诸暨中学2018学年第二学期期中考试英语试题

诸暨中学2018学年高一期中考试英语试卷2019.4第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，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. What will the speakers do?A. Catch a flight.B. Pick up their son.C. Deal with an accident.2. How does the man feel about Lila?A. Bored.B. Scared.C. Excited.3. How did the woman get to Baltimore?A. By train.B. By bus.C. By taxi.4.Where is the man going tomorrow?A. To the school.B. To the beach.C. To the cinema.5.What does the woman mainly talk about?A. Buying a good bike.B. Learning how to drive.C. Paying attention to safety.第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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至第7题。

6. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a gift shop.B. In a food store.C. In a travel agency.7. What did the woman buy?A. A cup.B. A shirt.C. A key chain.听第7段材料，回答第8至第9题。

8. Why was the woman going to call the repair center?A. To see if her car is ready.B. To ask for an oil change.C. To check her bill price.9. Why did the woman refuse the man’s offer?A. She couldn’t afford the service.B. She would not be able to pick up the car.C. She needed the car earlier than it would be ready.听第8段材料，回答第10至第12题。

10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. shopping trip.B. A family argument.C. A working environment.11. What does the woman probably want the man to do?A. Do some cleaning.B. Be careful in his job.C. Take out the trash in turn.12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Mother and son.B. Brother and sister.C. Manager and new worker.听第9段材料，回答第13至第16题。

13. What does the watch look like?A. The face of the watch is black.B. It’s got a leather white band.C. The face of the watch is square.14.When did Helen’s grandpa come to England?A. Over 50 years ago.B. Over 60 years ago.C. Over 20 years ago.15.Why is the watch special to Helen?A. It’s worth a lot of money.B. Her grandpa left it to her.C. It’s her 21st birthday present.16. What can we know about Helen’s grandpa?A. He passed away 2 years ago.B. He got the watch from his father.C. He came to England without any money.听第10段材料，回答第17至第20题。

17.How is the newly printed house different from previous ones?A. It was printed in pieces.B. It was made from waste materials.C. The whole thing was printed at once.18. How much does the printed 400-square-foot house cost in California?A. $ 5,000.B. $ 10,000.C. $ 15,000.19. Where were ten houses printed in just 24 hours?A. In China.B. In Russia.C. In the United States.20. How do engineers think the new technology could be used?A. To put buildings on Mars.B. To recycle old materials.C. To construct buildings on the moon.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

AWhile many countries love their tea, UK citizens are particularly proud of being “tea people”. The average UK citizen consumes nearly 2 kilograms of tea each year.Tea only made its way to England in large quantities in the first years of the 17th century. Tea from China and a few other Asian countries was being sold more widely in England at that time. Then tea was getting more and more popular among different social classes.There are many varieties of tea. Black tea mixtures are still the most common type drunk in the UK. Black tea is dark in colour, because the leaves have been allowed to oxidize (氧化) before drying. This is why we usually serve it with milk, although it is not uncommon to drink it black or with lemon. You may still find tea made with loose tea leaves, served up in a pot, and poured into the best china cups with saucers (茶托) for visitors.Tea is still a large part of daily life in the UK today, but it seems to be on the decrease. The amount of tea sold in the UK fell by more than 10% in the five years leading up to 2002, and has been dropping ever since. Tea sales fell by 6% in 2014 alone, and most restaurants report selling more than twice as many cups of coffee as they do tea. More than ￡1 billion was spent on coffee in high street stores in 2013, more than twice what was spent on tea bags.Still, what goes around comes around; it’s sure to become fa shionable again.21.Which of the following is true according to the first three paragraphs?A. Tea made its way to England in the early years of the 16th century.B. The UK usually serves black tea with lemon.C. Tea from China was being sold more widely in England now.D. UK citizens take pride in being “tea people”.22.What can we infer from the fourth paragraph?A. Tea sales fell by 6% in 2014 alone.B. In 2013, the money spent on tea was￡3 billionC. Since 2002, the sales of tea have been on the decreaseD. Most restaurant like selling tea than coffee.23.What does the underlined sentence mean in the last paragraph?A. It can never succeed againB. The tea is becoming less popularC. Coffee is more popular than teaD. The tea can become popular againBI am traveling home. It is bitterly cold and snowy, but the warm train is right on time. I feel pleasantly satisfied as I look out at the rush hour traffic on the motorway. I feel more satisfied as the smell of fresh coffee announces the arrival of the drinks service. Swiss friends often tell me, proudly, that their rail service is the best in the world, but recently, one experience has proved that the great Swiss love affair with their railway has turned a little sour.It all began with the decision to end ticket sales on trains. One cold morning I arrived at my local station only to find that the ticket machine was broken. No matter, I thought, I have got a smart phone, and I hurriedly set about buying my ticket that way. This was not as easy as I had expected, busyingmyself between credit card and phone with freezing cold fingers, but, by the time I got on the train to Geneva I had an e-ticket and I proudly showed it to the conductor. Unfortunately she told me that my ticket was not valid(有效的). Several weeks later a letter arrived from Swiss railways together with a fine for 190 francs ($ 210).The good people there tell me the formal payment for my ticket from my credit card company arrived four minutes after my train left the station. That means, they say, that I bought my ticket on the train — and that is strictly prohibited.Swiss railways say their policy is designed to protect honest ticket-paying passengers, but a quick look at their balance sheet suggests something else. The company is making about $2 million a month from fines.Although train travel is still popular, those seats do not feel as comfortable; the coffee does not smell quite so good —because Swiss railways have lost, for now anyway, something far more precious than $2 million a month: good relations with their customers.24. What can we learn from paragraph 1?A. The Swiss trains usually come late.B. Traffic on the motorway goes smoothly.C. The author is generally pleased with the Swiss rail service.D. The author hates traveling on the Swiss train.25. Why did the conductor say that the author’s e-ticket was invalid?A. It was purchased online.B. It was paid on a smart phone.C. It was purchased on a ticket machine.D. It was paid for after the train’s departure.26. What does the author think of the new policy of Swiss railways?A. It damages company-customer relations.B. It makes the company lose a lot of money.C. It attracts more people to travel by train.D. It protects honest ticket-paying passengers.CBritish chemist David Evans has become an overnight celebrity（名人）on Chinese social media. His chemistry experiments have attracted over 2 million followers in just a few months. Evans is a chemistry professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The 60-year-old always wears a white lab coat, a pair of safety goggles (护目镜), and smiles often. Some web users say he looks just like the “grandpa of KFC”.Evans has posted videos of various experiments. His most popular experiments have attracted millions of hits on video-sharing apps. Excited children’s cheers and shouts can be heard in his videos. “I hope my experiments can arouse people’s interest in science,” he says.Evans has been interested in China since childhood. In the early 1970s, before the reform and opening-up, he viewed it as a “country full of mysteries”. He first visited the Chinese mainland in1987 to attend a chemistry conference in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He quit his job in the United Kingdom and moved to Beijing in 1996. Many of his friends thought he was crazy. But Evans says they just saw China’s challenges but not its potential.Since 2011, Evans has turned to the Internet to popularize science. He learned short-video apps are also popular in small cities and rural areas. And he realized this enables him to reach more students, who lack opportunities to perform fun experiments. But even a one-minute video requires a considerable amount of work. Still, he thinks it’s worth it to fulfill his responsibility to popularize science.His expe riments always fill schools’ lecture halls with laughter. Some viewers call him “a Harry Potter-like magician”, but he disagrees. “A magician never tells the secrets behind his tricks, but a scientist always gives an explanation.” He sees himself as a teac her. He performs experiments to spread knowledge, inspire thinking, remove misunderstandings and show that science can create change. Evans says he looks forward to more “chemical reactions” with China.27. Who is David Evans according to the passage?A. A manager of KFC.B. A chemistry teacher.C. A film celebrity.D. A British magician.28. What can we learn from the third paragraph?A. Evans considered UK to be a country full of mysteries.B. Evans attended a chemistry conference in China in 1987.C. Evans was unwilling to move to Beijing.D. Evans first visited Chinese mainland in the 1970s.29. Why did Evans begin to post videos of experiments on the Internet?A. To apply short-video apps.B. To rise to fame.C. To popularize science.D. To make a fortune.30. What can we infer from the passage?A. Evans’ friends admired his decision to move to China.B. Evans will continue to post videos of experiments in China.C. Evans’ students like to interrupt his experiments with laughter.D. Evans knows exactly how a magic works.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。