厦门一中高一上期半期考(2009)

第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分50分）第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）21. Our English teacher is ill and we are all ____ her health.A. concerned aboutB. cared aboutC. interested inD. calm about22. Judging by her ____, Mrs Smith must be a southerner.A. pronunciationB. accentC. voiceD. sound23. A beggar ____ to us and asked for money.A. took upB. went upC. came upD. picked up24. My mother likes this kind of apple because it is ____ sweet ____ juicy.A. too; toB. either; orC. neither; norD. not only; but also25. Please put on your coat. It can ____ the cold.A. keep outB. look outC. give upD. set up26. The boy is as ____ as his mother, who never listens to others’ opinions.A. generousB. braveC. meanD. stubborn27. A policewoman ____ what the eyewitness said in the notebook.A. knocked downB. set downC. broke downD. burned down28. He decided to help the poor girl ____ were killed in the earthquake.A. which parentsB. parents of themC. whose parentsD. whom parents29. It was in the room ____they found the lost wallet.A. whereB. thatC. whenD. as30. Tom refused to tell the teacher the reason _____ he came late again.A. thatB. howC. whichD. why31. It was the best film ____ I have seen these 3 years.A. whatB. whenC. whichD. that32. Our food is almost ____. We can’t survive if there is no one to help us.A. at an endB. at the endC. by the endD. in the end33. ---____ do you like the trip?---To tell the truth, it was very boring.A. WhatB. HowC. How manyD. what about34. He often comes to school late, ____ makes the teacher angry.A. thatB. whichC. whoD. what35. He thought ____ of the speaker, so he slept through the speech.A. muchB. manyC. fewD. little36. It was the first time that I ____ tears in my fathe r’s eyes.A. sawB. has seenC. had seenD. sees37. ---Pardon?---I ____ make so much noise.A. tell you don’tB. tell you not toC. told you didn’tD. told you not to38. When we climbed the mountain, my legs were so weak that I could ____ stand.A. hardlyB. fairlyC. almostD. nearly39. All of the ways ______ man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the thirty secondsthe earth moved.A. thatB. in whichC. whereD. how40. ---How long _______ at this job?---Since 1990.A. were you employedB. have you been employedC. had you been employedD. will you be employed第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41～60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

I became lame(瘸的) in both legs in my childhood. I can’t stand 41 the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I “42 ”.I still remember the first day at 43 . When I appeared at the door, 44 in the classroom stared(凝视) at me in 45 . My face turned 46 . I couldn’t help 47 back. However, it was the 48 and sympathy(同情) in their eyes that 49 me doing so. I went shyly towards an unoccupied (空的) seat. Being la me, I didn’t dare(敢) to 50 in front of my classmates. I was afraid that I might be 51 at. In those days I was very sad to see otherswalking 52 .One day, a few students came up to me and asked me to go outside. I was really 53 . They encouraged me with a(n) 54 smile and 55 me in mywheelchair from place to place. I was 56 to them for giving me a chance to see the 57 of our lovely school with my own eyes.After that we often read, played and talked together. My friends arealways 58 to help me. It made me 59 I am handicapped(残疾的).Once they asked me, “What is the most beautiful thing in our school?” Without hesitation(犹豫) I said, “It is the 60 . ”41. A. with B. without C.under D. on42. A. walk B. run C. sit D. stand43. A. school B. wheelchair C.home D. hospital44. A. he B. she C. everyone D. nobody45. A. thought B. interest C.anger D. surprise46. A. red B. brown C. white D. black47. A. entering B. hiding C. coming D. turning48. A. feeling B. kindness C. sorrow D. pain49. A. made B. prevented C. kept D. let50. A. walk B. study C. practice D. speak51. A. laughed B. smiled C. stared D. looked52. A. quickly B. slowly C. happily D. shyly53. A. brave B. sad C. hurt D. excited54. A. honest B. friendly C. luckily D. handsome55. A. pushed B. placed C. drew D. pulled56. A. satisfied B. sorry C. loyal D. grateful57. A. signs B. sights C. buildings D. students58. A. ready B. smart C.wise D. unwilling59. A. forget B. remember C. imagine D. think60. A. teachers B. schoolyard C.classmates D. friendship第二部分阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AIt was a lovely spring day. Jonathan went to a park and took some photos. When he finished, he decided to stay a little longer. All the seats in the park were full, so he lay down on the grass, putting the camera beside him. The sun was so warm that he soon fell asleep. When he woke up, he found his camera was gone. He told a policeman in the park about it. The policeman told Jonathan that three other people had lost cameras there that week. Jonathan published an advertisement in the newspaper next day. It said:” Bring me your cameras.I will buy them and offer good price. Come and see at No. 64, Anva Road on every Saturday from 8:30 until 19:30.” Two policemen came to Jonathan’s house on Saturday. Jonathan gave them a piece of paper with the number of his camera on it. At 11 o’clock a man came with some cameras for sale. Jonathan picked up an old black camera and looked at the number printed on it. It was his! Then he called the policemen that were waiting in the kitchen.61. The story probably happened in _____.A. JanuaryB. AprilC. JulyD. September62. ____ cameras were lost in the park that week.A. ManyB. ThreeC. FourD. Five53. Jonathan knew that the camera was his because it _____.A. was an old black one like hisB. looked like hisC. had the same number as hisD. had a number like his64. The man who came to Jonathan’s house with cameras on Saturday ____.A. had three cameras of his ownB. was the owner of the camerasC. was a man who wanted to sell his cameraD. was a thiefBLanguage is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.There are several major(主要) language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.65. The early language had _____.A. a lot of problemsB. words and easy grammarC. words but no grammarD. grammar but not many words66. In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _____.A. stay exactly the sameB. change a great dealC. change only a littleD. ask more words and drop some grammar67. What this article shows is that _____.A. languages change fastB. languages really don't want to changeC. language really changes with the development of societyD. Spanish and English changeCLife in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will happen. But what will the changes be?The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every room. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.68. In the future there will be ____.A. much more fruitB. more peopleC. fewer vegetables D fewer people69. In the future people don’t have to ____.A. work long hoursB. work fastC. walk on footD. eat meat70. People may not eat ____ as much as they do today.A. fruitB. fishC. meatD. rice71. One big problem in the future is that _____.A. many people don’t have to workB. all people cannot find work.C. people have to work fastD. all the work will be done by robotsDLaptop computers are popular all over the world. People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a ＄10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. In addition（另外）, they willbe able to use e-mail to “speak” wi th their teachers, their classmates, and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees----anywhere at all!Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. In addition, the portable(可移动的)computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources(资源). State higher-education officials are studying how laptops can help students. State officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.At Westlake College, more than 60 percent of the staff(工作人员)use computers. The laptops will allow all teachers to use computers in their lessons. As one Westlake teacher said, “Here we are in the middle of Virginia and we’re giving students a window on the world. They can see everything and do everything.”72. The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each student a laptop to____.A. use for their schoolworkB. surf the InternetC. work at homeD. connect them to libraries73. Why is the word “speak” in the second paragraph in quotation marks(引号)?A. They don’t really talk.B. They use the computer language.C. Laptops have speakers.D. None of the above reasons is correct.74. Which of the following is true about Westlake College?A. All teachers use computers.B.1500 students have had laptops.C. It is an old college in America.D. Students there can do everything.75. “A window on the world” in the last paragraph means that students can____.A. attend lectures on information technologyB. travel around the worldC. get information from around the worldD. have free laptopsEYou are seeing a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead! Of course he isn’t really dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall onto hard ground but onto empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!But although their work depends on tricks of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on carefultiming. For example, when he is “ blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They sometimes get seriously injured, and even killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open and he was killed.In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women to perform some dangerous actions. For nowadays there are stunt girls , too.76. What can be inferred from the autho r’s example of the Norwegian stuntman?A. Sometimes an accident can happen to a stuntman.B. The percentage of serious accidents is high.C. Parachutes must be of good quality.D. The cliff was too high.77. Stuntmen are those who __________________.A. often dress up as actors.B. like to lead dangerous lives.C. often perform seemingly dangerous actions.D. often fight each other for their lives.78. Stuntmen earn their living by ___________________.A. playing their dirty tricks.B. selling their special skills.C. jumping out of high windows.D. jumping from fast moving trains.79. When a stuntman falls from a high building, _____________________.A. he needs little protection.B. he will be covered with a mattress.C. his life is in danger.D. his safety is generally all right.80. Which of the following is the main factor of a successful performance?A. StrengthB. ExactnessC. CourageD. CarefulnessV. 完成句子: (每空2分, 满分30分)1. I knew what we did would help us ___________(实现) our dream of_______________________________________________________(使白人和黑人平等).2. _______________________________________________________（和自然有关的一切）gets him _________________（痴迷）.3. It ________________________________________（大家都相信）that_______________________________(爬山)at such a high altitude is hard work.4. He _________________________(人们希望他能) to suggest_____________________________________________________(提高英语的方法).5. You can’t be a ______________________________________(流利说英语的人) untilyou ____________________________________________(运用更广泛的词汇)6. I am sure I will _________________________________________( 逐渐取得进步)by _______________________________________________(建立/培养我的技巧).7. _____________________________________________________（正是我姐姐那坚定的眼神）that persuaded me ______________________________(别屈服). 8. ______________________________________________(自从我们收到) his letter,we could ____________________________________________(迫不及待想见到他).9. _______________________________________ (人数) who were killed____________________________(增加到) 400.10. After the fire ____________________________________（摧毁）the whole city,it ___________________________________(好像)the world was at an end.11.______________________________________________________________ __（一旦她下定决心), nothing can change it..12. Let us _____________________(搭起)shelters and__________________________________________________________(把这些衣服分发下去).13. They do what ________________________________________ (他们所能做的)to make me _____________________________________(使我对自己感觉良好).14._________________________________(事实上) he________________________________________(乐意)offer his guidance to me.15. ___________________（只有在当时）did he _______________________ (放弃)his rich life.VI. 短文填空（每空1分，满分10分）Dear Mr Smith,I’m writing to ask you to come to our class. I’ve_____ (听说)that you have been to Greece. In our text book, 1.____________we have been learning about its rich ______ (文化) and long 2.____________history. Since you have v Greece several times, I would 3.____________like to know w you have seen the old buildings there. 4.____________We have learned a lot from the text book, _____ I believe 5.____________your personal ______(经历) will be a lot better. Your 6._________________(了解)of Greece can help the whole class. Could 7.____________you s it with us? It will be surely 8. ____________ i and rewarding. I hope that you think about my 9.____________request and give us a lecture as _____ as possible. 10.____________Key:听力：1—5 ACBAC 6—10 ABCAC 11—15 BBACB 16—20 CABAC单选21—25 ABCDA 26—30 DBCBD 31—35 DABBD 36—40 CDAAB 完形: 41—45 BAACD 46—50 ADBBA 51—55 ACDBA 56—60 DBAAD 阅读: 61-- BCCD 65—DBC 68—BACB 72—AACC 76—ACBDB 完成句子1. achieve, making black and white people equal2. Everything to do with nature, crazy3. is believed, to climb mountains / climbing mountains4. was expected to / is expected to ,the ways to improve English / the ways of improving English5. fluent English speaker, make use of a wider vocabulary6. gradually make progress, building up my skills7. It was my sister’s determined look,not to give in8. Ever since we received, hardly wait to see him9. The number of people, added up to10. had destroyed, seemed as if11. Once she has made up her mind12. put up, hand out13. they can, feel good about myself14. As a matter fact/ In fact, is willing to15. Only then, give up短文填空:1. heard2. culture3. visited4. whether5. but6. experience7. knowledge8. share9. interesting / instructive / impressive10. soon。