学年湖北省黄冈市高一下学期期末考试英语试题word版无答案.docx

1、学年湖北省黄冈市高一下学期期末考试英语试题word版无答案湖北省黄冈市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）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.What season is it now?A.Summer. B.Winter. C.Autumn.2.What does the woman mean?A.She doesnt have a bike

2、. B.Her mother made up the story. C.She didnt tell the man the truth.3.What is the woman most probably?A.A clerk. B.A librarian. C.A waitress.4.Where is the woman going for holiday this year?A.Canada. B.Turkey. C.Italy.5.What does the man mean?A.He doesnt want the woman to open the window.B.He has c

3、aught a cold.C.Its too cold outside.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或对白，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至8题。6.Whats the weather like?A.Warm and sunny. B.Cold and cloudy. C.Snowy.7.Who will drive the man to work?A.T

4、he man himself. B.The woman. C.Fred.8.When is it now?A.In the morning. B.In the afternoon. C.In the evening.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9.When are they going to meet?A.On Wednesday morning. B.On Friday evening. C.On Wednesday evening.10.What is the probable job of the woman?A.A film star. B.A musician. C.A foot

5、ball Player.11.What are they going to do?A.To see a film. B.To have dinner together. C.To enjoy a concert.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12.Where does this conversation most probably take place?A.At the womans home. B.At a museum of art. C.At the mans home.13.Where did the woman buy the prints?A.In Boston. B.In N

6、ew York. C.In a European city.14.What is the woman going to do?A.Make another museum tour. B.Organize an exhibition of art. C.Visit some European painters.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15.What is the woman doing?A.She is having a job interview.B.She is interviewing a famous sports star.C.She is making a self-int

7、roduction in public.16.Why was the woman out of school for half a year during high school?A.Because she was badly ill. B.Because she had to act in a film. C.Because her father took her to America.17.What part-time job did the woman do at college?A.A teacher. B.A teacher. C.A travel guide.听第10段材料，回答第

8、18至20题。18.What percent of the four-year schools began as public agricultural colleges in America?A.About 1/4. B.About 1/24. C.About 1/6.19.When was the idea of the land grant college developed?A.In 1826. B.More than 100 years ago. C.About 200 years ago.20.What do we know about the international stud

9、ents this year at the College of Agricultural Sciences?A.There are 5 graduate students altogether.B.There are 205 international students.C.Most of them are from Africa,Asia and Europe.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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。AKings College Summer SchoolKings Colleg

10、e Summer School is an annual（每年的）training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English.Courses are given by the teachers of Kings College and other colleges in New York.Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized.This years summer school will be from J

11、uly 25 to August 15.More information is as follows:Application（申请）dateStudents in New York should send their applications before July 18,2017.Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16,2017.Foreign students should send their applications before July 10,2017.CoursesEnglish

12、 LanguageSpoken English: 22 hoursReading and Writing: 10 hoursAmerican History: 16 hoursAmerican Culture: 16 hoursStepsA letter of self-introductionA letter of recommendation（推荐）*The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information.CostDaily lessons: $200Sports and activities:

13、 $100Travels: $200Hotel service: $400*You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city.Please write to:Thompson,Sanders1026 Kings StreetNew York,NY 10016,USAE-mail: KC-Summer-School1. You can most probably read the text in .A. a newspaper B. a travel guideC. a textbook D. a tel

14、ephone book2. If you are to live with your relatives in New York,you will have to pay the school .A. $200 B. $400C. $500 D. $9003. What information can you get from the passage?A. This years program will last two months.B. You can write to Thompson only in English.C. As a Chinese student,you can sen

15、d your application on July 14,2017.D. You can get in touch with the school by e-mail and by telephone.BOne of the greatest stories of rags to riches success is that of Andrew Carnegie,who started life in Poverty but became the richest man in the world.Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1837,the son of

16、 a weaver.In 1848,the.family moved to the United States and at 13 Carnegie began work in a cotton mill,earning $1.5 per week.About three years later,he found a better job as a telegraph messenger boy.At work,his superiors were impressed by his abilities and willingness to work hard.In 1853, he gaine

17、d an office job at the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.This was his first big break.He continued to impress and rose rapidly through the company,gaining more and more responsibility.At the same time,Carnegie loved reading very much and made use of every opportunity to visit the library.He rend widely

18、on all subjects,particularly literature.Carnegie now began to save a little money and,with the help of his employer,began to make some successful investments（投资).He invested in the iron industry and eventually set up in business himself,owning several iron and steel plants.This was where he made his

19、 fortune.By the 1890s,the Carnegie Steel Company was the biggest and most successful business in the world.Carnegie had always believed that the pursuit（追求）of wealth was never an end in itself.In his view,successful, wealthy people should give away their wealth for the benefit of everyone in society

20、.True to his word,in 1901,at the age of 66,he retired from business and devoted the rest of his life to charity work.Carnegies lack of formal education and his poor family background clearly didnt influence his success.His rapid rise from poverty to wealth was due to his willingness to work hard,his

21、 intelligence and good business sense, and his talent for making things happen.He died in 1919 at the age of 83.4. What can be learnt from the text?A. Carnegie was highly thought of by his employers.B. Carnegie made his investments independently.C. Carnegie believed that money was everything.D. Carn

22、egie could have been more successful if he had been formally educated.5. What does gaining more and more responsibility in the second paragraph most probably mean?A. Becoming more and more intelligent. B. Being put to higher positions.C. Having a better sense of confidence. D. Reading more and more

23、books.6. How did Carnegie finally make a big fortune?.A. His employer helped him. B. He was much paid when working.C. He set up his own business. D. He saved money year by year.7. Which of the followings will be the suitable title for the text?A. Andrew Carnegie: A Wealthy ManB. Steel & Iron: The Mo

24、st Profitable BusinessC. From Rags to Riches: The Story of Andrew CarnegieD. Intelligence and Good Business Sense: Two Factors in Becoming RichCIn Chinese we say,Your handwriting says a lot about you.But in the eyes of South African photographer John Thackwray,someones bedroom can do just the same t

25、hing.Thackwray,30,first had the idea of taking pictures of peoples bedrooms six years ago,because he was curious how young people born in the 1980s and 1990s lived their lives.And he started with his friends in Paris.Soon he decided to take this project a little further.Over the past six years,Thack

26、wray has traveled to 55 countries and taken pictures of 1,200 bedroomsfrom New York,one of the worlds busiest and most developed cities,to Russia,Thailand,Iran and the poor neighborhoods in Nairobi,and cast African countries.From the layout of the rooms and the little items in them,you can not only

27、see how different peoples lifestyles and personalities are,but also get an insight into how unequal the world is and how traditions are replaced by new technology.Now Thackwray has put all his photos into a book named My Room Project.Each photo in the book comes with the name,age and job of its owne

28、r,and they are arranged in the order of his travels.But Thackwray got a lot more from the project than the chance to publish a book.He also saw a lot of things,met a lot of people and had many great experiences.I was impressed by the spirituality in India,the friendliness of the Russian people and t

29、he craziness of the Japanese lifestyle,Thackwray told The Huffington Post.8. What does the underlined part in the first paragraph mean?A. ones bedroom says much about his handwriting.B. ones bedroom and handwriting are the same thing.C. ones bedroom says much about his personality.D. people do the s

30、ame the thing in their bedrooms.9. Which of the following information about John Thackwray is true?A. The pictures Thackwray has taken are more from developed countries than developing countries.B. The idea of taking bedroom pictures occurred to Thackwray when he was 24.C. Thackwray began the projec

31、t with taking the pictures of his own bedroom.D. The photos in the book My Room Project are put in the order of time.10. What does the word insight in the fourth paragraph mean?A. achievement B. understandingC. chance D. curiosity11. Which of the followings will be the suitable title for the text?A. Photos in bedrooms B. Handwriting and photosC. Impressive six years D. Photos telling storiesDOur environment isnt as green and beautiful as it should be.There are steel monsters blocking out the sun. blowing out dangerous smoke,and letting out poisonous chemicals into rivers,cars pr