安徽省合肥市第七中学学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题.docx

1、安徽省合肥市第七中学学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题合肥七中20152016学年第一学期期中考试高一英语试卷 满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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 does the woman feel? A. Worried. B. Thirsty

2、. C. Hungry.2.Where are the speakers most likely? A. On a bus. B. At a cinema. C. On a plane.3.What do we know about the woman? A. She likes going to birthday parties. B. She wont go to Marys birthday party. C. She doesnt like Marys birthday parties.4.When should Bonnie have got there? A. At 2:30. B

3、. At 3:00. C. At 3:30.5. How will the speakers go to work? A. On foot. B. By car. C. By subway.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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.Why cant the woman go to Paris? A. Because sh

4、e doesnt feel well. B. Because she has to look after her mother. C. Because her mother doesnt want her to go there.7.What will the man do? A. Look after the woman. B. See the womans mother. C. Go to Paris without the woman.听第7 段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How long did the woman wait for the service? A. For ten mi

5、nutes. B. For twenty minutes. C. For thirty minutes.9.What did they decide to do in the end? A. To eat at a Chinese restaurant. B. To take a bus to another restaurant. C. To walk home straight.听第8 段材料，回答第10 至12 题。10. What is the woman doing? A. Shopping online. B. Reading some news. C. Looking at so

6、me pictures.11. What does the woman want to do? A. Get a pet. B. Feed a dog. C. Sell a cat.12. What does the man think of cats? A. They are easy to take care of. B. They are mans good friends. C. They are very lazy.听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。13. Where will the woman travel in France? A. In Paris. B. In the

7、 south. C. In the north.14. What will the woman take with her? A. Some clothes. B. A book. C. Some magazines.15. Who will travel in France with the woman? A. Susan. B. Some friends. C. A tour group.16. Why wont the man go to Sydney for his vacation? A. Because he prefers to go to Spain. B. Because h

8、e just got back from there. C. Because his girlfriend doesnt want to go there.听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。17. What do we know about the library? A. It has six floors in total. B. It was built 50 years ago. C. The reading room is on the third floor.18. What time is the library open on weekends? A. From 8:30

9、 am to 5:30 pm. B. From 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. C. From 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.19. How long can a student keep a book? A. One month. B. Two weeks. C. One week.20. What will the speaker do next? A. Borrow some books. B. Show people around the library. C. Take people to another building. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

10、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,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 A Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim as well as ever when he ge

11、ts back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away. He can play, catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A mother who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” or remember the story of Cinder

12、ella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned something, additional(额外的) learning trials(尝试)increase the length(长度) of time we will remember it. In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swim

13、ming, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn. The multiplication tables(乘法口诀表)are an ex

14、ception(例外) to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood. The law of overlearning explains why cramming(突击学习)for an examination, though it may result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory wa

15、y to learn a college course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for ones future development.21. What is the main idea of par

16、agraph I?A. People remember well what they learned in childhood. B. Children have a better memory than grown-ups. C. Poem reading is a good way to learn words. D. Stories for children arc easy to remember.22. The author explains the law of overlearning by_. A. presenting research findings B. setting

17、 down general rulesC. making a comparison D. using examples23. According to the author, being able to use multiplication tables is_. A. a result of overlearning B. a special case of crammingC. a skill to deal with math problems D. a basic step towards advanced studies24. What does the word “they” in

18、 Paragraph 4 refer to?A. Commonly accepted rules. B. The multiplication tables. C. Things easily forgotten. D. School subjects.25. What is the authors opinion on cramming?A. It leads to failure in college exams. B. Its helpful only in a limited way. C. Its possible to result in poor memory. D. It in

19、creases students learning interest. B Everyone has got two personalitiesthe one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You dont show your secret personality when youre awake because you can control your behavior, but when youre asleep, your sleeping position shows the real

20、 you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their position. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in. If you go to sleep on your back, youre a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You dont like to upset p

21、eople, so you never express your real feelings. Youre quite shy and you arent very confident. If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive(不坦率的)person. You worry a lot and youre always easily upset. Youre very stubborn(顽固的), but you arent very ambitious. You usually live for today not fo

22、r tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time. If you sleep curled up (卷曲),you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so youre often defensive. Youre shy and you dont normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. Youre easily hurt. If you

23、sleep on your side, you have usually got a well-balanced personality. You know your strengths and weaknesses. Youre usually careful. You have a confident personality. You sometimes feel anxious, but you dont often get depressed. You always say what you think even if it annoys people.26.According to

24、the writer, you naturally show your secret and real personality . A. only in a normal night B. only when you go to sleep C. only when you refuse to show yourself to the word D. only when you change sleeping position27. Which is NOT mentioned in the second paragraph about a persons personality? A. He

25、 or she is always open with others. B. He or she always likes new ideas earlier than others. C. He or she is always easily upset. D. He or she tends to believe in others.28. Point out which sentence is used to show the personality of a person who is used to sleeping on his or her stomach? A. He or s

26、he is careful not to offend others. B. He or she doesnt want to stick to his or her opinion. C. He or she cant be successful in any business. D. He or she likes to bring others happiness.29. Which of the following may be the reason for you not to make friends with a person who sleeps curled up?. A.

27、He or she would rather be alone than communicate with you. B. He or she is rarely ready to help you. C. He or she prefers staying at home to going out. D. He or she wouldnt like to get help from you.30. It appears that the writer tends to think highly of the person who sleeps on one side because . A

28、. he or she always shows sympathy for people B. he or she is confident, but not stubborn C. he or she has more strengths than weaknesses D. he or she often considers annoying people C Four million children are caught up in the war in Syria. Thirteen-year-old Rabia is one of them. Tall and thin, she

29、sits shaking in a yellow T-shirt at the Al Marj settlement, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border. Home for Rabia was once a two-story house near Damascus. Now it is a tent shared with her nine family members. Rabias face is covered with dirt, and she is tired and cold. She has just finished work, pic

30、king up potatoes that fell from a truck. Her typical day starts at 4 a.m., and she works a double shift that lasts about 16 hours, putting potatoes into bags. The only choice for her is that she can choose the first eight hours or the second eight hours. For this, she gets paid about $8 a day. Worki

31、ng means Rabia misses school. Back in her village, she was the best in her class and good at everything. Her favorite subjects were Arabic literature and math. But that was Rabias old life. It was the life before war, before her family moved five times to escape the bombs, before leaving behind her

32、bedroom, her toys and her friends without packing a bag, before “half the people I know” were dead. The old life was full of laughter with her sister, Wala. But Wala, 14, got married two days ago to an 18-year-old Lebanese. Rabia is happy for her sister. Life in the settlement is tough the children have nowhe