1、1厦门外国语学校石狮分校厦门外国语学校石狮分校 2021 年秋期中考试高一年段英语学科试卷年秋期中考试高一年段英语学科试卷满分：满分：150 分考试时间：分考试时间：120 分钟分钟第第 I 卷卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分第一部分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）分）第一节第一节 (共共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分分, 满分满分 7.5 分分)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。1How many people will
2、 visit New York for free?A. 2B. 3C. 52What does the man advise the woman to do?A. Check the letter.B. Type the letter again.C. See Mr. Smith.3Whats wrong with Jane?A. She misses her home very much.B. She hasnt received her mothers letter.C. She is worried about her mothers health.4What does the man
3、want to do?A. Learn to play baseball.B. Organize a baseball team.C. Find a baseball player.5What does Susan mean?A. She had a date then.B. She will put off the meeting.C. She didnt have time to prepare the speech.第二节第二节 (共共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1.5 分分, 满分满分 22.5 分分)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
4、 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。听第 6 段材料, 回答第 6、7 题。6Why does the woman come to see Rick?A. To say goodbye.B. To ask for advice.C. To invite him to her home.7Which country would the woman like to visit?A. Canada.B. France.C. Germany.听第 7 段材料, 回答第
5、 8 至 9 题。8What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The popularity of English.B. The study pressure on students.C.Attitudes towards learning foreign languages.9What percentage of students are forced to learn a foreign language?A.About 21%.B.About 27%.C.About 35%.听第 8 段材料, 回答第 10 至 12 题。10What is
6、 the room like?A. Big but old.B. Small but new.C. Big and new.11What will be arranged first?A. The chairs.B. The bed.C. The dressing table.12Where will the chairs be put?A. Close to the window.B. In front of the fireplace.C. Behind the dressing table.2听第 9 段材料, 回答第 13 至 16 题。13What is the relationsh
7、ip between the speakers?A. Husband and wife.B. Father and daughter.C. Guide and tourist.14Where is the bank?A. Next to the coffee shop.B. Opposite the museum.C. At the end of the road.15What advice does the man give to the woman?A. Eating less chocolate. B. Keeping the table clean. C. Watching out f
8、or the traffic.16How will the speakers go to the museum?A. By bus.B. On foot.C. By bike.听第 10 段材料,回答第 17 至 20 题。17Why did Murphy go to a doctor?A. He thought his wife was deaf.B. He wanted to get his hearing back.C. He couldnt make himself understood.18What did the doctor tell Murphy to do?A. Stand
9、about 15 meters from his wife.B.Ask his wife some serious questions.C. Talk to his wife in different distances.19What was his wife doing when Murphy got back home?A. Watching TV.B. Cooking.C. Setting the table.20How many times did Murphy ask his wife the same question?A. Twice.B. Three times.C. Four
10、 times.第二部分第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分 50 分）分）第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）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。AEveryones at it, even my neighbors. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadnt done an eBaydeal. So, I decided to try my hand at onl
11、ine auction (网上拍卖).Buying for beginners： Sign up on www.ebay.co.uk. Most items(e. g. tables, computers, and books) ready for auctionwill come with a picture and a short description；others may be marked with “Buy It Now” and have a fixed price. Youcan buy these right away.If the item is being auction
12、ed, you offer the highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids (出价) for you. Thebid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you wouldlike to bid again. Auctions last up to 10 days and when they finish you get an email telling
13、 you whether you have wonthe item.How to pay: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before placing a bid as youmight not want to post a cheque or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takesthe money away from your credit ca
14、rd.Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of the item. I followed my friendsadvice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10-day auction, starting on a Thursday. This way buyers had twoweekends to bid.The big things in life: Its easy to post a small item
15、, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this has to be collected orsent by deliverymen. Check the ways of delivery before you bid.21. What is the passage mainly about?3A. How to make payment online.B. Ways of making delivery online.C. How to use an online-auction system.D.Advantages of an online-a
16、uction system.22.After bidding for an item, a buyer _.A. has chances to make higher bidsB. will get what he wants in ten daysC. should make payment immediatelyD. may check its picture and description23. The easiest way of making payment mentioned in the passage is _.A. through a local banking system
17、B. through an online payment systemC. by sending the money to the sellerD. by paying the deliveryman directlyBLast week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a fewyears ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends.My earliest mem
18、ories of my father are a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and his family, butuncomfortable with his children. As a child I loved him. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight As andunhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as “successful” as he was. Whenever I wen
19、t out with him onweekends, I used to struggle to think up things to say, feeling on guard.On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my fathers friends for lunch at an outdoor caf. We talkedalong that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my sons funny fa
20、cial expressions.Gone was my fathers critical (挑剔的) air and strict rules. Who was this person I knew as my father, who seemed sofriendly and interesting to be around? What had held him back before?The next day dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childh
21、ood.Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years,Im at last seeing another side of my father. And in so doing, Im delighted with my new friend. My dad, in his newhome in Arizona, is back to me from where he was.24. Why did t
22、he author feel bitter about her father as a young adult?A. He did not love his children.B. He expected too much of her.C. He was too proud of himself.D. He was silent most of the time.25. When the author went out with her father on weekend, she would feel.A. nervousB. sorryC. tiredD. safe26. What do
23、es the author think of her father after her visit to Tucson?A. More critical.B. More talkative.C. Gentle and friendly.D. Strict and hard-working.27. The underlined words “my new friend” in the last paragraph refer to.A. the caf ownerB. the authors sonC. the authors fatherD. the friend of the authors
24、 fatherCEmail has brought the art of letter writing back to life, but some experts think the resulting spread of bad Englishdoes more harm than good.Email is a form of communication that is changing, for the worse, the way we write and use language, say somecommunication researchers. It is also chan
25、ging the way we interact(交流) and build relationship. These are a few of therecently recognized features of email, say experts, which should cause individuals and organizations to rethink the waythey use email.“Email has increased the spread of careless writing habits,” says Naomi Baron, a professor
26、of linguistics(语言学) at an4American university. She says the poor spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure of emails reflect(反映) agrowing unconcern about the way we write.Baron argues that we shouldnt forgive and forget the poor writing often shown in email. “The more we use emailand its
27、 tasteless writing, the more it becomes the normal way of writing,” the professor says.Others say that despite its poor writing, email has finished what several generations of English teachers couldnt: ithas made writing fashionable again.“Email is a critical new communication technology.” says Ian
28、Lancashire, a professor of English at Toronto University.“It fills the gap between spoken language and the formal methods of writing that existed before email. It is the purestform of written speech.”Lancashire says email has the mysterious ability to get people who are usually scared by writing to
29、get their thoughtsflowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because of emails close similarity to speech. “Its like a circle of fouror five people around a campfire,” he says.Still, he accepts that this new-found freedom to express themselves often gets people into trouble. Emails sent in
30、aday almost exceed(超过) the number of letters mailed in a year. But more people are recognizing the content of a typicalemail message is not often exact.28. From what Baron says in the third paragraph we can see that _.A. careless people use email more than careful peopleB. email requires people to c
31、hange their native languageC. professors in universities dont need to use emailD. people communicate by email full of mistakes29.What does the underlined word “it”(in Paragraph 4) refer to?A. The poor writing.B. Email.C. The good writing.D. A new communication technology.30. In Lancashires opinion,
32、email is a wonderful technology because _.A. it can be useful all over the worldB. it is the fastest way to communicateC. we can express ourselves in a free wayD. we can save a lot of paper31. This passage mainly shows us that _.A. people should stop using email to communicateB. experts hold differe
33、nt opinions about email writingC. Americans only use email to communicateD. email makes people lose interest in EnglishDRainforests are home to a rich variety of medicinal plants, food, birds and animals. Can you believe that a singlebush(灌木丛) in the Amazon may have more species of ants than the who
34、le of Britain ! About 480 varieties of trees maybe found in just one hectare of rainforest.Rainforests are the lungs of the planetstoring vast quantities of carbon dioxide and producing a significantamount of the worlds oxygen. Rainforests have their own perfect system for ensuring their own surviva
35、l: the tall treesmake a canopy(树冠层) of branches and leaves which protect themselves, smaller plants, and the forest animals fromheavy rain, intense dry heat from the sun and strong winds.Amazingly, the trees grow in such a way that their leaves and branches, although close together, never actuallyto
36、uch those of another tree. Scientists think this is the plants way toprevent the spread of any tree diseases and makelife more difficult for leaf-eating insects like caterpillars. To survive in the forest, animals must climb, jump or fly across5the gaps. The ground floor of the forest is not all tan
37、gled leaves and bushes, like in films, but is actually fairly clear. It iswhere dead leaves turn into food for the trees and other forest life.They are not called rainforests for nothing! Rainforests can generate 75% of their own rain. At least 80 inches ofrain a year is normaland in some areas ther
38、e may be as much as 430 inches of rain yearly. This is real rainyourumbrella may protect you in a shower, but it wont keep you dry if there is a full rainstorm. In just two hours, streams canrise ten to twenty feet.The humidity(湿气) of large rainforests contributes to the formation of rainclouds that
39、 maytravel to other countries in need of rain.32. What can we learn about rainforests from the first paragraph?A. They produce oxygen.B. They cover a vast area.C. They are well managed.D. They are rich in wildlife.33. Which of the following contributes most to the survival of rainforests?A. Heavy ra
40、ins.B. Big trees.C. Small plants.D. Forest animals.34. Why do the leaves and branches of different trees avoid touching each other?A. For more sunlight.B. For more growing space.C. For self-protection.D. For the detection of insects.35. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Life-Giving Rainfo
41、restsB. The Law of the JungleC.Animals in theAmazonD. Weather in Rainforests第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题：每小题小题：每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）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。Talking with your doctorTalking freely with your doctor can make you feel better and gives your doctor the information she or he needs
42、togive you the best care. Dont be afraid or embarrassed to discuss something that is bothering you.36Stay positive.Go to your doctors visits with a good attitude.37Think teamwork! Think positive !Keep track of how you are feeling.38This will make it easier for you to answer questions about your symp
43、toms(症状) and how medicinesmake you feel.It also makes it easier for you to bring up anything that you are worried about.Make sure to be honestabout how you feel and how long youve felt that way.39Your medical history is a list of your illnesses, treatments, what the doctors told you to do, and anyth
44、ing else youthink your doctor should know.Also, if you are allergic(过敏) to any medicines, be sure to mention that to your doctor.Ask questions.Do not be afraid to ask your doctor any questions you have. To remember all the questions you have when you arenot in the doctors office, write them down and
45、 bring the list with you to your appointment.40Remember theresno such thing as a stupid question. If you dont understand the answer to a question, ask the doctor to explain it againuntil you do understand.A. This will make getting answers easier.B. Here are some tips for talking with your doctor.C.
46、You can talk to another doctor if the treatments dont work.D. Before your doctors visit, keep notes on how you are feeling.6E. Remember, your doctor and other caregivers are on your side.F. Bring your medical history, including a list of your current medicines.G. Writing down what the doctor says wi
47、ll help you remember important information.第三部分第三部分语言知识运用（共语言知识运用（共三三节，满分节，满分 40 分）分）第一节第一节 完形填空（共完形填空（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。I just marked my first Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in China. Exactly a
48、week after arriving for my graduatestudies, I was kind of homesickmemories of past _41_ back in Serbia(塞尔维亚) with family and friendsexchanging scenes in my mind. On the morning of Friday, September 13rd, the _42_ on the campus was verycheerful. Chinese students explained to us the importance of the
49、day as gifts of mooncakes were _43_ . Then camethe night. The full moon appeared: huge ball high above the campus, and eyes looked at it with _44_. Unlikeprevious nights, a cool breeze swept through the campus. With Serbian music playing on my headphones, I danced myway, _45_ in the wind, and forget
50、ting myself for a moment.As I settled back into my room, I was fascinated by the festivals idea. My _46_ mind pushed me online whereI came across the poem Prelude (前奏) to Water Melody（水调歌头）, by the well-known Chinese writer Su Dongpo.This poem concisely(精确地) seized what I was _47_ . The message and
