广东龙山中学10-11学年高一第一学期期中考试(英语)

龙山中学2010-2011学年度第一学期期中考试卷高一英语说明：本卷共四大部分，满分150分。

考试用时120分钟。

考试结束后只交答题卡第一部分英语知识应用共二节，满分50分。

第一节完型填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从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。

My mother asked me to go to several garage sale (旧货出售) with her one cool morning. We finally 1 at a beautiful house in the woods. The elderly 2 told me that he and his wife were retired teachers. As we were searching, I heard the gentleman’s wife say her 3 to someone, and I immediately ___4 who she was. She looked at me and said, “You are Lisa Miller.” I looked at her___5____ ,for it had been nearly thirty years since I had been in her class.My mother immediately said sorry to her for any ___6___ I might have made. She thought that if this woman ___7___ me after so many years, I must have done something___8___. My teacher smiled and said, “Oh, no, she was very good.”My teacher __9__ that during the last week of school, I ___10__ her a lamb’s ear from my mother’s garden. She took us to her garden where she planted the lamb’s ear. As I looked down her driveway(车道) with lamb’s ears on both sides, she said, “Every day when I leave my house and drive up the driveway, I think of you. And when I come home they ___11__me, I think of you.” Tears ___12___my eyes. There at her home was a piece of my life that she had raise.At that moment, she taught me more about ___13___ than I could imagine. We give pieces of ourselves everyday without thought. We seldom imagine the effect(影响)that we have on others’ lives. That piece may grow and spread, becoming a(n) __14__ partof a life. In the end, It isn’t the big things that matter, but the small things that make a(n) ___15__ in the world.1. A. started B. searched C. stopped D. founded2. A. worker B. owner C. buyer D. player3. A. identity B. address C. name D. age4. A. realized B. determined C. forecast D. guessed5. A. surprised B. worried C. bored D. concerned6. A. attack B. fight C terror D. trouble7. A. considered B. disliked C. remembered D. blamed8. A. cruel B. terrible C. friendly D. special9. A. explained B. reported C. judged D. expressed10. A. stole B. bought C. chose D. brought11. A. accept B. calm C. greet D. recognize12. A. gave up B. came into C. turned to D. took away13. A. life B. attitudes C. devotion D. lessons14. A. whole B. unimportant C. large D. necessary15. A. effort B. way C. decision D. difference第二节语法填空（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）仔细阅读短文，请按照语境以及括号里的具体要求完成语法填空和词形变化等。

Just like other ___16_, English changes and develops when cultures meet and communicate __17 each other. At first, the English 18 (speak) in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different ___19__ today’s English. It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Then_20 (gradual) between about AD 800 and 1150, English became ___21___ like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers __22___ (rich) the English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to make use of a ___23___(wide) vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British settlers moved to America .Later in the 18th century some British people were taken to Australia too. English began to be spoken in __24__ countries. Finally by the 19th century the language was settled and now English is also spoken __25_a foreign or second language in South Asia and other parts of the world.第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节阅读理解（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（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(A)Will it matter if you don't take your breakfast? Recently a test was given in the United States. Those tested included people of different ages, from 12 to 83. During the experiment, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Special tests were set up to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten a certain kind of breakfast. The results show that if a person eats a proper breakfast, he or she will work with better effect than if he or she has no breakfast. This fact appears to be especially true if a person works with his brains. If a student eats fruit, eggs, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen with more attention to class.Opposite to what many people believe, if you don't eat breakfast, you will not lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch, and end up gaining weight instead of losing. You will probably lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.26. During the test, those who were tested were given ________.A. no breakfast at allB. very rich breakfastC. little food for breakfastD. different breakfast or none27. The results of the test show that ________.A. breakfast has great effect on work and studiesB. breakfast has little to do with a person’s workC. a person will work better if he has a simple breakfastD. those working with brains should have much for breakfast28. The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast,you will _________.A. lose weightB. not lose weightC. be healthierD. gain a lot of weight29. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?A. Poor breakfasts affect those who work with brains.B. Morning diet(饮食) may cause one to get fatter.C. Reducing lunch and supper is of less value in weight losing.D. Eating less in lunch and supper may help to lose weight.30. According to the passage, if a student does not eat breakfast, ___________.A. he will fall illB. he will fail to listen to his teacherC. he will not make progress in his studyD. his mind will work more slowly(B)An earthquake happens when two plates rub (碰撞) together. The earth plates travel in different directions and at different speeds. If one plate is slowly forced underneath the other, pressure builds up until the plates break apart. This process causes the ground to move. It is an earthquake. In other words, earth-quakes are the shaking of the earth’s surface caused by the earth’s rocky outer layer as a result of the energy stored within the earth. The strain （张力）within the rocks is suddenly released (释放).The damage an earthquake causes depends on where it is and the time it is happening. If an unpopulated（人口不稠密的）region is struck, there will be low loss of life or property. If it hits a large city, there may be many in-juries and much destruction. Many of the areas at risk are largely populated now. Major earthquakes hitting those areas today could produce terrible damage.Actually, there are several million small earth-quakes every year. Large earthquakes such as the 1964 Alaskan quake that measured 9.2 on the Richter scale, cause millions of dollars in damage. In the last 500 years, millions of people have been killed by earth-quakes around the world — including 240,000 in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China.A 60-second or less earthquake can cause devastation（荒芜，破坏） that continues for years after the first tremor (小震). In 1972, a series of severe earthquakes struck Managua, Nicaragua. Fifteen years later, the city still looked the way it had a week after the earthquake hit, because the country did not have the necessary money to rebuild it。