2021年高一下学期期末英语试题
2021年高一下学期期末英语试题
I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节: 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 1―15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选
出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该题字母涂黑。
One of the most remarkable things about the human mind is our ability to imagine the future. In our 1 we can see what has not yet happened．For example, while we are looking forward to visiting a new place or country, we 2 what it will be like. We predict the 3 people will eat, dress and act. Of course, we do not always predict things correctly. Things are often very different from the way we 4 them to be.
One of the 5 dreams in history is the dream of the German scientist, Kekule, who had been 6 to work out a very difficult problem in physics. He had 7 and analyzed the problem from every angle for days, but there seemed to be no way of 8 out the answer. Then one night he went to bed and dreamed．When he 9 up, he realized that he knew the answer. He had solved the problem in his 10 .
The hypnotist(催眠者) sat in the chair opposite him and spoke 11 :
I want you to concentrate on my voice. Think about nothing. You know nothing but my voice. And as you pay attention to my voice, your 12 will get heavier. Soon you’ll be asleep.
You will hear my voice and 13 my words, but your body will be asleep, your eyes are too heavy. You are almost asleep, and when you wake up you
will 14 nothing.
You will forget everything. Now I am going to 15 slowly from one
to five. One, two, three, four, five.
1． A．brains B．senses C．sights
D．minds
2．A．imagine B．know C．feel D．guess
3．A．custom B．way C．style D．habit
4．A．required B．wished C．left D．expected 5．A．famous B．dull C．funny D．silly
6．A．trying B．managing C．thinking D．hoping
7．A．learned B．studied C．discussed D．surveyed 8．A．finding B．making C．turning D．letting
9．A．gave B．sat C．woke D．got
10．A．lesson B．dream C．research D．exercise
11．A．softly B．loudly C．slowly D．firmly
12．A．head B．feet C．eyes D．body
13．A．believe B．understand C．take D．repeat
14．A．accept B．receive C．hear D．remember 15．A．add B．say C．count D．speak
第二节语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的
词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷标号为16-25的相应位置上。
To my great joy, I have broken away from my bad habit which almost ruined me. Two years ago, I happened to e across Tom, 16 was lost in gambling(赌博). Things of one kind e together. As I was also not interested in schoolwork, we became good friends. Though every day,
the teacher assigned us a great deal of homework, we took no notice of it. In the classroom, I couldn’t focus 17 what the teacher taught. As a result, my academic performance was being from bad to 18 (bad). As I couldn’t find any fun in school, I played poker whenever I was free. At 19 beginning, we just played for fun, but not soon late, we played for gambling. 20 really made me happy even excited. However, I felt upset because I 21 (lose) quite a little money in the gamble. I began to be worried all the time.
My father found 22 happened to me and shouted at me, saying that I would end up in prison 23 I didn’t attempt to leav e those who gambled. He tried to persuade me to go back to school and begged my head teacher 24 (help) me with my study. 25 (follow) his advice, I tried to study hard. It seemed as if I never ran out of my energy. Where there
is a will there is a way. I became one of the top students in my school.
Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项字母涂黑。
A
Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third g raders didn’t wele Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.
One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and di scover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.
After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child to explain that symbol of “new life”. The first opened egg co ntained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another one was a butterfly….When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. “That’s stupid,” said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, “It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.” Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They weled him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.
Philip’s family knew he wouldn’t live a long life, for there were too many things wrong with him.
26. The underlined word “condition” in the first paragraph probably means ________.
A. grade
B. status
C. disease
D. health
27. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.
A. The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip
B. The 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel
C. Philip was really different in school
D. Philip was older and more sensitive
28. The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ________.
A. put some symbol of “new life” into it
B. play around on that beautiful spring day
C. try to pull it apart in the middle
D. go out and discover themselves
29. After Philip explained his new life, ________.
A. The class thought he was clever.
B. He began to study in the class.
C. The class fell silent.
D. He felt dying.
30. We learn from the passage that ________.
A. The teacher used to have classes outdoors
B. Philip’s new life wish was empty
C. Philip was healthy as a whole
D. Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end
B
People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in telling facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth equally, while Easterners favor the eyes and ignore the mouth."
According to Jack and her colleagues, the finding shows that human munication of emotion is more plex than believed before. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey(传达) emotion in cross-cultural situations.
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into types: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They pared how accurately the participants(参与者) read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
It turned out that Easterners paid much greater attention to the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection(反映) of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that while Westerners use the whole face to express emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have made these basic social skills have greater variety will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, talking of municating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.
31. The discovery shows that Westerners _______.
A. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways
B. consider facial expressions universally reliable
C. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth
D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions
32. What were the people asked to do in the study?
A. To classify(分类) some face pictures.
B. To get their faces impressive.
C. To make a face at each other.
D. To observe the researchers' faces.
33. What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?
A. The people taking part in the study.
B. The researchers of the study.
C. The errors made during the study.
D. The data collected from the study.
34. pared with Westerners, Easterners are likely to _______.
A. do translation more successfully
B. study the mouth more frequently
C. read facial expressions more correctly
D. examine the eyes more attentively
35. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. The Eye is the Window to the Soul
B. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
C. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills
D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding
C
Have you ever wondered about pe ople’s names? Where do they e from? What do they
mean?
People’s first names, or given names, are chosen by their parents. Sometimes the name of a grandparent or other member of the family is used. Some parents choose the name of a well-known person. A boy could be named George Washington Smith; a girl could be named Helen Keller Jones.
Some people give their children names that mean good things. Clara means “bright”; Beatrice means “one who gives happiness”; Donald means “world ruler”; Leonard means“as brave as a lion”.
The earliest last names, or surnames(姓), were taken from place names. A family with the name Brook or Brooks probably lived near brook(小溪)；someone who was called Longstreet probably lived on a long, paved road. The Greenwood family lived in or near a leafy forest.
Other early surnames came from people’s occupations. The most mon occupational name is Smith, which means a person who makes things with iron or other metals. In the past, smiths were very important workers in every town and village. Some other occupational names are: Carter — a person who owned or drove a cart; Potter —a person who made pots and pans.
The ancestors of the Baker family probably baked bread for their neighbors in their native village. The Carpenter’s great-great-great-grandfather probably built houses and furniture.
Sometimes people were known for the color of their hair or skin, or their size, or their special abilities. When there were two men who were named John in the same village, the John with the gray hair probably became John Gray. Or the John who was very tall could call himself John Tallman. John Fish was probably an excellent swimmer and John Lightfoot was probably a fast runner or a good dancer.
Some family names were made by addi ng something to the father’s name. English-speaking people added –s or –son. The Johnsons are descendants of John; the Roberts family’s ancestor was Robert. Irish and Scottish people added Mac or Mc or O. Perhaps all of the MacDonnells and the McDonnells a nd the O’Donnells are descendants of the same Donnell.
36. Which of the following aspects do the surnames in the passage NOT cover?
A. People’s characters.
B. Places where people lived.
C. Talents that people possessed.
D. People’s occupations.
37. According to the passage, the ancestors of the Potter family most probably _______.
A. owned or drove a cart
B. made things with metals
C. built houses and furniture
D. made kitchen tools or containers
38. If an English couple whose ancestors lived near a leafy forest wanted their new-born
son to bee a world leader, the baby might be named _______.
A. Beatrice Smith
B. Leonard Carter
C. Donald Greenwood
D. George Longstreet
39. The underlined word “descendants” in the last paragraph means a person’s _______.
A. friends and relatives
B. later generations
C. colleagues and partners
D. later sponsors
40. What does this passage mainly talk about?
A. The origin of English names.
B. The kinds of English names.
C. How parents give their children names.
D. How names affect one’s life.
D
SAN FRANCISCO —In the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe, moon watchers were treated on Saturday to a rare celestial(星体) phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse (月全食).
For about 50 minutes starting at 6:06 a.m. PST, the moon was pletely blocked by the Earth's shadow.
With only some indirect sunlight able to reach it after passing through the Earth's atmosphere, the moon took on a reddish weak light. Since the atmosphere scatters(分散) blue light, only red light strikes the moon, giving it a dark red color.
Dally Sam, who runs a public relations firm in Hawaii, said it had been cloudy and rainy, but the weather cleared just in time for the eclipse.
Around 3 a.m., he awoke, as he usually does, and remembered to step outside the house in time to catch the beginning of the eclipse about a half hour later. No one else in the neighborhood was up then.
"It was turning that dark red color," Sayre, aged 47, said, "I’d better get a camera. To be able to see it just right outside our house was really cool."
At the local observatory in Los Angeles, some 300 people, many holding coffee cups in the cold morning air, sat with blankets and chairs on the observatory's great grass land.
"It's really a celestial festival out here," John Peter, aged 39, told the Los Angeles Times as he set up his camera.
Lying on a slope(斜坡) north of downtown near the Hollywood sign, the place offers clear views of the sky. Observatory officials reminded the crowd when the eclipse began and big applause burst when the celestial event ended.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes through the long shadow cast by the Earth and is blocked from the sunlight that brightens it.
41. What do we know about the lunar eclipse from the passage?
A. The total lunar eclipse began at about 3:30 a.m..
B. The total lunar eclipse ended at about 6:56 a.m..
C. The lunar eclipse ended at about 6:56 in the evening.
D. The lunar eclipse began at about 6:06 in the evening.
42. When a total lunar eclipse occurs, ________.
A. the moon looks blue
B. the light will hurt our eyes
C. nothing of the moon can be seen except some dark red light around its place
D. another planet es between the earth and the moon
43. We can infer from Para 5 that at 3:30 a.m. Dally Sam ______.
A. found it was still raining heavily
B. saw a total lunar eclipse
C. went out walking as he usually does
D. still had to wait for a long time to see a total lunar eclipse
44. According to the last paragraph, which of the statement is wrong?
A. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is blocked by the sun.
B. The source of moonlight is from the sun.
C. The earth es between the moon and the sun when a total lunar eclipse appears.
D. With the sunlight, the earth casts its shadow over the moon.
45. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To inform us of the next total lunar eclipse.
B. To tell us about a rare celestial event.
C. To alert us of the natural disaster.
D. To draw people’s atte ntion to the news.
第二节信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
阅读以下学校各社团的介绍，并按照要求匹配信息。
A. Photography Club --- We are looking for artistically inclined students
to join our new club. We plan to meet every Tuesday and Thursday
evening after school from 6 to 8 pm. Each member must have their
own equipment.
B. Hiking Society--- Members meet every Saturday to discuss their
hiking trips and twice a month, we arrange trips to different parts of
the province for members to go on breathtaking scenic mountain
walks. Get to understand our local geography, keep fit and have fun. C. Film Club --- The club is perfect for students who love artistic movies.
Every Tuesday and Friday evening we hold a seminar in which a great
new movie or a classic film is discussed and reviewed.
D. Dancing Club --- We are the largest club in the university with over
400 members. Members are invited to dancing practice every
Monday evening from 7 pm to 10 pm and we hold dance parties with
students from other universities once a month. Perfect way to keep
fit and meet new friends.
E. English Society --- A new group organized by the University English
Dept. gives all students on campus a chance to practice and improve
their English. We plan to have regular foreign guests e to our weekly
meetings every Wednesday evening at 7:30 and we show English
language movies that can help you both practice your English and be
entertained as well.
F. Book Club --- Members meet each week to discuss and remend
books to each other. Meetings are lunch times on Fridays.
Membership is free. All members qualify for a 20% discount on all
books purchased from the Xinhua Book Store.
阅读以下学生的相关信息，匹配适合他们的社团。
46. Cherry wants to join a club that will keep her fit and active but because she has a part-time
job every workday evening she is only available to take part on the weekends.
47. David is a new student at the university, whose major is English literature. He is a little shy so
is hoping to join a club that can help him get to know new people and build up his confidence.
48. Bonnie is majoring in drama and wants to be a scriptwriter when she graduates. She is
interested in discovering new stories that she may one day be able to turn into movies. As her home is far from the university she is only free during the day to take part.
49. Betty is studying film making and one day hopes to bee a director. But she thinks her ability to
create beautiful visual images is not strong enough so she has recently purchased a camera to help her practice.
50. Jack is a first year geography student who would like to learn more about the geography of
the local area. He is also worried about passing the English test that all students must take at the end of their first year of study. He has to return to his home to help his parents every weekend so is only free during weekdays.
III 课本知识运用（每空1分，共5分）
第一节单词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
按照句意，用括号中所给中文或词的适当形式填空，使句意完整；每空只能填一个词，请将该部分答案写在答题纸相应位置上。
51. She succeeded in gaining ____________(录取, 进入）to the university of her choice.
52. Realizing that I ___________(误解) what he said, I apologized to him.
53. He came to the meeting late and made up a story in （解释）of the reason
54. ____________(不幸地)，another storm hit the city, bringing more damage to it.
55. As the summer vacation __________(接近，靠近)，I bee increasingly excited.
56. After a long _________ (argue), we decided where to go for our holiday.
57. In his spare time, he attends____________ (variety) outdoor activities which does a lot of
good to his health both mentally and physically.
58. All the children enter the exhibition hall looking around ____________ (curious).
59. The acting is so ____________ (entertain) that everyone burst into laughter.
60. With the ___________(discover), some farmers and many customers are beginning to turn to
organic farming.
第二节完成句子(共10小题；每空0.5分，共30分)
根据所给汉语句子，用Module 4中所学到的知识在空格处填入适当的词，使句意完整，每空只能填一个词，请将该部分答案写在答题纸的相应位置上。
61. 到现在为止，导演挑已选出了影片中所需要的女演员。
_______ _______ _______, the director _______ _______ _______ the actresses needed in the film.
62. 现在只是那些学生而非老师对他们在校的行为举止满意, 这导致了老师更严格的要求。
Now, only the students rather than their teacher _______ _______ _______ their _________ in school, which _______ _______ their teacher’s stricter requirements.
63. 几天前，我在街上偶然遇见了我的老同学，他曾经以唱歌而出名。
The other day, I _______ _______ my old classmate in the street _______ _______, who once was _______ _______singing.
64. 多亏了老师的帮忙，他摆脱了坏习惯，并逐渐建起了信心。
_______ _______his teacher’s help, he _______ himself_______ of his bad habits and gradually_______ _______ his confidence.
65. 因为贫穷，他害怕被人瞧不起。
Being ________ ________, he is afraid of _______ _______ _______ _______.
66. 约翰使老师相信了他的能力，因此他很可能代表我们学校去参加比赛。
John _______ his teacher _______his ability, so he _______ _______ _______ _______ our school to attend the petition.
67. 难怪她的老板器重她，因为她总是提前完成任务
_______ _______ _______ _______ that her boss thinks highly of her, for she always acplishes tasks _______ _______.
68. 老师和你谈话时，背对着老师在某种程度上会使你自在，但那是不礼貌的。
When a teacher is talking to you, ________ ________ _______ _______ him/her may make you feel _______ _______to some degree, but it is impolite to do so.
69. 接近目的地了，疲惫的孩子们又活跃起来了。
The tiring children ________ ________ _______ again when they________ ________ _______their destination.
70. 为了使土壤免受疾病的影响，专家继续他们的实验。
To ________the soil _______ ________ disease, the experts ________ ________ ________ their experiment.
IV基础写作（满分15分）
你接受了一项写作任务，要为英语校报写一篇人物介绍。
【写作内容】
*教父加州三藩市企业家
【写作要求】只能用5个句子表达全部内容。请把作文写在答题卡上。
【评分标准】句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
湛江一中2011—xx学年度第二学期期末考试
高一级英语科试卷
答案
I 语言知识及应用
第一节: 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
1-5 DABDA 6-10 ABACB 11-15 ACBDC
第二节语法填空（共10小题; 每小题1.5分，满分15分）
16. who 17. on 18. worse 19. the 20. It 21.had lost/lost 22. what 23. if
24. to help 25. Following
Ⅱ阅读
第一节阅读理解26—30 CBACD 31-35 CAADB 36-40ADCBA 41---45 BCDAB
第二节信息匹配46—50 BDFAE
III 课本知识运用（每空1分，共5分）
第一节单词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
51. admission 52. (had) misunderstood 53.explanation 54. Unfortunately
55.approaches 56. argument 57. various 58. curiously
59. entertaining 60. discovery/discoveries
第二节完成句子(共10小题；每空0.5分，共30分)
61. Up to/till now; has picked out
62. are content/satisfied/pleased with; behavior(s); leads to
63. came across; by chance/accident; famous/known for
64. Thanks to; rid; of ; built up 65. badly off; being looked down on/upon
66. convinced; of; is likely to represent 67. It is no wonder; in advance
68. Turning your back to; at ease 69. came to life/themselves; were/got close to
70. keep; free of/from; carry on with
IV基础写作（共15分）
Possible version:
Steve Jobs, the godfather of Apple, was born in San Francisco, California, the USA on February 24th, 1955 and passed away on October 5th, 2011. He graduated from Homestead High School. He was an inventor, and entrepreneur, with iPod, iPhone, iPad and so on as his masterpieces. Jobs made a great contribution to the change of modern means of munication, entertainment and lifestyle. It was he who led the trend of global information technology and electronic products, enabling the once rare and expensive electronic products to bee part of people’s life in modern times.
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