人教版(新起点)2019-2020学年五年级下学期英语期末考试试卷(无听力)B卷
人教版(新起点)2019-2020学年五年级下学期英语期末考试试卷（无听力）B卷
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一、你将听到一个单词，选择你所听到的内容。(5分) (共10题；共5分)
1. （0.5分）听录音，选出你所听到的内容（）
A . hand
B . head
2. （0.5分）听录音，选出与你所听内容相符的图片（）
A .
B .
3. （0.5分）听音，选出你听到的单词（）
A . town
B . tomorrow
C . today
4. （0.5分）选出你所听到的单词（）
A . lovely
B . loudly
C . loud
5. （0.5分）听录音，选出你所听到的单词（）
A . homework
B . way
C . lunch
6. （0.5分）选出正确的图片（）
A .
B .
7. （0.5分）听录音，选出你所听到的词语（）
A . smaller
B . smarter
C . shorter
8. （0.5分）听单词，请选择正确的答案（）
A . car
B . card
9. （0.5分）hand head________
10. （0.5分）选出正确的图片
A .
B .
二、你将听到一个句子，选择你所听到的内容。(5分) (共10题；共5分)
11. （0.5分）听录音，选择你所听到的句子（）
A . Let's tidy up the living room.
B . Who is tidying up the living room?
C . Let's tidy up the dining room.
12. （0.5分）听录音，给所听问句选择恰当的答语（）
A . Yes, I can.
B . I can wear my new coat.
C . Yes, you can.
13. （0.5分）听录音，选出恰当的应答语（）
A . I went to a forest park.
B . I often go to school by bike.
14. （0.5分）听音，选出你所听到的单词或短语（）
A . get on
B . get up
C . get off
15. （0.5分）
16. （0.5分）
17. （0.5分）听录音，根据你所听到的内容选择恰当的应答语（）
A . Yes, I can.
B . No, it isn't.
18. （0.5分）听录音，选图片（）
A . size5
B . size 3
19. （0.5分）听音，选择正确的答语（）
A . I'm nine.
B . He's eight.
20. （0.5分）听录音，选出你所听到的句子（）
A . It has a small head.
B . It has a short tail.
三、听录音，根据你所听到的内容，选出相符图片的字母编号。(10分 (共10题；共10分)
21. （1分）听录音，选出听到的句子或对话（）
A . —What's this? —It's a soft rabbit.
B . —What's this? —It's a soft bear.
22. （1分）根据你听到的内容与问题，选出正确的答句（）
A . Black and white.
B . Black and blue.
C . Green and blue.
23. （1分）听录音，选择听到的句子或对话（）
A . —How many stars? —One，two，three…There are four.
B . —How many cars? —One，two，three…There are five.
24. （1分）根据你所听到的内容和问题，选出正确的应答句（）
A . There isn't any food in the fridge.
B . There isn't any bread in the fridge.
C . They aren't very hungry.
25. （1分）听对话，选出与你所听到的内容相符的图片（）
A .
B .
C .
26. （1分）Katie gets up at ________.
A . 6:30
B . 7:30
27. （1分）
28. （1分）听音，选择正确的图片（）
A .
B .
29. （1分）
30. （1分）根据听到的内容和问句，选择正确的答句（）
A . Some apples.
B . Some pears.
C . Some bananas.
四、听录音，根据问题选择最合适的答句。(10分) (共10题；共10分)
31. （1分）Look at this .
A . picture
B . puppet
32. （1分）听录音, 选择你所听到的句子（）
A . Happy New Year!
B . Happy birthday!
33. （1分）
34. （1分）Mother Duck is near the________.
35. （1分） ________
36. （1分）听录音，选择正确的图片（）
A .
B .
37. （1分）听录音，选择你所听到的句子（）
A . The air is fresh in the park.
B . The air is fresh in the countryside.
C . The air is fresh in the forest.
38. （1分）听录音，选择正确的答案。
A . Because I want to fly to the moon.
B . Because I think music makes people happy.
C . Because I want to help others.
39. （1分）
40. （1分）听音，选出你听到的句子中含有的单词（）
A . black
B . biscuits
C . bread
五、你将听到五组句子，根据句子内容填入所缺的单词，每空只填一词。 (共4题；共8分)
41. （2分）This is my______.
A . dad
B . mummy
42. （2分）
43. （2分）听录音，判断下列句子与所听对话内容是否相符
（1）Nancy had a birthday party for her father last Sunday.
（2）Mike and Wang Bing visited Liu Tao's grandpa's farm at the Dragon Boat Festival.
（3）There were not any fruit trees on the farm.
（4）Wang Bing was very tired because he planted many trees on the farm.
（5）Nancy wants to go to the farm, too.
44. （2分）
六、听录音，根据短文内容判断句子对错。(5分) (共1题；共5分)
45. （5分）听录音，判断下列句子是否正确。
（1）Jack is a student, and he is eleven years old.
（2）Jack's favourite day is Friday.
（3）Jack's favourite food is fish.
（4）Jack has music, maths and art on Fridays.
（5）Miss Huang is an English teacher.
七、补全对话(9分) (共1题；共9分)
46. （9分）读一读，选择正确的句子填空，完成对话。
A. Shall we go together?
B. What's in the museum?
C. Where are you going, Anna?
D. Where's the Insect Museum?
E. What do you want to do in the museum?
Joe: ________
Anna: I'm going to the Insect Museum. I'm doing a school project.
Joe: Sounds great! ________
Anna: It's on Brown Street. I can go there by underground.
Joe: ________
Anna: There are many butterflies, bees and ladybirds.
Joe: Cool! ________
Anna: I want to collect some information (信息) about ladybirds. I want to know how a ladybird grows up.
Joe: That's really interesting. I want to see the beautiful butterflies there. ________ Anna: Sure! Let's go!
八、阅读下面短文，然后完成练习。(每小题1.5分,共15分) (共2题；共15分)
47. （7.5分）根据短文内容判断下列说法的正误。
My name is Mike．Jack is my friend．We are in the Class 5．He is 11 years old．I'm 10 years old．He is taller than me，but I'm heavier than him．Last weekend，he came to my home．We stayed at home and watched some children's shows on TV．Then we read some storybooks together．They were interesting．In the afternoon，we went to the cinema on foot．We saw a film about space travel．We went to the bookstore in the evening．I bought a dictionary．We were very happy that day．（1）Jack is older than Mike．
（2）Mike is taller than Jack．
（3）They read some storybooks together．
（4）They saw a film about space travel in the evening．
（5）They had a good time last weekend．
48. （7.5分）短文阅读。
Hi! I'm Jim. I'm from the USA. I'm nine years old. I have a big family. My father and mother are teachers. My brother Bob, my sister Kate and I are students. I have a dog, Coco. She has two big eyes. She's my good friend. I love my family.
（1）Jim has a big family. They're from the UK.
（2）Jim's mother is a teacher.
（3）Kate is Jim's sister.
（4）Coco has two big eyes.
（5）Bob is nine years old.
九、选词填空(每空1分,共10分) (共1题；共10分)
49. （10分）选词填空。
（1）I'm ________ the USA.
（2）I'm ________ to you by the light of the campfire.
（3）She ________ swimming.
（4）He ________ a big model of Big Ben.
（5）There are so ________ cars.
十、根据答句写问句，让对话合理、通顺，注意检查哦!(10分) (共5题；共10分)
50. （2分）—________our kites?
— They're above the tree.
51. （2分）连线
⑴What are you doing?________ A. No. I didn't.
⑵What did you do yesterday?________ B. I'm washing my hands.
⑶Did you watch TV?________ C. I usually get up at six.
⑷What tim e do you get up?________ D. I played football.
52. （2分）How can I get there? (回答：右转然后直走。)
53. （2分）根据问句选择答语
（1）—Where did you go last Sunday?
—________
（2）—What did you see?
—________
（3）—What did you eat?
—________
（4）—When did you go to school?
—________
54. （2分）从方框中选出下列句子的最佳应答语。
C. Yes, I do.
D. Yes, I am.
E. He is going to buy some books.
（1）What is he going to do?
（2）Are you going to play ping-pong?
（3）When is she going?
（4）Where are you going?
（5）Do you have comic books?
十一、书面表达(10分) (共1题；共10分)
55. （10分）看图，根据提示，用至少5句话写一写Mary五岁时和现在的不同之处。
building changes house short old small dog tall big tree
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A. some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom. B. the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe. C. some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely. D. Most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable. 5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage? A. To review the impact of women becoming high earners. B. To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism. C. To examine the trend of young people living alone. D. To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships. Passage Two American dramas and sitcoms would have been candidates for prime time several years ago. But those programs －though some remain popular －increasingly occupy fringe times slots on foreign networks. Instead, a growing number of shows produced by local broadcasters are on the air at the best times. The shift counters longstanding assumptions that TV shows produced in the United States would continue to overshadow locally produced shows from Singapore to Sicily. The changes are coming at a time when the influence of the United States on international affairs has annoyed friends and foes alike, and some people are expressing relief that at least on television American culture is no longer quite the force it once was. “There has always been a concern that the image of the world would be shaped too much by American culture,” said Dr. Jo Groebek, director general of the European Institu te for the Media, a non-profit group. Given the choice, he adds, foreign viewers often prefer homegrown shows that better reflect local tastes, cultures and historical events. Unlike in the United States, commercial broadcasting in most regions of the world －including Asia, Europe, and a lesser extent Latin America, which has a long history of commercial TV －is a relatively recent development. A majority of broadcasters in many countries were either state-owned or state-subsidized for much of the last century. Governments began to relax their control in the 1980’s by privatizing national broadcasters and granting licenses to dozens of new commercial networks. The rise of cable and satellite pay-television increased the spectrum of channels. Relatively inexperienced and often financed on a shoestring, these new commercial stations needed hours of programming fast. The cheapest and easiest way to fill airtime was to buy shows from American studios, and the bidding wars for popular shows were fierce. The big American studios took advantage of that demand by raising prices and forcing foreign broadcasters to buy less popular programs if they wanted access to the best-selling shows and movies. “The studio priced themselves out of prime time,” said Harry Evans Sloan, chairman of SBS Broadcasting, a Pan-European broadcaster. Mr. Sloan estimates that over the last decade, the price of American programs has increased fivefold even as the international ratings for these shows have declined. American broadcasters are still the biggest buyers of American-made television shows, accounting for 90% of the $25 billion in 2001 sales. But international sales which totaled $2.5 billion last year often make the difference between a profit and a loss on show. As the pace of foreign sales slows －the market is now growing at 5% a year, down from the double-digit growth of the 1990’s －studio executives are rethinking production costs. 6. Which of the following best characterizes the image embodied in American shows? A. Self-contradictory B. Prejudice-free C. Culture-loaded D. Audience-targeted 7. The intervention of governments in the 1980’s resulted in __________ . A. the patenting of domination shows and movies B. the emergence of new commercial networks C. the promotion of cable and satellite pay-television D. the intense competition coming from the outside 8. The phrase “on a shoestring” (Para. 6) most probably means __________. A. in need of capital B. after a fashion C. on second thoughts D. in the interests of themselves 9. The main reason why American dramas and sitcoms are driven out of prime time is that ____. A. they lose competitiveness B. they are not market-oriented C. they are too much priced D. they fall short of audience expectations 10. American studio producers will give thought to production costs __________. A. if they have no access to popular shows B. because their endeavors come to no avail C. since bidding wars are no longer fierce D. as international sales pace slows down Passage Three How shops can exploit people's herd mentality to increase sales 1. A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychological warfare—but it is. Shopkeepers know that filling a store with the aroma of freshly baked bread makes people feel hungry and persuades them to buy more food than they had intended. Stocking the most expensive products at eye level makes them sell faster than cheaper but less visible competitors. Now researchers are investigating how “swarm intelligence” (th at is，how ants，bees or any social animal，including humans，behave in a crowd) can be used to influence what people buy. 2. At a recent conference on the simulation of adaptive behaviour in Rome，Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani，a computer scientist from the Florida Institute of Technology，described a new way to increase impulse buying using this phenomenon. Supermarkets already encourage shoppers to buy things they did not realise they wanted: for instance，by placing everyday items such as milk and eggs at the back of the store，forcing shoppers to walk past other tempting goods to reach them. Mr Usmani and Ronaldo Menezes，also of the Florida Institute of Technology, set out to enhance this tendency to buy more by playing on the herd instinct. The idea is that, if a certain product is seen to be popular, shoppers are likely to choose it too. The challenge is to keep customers informed about what others are buying. 3. Enter smart-cart technology. In Mr Usmani's supermarket every product has a radio frequency identification tag, a sort of barcode that uses radio waves to transmit information，and every trolley has a scanner that reads this information and relays it to a central computer. As a customer walks past a shelf of goods, a screen on the shelf tells him how many people currently in the shop have chosen that particular product. If the number is high, he is more likely to select it too.
大一英语上学期期末考试试卷
2010级大学英语第一学期期末考试(A卷) Jan., 2011 Part II Reading Comprehension (30 %) Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One Science is not a set of unquestionable results but a way of understanding the world around us. Its real work is slow. The scientific method , as many of us learned in school, is a gradual process that begins with a purpose or problem or question to be answered. It includes a list of materials, a procedure to follow, a set of observations to make and, finally, conclusions to reach. In medicine, when a new drug is proposed that might cure or control a disease, it is first tested on a large random group of people, and their reactions are then compared with those of another random group not given the drug. All reactions in both groups are carefully recorded and compared, and the drug is evaluated. All of this takes time and patience. It’s the result of course, that makes the best news—not the years of quiet work that characterize the bulk of scientific inquiry. After an experiment is concluded or an observation is made, the result continues to be examined critically. When it is submitted for publication, it goes to a group of the scientist’s colleagues, who review the work. Einstein was right when he said: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right, a single experiment can at any time prove me wrong.” In August 1996, NASA announced the discovery in Antarctica of a meteorite（流星） from Mars that might contain evidence of ancient life on another world. As President Clinton said that day, the possibility that life existed on Mars billions of years ago was potentially one of the great discoveries of our time. After the excitement wore down and initial papers were published, other researchers began looking at samples from the same meteorite. Some concluded that the “evidence of life”was mostly contamination from Antarctic ice or that there was nothing organic at all in the rock. Was this a failure of science, as some news reports trumpeted? No! It was a good example of the scientific method working the way it is supposed to. Scientists spend years on research, announce their findings, and these findings
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Is It Better to Buy or Rent? The price of housing has kept increasing in recent years, which causes a big headache for people living in cities. A lot of people cannot afford to own a real estate property, so they choose to rent instead of buying an apartment. This group of people does not want to bear burden of mortgage so that they opt for a practical solution. Renting an apartment makes them have a place to stay and thus they can focus on work as well as personal life. Some other people, however, believe that an apartment owned by themselves makes them feel safe and relieved, so they are willing to sacrifice some other aspects of life to borrow money from the bank to buy an apartment. As far as I am concerned, to buy or to rent is all about it will be better to rent first and wait for the good timing when the price is going down to buy. Topic 2: On Job Hopping It seems that nowadays, very few young people are willing to stay in a job position for long, let alone for the whole life. They change jobs constantly. This results from several factors. Firstly, young people like fresh things, and it is easy for them to be fed up with old routine work. So when they stay in a position for a while,the excitement will fade out. They are quite realistic and not willing to waste time in a job they are not interested in. Thirdly, some young people are not satisfied with current salary, believing they deserve better pay. In my opinion, constant job hopping will not benefit young people in their career development. Every job has its own merits and young people can certainly learn something from it as long as they are patient and wise enough. Every job experience is valuable down the career path and young people shall be able to make the most of it. Topic 3: Online Social Network Modern people will be no stranger to online social network. Facebook, Renren and Kaixin001 are probably the most populous networks among Chinese netizen. In these networks, people interact with each other, be it a stranger or a friend, and have a lot of fun in the virtual world. This phenomenon could be a result of the fast development of the Internet and people's great interest of the virtual world. I think it is a very good new platform for people to keep in touch. But it should not be overused. Firstly, some people are addicted to it, which makes them want to get online 24 hours a day. When people spend too much time on one thing,they will naturally have not enough time for study and for work. Secondly, online social network change people's behavior of interacting with others. In virtual world, you just click the mouse and type in words instead of having a face-to-face talk. This will not benefit people's long term friendship, and even harm their interpersonal relationships in real world.