湖北省黄石市有色第一中学高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

1、湖北省黄石市有色第一中学高一英语下学期期中试题2015-2016学年度下学期有色一中期中考试英语试卷（高一）第I卷第一部分 听力（120小题）第一节 听下面5段对话。 每段对话后有1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. Where does this conversation take place? A. At a hospital. B. At a department store. C. At a restaurant.2. How much is the

2、food and drink? A. $2.65. B. $2.75. C. $2.95.3. Whats the man doing? A. Watching TV. B. Turning down the TV. C. Answering the phone.4. According to the man, what does he like to do if possible? A. To visit museums. B. To make a good plan. C. To visit the Modern Museum.5. What news did the woman get

3、from the man? A. Sam will leave New York very soon. B. Sams sister will leave for Los Angeles very soon. C. Sam s sister will leave for New York very soon.第二节 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，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒中；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至7题。6. Who c

4、ould the man be? A. A manager. B. A policeman. C. The womans husband.7. Where was the wallet found? A. In the restroom. B. Under the table. C. On the table.听第7段材料，回答第8至10三个小题。8. What are the speakers talking about? A. Buying a car. B. Choosing a gift. C. Using a computer.9. What s the relationship b

5、etween the two speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Professor and student. C. Salesman and customer.10. What do we know about the person mentioned by the speakers? A. Maybe he likes something expensive. B. He is surely over sixty years old. C. He must be fond of learning.听第8段材料，回答第11至13三个小题。11. Why doe

6、s the girl borrow money from her father? A. To see a film. B. To watch a play. C. To go to a concert.12. How much money does the girl need? A. Eighteen dollars. B. Thirty-six dollars. C. Fifty-four dollars. 13. How many children want to go to the concert? A. one B. two C. three 听第9段材料，回答第14至17三个小题。1

7、4. What are the two speakers nationalities? A. British and Chinese. B. Chinese and French. C. Chinese and American.15. What problem was a newspaper article about? A. The problem of rapid growth of cars in cities in America. B. The problem of rapid growth of cities in America. C. The problem of rapid

8、 growth of skyscrapers.16. Do Americans carry out a birth control policy? A. Yes, they do. B. No, they dont. C. We cant know.17. What attitudes do most Americans take towards having children? A. Most Americans decide not to have any children. B. Most Americans decide to have as many children as they

9、 can. C. Most Americans decide to have only one or two children. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20三个小题。18. Why does the speaker give the lecture? A. To give some advice on the cycling tour. B. To explain the advantages of the cycling tour. C. To tell the listeners what to take for the cycling tour.19. What should th

10、e cyclists not do during the cycling tour? A. Ride as far and quickly as possible. B. Take water in summer. C. Enjoy the riding itself.20. In cold weather what should cyclists do first when they stop riding? A. Enjoy nature. B. Put on warm clothes. C. Drink plenty of water.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共1

11、5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。AIt was Monday. Mrs. Smiths dog was hungry , but there was not any meat in the house. Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the followingwords on it Give my dog half a pound of meat.Then sh

12、e gave the paper to her dog and said gently, Take this to the butcher( person whose job is selling meat)and hes going to give you your lunch today. Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butchers. It gave the paper to the butcher.The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it

13、 was really the ladys handwriting and soon did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once. At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it,he gave it half a pound of meat once more. The next day, the dog came again

14、 exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers. But, the dog came again at four oclock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butche

15、rs more surprise, it came for the third time at six oclock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled . He said to himself, This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so muchmeat to eat today? Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any word

16、s on it! 21. The little dog went to the butchers _ altogether during the two days. A. three times B. four times C. five times D. six times22. The butcher did not give any meat to the dog _. A. when he found that the words on the paper were not clear. B. before he felt sure that the words were really

17、 written by Mrs. Smith on Monday. C. until he was paid enough by Mrs. Smith D. because he had sold out all the meat in his shop23. From the story, we can know that the dog was very _. A. honest B. foolish C. kind D. clever24. At the end of the story, youll find that _. A. the butcher found himself c

18、heated by the dog. B. the dog was clever enough to write on the paper. C. the dog dared not go to the butchers any more. D. the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog. BIt was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had

19、stopped giving milk. The streams were long gone back into the earth. If we didnt see some rain soon we would lose everything.I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He was obviously walking with a great effort

20、. trying to be as still as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house.Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful long step toward the woods. This activity went on for over an hour: walking cautiously to the woods,

21、 then running back to the house. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me. I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey.He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked; being very careful not to spill the water he held in them. Branches and thorns slapped his little face but he di

22、d not try to avoid them. He had a much greater purpose. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site.Several large deer appeared threatening in front of him. But Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. And I saw a baby deer lying on the ground, obviously su

23、ffering from heavy loss of water and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boys hand.I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save a life. As the tears that rolled down my face began

24、to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops. and more drops. and more. I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, Himself, was weeping with pride.25. Why did the author follow her son?A. Because there might be danger.B. Because her son was doing a good deed.C. Because she was curious.

25、 D. Because she intended to help.26. Which of the following statements is Not True according to the passage?A. Rain was in great need. B. Billy carried water with his small hands.C. Billy walked into the woods and then returned over and over again.D. There were few trees in the woods.27. Which is th

26、e correct order of the development of the story? The author was moved to tears. Billy fed the water to the baby deer. Billy walked towards the large deer. It began to rain. The author followed Billy into the woods.A. B.C. D.28. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Importance o

27、f water B. The water of lifeC. How to save animals D. Animals in danger CIn a faraway area in northern Mexico, there lives a native Indian group called the Tarahumaras（塔拉乌马拉族）. Besides owning some cooking tools and farming equipment, the Tarahumaras exist much as they did before the Spanish arrived

28、in the 1600s. They live in caves or in small houses made of stone and wood, and they eat what little they can grow on the dry land. Ten years ago, linquist(语言学家) James Copeland entered the world of the Tarahumaras t study their language and culture. Since then, he has been visiting the Tarahumaras t

29、hree or four times a year. Tarahumaras is not a written language, so part of Copelands project was to learn to speak Tarahumaras so that he could deal directly with the people. “There are no language police,” Copeland says. “Children are seldom corrected by their parents. They learn by observation o

30、f speech in conversations and by imitation.” Copeland learned the language through his frequent exposure to it and by analyzing the grammar. His linguistic skills and mastery of German, Spanish, French and Russian, plus a partial knowledge of some twenty other languages, also helped. Drawing on his

31、research, Copeland plans to produce a Tarahumara grammar book in English and perhaps one in Spanish. The idea to study the Tarahumaras came to Copeland in 1984 when he discovered that very little research had been done on their language. He got in touch with a Tarahumaras Indian called Lornezo Gonzalez through a social worker who worked with the Tarahumaras in the border town of J