新疆昌吉市2017-2018学年高一上学期期末考试英语试题

2017—2018学年第一学期新疆昌吉市联考高一年级英语期末试卷考试时间：100分钟总分：120分第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节，阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出最佳选项。

（每小题2分，共30分）AA shopping center is a place where many different shops and stores are collected under one roof. You can buy everything there and there are also banks, restaurants and, sometimes, a post office.There are other places in the United States which are called five-and–ten-cent stores because they used to sell things for 5 to 10 cents. Today they sell almost anything and some of the things cost several dollars. Supermarkets are found in all the cities. They sell food and many other goods. You walk around the supermarket, choose the things you want, put them into a special basket prepared by the store and pay for them all together at the door. Supermarkets often stay open later than other stores.Stores are usually open every day of the week except on Sunday. Some close on Saturdays in July and August.1. The shops and stores in a shopping center are______ .A. in the same buildingB. on the top of a big roofC. close to your houseD. near banks and restaurants2. A five-and-ten-cent store usually sells______.A. expensive thingsB. small and cheap thingsC. things worth many dollarsD. everything you need in the house3. ______have baskets ready for people to carry the things they are going to buy.A. Shopping centersB. Fine stores in AmericaC. Five-and-ten-cent storesD. Supermarkets4. Which of the following can be the topic of the article?A. What a shopping Center is？B. Why people like supermarkets？C. Three types of places for shopping.D. Old and new stores.BPopular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.Adult(成年人) drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers（节目）are music.Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This is started by cowboys（牛仔）who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.5. This passage mainly talks about ______.A. American musicB. American popular musicC. three sorts of musicD. popular music singers6. The first three paragraphs mainly tell us ______.A. that Americans like popular musicB. that popular music is an important kind of music in AmericaC. how to become a national star as a pop singer in AmericaD. popular music in America is what every student like7. In American, as a pop singer, if you want to become a national star, you‘ll have to_______.A. earn a lot of moneyB. make a radio stations use your CDs or tapesC. make many CDs or tapesD. make all the young people love you and what you singCThe Winter Olympics are also called The White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25th,1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule. During the 4th Winter Olympics, a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.In the 1950‘s, stamps of this kind became m ore colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host(非主办方)countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White Olympics.Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meeting.Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.8. The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games ______.A. after the year 1936B. after the 3rd WhiteOlympicsC. before the 3rd White OlympicsD. before the year 19329. The Winter Olympics is held once ______.A. every two yearsB. every three yearsC. every four yearsD. every five years10. Which of the following is TRUE?A. Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.B. Only the non-host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.C. All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Games.D. Japan can‘t publish stamps to mark those Games.11. What may appear on the stamps of the White Olympics?A. Basketball.B. Table tennis.C. Football.D. Skating.DJohn keeps a record of new words and expressions in English. He usually writes them in a note-book. Then, later in th e day, he asks his teacher about them. ―Mrs. Thomas, these expressions are new to me. ‗She‘s blue today.‘，‗You‘re yellow‘, ‗A little white lie‘, ‗She has green fingers‘.‖ After looking at the note-book, Mrs. Thomas says, ―In everyday English, John，‗blue‘ sometimes means sad. ‗Yellow‘ means afraid.A person with ‗green fingers‘ grows plants successfully. And ‗a white lie‘ is not a bad lie.‖ ―I don‘t understand. Please give me an example.‖ ― For example, I offer you some cake. The truth is that you don‘t like my cake. You don‘t say that. Instead, you say, ‗No, thanks, I'm not hungry.‘ That‘s a white lie.‖ John says, ―I see , thanks for the explanation!‖12. ―Blue‖ sometimes means in spoken English ―______‖.A. angryB. luckyC. gladD. unhappy13. A person with ―green fingers‖ is one who ______ planting.A. is a new hand inB. is good atC. works hard atD. is interested in14. ―You‘re yellow to fight.‖ means ―______.‖A. You dare not fightB. You dare to fightC. You're afraid to see a fightD. You‘re able to fight15. If you say ―It‘s a white lie.‖, it means that someone ______.A. says something unreal and harmfulB. is unfriendly to talk to othersC. refuses to tell the truth in a polite wayD. is telling a big lie第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出填入空白处的最佳选项。