甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学高一英语上学期期末考试试题

甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学2014-2015学年高一上学期期末考试英
语试题
第一卷
第一部分：阅读理解（共 2 节，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中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
A schoolgirl saved her father's life by kicking him in the chest after he suffered a serious allergic (过敏的) reaction which stopped his heart.
Izzy, nine, restarted father Colm's heart by stamping (踩) on his chest after he fell down at home and stopped breathing.
Izzy's mother, Debbie, immediately called 999 but Izzy knew doctors would never arrive in time to save her father, so decided to use CPR.
However, she quickly discovered her arms weren't strong enough, so she stamped on her father's chest instead.
Debbie then took over with some more traditional chest compressions (按压) until the ambulance（救护车）arrived.
Izzy, who has been given a bravery award by her school, said: "I just kicked him really hard. My mum taught me CPR but I knew I wasn't strong enough to use hands.
I was quite afraid. The doctor said I might as well be a doctor or a nurse. My mum said that Dad was going to hospital with a big footprint on his chest.”
"She's a little star," said Debbie, "I was really upset but Izzy just took over.
I just can't believe what she did. I really think all children should be taught first aid. Izzy did CPR then the doctor turned up. Colm had to have more treatment on the way to the hospital and we've got to see an expert."
Truck driver Colm, 35, suffered a mystery allergic reaction on Saturday and was taken to hospital, but was sent home only for it to happen again the next day. The second attack (发作)was so serious that his airway swelled, preventing him from breathing, his blood pressure dropped suddenly, and his heart stopped for a moment.
He has now made a full recovery （康复）from his suffering.
1. Izzy kicked her father in the chest ______ .
A. to express her helplessness
B. to practise CPR on him
C. to keep him awake
D. to restart his heart
2. What's the right order of the events?
① Izzy kicked Colm. ② Debbie called 999.
③ Izzy learned CPR. ④ Colm's heart stopped.
A.③①②④
B. ④②③①
C. ③④②①
D. ④③①
②
3. What does Paragraph 8 mainly talk about?
A. What Colm suffered.
B. Colm's present condition.
C. What caused Colm's allergy.
D. Symptoms of Colm's allergic reaction.
4. Why does the author write the news?
A. To describe a serious accident.
B. To prove the importance of CPR.
C. To report a 9-year-old girl's brave act.
D. To call people's attention to allergic reaction.
B
In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away.
We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom's vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn't care much about my bedtime.
Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess （混乱）. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little fire going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel（桶） of paint but couldn't really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when I made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me home.
Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. 1 hadn't turned 5 yet.
As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue ( 舌头 )on a metal handrail at school?
As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder (驾雪橇者), I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn't realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped (包裹) heavily and well sheltered （保护） from the freezing and blowing weather.
In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d'Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska.
5. What can be inferred about the author's family?
A. His father was a cruel man.
B. His parents didn't love him.
C. His parents used to be very busy.
D. His mother didn't have any jobs.
6. What happened when the author was 4?
A. He learned to smoke.
B. He was locked in a basement.
C. He was arrested by the police.
D. He nearly caused a fire accident.
7. Which of the following is true?
A. Leonhard was good at driving dog sleds.
B. The author spent his whole childhood in Alaska.
C. Leonhard often visited the author's family after 1950.
D. The author suffered a lot while taking the dog sled in Alaska.
8. What is the author's purpose of writing the text?
A. To look back on his childhood with adventures.
B. To describe the extreme weather of Alaska.
C. To express how much he misses Leonhard.
D. To show off his pride in making trouble.
C
How fit are your teeth? Are you lazy about brushing them? Never fear: An inventor is on the case. An electric toothbrush senses （感觉） how long and how well you brush, and it lets you track（跟踪） your performance on your phone.
The Kolibree toothbrush was exhibited at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. It senses how it is moved and can send the information to an Android phone or iPhone via a Bluetooth wireless （无线的） connection.
The toothbrush will be able to teach you to brush right (don’t forget the insides of the teeth!) and make sure you’re brushing long enough. “It’s kind of like having a dentist actually watch your brushing on a day-to-day basis,” says Thomas Serval, the French inventor.
The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other applications （设备）on your phone, so developers could, for example, create a game controlled by your toothbrush. You could score points for beating monsters among your teeth. “We try to make it smart and fun,” Ser val says.
Serval says he was inspired by his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kid s if they had brushed their teeth. They said “yes,” but Serval would find their toothbrush heads dry. He decided he needed a brush that really told him how well his children brushed.
The company says the Kolibree will go on sale this summer, from $99 to $199, and the U.S. is the first target market. ( 目标市场)
9. All of the following statements are wrong except ____________.
A. It can sense how users brush their teeth.
B. It can track users’ school performance.
C. It can check users’ fear of seeing a den tist.
D. It can help users find their phones.
10. What can we learn from Serval’s words in Paragraph 3?
A. You will find it enjoyable to see a dentist.
B. You should see your dentist on a day-to –day basis.
C. You can brush with the Kolibree as if guided by a dentist.
D. You’d like a dentist to watch you brush your teeth every day.
11. What can we infer about Serval’s children?
A. They were unwilling to brush their teeth
B. They often failed to clean their toothbrushes.
C. They preferred to use a toothbrush with a dry head.
D. They liked brushing their teeth after Serval came home.
D
You are the collector in the gallery of your life. You collect. You might not mean to but you do. One out of three people collects tangible（有形的）things such as cats, photos and noisy toys.
These are among some 40 collections that are being shown at “The Museum Of”—the first of several new museums which, over the next two years, will exhibit the objects accumulated （积累） by unknown collectors. In doing so, they will promote（推动）a popular culture of museums, not what museums normally represent （代表）.
Some of the collections are fairly common—records, model houses. Others are strangely beautiful—branches that have fallen from tree, for example. But they all reveal （显露）a lot of things: ask someone what they collect and their answers will tell you who they are.
Others on the way include “The museum of Collectors” and “The Museum of Me.”These new ones, it is hoped, will build on th e success of “The Museum Of.” The thinkers behind the project want to explore why people collect, and what it means to do so. They hope that visitors who may not have considered themselves collectors will begin to see they, too, collect.
Some collectors say they started or stopped making collections at important points: the beginning or end of adolescence ( 青春期 )—“it’s a growing-up thing; you stop when you grow up,” says one. Other painful times are mentioned, such as the end of
a relationship.
12. How will the new museums promote a popular culture of museums?
A. By collecting more tangible things.
B. By showing what ordinary people have collected.
C. By correcting what museums normally represent.
D. By accumulating 40 collections two years from now.
13. What can be learned about collectors from their collections?
A. Who they are.
B. How old they are.
C. Where they were born.
D. Why they might not mean to collect.
14. Which of the following is an aim of the new museums?
A. To help people sell their collections.
B. To encourage more people to collect.
C. To study the importance of collecting.
D. To find out why people visit museums.
15. According to the last paragraph, people may stop collecting when they _______.
A. become adults
B. feel happy with life
C. are ready for a relationship
D. are in their childhood
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。

有两项为多余选项。

16 From 18－25, according to I．Q. scores；but you are wiser and more experienced with increasing age. You are smartest in your 20's; around 30, your memory
begins to go down, particularly your ability to perform mathematical computations.
_17__ Your vocabulary at the age of 45, for example, is three times as great as when
you graduated from college. At 60, your brain has almost four times as much information
as it did at the age of 21.
18 You have the best physical sense of yourself from 15 to 24; the best professional sense from 40 to 49. Before the age of 24, we believe that our happiest
years are yet to come；over 30，we believe that they are behind us. A National Health
survey agrees: after the age of 30, we become more realistic and do not view happiness
as a goal in itself. If we keep our health, achieve professional and emotional goals, happiness, we feel, will follow.
__19__ Generally between 30 and 39，but the peak (顶峰) varies with different professions(职业). Mosart wrote a symphony (交响曲) and four sonatas by the age of
8, and Mendelssohn composed his best­known work A Midsummer Night's Dream at 17, but most of the great music was written by men between 33 and 39.
Though the peak in most fields comes early, most Nobel Prize winners did their top research in their late 20's and 30's—creative people continue to produce work with high quality(质量) throughout their lives _20__
A. When are you most creative (创造性的)?
B. When are you happiest?
C. When are you smartest?
D. Do you know what I．Q. refers to?
E. But your I．Q. for other tasks goes up.
F. Creative people usually produce a lot of works.
G. For the “well­conditioned mind”， there is no upper limit..（限制）
第二部分：英语知识运用（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，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Zigfried, a little mouse, blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside. Still nobody came. Maybe today, he thought 21 . It was only a few days before Christmas and he was watching for a miracle (奇迹).
This farmhouse had been _22___too long. It needed a family. Zigfried’s 23 made a noise. He realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday. He jumped from the windowsill (窗沿), took a 24 from his home, and went next door to Farmer Mike’s.
Farmer Mike’s house had been a great place for the little mouse 25 the farmer married a wife who had a cat. Zigfried trembled 26 he thought of it. He looked around carefully as he 27 into the room where grain was stored and was quite 28 as he filled his bag with wheat. He was turning to leave when suddenly he 29 a hot breath about his ear. His heart beat 30 , and without thinking, he started to run and luckily 31 the cat’s paws (爪子).
The next afternoon Zigfried heard some good news: a 32 family would be moving
into the farmhouse soon. Zigfried’s granny would arrive on Christmas Eve to 33 with
him. He hoped that the family would come before his granny came. Before long, a car
came 34 the road leading to the house, with butter sandwiches, cheese and chocolate.
Zigfried’s Christmas miracle did arrive!
The house came 35 the next few days. Zigfried 36every single hour of them.
37 , the day before Christmas when he was drinking hot chocolate with a 38 smile
at the door of his home, he heard the 39 of the children of the family about what
they might get for Christmas. What? A cat? The 30 froze on his face; his mouth fell
wide open. After a long while, he at last found his voice: “Hey! Whose Christmas miracle is this?”
41. A. carefully B. excitedly C. hopefully D. proudly
22. A. cathy B. noisy C. messy D. empty
23. A. mouth B. nose C. stomach D. throat
24. A. bag B. stick C. bowl D. coat
25. A. although B. until C. after D. unless
26. A. if B. because C. when D. unless
27. A. broke B. marched C. paced D. stole
28. A. curious B. nervous C. pitiful D. illegal
29. A. took B. held C. felt D. drew
30. A. strongly B. likely C. slowly D. wildly
31. A. escaped B. seized C. rubbed D. caught
32. A. close B. happy C. new D. young
33. A. celebrate B. communicate C. compete D. control
34. A. across B. from C. off D. up
35. A. alive B. loose C. open D. still
36. A. counted B. enjoyed C. missed D. wasted
37. A. However B. Instead C. Moreover D. Therefore
38. A. embarrassed B. forced C. disappointed D. satisfied
39. A. introduction B. discussion C. revision D. reduction
40. A. blood B. smile C. tears D. sweat
第二卷
注意：请将41-50 题，改错，作文的答案，写在答题纸上。

第一部分：英语知识运用
第一节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Girl：Hey, that is a good portrait. It is so realistic. You’ve got the ___41__(express) right---- the look in the eyes.
Boy：Yes, I’m pleased with it. __42__ do you make of the mouth? Do you think I need to do more work on it?
Girl：No, you needn’t change anything. It is brilliant. The light __43____(come) in through the window is amazing. You are a good painter!
Boy：Thanks for compliment! I am indeed fond ___44__ painting. Are you interested in it?
Girl：Yes, but I am half as good __45__ you. Painting is hard for me and I can’t ____46___(possible) paint well. I think drawing is a lot __47___ (easy). I do quite a lot of drawing.
Boy：I see. I find that practising teaches me ___48____( observe) things very carefully.
Do you go to art galleries?
Girl：No, I don’t. But I should because I do love arts.
Boy：Well, how ___49____ going to an art gallery next weekend? I am sure we can find something interesting.
Girl：I’d love to.
Boy：There is a pop art exhibition on at the moment.
Girl：Um….. I don’t like pop art.
Boy：___40____ do I, really. So let’s go to the art gallery next weekend
第二部分：写作（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）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短信。

信中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

请按照下列格式修改：
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词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。

Last Sunday I saw a worst storm in years. It came sudden and went on for over
three hours. After lunch, I went into my room to have a rest. The air was hot, but all was quiet. Then a strong wind started to blow into my room. Pieces of paper on my desk flew high into the air and some flew out the open window. As I ran out to catch it, big drop of rain began to fall. When I come back into my house, it was raining more harder and harder. Then I heard a loud sound from the back of the house. When I ran out of my room to find out that had happened, a big tree had fallen down and broke the top of the backroom.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假设你叫李华，你的美国朋友John给你发了一封电子邮件，和你分享了他的寒假计划，并询问你的寒假打算。

请你根据以下提示用英语给他回封电子邮件，词数为60字左右。

你的寒假计划：
1．好好复习所学知识；2。

读几本好书；和朋友相聚；3。

和家人欢度春节……
注意：文章的开头已给出(100词左右)；可以适当增加细节。

参考词汇：review，the Spring Festival
Dear John，
I’m so pleased to receive your e-mail about your holiday plan and glad to share mine with you.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Best wishes!
Yours，Li Hua
高一英语期末答案
短文改错a---the ; sudden-—suddenly; but---and; out---out of; it---them;
drop---drops; come---came; cancel “more”; that---what; broke---broken
作文：
Dear Johm;
I am so glad to receive your E-mail about your holiday plan and glad to share mine with you.
First of all, I am going to review what I have learnt to lay a firm basis for the future study.
Secondly, I plan to read several good books which I am interested in to enrich my mind.
Thirdly, winter vacation is a good time for friends to meet face to face. Not only can we share what we are going through with each other, but also i can turn to them for advice on something that。