2015年高一下学期期末英语试题(含答案)

2015年高一下学期期末英语试题(含答案)江西省高安中学2014-2015学年度下学期期末考试高一年级英语试题第I卷（共三部分，115分）第一部分听力部分（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5个小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所组的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. How many people will have dinner together? A. 2. B.3.C.4. 2. What will the man do on Sunday? A. Help the woman to accommodate. B. Eat breakfast with the woman. C. Tell the woman about his daily life. 3. Who will go to Toronto ? A. The woman.B. The woman’s brother.C. The man and Ken. 4. On which day doesn’t the woman like to go shopping? A. On Fridays. B. On Sundays. C. On Saturdays. 5. What does the woman mean? A. She doesn’t like that lecture as others do. B. She agrees with the man. C. Everyone in class likes Mr. Li’s lecture. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How does Wang Ling like Mrs. Read’s favorite food? A. Very nice. B. It’s just so-so. C. It’s nothing special.7. What are the two speakers doing? A. Talking about cooking. B. Having a meal. C. Preparing for a picnic. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do we learn about Bill? A. He just got out of trouble.B. He did something right.C. He enjoyed what he had done. 9. What kind of film does the woman prefer? A. Something frightening B. Something educational. C. Something relaxing. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation most likely take place? A. At the reception desk of a hotel.B. At the office of a company.C. At the counter of a restaurant.11. What promise does the woman get? A. She can keep her room till two o’clock this afternoon. B. She has to leave her room before 12 noon tomorrow. C. She may stay in her room till 2 p.m. tomorrow. 12. What time does the man suggest the woman start off? A. At 2:00 B. At 2:30 C.At 3:00 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Where was the man when the blackout happened? A. In his office. B. In the elevator. C. In the bathroom. 14. How did he feel at first? A. Very scared. B. Calm. C. A little nervous. 15. What did he do then? A. He slept on the floor until the next morning. B. He walked back home. C. He shouted but no one came to help. 16. What did he say about that night? A. It was the most relaxing night in a long time. B. It was the most horrible night of his life. C. It was an interesting experience. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the talk mainly about? A. An unusual experience. B. A special kind of animal.C. Fun activities in the Yellowstone Park. 18. What did the family do first when they got to the park? A. They put up their tent. B. They went exploring. C. They had a rest. 19. What was Tom’s suggestion? A. Waiting patiently for the bear to come out. B. Putting some honey outside the tent. C. Shouting at the bear to drive him away. 20. Where did they sleep that night?A. In the tent.B. In the car.C. In a hotel. 第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A Every month, Julia and her cousins would go to visit their grandparents. They would be excited because their grandfather would give them a few coins. Then they would buy toys or sweets. The grandparents commented that, behaving like this, the children would never learn to manage their money. So they planned a special test, in whichthe children would have to show, over the course of a year, just what they could manage to get with those few coins. Some thought that they would save their money, but Ruben and Nico continued spending it all on sweets. So they give up saving. Monty decided to manage his money by exchanging it: buying and selling things, or betting (打赌) it with others. Soon he surprised the whole family. He had accumulated (积聚) lots of money. However, Monty was not very careful, and he got involved in more and more risky deals. A few months later he became penniless after a losing bet. Alex, had a will of iron. He saved the money and at the end of the year he had collected more money than anyone. Even better, with so much money, he managed to buy sweets at a reduced price, so that on the day of the competition he was presented with enough sweets for much more than a year. And even then, he still had enough left over for a toy. He was the clear winner, and other children learned the advantages of knowing how to save and how to wait. There was also Ju lia. Poor Julia didn’t enjoy the competition, because even though she had had a wonderful secret plan, she had spent her money without giving her plan enough time to work. However, she was so sure that her plan was a good one, that she decided to carry on with it, and maybe change the ex pressions on her relatives’ faces, who had seemed to be saying “What a poor girl shel is. She couldn’t manage to save anything”. When she was about to complete the second year of her plan, Julia surprised everyone by turning up at the grandparents’ house with a violin and a lot of money. She did it rea lly well. 21. Who saved nothing at the end of the first year? A. Ruben, Julia and Alex B. Ruben, Nico and Monty C. Ruben, Monty and Julia D. Ruben, Nico and Alex 22. Why did the grandparents plan a test on the children? A. Because they wanted the children to learn to spend money. B. Because they wantedthe children to learn to save money. C. Because they wanted the children to learn to manage money. D. Because they didn’t want the children to buy toys and sweets any more. 23. From Monty’s story, the children learned ______________________. A. to save and to wait. B. to buy and to sell things C. to set a achievable goal. D. to be careful and self-disciplined 24. The underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph means ______________. A. Julia will bring disasters to herself and her family. B. Julia is not good at managing money. C. Julia is too stupid to do anything well. D. Julia has so many secrets that nobody likes her. B As weather cools across the United States, a growing number of Americans visit farms. They harvest fruits, enjoy hay wagon rides and walk in the fields. These people are called“agri-tourists.” They improve the economy of rural areas and help farmers increase their profits. School children are walking in a corn field maze. The corn is cut into tricky passageways that make it difficult to find a way out. The children are from Yorktown Elementary School in Bowie Maryland. They have traveled to Montpelier Farms in Pri nce George’s County which is also in Maryland. The farm is about 40 kilometers from The White Hou se. Debbie Pierson is the student’s teacher. “We go on these kind of field trips so that the children will have a hands-on experience of what it’s like to be on a farm,” Pierson said. In Loudoun County Virginia, there are farms where grapes are grown for use in making wine. Many of the farms let people visit, and drink the wine that is made there. Bill Hatch owns the Zephaniah Farm Vineyard. H e holds wine tast ings in his home. “We are doubling the number of visitors to our farm every year. We have an average of 250 people on a weekend,” Hatch said. As more people visit farms, more farmers are adding activities in which visitors can takepart. Malcolm Baldwin owns WeatherLea Farm and Vineyard in Loudoun County. Six years ago, he began letting people be married at his farm. They can also sleep at the farm overnight. Mr. Baldwin says the money he makes from these activities let him keep his small farm operating. “B ut without the animals, and without the vines, the wedding business wouldn’t be as profitable (有利可图的), because people like to see the vines. They like to see the animals and without which I don’t think this will be a popular place,” Baldwin said. 25. We ca n infer from the first paragraph that people always go for field trips in _______. A. Spring B. Summer C. Autumn D. Winter 26. The underlined word “maze” in the passage is similar to“_______”. A. puzzle B. trip C. house D. activity 27. On Malcolm Baldwin’s farms, visitors can ________. A. taste the wine made in the USA B. raise and hunt animals C. do wedding business D. have fun as well as bring him money C It was 8:35 am. My girls and I were rushing through the front door of the school as I yelled, “Hurry up! The bell was about to…” RIIIIIIIING! The girls froze and their eyes widened. My shoulders sagged(下垂). We were too late. We were often late for school last year, and every time we ran breathlessly into the attendance I heard myself making silly excuses to Beth, the long-suffering secretary: our alarm didn’t go off; there was so much traffic; it was my husband’s fault; the dog…I didn’t know-something about the dog! As time passed by, my lying became a habit, and it raised a red flag for me. Lying - even in the form of “harmless” excuses - means we’re ashamed. Shame is different from guilt. Healthy guilt is fair and helpful. But shame can be dangerous. Nothing ruins the connection between two people more quickly than shame and lies do. Anyone trying to live a healthy and honest life must avoid shame at any cost.I was trying to live a healthy and honest life, but my excuses were keeping me from reaching my goal. So I vowed（发誓）to do something different . The next time we were late, I went to the attendance office. When Beth asked me to fill in a form with the reason for being late, I told the truth. “These days, we are very tired and disorganized,” I wrote. Beth looked down at that form, and the slowly looked up at me. She gave us a warm and big smile and her blue eyes twinkled. She started laughing. So did my kids and I. We’re all imperfect human beings. We make mistakes. Everyone does make mistakes. However, it’s OK to tell the truth about them. It’s OK to forgive ourselves and promise to try again. 28. By writing Paragraph1, the author wants to show that . A. her daughters were not easy to deal with B. she didn’t have an organized lifestyle C. her daughters didn’t like going to school D. she lived a lazy life with her daughters 29. What do we know about the author from Paragraph2?A. She lived an extremely busy life.B. She li ked complaining about life.C. She liked making fun of other people.D. She liked making excuses for her lateness. 30. We learn that as time went by, the author . A. found that other people liked lying to her B. realized the harm of lying and wanted to change C. found that shame had a positive effect on her life D. realized that she could no longer live a healthy life 31. The last paragraph shows when we make a mistake we should . A. blame it on different things B. never let others know it is our fault C. never forgive ourselves for making it D. forgive ourselves and try harder next time D Wouldn’t it be great if you could just look up at the sky and read the weather forecast right away? Well, you can. The forecast is written in clouds. If you can read that writing, you can tell something about the atmosphere. With some practice, you can become a pretty good weather forecaster. Who knows, youmight even do as well as meteorologists（气象学家）. Meteorologists use much more information than just the appearance of the clouds to make their forecast. They collect data（数据）from all over the world. Then they put it into powerful, high speed computers. This does give the meteorologists an advantage, because they can track（追踪）weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country. But you have an advantage, too. You can look at the sky and get your data directly. A meteorologist uses a computer forecast that’s several hours old to make a local forecast. What are you seeing when you look at a cloud? “A picture of moisture(水汽)is doing in the atmosphere,” says meteorologist Peter Leavitt. There’s moisture throughout the atmosphere. Most of the time you don’t see it, because it’s in the form of an unseeable gas called water vapor. Sometimes, the temperature of the air gets cold enough to caus e the waster vapor to change to liquid water. It’s called condensation(凝结), and we see it happen all the time (for example, when humid air from the shower hits the cold glasses of a mirror). When enough water vapor condenses（冷凝）, droplets(小滴）come in the air. These droplets scatter(分散) light. A cloud is seen. Watching clouds over a day or two tells you a lot more than a single cloud about the weather to come. Changes in clouds show changes in the atmosphere. You should begin to notice patterns. Certain clouds, following each other in order, can signal an approaching storm. But don’t take our word for it; see for yourself. 32. According to the passage, an ordinary person might read the weather forecast as well as meteorologists_________. A. with some simple practice looking up at the sky B. with the help of the high-speed computers C. through complex (复杂的) instruments D. by visiting a weather station 33.Meteorologists can make their weather forecast . A. by using information of the appearance of the clouds only B. by collecting data from parts of the world C. by collecting and analyzing（分析）the data D. by watching the sky 34. According to the passage, your advantage in weather forecast is that .A. you have a high-speed computerB. you observe the sky and get your data directlyC. you have more instruments at homeD. you can track weather patterns as they move from west to east across the country 35. This passage mainly tells us about how to . A. train ourselves as meteorologists B. be an assistant to a meteorologist C. forecast the weather by ourselves D. broadcast the weather forecast 第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。