学年广西陆川县中学高一下学期期末考试英语试题.docx

1、学年广西陆川县中学高一下学期期末考试英语试题2017-2018学年广西陆川县中学高一下学期期末考试英语试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第卷 第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，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 is Mr. White?A. A salesm

2、an. B. A professor. C. A repairman.2. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Take Bus 105.B. Ask another person.C. Walk to the railway station.3. What is the mans attitude towards the plan?A. He is against it.B. He doesnt care.C. He thinks it is reasonable.4. What is the mans problem?A. He cant

3、 see the sign clearly. B. He has no ticket for the movie.C. Hes parked in the wrong place.5. In which year is the man in college now?A. The first year. B. The second year. C. The third year.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

4、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. Where does the woman want to go?A. The post office. B. The cinema. C. A park.7. Who can help the woman?A. The man with a bird.B. The man with a beard.C. The man with a bottle of beer.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why is Jessie still at home?A. She takes the

5、day off.B. She has enough time to go to work.C. She is waiting for the man to go out together.9. What does Jessie think of taking the subway?A. Convenient and cheap.B. Crowded and expensive.C. Convenient but expensive.10. What do we know about Jessie?A. She used to have breakfast in her office.B. He

6、r office is far away from the subway station.C. She doesnt have to wait for buses and taxis in bad weather.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. A plan for the party.B. A visit to their relatives. C. A call to their colse friends.12. Why is the woman thinking of call

7、ing on Ann?A. Ann has just got a new house.B. Ann has just come out of hospital.C. She wants to invite Ann to the party.13. Why cant they have a little party at Ricks?A. He is still in hospital.B. He still doesnt feel well.C. He doesnt like noisy parties.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Who are the two speakers

8、?A. A man and his wife.B. A man and his sister.C. A man and his girlfriend.15. What does the man usually do at weekends?A. He has tea with his friends.B. He goes shopping with his friends.C. He watches football games on TV.16. On which point of the picnic is the man different from the woman?A. Who s

9、hould get the car ready.B. How many friends they should invite.C. What food and drink they should prepare.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. How do students enter the library?A. With a password.B. With a student card.C. With a library account.18. How many books can students borrow at most once?A. Nine. B. Eleven

10、. C. Twelve.19. What kind of book has to be returned within one week? A. Books published recently.B. Books liked by a lot of people.C. Books borrowed by local residents.20. What will the speaker do next?A. Take the students on a campus tour.B. Show the students around the library.C. Tell the student

11、s where to get bottled water.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ABritains Prime Minister Theresa May joined the opening ceremony of the 2018 “English is GREAT” activity, which aims to support and encourage more people across China to learn to speak English, during her visit to Wuhan University

12、 in Central Chinas Hubei province, Jan 31.Started by the British Council, the UKs international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities, this year-long activity sets out to improve fluency in spoken English in particular.Prize-winning online competitionThe activity also mar

13、ked the start of an online competition, “My Favorite English Word”. You can join by simply posting your word of choice on the China Daily app. The most popular words will be included in a draw to win a variety of prizes, including Kindle, Polaroid camera and Bluetooth speaker. To participate, click

14、here.English Teacher AwardThe activity establishes an English Teacher Award to recognise excellence in teaching among Chinese non-native teachers of English. Nominations(提名) will be made by students and English teachers.In order to recognise more inspiring teachers, monthly prizes will be presented

15、and the winner of the grand final award will be announced later in the year. The winner will have the opportunity to take a four-week study trip to the UKsupported by the International House London.Throughout the activity, the “English is GREAT” website will provide access to free online resources a

16、nd all kinds of materials for English learners of all levels.UK-Mandarin (Standard Chinese) Excellence ProgramThe “English is GREAT” activity will reply to the UK-Mandarin Excellence Program, started in 2016, which aims to have 5,000 secondary school pupils in the UK fluent in Mandarin by 2020.21. W

17、hats the aim of the 2018 “English is GREAT” activity? A. To make more Chinese learn to speak English. B. To collect some advice about the program. C. To spread English culture and Chinese culture. D. To introduce one of the Prime Ministers activities.22. How will you take part in the first activity?

18、 A. By paying some money. B. By sending your favorite word. C. By logging in the website. D. By winning different prizes.23. Which is true about the last two parts of the passage? A. All English teachers will receive prizes. B. The winner will visit UK for four weeks. C. Beginners cannot take part i

19、n the activity. D. Some English pupils are learning Mandarin.B Bryan Laubscher, one of the worlds leading astrophysicists, who study the physics and chemistry of the stars, planets, etc, is developing an invention called the Mars Elevator. To form a picture of this, you may want to imagine the story

20、 of Jack and the Beanstalk (杰克与魔豆). This is the story of a boy who grew a beanstalk that reached the heavens. Jack climbed the stalk and entered another world. The space elevator is similar but of course much more high-tech and better yet, it is real!Astrophysicists are designing a steel-like cable

21、(缆绳) that will be connected to a platform (平台) in the ocean. This cable is designed to be pulled up into space, where it will then be connected to a space station. People will be able to travel up and down this elevator by the year 2020. There will be a number of space elevators so that both tourist

22、s and businesses can travel into space. To get there, space tourists will simply travel to the nearest ocean elevator entrance. The trip up into space will take about a week. When they arrive, space tourists will be inside a space station and will be able to stay there. There are other alternatives,

23、 too. Astronomers think it will be easy to travel from the space station to the moon, where space tourists can stay in a moon hotel which is now being designed. The future looks bright for space tourists. It also looks bright for industry and scientists. Mining companies will travel to space to mine

24、 elements (元素) that are rare on Earth. Energy scientists will travel to space to set up space solar panels, which will collect a huge amount of energy from the sun and shoot it back to Earth where we can use it to heat our homes and meet our energy needs.24. What does Jack and the Beanstalk help rea

25、ders understand?A. The difficulty of building space elevators.B. What material space elevators would use.C. What space elevators would look like.D. The reason for inventing space elevators.25. What can we infer about space elevators?A. Theyre accepting pre-paid bookings. B. Theyll be available in th

26、e near future. C. Theyre mainly used for scientific study.D. Theyll offer people a seven-day round trip.26. What does the underlined word “alternatives” (in Para. 2) mean? A. Advantages. B. Purposes. C. Entries. D. Choices.27. What is the authors attitude towards space elevators?A. Worried. B. Doubt

27、ful. C. Critical. D. Positive.CWe know cats like to hide in boxes and knock things over. But if you make a square on your floor, what will your cat do? Turns out a lot of cats will get inside it. Amazed cat owners repeated the experiment, often with tape(带子), but others with squares made out of ribb

28、on, sheets of paper and even shoes.Cat experts weigh inSo what makes cats so interested in a square on the floor? “We know that cats like safe spaces. Its possible that the mark on the floor creates some illusion(幻觉) on the floor that doesnt actually exist,” says cat behavior expert Mikel Delgado. “

29、It might have enough similarity to a low-sided box that a lot of cats are attracted to it for safety.”Another cat behavior expert Ingrid Johnson agrees. “I would imagine they probably feel as if they are in something. Though shallow, still comforting, offers the idea of sides,” she says. Johnson poi

30、nts out that cats have poor close-up sight, so they may have the idea that the tape is actually the sides of a square area. “Their sight is built for distance and speed, watching a mouse run across the field,” she says. “Close up, theyre blind 8 to 12 inches off their noses.”Kitty curiosity(好奇心)Anot

31、her reason cats are attracted by the square? Pure curiosity.Because cats are very sensitive to their environment, the tape square might be attracting them just because its new and different, she says. The same thing would likely happen if you put a piece of cardboard or a paper bag on the floor. A lot of cats would check it out.28. Which is most probably the purpose of the cat owners experiment? A. To check whether it is true. B. To test how smart their cats are. C. To play a joke on their cats. D. To show their love to the cats.29. Which can best replace the underlined part “weigh in”? A. Ex