1、2021年高一上学期期末考试英语试卷含答案（部分）本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。第卷第一部分 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A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置上。听完每段对话后，你有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.When does the play start?A. At 6:30. B. At 8:00. C. At 6: 00.2. What have they decided to do?A
2、. Visit. B. Play. C. Fly.3. Who didnt finish the work?A. Lily. B. Tom. C. Jack.4. What is Bettys opinion?A. Women are better cooks than men. B. Women are better teachers than men.C. Women are better workers than men.5. Why arent the watches like these made now?A. Because they are so cheap. B. Becaus
3、e they are too expensive.C. Because people dont like them.第二节（共15小题; 每小题1.5分，共22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的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5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What kind of movie is going to be on?A. The love movie. B. The kungfu movie.C. The detective mo
4、vie.7. How does Grace like the kungfu movie?A. She thinks its great. B. She doesnt like it at all.C. She enjoys it very much and plans to see it again.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Whats the relationship between the speakers?A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and son. C. Classmates.9. What are they going to do?A
5、. They are going to have an exam. B. They are going to travel.C. They are going to buy a watch.10. What does the woman think of the man?A. He is very serious. B. He is too careless. C. He is very lazy.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. Why does the man buy a farm?A. He is tired of living in the factory. B. He wan
6、ts to live with a farmer.C. He wants to earn much money.12. Why does the woman sell her farm?A. Because the ground is unfit to grow wheat. B. Because she has no modern farm equipment. C. Because farming is very hard work.13. Which of the following statements is not true?A. The woman has her own farm
7、. B. The woman sold her farm at a high price.C. The man paid $200 for the womans farm.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. Where was the doctor going in his car?A. The doctor was going to a garage.B. The doctor was going to a patients home. C. The doctor was going to his own home.15.Which of the following was the c
8、ause of the accident?A. The doctor was careless. B. A big tree fell on his car. C. The road was covered with ice.16. Why did the doctor go to the nearest house?A. Because he knew one of his patients lived there.B. He had received a call to go there. C. He wanted to use the telephone.17. Why did the
9、woman patient telephone the doctor?A. She needed medical treatment. B. To ask how soon the doctor could e.C. She believed somebody else needed a doctor.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Whats in the young mans hands?A. There are two bags in his hands. B. There are two books in his hands. C. There are two boxes
10、in his hands.19.How does the driver feel when he hears the passenger is going to the hotel? A. Disappointed. B. Glad. C. Regretful.20. How much will the young man give the driver? A. 30 dollars. B. 15 dollars. C. 13 dollars. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳
11、选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ALouisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. She was the second of four daughters. Her father was an educator and social reformer. The Alcotts did not have much money. Louisa worked to help support her family. She tried teaching, sewing, and taking care of children. She did not
12、 like any of these jobs.Louisa liked writing and thought of herself as a writer. At the age of sixteen, she wrote her first book. It was called Flower Fables. She decided to sell what she wrote. She wrote many kinds of poems, stories, and plays. Her stories were exciting, but unrealistic. She sold t
13、hem to newspapers and magazines for small amounts of money.In 1868, an American publisher asked the struggling young writer, Louisa May Alcott, to write a book for girls. At first, she was not sure she wanted to do it. She said she never liked girls. And she never knew many, except her sisters.Louis
14、a decided to write the book anyway. She thought her familys activities and experiences might be interesting to others. She told about her experiences growing up in the northeastern United States during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her book proved to be more than interesting. Little Women be
15、came one of the most popular childrens books in American literature. It has been published in more than fifty languages.21.How many daughters did the Alcotts have?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.D. Five.22.Which of the following jobs did Louisa like?A. Teaching.B. Sewing.C. Writing.D. Caring for children.23
16、.Why did Louisa decide to write a book for girls?A. She knew many girls and she liked girls very much.B. She wanted to make money from the book.C. She wrote many kinds of interesting stories.D. She thought her familys story might be interesting to others.24.Which statement about Little Women is not
17、true?A. It proved to be very popular and interesting.B. It was the first book Louisa May Alcott wrote.C. It became one of the most popular childrens books in American literature.D. It has been published in more than fifty languages.BNot many couples stay married for 50 years. Even fewer do so for 75
18、 years. Its almost impossible for a couple to be married for 85 years. But thats exactly what Henry and Maggie Thurston did.Henry was born on a farm in Iowa in 1857. At the age of 18 he went to Chicago to attend university. There he met Maggie, who had e from Cleveland to study art. She was one year
19、 younger.This was a true case of love at first sight. They got married in 1876, less than six months after they met. In 1877 their first son, Jack, was born. By 1885 they had five children, including their third son, Lou, who became a well-known writer. From 1900 to 1915 Henry and Maggie became gran
20、dparents thirty-one times.On February 17th, 1961, they celebrated their 85th wedding anniversary. The day they had chosen for their wedding had bee Valentines Day. Over one hundred newsmen came to report on the event. The couple was seen on national TV. Most amazing of all, though, was the fact that
21、 over 1,500 relatives were also present. The youngest was a three-week-old baby girl. Henry and Maggie were old. He was 104 and she was 103.25.What did Maggie study at university?A. Maths.B. Physics.C. Art.D. Chemistry.26.Which of the following is true about Lou Thurston?A. He was a student of art.B
22、. He was a newsman.C. He was a farmer.D. He was a writer.27.When did Henry and Maggie celebrate their 85th wedding anniversary?A. In 1916.B. In 1961.C. In 1915.D. In 1985.CWhen you turn on the radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an advertisement. If you turn
23、 the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one advertisement board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something petent to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West
24、, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media(大众媒介) work. The government does not give money to mass media such as TV stations, newspapers, magazines and radio stations. They are all owned privately. So where does the money e from? From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not b
25、e these private businesses.Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is? Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of “keeping your name before the public”. And some people thought that advertising was “ truth w
26、ell told”. Now more and more people describe it in this way: Advertising is the paid, nonpersonal, and usually persuasive description of goods, services and ideas through various media.All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or service advertised can do well to them. Ad
27、vertisements exist everywhere in our lives.28.What is the passage mainly about?A. The importance of advertisementB. The societys great need of advertisementC. The beginning of advertisementD. The prosperity of advertisement29.Whats the financial source of the privately owned mass media?A. The local
28、governments.B. Their owners families.C. Advertisements.D. The audience.30.According to the passage, what is one of the features of advertisements?A. Advertising is personal opinions that people dont believe them. B. Advertisements try to make people believe their products are true.C. Advertisements
29、are unreliable and people dont buy things on line.D. Advertisements are misleading that people all buy things on shops.31. Which of the following is true?A. Without advertisements, the mass media in the West could not work.B. In America, the government spend a lot of money on the mass media.C. About
30、 what advertising is, people have no answers to it.D. People now dont believe the advertisements.DFor this little boy, it was the coldest winter. In the winter, his father had an accident and lost a leg. The family lost their only source of ine (收入). From then on, his father became a defferent perso
31、n. When the boy behaved badly, the father flied into a rage (大发雷霆).One night, the boy wandered alone in the street. He passed a lovely small shop, which was so charming that he couldnt turn his eyes away from it. He stared at some fine packages of coffee quietly. An idea came into his mind. He knew
32、his father loved coffee and he also knew stealing was not good, but all he could think of was his fathers smile. He soon put a package of coffee into his jacket and ran back home. He gave the coffee to his father, who gave him a smile that the boy had missed for a long time. Unfortunately, before hi
33、s father could tasted the coffee, the shopkeeper broke in and caught the boy. He got a beating by his father again.Years later, he became a successful businessman. One day, his mother called and said his father wanted to see him. Busy negotiating (谈判) with a client, he refused. Weeks later, he heard
34、 the sad news that his father had passed away. When he went through the relics (遗物), he found a box. Inside the box was the package of coffee that he had stolen from the shop. On the cover was his fathers handwriting: The gift from my son. There was also a letter, “ Dear son, Im a failure as a fathe
35、r, but I also have a dream-to own a coffee shop where I can make cups of coffee for you. Im sorry I didnt make it.”Sadness suddenly crowded in on him. He regretted not seeing his father for the last time, and decided to achieve his fathers dream. After quitting his own job, he started a coffee busin
36、ess.The coffee business now is a huge success, and the little boy is Howard Schultz-the owner of Coffee King Starbucks.32.What did the father feel when his son gave him the coffee? A. Happy.B. Angry.C. Unknown. D. Disappointed.33. Why didnt the son want to see his father when his mother called him?A
37、. Because he didnt want to see.B. Because he was busy with his business.C. Because he didnt know his fathers idea.D. Because he knew his father didnt like him.34. The underlined words “ passed away” probably means _.A. went outB. went homeC. stayed in hospitalD. died35. Which of the following can be
38、 the best title of this article?A. The relation between a father and his sonB. How to get on with your fatherC. A boy and his coffee shopD. How to run a coffee shop 第二节 (共5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。More than 30 million kids buy school lunch each day. This year, many sch
39、ools raised lunch prices to fight for rising costs. Students pay about $2 a meal now. 36 But they still get a good deal. The average cost for schools to produce one meal has gone up 30 cents, and is now $ 3.37 To start, the government pays for a small part of the difference. Schools have to make up
40、the rest. Peggy Eller, a leader of school nutrition (营养) services in Hudson, Wisconsin, said her district is cutting costs by using fewer paper products and serving smaller portions (份额). Well, portion control is one key to healthful eating!The push for more healthful food has grown in recent years.
41、 One in five kids aged 6 to 19 is overweight. 38 Many states passed laws that require schools to serve nutritious meals.Since xx, more than 90% of all U. S. schools have removed the fat from lunchs. Foods high in fat, salt and sugar have been replaced by low-fat milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. 39
42、 “ It makes it easier to try new things at home,” said Savanna Mackey, a Florida fifth-grader.Students need healthful meals to grow strong and do well in school. “ Rising food prices wont stand in the way, ” says school nutritionist Janey Thornton. “40”A.Being overweight can cause health problems.B.
43、So, how do schools neither make money nor lose money?C.We dont know what to do.D.That is 27 cents more than last year.E. Well just be more clever in how we do things.F. What should students do to deal with the overweight?G. These new items on lunch menus have encouraged kids to change their eating h
44、abits.第三部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分35分)第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分,满分20分）One day while Lu Ban and his younger sister were visiting West Lake in Hangzhou, they were 41 in a sudden heavy rain and had to 42.“ What a 43 ! ” thought Sister Lu. When they reached 44, she said to her brother, “ Youre the best craftsman (工匠)
45、 around here, but lets bet on who can first 45 something that will let people enjoy the scenery 46 in the rain.Lu Ban laughted. “ All right,” he said, “ but there 47 be a time limit (界限) . Three days?” “No, just one night. Lets get 48 tonight and 49 at the first cocks crow (啼叫).”Lu Ban was 50. “ All
46、 right, its a bet.”It turned 51. Lu Ban started building a pavilion (大帐篷) at the lakeside. When he finished, he went home and his sisters workshop was 52 inside. Lu Ban went back and built another eight pavilions. He stopped when he 53 a cock crowing.Soon the sun 54. Lu Ban saw that his sister was h
47、olding a bamboo pole (竹杆) which had something round and flat at one end and 55 with colorful silk.“ What a 56 thing! How 57 !” He cried out, 58 his sisters invention. Sister Lu smiled, “ Mine can only be used by a 59 person, while yours can be used by many at the same time.”Some people say that was the 60 of the Hangzhou umbrella. The bet was
