湖北省宜昌市第一中学2017_2018学年高一英语上学期期中试题

宜昌市第一中学2017年秋季学期高一年级期中考试

英语试题

考试时间：120分钟满分：150分

第 I 卷

第一部分听力（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。

1. What will the man do next?

A. Drive to school.

B. Repair the door.

C. Post the letter.

2. Why will the man go to the station on Friday?

A. To see his friend off.

B. To go on holiday.

C. To give his friend a gift.

3. What is Mike?

A. A teacher.

B. A writer.

C. A student.

4. At what time can the man see the headmaster?

A. 9:30.

B. 12:40.

C. 11:45.

5. Where is Mr. Dan at the moment?

A. At Business Center.

B. In his office.

C. At home.

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，从每题所给的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。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6.When will the man and his wife leave for Beijing?

A. On Wednesday.

B. On Sunday.

C. On Friday.

7. How will they go to the airport?

A. By bus.

B. By car.

C. By taxi.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. In a store.

B. At a stadium.

C. On a playground.

9. How much will the man pay for the badminton rackets?

A. 250 yuan.

B. 500 Yuan.

C. 540 yuan.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man do?

A. A shop assistant.

B. A driver.

C. A policeman.

11. What hasn’t the woman got in her purse?

A. Her driver’s license.

B. Her ID card.

C. Some money.

12. When did the woman find her purse missing?

A. When she was at the department store.

B. When she was in the coffee shop.

C. When she was on her way home.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. How does the woman feel at first?

A. Angry.

B. Astonished.

C. Puzzled.

14. What was the man supposed to do?

A. Pick up the woman.

B. Attend the party.

C. Talk at the party.

15. What happened to the old lady?

A. She was robbed of her handbag.

B. She was knocked down.

C. She was taken to the police station.

16. Why didn’t the man give the woman a call?

A. He was so busy that he forgot it.

B. His mobile phone was broken.

C. His mobile phone got lost.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Why did the man want to leave college after the second term?

A. He was not interested in education.

B. He couldn’t afford further education.

C. He didn’t like the big lecture classes.

18. What does the man think of his work experiences?

A. They were personally rewarding.

B. They gave him a chance to learn German.

C. They made him become more independent.

19. How much has the man earned during the past four years?

A. $ 1,700.

B. $ 5,740.

C. $ 4,750.

20. What is the man probably doing now?

A. Studying in college.

B. Working as a teacher.

C. Working in the organization.

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。

A

John Michael Thomas, 14, Florida

When John Michael Thomas decided to honor his friend and classmate Elizabeth Buckley, who died from cancer, he remembered how much she loved peacocks(孔雀).

He wanted to build a life-sized peacock fountain in Elizabeth’s favorite park in the city. He thought it could be a place for people to relax and be inspired.

John Michael raised $52,000 to build the fountain.

Barrett England, 13, Utah

The wheels began to turn for Barrett England when he heard about Karma Bike shop, a place where young people can earn free bike by reading and performing community service.

Barrett visited Karma’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and donate them to the shop.

He expected to get about 10 donated bikes. In the end, Barrett received 39.

Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin

The 25-year-old playground at an elementary school near Milwaukee, Wis., was so small that only 70 of its 575 students could play on it at a time.

That’s when Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some volunteers build a huge playground. To raise money, Zac planned T-shirt and bake sales, sold tickets and more. He held monthly money-raising events for more than a year. Overall, he collected $130,000--- enough to finish his project.

Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey

For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the refrigerator. For more than 366,000 hungry kids in New Jersey, it’s not that easy.

That fact didn’t sit well with Jack Zimmerman, who organized a drive to lessen childhood hunger in his state. His goal: create 40,000 packaged meals that could be donated to those in need.

On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. After the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals--- well above Jack’s goal.

21. The peacock fountain was built in a park ________ .

A. to encourage people

B. for the love of animals

C. in memory of a teenager

D. to cure a cancer sufferer

22. What did Barrett do for Karma Bike Shop?

A. He donated bikes to it.

B. He repaired bikes there.

C. He helped it win customers. C. He offered a reading service there.

23. Who improved a place for children to play?

A. Jack

B. John

C. Barrett

D. Zachary

24. What do the four people have in common?

A. They’re top students.

B. They care about others.

C. They like various public activities. C. They’re money raisers for the poor.

B

There are so many expressions in American English that sound pleasant but are not. “Face the music” is a good example.

Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful red sports car. She gives you the key and says, “Thanks so much for watching my car while I’m away. But please, do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car.” But you do not listen. You want to show off and pretend the car is yours. So, you drive it around the town. As a result, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. The damage is serious. When your friend returns, you must tell her what you have done and “face the music.” That could mean losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her sports car or both. Whatever the music is, you must face it.

The expression is more than 150 years old. In 1851, the writer James Fenimore Cooper

explained “face the music”as theatrical term. In a theater, the orchestra(管弦乐队) often sits in the front of the stage facing the musicians. Many actors are very nervous, a condition called stage fright. “Face the music”came to mean accepting stage fright and not giving in to it.

Word experts also say “face the music” may have come from the military. A soldier who did something terrible could be forced out of the army. When that happened, the army drummers would play slow, sad beat. The soldier would be led away seated backward on a horse and facing the music of the drums.

There are other American expressions that mean the same thing as “face the music.” If someone says, “You made your bed. Now lie in it,” they mean you created a bad situation and now you will experience the result.

25. What does the underlined part “the music” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The unpleasant music.

B. The beautiful red sports car.

C. The music played by the orchestra.

D. The bad result of your actions.

26. Which of the following is an example of “face the music”?

A. You have held a concert successfully.

B. You will buy the sports car you like best.

C. Your friend invites you to attend a live concert.

D. You have to go home with your bad exam results.

27. What is most likely to be discussed following the last paragraph?

A. The origin of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”

B. Some other expressions similar to “face the music.”

C. The true meaning of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”

D. Other examples to explain the meaning of “face the music.”

C

One night, Pilar was in a deep sleep when she was woken by her cat Inti. Inti was meowing wildly outside Pilar’s bedroom and throwing himself against the closed bedroom door. When Pilar opened her eyes, she saw that her bedroom was filled with smoke. As she escaped her house with Inti in her arms, she saw that a fire was burning in her kitchen. Pilar could easily have lost her life, but Inti would not let that happen. Even though Inti could have escaped the house through a cat door, he wouldn’t leave Pilar.

As amazing as this story is, it is not as uncommon as you may think. Take the example of Charlotte Lee and her horse, Thunder. One summer night, the whole family was asleep with the windows open. It was normally very quiet where they lived. Suddenly, there was a loud noise. Charlotte woke up from her sweet dream, and the noise continued. Then she heard a horse running fast towards the house. The next thing she saw was Thunder standing outside her window, neighing(嘶叫) and shaking his head. She knew something was wrong. Charlotte quickly got everyone out of the house before the earthquake hit. Thunder has saved her life.

There are also stories of wild animals coming to the rescue of humans. One animal known to be a friend of humans is the dolphin. Once, Todd Endris was surfing with his friends when he was attacked by a 13-foot (4-meter) shark. In the middle of the attack, a group of dolphins came to his rescue by forming a protective ring around Endris until he could get safely to shore. Without the help of the dolphins, there is little chance that Todd

could have escaped.

No one is sure why animals have so often come to our rescue. However, it is clear that humans and animals enjoy a close relationship. It is important that we care for them as much as we can.

28. Why did Inti throw himself against the door?

A. He was trying to wake up his owner.

B. He wanted to get out of the room.

C. He felt bored and was playing by himself.

D. He couldn’t find the way out because of smoke.

29. Before the earthquake hit, Charlotte ________.

A. closed the windows

B. was sleeping deeply

C. ran to warn her neighbors

D. got her horse out of the stable

30. Both Inti and Thunder ________.

A. were shy and quiet

B. used to make noise at night

C. were brave and smart

D. saved their owners several times

31. What might Todd say to those dolphins?

A. Leave me alone.

B. You are real heroes.

C. Why are you leaving?

D. What are you doing here?

D

When parents discover their children have lied to them for the first time, it can often come as a shock to find their little treasures are capable of such a trick. But new research has suggested many parents may not even notice many of the lies their children tell them.

Psychologists have discovered that most parents are over-confident in their children’s honesty and this may impair their ability to discover a lie.

The findings may help to explain why some parents seem to be willing to let their children get away with almost anything even in the face of the evidence. They say parents suffer from a “truth bias(偏见)”with their own youngsters, but when faced with lies from other people’s children, they have less difficulty telling if a statement is true or not.

Dr Angela Evans, a psychologist at Brock University in Canada, said, “The close relationship that parents share with their own children may lead to parents failing to detect their children’s lies. Parents’ truth bias may result in parents being less suspicious of their children, allowing them to successfully cheat them.”

Most children are thought to start lying as early as two years old but start telling more believable lies at around the age of four years old. Learning how to lie is considered as a key part of cognitive(认知的) and social development in children. But many parents are shocked when their children start lying to them. In their study, Dr Evans and her colleagues filmed 108 children aged between 8 and 16 as they performed a test after being asked not to look at the answers. They were then asked afterwards if they had looked, with 50 truthfully denying looking, 49 lying about looking and 9 admitting to looking.

Videos of those denying looking were then shown to 152 parents of children aged 8 to 16, 80 of whom had children who had taken part in the test. The researchers found that the parents were less able to spot lies told by their own children than by other people’s children.

32. What does the underlined word “impair” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Show.

B. Develop.

C. Damage.

D. Recognize.