2020-2021学年北京市延庆区高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案

延庆区2020-2021学年第二学期期中试卷

高一英语2021.5

第一部分知识运用

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）

Anna was a 9-year-old girl from a small village. She attended primary school till 4th grade at her village. For the 5th grade onwards, she would have to get an admission(入学) in a school at a city nearby. She got very __1__ knowing that she was accepted in a famous school in the city. Today was the first day of her school and she was waiting for her school bus. Once the bus came, she got in it __2__. She was very excited.

When the bus reached her school, all students started going to their classes. Anna also made it to her classroom. Upon seeing her __3__ clothing and knowing she was from a small village, other students started making fun of her. The teacher soon arrived. She __4__ Anna to the class and told them that she would be studying with them from today.

Then she told everyone to write down the Seven Wonders of the world. Everyone started writing the answer quickly. But Anna started to write the answer__5__.

When everyone except Anna had presented their answer paper, the teacher asked Anna, “What happened, dear? Don’t __6__. Just write what you know as other students have learned about it just a few days back. ”

Anna replied, “There are many things. Which seven can I pick to write?” And then she handed her answer paper to the teacher. The teacher started reading everyone’s answers and the majority had answered them __7__ such as The Great Wall of China, Colosseum, Stonehenge, Great Pyramid of Giza, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Taj Mahal, Hanging Gardens of Babylon etc.

The teacher was happy as students had __8__ what she had taught them. At last the teacher paper started reading Anna’s answer paper. “The Seven Wonders are—To be able to See, To be able to Hear, To be able to Feel, To Laugh, To Think, To be Kind, To Love!”

The teacher stood __9__ and the whole class was speechless. Today, a girl from a small village reminded us about the gifts we have, which are truly a __10__. So value what

we have and use what we have.

1. A. anxious B. happy C. afraid D. calm

2. A. quickly B. easily C. lazily D. patiently

3. A. simple B. clean C. lovely D. expensive

4. A. pushed B. followed C. turned D. introduced

5. A. slowly B. actively C. cheerfully D. politely

6. A. cry B. forget C. write D. worry

7. A. neatly B. correctly C. briefly D. proudly

8. A. shared B. expanded C. missed D. remembered

9. A. satisfied B. disappointed C. shocked D. frightened

10. A. talent B. reward C. wonder D. challenge

第二部分阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。（共16小题；每小题2分，共32分）

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Van Gogh painted sunflowers for the first time in the summer of 1886.Two years later, his interest appeared again after he settled in Arles. After he had invited the French artist Paul Gauguin, whom he admired, to join his Studio of the South, he began painting sunflowers to brighten up the whitewashed walls of the yellow house he was living in, not far from the town’s railway station.

Gauguin accepted Van Gogh’s invitation. When he began dragging his heels(脚后跟), Van Gogh painted the last two of the four original Sunflowers for the modest bedroom where his guest would sleep following his arrival that autumn, “Van Gogh saw the Sunflowers for Gauguin’s bedroom as a way of attracting his friend to come from Brittany,” says Bailey.

According to Martin Gayford, “Gauguin was very surprised by the Sunflowers, which he repeatedly praised and asked for as a gift. Years later, Gauguin himself painted some sunflower pictures.”

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers stand for (代表)his relationship with Gauguin. “I think he painted them fo r the joy of it,” says Jansen. “V an Gogh was at the height of his powers in the summer of 1888,”explains Bailey. “He painted the Sunflowers quickly and with great energy and confidence.” Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in late August, “I’m painting quic kly now, which won’t surprise you when it’s a question of painting large Sunflowers.”

Van Gogh recognized at once that he had created something important and that his sunflowers were so different. As he told Theo in January 1889, while other artists were k nown for painting other flowers, “The sunflower is mine.” This, in fact, explains the reason for the popularity of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers today.