西藏自治区拉萨中学2017-2018学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷

2017-2018学年高一年级第二学期第四学段考试英语试卷（满分100分考试时间90分钟）（满分100分，考试时间90分钟，请将答案填写在答题卡上）第一部分：阅读理解（共20小题；，每小题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AWe know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It’s true that male mosquito doesn’t bite(咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others!If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away.And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.1. “Mosquito” means _______ in Chinese.A. 苍蝇B. 蜻蜓C. 跳蚤D. 蚊子2. We know mosquitoes very well because ___________.A. they can be found easilyB. they fly here and thereC. there are many kinds of themD. they can fly3. If the mosquito doesn’t bite you, it will ________.A. get angry with youB. be afraid of youC. make a lot of noiseD. choose another one4. The mosquito bites you _________.A. when you’re asleepB. because you have choose itC. too quickly to let you knowD. but doesn’t like you5. Which of the following sentences is wrong?A. The itching begins after the mosquito bites you.B. You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you.C. Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs.D. All the mosquitoes don’t like to bite people for blood.BLast year, around Labor Day, I read a “Happy Ad” in our local newspaper. There was a lady in a local nursing home for the aged, who was celebrating her 90th birthday and her family wanted everyone to know about it. It said that if you wanted to drop her a line, here was her address. So I did. I found a birthday card and dropped her a short note, wishing her a happy birthday.A week or so later, someone knocked at my front door. I opened the door and found a middle-aged man standing on my doorstep. He introduced himself as the son of this woman to whom I had sent the card. He explained that he just wanted to drop by in person and thank me for sending such a nice card to his mom. Apparently, like many older folks, she did not receive much mail and was quite excited to receive mine. I just didn’t know what to say. I told him it was my pleasure and that I hoped his mom had enjoyed her birthday.That year, I did not send out any Christmas cards, except to this lovely old lady in the nursing home. I just told her that I was thinking about her and hoped that she had a nice holiday. I sent her a holiday card and also a couple of notes in between. I just thought she might like to have someone write to her, to get some mails.She passed away a couple of months ago. I never met this lady, but I did keep her and her family in my thoughts. I dropped them a line of sympathy. I hope that my few little notes were enough to brighten a couple of her days here on earth.6. How did the author get the information that an old lady was celebrating her birthday?A. From a local magazineB. From a newspaperC. From a TV ProgrammeD. From a local nursing home7. The old lady lived______.A. at her son’s homeB. at her own homeC. in a senior citizen’s homeD. in a center of the local newspaper8. From the text, we can know that .A. the son of this old lady opened the door to meet the authorB. the lovely old lady received many birthday cards at the age of 90C. the family wanted the author to celebrate the old lady’s 90th birthdayD. the author sent another card with notes to the old lady on Christmas Day9. We can infer that the writer is very ______.A. easy-goingB. indifferentC. sympatheticD. friendly10. What is the passage mainly about?A. A moving story of an old lady.B. A worthy deed from the caring author.C. A happy advertisement about the family.D. A perfect plan from the considerate son.CIf you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar（不熟悉）words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.11.According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?A. Reading and listening.B. Reading and writingC. Writing and speaking.D. Speaking and listening.12. To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.A. look up all the new words in the dictionaryB. think about what you are reading activelyC. spend more time studying grammarsD. copy as many words and sentences as possible13. The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.A. meet by accidentB. discoverC. hearD. look for14. The passage is mainly about how to ______.A. choose suitable listening materialsB. deal with new words in readingC. improve your reading ability as quickly as possibleD. become fluent in speaking and writing English15. The author seems to agree with the view that____.A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every dayB. you needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day.C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening.D. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing.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。