spending time with them.
8. The girl slapped the boy when he ______ to kiss her.
9. Eating well and getting enough sleep are important ways to ______ you health.
10. Several ______ told the police about the accident.
第三节：书面表达（共1题；共15分）
你的美国笔友Lucy的学校安排了文化研究性学习的任务，要求学生选择一外国节日，展开深入研究。

Lucy来信请你推荐一个中国的节日（春节除外）。

请你根据以下提示给Lucy 写回信。

1. 推荐一个中国节日（春节除外）；
2. 说明推荐该节日的原因；
3. 简单介绍该节日；
注意：1. 词数不少于50；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Lucy,
I’ve learned about your recent learning task.
______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Best wishes!
Yours
Li Hua。