广东省普宁市华侨中学学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含答案Word文件下载.docx

1、A. Stay in bed. B. Go to work. C. Go out.2. Why cant the woman tell the time?A. Because there is something wrong with her watch. B. Because she doesnt want to tell the man. C. Because she has no watch. 3. Where does the conversation take place?A. In the hospital. B. In the library. C. In the restaur

2、ant. 4. When is the man sure to finish the project?A. By September. B. By July. C. By March. 5. Why cant the man have coffee with the woman?A. Because he has to prepare for a class tomorrow. B. Because he has to prepare for an exam tomorrow. C. Because he has to prepare for a presentation tomorrow.

3、第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分 ） 每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听下面一段材料，回答第6至8题。6. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Sister and brother. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife. 7. Where is Tom?A. At footb

4、all practice. B. At the library. C. In the bathroom. 8. How many people probably are there in the house at the moment?A. Three. B. Five. C. Six. 听下面一段材料，回答第9至11题。9. What is the weather like now?A. Warm. B. Snowy. C. Windy.10. What do we know about the woman?A. She loves winter sports. B. She hates s

5、lippery roads. C. She heard the radio forecast. 11. What will the two speakers do tomorrow?A. Go skiing. B. Go skating. C. Go shopping. 听下面一段材料，回答第12第14题。12. When did the two speakers get there?A. At 8:50. B. At 9:10 C. At 9:15. 13. How long have they been waiting?A. For 15 minutes. B. For 25 minute

6、s . C. For 30munites. 14. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Its the first time that the woman visits the museum. B. They can see some big guns used in old days. C. There is something wrong with the side door.听下面一段材料，回答第15至第17题。15. What was true about the exam?A. It had 15 true-false questio

7、ns. B. It was 60 minutes long. C. It has three essays. 16. How did the man feel about the true-false questions?A. He liked them less than the essays. B. He didnt think they were too hard. C. He didnt know the answers to them. 17. How did the woman do on the essay answers?A. She wrote the information

8、 in a hurry. B. She didnt know the answers. C. She wrote her answers clearly. 听下面一段材料，回答第18至第20题。18. When did Harry Houdinis career take off?A. In 1899. B. In 1908. C. In 1913. 19. Where did Houdini first introduce his escape?A. In New York. B. In England. C. In St. Louis. 20. Which of the following

9、 is true about Houdini?A. Houdini took Giant Milk Can Escape on tour in several countries. B. Houdinis escape from milk can made his magic more dramatic. C. Houdini had a successful career throughout his whole life.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节：（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）A A qualified（有资格的） doctor rarely practised

10、 but instead devoted his life to writing, once saying,“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover.” Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov（契诃夫）, was a great playwright（剧作家） and one of the masters of the modern short story. When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879

11、, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family. After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper. As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less. Chekhovs medical and science experience can be seen through the indi

12、fference（冷漠） many of his characters show to tragic events. In 1892, he became a full-tine writer and published some of his most memorable stories. Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia. Tragic events controlled his characters who were filled with feelings of hopelessn

13、ess and despair. It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhovs stories and plays. He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters. Chekhovs works combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity（敏感） od an artist. Some of Chekhov

14、s works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s. One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell（装在套子里的人）, about a school teachers extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.21.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov .A.had a lawful lover B.was an illegal writerC.used

15、to be a lawyer D.was a capable doctor22.In 1880, Chekhov .A.became a full-time writer B.studied medicine in Moscow UniversityC.parctied medicine in his hometown D.pulished his most memorable stories23.Which of the following is the right order of the events?a.became a doctorb.became a full-time write

16、rc.started to publish comic short storiesd.wrote regularly for a local daily newspapere.entered the Moscow University Medical SchoolA.ecadb B.dabce C.ecbad D.aecbdB If your boss asks you to work in Moscow this year, hed offer you more money to do so-or even double that depending on where you live no

17、w. Thats because Moscow has just been found to be the worlds most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive including the cost of housing , transportation,

18、food, clothing, household goods abd entertainment（娱乐）. A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4000 a month: a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30,according to Mercer, By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger（汉堡包） is a steal at $4.80. London takes the Mo.2 place, up from No.5 a y

19、ear ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates（估算） London is 26 percent more expensive than New York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of Which are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No.5 Hong K

20、ong is 19 percent more costly. Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two listed in the top 50 of the worlds most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last years study-New York came in 15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell t

21、o 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No.54, down 20 places from a year earlier. Toronto, meanwhile, us Canadas most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is the priciest place to live in and No.21 worldwide.25.What

22、 do the underlined words a steal in Paragraph 3 mean?A.an act of stealing B.something deliciousC.somethibg very cheap D.an act of buying26.London has become the second most expensive city because of .A.the high cost of clothing B.the stronger pound against the dollarC.its expensive transportation D.

23、the high prices of fast food meals27.Which city is the third most expensive on the list?A.Tokyo. B.Hong Kong. C.Moscow. D.Sydney.28.Which city has dropped most on the list in North America?A.New York B.Los Angeles C.San Francisco D.TorontoC Most animals have little connection with animals of a diffe

24、rent kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership（伙伴关系） which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because They want a ride, but because they remove the cause of discomfo

25、rt. So although they can manage without each other, they do better together. Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners cannot manage without each other. This is so in the corals（珊瑚） of the sea. In their skins they have tiny plants which act as dustman,

26、 taking some of the waste product from the coral and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from light so that cannot live normally, the corals will die.29.Some birds like to sit on a sheep because .A.they can eat its parasites B.th

27、ey depend on the sheep for existenceC.they enjoy traveling with the sheep D.they find the position most comfortable30.The underlined word they in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to .A.birds and parasites B.birds and sheepC.parasite and sheep D.sheep, birds and parasites30.It can be l

28、earnt from the text that coral depends on the plant for .A.comfort B.light C.food D.oxygen32.What Does the scend passage mainly discuss?A.Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence.B.Some animals and plants develop their relationship easily.C.Some plants depend on each other for food

29、.D.Some animals live better together.D The womans college had a very small car-park, and as several of the teachers and students. and many of the students boy-friends, had cars, it was often different to find a place to park. The head of the college, whose was Baker, therefore had a special place in

30、 the car-park for her own car. There were white lines round it, and it had a notice saying, Reserved for Head of College. One evening, however, when Miss Baker got back to the college a few minutes before the time by which all students had to be in , she found another car in her parking place. There

31、 were two people in it. one of her girl-students and a young man. Miss Baker knew that the young Man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to as him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed. As the young mans car was close to the railings, Miss Baker had to dr