高一第二学期期末英语考试试题(含参考答案)

1 高一第二学期期末英语考试试题 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5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. How does the woman treat the child? A. Kindly. B. Warm-heartedly. C. Strictly. 2. Where are the two speakers? A. On a plane. B. In Shanghai. C. At the airport. 3. When did the train leave? A. At 9:55. B. At 10:05. C. At 9:25. 4. What does the man think of Chinese? A. Chinese is easier than English. B. English is easier than Chinese. C. Chinese is as easy as English. 5. What does the woman want the boy to do? A. Have supper. B. Go to study. C. Watch TV. 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. What does the woman think of Tom? A. He is like a bookworm. B. He studies in class. C. He likes bookworms. 7. What does the woman think a good student should do? A. He should pass all the tests. 2

B. He should study hard. C. He should study all the time. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. How long has the man stayed in the hotel? A. About ten minutes. B. More than a quarter. C. Less than ten minutes. 9. What is the man’s problem? A. He can’t use the desk. B. He can’t enter the bathroom. C. He can’t take a shower. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. What are the people talking about? A. Seeing movies online. B. Doing shopping online. C. Playing games online. 11. What do people input to get into an E-supermarket? A. A special pin number. B. The name and address of the user. C. The website address of the E-supermarket. 12. What information is needed before submitting? A. Information of users and receivers. B. Information of the website. C. Information of the E-supermarket. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What does the man love in Shanghai? A. The buildings and the people. B. The food and the people. C. The food and the movie. 14. How is the food? 3

A. Delicious. B. Quite different. C. A little oily. 15. What are the speakers going to do tonight? A. See a film. B. Go to a concert. C. Have a dinner. 16. Where was the woman last year? A. In Shanghai. B. In Beijing. C. In Shandong. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What is Santa Claus? A. Santa Claus is a real person. B. Santa Claus is an imaginary person. C. Santa Claus is a short, thin, jolly old man. 18. Where do “Santa Claus” and “Saint Nicholas” come from? A. The Dutch who settled in New York long ago. B. The farmers in West New York. C. The German farmers in Pennsylvania. 19. When was the Dutch’s yearly festival? A. On December twenty sixth. B. On December fifth. C. On December sixth. 20. What’s the German word for “for”? A. Pelz. B. Nickel. C. Pelznickel. 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A R.U. Darby and his uncle were digging for gold in the West. After weeks of labor, he was rewarded when he discovered shining ore (矿石). He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. So he borrowed money from his relatives and neighbors and went back to work on the mine. The first car of ore was mined and sent to a smelter. The gold that they got in return proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big profits. Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened! The vein of gold ore disappeared! The pot of gold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying 4

to pick up the vein again, but they found nothing. Finally, they decided to quit. They sold the machinery to a man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. That man asked a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer said that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with “fault lines (裂纹线)’’. His calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where it was found. The man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to ask for expert advice before giving up. R.U. Darby was struggling for years to pay back the money from his relatives and neighbors. He went into the business of selling life insurance. Remembering that he lost a huge fortune because he stopped three feet from gold, Darby profited from the experience in his chosen work, by the simple method of saying to himself, “I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say ‘no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.” Darby is part of a small group of fewer than 50 men who sell more than a million dollars in life insurance every year. His “stick-ability” comes from the lesson he learned from his “quit-ability” in the gold mining business. 21. Why did Darby and his uncle stop digging for gold? A. They didn’t have the machinery to dig for the ore. B. They didn’t have enough money to manage the mine. C. They had already had enough gold and made big profits. D. They had tried to find the vein of gold again, but it was in vain. 22. What was a good quality of the man who worked on the mine after Darby and his uncle? A. He knew the machinery better than the Darbys. B. He knew the importance of seeking expert advice. C. He had very strong stick-ability and never gave up. D. He was good at calculations and familiar with fault lines. 23. What happened to Darby in the end? A. He became a very successful businessman. B. He worked as an ordinary salesman selling life insurance. C. He struggled for the rest of his life to pay back the money he had borrowed.