高一英语下学期开学考试试题.doc

2016-2017学年度高一级第二学期开学考试卷·英语
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第I卷
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. What is the man doing?
A. Starting an argument. B. Offering a suggestion. C. Stopping a fight.
2. What does the man think of himself?
A. He deserves a free lunch. B. His salary is not high. C. He works hard.
3. When will the party be held?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.
4. What do we know about the man?
A. He has worked with the woman for twelve years.
B. He thinks the prices in the store are too high. C. He has a slight hearing problem.
5. What will the man probably do today?
A. Have some guests over. B. Go shopping. C. Go to a post office.
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有2至4个小题，从题中所给的A，B，C 二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5秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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至8题。
6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In a drugstore. B. In the hospital. C. On the street.
7. What will the man do next?
A. Pick up something. B. Wait for someone. C. Go back home.
8. What does the woman think of the man?
A. He is impatient. B. He is clever. C. He is helpful
听第7段材料，回答第9至11邏。
9. Who is Dan the Bear?
A. A fisherman. B. A singer. C. A dolphin trainer.

10. How will the woman inform the security officers?
A. By putting up a notice. B. By telephone. C. By radio.
11. What will the woman do before going to the bar?
A. Go to the barber’s. B. Buy some clothes. C. Perform onstage.
听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12. Who are the speakers?
A. Students. B. Teachers. C. clerks.
13. How did the woman feel about her weekend?
A. It was exciting. B. It was satisfying. C. It was boring.
14. What did the man do on Saturday?
A. He played sports. B. He visited someone. C. He watched movies.
听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15. What did the woman put on the calendar?
A. The picture of the community. B. The schedule of community events. C. Interesting stories.
16. What is the man worried about?
A. Neighborhood safety. B. Shopping convenience. C. Schools in the community.
17. Why will there be a party?
A. To celebrate a festival. B. To welcome some new people. C. To celebrate a birthday.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is true about Deep Springs College?
A. It’s located in a college town.
B. Its library is often crowded with students.
C. Its school buildings are ancient.
19. How many books are there in the library?
A. 70000. B. 17000. C. 9000.
20. What can students at Deep Springs do in their spare time?
A. Take a walk in the mountains. B. Go to the cinema. C. Watch TV.
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
Like most people，I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery：giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you lack money. This is how I experimented with giving-away．If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me，I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper．One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back，though there turn often comes in all unexpected form．One Sunday morning, the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home，though it was addressed to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation. More than a year later, I needed a post—office box for anew business I was starting. I was told at the window that there were no boxes left，and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list．As I was about to leave，the postmaster appeared in the doorway．He had overheard(无意中听到)our conversation．“Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?” I said “yes.” “Well，you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get nothing but complaints. ’’
21. From the passage，we understand that ______.
A. the author followed other people looking upon life as a process of getting
B. the author was unlike most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C. the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D. the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
22. According to the author, _______.
A. giving means you will lack money
B. the excitement of giving can bring you money
C. you don’t have to be rich in order to give
D. when you give away money, you will be rich
23. The author would make the suggestion to the storekeeper _______.
A. in writing B. in person C. in the window display D. about the neighborhood
24. When the author needed a post-office box，_______.
A. he had to put his name on a waiting list
B. he wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation
C. he asked the postmaster to make one for him
D. many people had applied for post-office boxes before him
B
A United Nations representative wants international support for programs aimed at helping 28million boys and girls return to school. The children are unable to continue their education because of wars and crises around the world.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says schools were once safe places for children. Now, he says, they are increasingly becoming instruments of war. In the past five years, there were more than 10,000 attacks on schools.
Mr. Brown told the United Nations recently that the international community should spend money on schools safety. He proposed creation of an international humanitarian fund for education in emergencies.
“It is our moral duty to make sure that every single child in the world can enjoy the basic right to education—free of terror, free of fear, and with the support of the international community.” Mr. Brown is thinking about new uses of technology to improve school safety. A pilot program has been launched in Pakistan. Three months ago, 140 children killed were at a school in the city of Peshawar.
Pakistani officials are now working with Predictify Me, a technology company based in the
United States. Under the “Pakistan Safe Schools” program, schools will use new computers of tw are to test their safety plans. The results of the testing will help school officials prepare schools.
Mr. Brown said it is time for the international community to wake up and deal with the problems facing children. He said the world should protect their rights and stop turning its back on these young victims of war.
25. Which of the following is NOT a cause of children being unable to receive education in the
passage?
A. Wars B. Crises C. Attack on schools D. Poverty
26. According to Mr. Brown, what kind of measures should the international community take tomake school safer?
A. He called for the release of the children kidnapped by militants.
B. He advocated an international humanitarian fund for education and new uses of technology.
C. He said the international community should send students to different schools.
D. He proposed “double shift” plan.
27. The underlined part in the last paragraph means _________.
A. ignoring B. helping C. supporting D. turning around
28. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Mr. Brown proposes creation of an international humanitarian fund for education
emergencies.
B. Pakistani officials are now working with Predicitify Me.
C. A UN representative wants international support for programs helping children’ continuous
education.
D. Mr. Brown is working with the Lebanese government on a “double shift” plan.
C
This is the holiday season in the United States. People are buying gifts and carrying them home, usually in plastic shopping bags. They are only a small amount of the huge number of disposable plastic bags that are used all year long to contain groceries and other items.
Janet Larsen, director of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says too many plastic bags end up as litter, polluting waterways. “They get caught in bushes and trees. In storm water systems, they end up blocking pipes.”
In an effort to keep plastic bags out of the environment, California recently became the first state to ban businesses from giving new plastic bags to customers. Some other states and cities charge a small amount of money for every bag to encourage people to bring their own bags when shopping.
Mark Daniels is senior vice president for environmental policy at Hilex Poly, one of the country’s largest plastic bag manufacturers and recyclers. He says people should be able to get new plastic bags without paying. Mr. Daniels says it is a good environmental choice. “Every single scientific litter study that has been done always shows that plastic retail(零售) bags are a fraction of one percent.”
Some environmentalists claim that plastic bags are blocking landfills. However, Mark Daniels points to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency that is not always true.
“All plastic bags, not just retail bags, are 4/10ths of one percent the waste stream.
Five years ago, Washington D.C. placed a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag given out by businesses in the city. The money is being used to clean up the local Anacostia watershed. And the effort is making a difference. Brian Van Wye heads storm water program implementation at the city’s Department of the Environment. He says once people started to pay for plastic bags, they used less of them. Fewer bags ended up in the waterways.
29. Who is against paying for plastic bags?
A. Janet Larsen. B. Mark Daniels.
C. Brian Van Wye. D. Bill Ford.
30. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Pay for Plastic Bags
B. Keep Plastic Bags out of the Environment
C. Plastic Bags Should Be Banned
D. Plastic Bags: To Ban or Not to Ban?
31. It can be learned from the last paragraph that ______.
A. it is stupid to place a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag
B. placing a 5-cent fee on every plastic bag is beneficial
C. more bags ended up in the waterway
D. efforts made no difference
D
If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago，we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.
It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country，but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example，we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4，000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write .However, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past by hearing about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and these have been done by generations because most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ‘remembered history’. Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful．
32. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?
A．“Remembered history”，compared with written history, is less reliable.
B．Written records of the past play the most important role in learning of history.
C．A written account of our daily activities helps us to be able to answer many questions.
D．Where there are no written records, there is no history.
33．We know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because ________.
A. the people there did not know how to write
B . the people there ignored the importance of keeping a record
C. the written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire
D. nothing was worth writing down at that time
34．“Remembered history” is regarded as valuable only when _______.
A. it is written down B. no written account is available
C. it proves to be true D. people are interested in it
35 .The passage suggests that more could have been learned about our past if the ancient people had ______.
A. kept a written record of every past event
B. not burnt their written records in wars
C. told exact stories of the most important happenings
D. made more songs and dances
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。
Technology literacy is important to the economic and educational future of the next generation. __36__. They advice developing skills from computer programming to designing electronic circuits. They say that with the right approach, children learn not to be frightened of abstract thinking.
Parents decide how much time their children can spend using modern technology. But Sandra Calvert, director of the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University, says it’s all around us. __37__. Just as it’s a worry that there may be too much screen time, there is also a concern that our children will be left behind if they don’t know how to use the technologies that are going to shape the 21 century careers, jobs and how we are going to succeed as a nation.st
Children between the ages of four and 15 use tools and machines at so-called ‘maker spaces” in Beijing. __38__ There, children between 4 and 15 use tools and machines like 3D printers to create and build projects. The young people are part of the so-called “maker movement,” ado-it-yourself community connecting people who like to make things with their hands.
Wang Shenglin, one of the movement’s pioneers, says that trend appeal