安徽省黄山市田家炳实验中学高一英语下学期期中试题(

田家炳实验中学2012-2013学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题
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，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.How will the man go to the park?
A By bus
B By bike
C On foot
2.What will the man do first this evening?
A Go to the cinema
B Call on his friends
C Go for a walk
3. Whar does Betty like collecting?
A Stamps
B Coins
C Cards
4. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A In a store
B In a hotel
C In a restaurant
5. What is the conversation mainly about?
A. A film star B A book C A picture
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，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’s wrong with the woman?
A She has a headache
B She has a toothache
C She has a stomachache.
7. What day is it today?
A Tuesday
B Wednesday
C Thursday
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8.Why won’t the man go to Michigan?
A He has to deal with his family emergency
B He wants to visit Jack and Jane
C He will go on a business trip
9 When will the two speakers probably go on their trip?
A Any time the second half of this month
B Any time the first half of the next month
C Any time the second half of next month
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题
10 How much younger is the man than his sister?
A Three years
B Two years
C One year
11 How do the man and his sister keep in touch with each other usually?
A By phone
B By-mail
C By QQ
12 What organization does the woman probably work for ?
A A radio station
B A TV station
C A website
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13 Which bus will the man take ?
A Bus 204
B Bus 306
C Bus403
14 How long does it take to get to Guilin from Guangzhou by bus ?
A About seven hours
B About eight hours
C About nine hours
15 How much will the man pay for the ticket?
A 150
B 300
C 450
16 What do we know about the man?
A He has once traveled to Guilin by bus
B He will buy the ticket on the bus
C He prefers the air-conidtioned bus
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17 When did Betty Jameson win the Southern Championship?
A In1932
B In 1934
C in 1939
18 Which title did Betty Jameson win in 1947?
A The Nnited States Amateur competition
B The United States Women’s Open
C The Western Open
19 Which sport was Betty Jameson good at ?
A Golf
B Basketball
C Tennis
20 How old was Betty Jameson when she died?
A About 70 years old
B About 80 years old
C About 90 years old
第二部分英语知识运用
第一节单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
21.Most parents think there are differences in their approach _______ their children
compared with that of their parents.
A. to educate
B. about educating
C. to educating
D. of educating
22. Dogs have a very good _________ of smell and are often used to search for survivors
in an earthquake.
A. sense
B. view
C. means
D. idea
23. Mr. Wang came home so thin and weak that his own children hardly _____ him.
A. knew
B. realized
C. recognized
D. noticed
24. ---Have you finished the book?
---No. I've read up to _________ the children discover the secret cave.
A. which
B. what
C. that
D. where
25. _________ is no doubt _____ Jennifer will come to see me this weekend as usual.
A. It, that
B. It, whether
C. There, that
D. There, whether
26. ________English, the speaker also has a good knowledge of Russian and French.
A. Except
B. Except for
C. But for
D. Aside from
27. Just like fingerprints, each person's DNA is _________ unless he has a twin.
A. unusual
B. normal
C. various
D. unique
28. He was banned __________ for six months because of drunk driving.
A. to drink
B. to driving
C. driving
D. from driving
29. Toward evening, they came to __________ seemed a small mountain village.
A. what
B. the place
C. that
D. where
30. I'll go to see you whenever ___________.
A. you are convenient
B. it is convenient for you
C. you will be convenient
D. it will be convenient for you
31.---Why did the police ________ the crowd?
--- Because the president's car _________ in the street.
A. break up,broke down
B. break down, broke down
C. break up, broke up
D. break down, broke up
32 Not only you and I but Peter, the top student in our grade, ________ not able
to solve the problem.
A. is
B. are
C. am
D. were
33. After the flood, no house in the village _________. People _________ homeless.
A. left standing, remain
B. remained standing, were left
C. was remained standing, were left
D. was left to stand, remain
34.He is in _______ control of the company. I mean, the company is in ______ control
of him.
A. the, /
B. /, the
C. the, the
D. /, /
35.—Robert has passed the exam.
—_________, and __________.
A. So he has; so you have
B. So he has; so have you
C. So has he; so have you
D. So has he; so you have
第二节完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
There was a time when I thought my dad didn't know a thing about being a good
cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad ---- he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.
I offered with a smile.
“I see,” was all he said.
One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed
(车尾箱) of my car. Watching his sun-weathered face, and even from a distance I could
how hard my dad works for the family. My father is a cement finisher(水泥修整工).
knees to sweat over hot concrete(混凝土) to make a living for his family. And he
第三部分：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中(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A
Malnutrition (营养失调)remains a serious problem for India. But a new study shows that India’s leading causes of death now also include diseases related to obesity （肥胖）such as heart disease.
India’s National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.
A radhna Tripathi is a business professional in New Delhi. She said, “ Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude(感激) for a person is through the kind of food you serve him. And the kind of lifestyle we are leading is one of the reasons why we have the number of obese people increasing every day.
But Aradhna Tripathi says she has decided to lose weight. Her mother and grandmother are also diabetic(患糖尿病的). In fact, the International Diabetes Federation says India is now the diabetes capital of the world. Researchers say Indians store more body fat per kilogram than Europeans. That means obese Indians are even more at the risk of diabetes than other people.
Doctor Anoop Misra at Fortis Hospital in New Delhi says the risk of diabetes is crossing social and economic lines. Five years ago, he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India’s richest people, but now things have changed.
But Doctor Misra is hopeful that the spread (蔓延，传播)of obesity can be slowed. And he says it must start in schools by giving all Indian children the same instruction on physical activity and diet.
The World Health Organization says China is also moving up in obesity rates. The estimate (估计) has reached about five percent countryside and as high as twenty percent in some cities.
56.What is this passage mainly about?
A. Obesity has become a big killer in India.
B. Heart disease is troubling people in India.
C. People in India live a very unhealthy life.
D.Malnutrition remains a serious problem in India.
57. According to Aradhna Tripathi , one of the causes of the obesity problems
is_________.
A. .the development of economy(经济)
B. the change of In dians’ lifestyle
C. Indians’ attitude （态度）towards eating
D. Indians’ attitude towards obesity.
58. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5?
A. Most wealthy people in India are overweight.
B. Five years ago, few people in India were overweight
C. Few poor people are diabetic for economic reasons.
D. Now even the poor in India suffer from obesity.
B
Julio loves to visit his grandmother．He doesn’t get to visit her very often because his family lives in a city that is six hours away．His grandmother lives in a big wooden house on a farm .It is old and looks as if it has secret hiding places .
On the third Sunday of June ,Julio’s parents took him to his grandmother’s .Since it was summer vacation ,he was going to stay at grandmother’s for a whole month ! His cousins Mario and Linda would soon be arriving .They would also be staying at their grandmother’s this summer.
A big porch（走廊）wraps around two sides of the house .Julio sat in the porch swing .He could see the trees that circle the house．They had been planted as a windbreak .They protect the house from the wind and blowing dirt .The house is in the middle of a large ,flat field.
Julio watched the dirt road that leads to the house .He couldn’t wait for his cousins to get there !Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed .Then Uncle Henry had taken them on a tractor ride.
Julio remembered another time with his cousins .They had gone out to explode the fields．Julio touched an electric fence and got a shock .Then they found an old snakeskin .Nothing like that ever happened at his own home!
Julio could smell the dinner that his grandmother was cooking .It made him hungry.
Finally he saw a cloud of dust coming up the road．“They’re here! They’re here!” He shouted.
59. The story tells about Julio and his cousins doing all of the following except_______．
A. watching old movies
B. taking a tractor ride
C. finding a snakeskin
D. making a fort from seed sacks
60. How do you think Julio felt when he saw his cousins arriving?
A. He was worried
B. He was excited
C. He was angry
D. He was sad.
61. After Julio’s cousins arrived ,what would probably happen next?______．
A．They would build a fort on the hill. B．They would look for snake skins.
C．They would climb the trees in their grandmother’s yard
D．They would eat dinner at their grandmother’s house.
62. These boxes show events that happened in the story .What is in box 2?
A．Julio’s cousins arrived at Grandmother’s house. B．Julio could smell dinner cooking.
C．Julio sat in the porch swing. D．Julio saw a cloud of dust coming up the road.
C
Read the following reviews for movies that are showing at the moment. And then answer questions.
Happiness（Romance）★★★★
Happiness tells the story of two people（Lisa Turbot and Danny Roy）who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and don't like each other. But then they correspond by e-mail and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like romances. It also has beautiful music.
I Scream（Thriller）★★
In I Scream, Paul（Colin Jacks）is a young man who joins a thriller club. Each of the members tries to frighten the others. Paul is told to stay in an old house for the night. Everyone who has tried to stay in the house before has died. This movie is very frightening but also quite silly. It doesn't make sense for Paul to stay in the house when things start to go wrong. Only for people who like thrillers.
Paul's Heroes（Comedy）★★★
This is a very funny war movie set in World War Two. Six soldiers（including
Sammy Turblow）have to get to Italy to take secret messages to the American army there. During the movie, they dress up as women and fight with Italian workers. You can guess the ending, but it's great fun getting there.
_____________（Drama）★★★★
This is a very good drama with Jack Ross, who plays a hard-working truck driver. His wife becomes ill and he has to find a doctor who can help her. In his travels he meets Dr. Lloyd（Phil Driver）who has found the cure for the illness, but Jack Ross has only twelve hours to get the medicine back to his wife on the other side of America. This is an excellent movie, which is very exciting.
63. Which of the four movies is the least popular with people?
A. The 1st one.
B. The 2nd one.
C. The 3rd one.
D. The 4th one.
64. The underlined word "correspond" can be replaced by _____________.
A. date
B. exchange
C. write
D. communicate
65. A thriller is most probably a film which tells something _____________.
A. frightening
B. instructive
C. humorous
D. interesting
66. Which of the following is the best title for the fourth film?
A. A Hard-working Truck Driver
B. Medicine
C. A Strange Illness
D. Twelve Hours
D
Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook by yourself? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?
A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of the adults are so idle (懒散的) that they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health center. The results were extremely surprising.
About one in six people questioned said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (very fat) before they start school.
Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical directo r of Nuffield Health, said, “People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently (明显地；显然) their pets too.”
“If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most fundamental tasks.”
And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most idle city in the UK, with 75% questioned admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
The results bring serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
67. How many people questioned don't play with their children?
A. 1280.
B. More than 333.
C. 654.
D. About 420.
68. The study leads us to believe that _____________.
A. the pets in the UK will be in trouble if their owners keep their way of life
B. Glasgow people feel ashamed because they don't get enough exercise
C. British people are the laziest around the world
D. five sixths of the British children are healthy
69. How does the author convince the readers?
A. By presenting the results of a study.
B. By providing answers to questions.
C. By interviewing some experts.
D. By telling a story.
70. What is the passage mainly about?
A. A study of British people's laziness.
B. A study of British people's lifestyles.
C. The health service in the UK.
D. The obesity problem in the UK.
E
Different gestures(手势) mean different things in different countries. Sometimes a gesture that is polite in one country is not polite in another and should not be used. The different meanings of gestures can also cause problems in understanding what another person wants or is trying to say. In Thailand, for example, if you want someone to come towards you, you hold out a hand, palm downwards, and move all the fingers backwards and forwards. In most Western countries, however, you show another person that you want him or her to come towards you by holding out a hand, palm upwards, and moving the first finger only backwards and forwards.
A gesture that many people do not understand uses the thumb（拇指）. Most Westerners will sometimes show that they like something by holding out a hand with the thumb sticking up in the air. This is called giving someone or something the “thumbs up”. However, only one thumb is used, so it should really be “thumb up”.
The usual explanation of this gesture is not really correct. It states that Roman times when people at a circus were pleased with the way a gladiator(角斗士) had fought, they showed the emperor that they were pleased by giving the “thumbs up” signal. When they were not pleased they gave the “thumbs down” gesture. When a gladiator was given the “thumbs up”, the emperor allowed him to live. When a gladiator was given the thumbs down”, the emperor ordered him to be killed.
This explanation is not correct. The error is caused by a wrong translation from the Latin words police verso.This means turned thumb” It does not say which way the thumb is turned—up or down. People thought that up meant “life” and down meant “death”. In fact, the gesture used by spectators(观众) to save a gladiator’s life was called the “compressed thumb”. In this gesture the spectator actually hid their
thumbs in their hands so that there would be no mistake which way they were pointing. When the spectators pointed their thumbs towards the gladiator, they probably meant the gladiator should be killed. When they did not show their thumbs at all, they probably meant that he should be allowed to live.
71. The story is mainly about _______.
A. the “thumbs up” gesture
B. gestures around the world
C. gladiators in Ancient Rome
D. circuses now and then
72. If you want someone to come to you in Thailand, you _____.
A. use the “thumbs down” gesture
B. point your thumb at them
C. hold out your hand, palm down and move your fingers
D. hold out your hand, palm up and move your first finger toward you.
73. When the Westerners stick up their thumb, they_____.
A. agree to let someone die
B. like something
C. want someone to die
D. want to go to a circus.
74. Most people think the “thumbs up” gesture meant _____.
A. the Romans were not pleased
B. the circus could continue
C. the emperor wanted the gladiator to live
D. spectators wanted the gladiator to live
75. If the spectators wanted the gladiator to live, they ________
A. hid their thumbs
B. stuck their thumbs up
C. used the police verso
D. pointed their thumbs at him
第II卷写作
第三部分任务型阅读（每题1分，满分10分）。

每个空格只填1个单词。

An earthquake can often cause damage. And although not all earthquakes are severe(严重), they help people to be aware of the proper way to prepare for such an event. Your level of preparation can directly affect your chance of survival.
If you are outdoors, find an open area free of trees and tall buildings. If you are driving when an earthquake hits, slow down and stop in a clear place and stay in your car. Do not park near buildings or under bridges.
If you are indoors, you must protect yourself from falling objects by finding a safe place in your home and protecting your body as much as possible. If you are in bed when the shaking starts, cover your head with a pillow. Also, you should fasten all possible objects to a wall, paying special attention to tall furniture. This will reduce the chance of the objects falling on top of someone and causing injury.
A good way to protect yourself from possible falling debris(碎片)during an earthquake is to hide under something. This most often means a heavy table or desk which is large enough. It is important for you to know these areas before an earthquake. Make sure that all the family members know the best place to hide themselves in each area of the house.
If you live in the place where earthquakes are possible, make sure you have ways to tell your family members your condition. All family members and friends should know how to get in touch with you after an earthquake. This will stop many people worrying about you and trying to get through to you after such a disaster. It is especially important for families with young children to practice what to do in an earthquake. Make sure your family has a plan of action, and decide a meeting place to go to after the earthquake. In an earthquake which causes great damage, it is important to have items on hand, water, food, medicine, a flashlight and so on. It is also wise to be prepared by taking a first-aid class to learn something useful for a possible disaster.
第三节：书面表达（满分25分）
最近我校对高一同学的学习生活适应情况做了一个调查，情况如下。

请你用英语表达下表的调查内容，并提出个人观点。

要求1.字数120字左右；
2.文章开头已给，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：course 课程 benefit 对…有益 stressful有压力的
Recently，a survey has been carried out in our school whether the students has
adapted to the life in senior high school.。