宁夏银川一中学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

1、宁夏银川一中学年高一英语下学期期中试题银川一中2015/2016学年度(下)高一期中考试英 语 试 卷（总分：150分； 考试时间：120分钟）第I卷 （共70分）一、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。1What will the man do next?ADrink something. BLearn to drive. CTake a taxi. 2What does t

2、he man mean?AHe hates to smell smoke too.BHe will leave the office soon.CThe woman can open the window.3What do the speakers plan to do at the weekend?AHelp with the conference on drug abuse. BLearn about a healthy lifestyle. CTake a class on drug abuse.4How is the woman feeling right now?AAngry. BE

3、xcited. Cscared.5What does the man suggest?ASelling the old MP3 player. BHaving the old MP3 player repaired. CBuying a new MP3 player.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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。请听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6What wil

4、l the man do first on Friday night?AReturn a book. BWatch a game. CBuy two tickets.7Why does the woman agree to go in the end?AShe is tired of watching TV. BShe thinks the man is fun. CShe wants to listen to the music.请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8Where are the speakers probably right now?AAt home. BAt a barber

5、shop. CAt Brads house.9When will the speakers probably arrive at the restaurant?AAt 7:00. BAt 7:25. CAt 7:55.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10How much will it cost to send the package by sea?A$20. B$80. C$100.11How long will it take to send the package by air? A4 to 6 weeks. B2 to 3 weeks. C10 to 14 days.12What

6、is the woman sending?ABooks. BClothes. CToys.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13Why did the womans sister hold the party?AShe got married. BHer child got married. CHer children were leaving home.14What is Uncle Tony?AA photographer. BA designer. CA sales manager.15. Where does Roger live?AIn Paris. BIn London. CIn

7、 Aberdeen.16. What do we know about Mark?A He has long hair and a beard.B He graduated from University of Oxford.C He is the tallest one in his family.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17Who saw the blue whales an hour ago?AA passenger. BSome fishermen. CThe captain.18What sea animals are commonly seen in this sea

8、son?ABlue whales. BLarge sea turtles. CSea birds. 19What does the speaker suggest that passengers bring with them?AA hat or sunglasses. BA heavy jacket . CLight shoes.20What do we know about the tour?AIt will take two days.BPassengers will have dinner on the boat.CThe price doesnt include drinks.二、阅

9、读理解：（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ACold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word cold. For centuries, the bodys blood has been linked closely with the emotions. People who show no huma

10、n emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold blooded. Cold blooded people act in merciless ways. They may do cruel things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He

11、 seemed to kill with no emotion.Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can warm your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expressionto get cold feet that has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something yo

12、u had decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your responsibility. You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation.Cold can

13、 also affect your shoulder. You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them. You treat them in a distant, cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face. You may give a cold shoulder to a

14、friend who has not kept a promise he made to you. Or, to someone who has lied about you to others. A cold fish is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. Out in the cold is an exp

15、ression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise. He was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.21The text is intended to tell us that_.Acold weather has a great effect on human bodies.Bmany Eng

16、lish expressions contain the word cold. Ccold is a word all used to describe human emotions.Dthe word cold has many different meanings in English.22Which of the following can best describe a person who is unwilling to offer anything to others? ACold-blooded. BTo get cold feet. CA cold shoulder. DA c

17、old fish.23If a teacher gives all the boys except Tom a pen as a prize, you can say Tom_.Ais given the cold shoulder. Bis punished by a cold fish. Cis left out in the cold. Dhas got cold feet. 24The five expressions mentioned in the text all _.Ahave a negative meaning. Bcome from physical acts. Crel

18、ate to a kind of animal. Dhave a connection with the human body. BTens of thousands of people from around the world pelted each other with tons of tomatoes last Wednesday in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. The one-hour bloodless battle, known as the Tomatina, left the town awash in a sea of tomat

19、o pulp (浆状物).The town council（委员会） brought in some 100 tons of ripe tomatoes on trucks for the estimated（预计的）40,000 tourists who came to the town of just 9,000 local people for the annual festival, which has taken place for more than 60 years.Many of the participants were shirtless while others wore

20、 old clothes, or hard hats. Afterwards, workers hosed down（用水管冲洗）the walls and streets to remove the tomato pulp. Spanish media said the tomatoes cost the town council around 28,000 euros ($US35,000) , about one third of the overall budget of 70,000 euros for the festival, most of which goes to pay

21、for security, cleaning services, mobile toilets and civil protection. Doyle, who serves in the army in Ireland, learned about the festival while vacationing in Spain and did not want to miss it. “I recommend it to everyone who wants to have a great time,” he said. “Ill definitely come back.”There we

22、re no reports of injuries in this years fight, said city councilor Pilar Garrigues. She said participants receive a list if recommendations on how to fight without hurting anybody.Lots of fighters take their red shirts off, and they are not supposed to throw them, just the fruit. Nor is it considere

23、d fair to throw tomatoes that are a bit on the green side because theyre harder. And the red ones? Squeeze them first, please, to remove the sting(梗).More than 100 police and 120 civil protection volunteers were on hand in case of incidents.The “Tomatina” is held each year in Bunol, which is about 4

24、0 kilometers north of the coastal city of Valencia, Spains third largest city, on the last Wednesday in August.The origins of the event are unclear although it is thought to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends in the mid-1940s in the city. It has grown in size as international p

25、ress coverage brought more and more people to the festival.25What does the underlined word “pelted” in the first sentence most probably mean?ALooked after. BThrew at.CLaughed at. DSearched for.26How did the workers deal with the tomato pulp?AThey washed it with water. BThey left it as it was.CThey t

26、ook it away on trucks. DThey poured it into the sea.27From the text we can infer that Doyle_.Alearned about the festival when he was in the army. Bheard of the festival while he was in Ireland. Ctook part in most of the former festivals.Dliked the festival very much.28The participants squeeze the to

27、matoes first to _.Amake them harder. Bsee if they are ripe. Cprotect others from being hurt. Dmix the red and green sides together.CEvery year in America, high-school students who want to go on to college take a national examination called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT in a shortened way. The

28、ir score is an important factor in determining which colleges will admit them. The Scholastic Aptitude Test measures ones mathematical ability and use of the English language. Traditionally, the English part involved grammatical questions and paragraphs that test reading comprehension.But the SAT fo

29、lks have added a single question to be answered in an essay, handwritten on the spot. Thats an interesting way to test writing ability, but content aside, have you ever seen young peoples handwriting lately? Or anyones for that matter, in this age of computer keyboards? Students write numbers and si

30、gn their names on bank checks. They scribble class notes in what can generously be described as the written word.Yet todays kids are asked to write, thoughtfully and clearly, for several minutes on this SAT Test. Good luck to the text scorers who must work out difficultly the scrawl(潦草的笔迹) of young

31、people whove been typing on computers since the age of three! Teachers insist that good handwriting can not only help ones score on the SAT, but also, later on in life, impress potential employers. And dont forget, we all have to use handwriting from time to time, as computers go down when the power goes out. Then how to improve the handwriting? Well, with a few simple steps you can improve your handwriting.Position the pen, you should hold the pen between