1、湖北省宜昌市第二中学2020-2021学年高一英语上学期期中试题考生须知：1. 本试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分。满分150 分，考试时间120 分钟。2. 答题前，必须在答题卷的密封区内填写校名、班级和姓名。3. 所有答案都必须做在答题卷标定的位置上，务必注意试题序号和答题序号相对应。4. 考试结束后，只需上交答题卷。第一部分: 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
2、。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 Shirley plan to do this afternoon?A. Have classes. B. Go swimming. C. Do her homework. 2. When is Peters fathers birthday?A. On September 1st. B. On September 10th. C. On September 20th. 3. Where will the man go first?A. New York. B. Chicago. C
3、. Washington D. C. 4. What does the man offer to do?A. Lend the woman his copy. B. Underline the important parts. C. Accompany the woman to the bookstore. 5. What will the man probably do tomorrow afternoon?A. Attend a meeting. B. Meet the woman. C. See a film. 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
4、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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。6. What magazine will the woman work for?A. Sports Weekly. B. Swim World. C. National Football. 7. What will the woman most probably work as?A. A designer. B. An editor. C. A
5、 secretary. 听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。8. What is the mans cousin?A. A sailor. B. A teacher. C. A journalist. 9. How does the man find teaching?A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Challenging. 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。10. What is the matter with Mr. Smith?A. He is unqualified for his job. B. He cant sleep at night. C.
6、 He got a sore throat. 11. What does Mr. Smith teach?A. Chinese. B. English. C. Physics. 12. Why doesnt Mr. Smith want to take a rest?A. He has to help his students. B. He has rested for a week. C. He wants to visit a university. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。13. What does the woman think of her co-workers?
7、A. Selfish. B. Nice. C. Unfriendly. 14. How is the research program going?A. It wont be started till March. B. It was finished last Christmas. C. It hasnt been finished yet. 15. What do we know about the woman?A. She traveled a lot in America. B. She wont go back to America. C. She enjoyed herself i
8、n parties. 16. What day does Boxing Day fall on?A. December 24. B. December 25. C. December 26. 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。17. What will the headmaster do tomorrow morning?A. Meet the listeners in the library. B. Introduce the school to the listeners. C. Take photos in the lab building. 18. Where will th
9、e listeners visit on Tuesday morning?A. Central Park. B. Brooklyn Bridge. C. The Statue of Liberty. 19. What will be held on Tuesday night?A. A talk show. B. A party. C. A lecture. 20. When will the listeners go to Washington?A. On Tuesday afternoon. B. On Wednesday morning. C. On Wednesday afternoo
10、n. 第二部分:阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分37.5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。AChoose Your One-Day-Tours!Tour ABath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms andStonehenge37 until 26 March and 39 thereafter.Visit the city with over 2, 000 years o
11、f history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and theCostume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments dating backover 5, 000 years.Tour BOxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Marys Church Towerand Anne Hathaways32 until 12 March and 36 therea
12、fter.Oxford: Includes a guided tour of Englands oldest university city and colleges. Look overthe city of dreaming spires (尖顶) from St Marys Church Tower.Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.Tour CWindsor Castle &Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton
13、Court Palace34 until 11 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIIIs favorite palace. Freetime to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Courtwas once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former roya
14、l palace is open to the publicas a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famousmaze (迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!Tour DCambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great33 until18 March and 37 thereafter.Includes a gui
15、ded tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18thcentury.21. Which tour will you choose if you want to see Englands oldest university city?A. Tour A B. Tour B C. Tour C D. Tour D22. Which of the following tours charges the lowest fee on 17 March?A. Windsor Castle & Hampt
16、on CourtB. Oxford & StratfordC. CambridgeD. Bath & Stonehenge23. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction?A. It used to be the home of royal families.B. It used to be a well-known maze.C. It is the oldest palace in Britain.D. It is a world-famous castle.BOne summer I was driving from my home
17、town of Tahoe City, Calif., to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out andheld a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time in the country when youd be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need.
18、 Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs,drug addicts, murderers(杀人凶手), rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, I dont want to get involved has become a national motto.Several states later I was still thinking about the hitchhiker. Leaving him standing in the desert did not bother me so much. What b
19、othered me was how easily I had reached the decision. I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator.Does anyone stop any more? I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBoiss famous line: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers thesedays? One way
20、to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans. What kind of Americans would he find? Whowould feed him, shelter him, carry him down the road?The idea intrigued me. The week I turned 37, I realized that I h
21、ad never taken a gamble in my life. So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. It would be a cashless journey through theland of the almighty dollar. I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head. My final destination would be Cape Fear in North
22、Carolina, a symbol of all the fears Id have to conquer during the trip. I rose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles: America.For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles a
23、cross 14 states. As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming; in Nebraska they said people would not be as nice as in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went. I was amazed by peoples readiness to he
24、lp a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests.24. Why did the author drive past the young man in the desert without stopping?A. Because he failed to notice this man.B. Because he was driving too fast.C. Because he thought the young man didnt need help.D. Because he w
25、as afraid of being tricked.25. What was it that made the author upset?A. Leaving the young man alone in the desert.B. Being considered a fool.C. Making the decision of not offering help so easily.D. Keeping thinking about the young man.26. The author decided to travel without a penny in order to _.A
26、. find out how long he could survive without helpB. go through the great difficulty in surviving unexpected environmentC. find out whether strangers would offer help to himD. figure out how strangers thought of his plan27. The following part might probably _.A. describe how he fooled the strangersB.
27、 describe how strangers went out their way to help himC. explain why people refused to help strangersD. explain how he overcame his difficulties on the wayCIn China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often th
28、ere isnt much work there. Services such as hospital and transport are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city. But in the big cities of Europe like London or Paris, people are moving out of the city. These rich famil
29、ies want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They dont want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there. So they move
30、 out of the cities. Some dont go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends. Not all those who move from the city to the countryside ar
31、e happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They dont make so much money and there isnt much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and arent always very friendly. As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the country
32、side move back to the city. Its wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights, they say.28. Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?AThe countryside is much poorer than me city.BPeople in the countryside have nothing to eat.CPeople in the countryside dont have muc
33、h work to do there.DServices in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside.29. Why do some rich families in Europe move to the countryside?ABecause they will find good jobs.BBecause they are tired of living in the city.CBecause they can make more money there.DBecause they like feed
34、ing sheep and cows in the green fields.30.The underlined sentencein the last paragraph shows _Athey are happy to move back to the cityBthey miss their friends in the countrysideCthey still want to move to the countrysideDthey are tired of the noise and the crowded streets in the city31. The best tit
35、le of this passage may be “_”AA happy life! BLiving in the city!C Moving out or moving back? DLiving in the countryside!DTodays world is not an easy adjustment for young adults. A key skill set for success is persistence (毅力)，a characteristic that researchers say is heavily influenced by fathers. Re
36、searchers from Brigham Young University discovered that fathers are in a unique position to help their adolescent children learn persistence.BYU professors Laura Padilla-Walker and Randal Day arrived at these findings after following 325 American families over several years. And over time, the persi
37、stence gained through fathers led to higher achievement in school.“There are relatively few studies that stress the unique role of fathers.” Padilla-Walker said. “This research also helps to prove that characteristics such as persistence - which can he taught - are key to a childs life success.”Rese
38、archers determined that dads need to practice an “authoritative” parenting style. Authoritative parenting is not authoritarian: rigid, demanding or controlling. Rather, an authoritative parenting style includes some of the following characteristics: children feel warmth and love from their father; r
39、esponsibility and the reasons behind rules are stressed； children are given an appropriate level of autonomy (自主权).In the study, about 52 percent of the dads exhibited above-average levels of authoritative parenting. A key finding is that over time, children raised by an authoritative father were si
40、gnificantly more likely to develop persistence, which leads to better outcomes in school.This particular study examined 11 to 14-year-olds living in two-parent homes. Yet the researchers suggest that single parents still may play a role in teaching the benefits of persistence, which is an avenue of
41、future research.32.What is special about the RYU professors study?A. It centered on fathers role in parenting. B. It was based on a number of large families.C. It analyzed different kinds of parenting styles. D. It aimed to improve kids，achievement in school.33. What would an authoritative father do
42、 when raising his children?A. Ignore their demands.B. Make decisions for them.C. Control their behaviors.D. Explain the rules to them.34. Which group can be a focus of future studies according to the researchers?A. Single parents.B. Children aged from 11 to 14.C. Authoritarian fathers.D. Mothers in
43、two-parent homes.35. Which of the following is the best title for the text?A. Three Characteristics of Authoritative FathersB. Key Skills for Young Adults to Succeed in FutureC. Children Tend to Learn Determination from FatherD. Family Relationship Influences School Performance第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分,满
44、分12.5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。Playing sports offers you more than just physical benefits (好处). _36_ The benefits are the same whether or not youre good at sports. If you are not good enough to play competitively on a school team, you can play sports with your friends.Making new fri
45、ends. Playing sports enables you to create friendships you otherwise might not have formed. _37_You play together happily and gradually know each other. Many times, the friendships you create on the field remain strong when you are not playing sports.Understanding the value of health. Taking part in
46、 sports improves your health in many ways. _38_ This gets you thinking about what to eat and how to treat your body so as to achieve the highest performance levels. Thus, playing sports can lead to better eating habits and prevent you from becoming too fat.Building team spirit. Sports provide childr
47、en with the important lesson of learning how to work in a team. _39_By working together they will learn each others strengths and weaknesses and will be better able todecide and work out the best plan for the team. This will without doubt help them in their future livesand jobs as well._40_Playing s
48、ports requires a lot of time and energy. Some may think this would take students attention away from schoolwork. However, the opposite is true. Sports require memorization, repetition and learningskills that are directly relevant (有关的) to schoolwork.A. Becoming active in class.B. Doing better in you
49、r studies.C. Everyone has to work together to achieve the goal.D. To be a good athlete, you must take care of yourself.E. Sports can help you in your study and fit in with society as well.F. Sports bring teens together from different schools and backgrounds.G. However, sports will improve your fitne
50、ss and help you achieve weight goals.第三部分: 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）第一节:完型填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。On my first day of the sixth grade, I noticed one little girl called Amy on the school bus. “Dont 41._ her,” Lauren said, who sat beside me. “Or they will make fun of you.
51、” Amy had many physical differences lots of reasons for other kids to make fun of her. Her eyes werent straight. Her glasses were an inch thick. And she had really ugly teeth. Every day 42._ we drove to and from school, kids would shout insults (侮辱) at Amy. “God, what a (n) 43._ face! Stop looking a
52、t me!” “Mr. Rolland (the driver)! Amy took off her 44._, and now her eyes are 45._ me! Make her put them back on!” For a while I shouted my share of insults, just so I would fit in (合群). After all, I didnt want them to treat me the same way they treated Amy. But while I was insulting her, my heart 4
53、6._ for the girl. I could see that the insults were making her look 47._, because she was so ashamed (羞愧) and alone. Then I wanted to stand up for her. I just didnt know how to stop my schoolmates 48._ the night of our class roller-skating party. Our whole class was there, including Amy. Amy didnt k
54、now how to skate, but I could see how much she wanted to 49._ like the rest of us. So I skated over to her and took her by the hand; we began the journey together around the skating rink (溜冰场). She just smiled, and sometimes she would laugh in 50._. On the school bus the next morning there was much
55、news about Amy and me 51._ together, 52._ nobody insulted her or me. And they didnt do that for the rest of the year. After graduation, I never 53._ Amy again. However, I never forget her and I have always 54._ if I changed her life for the better. But I know for sure she changed my life. After beco
56、ming her friend, I no longer tried to impress (给留下印象) people by trying to 55._ like them. I became myself. 41. A. laugh at B. ask about C. talk to D. be afraid of 42. A. as B. though C. after D. before 43. A. pretty B. strange C. ordinary D. lovely 44. A. glasses B. coat C. shoes D. hat 45. A. frigh
57、tening B. interesting C. encouraging D. injuring 46. A. beat B. lost C. ached D. opened 47. A. happier B. taller C. prettier D. uglier 48. A. until B. except C. before D. after 49. A. catch up B. have fun C. sit down D. fall over 50. A. fear B. surprise C. comfort D. joy 51. A. talking B. chatting C
58、. skating D. travelling 52. A. so B. because C. but D. still 53. A. wrote to B. laughed at C. heard from D. made fun of 54. A. hoped B. wondered C. thought D. considered 55. A. study B. fight C. act D. play第二节:（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。 All through history, people from
59、different countries and cultures have lived together in Britain. English is made 56. of both grammar and vocabulary these people brought to Britain. That is why English has so many57. ( confuse) rules. Before the middle of the 5th century, people in Britain all spoke Celtic. Then two Germanic groups
60、 from the European mainland-the Angles and the Saxons58._ (occupy) Britain. Old English,59. is very different from the English we speak nowadays, consisted of a mixture of their languages. Middle English was used from around the 12th to the 15th century. Many things, 60._(especial) the Norman Conque
61、st, contributed to the development of this new type of English. After the Norman Conquest, high-class people spoke French 61._ common people spoke English. In 1399, Henry became king of England, and he used English for all official events. Modern English appeared during the Renaissance in the 16th c
62、entury. It went through huge 62. (change) during this period. However, this was not the end of the changes in 63. English language. It is certain 64. this process will continue. The question of whether English will keep changing in the future is easy 65._(answer).第四部分： 写作（共两节，满分40分）第一节:书面表达(满分15 分)假
63、如你是李华，你的英国笔友 Jack 刚升入高中，但他一时无法适应新的校园生活写信向你征求建议，请你就此问题给他回一封信，主要内容包括，1、不必过分焦虑2、制定合理的学习计划3、多参加课外活动 4、结交新朋友 参考词汇：适应 adapt to注意词数 80 字左右，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯Dear Jack,I am a sorry to hear that 第二节 读后续写（满分25分）阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。David is a good middle school teacher. When I first met him, I asked him
64、 what encouraged him to teach. David smiled. And he told me a story.When he was young, like many young boys, David was fond of throwing stones. One afternoon, he discovered that if he threw stones over his neighbors fence, he could create a crashing sound the sound of breaking glass. So he would thr
65、ow a stone and wait for the sound. David felt fun at that moment, but then he did get caught.The man who lived next door came to his house and told his parents about the boy and the stones. “I would like David to come to my home so I can show him a few things,” the man said. His parents, sorry for t
66、hat and disappointed by their sons behavior, sent their son to the neighbors house. David followed the man into his house, through the back door, and out into the yard. There, next to the fence, was a greenhouse. The neighbor led David into the greenhouse, and David imagined all kinds of punishments
67、. What was the man going to do with him?As he led David down the rows of plants, the man began talking about flowers. He walked slowly, showing him each one and explaining what he loved about them. He said, “There are my gladioli (剑兰); they can get quite large and bloom (开花) in many colors. There ar
68、e violets; they are my wifes favorite. When I see them, I remember her, and miss her. In the deep purple, she lives in my eyes. And these orchids, right here, are very difficult to grow. But when they bloom, they create the most beautiful shape. You cannot believe until you see with your own eyes how a flower can be so beautiful.”注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；请按如下格式在相应位置作答。Paragraph 1: David was surprised._ _Paragraph 2: As he walked home, David decided he would grow up to be a teacher. _