上海市建平中学2019-2020学年高一上学期期中英语试题

上海市建平中学2019-2020学年高一上学期期中英语试题学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、单项选择

1．By the end of the 1980s. about 9.5 million elephants_________for the ivory trade in South Africa.

A．were killed B．were being killed C．had been killed D．have been killed 2．At Google. we see it as our job to help small companies make full use of technology,

_________ it is finding new customers or working more efficiently.

A．whether B．no matter C．whatever D．so that

3．_________Jay Chou's newly-released song "Won't Cry" met with instant financial success, public opinions have been divided. Some people insist it is unoriginal.

A．While B．When C．Because D．As

4．A diet________plant lite can help with the prevention of heart disease and even cancer. A．basing on B．to be based on C．based on D．to base on 5．The Premier says that bilateral relations will grow smoothly and steadily_________both countries follow the principle in the joint documents.

A．as far as B．though C．unless D．as long as 6．A college freshman complained on her Weibo post that her mother______to give her only 2000 yuan each month for living expenses when she asked for 4.500 yuan, which sparked off massive online debate.

A．had agreed B．would agree C．agreed D．was agreeing 7．We all know that we should take better care of ourselves and relax more. but it's easy to

______the opportunities to do just that because of the daily work priorities that consume our lives

A．overlook B．access C．abandon D．preserve

8．In some countries, tourists need to apply for the_________of the local people if they want to camp in some places.

A．permission B．admission C．reflection D．allowance

二、用单词的适当形式完成短文

Directions: Read the following passage. 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.

The bell rings - lunchtime! You hurry down the noisy halls to the cafeteria. The unmistakable smell of hot pizza 9．(make) your mouth water. At last, you balance your plate of pizza and salad 10．you pay the cashier. You look around the cafeteria for your fiends. Then, you walk to the table. sit down, and begin to eat.

11．(think) about how many parts of your body were involved in the simple act of getting and eating your lunch. Every minute of the day, whether you are eating. studying, walking, or even sleeping. your body is busily 12．work. Each part of the body has a specific job 13．-(do). And all the different parts of your body usually work together so smoothly 14．you don t even notice them.

This smooth functioning is due partly to the way in which the body 15．(organize). The levels of organization in the human body consist of cells, tissues, organs and organ systems. 16．(small) unit of organization is the cell. Finally the organ system is the largest unit of organization.

三、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文

Directions. 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.

While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still lives on less than US $I .90 a day - the internationally agreed poverty line, and millions of others live on17．more than this daily amount. Significant 18．has been made in many countries within Eastern and southeastern Asia, but up to 42% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to live below the poverty line.

Poverty means more than the19．of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its signs include hunger and malnutrition, limited20．to education and other basic services, social injustice and exclusion, as well as failure to participate in decision-making. Today, more than 780 million people live below the international poverty line.

More than 11% of the world population is living in extreme poverty and struggling to

fulfill the most21．needs like health, education, and the use of water, to name a few.

Ending poverty in all its forms is the first of the 17 goals of the 2030 Plan for Sustainable Development. The goal has been clearly set: “22．significant transport of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide23．and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to carry out programmes and policies to end poverty in all its aspects.”

The 2030 Plan for Sustainable Development24．to leave no one behind and to reach those furthest behind first. Meeting this ambitious development plan25．long-term policies for sustainable, inclusive, and sustained economic growth. supported by full employment and decent work for all, social integration, declining inequality, rising productivity and a favorable environment. In the 2030 Plan. Goal One26．that ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and a necessary requirement for sustainable development.

四、完形填空

Exchange a glance with someone, and then look away. Do you realize that you have made a statement? Hold the glance for a second 27 and you have made a 28 statement. Hold it for 3 seconds, and the meaning has 29 again. For every social situation, there is a permissible time that you can hold a person’s gaze30 being rude or aggressive. If you are on an elevator, what gaze-time are you permitted?

To answer this question, consider what you 31 _ do. You are very likely to give other passengers a quick glance to size them up and to assure them that you mean no 32 . Since being close to another person 33 the possibility of interaction. You need to send out a message telling others you want to be 34 . So you cut off eye contact. That is what sociologist Erving Goffman calls “a dimming of the lights.” You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere 35 into another passenger’s eyes. If you36 the rule against staring at a stranger on an elevator, you will make the other person extremely_

37 , and you are likely to feel a bit strange yourself.

If you hold eye contact for more than 3 seconds, what are you telling another person? Much depends on the person and the 38 . For instance, a man and a woman communicate interest in this manner. They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time. Then 39 their eyes down for 3 seconds 40 letting their eyes meet again. But if one man

gives another man a 3-second-plus stare, the man who is being stared at might feel "offended" and stare back at the first man, 41 a staring down contest. This type of stare often produces unfriendly feelings.

27．A．further B．closer C．longer D．shorter 28．A．different B．similar C．polite D．typical 29．A．deepened B．developed C．extended D．changed 30．A．with B．without C．by D．for 31．A．strangely B．typically C．rudely D．comfortably 32．A．respect B．doubt C．threat D．stress 33．A．signals B．denies C．excludes D．tests 34．A．talked to B．cared for C．turned to D．left alone 35．A．but B．besides C．including D．from 36．A．set B．obey C．adopt D．ignore 37．A．impressed B．interested C．uncomfortable D．friendly 38．A．background B．situation C．curiosity D．signal 39．A．put B．drop C．turn . D．trace 40．A．after B．once C．while D．before 41．A．arising from B．resulting in C．starting with D．lying in

五、阅读选择

42．The author suggests that we should be using these five punctuation marks because______. A．they carry more emotions than the present ones

B．the present punctuation marks are confusing

C．people are fed up with the full stop marks

D．they are well-received by the mavericks

43．Which sentence uses the punctuation properly?

A．Wish you a happy new year.

B．He did quite a good job. You agree.

C．You have to hand in your homework on time.

D．How dare you take my bike without permission.

44．In which book can you probably find this article?

A．Funny Signs in Life B．Language Around Us

C．Manners and Cultures D．English Dictionary

For most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the enthusiasm or interest that Americans give trains, jets. and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a member of a small group of elevator experts who consider this a misunderstanding.

Without the elevator, they point out. there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings. and city life, as we know. would be impossible. In that sense, they argue, the elevator's role in American history has been n0 less significant than that of cars. In fact. according to Wilk, the car and the elevator have been locked in a“secret war”for over a century. with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally (水平地) . and elevators pushing them toward lite in close groups of towering vertical (垂直的) columns.

If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators. it might be because riding in then tends to be such a brief. boring. and even awkward experience -- one that can involve unexpectedly meeting people with whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant awareness of the fact that we' re hanging from a cable in a long passage.

In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard directed all his attention to this experience, studying the origins of elevator and its relationship to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a tally comfortable experience.

“Aterl50 years, we are still not used to it." Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure." That mixture. according to Bernard, sets the elevator ride apart from just about every other situation we find ourselves in as we go about our lives.

Today, as the world' s urban population explodes. and cities become denser, taller, and more crowded, America' s total number of elevators - 900.000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazine's 2012 V ertical Transportation Industry" - are a force that' s becoming more important than ever. And for the people who really. really love them, it seems like high time that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are .

45．What does the underlined word“this" in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A．The general view of elevators. B．The particular interests of experts. C．The desire for a remarkable machine. D．The enthusiasm for transport vehicles. 46．According to Prof. Bernard, what has made the elevator ride different from other life experiences?

A．Vertical direction. B．Lack of excitement.

C．Little physical space. D．Meeting with unpleasant people. 47．The author urges readers to consider

A．the exact number of elevator lovers B．the serious future situation of elevators

C．the role of elevators in city development D．the relationship between cars and elevators

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common. After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world. and the baby is. well, just playing .. right? Perhaps. but some developmental psychologists have argued that this “play" is more like a scientific investigation than one might think .

Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table. Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge. it falls in the ground -- and, in the process, it brings out important evidence about how physical objects interact; bowls of rice do not float in mid-air, but require support to remain stable. It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it. Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact. Though their ranges and tool differ, the baby' s investigation and the scientist's experiment appear to share the same aim (to learn about the natural world), overall approach (gathering direct evidence from the world), and logic (are my observations what I expected?) Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way - that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means. For example, it may only be through repeated experiments, evidence gathering and finally overturning a theory, that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has, for example, unlike the child, Mommy actually doesn’t like Dove chocolate.

Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children lea r n, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists. Why do young children and scientists seem to be so much alike? Psychologists have suggested that science as an effort

----the desire to explore, explain, and understand our world ---- is simply something that comes from our babyhood. Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children. The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists. As some psychologists put it." It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.

48．According to some developmental psychologists,____.

A．a baby's play is nothing more than a game

B．a baby's play is somehow similar to a scientist s experiment

C．scientists should conduct scientific investigation with babies

D．research into babies' games helps to reveal the nature of physics

49．Children may learn the rules of language by_____.

A．exploring the physical world B．investigating human psychology C．repeating their own experiments D．observing their parents' behaviors 50．What is the main idea of the whole passage?

A．The world may be more clearly explained through children’s play.

B．Studying babies' play may lead to a better understanding of science.

C．Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

D．One's drive for scientific research may become stronger as he grows.

六、汉译英

51．只有穿校服的学生才能进学校。 (admit)（汉译英）

52．地震过后，许多中国古代的雕塑都被摧毁了。(ruin)（汉译英）

53．要不了多久，专家们就能研究出治疗癌症的新疗法。(remedy n.)（汉译英）54．直到这座宫殿的遗迹被完全修复，它才会对公众开放。(Not until)（汉译英）