高一上期末英语试题

第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，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。

21. Having taken all evidence into consideration, the police concluded that everything in her story was correct to the smallest ________.A. detailB. truthC. wordD. record22. We’re expecting Jane, as she is our ________ visitor who comes here for holiday every summer.A. regularB. popularC. particularD. familiar23. When it comes to house-building, we should set strict standards, without which few buildings would ________ if there were a strong earthquake in the future.A. existB. destroyC. surviveD. escape24. We feel it important to make it clear to teenagers that watching TV or reading on mobile phones for such a long time will certainly ________ their eyes.A. injureB. hurtC. woundD. harm25. I’m sorry I am too busy and haven’t a minute to ________, so I can not help you to repair the computer at the moment.A. saveB. spareC. spendD. share26. She devoted all her love to him without expecting anything in return, but she ________ for it when he ran away with all her money.A. struggledB. foughtC. arguedD. suffered27. Many countries, including Japan, Korea, America and China, were deeply ________ by the news of the death of Kim Jong II, top leader of the DPRK.A. touchedB. affectedC. movedD. amazed28. No. 1 Middle School Affiliated to CCNU was ________ in 1950s and has a history of nearly sixty years, which witnessed its growth and glory.A. taken upB. sent upC. set upD. raised up29. I might fail because I have never been given such a challenging task to do alone, but ________I insist on doing it. I don’t mind it.A. howeverB. anyhowC. meanwhileD. therefore30. I am very grateful for your assistance, and hope that one day I may be able to do something for you ________.A. in turnB. in caseC. in returnD. in use第二节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（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。

My son was badly hurt in a fire. After he 31 from a series of treatments, the doctors told him they would not do any operation for six months 32 it took long for the skin to stop shrinking (收缩). So, he had to return to college with a visible 10-inch 33 on his face.I s aid to my son, “Keaton,34 will pay any more attention to your scar 35 you do. If itdoes not bother you, it will not bother 36 .” He took my advice to heart and returned to school with his head 327 high -glad he was alive.38 , everyone has scars and shortcomings. Some of you may spend much time thinking that people would like you better, 39 you looked different, or dressed differently, or could have a different and newer 40 .But you see, like Keaton’s scar, people will only judge you by you r looks, or your 41 , or your car, if you are judging yourself by these same false 42 .One of my friends in college was very 43 . At first, when people met him, they noticed his 44 for about 10 seconds. This man felt 45 about himself and spent most of his time 46 about other people’s comfort and welfare(幸福，福利). 47 , people ignored his looks. What people 48 was his kindness and his concern for them. He didn’t act in an ugly way so people didn’t treat him as an ugly man.Therefore, concentrate on what you value 49 yourself, because if you can see that beautiful person, everyone you are in touch with will see the same 50 .31. A. cured B. recovered C. improved D. returned32. A. because B. though C. until D. before33. A. cut B. wound C. injure D. scar34. A. no one B. anyone C. everyone D. someone35. A. as B. like C. than D. when36. A. another B. others C. all D. us37. A. put B. held C. taken D. hung38. A. After all B. In conclusion C. In fact D. Above all39. A. as long as B. if C. even if D. as if40. A. house B. telephone C. job D. car41. A. clothes B. hairstyle C. figure D. salary42. A. means B. standards C. comments D. rules43. A. smart B. optimistic C. rude D. ugly44. A. manners B. expressions C. looks D. actions45. A. lucky B. worried C. good D. sad46. A. inquiring B. asking C. knowing D. caring47. A. Completely B. Gradually C. Obviously D. Suddenly48. A. wanted B. understood C. brought D. saw49. A. within B. beyond C. except D. above50. A. kindness B. concern C. beauty D. perfection第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题：每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AJet lag, caused by traveling between time zones, is becoming a common problem for frequent travelers: for 49 percent it is only a nuisance(讨厌的事) and for 45 percent it is a real problem. It is caused by disruption(破坏) to the internal biological clock, and may lead to digestive problems, tiredness, and sleep disruption.Generally speaking, our biological clock is slightly disturbed if we just move into the next time zone, but jet lag becomes a problem once we have passed through three or four time zones. The body takes about one day to get over each hour of time difference. But the seriousness of jet lag problems also depends on our direction of travel. If we go north or south, we won’t noti ce any difference, because there is usually no time zone change. However, if we travel west we will be in advance of ourselves as far as our internal clock is concerned, and problems may arise. A west-to-east journey, on the other hand, makes us late compared to the local time. It often demands even greater effort in adjustment（调整）since we are not quick enough to catch up with the new time schedule. Therefore, a trip from New York to Los Angeles often causes fewer problems than a Los Angeles-New York trip.51. A traveler who suffers from jet lag has problems in ______.A. adjusting his biological clockB. knowing the direction of a jetC. knowing the distance of his flightD. getting used to the weather of a new place52. If one travels across three time zones, he needs about ______ hours to get over his jet lag problem.A. 24B. 36C. 48D. 7253. A person may suffer the most serious case of jet lag when he takes a ______ journey.A. east-to-westB. west-to-eastC. north-to-southD. south-to-north54. The main purpose of the passage is to ______.A. explain the cause of jet lag problemsB. teach us how to avoid jet lag problemsC. explain the differences between time zonesD. show the ways to lessen the degree of jet lag problemsBA gentle breeze blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was setting. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery (火红的) ball. She was amazed by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.The atmosphere relaxed her. After all she had been through, this was what she needed. “It’s getting late,”she thought, “I must go home. My parents will be wondering where I am.”She wondered how her parents would react, when she got home after the three days when she was missing. She kept on walking, directing herself where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and silently. Just in a few hundred meters she would have been safe in her house.It was really getting dark now. The sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold too. She wished she had her favorite sweater on: it kept her really warm. She imagined having it with her. This thought disappeared when she finally saw her front door. It seemed different. Nobody had taken care of the outside garden for a few days. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy, and now... It all seemed deserted. She couldn’t understand what was going on.She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a note written by her father. It said: “Dear Ellen, there is some coffee ready. I went looking.”Ellen was her mother but —where was she? On the right side of the hallway was her parents’ room. She went in. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed, was sleeping. Her face looked so tired, as if she hadn’t sleptfor days. She was really pale. Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up, something was different... she wasn’t in her mother’s room and she wasn’t wearing the old clothes she ran away in. She was in her comfortable bed in her pajamas (睡衣).It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice, “Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you got us very, very scared.”55. Three days later Jennifer came back home ______.A. at sunriseB. at sunsetC. at nightD. at midday56. What does the underlined phrase “This thought”most probably mean?A. The idea of going back home.B. Her anxiety about her parents.C. The feeling of being warm in her favorite sweater.D. The feeling of getting back home safely.57. Her father didn’t take care of the garden because ______.A. he was busy looking for her.B. he had to look after his wifeC. he was not strict with his job.D. he no longer enjoyed working in the garden58. What can we infer from this passage?A. In fact Jennifer’s mother had been sick for days.B. As Jennifer walked towards home, she became increasingly scared.C. When she found the garden deserted, she realized she was wrong.D. Having experienced a lot outside, Jennifer felt home was safest for her.CMany of us assume that the child of one of the richest men on earth must enjoy endless entitlement(特权). But 52-year-old Peter Buffet, a son of billionaire businessman Warren, doesn’t think so.“People who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth can fall victim to what my father has called a silver dagger(匕首) in your back,” Buffet told Reuters in an interview. “It leads to a sense of entitlement and a lack of personal achievement.”Entitlement, he believes, is the worst thing ever. “Anybody who acts like they deserve so mething “just because …” is a disaster,” he said.In his new book, Life Is What You Make It: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment(成就感), Buffet says that the only real wealth handed down from his parents was a value: Open your own path in life. It is a belief that has allowed him to follow his own passions, build his own identity, and achieve his own successes.Did his father ever want him to go into finance? “It was encouraged for a moment when I was open to the idea,” he told Reuters. But as he grew older, it became clear the financial world “was not speaking to my heart.”His father accepted his choice to become a musician. He began his musical career by writing music for TV advertisements. He then released his own albums.“I am my own person and I know what I have achieved in my life,” he told Reuters. “This isn’t about wealth or fame or money or any of that stuff, it is actually about values and what you enjoy and finding something you love doing.”Along with the book, Buffet has begun a “Concert & Conversation” tour in which he plays the piano, talks about his life and warns against consumerist culture and damaging theenvironment.“Economic prosperity(繁荣) may come and go; that’s just how it is,” he writes in the book. “But values are the steady currency(货币) that earn us the all-important reward.”59. “It” in the second paragraph refers to ___________.A. a life of a top businessmanB. a silver spoon in the mouthC. being born in a wealthy familyD. the victim of a silver dagger in the back60. Peter Buffet did the following things EXCEPT ___________.A. write the booksB. release the albumsC. make TV advertisementsD. begin “concert & conversation” tour61. The underlined sentence “values are the steady currency that earn u s the all-important rewards” means that _____________.A. money can bring all the rewards to usB. life is actually about values and what you enjoyC. economic prosperity is the steady and important rewardD. value and currency earn us everything important in return62. Peter Buffett would probably agree that _________________.A. wealth is there to enjoy to the fullestB. success and fame are what life is aboutC. many people are fooled by economic prosperityD. young people should find their own path to personal achievementDIn the early 1950s, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the 1960s found the opposite. Bilingual(双语的) people scored higher than monolinguals--people who speak only one language. So which is it?Researchers presented their newest studies last month at a meeting of the American Organization for the Advancement of Science. The latest evidence shows that being bilingual does not necessarily make people cleverer. But researcher Ellen Bialystock says it probably does make you better at certain skills.Ellen Bialystock said,"Imagine driving down the highway. There're many things that could attract your attention and you really need to be able to watch all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?"And the answer, she says, is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention -- a function called the executive control system. It's quite possibly the most important system we have because it's where all of your decisions about what to attend to, what to ignore, what to process are made."Ms. Bialystock is a professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. She says the best method to measure the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. A person is shown words in different colors. The person has to ignore the word but say the color. The problem is that the words are all names of colors.Ellen Bialystock said, "So you would have the word blue written in red, but you have to say red. But blue is so eye-catching, it's just lighting up all these words in your brain, and you really want to say blue. So you need a mechanism(机制) to override that so that you can say red. That's the executive control system."Her work shows that bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to,because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to ignore one to be able to speak in the other.This exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are better able to separate a word from its meaning, and more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing Alzheimer's disease.63. The best title of this passage would be _____________.A. What is Stroop Test?B. What is Executive Control System?C. Are monolingual people smarter?D. Are bilingual people better at some skills?64. In the Stroop Test, if you have the word green written in yellow, you should say ___________.A. yellowB. greenC. redD. blue65. The underlined word “override” probably means ______________.A. take care ofB. take no notice ofC. pay attention toD. take an interest in66. Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the text?A. A bilingual child is better at separating a word from its meaning.B. A bilingual child can make friends with a foreign child more easily.C. It is not possible for bilingual people to develop Alzheimer’s disease.D. Bilingual people are more able to watch several things at the same time.EMothers who live in areas that are moderately(中等的) polluted by car gases give birth to babies with lower than average birth weight, a new Australian study has showed. Scientists from Australia found that women who lived in Perth suburbs with moderate traffic pollution had babies weighing around 60 grams less on average than the expected average weight of 3.5 kilograms The conclusion was based on the analysis of the records of 1,800 pregnant(怀孕的) women and their babies in three areas. A link was found in only one of these areas, Perth suburbs, an area with low industrial activity, with a mix of polluted and quiet roads. Researchers said that they took the baby’s weight at birth and then worked out their expected size under good conditions. At the same time, a computer model was calculating the concentration of traffic pollution around the homes of mothers up to the time they gave birth.Dr. Gavi n Pereira, assistant professor, who specializes in the effects of air pollution on child’s health, found in his former research that Perth’s traffic pollution was increasingly the risk for about seventy percent of young kids who suffer from serious asthma(哮喘) attacks. He said the findings from that latest study were very surprising for him because the pregnant women who took part in the study did not live in heavily polluted neighborhoods. “I did not really expect to see any effect, so it was pretty surprising, although some international studies have found some associations,” said he.Researchers said that their results should not create any fear but rather be a warning signal for the future. The population grows each year so just that alone will increase the level of traffic pollution. Besides, the number of kilometers cars travelled is expected to go up so there are plenty of reasons why the problem of air pollution is going to get worse.In a conclusion, the experts said that while there is no reason for pregnant women to be scared, there is an advice for planners and developers not to build their homes in a short distance from busy roads. In general, people should try to put great effort to take public transportation and apply cleaner engine technologies in order to reduce the traffic pollution.67. Why did Dr. Gavin Pereira feel unexpected at his research results?A. Because Perth’s traffic pollution was increasing quicklyB. Because the pregnant women in the study all lived in the heavily polluted areas.C. Because about seventy percent of young kids suffered from serious asthma attacksD. Because the pregnant women in the study were not from the areas polluted seriously68. The underlined word “associations” in paragraph 3 probably means __________.A. developmentsB. organizationsC. influencesD. relationships69. The purpose of the last paragraph is to ___________.A. attract the readers’ attentionB. to warn the pregnant womenC. put forward suggestionsD. to introduce new research results70. The structure of the passage is _________.A. problem—reason—solutionB. example—analysis--comparisonC. problem—analysis—conclusionD. example—reason—comparison第四部分：书面表达（满分50分）第一节：完成句子（每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下列各小题，根据所给的汉语句子，用句末括号内的英语单词完成英语句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。