湖南省娄底市2017-2018学年高一英语下学期期中试题.doc

湖南省娄底市2017-2018学年高一英语下学期期中试题时间：120分钟 总分： 150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. Which sport does the woman like best?A. Baseball. B. Volleyball. C. Badminton.2. What are the two speakers going to do?A. See a film. B. Go shopping. C. Have hair cut.3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At a post office. B. At a shop. C. At a hospital.4. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Colleagues. B. Couple. C. Friends.5. What does the woman probably do?A. A student. B. A reporter. C. A tour guide.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67题。6. What happened to the man?A. He failed his final test. B. He lost his job. C. He was late for school.7. How is the mans feeling to the woman?A. Frightened. B. Grateful. C. Disappointed.请听第7段材料，回答第89题。8. Where will the woman take the boys to?A. Hospital. B. Park. C. School.9. What is the man planning to do?A. Open a savings account. B. Bake a birthday cake. C. Buy a birthday present.请听第8段材料, 回答第1012题。10. What kind of music does the woman prefer?A. Country music. B. Pop music. C. Classical music.11. What does the man say about classical music？A. He listens to it when cooking. B. It is good for his brain. C. It can help reduce stress.12. What does the woman tell the man in the end?A. He can buy some new CDs online. B. He can find some recordings on the Internet.C. He can listen to Mozarts music.请听第9段材料, 回答第1316题。13. Where are the two speakers probably?A. In an office. B. At the hospital. C. At the womans house14. Why does the man meet the woman?A. To discuss future plans. B. To ask about the womans mother. C. To find out why the womans recent work was poor.15. What can we know about the womans mother?A. She is seriously sick. B. She had an accident. C. She died of stomach cancer.16. What is the mans attitude to the woman in the end?A. He is angry. B. He is kind. C. He is sad.请听第10段材料, 回答第1720题。17. What will people do tomorrow morning?A. Watch a performance. B. Have a meeting. C. Go sightseeing.18. Why does the speaker have to change todays plan?A. Diana Decker wants to speak first. B. He will attend an important meeting.C. The first speaker got food poisoning.19. When will the coffee break start?A. At 9:30. B. At 10:00. C. At 10:30.20. Where will the discussion be held?A. In the Youth Action Theater. B. In Room 201. C. In the meeting hall.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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AMy challenge for you is this: to read a book for 15 minutes every single day for a month.Let me explain a bit, by telling you where the challenge came from. I have many things in mon with my dad, like music taste and sense of humor, but sadly reading isnt one of them. I can happily spend a whole day with a book, but my dad cant read a book for longer than about 5 minutes. He reads emails, websites and papers for work, but not books. Hes busy so I think sitting down to read for just 15 minutes a day is a good way to relax and to introduce him to reading.My dad is by no means the only person who avoids books. I know lots of people would rather relax on their puters or in front of the TV. Everyone is different and has their own interests, but I think therere lots of benefits to reading, which screen-based activities dont have.Firstly, its better for your eyes. Looking at screens can be very stressful for you eye muscles, and clearly you should avoid looking at screens for an hour before bed, to get a good nights sleep.One thing I personally love reading, is being transported to another worldI would often forget the time or things around me! Reading is a great way to switch off before you go to bed, because you think more about the world of the book, rather than the real world, so you can truly relax. I know you can be transported to a different world in a film or a TV show, but I think books do it better.I also enjoy hearing what people are doing and finding out what they think. Reading gives me the chance to get to know hundreds of new people! It also teaches you to see things from other peoples point of view, and understand other peoples decisions or opinions. With a book, you can hear everything a character is thinking or feelingyou really can be inside someone elses head!So give it a go! Take 15 minutes when youre waking up, going to bed, eating too much, or having a coffee. If you read a lot, why not try 15 minutes of an English book, or pass the challenge on to someone else? Good luck, and happy reading!21. The author gives the example of his father in the text to show _.A. his father is very busy B. many people have no habit of readingC. his father likes reading D. reading is very important to us22. The author writes the text mainly basing on _.A. his fathers personal advice B. some scientific experimentsC. his personal experience D. knowledge from books23. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. Tips for Reading English BooksB. Ways to Improve Reading SkillsC. Having a Coffee While You ReadD. 15-Minute Reading ChallengeBHere is a true story about a famous man who worked in the White House and a criminal. They once faced the same thing: their mother gave them apples when they were young. The criminal said: one day, my mother brought some apples and asked my brother and me: “Which do you want?” “The reddest and biggest one,” my little brother said. My mother stared at him and said to him angrily: “You should learn to give the good things to others; you shouldnt always think of yourself.” Seeing this, I suddenly changed my idea and then said to my mother, “Mum, please give me the smaller one and give the bigger one to my little brother.” Hearing my words, my mother was very happy. She kissed me on my face and gave the reddest and biggest apple to me as a prize. From them on, I learned to tell lies, fight, steal and rob. In order to get what I wanted, I played hard. As a result, I was sent into prison. The famous man from the white house said, One day, my mother brought some apples. She said to my brother and me: “You all want the reddest and biggest one, right? Well, lets have a petition. Now I divided the grassland in front of the gate into two and I will give one to each of you and you must shear(修剪) it well. And I will give the reddest and biggest apple to him who does it the most quickly and best.”After the petition, I won and I got the biggest apple. In our family, as long as you want to get the best things, you must take part in petition. I think it is fair. No matter what you want, you must pay lots of efforts.24. The criminal got the reddest and biggest apple because_. A. he knew how to make his mother happy from her answer B. he told the truth that he wanted a smaller one C. elder brother should of course have the bigger one D. his mother loved him more than she loved the younger brother 25. We can conclude from the passage that _. A. its wrong to ask children to choose apples when they are not old enough. B. its wrong to ask children not to always think of themselves. C. its always necessary to have a petition when we give children apple. D. its important to make children aware that no matter what they want, they must pay work26. The writer tells the story by _. A. organizing it in the order of time. B. describing it in the order of spaceC. making a parison between two men D. providing some scientific information27. It is implied in the passage that _. A. a mothers educational method has a great influence on a childs growing. B. in order to get what we want, we should play hard. C. we should always try to win petitions which can bring us a lot.D. giving children apples will lead them to bee criminals.CThe death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a short life span(寿命) as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years. What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europes colonial ruling caused a sharp decrease in language kinds, reducing at least 15 percent of all languages spoken at the time. Over the last 300 years, Europe has lost a dozen, and Australia has only 20 left of the 250 spoken at the end of the 18th century.The rise of nation-states has also been decisive in selecting national languages. By making great efforts to establish an official language in education, the media, national governments have tried to reduce minority languages.This process of language standardization(标准化) has been improved by industrialization and scientific progress, which have created new methods of munication that are fast, straightforward and practical. Language kinds came to be seen as an difficulty to trade and the spread of knowledge. Monolingualism(单种语言) became an perfect choice.More recently, the internationalization of financial markets, the spread of information by electronic media and other aspects of globalization have led to the danger to “small” languages. A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game.The serious effects of the death of languages are clear. First of all, it is possible that if we all ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of their natural functions for language inventiveness. We would never be able to figure out the origins of human language or resolve the mystery of “the first language”. As each language dies, a chapter of human history closes.Multilingualism(多语种) is the most right solution. The destruction of the first will lead to the loss of the second. Creating a language without any links to a peoples culture and way of life stifles the expression of their language gift. A language is not only used as the main instrument of human munication. It also expresses the world vision of those who speak it, their ways of using knowledge. To safeguard languages is an urgent matter.28. Which of the following does not contribute to the death of languages? A. Colonial conquests of Europe B. The rise of nation-states C. Advances in science and industrialization D. The increase of human population29. The underlined word “ stifles” in the last paragraph probably means “_”. A.cheer B. kills C. creates D. improve30. The serious effects of the death of languages include all except that_. A. People would fail to understand how languages started B. Monolingualism would lead to the loss of multiculturalism C. Language kinds would bee an difficulty to globalization D. Human brains would bee less creative in languages31. What is the authors purpose of writing this passage? A. To call peoples attention to the importance of language preservation. B. To warn people of the negative result of globalization. C. To explain the reasons why languages are dying out. D. To argue how important it is for people to speak more languages.DNow that newsrooms(新闻编辑室) are being less popular in the US，young people have begun to tell their own storiesGlobalGirl Media，an organization that teaches teenage girls digital(数码的) storytelling skills for free，was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010“By giving girls a voice，you introduce a different story，and change the existing one,”said Danny Glover，a member of the GlobalGirl Media organization“When the cameras in my hands，I feel like I cant lose，”Said Cheyenne Grisez，14“It makes me happy and I feel like I can do anything”On the final day of the summer academy in California,Williams worked with Grisez and Camila Prado,15, on a short film about Prados fight against an eating disorder(紊乱). In the film，Prado bravely interviewed her parents and sister about how she was able to beat her bad feelings and eating disorder. This film and others the girls had made were shown to parents and friends on the last day of the academy, celebrating their hard work“Its their story，and nobody knows how to tell it better than they do.”Williams said“These girls are from really difficult backgrounds. They feel trapped sometimes. They feel alone”Williams said“The camera gives them a way to look at their world in a different way and get out of that feeling.Girls in the program practice their skills and build confidence by going out in the munity and interviewing people for the short filmsMany of them had no experience, but found they had good storytelling skills“I work with these girls. Every day I leave gratefully，because I know thatdue to the work were doing with them，things will be better，”said GlobalGirl Media summer academy project director Heather Faison32Why do many American girls like to tell stories using the camera? ATheir parents hate to give them a hand BThe camera can help them out of their troubleCThey desire to improve their photo skills DThey can make profits from their documentaries33What do we learn about GlobalGirl Media from the text? AIt was founded by the government BIt gets much money from girl students CIt has newsrooms in California DIt gives girls digital storytelling skills34What difficulty did Prado overe by making her film?AAn eating disorder. BPoor school scores CSelf-harm DTeenage difficulty35Who directed GlobalGirl Media summer academy project in California? ADanny Glover BAmie Williams CHeather Faison D.Meena Nanji七选五(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。What is the secret of writing a good letter? Here are two main ones. Dont try to be fancy. Dont try to impress your reader. You will be successful if you follow these seven Cs. Clear.Use short, direct sentences. 36 Talk as if the reader were right there with you .Above all, dont use an introduction. Correct, 37 Dont guess, even for spelling. Refer to your dictionary. If you need to, check a reference book too. Use them as much as you need to. plete. Dont scatter your points. 38 This is good organization too. Courteous. Be friendly rather than overly casual. Present your information nicely even if you are plaining about something . In all letters, treat others as you want them to treat you. Concise. Make each point as clearly and briefly as you can. Conversational. This is really the secret of good writing, 39 Such a letter has a natural, friendly tone. Let your personality e through naturally. Considerate. 40 Write about what you believe the reader needs or wants to know. Try to be helpful.This will build good feeling toward you. The seven Cs are about writing letters. But how about school papers? Use the seven Cs. Write as if you are talking to your teacher or professor. Youll be surprised. Youll almost instantly bee a good writer. And you might even enjoy writing from now on. A. Just talk to the person. B. Finish one point pletely before going on to the next. C. Include long sentences in your letter. D. Make them easy to understand. E. Writing should not be taken too seriously. F. Make sure what you say is correct. G. Think of the readers point of view as you write. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The True Story of Treasure IslandIt was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevensons imagination. 41 ,recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 42 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 43 .With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 44 .Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long 45 over the hills. They had been 46 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days 47 .To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 48 .One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 49 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 50 .“Whats that?”he asked.“Thats the 51 treasure,”said the boy. Robert suddenly 52 something of an adventure story in the boys 53.While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 54 a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate(海盗)？Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the 55 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 56 such a man in a story. 57 Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 58.So, thanks to a 59 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 60 stories in the English language.41. A. Besides B. Therefore C. HoweverD. Finally42. A. alone B. abroad C. at homeD. next door43. A. meeting B. story C. job D. holiday44. A. Lloyd B. Robert C. HenleyD. John45. A. talkB. rest C. walkD. game46. A. attempting B. missing C. enjoyingD. planning47. A. dull B. quiet C. busyD. cold48. A. cleaningB. writing C. exercisingD. drawing49. A. doubted B. noticed C. decidedD. recognized50. A. the islandB. the house C. ScotlandD. the sea51. A. forgotten B. discovered C. buried D. unexpected52. A. drew B. saw C. made D. learned53. A. book B. replyC. mind D. picture54. A. star B. hero C. writerD. child55. A. help B. problem C. useD. bottom56. A. produce B. praise C. includeD. accept57. A. YetB. Also C. ThusD. But58. A. read B. born C. hiredD. written59. A. windy B. sunny C. coolD. rainy60. A. news B. love C. adventure D. humorous第二节 短文填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。Tavi Gevinson has been called one of the most influential 19yearolds in America. It sounds _61_ (amaze), but it is true. _62_ the age of eleven, Tavi shocked the fashion world when her blog, Style Rookie, became one of the _63_ (popular) online style guides at the time. In the blog, she showed pictures of _64_ (she) and wrote about the latest fashion trends. _65_ Tavi made her blog successful and was invited to attend New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion week, she didnt just want to be a popular fashion blogger (时尚博主). She _66_ (want) to do something more meaningful and influential.In 2011, Tavi founded Rookie, _67_ online magazine aimed at teenage girls. Rookie publishes art and writing from a wide variety of contributors, including journalists, pop stars and even the magazines _68_ (read)“This online magazine is fo