2018-2019学年山东省烟台二中高一上学期冬学竞赛英语试题

2018-2019学年山东省烟台二中高一上学期冬学竞赛英语试题第一部分听力（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.Who is Lucy?A.The bride.B.The man’s colleague.C. The woman’s classmate.2.How many people will go to the exhibition?A.About 10,000.B.About 20,000.C. About 30,000.3.What is the woman doing?A.Repairing the computer.B. Working on a paper.C.Surfing the Internet.4. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?A.Mother and son.B.Boss and clerk.C.Teacher and student.5.What is the woman doing ?A.Taking a taxi.B. Giving the man a lift.C.Driving to Time Square.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.Where did the accident happen?A.On a highway.B.On a freeway.C.On a road.7.What was strange about the accident?A.Two people got hurt.B. The truck turned over.C. No one was killed.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.How many bands will play in the MTV Awards?A.FiveB. ThreeC.Four9.What can we learn about Karen Mok?A.She is young.B.She works as a host.C.She can speak French.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.What is the woman doing when the man comes?A.Having a class.B.Having a meeting.C.Correcting homework.11.Why does the man say sorry?A.He broke the woman’s alarm clock.B.He didn’t finish his homework.C.He was late for school again.12.How many times has the man forgotten to bring his homework this month?A.Three.B.Four.C.Six.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.How much does the man have to pay to join the club?A.£1.5B. £ 2C.£ 514.What do the shop workers do once a year?A.They buy new films from aboard.B.They send out a list of new films.C.They collect information on popular films.15.What films are most people interested in?A.British films.B. American films.C.Australian films.16.How will the man get the form?A.He’ll have it post.B.He’ll pick it up himself.C.He’ll get it from the club’s website.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What do we know about Beowulf?A.It is a famous novel.B.Its author is unknown.C.It is easy to understand.18.When was Middle English used?A.Between about AD 800 and AD1066.B.Between about AD 1066 and AD 1150.C.Between about AD1150 and AD 1500.19.What can we learn about Geoffrey Chaucer?A.He once took control of England.B.He died in London in the 1400s.C.He is a modern English poet.20.What will the speaker talk about after break?A.Modern English.B. Middle English.C. Old English.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中选出最佳选项AIt is natural that young people are often uncomfortable when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t understand them. They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways, that they are too serious and too strict with their children, and that they seldom give their children a free hand.It is true that parents often find it difficult to win their children’s trust and they tend(倾向) to forget how they themselves felt when young.For example, young people like to act on the spot without much thinking. It is one of their ways to show that they have grown up and they can face any difficult situation. Old people worry more easily. Most of them plan things in advance, at least in the back of their minds, and do not like their plans to be upset by something unexpected.When you want your parents to let you do something, you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it.Young people often make their parents angry with their choices in clothes, in entertainment and in music. But they do not mean to cause any trouble; it is justthat they feel cut off from the older people’s world, into which they have not yet been accepted. That’s why young people want to make a new culture of their own, and if their parents don’t like their music or entertainment or clothes or their way of speech, this will make the young people extremely happy.Sometimes you are so proud of yourself that you do not want your parents to say “yes” to what you do. All you want is to be left alone and do what you like. It is natural enough, after being a child for so many years, when you were completely under your parents’ control.If you prefer to control your life, you’d better win your parents over and try to get them to understand you. If your parents see that you have a high sense of responsibility, they will certainly give you the right to do what you want to do.21. According to the text, young people prefer to __________.A. ask for advice before they really start to do anythingB. think in the same way as their parents doC. be very strict with themselvesD. do things without thinking carefully ahead22. According to the text, young people want to make a new culture of their own, because _________.A. they feel they are cleverer than old peopleB. they do not want to get into trouble with their parentsC. they don’t feel they belong to the world of the old peopleD. they want to show the new is better than the old23. If a young man intends to control his own life, it’s better for him to __________.A. do everything according to his own wishB. hold himself responsible for everything he doesC. do everything beyond his parents’ controlD. do everything the way his parents doBI always experienced guilt when I passed by without giving a coin or two to a beggar. My conscience was pricked again on a tour of Venice in 2010. I had taken refugefrom the crowds in a quiet canal-side café. Outside the café was an old woman kneeling on the ancient cobbled stones, begging. Steady streams of tourists were walking past her. A lone young back-packer stood away from the crowds drinking something, but I noticed he was also observing the woman.A tourist group glanced at the woman and walked on. Another group of tourists arrived and, again, walked past her. The backpacker watched. Then, as I prepared to leave, I stopped at the sight of the backpacker stepping forward and placing some money in the woman’s cup. He did this rather ostentatiously(炫耀地), just before the arrival of another tourist group. I watched as the leader of the group stopped and put some money in the cup. Having been shown the way, other tourists followed suit and added more coins to the woman’s cup.The young backpacker repeated this process in front of the next tour party going past. Once again, the subtle peer (同伴) pressure worked on the tourists, who all added coins to the cup. His work done, the young man walked over to the old beggar woman, patted her shoulder and said, “I hope that helps a bit.”I don’t know if the woman understood his English or realized what had just happened, but I did. I placed some money in the woman’s cup and continued my travels, light-hearted after witnessing such an act of caring.24．The author went to a quiet canal-side cafe to_______ .A. avoid meeting the beggarB. get away from the crowdsC. take a restD. watch the woman beggar25．The backpacker placed some money in the woman’s cup rather ostentatiously because_____.A. he wanted to stop the tourists by doing thisB. he wanted people to know that he was rich and kindC. he wanted to help the woman by himselfD. he wanted the tourist group to follow him26．We can infer from the passage that ________ .A. tourists can be cheated by beggarsB. people usually have pity on an old beggarC. tourists are willing to help beggarsD. people can do kind acts due to peer pressure27．Before the backpacker dropped some money in the woman’s cup, the tourists ______ .A. all showed pity for the womanB. didn’t notice the womanC. walked by without giving any moneyD. gave a little money to the womanCOne day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and tries to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper pulls him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla(大猩猩), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance(出席人数) at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime — the job he likes but loses.However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(隔墙), and dangles(悬挂) from the top to the lion’s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is a fuel to the crowd.At the end of the day he is given a raise for being such a good attraction —well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime’s pay keeps going up.Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slides and falls. The mime is terrified. He starts screaming “Help me!”, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, “Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?”28. The mime accepts the zookeeper’s offer because __________.A. he has been out of workB. he doesn’t like being a mimeC. he likes performing at the zooD. he is offered a higher pay there29. How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?A. Hard and tiring.B. Dangerous but exciting.C. Easy and funny.D. Boring but well-paid.30. The mime’s first contact with the lion is to __________.A. find pleasure for himselfB. get the lion’s attentionC. get his pay raisedD. win back his audience31. The underlined words “a fuel” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by __________.A. frighteningB. disappointingC. excitingD. FamiliarDTheir beautiful call suggests the arrival of spring, but the routes taken by cuckoos(杜鹃) during their annual migration(迁徙) have remained a mystery. Now, though, scientists from the British Trust for Omithology(BTO) have revealed the details of their remarkable 10,000-mile journey, with the help of tracking devices.Five male birds were caught in Norfolk last May and fitted with satellite-tagged “backpacks’’ before being released. The scientists then monitored their progress over 12 months as they flew to Africa in the autumn, and returned in the spring.The project was carried out to discover why every year fewer of the birds return to Britain. Between 1995 and 2010，the population of cuckoos spending summer here fell by almost half, and the number is continuing to decline. Previously, the lack of information about the cuckoos’ long migration has hampered the understanding of how to help conserve the birds.Earlier this year, it was reported that cuckoos arrived in the UK much earlier than normal. Their call was recorded by ornithologists(鸟类专家) as early as February, a month ahead of their usual arrival.Like all migrating animals, cuckoos respond to the changing seasons. They depend on lush plants to provide the fruit and food for insects that they feed on. Thisreliance on seasonal patterns means that a changing climate could make an already challenging journey impossible for them.32．What is the main purpose of the project?A．To track cuckoos’10,000-mile journey.B．To better understand the habits of cuckoos.C．To find out what happens during cuckoos’ journey.D．To discover why the population of cuckoos is declining.33．The underlined word “hampered” in Paragraph 3 probably means_____. A．prevented B．deepened C．improved D．affected34．When do cuckoos usually arrive in Britain?A．In January. B．In February. C．In March. D．In April.35．Cuckoos arrived in the UK much earlier than normal probably because of_____. A．1acking food B．changing climateC．changing routes D．cold spring in the UK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Every animal sleeps, but the reason for this has remained foggy. When lab rats are not allowed to sleep, they die within a month. 36One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories. 37 We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing (加强) connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved（进化） so that connections between neurons (神经元) in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day. 38Now we have the most direct evidence yet that he is right . 39 The synapses （神经突触）in the mice taken at the end of a period of sleep were 18 percent smaller than those taken before sleep, showing that the connections between neurons weaken while sleeping .If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night`s sleep , we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information--our brainsmay have smaller room for new experiences.Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner. The team discovered that some synapses seem to be protected and stayed the same size. 40 “You keep what matters,”Tononi says.A. We should also try to sleep well the night before.B. It’s as if the brain is preserving(保存) its most important memories.C. Similarly, when people go for a few days without sleeping, they get sick.D. The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded(装载) with memories.E. That’s why students do better in tests if they get a chance to sleep after learning.F. “Sleep is the price we pay for learning,” says Giulio Tononi, who developed the idea.G. Tononi’s team measured the size of these connections, or synapses, in the brains of 12 mice.第三部分语言知识运用（共两节满分40分）第一节（每题1.5分共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，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。