陕西省西安市高一英语上学期期中试题word版.docx

1、陕西省西安市高一英语上学期期中试题word版西安市第一中学2015-2016学年度第一学期高一年级英语期中试题第一卷第一部分 听力第一节听下面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. What are the speakers talking about? A. Power failure. B. Light. C. Air-conditioning.2. How does the man usually go to work? A. By car

2、. B. By bus. C. On foot.3. What color does the man prefer? A. Light blue. B. Yellow. C. Pink.4. What does the man mean? A. He was too busy to go for it. B. He was short of money then. C. He didnt know about the concert.5. What do we learn from the conversation? A. The man enjoys traveling by car. B.

3、 The man is good at driving. C. The man used to have a car.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，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；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. What happened to the man? A. His house was broken into. B. He locked himself out. C. He forgot to lock

4、 the windows.7. What is the woman most probably going to do? A. To check the place. B. To talk to others. C. To ask more questions.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What does the man show to the woman? A. His visa. B. His ID card. C. His passport.9. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Take his luggage with h

5、im. B. Carry fewer luggage. C. Check his luggage.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Who is the woman? A. A sportswoman. B. A mountaineer. C. A pilot.11. What caused the accident? A. The woman jumped off a mountain. B. The woman lost her way in the hill. C. The woman landed the wrong way.12. What can we learn abou

6、t the woman? A. She is too weak now. B. She failed only twice. C. She likes risk very much.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the woman doing? A. Telling some good information about flat. B. Looking for useful renting information. C. Checking the want ads in the newspaper.14. How much is the rent for each

7、 girl? A. 21 a week. B. 21 a month. C. 28 a month.15. According to the man, whats the problem of the flat? A. Its a little expensive. B. It has no enough rooms. C. Its not very quiet.16. What can we learn from the conversation? A. There are 3 bedrooms in the apartment. B. The woman is satisfied with

8、 the flat. C. The woman will discuss with her friends.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is the meaning of “gap year”? A. The year you have off before high school. B. The year you have off between high school and college. C. The year you have off during your college life.18. Why do international students ta

9、ke a gap year? A. To travel around. B. To explore their interests. C. To serve military duty.19. What are parents usually worried about if their children take a gap year? A. They worry that their children will miss their friends. B. They are worried about their childrens safety when traveling. C. Th

10、ey worry that their children will choose not to go to college.20. What does Miss Holly Bulls company do? A. It helps the students plan their gap year. B. It helps students travel around. C. It offers jobs to students.第二部分：阅读理解 （共两节，满分30分）第一节：（共10 小题，每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面两篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

11、并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。AI grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping

12、 perspectives (观点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it

13、. He has to find his own voice by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other peoples writing can one discover what works,

14、what doesnt and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has. Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品)As a law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matterthe volume (量) of what I have to read for classes every week means

15、there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comf

16、ort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldnt necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.21. What can be inferred about the author as a child? A. He never watched TV. B. He read what he had to.C. He found reading unbelievable. D. He considered reading part of his life. 22.