1、海港中学2019-2020学年度第二学期期中考试高一英语试题考试时间120分钟 满分150分第一部分 听力（共20小题，每小题1.5分，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 did the woman try to quit drinking? A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Juice.2. How much more does Lucas need fo
2、r the cellphone? A. $300. B. $500. C. $800.3. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Environmental protection. B. Greenhouse effect. C. Gardening skills.4. What seemed to be Sarahs problem? A. She couldnt finish the task as required. B. She failed in a job interview again. C. She always went
3、 to work late.5. How might the woman feel? A. Uneasy. B. Disappointed. C. Unconcerned.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。毎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。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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。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 doing? A. Watching TV. B. Having a party. C. Re
4、ading a book.7. What is the man going to do? A. Go out with the woman. B. Pick up the children. C. Make a phone call. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the man plan to do? A. Raise a dog. B. Set animals free. C. Find a dog trainer.9. How does the woman sound in the end? A. Curious. B. Annoyed. C. Excited.
5、听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where is the womans company? A. In Japan. B. In Britain. C. In Australia.11. Why does the man talk to the woman? A. To look for a travel agent. B. To ask about a tour. C. To seek cooperation.12. What are the speakers going to do next? A. Do the market research. B. Go to a restau
6、rant. C. Have a discussion.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Whats Brett just doing? A. Downloading e-books. B. Reading an e-book. C. Buying an e-book reader.14. What advantage of the e-book reader does Brett mention? A. The large storage capacity. B. The low cost in the long term. C. The decrease in the use of
7、paper.15. Why does Fiona refuse to buy an e-book reader? A. She doesnt read much. B. She likes printed books better. C. She has enough books to read.16. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a store. B. In a classroom. C. In a library.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Which team has played in every Worl
8、d Cup? A. Brazil. B. Portugal. C. South Africa.18.What is the trophy(奖杯) named after? A. A famous place. B. A special stadium. C. The organizer.19.How many cities was the 2018 World Cup held in? A. 32. B. 15. C. 11.20.Why does the speaker say Japan made history? A. They won the champion once. B. The
9、y beat a South American team. C. They made their fourth appearance.第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分35分） 第一节 （共10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。A FITNESS CENTREThe fitness center offers a variety of activities for members of all ages throughout the week.Activities for Monday 12 July
10、, 2017:Learn to swim. Classes for preschool children aged five and under start at 10 am. Classes last 30 minutes and parents must attend with their children. Dont forget to book in advance, as places are limited, and to pack some warm clothes for after the lesson.Womans aerobics (有氧运动). Sessions are
11、 for one hour and begin at 10:45 am, led by Melissa. Come along and join us every Monday for an exhilarating hour of exercise and fun. Leave your kids at the nursery and take time out for yourself. Wear a track-suit or something similar.Lunchtime yoga. Take a break at lunchtime (1:002:00 pm) for an
12、hour of meditation and yoga. Enjoy the peace and quiet of our meditation room, and relaxing sessions designed for active people with busy lives. Use your own mat (垫子) for floor work or hire one from us for a small sum.Family Shootaround. 10:00-5:30 pm. Family Shootaround is open for members and gues
13、ts to bring the family out for basketball. Half court games are only during this time. There are no full court games during Family Shootaround hours. All participants must sign in at the front desk and wear a wristband during the play.21. When will Melissa be working? A. From 10:00 am to 10:30 am. B
14、. From 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. C. From 10:45 am to 11:45 am. D. From 10:00 am to 5:30 pm.22. Which activity may need extra fees? A. Lunchtime yoga. B. Learn to swim C. Womans aerobics. D. Family Shootaround.23. What is the common requirement of the activities? A. The need to sign in. B. The need to brin
15、g something. C. The need to book in advance. D. The need to become a member.BI didnt know how to say no, and was afraid to tell people what I wanted. Instead, I got myself tangled (纠结的) in a web of obligations, anxiety, and white lies.The worst thing was that I didnt even realize what I was doing. I
16、 thought I knew how to say nobut couldnt remember the last time I had. Like a lot of people, I just wanted to be accepted, appreciated, lovedand that the only way to get those things was to put everyone elses needs before my own.I never seemed to have time for things I really wanted to do. Id like t
17、o learn Spanish, write more fiction, and travel. These arent huge, unrealistic goals. And yet, my people-pleasing ways dramatically cut into my free time to pursue these desires.But recently, I decided Id had enough. As an experiment, I began standing up for myself, even at the risk of alienating (使
18、疏远) myself from everyone and having my entire life come crashing down around me. Several days ago, a good friend asked me to go for coffee at 5 p.m. I was planning to hit the gym and then bingewatch Mad Men for the millionth time. I said, Sorry, Ive got things I want to do tonight. She said, Thats f
19、ine. Maybe another time. It was all so painfully simple that I wanted to cry.Saying no is so much easier. If someone asks me to do something I have zero interest in, Im polite but honest. Im sorry, I dont think thats really for me. The words slip out my mouth faster than some other lame excuses.Lear
20、ning how to say no has added several extra hours to my days, days to my weeks, and what feels like months to my years. I no longer have to back-burner my plans to help friends with their job search, or set aside a weekend to read a book draft by someone I barely know. Saying no has set me free.24.Wh
21、y was the author afraid of saying no? A. She didnt want to tell lies. B. She wanted to make more friends. C. She wanted to please every one. D. She was always willing to help others.25.What was the bad point of being afraid of saying no? A. She alienated many friends. B. She was kept busy all day lo
22、ng. C. She felt depressed now and then. D. She had no time for her own hobbies.26. What was her friends reaction when she said no to her? A. Natural. B. Painful. C. Angry. D. Disappointed.27. How did the author feel after she had learnt to say no? A. Lonely. B. Relaxed. C. Confident. D. Lost.COn ave
23、rage, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more that they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities as soccer and ballet. Involvement in sports, in particular, rose almost 50% from 1981 to 1997: boys now sp
24、end an average of four hours a week playing sports; girls log half that time. All in all, however, childrens leisure time dropped from 40% of the day in 1981 to 25%“Children are affected by the same time crunch that affects their parents,” says Sandra Hofferth, who headed the recent study of childre
25、ns timetable. A chief reason, she says, is that more mothers are working outside the home. (Nevertheless, children in both double-income and “male breadwinner” households spent comparable amounts of time interacting with their parents 19 hours and 22 hours respectively. In contrast, children spent o
26、nly 9 hours with their single mothers.)All work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. “Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself,” says T. Berry Brazelton, professor at Harvard Medical School Unstructured (unorganized）play encourages independent
27、 thinking and allows the young to handle their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it.The children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly decreasing “free time” watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents
28、 might regard as good news. If theyre spending less time in front of the TV set, however, kids arent replacing it with reading. Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading. Lets face it, whos got the time?28. By mentioning “the same time
29、crunch” (Line 1, Para. 2) Sandra Hofferth means _. A. children have little time to play with their parents B. both parents and children suffer from lack of leisure time C. children are not taken good care of by their working parents D. both parents and children have trouble managing their time 29. A
30、ccording to the author a child develops better if _. A. he has plenty of time reading and studying B. he has more time participating in school activities C. he is left to play with his peers in his own way D. he is free to interact with his working parents30. We can infer from the passage that _. A.
31、 extracurricular activities（after-class activities）promote childrens intelligence B. most children will turn to reading with TV sets switched off C. efforts to get kids interested in reading have been fruitful D. most parents believe reading to be beneficial to children第二节 （共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从
32、短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Get out your shovels, your seeds, and your soilits almost April 22. Here are four fun ways to celebrate Earth Day with your kids.Plant a tree.Since the first Earth Day in 1970, planting trees has been a traditional way of celebrating the holiday. Try plant
33、ing one in your own backyard, or attending a local tree-planting event. In its lifetime, that single tree will absorb approximately one ton of carbon dioxide. 31 .Spend the day without a car. 32 . Yet, challenge yourself to make your way through the day without hopping in the car. Walking, biking, o
34、r catching the bus will keep your carbon dioxide emissions down and show the kids there are other fun ways of traveling.Take a walk in nature.Perhaps the most obvious Earth Day activity is a nature walk. Make a list of things youd like to find and check them off on your walk. 33 . Go through the col
35、ors of the rainbow and try and find an object in that color on your walk.Attend a community activity.Show your kids its not just Mom and Dad who care about Earth Day. Tons of people will show up for local events as well! 34 . We guarantee you will find some activities like park cleanup, recycling de
36、mos, or tree-planting ceremony. 35 .When it comes to taking care of Earth, we all need to do our share. Take your kids to the local playground and give them each a pair of gloves and a small garbage bag. Task them with picking of scraps of trash as fast as they canwhoever fills up their bag first, w
37、ins. Once you get back home, enjoy some Earth Day movies.A. Play the clean-up gameB. Remember that every day can be Earth DayC. If you dont feel like making a list, try a color searchD. Check out your newspaper the week leading up to the holidayE. On Earth Day, we realize what we can do to preserve
38、our natural resourcesF. And there are a lot more surprising facts about trees you can share with your kidsG. Depending on where you live, this will bring varying degrees of problem to travel第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Just sign here, si
39、r, the deliveryman said as he handed Oscar Reyna a package. The package consisted of a long , narrow box 36 wrapped in brown paper. 37 the box , Oscar saw an umbrella inside a very old one with a beautifully carved wooden handle. 38 , he had not seen it in more than 20 years , he recognized it 39 .
40、Oscar was 16 when he first saw the 40 umbrella. He had gone to a concert with his grandparents. As they were leaving , he noticed an umbrella on an empty seat. Impressed by its 41 , Oscar felt a strong desire to find its 42 . Oscar 43 the manager to look in the record of advance ticket sales. Just a
41、s he thought, a name matched the seat 44 Oscar had found the umbrella . The name was Mrs. Katie Obrien. Oscar talked his grandparents into going by Mrs Obriens 45 on their way home. He rang the bell , the door opened, and an elderly woman appeared. May I 46 you ? she asked. Id like to return it if i
42、ts yours, Oscar said , 47 the umbrella as if presenting a 48 that had long been wished for. Why , yes! its mine, replied Mrs. OBrien with a 49 smile and shining eyes. It was given to me by my father years ago. Thank you so much for returning it. May I offer you a reward for your 50 ? No, maam , he s
43、aid my grandmother says that a good deed is its own reward. Well, that s 51 what my father used to say. What is your name , young man ? Years later, Oscar was staring at the finely carved handle of the umbrella as he remembered Mrs. O Brien . It was in perfect condition, considering how 52 it was. W
44、hy had it arrived here today? As if 53 , a note fell from the paper. It read: Mrs. OBrien wanted you to 54 this umbrella as a present for a kind, 55 gesture long ago.36. A. strictly B. carefully C. roughly D. casually 37. A. Opening B. Seizing C. Observing D. Searching 38. A. After B. When C. Since
45、D. Although 39. A. clearly B. fully C. immediately D. suddenly40. A. average B. unusual C. plain D. typical 41. A. beauty B. shape C. origin D. history 42. A. designer B. seller C. user D. owner 43. A. convinced B. forced C. encouraged D. advised 44. A. until B. before C. which D. where 45. A. famil
46、y B. theater C. house D. neighborhood 46. A.invite B. help C. bother D. know 47. A. putting up B. turning out C. picking up D. holding out 48. A. chance B. fact C. gift D. result 49. A. wide B. confident C. proud D. shy 50. A. patience B. kindness C. courage D. determination 51. A. obviously B. natu
47、rally C. exactly D. probably 52. A. old B. rare C. precious D. nice 53. A. in contrast B in return C in exchange D in answer 54. A. possess B accept C carry D value 55. A. attractive B significant C unselfish D sympathetic 第二节 语篇填空（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（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 The best
48、 time to see beautiful lanterns is during the Lantern Festival, 56_ falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This year it is on Feb.8, marking the end of the Spring Festival . However, because of the COVID, we had to stay at home this year. As is known to us, watching lanterns is a great 57_(
49、active). You see lanterns in any sizes and shapes you can imagine, from animals to plants and flowers. 58_(make) it more fun, people paste riddles on the lanterns. In some 59_ (place), people like releasing sky lanterns, which 60_(call) Kongming lanterns. A sky lantern is a small hot-air balloon mad
50、e of paper with an 61_ (open) at the bottom where there is a small fire source. When the bright lights fly high in the sky, people bless members and make wishes. In old times, the Lantern Festival was also 62_(interest). At that time, young girls were not allowed to go out very often 63_ during cert
51、ain festivals. Therefore, looking at lanterns gave young people a chance to meet each other. A line from Xin Qiji, 64_ poet during the Song Dynasty, shows this: “Restless, I searched for her in thousands, hundreds of ways. 65_(sudden) I turned, and there she was in the receding light.”第四部分 写作（共三节，满分
52、40分）第一节 单词（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 66 精力充沛的 67 道歉 68 利益，好处 69 耐性 70 气候 71 传统 72 包围 73卫星 74 结合 75 过错 76 运动，战役 77 鼓舞，启示 78 斗争，拼搏 79 遗憾 80 失败 n. 81 解释 n. 82 好奇心 83 误解 v. 84 独一无二的 85 各种各样的 第二节 短语（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 86 发生 87 期望 88 守信用 89 偶然 90 相反 91 既然 92 与其；不愿 93 提前 94 集中精力于 95 继续；坚持 第三节 书面表达（满分10分）假如你是学生李华，
53、为保护环境,政府颁布了管理条例，强制实行垃圾分类。但你所在小区的落实情况不尽人意,经常有居民垃圾不认真分类，也有居民在非指定的时间乱丢垃圾。诸如此类，不一而足。请你写一封电子邮件向有关部门负责人反映这一现状，并提出自己的合理化建议。参考词汇：生活垃圾： household waste/gabage 垃圾分类： sort out/classify waste干垃圾： dry waste 湿垃圾： wet waste可回收垃圾：recycled waste Dear Sir or Madame,To reduce waste pollution and protect the environment, the government has issued regulations to enforce garbage classification._ _ _