1、高一英语下学期期中联考试题III2019-2020年高一英语下学期期中联考试题(III)第一部分：听力(共两节，满分15分)第一节听下面五段对话。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. Where is the mans friend from?A. India. B. Britain. C. America.2. When will the pany picnic be held?A. August 1st B. August 16th C. Augus
2、t 6th3. How long havent the man heard from his sister?A. One month. B. Three months. C. Four months.4. Who has cleaned the womans apartment these days?A. The man. B. The woman herself. C. The womans roommate.5. Which is the quickest way to the airport?A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By subway.第二节听下面5段对话或独
3、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。请听下面一段对话，回答第6至7题。6. How did the boy get that bruise(擦伤)on his leg?A. He knocked into the chair in his room. B. He was hurt by a stone.C. He fell off the ladder.7. Which of the following state
4、ments is NOT true?A. The boy will go to school. B. The boy will go to see the doctor by himself.C. The woman thinks a boy with a fever shouldnt play football.请听下面一段对话，回答第8至9题。8. When was the food delivered to the woman?A. Two hours later. B. Half an hour later. C. An hour later.9. Who is the man pro
5、bably?A. The manager. B. The waiter in the hotel. C. The womans friend.请听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。10. How many people are there in the womans hometown?A. About 8,000. B. About 80,000. C. About 800,000.11. How does the woman describe her hometown?A. It was wonderful living there.B. The life there was kind of
6、 boring.C. Living in the town was really unsafe.12. What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man has lived in Tokyo for five years.B. The woman has never lived in any big cities.C. The woman is from Canada.请听下面一段独白，回答第13至15题。13. What is the speaker mainly talking about?A. Charity(慈善) organizat
7、ions. B. Inspiring couples. C. Educational programs.14. Who founded the worlds largest charity organization?A. Andre and Steffi. B. King Bhumibol and his wife. C. Bill Gates and Melinda.15. What do Andre and Steffi do?A. Tennis players. B. Film stars. C. Educators.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第1节（共10个小题；每小题2
8、.5分，满分25分）A This is a true story that happened in Japan. In order to repair the house, a Japanese tore open the walls. Japanese houses normally have an empty space between the wooden walls. When pulling down the walls, he found that there was a lizard(蜥蜴) staying there because a nail(钉子) from outsid
9、e was hammered into one of its feet. He saw this, feeling pity and curious. When he checked the nail, he found it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built. What happened? The lizard had survived in such a position for 10 years! It has been in a dark wall partition(夹层) for 10 years with
10、out moving! Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years without moving a single stepsince its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard: What has it been doing? What and how has it been eating? Later, he didnt know from where another lizard appeared, with food in its
11、 mouth. Ah! He was astonished and touched deeply. The free lizard had been feeding it for the past 10 years. Such love, a beautiful love! Such love happened with this tiny creature What can love do? It can do wonders! Just think about it: one lizard had been feeding the other for 10 long years, with
12、out giving up hope on its partner. If a small creature like a lizard can love like this, just imagine how we can love if we try.16. How did the Japanese feel when seeing the lizard there?A. Frightened B. Enjoyable C. Confused D. Usual17. Why did the Japanese stop his work?A. To watch how long the li
13、zard can still live here.B. To take out the nail and set the lizard free.C. To have a rest by watching the lizard.D. To find out why the lizard had survived there for 10 years.18. What can we learn from the free lizard?A. It teaches us never to give up our loved ones.B. It teaches us to give more he
14、lp to our loved ones.C. It tells us to take pity on the stuck lizard.D. It encourages us to live even longer.BThe kids in a village in Ethiopia wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabe
15、t, and some can make words. The key to their success: 20 tablet puters(平板电脑) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child. The goal is to find out whether kids using todays new technology can teach themselves to read in places where there are no scho
16、ols or teachers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say theyre already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,” said Matt Keller, who runs the Ethiopia progra
17、m. The fastest learnerand the first to turn on one of the tabletsis 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The devices camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker of acplishment in Ethiopia. With his tabl
18、et, Kelbasa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didnt know any English. Thats unbelievable,” said Keller. The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading,” where they can read to learn. I
19、t wont be in Amharic, Ethiopias first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs. 19. How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village?A. It trains teachers for them.B. It helps their self-study.C. It raises their living standards.D. It provides f
20、unds for building schools.20. What can we infer from Kellers words in Paragraph 3?A. They need more time to analyze data.B. More children are needed for the research.C. He is confident about the future of the project.D. The research should be carried out in kindergartens.21. What is the aim of the p
21、roject?A. To offer Ethiopians higher paying jobs.B. To make Amharic widely used in the world.C. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language.D. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English.CWorkplaces all over the UK are preparing for Christmas and all the traditions and customs that e w
22、ith it. But will Christmas be a cause for happiness and celebration or embarrassment and disappointment?One way that colleagues in Britain show their appreciation of each other at this time of year is by doing Secret Santa present giving. At that time, people who work together buy each other gifts w
23、ithout saying whom they are from.Co-workers all write their names on a piece of paper and then organize a lottery in which each workmate takes another colleagues name at random(任意地). Each person then has to buy a present for the colleague whose name they have picked, usually with an agreed price set
24、 at a small amount of money such as five or ten pounds. As the gifts are given without knowing the names of the gift givers, the quality of the presents can be very different; gifts that people received are from tickets to the opera to an air-freshener for a car.Another mon seasonal workplace tradit
25、ion is the office Christmas party, when workmates put on their most attractive clothes and enjoy lots of free wine.Although most parties are held without a hitch, sometimes the effects of alcohol(酒精) cause party goers to regret their drunken antics(古怪行为).The BBC invited people to share their most em
26、barrassing(令人尴尬的) Christmas office party stories, and received hundreds of funny stories, such as the man who split his trousers back to front with his strange dance moves or the drunken lady who spent the entire night with back of her dress tucked into her pants and saw the photos that proved it la
27、ter at work.But the worst story must surely e from Stuart Vaines, who got so drunk that he put his bosss head into the toilet. Unsurprisingly, he lost his job the very next day.22. By saying this Christmas will cause embarrassment, the author actually refers to_.A. the workmate who receives a ticket
28、 to the operaB. the man who receives an air-freshener C. the lady who tucked the back of her dress in her pantsD. the man who put his bosss head into the toilet23. The underlined phrase without a hitch in Para.6 most probably means_.A. without trouble B. without an endC. without free drinks D. with
29、less people 24. It is implied in the passage that _.A. The gift givers do not know whom they will give gifts toB. some workmates are not generous enough to buy expensive giftsC. the BBC is interested in peoples funny storiesD. some party-goers will wish they havent drunk so much25. Which of the foll
30、owing might be the best title for the text?A. Office Parties at ChristmasB. Happiness from Office PartiesC. Celebrations in Workplaces at ChristmasD. Funny Stories from Office Parties第二节（共5个小题；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。Everyone has heard of Groundhog Day (土拨鼠日).26. _. Peop
31、le in America think that the groundhog awakens from its winters sleep on February 2nd. The groundhog es out of its hole. If the sun is shining, it will see its shadow. The shadow scares it. So it runs back into its hole. This means six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, it will not see its
32、shadow. Since it is not scared, it stays out of its hole. 27. _. These are the same things we say on Groundhog Day today. 28. _. They are known mainly to country people. City people just dont know how to look for them. City people think that a groundhog sitting by its hole may look like a root(根). It could also be seen as a
