2021湖南省三湘名校教育联盟高一下学期期中联考试题英语含答案

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三湘名校教育联盟·2021年上学期高一期中考试

英语

本试卷共8页，全卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

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，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。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，将本试题和答题卡一并交回。

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，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 is the woman doing now?

A. Eating.      B. Reading.      C. Working.

2. What's the man's attitude towards the new plan?

A. Negative.       B. Casual.      C. Supportive.

3. What does the woman mean?

A. Tony has made a wise decision.

B. Tony shouldn't make excuses.

C. Tony can find a better reason.

4. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A fire.      B. A matchbox.      C. A building.

5. Who is Caesar?

A. A doctor.      B. A neighbor.       C. A dog.

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，回答第6、7题。

6. What will the woman do tomorrow?

A. See a doctor.      B. Go to a concert.      C. Have dinner out.

7. What is the man good at?

A. Singing.      B. Cooking.      C. Dancing.

听第7段材料.回答第8至9题。

8. What relation is the woman to the man?

A. His assistant.      B. His patient.      C. His customer.

9. What day will Mr. Quinn's appointment be rescheduled for?

A. Wednesday.      B. Thursday.      C. Friday.

听第8段材料.回答第10至12题。

10. Where will the speakers go?

A. A mall.      B. A cafe.       C. A bar.

11. Who paid for the drink last time?

A. The man.      B. The woman.      C. Another friend.

12. How soon will the speakers meet?

A. In half an hour.      B. In an hour.       C. In an hour and a half.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the woman?

A. A doctor.       B. A professor.      C. A nutritionist.

14. What does the woman suggest the man eat?

A. Fruits and vegetables.      B. Processed food.      C. Pork.

15. Where is the man supposed to eat?

A. At the university hospital.      B. At the dining hall.      C. At the restaurant.

16. How does the man probably feel after talking with the woman?

A. Worried.       B. Confused.      C. Relaxed.

听第10段材料。回答第17至20题。

17. When should the travelers set off from the hotel?

A. At 9:30.      B. At 9:45.      C. At 10:00.

18. What should the travelers bring tomorrow?

A. A packed lunch.      B. Boat fare.       C. A jacket.

19. What can the travelers do at the Golden Gate Park?

A. Do some shopping.    B. Enjoy great painting works.    C. See an international exhibition.

20. Which place will the travelers visit first in the afternoon?

A. Chinatown.      B. The Alanmo Square.      C. The Japanese Tea Garden.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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

Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now, there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.

Open Table app

Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations(预定), which can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.

Max McCalman's Cheese & Wine Pairing app

Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman's Cheese & Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman's Cheese & Wine Pairing app is free.

Happy Cow app

Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The Happy Cow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.

Local Eats app

Restaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The Local Eats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.

Where Chefs Eat app

"Where Chefs Eat" is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $ 15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3, 000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.

21. What do the first two apps have in common?

A. They are both free of charge.         B. Discounts are provided on both.

C. Best wines can be reserved on both.    D. They tell you where to find the best restaurant.

22. Who is Happy Cow app probably designed for?

A. People who love drinking wine.        B. People who don't eat meat or animal products.

C. People who enjoy meat very much.      D. People who often eat in a restaurant

23. Where can we most likely see the text?

A. On a tourism guide.                     B. In a students' textbook.

C. In a cellphone application introduction.      D. On a scientific discovery TV program.

B

With fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. The word" rubbish "could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps(垃圾场)would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.

The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how many of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste was built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.

Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: First, it will pass through sharp metal bars(金属条)which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that founders and rollers will break up everything that can be broken. Finally, the rubbish will pass under magnets(磁铁), which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage.

The first full-scale giant recycling plants are perhaps fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps, some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.

24. What is NOT mentioned as a part of the recycling process described in Paragraph 3?

A. Sharpening metal bars.                B. Sorting out small pieces of metal.

C. Breaking up whatever is breakable.      D. Separating light elements from the heavy ones.

25. Why will big cities have to build their own recycling plants?

A. To protect the environment.      B. To reduce transportation expense.

C. To get raw materials locally.      D. To get big profits from those plants.

26. What can we know from the passage?

A. Dangerous wastes can't be recycled.

B. Recycling plant only recycle metal and paper.

C. Rubbish will be dealt with in a better way later.

D. The first full-scale giant recycling plants will begin operation in less than 15 years.

27. What is the best title for the text?

A. Scientific Ways to Get Energy                 B. The Location of Recycling Plants

C. Some Methods to Protect the Environment       D. New Ways of Recycling Wastes

C

As we all know, trees are always stationary: they stay more or less where you plant them, and no one worries about finding a tree wandering around a park or back yard.

However, there is one special exception, some say: the so-called walking palm tree(棕搁树) was found in the rainforests of Central and South America. Many people believe it can really walk around. This is because of its unusual root system; while most trees have one trunk, the palm breaks into many smaller roots a few feet off the ground, giving it the appearance of many little legs.

The amazing walking ability of the palm tree has always been told by rainforest guides to tourists for years, and appears in many sources of documents as an amazing plant adaptation. As journalist Sherry Seethaler writes in her book Curious Folks Ask 2: "Screen writers searching for the perfect B-movie(小成本电影)plant hero could take inspiration from the walking palm. The tree slowly walks from shade to sunlight by growing new roots toward the light."

A tree that walks in search of the sun is a fascinating, strange story. And it's not true, either; the tree is real enough, but it doesn't walk. It sits where it began to grow, not moving except under the force of wind or an axe.

Biologist Gerardo Avalos is one of the world's top experts on the Socratea exorrhiza. His analysis of the plant and its roots shows that the walking tree can't walk because its roots don't move. A few roots on one side or another may die off。but the trunk itself remains, well, rooted to the spot.

"My paper proves that the belief of the walking palm is just a myth," Avalos said. "Thinking that a palm tree could actually track the sunlight changes by moving slowly over the forest floor is a myth that tourist guides find amusing to tell visitors to the rainforest.”

28. What does the underlined word "stationary" mean in Paragraph 1?

A. Not standing.      B. Not moving.      C. Not growing.      D. Not dying.

29. Why do people think Socratea exorrhiza can walk around?

A. It has no roots underground.            B. It appears to have several trunks.

C. It grows a few feet off the ground.       D. It appears to have many little legs.

30. What can we learn about the palm tree from the passage?

A. It wanders around the rainforest at night.     B. It grows in Central and North America.

C. It is a popular attraction among visitors.      D. It grows well in the shade of the rainforests.

31. What does biologist Gerardo Avalos believe?

A. The palm tree cannot actually walk at all.     B. The palm tree can move its roots.

C. The palm tree cannot track the sunlight.      D. The palm tree cannot keep its trunk growing.

D

Getting paid to stay in bed all day sounds pretty good, but what if someone pays you $ 23,000 to stay in bed for two months? That's the deal that a medical research team in France is offering to 24 volunteers.

The researchers are looking for volunteers to help them study the effects of weightlessness (失重状态)on the human body and find ways to stop problems. Lying in bed isn't exactly the same as being weightless, but the effects are alike.

When astronauts spend a long time in an environment with no gravity, their bodies change in many ways. After several months, their hearts don't beat as hard. Their muscles become smaller and weaker. Their bones may be broken more easily. There may also be changes in the astronauts' immune systems(免疫系统)and sleep habits.

The study will take 88 days. During the first two weeks, the volunteers will be tested to make sure of their levels of fitness. Then they will spend 60 days lying in bed with their heads lower than their bodies. They will have to do everything while lying down, including eating, brushing their teeth, and going to the bathroom. The rule is that they must have at least one shoulder touching the bed at all times. The last two weeks of the study will be spent trying to build up the volunteers' fitness again.

Volunteers must be men between the ages of 20 and 45 who are in perfect health. The researchers completed one study in April. A second study will take place from September to December.

32. What's the third paragraph mainly about?

A. How astronauts work in an environment without gravity.

B. Astronauts' sleep habits in an environment without gravity.

C. Why astronauts' bodies change in an environment without gravity.

D. The effects of an environment without gravity on astronauts' bodies.

33. From the passage, we can learn that the volunteers must          .

A. be women                  B. come from France

C. be in excellent condition       D. be under twenty years old

34. What's the passage mainly about?

A. How to build up astronauts' fitness.

B. Researchers pay volunteers to stay in bed.

C. Effects of weightlessness on the human body.

D. Disadvantages of lying in bed for two months.

35. Where does the passage most probably come from?

A. A medical magazine.      B. A short novel.

C. A grammar book.         D. A travel guidebook.

第二节(共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。

Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee(拼写大赛).   36   To prepare for the competition。the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

   37   Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of

Chinese calligraphy(书法)to be one of their primary contributions.   38  

But there's still hope for the paint brush. In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-year-olds dip brush pens into black ink.   39   "If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now?" we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin.   40   "Students must learn now so they don't forget when they grow up." says the teacher.

A. The correct character is chosen from a list.

B. Perhaps the show's popularity should not be a surprise.

C. Government wants children to spend time learning how to write.

D. The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture.

E. In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand.

F. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher's examples.

G. Unfortunately, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help.

第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，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。

In the summer of my eleventh year the home I had   41   in burned to the ground in the middle of the night.

Thankfully, my Mom, Dad, Nana, brothers, and I   42   along with our dogs.

Yet, we had nothing but the night clothes we were sleeping in.

I was too   43   to doze off, though. I didn't know what lay ahead for us.

The next day my Mom brought me a few T-shirts and pairs of jeans   44   to her by another friend. One pair of them was too short and the other pair too long, but I didn't   45   . At least I had some clothes again.   46   , my Dad had returned to blackened wreckage of our home to see what he could find. The only thing he could   47   was my Mom's wedding rings.

The plastic case she had put them in that night had   48   around them and   49   them from the flames.

As the summer days wore on, my Dad was able to   50   us a dusty old house by the side of the road near   51   our old house had been.

As we moved in, I watched as family, friends and our community continued to   52   all they could to help us get back on our feet.

There was more clothes, furniture, food, money, and even some books for me to read.

Looking back now, I am   53   for all we went through that summer, because it   54   me so much about life, love, and people.

It showed me that when you have nothing left but   55   , for the first time you see that love is enough.

May you always have" Enough" then for all the days of your life here.

41. A. dealt with       B. grown up       C. broken up      D. turned up

42. A. exploded       B. employed       C. escaped       D. deserved

43. A. scared       B. delighted       C. faithful      D. familiar

44. A. applied       B. given       C. taken       D. attached

45. A. admit       B. appreciate       C. doubt       D. care

46. A. Meanwhile       B. However       C. Though       D. Whereas

47. A. own       B. have       C. save       D. offer

48. A. melted       B. disappeared       C. died       D. formed

49. A. kept       B. protected       C. proceeded       D. survived

50. A. built      B. borrowed       C. lent       D. rent

51. A. which       B. when       C. where       D. that

52. A. advertise      B. donate       C. decorate       D. earn

53. A. grateful       B. hopeless      C. painful       D. personal

54. A. inspected       B. taught       C. harmed       C. fancied

55. A. lesson       B. hatred      C. habit       D. love

第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Xi'an is   56   capital of Shaanxi province,   57   (locate)in the southern part of the Guanzhong Plain. Xi'an is recognized as one of   58   (important)cities in China, both   59   (history) and currently. Xi'an,   60   (call)Chang'an in ancient times,   61   (be)the capital region for 13 dynastic periods. It also has been the eastern end of the Silk Road, so Van was the first Chinese city   62   (open) up its doors to the ancient world. Xi'an is surrounded by natural Beauty,   63   (include) rivers, mountains, plains, and rolling hills. Xi'an, the eternal city,   64   (record)the great changes of the Chinese nation just like a   65   (live) history book.

第四部分 写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Bob在汉语学习上遇到很多困难。他上周发来电子邮件，询问学习汉语的方法。请你用英文给他写一封邮件，内容包括：

1.学习汉语的重要性；

2.学习汉语的方法。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Bob,

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节(满分25分)

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

She got up early to be ready for the post. From the second floor of the flat, she could see the postman when he came down the street, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on rare occasions when anything came.

Today she was sure there would be something. Her daughter, Myra, wouldn't forget her birthday, even if Myra seldom wrote at other times. Of course, Myra was busy. The old lady was proud of Myra, who was successful both in her company and family.

The old lady was eighty today. She had put on her best dress. Perhaps Myra might come. After all, eighty was a special birthday.

Even if Myra did not come, she would send a present. The old lady was sure of that. Two spots of color brightened her cheeks. She was excited-like a child. She would enjoy her day.

Mrs. Morison upstairs had brought a card and a bunch of flowers to her. Mrs. Grant downstairs had made a cake, and in the afternoon she was going down there to tea. Johnnie had brought up with a packet of sweets, and said he wouldn't go out to play until the post had come. "I guess you'll get lots of presents." he said.

What would she like? A pair of comfortable shoes perhaps. Or a new coat. A coat would be lovely. Blue is such a pretty color. Or a table lamp. Or a book, a travel book, with pictures. Or a little clock, with clear black numbers. So many lovely things.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

She stood by the window, watching.

Suddenly the doorbell rang, she thought it would be another postman who sent parcels.