广西南宁市第八中学学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题含答案.docx

1、广西南宁市第八中学学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题含答案20152016学年度下学期南宁八中高一年级期考英语试卷命题人：韦舒颖 审题人：彭燕琼 负责人：张文华第I卷（满分100分）第一部分 听力 （共两节，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 does the man want to do? A. Take photos.B. Buy a camera.C. Help

2、the woman.2. What are the speakers talking about? A. A noisy night.B. Their life in town.C. A place of living.3. Where is the man now? A. On his way.B. In a restaurant.C. At home.4. What will Celia do? A. Find a player.B. Watch a game.C. Play basketball.5. What day is it when the conversation takes

3、place? A. Saturday.B. Sunday.C. Monday.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。6. What is Sara going to do? A. Buy John a gift.B. Give John a surprise.C. Invite John to France.7.

4、What does the man think of Saras plan? A. Funny.B. Exciting.C. Strange.请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter? A. She has to give up her travel plan.B. She wants to visit another city. C. She needs to put off her test.9. What does Diana want Peter to do?A. Help her with her study.B. Ta

5、ke a book to her friend.C. Teach a geography lesson.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the man call the woman? A. To tell her about her new job.B. To ask about her job program. C. To plan a meeting with her.11. Who needs a new flat? A. Alex.B. Andrea.C. Miranda.12. Where is the woman now? A. In Baltimor

6、e.B. In New York.C. In Avon.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant? A. Where the restaurant is.B. Whether the prices are low. C. How well the food is prepared.14. When did Jan begin to write for a magazine? A. After he came back to Sweden.B. Before he

7、 went to the United States. C. As soon as he got his job in 1982.15. What may Jan do to find a good restaurant? A. Talk to people in the street.B. Speak to taxi drivers. C. Ask hotel clerks.16. What do we know about Jan? A. He cooks for a restaurant.B. He travels a lot for his work. C. He prefers Am

8、erican food.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What do we know about the Plaza Leon? A. Its a new building.B. Its a small town.C. Its a public place.18. When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon? A. Saturday nights.B. Sunday afternoons.C. Fridays and Saturdays.19. Which street is known for its f

9、ood shops and markets? A. Via del Mar Street.B. Fernando Street.C. Hernandes Street.20. Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best? A. It has an old stone surface.B. It is named after a writer. C. It has a famous 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）请阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出

10、最佳选项。AYou may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But did you know there is such a thing as a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.ABC means Ame

11、rican-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white insidethinking like a Westerner and yellow outsidelooking like a Chinese.Do you

12、know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them dont speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas (海外的) Chinese. Thes

13、e people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the Peoples Republ

14、ic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.21. “ABC” in this text stands for “_”.A. three English letters B. Chinese born in AmericaC. a kind of banana D. Americans bo

15、rn in China22. Chinese in western countries are called “banana persons” because _.A. their bodies are white inside but yellow outsideB. they were born in China but go to study in AmericaC. they think like Westerners but look like ChineseD. they are Chinese who look like bananas23. C. N. Yang is ment

16、ioned here to show that _.A. American Chinese are not Chinese citizens B. we love American ChineseC. Chinese people can win Nobel PrizesD. American Chinese are great 24. This text is mainly about _.A. different kinds of bananas B. the life story of C. N. YangC. the Nobel Prize D. overseas ChineseB W

17、hen we moved to China seven months ago, we were very worried about what we would be eating, and how we would live. We never thought that we would fall in love with the Chinese eating habits and style. We also never imagined that we have lost 80 pounds! We thought we should share some of our tricks w

18、ith you. Here is the Chinese Dietfive easy things you can do to lose weight. Use a smaller bowl -much smaller Go into your cupboard and find your smallest bowl. Now that will be the bowl that you will eat out of. By doing this you actually pick much less food than you are naturally served. Vegetable

19、s are your main course For example, you might have one plate of a cucumber dish, one of corncarrots, and then another with ribs. Find a few dishes that your whole family loves and rotate(轮换) those. Cut down on your meat dairy We eat very little meat. So do most Chinese. We eat very little dairy. It

20、was hard at first. Cut it down and try to limit it to eggs, milk and yogurt. Use chopsticks to eat We love eating with chopsticks and wonder why we didnt use them more at home. You eat a lot slower, A LOT. Introduce rice and noodles into your meals A Chinese diet includes a lot of rice and noodles.

21、So our daily diet is no different, we eat rice and noodles 3 times a day. We wish we had known these simple tricks back home that make such a difference in our waistline.25. According to the text, the author_. A. moved to China to lose weight B. does not really enjoy Chinese foodC. became much thinn

22、er eating the Chinese foodD. had known much about Chinese food before26. Which of the following is advised by the author? A. Learn to cook rice and noodles. B. Keep using the same bowl. C. Try all kinds of chopsticks. D. Eat more vegetables and less meat.27. People are advised to use the smallest bo

23、wl to _. A. eat more slowly B. eat less food C. adapt to the Chinese lifestyle D. experience the Chinese cultureCIn the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what keeping up with the Jo

24、neses is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours. The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got marr

25、ied and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours. It w

26、as like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment(公寓房间) in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people

27、 do things just to keep up with rich life-style of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series (系列) of short stories. He called it Keeping up with the Joneses because Jones is a very common name in the United States. Keeping up with the Joneses came to mean keeping up

28、 with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momands series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years. People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are Jonses in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Jo

29、neses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.28. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to _. A. have many neighbours B. live in New York City C. live in apartments D. live outside New York City29. The underlined word neighbourhood in the second paragrap

30、h means _. A.an area near the place referred to B. people living in an area C.a person who lives near another D. an area in another town or city30. Arthur Momand used the name Jones in his series of short stories because Jones is _. A. an important name B. his neighbours name C.a popular name in the United States D. not a good name31. According to the writer, it is to keep up with the Joneses. A. correct B. impossible C.interesting D. GoodDNorm Pethrick, a 36-year-old man in Australias northern city Darwin, was praised on Thursday for jumping onto a crocodiles back to save his wife Wendy at