高一年级英语2017-2018学年第二学期期中考试试卷
考试时间：120分钟 考试分值：150分
注意事项：
1.本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。
3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
第一卷(选择题 共100分)
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. Why did David avoid the diving board?
A. He thinks it’s too high.
B. He doesn’t know how to dive at all.
C. It’s too crowded in that part of the pool.
2.What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Co-workers. B. Boss and secretary. C. Teacher and student.
3.How does the woman feel about the candles?
A. They smell bad. B. They’re not bright enough.
C. They’re better than electricity.
4. How many students took the exam last Friday?
A. 18. B. 22. C. 40.
5. Who is the woman talking to?
A. A boss. B. A reporter. C. A secretary.
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。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。
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
6. Where does Mr. Patterson work?
A. On a farm. B. At a school. C. In a post office.
7. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Some plants in a field. B. Something in a picture.
C. Some animals in a story.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
8. When did the flight attendant see the backpack?
A. After the plane landed. B. When the little girl dropped it.
C. While the woman was brushing her teeth.
9. When did the woman get her luggage?
A. At 7:00 . B. At 8:30. C. At 9:00.
10. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a security office. B. In a restaurant. C. At the airport.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
11. What is the woman surprised by?
A. The noise in the countryside. B. The cool weather in summer.
C. The unclean appearance of the forest.
12. When will the birds quiet down?
A. In seventeen days. B. In a month or so. C. In four months.
13. Where does the woman come from?
A. North Carolina. B. Georgia. C. California.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
14. What does the woman want to prepare for her mother?
A. A clean house. B. Some nice food. C. A comfortable chair.
15. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Offer the mouse peanuts. B. Put glue in a mouse trap.
C. Go to a field to find a mouse.
16. What kind of mouse does the woman think is in her house?
A. A friendly mouse. B. A fat mouse. C. A small mouse.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
17. Who is mostly in Branson during the winter?
A. Local people. B. Students. C. Visitors.
18. What is Branson mostly known for?
A. Live music. B. Helicopter tours. C. An amusement park.
19. Why did Branson become a tourist attraction?
A. It’s near the ocean. B. It has many lakes. C. It’s near a river.
20. How do most people get to Branson?
A. By train. B. By car. C. By air.
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
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of North Georgia seeks to hire a part-time instructor of Chinese for the Fall Term 2017. Depending on enrollments(登记人数）, the opportunity could continue in the spring and be ongoing.
Located in the fastest-growing area of the state, the University of North Georgia is a multi-campus(多校园） university with an enrollment of over 18,000 students, making it one of the largest institutions in the University System og Georgia. Through a variety of educational pathways that provide access and range from certificates and associate degrees to a professional doctoral program, the UNG is responsive to local education and economic development needs.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
Teaching schedules may include evening or online classes.
Certifications/ Licenses & Minimum Requirements:
The candidate should have a Master's degree in Chinese or related field.
Native or near-native fluency in Chinese.
Expected Hire Date: 08/01/2017
Special instructions to applicants:
If you received any graduate degrees from an institution outside the United States, you must provide a foreign course-by-course evaluation by an independent evaluation service that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Service, Inc.
Employer Information:
All employment offers are dependent upon successful completion of a background investigation(调查), as determined by the University of North Georgia. The University of North Georgia, a unit of the University System of Georgia, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex or national origin, age, disability or religion. We provide equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.
21. Who is the UNG looking for?
A. A part-time teacher. B. A research assistant.
C. A part-time receptionist. D. A research administrator.
22. What can be inferred about the UNG?
A. Its campuses spread all over the USA.
B. Its courses focus on local development.
C. It is located in the most developed area of Georgia.
D. It is the university with the most students in Georgia.
23. Which of the following might be qualified for the position?
A. An English major who can speak a little Chinese.
B. A graduate in Economics from Cambridge University.
C. A Chinese major who has got his Master’s degree in the USA.
D. An English graduate who has a doctoral program in Education.
B
Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages.
But a TV show, Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back into the present.
Letters Alive took its idea from a UK program with a similar name, Letters Live, which was first shown in 2013. Both shows feature famous actors and actresses, but there is no gossip , no eye-catching visual effects or any regular showbiz (演艺圈) activities. Instead, it’s just one person walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.
But these are not just any letters. They are selected from a wide time span and a diverse range of subjects. There is, for example, a passionate letter that famous painter Huang Yongyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to criticize his lack of creativity. There is also a heartfelt note from Spring and Autumn Period written by two ordinary young soldiers to their elder brother to report their lives in the war zone.
Every letter is like a small piece of history. By hearing them being read, it’s as if we are being sent back in time to experience a moment that we would otherwise never have had the chance to.
“Letters Live makes us pause and imagine the lives behind the letters,” UK actor Benedict Cumberbatch, one of the readers on the UK show, told The Guardian. “It allows people from all ages and all walks of life to experience a moment of time in someone else’s life for a brief moment.”
Compared to published texts, letters also come with a personal touch.
One example from Letters Live was a note of thanks from the mother of a dying child to JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. It read: “Mrs Rowling, Cancer threatened to take everything from my daughter, and your books turned out to be the castle we so desperately needed to hide in.”
According to Guan Zhengwen, the director of Letters Alive, it is this kind of humanity behind every letter that strikes a chord (引发共鸣) with the audience. It is also what made the show a big hit in China ever since its first episode aired on Dec 5.
“It’s a thing of the past that entertainment shows establish themselves only with pretty faces,” Guan told Sohu News. “Showbiz is starting to switch to a focus on wisdom and intelligence.
24. What do you know about the TV show Letters Alive from this passage?
A. Any letters can be read in this TV show.
B. It is exactly the same with a UK program Letters Live.
C. The program brings the old way of writing letters back to life.
D. Much gossip of celebrities and eye-catching visual effects lie in the program.
25. What effect do letters have according to the audience?
A. They help cure a dying child of her cancer.
B. They make people forget their past experience.
C. They reflect the whole history of the world.
D. They allow people to experience others ‘life and a personal touch.
26. Why is the TV show Letters Alive very popular according to its director?
A. It features famous actors and actresses.
B. People can find many regular showbiz activities.
C. Letters have been completely replaced by phone calls and WeChat messages.
D. The humanity behind every letter makes the audience experience the same feelings as its writer.
27. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Pretty faces still play an important role in showbiz.
B. Showbiz is starting to centre on wisdom and intelligence.
C. JK Rowling provided a lot of books for a girl suffering from cancer.
D. The painter Huang Yongyu and the playwright Caoyu weren’t good friends.
C
In a foreign country, a man visited a local restaurant. He didn’t speak their language. He ordered something indecipherable off the menu. When the waiter brought him a plate of delicious looking fried noodles, he smiled and made an OK sign at the waiter with his thumb and forefinger linked in a circle. Looking angry, the waiter then picked up the dish and thrown it to his lap. What he did wrong, he wondered. Well, nothing is quite as it seems when it comes to using hand gesture in another country.
Gestures have been used to replace words in many countries, and they are often specific to a given culture. Gesture may mean something complimentary in one culture, but is highly offensive in another.
The gesture “thumb-up” is commonly misinterpreted. In English, it is popularly known as ‘thumbs up’, despite the fact that the action is commonly performed with only one hand. English-speaking Caucasians use it to signal ‘OK’, which is the same meaning as O.K. ring gesture. The two can in fact be used almost interchangeably.
Avoid using this gesture in Southern Sardina or Northern Greece unless you want to invite a fight. While American, British and Australian would use the thumb up to signal hitch-hiking to the drivers, this message will not encourage a Greek driver or motorist to stop to give them a ride.
There are no right or wrong signals, only cultural differences. Lack of cultural understanding will lead to disharmony among people from different cultures. When we know what to look for, such encounters with other cultures are actually very interesting, fascinating and fun. It is certainty a great topic to discuss over a cup of coffee and cakes.
28. What did the man in the first paragraph do wrong?
A. He misunderstood the waiter. B. He made the signal in a rude way.
C. He ordered something off the menu. D. He didn’t realize cultural differences.
29. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?
A. Full of aggression. B. Full of admiration.
C. Full of complexity. D. Full of certainty.
30. What will happen if you make a thumb up toward a man in Northern Greece?
A. He will stop to give you a lift.
B. He will ask you to give him a HA.
C. He will get annoyed and fight against you.
D. He will make the same signal toward you.
31. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To tell stories about different cultures.
B. To advise us to have an understanding of cultural differences.
C. To explain the meaning of different gestures.
D. To persuade people from different countries to live in harmony.
D
With all the traditional media channels, including newspapers, magazines and television shows, shrinking, advertisers are worrying about how they can reach customers. Banners(横幅) ads on our devices are ugly and disturbing. To overcome various digital problems, the ad industry has been serving up a sneaky(不光明正大的) solution: make ads look less like ads and more like the articles, videos and posts around them.
This trend, called native advertising, has taken over the Internet; even the websites such as NYTimes.com and Wall-Street.com are using it. On Facebook and Twitter, every 10th item or so is an ad; only the small subtitle “Sponsored（赞助）” appearing in light gray type tells you which posts are ads.
Won’t dressing up ads to make them look like reported articles mislead people? Sometimes, yes. An Interactive Advertising Bureau study found that only 41 percent of general news readers could tell such ads apart from real news stories. And it’s getting worse. Advertisers worry that the “Sponsored” label discourages readers from clicking, so some websites are making the labels smaller and less noticeable. Sometimes the labels disappear entirely.
At a recent talk about the difficulty of advertising in the new, small-screen world, I heard an ad manager tell an impressive story. She had gotten a musical performance – paid for by her soft drink client- perfectly inserted（插入）into a TV awards show, without any moment of blackness before or after. “It looked just like part of the real broadcast!” she recounted happily.
Look, it is great that native advertising works. But if advertisers truly believe in their material, they should have no problem labeling it as advertising.
For now native ads continue to be a fashion- with no laws governing them and no labeling standard. But that could change; the Federal Trade Commission has begun considering regulation. If the new generation of digital advertisers clean up their act according to the regulation, native ads might become more acceptable.
32. What can we learn about native ads from the text?
A. They have overcome the problems of banner ads.
B. They are clearly labeled as ads in websites.
C. They are a special type of articles.
D. They are used by all websites.
33. The ad manager’s story in Paragraph 4 is used to show_______.
A. It’s difficult to advertise in the small-screen world.
B. It’s difficult to tell native ads from what they have been inserted in.
C. It’s easy to insert ads into a TV awards show.
D. It’s easy to deal with the “Sponsored” label.
34. In the author’s view, the future of native ads is ________.
A. bright B. discouraging C. uncertain D. time-dependent
35. What is the text mainly about?
A. How to advertise in the digital age. B. Difficulties facing native ads.
C. Truth in digital advertising. D. What native ads are?
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Are you suffering from FOMO—that is, Fear Of Missing Out? Research shows that a growing number of young people are, with worrying consequences for their sleep and schoolwork.
___36___You aren’t able to do your best unless you sleep well. Most experts agree that the optimum(最适宜) number of hours is eight, and this has been accepted as common sense for as long as I can remember. However, I was young once and know most of you get much less sleep than that.
I read an interesting article in a teachers’ magazine recently.___37___Worryingly, the results showed that teenagers are facing a new problem. They may go to bed and get up at appropriate times, but a growing number are waking up in the middle of the night, not to use the bathroom or have a snack, but because of FOMO.
According to the article, the number of students waking up during the night to check social media is growing. Afraid of missing a comment or opportunity to take part in a chat, teenagers are waking at all times of the night, going online and getting involved.____38____.
Experts are worried about this growing trend and the report reveals some worrying statistics: 23% of 12-to 15-year-olds wake up nearly every night to use social media.____39____One in third of the students are constantly tired and unable to function to their full capacity.
So I’d like to ask you to be responsible when it comes to social media. Switch off your devices at night. The world won’t end and your social media will be waiting to greet you in the morning!____40____.
A.But things are getting out of hand.
B.They did a study of 848 students in Wales.
C.Another 15% wake up at night once a week for the same reason.
D.I give you my word that you won’t have missed anything important.
E.All happens when they should be sound asleep.
F.FOMO is the fear that everyone else is having more fun and more excitement than you.
G.Everybody knows how important it is for students to get a good night’s sleep every night.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分40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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A wealthy old lady decides to travel to Africa, taking her faithful (忠诚的) old dog Cuddles along for company. One day, the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he’s ___41___. Wandering about, he notices a ___42___heading in his direction with the intention of eating him for lunch. The old dog thinks, “Oh, oh! I’m in deep____43____now!” Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he____44____settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the____45____leopard.
Just as the leopard is about to____46____, the old dog exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I____47____if there are any more around here?” Hearing this, the young leopard stops his attack in mid-strike, a look of____48____comes over him and he runs back into the trees. “Whew!”, says the leopard, “That was close! That dog nearly____49____me!”
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been____50____the whole scene from a nearby tree decides that he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for____51____from the leopard. So off he goes … but the old dog sees him____52____the leopard and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, and explains that the dog is____53____and strikes a deal with the leopard.
The young leopard is angry about being____54____and says, “Here, monkey, jump on my back and see what’s going to happen to that____55____dog!”
The old dog sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, “What am I going to do now?” But instead of____56____, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers,____57____he hasn’t seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to____58____, the old dog says: “Where’s that darn monkey? I___59___ him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!”
Life is not about holding all the good cards, but in____60____those that you hold well.
41. A. hungry B. lost C. tired D. bored
42. A. hunter B. traveler C. leopard D. monkey
43. A. trouble B. sorrow C. fear D. regret
44. A. suddenly B. certainly C. excitedly D. immediately
45. A. approaching B. waiting C. passing D. wandering
46. A. move B. leave C. eat D. attack
47. A. doubt B. question C. wonder D. guess
48. A. confusion B. terror C. shock D. anger
49. A. defeated B. murdered C. had D. disturbed
50. A. reporting B. performing C. watching D. judging
51. A. shelter B. protection C. food D. service
52. A. looking for B. heading after C. staring at D. escaping from
53. A. harmless B. dangerous C. stupid D. intelligent
54. A. doubted B. underrated C. hurt D. fooled
55. A. wise B. strong C. pitiful D. bad
56. A. running B. explaining C. standing D. trembling
57. A. realizing B. pretending C. wishing D. expecting
58. A. hear B. observe C. touch D. fight
59. A. dropped B. put C. sent D. saw
60. A. accepting B. keeping C. learning D. playing
第Ⅱ卷 非选择题（50分）
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，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Way back in 1674, a frog helped Antoni van Leeuwenhoek make an incredible discovery. Antoni was an amateur scientist from Holland, so fascinated by microscopes ___61___ he’d built some of his own. One rainy day, as he went for a walk, a leaping frog ___62___ (draw) his attention to a puddle.
Antoni collected a drop of puddle water and put it ___63___ his microscope. He was amazed ___64___(see) a whole community of creatures swimming in this one drop — tiny beings no one had ever seen before.
These tiny beings, called microbes, are everywhere: in dirt, in food and on your kitchen table. People ___65___ (cover) in them, too. ___66___ you counted all the microbes on and inside your body, you would find your body has more microbes than the world has people — over 6 billion!
Microbes can’t survive on ___67___(they) own. They need food. After ___68___ (settle) into a home — you, for instance — they steal vitamins and other nutrients and leave behind dead cells and poisonous liquids called toxins. Some microbes can make you sick. People usually call these ones germs. ___69___(lucky) for you, there are more ___70___ (help) microbes, working together to keep you healthy, than bad ones.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
71. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
There was an art festival in our school last weekend. It had been held for five years and our headmaster plan to make it a feature of our school. I was so excited, for it was first time for me to join in.
Early in the morning, there were such many people coming to our school, made it so lively. The students gave a warm welcome to the guest. I walked around or appreciated the paintings. All the works were from the students and I was so impressing by them. There were also some handcrafts, that were so creative. Though we were busy with our study most of the time, but some students still managed to develop their hobbies. I should learn to them and develop a hobby as well.
第二节 书面表达 （满分25分）
72. 假定你是李华，最近你的英国笔友Amy发来电子邮件，说她有办事拖拉的坏习惯，经常惹父母和老师不高兴，为此她感到非常苦恼。请你给她回一封邮件，内容主要包括：
1. 表示理解；
2. 提出合理意见；
3. 希望对方采纳。
注意：词数100左右，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Amy,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
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