1、太原市 20202021 学年第一学期高一年级期中质量监测 英语试卷 （考试时间：下午 2:30-4:00) 说明：本试卷为闭卷笔答，答题时间 90 分钟，满分 100 分。请将第 I 卷试题答案填在第 II 卷卷 首的相应位置。 第 I卷（共 65分） 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 15分） 第一节（共 5小题；每小题 1分，满分 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。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。答案写在答题卡上。 例：How much is the shirt? A.
2、19.15. B. 9.18. C. 9.15. 答案是 C. 1. How does the boy feel on his first day at senior high? A. Excited. B.Worried. C.Disappointed. 2. Who is the girl under the tree? A.Bettys mother. C.Bettys sister. B. Bettys aunt. 3. What does the girl get for Christmas? A.A toy. B.A watch. C.A book. 4. When did the
3、 girl get her cat?. A.Two days age. B.Two months ago. C. Two years ago. 5.Why does the boy feel sad? A.He finds English hard. B.He doesnt like English. C.He missed the English test. 第二节（共 10小题；每小题 1分，满分 10分） 听下面 3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。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
4、出 5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。答案写在答题卡上。 听第 6段材料，回答第 6至 8题。 6. Where did the man go? B.To Guilin. C. To Sichuan. A. To Qinghai. 7.What does the woman think of the pandas? A. They are lovely. B. They are dirty. C.They are clever. 8.How long did the man stay there? A.For a week. B.For a month. C.For a year. 听第
5、 7段材料，回答第 9至 11题。 9. How does the girl feel? A.Painful. C.Sleepy. B. Cold. 10.What will the boy do this afternoon? A. Buy a new notebook for the girl. B.Take the girls schoolbag to her. C. Discuss problems with his teacher. 11. What is the relationship between the two speakers? A.Classmates. B.Stran
6、gers. C.Co-workers. 听第 8段材料，回答第 12至 15题。 12. What is the Huangguoshu National Park famous for? A.Rivers. B. Valleys. C.Waterfalls. 13.When will the woman go to Lijiang old town? A.Tomorrow. B.Next week. C.Next month. 14.How does the woman feel about the hotels? B.Expensive. C. Popular. A.Beautiful.
7、15.What will the woman do on the last day? A. Buy some flowers. B, Drink some tea. C.Take some pictures. 第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 20分） 第一节 单词填空（共 5小题；每小题 1分，满分 5分） 根据句意内容，从方框中选出正确的单词，完成下列句子。答案的标号写在答题卡上。 A.making B.actually C.curious D.begun E. impression 16. He is quite_about the new technology. 17.A pati
8、ent teacher can always make a deep_on her. 18. We are looking forward to_progress in the new term. 19.Lucy_spends most of her free time reading English stories. 20. Whats your understanding of the saying “Well_half done.? 第二节完形填空（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 A、B、C和 D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选 项。答
9、案写在答题卡上。 I was about to explain the meaning of the word “gossamer”（小蜘蛛网）to my five-year-old students.We were learning a poem.I 21 because one of them was waving his hand at me. “Yes? I asked. “Once I got caught in a spider web 22 I didnt see it, the boy.said. Thats gossamer! ” I shouted, nearly jump
10、ing up. “ Gossamer things are hard to see. Gossamer is also how I might describe the voices of. 23. young children. I can only hear them when I am close enough. They are not the children speaking with ease. They are the children whose faces grow 24 if I call on them,or whisper(低语）“I dont know even w
11、hen they do 25.I dont want them to 26.I want them to be comfortable being 27 Shy children usually have less practice in speaking, especially when there are other more children, 28 to talk. It s a loud world. Though shy children may appear_ 29 to be in the background, they are losing opportunities to
12、 participate.Without practice,fear of speaking 30 It takes about three weeks, a small bit of 31 each day, for each of my 17 students to learn a poem. So far, they have memorized more than five. And now, an obvious. 32 has happened. Theshyest children are as eager to read aloud as the 33 ones. Practi
13、ce is an excellent way to increase 34 of shy children while learning a poem. And it is practice that makes them enjoy the 35 of the language. 21.A.stopped B.breathed C.argued D.reflected 22.A.or B.until C.because D.although 23.A.curious B.shy C.intelligent D.anxious 24.A.round B.blue C.red D.strange
14、 25.A.play B.ask C.walk D.know 26.A.get up B.take up C.turn up D.give up 27.A.focused B.respected C.heard D.told 28.A.eager B.slow C.careful D.worried 29.A.embarrassed B.puzzled C.amazed D.satisfied 30.A.hides B.grows C.disappears D.falls 31.A.research B.practice C.benefit D.discussion 32.A.accident
15、 B.change C.debate D.event 33.A.healthy B.familiar C.outgoing D.impressive 34.A.excitement B. pressure C.resource D.confidence 35.A.beauty B.method C.trouble D.speed 第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 30分） 第一节（共 10小题；每小题 2分，满分 20分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C和 D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。答案写在答题卡上。 注意：C篇分 A、B两种题型，A(易）题型为客观题，B(难）题型为主观题。 A S
16、chuylerville High School students have a broad range of interests,which are reflected by the number of clubs and organizations in which our pupils participate. Here are some of the most popular clubs: Environmental Club Open to students in grades 9-12 Advisor:Mrs. Flores The High School Environmenta
17、l Club is open to all students interested in increasing environmental awareness throughout the school. Activities include: recycling,environmental competitions,volunteering with green schools and outdoor events. This run student club collects and recycles paper products throughout the school buildin
18、g. Freshman Class Open to students in grades 9-10 Advisor: Mr. Winslow The freshmen class participates in several activities throughout the year to raise money for the class account. The class officers meet once a month to discuss business that affects the entire class.All members of the freshman cl
19、ass are encouraged to participate in some type of community service during the year. Literary Magazine Open to students in grades 10-12 Advisor:Mr.Sgambati Members of the Literary Magazine collect,edit and often contribute to the body of student work.Literary Magazine meetings will also give student
20、s the opportunity to share and receive feedback on the creative pieces that they re working on, as well as the chance to leam about writing practices and strategies. Mock Trial Team Open to students in grades.11-12 Advisor:Mrs.Lewis Mock Trial is an after-school activity that helps students develop
21、useful knowledge about the law.Students play out all the roles and use general rules of evidence and fact explanations in a school court.They will work with a real lawyer and an advisor to further understand the court process. 36. At which club can you take part in the community service? A.Environme
22、ntal Club. B. Freshman Class. C.Literary Magazine. D.Mock Trial Team. 37.What does Mock Trial Team aim to do? A. To encourage students to be lawyers. B.To develop students writing skills. C.To explain all kinds of facts at school. D. To help students learn more about laws. 38.Where is this text most
23、 likely from? A.A news report. B. A school website. C.A research paper. D.A science magazine. B Making friends can be difficult. It seems like theres no guide for this important life skill. But a researcher Jeffrey A. Hall in the University of Kansas has helped explain the process of friendship-buil
24、ding in a new study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Its the first to find out exactly how long it takes to make a friend. The answer is a long time. Hall surveyed 112 college students every three weeks during their first nine weeks at a Midwestern university. He also g
25、ave a one-time questionnaire to 355 American adults who had moved to a new city in the past six months. In these surveys, the newcomers picked a friend or two and reported how much time they spent together. Unsurprisingly, the more time two people spent together, the closer their relationship is. Th
26、rough his analysis, Hall was able to tell how many hours it took for different levels of friendship to take place: It takes students 43 hours and adults 94 hours to turn acquaintances(熟人）into casual friends. Students need 57 hours to change from casual friends to friends. Adults need, on average, 16
27、4 hours. For students, friends became good or best friends after about 119 hours. Adults need an additional 100 hours to make that happen. “Everyone wants to have friends, but you can t have friends without making them, ” says Hall.Making friends takes time. Thats why it s easier to make friends in
28、school and at university. Hall thinks that the close college life develops fast connections and its harder for students to get impacted by other people outside,especially if they go to a university away from home.For adults, even 50 hours is a lot of hours to spend with someone when they re working
29、full time and spending at least an hour a day on the subway. 39. Whats the purpose of the study by Jeffrey A. Hall? A.To provide a guide for making friends. B. To describe the benefits of making friends. C.To explore the time needed for making friends. D.To study the differences between students and
30、 adults. 40. According to Hall, how long do new students need to become best friends? A. 100 hours. B. 119 hours. C. 219 hours. D.319 hours. 41. Which of the following has a positive effect on friendship-building?. A. The close college life. B.Long working time. C.The impact from others. D.Time spen
31、t on the subway. C When I went off to college in the fall of 1991, I was an 18-year-old man whose favorite letters were the ones on the sports sweater. Four years later,I was crazy about the letters of the poet Keats,but one authors penned letters stood out above the rest. You see,my father wrote me
32、 one letter per week from the time I left home. In an age before email, these letters seemed too ordinary. But they arrived. Each week. One after another. Again and again. In snowstorms. On holidays. From foreign countries. They detailed what Dad referred to as the week that was- a day-by-day descri
33、ption of my fathers life. In 1995, I graduated from college, like many 22-year old, with plenty of uncertainty. Some of my questions were pretty typical: What was I going to do? Where was I going to live? When was I going to apply for graduate school? But one question was more vital than any other t
34、hing. What would happen to the weekly letters? Would they continue? To my surprise, the letters kept coming, more heartfelt and emotional than before and always on time. I mean, the guy never missed. As much as I enjoyed my father s weekly letters, I didnt t fully appreciate them all those years whe
35、n they arrived like clockwork. And I never fully understood why my dad would always ask if Id received the letter when we spoke. But now, as I pen my first official letters to my own sons Jackson and Cassius, it all seems clear. Although our boys have yet to leave for college, I have to accept that
36、day will soon come. Just the idea of their leaving from our home makes me ache with sadness only a parent can know. So I am writing aboutthe week that was” with my daily details. With a box of over 500 of Dad s letters nearby and his pen in hand, I write a letter, fighting back the tears. I make it
37、to the end and sign it just as he did. All my love, Dad. （以下是 A种题型） 42. What were the letters from the author s father mainly about? A. Daily details. B. Keats poems. C. College and family. D. Weather and holidays. 43. What does the underlined wordvital” in paragraph 3 refer to? A.Professional. B. I
38、nteresting. C.Difficult. D.Important. 44. What leads the author to fully understand his fathers letters? A. Entering college. B.Writing to his own sons. C.Graduating from college. D. Sending his sons to college. 45. Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.What We Can Learn from
39、Graduate School B.How I Communicated with My Sons by Letter C.How I Came to Appreciate My Fathers Letters D.What We Know About Kids After Being Parents （以下是 B种题型） 42. What did the authors father keep doing for years? 43.What does the sentence the guy never missed tell us about the authors father? 44
40、. When did the author come to realize the importance of his father s letters? 45. Why would the authors dad always ask if the author had received his letters? 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。答案写在答题卡上。 How to Learn English Idioms(习语） One way to improve your English is to learn E
41、nglish idioms -and then use them. 46 They make you sound more like a native speaker. Like other languages, English has thousands of idioms which you can use in many different situations, or to talk about your feelings and opinions. So how do you learn them?. Learn idioms in context Its difficult to
42、learn idioms through lists. 47 Make sure you have an example of how the idiom is used, and know clearly whether it s common. This is important, because if you use the idiom in the wrong situation, it wont sound natural. Dont try to learn too many at once 48 - For that reason, dont t try to learn mor
43、e than five at any one time. Dont forget: Youll need to practise your new idioms (like any new vocabulary), so limit what you do in any lesson. Understand.the feeling We often use an idiom to express a feeling or emotion. So for example, we say that someone has a heart of gold”。 Because gold is a pr
44、ecious metal, we can imagine that someone with a heart of gold is a good person. 49 Listen out for idioms If you hear two words used together in an unusual way, it might well be a new.idiom. 50 However, usually you might need to make a note of it or ask the person who has spoken it. A. Idioms can be
45、 complex. B.Instead, learn their meanings in context. C.Idioms can add interest to what you say or write. D.In fact, it does mean that a person is very kind. E.Sometimes you can guess its meaning in context. 第 II卷（共 35分） 第四部分 短文填空（共 10小题；每小题 1分，满分 10分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。答案写在题号 后的横线上。
46、From something tasty 51._ good skincare,the mushroom(蘑菇）is experiencing something amazing.I have come to the conclusion that much can be learned about music by 52._（devote) oneself to the mushroom,says John Cage in his book. The experimental musician was not alone in 53._（he) belief that the mushroo
47、m is, in fact, quite valuable. Chefs,skincare experts,and 54._（artist) alike are harvesting the various benefits of the mushroom for their own creations.Recent studies have shown that the mushroom is not only a tasty addition,55._also a large source of health benefits.A daily dosage(剂量） is said to m
48、ake sure that your blood sugar 56._(remain) balanced. Beauty experts are also making good use of the unique benefits of mushrooms.I was so excited 57._(discover) the wide range of amazing benefits mushrooms have in the skin,says Dr.Dennis Gross, 58._has used mushrooms in his skincare line.The mushroom will 59._（certain) become an even more popular ingredient, as our growing attention to health leads to a 60._(great) interest in natural solutions. 第五部分 写作（共两节，满分 25分） 第一节 短文改错（共
