四川省广安市2017-2018学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题.doc

四川省广安市2017-2018学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题

四川省广安市2017-2018学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题
第I卷（选择题，共100分）
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
回答听力部分时，先将答案标在试卷上。听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将你的答案转涂到答题上。
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. How will the woman pay?
A. By cash    B. By check   C. By credit card
2. Where was the man born?
A. In Canada   B. In America   C. In England
3. Which season is it now?
A. Spring    B. Winter    C. Summer
4. When does the man’s plane take off?
A. At 8:30    B. At 8:15   C. At 8:00
5. Where does the woman want to go?
A. Spain    B. Switzerland   C. Sweden
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 can’t Janie understand?
A. Her history test  B. Her math homework   C. Her English paper
7. Who will the man help?
A. His sister    B. His father     C. The woman
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. Who read to the girls?
A. The woman   B. The man and his wife   C. Only the man
9. When did the girls start reading well?
A. At five    B. At six      C. At seven
10. What does the man think the woman’s son should do now?
A. Read a lot    B. Learn from the man’s daughters C. Do what he likes most
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What’s wrong with the man?
A. He has got a cold again B. He gets tired easily in winter C. He has been seriously ill for a week
12. What may the man begin to try?
A. Riding a bike   B. Climbing the stairs   C. Going to the gym
13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student  B. Husband and wife   C. Co-workers
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. What does the man want the woman to do?
A. Help him with his research paper B. Go on a business trip with him C. Write a report for him
15. When would the man like the woman to be finished?
A. Thursday    B. Friday      C. Next Monday
16. Where will the woman go on Thursday afternoon?
A. To a café    B. To a meeting room   C. To the library
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where is Las Vegas?
A. Close to New York  B. Near a forest    C. In the desert
18. What is Las Vegas famous for?
A. Card games    B. Fashion     C. Swimming pools
19. Which is popular with kids?
A. Music clubs    B. Restaurants     C. Meseums
20. What is the purpose of this introduction to Las Vegas?
A. To teach visitors about playing cards B. To get children to enjoy Las Vegas
C. To suggest different activities for visitors
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
CLASS TIME: 8:30a.m—10:00a.m., 10:30a.m.—12:00a.m., 1:30p.m.—3:00p.m. The Language Center is open from Monday to Friday. Each class has one afternoon free per week. On the first day, go to the lecture hall to check your timetable.
SELF—ACCESS: The language laboratory (Room 1110) is open from Monday to Friday from 3:15p.m. to 5:00 p.m. for all full-time students.
You can learn how to use computers for language games or word-processing（文字处理）. There are tapes for students to borrow to practice their English. Go in and ask the teacher to show you. If you plan to take public examinations, there are dictation and listening comprehension tapes for you to practice with. There are close exercises on the computers. Ask your class teacher for a list of past exam essays. Students can borrow tapes to take home but they must be returned after two days.
ATTENDANCE: All students are expected to attend classes as it is required. Students who do not attend classes will be reported to OSS. Eighty percent attendance is required for students to receive their certificates（证书）when they finish their courses. It is also required by OSS for an extension（延期）to your visa.
BOOKS: If students are given course books, the books are their responsibility. If a book is lost, the student will be expected to pay for it. If students wish to buy books, there is a bookshop in the college specializing in English books (Room 3520).
21. When do classes begin and end on a full day?
A. 3:00p.m.—5:00p.m.       B. 8:30a.m.—1:30p.m.
C. 8:30a.m.—3:00p.m.      D. 8:30a.m.—3:15p.m.
22. Timetable can be seen in ______.
A. Room 3520        B. the lecture hall
C. Room 1110        D. the classroom
23. Who is the text designed for?
A. teachers     B. parents   C. students    D. workers
B
A young woman was driving through the lonely countryside. It was dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she wanted a lift.
“I can’t leave her out in this weather,” the woman said to herself, so she stopped the car and opened the door.
“Do you want a life?” she asked. The old woman nodded and climbed into the car. After a while, she said to the old woman, “Have you been waiting for a long time?” The old woman shook her head. “Strange.” thought the young woman. She tried again. “Bad weather for the time of year,” she said. The old woman nodded. No matter what the young woman said, the hitchhiker（搭车者）gave no answer except for a nod of the head or a shrug（耸肩）.
Then the young woman noticed the hitchhiker’s hands, which were large and hairy. Suddenly she realized that the hitchhiker was actually a man! She stopped the car. “I can’t see out of the rear（后面的）screen,” she said, “Would you mind clearing it for me?”
The hitchhiker nodded and opened the door. As soon as the hitchhiker was out of the car, the terrified young woman drove off as fast as she could.
When she got to the next village she stopped. She noticed that the hitchhiker had left his handbag behind. She picked it up and opened it. inside the bag was a gun.
24. What made the woman begin to feel strange about the old woman?
A. That she was unable to speak.     B. That she kept nodding her head.
C. That she gave no answer to her questions.   D. That she had large and hairy hands.
25. A “lift” in the passage means ______.
A. an act of raising something      B. a ride in the car
C. trouble          D. an elevator
26. From the story we can see that the young woman was ______.
A. kind and clever        B. beautiful and bright
C. foolish and shy        D. strong and helpful
27. What do you think “the old woman” was? ______.
A. A criminal         B. A beggar.
C. A poor villager.        D. A policeman.
C
How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world?
The sun was probably the world’s first “clock”, except in the far north, where the Eskimos（爱斯基摩人）live. There, it’s dark most of the winter, and light most of the summer. But in most of the world, people have used the sun for a clock. Even today, if you don’t have a clock that shows time, you still know that when the sun shines, it’s day and when it’s dark, it’s night. The sun can not only tell you whether it’s day or night, but also it’s morning, noon, or afternoon. When the sun is almost directly overhead, it’s noon.
People who live near the sea can tell time from the tides. In the day time, for about six hours, the water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for another about six hours. The same thing happens again at night. There are two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours.
Seaman on a ship learned how to tell time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is their clock.
In some places in the world, the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes direction or stops blowing. In these places the wind can be the clock.
A sand clock is an even better clock. If you had fine dry sand in a glass shaped like a funnel（漏斗）, you would have what is called an hour glass. The sand in the hourglass goes from the top part to the bottom part in exactly an hour. When the hourglass is turned over, the sand will take another hour to go back again.
28. The Eskimos in the far north can’t use the sun for a clock because ______.
A. the sun there never goes down in winter
B. There are long dark winters and long light summers in the far north
C. they know very little about the sun
D. It’s too cold for them to go out to watch the sun
29. The underlined word “tides” in the paragraph 3 means ______.
A. 海啸      B. 洋流     C. 波浪      D. 潮汐
30. In which part of a newspaper can you most probably read this passage?
A. business     B. news     C. advertisement（广告） D. science
31. What’s the best title for the passage?
A. Useful Machine to Tell Time B. Different Ways to Tell Time
C. The Development of the Clock D. The History of the Clock
D
Scientist Florence Wambugu works with farmers in Kenya, a country in East Africa. She helps them grow bigger and better crops. Wambugu is especially interested in finding simple ways to produce more food.
In the past ten years, Wambugu has spent much of her time studying sweet potatoes, which are an important food in her part of Kenya. A virus（病毒）kept attacking the plants. It stopped the sweet potatoes from growing well. Because of the virus, some farmers lost three quarters of their crops.
Wambugu went to war against the virus. Her search for a way to save the sweet potatoes led to a lab in St. Louis, Missouri.
The lab mainly works on genes（基因）, the chemical “computer programs” found in the cells of living things. Genes tell a plant to produce pink flowers or an animal to grow black hair. Now scientists have found ways to move genes from one living thing to another. That process is called genetic engineering.
Wambugu spent three years in the lab. As a result, she created a sweet potato plant that could fight off the virus. Wambugu tested her research in Kenya, and her plants produced wonderful sweet potatoes.
That’s just the beginning, Wambugu believes. Genetically modified foods, she thinks, could help farmers in poor countries grow better crops, so fewer people will go hungry.
32. The text in written mainly to ______
A. tell how hard Wambugu worked in her lab for three years
B. tell us sweet potatoes are in danger of being attacked by virus
C. introduce Wambugu’s contribution（贡献）to genetic engineering
D. introduce a new way of killing plant viruses
33. What caused Wambugu to set up a lab in St. Louis, Missouri?
A. Her great interest in genetic engineering B. Her love for sweet potatoes.
C. Her interest in plant life. D. Her wish to save sweet potatoes in Kenya.
34. The fourth paragraph mainly explains what ______ is.
A. genetic engineering        B. a crop virus
C. chemical technology        D. a computer program
35. What is Wambugu’s attitude toward “genetic engineering”?
A. It should be carefully used.
B. It has more disadvantages than advantages.
C. It is a too expensive technology at present.
D. It will help more hungry people.
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。
How to plan for a perfect holiday
People often dream of a perfect holiday with white sands, blue beaches and so on. But sometimes planning a trip can be difficult. Here are some tips to make your holiday a memorable one.
● Set a budget. Before making a plan for the holiday, the most important thing is to plan how money will be spent.    36   
● Plan ahead. The first thing you need to do is to be sure of what you need from this trip. Do you want to experience the local culture or just have fun on those sandy beaches?    37   
● Read up before you go.    38   . Buy a good guidebook and read up on the culture, history, local attractions of the place. You can also surf the internet for more information. The more you know, the better you can enjoy the place and its traditions.
● Pack light and right.    39    Avoid carrying unnecessary things around. A heavy luggage may sometimes influence your holiday spirit. Carry clothes that are comfortable and right for the season. Try to put everything you need in a single carry-on bag.
●    40    Unreasonable expectations can lead to a lot of stress. So enjoy each moment, whether good or bad.
A. You had better look for information before visiting an unknown holiday place.
B. All you need is to get away from busy people and the world.
C. Always book your stay.
D. Have realistic expectations.
E. It helps you to plan and enjoy the trip within your limits of money.
F. Pack only the important things.
G. You can plan your trip according to your needs and likes.
第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a safe area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn’t    41    drive to a store and back home. He always looks    42    up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything    43    such as strange cars, loud noises,    44    windows, or people gathering on street corners.
Tim    45    to a neighborhood watch group（巡逻小组）in Strongsville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group    46    on he third Wednesday of every month. That’s    47    Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community    48   . Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police    49    their homes, streets, and families.
Tina Stedman,    50    president of neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime happens to other people but not    51    them. Actually, it really happens,” she said, “and I think nobody has the    52    to steal from other people or to make them feel    53    at their own homes.”
Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors were    54    to help one another, “We    55    each other’s homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a    56    of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn’t look right, we will call the    57   . For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for    58   , or someone destroying property（财产）, we report to the police.”
Alex feels the neighborhood watch group    59    a lot in reducing crimes. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can’t do    60   .
41. A. just    B. yet    C. rather     D. still
42. A. clearly    B. coldly    C. carefully    D. nervously
43. A. expensive   B. embarrassing  C. interesting    D. unusual
44. A. open    B. broken    C. curtained    D. old
45. A. goes    B. attends    C. turns     D. belongs
46. A. quarrels    B. sings    C. searches    D. meets
47. A. why    B. when    C. how     D. where
48. A. wealth    B. politics   C. safety     D. health
49. A. hold    B. protect    C. keep     D. let
50. A. a      B. \     C. an     D. the