山西省忻州市第一中学高一英语上学期期中试题

忻州一中2015-2016学年度第一学期期中考试高一英语试题注意事项：1.本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两大部分。

2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号等信息填写在答题卡上相应的位置。

3. 试题满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

听力20分计入总分。

4. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。

第Ⅰ卷（满分100分）第一部分：听力部分（共两节，满分20分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题l分，满分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. What will the man do?A. Make a cake.B. Buy a chocolate cake.C. Bring some chocolate to Alice.2. What colour window does the man prefer?A. Green.B. Yellow.C. Dark blue.3. What does the woman say about Sally?A. She is wrong to fire her boss.B. She always says what she thinks.C. She seems to have a lot in her mind.4. How much should the man pay for a night?A. $20.B. $30.C. $50.5. What has the woman lost?A. Her purse.B. Some keys.C. A pair of glasses.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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8题。

6. What kind of music does the man like?A. Rock.B. Jazz.C. Country.7. What does the woman think of rock music?A. It will cause stomachache.B. It makes people relaxed.C. It is too noisy.8. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Favourite music.B. Favourite songs.C.Favourite food.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Why is the woman so busy?A. She has a Chinese Test next week.B. She has to go to the library.C. She wants to go to the café.10. How does the woman feel about her exam?A. Confident.B. Worried.C. Disappointed.11. What are the speakers going to do?A. Go to the library.B. Have a coffee.C. Have a test.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Why is Barney excited?A. He sees Jennifer.B. He hears the phone ring.C. He has recognized Bill Black.13. How did Barney perform in the American Kennel Club Competition?A. He won the first place.B. He gained love from kids.C. He won the second place.14. How can people probably know the story of Barney?A. By reading the school magazine.B. By talking to Bill Black.C. By attending ABC College classes.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What did the woman do during her vacation?A. She took a nature adventure.B. She took photos of airplanes.C. She saw pictures of waterfalls.16. What do we know about the man?A. He went to visit his relatives by plane.B. He thought the woman had a boring vacation.C. He stayed in the house because of the bad weather.17. What does the man think of his vacation?A. Exciting.B. Challenging.C. Relaxing.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What made the speaker choose to work as a journalist?A. Her major.B. The working hours.C. The chance to meet people.19. What does the speaker dislike about her job?A. People always think badly of journalists.B. She has to break stories in the public’s interest.C. Journalists often can’t give their opinions freely.20. How does the speaker feel about her job in general?A. Upset.B. Bored.C. Satisfied.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

ATwo men were sitting together in a plane. They were on a long journey. One of the men was a businessman. The other was a farmer. They sat without talking for a while, then the farmer said,“Let’s do something to pass the time.”“What do you want to do?” the businessman asked. “We can ask each other riddles.” The farmer said,“You start.”“Let’s make the rules first,” the businessman said. “That’s notfair. You are a businessman with much knowledge. You know more things than I do. I am just a farmer.”“That’s true.” The businessman said. “What do you want we should do?” “If you don’t know the answer to a riddle, you pay me $100. And if I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $50.” The farmer said. The businessman thought about this, then he said, “OK. That’s fair. Who will go first?”“I will,” The farmer said. “Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies?” The business man repeated the riddle, “What has three legs when it walks, bu t only two legs when it flies? Mm, that’s a good one. I’m afraid I don’t know the answer.” He gave the farmer $100, then said, “Tell me the answer. What has three legs when it walks, but only two legs when it flies?” “I don’t know.” The farmer said and gave him $50.21.The story happened ____________.A.on a farmB. in a shopC.before a long plane journeyD. between two passengers22．What does the word “riddle” mean in this story?A. A difficult question to find the answer to.B. Something to help to make rules.C. Something to win money.D. a kind of game on doing business.23．Why did the businessman agree to give more money if he lost?A. He made much more money than the farmer.B. He thought he knew more than the farmer.C. He was interested in making riddles.D. He was better at playing riddle games.24．Which of the following is NOT true?A. The two men made rules for their riddle.B. The farmer was much cleverer than the businessman.C. The two men made their riddle game more interesting by paying it for money.D. The businessman knew the answer to his riddle.BFor those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages．Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest (征服) of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured . The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.Then there is the time spent bei ng “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.25.What does the writer try to express in Paragraph 1?A．Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages．B．The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short．C．The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams．D．Man has been fond of traveling rather than staying in one place．26.How does the writer support the underlined statement in Paragraph 2?A．By giving instructions．B．By analyzing cause and effect．C．By following the order of time．D．By giving examples．27.According to Paragraph 3, passengers are turning back to modern high-speed trains because______．A．they pay less for the ticketsB．they feel safer during the travelC．they can enjoy higher speed of travelD．they don’t have to waste time being “processed”28.What does the last sentence of the passage mean?A．They could enjoy free and relaxing travel．B．They needed the clock to tell the time．C．They preferred traveling on horseback．D．They could travel with their master．CWith only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone(克隆) the animal and save the endangered species(物种). That’s a move similar to what a Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark”.Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos(胚胎), semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen（氮）. If certain species should become extinct, Dr. Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas A & M’s College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.It is estimated that as many as 2, 000 species of mammals, birds reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryointo a host animal.The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.“The nuclear transfer(核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available(capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem,” Kraemer believes. “They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and it’s difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort,” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A& M, the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog.“They are trying to do something that’s never been done, and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark. We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It’s a research that is very much needed.”29.The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to _______.A. make efforts to clone the endangered pandasB. save endangered animals from dying outC. collect DNA of endangered animals to studyD. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another30.According to Professor Kraemer, the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack of _______.A.available panda eggsB. host animalsC.qualified researchersD. enough money31.The best title for the passage may be _______.A.China’s Success in Pandas Cloning.B.The First Cloned Panda in the World.C.Exploring the Possibility to Clone Pandas.D.China —the Native Place of Pandas Forever.32.From the passage we know that _______.A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dog.B. scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a rabbit.C. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches.D. about two thousand of species will probably die out in a century.DThis March is a busy month in Shanghai. There’s a lot to do. Here are the highlights.Live Music—Late Night JazzEnjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He’s coming with his new 7-piece band, Herbie’s Her oes. Herbie is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t expect to get much sleep. This is Herbie’s third visit to Shanghai. The first two were sold out, so get your tickets quickly.Scottish DancingTake your partners and get ready to dance till you drop. Scottish dancing is fun and easy to learn.Instructors will demonstrate the dances. The live band, Gordon Stroppie and the Weefrees, are also excellent.Exhibitions—Shanghai MuseumThere are 120,000 pieces on show here. Your can see the whole of Chinese history under one roof. It’s always interesting to visit, but doubly so at the moment with the Egyptian Tombs exhibition. There are lots of mummies and more gold than you’ve ever seen before. Let us know if you see a mummy move!Dining –Sushi chef in townSushi is getting really big in Shanghai. In Japan, it’s become an art form .The most famous Sushi “artist” is Yuki Kamura . She’s also one of the few female chefs in Japan. She’ll be at Sushi Scene all of this month.For a full listing of events, see our website.33. Suppose you are going to attend an activity at 8:00p.m. on Saturday, which one can you choose?A. Live Music—Late Night JazzB. Scottish dancingC. Exhibitions—Shanghai MuseumD. Dining—Sushi chef in town34. Which of the following is true according to the advertisements?A. Scottish dancing is so interesting and easy that it never tires you out .B. The performance given by the American jazz band won’t last long .C. Sushi is not popular in Shanghai as it is a kind of Japanese traditional food.D. It is more interesting to visit Shanghai Museum for the exhibits from Egypt.35. From the text we may learn that Kamura is _________.A. a cookB. a waitressC. an instructorD. an artist第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。