福建省漳州市芗城中学学年高一英语下学期期中试题.docx

1、福建省漳州市芗城中学学年高一英语下学期期中试题2015-2016年高一下学期期中考英语试卷 (满分:150分 时间: 120分钟)注意事项：1.答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考试号，班级填写在答题卷和答题卡相对应的位置上。2.选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。第I卷（共100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. What

2、 does the man want?A. A tennis game. B. An online game. C. A shooting game.2. What will the man do next?A. Make dinner. B. Wash the dishes. C. Watch TV.3. What does the man mean? A. He prefers to keep the window closed. B. He is too busy to open the window. C. He agrees to open the window at once.4.

3、 What is the time now? A. About 5:30. B. About 5:00. C. About 4:30.5. What does the man suggest doing? A. Pressing the emergency button. B. Calling the service centre. C. Doing nothing for a short while.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

4、题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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、7题。6. What did the woman spend $10 on？ A. The taxi. B. The hot dogs. C. The popcorn and drinks.7. Where did the speakers go just before they went home? A. To the convenience store. B. To the movies. C. To the new hot dog place.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What r

5、elation is Ms Leska to the woman? A. Her roommate. B. Her cousin. C. Her workmate.9. Who will probably meet Kevin at the bus station? A. Claudia. B. Tara. C. Albee.10. What will the woman do at 3:00 p.m.? A. Meet the man. B. Look after Ms Leska. C. Teach a class.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. How did the man

6、learn to play instruments? A. He taught himself. B. He learned it at school. C. He learned it at pubs and clubs.12. What instrument did the man play first? A. The piano. B. Keyboards. C. The drum.13. When did the man leave school? A. In 1981. B. In 1992. C. In 1997.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What are the

7、speakers mainly talking about? A. An article. B. A newspaper. C. A minibus.15. How did the girl fall down on the road? A. She tripped over something. B. She was knocked over by a car. C. She slipped because of the wet road.16. Who flew out in the accident? A. A car driver. B. A minibus driver. C. A

8、minibus passenger.17. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The accident took place on Tuesday. B. A truck was involved in the accident. C. The woman witnessed the accident.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. When were the speaker and his friends caught in a storm? A. The second night. B. The fifth night. C

9、. The last night.19. What was the weather like on the last day? A. Rainy. B. Cloudy. C. Fine.20. What do we know about the speaker? A. He was persuaded into the trip. B. He walked 100 miles in one week. C. He was disappointed at the trip.第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，每小题2分；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

10、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。 AIn the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programs and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touc

11、h with advisers. Most hot lines are completely anonymous (匿名的) callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free, too. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls even if the calls are long distance（距离）. At some hot lines, the advisers are

12、volunteers（志愿者）. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-job people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them solv

13、e their problems.21. A hot line is a telephone line _. A. that is hot B. through which people get advice C. whose number no one knows D. through which callers take a short class22. When people call the hot line advisers, they _. A. often give their names and telephone numbers B. generally have to pa

14、y for the long distance calls C. usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice D. always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers23. The advisers working at hot lines _. A. are not all paid B. are all volunteers C. all have years of education and experience D. have all been trained for

15、 a short time24. How do the hot line advisers work? A. They do what the calls tell them to do. B. They listen to the callers and take their advice. C. They give the callers advice.D. They go to the callers houses to help them.BHow Americans Began to Eat TomatoesPeople have strange ideas about food.

16、For example, the tomato is a kind of very delicious vegetable. It is one of useful plants that can be prepared in many ways. It has rich nutrition and vitamin in it. But in the 18th century, Americans never ate tomatoes. They grew them in their gardens because tomato plants are so pretty. But they t

17、hought the vegetable was poisonous. They called tomatoes “poison apples.”President Thomas Jefferson, however, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learned man. He had been to Paris, where he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in his garden. The President t

18、aught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the Presidents party. The guests thought the soup tasted really good. They never thought their president would serve his honored guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke to his honored guests about the fact.25

19、. The passage tells us that Jefferson was a President who learned to love the taste of tomatoes_. A. while he was in Paris B. when he was a little boy C. because his parents told him so D. from books26 According to the text, _ made the beautiful pink soup served at the Presidents party? A. the Presi

20、dent himself B. a French cook C. the Presidents cook D. the Presidents wife27 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. All of the guests knew the soup that was served at the Presidents party was made of tomatoes. B. All of the guests thought the soup which was prepared by the

21、 Presidents cook was nice. C. All of the guests thought the taste of the beautiful pink soup was nice. D. None of the guests knew that their president would serve his honored guests poison apples.CThanksgiving Day is special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat

22、 and give thanks for their blessing.Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what i

23、s now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Man

24、y of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.In time, other colonies（殖民地）began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years

25、 before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed（宣布）the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in N

26、ovember. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.28. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .A. in spring B. in summer C. in autumn D. in winter29. The first to celebrate thanksgiving were

27、 .A. some people from England B. the American IndiansC. Sarah Josepha Hale D. Governor Bradford30. We can infer from the passage that New England must be .A. in the U. S. A. B. in Great BritainC. in Canada D. on some island off the Atlantic31. The passage mainly tells us .A. how Thanksgiving Day is

28、celebrated in the U. S. A.B. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebratedC. that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holidayD. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and placesDIs there anything more important than health? I dont think so. “

29、Health is the greatest wealth.” wise people say. You cant be good at your studies or work well when you are ill. If you have a headache, toothache, backache, earache or bad pain in the stomach, if you complain of a bad cough, if you run a high temperature and have a bad cold, or if you suffer from h

30、igh or low blood pressure, I think you should go to the doctor. The doctor will examine your throat, feel your pulse, test your blood pressure, take your temperature, sound your heart and lungs, test your eyes, check your teeth or have your chest X-rayed. After that he will advise some treatment, or

31、 some medicine. The only thing you have to do is to follow his advice. Speaking about doctors advice, I cant help telling you a funny story. An old gentleman came to see the doctor. The man was very ill. He told the doctor about his weakness, memory loss and serious problems with his heart and lungs

32、. The doctor examined him and said there was no medicine for his disease. He told his patient to go to a quiet place for a month and have a good rest. He also advised him to eat a lot of meat, drink two glasses of red wine every day and take long walks. In other words, the doctor advised him to follow the rule: “Eat with pleasure, drink with