【全国市级联考】河南省许昌市2017-2018学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题(原卷版)

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河南省许昌市2017-2018学年高一下学期期末考试
英语试题
第I卷
第一部分听力（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分30分）
第一节
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 does the woman prefer?
A. Politics.
B. Science.
C. Foreign languages.
2. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Fruits.
B. Flowers.
C. V egetables.
3. What will the man do?
A. Make a call.
B. Send an e-mail.
C. Send a message.
4. Where does the man want to go?
A. A hotel.
B. A restaurant.
C. A hospital.
5. How many trips does the school organize on weekdays every month?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Five.
第二节
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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is the man probably doing?
A. Playing volleyball.
B. Playing computer games.
C. Studying for an exam.
7. Who is Mike?
A. Tim’s brother.
B. The man’s friend.
C. The woman’s student.
请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What time is it now?
A. 8:30 pm.
B. 9:00 pm.
C. 11:00 am.
9. What will the man probably do next?
A. Pay a late fee.
B. Go out of town.
C. Return a DV
D. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Who has got the invitation?
A. Joan.
B. Bill.
C. George.
11. What will the Marks do tonight?
A. Give out some invitations.
B. Hold a housewarming party.
C. Move their furniture into new house.
12. What day is it today probably?
A. Tuesday.
B. Wednesday.
C. Thursday.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How old is the woman now?
A. 11 years old.
B. 20 years old.
C. 21 years old.
14. How will the woman probably travel around Europe?
A. By car.
B. By train.
C. By plane.
15. Where will the woman visit first from Spain?
A. France.
B. Morocco.
C. Portugal.
16. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends.
B. Relatives.
C. Schoolmates.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What does Mr. Jones do?
A. A tour guide.
B. A museum clerk.
C. A head teacher.
18. How long do the students have to work on the projects on a Science Night?
A. 3.5 hours.
B. 7 hours.
C. 10.5 hours.
19. What can the students do after breakfast in the morning?
A. Visit a gallery.
B. Watch a film.
C. Enter a competition.
20. What does the speaker expect the students to do?
A. Listen to his next talk.
B. Come to a Science Night.
C. Write reports on Facebook.
第二部分阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Camberwell College Swimming Pools
Camberwell College of Arts has one 50m (Olympic sized) pool with a depth of 2m throughout, and one 25m pool with a 1m shallow end and a 4m deep end. Both pools may be used by the general public at certain times.
50m Pool
The pool is often used for classes, but the general public may use two lanes（泳道）for lane swimming at the following times.
Monday: 06:30-11:30 and 19:00-21:00
Tuesday: 06:30-11:30 and 18:00-21:00
Wednesday: 06:30-13:30 and 17:30-21:30
Thursday: 06:30-13:30
Friday: 06:30-13:30
Weekends: 09:00-17:00
Children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
Please note that during College holidays, these times will be different. Call 04837 393560 for up-to-date information.
25m Pool
The 25m pool is available for recreational (non-lane) swimming from 07:00-09:00 and 12:30-13:30 on weekdays, and 10:00-16:00 on Saturdays.
Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied.
We regret that the 25m pool will be closed for redecoration between 21st July and 18th August. The men’s changing rooms will be closed for the week beginning 19th August, and the women’s changing rooms will be cl osed the following week. Alternative（可选用的）changing rooms will be made available. We’re sorry for this.
1. When can the general public use the 50m pool on Sundays?
A. 06:30.
B. 13:30.
C. 18:00.
D. 21:00.
2. What do we know about the 50m pool?
A. It’s 4 meters deep.
B. It’s usually used for teaching.
C. It’s unsuitable for children under 14.
D. It’s unavailable during College holidays.
3. The 25m pool will be closed ________.
A. for a week
B. on 26th August
C. on 19th August
D. for about a month
B
She was sitting up at four months, walking at eight months and completing 100-piece jigsaw puzzles（拼图玩具）at 15 months. So it is no surprise that Abigail Wilson, 15, from Connecticut, USA, recently made history when she became the youngest black girl ever accepted into an American university! “I’m proud of myself for getting in, but I usually find it hard to get excited. It’s pretty cool, I guess,” said Abigail.
Her mother, Nancy, said that Abigail was a quiet baby, born two weeks late on Christmas Day. She didn’t speak her first words until she was 22 months old! Nancy and her husband thought something must be wrong, but when she started to talk, her speech was perfect. She already knew her colours, letters and was able to read. Her parents read her no rmal bedtime stories and they didn’t know she was learning all of it.
Abigail has always been the youngest person in her class. At six she was in the fourth grade, at ten she took her first high school class in Maths. She has studied several languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and German.
Abigail says that she doesn’t usually plan when she studies, she calls herself scatterbrained（注意力不集中的）and she always delays（拖延）things up to the last minute. This gives her the motivation to really do something.
In her free time, Abigail plays basketball, surfs the Internet, reads, cooks and hangs out with her friends: they are all 17 and 18.She has also studied music. Her mother says that Abigail’s music lessons helped her to be a normal teen. She believes that Abigail needed to be in a situation where she had to fail in order to learn. “She found playing the piano very difficult, but it made her learn better,” said Nancy. “She can’t always be successful, she won’t be able to learn anything! People always learn more from their failures than from their successes”.
4. Why is it no surprise that Abigail went to university at 15?
A. She was a hard-working girl.
B. She was always ahead of other kids.
C. She was brought up in a special way.
D. She was no different than other black girls.
5. What can we learn about Abigail?
A. She is crazy about sports.
B. She has a gift for language.
C. Her favourite subject is maths.
D. Her success is due to good habits.
6. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Abigail has a better education than others.
B. Abigail won’t be a normal girl without music.
C. Nancy didn’t like Abigail when she was a baby.
D. Abigail usually does things when they are emergent.
7. What did Nancy’s words mean?
A. Abigail failed to have a normal life.
B. Abigail needed to learn from failures.
C. Abigail was good at playing the piano.
D. Abigail wanted to always be successful.
C
No one thought that the RMS Titanic would sink on its first time at sea. But in 1912, the ship hit an iceberg and sank during the night. No one knew exactly where it had sunk. Even if someone had known, it was 12,500 feet (3.8 km) underwater. To search for the Titanic so deep in the water seemed impossible. But, 73 years later, Dr. Robert Ballard thought he had found a way to go that deep.
In 1985, Ballard set out to find the Titanic. He would use an unmanned submarine（无人驾驶的潜水艇）called Argo. Ballard’s research team controlled it from a ship on the surface. Argo had video cameras and lights on it. This let Ballard see the ocean floor.
Argo searched for signs of the Titanic. For many days and nights, Ballard and his teammates found nothing but sand and sea life. Time was running out. Ballard had only four days left before he had to return his boat. He knew this
would be his only chance. Then, Ballard was awakened by one of his men. It was just after one o’clock in the morning. He rushed to the control room. On a screen was the view of one of the Titanic's boilers. They had found it!
Argo took amazing pictures of the ship. Ballard and his teammates found that the huge ship was in pieces. The debris was spread across one square mile (2.6 km2) of the ocean floor. They saw teacups, bottles, shoes, and other belongings（所有物）of the passengers.
During his career, Ballard has made more than 100 trips underwater. He has done much to teach children about the oceans. But, he will always be thought of as the man who found the Titanic.
8. Why was it difficult to find the Titanic?
A. Its size was huge.
B. It was deep under the sea.
C. It had been broken into pieces.
D. The weather at sea was terrible.
9. What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. The poor life at sea.
B. The difficulties in controlling Argo.
C. The causes of the Titanic’s sinking.
D. The experience of finding the Titanic.
10. What does the underlined word “debris” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Rocks and sand.
B. Dead passengers.
C. Pieces from the Titanic.
D. Personal belongings.
11. What’s the best title for the text?
A. Ballard’s life
B. Finding th e Titanic
C. Underwater trips
D. The sinking of the Titanic
D
Experts say that, among young Internet users, it’s not boys who create most web content. The pioneers of the Internet at the moment are the girls.
According to Jenny Baker, whose hobbies are designing icons（图示）, most boys just aren’t patient enough for blogging, uploading photographs, and creating their own websites. Jenny posts her pictures on her own website, and believes that most boys don’t often have their own sites. She thinks it’s mainl y girls.
And Jenny is right. A study shows that, among Internet users aged 12 to 17, a lot more girls blog than boys (35 percent of girls compared with 20 percent of boys). A lot more girls also work on their web pages (32 percent of girls compared with 22 percent of boys). Girls are also ahead of boys in working on websites for other people.
Some girls have their own teenage podcasts（播客）which have become very successful and sometimes the
creators have their own TV shows too. When asked what they think about the study that shows girls are more active on the web, they say that they’re not surprised because girls are very creative, and sometimes more creative than boys.
Other girl have started interactive（交流的）e-zines with articles written for girls by girls. “Girls from everywhere read our articles, and they ask lots of questions,” they say. “I think girls like to help other people more.” One expert said: “If boys were more interested in helping other people, the numbers would be different.”
But if girls are more interested in computers, why do women only have 27 percent of computer-related jobs? Maybe this will change in the future—after all, girls like these will be in the job market before too long.
12. Why does Jenny think boys don’t create web content?
A. T hey are impatient.
B. They don’t have their own sites.
C. They are busy with their hobbies.
D. They know little about web science.
13. What does the study show?
A. Girls prefer working on websites to blogging.
B. Girls watch more online TV shows than boys.
C. Girls spend most of their online time helping others.
D. Girls are more active in creating their own web business than boys.
14. What is the author’s opinion on the number of women in computer-related jobs?
A. Upset.
B. Worried.
C. Hopeful.
D. Satisfied.
15. What will probably happen in the future according to the author?
A. Girls will never match boys in computer science.
B. Boys will be more successful in making websites.
C. Less boys will like to read articles written by girls.
D. More and more girls will do computer-related jobs.
第二节：（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Can zoos ever be animal-friendly?
The topic of our last class discussion was “How can zoos provide animals with a good life?” Everyone believed it was impossible for zoos to give animals a caring environment. Our teacher suggested that visiting a modern zoo might give us a new point of view.
___16___ In our discussion, many people said that zoos were full of smelly cages with unhappy animals living in. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, however, was set in an attractive, open environment. Trees and flowers had been planted around the park. ___17___
At school, some people accused（指责）zoos of exploiting（剥削）animals for money but at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, as I see it, nothing could be further from the truth. ___18___
Before I visited Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, I wasn’t sure about the rights and wrongs of zoos. ____19____ I feel that, although zoos can’t provide the freedom of the wild, they can be animal-friendly by giving animals a safe and caring environment. As long as they do this well, to my mind they make a good contribution（贡献）to animal health. They also play an important part in educating us about wildlife. ___20___
On the bus back to school, we all agreed that what we liked most was the zoo’s environment and we would recommend（推荐）it for next year’s group.
A. It is difficult for the zoo to raise animals.
B. More and more animals enjoy their wild homes.
C. I think lots of my friends changed their minds, too.
D. Most of the money is used to improve conditions at the zoo.
E. I went to the zoo and was pleasantly surprised by what I found.
F. In my opinion, the animals, rather than seeming upset, were pleased.
G. It was difficult to say how a zoo could really make up for animals’ loss of freedom.
第三部分英语知识运用（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分45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，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Many people are complaining that work and study are quite difficult at time. They need a method to relax. I have found that the best way to reduce ____21____ is to read a good book. It ____22____ me to escape from real life, it gives me a(n) ____23____ view on the world, and reading a book is a very ____24____ activity.
First, reading a good story is the best way to ____25____ about my troubles during the day. Many of the books I read have ____26____ plot lines（情节安排）, which attract me to the characters and action. When I am ____27____ reading, nothing in the outside world seems to exist anymore. One cannot ____28____ in this dreamland forever, of course. ____29____ for an hour or so a day, it is very calming.
Second, reading books can also give me a new way to ____30____ the outside world. Even a fictional book can have this ____31____. When authors write a book, they ____32____ their ideas and feelings about how the world works. By ____33____ works of different writers, I find that I ____34____ more about other people, and
____35____ they think. This helps me to learn to ____36____ others just as they are.
Finally, the most ____37____ reason why reading is good for ____38____ is that it allows me to ____39____ the most amazing peace. For a devoted（投入的）reader, it is ____40____ to go to a bright, beautiful place to read. You can just stay at home, sitting in your favorite chair. With the house being completely quiet, you can enter the peaceful world of knowledge and imagination.
21. A. debates B. mistakes C. pressure D. influence
22. A. forces B. allows C. requires D. forbids
23. A. new B. easy C. familiar D. ordinary
24. A. basic B. tiring C. special D. peaceful
25. A. care B. learn C. think D. forget
26. A. stupid B. simple C. boring D. interesting
27. A. teaching B. studying C. enjoying D. practicing
28. A. stay B. leave C. take D. settle
29. A. So B. But C. And D. Unless
30. A. look at B. worry about C. search for D. believe in
31. A. effect B. success C. problem D. weakness
32. A. ask B. know C. express D. change
33. A. buying B. reading C. judging D. spreading
34. A. trust B. doubt C. praise D. understand
35. A. why B. how C. when D. whether
36. A. admire B. refuse C. accept D. recognize
37. A. hopeful B. important C. probable D. different
38. A. working B. writing C. relaxation D. exploration
39. A. find B. carry C. leave D. produce
40. A. great B. impossible C. reasonable D. unnecessary
第II卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。

第二节：（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号中词语的正确形式。

I love reading. At age 6, I could be found reading Harry Potter, a difficult book for a 6-year-old but I
____41____(enjoy) it all the same. ____42____ soon became obvious that spelling for me was not difficult and I had a wide vocabulary. This is one way I benefited ____43____ reading at such a young age.
My advice for you as English learners would be to read the English novels ____44____ you have often read in your native language. Reading novels is a great way of ____45____(improve) your vocabulary and spelling without realising it as you are absorbed（全神贯注的）in the storyline. You know the sorry well, so its ____46____(usual) easy to follow it in English even if you do not understand every word.
This is another essential（基本的）point: it’s not necessary ____47____(understand) every word. If you understand the ____48____(mean) of the sentence, each word is not necessarily important. Quite often, if a word is used several times in a text, you’ll gradually get an idea of ____49____ it means.
Give it a try. If you like reading yon could open up ____50____ whole new world of literature.
第四部分：书面表达（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
51. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I was always afraid of water because I nearly get drowned when I was young. As I grew old, this fear was still with me. However, my attitude to water changed last summer. One day, several classmates asked me lean to swim with them, and of course, I said no. But they were quite determined and repeated explained the benefits of swimming for me. So finally I agreed to give them a try. You can imagine what scared I was when I first had stepped into the swimming pool. But gradually, I found it great funs in the water. Now I’m no longer a gird live in fear of water.
第二节书面表达（百强校英语解析团队专供）（满分25分）
52. 假设你是李华，你的美国笔友Jack正在你市某中学作交换生。

得知他们学校定期组织“英语角”活动，你有意参加。

请你用英语给他写一封电子邮件，询问有关情况。

注意：1. 词数100左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jack,
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua。