1、 第 1 页（共 12 页） 第 2 页（共 12 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. C. A green T-shirt.2. How
2、 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. Where does the conversation proba
3、bly 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 of South Africa?A. Jennifer. B. Laura.
4、 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. It has the lowest price. 9. What does the man wan
5、t 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 does Ella need to do to be a top ten student?A. Get a 90%
6、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?A. She went to a concert.B. She watched a basketball game. C.
7、 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 Derek having trouble with his studies?A. He has to work in the orche
8、stra.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?A. At 9:30 a.m. B. At 9:00 a.m. C. At 8:00 a.m.19. What does the speaker as
9、k 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 and banks are open.B. To find the closest parking lots.C. To figure out where there m
10、ight be traffic problems.第 3 页（共 12 页） 第 4 页（共 12 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。AHere is a list of some of the best museums for children in America.Please Touch Childrens MuseumThis museum lies in Philadelphia. It offers Alice
11、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 Childrens Museum of IndianapolisThis museum lies in Indiana. It holds a fair share of dinosaur foss
12、ils (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 there in the 365,000-square-foot area. It also offers activities like dinosaur building, camps and
13、 classes featuring space themes and other educational programs.Boston Childrens MuseumThis museum lies in Massachusetts. The exhibits here are of health, art, science, culture and environment. In this museum, children also learn about Japanese culture. Activities like Play Lab, New Balance Climb and
14、 The Recycle Shop bring out the creativity in children.National Museum of PlayThis museum, which lies in Rochester area of New York, has a wide collection of dolls, games, toys and other home crafts dating back to the 19th century. Here, educational tours include stories of machines and other toys.
15、Kids can walk in Sesame Street exhibit and cook food at play or TV studios.Childrens Museum of HoustonThis museum lies in Texas. Termed as the best playground for mind, this museum offers scores of activities for kids of every age. It even offers free family adventure events where families with thei
16、r 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 choose to visit .A. National Museum of Play or Childrens Museum of HoustonB. Boston Childrens Museum or Chi
17、ldrens Museum of HoustonC. Please Touch Childrens Museum or Boston Childrens MuseumD. The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis or National Museum of Play22. While visiting National Museum of Play, you can take part in .A. dinosaur building B. New Balance ClimbC. cooking food at play or TV studios D. pla
18、ying with giant flowers23. 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. Massachusetts24. Who might be most interested in this passage?A. Students. B. Parents. C. Teachers. D. Researchers.BI think it was October, 1982. A
19、 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 Virginia Street，heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share
20、 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. She 1ooked at me as though I were from some other planet and said, “Well Surprisingly, she followed me out.When she go
21、t 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 his heaven and alls right with the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it and sharing the beauty.Four years l
22、ater 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 going around, I picked up a Unity Magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She
23、 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. Then something happened to her that changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her
24、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 not been seeing it. From that moment on, she turned her life around.25. Why did the writer duck into a department
25、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 it was his responsibility to share the natural beauty with others.26. What does the sentence “Gods in his heaven and al
26、ls 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 should never hold the belief that God can change our life.D. We should be optimistic in the face of uncertainty第 5 页（共 12 页）
27、 第 6 页（共 12 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 four 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
28、giving up halfwayC. Struggling every day D. Sharing beauty CImagine youve finally landed a job of your dreams in another city. Its everything youd hoped for, but theres 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 imposs
29、ible 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 paying too large an amount of money for the apartment I was staying in, and I was almost never home,” he told Business Insider. “Its rea
30、lly 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 following a successful internship, hes been living in a truck on a parking lot a short distance from his workplace.The tech worker makes
31、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 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
32、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 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 mo
33、ney 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 Paragraph2?A. possibility B. dilemma C. disappointment D. mess30. Why does Brandon prefer to live in a truck on a parking lot?A. Becaus
34、e he has no time to go back to an apartment.B. Because his workplace provides him with what he needsC. Because the rent is too high and he thinks it isnt worthwhile.D. 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. Pain
35、ful D. DifficultDPigeons 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 children learn new words.A new study from the University of Iowa has shown that the birds are capable of learning to categorize 128 different p
36、hotographs 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 symbol in exchange for a reward. When they were shown black and white pictures of previously unseen dogs or shoes, the birds were able to corre
37、ctly 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 learning words for objects. However, the researchers said it took their birds around 40 days to perfect the task of learning just 16 categories
38、.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? Almost certainly. However, our pigeons came to the experiment with no background knowledge at all. Thus, the more relevant comparison group may
39、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 simple 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
40、 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 previously 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
41、 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 be 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. Pige
42、ons 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 learn 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 s
43、peed.B. They learn relatively slow.C. They dont have any background knowledge.D. Young children are smarter.34. From the passage, we can learn that .A. many species may be able to learn without background knowledgeB. learning without background knowledge is unique to humansC. pigeons are able to sol
44、ve many huge problemsD. pigeons are known to be the smartest birds第 7 页（共 12 页） 第 8 页（共 12 页）35. The passage is intended to .A. introduce pigeons 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 fro
45、m making an effort to practice gratitude (感激）every day .The following three steps can help you start feeling more grateful, and appreciative 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, shel
46、ter, creature comforts like a warm bed or a good meal .And then start a gratitude journal. Making a commitment to writing down good 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
47、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
48、 to someone who really did something nice .Say “It was really kind of you to .” “You did me a big favor when .” ，or “Thank you for being there when .” . 39 Hold the door open for the person behind you, even if it means waiting a little longer than you normally would.True gratitude doesnt leave you feeling like you owe other people something _aft
