1、 第 1 页（共 10 页） 第 2 页（共 10 页） 仙桃 中学高 一上学期期中 考试 英语试题 命题： 田地旭 审 题： 胡冬梅 第 卷 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 is the man wearing now? A. A blue sport shirt. B. A green sport shirt.
2、C. A green T-shirt. 2. How many languages can Helen speak fluently? A. Three. B. Four. C. Two. 3. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Psychological problems. B. High rents. C. Spending habits. 4. Where will the woman go first? A. To the bank. B. To the bakery. C. To the post office. 5. Wh
3、ere does the conversation probably take place? A. At school. B. At a restaurant. 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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟。听完后，各小题给出 5 秒钟的做答时间。每段对话读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、 7 题。 6. Who showed the man some pictures
4、 of South Africa? A. Jennifer. B. Laura. C. Lisa. 7. What does the man have to do now? A. Book a flight immediately. B. Wait for his partners reply. C. Ask his boss for the time off. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、 9 题。 8. Why did the woman go to that location? A. She saw a brochure. B. Its near her workplace. C. I
5、t has the lowest price. 9. What does the man want the woman to do? A. Buy a golden card. B. Go online before Johanna shows her around. C. Give him a picture for a new membership card. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. Who might Ms. Winkler be? A. Ellas teacher. B. Ellas mom. C. Ellas advisor. 11. What doe
6、s Ella need to do to be a top ten student? A. Get a 90% on the final exam. B. Do well for the next few months. C. Pass the final exam. 12. What is the man worried about? A. Ella getting into college. B. Ellas mental health. C. Ellas social life. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What did Eva do last night
7、? A. She went to a concert. B. She watched a basketball game. C. She saw a Christmas play. 14. How is Rebecca related to Eva? A. Evas classmate. B. Evas teacher. C. Evas sister. 15. What does Evas mother probably do for a living? A. Shes a violinist. B. Shes a babysitter. C. Shes a nurse. 16. Why is
8、 Derek having trouble with his studies? A. He has to work in the orchestra. B. He is busy with his music. C. He has a lot of responsibilities at home. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. Who is making the announcement? A. Campus Security. B. The city. C. The marathon organizer. 18. When does the race start
9、? A. At 9:30 a.m. B. At 9:00 a.m. C. At 8:00 a.m. 19. What does the speaker ask the listeners to do? A. Finish their business before the race starts. B. Call the marathon organizers website to complain. C. Get excited about the marathon. 20. Why should people get a map? A. To find out which shops an
10、d banks are open. B. To find the closest parking lots. C. To figure out where there might be traffic problems. 第 3 页（共 10 页） 第 4 页（共 10 页） 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 Here is a list of some of the best museums for childr
11、en in America. Please Touch Childrens Museum This museum lies in Philadelphia. It offers Alice in Wonderland exhibits where young children can play with giant flowers and have tea parties. Kids can also play on musical instruments and babies can crawl on lily pads, which make musical sounds. The Chi
12、ldrens Museum of Indianapolis This museum lies in Indiana. It holds a fair share of dinosaur fossils (化石 ). There are many fossils like the T. Rex, Bucky and many others in an 8,000-square-foot area. Around 10,000 man-made objects, including a 55-ton steam engine and a 33-foot tall water clock, are
13、there in the 365,000-square-foot area. It also offers activities like dinosaur building, camps and classes featuring space themes and other educational programs. Boston Childrens Museum This museum lies in Massachusetts. The exhibits here are of health, art, science, culture and environment. In this
14、 museum, children also learn about Japanese culture. Activities like Play Lab, New Balance Climb and The Recycle Shop bring out the creativity in children. National Museum of Play This museum, which lies in Rochester area of New York, has a wide collection of dolls, games, toys and other home crafts
15、 dating back to the 19th century. Here, educational tours include stories of machines and other toys. Kids can walk in Sesame Street exhibit and cook food at play or TV studios. Childrens Museum of Houston This museum lies in Texas. Termed as the best playground for mind, this museum offers scores o
16、f activities for kids of every age. It even offers free family adventure events where families with their kids are encouraged to work on math activities and games. Children also learn about broadcasting activities and preserving ecosystems. 21. One who has interest in environmental protection can ch
17、oose to visit . A. National Museum of Play or Childrens Museum of Houston B. Boston Childrens Museum or Childrens Museum of Houston C. Please Touch Childrens Museum or Boston Childrens Museum D. The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis or National Museum of Play 22. While visiting National Museum of Pla
18、y, you can take part in . A. dinosaur building B. New Balance Climb C. cooking food at play or TV studios D. playing with giant flowers 23. If a couple with kids of different ages want to do activities together, they should go to . A. New York B. Indiana C. Texas D. Massachusetts 24. Who might be mo
19、st interested in this passage? A. Students. B. Parents. C. Teachers. D. Researchers. B I think it was October, 1982. A friend had business dealings in the city of Reno, Nevada, and I was asked to accompany her on an overnight trip. While she conducted her business, I was aimlessly wandering down Vir
20、ginia Street， heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but I couldnt make eye contact with anyone. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute.
21、 She 1ooked at me as though I were from some other planet and said, Well Surprisingly, she followed me out. When she got outside I said to her, Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone. For a few seconds we just 1ooked. Then I said, Gods in
22、his heaven and alls right with the world. I thanked her for coming out to see it and sharing the beauty. Four years later my situation had changed considerably. I had come to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. One day, while my clothes were go
23、ing around, I picked up a Unity Magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: cosmetic sales in a department store. We had a lot in common. T
24、hen something happened to her that changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, Gods in his heaven and alls right with the world., and she had realized the truth in that statement and that she simply had
25、 not been seeing it. From that moment on, she turned her life around. 25. Why did the writer duck into a department store? A. She found it was boring with nobody talking to her. B. She wanted to find somebody sharing the beautiful sunset. C. She wanted to buy something for her friend. D. She thought
26、 it was his responsibility to share the natural beauty with others. 26. What does the sentence Gods in his heaven and alls right with the world mean? A. We should be independent and enjoy ourselves in spite of difficulties. B. We should believe in God who can help us when we are in trouble. C. We sh
27、ould never hold the belief that God can change our life. D. We should be optimistic in the face of uncertainty 第 5 页（共 10 页） 第 6 页（共 10 页） 27. What do you think finally changed the writers attitude towards life? A. The womans story. B. The encouragement from the woman. C. The sunset they enjoyed fou
28、r years ago. D. The old magazine she came across. 28. What may be the best title for the text? A. Depending on yourself B. Never giving up halfway C. Struggling every day D. Sharing beauty C Imagine youve finally landed a job of your dreams in another city. Its everything youd hoped for, but theres
29、only one problem housing costs in the area are so high that youre forced to live in a parking lot. While this sounds like an impossible situation, this predicament is a reality for one man. Brandon, 25, is a software engineer for Google at its San Francisco, California campus. I realized I was payin
30、g too large an amount of money for the apartment I was staying in, and I was almost never home, he told Business Insider. Its really hard to justify throwing that money away. Youre not putting money into anything and you are not building it up for a future. Since scoring his job in May 2015 followin
31、g a successful internship, hes been living in a truck on a parking lot a short distance from his workplace. The tech worker makes up for the lack of facilities by eating, using the bathroom and showering at work, also charging his phone and computer there. San Francisco is home to the most expensive
32、 rental market in the US, with the average rental for a one-bedroom apartment coming to 3,590 (24,900 yuan) a month, according to property site Zumper. And while some may not be able to handle giving up lifes luxuries just to put aside some cash, Brandon estimates that hes saved almost 28,000 since
33、he moved in just over 18 months ago. Not only do I get to invest all of that redirected rent money, but I get to invest all the money Im not spending on furniture, facilities and buying food, Brandon wrote on his blog. 29. Which of the following can replace the underlined word predicament in Paragra
34、ph2? A. possibility B. dilemma C. disappointment D. mess 30. Why does Brandon prefer to live in a truck on a parking lot? A. Because he has no time to go back to an apartment. B. Because his workplace provides him with what he needs C. Because the rent is too high and he thinks it isnt worthwhile. D
35、. Because he wants to save money for an apartment of his own. 31. What does Brandon think of his choice? A. Wise B. Embarrassing C. Painful D. Difficult D Pigeons may only have a brain the size of a thimble (顶针 ), but it appears that pigeons can categorize and name objects in the same way human chil
36、dren learn new words. A new study from the University of Iowa has shown that the birds are capable of learning to categorize 128 different photographs into 16 basic categories. Scientists taught three pigeons to sort out different kinds of dogs or types of shoes, for example by using a particular sy
37、mbol in exchange for a reward. When they were shown black and white pictures of previously unseen dogs or shoes, the birds were able to correctly match these with the corresponding symbols. The scientists behind the project say this is a similar approach taken by young children when they are first l
38、earning words for objects. However, the researchers said it took their birds around 40 days to perfect the task of learning just 16 categories. Professor Edward Wasserman, who led the work, said: Our birds rate of learning appears to have been quite slow. Would children learn faster than pigeons? Al
39、most certainly. However, our pigeons came to the experiment with no background knowledge at all. Thus, the more relevant comparison group may be newborn babies, who indeed take 69 months to learn their first words. Writing in the journal Cognition, the researchers said their experiment was a very si
40、mple mirror of the way children are taught words by their parents pointing to pictures and asking them to name the object. Pigeons are known to be smarter than many birds. Professor Bob McMurray, who also took part in the study, said the results showed that human learning is not as unique as was pre
41、viously believed. He said: Children are facing a huge task of learning thousands of words without a lot of background knowledge to go on. For a long time, people thought that such learning is special to humans. What this research shows is that the ways in which children solve this huge problem may b
42、e shared with many species. 32. Whats the main idea of this passage? A. Pigeons and young children take a similar approach to learn words. B. Pigeons recognize objects in the same way children learn words. C. Pigeons are known to be smarter than newborn babies. D. Pigeons are unique as they can lear
43、n like humans. 33. Why does the writer think newborn babies are the more relevant comparison group? A. Pigeons and newborn babies learn at a similar speed. B. They learn relatively slow. C. They dont have any background knowledge. D. Young children are smarter. 34. From the passage, we can learn tha
44、t . A. many species may be able to learn without background knowledge B. learning without background knowledge is unique to humans C. pigeons are able to solve many huge problems D. pigeons are known to be the smartest birds 第 7 页（共 10 页） 第 8 页（共 10 页） 35. The passage is intended to . A. introduce p
45、igeons B. report a study C. support an opinion D. prove a fact 第二节 （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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Everyone can benefit from making an effort to practice gratitude (感激） every day .The following three steps can help you start feeling more grateful, and appr
46、eciative of the good things in your life: Notice the Good Things in Your Life 36 Pay attention to the small everyday details of your life-nature, people, community, shelter, creature comforts like a warm bed or a good meal .And then start a gratitude journal. Making a commitment to writing down good
47、 things each day makes it more likely that we will notice good things as they happen. Enjoy the Feeling of Gratitude There are moments when you naturally, right then and there ,feel filled with gratitude .These are moments when you say to yourself , “ Oh ,wow ,this is amazing !” or “ How great is this ! ” Pause . _37_Let it sink in .Enjoy your blessings in the moment they happen. Express Gratitude Expressing gratitude is more than being polite. 38 Show your appreciation to someone who really did something nice .Say “ It was really kind of you to .” “ Yo
