高一下期末考试英语试题

一年级期末测试英语考生注意：本试题分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共85小题，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节单选填空（共15 小题，每小题1分，满分15分）从A、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ、四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

26. The _______ shoes were covered with mud, so I asked them to take them off before they gotinto _______ car.A. girl's ; Tom'sB. girls'; Toms'C. girls'; Tom'sD. girl's; Toms'27. Would you mind not picking the flowers in the garden? They are everyone's enjoyment.A. toB. atC. forD. in28. I guess we've already talked about this before but I'll ask you again just __.A. by natureB. in returnC. in caseD. by chance29. It took us quite a long time to get to the amusement park. It was journey.A. three hourB. a three-hoursC. a three-hourD. three hours30. ——I’d like some more cheese.——Sorry, there’s ______ left.A. someB. noneC. a littleD. few31. Helping others is a habit, _______ you can learn even at an early age.A. itB. thatC. whatD. one32. Not until he left his home to know how important the family was forhim.A. did he beginB. had he beganC. he beganD. he has began33. Barbara is easy to recognize as she’s the only of the women who ____ evening dress.A. wearB. wearsC. has wornD. have worn34. As a child, Jack studied in a village school，_________ is named after his grandfather.A. whichB. whereC. whatD. that35. That’s the new machine ______ parts are too small to be seen.A. thatB. whichC. whoseD. what第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5 分，满分30分）“Airport? You 43 are lost,” Alice said. “You need to go back five kilomete rs 44 you reach the T-junction. Turn left and 45 for about another 10 kilometers to the main highway. From there, just follow the 46 to the airport. But I’m afraid there’s no47 you’ll get there in five minutes!”“Thank you very much, dear.” replied the old lady. “Don’t worry—I’ll48 in time. ”The 49 moved up and the car started off. A little way ahead, it 50 and with headlights flashing, it drove past Alice. But then, something 51 happened. The car began changing. First, its color 52 from black to silvery- grey. And then the wheels began disappearing, but the car continued to move forward, 53 just above the ground. As the car 54 into the dark sky, the big red tail-lights grew larger and larger and glowed more and more brightly. With a faint whistling 55 , the car was gone in seconds, leaving Alice shaking her head in disbelief…36. A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Otherwise37. A. brave B. excited C. curious D. stubborn38. A. fell B . seemed C. proved D. grew39. A. aside B. around C. forward D. backward40. A. arrived B. stopped C. stayed D. started第三部分阅读理解（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、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AThe first newspaper was written by hand and put up on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 BC. In the 700s the world’s first printed newspaper was published. Europe didn’t have a regularly published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.The first regularly published newspaper in English was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was Daily Current, which came out in March 1702.In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started Boston Newspaper, the first newspaper published daily in the American Colonies. By 1760, the colonies had had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1,800 daily papers in the United States.Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation in the world. But the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. It sells more than eleven million copies every year.BDo you know anything about the history of weather? Don’t look at the sky. Don’t look for old weather reports. Looking at the tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back.It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall. It is also expected that little sunlight or rainfall would reduce the growth of a tree. The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk. To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred. If the rings are close together, then the climate was bad for the tree.Studying trees is important not only for the history of weather, but also for the history of man. In an area of New Mexico you can find only sand —no trees or people. However, many centuries ago a large population lived there. They left suddenly. Why?A scientist studied the pattern of the rings of dead trees that had grown there. He made up his mind that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees. Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings. So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move.In this example studying tree rings uncovered an exciting fact about the history of man.59. We can find out the weather of five years ago by counting the rings of a tree trunk ____.A. from the left to the rightB. from the right to the leftC. from the inside to the outsideD. from the outside to the insideCToo much TV-watching can harm children’s ability to learn and even reduce their chances of getting a college degree, new studies suggest in the latest effort to examine the effects of television on children.One of the studies looked at nearly 400 northern California third-graders. Those with TVs in their bedrooms scored about eight points lower on math and language arts tests than children without bedroom TVs.A second study ,looking at nearly 1000 grown-ups in New Zealand, found lower education levels among 26-year –olds who had watched lots of TV during childhood. But the results don’t prove that TV is the cause and don't rule out that already poorly motivated youngsters (年轻人）may watch lots of TV.Their study measured the TV habits of 26-year-olds between ages5 and 15. Those with college degrees had watched an average of less than two hours of TV per weeknight during childhood, compared with an average of more than 2 1/2 hours for those who had no education beyond high school.In the California study, children with TVs in their rooms but no computer at home scored the lowest while those with no bedroom TV but who had home computers scored the highest.While this study does not prove that bedroom TV sets caused the lower scores, it adds to accumulating findings that children shouldn't have TVs in their bedrooms.DI grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company. I was only 10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the coop. He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club called the Natchbill Palace. I washed dishes and cooked from 4: 00 pm to 9:00 pm and then went on to sing until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn’t long before I became known as a singing cook.I had been rejected so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged. One night, a woman executive (主管) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was over, we sat down and talked, and after she left, I said to myself it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call —Warner Brothers Records wanted to sign a record deal with me. Soon after, I released my first record in June 1986. It sold over 2 million copies.My best efforts have gone into every job I’ve ever held. It was the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man. Knowing that I had done my best filled me with pride. I still feel that way today, even though I have become a well-known singer.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。