2018-2019学年四川省棠湖中学第一学期高一期中考试试卷与答案

{正文}2018-2019学年四川省棠湖中学第一学期高一期中考试英语试题第I卷（选择题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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 do the speakers need to buy?A．A fridge. B．A few chairs. C．A dinner table.2．Where are the speakers?A．In a hotel B．In a restaurant. C．In a school.3．What does the woman mean?A．Cathy is going to be invited.B．Cathy is too busy to come.C．Cathy will be at the party.4．Why does the woman plan to go to town?A．To get some money from the bank.B．To buy books in a bookstore.C．To pay her bills in the bank.5．What is the woman trying to do?A．Print an article. B．Finish some writing.C．Find a newspaper.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有几个小题，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。

听每段对话前，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。

每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6．What is the man doing?A．Trying to find his seat.B．Asking for a window seat.C．Changing seats on the plane.7．What is the woman’s seat number?A．6A. B．8A. C．7A.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8．Why doesn’t the woman take the green T-shirt?A．It’s too expensive.B．It’s too dark.C．It’s too small. 9．What does the woman buy in the end?A．A yellow T-shirt B．A pink T-shirt. C．A blue T-shirt.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10．Why doesn’t Victor have his own doctor?A．He never needs one. B．His headaches aren’t ever serious.C．There isn’t a hospital near his house.11．How did Victor get Dr. Spengler’s number?A．He has seen the doctor before.B．He got it from other patients.C．He got it from his boss.12．When will Victor be able to see Dr. Spengler?A．This afternoon. B．Tomorrow morning.C．Tomorrow afternoon.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13．Why do the speakers decide to eat out?A．There’s no food in the fridge.B．The woman works too late.C．Jim has too much homework.14．Why doesn’t Jim want to eat Indian food?A．It is too hot for him. B．It is too expensive.C．It is unhealthy.15．What does the woman want Jim to do?A．Finish his homework B．Do the dishes.C．Cook dinner.16．What will the woman do next?A．Order some food. B．Wash some plates. C．Make a shopping list.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题17．What was Mary Kingsley famous for?A．Studying fish. B．Traveling and writing.C．Teaching natural history.18．How did Mary Kingsley get an education?A．She read at home. B．She studied in college.C．She learned from her mother.19．What was Mary Kingsley like?A．Outgoing. B．Humorous. C．Shy and silent.20．What foreign language can Mary Kingsley speak?A．German. B．French. C．Italian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。

AAstronauts in the space stations for long missions often work very long days. Tasks are scheduled（安排）so tightly that break times are often used to finish the day’s work. It’s especially har d for long missions on the International Space Station （ISS）. ISScrew members usually live in space for at least a quarter of a year. They work five days on and two days off to mimic the normal way they do things on Earth as much as possible. Weekends give the crew valuable time to rest and do a few hours of housework. They can communicate with family and friends by email, Internet phone and through private video meetings.While astronauts cannot go to a baseball game or a movie in space, there are many familiar activities that they can still enjoy. Before a mission, the family and friends of each ISS crew member put together a collection of family photos, messages, videos and reading materials for the astronauts to look at when they will be floating 370 kilometers above the Earth. During their mission, the crew also receives care packages with CDs, books, magazines, photos and letters. Today, the Internet can be used on the ISS, giving astronauts the chance to do some “web surfing” in their personal time. B esides relaxing with these more common entertainments, astronauts can simply enjoy the experience of living in space.Many astronauts say that one of the most relaxing things to do in space is to look out of the window and stare at the universe and the Ear th’s vast land mass and oceans. 21．What does the word “mimic” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A．Find B．Copy C．Change D．Lose22．In the last paragraph, the author shows that astronauts ____________.A．get more pleasure in space than on the EarthB．find living in space a bit boring and tiringC．regard space life as commonD．love to see the Earth from space23．The passage mainly discusses how astronauts ____________.A．work for longer missions in space B．connect with people on the EarthC．observe the Earth from space D．spend their free time in spaceBMySpace, the social networking website, is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast yourown stories and personal information to as many people as you like. Started two years ago, it is a big source of information for and about American kids.Teenagers and their parents feel very different about it. Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their parents’ worries. It signa ls yet another generation gap in the digital era.For teenagers, it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames, birthdays, after-school jobs, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information.“MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don’t have all the phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace,” said Abby Van Wassen. She is a 16-year-old student at Woodland Hills High of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. “Every time we hold a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace,” said Kent Gates, who travels the country doing Internet safety seminars（研讨会）. The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has received at least 288 MySpace related complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in Pittsburgh.“Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal inf ormation to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It’s like a free checklist for troublemakers and it endangers children,” Buchanan said.24．From the passage, we can learn that MySpace ________.A．brings about the generation gapB．is very careful about people’s privacyC．encourages you to list your personal informationD．lists the telephone numbers of your friends25．Why are some parents against MySpace?A．Because they think MySpace has a bad influence on their children.B．Because they don’t want to pay so much money for MySpace.C．Because it takes up too much of their children’s spare time.D．Because troublemakers can easily reach their children through the site. 26．What can we infer from “Every time we ho ld a parents meeting, the first question is always about MySpace”?A．MySpace has become a top problem troubling parents.B．MySpace often holds parents meetings.C．MySpace is quite popular with parents.D．Parents have lots of questions about the website.27．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?A．Internet Safety B．MySpaceC．Generation Gap D．The Digital EraCAlthough his 1-year-old smart-phone still works perfectly, Li Jijia already feels the need to replace it.“There are many better ones available now. It's time to upgrade（更新）my phone.”Li’s impatience is shared by many. Shortly after the season when new products are released（发布，发售）, many consumers feel the urge to upgrade their electronic equipment, even though the ones they have still work just fine.As consumers’ minds are occupied by Apple’s newly released products and debate whether the Google tablet is better than the new Amazon Kindle, it might be time to take a step back and ask: “Do we really need the latest upgrades?”According to Donald Norman, an American author, “planned obsolescence （淘汰）” is the trick behind the upgrading culture of today’s consumer electronics industry.Electronics producers strategically release new upgrades periodically, both for hardware and software, so that customers on every level feel the need to buy the newest version.“This is an old-time trick---they’re not inventing anything new,” Norman said. “This is a wasteful system through which companies--many of them producing personalelectronics-- release poor-quality products simply because they know that, in six months or a year, they’ll put out a new one.”But the new psychology of consumers is part of this system, as Norman admitted, “We now want something new, something pretty, the next shiny thing.” In its most recent year, Apple's profit margin（利润） was more than 21 percent. At Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest PC maker, it was only 7 percent.Apple’s annual upgrades of its products create sales of millions of units as owners of one year’s MacBook or iPhone line up to buy the newest version, even when the changes are slight.As to Li Jijia, the need for upgrading his smart-phone comes mainly from friends and classmates. When they are switching to the latest equipment, he worries about feeling left out.“Some games require better hardware to run,” said Li. “If you don't join in, you lose part of the connection to your friends.”28．What’s the author’s attitude towards people’s greed for new products?A．Supportive. B．Optimistic. C．Critical. D．Unclear. 29．How do the electronics companies successfully promote their latest products?A．They make full use of the “planned obsolescence” strategy.B．They make a fool of customers by recycling their old products.C．They control the customers’ way of thinking while shopping.D．They invent new products to attract the youth like Li Jijia.30．Why is Apple Company interested in producing latest version of its product?A．To provide customers with better service.B．To defeat other competitors like Hewlett-Packard.C．To establish a favorable image of itself among its customers.D．To make huge profits out of its business.31．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Li Jijia feels the need to replace his smart-phone as a result of____.A．new psychology B．peer pressureC．life style D．riends' expectationDIn its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me."The city planner decided to build an underground drainage （排水） system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Ches brought convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12feet.This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel，Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews （螺旋千斤顶） beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10jackscrews.At Pullman's signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time，thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly，the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation，and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening.Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.32．The author mentions the joke to show ______.A．horses were fairly useful in ChicagoB．the Chicago people were particularly humorousC．Chicago was very dangerous in the springD．Chicago's streets were extremely muddy33．The underlined word "hoist" in Paragraph 4 means"______".A．change B．lift C．repair D．decorate 34．The city planners were convinced by Ellis Ches brought to ______.A．build the pipes above ground B．lower the Chicago RiverC．fight against heavy floods D．get rid of the street dirt35．The passage is mainly about the early Chicago's ______.A．popular life styles and their influencesB．environmental disasters and their causesC．engineering problems and their solutionsD．successful businessmen and their achievements.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。