九江一中2015-2016学年高一上学期期末英语试题及答案

九江一中2015-2016学年高一年级上学期期末考试
英语
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题共100分）
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. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A book.
B. Stars.
C. A movie.
2. How is the girl traveling?
A. By bicycle.
B. By plane.
C. By car.
3. Who cooked the fish?
A. The man.
B. The woman.
C. The woman’s mother.
4. When does the class begin?
A. At 1:00pm.
B. At 1:15pm.
C. At 12:15pm.
5. What does the man want now?
A. Chocolate ice cream.
B. Milk ice cream.
C. Some water.
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。

听完每段对话或独白前，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、7题。

6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A birthday celebration.
B. A shopping plan.
C. A Chinese dinner.
7. What are the speakers going to do next?
A. Cook a dish.
B. Visit a friend.
C. Do some shopping.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What is Tom doing at the moment?
A. Answering a phone call.
B. Having a meeting.
C. Talking with someone.
9. What is the woman’s phone number?
A. 4886361
B.4868361
C. 4886631
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. How long has the woman kept the bike?
A. Five years.
B. One year.
C. Ten years.
11.What can we learn about the bike?
A. It’s a mountain bike.
B. It’s a gift from a girl.
C. It’s not good.
12.How much does the woman ask for the bike at last?
A. $650.
B. $750.
C. $700.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.What is the man doing?
A. Waiting for a call.
B. Writing a report.
C. Reading a paper.
14.What is the woman going to do next?
A. Have a good rest.
B. Go to eat.
C. Hand in her paper.
15.What soup does the man want?
A. Tomato soup.
B. Onion soup.
C. Mushroom soup.
16.What does the woman think of the man?
A. Lazy.
B. Curious.
C. Greedy(贪婪的）
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A. His interest.
B. His health.
C. His strengths.
18.Why does the speaker like sports so much?
A. He can only watch them.
B. He sees beauty and strength in sports.
C. He plays in big games.
19.What does the speaker think of modern dancing?
A. It has exciting music.
B. He can express himself in it.
C. He can talk about it freely.
20.What can we learn about the speaker’s life?
A. It’s colorful.
B. It’s boring.
C. It’s tiring.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，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（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
136 Crestview Circle
Dover, Connecticut
November 16, 2015
Gander’s Furniture Store
Stamford, Connecticut, 09876
Dear Sir,
I am writing about your November bill, which I am returning with this letter. I am not going to pay this bill. Last month I bought a table and four chairs for $65.50. They were sent to me on October 18. That night one leg of the table broke while my wife was putting our dinner on it. It fell on one of the chair, and that broke, too. Our $ 2.50 steak landed on the floor, and the dog ate it.
I spoke to the salesmen who had sold me the table and the chairs. He told me to write you a letter. I wrote you on October 20, saying that I was not going to pay for the furniture. On October 21 some men came and took it back to the store.
Please do something about your records. I do not want to receive another bill for the furniture which I returned.
Yours truly
Albertson
21. From the letter we know that Mr. Albertson actually paid _____ for the furniture.
A. no money
B. $ 68.00
C. $ 2.50
D. $ 65.50
22. Why did Mr. Albertson write the letter to the furniture store?
A. He wanted the manager to blame the salesmen for the bad furniture.
B. He had paid for the furniture but was asked to pay again.
C. The furniture he bought was badly made and he wanted to return it.
D. He didn’t want to receive a second bill for the furniture he had returned.
23. When Mr. Albertson was writing the letter he felt _____.
A. disappointed
B. angry.
C. worried.
D. calm.
B
“Folk singers are more like poets than singers,” Li Yahe, a music businessman, once told China Youth Daily.
That saying perfectly describes Zhang Lei, the 34-year-old champion of the fourth “Voice of China” singing competition, which ended on Oct 7.
Critics thought Zhang’s success as a victory for folk singers. The Voice of China used to attach great importance to singing skills and vocal techniques, which are not necessarily what folk singers are good at. “Folk songs are more about emotions and storytelling,” said Li.
Folk is one of the oldest musical styles. It dates back to ancient times, when people sang about their everyday lives and the society around them.
A powerful comeback
Folk music became popular again in the Western world in the 1960s. During social revolutions, many young Westerners turned to the simple rhythms of folk. Pioneers included US singer Bob Dylan, whose songs are reflections of some social issues like the Vietnam War. Singers at that time used traditional folk instruments like the banjo, the upright bass, the mandolin and the piano.
In the late 1970s, folk music was introduced to Taiwan. The rise of singers like Lo Tayu and Chyi Yu popularized folk music, particularly among young Chinese people.
At that time, folk tunes were based on simple song structures, with pleasant chord progression and pretty lyrics, just like during old times. But they focused more on the dreams and sorrow of youth than on politics.
This continued to be the case when the folk “wave” swept Chinese mainland in the 1990s.
Folk pioneers
Sadly,it didn’t last long in China. Folk gave way to pop in the late 1990s, when people started living more fast-paced lives. But that didn’t mean folk music had disappeared from the music world entirely.
“The drop in the popularity of folk songs is because the bu siness mode of the music industry is outdated, not because of the music itself,” folk singer Song Ke once said.
He was right. Recent years have seen folk songs gaining popularity, with the appearance of singers like Li Jian and Song Dongye.
“The popularity of the Internet has shocked the traditional profit model in music industry,” Lu Zhongqiang, manager of 13-Month, a music recording and publishing company, told Tencent Entertainment.
“Not-so-well-known music starts showing its strength when the production of mainstream music is declining,” he added.
24. Which would be the best title of the passage?
A. The History of Folk Music.
B. Folk Music Pioneers
C. The Folk Music Industry.
D. The V oice of China
25. The underlined world “it” in the last but four paragraph means________.
A. the popularity of folk music.
B. the focus of folk music.
C. the tradition of folk pioneers.
D. the new model of pop music.
26. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. The V oice of China is very popular among young Chinese people.
B. Folk music once was a way to voice opinions about social issues.
C. Folk songs are more about expressing emotions than storytelling.
D. Outdated music mode is what leads to the decline of folk songs.
27. Which word can best describe the attitude of Lu Zhongqiang towards folk music?
A. Objective
B. Confident.
C. Critical.
D. Worried
C
Every people uses its own special word to show its ideas and feelings. Some of these expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such
American expression is “Where’s the beef?” It is used when something is not as good as it is said to be. In the early 1980s “Where’s the beef?” was one of the most popular expr essions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone using it at the time.
Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and food is more popular in America than a hamburger made from beef. In the 1960s a businessman named Ray began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Ray called this “McDonald’s”. Ray became one of the richest businessmen at last in America.
Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company called “Wendy’s” said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonald’s or anyone else. The Wendy’s Company began to use the expression “Where’s the beef?” to make people know that Wendy’s hamburgers were the biggest. The Wendy’s television advertisement showed three old women eating hamburgers. The bread that covered the meat was very big, but inside there was only a bit of meat. One of the women said she would not eat a hamburger with such a little piece of beef. “Where’s the beef?” she shouted in a funny way. The advertisement for Wendy’s hamburger restaurants was a success. As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression “Where’s the beef?”
28. _______ started McDonald’s restaurant.
A. McDonald
B. Ray
C. Wendy
D. Three old women
29. Other people wanted to open hamburger restaurants because they thought _______.
A. they could sell hamburgers at a low price
B. beef was very popular in America
C. they could make a lot of money
D. hamburgers were easy to make
30. Wendy’s made the expression known to everybody _______.
A. by a television advertisement
B. with many old women eating hamburgers
C. while selling bread with a bit of meat in it
D. at the McDonald’s restaurant
31. We can learn from the passage that the expression “Where’s the beef?” means that _______.
A. the beef in hamburgers is not as much as it is said to be.
B. the hamburgers are not as good as they are said to be.
C. Wendy’s beef is the biggest one in American restaurant.
D. it is used when something is not as good as it is said to be.
D
When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, "Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”
With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans' business makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
32. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. How to Run a Corporation Well
B. Strength Comes from Peace
C. How to Achieve a Big Dream
D. Family Unity Builds Success
33. What can we infer about the An’s daughters?
A. They went out to work for themselves before graduation.
B. They all would not like to work in their family business.
C. They were deeply influenced by what Helene taught them.
D. There always were disagreements among family members
34. Helene once used chopsticks to show ______
A. the quality of the chopsticks
B. the difficulty of being united
C. the strength of family unity
D. how to be a strong person
35. We can l earn from Paragraph 2 that the An’s family ______
A. began to run a restaurant in 1975
B. left Vietnam without much money
C. bought a restaurant in Los Angeles
D. opened a sandwich shop in San Francisco
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，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Public Speaking Training
Get a coach:
Whatever the presentation, public speaking is tough. 36 . Since there are about a billion companies out there all ready to offer you public speaking training and courses, here are some things to look for when deciding the training that’s right for you.
37 :
Any training you do to become more effective at public speaking should always focus on the positive aspects of what you already do well. 38 . You already do lots of things well, so good public speaking training should develop those instead of telling you what you shouldn’t do.
Turn your back on too many rules:
If you find a public speaking course that looks as though it’s going to give you lots of dos and don’ts, walk away! Your brain is so full of what you’re going to be talking about. So trying to force a whole set of rules into it will just make things worse. 39 . Your audience can be your friends.
You are a special person not a clone:
Most importantly, good public speaking training should treat you as a special one, with your own personal habits. You aren’t like anybody else. 40 , not try to turn you into someone you’re not.
A. Check the rules about dos and don’ts
B. So, get help
C. Focus on positives.
D. As far as we’re concerned, there are basically no hard and fast rules about public speaking
E. Nothing can hurt confidence more than being told that you aren’t doing well
F. Your training course should help you bring out your personality.
G. You should think highly of the Public Speaking Training.
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题15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。

After twenty years of working fulltime, I found myself an opportunity to quit my job and be a stay-at-home mom. As I faced this 41 , I thought I would like to be more of a mother than a working woman. My seven-year-old daughter and four-year-old son had grown up in the daycare center 42 they were both six weeks old. At that time, I never felt any regret in handing my 43 over to the center each morning. I had a great job that I 44 and had worked my way 45 to being the Assistant to the Vice-President of Sales at an Internet company.
I decided to 46 the job and begin my new one as a fulltime mom, but I felt it strange to lose the 47 part of my identity. The first time I needed to fill out a(n) 48 for online banking, I came to the line that asked what my 49 was. Eventually, I threw the application away, 50 introduce myself as a “non-worker”. I continued to 51 with this feeling.
52 , after a few months of waiting at the bus stop, volunteering in the classroom, and making good dinners, I 53 being a fulltime mom. My daughter was in school, but my son Cobi was 54 me all day. For the first time in his life, I was 55 his. We took walks, played soccer and made crafts. He enjoyed my 56 all the time and I began to see what I had once 57 .
One day as we kicked the ball in the park, Cobi 58 me and said, “Mommy, do you know what I want to be when I grow up?”
“A professional 59 ?” I asked.
“No,” he smiled at me. “I want to be a stay-at-home mom.”
My heart melted. I’ve never 60 my decision since then.
41. A. decision B. promise C. result D. reality
42. A. when B. since C. as D. after
43. A. work B. family C. children D. future
44. A. suffered B. hated C. tried D. loved
45. A. round B. up C. on D. back
46. A. take up B. give up C. take over D. give in
47. A. working B. teaching C. leading D. learning
48. A. account B. form C. register D. order
49. A. position B. hobby C. dream D. job
50. A. more than B. other than C. rather than D. less than
51. A. struggle B. live C. agree D. deal
52. A. Therefore B. However C. Besides D. Otherwise
53. A. take advantage of B. look forward to C. grew tired of D. got used to
54. A. for B. with C. by D. after
55. A. all B. never C. partly D. still
56. A. caring B. company C. guidance D. education
57. A. appreciated B. seen C. removed D. missed
58. A. looked down upon B. looked back on C. looked up at D. looked up to
59. A. player B. teacher C. leader D. advisor
60. A. admitted B. settled C. fond D. made
第II卷
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节满分45）
第二节阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的词（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

（每小题1.5分，满分15分）
If you go out to the fields at night in spring or summer, you can hear frogs singing 61_______ (happy) here and there. It seems as if they were performing a field group singing.
The frog is a good and useful creature that benefits human beings. They can catch fast-moving 62_______ (insect). Each frog eats a large number of pests that are harmful to crops. This little creature is regarded 63_________ “the natural enemy of pests”.
But now frogs 64________ (get) fewer and fewer. This is because they are killed and put 65_________ the table as a delicious dish by their chief enemy, human beings. It is a shameless and cruel act, isn’t it?
The cause responsible for the rapid 66_________ (reduce) of frogs is that farmers use insect killer to kill pests and frogs get killed as a result of drinking poisoned water while 67 _______ (eat) poison-killed insects.
Something must be done without delay 68 _______ (save) frogs. If we don’t punish those 69______ sell and kill frogs to make money, then one day all of us 70_______ (punish) by nature for failing to keep them.
第四部分：写作（共两节满分35）
第一节：短文改错（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便条。

便条中共有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。

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。

Nowadays many singers and bands have little to do with good music. They know little about what good music mean. What is the cause? So far most of these singers have see music as a “job”because it is a good source of making money. And if you have good appearance and some expensive clothes to show off at your concerts, then you voice is not so important as it should be. The public will prefer to admire more about the most interested parts of your body and even forgot that you are there to show your music skills, not your dancing, which is important too, but not at such a high level. However, the young generation should be understand talent and a good voice matter more in their musical career. All the performances which have little to do with good music fail in be welcomed on stage. If a young man has a great voice and wants to become a successfully singer, he should take some special courses in this area because they will help him improve singing abilities.
第二节：书面表达
请用英语为China Daily写一篇关于保护野生动物的短文。

内容应包含：
1．许多野生动物濒临灭绝，保护野生动物势在必行。

2．分析造成野生动物濒临灭绝的原因，如：森林遭到破坏，环境被污染，人类大量捕杀等。

3．至少提出两条保护野生动植物的措施。

注意：不要逐条翻译，词数100词左右。

参考词汇：野生动物wildlife；灭绝die out；措施measure
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参考范文：
Dear editor,
As we know, the number of wild animal is becoming smaller and smaller. Some of them are even dying out. The reasons are as follows:
To start with, people have been cutting down trees for building, causing some animals to lose their habitats. Besides, farmers use too much pesticide, which endangers the lives of some animals. In addition, to make money, some people have been killing rare wild animals.
In my opinion, it’s time we took immediate measures to change the situation. We shouldn’t cut down trees without permission. Instead, we are supposed to plant more trees to protect the animals’ living conditions. At the same time, more nature reserves are expected to be set up. I believe as long as we take action immediately, we will live in harmony with animals and life will become better.
Yours
Li Hua。