重庆市第四十二中学学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案.docx

1、重庆市第四十二中学学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案重庆市第四十二中学校2017-2018学年度下期半期考试高 一 英 语 试 题 卷第卷 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；第小题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答案，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 does the man want to do? A. Eat dinner. B. Watch a movie. C. Get some ice crea

2、m.2. What does the man suggest they do together? A. Learn to draw animals. B. Raise a pet. C. Go to the zoo.3. What does the woman watch at night sometimes? A. The films. B. The news. C. The music programs.4. What does the man think of math? A. Its confusing. B. Its interesting. C. It makes him smar

3、ter.5. When is Peters birthday? A. Saturday. B. Sunday. C. Monday.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、7题。6. Whats wrong with the man? A. His team didnt win. B. He hit the ball too hard. C. He didnt sleep

4、 well.7. How many games did the man play? A. One. B. Two. C. Three.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What did the woman see on the first day? A. Hyde Park. B. The British Museum. C. The London zoo.9. Why does the woman probably think English people like tea? A. It rains so much there. B. They sell it in the street.

5、 C. Its better for their health.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What was Andrew like at the concert? A. Calm. B. Nervous. C. Excited.11. How did Andrew perform? A. He didnt make any mistakes. B. He made a lot of mistakes. C. He made some little mistakes.12. How does the woman feel now? A. Pretty sad. B. Quite

6、glad. C. A little worried.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What are the speakers discussing? A. The education in America. B. The choice of clubs. C. High school life. 14. What team was the woman on in high school? A. Tennis. B. Basketball. C. Swimming. 15. Where was the woman last year? A. Canada. B. Japan. C.

7、America. 16. What would the woman like to do in the future? A. Start rowing again. B. Go running around a lake. C. Go swimming in a river. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where will the students go? A. A theater. B. A big park. C. A zoo.18. Which of the following has displays from different countries? A. The

8、Japanese Tea Garden. B. The House of Flowers. C. The De Young Museum.19. What is in the Japanese Tea Garden? A. A concert hall. B. A small lake. C. An art gallery.20. Where is Golden Gate Park? A. In the countryside. B. In the middle of the city. C. Close to the city.第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第1节（

9、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.Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of tips you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）. Hiccups are so mysterious. We really dont know why they start and why they stop. Everyone has a favor

10、ite cure for a case of the hiccups. Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well. Others eat a teaspoon of sugar. Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it. An American man named Jack OLeary said he once had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years. He tr

11、ied 60,000 cures, but none of them worked. Finally he prayed to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately. It took a British plumber（水管工） eight months to cure his hiccups. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well. He tri

12、ed them all, but the hiccups continued. Finally, he drank a “secret” mixture someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone.Why did these cures work for these two men？No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you beli

13、eve in the cure.21. _ might be the best cure for hiccups. A. Special pills B. A spoonful of salt C. Cold water D. A knife22. The plumber spent _ in stopping his hiccups. A. 4 hours B. 2 days C. 8 months D. 8 years23. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE？ A. We know why the hiccup

14、s start, but we dont know how to stop them. B. Saint Jude is an expert in curing the hiccups. C. The British plumber drank a secret mixture given by an experienced doctor and then became well. D. Some people think that a good scare is a cure for hiccups.24. What is the main idea of this passage？A. D

15、ifferent ways to stop hiccups B. What makes hiccups happenC. How to get hiccups D. Jack OLearys hiccups BWe were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.“Look down, Elsa,” Father said. I gather

16、ed all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross(纵横交错的网络) of twisting, turning streets leading to the square. “See, my dear,” Father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that.”Now I understood why I was there.

17、Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lunches were as bad as I said.When I turned to Father for help, he would not interfere（干预）. Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give

18、me a lesson - the value of an open, searching(锐利的) mind. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.At school the next day, I secretly poured my luncheon soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I talked the cook into serving it to Mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one sp

19、oonful and sputtered（喷溅）, “The cook must have gone mad!” Quickly I told what I had done, and Mother stated firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson Father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two y

20、ears ago. I wouldnt stop working until I tried every way to my goal.25. Father took the writer to the top of a church tower in order to _.A. get a good view B. see the square in the center of the village C. show her the way to the square D. give her a lesson 26. What did Elsa want her mother to do a

21、ccording to the passage?A. To cook something delicious for lunch. B. To know the lunch she did was awful.C. To let the school deal with the awful lunches. D. To fire the mad cook. 27. The writers mother finally agreed with her because _. A. her mother thought the cook must have been madB. the writer

22、 brought her something home from schoolC. the writer asked her father to persuade her motherD. the writer tried a better way to achieve her goal 28. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph “Life is like that.” means “_”. A. If you cant achieve your goal in one way, try another.B. If you cant

23、 get to the square by one road, try another.C. If you cant make your mother believe you by this means, try another one.D. If you dont like one dish at school, try another one. COne hot night last July, when our new baby wouldnt or couldnt sleep, I tried everything I could think of: a warm bottle, so

24、ngs, gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable(手提式的) TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours until dawn. To my surprise, as soon as the TV lit up, the baby quieted right

25、down, his little eyes focused (集中) brightly on the tube. Not to waste an opportunity for sleep, I then tiptoes(踮脚尖) out of the room, leaving him to watch the actors celebrate John Bellushis forty-fifth birthday. My wife and I heard none of the baby that night, and the next morning when I went into h

26、is room, I found him still watching TV himself. I found in my babys behavior a metaphor(暗语) for the new generation. My wife and I had given him some books to examine, but he merely spit upon(不屑一顾) them. When we read to him, he did not feel comfortable. And so it is in the schools. We find that our s

27、tudents dont read and they look down upon reading and scold those of us who teach it. All they want to do is watch TV. After this experience with the baby, however, I have reached a conclusion: “Let them watch it!” If television is that much more attractive to children than books, why should we figh

28、t it? Let them watch it all they want! 29. Why did the author bring a TV set into his sons room? A. To make his son stop crying. B. To spend the night by watching TV programs. C. To leave it to his son. D. To make his son go to sleep as soon as possible. 30. The babys reaction to the TV program was

29、_ . A. unexpected B. exciting C. awful D. calm 31. According to the passage, which is true of the school children? A. They prefer reading to watching TV. B. They like watching TV only after school. C. They would rather watch TV than read books. D. They like their teachers who teach them reading. 32.

30、 What do you think is the authors attitude towards TV expressed in the last two sentences? A. Favorable. B. Serious. C. Not favorable. D. Not serious. D For ChildrenMuseum: Childrens Museum, Sundays, 89 North Street, 67641235Story time: Childrens Library, 106 Green Street, Wednesdays during 9:30 a.m

31、 -5:00p.m. 66599624Sports: Soccer Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16 Yangtze Road, 96725643 Basketball Club, Wednesdays and Fridays, 79071632Cinema: New films for children, 99 Brick Road, 69001354 Useful Phone Numbers Fast Food Restaurant: 66387901 Hospital: 68787451 Visitor Information Center: 800-120-9847 Taxi: 79210583 Visitor Hotel Information: 800-739-730233If children want to watch new films，they should go to_.A16 Yangtze Road B. 89 North Main Street C106 Gree