学年第二学期 高一英语期中测试 4.docx

1、学年第二学期 高一英语期中测试 42017学年第二学期 高一英语期中测试 (2018.4)(80 minutes)I. Listening Comprehension (15%)Section A (8%)Directions: In Section A, you will hear eight short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the ques

2、tions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a library. B. In a bookstore. C. In the classroom. D. In a department store.2. A. Its

3、 price. B. Its location. C. Its comfort. D. Its facilities.3. A. He is just a passer-by like the woman. B. He is unwilling to tell the woman anything. C. He doesnt know where the closest bookstore is. D. He cant understand the womans question thoroughly.4. A. He would rather have American food. B. H

4、e has always liked American food. C. He is accustomed to eating American food. D. He ate American food more in the past.5. A. Five minutes. B. Fifty minutes. C. Forty-five minutes. D. Fifteen minutes.6. A. The man has left a good impression on her family. B. The man can dress casually for the occasi

5、on. C. The man should buy himself a new suit. D. The mans jeans and T-shirts are stylish.7. A. Peter hasnt found Mr. Johnsons hat yet. B. Peter didnt go to Mr. Johnsons class. C. Peter lost a hat in Mr. Johnsons class. D. Peter found a hat in Mr. Johnsons class.8. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train.

6、D. On foot.Section B (7%)Directions: In Section B, you will hear one short passage and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of them. The passage and the longer conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, r

7、ead the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 9 through 11 are based on the following passage.9. A. You will buy his meal. B. You are expected to pay for your own meal. C. Youll treat someone. D. Youll be paid for t

8、he meal by someone.10. A. You will be in Holland. B. You will hear Dutch for a second time. C. You will be in trouble. D. You will find it hard to communicate.11. A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch. B. People made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning. C. People made a joke about

9、the German. D. German immigrants insisted that they were Dutch.Questions 12 through 15 are based on the following conversation.12. A. He is the journalist of a local newspaper. B. He is a huge fan of international stories. C. He is an experienced editor of a TV program. D. He is a member of an envir

10、onment protection group. 13. A. Current trends in economic development B. Domestic issues of general social concern. C. International relations and foreign affairs D. Conflicts among different political parties.14. A. Based on what the public wants to know. B. By interviewing people who have stories

11、. C. By analyzing the current social problems. D. Based on public expectation and editors judgment.15. A. First-hand stories. B. Practical experience. C. Audiences feedback. D. Educational background.II. Grammar & Vocabulary (22%)Section A (12%)Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the bla

12、nks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. In the age of Amazon and the Internet, the idea of goin

13、g to a public library to borrow a book may seem like old-fashioned in many parts of the world, but people in one country are unwilling (16) _ (get) out of the habit: the Czech Republic（捷克共和国）. You can see even more libraries than grammar schools（文法学校）in the country.According to a survey (17) _ (cond

14、uct) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Czech Republic has the densest library network in the world. There is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens ten times as many as the United States, (18) _ every 19,583 Americans have only one library. Then why are there so many libraries in th

15、e Czech Republic? Well, for decades they were mandatory. Every community, from a big city down to a tiny village, (19) _ (require) to have one by law. The law was put into action in 1919 when Czechoslovakia（捷克斯洛伐克）became (20) _ independent country. The idea was to promote universal education after t

16、he country was free of the German-speaking Austro-Hungarian Empire（奥匈帝国）, and (21) _ worked. “Having developed a strong reading habit since then, Czechs (22)_ visit libraries borrow more books than others even today,” said Vit Richter, director of the Czech National library. The library law survived

17、 the breakup with Slovakia in the early 1990s. What it (23) _ hardly survive was pressure on the budget. (24)_ (save) money, the requirement was dropped in 2001, when there were about 6,019 libraries in the country. Since then, about 11 percent (25)_ (close). (26) _ they have got into the difficult

18、situation, the surviving Czech libraries are doing what they can to stay lively and relevant. They organize reading clubs. They welcome schoolchildren and retirees during the day. But mostly, they do (27) _ 92 percent of Czechs still want them to go on doing to lend books.Section B (10%)Directions:

19、Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. countless B. exhaustedC. comparison D. essentialE. estimatesF. distinctiveG. relatively H. clearedI. unfortunatelyJ. recycledK. restricts Rain forests, fou

20、nd in Earths temperate and tropical (热带的) zones, are some of the most biologically varied ecosystems on the planet. All rain forests share certain _28_ features, including a closed canopy, the dense vegetation of the top branches that forms a roof above the forest floor, a damp and warm climate, and

21、 _29_ constant temperatures throughout the year. Most of the forests insect and animal life grows well in the canopys leafy and sunlit environment. The forests groundcover, by comparison, is small. Less than 2 percent of the suns light makes its way through the canopy and the darkness below. This da

22、rkness, along with the poor quality of the soils, _30_ plant growth. Rain forests are a(n) _31_ part of Earths total ecology. Huge amounts of water are absorbed into tree roots and _32_ into the atmosphere from the tree leaves through a process called transpiration (蒸发). Tree roots also fix the soil

23、 in place and slow the runoff of rains into rivers and oceans. Through the process of photosynthesis (光合作用), rain forests absorb more carbon dioxide and give off more oxygen than any other ecosystem. The rain forests are _33_ shrinking at a rapid rate as a result of the profitable ventures of farmin

24、g, logging, and mining. When tropical rain forests are _34_ in order to raise cattle and crops, the nutrient-poor soils are quickly _35_. When farmers move on to new areas, heavy rains and baking sun leave the land fruitless and lifeless. Logging and mining cause similar damage to the land and destr

25、oy the territory of _36_ millions of birds, insects and animals. By some _37_, an area of tropical rain forest the size of the state of Delaware disappears in this way every month. III. Reading Comprehension (47%)Section A (15%)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words

26、 or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each bank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Who needs sleep?Its 2 a.m. The time when you should be in beds, sound asleep. But pull back the curtains and you might be surprised by the number of lights on in your street. Night-time is _38_ jus

27、t for sleeping. It has become the new daytime, offering us the chance to catch up on everything we didnt manage to finish during what used to be our _39_ hours. Now, _40_ sleeping, we can check our bank balances by phone, buy groceries, surf the net for cheap flights or go to the gym.Such flexibilit

28、y, _41_, has a price. Our bodies are run by circadian rhythms (昼夜节律), a prehistoric internal clock that regulates when we feel sleepy or awake and affects our body temperature and level of alertness. It makes our brains and bodies _42_ during the day and allows them to recover through the night. So

29、powerful is this clock that even two weeks on a nightshift without break will not _43_ its rhythm, and when scientists keep human volunteers in isolation, without any indication of what time it is in the day, they still show daily cycles of temperature changes, sleep and wakefulness, and hormone rel

30、ease. But, _44_ working against our bodys natural rhythm is likely to cause ourselves both physical and psychological damage. Research also shows it may actually _45_ our risk of health problems such as stomach diseases.Consultant Tom Mackey believes that our normal circadian rhythms are increasingl

31、y being completely _46_. “More and more of us are being pressured into doing things at odd hours. This is going to have a(n) _47_ impact on quality and length of sleep. If people dont go to bed at a reasonable time, say around 11p.m., and have between six and eight hours of sleep, they will be unable to concentrate. You need sleep for rest and _48_. If you stuff your mind with information for too long, then everything gets disorganizedyou become _49_ to manage daytime activities.”The circadian rhythms that run the sleep/wake cycle are as old as _50_ itsel