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1、2016学年第二学期期中试卷高一英语注意事项：1. 本试卷分选择题和非选择题。其中选择题共70分，非选择题共30分;满分100分，考试时间为90分钟。2. 所有试题请答在答题纸上；不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分16分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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 woman order?A. Fish.B. Beef.C. Chicken.2. What
2、 does the man want to do?A.Enjoy a play.B. Read a novel. C. See a film.3. Where is the woman going next?A. To a restaurant.B. To a museum.C. To her house.4. When should the man arrive at university?A. By 9:30.B. By 8:50.C. By 8:40.5. What does the woman suggest？A. The man isnt telling the truth.B. T
3、he man had no reason to be sick.C. The man didnt need to attend the meeting.第二节（共11小题；每小题1分，满分11分）听下面4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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What are the speakers going to do on Saturday together?A. Play football.B. Wat
4、ch a game.C. Attend a party.7. How will the man go on Saturday?A. He will just go there on foot.B. He will get a ride in her fathers car.C. He will drive a car himself.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What does the woman dislike about her job?A.The workmates.B. The boss.C. The working field.9. According to the wom
5、an, why was she employed?A. Because she had a lot of experience. B. Because the job interviewer liked her. C. Because many employees give up their jobs every year.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where did Mrs. King originally plan to go?A.To Miami.B. To Chicago.C. To Los Angeles.11. Why will Mrs. King go to Lo
6、s Angeles?A. To do an interview. B. To have a sales meeting. C. To attend the opening of an office. 12. What could the woman most probably be?A. An airline clerk(职员).B. A secretary.C. A guide.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning.B. In the afternoon.C. In the e
7、vening.14. What do we know about the man?A.He is ill with flu.B. He cant finish his homework today.C. He will go to school today.15. What relation is Mr. Bell to the man?A. His neighbor. B. His classmate.C. His teacher.16. What does the man ask the woman to do? A. Help him hand in his project. B. Ca
8、ll his teacher to ask for leave. C. Drive him to the hospital right now.第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分34分)第一节（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AALBUQUERQUE, N. M.With the new year coming, a new website was set up to offer ringtones (手机铃声) of the sounds of dozens of rare and endangere
9、d species from around the world.The Center for Biological Diversity started offering free wildlife ringtones for cellphones a year ago to educate people about theplightof the animals, and the movement enjoyed such success that the environmental group has collected more ringtones and added them to it
10、s website for this year.The group plans to release a kind of new ringtones each month, including the sounds of the African elephant and the Emperor Penguin of the Antarctic, said Peter Galvin, the groups conservation director.“Weve hit the 100,000th download in over 150 countries,” Galvin said Wedne
11、sday in a telephone interview. “Its pretty interesting. We didnt realize how much of an international hit it would become.”The response, he said, stresses the worldwide movement to save endangered and rare species.“The extinction crisis is a worldwide crisis,” he said.Available ringtones include the
12、 howl of an endangered Mexican gray wolf, the bellows of an Arctic beluga whale and the calls of dozens of other mammals, birds and reptiles. Website visitors can also get cellphone wallpaper and facts for each of the species.And later this year, the website will be available in Spanish and more rin
13、gtones from species in Latin America will be added, Galvin said.17. The new ringtones collect the sound of _. A. lovely animalsB. common animals C. frightened animalsD. rare or endangered animals18. The new ringtones mentioned in the passage are used to _. A. add fun to the new yearB. celebrate the
14、coming new year C. call on people to protect wildlifeD. develop the cellphone industry19. The underlined word “plight” in the second paragraph probably means “_”. A. sudden disappearance B. difficult situation C. rich knowledge D. usual habit20. What would be the best title for the passage? A. New W
15、ildlife Ringtones Released in a Website B. A New Way to Protect Wildlife C. Great success of New Strange Ringtones D. New Ringtones Popular With Cellphone UsersBThe Jungle BooksThe Jungle Books were published in 1894 and 1895. Lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolv
16、es, Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies in the jungles improve this childs strength and cleverness and stir every readers imagination.Price: $ 7.79ISBN-13: 978-1613820742Average Customer Review: A Stolen
17、 LifeThe first work of its kindJaycee Dugards personal life story, her own story of being kidnapped(绑架) in 1991. When Jaycee was eleven years old, she was kidnapped from a school bus stop. She was missing for more than eighteen years, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment.Price: $
18、19.79ISBN-13: 978-1442344983Average Customer Review: While Were Far ApartFive-time Christy Award winner Lynn Austin is called as “one of the styles best historical fiction novelists”. Set in Brooklyn, New York, during World War I, while a motherless girl longs for her daddy and a young lady hopes fo
19、r a second chance at love, this tale explores the uncertainty that stays in people in Europe.Price: $ 6.00ISBN-10: 0764204971Average Customer Review: The Fashion PoliceThe Fashion Police was runner-up in the Chapter One Promotions Novel Competition 2010 and nominated (提名) Best Novel with Romantic El
20、ements 2010 by The Romance Reviews. It is a strange comedy-mystery, combining murder with romance and chick-lit.For starters, Amber accidently shoots Chief Inspector Janice Skipper and gets thrown off the police force. The only one who knows the truth about the incident is Amber, but no one will bel
21、ieve her. Price: $ 12.73ISBN-13: 978-1451555653Average Customer Review: 21. The ISBN of the book that gains most popularity among the research is _.A. ISBN13: 9781613820742B. ISBN13: 9781451555653C. ISBN10: 0764204971D. ISBN13: 978144234498322. If you want to buy one book about humans living with an
22、imals and one about historical fiction, you have to pay _.A. 13.79 dollarsB. 20.52 dollarsC. 27.58 dollars D. 18.73 dollars23. What makes the book The Fashion Police different from others?A. It wins the award Christy Award five times.B. It is a great book on violence and family education.C. It is na
23、med Best Novel with Romantic Elements 2010.D. It has many elements borrowed from stories of true policemen.24. In which part of a newspaper would the information of the books be most likely to appear?A. ScienceB. AdvertisementC. OpinionD. LifestyleCAmerican folk music is the music of the people. “Go
24、od Night Irene,” is an example of a traditional folk song. That means the song is so old, no one really knows who wrote it. Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as Ledbelly, first recorded “Good Night Irene” in 1932. Since then more than a hundred other versions have been recorded. “Good
25、 Night Irene,” was a huge hit for the Weavers in 1950.Folk songs sometimes tell stories about real events. An example is the story of a young man whose last name was spelled D-U-L-A but pronounced “Dooley”. Tom Dula was a Civil War soldier in North Carolina. He was found guilty of the murder of his
26、girlfriend. He was sentenced to death and was hanged in 1868, yet the case left many questions. The story was retold in poems and songsincluding the hit song, “Tom Dooley,” recorded in 1958 by the Kingston Trio.Folk singer and songwriter Amy Speace says the history of American folk music can be imag
27、ined as a tree with many branches. At the center, she says, is Woody Guthrie. Woody Guthrie wrote almost 3,000 songs. But he only recorded about 300 of them. His granddaughter Anna Canoni says that was partly because he did not have enough money to record more.Yet for all his influence, millions of
28、Americans today remember him for just one song, which children learned in school. The song, “This Land is Your Land,” seems like the perfect expression of pride in country. What many people do not know is that it was meant sarcastically(讽刺地), as just the opposite. This meaning is made clear later in
29、 the song, in the parts that most children never learn in school.Some people probably think of a folk singer out of date from the 1960s. A long-haired, guitar-playing idealist sings about bringing the world together. But these days, with music production software, digital video and social networks a
30、ll easily available, folk artists really can bring the world together.25. What do we know about “Good Night Irene”?A. It was first recorded in 1950.B. It was about a real event. C. Ledbelly wrote this old song.D. The Weavers version was very successful.26. Who was Tom Dula? A. A hero hanged wrongly.
31、B. A real man thought to be a murderer. C. A soldier killed in a war.D. An imaginary person in a song.27. From Paragraph3 we can learn that Woody Guthrie _.A. earned a lot by writing folk musicB. recorded as many as 3,000 songs in his lifeC. recorded his songs with a major record companyD. played an
32、 important role in the history of folk music28. What is the authors attitude toward folk artists? A. UncaringB. DoubtfulC.SupportiveD. Unconcerned第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后选项中选出能填入空白出的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth. There are hundreds of kinds of shar
33、ks. Most are about two meters long. The dogfish shark, however, is less than twenty centimeters in length. A shark has an extremely good sense of smell. It can find small amounts of substances in water, such as blood, body liquids and chemicals produced by animals. 29 Sharks eat fish, other sharks,
34、and plants that live in the ocean. Sharks grow slowly. About forty percent of all sharks lay eggs. 30 Some sharks carry their young inside their bodies as humans do. Some sharks are not able to reproduce until they are twenty years old. Most reproduce only every two years. And they give birth to few
35、er than ten young sharks. For this reason, overfishing of sharks is of special danger to the future of the animal. Sharks are important for the worlds oceans. They eat injured and diseased fish. Their hunting activities mean that the numbers of other fish in ocean waters do not become too great. 31
36、People hunt sharks for sport, food, medicine and their skin. Experts say the international market for some kinds of sharks has increased because many parts of a shark are valuable. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for the jaws of a shark. 32 The skin of a shark can be used like leather. In Asia,
37、people enjoy a kind of soup made from shark fins. Experts say a fisherman can earn a lot of money for even one kilogram of shark fins. Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth, but some sharks are in danger of disappearing from Earth. 33 A. The others give birth to live young.B. They are a threa
38、t to other forms of life in the ocean.C. This powerful sense helps sharks find their food.D. Sharks are valuable to us and we can make full use of them.E. Shark liver oil is a popular source of Vitamin A.F. This protects the plants and other forms of life that exist in the oceans. G. If too many sha
39、rks in one area are killed, that group of sharks may never return to normal population levels.第三部分：语言运用(共两节，满分30分)第一节:完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，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。“Today is the day I start the big diet,” I told my wife as I raised my hand and 34 , “No chocolate toda
40、y!”“Oh, has the hospital gift shop 35 selling it?” she asked. “No,” I said. “Ill just have to 36 my strong determination.”But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there 37 . I knew my promise would 38 disappear. Because if Benton had things his way, Id always be eating a
41、piece of candy from the 39 bag he often shared with me. Benton was an eight-year-old boy who was 40 because of a kind of cancer, which caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen 41 old. For the next twenty six months, he was in and out of our hospital. For nearly four years, it seemed 4
42、2 Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he 43 a headache and lost 44 on his right side. His mom 45 him to the hospital.Over the next several months, Benton came to our 46 many more times. Each time he came, we 47 say hello, while Benton answered the 48 by hold
43、ing out a candy from his bag.So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes 49 but not looking into this world. “We brought his candy bag with us. Would you like to have some?” his mother asked.Without thinking of my diet, I 50 into the bag and pulle
44、d out the first piece my fingers touched. It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece 51 me. At home that evening, I answered a phone about Bentons 52 . As I 53 the phone, I opened the candy and ate it.34. A. respondedB. screamedC. sighedD. promised35. A. succeededB. stoppedC. continued
45、D. tried36. A. insist onB. rely onC. keep onD. base on37. A. yetB. earlyC. afterwardsD. indeed38. A. quicklyB. suddenlyC. hardlyD. briefly39. A. hopelessB. bottomlessC. carelessD. harmless40. A. deafB. painfulC. injuredD. blind41. A. seasonsB. yearsC. daysD. months42. A. even thoughB. as thoughC. ev
46、en ifD. if only43. A. developedB. affectedC. providedD. gained44. A. movementB. strengthC. balanceD. sight45. A. permittedB. broughtC. carriedD. rushed46. A. studioB. reserveC. hospitalD. office47. A. wouldB. couldC. shouldD. must48. A. meetingB. encouragingC. greetingD. praising49. A. staredB. closedC. openedD. glared50. A. reachedB. feltC. touchedD. inspected51. A. atB. withC. forD.