广东省湛江市高一英语上学期期中考试试题新人教版

广东省湛江市2012-2013学年高一英语上学期期中考试试题新人教版
一、完型填空（本题共15小题,满分30分）
I used to walk my dog every morning. Later when we got back home, I would give it some food. This usually caught the 1 of a mynah bird. The most 2 feature of this bird was its brightly-coloured 3 mouth, so I found it a bit strange.
Later I read a book and found that the colour yellow 4 “communication, optimism and inspiration”. I took the “c” from 5 , “o” from optimism, and “in” from inspiration to form the word “Coin”. This became the bird’s 6 .
Every time when my dog finished his 7 , Coin would look at me and sing , “Raack! Raack!” After singing, she would start picking up the food left by the dog.
When winter came, Coin 8 . It was the longest winter that we had ever had. When spring 9 came, it was the time for the birds to fly back and I often 10 what had happened to Coin.
One day after I had given my 11 its food , a mynah bird flew down. It was then that I heard the 12 “Raack! Raack!” Coin was back! Sometimes, I wondered how Coin knew to come back to the same 13 she had left.
Each morning Coin would come with her sweet 14 . Both I and my dog accepted her as a member of our family. Now, I understand that if we have optimism and inspiration in our life, and if we communicate often with others, we are sure to be 15 by everyone.
1.A. realization B. view C. sight D. attention
2. A. special B. common C. central D. possible
3.A. black B. white C. yellow D. sad
4. A. stands for B. achieves C. organizes D. changes
munication B. festival C. celebration D. custom
6.A. food B. cage C. name D. story
7.A. song B. communication C. meal D. walk
8. A. died B. hid C. disappeared D. escaped
9.A. suddenly B. finally C. happily D. luckily
二、语法填空
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中间词语的正确形式。

（1）
Keep you elbows off the table. Don’t eat or drink noisily. Say “please”. Most of us have heard ______ (16)parents say these phrases many times. Did our parents simply enjoy enforcing these rules, ______(17) do good manners actually have a purpose in life? _______(18) we grow, manners , or the socially correct way of acting, become more and more important. Good manners _______ (19) (be) necessary in business, social, and family situations.
(2)
Mr. Jones woke early one morning. It was a beautiful morning, so ______(26) went to the window and looked out. He was surprised to see a neatly dressed, middle-aged professor, _______(27) worked in the university near his house. He had grey hair and thick glasses, and was carrying ______(28) umbrella, a morning newspaper and a bag. Mr. Jones thought that he must _______(29) (arrive) by the night train and decided to walk to the university instead of ______(30) (take) a taxi.
Mr. Jones had a big tree in his garden, and the children had tied a long rope to one of its branches, so that they could swing on it .
Mr. Jones was surprised to see the professor stop and look _______(31)(care) up and down the road . _________(32) he saw that there was nobody in sight, he stepped
10. A. complained B. recorded C. wondered D. wished 11. A. door B. bird C. daughter D. dog 12. A. strange B. familiar C. crazy D. terrible 13. A. place B. cat C. person D. sky 14.A. song
B. face
C. appearance
D. voice 15. A. confirmed B. accepted
C. agreed
D. impressed
into the garden (there was no fence),put his umbrella, newspaper, bag and hat neatly on the grass and took hold of the rope. He pulled it hard ______(33) (see) whether it was strong enough to take his weight, then ________(34) (run) as fast as he could and swung into the air on the end of the rope.
At last the professor stopped and continued on his way _______(35) the university, looking as quiet and correct as one would expect a professor to be.
三、阅读理解（本题共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
A
I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to sit above the top of it. Mothe sat writing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at eh ink bottle, pens and with paper, I decided that the act of writing must be a most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk ,” she said again, “is for Elizabeth.”
I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me; she shoed in action. But as a young girl I wanted to have heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
But the present of her desk told me, as she’d never been about to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside—a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded and refolded many times. It was my letter.
36.The writer began to love hr mother’s desk_____________________.
A. after her mother died
B. before she became a
writer
C. when she was a child
D. when Mother gave it to her
37. The passage shows that ______________________.
A. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter.
B. Mother was too serious about her daughter in words.
C. Mother wrote to her daughter in careful words
D. Mother wrote to her daughter in careless words
38. The underlined word “gulf” in the passage means___________.
A. deep understanding between the old the young
B. different ideas
between mother and daughter
C. free talks between mother and daughter
D. part of the sea going
far in land
39. What did Mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgiveness?
A. She had never received the letter.
B. For years, she often
talked about the letter
C. She didn’t forgive her daughter at in all her life
D. She read the
letter again and again till she died
40. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. My letter to Mother
B. Mother and children
C. My mother’s desk
D.
Talks between Mother and me
B
They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society.
Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. It is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect the entire world.
41. The main idea of the passage is about ______.
A. the cause of weboholism
B. the advantage of weboholism
C. the popularity of weboholism
D. the influence of weboholism
42. The underlined world “obsessional” in the second paragraph probably means _____.
A. attractive
B. addictive
C. professional
D. potential
43. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers
B. students can hardly balance real and virtual life
C. people are addicted to games on the Internet
D. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway
44. Which of the following is NOT true of weboholism?
A. It contributes to the development of the web.
B. The chat room language may change social culture.
C. The problem will be getting more and more serious later.
D. People addicted to the web often become inactive in real life.
45. The author's attitude towards weboholism is that of being ______.
A. optimistic
B. neutral
C. critical
D. acceptable
（C）
The question of the engagement ring has already been answered . Prince William gave Miss Middleton the sapphire and the diamond ring that his father had given his mother—Diana, Princess of Wales –for her engagement in 1981. William said that giving M iss Middleton that ring was his way of making sure his mother didn’t miss out on the excitement and showing respect for her. “It’s very special to me,” said. “As Kate’s very special to me now, it is right to put the two together.”
Miss Middleton is a different sort of royal bride from Diana. Diana was native and indifferently educated, but she was the daughter Oxford earl whose family had always mixed in the royal family. By contrast, Miss Middleton, who grew up in Buchlebury, west Berkshire, is considered solidly middle class by British standards. By all accounts , Miss Middleton is far better equipped to deal with media attention than Diana was, also , while Charles and Diana hardly knew each other at that time of their engagement, Middleton has been living with Prince William for some time and has met his father many times. The couple became engaged in October during a private holiday in Kenya, Prince Charles’s announcement said.
46. From the passage, we can know exactly _________________________.
A. when Prince William and Kate Middleton will get married
B. what Miss Middleton is going to be after she married
C. where Prince William and Miss Middleton will live after the marriage
D. what Miss Middleton’s job is
47. Prince William gave Miss Middleton his mother’s engagement ring partly because_______.
A. it was his own way of honoring his mother
B. it was a British royal tradition
C. he hoped their marriage would be a special one
D. the ring was expensive and specially design
48. Which of the following statements about Kate Middleton is NOT true?
A. She knew the Prince William well before the engagement
B. She is from the upper class of British society.
C. She is different from Diana in many ways
D. She is better prepared for dealing with the m edia’s attention
49. We can infer from the passage that______________________
A. some people and the media have always been interested in William’s personal
life
B. the queen is happy to announce the engagement of William and Kate Middleton
C. Middleton’s parents haven’t agreed to their engagement yet.
D. Prince William and his girlfriend were born on the same date.
50. The purpose of the passage is to ______________________________________.
A. introduce the love story of William and Kate Middleton
B. comment on the engagement of William and Kate Middleton
C. compare Kate Middleton with Diana
D. inform readers of the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton
（D）
Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door .He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground.” She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyon e but a doctor touch her!” he said, and burst into tears again.
51.The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means ________ .
A. expect
B. understand
C. see clearly
D. hear clearly
52.Before he arrived at the farmer’s house, th e writer expected to see Milly lying ________ .
A. on the ground of a barn
B. on the floor of a room.
C. in bed in a room
D. in bed in a barn
53.What do we know about Milly from the story?
A. She had met with an accident.
B. She had caused a scandal
C. She was seriously ill.
D. She was hidden somewhere.
54.The farmer wished that the writer might ________ .
A. look into the matter
B. bring Milly back to life
C. free him from a scandal
D. keep the whole thing a secret
55.The person who told the story is probably a ________ .
A. farmer
B. policeman
C. country doctor
D. newspaper reporter
信息匹配
第二节信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

首先，请阅读下列的应用文：
New friends. Fresh lifestyle. Better career opportunities... Those are attractions of overseas study for young people in China. "Start early, finish strong,” some of them say.
More than 300 universities from 27 countries and regions were represented at last
请阅读以下学位申请者的信息，然后匹配申请者和他/她拟要申请留学的国家： Zhang Yuan has passed the IELTS and hopes to go to a foreign country for further study with easier access to visas and international environment, regardles of the tuition fee.
Li Hong
can afford a tuition of about 200,000 yuan. She wishes to study in a foreign country with good climate and wishes to go on staying in the country after he finishes studying there.
Zhang Hua has passed the TOFEL and GRE. He wants to have more chances of getting scholarship to study in a foreign country.
Wang Ying doen’t have so much money and wishes to study art at a university in a foreign country as an international student.
Li Ming would like to take campus part-time jobs while studying in a foreign country and wishes to go on staying in the country after he finishes studying there
第一节 基础写作（共1小题；满分15分）
有一个美国代表团想了解你们的英语老师Mr. Moon，请根据下列提要，写一篇以＂My Teacher Mr. Moon”短文。

[写作内容]
1.出生于法国，华籍美国人，40岁，活泼，具有幽默感。

2.与其他教师相比，他更注重教学方法，总想尽各种方法让他的课生动有趣。

3.鼓励学生思考，培养学生自学能力。

4.帮助学生学会了分析和解决问题
5.博学，深受学生爱戴。

二、读写任务
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文
Two years ago, a 46-year-old man came in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family. Though he felt in perfect health, he was
found to have a form of cancer that would cause him to die within six months. His doctor, John, decided to hide the truth, and told that he was OK, but need to get routine physical checkup as usual. However, more than 4 months have passed, to John’s su rprise, the man was still alive. People say that it was the lie that saved the
man—the lie kept his hope for life, and he recovered slowly with an optimistic mind. John’s lie can be called “a white lie”, which means an unimportant lie(especially one told to be tactful or polite.)
【写作内容】
1. 以约30个词概括短文的要点。

2、以约120个词就“诚实”这个主题发表你的看法，并包括如下要点：
1）简单叙述你或你的亲友的一次“不诚实”的经历；
2）你认为“诚实”有没有必要？为什么？
【写作要求】
1、可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构，但不得直接引用原文的句子；
2、标题自定。

湛江市第二中学2012-2013学年度高一第一学期第一学段英语学科（必修I）试卷答案一、完形填空：（本题共15小题，满分30分，每小题2分）
1-5 DACAA 6-10 CBCBC 11-15 DBAAB
二、语法填空：（本题共20小题，满分30分，每小题1.5分）
（1）16. our, 17. or.; 18. As; 19.are ; 20. between ; 21. an; 22. answering;23.after;
24. like; 25. and
（2）26. he; 27. who; 28. an; 29. have arrived;30. taking; 31. carefully; 32. When ;
33. to see; 34. ran;
35. to
三、阅读理解：（本题共25题，满分50分，每小题2分）
A篇：36-40 CABDC
B篇：41-45 DBBAC
C篇：46-50 CABAD
D篇：51-55 BDABC
信息匹配： 56---60 CEDFA
四、基础写作：（本题满分15分）
范文：
My Teacher Mr. Moon
Born in France and aged 40, Mr. Moon, an American Chinese, is a lovely teacher with a sense of humor. Compared with other teachers, Mr. Moon pays more attention to his ways of teaching, trying various ways to make his classes lively and interesting. In class he always encourages us to think hard and develop our ability to study on our own. With his help, we’ve learned how to analyze and solve problems. He is such a learned person that we all admire him very much.
五、读写任务：（本题满分25分）
范文：。