高一上学期期中考试英语试卷.docx

高一第一学期英语期中考试I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At a dinner table B. In a hotel.C. At home. D. At a restaurant.2. A. He will get the radio repaired. B. He will disturb the woman.C. He will stop listening to the radio. D. He will turn down the radio.3. A. At 1466 London Street. B. At 1646 London Street.C. At 1464 London Street. D. At 6046 London Street.4.A. At 7:05. B. At 6:15. C. At 6:25. D. At 6:50.5.A. By train. B. By bus. C. By car. D. By bike.6.A. About 10. B. About 20. C. About 30. D. About 40.7. A. To see an exhibition. B. To have a meeting. C. To attend a lecture. D. To protect the environment.8. A.$300. B.$350. C.$250. D.$150.9.A. Milk only. B. Milk and toast. C. Milk and eggs. D. Eggs and toast.10.A. The man should purchase a new violin.。 B. The man should continue his violin class.C. The man should consult his violin teacher. D. The man should give up playing the violin.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversations and short passages, and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversations and the passages. The conversations and the passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Based on their ability. B. Based on their knowledge. C. Based on their English level. D. Based on their gaokao scores. 12. A. 20. B.44. C. 74. D. 200. 13. A. The “gaokao” students. B. The American students. C. The international students. D. The non-gaokao international students.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Never feel fearful. B. Be able to face the fear. C. Feel impatient with yourself. D. Be eager to achieve the goal. 15. A. Care about your friends ability. B. Focus on advancing your own goals. C. Compare yourself to your best friends. D. Pay attention to your relatives progress. 16. A. How to build self-confidence. B. How to be patient with yourself. C. How to be comfortable with fear. D. How to stop comparing yourself to others.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Marketing. B. Human resources. C. Insurance. D. E-commerce platform. 18. A. Because he is a responsible candidate. B. Because he will graduate this summer. C. Because its growth record is satisfactory. D. Because he has a variety of experiences. 19. A. He arranges press conferences. B. He organizes college vocations. C. He goes through lots of resumes. D. He engages in marketing activities20. A. Everyone gets unemployment insurance. B. Employees are unlikely to be trained abroad. C. Employees are offered one week paid holiday. D. Only senior employees are offered life insurance.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.(A)Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age of 5 with her family. While (21)_ (take) care of her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had an interest in medicine. At 18 she married and started a family. Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a doctor. Her husband supported her decision. Unfortunately, Canadian medical schools did not accept women students at the time. Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States (22)_(study) medicine at the Womens Medical College in Philadelphia. (23)_ took her five years to earn her medical degree. Upon graduation, Charlotte returned to Montreal and set up a private clinic. Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, (24)_ she was once again a busy doctor. Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps. Charlotte found herself operating on damaged limbs and setting broken bones, (25)_ _ _ delivering all the babies in the area. But Charlotte had been practising without a license. She had applied for a doctors license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, (26)_ was refused. The Manitoba College of Medicines, (27)_ all-male organization, wanted her to complete her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to leave her patients to spend time studying (28)_ she already knew. So in 1887, she appealed to the Manitoba Legislature to issue a license to her but they, too, refused. Charlotte continued to practise (29)_ a license until 1912. She died four years later at the age of 73. In 1993, 77 years after her death, a medical license was issued to Charlotte. This decision(30) _(make) by the Manitoba Legislature to honour “this courageous and pioneering woman”. (B)My Volunteer Experience in GhanaIt is not quite six in the morning. I am half asleep in a van that in the United States would seat maybe six people. Here in Ghana though, its insides have been replaced with wooden benches that can accommodate twelve of us. I use the term “accommodate” loosely; we are squeezed so tight in together (31)_ sometimes my arm goes numb(麻木的). This goes on for two hours every morning, from Monday to Friday, so that I (32)_ get to the slum town school where I teach. (33) _ (arrive) at the destination always fills me with fear. The school originally functioned as a daycare type service free to the children of single mothers. (34)_ the children got older, the coordinator took it upon herself to set up a space to teach them. Into this tiny space they squeeze anywhere between 80 and 120 children under the age of six. It is literally so full of children that you have to move them out of the way by shoving(推开) them with your feet (35)_ (avoid) stepping on them. (34) Within days, I have already learned most of their names. There are the troublemakers who spend their time (36)_(hit) one another and causing chaos in hopes that their negative behavior will attract attention to themselves. All of my child psychology classes tell me to ignore the behavior (37)_ responding to it may reinforce the behavior. Then there are the ones that make your heart bleed. The five-year-old girl who (38)_ (sit) in the front row, is ready to learn whatever knowledge we can throw her way. She learns whatever we teach her, at a pace (39)_ takes my breath away. She far outpaces any Western five-year-old Ive ever worked with, and shes learning in English when her family only knows and speaks Twi, a local language. I look at this decrepit(破 旧 的 ) classroom and these children in their ragged clothes, and think of (40)_ different this is from the American classrooms Ive known.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.(A)A. counting B. create C. loss D. Luckily E. offer F. preferredG. supports H. transfer I. type J. Unfortunately K. videoThe digital revolution has had a huge impact on every aspect of our society. For content creators, life looks nothing like it did just a couple of decades ago. Back then, all you had to do is to take the tape off the camera and put it on your (41)_ player. At most, you had to read an article to understand the difference between HS and Betamax. Video was only consumed in two ways: television or cinema. Nowadays, youll probably run out of fingers (42)_ how many video formats (格式) there are out there, let alone the number of platforms and devices on which video is played. Understanding what each video format is and does is no childs play. In fact, it is a “must” if you want your work to look the best regardless of where and how it is played. If, for example, you want to (43)_ a video website, the type of file youll need to use will most likely to be different from the one youll have tocreate for your social media accounts. In order to make this whole process a lot easier, we have put together a list of the most common video formats and which ones you should use for each purpose. So whats the best video format?(44) _, there isnt a cure-all when it comes to video sharing. The good thing is that its actually really easy to (45)_ between video formats. If you do so, be sure to always save the original file in order to avoid (46)_ of image quality due to file compression(压缩). Here are three of the most common video uses and the (47)_ formats for each of them:l Social media: MP4 is supported by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, IGTV, and YouTube. Facebook also(48)_ MOV, while YouTube accepts most video formats. l l TV and computers: AVI, MOV, and MKV (49)_ the highest quality image which makes them great options for big screen streaming. l l Website: WEBM and HTML5 are the video formats meant for your account. However, using tools such as Wix Video will allow you to work with almost any file (50)_, as well as offer you much more control over your work.(B)A. civilization B. dangerous C. dump D. efficiently E. endless F. fallenG. plastic H. profitably I. sell J. stylish K. throwawayThe Value of UpcyclingRecycling is a well-known idea that refers to reusing waste materials in any way possible. But what about “upcycling”? Its a new word, even though its something that has been going on since human (51)_ began. It means reusing waste materials so that they have greater value. Throughout history, people have always done creative things with “trash”. For example, theyve used straw and dead leaves to make roofs, skin from dead animals to make leather goods, and wood from (52)_ trees to make boats. So why is there a new word for it now?One answer to this question is that we reuse fewer and fewer things, and so have become a(n) “(53)_” society. This has raised huge questions about waste: Where can we (54)_ it all? Will it pollute the environment? Could it be (55)_ to our health? The evidence is everywhere even in the Pacific Ocean, where billions of bits of broken (56)_ float near the surface. Fish eat them, and then we eat the fish. So upcyclers have adopted this new word to focus peoples attention on how waste cannot simply be reused, but be reused (57)_. In fact, upcyclers dont like the idea of waste and prefer to call it an “asset”, something of value. Nowadays, there are lots of organizations that (58)_ products with upcycled material. Some artists and designers have upcycled things like denim from old jeans to make rugs, and wood from old houses to make furniture. Others have even used candy wrappers to make handbags!Sometimes theyll add a(n) (59)_ element to their products, such as a beautiful mosaic (马赛克) made with broken dishes. With a(n) (60)_ supply of “assets”, it seems that upcycling has a great future.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Deliverance(解救) for Delivery Drivers?ZOOOOOOOOM! A gust of air, the hum of spinning wheels, and a flash of color whizzing past. Im sure that we have all stepped into the crosswalk, at one time or another, and experienced this sudden, heart-stopping (61)_. I am, of course, referring to delivery drivers (62)_ through crossroads to deliver takeaway food. Over the past few years, delivery drivers have been criticized, fined, and even (63)_ for breaking traffic laws across China. Delivery drivers often (64)_ red lights, disregard speed limits, and pay little attention to pedestrian crossings. But they also often pay the (65)_ price each year, it seems like fatal injuries involving delivery drivers are increasing. (66)_, since delivery drivers are usually poorly paid, how much blame do they really deserve for running against the clock?Well, it (67)_ to be a complicated issue. Recently an article titled “Delivery Drivers, Stuck in the System” was shared widely on social media. According to the article, (68)_ between delivery servicesEle.me and Meituan has caused each app to take increasingly extreme measures to out-do(超过) the other. This has included the shortening of delivery time windows. It has been (69)_, in part, through a combination of rewards for early delivery and severe punishments for late delivery. Over time, the platforms have only increased these (70)_ on drivers. As a result, drivers find themselves in a dilemma(左右两难的困境)：break traffic laws or, in some cases, lose hundreds of yuan in earnings for late deliveries. According to surveys and reactions online, (71)_ care much whether their deliveries are a fewminutes late, while most believe that it is not worth risking someones life for. In response, Ele.me and Meituan have added a combination of features to (72)_ delivery times for slow elevators or bad weather conditions. Although these new (73)_ cannot solve the underlying problems of intense competition or the inherent dangers of driving, they should, in some measure, start reducing some of the pressure on drivers. In the meantime, as (74)_, we can help to make life for delivery riders safer and easier. (75)_, be a considerate person and dont leave them waiting for too long. If you see a food delivery guy rushing toward you on an escalator or into a door, consider standing back and letting him go first. After all, they are putting their lives on the line just to deliver our food. 61. A. f