1、1宜城一中 枣阳一中 20192020 学年上学期高一期中考试英语试题襄州一中 曾都一中时间：120（分钟）主命题学校：襄州一中分值：150 分副命题教师：祝考试顺利 注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、班级、准考证号填写在答题卡上，并用 2B 铅笔在相应位置将准考证号涂好。2选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。答在试题卷、草稿纸上无效。3非选择题的作答：用黑色墨水签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。答在试题卷、草稿纸上无效。4考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，请将答题卡上交。第 I 卷第一
2、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 does the man probably like?A.Playing basketball.B.Rock-climbing.C.Swimming.2.What does the man me
3、an?A.Jane is eager to return home.B.Jane is on her way home.C.Jane wont spend Christmas at home.3.What can we learn from the conversation?A.The man missed the lecture completely.B.The man was late for the lecture.C.The man doesnt attend the lecture.24.Why doesnt the girl lend a pen to the boy?A.She
4、does not have any pens.B.She left her pen at home.C.She has only one pen and has to use it.5.What does the woman do?A.An engineer.B.An official.C.A teacher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，各小题给出 5 秒钟的作答时间
5、，每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.What is the man praising the woman for?A.Her boots.B.Her handbag.C.Her skirt.7.Why does the man want to know the stores name?A.To buy a skirt for his girlfriend.B.To introduce it to his friends.C.To buy a pair of boots for himself.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8.How does the
6、 man feel after the interview?A.Nervous.B.Hopeful.C.Disappointed.9.How many people will be chosen for the job in the company?A.Twenty-eight.B.Twenty-six.C.Two.10.What do the mans parents expect him to do?A.To find a job near home.B.To get the job he has just applied for.C.To work in a big city.听第 8
7、段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11.When was the last time the two speakers met each other?A.A few years ago.B.Last summer.C.Last Christmas.12.What do we know about Mr.Whites kids?A.Joe is now interested in sports.B.Billy has broken his arms badly.C.Joe is learning to play the violin.13.What is Mrs.White learning
8、now?A.Cooking.B.French.C.Typing.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14.What is the woman going to be?A.A part-time waitress.3B.A full-time secretary.C.A part-time teacher.15.Why does the woman want to leave Park Hotel?A.She cant earn much money there.B.She is too busy to work full time.C.It is far from her unive
9、rsity.16.On which day should the woman work all day?A.On Friday.B.On Sunday.C.On Saturday.17.When will the woman start working?A.On May 8.B.On May 3.C.On May 1.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18.How should you feed rabbits?A.Provide them with various foods every day.B.Provide a treat for them sometimes.C.Ma
10、ke sure they often drink clean warm water.19.What can you learn about rabbit care?A.They should be given enough space.B.Pet rabbits dont like to play with toys.C.Rabbits tend to be more relaxed indoors.20.Where is the passage taken from?A.An agricultural report.B.A magazine for pet lovers.C.An inter
11、esting story book.第二部分:阅读理解(共两节，满分 35 分)第一节(共 10 个小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 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。AManny Abreu practices Benjamin Franklins famous saying,“If you want something done,ask a busy person.”Throughout his four years at Kellenberg Memorial High School in the US,Abreu
12、 madecommunity service an important part of his life.“I dont know where he finds the time to do everything,”said Erin Ronan,Abreus mathteacher,“Hes truly a class act.”As an excellent student,Abreu,18,took part in different voluntary(志愿的)activities afterschool,during weekends and summer holidays.Thes
13、e included helping staff at the public library,doing garden work at Kellenberg,and serving customers at a local restaurant.But faced with a limited number of hours in a day,Abreu left his library job last summer to4start working as an emergency medical technician a role that fits his strong love for
14、 making adifference in other peoples lives.“My love for service has guided me into giving back,”said Abreu,who is setting his sightson becoming a doctor.“Its such a rewarding feeling to help someone.”During his three years at high school,Abreu devoted between 40 and 50 hours of his timeeach year to
15、volunteer work more than double the schools annual requirement of 20 hours.Forall his hard work,Abreu was welcomed into a leadership club that organizes fellow studentsvolunteer activities.St Martin de Porres Marianist School(Kellenbergs sister school)also benefited from Abreusdevotion.Through his s
16、chools Smart Club program,he voluntarily provided homework help andplayed games with the junior high school students.Abreu thanked his parents for inspiring him to do the right thing,saying they are“the mostselfless people I know.”He remembered when he was about 6 years old,and his mother invited ad
17、isadvantaged neighborhood boy to have dinner.Upon seeing the boys happiness,Abreu came away with a sense of how he wanted to live hisown life “I wont focus on my own desires(愿望).Ill help as many people as I can,”he said.21.What do we know about Manny Abreu?A.He didnt do well in math.B.He once lost i
18、nterest in his studies.C.He did a lot of volunteer work.D.He fell behind others because of after-school activities.22.What made Abreu work as a medical technician?A.His love of being praised by other people.B.His limited time to do any other job.C.His hope to try different types of jobs.D.His desire
19、 to improve the lives of others.23.According to the passage,which statement is TRUE about his voluntary activities?A.They gave him a chance to attend medical school for free.B.They gave him a sense of self-worth by helping others.C.They made his family famous around the neighborhood.D.They made him
20、a leader among his fellow school students.BDo you know anyone who plays Ant Forest?It is a game on Alipay.Users collect“energy”for their“trees”to grow.When their“tree”finishes growing,Alipay will plant a real tree in thedesert areas of China.This is part of Chinas efforts to fight desertification.Si
21、nce 1978,China has planted over 66billion trees across its dry northern areas,according to China Daily.5Desertification means there are no trees or grass.Water cant stay in the soil and sand iseverywhere.About 2.6 million square kilometers of Chinas land is covered with sand.Thats about 27percent of
22、 the countrys land.It has also caused sandstorms.By planting new trees,sandstorms in China have been cut by 20 percent in recent years.About 13,000 square kilometers of land have become oases(绿洲).Ian Teh,a British photographer,traveled through northern China last year.He saw many newoases.“It was ha
23、rd to imagine that it was ever a desert,”he told Wired magazine.24.What is Ant Forest?A.It is an app that lets people buy things.B.It is a game that can help fight desertification.C.It is a forest for people to grow trees in.D.It is a name for a group of special ants.25.What has China done to fight
24、desertification in the past 40 years?A.Planted billions of trees.B.Built houses in dry northern areas.C.Moved all the sand to one place.D.Built oases around cities.26.Planting new trees has helped China cut down sandstorms by _.A.2.6 percentB.27 percentC.20 percentD.66 percent27.How did Ian Teh like
25、 northern China after his visit last year?A.It was hard to travel in the desert.B.It was amazing to see new oases there.C.It was still full of sand.D.It was not easy to find any trees in the north.CIf you live in Shanghai,you might have to take a“lesson”in sorting garbage(垃圾分类),asthe city recently i
26、ntroduced new garbage-sorting rules.Its now required that people should sort garbage into four groups,namely recyclable,harmful,dry and wet waste.However,if people fail to sort their garbage properly,they can befined up to 200 yuan.More cities are introducing similar rules,following the practice in
27、Shanghai.By the end of2020,garbage-sorting systems will have been built in 46 major Chinese cities,including Beijingand Shenzhen,reported Peoples Daily.According to a study by the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy,underthe Ministry of Ecology and Environment,over 90 percent of the p
28、ublic believe that garbagesorting is important for the protection of the environment.However,garbage sorting is still a big problem in China.Only 30 percent of participants(参加者)said they think they are adequately sorting their garbage,the study noted.According to Xinhua News Agency,its partly becaus
29、e many people lack the willingness to6sort their own waste.In the past,some garbage rules didnt give clear fines for people who failedto sort garbage.“Its a must to have a legal guarantee(法律保障)to support garbage sorting,”Liu Jianguo,a professor from Tsinghua University,told China Daily.Liu Xinyu,a r
30、esearcher of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences,told China Daily thatthe importance of the new rules in Shanghai is to change the past voluntary action into compulsoryaction for everyone.Besides China,many other foreign countries have also introduced garbage-sorting rules.InJapan,waste sorting
31、has become a basic survival skill,reported Xinhua.There is a fixed time todeal with each kind of garbage and littering can result in high fines and being sentenced in prison.In Germany too,people are asked to sort waste into specific groups,reported HuffPost.Forexample,in Berlin,people have yellow d
32、ustbins for plastic and metals and blue dustbins for paperand cardboard.28.What do we know about garbage sorting in Shanghai?A.People should put their garbage into two groups.B.People will be fined 200 yuan each time they break the rules.C.Shanghai is the first city to introduce garbage-sorting rule
33、s in the world.D.It sets an example for many other cities in China.29.What does the underlined phrase“result in”mean?A.put offB.lead toC.turn inD.cut down30.The main point of the passage is _.A.Why garbage sorting is important.B.How other countries sort garbage.C.Garbage sorting has started in China
34、.D.The worlds garbage problem is becoming worse.第二节(共 5 个小题；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。选项中有两项为多余选项。Really organized people are not born organized people.They have to develop somehabits,which then help them stay organized.31.Write things down.A pen and a notebook are needed to recor
35、d things.32.You willonly further make your life complex(复杂的)by trying to contain important dates and messages inyour head.33.By leading a cluttered(杂乱的)lifestyle,you will not have the time or space tomake your deadlines or achieve your goals.Organized people dont waste time.They recognize that keepi
36、ng things organized goes hand in hand with staying productive(富7有成效的).They make and keep schedules for the day and week.They make deadlines and setgoals.34.Dont put off doing what you should be doing.35.If you want your life to beless stressful,then take action as soon as you can.Put in effort to ge
37、t things done as soon aspossible.Give everything a home.People who live organized lives only keep what they need andwhat they really want.Have you ever felt like you dont have the space to keep all the things youown?Instead of buying a larger house,get rid of some.A.The longer you wait to do somethi
38、ng,the more difficult it will be to get it doneB.Keep only what you needC.Organized people find time every week to organize their thingsD.Here are four habits they use to keep their lives in orderE.And most importantly,they stick to themF.Make schedules and deadlinesG.You can also use a computer or
39、a smart phone第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。I never thought I would be a runner.I was the girl who ran slowest in the PE classA fewyears ago,I was walking with a group of friends in the Race for the Cure,a 5km race designed t
40、o36money for the fight against breast cancer,37one lady caught my38She was one of the39women Ive ever seen.She must have been close to seventyyears old,40a T-shirt with the word Survivor.She was so small that it seemed as if shecould even be turned over by a strong wind.But,she was running.And she w
41、as41me andmy group of friends.She ran slowly,but42-as if each step pushed her cancer furtherinto her past.Right at that moment,I43that in the next Race for the Cure,Id be44along with her.A week later,I found myself in the45,running on the treadmill（跑步机）.Threeminutes after I started,my face was brigh
42、t red,I felt like my lungs were going to46.I47slow down to a walk.I thought of the48at the race.I kept it up.I was able to go alittle49each time.Three and a half minutes.Four minutesFiveA year later,I was50at the Race for the Cure,but this time,I51with the runners.When the race started,the other run
43、ners passed me by.I ran forward.I52if Id be able to doit.But then,I remembered the53woman.I ran as fast as I could until I finally crossed that8finish line.I had just54my first race!I looked down at my legs,amazed.They had donesomething Id never thought55.I have never felt stronger than at that mome
44、nt.And I knewthat I wanted to do it again36.A.collectB.useC.makeD.save37.A.whileB.untilC.whenD.before38.A.breathB.handC.armD.attention39.A.best-lookingB.easiest-goingC.weakest-lookingD.smartest-looking40.A.pullingB.holdingC.wearingD.waving41.A.seeingB.watchingC.passingD.calling42.A.determinedlyB.str
45、angelyC.excitedlyD.anxiously43.A.agreedB.decidedC.learnedD.explained44.A.walkingB.talkingC.swimmingD.running45.A.shopB.streetC.gymD.park46.A.calmB.settleC.burstD.breathe47.A.liked toB.had toC.got toD.preferred to48.A.prizeB.survivorC.womanD.plan49.A.earlierB.fartherC.harderD.longer50.A.againB.evenC.
46、everD.still51.A.watchedB.stoodC.traveledD.paced52.A.wanderedB.witnessedC.wonderedD.wished53.A.kindB.honestC.generousD.brave54.A.enteredB.wonC.finishedD.missed55.A.possibleB.rightC.goodD.necessary第 II 卷第二节（共 10 小题：每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。A great fire has destroyed the o
47、ld cathedral(大教堂）of Notre-Dame(巴黎圣母院)in Paris,one of Frances56(famous)landmarks.Thousands of people gathered in the streets around the cathedral,watching the flames insilence.Some of them could be seen crying.Watching such a famous old building57(destroy)is extremely58(shock)to any French person.No
48、other site represents France like Notre-Dame,59receives almost 13 millionvisitors each year,more than the Eiffel Tower.The Eiffel Tower,is little more than a century oldwhile Notre-Dame60(stand)tall above Paris since the 1200s.It has given61(it)name to one of the countrys literary masterpieces.Victo
49、r Hugos The Hunchback of Notre-Dame(钟楼怪人）is known62the French simply as Notre-Dame de Paris.The three large rose63(window)have been destroyed by the fire.Fortunately,the9main structure,64(include)the two bell towers,has been saved.Also the most65(value)cultural relics have survived.第四部分:写作(共两节，满分 40
50、 分)第一节:应用文写作(满分 15 分)假定你是某校高一学生李华，下面的通知引起了你的注意。请根据通知内容和要求向学校写一封申请信。VOLUNTEERS WANTEDThe 7th CISM Military World Games（第七届世界军人运动会）will be held in Wuhan.Volunteers are wanted to offer service to visitors from all over the worldRequirements:1Fluency in English（英语流利）2Excellence in personality（性格随和）3A go
51、od knowledge of Wuhan（熟悉武汉）If interested,please send your application in English to the office before Friday注意：1词数 80 左右：2可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：3开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。Dear Sir or Madam,Im glad that the 2019 CISM Military World Games will be held in Wuhan_第二节概要写作（满分 25 分）阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇 60 词左右的内容概要。With the devel
52、opment of the computer,virtual reality(虚 拟 现 实)steps in our life.Ifsomething is virtual,then it is created by computer technology and appears as if it were real.VRis a computer system with a special headset(耳机).When you put on the headset,you will look attwo tiny television screens.They are so close
53、 to your eyes as if you see just one picture and youwill believe that you have entered a different world.In many systems,you also wear specialgloves.With the gloves you can reach out and touch things in the unreal world.The first VR games,which have already been sold around the world,enable you to d
54、rive asports car,fly a plane,or fight an enemy.In the future,it may be difficult to tell the virtual world ofthe games from the real world outside.However,VR is not just for entertainment.One day,delighted children will be able to learn history by visiting the pyramids of Egypt.In10addition,business
55、es will be able to use VR for many tasks.Pilot will be able to practise flyingvirtual planes before they go into the air.VR can help us improve the world in hundreds of ways.However,some people have warned that there could be dangers.It might be dangerous if wedo something wrong,or if people do not want to return to reality because it is safer than real life.Besides,we will forget how to live and work with real people.There will be some problems with VR,as it is new for us.However,one thing is for sure:VRis here to stay.Get ready to step into another world!_