云南省玉溪市一中2020-2021学年高一英语下学期期中试题.doc

云南省玉溪市一中2020-2021学年高一英语下学期期中试题

云南省玉溪市一中2020-2021学年高一英语下学期期中试题

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云南省玉溪市一中2020-2021学年高一英语下学期期中试题
（考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分）
注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题的正确答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
3. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第 I 卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，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。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. What did the woman buy?
A. A novel. B. A magazine. C. A dictionary.
2. What would the boy like to do after lunch?
A. Practice high jump. B. Play Find the Flag. C. Skip rope.
3. Where does the woman’s sister really want to work?
A. In Atlanta. B. In Chicago. C. In New York.
4. What does the man enjoy doing?
A. Running. B. Walking. C. Hiking.
5. Why doesn’t Laura finish her food?
A. She is full.
B. She doesn’t like it.
C. She has a stomachache.
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。
听第6段材料，回答6、7题。
6. What do the speakers think of the police officer?
A. He is funny. B. He is brave. C. He is generous.
7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A movie. B. A book. C. A writer.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What will the man do next?
A. Study for an exam. B. Cook a meal. C. Have some food.
9. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Fellow students. B. Mother and son. C. Teacher and student.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does the woman want to improve her English?
A. To find a new job.
B. To watch an English program.
C. To talk with her colleagues better.
11. Which program is a good choice to practice British English?
A. The Carmichael Show. B. Desperate Housewives. C. Downton Abbey.
12. What is the woman advised to do?
A. Look for a better job.
B. Practice American English.
C. Make notes while watching programs.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where are the speakers?
A. In a classroom. B. At a radio station. C. At a center for old people.
14. When did Miss Allen start her volunteer project?
A. One year ago. B. Two years ago. C. Three years ago.
15. For what did Miss Allen set up the project?
A. Offering poor people jobs.
B. Raising money for schools.
C. Helping both old people and students.
16. How many senior volunteers took part in the project last year?
A. 200. B. 500. C. 12,000.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How many people live in the speaker’s hometown?
A. A few thousand.
B. A few hundred.
C. Only a few dozen or so.
18. What can you find on Main Street?
A. A library B. A hospital. C. A hairdresser.
19. Where is the post office?
A. At the end of Main Street.
B. Five miles away.
C. In a nearby city.
20. According to the speaker, what is the most fun thing to do?
A. Running around in the fields.
B. Going fishing in the river.
C. Going climbing in the mountains.
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
Gibraltar has vaccinated (注射疫苗) its entire adult population, making it a perfect “green list” destination for the coming sunny break. Here are our tips on what you can get there.
Cable car
The views from the Cable Car’s Top Station, located 412 m above sea level, are truly breathtaking and it will take you only 6 minutes to get to the top. You will find our tailless monkey at the Cable Car Top Station. However, please be aware that although they look cute and friendly, they are wild animals and must be treated with caution and respect.
The Cable Car is open 7 days a week from 09:30 to 19:15. No reservation needed.
ADMISSION PRICES: £16 for each adult, £7 for each child, and £14.5 for senior citizens
E-bike
E-bike system was established in July 2019 to provide e-bike guided tours and bike rentals in Gibraltar.
The directors of our tours bring 20 years of experience organizing and operating e-bike and motorcycle tours around the world. Our tour guides are officially licensed by the Gibraltar Tourist Board, are native English speakers and carry first-aid. German and Spanish speaking tour guides are also available on request.
CONTACT: TEL [phone], e-mail info@ebike-, or visit http://www.ebike-
Lower St Michael’s Cave
When the upper section of St Michael’s Cave has been known for over 2000 years and used for various purposes such as a hospital during World War II, it was only in 1942 that Lower St Michael’s Cave was discovered.
The tour into Lower St Michael’s Cave normally lasts around three hours. People are advised to wear shoes and clothing suitable for climbing. Due to the unusual nature of this tour, children under the age of ten years are not allowed. Three days in advance is also necessary for bookings.
ADMISSION PRICE: £25 per person
For details: TEL [phone] or e-mail [e-mail]
21. If a couple with two children want to get close to wildlife in Gibraltar, how much do they have to pay?
A. £30. B. £46. C. £50. D. £61.
22. Languages are spoken by e-bike tour guides EXCEPT ________.
A. English. B. German. C. Spanish. D. French.
23. What is recommended for tourists into Lower St Michael’s Cave?
A. Call [phone] for detailed information.
B. Take a child of 8 on the tour.
C. Wear comfortable shoes for climbing.
D. Book the tour one day ahead of their schedule.

B
A teenager from the UK almost died because of an addiction to unhealthy exercise.
Lisa Fouweather, 19, was so addicted to working out that she ran half marathons before breakfast. She started to practice running, hoping to become excellent at her running club, but quickly became addicted.
She was hardly eating to keep in shape. The teen’s meals would only include a few pieces of food from her “safe foods” list which was mainly fruit and vegetables. She would avoid anything containing sugar or fat. “I would throw my orange juice and bread out of the window when my parents left the room,” she said. At one point, her weight dropped to just 75 pounds — around 34 kg.
This helped to improve her running in the short-term when, in fact, her whole life was falling apart. It affected her education as she would turn up late to school every day to finish her morning running. She said, “Six-mile runs became half marathons, all on an empty stomach before breakfast. Upon my return, I would eat only fruit.”
However, although warned by her parents, Lisa refused to admit she had a problem and wouldn’t give up her way of working out until one day she had a heart attack after her running and was rushed to hospital, where she was diagnosed with anorexic (厌食症) and banned from exercise. “I was told that I could’ve died because my heart was under great pressure.” She was given dieting advice by doctors to help treat her eating disorders. Thanks to hard work and professional help, she managed to put a stop to her extreme exercise and dieting and has been in recovery for nearly three years.
Lisa said, “I want people who are going through the same problem as I did to know that there is help and support out there, and don’t wait until you’re at breaking point to seek that help.”
24. Why did Lisa start practicing running at first?
A. To become great at the running club.
B. To keep in shape.
C. To help her with her diet.
D. To improve her education.
25. Which of the following is NOT the reason why Lisa ended up in hospital?
A. She ran half marathons on an empty stomach.
B. She had an unhealthy way of eating.
C. She didn’t get any warning from others.
D. She wouldn’t quit her wrong way of exercise at first.
26. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. There are many people going through the same problem as Lisa did.
B. Lisa can provide help and support to people with the same problem.
C. You can wait for help if you’re going through the same problem.
D. People with the same problem should ask for help in time.
27. Which section of a website might this passage probably be taken from?
A. Science. B. Technology. C. Health. D. Nature.

C
Carrots are grown on farms and in family gardens throughout the world. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good, and people from all countries love them.
When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their minds a vegetable that is long, thin and orange in colour. But carrots come in many different sizes and shapes. And not all carrots are orange. For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil (土壤) that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks. To prepare your carrots garden, dig up the soil, loosen it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or animal fertilizer. Weather, soil conditions and age will affect how carrots taste. Experts say warm days, cool nights and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great.
Carrots need time to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their good taste. But carrots lose their sweetness if you wait too long to remove them from the ground. The best way to determine if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its colour. Usually, the brighter the colour, the better the taste.
Carrots are prepared and eaten in many different ways. They are cut in thin pieces and added to other vegetables. They are cooked by themselves or added to stews. Or, once they are washed, they can also be eaten just as they come out of the ground.
28. What does the underlined word “picture” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Understand. B. Describe. C. Explain. D. Imagine.
29. Which of the following actions is NOT mentioned to be needed in planting carrots?
A. Choosing wet land. B. Digging up the soil.
C. Making the earth loose. D. Mixing in plant material or animal fertilizer.
30. What do we know about carrots according to the text?
A. Orange is not the only colour that carrots have.
B. They are easy to raise but hard to harvest.
C. Only one factor affects the way carrots taste.
D. It is only by colour that you can decide if you should harvest them.
31. Why should people harvest carrots at certain time?
A. Because sometimes people are very busy.
B. Because it takes time for carrots to keep sugar.
C. Because carrots have different kinds.
D. Because weather always changes.

D
Instagram has launched (发布) a machine learning technology to its app that better identifies self-harm and suicide (自杀) content in the UK after tragic death of a 14-year-old schoolgirl Molly Russell, who viewed Instagram content connected to anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide before ending her own life in November 2017.
Molly’s family later found she had been viewing content on social media, particularly pictures on Instagram, linked to anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide, which her father, Ian Russell, believed to “help to kill her.” Ian has demanded that web companies should take more responsibility for filtering (过滤) harmful content from the Internet, which may possibly contribute to more young people’s deaths.
Concerns have been raised about self-harm and suicide content online, especially how platforms deal with such content and its impact on certain users, young people in particular. Social media platforms are now increasingly being pressured to develop technology to help remove harmful content as quickly as possible, rather than waiting for users to report it.
Now, the new tool from Instagram automatically searches for suicide-related images and words on the platform. It then makes the content less visible (可见的) in the app or, in some cases, removes it completely after 24 hours if the machine learning decides it breaks the app’s safety rules.
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said, “Our technology finds posts that may include suicide or self-harm content and sends them to human reviewers to make the final decision and take the right action.” Between April and June this year, around 90 percent of such kind of harmful content on Instagram was found by its own technology before any real user reported it to the platform. “But our goal is to get that number as close as we possibly can to 100 percent,” Mosseri added. “And I hope this could in some way help avoid tragic deaths like Molly Russell’s.”
32. What does Molly’s father mean by saying “help to kill her”?
A. Someone on Instagram helped her to kill herself.
B. She was suffering from cyberbully on Instagram.
C. Content on Instagram had negative effects on her.
D. She didn’t get any help from social media.
33. What can we learn from the last three paragraphs?
A. Social media platforms are all taking action to remove harmful content from the Internet.
B. Users can report harmful content online to the platform if they see any.
C. All images and words that the new technology finds will be completely removed.
D. Instagram has already achieved their goal to find 100 percent of harmful content in its app.
34. What is Adam Mosseri’s attitude towards the development of their new technology?
A. Negative. B. Positive. C. Doubtful. D. Worried.
35. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. A new technology brought out by Instagram after a teenager’s death.
B. A schoolgirl’s tragic death after viewing harmful content online.
C. Ways to prevent young people from self-harm and suicide.
D. How to deal with depression, self-harm and suicide content online.

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。
Small talk is a short conversation we have at parties, while we wait in line in a store, at family events or work. Sometimes we make small talk with people we know but not well. Often we have to make small talk with complete strangers. 36 . Here are some tips to improve your ability to make small talk.
37 .
If you have seen a really good movie or have read a really good book, you can talk about that.
When you are sharing the same experience with someone, it’s easy to start a conversation. You simply notice and comment on what’s going on around you. For example, if you are at a party and a song comes on that you like or that reminds you of something, you can talk about that.
Ask open-ended questions.
These types of questions require more thought and more than a simple yes or no answer. 38 , the conversation will go on longer.
Become a student.
Nobody knows everything. So, as someone is answering one of your open-ended questions, they bring up something about which you know nothing. So tell them! This lets the other person become the teacher. 39 . It’s a win-win situation.
Like anything, being good at making small talk takes practice. 40 , you may