广东揭西河婆中学2016-2017学年度高一第一学期英语期中考试卷

2016 ~ 2017学年度第一学期期中考试

高一英语试卷

(时间：120分钟 满分：150分)

注意事项：

1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、班别填写在答题卡上。

2．非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

3．考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。

第一部分 听写理解（共两节，满分15分）

第一节  角色扮演：听下面一段对话，根据中文提示，用英语写出三个问题，并根据你所听到的录音材料和回答内容，回答随后五个问题。对话听两遍，你有5分钟的时间完成这一部分的练习（共8小题计8分，每小题计1分。）

First, please listen to the conversation carefully.

Now please get ready to ask the following three questions in English.

Q1: 从你家到游泳馆要多长时间？  1.                                                    

A1：Listen to answer 1.

Q2: 你业余时间喜欢做些什么运动？  2.                                                  

A2: Listen to answer 2.

Q3：你弟弟为什么要住在学校？ 3.                                                   

A 3: Listen to answer 3.

Now please get ready to answer the following five questions.

Q4: Listen to question 4.   Answer 4:                                                      

Q5: Listen to question 5.   Answer 5:                                            

Q6: Listen to question 6.   Answer 6:                                             

Q7: Listen to question 7.   Answer 7:                                             

Q8: Listen to question 8.   Answer 8:                                             

第二节 故事复述：听下面一段独白，根据你所听到的内容，用50字左右英语单词写出所听到的信息。要求尽可能使用自己的语言，概括所听到的信息内容。录音播放两遍。你有10分钟的时间完成这一部分的练习（共1题计7分）

故事梗概：钢琴师遇到一个难题：酒吧里的客人要求他演唱歌曲。可是，他从未在公众场合演唱过。他能取得成功吗？

关键词：bar（酒吧）    shout（大喊）   in public（在公众场合），

be addicted to（对……上瘾）    competition（比赛）

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（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

Do you like animals? If you do, you can go to visit the following zoos around America.

Denver Zoo, Colorado

   The zoo covers 80 acres in all. It houses species from all over the world, including bears, elephants, giraffes(长颈鹿), birds, monkeys and fish. The zoo is laid out in a large circle, with animals both inside and outside the circle. It houses 4,125 animals.

Riverbanks Zoo, South Carolina

   It covers 170 acres. The zoo is the beautiful home of over 2,000 animals, including African elephants, kangaroos and koalas. Also, Riverbanks Zoo has a 70-acre botanical(植物的) garden with more than 4,200 species of native and foreign plants.

Zoo Miami, Florida

   It is the largest and oldest zoo in Florida. Zoo Miami is also the only tropical(热带的) zoo in the United States. There are four main sections in the zoo: Asia, Africa, Amazon and Beyond, and Australia. Don’t miss a ride on the air-conditioned monorail(单轨列车). It is a convenient and comfortable way to move between sections. And it also provides an amazing view of the zoo.

Fort Worth Zoo, Texas

   The zoo has been named as a top zoo in the nation by Family Life magazine, The LA Times, and USA Today, and it made the list of top zoos in the South by Southern Living magazine. The zoo now is home to 5,000 native and foreign animals.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

   America’s only mountainside zoo spans 140 acres and has a collection of more than 750 animals, representing nearly 150 different species. Don’t miss the wildly popular giraffe-feeding activity.

1. Riverbanks Zoo would most probably attract those who__________.

A. want to visit a tropical zoo          B. want a ride on a monorail

C. love both animals and plants        D. love the giraffe-feeding activity

2. If you’re interested in tropical animals, you should go to the zoo in__________.

   A. Texas. B. Florida.      C. Colorado. D South Carolina. .

3. Which of the following zoos has the most animals?

A. Denver Zoo.                B. Riverbanks Zoo.

C. Fort Worth Zoo.             D. Colorado Springs.

4. What makes Colorado Springs special?

A. Being the largest zoo in the US.        

B. Being named as a top zoo in the US.

C. Having the largest number of animals.

D. Being the only mountainside zoo in the US.

B

 We know the westerners like to plan for their time carefully in order to do all the things that are important to them. So if your American or English friend asks you to dinner, he usually invites you a week ahead. But if you really have no time and can't go to the dinner, you can ring him to say sorry. The dinner is usually served at home, sometimes at a restaurant. You should get there on time, and don't forget to put on your fine clothes. It is also a good idea to take some little presents to your friend, such as flowers, chocolates and so on. When you are at dinner, you should also observe (遵守) some other customs. Here I'll give you some dos and don'ts about them in the following: 
1) Don't leave bones on the table or the floor. (You should put them on your plate with fingers.) 
2) Don't use your bowl to drink soup, but use your spoon to help you instead.
3) Don't talk with much food in your mouth. 
4) Don't ask others to have more wine. (This is quite different from that in China.)
5) After dinner, use your napkin (餐巾) to clean your mouth and hands.
6) Make sure small pieces of food are not left on your face. 
      Then after dinner, you can stay there a little time. And your friend will be pleased if you leave in half an hour or so. Next day, you had better ring him up to thank him for the good dinner.

5. If your American or English friend wants to invite you to dinner, he will invite you _________

A. on the night before the dinner   B. on the day before the dinner  

C. at the last moment            D. a week before the dinner

6. It would be impolite to _____.

A. put bones on your plates with fingers     B. persuade others to drink more 
C. drink soup with your spoon    

D. make sure that there is nothing left on your face after dinner

7. Which of the following is not true?

A. After dinner, you'd better stay and talk with your friends for a long time to show your thanks.

B. You'd better ring your friend the next day to show your thanks. 

C. After dinner, you'd better leave in half an hour. 

D. After dinner, use napkin to clean your mouth.

C

Sometimes I really doubted whether there was any love between my parents. Every day they were very busy trying to earn enough money in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They didn’t act in the romantic ways that I  read in books or I saw on TV. Not only that，but my father had a short temper (急性子)．When he came home very tired from work，it was easy for him to lose his temper.

One day，my mother was sewing a quilt (被子) and I silently sat down beside her and looked at her.

“Mom，is there love between you and Dad？” I asked her in a very low voice.

She didn’t answer and continued her work.

I thought I had hurt her and didn’t know what to do，but after a while，she said the following to me：

“Susan，look at this thread (线)．Sometimes it appears，but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread is what makes the quilt strong and durable (耐久的)．If life is a quilt，then love should be the thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime，but it’s really there .Love is inside.”

I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her until the next spring. At that time，my father suddenly became very seriously ill. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital，they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they both came back，my mother helped my father walk slowly on the road every morning to help him recover quickly .My father had never been so gentle. It seemed they were the most harmonious couple. Reading their eyes，I knew they loved each other deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers，gifts and sweet kisses，but from this experience，I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of life. Love is inside，making life strong and warm.

8．Susan doubted whether there was any love between her parents because ___.

A．her parents didn’t act in romantic ways    B．her father had a bad temper

C．her parents didn’t care about the family     D．her parents were very busy every day

9．Susan’s mother compared love to a thread in a quilt because ________.

A．they are both very important in daily life   B．they are both one part of people’s life

C．love is hidden inside in most cases        D．love is very small and cannot be seen

10．The underlined word “harmonious” in Paragraph7 has the closest meaning to “________”．

A．matching   B．quiet    C．lovable    D．peaceful

11．The best title for this passage should be  ________.

A．Love Is Just a Thread       B．Love Is Too Luxurious （奢侈的）

C．The True Love in Life       D．Real Love in a Couple

D

It seems that people are gradually losing their smartness as smartphones become increasingly important assistants in their lives. As we rely too much on technology instead of our brains, many people have lost three basic abilities.

The first skill many people have lost is remembering phone numbers. Because phone numbers are stored in smartphone contacts, there’s now no need to dial a number or look at it again. This is fine until you need to call someone for help, only to find your phone is not around.

And some people may also have lost their sense of direction because some apps can guide people anywhere they want. People get so dependent on them that when they can’t use their smartphones, they get lost and anxious.

But the worst lost skills may be social ones, meaning that some people are becoming socially inept (无能的). People often bury themselves in their smartphones. As we’re too absent-minded by what’s happening in the virtual (虚拟的) some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can’t even tell whether a person is happy or not.

Last August, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied 51 students aged 11 and 12 who had over five hours’ screen time every day. Their task was to tell the emotions of 48 pictures of faces that were happy, sad, angry or scared.

The children made an average of 14.02 mistakes at the beginning. But after a five-day camp without electronic (电子的) products, they made only 9.41 mistakes on average.

Luckily, people still have a chance to get these abilities back. You should try to keep your parents’ numbers in mind for emergencies. You should also pay more attention to street signs and stores, which will help you to draw a mind map and stop you from getting lost. And the easiest solution to social skill loss is to take a break from electronic products.

12. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph implies that ______.

A. you are able to turn to others for help

B. others are able to call you anytime and anywhere

C. others are unable to get in touch with you by smartphone

D. you are unable to contact others without your smartphone

13. The experiment shows that without electronic products, one could ______.

A. recognize more facial expressions correctly

B. lose the sense of direction frequently

C. tell different emotions immediately

D. tell more pictures of faces easily

14. Overusing smartphones, people will probably ______

A. have no sense of numbers    B. fail to find their destination

C. lose face-to-face communication skills

D. weaken their senses of hearing and sight

15. What’s the writer’s attitude towards electronic products?

A. Objective（主观的）.   B. Critical（批评的）.

C. Supportive（支持的）.  D. Optimistic（乐观的）.

第二节 七选五 (共5小题 每题2分 共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。

A good book can be satisfying. If reading is a habit you’d like to get into, there are some ways to develop it.

☆Realize that reading is enjoyable if you have a good book. If you have a difficult book and you are forcing yourself through it, it will seem like a task.   16  

☆Set time. You should have some time during every day when you’ll read for at least 5 to 10 minutes.   17   For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast and lunch and even dinner if you eat alone.

☆Always carry a book.   18   When I leave the house, I always make sure to have my car keys and one book at hand. The book stays with me in the car, and I take it into the office and pretty much everywhere I go.

☆  19   Find a place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. Do not lie down unless you’re going to sleep. There should be no television or computer near the chair, and no music or noisy family members or roommates. If you don’t have a place like this, create one.

☆Reduce television or the Internet. If you really want to read more, try cutting back on time on TV or the Internet.   20   Still, every minute you reduce of the Internet or TV, you could use for reading. This could create hours of book reading time.

A. Go to bookstores.

B. Find a quiet place.

C. This may be difficult for some people.

D. Wherever you go, take a book with you.

E. Have some good tea or coffee while you read.

F. It means you will read no matter how busy you are.

G. If this happens, give up the book and find another one that you’ll really love.

第三部分 英语知识运用 （共三节，满分60分）

第一节  完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、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。

The First Try

Every girl dreams and Li Xie is no exception. She has read dozens of books on how to be a ballerina(芭蕾舞演员) and Swan Lake is her  21  . She hopes one day her dream will come true. She has taken ballet lessons and all her  22  confirm she is a good student.

One day she saw an advertisement that a famous ballerina group will  23 in her hometown. Her thoughts ran wild, "I must meet up with the  24  of the group and show him my skills , "So she dressed herself in her ballerina costume and managed to hide in the dressing room.

To her   25  ，the leader entered and she knocked at the door，and   26  got close to him and handed him a bunch of red roses and the thorns pricked(刺) her hand but she did not       27  the pain.

The leader observed her action as she told him her dream. "Alright, you  28  and I will give you my verdict." But half way  29  the dance he stopped her and said, "I'm sorry you're not good enough!" On hearing this, Li Xie   30  as fast as her legs could carry her. She gave up her dream.

Many years later, she heard that the  31  ballet group was performing in her town again. Painful  32  of the leader's harsh words came flooding back to her. This time she was determined to  33  why the leader had told her she was not good enough   34  all her teachers thought otherwise.

This was his  35  , "I tell this to every student." She  36  shot back, "You've ruined my life!" Then she got a further shock, "I remember your gift of   37  and how the thorns had pricked your fingers but you carried on bravely. If only you had treated   38  like that and did not give up so easily;   39   , you still deserve my verdict! "

The  40  of this story is that : Never give up because of failure from your first try.

第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet. We looked liked snowmen ___41___(ride) bicycles.The lakes ____42____(shine) like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful.Wang Wei is ____43____ (rely) and rode in front of me as usual. As it gradually became warmer, we saw colourful butterflies flying ____44____ us and many sheep eating green grass. Travelling in the mountains was great fun.

In the early evening we stopped _____45____ (make) camp. After supper Wang Wei put ____46____ head down on her pillow and went to sleep ____47___ I stayed awake. At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew ____48___(bright). It was so quiet and there was no wind--only the flames of our fire. As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we _____49____(travel).

    We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, ____50____ our cousins will join us. We can hardly wait to see them.      

第三节 语言知识应用（共10小题；满分15分）

一、单词拼写。根据单词首字母或所给中文意思写出单词的正确形式，一空一词。(每空1分, 满分5分)

51. His parents are c_________ about his attitude to his study.

52. A d___________ person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is.

53. After the _________（袭击）, her eyes filled with terror every time she saw a dog.

54. Michael Phelps is ____________（公认）as one of the best swimmers.

55. Some of the r________ workers and doctors were trapped under the ruins.

二、句子翻译。根据句子的中文意思完成句子，一空一词。（每小题2分，满分10分）

56、他说起罗马来好像他以前去过罗马似的。

He talked about Rome ________ _______ he _______ _______ there before．

57、孩子们宁可骑自行车到乡下去，也不愿整天待在家里。

The children _______ _______ to the countryside _______ _______ indoors all day.

58、旅游又去同一个地方是没有乐趣的。

It is _______ _______ ________ ________ the same place again.

59、只有更多地练习，你才会更少地出错。

_______ _______ practising more, _______ you _______ fewer mistakes.

60、我刚来到这座城市的时候，是我人生中一段非常艰难的时期。

_______ _______ _______ I just came to this city _______ a very difficult period of my life.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分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作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

       增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

Our government is trying hard to build the energy-saving society. It is everybody’s duty to work hardly and reach this goal. But, not everybody has realized the important of it. Take our school for example. Sometimes we can see that lights and computers are still on after class. Some students even forget to turn on the tap after using it and have water run all the time. Our papers are printed on only one side, which causing much waste. It’s time we did something to avoid this kind of waste. Firstly, make sure that all the lights and other electric facilities turned off when we leave the room. Try to form the habit of turning off the tap immediate after using it. What’s more, papers should be printed on both sides and reuse if possible.

第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 

假设你是李华，你的美国笔友James来信询问你国庆假期过的怎样。请根据以下信息给他回信，说明你在国庆假期中的活动。

内容要点：

1. 休息(由于平时学习紧张，缺少锻炼和休息);

2. 看望乡下的祖父母(帮助他们做点家务，并给他们谈了身边的新鲜事);

3. 和朋友进行短途旅游(欣赏大自然，呼吸新鲜空气)。

国庆假期： National Day holiday

【写作要求】

1. 字数在100字左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）。

2. 可适当表达个人看法。

Dear James,

I'm very glad to receive your letter. And it's a pleasure to tell you something about                                 

__________________________________________________________________                         

             Yours ,

                                                Li Hua

2016 ~ 2017年度第一学期期中考试

高一英语参考答案

第一部分 听写理解（共两节，满分15分）

第一节 角色扮演

Q1: How far is it from your home to the swimming pool?

Q2: What sport do you like doing in your free time?

Q3: Why does your brother live in school?

Answer4: Lily

Answer5: They will meet at the swimming pool.

Answer6: Five minutes.

Answer7: They both help him keep healthy and strong.

Answer8: The school football team.

第二节 故事复述(参考)：

   One night, a lady asked a pianist to sing a song. He refused because he hadn’t sung in public before. However, he sang a song at last because of what the waiter said. He sang beautifully. People were addicted to his beautiful voice. After his first show of singing, more and more customers came to the bar, asking him to sing . He soon appeared in a local musical competition. Then, he appeared in a national TV program. He became one of the best-known singers in the US in a few years.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解  (A) 1-4 CBCD  (B) 5-7 DBA  (C)  8-11 ACDA   (D) 12-15 DACB

第二节 七选五  16-20 GFDBC

第三部分 英语知识运用 （共三节，满分60分）

第一节  完形填空 21-25 BDDAC  26-30 BADCC  31-35 BDAAB  36-40 CCDBA  

第二节  语法填空

41. riding    42. shone     43. reliable    44. around   45. to make  

46. her    47. but    48. brighter    49. had travelled   50. where

第三节 语言知识应用

一、单词拼写  

51. concerned    52. determined    53. attack    54. recognized    55.rescue

二、句子翻译

56. as if/though, had been     57. prefer cycling, to staying   

58. no pleasure travelling to   59. Only when, will make   60. The time when, was

第四部分  写作 （共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文改错 

Our government is trying hard to build the energy-saving society. It is everybody’s duty to

                                   an

work hardly and reach this goal. But, not everybody has realized the important of it. Take our

         hard                            However                                      importance

school for example. Sometimes we can see that lights and computers are still on after class.  

Some students even forget to turn on the tap after using it and have water run all the time. Our

                                                  off                                                 running

papers are printed on only one side, which causing much waste. It’s time we did something to

或causes

avoid this kind of waste. Firstly, make sure that all the lights and other electric facilities∧

                                                                                                                          are

turned off when we leave the room. Try to form the habit of turning off the tap immediate 

                                                                                                               immediately

after using it. What’s more, papers should be printed on both sides and reuse if possible.

                                                                                                  reused

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

Dear James.

I'm very glad to receive your letter. And it's a pleasure to tell you something about how I spent the National Day holiday.

First, I had a good rest because recently I often felt tired as a result of my heavy study burden as well as lack of sleep and physical exercise. Of course, it took me two days to stay with my grandparents living in the countryside and help them do some housework and tell them what happened to me and my friends.   

What's more, I had a trip with my friends to appreciate the beauty of nature and breathe fresh air. What did you do in your summer holidays? I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes! 

       Yours ,

Li Hua