英语重庆市巫溪县中学校学年高一下学期期中考试试题.docx

1、英语重庆市巫溪县中学校学年高一下学期期中考试试题重庆市巫溪县中学校2016-2017学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。共150分。考试时间l20分钟。第I卷(共三部分，满分115分)第一部分 听力 (共两节，满分30分)第一节 (共5小题；每小题l.5分，满分7.5分)1.What time is it now? A. 8:00. B. 8:30. C. 9:30.2.What does the man want Mike to do? A. Become a writer. B. Develop his interest. C. Go into

2、 the family business.3.Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. At a restaurant. B. In a driving school. C. At a car rental agency.4.What will the man probably do? A. Pick up his tickets. B. Arrange a meeting. C. Travel to California.5.What is the woman probably going to do? A. Focus

3、 on a new topic. B. Type the paper again. C. Rewrite the whole paper.第二节 (共15小题；每小题l.5分，满分22.5分)听下面一段对话, 回答第6和第7两个小题。6.What is the man now? A. A businessman. B. A company clerk. C. A university student.7.What do we know about the mans uncle? A. He runs a company. B. He has a master degree. C. He is

4、a college professor.听下面一段对话, 回答第8和第9两个小题。8.Where does the man work? A. In a library. B. In a radio station. C. In a music studio.9.Why did the man buy country songbooks? A. To write more country songs. B. To start a new radio program. C. To get information more easily.听下面一段对话, 回答第10至第12三个小题。10.What

5、does Barbara plan to do tonight? A. Visit Bob. B. See some friends off. C. Have dinner with some Americans.11.Whats wrong with Bob? A. Hes a headache. B. Hes a stomachache. C. Hes taken too many aspirins.12.What will Bob do tomorrow morning? A. Call Barbara. B. Write a letter. C. Do washing.听下面一段对话,

6、 回答第13至第16四个小题。13.Why did the woman wait for so long? A. She didnt get her baggage. B. Her brother was not coming yet. C. The plane was late for 45 minutes.14.Where are the speakers? A. In Paris. B. In Kansas City. C. In New York.15.When will the woman fly to next city? A. This evening. B. Tomorrow

7、morning. C. Tomorrow evening.16.What will the woman do next? A. Make a call. B. Find a hotel. C. Catch another plane.听下面一段独白, 回答第17至第20四个小题。17.Whats the assistants number? A. 436-4108. B. 436-4118. C. 436-4119.18.Where can the guests hold a party? A. In BO77. B. In room 323. C. In room 223.19.How ma

8、ny people can the room 223 hold? A. 8. B. 10. C. 18.20.What is pressing the last five numbers for? A. Your room number. B. A university number. C. A call outside the university.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）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。A A dog named Ace is being praised as a hero

9、 for licking (舔) the face of a sleeping, deaf 13-year-old Indianapolis boy to warn him that the house was on fire. Indianapolis Fire Department Officer Rita Reith said Nick Lamb was home alone and sleeping without his hearing aids (助听器) when the fire began Wednesday. “My dog licked my face and woke

10、me up,” Lamb said. “I was like, Stop it! What? You want to be fed? I thought he wanted to be fed or go outside.” The dog didnt stop licking Lamb until the teen got up. Thats when he realized the house was full of smoke. “I couldnt hear anything because I had my hearing aids off. My dog Ace smelled i

11、t,” Lamb said. “I just wanted to get out.” Without his shoes but with Ace by his side, he covered his nose and mouth with his T-shirt, and rushed out of the back door, catching one of his hearing aids along the way. He then called his mother and 911. Lindsay Bernard, Lambs mother, praised Ace for sa

12、ving her sons life. “Its amazing, because if Ace hadnt been there, Lamb probably wouldnt have even woken up,” Bernard said. Lamb, who was born deaf, told firemen that this was the first summer he was old enough to stay home alone and that he had returned from summer camp just three days earlier.21.

13、According to Paragraph 1, Nick Lamb _. A. lives alone B. is a healthy boy C. didnt know there was a fire D. was bitten by his dog 22. How did Nick Lamb survive the fire? A. Using his hearing aids. B. With the help of firemen. C. With the help of Lindsay Bernard. D. Under the guidance of Ace.23. Whic

14、h of the following words can best describe Ace? A. Polite. B. Careful. C. Proud. D. Clever.24. What was Lindsay Bernards attitude towards the dog? A. Surprised. B. Worried. C. Thankful. D. Hopeful.B With the development of the economy, loose change (零钱) is often ignored by most of us. We have forgot

15、ten how those little, round metal pieces can add up. However, if you were a kid that had to clean the house for extra money, youll understand how important it is. When I was a kid, I knew my parents could afford whatever I wanted, but Dad made me work for things that were “wants”. I knew Dad always

16、carried a lot of change in his pockets. He had taught me that enough pennies (便士) would still get me what I wanted in the end. Dad had his favorite reclining chair (躺椅) in his room where he would go after a long day at work. When he reclined in the chair, the change would fall from his pockets onto

17、the floor under the chair, which was really a good chance for me to collect pennies. Im sure he realized he had empty pockets when he took his clothes off, but he never said anything and never stopped sitting in the chair. My kids learned early that change worked just as well as dollars and they als

18、o knew their dad saw no value in change. In fact, he saw it as a pain-in-the-neck so instead of asking him for money, they always asked if they could have his change. Whenever I see a penny on a floor, I always pick it up. Theyve come in handy over the years, like at the check stand when someone nee

19、ds a penny to check out, or my children are twelve cents short of their bus fare little things, but important things. 25. Why is loose change ignored at present according to the author? A. Because people find it is of no use. B. Because peoples lives have improved a lot. C. Because loose change is o

20、ften noisy. D. Because loose change isnt easy to carry.26. Why did the authors father ask her to work for her own “wants”? A. To help her earn a lot of money. B. To tell her that pennies add up. C. To save enough money for future use. D. To let her know it was hard to earn money.27. We can infer fro

21、m Paragraph 3 that the authors father _. A. taught the author a good lesson B. didnt care about loose change C. was really a hard-working person D. was too tired to look after his child28. The underlined word “pain-in-the-neck” means that the authors husband _. A. paid little attention to change B.

22、was really rich C. was very generous D. had a problem with his neck C While in college, Tim started to look for easy ways to make money. One of the opportunities he saw was gambling (赌博). He started learning about all forms of gambling. He got lucky enough to make $9,000, but sadly it didnt last lon

23、g and over the next year he lost all of that money. It was at this point that Tim realized that he needed to stop gambling and focus on learning about finance. One day, he was talking to one of his friends about creating a business, and his friend turned him onto Quick Sprout. So he started reading

24、every blog post on Quick Sprout in the hope that he could learn about how to become a successful businessman and meet some people through Quick Sprout that he could partner up with. A year ago Tim read a blog post on Quick Sprout about another businessman by the name of Timothy Sykes. Tim visited T

25、and learned about his Millionaire Challenge program that taught people how to buy and sell penny stocks (低价股票). Tim thought it would be worth giving a try. Tim spent the next few months learning from Timothy Sykes on how to trade stocks. After he felt that he had learned enough, he wanted to start t

26、rading. Within the first 6 months of using what he learned in the Millionaire Challenge program, he made over $40,000. At one point he even made $11,000 in 15 minutes. Over the next 12 months Tim is on track to make even more money. So far things are looking good and he is already ahead of schedule.

27、 The Millionaire Challenge program has worked out so well for him and he is now starting to enjoy the finer things of life.29. Tim decide to learn about finance when _. A. he first entered the college B. he was lucky enough to earn $9,000 C. he learned about all forms of gambling D. he lost all the

28、money he got from gambling30. By visiting T, Tim _. A. found a business opportunity B. knew how Quick Sprout developed C. posted a blog he wrote on the website D. set up the Millionaire Challenge program31. How did Tim come to know Timothy Sykes? A. By attending Timothys lectures. B. By trading stoc

29、ks with Timothy. C. By visiting a website by chance. D. By being introduced by friends.32. The last two paragraphs show Tim _. A. has stopped learning from Timothy B. benefits from the stock market C. has taken charge of the program D. has become a millionaireD In early societies, people relied on a

30、 simple system of exchange (交换). Perhaps a good hunter had more animal skins than he could use. His neighbor, a good fisherman, might have too many fish but needed furs to protect his children from the cold. Both soon realized that their problems could be easily solved by exchanging what they did no

31、t need for what they did need. This method of exchange is called barter. The word comes from the Italian barattare and the French barater, which mean “to trade.” As societies developed, people in ancient times turned to many different things in the search for a good way of exchange, or money. One of the earliest forms of money was cattle (牛). The richest person was the one who owned the most farm animals, such as cows and sheep. Cattle were called capitale in Latin, and from that Latin word we get the E