河南创新发展联盟学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题.docx

1、河南创新发展联盟学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题第一部分 听力（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15. B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15.答案是C。1. Why doesnt the wom

2、an like to have red wine?A. Because she prefers beer.B. Because she doesnt like its taste.C. Because she is afraid of getting drunk.2. What is the man going to buy?A. Flowers. B. Drinks. C. Food.3. What are the two speakers doing?A. Checking the womans baggage.B. Booking tickets for a journey.C. Loo

3、king for some suitcases.4. Why would the woman rather stay at the hotel?A. It costs less money.B. It feels more comfortable.C. It saves much labor.5. What are the two speakers talking about?A. A country scene. B. A painting. C. A kind of drink.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

4、的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷相应位置。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至8题。6. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. Classmates. B. Strangers. C. Neighbors.7. What cant the man wait to do?A. Look after his children.B. Go shopping with his wife.C. Work in his

5、garden.8. When does this conversation most probably take place?A. On Wednesday. B. On Saturday. C. On Friday.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. What is the man trying to return to the store?A. A sweater. B. A shirt. C. A dress.10. Why does the man want to return the item?A. It gets smaller and fades.B. It has a hol

6、e.C. It is the wrong size.11. What does the woman offer to do for the man?A. Exchange the item.B. Return his money.C. Give him store credit.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. Whats the relationship between the woman and the man?A. Teacher and student. B. Classmates. C. Mother and son.13. Why didnt the man come to

7、 the class last night?A. He had been writing reports all day long.B. He had given it up.C. He came back late and his friend was tired.14. What can we know about the man?A. He can communicate with his friends in English.B. He is interested in learning foreign languages.C. He had studied the language

8、before he came.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. Why does the man feel bad?A. He isnt used to the life there.B. He is out of work.C. He has nobody else to talk to.16. In what way is the woman speaking to the man?A. Encouraging. B. Exciting. C. Disappointing.17. According to the dialogue, what is their last decis

9、ion?A. To look for a job together.B. To move to the island.C. To have a visit.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. How many worlds flags contain red?A. 70%. B. 85%. C. 80%.19. Why do people dislike black?A. It means danger.B. It makes people feel afraid.C. It makes people not noticed.20. Which of the following is

10、NOT true according to the passage?A. Yellow is a very relaxing color and blue is a very calm color.B. Different colors have different meanings.C. People who wear gray want to cover themselves to all.第二部分 阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共两节，满分40分）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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AGreat women

11、When it comes to changing the world, these women have invented, researched and collected their way to a place in scientific history.Hedy LamarrMore widely known as a Hollywood star during the 1930s and 1940s, Hedy Lamarr（19142000）was much more than a pretty face. After her home country Austria was t

12、aken over by the Nazi, highly intelligent and fearless, Lamarr worked with scientist and inventor George Antheil to develop a secret communication system. Without her work, wireless（无线的）technology as we know it today would not exist. Today she is considered as the mother of WiFi.Ameenah Gurib-FakimA

13、meenah Gurib-Fakim was born in 1959 in Mauritius, the country for which she now serves as the first woman president. She is a scientist who has spent many hours researching the local plants of Mauritius and their values as medicine. She has held many high positions in the fields of both politics and

14、 science and was awarded（授予）the 2007 UNESCO Award for Women in Science.Mae C. JemisonOn June 4,1987, Mae C. Jemison became the first African-American woman to enter the space program. On September 12,1992, she joined several other astronauts on the Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woma

15、n in space. Born in Decatur, Alabama in 1956 and raised mostly in Chicago, Jemison holds many awards and degrees, As a child, Jemison spent a lot of time in her school library ,reading especially books space.21. Which of the following did Hedy Lamarr achieve? A. Introducing WiFi for the first time.B

16、. Co-developing a communication system.C. Keeping her county from being taken over.D. Playing a key role in Internet development.22. Why has Ameenah Gurib-Fakim spent much time studying plants?A. To protect the environment.B. To draw Public attention to themC. To learn about their medical values.D.

17、To help her people start business23. It can be inferred that when Mae C. Jemison was young, she .A. showed great interest in spaceB. was encouraged by an astronautC. failed to receive a good educationD. wanted to become the first astronautBPeter, a high school student, was pretty busy with school, a

18、nd he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peters father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasnt just about to hand over lots of money for Peter to use to ha

19、ve fun. So, he had to get a job.During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay（干草）farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked（剁起）it in the hot barn. It was a hot, low-paying job.He once worked a few nights a week

20、 at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying, and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didnt pay much.He took some time off when soccer got serious, but the following summer he tried working at a lumber yard It was hot outside,

21、 but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didnt pay well.From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, but that was Piecemeal. His first real job came the last year at schoo

22、l, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didnt pay well.What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better-paying job! The only way to get that was to get trained or educated He could go to school and get a 2

23、-year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4-year college or joining the army. He wasnt sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money was hard to earn, but he liked staying busy and being able to buy thing

24、s. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education.24. Why did Peter take his job so early?A. Because his father didnt treat him well.B. Because Peters family couldnt afford his education.C. Because Peter like challenges.D. Because Peters father thought Peter should be independent.25. Wh

25、at is common to the jobs Peter had taken mentioned in the text?A. They were dull and tiresome.B. They were done during his vacation.C. They didnt offer high salary.D. They needed hard labor.26. was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job.A. Confidence B. Education C. Wisdom D. Opportuni

26、ty27. According to the last paragraph, we can learn that .A. Peter would work hard for his futureB. Peter would not attend a 4-year collegeC. it was very hard for Peter to make his choicesD. Peter liked staying a comfortable lifeCIt is sad to learn that fewer of us now own pets. According to Mintel,

27、 just 56% of UK households（家庭）today include a pet, compared with 63% in 2012. It is down to our smaller homes. The housing crisis（危机）is taking away one of our lifes joys: pets.Pets can help us get over serious illness. Pets lessen our anxiety. Pets can be a godsend for people experiencing various fo

28、rms of mental disorders. As if all that were not enough, pets also help their owners get a date because of complex psychological reasons.There do, of course, remain oppositions to the very idea of pets. The charity PET A puts it thus: “This selfish desire to own animals and receive love from them ca

29、uses immeasurable suffering, which results from selling or giving them away casually, and taking away their opportunity to enjoy their natural behavior.” This is undoubtedly true in some situations. But seen from a different point of view, theres something quite lovely about the story of people and

30、their companion animals.What was once a relationship based only on the animals functional effectsits ability to kill pests（害虫）, guard houses, and the likehas developed into something much more about care and love.We share 84% of our DNA with dogs. We share 90% of our DMA with mice, for good ness sak

31、e. I have no idea how that works. But still: pets remind（提醒）us were part something bigger. Pets break down the barriers between us and the animal kingdom. We may teach pets to roll over, stand up, order takeaways and so on. But they teach us much more: that life is actually really quite short and so should be filled as much as possible with life-giving experiences. 28. What does the underlined part “is down to” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. Is the result of. B. Is harmful to. C. Is away from. D. Takes29. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?A. The benefits of k