武汉外国语学校2015—2016学年度上学期期中考试

高一英语试题

考试时间：2015年11月13日　　　　　　满分：150　　　　　　命题人：

第一部分 听力（共三节，满分26分）

做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第1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。

例： How much is the shirt?

A.£ 19.15 B.£ 9.18 C.£ 9.15

答案是C。

1. What does the man mean?

A. It’s difficult to do something important.

B. The lady should do the job as well as she can.

C. Nobody can be the best.

2. What does the lady regret?

A. Not staying with her mother when she died.

B. Not taking good care of her mother when she was ill.

C. Not giving her mother a good life.

3.What does the woman expect the man to do on Saturday？

A. Take Brian out for the day.

B. Help Brian move house.

C. Celebrate their mum’s birthday.

4. Why did the man make the fence?

A. To protect his grass land.

B. To protect his house.

C. To decorate his house.

5.What are the speakers mainly talking about？

A. A novel. B. A film. C. A writer.

第2节（共11小题；每小题1分，满分11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 season is it most likely now?

A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Winter.

7. Where does the woman work now?

A. In a wedding company. B. In a bank of America. C. At a radio station.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the man need his notebook?

A. To know more about the show.

B. To study for the test.

C. To write notes in.

9. What will the two speakers do after the show?

A. Have dinner together. B. Go to the man’s home. C. Go to the woman’s home.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. On what does Mary congratulate the man?

A. His excellent work.

B. His getting promoted to a senior position.

C. His pay rise.

11. How does the man feel about the company’s decision?

A. Calm. B. Upset. C. Surprised.

12. What do we learn about the man according to the conversation?

A. He will get 1,000 yuan every month from now onwards.

B. He will be in charge of the marketing department.

C. He will work in a different company next week.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What was Annie Oakley famous for?

A. Her adventure in traveling.

B. Her good performance in the film.

C. Her perfect shooting skills.

14. What can we learn about Annie Oakley?

A. She acted in a traveling show.

B. She ever fought in a battle.

C. She grew up in the American Wild West.

15. Why did Annie Oakley begin to learn hunting?

A. To make her dream come true.

B. To teach herself living skills.

C. To support her family.

16. At what age did Annie Oakley die?

A. 66. B.56. C. 46.

第3节（共20个空；每空0.5分，满分10分）

听写填空，一共听两遍，填写所听到的单词或短语。

1. First out of the limo is one of Hollywood’s hottest new stars. She’s young, but she looks all grown-up here! She’s wearing a beautiful, lacy. white dress from Armani. It’s long-sleeved, ___17____and very elegant. Her long, dark, shiny hair hangs over her shoulders. She has a small, ____18_____ clutch bag, and matching ____19______ shoes from Jimmy Choo. Very stylish！

2. Even when you are at home, you are not necessarily safe from ___20______. When you use your computer to visit websites, you are probably sending and receiving ‘cookies’ without realizing it. Cookies ___21___ information from your computer to the website and, _____22____, could record which websites you visit.

3. Adam has now developed a much more ____23______ device, called the Eyeborg, that allows Neil to see 360 different colours. Neil wears a camera on his head, which is __24_____ to a laptop computer in a backpack. The computer ____25______the colour and sends a sound to Neil’s wireless headset.

4. Poppy Day is the day when people in Britain and other countries _____26_____ the soldiers who died for their country in two world wars and later ___27_____. It’s on the 11th of November every year because World War One ___28_____ ended on the 11th of November 1918. Every year at exactly 11 o’clock in the morning, there is a two-minute silence.

5. At exactly 11 o’clock, all the cars, trams and other ___29____ stopped. Everyone stood very still. The silence became deeper. It ___30____ over the whole city. It was silence which was almost pain. It was the ___31___ of memory.

6. Although ___32____ from anterograde amnesia cannot ___33____ new information, they can learn new skills. For example, patients who have guitar lessons ____34_____ get better and better at guitar.

7. When it was all over, her parents insisted that she ___35___ all of her details from Facebook. She can still use the computer, but she’s banned from using ___36____ networking sites. And I don’t think she’ll have a birthday party next year.

第二部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分55分）

第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题15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。

Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks ____37____ than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more ____38____ than we realize. In fact, non-verbal communication(非言语交际) takes up about 50% of what we really ____39____, And body language is particularly ____40____ when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so ____41____ a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. ____42____, different societies treat the ____43____ between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having ____44____ contact even with friends, and certainly not with ____45____. People from Latin American countries ____46____, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in ____47____ , it may look like a Latino is ____48____ a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving ____49____. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep ____50____- which the Latino will in return regard as ____51____.

Clearly, a great deal is going on when people ____52____. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from ____53____ cultures, there's a strong possibility of ____54____. But whatever the situation, the best ____55____ is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be ____56____.

37. A. straighter B. louder C. harder D. further

38. A. sounds B. invitations C. feelings D. messages

39. A. hope B. receive C. discover D. mean

40. A. immediate B. misleading C. important D. difficult

41. A. well B. far C. much D. long

42. A. For example B. Thus C. However D. In short

43. A. trade B. distance C. connections D. greetings

44. A. eye B. verbal C. bodily D. telephone

45. A. strangers B. relatives C. neighbours D. enemies

46. A. in other words B. on the other hand C. in a similar way D. by all means

47. A. trouble B. conversation C. silence D. experiment

48. A. disturbing B. helping C. guiding D. following

49. A. closer B. faster C. in D. away

50. A. stepping forward B. going on C. backing away D. coming out

51. A. weakness B. carelessness C. friendliness D. coldness

52. A. talk B. travel C. laugh D. think

53. A. different B. European C. Latino D. rich

54. A. curiosity B. excitement C. misunderstanding D. nervousness

55. A. chance B. time C. result D. advice

56. A. noticed B. treated C. respected D. pleased

第二节 时态填空（共15题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，用括号内动词的正确时态形式填空

A clumsy visitor to British museum has destroyed a set of priceless 300-year-old Chinese vases after slipping on the stairs.

The three vases, which ___57____ (produce) during the Qing dynasty in the 17th century, ___58____(stand) on the windowsill at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for forty years. Last Thursday they ____59____(smash) into a million pieces. The vases, which ___60____ (donate) in 1948, ____61______(be) the museum’s best-known piece.

The Fitzwilliam ___62_____(decide)not to identify the man who ____63_____(cause) the disaster. ‘It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident,’ museum director Duncan Robinson said, ‘but we are glad that the visitor ___64______ seriously ____64____(not injure).’

The photograph of the accident _____65____(take) by another visitor, Steve Baxter. ‘We ____66_____(watch) the man fall as if in slow motion. He ____67____(fly) through the air. The vases ____68____(explode)as though they ____69____(hit) by a bomb. The man _____70____(sit) there stunned in the middle of a pile of porcelain when the staff ____71____(arrive).’

The museum declined to say what the vases were worth.

第三节 句子改错 （共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）

下列十个句子，每个句子不多于一处错误，错误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(Λ)，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。

如句子没有错误，请在句子末端打上‘√’

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 全部句子打‘√’记零分。

72. Seeing from the top of the mountain, the city looks very beautiful.

73. When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it is broken.

74. The clouds had come down suddenly that we had no warning.

75. No sooner he got to lab than he set out to do the experiment.

76. Jim is jealous of his new baby sister because his parents spend so much time with him.

77. That man in long hair is supposed to be a poet.

78. It was in the bookstore where I met your brother the other day.

79. The house whose roof was damaged has now been repaired.

80. By the time John finishes homework, his classmates have left to play football.

81. If you feel guilty with wanting money, your guilt will prevent you from getting it.

第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分34分）

第一节 （共12小题；每小题2分，满分24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

It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ and how it had changed my views of our President. A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly（精彩地）written book”. However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.

And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s “Report on Guilty Secrets”, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I’m not one to lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s really brilliant.

The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven’t read him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman Melville.

Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to “impress” someone they were speaking to. This could be tricky if the conversation became more in–depth!

But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).

82. How did the author find his friend a book liar?

A. By judging his manner of speaking.

B. By looking into his background.

C. By mentioning a famous name.

D. By discussing the book itself.

83. Which of the following is a “guilty secret” according to the World Book Day report?

A. Charles Dickens is very low on the top-ten list.

B. 42% of people pretended to have read 1984.

C. The author admitted having read 9 books.

D.Dreams From My Father is hardly read.

84. By lying about reading, a person hopes to .

A. control the conversation

B. appear knowledgeable

C. learn about the book

D. make more friends

85. What is the author’s attitude to 58% of readers?

A. Favorable. B. Uncaring C. Doubtful D. Friendly

B

In 2002 a revolution occurred. A spy thriller was produced that moved away from the explosive and unrealistic style of those that went before. Forget Bond and Hunt, Bourne was here and he was intent(打算） on making a stand. Relying on drama to captivate the audience, and not just explosions and action sequences, Bourne was different.

Stripped back to the basics of the genre, Doug Liman (the Director) used emotion between the characters, an extremely strong and in-depth storyline to create a film that is extremely engrossing for viewers and fans of the genre. With a major impact on all future films produced in this genre, Bond movies have changed their approach since this release, The Bourne movies, including this one, have made a massive stand in the movie industry. This is testament to the strength of the source material and the adaptation that the film team had created.

Based largely on Robert Ludlum's spy novel of the same name, the Bourne Identity follows an amnesiac attempting to search for who he is and what his past will hold. Unlike past Bond movies, whose protagonist is often under constant gunfire and never gets hit, this narrative begins with Bourne floating in the middle of a fishing channel, three bullets in his back and a code for a bank account implanted in his hip. After being rescued by a Italian fishing crew, he sets out on his way looking for the truths. When this path introduces cooperations (合作伙伴） intent on killing Bourne, the CIA and Police to name but a few, he decides to seek out the reasons behind this. After delving into the intentions and reasons behind this, Bourne soon discovers a major conspiracy(阴谋) involving the American CIA. Joining a young Gypsy woman, who becomes tied into the seeking, Bourne travels across many different locations in Europe in hopes of ending his ties to the faction(派系） intent on his death. As plot lines go, 'The Bourne Identity' has one that is strong enough to keep audiences interested throughout. The fact that the main protagonist has amnesia, means that as Bourne learns about who he is, so do those watching him. This is another strong element to the movie; audience members are able to grow a bond to those characters present. It is complete testament to the original novel, that was produced to such a high quality, and also has well developed and fully worked out characters

86. What 's the writer's view towards the film, the Bourne Identity?

A. negative B. positive C. balanced D. doubted

87. According to the article, Bond movies ___________.

A. are more successful than the Bourne movies.

B. only use explosives and action sequences to attract the audience.

C. have learned a lot from the Bourne movies.

D. create a hero who never gets hurt .

88. Which of the following scenes are probably not included in the movie, The Bourne Identity?

A. Bourne was found injured by a fishing boat.

B. A young Gypsy woman travels with Bourne across many locations in Europe.

C. The CIA tried to kill Bourne in many ways.

D. Bourne finally learns about who he is and gets his memory back.

89. We can infer from the article that the movie ____________.

A. involves constant gunfire and actions

B. creates a new genre in the move industry..

C. takes its name from a novel.

D. draws more people to care about amnesia

C

Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient (无所不知的)leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation（履行） of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion(叛乱) by erasing all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes.

As the novel opens, Winston feels frustrated by the oppression and control of the Party, which prohibits free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality. Winston dislikes the party and has illegally purchased a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts. He has also become interested in a powerful Party member named O’Brien, whom Winston believes is a secret member of the Brotherhood—the mysterious, legendary group that works to overthrow（颠覆） the Party.

Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he changes historical records to fit the needs of the Party. He notices a coworker, a beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him, and worries that she is a spy who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He is troubled by the Party’s control of history: the Party claims that Oceania has always been allied(同盟) with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, but Winston seems to recall a time when this was not true. The Party also claims that Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the Brotherhood, is the most dangerous man alive, but this does not seem real to Winston. Winston spends his evenings wandering through the poorest neighborhoods in London, where the proletarians(无产者) live squalid lives, relatively free of Party monitoring.

One day, Winston receives a note from the dark-haired girl that reads “I love you.” She tells him her name, Julia, and they begin a secret affair, always on the lookout for signs of Party monitoring. Eventually they rent a room above the secondhand store in the proletarian district where Winston bought the diary. This relationship lasts for some time. Winston is sure that they will be caught and punished sooner or later (the fatalistic Winston knows that he has been doomed since he wrote his first diary entry), while Julia is more optimistic. As Winston’s affair with Julia progresses, his hatred for the Party grows greater and greater. At last, he receives the message that he has been waiting for: O’Brien wants to see him.

Winston and Julia travel to O’Brien’s luxurious apartment. As a member of the powerful Inner Party (Winston belongs to the Outer Party), O’Brien leads a life of luxury that Winston can only imagine. O’Brien confirms to Winston and Julia that, like them, he hates the Party, and says that he works against it as a member of the Brotherhood. He indoctrinates(教导) Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, the manifesto（宣言） of the Brotherhood. Winston reads the book to Julia in the room above the store. Suddenly, soldiers break in and seize them. Mr. Charrington, the owner of the store, is revealed as having been a member of the Thought Police all along.

Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O’Brien, too, is a Party spy who simply pretended to be a member of the Brotherhood in order to trap Winston into committing an open act of rebellion against the Party. O’Brien spends months torturing(折磨) and brainwashing Winston, who struggles to resist. At last, O’Brien sends him to the dreaded Room 101, the final destination for anyone who opposes the Party. Here, O’Brien tells Winston that he will be forced to confront his worst fear. Throughout the novel, Winston has had repeating nightmares about rats; O’Brien now puts a cage full of rats onto Winston’s head and prepares to allow the rats to eat his face. Winston snaps, pleading with O’Brien to do it to Julia, not to him.

Giving up Julia is what O’Brien wanted from Winston all along. His spirit broken, Winston is released to the outside world. He meets Julia but no longer feels anything for her. He has accepted the Party entirely and has learned to love Big Brother.

90. Winston commits a crime which ______________.

A. is the worst crime in Oceania.

B. plans to fight against the government.

C. does great harm to the people in Oceania.

D. reveals secrets to other countries

91. The underlined word “squalid” in the third paragraph probably means __________.

A. personal and private

B. easy and happy

C. dirty and untidy

D. busy but exciting

92. Winston gives up Julia in the end because ________________.

A. he realizes Big Brother is his true love

B. he is scared of O’Brien.

C. he is under constant monitoring

D. he has lost his mind and faith

93. Which of following statements is based on the fact?

A. O’Brian is a secret member of the Brotherhood.

B. Julia works for the Ministry of Truth.

C. the Ministry of Love shows the meaning of love

D. Winston feels guilty after his arrest.

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。

The next time you go into a bank, a store, or a supermarket, stop and listen. What do you hear? ____94____ It's similar to the music you listen to, but it's not exactly the same. That's because this music was especially designed to relax you, or to give you extra energy. Sometimes you don't even realize the music is playing, but you react to the music anyway.

Quiet background music used to be called "elevator (电梯) music" because we often heard it in elevators. But lately we hear it in more and more places, and it has a new name "Muzak". About one-third of the people in America listen to "Muzak" everyday. The music plays for 15 minutes at a time, with short pauses in between. It is always more lively between ten and eleven in the morning, and between three and four in the afternoon, when people are more tired. ____95____

If you listen to Muzak carefully, you will probably recognize the names of many of the songs. Some musicians or songwriters don't want their songs to be used as Muzak, but others are happy when their songs are chosen. Why? ____96____

Music is often played in public places because it is designed to make people feel less lonely when they are in an airport or a hotel. It has been proven that Muzak doeswhat it is designed to do. Tired office workers suddenly have more energy when they hear the pleasant sound of Muzak in the background. ____97____ Supermarket shoppers buy 38 percent more groceries.

____98____ . They say it's boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone. Some farmers even say their cows give more milk when they hear Muzak!

A. Some people don't like Muzak.

B. The music gives them extra energy.

C. Music is playing in the background.

D. Factory workers produce 13 percent more.

E. Muzak tends to help people understand music better.

F. They get as much as $4 million a year if their songs are used.

G. Muzak is played in most of the big supermarkets in the world.

第四部分 写作 （满分25分）

假定你是李华，从互联网（the Internet）上得知一个国际中学生组织将在新加坡（Singapore）举办夏令营，欢迎各国学生参加。请写一封电子邮件申请参加。
内容主要包括：

1．自我介绍（包括英语能力）;

2．参加意图（介绍中国、了解其他国家）；

3．希望获准。

注意：

1．词数120左右：

2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

3．邮件开头和结尾已为你写好。

Dear Sir or Madam,

………………………

Regards,

Li Hua

湖北省武汉外国语学校2015-2016学年高一上学期期中考试英语试卷（无答案）